Yang Zhen's estimate was good, although the number of Japanese puppet soldiers chasing those dozen people was large, but the guard was not strict. Maybe it's because of the rush to make a contribution, or maybe it's because the opponent thinks that the opponent has no strength to counterattack. Except for the dozen or so people, most of them were burying their heads in the march, desperately pursuing under the supervision of the officers.

Just as Yang Zhen and Guo Bingxun had just occupied the mountains on the east and west sides of this mountain path, the large army of the Japanese puppet army had already rushed under Yang Zhen's nose.

Looking at the rapid running down the mountain, while occasionally squatting down, relying on the terrain to block the pursuers with a few bullets at hand, under the pursuit of the pursuers, there were less than ten people in the anti-union team, squatting next to Yang Zhen The commander of the second company of the first battalion, the former soldier of the Eighteenth Group Army, Liu Changshun, asked Yang Zhen in a low voice: "Is it okay for the commander to do it?" If you don't take action, those few people will be all finished. ”

Yang Zhen, who was holding a telescope and was observing the Japanese puppet army pursuing in the distance, heard Liu Changshun's question, shook his head and said, "I'm waiting for a while, the Japanese puppet army hasn't completely entered the encirclement." Now firing can only startle the snake. ”

After that, Yang Zhen looked at Liu Changshun, who was a little nervous on the side, and said in a somewhat stern tone: "When you were in the secret camp, how did I teach you?" Lost your breath so quickly? You're still a veteran. You are now a person who leads troops, and you may lead more troops in the future, so how can I rest assured that the troops will be in your hands?"

Hearing Yang Zhen's reprimand, Liu Changshun smiled bitterly but did not speak, so he had to concentrate on the Japanese puppet army that entered the ambush circle one after another at the foot of the mountain.

Seeing the Japanese puppet army under the mountain entering the ambush circle one after another, Yang Zhen picked up his gun and got ready. However, Yang Zhen did not use his own pistol, but took a Type 38 rifle from a soldier beside him.

After Yang Zhen took the rifle, he withdrew the bullet that had been pressed out of the chamber one after another, and gently grinded the bullet into a deep groove on a stone in front of him before pressing the bullet back into the chamber. After quietly doing this, Yang Zhen opened the safety and pointed his gun at a puppet Manchurian military policeman riding on a horse.

Because it was a mountain march, except for a dozen horses carrying heavy machine guns, mortars, and ammunition, most of the Japanese puppet soldiers marched on foot. Riding on a horse, he kept observing the movement in front of him with a telescope, and was the only one who kept urging the soldiers around him. Even if you think with your toes, this man in the uniform of the puppet Manchurian police should be the commander who pointed to the soldiers of the Japanese puppet army.

Adhering to the ancient adage of shooting people first and horses first, and capturing thieves and capturing kings first, Yang Zhen naturally would not let go of such an obvious target lightly. And this big grin, who didn't expect that there was already a rifle aimed at him, and this old man would become the first victim of this gunshot that Yang Zhen used as a signal.

When he saw that all the Japanese puppet soldiers under the mountain had entered the ambush circle, Yang Zhen raised his rifle, and after steadily putting his tall figure into his crosshairs, he gently said to Liu Changshun beside him: "Order those heavy machine guns to concentrate on the Japanese army first, and hand over the rest of the puppet Manchurian military police to light machine guns and rifles to clean up." As long as those Japanese soldiers are defeated, the remaining puppet army will be cleaned up. ”

After that, Yang Zhen gently pulled the trigger of the Type 38 rifle in his hand that had been modified by himself. With a crisp gunshot, part of the armor of the bullet has been worn out of the chamber, revealing the lead core in the bullet, and the actual lethality has been close to the bullet of the dummy bullet and drilled straight into the knight who was riding on the horse.

After Yang Zhen's simple transformation, the trajectory has changed, and it is no longer the original straight, straight in and straight out of the Arisaka 6.5mm rifle bullet After drilling into this person's body, it easily circled, almost messing up his internal organs, and then left his back with a large ball of flesh and blood.

After receiving this shot, the old man, who was just worried that the fat in his mouth flew away, and he was still desperately urging his subordinates to speed up, and he didn't even snort, so he fell under the horse.

Perhaps it was because the confrontation against the joint operations was too smooth during these days, which made the vigilance of these Japanese puppet troops significantly reduced.

When Yang Zhen shot down the people on the horse, most of them hadn't reacted to what was going on.

It was clear that the enemy lying in ambush on both sides of the valley did not intend to give them time to come to their senses, and the sound of the gunfire that had just suddenly sounded had not yet fallen, and a dense burst of gunfire rang out around the valley almost at the same time. By the time these Japanese puppet troops found out that someone was attacking and looking for cover according to the usual tactical requirements, they had already knocked down more than half of them.

