In a small ravine outside Huangzhuang in Nanjing, behind the low bushes is a small open area, but in the originally calm wilderness, a large number of national troops wearing brown and green military uniforms have gathered at this time, Du Yanpeng has a captain's epaulette on his shoulders at this time, and there are two lieutenants and several second lieutenants gathered around him, in front of these people is a mortar ammunition box with a military map on it, which marks the terrain of the surrounding area.

"Company commander, now there are at least more than 200 enemy troops 100 meters ahead, and it may not be easy for us to take down a company alone!" A large, stout lieutenant said worriedly.

At this time, a young lieutenant next to him also spoke: "Yes, the other party has at least one heavy machine gun, and the terrain is also quite favorable to them, if you rush hard, I'm afraid the damage will be great!" ”

Du Yanpeng also frowned and stared at the map, not answering immediately but silent.

Du Yanpeng's company commander had only been in office for half a day, and the 3rd Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Regiment of the Guard Division had been the vanguard of the 1st Regiment since the launch of the general offensive, and in the previous Battle of Xiazhuang, it was the first to break through the enemy's defensive line, and rapidly expanded the results of the battle, so that the 1st Regiment of the Guard Division seized the opportunity to completely break through the enemy's Xiazhuang defense line in just six hours. In that battle, the 3rd Company received a direct commendation from the division headquarters, and the division headquarters even nominated the company commander at that time as the winner of the Double Sword Medal, which could be officially awarded after the commendation order was approved by the headquarters.

However, the previous company commander was really unlucky, and instead of charging and dying in the battle with his subordinates, he was killed after arriving in Huangzhuang by sporadic artillery of the Beiyang Army.

Due to his outstanding performance in previous operations, Du Yanpeng was directly promoted to the commander of the 3rd Company and directly promoted to the rank of captain.

The promotion did not bring Du Yanpeng much joy, because he was still facing an extremely grim situation at the moment. Since the 1st Regiment of the Guard Division arrived in Huangzhuang yesterday, it has launched an offensive, but the Beiyang Army in Huangzhuang has relied on complete fortifications and at the same time received a large number of reinforcements, so that the 1st Regiment of the Guard Division has launched several attacks without success. As the vanguard of the whole regiment, the 2nd Battalion and 3rd Company suffered great losses because they had been fighting at the front line, and the whole company had only 120 people left from the full strength of 170 people, and the battle loss ratio was as high as 30 percent. If such a high proportion of battle losses had been placed in other units of the Nationalist Army or other warlord units, I am afraid that most of the combat effectiveness would have been lost, but the 3rd Company still maintained its combat effectiveness and continued to serve as the vanguard of the whole regiment after replenishing a small number of troops, weapons and ammunition.

This is inseparable from the popularization of the Kuomintang in the guard division, because the special surname of the guard division and the guard division has always been stationed in Fuzhou, so when the Kuomintang is implemented in the national army, it is also a key point to take care of it, and the first batch of political officers of the Fuzhou Military Academy are assigned to the guard division. So far, almost all officers and officers of the Guard Division, large and small, have joined the National Socialist Party, and even up to one thirtieth of the soldiers have joined the National Socialist Party. In addition, based on the fact that the guard division is Chen Jingyun's personal guard unit, the army is even more engaged in Chen Jingyun's personality cult and mythology, etc., which was originally mainly used to ensure the guard division's personal loyalty to Chen Jingyun, but after mixing with the National Socialist Party, this guard division has become a force with basic beliefs.

Similar plans were made in other regular field units of the National Army, but they were far less successful than the Guard Divisions.

Perhaps the training of the Guard Division and the quality of its officers were inferior to those of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Divisions of the Nationalist Army, but in terms of the tenacity of the troops, the Guard Division was far superior to them. This can be easily seen from the battle example, the best trained and equipped first division of the national army encountered the third division when the casualty ratio was only one-tenth of the army, and it was finally able to stabilize the position after getting reinforcements from the fourth division, but what about the guard division, the current Du Yanpeng's 3rd company has suffered casualties as high as 30%, but it still insists on fighting, and is also ready to attack the enemy twice as large as itself.

However, the morale of the troops sometimes can't resist the gap in strength and firepower, and Du Yanpeng is not the kind of person who lets his subordinates charge to death as soon as his head is hot.

After quickly thinking about the situation in his mind, Du Yanpeng said: "The second platoon will first detour to the small slope in the south, and I will also assign those two light machine guns to you, if the Beiyang Army dares to take the lead, it will suppress the firepower!" ”

"The first platoon, the third platoon, etc., will go out to test the fire and find out the location of their heavy machine gun!" Du Yanpeng continued to say in a deep voice: "After the mortar team prepares, they will knock him out as soon as their heavy machine guns are exposed!" ”

After saying this, Du Yanpeng turned to the herald and said: "You go to the battalion headquarters quickly, just say that our department urgently needs rear artillery support, and ask the battalion headquarters to reinforce at least two platoons!" ”

"Well, that's it, let's all go down and prepare, and start acting in thirty minutes!"

After Du Yanpeng said that, several subordinate officers returned to their units and began to make pre-war preparations.

Du Yanpeng's position was not far from the rear battalion headquarters, and soon the herald came back and brought a second lieutenant, this second lieutenant's epaulettes are different from ordinary infantry, ordinary infantry's epaulettes have a rifle under them, and this ensign's epaulettes are a small cannon, which is the epaulettes of artillery.

