Although he was now hit by a counter-ambush by the devils, Li Ziyuan did not dare to retreat. The terrain here is relatively gentle, and the devils, under the cover of armored vehicles and artillery fire, are likely to overwhelm their retreating formation. At least until it gets dark, Li Ziyuan has to hold on here even if he grits his teeth.

And the most important thing is that if their side collapses, these devils will make a flank detour, and the backbone regiment in Pingchuan will be in danger. Even if you grit your teeth, you have to hold on for at least a while. So knowing that he was in the middle of the plan, Li Ziyuan could only be his head here. Otherwise, even if he can withdraw safely, it will be difficult on the Pingchuan side.

Fortunately, although the devil's firepower is strong, there is only one squadron of troops invested. The strength of a reinforced company in front of him, coupled with the terrain also has a certain advantage, may not be without the capital of a battle. At present, he has only put one company in the front-line position, and the other company is still hiding and waiting in the back, and he still has some capital to turn the tables.

Li Ziyuan was the top here, attracting the attention of the Japanese army in front of him. The second company under the command of He Sanliang was covered, and the back of the Japanese army in front of him was interspersed. But the hard top came at a price, and the Japanese artillery almost followed the pace of the infantry tactical group and opened fire, bringing no more than two mortars and one mountain gun to the level of the artillery group.

For these old goods, the Japanese army obviously did not intend to stay. Even to equip the puppet army, the Japanese army did not think about it. Regardless of the life of the body, the rate of fire was quite fast, and the swarm of shells fell on Li Ziyuan's head. Coupled with the flat-firing machine gun, Li Ziyuan was extremely hard. Several machine guns were hit by artillery fire, and they could only constantly shift positions.

Li Ziyuan, who couldn't even lift his head after being bombed by artillery fire, scolded those guys in Zhongtiao Mountain in his heart, and he didn't know how to blow up the weapon after losing the battle, so he gave it to the devil to beat himself in vain. There must have been at least dozens of shells that would fall on his head at this time.

can be scolded and scolded, and the current Li Ziyuan can only passively die, and there is no way to take the artillery set up by the Japanese army on the flatbed car, and he has to desperately resist here in order to cover He Sanliang's intersperse. In order to avoid the killing of the Japanese artillery, he could only put the Japanese army as close as possible before fighting.

Li Ziyuan held on hard here, and took the second company to avoid the frontal battlefield there, and cautiously walked towards He Sanliang, who was behind the Japanese army. In order not to alarm the Japanese troops in front of them, and to avoid the forces that the Japanese troops might deploy on the flank, they made a detour to the north for more than ten miles before turning around and crossing the railway line to the west.

He Sanliang can't be said to be wrong in thinking about it, but his over-caution made Li Ziyuan, who was struggling to support him on the front, feel pressure. But after entering a distance of 100 meters from the Japanese train, He Sanliang's good luck came to an end. In order to ensure the safety of the Baijin Railway, the Japanese army strictly stipulated that no crops should be planted within 100 meters on both sides of the railway line.

And now it is the spring planting period, and the crops in the field have just been sown, and they are far from growing. Without the cover of the green gauze tent, under this relatively flat terrain, the visual distance is still very far. Moreover, although the Japanese army put its main energy on Li Ziyuan on the east side of the railway line, it does not mean that the Japanese army will relax the protection behind their backs.

As soon as the second company led by He Sanliang entered a distance of 100 meters, it was discovered by a guard post deployed by the Japanese army behind it. After raising his hand and knocking down the Japanese sentry who was just firing the alarm, He Sanliang ordered all the machine guns in the fire platoon to concentrate on the two columns of flatbed trucks and fire at the back of the Japanese artillerymen on the two flatbed trucks. And he himself, with the rest of the troops, mounted his bayonet and charged directly.

The dense machine-gun fire from behind made the Japanese artillerymen, who chose flatbed trucks in pursuit of the widest firing range, suffer a lot of losses at once. In order to defeat the Japanese artillery in the shortest possible time, He Huizhang concentrated all the machine guns and fired them almost at the same time, without any regard for the consumption of ammunition.

The dense machine-gun bullets knocked down more than half of the Japanese artillery on the two flatbed trucks at the first time. When he found that something was wrong behind him, He Sanliang took the second company with a bayonet, and had already knocked down several Japanese warning posts and rushed up. In the face of the second company rushing up, a small squad of Japanese soldiers who remained on the side of the train as a reserve and guard also rushed up with bayonets.

He Sanliang fought with the Japanese army with bayonets, but he still had an advantage in terms of strength with a complete formed company in his hands. He knew that if he didn't kill the Japanese artillery first, he couldn't really relieve Li Ziyuan's pressure. With the strength of a platoon, he faced the Japanese squad, and entangled the Japanese squad.

The other two platoons, under the cover of the machine guns behind them, swooped down on the Japanese artillery and heavy machine gunners on the two flatbed trucks. This Japanese artillery pieced together by Tsuruta Numanan also brought a few pistols and a dozen captured Chinese rifles as weapons for self-defense.

But in the face of the second company that rushed up, it was obviously not an opponent, and it couldn't withstand the attack of the two platoons of the second company like mad tigers, and within a few minutes of fighting, he was driven off the flatbed truck. After the Japanese artillery was driven out of the car, the fire platoon that followed He Sanliang's action immediately seized the two Japanese flatbed trucks.

