Between the highways leading from Pan County to Ping'an County.

More than 1,000 devils carried guns and bayonets, and marched in a neat formation along the highway towards Ping'an County, and there were 20 trucks in the middle of the team with rolling wheels, plus two 41-type mountain guns and two 92-type infantry guns towed behind the trucks, making this group of devils look aggressive, and the surrounding people avoided them and avoided them from afar.

However, if you look closely, you can find that in fact, this group of devils is far from being as powerful as it seems.

At the front of the devil's line were a dozen looted livestock, cows, mules, and even sheep.

The livestock were walking slowly along with a wooden rake, which weighed on a heavy load, and behind them were a dozen devils holding minesweepers, who were driving the livestock and using minesweepers to clear mines from time to time.

On both wings, more than a hundred devils could be seen spreading out, searching along the 400-meter boundary around the team.

After fighting for so long, the devil is also honest.

Don't dare to run rampant on the highway, all passing through the highway that is not confirmed to be safe, are careful and can not be careful, first send homemade mine rake trucks to mine, and then minesweepers to supplement, during which a large number of devils spread along the team to prevent ambushes.

Of course, not all devils are so honest.

"Yamada Nakasa, can you pass it now?"

In the devil team, a captain looked at a fellow captain beside him.

Because of the lack of troops, the devil brigade in the northwest of Jin Province is generally a non-full brigade, with only more than 500 people, and this time Yoshimoto Sadachi put enough pressure on Li Yunlong in order to strengthen the defense of Ping'an County, and merged the two brigades into one brigade.

However, Yoshimoto forgot one thing, or didn't care at all.

The two captains are both Zhongzuo, there is no unified commander, the scheduled supreme commander is still in Ping'an County, and the two sides are not familiar with each other, resulting in neither of them obeying anyone along the way.

"Masaki Nakasa, we'll have to wait..."

Captain Nakasa, who was called Yamada, responded calmly.

As he spoke, Yamada commanded a group of devils under his command to continue searching along both flanks of the road, and the group of devils searched more carefully, lying on the ground from time to time, searching for something with bayonets, including stones and broken sacks on the side of the road, and carefully examining tree stumps.

"Wait?"

The corners of Mazaki Nakasa's eyes jumped, and he snorted coldly, and his tone was full of cynicism:

"It took a day to walk the 50-way mountain road, and we were only halfway there."

"Yamada Nakasa, I see that you have lost the courage to be an imperial samurai, and you have no determination to be loyal to the locust and the empire, I think you should apply to return to China for retirement."

Regarding Masaki Nakasa's cynicism, the captain called Tayama didn't care at all, and even wanted to laugh a little.

If it was three years ago, he would definitely be furious and prove his courage and loyalty to the locust with practical actions, but after these three years of experience, he is now mature...

"Mazaki-kun, only by living can you be loyal to the locusts and the empire."

Captain Yamada responded leisurely.

"Hmph."

"There is only a group of troops of the Eighth Route Army here, a group of farmers, and they have no combat effectiveness, so they dare to ambush our two brigades? And it's still flat. ”

The captain who was called Masaki didn't believe it at all, and continued to taunt:

"Yamada-kun, since you have lost your courage, retire, the Imperial Locust Army does not need waste."

"A troop of farmers?"

Yamada squinted at Masaki, he looked at the captain who fell from the plains, his eyes were full of pity, and after a sneer, Yamada withdrew his gaze.

Three years ago, he also thought the same way, and the captains of the garrison brigades in the four counties around Yangquan also thought so.

The Eighth Route is just a group of peasants, and the imperial army can be dispersed with a single charge.

Then he changed his mind in time and raised his vigilance, so he survived.

The captains of the other four garrison brigades were either suddenly killed by someone on the road, or were suddenly killed by a single shot, or committed suicide because of the heavy losses of the brigade.

"Yaga..."

"You shit."

This look of pity was so angry that he screamed, but he could only scream with his mouth.

On this march, his superiors strictly stipulated that he must go with the transport convoy, and the transport truck convoy belonged to the Yamada brigade from Xiyang County, near Yangquan, and he could only endure it.

"Captain, confirm that the road ahead is safe."

At this time, a devil came to report.

"Yo Si."

Yamada nodded and continued with the convoy.

At the moment when the devil's convoy set off, two kilometers ahead, Zhang Dabiao also received the news:

"Battalion commander, the devil is here."

"Hmph."

Zhang Dabiao snorted coldly: "This group of devils is really careful, I guess the commander should be the devils from the counties near Yangquan." ”

"Yes."

Beside him, the commander of a reconnaissance company of the first battalion smiled and nodded:

"This style is very similar to the devils over there in Yangquan, especially the devil brigade in Xiyang County, I still remember that we set up the devils in Xiyang several times, all because this group of devils was careful and vigilant, the detonating rope was discovered in advance, and a lot of explosives were wasted."