This second lieutenant is an artillery guide officer assigned by the artillery unit to the infantry unit to observe the artillery landing point and to guide the artillery target to the rear.

This second lieutenant doesn't look young, and he doesn't talk much, and after talking to Du Yanpeng, he took out his high-powered telescope and began to observe the Beiyang Army position in front, and then quickly recorded it in his notebook, based on the current cultural quality problem in the national army, guiding artillery to carry out artillery bombardment is not something that anyone can do, and artillery professionals must do. This person didn't stay long, and soon trotted away, and said to Du Yanpeng before leaving: "Your department, please be ready, if nothing else, the shelling will start in twenty minutes!" ”

Du Yanpeng was a little dissatisfied with the cold and arrogant attitude of this artillery ensign, but he didn't say anything, as an infantry officer, he loved and hated artillery, what he loved was that the artillery in the rear could bring him great artillery support, and what he hated was because almost all the infantry units were asking for artillery support in the rear during the war, so this artillery unit was coaxing, as if everyone was begging for them.

But the reality is really like this, Du Yanpeng is still waiting for those large-caliber artillery in the rear to support him, so even if he is dissatisfied, it is difficult to say anything.

It didn't take long for a platoon of dozens of people to come to the rear, and when Du Yanpeng saw that there were only more than forty people, he immediately frowned and said to the lieutenant I who led the team: "Why is there only one platoon, didn't I ask for reinforcements from two platoons?" ”

The lieutenant who led the team said with a bitter face: "We are the last reserve at the battalion headquarters, and there is nothing else!" ”

Hearing this, Du Yanpeng didn't want to talk nonsense, it naturally made sense for the battalion headquarters to arrange it like this, and besides, even if he wanted to accuse, he didn't accuse, who made himself just a captain and company commander, and when he saw the major battalion commander, he had to respectfully salute the army.

There were not many reinforcements, but the battle could not be left unfought, and as for how to launch the offensive, it had to be well planned.

Time passed little by little, Du Yanpeng was also making tactical adjustments, and after arranging the tasks of his four platoons, he waited for the artillery in the rear to carry out the shelling. But as time passed little by little, until the expected shelling did not arrive twenty-five minutes later, Du Yanpeng's face became darker and darker. He didn't come here for an outing, the small hill in front of him must be conquered, and it was a task directly given to him by the regiment headquarters, so he must conquer it before noon, otherwise the main force behind this nail will not be able to carry out smoothly.

Thirty minutes later, the shelling had not yet come, and at this time, the previous artillery second lieutenant had already trotted over, and his face was still grim: "Captain Du, I'm sorry, our unit has exposed its position and has been counterattacked by the artillery of the Beiyang Army, and it has now carried out an emergency maneuver!" ”

"So, you can't help?" Du Yanpeng almost burst into flames after hearing this.

The artillery ensign was still expressionless: "Yes! It will take at least two hours to reopen the artillery support! ”

Du Yanpeng waved his hand: "Since you don't support it, we can take it down as well!" ”

The second lieutenant didn't seem to see the anger on Du Yanpeng's face, and after giving a military salute, he left quickly, leaving Du Yanpeng to scold secretly: "The artillery of the dog!" ”

There is no artillery support, but the battle cannot be left unfought, and the enemy positions in front of us must also be taken, of course, some of the previous tactical arrangements have been adjusted. However, as soon as the artillery second lieutenant left, there was another herald, Du Yanpeng opened the latest order and saw that his face turned even darker, this order was directly issued by the regiment headquarters, requiring Du Yanpeng's troops to conquer the enemy's position within two hours, and set aside this nail to directly attack the artillery position of the Beiyang Army, so as to completely alleviate the crisis that the main force was suppressed.

After Du Yanpeng secretly calculated in his heart, he gritted his teeth fiercely and walked to a lieutenant: "I want to lead the team to rush over from here!" ”

The lieutenant looked down at Du Yanpeng pointing to the direction of the military map, and his face changed slightly: "Brother Du, I'm afraid it will be ...... if you rush directly like this."

The place where Du Yanpeng asked him to lead the team was completely open, and there was an open area of more than 20 meters after rushing out of the bushes, which was enough for the Beiyang Army on the opposite side to shoot the charging people one by one.

Du Yanpeng: "As long as you rush over here, after reaching that depression, you can use the terrain to shoot condescendingly!" As long as their fire is suppressed, I will let the main force go around and flank them to the southeast! ”

The lieutenant didn't speak for a while, his drooping hands clenched.

Du Yanpeng didn't speak, waiting for him to make a choice!

The lieutenant raised his head after a while, and then glanced at Du Yanpeng with a resolute face: "Wait for me for two minutes!" ”

Then he took out a small notebook from his pocket, as well as a commemorative fountain pen from the Fuzhou Military Academy, and after twisting the pen, he leaned over the mortar ammunition box and wrote the first words on the small notebook:

Pingru's beloved wife sees: Now I am determined to repay the grace of the country with the spirit of sacrifice and die for the great cause of reunification, it is extremely glorious, and you don't need to be sad. The old mother of the family who is being read is unable to serve, and the mother and son of the person who are worried about it will have a difficult life in the future, but Kang'er is smart, and there will be great success in the future, and you can enjoy happiness in the future. After several years of marriage, I have a lot of losses, and now I say goodbye, and I am deeply grateful......