Sun Liansheng's speed in coming to Macheng was far faster than Tang Cheng imagined, but when he saw Tang Cheng again, Sun Liansheng lost the arrogance he had when he came to Macheng last time, Tang Cheng could guess that it must be the people of the Sun family who had been warned by the 88th Division, and Sun Liansheng, who was strong and middle-class, could get the position of the head of the Macheng garrison regiment, which was already regarded as burning high incense, and the Sun family would definitely not let Sun Liansheng provoke Tang Cheng again. Tang Cheng is now the person Zhong Bin named to protect, and provoking Tang Cheng is equivalent to provoking the entire 88th Division.

When the garrison was handed over, Tang Cheng did not go, and all the people in Macheng, including Zhou Peilin, did not know why Huang Hanju would suddenly be transferred to Wuhan, and the entire Huang family had to move to Wuhan. "Company commander, the garrison regiment is finished, Sun Liansheng's bastard's face looks too enjoyable, and a guy in the garrison regiment almost opened Sun Liansheng's head with one shot." Niu Laogui, who came back from the garrison barracks, brought back news to Tang Cheng that when Sun Liansheng received the garrison regiment, one of the soldiers in the queue misfired with a rifle and almost hit Sun Liansheng.

Tang Cheng would not be so stupid as to really think that it was a rifle misfire, and he didn't have to guess that this was Huang Hanju's instruction, and it was the Huang family who was expressing their anger at Sun Liansheng. "We're going to change places, before the 88th Division comes to Macheng, we need a military camp of our own, so as to avoid clashes with Sun Liansheng's people in the city." Tang Cheng knew that Sun Liansheng did not come to Macheng alone, he also brought an infantry company, compared to those guys, the rebuilt second company was not an opponent, and Tang Cheng needed to avoid Sun Liansheng for the time being.

With the evacuation of Tang Cheng and the entry of Sun Liansheng, Macheng seems to have returned to its former calm, and there are more soldiers wearing national army uniforms on the streets, which provides a topic for the people in the city to chat after tea and dinner. As time passed, the benefits of returning to the 88th Division gradually became apparent, the 88th Division not only did not send officers to the second company under reconstruction, but also transferred a radio station and two telegraph operators to Tangcheng, with the radio, Tangcheng was no longer blind and only followed the feelings, and the movements of the Japanese army around Macheng were sent to Tangcheng by the 88th Division every day with a radio.

After the Japanese army captured Jiujiang in July, it forced a successful landing in the port northeast of Ruichang on August 11, and broke the counterattack of the defender Sun Tongxuan's 12th Army and attacked Ruichang. The 3rd Army, reinforced by the 32nd Regiment of Townenburg, fought hard. In late August, the 9th Division also arrived at Ruichang under the escort of ships, and the 6th Brigade of the Forward Regiment landed all the way to Liyu Mountain, Bijia Mountain and other important places, and captured Ruichang on August 24.

On September 3, the Japanese Maruyama detachment occupied Huimaling, and the 4th Army, 64th Army, and 18th Army of the defenders on the front of Nanxun Road were threatened and forced to retreat, and retreated to the next defensive line, the Wushimen position, to continue to hold on. "Now that we know that the Maruyama Brigade of the Japanese Army has turned back to Ruichang to join their 9th Division Guijian and Botian Detachment, according to the current situation, the Japanese army will definitely continue to advance west along the Yangtze River, and after the loss of Nanjing and Xuzhou, Wuhan will be their next big target." There was a map in the humble command post, and Tang Cheng was doing map work with Niu Laogui and a few of them.

Map homework is a compulsory course for officers of the 88th Division, Tang Cheng's map work was learned from Xie Bo and Liu Shanyang, and Niu Laogui and others, who had been appointed as officers, had to learn map work from Tang Cheng. "Company commander, the division headquarters is in an emergency." The telegraph operator sent by the 88th Division came to Tang Cheng with a telegram he had just received, and after reading the telegram, Tang Cheng realized why the 88th Division had not arrived in Macheng for a long time, because they were fighting fiercely with the Japanese army.

On August 22, King Minoru Higashikunomiya led a team from Hefei, and on August 27, the Japanese 2nd Army simultaneously attacked Lu'an and Huoshan, the gateways of Dabie Mountain. At the beginning, the Japanese army attacked the defenders' frontal positions, and the defenders relied on the outer fortifications and city walls to resist stubbornly for two days, causing the Japanese attacks to suffer repeated setbacks. As before, the Japanese army saw that the frontal attack could not work, and at the same time resorted to the old trick of attacking from the front and flanking and rear. The Japanese army succeeded in a detour, the defenders were forced to retreat, and after the Japanese captured Lu'an and Huoshan, the Japanese 2nd Army was divided into two routes. The 13th and 16th Divisions on the left crossed the northern foot of Dabie Mountain and approached Wuhan, and the right road went straight to Luoshan and Xinyang, and detoured to Wuhan.

The 13th Division of the Japanese Army on the left approached Yejiaji on September 2 and began to attack Fujin Mountain. Fujin Mountain is very close to Yejiaji, on the south wing of the Shangliu Highway, the road can be blocked condescendingly on the mountain, and the Japanese army can't bypass it, so they have no choice but to attack Fujin Mountain. Defending Fujin Mountain were two divisions of Song Xilian's 71st Army and the 114th Division of the 51st Army of the former Northeast Army, Song Xilian defended the main position in the middle with his most elite German-style division 36th Division, the original 114th Division of the Northeast Army guarded the left, and the 88th Division on the right.

