Chapter 188: Three Righteous Collections

Sanyiji, located in the village of the northern section of Longhai Road, backed by the Yellow River ferry Chenliukou, surrounded by Dingzhai, Yang Qidang and other villages, at this time near Sanyiji, everywhere is the Japanese 14th Division troops coming and going, the materials from the Chenliukou ferry, at a daily rate of 100 tons, a steady stream of delivery to the hands of the 14th Division. On the eastern Henan Plain of Pingchuan, the Chinese and Japanese armies entered a period of adjustment after continuous fierce battles.

In the Sanyi set, the headquarters of the 14th division is stationed here, the division commander Tu Fei Yuan Kenji read the telegram that has just been translated in the division headquarters, there is more and more information to prove that the squadron is moving closer to the Sanyi set, and the troops under Tu Fei Yuan are extremely thin, the infantry wing under his command is scattered to fight, and there is only one infantry 59th wing in his hands, the position of the Sanyi set is important, not only because this is the station of the division headquarters, but also because the back is Chen Liukou and other ferries, materials from the north bank of the Yellow River, It was through these ferries that the 14th Division could be continuously transfused.

** Not stupid, in the previous battle, the Japanese army in Sanyi concentrated attacked, and the 59th Wing struggled to support under the cover of heavy artillery fire, and finally held the position

In order to increase the strength in his hands, Tu Feiyuan ordered the second wing stationed in Lanfeng City to withdraw and move closer to the division headquarters, with the 50th Wing stationed in Quxingji, the 59th Wing and the division headquarters stationed in Sanyiji, and the reinforced 2nd Wing part defended on the periphery of the division and regiment headquarters, and the other part guarded Chenliukou and other places.

The main force of the squadron is gathering near the headquarters of the 14th Division, the main force is Gui Yongqing's 27th Army and Yu Jishi's 74th Army, and the assault column and other troops have also received orders to move forward to attack, and the two armies, plus the assault column and the reinforced artillery 10th regiment, are the main force of the squadron used to attack the 14th Division.

At both ends of Longhai Road, groups of squadrons wearing emerald green and gray military uniforms slowly marched towards their destinations.

The whole assault column received the order to participate in the siege battle, and after the preparation battalion was rested, it was still used as an infantry unit to lead the whole column, and the rear was the chariot unit and other parts of the column, Zhang Wei also heard Qiu Qingquan say before the march that the troops fighting together this time were the 27th Army and the 74th Army, both of which were the Central Army.

Needless to say, the 74th Army heard the name of the army before the crossing, but now the reputation in the ** troops is not very big, the battle of eastern Henan, the 74th Army, like the other Central Army participating in the war, was pulled up after a little rectification after the Nanjing breakout, and the recruits in the army accounted for more than sixty percent, and the veterans and grassroots officers were relatively lacking.

After the Nanjing War, Gui Yongqing was promoted to the commander of the 27th Army of the Army, Zhang Wei's old army taught the corps, Nanjing collected more than 4,000 remnants after the war, and the whole column corps was based on these veterans, plus three new regiments trained in the rear, and reintegrated into a division, numbered as the 46th Division. Zhang Wei was still very happy at the thought of meeting people from the old army, after the Nanjing War, he didn't know how many people were still alive in the regiment he was in.

"Tell the company commander to speed up a little."

"Yes!"

The guards rushed forward and informed the first company that took the lead to speed up the march and replenish the reserve battalion, which had more than 100 men after replenishing the soldiers of the engineer platoon, and was still the strongest company in the reserve battalion, with about 70 people each in the second and third companies, and each of these two companies was reduced to two platoons in order to unify command.

In order to give early warning, but also to arrive as quickly as possible, Zhang Wei ordered to speed up the march, which indirectly drove the marching speed of the assault column, fortunately, when crossing the south of the Longhai line and passing through Quxingji and other places, it was not attacked by the Japanese army, and the whole column marched along the railway line to the designated place.

After Quxingji, the atmosphere of the war became more and more intense, and there were not many guns and cannons, indicating that the two sides were currently only sporadic fierce battles, and the smoke of gunpowder could be seen everywhere.

There was a burst of gunfire from the "bang", it was the sound of a seventy-nine rifle, coming from the sharp soldiers of a company.

"All ready to fight, one company at a time!"

Zhang Wei held a shell gun in his hand, carried a horse card at his waist, and walked forward with a hunched body, and Qiu Wei led people to spread out on both sides of the road in front, using light machine guns as the center of fire to control the center of the road, and the whole company made preparations for battle.

"What's the situation?"

"I don't know, the spearhead squad in front of me has released a gun and hasn't come back yet." Qiu Wei said with an anxious face.

"It's better not to have an accident." Hearing that the person hadn't come back yet, Zhang Wei's heart chuckled, thinking that it was better not to have anything happen, and the shell gun was also on the top of the rifle.

"It's back!"

Zhang Wei looked over, there were about a dozen people walking on the road in the distance, seeing that his people were fine, Zhang Wei breathed a sigh of relief, the top soldier squad came back, and there was a sergeant squad leader who came with them, belonging to the 61st Division of the 27th Army.

Brought the sergeant squad leader over to ask about the situation, Zhang Wei ordered the alert to be lifted, the whole battalion continued to advance, after the troops passed through Quxingji, they immediately approached the vicinity of Sanyiji, the 27th Army and the 74th Army had already arrived, and just now they were connected with the people of the 61st Division, which also meant that they were in contact with the 27th Army and entered the defense area of friendly forces.

After Qiu Qingquan made contact with the radio, he ordered the whole column to continue to march and converge with the main forces of the 27th Army and the 74th Army, and after determining the safety, the whole column lifted the alert, accelerated the speed of the march, and advanced forward, the road was full of soldiers and vehicles of various troops, compared with the 61st Division, the scene was quite chaotic, the troops of the 27th Army and the 74th Army were basically in place, Zhang Wei and they saw the troops of the rear guard and the baggage troops, some pulling ammunition, and transporting the wounded and food, and the sand stirred up by the carriage was all over the sky.

In order to get in place as soon as possible, Qiu Madman sent two Italian light chariots to open the road in front, those carriages did not dare to compete with the chariots, so they could only pull over or go off the main road, with the chariots to open the road, the march of the preparatory battalion was relatively smooth, and after walking for more than an hour, the assault column arrived at the place and connected with the military headquarters of the 27th Army and the 74th Army.

The staff officers sent by the military headquarters of the 27th Army arranged a station for the assault column, the location of the station was not bad, it was in the rear of the main forces of the 27th Army and the 74th Army, it was quite safe, and the main forces of the two armies were in front.