The 106th Division applied for support from the 27th Army of a friendly neighbor, and Gui Yongqing also knew the situation of the 106th Division, but he himself really couldn't draw troops to support, and the subordinate 46th and 61st Divisions were all fighting fiercely with the Japanese army, where to find reinforcements at this time?

In view of the fact that the assault column is Qiu Qingquan's troops, although Qiu and Gui yesterday worked out the use of troops and the two had a good relationship, but when it comes to this kind of thing that may cause losses to the troops, Gui Yongqing still cautiously sent a telegram to Qiu Qingquan, and after Qiu Qingquan's consent, it was decided to transfer Zhang Wei's preparatory battalion to reinforce the 106th Division, and Gui Yongqing claimed to be letting the infantry of the assault column help the 106th Division temporarily "X"

After breakfast, Zhang Wei and the preparation camp had less than three hours of leisure time, and then received a new job, Zhang Wei was a little helpless, this just finished talking with Qiu Qingquan about the use of the troops, and other troops asked for support, which was too coincidental. Qiu Qingquan also couldn't cry or laugh, according to his meaning, the preparatory battalion could rest and recuperate, and he also planned to use it with the chariot, but he didn't expect this to happen all of a sudden: the troops of the 106th Division desperately attacked Sanyi Jibei, fought all night, and the Japanese saw each other several times, and the remnants of the troops barely stood on the river embankment, and the 106th Division suffered heavy casualties before, and is in urgent need of reinforcements.

Zhang Wei received the order and set off immediately, first ordering the mules and horses of the heavy machine gun company to stay, and the manpower to carry weapons and ammunition to the war zone to prevent shelling and possible inconvenience of movement, and left a part of the non-commissioned soldiers to guard the mules, horses and supplies. With the whole battalion, they rushed to the northeast of Sanyiji, and rushed to the starting position of the 106th Division, and when they arrived at the place, they were received by the commander of the 631st Regiment of the 106th Division.

The commander of the 631st regiment pointed forward. "There is a river in front of three kilometers, there is an abandoned embankment by the river, yesterday our division stormed, occupied the embankment, withstood the Japanese counterattack several times, now there are still some brothers on the embankment who are not dead, I hope that the friendly troops can reinforce the river embankment defense line, buy some time for our troops to reorganize the troops, it is a commanding height, if it is lost, it has to be fought again, yesterday we killed a battalion commander and several company commanders to gain a foothold on it."

"What is the general situation of the firepower and troop deployment of the Japanese army?" "The Japanese have two lines of defense on the other side of the river, and then there is the core position of Sanyiji, yesterday the Japanese army sent a large number of artillery shells to bombard our river embankment, and there were infantry soldiers who crossed the river to counterattack the defenders on our river embankment."

"Good!" Zhang Wei nodded, his task is to assist the 106th Division to hold the desperately captured embankment position until the 106th Division is reorganized, and the whole battalion of the preparatory battalion must be driven to the river embankment for defense, but as the regiment commander said, the Japanese dispatched a large number of artillery bombardment, this kind of abandoned river embankment, the construction material is estimated to be earth, and he has to do fortifications, strengthen the position, sandbags, etc., I am afraid it is too late to put them on it, and Zhang Wei does not have ready-made burlap sacks in his hand.

"Sir, do you have any sandbags ready for work?" The commander of the 631st regiment hesitated: "There is a loading, I will ask the regimental transport company to move it over for you." ”

Soon, nearly 200 sandbags moved by the 631st Regiment Transportation Company were handed over to the soldiers of the preparation battalion, and Zhang Wei wanted these things to be able to quickly strengthen the fortifications and save time. Carrying the things, Zhang Wei immediately ordered the whole battalion to set off, and before departure, the 631st Regiment also handed over the command of the remaining defenders on the river embankment position to Zhang Wei.

The entire battalion of the preparatory battalion dispersed in an attack formation and set off towards the embankment that loomed a few kilometers away. The bodies of the soldiers of the 106th Division who died were everywhere on the way forward, and the 106th Division paid a lot of price in order to seize the embankment, and in order to hold the embankment position, the 106th Division also suffered heavy casualties.

Hundreds of lives in exchange for a riverbank position that can pose a threat to the Japanese army, Zhang Wei is at these dead soldiers, and he has to find a way to hold the riverbank position, otherwise these soldiers will not die in vain.

A few kilometers away, soon arrived, there were more corpses near the embankment, there were ** and Japanese soldiers, you can imagine how tragic the real tug-of-war was before, there were still thirty defenders left on the embankment, and after conveying to the remnants that they had been temporarily assigned to Zhang Wei's command, Zhang Wei unified these remnants into a platoon, and a sergeant platoon was attached to serve as the platoon commander to cooperate with the preparation battalion to fight.

The remnants briefly described the battle situation and the Japanese counterattack to Zhang Wei: in the morning, the 631st Regiment nearly a battalion of troops attacked the river embankment position, most of the Japanese troops on the river embankment were killed, some of them retreated, crossed the river and fled in the direction of Sanyiji, and they also shot and solved it, and occupied the position for less than ten minutes, the Japanese counterattacked the river embankment, first shelled the river embankment, the defenders on the river embankment suffered heavy casualties, and then dispatched a large number of infantry to cross the river to fight back, and the river embankment defenders resisted desperately, The Japanese counterattack was barely repulsed, the battalion commander and several company platoon commanders were all killed, and there were only so many remnants left on the river embankment.

After arranging the remnants of the 106th Division, Zhang Wei first ordered all the corpses around the embankment to be cleaned up and gathered in a unified manner, so as not to affect the combat and mobility of the troops, and at the same time observed the general composition of the embankment position.

The embankment is similar to an isosceles trapezoidal from the side, the two sides are slopes with a certain angle, the top is relatively flat, there is a fortification built when the Japanese army occupied it, and some anti-artillery holes are built in the fortification, and the whole position can accommodate about two squadrons of Japanese soldiers, which is equivalent to two companies of the preparation battalion.

Zhang Wei ordered the whole battalion to continue to strengthen and build more anti-artillery holes on the basis of the Japanese fortifications, and all the sandbags brought were used and piled up outside the position to strengthen the defense.

Zhang Wei could only build several machine gun fortifications behind the first fortification, and the four heavy machine guns were all pulled up and arranged behind the first fortification, and the crossfire was used to cooperate with the light machine guns to form a complete fire surface.

In addition to the fortifications on the embankment, Zhang Wei also built the fortifications on the slope behind the embankment, or it can be reluctantly called the "anticline" (it is indeed reluctant, the slopes on both sides are not steep enough to meet the standard of the anticline, so it is still called a slope).

Zhang Wei built certain fortifications and anti-artillery holes under the slope facing the reserve camp to hide the reserves, and to reinforce upwards if necessary.

The Japanese direct fire artillery will definitely not be able to hit, but if the mountain artillery increases the elevation angle to extend the shooting, it may not be possible, at least there is a possibility of falling the bullet