From Ito's point of view, the plan to divide his troops into several groups and distribute them on the surrounding hills is indeed a sound strategy. However, because Takehiko Ito did not understand the terrain, he mistakenly placed all his troops in the back mountains of the West Shandong base area. If he wanted to
If we attack the West Shandong base area and other Eighth Route Army troops from the back mountains, we must
First go through the trail in the middle of the back mountain, otherwise you will have to lead the team to march along the mountain road. However, this way of marching is equivalent to suicide for Ito Takehiko. Thinking of this, Li Yan stretched out his right index finger and poked it directly to the west.
At the same time, he looked up at Jiang Zhen on the trail in the middle of the back mountain of the Shandong base area and conveyed his thoughts to him.
In the back mountain of the West Shandong Base Area, we can only march to the east side through the back mountain trail. When the troops reach the foot of the east mountain, they can then turn around and push north to the top of the mountain. This march route has been known to Li Yan for a long time, and it has just happened.
The battle indeed left a fatal loophole. If anyone knows Xishan
, the first thing that all the troops did after arriving at the top of the back mountain was not to just wander around on the top of the mountain, but to set up an ambush on the middle trail of the back mountain, and wait until the enemy entered the middle trail to take advantage of the terrain.
The advantage should be eliminated, but judging from the battle just now, it is obvious that these Japanese soldiers do not know this.
But the fact that the leading Japanese troops did not know how to fight like this does not mean that Ito would not think of fighting like this in future battles. Therefore, Li Yan did not directly say anything about storming the back mountain, but suggested that Jiang Zhen send a large number of troops to garrison.
Near the back mountain, two teams were dispatched to sneak into the back mountain.
Stopping at the west side of the mountain wall, the top of the mountain to the west of the back mountain extends out to the west. The bottom of the mountain wall becomes a blind spot on the top of the mountain. As long as the Japanese do not jump from the top of the mountain, they will never be able to see it.
The situation below, and the troops below can judge the direction of action of the Japanese soldiers through the sound.
Li Yan guessed that the current Takehiko Ito would not give up after the vanguard team was destroyed, but would summon other teams to launch a second raid in a short period of time, so he was prepared to mobilize when the Japanese troops were about to send troops to leave the back mountain.
The large force suppressed it and finally completely blocked the trail in the middle of the back mountain. At the same time, they launched small-scale raids and artillery attacks from time to time in the direction of the back mountain until Takehiko Ito's psychological defense line was defeated.
After Li Yan explained the entire plan, he looked up at Jiang Zhen and said, "Commander Jiang, if Ito accidentally ran into the back mountain with only one way out, it would be like putting himself in a cage."
, but it will be very troublesome to attack this place by force, so I plan to focus the entire strategy on the word siege. When they run out of ammunition and food, when will we rush in and eliminate them in one fell swoop."
Jiang Zhen nodded slightly, walked out and mobilized the troops of the two regiments to the center of the open space, then stood back in front of Li Yan and said: "Li Yan, I will leave these two regiments to you, but you have to remember,
If during the siege of Takehiko Ito's troops..." Jiang Zhen just said
He stopped here because he heard a few sporadic gunshots from the back mountain. Within a few seconds, the gunshots became intensive. Seeing this, Li Yan stopped listening to Jiang Zhen's nonsense.
Instead, they took the two regiments directly out of the west Shandong base area and headed straight towards the back mountain.
At this time, a Japanese group had already rushed out of the back mountain, but when they saw the large force behind Li Yan, they quickly turned their heads back and prepared to retreat to the back mountain along the trail in the middle of the back mountain.
, but because the trail in the back mountain is too narrow, only three or five people can pass at a time, and this group of Japanese soldiers
They were all in a hurry to retreat to the foot of Shandong Mountain. The Japanese soldiers inside could not get out, and the Japanese soldiers outside could not get in. The entire Japanese army was in chaos in an instant, like headless flies that could not find a window. Li Yan saw
Zhuang hurriedly led the troops behind him to charge forward and killed all the Japanese soldiers who were stranded outside.
Although all the Japanese troops on the periphery have been wiped out by Li Yan, the Japanese soldiers in the Xishan Trail are still resisting tenaciously. Because the exit of the Xishan Trail is narrow, it is not suitable for the troops outside the back mountain to target, and because of this trail
The angle is quite tricky, very
It was difficult to see the specific situation inside, so Li Yan could only retreat first instead of rushing forward. At this time, the Japanese soldiers who were on the trail in the middle of the back mountain saw that Li Yan's troops had retreated, so they consolidated a little.
team, preparing to launch a second attack.
Li Yan saw that things were not going well, so he detached a small team from the large army, bypassed the sight of the Japanese soldiers and quietly touched the south side of the mountain wall on the west side of the back mountain. Seeing that the Japanese soldiers did not notice him, Li Yan
Then I moved my steps and slowly approached the west exit of the back mountain trail.
Nearby, he took out the grenade stuck in his waist with his left hand, grabbed the string with his right hand and pulled hard, and then quickly ran to the Houshanxi exit. While the Japanese soldiers inside were stunned, he threw the grenade into the Xishan trail.
It blew up most of the Japanese soldiers hiding inside.
Upon seeing this, the Eighth Route Army team behind them also pulled out the grenades one after another. They imitated Li Yan and jumped towards the exit on the west side of the mountain. Then they pulled the string and threw the grenade violently into the west mountain trail. After several violent explosions,
The Japanese soldiers in the Xishan Trail turned into corpses. Li Yan saw that the trail was no longer empty.
Facing a threat to his own troops, he led the small team behind him back to the main force, and then re-deployed two small teams and distributed them on the north and south sides of the Shanxi exit. He took the large team with him.
The troops came to a stop two thousand meters away from the west mountain trail, with the head of the team facing the back mountain trail.
Seeing that the first step of the entire plan had been achieved, Li Yan temporarily left the army and returned to the West Shandong base area. He brought a batch of food and dry rations from Jiang Zhen back to the army, one for each person, and filled every
The Eighth Route Army soldier then went to the side to pick up some dry branches and arranged them into piles to light a fire, but did not put anything on them. After doing all this, Li Yan returned to the temporary station and dug out some
He took out a steamed bun from his pocket and gnawed it wildly.
A Japanese soldier came to the top of Houshan Mountain, glanced at the bonfires in front of him, swallowed the saliva back into his stomach, and then quickly walked down the mountain without being discovered by Li Yan and the others.
In Takehiko Ito's temporary combat headquarters, he reported all the situations he had just detected to Takehiko Ito.
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