Speaking of this, Li Ziyuan looked at the enemy planes hovering in the sky, as well as the troops on the ground that were concealing. Wang Jun asked for a telegram from Wang Jun beside him, and quickly drafted two telegrams. One is for the military sub-division, and the other is for the three battalions that are still on the front line of Qiaokou to make a detailed report to the superiors on the current battle situation in Ludong, and the other is for the three battalions that are still on the front line of Qiaokou and are still on the front line.

In a telegram, Li Ziyuan ordered Song Weiye's third battalion to immediately abandon the first-line position at Qiaokou and the whole battalion to go north on the spot. Directly behind the puppet 50th Division, monitor the next move of the division, and closely monitor the road from Hubei to Huguan. If this puppet fiftieth division continues to move north, it will do whatever it takes, even if it is exhausted, it will entangle them.

In a word, it is absolutely impossible to allow the remaining troops of the puppet 50th Division to cooperate with the puppet 38th Division, which is rushing towards the Jiuding Mountains from the east, to form a real pincer offensive against the Jiuding Mountains. On the telegram, Li Ziyuan even used such a tone at all costs. As for the Qiaokou line, it can only be given up for the time being.

The roots are already in danger, and nothing else can be taken care of. For Li Ziyuan, the key issue at the moment is that there must be no danger in the Jiuding Mountains. Even if his troops are exhausted, they will have to cover the tens of thousands of people in the fortified and clear fields in the Jiuding Mountains, as well as a large number of local cadres.

Otherwise, he Li Ziyuan can't afford this consequence, the Ludong Military Division can't afford it, and even the entire Taihang Military Region can't afford it. In the face of the current situation, Li Ziyuan can only do his best, and there is absolutely no second way to choose.

Li Ziyuan, who was determined to break the ship, led his troops under the cover of crossfire under the command of Wang Jun several anti-aircraft heavy machine guns, as well as Soviet-made turntable machine guns that used people as anti-aircraft gun racks to shoot at the air. Ignoring the bombing and strafing of Japanese planes in the sky, they forcibly interspersed reinforcements towards the Jiuding Pass battlefield.

In order to cover the troops, they braved the bombing of enemy planes and forcibly penetrated the Jiuding Mountains. At present, Wang Jun, who is the most proficient in anti-aircraft firepower in the whole regiment, has brought the regimental heavy machine gun company and the first battalion heavy machine gun company under his command to the extreme by Li Ziyuan. With the cooperation of Zhou Tong, who stayed behind to personally control the captured Breda cannon, a dense net of fire was sprinkled into the sky.

His intention was obvious, not only to attract enemy planes in his direction, but also to reduce as much as possible the casualties caused by the bombing and strafing of enemy planes on the way to the Jiuding Mountains. The entire march route was all mountain roads. If one * falls, this casualty figure will be quite large.

Wang Jun took the machine gun handed over to him by Li Ziyuan, and the anti-aircraft fire network organized was exposed on several bare hills, and he attracted enemy planes to his head regardless of his own casualties. This ensured that the main force of the troops did not suffer too many casualties due to the bombing and strafing of enemy planes during the process of forcibly penetrating, and that the combat effectiveness of the troops was ensured.

Several Japanese planes were constantly circling in the sky, because the Eighth Route Army had always been short of guns and ammunition. Not only are there almost no anti-aircraft weapons, but even if there are, not many people will use them. Because there is no reliable ammunition replenishment, it is basically used occasionally, and most of it is just a one-shot deal.

Even if they were equipped with heavy machine guns that could be used as anti-aircraft machine guns when necessary, they were unable to fight back due to lack of ammunition. Generally, when encountering Japanese planes, in addition to evacuating and hiding on the spot, in the last resort, they can only be bombed.

It is estimated that it is not as fierce as the firepower of the Eighth Road at the bottom. Although there is only one small cannon that can fire anti-aircraft, the number of heavy machine guns that can fire into the air is not small. These Japanese planes, who were accustomed to being ferocious in the air, paid no attention to the machine guns that Wang Jun had set up in disregard of his own bombing and strafing.

Japanese planes that thought they could dive-bomb and strafe at ease against the Eighth Route Operation, and did not have to worry about ground fire at all. Dressed unscrupulously, he continued to dive, showing off his flying skills. Just like the Type 92 heavy machine gun erected by Wang Jun, and the Soviet-made light machine gun did not exist at all.

Wang Jun was also able to calm down, holding up the six-fold telescope specially issued to him by Li Ziyuan, and constantly estimating the speed and distance of the Japanese planes diving, until these planes had reached the range he thought was the best to fire, and then ordered several heavy machine guns and six Soviet-made turntable machine guns to fire.

After receiving Wang Jun's order, all the machine gun shooters pulled the trigger fiercely. Zhou Tong, who personally operated the 20-millimeter cannon, also fired several shells from the magazine almost at the same time. The dense fire net directly exploded two of the Japanese Type 99 light bombers in the sky, and one Japanese plane fled with a long stream of black smoke.

Shot down two planes and damaged one Japanese plane, knowing that the Japanese army would definitely take revenge on Wang Jun, who was accustomed to it, once it suffered a loss, he did not dare to be careless. During the forced passage of the entire army towards the Jiuding Mountains, Wang Jun took the machine gun assigned to him by Li Ziyuan, and constantly took a leap along the way, supporting a fire net for the troops along the way.