"Hey, hey, hey..."

Zhang Dabiao smiled gloomily: "It's a pity, the little devil doesn't know yet, our equipment has been upgraded, and we don't play with the detonation rope." ”

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At the same time.

Taiyuan City.

"Yamamoto-kun."

Yoshimoto Seichi called Kazuki Yamamoto again:

"Come and see, I plan to send a full brigade from the 33rd Wing of Yangquan to Panxian and Ping'an County to contain Li Yunlong, what do you think?"

After more than a month, Yoshimoto deeply appreciated Yamamoto's ability.

Although this guy is brainless, he is single-minded and unrealistic about promoting special forces and special operations, but he really doesn't have his own ability, especially intelligence ability, which is a must.

Yoshimoto also paid more and more attention to Yamamoto, so he decided to ask Yamamoto's opinion before sending troops.

Of course, part of the reason is that after the airport was attacked again, coupled with the fact that a special high school was killed outside Taiyuan City, he paid double attention to Li Yunlong, and Yamamoto had a lot of experience in fighting Li Yunlong.

"General, I propose to send Kondo Nakasa and his brigade."

Yamamoto bowed his head and said.

"Tell me your reason."

Yoshimoto said leisurely.

"Kondo Nakasa has been the captain of the brigade in Yangquan for two years, and has fought with Li Yunlong many times, and has foiled Li Yunlong's conspiracy several times, and is the officer with the most rich combat experience with Li Yunlong around Yangquan, except for Yamada Nakasa."

"Moreover, he and Yamada Nakasa are also friends, and they can cooperate with each other to fight against Li Yunlong."

Yamamoto gave his explanation.

"Nakasa Yamada."

Yoshimoto remembered the captain he had personally transferred.

At that time, he also followed Yamamoto's advice.

According to battle reports, this Yamada captain had been stationed in Xiyang, near Yangquan, and according to battle reports, this person had discovered the ambush of Li Yunlong's troops four times in advance, and three times discovered bombs buried in the road, and repeatedly thwarted Li Yunlong's conspiracy and avoided the loss of the imperial convoy.

"Just do as you say."

Gibbon nodded.

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"The road ahead is safe."

After walking a kilometer, Yamada Nakasa sent people to guard and search again, and only after receiving confirmation did he order the troops to continue advancing.

Behind him, Captain Masaki exuded disdain, contempt, and irritability. However, Yamada didn't pay attention to it at all, and walked at his own pace, so angry that Mazaki wanted to cut people.

"Ready."

Just as Yamada had just set off, seven hundred meters away from the road, the monk held a telescope and stared at the twenty trucks in the devil's team.

According to the battle plan, the first wave of bombs was targeted by this batch of trucks, as well as the devils who drove trucks and could repair trucks.

Beside the monk, the two detonators held their breath.

In order to prevent accidents, the monk prepared two detonators and laid two wires, anyway, after the war, the wires could be recovered, and at most the part close to the explosives could be lost.

"Detonation."

Just when the devil convoy arrived at the area where the explosives were planted, the monk made a violent noise.

As soon as the words began, the two detonators pressed the detonator in their hands fiercely.

Two currents are emitted from the detonator and travel at the speed of light along the buried cable to the explosive bag buried under the road. Boom Boom... A series of violent explosions rose along the road.

Accompanied by the smoke and waves of the explosion, a large number of car parts and devils were blown up all over the sky.

"Fire."

At the same time, Li Changshun, who was one kilometer away from the road, gave the order to open fire, and eight 82 mortars opened fire at full speed and threw shells at the devil team in the distance.

Knock knock...

Two M2 heavy machine guns rang out at the same time.

"Rush."

Zhang Dabiao also rushed forward at full speed with people. In order to avoid detection, he led the main force of a battalion to lay in an ambush seven hundred meters away, and it took a while to charge before he could engage the enemy.

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"Enemy attack..."

The two devil captains were relatively far away from the convoy and were not harmed by the first wave of explosions.

"Disperse, find cover on the spot, the first and third squadrons spread the alert, build positions, and the second squadron rescue supplies."

The old devil Mazaki reacted quickly, and immediately ordered the vigilance and rescue supplies to try to recover the losses, as a senior Japanese army captain, he naturally had some experience in dealing with guerrillas.

And next to him, Yamada, who had been leisurely, seemed to be stunned by this sudden explosion, and he didn't react for a while, staring blankly at the gunpowder smoke behind him that had not yet dispersed.

What's going on?

Why didn't it find?

Although he was extremely puzzled as to why he had not found the explosives planted by the enemy, the ensuing heavy machine gun strafing and mortars made Yamada sober up, and he immediately realized who was doing it when he looked at the Imperial soldiers who were directly shattered and the mortar shells that kept falling.