Especially according to Yang Zhen's order, it was listed as the preferred target, and the dozens of well-trained Japanese soldiers who were originally at the back of the team as a pressure formation were far from being comparable to those Japanese soldiers and police of the puppet Manchurians, because they were in a small area of open land, although they reacted at the first time and looked for cover as quickly as possible. However, under the concentrated care of three heavy machine guns and the priority of strikes, the embers were killed and wounded in a short period of time.

The Japanese puppet army, who reacted that he had been ambushed, immediately reacted that he had been ambushed when he realized that his commander had been killed at the first time, and he could no longer die.

In the end, it was the elite training of the Kwantung Army of the Japanese Army, and the forest police, which were specially used to deal with the Anti-Japanese Union, not only imitated the Japanese army in terms of tactics and weapons and equipment, but also inherited the style of their Japanese masters.

After discovering that a dense number of bullets had also been fired from their rear roads, and knowing that they had been encircled, these puppet Manchurian policemen trained by the Kwantung Army, under the command of Japanese officers who were deputies at all levels but who held real power, launched a continuous counter-charge against the hills on both sides, trying to seize a corner of the hill and resisting stubbornly.

It's just that what they didn't expect was that the opponent in front of them was not a lack of trained anti-union troops. Rather, it was a unit that had undergone a month and a half of almost brutal training and was specially trained for the operational characteristics of the puppet Manchu army.

Although a month and a half is not a long time, Yang Zhen, who knew that the weakness of his troops was there, trained hard, and this battle was quite decent.

Especially under Yang Zhen's training of not stinging with bullets and almost knocking out more than half of the ammunition at hand, although most people's marksmanship cannot be compared with the elite of the Japanese army, this marksmanship is basically barely in the past. In particular, the machine-gun firepower was slack, and although the accuracy could not be compared with that of the Japanese veterans, it was still a little better than these puppet Manchu military police. At first glance, I thought that these people were battle-hardened veterans.

Yang Zhen, who fired the first shot in the lead, naturally would not compete with his subordinates. After firing the five bullets in the gun, Yang Zhen threw the rifle in his hand back to the original owner, Xiaohuzi, who is now also his own guard and communicator, and he grabbed the binoculars and continuously adjusted the deployment according to the battlefield situation, while evaluating the results of the training in the past month and a half.

The puppet Manchu military police under the mountain failed to attack several times, but they paid more than half of the casualties, especially after the Japanese officers who supervised the war were killed and wounded, and finally lost the courage to resist. Except for those traitors who were born and thought that the troops surrounding them in front of them were the Anti-Japanese Federation, and knew that if they were caught and were killed, the plainclothes team composed of traitors who would still be stubbornly resisting, the rest of the puppet Manchu military and police who had escaped by chance had already shown a tendency to collapse under the intensive firepower.

Seeing that the stubborn resistance of the puppet Manchurian military and police under the mountain had collapsed, Yang Zhen immediately adjusted his deployment and seized the time to issue an order to attack on all fronts.

In order to avoid casualties, Yang Zhen turned two heavy machine guns and the remaining more than 500 rounds of heavy machine gun ammunition to the plainclothes teams who resisted stubbornly, and suppressed these people in a small ditch. As for the final treatment of these people, Yang Zhen pondered for a while, and it was better to hand them over to Peng Dingjie.

Maybe it's because he has a little bit of a heart, and after Yang Zhen just gave the order to attack on the whole line, Guo Bingxun on the opposite hill, and the two companies commanded the two companies to turn back to the flank, and after returning to the side, they were blocking the order to attack with fierce firepower Those who tried to break through the blockade line and escaped from the puppet Manchurian military and police issued the order to attack almost at the same time.

Seeing the opponent who rushed to the front of him, there were less than forty percent left at this time, and under the fierce firepower, the puppet Manchurian military and police who had completely lost their fighting spirit raised their hands one after another.

Inserting the pistol back into the holster on his waist, Yang Zhen said to Guo Bingxun, who came up: "Old Guo, clean the battlefield carefully, no one can let go." ”

Guo Bingxun nodded, and after giving orders to the two company commanders who followed him, he pointed with his chin and pointed to the plainclothes team who was trapped in a small river ditch at the foot of a mountain, and several forced breakthroughs were pressed back by the heavy machine guns that were desperately suppressing them, and they could only rely on the firepower of a large number of fast and slow machines equipped in their hands and two crooked light machine guns, using the riverside as a fortification, and the plainclothes team that was confronting Peng Dingjie who had rushed up: "What about those people? ”

Yang Zhen turned his head to look at the traitors, turned around and ordered Liu Changshun beside him: "You go and collect the captured grenades and send them to the political commissar." Tell the commissar that he has full authority to deal with these traitors, and the chief of staff and I will not interfere. There is also a sue sù he, do not feel sorry for the ammunition, a qiē to reduce the casualties shall prevail. ”

Liu Changshun heard Yang Zhen's order, nodded and did not speak, turned around and left to carry out the order. There is no one who does not hate traitors, and Liu Changshun is naturally no exception. Moreover, he had also heard the words reported by Li Mingrui and Yang Zhen and Guo Bingxun, so he naturally would not show mercy to these traitors.

