Li Yan hurriedly stopped and looked in the direction of the air defense siren. At this time, the Eighth Route Army soldiers in the barracks also ran to the open space, pointed their guns at the sky, and prepared a defensive position. Li Yan saw that Jiang Zhen was still there.
In the open space, he took a few steps closer to where Jiang Zhen was, wanting to hear what Jiang Zhen was thinking, but Jiang Zhen ignored Li Yan and just took out the binoculars on his waist and looked in the direction of the air defense alarm.
After a while, he didn't see anything special. But just when he was about to put down the telescope and go back to the conference room to rest, there were sudden bursts of violent explosions in the distance.
Jiang Zhen waved to Li Yan beside him, called him into the conference room, pointed to Xishan County on the map and said: "This is where the Japanese bombed."
Li Yan followed the direction of Jiang Zhen's finger and saw Xishan County on the map near the southwest of Xishan. According to his combat experience, there were two main reasons why the Japanese bombed Xishan County. One was to know the news that the Watanabe Department had been annihilated.
, but since their flight formation was completely annihilated by Li Yan last time, they did not dare to send planes easily this time. They could only bully the unarmed civilians first to vent their anger. Secondly, after this bombing, the Japanese
A large number of troops are bound to be stationed in Xishan County. In this way, they can increase their own military strength by plundering supplies in the county. If they are attacked in the future when they send troops, they can also use the living residents in the county as hostages to force the Eighth Route Army to retreat.
But Li Yan didn't want to launch an attack after they entered the county town, but wanted to attack before that. He found that the entire West Shandong, middle and west roads could reach the bombed Xishan County town, but now due to the proximity of the east road and the middle road
Xishan is the base area of the Eighth Route Army in the east, so Li Yan judged that these Japanese soldiers must have marched from the west road to the location of Xishan County. Thinking of this, Li Yan suddenly stretched out his index finger and clicked on the west road of Xishan on the map, and then drew a few small
Circle, Jiang Zhen looked strange and asked: "You mean you want me to send someone to ambush in the middle...? The Japanese are not that stupid. They had already been ambushed in the battle with Watanabe just now.
Damn, so after this they will definitely have a Japanese team specially responsible for investigation to come and search the mountain."
Li Yan smiled at Jiang Zhen: "Brigadier Jiang, do you still remember the landmine that the Japanese stepped on just now?"
Jiang Zhen frowned and thought about it. He knew that the two rows of landmines planted by Li Yan could not stop the Japs in a real sense. If Watanabe insisted on moving forward at that time, the remaining Japs troops could still escape part of it smoothly.
However, due to Watanabe's paranoia, he believed that there must be landmines ahead, so he delayed issuing an order to continue advancing, resulting in a delay in the march and ultimately the end of the entire army being annihilated. However, he did not think that this method would last forever.
It's easy to use, but maybe the Japanese in the future will bite the bullet and drive past, in which case all the efforts will be in vain.
But Li Yan had already figured out what Jiang Zhen was thinking. He observed Jiang Zhen for a while and suddenly asked: "Commander Jiang, you must be thinking that I will plant two more rows of mines on Xishan West Road to scare you."
The Japanese live here, right?"
Li Yan's words directly guessed Jiang Zhen's thoughts at this time, which surprised Jiang Zhen, but he soon calmed down and asked: "If you don't want to bury two rows of landmines, what do you want to do?"
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Li Yan moved his index finger to the intersection of Xishan West Road and drew a large circle, then drew a line southward along the circle and replied: "I want to mine the entire West Road here."
Hearing this, Jiang Zhen frowned even more. He thought that the length of the entire West Road was at least 2,500 meters. If he followed Li Yan's idea, it would require at least forty large boxes of mines, but
Now his ammunition reserve and the arms seized from the Watanabe stronghold add up to less than twenty boxes. Thinking of this, Jiang Zhen asked tentatively: "If I tell you... I have only a few boxes in this entire base."
If you get twenty boxes of mines, can you still guarantee that you can cover the entire west road with mines?"
"Commander Jiang, what if I follow the plan of suspecting soldiers to lay mines?" Li Yan asked softly.
Jiang Zhen was stunned for a moment and did not question it any further. He just asked slowly: "When are you going to do it?"
Li Yan thought for a while secretly, thinking that the Japanese had just suffered a loss in the night battle, and they would definitely not dare to operate at night again in the near future, but after tonight it would be daytime, and the brothers were all tired after this battle.
, there was definitely no way to send troops in time to stop the Japanese from marching into Xishan County. Li Yan thought about it and concluded that the Japanese would definitely start their march plan early tomorrow morning, so he stood up and asked for instructions: "Captain Jiang, I'm going to start tonight.
Please approve the plan to lay mines on Xishan West Road!"
Jiang Zhen looked at Li Yan's firm eyes and nodded. Seeing that his action plan had been approved by his superiors, Li Yan quickly walked out of the conference room and came to the barracks and called forty brothers from the reinforcement group to carry the load in pairs.
He walked out of the West Shandong base with the mine box, climbed over the central woods and came to the center of Xishan West Road. He led the team to move north for a while and came to the north intersection of Xishan West Road, and began his minelaying mission. However, Li Yan was not in a hurry to lay mines.
Instead, he ordered the brothers behind him to first place some small red flags representing landmines every three or five steps, alternating with each other until they reached the center of the West Road. After the small red flags were placed, Li Yan followed the others.
My brothers buried some of the mines next to the red flag instead of directly under it.
When the team returned to the north intersection of Xishan West Road, there were only less than ten boxes of landmines left in the twenty boxes. Seeing this, Li Yan ordered: "Now everyone lift up the remaining landmines and walk along the red flag route to the west."
Stop in the middle of the road and wait for instructions." After saying that, he took the lead and walked towards the middle position. The forty brothers from the reinforcement group followed closely behind and cautiously arrived at the middle position.
After that, the entire team planted red flags in the same order as last time. According to a certain rule, one was planted every three or five steps, and they alternated with each other. However, the position of the minelaying was completely opposite to that before. The team passed by
After reaching the middle road, Li Yan suddenly ordered the team members to bury the mines under the little red flag, and then follow the route without the red flag back to the center of the west road. After everything was completed, Li Yan took the forty people with him.
The team returned to the West Shandong base area and sent the brothers back to their barracks.
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