Seeing that Qin Mo's troops had retreated, this group of Japanese soldiers directly occupied the Xishan Sixth Regiment's garrison. However, since their troops were smaller than those of Li Yan and Jiang Zhen, this group of Japanese soldiers occupied the Xishan Sixth Regiment's garrison.
Instead of continuing to charge forward, Li Yan and Jiang Zhen saw that they had a chance to counterattack, and immediately led their troops to move towards the Xishan Sixth Regiment's station.
But just when the troops from both sides were about to approach the Japanese soldiers, the Japanese bombers that had been hovering in the north of Xishan suddenly swooped towards them and fired randomly at the same time to prevent Li Yan and Jiang Zhen's troops from continuing.
Pushing forward, Li Yan initially tried to lead his troops to charge forward for a while, but then he was attacked by crossfire from the Japanese side from land and air.
Seeing that such a forceful charge was not a problem, Li Yan retreated his troops for a while and hid in the woods in the West Shandong base area. Jiang Zhen saw that Li Yan had begun to retreat, so he took the troops behind him.
While fighting back, he headed toward where Li Yan was.
When he was sure that the Japanese troops had no intention of pursuing any more, Jiang Zhen came to Li Yan and asked, "Li Yan, do you see anything?" Seeing that Li Yan didn't speak, Jiang Zhen turned to Li Yan again.
He leaned in front of Li Yan and continued:
"I originally thought that the Japs just wanted revenge, so they sent out a flight formation to sing like this, but what just happened was obviously not that simple. After the air strike, they were airborne and infiltrated, and then they took advantage of our busy schedule to attack.
The Sixth Regiment of Xishan was stationed at the Xishan Sixth Regiment, forcing the Qinmo troops back to the Xishandong base area. Then, they suddenly stopped at the Sixth Regiment of Xishan. They neither came up to fight us, but also prevented us from continuing to attack..."
"Brigadier Jiang, your guess is correct. I judge that the Japs troops came this time to avenge the entire regiment and a half of the Japs soldiers that we just wiped out. But it's such a big deal, I doubt it.
This devil probably wants to take advantage of this opportunity to completely disrupt the Xishan front we have just established, and then cooperate inside and outside to eliminate us. If they achieve this step, they will really avenge him." Li Yan interrupted.
Jiang Zhen said slowly.
After Jiang Zhen heard what Li Yan said, he did not immediately ask another question of his own. Instead, he turned his head to the Japanese troops who were wreaking havoc at the Xishan Sixth Regiment. He observed them carefully for a while, then looked up again.
He was hovering in the sky, looking for the hiding place for the troops behind him.
He then stood up gently, stretched out his right hand and pointed to the sky, facing Li Yan and asked: "Li Yan, if we wait until these Japanese planes don't have much fuel and have to return, we can take the opportunity to concentrate
Can we attack these Japanese soldiers in the back mountain with all our strength?"
Li Yan gave a wry smile, then turned to face the northern direction of Xishan Mountain, then turned his head, looked up at the sky in the direction of Jiang Zhen's finger, and asked: "Commander Jiang, have you noticed that we are in Xishan Mountain now?"
The number of Japanese bombers hovering around the county town and the Western Shandong base area is less than half of the original bombers..." Seeing that Jiang Zhen was a little confused, Li Yan stretched out his hand to point to the northern part of Xishan, and then explained: "Jiang Brigade
Chief, look over there."
Jiang Zhen followed the direction of Li Yan's finger and looked over the northern part of Xishan. Sure enough, he saw the shadows of several more Japanese bombers. However, these bombers did not immediately come to join the Japanese bombers over the middle road of Xishan. They just stayed in place slightly.
hovering, waiting
When the Japanese bombers flying over Xishan Middle Road flew towards the north of Xishan, another flight formation originally waiting in the north of Xishan came up and replaced the previous flight formation to conduct a search for the location of the Eighth Route Army ground troops.
Task.
Only when Jiang Zhen saw this did he realize that the Japanese had already considered this fuel shortage problem, so after the bombing mission, they divided the original flight formation into two parts. One team stayed on the Xishan Middle Road to intercept the Eighth Route Army.
The ground troops and the other team are to prevent the Eighth Route Army troops from taking advantage of this first
A part of the bombing formation went back to refuel and attacked the Japanese troops stationed in the Sixth Regiment of Xishan, so they stayed in place. In this way, not only would their own troops not be able to go out smoothly to destroy these Japanese troops who had just parachuted into the back mountain, but also
Now even returning to the original base safely has become a problem.
Thinking of this, Jiang Zhen left Li Yan and walked to the west side of the woods for a while until he stopped at the west exit of the woods. Then he looked up to see the movements of the Japanese planes and saw that the second Japanese flying formation had already arrived over the middle road of Xishan Mountain.
, Jiang Zhen retreated into the woods and came to Li Yan, wanting to hear Li Yan's next thoughts.
But at this time, Li Yan did not focus on how to deal with the Japanese soldiers. Instead, he just moved the troops behind him back for a while, and then called Qin Mo, who had just retreated into the woods, and asked him to lead the troops to him.
By his side, when Qin Mo's troops arrived in front of Li Yan, Li Yan gathered his reinforced regiment troops and Qin Mo's troops together, then turned around and came to Jiang Zhen and said:
"Brigadier Jiang, I suggest you take your troops now and return to the Xishandong base area to defend. However, remember that when returning to the base area, you must not go directly to the Xishan Middle Road. You must go south along the woods and take a roundabout way.
Arrive at the Western Shandong base area and then enter from behind to avoid being discovered by Japanese planes and causing
Unnecessary losses. I am now going to take Qin Mo's troops and return to Xishan County, bypassing the Japs' surveillance sight. If there are no mistakes in the process, as long as the troops return to Xishan County safely, I will come to Xishandong immediately.
I'll find you at the base and discuss the next steps with you."
Seeing Jiang Zhen nodding to confirm, Li Yan immediately came to his troops and prepared to lead them out of the woods. However, just after taking two steps, Li Yan turned around and came to Jiang Zhen and added: "Brigadier Jiang, brought back
Don't be in a hurry and return to the base area one by one. Otherwise, if you are discovered by the Japanese soldiers, the Japanese soldiers stationed in the Sixth Regiment of Xishan will realize that the defense of the West Shandong base area is empty and turn to attack here.
But it’s over!”
Jiang Zhen frowned tightly: "I understand, you go ahead." Li Yan saw that Jiang Zhen had understood what he was thinking, so he nodded slightly, then returned to Qin Mo and followed Qin Mo.
He led the troops to the northern part of Xishan through the woods. When Li Yan confirmed that his team had left the reconnaissance field of view of the two Japanese bombers, he quickly
The team came to the woods on the west side of Xishan Middle Road, continued southward for a while, and finally passed through the west gate of Xishan County and arrived safely inside Xishan County. Seeing that the troops behind him were not injured, Li Yan simply organized the defense, and then left alone
A man came to the west forest of the county seat and took advantage of the enemy's lack of attention to quietly touch the west Shandong base area.