Chapter 74 Chengde Protruding Department 1

On March 2, the 22nd year of the Republic of China, the reconnaissance cavalry of the Japanese army appeared on the periphery of Chengde. After a short fire with the defensive position of the garrison, the cavalry quickly retreated.

Zhang Xuewu held a meeting of officers above the division camp. After the lobby on the first floor of the women's middle school, Zhang Xuewu stood on the stairs and looked at a heroic face under the stage. Perhaps after this bloody battle, many people, including himself, will sprinkle their blood on this land!

Zhang Xuewu took a deep breath and said, "Brothers! I can clearly tell you that the [***] troops of Rehe are now retreating to the front line of the Great Wall, and Chengde has become the only prominent unit. It is said that we may be surrounded by the enemy on all sides at any time!"

Zhang Xuewu paused slightly and said in a slightly slowed tone, "On the Nanjing side, Chairman Jiang gave me an oracle, that is, when there is a great disparity between the enemy and us, I was granted the right to turn in the opportunity, and there was no easy sacrifice! Hundreds of thousands of troops have been defeated. Can my new first division alone create miracles to turn the tide? The reason why a miracle is called a miracle is that its probability is slim, but the nation has reached the final point of sacrifice. Do you let the banditage laugh at us as an army made of sand? It is said that Kou plundered and acted recklessly in the northeast. After the Shenyang Incident, we left our parents, brothers and sisters, and left our wives and children to leave our hometown and were scolded by people. What kind of hell are we living? Do we have to leave all the four northeastern provinces clean to know the heartache? The reorganization and expansion of the Central Army is coming soon. Most of us who return to the front line of the Great Wall can live, be promoted to the title, and there is only one way to die to stay here. Now I let you all choose for yourself! Fight or retreat!"

In addition to the supplementary platoon officers of the new first division, 90% of the officers and soldiers are soldiers from Northeast China. After a short silence, Huang Tao, Li Xinkai, Xu Guohui and others, who were hinted by Zhang Xuewu, took the lead in shouting: Martyrdom for the country! Vow to live and die with Chengde! Go back to your hometown in Northeast China! Martyrdom for the country! Vow to live and die with Chengde! Go back to your hometown in Northeast China!

In the slogan of a wave higher than a wave, Zhang Xuewu was slightly relieved, and the morale of the new first division was as good as the heart of the rainbow army! The Northeast officers and soldiers who were ashamed to fight to the death to redeem the crime of abandoning the three eastern provinces vowed to prepare for the war.

Zhang Xuewu is determined to be alone in Chengde, the capital of Rehe, which has been abandoned in history! At 2:35 p.m., 16 Japanese planes bombed and strafed Chengde. More than a dozen streets in Chengde City were hit by bombs and ignited a raging fire. Chengde has been bombed by Japanese planes on a large scale. Will the attack of his army division be far away?

In the early morning of March 3, the twenty-second year of the Republic of China, with the thin morning fog dissipating, Lieutenant General Hirose Shousuke, the commander of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army with severe circled legs, looked in the direction of Chengde with snow-white gloves. A fog in the telescope made Hirose Shouzhu very disappointed.

In contrast, Matsuki, the commander of the thin, tall and pimp-faced division, stood in front of the mirror of the artillery to observe the terrain of the tiger ditch line. Both the 10th and the 14th division arrived at night. Last night, the two divisions launched a squadron and brigade-scale attack along the side ridges of Tiger Ditch and Majiagou respectively. The bright ice slope in front of the tiger ditch position looks very dazzling in the rising sun.

What's more dazzling is more than 300 corpses under the ice slope. Before the attacking troops arrived at the garrison's position at night, they found that the gentle slope of nearly 300 meters were all covered by hard ice. The hard-soled fur shoes were even a problem to stand, let alone attack. Except for a small part of them who were lucky enough to withdraw from the battle in time, the remnants of the Japanese army, who were blocked by the defenders' fire, almost froze into popsicles after a night of cold.

