From the afternoon of the 25th, the besieging ** troops launched an attack on the Japanese army, and the sound of guns and artillery continued all night, ** after clearing several small strongholds with weak defense on the periphery of the Japanese army, they launched a comprehensive attack on the main defense line of the periphery of the Japanese army and Dingzhai, Guanzhai and other places, and the charge was almost non-stop all night, and the firelight and tracer bullets played a string of bright ballistics in the dark night. Ｘ

The German-style 150 heavy guns reinforced by the 10th Artillery Regiment also opened fire to aid in the battle, shelling the Japanese positions.

The sound of gunfire was very loud, and the officers and men of the preparatory battalion were unmoved, and they should rest, since there was no combat order, let's reserve physical strength for future battles, hundreds of people slept on the spot, and the current position was very safe, and by the time the whole battalion almost woke up, it was already five o'clock in the morning on the 26th.

Zhang Wei was woken up by the roar of the machine from outside, got up and looked, the chariots of the assault column were all started, and the hot car was started, Zhang Wei adjusted his mental state, and walked towards the column headquarters of the assault column, Qiu Qingquan's column headquarters was set up in a large marching tent on the edge of the chariot camp, saying that it was the column headquarters, but it was only temporarily formed during the war, only a few staff officers, guards, and telegraph operators, and the guards outside the tent saw that it was Zhang Wei, and let Zhang Wei in without hindrance.

When he entered the tent, he saw Qiu Qingquan staring at the map on the table, which was the map of the Japanese army that Zhang Wei gave him, surrounded by several hard-working staff officers, their eyes were bloodshot, and it seemed that they had been tossing all night.

"Sir."

Qiu Qingquan raised his head, his face was not very good, his eyes were also bloodshot, but his tone was the opposite of his face.

"Zhang Wei, come and take a look!"

Zhang Wei leaned over, and Qiu Qingquan pointed out several places on the map, and Zhang Wei guessed that it was the area defended by the Japanese army.

"These are all areas occupied by the Japanese army, right?"

"That's right, come and see, yesterday I had a preliminary understanding with the Duke of the Yellow River (referring to Gui Yongqing, the word is true), and now the main force of the 14th Division of the Japanese Army is almost surrounded by our army in these places, Sanyiji, Dingzhai, Quxingji and other places have Japanese troops stationed, which is the main force of the 14th Division, the enemy has its back to the Yellow River, using the materials transported from the north bank of the Yellow River as supplies, receiving through Chenliukou and several small ferries, and then replenishing the troops, our army is in the encirclement, and has launched an attack."

"Is this to eat the enemy in front of you?"

Zhang Wei pretended to be surprised and asked, as a traverser, he already knew a little about some things. It is impossible to say that he fully understands the whole process and details, but he is still clear about the general situation, the siege of the 14th Division in the Battle of Lanfeng, he also read it on the Internet before passing through.

"That's right, Chief Xue of the Eastern Henan Corps has this intention." Qiu Qingquan's tone was quite excited, and it really met the title of Qiu Maniac.

Zhang Wei drew a circle along Qiu Qingquan's mark on the map: "But the enemy's defense range is so large, and there are strengthened artillery, our appetite, I'm afraid we can't catch it, not to mention that the Japanese army has a ferry as a supply point, which can not only transport materials and ammunition, but also transport troops. ”

"What you say is reasonable, but it must be fought, there is an order from above, we have to do it, and this is indeed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, even if you can't eat them, you can give them a hard time."

Qiu Qingquan is not stupid, and he also understands in his heart that it is indeed unrealistic to eat a division that has not been heavily damaged and is fully equipped with heavy artillery and other units with a large number of recruits.

"And what is our mission?"

Qiu Qingquan pointed to the map: "Last night, the troops of several divisions fought all night, and they are still fighting until this morning, and several troops have suffered a lot of casualties, and the fight is a little difficult, our task is to temporarily use the tank to cooperate with the attack, and your battalion may be on board with the tank at that time, or it may be alone." ”

"Alone?"

"Yes, in short, wait for the order, your battalion has strong combat effectiveness, and I also said it when I discussed with the commander yesterday, the infantry of our assault column may be used alone, and the things on the battlefield are uncertain, maybe reinforcements are needed somewhere."

"Understood."

After talking with Qiu Qingquan, Zhang Wei roughly understood the positioning of the assault column in this battle, the special equipment of chariot warfare and anti-aircraft artillery, when necessary, should be assigned to other units to fight, and the infantry of Zhang Wei's preparation battalion, if necessary, if the tank needs to attack in a certain direction, then the preparation battalion will accompany the chariot attack together with the friendly troops in that direction, the reason is naturally that the preparation battalion has enough experience in infantry coordination, and it has already engaged in infantry coordination when attacking Luowang Railway Station.

As for the preparation battalion to fight alone, it means that if reinforcements are urgently needed in a certain direction, they will also be pulled in at an urgent juncture.

Qiu Qingquan and Gui Yongqing and others used a single station to contact each other to transmit military information and orders at any time, and the whole assault column was on standby at any time, which is the requirement now, Zhang Wei left the column headquarters and returned to the preparation camp, the whole battalion had already opened the pot to cook, the 27th Army sent a batch of rice yesterday, and the soldiers who had eaten brown rice for a few days enjoyed a rare meal, and Zhang Wei also ate a lot more, and the breakfast of the day was solved in the non-stop gunfire in the distance.

Unlike the vigorous vitality of the reserve battalion station, after a night of bloody fighting, all the attacking troops suffered losses to varying degrees, and the actual large-scale siege had not yet begun, and the battle situation had already become quite miserable.

In the northeast of Sanyiji, a river that is not wide flows slowly, and there are various weapons and floating corpses floating on the river.

In last night's attack, the 106th Division launched a fierce attack on the northeast of Sanyiji, but the Japanese firepower was fierce, and a large number of artillery pieces were dispatched to cooperate with the infantry defense, the blood of the officers and men of the 106th Division stained the river red, located on the abandoned river embankment in the east of the river, and there was less than a company of the officers and soldiers of the 106th Division stationed, these soldiers were all remnants, many of them were not the same company, in the early morning, after barely repelling several counterattacks by the Japanese army, only they were still on the river embankment.

The 106th Division was the first to serve as the task of guarding the Longhai Road during the Great War in eastern Henan, and was raided by the Japanese army, and after repeated bloody battles, the division from the Northeast Army system suffered heavy casualties, and the whole division was seriously insufficient. Now the defenders above are the only remaining forces of the attacking troops after withstanding several counterattacks by the Japanese army, and the 106th Division has few troops at hand, and several regiments are almost all crippled, making it difficult to withstand the possible counterattack of the Japanese army.

Therefore, when the commanding heights of the river embankment were still in the hands of the 106th Division, the 106th Division sent a telegram to the friendly troops to be reinforced, hoping that reinforcements could be reinforced.