When Tang Cheng received this telegram, the battle of Fujin Mountain had already begun, and the spearhead of the Japanese attack was first directed at the main position of the 36th Division in the center. The Japanese attack was still bombed by planes in turns, then concentrated bombardment by heavy artillery, and finally infantry charge. Although Fujin Mountain was not very dangerous, and the slope was not very sloping, the 36th Division, which was desperately defending, fought fiercely, causing the Japanese offensive to suffer repeated setbacks. By the time the 88th Division sent a telegram to Tangcheng, the 36th Division had repelled more than a dozen Japanese attacks, and the Nationalist defense line was still impregnable.

"The Japanese army is coming, the 71st Army has already exchanged fire with the Japanese army in Fujin Mountain, and our 88th Division is also there." Tang Cheng's words made Niu Laogui and the others in the command post can't help but breathe shortly, although it is the true nature of a soldier to go into battle to kill the enemy, but the current second company is not ready, and rashly pulling up and fighting with the Japanese army can only be an end, that is, being defeated by the Japanese army. "Don't worry, the division headquarters is not trying to pull us up, but to let us enter Macheng immediately and replace the garrison as the guard of Macheng." Tang Cheng's next words made Niu Laogui and them finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Tang Cheng did not show the telegram to Niu Laogui, he told Niu Laogui that they were only part of the telegram, and the 88th Division judged that there would be a sneak attack on Macheng, so it would let Tang Cheng's second company replace the garrison regiment to take over the defense of Macheng. Compared with Sun Liansheng, the troublemaker, the 88th Division seems to believe more in Tang Cheng, who has experience in fighting the enemy, not to mention that most of the second company in Tang Cheng are veterans who have fought with the Japanese army.

The 88th Division's telegram did not guarantee that there would be a sneak attack on Macheng, but a scout unit of the 88th Division found traces of Japanese troops crossing the direction of Macheng, and the number of Japanese troops could not be determined at present, but the 88th Division estimated that the number of Japanese troops in this group would not be less than a Japanese squadron. Mengcheng is a painful place in Tang Cheng's heart, Liu Goat died in Mengcheng, but Tang Cheng never forgot Liu Goat's original arrangements in Mengcheng, if there were no arrangements made by Liu Goat outside the city, Mengcheng may not be able to hold even a day.

"Tell Lao Dongbei not to take care of the defense of the city gate, and tell him to take his brothers to concentrate on inspecting the county seat, and all the offenders will no longer be sent to prison, but all of them will be sent to dig trenches outside the city, and tell him that no matter who they are, even if they only commit a small thing, they will be escorted to me to dig trenches." You can see the city gate of Macheng from a distance, Tang Cheng on horseback called Niu Laogui and told a few words, relying on the garrison regiment alone is obviously not enough, Tang Cheng not only has to go to the county magistrate Zhou Peilin to recruit people, he also has to arrest people from the street to make up for the lack of manpower.

Tang Cheng's order tossed Macheng like a boiling pot, and Lao Dongbei scattered around the county town with the soldiers of the second company like beans, first arresting the refugees and beggars in the city, and then began to rectify those who were idle. Before the Huang family moved to Wuhan, they left all the grain that could not be taken away to Tang Cheng, and Tang Cheng, who returned to Macheng, lived in the Huang family's house, and the grain that could not be used was also moved outside the city by Tang Cheng's order, and those who dug trenches could receive two dry meals a day.

"Company Commander Tang, are the Japanese coming?" County magistrate Zhou Peilin is a person who is even more afraid than Sun Liansheng, he is just a county magistrate, belonging to the sequence of civilian officials, for the war, Zhou Peilin is a complete layman. Zhou Peilin has never seen a war, and he can't fight, but his brain is not stupid, Tang Cheng's subordinates caught someone and sent him to dig trenches outside the city, this abnormal behavior attracted Zhou Peilin's attention, and he had to come to Tang Cheng to ask for an understanding.

"The 71st Army has been in Fujin Mountain yesterday to engage the Japanese army, and the 88th Division wants me to temporarily take over the defense of Macheng, digging trenches just in case, if the Japanese army attacks, at least we must have a position to rely on." Tang Cheng was amazed by Zhou Peilin's insight, but Zhou Peilin didn't have to go to the county government to find him when he arrived. Anyway, it was necessary to recruit the people to participate in the excavation of the trenches through Zhou Peilin, so Tang Cheng simply did not hide it from Zhou Peilin and informed Zhou Peilin of the contents of the telegram of the 88th Division one by one.

"How good is this, how good is this." Zhou Peilin, who had never experienced a war, panicked, although Macheng now has a garrison regiment and a second company in Tangcheng, with a total strength of 800 people, but Zhou Peilin is not optimistic about Sun Liansheng's garrison regiment. After removing the more than 600 people in Sun Liansheng's reinforced garrison regiment, Macheng can only rely on more than 140 people under Tang Cheng, and Zhou Peilin doesn't think that these 140 people can withstand the attack of the Japanese army.

"County Magistrate Zhou, now is a time of crisis, whether you can hold Macheng depends on the county government's support for the second company, the defensive position outside the city is completed earlier, the second company will have more hope of holding Macheng, there is the 71st Army here, what are you worried about." Tang Cheng's words reminded Zhou Peilin that the 71st Army was in Fujin Mountain, and if Macheng was lost, Wuhan would be directly exposed to the Japanese army, and the 71st Army would definitely not sit idly by and watch Macheng fall.