After Liu Changshun left, Yang Zhen took out the pocket watch that captured Shiro Ishii, looked at it and said to Guo Bingxun: "It seems that this month and a half of hard work has not been in vain, and this battle is quite unsatisfactory." ”

"Lao Yang, don't be dissatisfied. It took only 40 minutes from the time the Japanese puppet army entered the encirclement to the end of the battle, and none of the Japanese puppet troops slipped through the net. This is already a remarkable achievement for a unit that has only been trained for a month and a half. You can't compare these fledgling soldiers to those battle-hardened veterans, can you? ”

"You don't have enough time to catch a few hundred pigs, especially a few hundred people with guns." Regarding Yang Zhen's unsatisfactory sentence, Guo Bingxun could only shake his head and smile bitterly.

Yang Zhen shook his head and said, "Old Guo, I'm not dissatisfied. When I say unsatisfactory, I don't mean results. As you have just seen, during the entire battle, some company and platoon commanders were disjointed, and after the charge, there were many problems in the use of some necessary tactics. Tactical training for everyone, including those company and platoon commanders, needs to be strengthened. ”

"And the consumption of ammunition is a bit extravagant. We didn't have any other sources of ammunition except for the capture, but during the battle just now, I took a closer look, and a lot of ammunition was spent in vain. The machine guns could not see the burst fire, all in bursts. And the enemy who has already been killed actually has more than one person's rifle still continuing to aim and replenish the gun. ”

"Lao Guo, to be honest, when the Japanese puppet army just began to enter the ambush circle, my heart was hanging all the time. Sixty percent of the recruits in the army have not fought in battle, and most of the commanders at all levels have been promoted by surprise. There are not many who served as officers in the original unit. I've always been worried that someone won't be able to hold their breath and shoot before the main force of the devils comes in, exposing our tactical intentions. ”

"Don't talk about others, even the Liu Changshun next to me is a little breathless. If I hadn't suppressed it on one side, I'm afraid this kid would have attacked first. ”

"When I say unsatisfactory, I mean that these faults are exposed. A month and a half of training is just to build the troops into a blank, and we still have a long way to go as for training them into a group of qualified fighters. ”

"In order to reduce casualties, I made the greatest use of firepower to kill and wound the enemy. But we can't instill in the fighters the idea of relying on firepower to solve problems. The reason why we resolved the battle so quickly today was that we reached the suddenness of our tactics and caught the Japanese puppet army by surprise. ”

"Second, although we are half a catty to eight taels with those Japanese puppet troops in terms of firepower allocation, we have achieved a centralized firepower allocation. Only then did they rely on intensive firepower to defeat these Japanese puppet troops. These two are the most fundamental factors that will allow us to win today. ”

"If the soldiers are allowed to rely on firepower to solve problems, it will not be good for us in the long run. First, even if we are concentrating our firepower, there is still a huge gap between us and the regular Japanese troops. Second, we do not have the capacity to produce ammunition, and all ammunition depends on capture. We don't have this foundation to fight the Japanese puppet army. ”

"The reason why I didn't skimp on the use of ammunition was because I was worried that the troops were not well trained and that fighting the Japanese puppet army would bring a large number of casualties. This battle is also the first battle, and it is good to boost the morale of the troops by exchanging the greatest number of casualties for the greatest results as much as possible. You can't be so lavish next time. ”

Hearing this, Guo Bingxun nodded and said, "What you said makes sense. In this battle, we basically ran out of ammunition with us. The recruits don't know the rhythm of the use of ammunition yet, and the veterans are all miserab, so this time you give the order to destroy the enemy with firepower as much as possible, and you will be happy to fight. ”

Speaking of this, Guo Bingxun looked at the soldiers who were cleaning the battlefield and said, "Fortunately, in addition to replenishing the ammunition we captured in this battle, there should be some reserves. As for weapons, the few companies that are still unarmed can also be fully equipped. ”

"As for the problems that arise in this battle of the troops, we have to take our time. After all, it is rare to be able to organize the troops in a month and a half to be like this. It's not a good thing to be promoted, and they still need time to exercise. ”

After listening to Guo Bingxun's words, Yang Zhen just wanted to say something, but he didn't expect the topic to be interrupted by the people brought by Xiaohuzi.

Looking at the few people in front of him who were ragged, full of beards, and looked at Yan Zhan Ng's malnutrition, Yang Zhen quietly ordered Xiaohuzi before he walked in front of these people who were looking at him with doubts and puzzles.

One of the people brought by Xiaohuzi walked up to Yang Zhen and saluted a non-standard military salute, and then spoke first: "We are a unit of the Fourth Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army, and I am Li Yanping, the commander of the Fourth Army. Thank you for your help in times of crisis for our army. I don't know what kind of team your department is, and what hill is your Excellency the treasurer of? ”

Obviously, this general of the Anti-Japanese Federation regarded Yang Zhen's department as the handkerchief of the mountain and forest team, so he asked such a question.