The topography of this area is only a shallow mountainous area that transitions from the plains to the mountains. The course of the mountain and the changes in the terrain are not complicated, and it can even be said that there is no place to ambush except for a few bushes. So these devils are very relaxed. The most important thing is that these devils are a group of recruits judging from their somewhat astringent movements.

Thinking of this, Li Ziyuan immediately decided to fight. In this state of the devil, if you don't fight this battle, you are a little sorry for yourself. What's more, these devils also brought fifteen carts full of ammunition and supplies. The materials that these devils sent to their doorsteps, if they don't take them back, they are a little sorry for themselves.

Although judging from the somewhat lazy movements of this group of devils, the stronghold where they changed their guard should not be too far away. But for Li Ziyuan, fighting this battle under the nose of the devil will increase the suddenness of the battle even more. Because at this time, even if you are on guard along the way, when you arrive at the gate of your own house, people will be a little slack.

After making up his mind, Li Ziyuan left the scouts to continue to observe the enemy's situation. He immediately returned to the hidden place of the troops, and led the troops to use the cover of the terrain to intersperse the front of the devil's march. If he remembered correctly, the group of devils walked forward about two kilometers or so, and there was a small area of wood.

However, Li Ziyuan did not plan to set up an ambush in the woods, for a simple reason. This forest is one of the few places in this small mountainous area where you can set up an ambush. When the devil passes by here, he will definitely be on full guard. Moreover, an ambush was set up in the woods, and his own troops could not be connected. Once the charge is launched, there is a high probability that it will be a chaotic battle.

Therefore, Li Ziyuan placed the ambush location in a few bushes on the other side of the woods. Twenty-five miles ahead, it is a very important stronghold planted by the devils on the edge of the Taiyue Mountains. It is also the largest stronghold of the Japanese puppet army between Taiyue Mountain and Changzhi.

Li Ziyuan placed the ambush circle in this position, and he set the ambush line at a distance of less than seventy meters from the Japanese army's marching sequence. In order to cripple or eat this Japanese puppet army in the shortest possible time. Li Ziyuan concentrated all seven light machine guns he carried, as well as one Soviet-made water-cooled heavy machine gun.

The machine guns were arranged in a crossfire configuration, and each machine gun was assigned a firing range. and tell the Heavy not to worry about any ammunition consumption once the battle has begun. The rest of the fighters, except for the two platoons that were dispatched to guard the direction of the Japanese stronghold, were all used by Li Ziyuan in the ambush circle.

Li Ziyuan's order to them was to use up the * and five bullets in the chamber of the gun in the shortest possible time. Then he went on the bayonet and attacked on all fronts, fighting with the devils in a white-knuckle battle. Strive to completely solve this group of devils and pseudo-plainclothes teams in the shortest possible time.

In order to safely escort the chief to the Taiyue Mountains, Li Ziyuan tried his best to escort the troops, and the armament was almost to the teeth. With the exception of the Ichicolor's Medium or Czech rifles, each rifle was dispensed with sixty rounds. Each rifleman was also issued two Japanese-made guns*.

Each light machine gun was equipped with 300 rounds, and the Soviet-made heavy machine gun carried 2,000 rounds. There are also three grenadiers, as well as a full set of ammunition. Li Ziyuan was also drawn from the reconnaissance company and equipped with a sniper team with two captured Japanese Type 97 rifles, and a reconnaissance platoon all equipped with Soviet* and Jinzao*.

Li Ziyuan's escort troops were so well-equipped that even the deputy commander-in-chief and division commander and other senior leaders felt a little surprised. The deputy commander-in-chief and division commander shook their heads in unison when they looked at the equipment of Li Ziyuan's escort troops. After giving a conspicuous evaluation, he didn't say anything more.

In the past few years in the Ludong area, Li Ziyuan has made a lot of movements, and he has not used a single gun or bullet allocated by his superiors, and has equipped an elite infantry regiment that is fully manned. This is Li Ziyuan's own ability, and it is also Li Ziyuan's many methods. The deputy commander-in-chief and division commander are not easy to say.

The commander of the Third Division, who was also transferred back to Yan'an to study, was also Li Ziyuan's old brigade commander. directly evaluates that he is definitely enough to be a local tyrant now, if it weren't for the fact that there is no time now, and the timing is not right, he will definitely beat his local tyrant. The sophisticated equipment of Li Ziyuan's department made a battalion of the Taiyue Military Region who came to greet them quite envious.

They only had three light machine guns in one battalion, and the whole regiment managed to muster together 30 rounds of ammunition per person, plus each of them carried two earthen guns made by the base area*. The rifle is also a mixture of Hanyang-made and Jin-38 rifles, as well as 38-type rifles. The battalion commander and instructors of the whole battalion each carried a Jinzao shell gun.

Seeing the fraternal troops that greeted and had to be escorted all the way to the banks of the Yellow River in the Jinsui Military Region, their equipment and ammunition were insufficient. For the sake of the safety of the chief when he had already passed the Tongpu Railway in the Taiyue Mountains, Li Ziyuan asked one of the two companies, each soldier to hand over ten rounds of ammunition and one*.

He left another company's Czech-style rifles, six Czech and Belgian machine guns, and all the ammunition they carried to the troops of the Taiyue Military Region, and the troops he brought with him were replaced by their Jinzao 38-type rifles. Maybe it was a little embarrassing to take it, but the brother troops gave Li Ziyuan a crooked machine gun and all the ammunition in exchange.

