Speaking of this, Li Ziyuan looked at Ma Yongcheng and He Sanliang, who had serious expressions in front of him: "At the moment, we have only one way, and that is to clench our fists and fight out." He wants to eat us in one go, but I want to see if he has that good mouth. ”

"Order the main force of the first battalion plus the regimental heavy machine gun company and artillery company to press me on the whole line, and I and Lao He will command it in a unified manner. The fourth and fifth companies of the second battalion spread out along the two wings, and you told Liu Siming to give me the Japanese puppet army on both wings before the first battalion made a passage. Infiltrated one, Lao Tzu wanted his head. ”

"Old horse, I'll give you the remaining two platoons of the reconnaissance company, and I'm giving you a platoon. While protecting the wounded and baggage, keep an eye on the puppet prisoners. Last time we were bombed, these guys took advantage of the chaos and ran a lot. If these guys take the opportunity to make trouble, you have to do whatever it takes. ”

"At this time, we can't have any internal problems. With so many wounded, safety must be absolutely guaranteed. Otherwise, the morale of the army will be scattered, and it will be difficult for the troops to lead. There are also all our spare ammunition, but we have the capital to restore our vitality, and there must be no accidents. In addition, you immediately set up a radio station to get in touch with the partition. ”

What is the necessary means in Li Ziyuan's mouth, he didn't say it explicitly, but Ma Yongcheng heard what Li Ziyuan meant. After hesitating slightly, Ma Yongcheng nodded and turned to leave. After Ma Yongcheng left, Li Ziyuan raised his binoculars and looked at the battle situation in front of him, but his brows were furrowed.

At this time, the battle situation in front of us has become more and more fierce as the Japanese puppet army arrives one after another. Dong Ping commanded the two companies to press on the whole line, and because He Huizhang was unable to command the battle, Zhou Tong personally went into battle to cooperate with the command. The one-shot *, flat-firing 20-mm small guns and anti-aircraft machine guns were all used.

Especially the anti-aircraft machine gun, which was very powerful in flat fire. As long as the Japanese puppet army in front of him is hit, he will be crippled if he does not die. However, although all the ammunition that could be smashed on the heads of the Japanese puppet army had been thrown towards the Japanese puppet army, mainly the Japanese army, the Japanese army relied on the overall artillery superiority, and the counterattack was still extremely sharp.

As the main forces of the Japanese puppet army arrived one after another, in the face of the unprecedented scale of firepower from the Eighth Road here, the Japanese army over there was also not to be outdone. Five mountain guns and two 92 infantry guns were also stingy with shells pouring ammunition on this side. The dense explosion of shells could hardly tell a single point.

Dong Ping tore open the blocking line of the Japanese army in front of him several times, but as soon as he tore the gap here, he was either blocked by the Japanese army's frantic counterattack, or blocked by the Japanese army's intensive artillery fire. Dong Ping not only failed to tear open the breakthrough, but he was almost divided by the Japanese army several times.

And with the arrival of the Japanese puppet army brigade one after another, the battle situation on Dong Ping's side is becoming more and more deadlocked. The battle situation in front of him made Li Ziyuan's heart hang tightly. When the main force of the first battalion was all put into it, and it was never able to open the situation, Li Ziyuan felt a sense of anxiety in his heart.

Fortunately, after being shot down two planes and damaging one plane, maybe this time it really hurts, but the Japanese planes never appeared again. However, the Japanese army's artillery superiority threatened Li Ziyuan's troops, and it even had to be on top of the few small planes of the Japanese army that did not have a large bomb load. Dense artillery shells blew up the improvised fortifications of the forward troops into ruins.

Time passed minute by minute, but the gunfire in front of him became more and more intensive, and Li Ziyuan became more and more impatient. He felt impatient, and even the guards behind him, Da Li and Zhang Yuhu, had already felt the anxiety in the regiment commander's heart at this moment.

Looking at the stalemate in front of him, Li Ziyuan gritted his teeth and said to the commander of the second company of the first battalion beside him: "You take the six companies and two platoons to press me and throw them into the battlefield from the right flank of the first battalion." Now that we have reached this point, we have no way to retreat, either open a passage, or our entire army will be wiped out here. ”

Hearing Li Ziyuan's order, the second company commander was not ambiguous at all. He pulled out his shell gun and rushed directly with the only two remaining platoons around him. He knew that the two platoons in his hands were already the last reserves in the regiment. The head of the regiment let himself be pressed at this time, and that is really the time to break the kettle.

However, this company commander fought very smartly, and after the troops rushed out, he did not fight to the death. Instead, the * and light machine guns of the whole company were concentrated in a platoon. The platoon that had concentrated the whole company* followed another platoon with six light machine guns, and kept throwing the *.

The platoon in front concentrated all the machine-gun firepower to form a fire hedgehog that continued to attack forward alternately under the cover of the rain behind them. This novel style of play of this company commander not only stunned Li Ziyuan behind him, but also made the Japanese puppet army in front of him extremely unaccustomed to his style of play.

Because although Tsuruta Numan is one step ahead, the time to take the lead is also limited. In other words, this battle is, to put it bluntly, an encounter. None of them had time to build a large number of field fortifications, so they only had time to dig a few foxholes, and even the foxholes had not yet had time to form trenches.

