Chapter 65: A black-eyed blue
And it was the attention of the Japanese army in Qiaokou that was attracted by Li Ziyuan's action in the east. At the Japanese guard posts northeast and southeast of Qiaokou, the sound of gunfire and grenade explosions rang out at the same time. Especially in the north-east direction, the sound of fire from Czech light machine guns was heard.
Almost everywhere around Qiaokou were gunshots and explosions. The Japanese puppet army stationed in Qiaokou was somewhat blindfolded at this time, and I don't know how many eight roads came. However, in the face of the gunfire that rang out everywhere in the east, the Japanese commander in Qiaokou was obviously very calm.
The sound of gunfire and explosions from other quarters did not affect the search operations of the Japanese squad in the east. The Japanese squad formed a typical inverted triangle formation, cautiously searching the location of the previous shot 400 meters to the east. The commander of the Japanese squad in charge of the command had already determined the location of the gunfire at the first time.
Behind him, a heavy machine gun was constantly covering their movements with firepower. Although the opponent was very cunning for the Japanese army, the Japanese army's Type 92 heavy machine gun only fired blindly at all parts where people could hide. However, their blind shooting, coupled with the continuous firing of the 92 infantry guns in the Qiaokou behind them, also caused a lot of interference to Guo Laosan's next actions.
However, Guo Laosan's side was suppressed, and he could only carefully and constantly shift his position, but Li Ziyuan here began to act. Li Ziyuan did not care about the battle group of the Japanese army in front of him, but focused his firepower attack on the second echelon of the Japanese army.
The Japanese squad apparently focused on four hundred meters away, and did not notice the squad led by Li Ziyuan, who was lurking beside them. In addition, Li Ziyuan did not hit the scouts in front of them, but focused the ambush on the main force of the team. Therefore, this Japanese squad did not even notice that the Japanese squad had climbed at the foot of the mountains on both sides, less than thirty meters away from them, until they all walked into his ambush circle.
When Li Ziyuan chose an ambush position, he did not choose the mountainside that is usually chosen for ambush warfare, but set up his ambush circle in the bushes at the foot of the mountain on both sides of the mountain road. It is less than 30 meters away from the Japanese army's marching sequence. Focusing on the mountainside and the place where Guo Laosan fired in front of them, the Japanese troops did not realize that there was a small army in ambush at their feet.
Just after the Japanese squad, all of them entered his fire ambush circle. The two crooked handles that Li Ziyuanping personally mastered suddenly opened fire from behind. The two cross-firing crooked machine guns directly knocked down the unsuspecting Japanese soldiers. At the same time as the light machine gun fired, the shell gun in Li Ziyuan's hand also continued to quickly name the Japanese army at the first time.
He Huizhang, who followed him in action, also took advantage of the devil's Type 92 heavy machine gun, and was attracted by Guo Laosan, and directly hit two grenades into the Japanese heavy machine gun position at a distance of 300 meters. This guy plays with mortars quite neatly, and this grenadier plays quite neatly.
Two grenades sent the Japanese Type 92 heavy machine gun, along with several shooters, directly into the sky. After knocking out this heavy machine gun, this shows the experience of He Huizhang, a veteran. He didn't use Li Ziyuan's order, quickly transferred the grenadier, and specifically looked for the Japanese light machine gun to blow up.
And the two crooked handles that Li Ziyuan mastered were cross-firing, and suddenly opened fire from the back and flanks of the Japanese army, knocking down half of the Japanese army in the first time. Although the Japanese reacted extremely quickly, they immediately dispersed on the spot in an attempt to find concealment. But Li Ziyuan's firepower deployment, where will they be able to escape so easily?
Li Ziyuan chose the position to open fire, which happened to be on a small river beach in the mountains, and there were almost no dead spots for shooting. Two crooked handles of cross-fire fire covered this small river beach tightly. Seeing that the Japanese troops were scattered, Li Ziyuan directly pulled a grenade and paused for two seconds, then quickly threw the grenade out.
The soldiers around him also took out their grenades and threw them out one after another according to the prior deployment. More than a dozen grenades exploded in the air, so that the Japanese army could withstand a rain of shrapnel solidly. After the first round of grenades was thrown, Li Ziyuan was the first to rush out with a shell gun. Behind him, the fighters rushed out after him, with their rifles loaded with bayonets.
At this time, on this small riverbank land, only a few dozen square meters, there were only three Japanese soldiers who saw Balu rushing out, quickly standing back to back, and posing in a white-knuckle battle posture. Seeing that these three guys were busy withdrawing bullets and wanted to fight with themselves with bayonets, Li Ziyuan was not polite. picked up the shell gun in his hand and directly knocked down the three old men who had already put on a good posture.
What are you kidding, fighting bayonets with little devils, isn't that uncomfortable for yourself? Time is pressing, how can I have time to fight bayonets with them. In Li Ziyuan's words, if you can use bullets to solve the problem, you must not use a bayonet to solve it, and when necessary, the iron cannon is more painful than anything else.
Li Ziyuan solved the problem in just a few minutes, and Guo Laosan also took advantage of the interruption of the Japanese heavy machine gun fire to accurately cooperate with Liu Lianming's two rifles and knocked out the tactical group in front of the Japanese army. After quickly cleaning up the battlefield, Li Ziyuan led his troops to disappear without a trace before the Japanese reinforcements who had discovered that something was wrong here and quickly reinforced this side arrived.
