Gao Jinchang regretted it very much in his heart, if this shell fell on the armored car, it would be unimaginable, although the manual stated that the shell of less than 100 mm caliber had no effect on the armored car, but no one had the bottom.

Dense shells fell around more than 20 armored vehicles, and Gao Jinchang shouted into the radio: "Reverse the car and retreat, the front turn and retreat, and the rear reverse." ”

A shell hit the armored car accurately through the telescope, and the armored car paused and then turned around and drove back rapidly. At this time, Gao Jinchang put his heart down, but in the telescope, he saw his soldiers lying next to the anti-aircraft machine gun of the armored car, and only half of his body was bloody, and the side of the armored car was dyed red.

Gao Jinchang called the trucks behind him to raise the observation balloon to build an artillery position, and more than a dozen tanks fired a few shells at a rapid pace and then followed the armored vehicles to withdraw to a distance of 10 kilometers from the enemy's artillery shells.

Gao Jinchang jumped out of the tank in a rage and yelled at Wang Xiaojun: "Who is investigating?" The other side had artillery positions, but they didn't find out, and they actually told me that the people and the town were almost undefended, and there was only a company or so of soldiers. ”

Sun Xiaolan pulled Gao Jinchang away and said: "There should be no problem with the investigation of the special team, I also asked in detail at noon, you think about it, we did not find it from the air reconnaissance." ”

"I guess it was our aerial reconnaissance that attracted the reinforcements of the Feng army to Renhe and Zhen, because our planes flew in the direction of Renhe and Zhen, and it was obvious to the Feng army that the direction of our attack was to be pointed out. The reinforcements of the Feng army also arrived one step ahead of us. ”

On the armored personnel carrier, one soldier was killed and three were slightly wounded, and six 105 howitzers unhooked their armor and raised their muzzles with the shaking of the hand crank. The reconnaissance balloon was lifted into the air, and the artillery positions of the Feng army were reported by telephone and the Feng army was found to be in a steady stream of reinforcements to Renhe Town.

Five minutes later, the grenade began to be test-fired, and the loud sound of firing startled the horses not far away. After the firing unit was corrected, the six guns kept releasing firepower, and when one base number of ammunition ran out, the artillery position of the Fengjun army ceased to exist. Gao Jinchang commanded tanks and armored vehicles to continue to assault Renhe and Zhen, and the artillery moved forward to six kilometers and shelled the Fengjun reinforcements with 75 guns.

Tanks and armored vehicles were shelled according to the mode of operation, or armored vehicles in front and tanks in the rear, and less than three sparrow bombers came to Renhe and Zhen at less than five o'clock, and one by one 25 kilograms * covered Renhe and Zhen, and after the bombers threw them out, they chased the Feng army with airborne machine guns according to the usual practice. The bomber flicked its wings from above the heavily armored regiment and returned home in the evening sunset.

Gao Jinchang shouted into the walkie-talkie: "Stop shelling the assault of the whole regiment of the heavy armored regiment, and the cavalry regiment will follow." ”

Rushing into the ruins of Renhe Town, only the Feng army knelt on the ground and trembled on the ground, and the chariot ran over the ruins and drove north to pursue the fleeing Feng army at full speed. Under the swords of the cavalry, the soldiers threw away their guns and raised their hands. After pursuing at least five kilometers, Gao Jinchang was worried that he would encounter an ambush after dark before returning to Renhe Town.

The first thing he did when he returned to Renhe Town was to send a report to the Cangzhou garrison to let the cavalry company escort the ammunition in a horse-drawn cart, and sent three trucks and two armored vehicles back to Cangzhou to deliver ammunition overnight. It is estimated that the Feng army will definitely counterattack tonight, and the failure of the plane to take off at night is the best opportunity for the Feng army to counterattack.

Gao Jinchang arranged for the cavalry regiment to dig trenches and the heavy armored regiment to repair, and the special forces members carried mines to reconnoiter and guard the movements of the Feng army. After dinner, the truck and two cavalry regiments dispersed to camp six kilometers in the rear, and Gao Jinchang himself led the heavy armored regiment to guard Renhe and the town.