This made it out, when Li Ziyuan set off, two companies carried a total of twelve light machine guns and one heavy machine gun. By the time they returned, there were only seven light machine guns and one heavy machine gun left. When the two companies went, they were all 79 rifles, and when they came back, one company was replaced by a Jinzao 38 rifle.

Considering the next trip of the brother troops, it will be much farther than their own troops. Li Ziyuan did not ask for the original Type 38 rifle captured by the Taiyue troops, but chose the Jin-made Type 38 rifle with much inferior quality. Li Ziyuan's approach made several leaders such as the deputy commander-in-chief and the division commander nod with satisfaction.

Of course, several cadres at the brigade and regiment level are somewhat distressed. This is all Czech-made rifles, and there are only so many in the whole military region. How good it would be if this was left to his own troops, but he would just let Li Ziyuan, a loser's calf, give it away.

Even if it was given to the troops of the Taihang Military Region, they were all developed in the same vein as the Red Fourth Front Army, and many middle and senior commanders in the two troops were the troops of the Taiyue Military Region who had been old comrades-in-arms for many years, even during the Hubei-Henan-Anhui period. But Li Ziyuan sent a company of equipment all at once, which still made the cadres from the Taihang Military Region feel distressed.

Although Li Ziyuan did this to protect their safety along the way. However, Li Ziyuan sent out a company of Czech-style light weapons at once, which still made some cadres beat their hands and were eager to bring all this equipment back to their troops. In front of the deputy commander-in-chief and division commander, no one dared to scold his mother in person, but in the hearts of these cadres, Li Ziyuan had already equated himself with the loser.

Of course, what these cadres think, Li Ziyuan can also guess. But he didn't feel distressed at all about the fact that he had given away all the few Czech light weapons in the army almost all at once. For him, Czech-style weapons are good, and the bullets can also be used with the 79 rifles made in China and Belgium.

But the gun is the most lethal weapon in the hands of useful people. The safety of these chiefs is much more important than these Czech weapons. If you send it, you will send it, and there is nothing to regret about it. Even if you can't get new Czech weapons, it's not difficult to get a Chinese-made gun or a Czech-style light machine gun.

Whatever weapons the devils and puppet armies use, they can get whatever weapons they get. Don't look at the poor quality of the Jin-made 65 rifle, but it can be captured on the battlefield. However, Li Ziyuan, who is indeed a little uninterested in Jin-made weapons, also wants to take this opportunity to give away good weapons, and the troops who are also very awkward in his heart will be replaced with the original 38-type rifle of the little devil.

After arranging the position, Li Ziyuan told Da Li, who commanded the sniper team, that the first shot would knock out the officers led by the Japanese army and all the people carrying sabers. As for the reconnaissance platoon, the order was to rush forward with the troops. As long as the Japanese army tried to get closer, they concentrated their firepower to disperse it.

In Li Ziyuan's thoughts, he adopted tactics that were commonly used by the brother troops of the Taiyue Military Region, but they were not commonly used. That is to adopt the close-range ambush warfare that the Eighth Route Army is accustomed to, and add close-range dense firepower. The veterans are expensive, and Li Ziyuan doesn't want to cause too many casualties here.

Li Ziyuan did this for two reasons, the first reason was the Japanese army's familiarity with the tactics of the Eighth Route Army. In these more than 100 Japanese troops, the soldiers are all new recruits in terms of rank and movement. But the officers and non-commissioned officers in the unit are veterans at first glance. These officers and non-commissioned officers, who are the main body of an army, are also low-level officers and non-commissioned officers who have been stationed on the front line for a long time.

Facing the eight-way operation for a long time, these guys must be quite familiar with the tactics of the eight-way. Due to the lack of bullets and the aging of weapons, the tactic used by Hachi for a long time was melee combat. When the ambush circle was set up, it was very close to the Japanese army, and the Japanese army entered the ambush circle and fired a shot and then launched a charge, and fired a shot when approaching the Japanese army, and engaged in hand-to-hand combat and hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army.

The remaining one bullet was reserved for use during the retreat. Generally, only three rounds are used as a last resort, or when it is not a blocking attack. Therefore, it was called the three guns and eight roads by the Japanese army. These Japanese troops entered the Taiyue Mountains to change their defenses, and they must have conducted special training at the request of the Japanese army.

Moreover, the soldiers are new recruits, but these officers and non-commissioned officers are not necessarily transferred from other places. Therefore, Li Ziyuan, under the condition that the ammunition in his hand was relatively sufficient, adopted a new tactic that was plausible to the eight-way tactics that he had come into contact with the Japanese army. That is to use a large amount of firepower at close range, in order to maximize the damage and disrupt the formation of the Japanese army in the shortest possible time.

Then concentrate your forces and rush forward to fight with the devils. In this way, it is possible to minimize casualties, kill and wound the Japanese army to the greatest extent, and shorten the time to resolve the battle. Because of the current geographical location, the shorter the duration of this battle, the better.

The second reason is that under the condition that veterans are expensive and ammunition is now sufficient, Li Ziyuan chose to exchange ammunition for veterans. These two companies are all veterans who have been transferred, and in order to form these two companies, Li Ziyuan has almost transferred two-thirds of the veterans in the troops.

There are many fighters, all of whom are the backbone fighters of the squad platoon, that is to say, they are all prepared reserve squad leaders. There are even some fighters, who are now squad leaders and deputy squad leaders. If the casualties are too great, the consequences for the troops will be devastating. The bullet consumption is large, and he still has a way to replenish it.