Li Ziyuan retreated quickly, and when the newly reinforced Japanese troops rushed to the place, they only saw corpses in one place. The Japanese commander who led the team looked at the reckless Taihang Mountain east of Qiaokou, but he didn't dare to chase down. He could only carry the corpse and return to the Qiaokou stronghold.
It was just that the Japanese commander who led the team was angry, and when he turned around and was about to retreat, gunshots rang out behind him. And they don't fight the puppet army wearing the people's clothes, but only the Japanese army wearing the puppet army uniform. The cunning, unusually accurate marksman, with the cooperation of a crooked sub-machine gun that fired at a distance of 400 meters, was constantly looking for opportunities to kill himself like a maggot on the tarsal bone.
And it's a shot, just change places. By the time the Japanese troops rushed forward and found where they should be, the sneak attacker was long gone, except for a few bullet casings. And when the searching Japanese troops were ready to retreat, the gunfire behind them rang out again. This time there were not only gunshots, but also grenades from grenadiers flying from unknown directions.
After finally withdrawing to Qiaokou, the extremely angry junior officers of the Japanese army collectively asked Luo Hekanshiro Shaozo, who was personally directing the operation in Qiaokou at this time, to carry out a large-scale sweep of the mountainous area east of Qiaokou, so as to completely solve this Shinatu Eight Road, which had no samurai demeanor.
In fact, compared to the junior officer who was getting a headache, Luo Hekanshiro Shaozuo was even more bored at this time. In this afternoon's sneak attack, he actually suffered more than one squad casualties. At this rate, it won't take a few days for the troops he brought into Qiaokou to be exhausted.
The two squadrons brought this time were mobile forces that the wing commander managed to squeeze out from all directions. If the casualties are too great, how can you account for the co-captain? The plan he painstakingly set up was to take advantage of the psychology of the Eight Roads who like to pinch the puppet army as a soft persimmon, and lead the Eight Roads to the bait that he had not really eliminated.
Now look, the fish is being lured. However, this fish is also too cunning, and does not bite directly, but keeps tinking on the side of the bait. If you don't want to find a way, according to this situation, you are likely to miss the fish and lose all the bait.
Gritting his teeth, Luo Hekanshiro still felt that it was better to be still before he could not touch the specific tactical intent of the earth eight roads for the time being. After shrinking the defense first and seeing what the hell that dirt and eight roads are going to do, they will decide whether to bring a complete sweep to the eastern mountainous areas.
After thinking about it, Kanshiro Rakuai adjusted the deployment. Withdrew all the Japanese troops and replaced the puppet army with a guard post on the perimeter. Now that the enemy has seen through his own deployment, it is not interesting to disguise, it is better for everyone to show their capital directly.
However, Kamishiro did not blindly withdraw the Japanese troops, but set up lurking around the various guard posts in the form of detachments. Aren't you good at sneak attacks, and then ambush warfare? This time I'm going to give you a counter-act.
Kamishiro Rakuai believes that as long as Tsuchihachi enters his ambush circle. With the military qualities of the officers and men of the Imperial Army, it is absolutely impossible to let them run out. Especially judging from the previous battles, these dirt roads are scattered and sneak attacks. Then it would definitely be the most correct choice to deal with their scattered forces with a small force.
Originally, as soon as he arrived at Qiaokou, he planned to adopt a counter-ambush war. Using the guard post as a bait, the troops were scattered and set up an ambush circle around the guard post. It's just that he has just arrived at Qiaokou on the front foot, and he hasn't had time to implement this deployment. The troops led by Li Ziyuan followed on the back foot and directly gave him a dismount.
When he came up, he was beaten with a black-eyed blue Luo Ai Kanshiro, and after thinking about it for a long time, he decided to follow his plan. The mountainous area east of Qiaokou is so large, and it is connected with Ludong in the north, Huguan in the south, and the hinterland of Taihang Mountain in the east. That Tu Balu is not a large army of the Balu, as long as you sweep to a populated place, you will definitely be able to find them.
This small force is lean and flexible, with little dependence on logistics. When the time comes, go into the mountains and look for them? And his own troops are insufficient, and it is impossible to concentrate so many troops and station them in the mountainous areas in the eastern part of Hubei for too long. When the limelight passes, this dirt road will still be revived. The experience since he was transferred to Hubei has made him know too much about the resurrection ability of these Tubalu.
Waiting for the rabbit and luring the snake out of the hole was the plan he made in order to completely eliminate this dirt road. If it weren't for the attack on the entire Bai-Jin Railway, the Tuba Road used to block the Taihang Mountains in the eastern mountainous area of Hubei, and the loss of several of the most important strongholds that infiltrated the Shangdang Basin, the division commander probably would not have approved his own operational plan to turn the eastern mountainous area of Hubei into a security area to ensure the safety of the Bai-Jin Railway Line.
His plan is to fight a hide-and-seek-like battle with that Tubalu. Aren't they good at ambush warfare? Then they will use their tactics to counter him, and find a fighter plane to completely solve the problem of henchmen in the eastern mountainous area of Hubei. I want to let those dirt eight roads see, play ambush warfare, they are not opponents.