At this time, although after the battle of Yamaguchi, the losses of the second battalion were not light, and the troops were already very tired. But after the battle of Yamaguchi, the recruits in the army also began to really integrate into the unit. And now the troops know that now is the time to put their lives on the line, and to take a step back is to fall into extreme danger.

So after receiving the order, all the fighters of the second battalion did not hesitate at all. With a rifle with a bayonet on it, he opened the way with a piece of * plus a light machine gun, and covered the flank of the puppet army all the way. Under the cover of fire from the machine-gun company of the 2nd battalion, an attack on the entire line was launched from the left flank.

Hundreds of shiny bayonets, coupled with a dense *, and a stormy fire strike from the light machine gunners in the first echelon. Li Ziyuan's counterattack under the cover of the artillery not caring about the consumption of ammunition at all became the last straw that crushed the puppet army in front of him.

In the face of Li Ziyuan's counterattack troops, the losses were not light under Li Ziyuan's intensive firepower, and the morale was falling rapidly, but the puppet army that was still in a stalemate with the first battalion, and the originally stable troops gradually began to collapse. When the Japanese troops who fought with them were constantly retreated by the troops of the first battalion and two companies that launched a counterattack at the same time, these puppet troops completely collapsed.

Although the Eighth Route in front of him was inferior in terms of troops, although the puppet army officers present were still desperately trying to maintain the stability of the troops, and tried to occupy a certain village to resist stubbornly. But in the face of the bayonets of the counterattacking troops on the opposite side, the puppet army, which was quite tenacious before this time, was no longer able to maintain the battle line.

The previous hard battles have exhausted the courage that these puppet armies once had. The corpses everywhere on the battlefield made these puppet soldiers lose the will to fight they once had. In particular, the puppet army on the left flank, under the full counterattack of the second battalion, was the first to have a general collapse. Not only did it collapse itself, but it also broke out a complete formed battalion of the follow-up puppet army that had not yet been put into battle.

The counterattacking troops, under the cover of intensive firepower, drove the remnants of the two regiments of the puppet army in front of them more than 10 kilometers to the east before they could stop their footing. At this time, the battlefield was littered with corpses and wounded. The seven or eight hundred puppet soldiers who were captured also sat honestly on the ground after disarming.

Compared with the puppet army that was only disarmed, the dozen wounded soldiers abandoned by the Japanese army, and the eight captured Japanese soldiers were not treated so well. The wounded soldiers of the Japanese army did not suffer any crimes, but the eight Japanese prisoners were afraid that these guys would play some tricks, so they were not only stripped off and only a piece of crotch cloth remained, but they were also tied up tightly.

In this battle, Li Ziyuan not only achieved his goal, but it can even be said that he basically solved the main force of this puppet army division of more than 3,000 people. In addition to the killed and captured, the remaining puppet army, which added up to more than 300 people and had lost all their heavy weapons, and the remaining more than 200 Japanese troops, it was impossible to cause any trouble to his transfer operation.

After a hard battle, Li Ziyuan, who had invested enough, finally defeated this Japanese puppet army completely. Although the price paid was not small, not only were the casualties not light, but also more than half of the ammunition they carried on their own was consumed. Zhou Tong's old-fashioned mountain cannon not only blew up under high-intensity fire, but also wounded several soldiers.

But at the price, Li Ziyuan also achieved the final victory. Not only did it forcibly tear a big hole in the encirclement built by the Japanese puppet army, but also in the unexpected position of the Japanese army. It also defeated the Japanese puppet army that pursued him, with the largest number of troops in addition to the Japanese army, and it was also the strongest in combat.

When the most critical puppet army retreated, not only did the materials transported by its baggage battalion fall into the hands of Li Ziyuan, but most of the ammunition it carried also fell into Li Ziyuan's hands. Despite the high consumption of ammunition in this battle, the captured materiel could make up for more than two-thirds of the battle losses.

With only a complete seventy-nine heavy machine gun, Li Ziyuan captured three. Two 82 mortars, a 20-millimeter small cannon, and two anti-aircraft machine guns all fell into Li Ziyuan's hands completely. There were 30 light machine guns of the Japanese and puppet armies, and nearly 1,000 rifles were captured in one go.

There was also a fifteen-watt military radio station, and a military map of the entire Shangdang Basin that had been drawn by the Japanese army and distributed to these puppet troops, which he had received from a puppet officer's map bag. Li Ziyuan took a look at these maps, and they were much more accurate than those in the hands of the military region. It is also marked with the progress of the Japanese puppet army of each unit encircled by itself, as well as the garrison position of the surrounding Japanese puppet army.

This trophy made Li Ziyuan even a little ecstatic. For him, these maps are even more important than those captured weapons and ammunition. With these maps, it will undoubtedly bring great convenience to his next move. I was dozing off here, and someone brought me a pillow, which was a great feeling.

The more than 40 large mules of the pseudo-baggage team, as well as the more than 30 carts carried by the two pseudo-legions themselves to transport the baggage, made Li Ziyuan like it very much. This time, I went back to the logistics minister of the division who was dug up by myself, and finally gave an explanation. At the same time, this batch of transportation capacity also solves Li Ziyuan's urgent need to carry these materials.

