At three o'clock in the afternoon of April 21, the Dian army set out from Hankou and arrived in Xuzhou. However, they did not enter the city, and did not receive the cheers of the citizens like other troops, but only stayed in the train station and stood by.

General Lu Han led several important generals to the Xuzhou General Headquarters to meet with Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi.

In less than 20 minutes of brief meeting, Li and Bai knew that the northeast of Taierzhuang was lost, but they deliberately did not tell the truth, and only compared on the map, saying that the northeast of Taierzhuang was tight.

On the way back, General Lu Han and Zhang Chong were in the same car.

"Did you notice that the two of them were a little vague and seemed to be hiding something?" Luhan asked.

"The Northeast is tight, these four words have a lot of meaning. We're going to prepare for the worst. I personally participated in the Battle of Yungui back then, and I also fought with the two of them, I only hope that they will not hold grudges and use our 40,000 Yunnan troops as cannon fodder. Zhang Chong said with a smile.

Lu Han breathed a sigh of relief and sighed, "I hope so."

Subsequently, the divisions of the 60 th Army arrived in Xuzhou one after another, and Lu Han did not even have time to study the enemy situation and assign tasks, so he continued to board with his troops and marched to the designated defense area.

The 60th Army received an order: to go to the Pixian area northeast of Taierzhuang to take over the positions of Tang Enbo and Yu Xuezhong. However, Tang Enbo learned that the Dian army was coming and evacuated the defense area in advance, and Yu Xuezhong saw that the situation was not good, and he also withdrew one after another.

How could the Japanese army not accept such a big gift, and they took the opportunity to send two wings of more than 4,000 people to occupy that empty position.

And this news was only learned by the Dian army on the evening of the 21st.

"Town, son of a bitch! No wonder Li and Bai were convincing in the afternoon, it turned out that they already knew! ”

General Luján slapped the table vigorously and angrily uttered rare curses.

An Enpu, the commander of the 182nd Division, said: "What if you know, they have no face to say." The same is true in the first phase of the battle, Tang Enbo is the old Jiang lineage, and the two of them may not be able to command the move. ”

Gao Yinhuai, commander of the 183rd Division, stepped forward and said: "The Japanese army is not stable, and it is a tired division after a long battle, so we can completely hide our positions back." Our 183rd Division is willing to be the pioneer and fire the first shot in Yunnan. Win glory in the Yunnan army! Win glory for Yunnan! ”

"Good! We deployed a counteroffensive plan overnight to show the Japanese that our Dian army is not vegetarian! ”

At dawn on April 22, when the train transported the 60th Army to the banks of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. General Lu Han completed the deployment overnight and issued the first urgent order of the military headquarters: the 182nd Division got off at Zhaodun Station, the 183rd Division got off at Dongshazhuang Station, and the 184th Division and the troops directly under the army got off at Chehuishan Station.

The positions of the 60th Army entering the defense area were: the 183rd Division was on the right, assembled in the areas of Chen Wafang, Xingjialou, and Wushengtang; The 184th Division was on the left, assembled in the Taogou Bridge area east of Taierzhuang; The 182nd Division was in reserve on the left and right, and assembled in the Puwang and Yuwang Mountain areas.

Shao Fei and others also went to Taogou Bridge with the 184th Division. After Shao Fei arranged Liu Ying, Ru Xue, and Hong Ying into the field hospital in the rear of the division, he went to call Zhang Chong with Xiaodao.

"Hello Commander!" Shao Fei and Xiaodao saluted Zhang Chong together.

"Brother, you finally fulfilled our agreement and came here."

Zhang Chong was slightly excited. The Dian army hurriedly responded to the battle, and it can be said that they were completely unfamiliar with this area, while Shao Fei experienced the first stage of the battle, and no one was more familiar with the battle situation in this area than him.

"Who is this?" Zhang Chong pointed to the knife.

Xiaodao saluted again and said, "My name is Xiaodao, I have no surname, and I am an orphan." It was the squad leader who picked me up on the street. ”

Shao Fei smiled: "He is my best subordinate. is also a son of Yunnan, and he is a man of the Yi family like the teacher. ”

"Oh! No wonder I felt extra cordial, it turned out to be my own brother. Zhang Chong slapped the knife vigorously to show kindness.

After Zhang Chong reminisced, he walked back to the command table and said, "Okay, let's get down to business." Shao Fei, I heard that you played well in the first stage, when you were arrested by the military commanders, the top generals of the Sichuan Army and the Northwest Army interceded for you and forced the old generals to the palace. Let's talk about it. ”

Shao Fei looked at the map and said, "Our top priority is to gain a firm foothold and recapture the positions thrown away by Tang Enbo and Yu Wenzhong. The focus of the strategic defense after the recapture is Yuwang Mountain, the largest barrier to the east of Nataierzhuang. ……”

Shao Fei said what he knew and what he thought without reservation.