Like the 14th Division, the tentative attack of the 10th Division also hit the iron plate. The two divisions, which were almost unfired all the way, were blocked under Chengde City at the same time. Out of their own selfish desire and contempt for the [***] team, Hirose Shousuke did not cooperate with Matsuki Zhiliang. The two division commanders almost Very tacitly sent a report to their respective commanders Banbenzheng Youweimen and Xiyi for instructions. Banbenzhengyouweimen and Xiyi also chose surnames to forget each other and give a share of the fat meat in their mouths to the friendly army? The imperial army has never had such a tradition.

In anyone's opinion, with the strength of more than 20,000 people of a standing armored division of the Imperial Army, attacking the city with only one division [***] defense is simply a fuss, not to mention that the two divisions are attacking the same city, and there are most of the staff of one division, saying that I am naturally very It is clear that the quick victory of the Rehe Battle turned the battle into a march. The unbearable attack of the [***] team gave rise to arrogance within the Japanese army. Maybe Chengde will be occupied in the afternoon, so the 10th Division and the 14th Division have no necessary surname to fight together. In fact, Hirose Shousuke and Matsuki Zhiliang are most concerned about The distinction between joint operational command.

Since they are unwilling to accept the command of the other party, they will fight their own surnames, and those who enter Chengde first will get the first merit! Hirose Shousuke and Matsuki Zhiliang made a so-called gentleman agreement, but this agreement is more like a challenge book.

Zhang Xuewu stood nervously in the temporary command post in the basement of the women's middle school. Because of the bombing of the plane, Zhang Xuewu was forcibly transferred to the basement. After all, the gun and shrapnel were eyeless. The positions of the two divisions and brigades that the Japanese army arrived in Chengde were all marked.

The headquarters of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army attacked the side ridge of Majiagou stationed by Zhao Xinyu's Department of the 3rd Regiment, while the 14th Division of the Japanese Army attacked the Tiger Gou. The first one to launch the attack was the 8th Brigade of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army. The commander of the brigade, Yuanbu and Ichiro, were talented students in the infantry tactical command of the Imperial Army University. Ichiro learned the lesson of the failure of the blind attack last night. At the beginning, he concentrated the field artillery wing assigned by the division to shell the ice belt in front of the main position on the side ridge of Majiagou. He used the bullet-screen Xu Jin's tactics to force the two brigades of the 16th Infantry Regiment as the main force to attack the main position of the Chinese garrison on the side of Majiagou, and at the same time, with the 17th All the main force of the infantry regiment was involved in the fierce attack on the right wing position on the side of Majiagou. At the same time, Yuanbu and Ichiro secretly drove the other two brigades of the 16th Infantry Regiment under the left wing position on the side of Majiagou. Once the Chinese garrison transferred troops from the left wing to reinforce the right wing, the Japanese army hidden under the left wing array. Open a breakthrough to Chengde with a rush.

Boom! Boom! With the heavy rain falling like rain, the ice, snow and dust in the air were mixed with wanton shrapnel.

Wearing coats, leather hats and feet, hard-soled fur shoes, and carrying Meiji-style walking gear, the Japanese soldiers lined up scattered soldiers on the thick snow, bending their waists to push forward to the offensive starting position. When advancing 300 meters away, the Japanese soldiers were scattered. They began to lie down and dig individual bunkers one after another.

Since the beginning of the battle, Zhang Xuewu has taken Matlin and several other German advisers to the Majiagou side ridge stationed by Zhao Xinyu's department of the third regiment to supervise the battle. In fact, Zhang Xuewu wanted to see the combat effectiveness of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army, which attacked the side of Majiagou.

"The division has personally taken the German consultant to the position, and I will give you some energy! If you lose the face of our three groups, I can't forgive you!" Zhao Xinyu called the battalion commander of each of his battalions and said the same words. Because he had collected more than 7,000 people from the Tang Legion, the reserve team in Zhao Xinyu's hand surged from one battalion to two strengthening battalions, so he spoke with great confidence.