Chapter 208: A Natural Opponent

The use of poison gas has always been taboo for devils on the battlefield in China. 2.3TT. When the battle was not smooth, the use of poison gas had become a common killer weapon for the Japanese army. I have to be more or less wary of this practice of the Japanese army. The devil has stored so many poison gas bombs in the Fallen Horse Stronghold, it can't be brought over for exhibition.

Nothing else may be usable, but these gas masks are a much-needed thing for themselves. Anyway, I caught so many puppet soldiers at once, and I didn't need so many strong laborers, wouldn't I suffer a loss? In addition, the two horse-drawn carts used to pull supplies in the drop-off stronghold can be directly used by putting on the two mules in the stronghold.

There are not a few soldiers in their own troops who can drive big cars. With so many materials, weapons, and ammunition seized, and plenty of labor and transportation to use, Li Ziyuan decided to take away everything he could take away as much as possible. At least alleviate the situation in the eastern mountains, where there is a shortage of supplies after the Japanese army's sweep. Even Li Ziyuan, who was packed away from the puppet army's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, not to mention these gas masks that were vital to him?

However, Li Ziyuan now seized the Murata rifle and ammunition from the pseudo garrison. Except for the eight in the chamber and the ten in the bullet belt, the rest of the ammunition was stacked in boxes in warehouses controlled by the Japanese army, and there was no ammunition at all. It is clear that the Japanese army has tightened its control over the ammunition of this garrison in order to prevent it from entering the hands of certain parties.

Of course, the Japanese army has tightened its control over the puppet garrison, which is not too good news for Li Ziyuan. But now, for him, this time, at such a small price, he has taken the fallen stronghold and seized so many weapons, and he is satisfied with the harvest that has been very rich. The goal has been achieved, and Li Ziyuan naturally will not wait stupidly at the landing stronghold.

And at this moment, behind them, the fire that Li Ziyuan piled up all the firewood and grass in the fallen stronghold in the turret, and poured the captured kerosene on it, and the fire was still burning. The sky-high flames seemed to indicate that he, Li Ziyuan, would not let the Japanese puppet army live too well in the fourth year.

After eating the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, I eliminated some of the burden of carrying. After Li Ziyuan personally paid the puppet army, he beat these puppet soldiers away. They can't take these people with them to the east, and it's their own business where they want to go after they are disbanded.

It's just that Li Ziyuan, who beat the captured puppet army away, didn't know at the moment that it was almost the same time that he took a sneak attack on the fallen stronghold. A reinforced squadron of the Japanese army dispatched from Hubei County, carrying two heavy machine guns and two Type 92 infantry guns.

With the cooperation of most of the puppet Hubei plainclothes team, plus the two puppet garrison squadrons that were transferred to Hubei County by the Japanese army in the name of strengthening the county security during the Spring Festival. It was also secretly opened after it got dark.,Hubei County, which is currently under curfew.。

Moreover, this Japanese puppet army was very cunning and did not choose the route to enter the mountains through Pingchuan and Qiaokou. Instead, he chose the territory of Ludong, which Li Ziyuan often used, and made a detour into the eastern mountainous area of Hubei. The person who personally commanded this sneak attack on the Japanese puppet army was none other than Tsuruta Nunan, who came to Hubei County, and Luo Hekanshiro, who was temporarily assigned by him in the name of an adviser to the garrison.

At this time, in Hubei County behind them, there was an infantry squad of the Japanese army, two companies of the puppet Jin Nanjian**, a Hubei plainclothes team, and dozens of armed policemen. The main Japanese puppet army in the city was almost all transferred away by Tsuruta Numanan, and he could even rap about the empty city plan.

In order to keep this sneak attack strictly secret, Tsuruta Numanan did not even follow the usual practice and chose the Pingchuan River, where the Japanese army used to sweep the mountainous areas in the eastern part of Hubei in the past. Instead, he chose to detour the shallow mountainous area at the junction of Ludong and Hubei, and made a detour to the Lijiawa line from north to south.

During the march, this mixed unit of the Japanese puppet army did not enter any villages along the way, did not smoke or use flashlights, and used the Japanese army as the forward and rear guard, monitoring the marching sequence of the puppet army in the middle, avoiding the eyes of all Chinese. Cautiously detoured through the territory of Ludong and entered the Taihang Mountains in the eastern part of Hubei, which was still immersed in the atmosphere of the New Year.

Li Ziyuan caught a Japanese puppet spy by chance, but he was unable to find the other two spies. And Li Ziyuan made a big fuss in Hubei County and destroyed the Japanese army field airfield in Jingjiazhuang. His brother has been honorably listed in the 36th Division's spy system, and he must be eliminated.

Originally, of the three spies sent to the eastern mountains of Hubei, only one of them was staring at him. But after the destruction of Jingjiazhuang Airport, in order to get rid of this restless guy as soon as possible. Tsuruta Numan simply used his own intelligence system, and all the nails planted in the entire Ludong Military Division were looking for his whereabouts.

A spy who was supposed to come back to report the intelligence was killed by the Eight Roads. Knowing that the territory of the Eighth Route Army is tightly controlled. If you don't act for a long time, then there are two nails left, and there may be a danger of being pulled out. The completion of training in the garrison, at least in his opinion, basically formed combat effectiveness.

He began to implement the plan that he had been brewing for two months, under the pretext of going to Hubei County to celebrate the Spring Festival of 41 years and to boost the morale of the Japanese puppet army in Hubei. Under the pretext of strengthening the security of the county town during the Spring Festival celebration, the troops drawn in advance were concentrated to attack the mountainous area in the eastern part of Hubei.

