In the early morning of March 27, 1935, after Li Shouxin's conspiracy, a cavalry regiment attacked eastward to block the cavalry from the Datan Town side. A cavalry regiment pounced in the southeast direction, blocking the enemy on the line of Leek Gully.

Then leaving an infantry regiment and a cavalry regiment to defend all directions of Guyuan County, Li Shouxin personally led the Mongolian detachment and an infantry regiment to attack the Dushikou Great Wall Pass.

As soon as the enemy moved, Zhang Bao's cavalry regiment on the front line of Fengning Datan Town already knew about it, and then urgently reported it to the division headquarters. Shao Jianzhang and Zhan Jinguo did not dare to slack off, and immediately informed Bai Shujie of the enemy situation.

Bai Shujie received Shao Jianzhang's report on the enemy situation, and he really couldn't believe it: "Li Shouxin sent troops from Guyuan, and the troops were divided into three ways?" ”

Gan Tong was the first to get the news, because she was the commander of the Rehe garrison. She also felt very strange that Li Shouxin took the lead in sending troops: "Yes, this Wang Ba calf is not lying on his stomach in his nest, what is he running out to jump?" Do you feel that your turtle shell is harder than before, and you are ready to come out to bask in the sun? ”

"That's understandable." Zhao Jinxi picked up the baton and pointed to the map and said: "Zhang Bao and Zhou Ting set up the forward positions in Datan Town and Leek Valley, which is equivalent to taking the Guyuan County at any time. Li Shouxin has led the army for more than ten years, so he naturally knows what this means. And we're forming troops, and to outsiders it's going to be a mess. If you don't take the opportunity to make a profit at this time, you won't have a chance in the future. ”

"I see!" Bai Shujie nodded and said, "Li Shouxin must think that Fengning and Akagi are both recruits and have not undergone rigorous training. Now it has just been formed, and there is not the slightest combat effectiveness at all. Yes, his starting point is not wrong, which shows that Li Shouxin is not all straw bales! It's a pity that he didn't know that Lao Tzu's recruits had been training for more than two years, and they had been on combat duty in the Three Immortal Caves for a year! ”

Gan Tong looked up and asked, "What are you going to do?" After all, Li Shouxin came up with four or five thousand people, and he still can't be underestimated. In particular, Li Shouxin is good at using cavalry, and his three cavalry regiments still have some combat effectiveness. ”

Bai Shujie shook his head: "It's not a big deal!" Gan Tong sent a telegram to Shao Jianzhang, asking the front line to be on the defensive. Pull all the troops up and take turns defending, and definitely not let the enemy move forward. The Art of War: One blow of strength, then decline, three and exhaustion. We don't need to be in a hurry, we should first sharpen the enemy's temperament, and let the new troops familiarize themselves with defensive operations in various situations. ”

"I'm for it!" Zhao Jinxi nodded: "Especially since Zou Baoyin's infantry regiment has just taken over the Great Wall, this is a new topic. We used to use the 'point defense' of positional warfare, but now because of the existence of the Great Wall, it has become a 'line defense'. This is a complete shift in tactical thinking that will take some time to familiarize yourself with and feel experience. ”

At noon on March 27, 1935, Zhang Bao, the commander of the cavalry regiment of the 3rd Rehe Garrison Division, had already arrived at the front of the position in Datan Town, and the deputy regiment commander Zhou Ting also rushed to the position of Leek Valley. The enemy did not swarm up, but stopped a kilometer away, and the two sides temporarily formed a stalemate.

Zhang Bao and Zhou Ting both came out of the grassroots bloody battle and have rich experience in actual combat. This action of the enemy is obviously to contain his own troops, and the real battle should be on the front line of Dushikou.

However, Zou Baoyin, the commander of the infantry regiment in Chicheng, was a fierce general who came out of the Bai Shujie guard battalion, and the cavalry battalion he personally brought out was definitely not vegetarian. Now that there is a natural barrier of the Great Wall, Li Shouxin has more than 2,000 people to attack it, and Zhang Bao and Zhou Ting are not worried that Zou Baoyin will lose Chicheng at all.

The water system of Chicheng County is developed, and the Baihe River runs through the whole territory from north to south, and the entire Chicheng County is regarded as the source of the Baihe River water system. The two largest branches are Dushikou in the north and Maliankou in the west. It was in these two places that the Great Wall formed a pass to contain the passage of the Mongolian Plateau. Li Shouxin attacked from the north to the south, and from the topography of the topography, he rushed down the Baihe River condescendingly.

However, the Dushikou is not on the Great Wall. The real pass is the North Zhazi Great Wall Pass, which is 5 kilometers north of Dushikou.

After Zou Baoyin took over the defense of Chicheng, the focus of defense was on the Great Wall of Beizhazi. His three defensive support points, one is the Great Wall of Beizhazi, and the other two are outside the Great Wall. One is Hongnigang on the east side of the White River, and the other is Xia Jialiang on the west side of the White River.

These two support points are 3 kilometers away from the North Gate, and a platoon of troops is placed on each point, equipped with 3 Type 92 heavy machine guns and 12 crooked light machine guns. A total of 6 Type 92 heavy machine guns were fired from east to west, completely blocking the main road along the White River.

On the North Zhazi Great Wall, two 105mm field cannons, two 75mm field guns and two 75m mountain guns were deployed at a distance of 500 meters. 6 guns formed a fortified artillery group, providing long-range fire support for two support points outside the Great Wall.

