The Fifth Army finally moved in October because of the great battle in northern Hunan Province, and the whole army moved from the border between Guangxi and Hunan to Hengshan in Hunan, and received increased firepower.

A large number of artillery reinforcements, including a fifteen-life howitzer, were given to the Fifth Army.

On the border between Guangxi and Hunan, the officers and men of the Fifth Army returned to Hunan almost by the same route as they had previously marched into Quanzhou, and the assembly destination of the whole army was Hengshan.

The Military Commission transferred a battalion from the 2nd Artillery Brigade, a battalion from the Artillery Regiment, and a heavy artillery battalion from the 14th Artillery Regiment.

Xiangbei fought very fiercely, and the Japanese army fought repeatedly on the front line of the Xinqiang River and Laodao River with the headquarters of the Ninth Theater, and the battle situation was extremely miserable.

There are many rivers in Hunan, and weapons and equipment floating down the river and the dead bodies of the two armies can be found on many sections of the river where the fighting is fierce. In the mountains of southeastern Hunan, thousands of cotton-gray figures marched towards the predetermined location.

It was drizzling lightly, and these thousands of people were the marching column of the Fifth Army, and because it was raining, the soldiers on the march wore hats printed with the blue sky and white Japanese army emblems to protect them from the rain. The sky is slightly overcast, which is also a good thing for the large-scale march of the Fifth Army, at least there is no need to worry too much about air defense.

The only thing that was affected was the march of the tank and automobile units directly under the army, the terrain was not easy to walk, it was raining again, the wheels and tracks were mixed in the mud, and the road was very difficult to walk.

The pressure of the infantry on the march was much less than that of the subordinate units, and the soldiers wore straw sandals and did not have much mechanized equipment.

The new 22nd Division was at the forefront of the marching column of the Fifth Army, and in the rear were the main forces of the rest of the army and mechanized equipment.

"Hurry up, don't be left behind." Behind Zhang Wei came the voice of Mu Chao urging his subordinates, the teaching brigade was marching next to the division headquarters of the new 22nd Division, and behind the teaching brigade was the division mortar battalion, and the wailing of horses kept coming from the sound of rain.

Zhang Wei was wearing a hat, he was a major, and he was wearing a set of rubber raincoats, and the rain was not very heavy, so the military uniforms inside the raincoats were still dry, and the soldiers were not treated so well.

The soldiers of the teaching brigade were all covered with rough straw raincoats, and Zhang Wei's rubber shoes were already covered with mud, and the rain and mud were mixed together, which more or less added obstacles to the march of the troops.

The soldiers of each regiment of the New 22nd Division did not even have grass coats, only a hat, and a gun cloth to protect their weapons.

"This is a bad road!"

Zhang Wei scolded. After receiving the order to reinforce Hunan, the new 22nd Division was the first batch of troops to be dispatched, and the whole division marched in a hurry, advancing in the direction of Hengshan, and the troops of the 1st and 200th Divisions of Honor moved later than the new 22nd Division, so they were ranked behind.

"Qiu Wei, send someone to see how Li Shaoyan and He Kun are doing?"

The infantry stepped on the mud, but the heavy fire squadron of the teaching brigade still had a large number of mules, horses and carts, and the horses and carts were in the mud, but it was very easy to fall into them, so Zhang Wei asked Qiu Wei to help.

Mules and horses carrying heavy machine guns and mortars, ammunition, and carts must be helped by people to speed up and not drag down the team.

"One, two, one! , one-two-one! As Zhang Wei expected, there was a problem with the baggage and the mule and horse.

The heavy fire squadron and baggage platoon of the teaching brigade were equipped with horse-drawn carts and mules and horses, and now the rain was not heavy, but the road conditions were poor, and the roads were muddy because of the mixed water.

A large cart of the baggage platoon was stuck in the mud puddle, the left wheel went in, the right wheel was still outside, and the car was loaded with some livestock and ammunition.

"Keep it up!"

He Kun was directing the cart, and most of the centaurs in the baggage row were gathered together to push the cart.

The soldiers shouted and pushed, but the cart was not angry, and it couldn't be pushed no matter how much it was pushed.

"Come here and help, hurry!" The cart of the baggage platoon was stuck on the road, and the entire marching column was affected, and Qiu Wei, who was on patrol, ran over with a platoon of a squadron of infantry to help.

"How?"

"Squadron Leader Qiu, the big wheel has fallen into the mud puddle, it's all mud, and you can't pull it out!"

"I've brought someone, let's go together!"

A platoon of a squadron of infantry, together with the baggage soldiers, pushed the cart stuck in the mud, and the number of people and strength were great, and with all their efforts, the cart finally showed signs of moving.

"Push!"

With an unpleasant grinding sound of wood and iron, the cart stuck in the pit was pushed out, and the axle of the cart was already on the verge of breaking.

The soldiers of the teaching brigade rushed up to push the carts, reinforced the supplies, and continued to move forward in the muddy water......

In the marching column, which stretches for dozens of miles, there are many, many scenes like the heavy fire squadron of the teaching brigade, and in order to rush to the battlefield, the whole army is marching at maximum speed.

The light rain and cloudy weather seemed to indicate that the Fifth Army's road to Hunan was not smooth.

More than a dozen miles behind the teaching brigade, Chief Du, commander of the Fifth Army, wore a raincoat and read the newly received telegram with a flashlight, and the staff officers and senior officers gathered around.

"How's the artillery?" After reading the message, Chief Du said in a deep voice.

"I can't go fast, those cannons are too heavy, the wheels are stuck in the mud, and they all rely on people to push, and they can't speed up at all."

"Speed up the march and tell them to hurry!"

The road of the march was the same as the battle situation on the front line, it was not smooth, and after reading the telegram, the front line was fighting very badly, and the Japanese army had a tendency to approach Changsha.

The Fifth Army was asked to speed up its march and give strong reinforcements to the Ninth Theater.

However, the Fifth Army is also weak, it was still in Guangxi before, and now it wants this heavy army to rush to Hengshan quickly, how is it possible?

The only thing the troops can do is speed up.

After the headquarters of the Fifth Army, artillery and baggage became the biggest drag on the march.

The heavy artillery towed by the car marched fairly fast, and the slowest were the field and mountain artillery drawn by horses, and the artillery brought fire support at the same time, but also brought a certain amount of inconvenience.

However, no matter what the objective conditions are, the whole army of the Fifth Army now has only one thought, rushing to Hengshan, reinforcing the Ninth Theater, and fighting with the Japanese army.

……

Boom - there was a thunderstorm, and Yulin Port, thousands of miles away, was in the same environment as Zhang Wei's, with light rain and muffled thunder.

Inside the port, as many as dozens of transport ships were carrying soldiers, and temporary cranes were hoisting a Japanese-style 41 mountain gun, a 38-type field gun, a 38-type field gun, and mules and horses into the ship.

Soldiers from the Taiwanese Mixed Brigade and the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army climbed the gangway along the plank road near the port and entered the ship.

The sea-sweeping boats and destroyers of the Fifth Fleet of the Japanese Navy, flying the naval flag, were moored in the open sea, and the large and small guns were covered with cannon masks, and the warships were already in a state of combat readiness and sailing.

In the cabin, the staff officers of the Japanese Navy were filling out the warship's navigation diary under the electric light.

The pen wrote down the goals of their fleet on special nautical diary paper.

November, Qinzhou Bay.

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