The most important batch of puppet army salaries that were transported together made Li Ziyuan have a lot more money at hand all of a sudden. Such a large amount of money, in addition to most of the old man's bills issued by the pseudo-China United Reserve Bank, there are more than 2,000 oceans. The anti-coin used in the base area cannot be used in the occupied area. This batch of counterfeit coins and the current ocean is a good thing for Li Ziyuan.

I just don't know that after a main division was defeated and lost so many supplies. The puppet commander-in-chief of the Second Front Army will not vomit blood in anger. However, what the commander-in-chief of the puppet Second Front Army thinks, Li Ziyuan doesn't want to worry about it. Even if he is angry to death all of a sudden, it has nothing to do with him.

The previous counterattack had exhausted the last trace of physical strength of these puppet soldiers. After handing over the weapons in their hands, these puppet soldiers sat on the ground, and no one spoke, just gasping desperately there. There were also many people who reached out to the soldiers who were guarding them to ask for water. The continuous fierce fighting made these captives a little tired.

However, the battalion of soldiers who guarded them were not so polite. For these people who worked for the Japanese army, who is still so desperate, who can look at it. Although due to the constraints of discipline, no fists and * were entertained. But there were few people to take care of the captives who asked them for water, and there was no one to take care of the wounded who were in pain.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Li Ziyuan did not speak. But Ma Yongcheng, who rushed over with the follow-up echelon, was very dissatisfied. Ask the guards to take off their own and the guards' water bottles and hand them to a few of the captives. said to the soldiers beside him: "I don't care if you are a recruit or a veteran, but you have all learned the three disciplines and eight points of attention of our Eighth Route Army." ”

"What does it say in discipline? Don't mistreat the captives, you all fall on deaf ears? I don't care what they did before, but they are now our captives. What's more, they are also Chinese, and Chinese do not fight Chinese. I order you to take off the kettle and give them water to drink, and go to the hygienist to bandage the wounded. ”

Regarding Ma Yongcheng's order, the soldier who was trained by Ma Yongcheng took off the kettle with some grievances, handed it to a prisoner, and said to the political commissar: "Political commissar, they beat us so hard before, why do they have to be so benevolent to them?" These guys are two dogs, and they are so energetic to work for the devil, they are all very bad. ”

"Just before, our squad leader was killed by their machine guns in order to save me. Political commissar, the squad leader was beaten up and down with nine holes, and before the sacrifice, he said that the Chinese do not beat the Chinese. But how do they do it? Give them water to drink, I really want to shoot them all and avenge our squad leader. Our discipline stipulates that we do not abuse prisoners, but they are not prisoners and they are traitors. ”

Looking at the tears in the eyes of this soldier, Ma Yongcheng shook his head and said, "I remember that your name is Chen Zaihe, and you are one of the captured people who were rescued by a hundred feet, right?" Comrade Xiao Chen, they were our enemies before, but now they have laid down their arms after all. If you lay down your arms, you are no longer an enemy. ”

"They did fight for the tiger before, but now they are not continuing to resist? And no matter what they did before, but after all, they are all our flesh and blood compatriots. They worked for the devil before, and it wasn't necessarily their intention. They were just ordinary soldiers, just obeying the orders of their superiors. ”

"Those who serve as soldiers are all with the generals, and it is not them who are hated, but those commanders who lead them astray and are really willing to serve the devils. As long as we tell them right and wrong, I think they will side with the people. Comrade Xiao Chen, I hope you understand. ”

Speaking of this, Ma Yongcheng patted the shoulder of the soldier in front of him, turned his head and said to all the soldiers who were guarding the prisoners: "No matter what your background is, you are now all soldiers of the Eighth Route Army and a member of our big family. But our Eighth Route Army is an army with strict discipline requirements, and I hope that you will be able to strictly obey discipline. ”

"An undisciplined army is a plate of loose sand. A unit without strict discipline is simply impossible to have combat effectiveness. You have to obey orders, you have to be disciplined, and you have to understand the meaning behind these disciplines. Also, we are all human. We can't be like the devils in their brutality in torturing and killing captives. ”

"I don't want my men to be a bunch of brutes who can only torture and kill prisoners of war who have laid down their arms. Remember, we are all Chinese. They may have different positions on the battlefield, but they can't treat people like animals. The devil has killed enough Chinese, and we can't do the kind of cannibalism that makes the devil see jokes. ”

After Ma Yongcheng finished the work of the soldiers, he raised his head and looked at the group of prisoners in front of him, but he just wanted to do political education work. But Li Ziyuan over there stopped him: "Old Ma, we don't have time now, we must transfer immediately." You don't want to be in your mother-in-law, and you will dismiss these captives first. ”

Speaking of this, Li Ziyuan turned his head and saw the mountains of loot over there, thought about it and added: "Don't dismiss it yet, we need labor now." Tell these fellows that if anyone can temporarily serve us as laborers, I will give them their salaries back. At the same time, some additional money will be given according to the situation, and they will be released as long as they enter Taihang Mountain. ”

Li Ziyuan's attitude made Ma Yongcheng very dissatisfied. However, he also knew that the situation was urgent, so he didn't bother with Li Ziyuan anymore. Just as Li Ziyuan and Ma Yongcheng turned around, more than a hundred captives stood up and shouted, "Chief Li, Chief Ma, please stay." ”