And the time of the implementation of this plan, he and Li Ziyuan put the Buddha in their hearts, and they both chose to be on Chinese New Year's Eve. Tsuruta Numan made up his mind in this operation to wipe out Li Ziyuan, who had been endangering local law and order for a long time. Replace firecrackers with the sound of gunfire, and celebrate the Spring Festival of 41 years for those stubborn anti-Japanese elements in the mountainous areas in the eastern part of Hubei.

It's just that what he didn't expect was that his goal was so similar to his. He led his troops to take advantage Chinese New Year's Eve of the laxity that the Eighth Road might bring during the New Year to attack Li Ziyuan. And his target is to use the same mind, but to sneak attack the stronghold of the pseudo-garrison in the fall.

The only difference is that because of the need for covert tactical operations, Tsuruta Numan chose to make a detour to Ludong and delayed a certain amount of time. By the time he entered the territory of Hubei, Li Ziyuan had already returned with a full load. And he has not yet arrived at Li Jiawa, where his target is, and he doesn't know that his target is no longer in Li Jiawa.

And also because he was worried that the Japanese puppet army on the line from Pingchuan to Qiaokou would be reinforced quickly, he might be sticky, and Li Ziyuan, who was in a hurry to retreat, did not know. Even if he was delayed until the first day of the Lunar New Year in the stronghold of Luoma, most of the troops had been withdrawn at present, and the Japanese puppet army on the front line from Pingchuan to Qiaokou was no longer able to reinforce the Luoma.

Most of the available troops were transferred by Tsuruta Nunan, leaving only two platoon-level combat detachments of the Japanese army, and only one squadron of recruits left in the puppet garrison plus a formed squadron of Japanese puppet troops on the line from Hirakawa to Qiaokou. After hearing the sound of gunfire coming from the direction of the fallen horse, and seeing the blazing fire of the artillery tower that was set on fire in the fallen horse stronghold, the only thing he could do was to defend it.

At the same time, what Li Ziyuan didn't know was the Chinese New Year's Eve meal he ate in order to reduce his burden after releasing the puppet army. also let himself escape the surprise of being beaten, and have a certain chance to turn the situation around. If it weren't for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, which was delayed for more than half an hour, Li Ziyuan would probably not have encountered the Japanese puppet army.

According to the distance, the biggest possibility is that Li Ziyuan, who had just returned to Lijiawa, was caught off guard by the sneak attack of the Japanese puppet army that arrived later. With the weapons and equipment that Tsuruta Numan is carrying at the moment, as well as the troop resources that can be mobilized in his hands, it is not certain who will kill the deer at that time.

But now, although Li Ziyuan has gone through such a delay, it is basically impossible to rush back to Li Jiawa before him. However, if Tsuruta Numan can reach Lijiawa before Li Ziyuan's return, Li Jiawa, who has almost no defense or even defensive strength, except for a few unarmed basic militiamen, still has enough targets for him to return with a full load.

Liu Yanlai and Chang Juan took most of the staff of the Hubei County Party Committee and the county government to celebrate the New Year in Lijiawa at this time. And Guan Li, who is currently temporarily replacing the secretary of the district party committee of Changjuan's second district, is also in Lijiawa at this time. Once he succeeds in a sneak attack, even if he can't eliminate Li Ziyuan. But it will undoubtedly be a devastating blow to the local government in Hubei, which has just completed its reorganization.

Of course, if Tsuruta Nunan's plan can succeed and can reach Li Jiawa quietly. Even if he didn't catch Li Ziyuan, the gains that might bring him there were still not small. But the premise is that this guy can arrive at Li Jiawa smoothly.

In fact, sometimes things are just so wonderful. Some event exhibitions are like this, and under some inadvertent behavior, they change the direction that everyone originally planned. At least for now, the development of the situation will not be something that Li Ziyuan and Tsuruta Numan can control.

Without causing alarm from all sides, at least without alarming the Eighth Route Army in Ludong, it has quietly entered the territory of Hubei. So that the current confident Tsuruta Nunan, did not know that he was getting closer and closer to the goal of this trip, and he would encounter it in a short period of time.

Previously, in the territory of Ludong, in order to prevent the sneak attack of the Ludong Eighth Route Army, Tsuruta Numan also put the two wings on guard. However, as soon as he entered the territory of Hubei, the adrenaline secretion that was smoothly stimulated along the way increased significantly, and in order to speed up the march, Tsuruta Numan reached the goal in the shortest possible time.

Withdrew all the alert troops on both flanks except for the spearheads in front, and constantly accelerated the speed of his subordinates. As a result, he did not appear, and was already in the army of Li Ziyuan, who had been marching side by side with him for a while, only a mountain away from him.

Li Ziyuan, who was also satisfied with the harvest a lot, did not know that this Chinese New Year's Eve meal he ate with the light of the puppet army would bring an opportunity to change his fate to himself, as well as Li Jiawa, who was almost defenseless at the moment, and the local government personnel there.

Just when Li Ziyuan led his troops to the Luoma stronghold, packed up the spoils and had a full meal, and set a fire to the Luoma stronghold, he was retreating to the eastern mountainous area. This Japanese puppet army, which had entered the territory of Hubei, was marching from north to south in the direction of Lijiawa.

Perhaps it is the two natural rivals of Li Ziyuan and Tsuruta Numan that have a rare agreement on some points of view. Not only did the two of them have the idea of attacking each other tonight, but even the retreat route chosen by Li Ziyuan coincided with the march route of a certain part of the Japanese puppet army after entering the territory of Hubei.

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