However, Li Ziyuan did not plan to fight this Japanese puppet army, and really had a direct confrontation, his plan was to retreat immediately as long as he could withdraw the two companies. Li Ziyuan's hand really frightened the Japanese puppet army in front of him. Especially after a puppet army that served as a flank cover was defeated by Li Ziyuan's tiger-like action going down the mountain.

The Japanese troops on the front could only weaken the forces of the frontal attack and strengthen to their flanks to prevent themselves from being outflanked. After seeing the Japanese army's plan, Li Ziyuan did not advance but retreated. Immediately shrink the forces and adopt the method of alternate cover, fighting and withdrawing towards the west. But after the Japanese puppet army on the front found out that they had been tricked, they were unwilling to bite Li Ziyuan to death.

Just when Li Ziyuan tried to get rid of the pursuit of the Japanese puppet army behind him many times, and on both flanks of his retreat direction, he also discovered that a small force of the Japanese puppet army was trying to intercept him. The direction of the Nanguan Freight Yard, which had always been silent, finally sounded the dense gunfire that Li Ziyuan had been waiting for.

The sound of gunfire over there clearly told Li Ziyuan that some of the cases carried by He Sanliang and the main force of the Changzhi Independent Battalion were fired under the cover of a 92 heavy machine gun and two mortars. The gunfire in the direction of Nanguan shows that although it was somewhat hasty, the number of troops invested by both sides was not small.

It's just that the position of the gun over there is somewhat off. Although there was still a distance between them, Li Ziyuan still clearly heard that the place where He Sanliang started was not Nanguan Freight Yard, but Nanguan was slightly westerly. That is to say, the approximate location should be between yourself and Nanguan.

The location of the gun made Li Ziyuan's back break out in some cold sweat. He knew that it should be the so-called iron-blooded army formed by the Japanese army, when it was concentrating its forces to outflank him. After being discovered by He Sanliang, who was making a roundabout, in order to cover his flank, He Sanliang changed the original combat plan.

Instead of attacking the Nanguan Freight Yard as originally planned, they launched a direct attack on this so-called iron-blooded force. Fortunately, He Sanliang reacted relatively quickly, otherwise once this so-called iron-blooded army rushed to his flank, the pressure on himself would be too great, and it would be difficult to guarantee whether he could retreat safely.

He Sanliang's method of encircling Wei and rescuing Zhao not only dragged down the strongest fighting force of the puppet army, but also dispersed the pressure on Li Ziyuan from the Japanese army in a short period of time. This attack in the direction of Nanguan made the Japanese puppet army in Changzhi City dare not pursue the main force led by Li Ziyuan unscrupulously.

The dense gunfire in the direction of Nanguan made the Japanese puppet army, who did not know how many Tubalu had come, quickly dispatched a Japanese formed squadron from the pursuing troops under Li Ziyuan's department and rushed to the direction of Nanguan for reinforcements. A Japanese squadron was transferred, and the pressure on Li Ziyuan was suddenly much less.

But several company commanders around Li Ziyuan, especially the political commissar of the Changzhi Independent Battalion and Ma Yongcheng who followed Li Ziyuan's actions, did not expect that Li Ziyuan's pursuit momentum behind him would weaken, and after there was no longer a large force of Japanese puppet troops to block the retreat route, Li Ziyuan decided to kill him again.

Li Ziyuan ignored Ma Yongcheng, who was resolutely opposed, and the political commissar of the Changzhi Independent Battalion, and put the troops in his hands in a straight position. Under the cover of artillery and heavy machine guns behind him, he turned around and killed the Japanese puppet army that had drawn one-third of his troops and reinforced them in the direction of Nanguan.

was chasing with his head down, and he didn't expect that the opponent who was retreating with all his might would give himself another Japanese puppet army at this juncture, and was caught off guard by Li Ziyuan's counterattack. In particular, Li Ziyuan focused his counterattack on the puppet army.

At present, the Japanese puppet army that is pursuing them, after transferring away a Japanese formed infantry squadron, although the remaining pursuers have a Japanese squadron, they are still mainly puppet troops. As long as the puppet army participating in the pursuit is defeated, the remaining Japanese troops may not have a burden and continue to pursue.

However, although he planned to kill a horse pistol, Li Ziyuan's counterattack was not a hasty determination, and his entire deployment was specifically targeted. Li Ziyuan divided the troops and firepower in his hands into two. The focus of the force attack was on the puppet army, but the focus of the fire attack was on the Japanese army.

In addition, this kind of night battle itself is the strength of the Eighth Route Army, as well as the suddenness of tactics. Li Ziyuan's counterattack was quite painful. He personally commanded two infantry companies and rushed towards the junction of the Japanese puppet army. The company with the strongest combat effectiveness was the vanguard, with light machine guns and grenades as the main firepower.

Although the focus of the firepower deployment was placed on the Japanese troops over there. Most of the light and heavy machine guns were allocated to the units that blocked the Japanese army. But here Li Ziyuan still relied on bayonets and grenades to fight in the middle of the Japanese puppet army, and killed a bloody way to completely divide the Japanese puppet army.

After dividing the Japanese puppet army, Li Ziyuan rushed according to the puppet army's vigorous fighting. Although the forces he invested in counterattacking the puppet army were not much different from the puppet army in front of him. But Li Ziyuan stubbornly crushed the more than 300 puppet troops in front of him under the cover of three light machine guns and a mortar.

In the face of the rows rushing over with bayonets and rifles, and opening the way with grenades, the puppet troops in front of them were still trying to resist stubbornly at first, although they were under the command of several officers. But Li Ziyuan commanded the troops, regardless of the stubborn resistance of the puppet army, and rushed violently. As long as you try to resist stubbornly, you will go down with a grenade that will cover your face.