If it weren't for the hundreds of puppet army captives who were captured, helping to carry the heavy machine gun and the 20mm cannon along the way, it is estimated that Wang Jun and his machine gunners would have been exhausted by just constantly taking alternate forward movements. While other troops were advancing rapidly along the mountain road, they needed to constantly climb the mountain and seize the commanding heights on the hill to meet the requirements of the firing range.

It can almost be said that the covering team led by Wang Jun was several times more tired than ordinary troops. If it weren't for those captured puppet soldiers who temporarily acted as porters, carrying hundreds of kilograms of machine guns and constantly climbing the mountain, the fighters of the machine gun company were crushed.

When these captured puppet soldiers helped, Wang Jun understood why his regiment commander insisted on bringing these prisoners when the current situation that the troops were not suitable for carrying prisoners. It turned out that it was so that these captives could help carry them on their backs when necessary.

In fact, Wang Jun didn't know that the reason why Li Ziyuan insisted on taking these prisoners was that he even did not hesitate to set aside two platoons to escort these prisoners when the troops were tight. The reason for his judgment is only part of it. is more worried that if these prisoners are released back, they will be replaced by the two puppet armies in the first place.

These are soldiers who have completed their training, not recruits who are unable to go into battle. Now there is almost no difference from regular combat units, except that there are no weapons. Just put them back and give them weapons, and these guys will be ready to fight right away.

And even if their own troops are completely disabled on the battlefield, there is no way to replenish them under the current situation of extremely heavy anti-sweeping operations. This means that these puppet army captives will be put back, and the balance of strength between the two sides will be one and the other. Isn't it unpleasant to release these guys back?

Even if they want to be dismissed, they will have to wait until the end of this anti-sweeping operation. Otherwise, it can only strengthen the enemy. Besides, these people are excellent soldiers when they are mobilized. I can't let go of this group of qualified supplementary soldiers who are currently in addition to ideology, and then mobilize those militias to participate in the war.

Li Ziyuan's calculations were not only very accurate, but during the march of these prisoners, Li Ziyuan also sent almost all the political workers around him. In Li Ziyuan's words, their task is to change the concept of these puppet soldiers as much as possible in the shortest possible time by brainwashing.

This is also the reason why those officers who are stubborn and not easy to convert, or who dare not stay because of their families, and the veteran Youzi was directly dismissed by him

Compared with Wang Jun, who was cautious all the way, the Japanese army who had been beaten with a stick really changed hands and wanted to retaliate. After being shot down and damaging three planes, the remaining few Japanese planes did not dare to be as careless as before. However, through various means of communication, six more planes were brought in.

Fortunately, Wang Jun was prepared and kept using firepower to expel these Japanese planes. As long as they can't strafe at low altitudes, or can't carry out precision bombing, it will be enough for Wang Jun. It's just that Li Ziyuan's only miscalculation is that those dismissed officers and veteran oils were once again arrested by him when they were fighting against the Japanese army and the puppet artillery.

This time, when the officer and veteran Youzi were dismissed by Li Ziyuan, they refused to leave because they had once again become the punching bag of their commander. Especially the pseudo-officer who confronted him in the first battle, and his attitude was the most resolute. Since going back is also a death, I will go with you to the end for the time being, anyway, you don't kill the prisoners in eight ways.

Since these guys couldn't leave, Li Ziyuan simply left them behind and asked them to assist Wang Jun in carrying machine guns and bullets. It was also with the help of these guys that Wang Jun and his machine gunners were able to keep up with the speed of the troops' movements and provide fire support to the troops.

Just when Li Ziyuan was quickly interspersed towards the Jiuding Mountains at any cost. As soon as the Japanese puppet army over there was dispatched on Li Ziyuan's side, they relied on aerial reconnaissance to discover Li Ziyuan's whereabouts. After discovering that Li Ziyuan's reinforcements were coming in the direction of his flank, the Japanese puppet army, which was launching a fierce attack on the Jiuding Pass, also immediately adjusted its deployment.

In addition to leaving a reinforced squadron of the Japanese army, as well as a regiment of the puppet army, to continue to besiege the Jiuding Pass. The rest of the Japanese puppet army immediately turned around and attacked head-on in the direction of Li Ziyuan's reinforcements. It's just that the Japanese army's airborne radio at this time was quite unreliable and the means of direct communication between ground and air were complicated.

The air report received by the Japanese puppet army at Jiuding Pass was just a note dropped from a Japanese light bomber. Because of space limitations, all they know is a large group of eight roads, which are rapidly reinforcing here. As for the eight-way equipment that came, it was not on the note.

Previously, although they had received a report from their immediate superiors about the losses of their friendly forces on the southern front and the fierce battle of the Eighth Road. But the exact amount of this loss, and how many weapons and ammunition were captured, is somewhat vague in the telegram. Therefore, the Eighth Route that these Japanese puppet armies will reinforce in the future will still be judged according to the conventional situation of fighting against the Eighth Road.

Although the Japanese puppet army of the ministry quickly moved south, it was ready to eat the eight roads that came to help in one go. However, he had the advantage in both self-sustaining firepower and troops, and he did not take this eight-way force too seriously. In their hearts, they are more worried about the fact that this eight-way situation is not good, and they will jump out of the outside to fight.

Therefore, this Japanese puppet army not only completed the transformation of most of them at the first time, but also adopted two roundabout tactics. The eight roads that tried to come to the aid were completely eaten in one go. Especially the pseudo division commander, he swore to make meritorious contributions in one fell swoop, and the former shame of the annihilation of the Yixue Teaching Regiment.