The little devil's 41-year-old modified 75mm field gun has a range of 6.5 kilometers, and the Fengtian Ordnance Factory imitates the standard 41-year-old 75mm gun with a range of 5.5 kilometers.

When Li Shouxin escaped from Mukden, he took a total of 35 75mm guns, so his troops were also equipped with a lot of 41-style 75mm imitation guns. It is for this reason that he set up his headquarters on the Xiwan line, which is 6 kilometers away from the Great Wall of Beizhazi. The only thing he didn't expect was that Zou Baoyin had a 105mm field cannon with a range of 18.2 kilometers in his hand!

In Xiwan-Qiaojiadian line, Zou Baoyin's guard platoon had already reconnoitred them, otherwise they would not have chosen Hongnigang and Xiajialiang as support points.

Seeing that Li Shouxin set the headquarters within the range of his heavy artillery, Zou Baoyin no longer had the slightest worry about this defensive operation. Now there is no need to use 105mm heavy guns at all, and only four 75mm guns can blow up Li Shouxin's headquarters to shreds.

The Art of War: Know yourself and know your opponent, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles. I only know myself but I don't know the other, one wins and one loses. If you don't know yourself or your opponent, you will die in every battle.

Li Shouxin did not have the most accurate information about the enemy, although he had full confidence in his own equipment, which had already buried a huge hidden danger.

At four o'clock in the afternoon of March 27, 1935, Li Shouxin ordered a company of the infantry regiment to go out of Tangnigou and carry out the first exploratory attack. The Hongnigang position on the east side of the road did not receive the order to open fire to block the enemy, so there was no movement, and the enemy did not find that there was an enemy ambush on the east side of the road.

After crossing more than 500 meters of Hongnigang, the forward position of the Xiajialiang position on the west side of the main road received an order to open fire, and the four crooked machine guns in the forward position blocked the road to the south, and the enemy of a company rushed three times and was beaten back.

When Li Shouxin found out that the enemy on the opposite side had set up a blocking position outside the Great Wall, he had a bad feeling in his heart. Under normal circumstances, since there is such a strong natural fortification as the Great Wall, how can it be thankless to run out to build a position? Unless the enemy can provide artillery support!

This time, the two regiments brought out 12 75mm mountain guns, and Li Shouxin is now divided into three artillery positions and arranged on the first line of Qiaojiadian.

A company lost more than 20 people and returned and reported to Li Shouxin the firepower situation of Hongnigang. He immediately decided to send a battalion to attack, with fire support from 4 guns from an artillery position. Strive to take the commanding heights of Hongnigang once and open the passage to attack the North Gate.

Zou Baoyin stood on the city wall, and saw the enemy's troops of a battalion and three companies coming up from the telescope, and felt that it was necessary to teach the other party a good lesson, so he asked the commander of the first battalion to give the Xia Jialiang position a concealed heavy machine gun, all light machine guns, and at the same time do a good job of anti-artillery orders, and required the Hongnigang position not to expose the target.

The enemy's vanguard company was still more than 800 meters away from Xiajialiang's position, and four shells had already flown in from the north. Although no specific target was found, the deterrent effect of the shells was there.

Zou Baoyin always stared at the binoculars, and shouted in a low voice: "Immediately calculate the position of the enemy's artillery position, suppress it with two 75mm field guns, and don't let the enemy be too presumptuous!" ”

The two cannons were condescending on the city walls, and after firing three times in a row, the opponent's artillery did not move. However, at this interval, the enemy's vanguard company had already engaged in a fierce battle with Xia Jialiang's forward position.

Although the fighters did not know that the Weishenme heavy machine gun could not participate in the battle, 12 light machine guns were not small. The enemy went from charging from one company to two companies, and Zuihou did not come close to within 80 meters of Xiajialiang's position. After half an hour of fierce fighting, the enemy left more than thirty corpses and retreated.

"Order: Two 105mm heavy guns immediately move west along the Great Wall, Xia Jialiang heavy machine guns retreat along the mountain beam to the top of the mountain, and the Hongnigang position continues to be concealed and standby!" After the enemy retreated, Zou Baoyin suddenly looked solemn: "Leave a squad at the city gate pass position to block the enemy, and all the others retreat!" Order: The cavalry battalion immediately arrived at the west line of Chengxigou and Beiqingyanggou to the west of Dushikou to hide! ”

By six o'clock in the afternoon, it was already getting dark. A red cloud suddenly rose in the northern sky, and then there was a terrible howl of cannonballs piercing the sky. In less than a minute, Xia Jialiang's position was blown into a sea of fire!

Zou Baoyin smiled at the battalion commander and said: "Good guy, Li Shouxin is very rich, there are 12 artillery pieces fired together, the scene is very spectacular!" ”

"Commander, what do you want to do?" The first battalion commander was a little confused: "Before this battle started, you withdrew all my men." ”

"Of course, we need people to fight wars, but the more the better, the key is where and when." Zou Baoyin said patiently: "There are only more than 2,000 people in the enemy's two regiments, if we can eat half of it, do you think they still dare to attack?" Order Xia Jialiang position, all light machine guns retreat immediately after a bullet bucket! ”

Li Shouxin's artillery shelled for half an hour, and then there was a tremor of the earth, and the cavalry regiment came up! And not far behind is the infantry regiment that followed up, it seems that Li Shouxin is not ready to drag it out, it is a gamble to prepare for a battle to determine the outcome of the battle.

"Immediately give the order to abandon the city gates and retreat on all fronts, and let the enemy's cavalry in!" Zou Baoyin screamed, then turned around and ran down the city wall, turned over the horse and turned around!

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