After receiving the weapon dropped by the Japanese army, he immediately concentrated the fire of two heavy machine guns and fired at the back of the Japanese soldiers who were charging at Li Ziyuan. And He Huizhang, who finally touched the mortar again, also slightly adjusted the firing range of the two mortars, and directly loaded and fired.

There is nothing wrong with these two mortars that no one else will use. He Huizhang carried a barge gun in one hand and constantly adjusted the firing range of the two mortars in the other. The grenadier squad soldiers next to him were responsible for loading mortar shells into the chamber. In the end, it was a veteran, and He Huizhang had a mortar that no one would use except him.

And the two heavy machine guns were also constantly adjusting the firing range according to the changes in the Japanese skirmish line, firing desperately at the Japanese troops in front from behind. The two mortars were within a fixed firing range, and a few shells fell to the ground of the attacking Japanese army.

He Sanliang engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army, and He Huizhang used the Japanese army's heavy machine guns and mortars. The huge pressure that Li Ziyuan had been under before suddenly became nothing. In particular, the two mortars in He Huizhang's hands were accurate and ruthless. There was not even a test firing, and the first round of two shells fell on the head of a Japanese light machine gun group.

In the midst of the attack from both sides, the Japanese army that was caught off guard was really a little unbearable, and the battle situation, which was almost about to collapse Li Ziyuan's defense line, turned around at this moment. Seeing that He Sanliang succeeded in a detour, Li Ziyuan commanded the troops without the slightest hesitation, and immediately pressed down the mountain.

As Li Ziyuan launched a counter-attack, the railway line and the high ground were full of fighting armies. Li Ziyuan did not take the rifle, but used the fast and slow machine in his hand to the limit. Putting them back to back in a white-knuckle battle formation, the Japanese soldiers who tried to fight were knocked down one by one.

Knowing that as soon as his side starts, the Japanese army in the north may come over at any time. has been playing for such a long time, and Li Ziyuan, who has not left much opportunity for himself, did not hesitate at all. The platoon directly under the last reserve in his hand was also thrown into the battlefield.

Although the willpower is quite tenacious, it really can't withstand the counterattack of Li Ziyuan who concentrated almost all his forces. Especially after Liu Lianming's platoon directly under Liu Lianming, who almost had a fast and slow machine or a barge gun, joined the battlefield, the situation of the Japanese army in front of him was even more passive. Perhaps it was the faint sound of gunfire that rang out almost simultaneously in the north, which also completely shattered the confidence of this Japanese army.

The Japanese squadron in front of it completely lost the will to resist after suffering two-thirds of the casualties, and retreated all the way north. Seeing that the Japanese army in front of him had finally been defeated, Li Ziyuan, after breathing a sigh of relief, stopped the troops who wanted to pursue. The troops were ordered to immediately clean up the battlefield and hurry up to unload the weapons from the flatbed.

And check out what exactly is being transported in those stuffy tankers. Although the previous battle was fierce, the Japanese troops who appeared from inside this train were such a squadron from beginning to end. Li Ziyuan didn't believe that there would be new Japanese troops in those carriages that had never been opened. If it was to this extent, those Japanese soldiers would still be able to calm down, and Li Ziyuan would really obey them.

It was only when the troops unwrapped the wire on the door of the stuffy tanker and opened the door of the stuffy tanker that they were stunned to find that there were no weapons or ammunition in these stuffy tankers. There was nothing but the thousands of prisoners of war of the Nationalist Army, who had been starved and thirsty for a long time.

Seeing the scene in front of him, Li Ziyuan couldn't help but be dumbfounded. In this battle, he lost almost two-thirds of the ammunition he carried, and he also suffered seventy or eighty casualties. At such a great price, it can almost be said that there is nothing to be gained. Nothing was seized except for more than 30 Type 38 rifles, more than 10 medium formal rifles, two crooked handles, and more than 2,000 rounds of ammunition.

As for the mountain gun and two mortars, plus the small cannon and two Maxim heavy machine guns, although the amount of ammunition left is large, it can be fed by itself. There are so many prisoners, how can they be resettled? Looking at the prisoners of war in front of him who needed to be dragged to get off the car, Li Ziyuan couldn't help but feel a headache and distress.

However, after He Huizhang said a few words in his ear, after glancing at this treacherous and cunning guy, Li Ziyuan, who was a little contemplative, finally nodded his head, looked up directly at the national prisoner of war in front of him and said: "We are the Eighth Route Army, not the second devil." ”

"Do any of you have artillerymen who can use mountain guns and machine guns? If any of you have the courage to be frightened by the devil, then stand up for Lao Tzu and let's fight the devil together. Of course, if you are all scared by the devils, we will not force you. ”

After Li Ziyuan finished speaking, the more than 1,000 prisoners of war were stunned for a moment, but more than 50 people stood up. One of the collar badges had been removed, but the lieutenant, who had two three-cornered stars on his chest, stepped forward and said, "Sir, we all heard the gunfire just now. Although I don't know that you are the part, we know that you are not two devils. ”

"Sir, I'm the commander of the mountain artillery company over there, and some of these fifty or so people are my brothers, and some are small artillery companies or mortar gunners. We can help you fight the devils, but I want to ask, sir, what are you going to do with us when this battle is over? Can you send us back to our own team? ”

Looking at the lieutenant who stood up, Li Ziyuan frowned and took a lot of effort to suppress the displeasure in his heart: "Nonsense, if I don't send you back, I want you so much that you can't fight, and when you see the devil, you know what the scrap material to surrender is for?" Rest assured, I don't feed waste here. ”