The second company commander's style of play made it difficult for the Japanese puppet army in front of him to adapt, and he actually opened a gap with a few charges. After the second company opened the gap, the Japanese troops in front of them could only draw part of their forces from the front of the second battalion and transfer them to their own flanks, trying to re-plug the breakthrough opened by the second company.

The Japanese puppet army here drew troops from their own front, trying to re-block the breakthrough, and Zhang Zijian over there keenly seized the opportunity. Immediately organized the troops, and once again launched a charge. At the same time, Dong Ping's two companies and all those who could hold guns were organized to attack from their left flank to the right.

Zhang Zijian's firing line adjusted its deployment and changed the original one-sided attack to a three-way simultaneous attack, which seemed to weaken the strength of the frontal attack. However, the three-way advance made the Japanese puppet army in front of him unable to grasp the key parts of his attack at once, and it became somewhat chaotic, making the battle situation in front somewhat favorable to Li Ziyuan.

Li Ziyuan, who had been holding a telescope to observe the battle situation in the back, was quite annoyed after discovering this change. If he still has a company of mobile troops in his hands, it is a good time to put it into the battlefield at this time, and it can even play a role in turning the tide.

But now he doesn't have this company, and he doesn't even have a platoon of mobile forces except for a platoon guarding the prisoners in the rear. Although the puppet army in front of him has been shaken, after the Japanese army supervised the battle and even shot a few deserters, they were still desperately working the front line, and their performance even appeared to Li Ziyuan's expectations.

Here, Li Ziyuan has put all the power at hand into it. At the critical moment, there is no longer any force that can be mobilized into the battlefield. And in front of Tsuruta Nunan, the speed of reaction is not slow. Seeing that the battle situation in front of him had changed, especially after the puppet army was a little unable to bear it, and even had a tendency to collapse, he immediately adjusted his deployment.

The last formed infantry squadron in his hand as a reserve was also pulled up. However, this guy is still very cunning, and he did not throw this reserve into the right flank and center. Instead, it was placed in front of the second company, plus the original Japanese puppet army, which launched a counter-charge on the front line, and at the same time concentrated most of the artillery fire in this direction.

Tsuruta Nunan's plan is very clear, that is, to use the reserves in his hand to completely defeat the second company, which is already somewhat unsupportable, and give Li Ziyuan a fierce right hook to the entire position. Outflank from the right flank, and strive to completely crush the resistance of Li Ziyuan's troops in one go.

In fact, for the existing forces at hand of Li Ziyuan, Tsuruta Numanan was somewhat surprised. Although he received the order from the division headquarters in the early morning, Li Ziyuan's headquarters, which had originally wandered into Basongling, suddenly turned around and returned south, and defeated a division of the puppet army blocking the Basongling Pass. According to aviation reconnaissance, as well as the confessions of defectors of the department, the department is ready to retreat in a southeastern direction.

Under the circumstance that the deployment of the division and regiment had been completed and it would take a lot of time to temporarily change the deployment, he ordered his troops to immediately rush to Ludong and Hubei to fortify the territory, and be sure to block the flow of the division back to the Taihang Mountains. However, the 36th Division Headquarters was somewhat vague about the strength of Li Ziyuan's troops and the existing equipment in terms of orders.

Although Tsuruta Numan already knew by now, the Eighth Route not only seized the Empire's secret arsenal in Xiyaogou, but also robbed a large amount of the spoils of war against the Chongqing Army that had been stored there. He also snatched hundreds of prisoners of the Central Army from the eight-foot road construction site. At present, the equipment of the department should be relatively sophisticated, but the number of troops is not necessarily too large.

But in this fight, facing the eight-way of Li Ziyuan's department of fifteen or six hundred, Tsuruta Nuanan suddenly felt the pressure doubled. I didn't know that Li Ziyuan not only incorporated most of the rescued prisoners into his own troops. Some puppet soldiers who were frightened by his slaughtering methods, for fear that they would be used as scapegoats by him when they returned, directly chose to join the Eighth Route anyway.

Although after the Battle of Basongling, Tsuruta Numan thought that even if those puppet troops were muddy, they would at least cause some casualties to Li Ziyuan's troops. But he didn't expect that some of the people mobilized by Li Ziyuan from the prisoners of the puppet army were very effective in supplementing these casualties.

But despite the number of eight roads in front of him, as well as the weapons and equipment, far exceeded his judgment. But before he left, he brought most of the Japanese puppet troops in Ludong and Hubei, even bluffing. Although they have no confidence in the combat effectiveness of the pseudo-garrison, they still have a relative advantage in terms of troops. In terms of artillery fire, it occupies an absolute advantage.

Looking at the originally chaotic situation on the battlefield, with the last reserve he invested, it gradually stabilized, and even achieved a relative advantage. Tsuruta Numa, who had been watching the battle with a telescope, finally showed the only smile on his lips in the past few days. It's just that in the eyes of the officers around him, Tsuruta Numa's smile is somewhat infiltrating.

Although he hated Li Ziyuan in front of him, after Li Ziyuan's troops exceeded his own judgment, Tsuruta Numan did not intend to rely solely on his own strength to completely solve this eight-way situation. It's great to be able to solve it, but it's not a big deal if you can't.

As long as you stick them here and wait for the north to move rapidly southward, and the troops dispatched from Changzhi City to arrive on the battlefield, it is not impossible. As long as you can get rid of this thorn in the eye and the thorn in the flesh, you don't necessarily have to monopolize this credit, and eating too much alone may not be a good thing.