Chen Jie quickly called back: "I led the guard company to set off tonight, and I am expected to rush to the front line of Tianhua Mountain in the early morning of the day after tomorrow. More than 2,000 people under Shao Benliang's department have crossed Benxi and advanced eastward, and your department immediately occupies the key parts of the defense and builds positions to prevent the enemy from besieging on a large scale. Remember: no one is allowed to climb the main peak of Tianhua Mountain, and those who violate the order will be shot! ”

conveyed Chen Jie's order, and arranged for Qin Wanyou's third company and Ding Ergen's guard platoon to dig all the fortifications, and Gao Jingxiang had the opportunity to talk to Wu Zhiguo about the reorganization of the troops:

"Brother Wu, there is something I have to make clear to you, and at the same time, you have to explain it to your brothers, lest everyone be unhappy when you get it, it will be against the original intention."

"Battalion Commander Gao, if you have anything to say, just say it." Wu Zhiguo waved his hand: "Since I am determined to heat the Hefang army, I will not have the slightest personal selfishness." ”

"That's not that serious, haha!" Gao Jingxiang smiled and said: "The establishment of our army is a regiment, so you definitely can't be the head of the regiment." Judging from the current situation, I'm afraid that the battalion commander will be choked enough. I hope you can be mentally prepared for this. ”

"Haha, I thought you were going to say something, that's what happened!" Wu Zhiguo smiled: "I have already said before that the name of the Northeast Army Independent Regiment is to gather the lost brothers of the Northeast Army. To tell you the truth, I only have a company under me, and I am the company commander! ”

"That platoon turned out to be 32 people who slowly gathered after the guard company of our regiment broke up, so the formation of a platoon was retained. There are also three platoons, which you saw when you attacked Weiziyu. So, if you want to break up and reorganize, you can keep the current structure. ”

Gao Jingxiang nodded: "Then there is nothing to say, because we are all from the original Northeast Army, and it is the same whether we are scattered or not." ”

Wu Zhiguo added: "However, these people of mine are very complicated, there are people from the 12th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 20th, and 25th brigades. The arms are also very mixed, with infantry accounting for the majority, as well as artillery and cavalry. Oh yes, I almost forgot! ”

"The 64 people in the third platoon are all in the navy, because after the '918 Incident', when the little devils received the Jinxi County Navy Supplementary Brigade, they ran out. These people's cannons are used very well, and foot combat is worse. So, after getting the mortars and grenadiers, I directly equipped them with the third platoon. ”

Gao Jingxiang realized that when Weishenme saw these attacks on Weiziyu that night, he was obviously trained, but he didn't feel very coordinated. It turned out that it was Navy soldiers who were involved, and it is no wonder.

Thinking of this, Gao Jingxiang said: "Since this is the case, the 64 people in the third row will be drawn out and arranged separately." The rest of the people will draw two more people, because you don't have war horses, we will reorganize into an infantry company of 116 people according to the existing establishment of the independent regiment, and you are still the company commander. Wait until Captain Chen Jie comes over, and then talk about other things, do you think it's okay? ”

"Okay, what's wrong with that?" Wu Zhiguo nodded and said, "Anyway, it's all devils, how convenient is it." ”

"You don't get what I mean!" Gao Jingxiang shook his head and said: "The artillery of the third platoon is used well, this is a difficult talent in the army, we must strengthen protection." Besides, you don't have any use for those three mortars. When Regiment Commander Chen Jie comes, he will bring our infantry artillery over. ”

"The artillery fire is intensive, and you saw the effect the night before. No matter how many little devils there are, they can finish playing with a single cannonball, don't you say? As for the transfer of the other two fighters, it was mainly because this remote class was a group of raw melons and eggs who had just come in, and now only one veteran could not discipline them. ”

Three days later, Chen Jie rushed to Tianhua Mountain with the guard company and the special battalion, and expressed a warm welcome to the arrival of Wu Zhiguo and others.

Then the final word: "The infantry battalion will be formed, Wu Zhiguo will serve as the deputy battalion commander, and there will only be one company for the time being." There are a total of 31 people in the remote ridge squad plus three veteran soldiers, but the two girls still entered the communication platoon of the guard company, and I transferred 9 male soldiers over to form a platoon of 38 people. Isn't it nice that the infantry battalion has a combat company and a platoon of recruits? ”

Wu Zhiguo had just been a company commander for two days, and as soon as the regiment commander arrived, he was promoted to a rank and became a deputy battalion commander. Chen Jie asked the guard company to transfer an Oriental war horse from the baggage platoon to Wu Zhiguo, and naturally everyone was very happy.

Chen Jie said to Gao Jingxiang again: "The artillery battalion was originally a fixed establishment of three companies, and it is still not moving. With the new 64 people, you can form a direct command platoon and set up an artillery commander to command the battle, so that it looks like an artillery battalion. The rest of the troops did not move for the time being. ”

In the evening of the same day, Chen Jie convened a military meeting above the company commander, first determined the establishment of the infantry battalion, and then reported on the changes in the enemy situation he saw along the way.