In the end, Shao Fei said: "Our enemy is the 10th Division and the 5th Division of the Japanese Army, and I have fought each other, and the battle is very fierce. The equipment of the Yunnan army is not inferior to that of the Japanese army, and the only deficiency is combat experience. You haven't fought for too long, and if you fight the elite divisions of the Japanese army, you may suffer a big loss. ”

"Learning from war in war is an inevitable lesson."

Zhang Chong breathed a sigh of relief, patted Shao Fei, and said, "Don't think too much, concentrate on this battle, and I will do everything possible to help you in the future."

Shao Fei understood what Zhang Chong meant and nodded. Zhang Chong immediately turned around, looked at the battle map, and said: "The 183rd Division will fire the first shot of the Dian army, I think their vanguard has already exchanged fire with the Japanese army in Chenwa Village." Hopefully, they will be able to buy valuable time for our counteroffensive. ”

Chenwafang, an ordinary village named after the surnames of local villagers and brick houses. However, due to the arrival of the Dian army, it was destined to be extraordinary, and in the long river of history, it was imprinted.

April 22, 1938 at 8 o'clock. Chenwafang Village was faintly shrouded in a morning mist, which appeared and disappeared from time to time.

This Dian army, which had just arrived to fight on the plains, was not yet familiar with the terrain, and did not even prepare shovels to dig trenches, and heavy machine guns were still carried on horseback.

The soldiers of the Dian Army would never have imagined that in this small village with only a few dozen households, the first gunshot of the 60th Army would come like thunder.

The 2nd Battalion of the 1081st Regiment, which was the vanguard of the 183rd Division, searched and advanced along the country road, and as soon as it arrived at the entrance of Chenwafang Village, it encountered the Japanese army.

Yin Guohua, the commander of the second battalion, quickly deployed the team on the spot, and with the slightly favorable terrain, he started a fierce battle with the Japanese army, and suddenly the gunfire was connected.

After a round of fierce fighting, the firepower of the Dian army actually prevailed. Regardless of the number of people and firepower, the Yunnan army has an absolute advantage.

Yin Guohua knew that the fighter plane was fleeting, and he had to occupy Chenwa Village and build fortifications before enemy reinforcements arrived.

Yin Guohua ordered loudly: "Artillery suppression!"

"Boom Boom" "......"

The Japanese positions were in flames, and the surrounding flames were raging.

"Kill the enemy to serve the country, kill!"

Yin Guohua picked up the submachine gun and took the brunt of the charge.

The enemy and the enemy engaged in a bloody bayonet fight. The Japanese army had few men, and the casualties had just been too large, so they gradually felt overwhelmed, so they transferred five tanks into the battle.

Because the enemy fought hard and fought bloodily, twisted into a ball, and the guns of the tanks could not exert their power, they used tanks to ram and crush.

Yin Guohua shouted vigorously while fighting: "Blow up that Iron King Eight for me!"

The soldiers of the second battalion, as clever as monkeys, climbed onto the tank in tandem and stuffed grenades into the tank's lookout hole, but the lookout hole was so tightly closed that the grenade plug did not enter at all.

The Japanese tanks had good mobility, and our fighters constantly had people rolling off the tanks.

"Dadada" "......"

The machine gunner on the tank saw that there were many enemies in front of him and few of his own people, so he began to fire frantically without humanity.

Several fighters of the second battalion were in a hurry, and climbed in front of the tank with cluster grenades, and the tank was killed directly. However, the grenade was so powerful that it only broke the track.

Subsequently, Japanese reinforcements swarmed in, surrounded the soldiers of the second battalion like iron buckets with several times superior forces, and launched a crazy counterattack.

In the face of the onslaught of the Japanese army, the officers and men of the 2nd Battalion still fought bloodily despite the disparity in strength.

"Bang Bang Bang"

Not far away, the devil soldiers began to shoot at close range.

"Battalion commander!"

I saw Yin Guohua being shot several times and slowly falling in a pool of blood.

"Battalion commander!" Chen Mingming, the leader of the platoon, ran over desperately and helped Yin Guohua up.

"Retreat." Yin Guohua gave Chen Mingliang the final order.

Only a dozen of the 500 people in the battalion remained, and under the leadership of Chen Mingming, they broke through to the southwest side of Chen Wafangzhuang.

When they arrived at the entrance of the village, they were attacked by the Japanese flank, and rows of soldiers fell to the ground one after another, leaving only Chen Mingliang alone to rush out of the rain of bullets.

Chen Mingliang ran back to the military headquarters and reported the bloody battle in Chenwa Village. When Commander Lu Han saw Chen Mingming, who was covered in blood, this self-proclaimed Yi man who "never shed tears" began to burst into tears.

In the first battle of Chen Wafang, Yin Guohua's battalion resolutely responded to the battle, winning valuable preparation time for all units of the 60th Army to rush to the defense area.

More than 20 days later, after the Battle of Yuwang Mountain, in the battle notes of Chen Wafang that our side searched from the pockets of the Japanese officers' corpses, the officers and men of Yin Guohua's second battalion were called the "Monkey Army" by the Japanese army.

(End of chapter)