After interrogating the prisoners of war, Sun Xiaolan went to Gao Jinchang's tent, held a teapot with a cigarette in his mouth, and said: "As I expected, it was Yang Liuqing's three regiments and an artillery battalion that came over at noon. Behind them, Zhang Zuoxiang's Guards Brigade and the Fourth Mixed Brigade are rushing to this side, and these two brigades are the elite of the Feng army, which cannot be underestimated. ”

Gao Jinchang picked up the armed belt and fastened it, walked out of the tent and ordered: "It is estimated that there is a vicious battle to be fought tonight, let the brothers make the fortifications firmly sharpen their knives and not cut wood." Dig more foxholes and scale trenches, and reinforce the artillery holes. ”

The artillery measured the firing unit, marked it in blocks, put the 75 guns at five kilometers, the 105 guns at 7 kilometers, and the two cavalry regiments left nearly a company of soldiers who would operate machine guns to assist in guarding the trenches, and all retreated to six kilometers to camp and rest. Gao Jinchang asked them to prepare a battalion of soldiers to reinforce the people and the town at any time.

Before eight o'clock, all the ammunition supplies were transported to Gao Jinchang, and then he was relieved that the heavy armored regiment was good at everything, but the ammunition was consumed too quickly. Once there is no ammunition, it becomes a toothless tiger. Gao Jinchang, Sun Xiaolan, a group of officers, and two cavalry commanders sat cross-legged in the open space of the town, guessing when Zhang Zuoxiang would attack.

The commanders of the two cavalry regiments called the battle enjoyable and praised Gao Jinchang for his proper command, otherwise the cavalry regiment would have suffered heavy losses today. Gao Jinchang only said at this time that when the shells fell on the armored car, his soul was scattered, and he thought that the twenty armored vehicles were finished, but he didn't expect this armored car to be so beaten.

Sun Xiaolan scolded: "After the beating, Lao Tzu was shocked by the cannonball, his head hit the wall of the car, and he almost ran out of breath, and he was wearing a steel helmet, otherwise he would definitely bleed." ”

Wang Xiaojun and his special forces planted mines on the road, timed the bouncing skirmish mines at a distance of two minutes, and the mines would bounce into the air and explode in mid-air two minutes after they were triggered, and the infantry directional mines at the front would be adjusted to 10 minutes, so as to ensure that the Fengjun brigade would explode when the men and horses were most concentrated.

After two o'clock in the night, the special agents observed a dense vibration of footsteps in the distance, and immediately notified Wang Xiaojun to retreat. Wang Xiaojun organized the retreat of the team members and arranged for the team members to hang up the stumbling thunder.

To the north of Renhe Town, Sun Xiaolan commanded his soldiers to pile up the bricks of the ruins into three two-meter-high forts and erect the Makqin heavy machine gun left behind by the Feng army. Mortars were scattered in groups of three throughout the town for fire support at all times.

Shortly after they fell asleep, the soldiers were woken up and bent down to enter the preset position, when the sound of mines was heard in the distance, and they knew that the Feng army was not far from the town. The operatives returned to the town and took out the Type 20 rifle with a scope from the armored vehicle, which was full of bullets in its pockets and found a place to hide.

The elite is the elite in the end, completely ignoring the casualties caused by the mines, and rushing towards Renhe and the town in a straggler line. Mortars rang out, and when the Feng army was two kilometers away, the Feng army's shells also fell in the town. Despite the construction of the protective wall, two mortars were destroyed.

More than a dozen tank guns became a sharp weapon to suppress firepower on the battlefield, and armored vehicles rushed to the trenches at any time to support the imminent defense line. Wang Xiaojun lay down among the bricks of the ruins and looked through the scope to find the commander of the Feng army, as long as the pistol in his hand was the officer. He aimed at an officer who was hiding behind the soldier and screaming, pulled the trigger, and the sound of the machine gun was indistinguishable, the officer raised his pistol as if shouting at the soldier, and the soldier rushed forward and staggered to the ground.