"Brothers, the reason why the cavalry battalion didn't rush over was because it was following Shao Benliang's two cavalry regiments all the way. Yesterday, it had crossed the Xiamatang and was now stationed on the front line of Caohezhang. The reason why Wu Guozhi and the others were driven all the way over was because the little devil wanted to gather all the anti-Japanese forces in South Manchuria this time and eat them in one bite! ”

According to the telegram of the cavalry battalion commander Zhang Minghan, they also found several anti-Japanese forces along the way, which seemed to have rushed from Liaoyang, with a few dozen people and a maximum of one or two hundred. I have sent a company of special battalions to conduct reconnaissance. As long as we have the opportunity, we will rescue those anti-Japanese troops. ”

"Now, a brigade of the little devils, a brigade of the two Korean devils, a brigade of Yu Zhishan, and a cavalry brigade of Shao Benliang have formed an arc-shaped encirclement, and those scattered anti-Japanese teams are all in this net. In other words, more than 8,000 people have been concentrated around our Tianhua Mountain. Therefore, our deployment needs to be adjusted appropriately. ”

"Wu Zhiguo's company does not have war horses, and its mobility is not enough, so the next defense task of Tongtianxia must be completed by this company, and the artillery battalion will draw out a mortar company as a fire support for the frontal defense. The two infantry batteries of the artillery battalion were deployed here as reserves, and they were used as mountain guns by taking advantage of the height difference. ”

"The combat platoon of the special battalion and the guard company is our external mobile liliang. Once the information is in place, we need to strike quickly. Defending on the inside and annihilating the enemy on the outside is the tactic we used to fight the enemy this time. The inner line defense was under the unified command of Gao Jingxiang, and the first-line defense operations were jointly commanded by Pan Xiongfei, deputy commander of the artillery battalion, and Wu Zhiguo, deputy commander of the infantry battalion. ”

In the next two days, the enemies of the four roads were all in place and did not move, but Chen Jie and the others began to feel strange.

It turned out that Biling Town and Weiziyu Town were successively connected to the pot, and this matter was too serious. There is a notice of "Pingdingshan Revenge Team" in Biling Town, which can be regarded as a whereabout. However, the site of Weiziyu was in ruins, and no trace was left.

The little devil caught more than a dozen villagers and inquired, and the only information he got was that the enemy's artillery fire was very fierce. This was confirmed by an on-site investigation.

What kind of troops, Weishenme, have such powerful firepower?

A powerful enemy suddenly appeared, leaving this time the "former enemy commander-in-chief" Captain Gonrokuro Adachi full of heads.

On the second day after the "September 18 Incident" (September 19, 1931), after Bai Shujie and Huang Xiansheng led the evacuation of the large army, more than 300 members of the Fushun defense team formed by the independent garrison, gendarmerie and township soldiers (retired soldiers) with the little devils surrounded the Fushun Public Security Bureau, captured more than 300 policemen who were unwilling to follow Huang Xiansheng away, and seized countless pistols, rifles, small mortars, and ammunition, thus making great contributions. He was promoted to the Independent Garrison Brigade and served as the captain of the 2nd Brigade.

This time, the "South Manchurian Su Campaign" was the "Encirclement and Suppression Implementation Outline" formulated by this guy Gonrokuro Adachi. The theme of this jihua is divided into two parts: first, it is to take advantage of the rapid mobility of Shao Benliang's independent strange brigade to start pulling the net from the east of Jinzhou, and drive all the "anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese elements" in it to the east.

The second part is that Anda Quan Rokuro personally led the troops of the three brigades, opening a big pocket on the line of Weiziyu, Nandianzi, and Lanheyu in advance, just waiting for those big fish who were driven over to hit him headlong!

If it weren't for Gao Jingxiang and them appearing in time, Wu Zhiguo and them would probably be the first fish caught by Anda Quan Liulang!

According to the information sent back by Zhang Minghan, Shao Benliang divided the six battalions of his two regiments, pulled out a 150-kilometer blockade line from south to north, and then moved in parallel to the east.

Shao Benliang called it "combing the old forest's hair"! He himself led a guard battalion at the brigade headquarters to respond in the center, giving people the impression that needles could not be pierced and water could not be splashed.

At about half past four in the afternoon of April 17, 1935, Chen Jie was meditating on the map when Situ Xiong, the commander of the communications platoon, came in quickly and shouted: "Report: Zhang Minghan of the cavalry battalion is in an emergency!" ”

"Read!" Chen Jie didn't raise his head, but grabbed the red and blue pencils and prepared to mark the changes in the enemy situation on the map.

"The four battalions of Shao Benliang's headquarters have besieged the front line of Xinkailing for two days, and are currently narrowing the encirclement. According to our approaching reconnaissance, nearly 300 people were besieged on the line from Xinkailing to Baojialing. Because the enemy's fire was too fierce, these people were no longer able to break out of the encirclement. ”

"According to investigation, Shao Benliang's command has moved forward to the nearest command of the horse race. The three companies of our unit are temporarily hidden on the first line of Panjiagou in the southeast of Xinkailing, five kilometers away from Aiyangji. Zhang Minghan. ”

Chen Jie still didn't look up: "Send a telegram to the commander-in-chief: A brigade of the Japanese army, a brigade of the Korean army, a brigade of Yuzhishan, and a brigade of Shao Benliang have completed the semi-arc encirclement from Fengcheng, Xiamatang, Caohezhang, Nandianzi, Weiziyu to Xinbin. At present, a unit has been trapped in Xinkailing, and the situation is very critical. ”

"The enemy's intention is very clear, that is, to use the natural barrier from Tianhua Mountain to the Plateau Mountain Range of Da Bald Zi to suppress all the scattered anti-Japanese forces in the South Manchurian region in a small space on the north bank of the Yalu River."

"In order to break the enemy's conspiracy and for the future development of the South Manchurian Independent Regiment, our department decided to take the initiative to attack, teach Shao Benliang's department a hard lesson on the front line of Xinkailing, and tear a hole in those sporadic anti-Japanese forces. Chen Jie. ”

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.