The defeated puppet army, after several attempts to get closer to the Japanese army were broken. Facing Li Ziyuan's subordinates, who were like a tiger descending from the mountain, after more than ten minutes of fierce fighting, they could no longer withstand the fierce attack and rush of the Eighth Route Army. Especially after the two commanding officers were killed, the puppet army in front of them had completely lost the courage to resist.

More than 300 puppet soldiers were thrown to the ground with weapons and ammunition, one was scattered, and most of them were captured. Solving the main force of the puppet army in front of you is equivalent to solving most of the chasing soldiers and the weakest link in the overall deployment of the Japanese puppet army. The puppet army that participated in the battle was defeated, and the entire flank of the Japanese army was exposed.

After solving the puppet army with the weakest combat effectiveness, Li Ziyuan did not stop. He led two companies to draw half a circle on the battlefield, and rushed from the flank to the Japanese troops who were still entangled with the frontal troops. Li Ziyuan's abacus was very loud, wanting to completely defeat this chasing army.

Li Ziyuan attacked the Japanese army from the flank, while Ma Yongcheng, who commanded the frontal troops, reacted quite quickly this time. Immediately concentrated the frontal forces, and under the cover of He Huizhang's mortars and heavy machine guns, they rushed towards a Japanese squadron and a small number of puppet troops in front of them.

After nearly half an hour of melee after the puppet army was defeated, the Japanese army suffered a comprehensive loss in strength and firepower. Unable to withstand Li Ziyuan's crazy attack, he retreated all the way to Changzhi City. Looking at the retreating Japanese army, that is, they did not take a parallel pursuit, nor did they take Li Ziyuan, who surpassed the pursuit.

But he only ordered the troops to bite the tail of the Japanese army and pursue unhurriedly behind him, giving people the feeling that he was sending off a guest rather than chasing a remnant of the enemy, Li Ziyuan knew that if he pursued with his life, causing this Japanese army to resist desperately, in terms of the current situation, it was not beneficial to his own troops.

As soon as his side starts, the surrounding Japanese puppet army will definitely gather to his place with all his might. The troops were stationed under the fortified city, and the surrounding areas were facing outflanking by other Japanese puppet armies, and the longer the war dragged on, the more unfavorable it was to its overall situation. This kind of pretended pursuit is just so that this Japanese army does not turn around and bite itself when they are retreating.

The most important thing is that Li Ziyuan is a little worried about He Sanliang's side at the moment, whether he will encounter the encirclement of the Japanese puppet army. Li Ziyuan did not believe in the Japanese puppet army, and would only draw reinforcements from the troops pursuing him. Although there are a lot of troops on He Sanliang's side, the problem is that the good tiger can't stand the wolves.

Although Li Ziyuan put on a gesture of sending off guests behind his back, he did not launch a comprehensive pursuit. But the Japanese army may have been crushed in their will, and did not dare to make any stops when retreating. Fighting and retreating all the way, desperately retreating in the direction of Changzhi City.

Even the Type 92 heavy machine gun he was carrying was bitten down by Li Ziyuan's pursuing troops, and he didn't bother to return to fight. And Li Ziyuan behind him, the closer he got to Changzhi City, the more his troops spread out to the two wings of this Japanese army. Put on a posture of encircling and annihilating this Japanese army before it withdraws into Changzhi City.

In fact, Li Ziyuan put on this posture not to encircle and annihilate this Japanese army. He was guarding against Japanese puppet troops coming in from other directions, outflanking him from the flanks. The closer he got to Changzhi City, the more he had to be prepared to deal with the appearance of new reinforcements from the Japanese army, which was inevitable for Li Ziyuan.

However, after seeing Li Ziyuan's troops, this Japanese army quickly spread out to the two wings. He hastened the idea of retreating again, for fear of being surrounded here by Li Ziyuan. Although Li Ziyuan's position was already within the distance of artillery support in Changzhi City. But this Japanese army is desperately speeding up.

It's just that this Japanese army, which retreated all the way, didn't expect to be stopped by an unidentified armed force outside Xiguan at the door of their homes. A grenade and a salvo of shell guns, plus a mortar that I don't know where it started, the shells fell on the head and face, and they were almost not defeated by this unidentified armed force that suddenly rushed out, and was crushed at the door of his own house.

This sneak attacker who was hiding outside Xiguan and waiting for them was quite strong. In the sneak attack, almost all of them were shell guns, and blocking them was a fat beating. More than a dozen flat-firing shell guns were accompanied by a large number of grenades, which made the Japanese army chaotic on the spot. At such a close distance, the 38 rifle is obviously not an opponent.

If it weren't for the fact that the Japanese army in the city concentrated half of the squadron and rushed out desperately under the cover of artillery to rescue the remnants of the Japanese army. The other party just stabbed them, and didn't intend to keep them for real. The Japanese troops who may be dispatched in this battle will be completely annihilated under the noses of their own divisions and regiments.

Hearing the gunshots that rang out again in the direction of Xiguan, Li Ziyuan immediately heard that this was Liu Lianming's company that had arrived. I don't know where this guy got a mortar, but these things don't matter anymore. He stopped Ma Yongcheng, who wanted to continue the pursuit to cooperate with Liu Lianming and completely solve this Japanese army, and immediately led his troops to Nanguan for reinforcements.

He knew that the top priority at the moment was to snatch He Sanliang out there. The Japanese army here transferred a squadron, plus more than 200 puppet troops to reinforce the direction of Nanguan. Coupled with the Japanese puppet army that he encountered before, He Sanliang is probably already suffering from the enemy on his back. If you react a little slower, you risk getting bitten.