More and more Feng troops pressed up, three Makqin positions were destroyed, and two were left with a burning sickle. Gao Jinchang was anxious that the defensive line would definitely collapse if he was so passive in this way, and he shouted: "All the tanks start and go out to fight, and the armored vehicles are behind." ”

Dozens of steel monsters drove out of the town from the two positions in blue smoke and jumped over the trenches and pounced directly on the Feng army, which was actively defeated by the sudden burst of fire. Soldiers wearing camouflage combat uniforms and steel helmets, and Wu Peifu, Beiyang soldiers wearing brown and blue, bent down and followed behind the chariot, firing guns from time to time, and more holding M1911 pistols and firing non-stop.

Dozens of chariots pursued more than a kilometer high before Jin Chang ordered him to return to Renhe Town, and Sun Xiaolan commanded the infantry to load the two Makqin heavy machine guns left behind by the Feng army with ammunition onto the armored vehicles, and the soldiers squatted down to dig pits and lay mines with sapper shovels.

In one battle, Gao Jinchang suffered more than 30 casualties, and Sun Xiaolan's observation group also killed an officer. The confidential officer sent Wu Peifu's telegram from the rear, and Gao Jinchang borrowed the flashlight to look at it and handed it to Sun Xiaolan: "Why did I say that this is a lifeless attack, it turned out that the little cub who saved his master went." ”

Wu Peifu sent a telegram saying that the direct army surrounded more than 30,000 Feng troops with 40,000 superior forces in the direction of Dacheng, including Zhang Zuolin's son Zhang Xueliang. Zhang Zuoxiang led two elite brigades to relieve the siege, Wu Peifu's third division had already broken through Wangkou Town, and ten hours later, it would flank Zhang Zuoxiang with Gao Jinchang in front and back, let Gao Jinchang hold Renhe and Zhen no matter what, and inform him that there was a mixed brigade directly under him ten kilometers west of Renhe Town and could reinforce Gao Jinchang at any time.

Sun Xiaolan suggested that a reserve battalion be transferred up immediately, the heavy armored regiment is used to charge, not to hold the position, if the casualties are too great, you can't pay the difference when you go back, and there are still many battles to be fought below, don't cripple the heavy armored regiment.

The battle had already been fought to such an extent that Gao Jinchang ordered a battalion drawn from the two cavalry regiments to immediately put into the front line position, so that the artillery behind could be on standby at any time.

The forward position calmed down, and the Feng army was also human flesh, and there were times when they were tired, and after more than an hour of fierce attacks were fruitless, they chose to repair and fight again.

Sun Xiaolan picked up the burning wooden stick and lit the cigarette in his mouth, squatting on the ground and holding the hot tea that had just been served from behind. Gao Jinchang snatched his teapot and said in a hoarse voice: "I already have a fire in my throat, and I haven't shouted as much as tonight in a year." ”

"Gao Jinchang, you leave me a mouthful, I also have smoke in my throat. Do you estimate how many people we killed just now? ”

Gao Jinchang sighed: "I have pondered at least two regiments, they like to charge intensively, so the casualties should be large." However, if it was the elite of the Feng army, if the ordinary troops had collapsed a long time ago, if we hadn't completely outscored them in weapons, we would have collapsed. ”

"Let's estimate that one of the two brigades of Feng is a mixed brigade, which is one or two more battalions than five regiments. Let's cripple two regiments, that is, they only have a little more than three regiments, and now it's almost four o'clock, and it's half past five at dawn. ”

"You mean they won't attack for a while, and will attack at dawn?"

Sun Xiaolan gestured: "Probably so, we used artillery to disrupt the rhythm of his rapid attack, the front held positions with mortars to support, and finally the pass with chariots to attack." After dawn, our plane will arrive at the battlefield in about ten minutes. ”

"We still have two regiments of cavalry, and at the last moment we launched a charge of two cavalry regiments regardless of casualties, can the Feng army withstand it?"