Li Yunlong.

The existence that made the imperial army around Yangquan feel like a nightmare.

Only he has such great firepower.

You have to retreat, you can't fight them, and if you fight in this terrain, not only will the supplies be gone, but I'm afraid the troops will also suffer heavy losses... In an instant, Yamada had the idea for the first time.

Stop losses in time.

Yamada, who participated in the Battle of Guoshou County, knew very well that the firepower of the Independent Regiment was superior to that of the Imperial Army, the terrain here was flat, there was no shelter, and the two brigades would inevitably fail miserably if they were defeated, and there was no chance of victory.

He immediately gave the order:

"Find cover on the spot, launch fire suppression, and the second squadron will make every effort to rescue supplies."

But the other foreign captain, Masaki Nakasa, obviously didn't think so.

When he saw the artillery bombardment, he saw Zhang Dabiao's battalion rushing over, and regardless of the enemy's strength and strength, he immediately launched a counterattack:

"Artillery squadron, suppress the enemy's artillery, the first squadron builds bunkers on the spot to suppress the enemy's infantry charge, the third squadron attacks the enemy, kills them, kills to give..."

With Mazaki's order, the devil rescued a surviving mountain cannon from the debris of the explosion and deployed, and assembled the two Type 92 infantry guns at the end of the line, ready to launch a counterattack on the artillery position a kilometer away.

At the same time, the 3rd Squadron under his command also launched a counter-charge towards the Eighth Route Army, which was charging in the distance.

"This terrain, how dare you launch a counter-charge?."

"Look for death, then I will fulfill you."

Holding the binoculars and looking at the movements of the devils in the distance, Zhang Dabiao smiled fiercely:

"Heavy machine guns, take out the enemy's artillery."

Zhang Dabiao arranged two heavy machine guns on the top of a hill 900 meters away from the road, at this distance, the M2 heavy machine gun can still maintain extremely high accuracy and lethality, and the devil has no means to threaten the heavy machine gun except for infantry guns.

But it takes time for the infantry artillery to be assembled, and the terrain here on the road is flat and open, there is no solid bunker, and the two Type 92 infantry guns of the devil have not had time to assemble, and the two heavy machine guns have beaten the artillery crew and the cannon into a sieve, and by the way, another mountain gun that survived the explosion has also been eliminated.

It was only at this time that Masaki Nakasa realized that something was wrong:

"It's... Eighth route army? ”

His eyes widened as he looked at the makeshift artillery position in the distance, where no one was standing, in disbelief.

He has been the captain of the brigade for more than two years, and he has fought with the government and the Eighth Route Army dozens of times, and it is the first time he has seen such a fierce enemy.

Moreover, there was such heavy artillery fire.

Just when he was stunned, his third squadron had already exchanged fire with Zhang Dabiao's battalion.

In the face of a battalion with four 60 mortars, more than 60 machine guns, and more than 100 submachine guns, the 150-strong devil squadron was pressed to the ground and rubbed as soon as it came into contact, and when the heavy machine guns on the hill joined the battle, it collapsed directly, and the squadron leader was killed on the spot, and only more than 30 devils escaped.

If it weren't for the suppression of the fire of another devil brigade, the first battalion had to stop the charge, otherwise none of them would have been able to run back.

"Nani?"

This scene directly scared Captain Masaki stupid.

A squadron, one hundred and fifty imperial troops, in less than five minutes, was almost completely annihilated?

This is the Eighth Route Army?

So ferocious!

"Withdraw."

Having played against the independent team many times, Yamada is ready to slip away.

A large part of his brigade were old devils who survived the battle in Shou County, and these devils reacted quickly, took some of the rescued supplies, and then abandoned the heavy baggage, and retreated along the road up the mountain in the direction of Ping'an County.

"Withdraw."

The other Masaki Nakasa also finally understood the situation, no longer had a head iron, and retreated in a hurry with the remnants of the army, but it was obviously too late, his brigade had already lost more than half of it by this time, and he retreated with almost no supplies.

"No need to chase, clean up the battlefield."

Zhang Dabiao did not send people to pursue, but asked the troops to clean up the battlefield.

Most of his battalion were recruits and were not suitable for pursuit.

This is also the reason why only one battalion was dispatched this time, and the remaining two infantry battalions were replenished with a large number of new recruits, all of whom were still in the run-in period and were not suitable for participating in the battle.

"These devils..."

Looking at the fleeing devils, Zhang Dabiao sighed, a little pity:

"It's really fast."

On this flat terrain, if the devil runs a little slower, with the fire support of the heavy machine gun on the top of the mountain and the artillery company, he can lead a battalion back and forth and charge a few times, maybe he can crush this group of devils, or even divide and encircle and annihilate a part.

It was only after retreating to Ping'an County that the devils remembered to report the news of the attack to their superiors.