The preparation camp was still in full swing, and Zhang Wei led three signal soldiers into the village with the trophies.

In this abandoned village is the military headquarters and command organ of the 27th Army, and the troops directly under it are stationed on the periphery of the village, including the preparation battalion outside the village, and the inside of the village is for the military headquarters of the 27th Army.

Alert troops were arranged at the entrance of the village and in the village, and temporary fortifications were formed with sandbags, and Zhang Wei and the signal soldiers walked to the entrance of the village, and several heavily armed soldiers wearing steel helmets stopped Zhang Wei.

"Which part?"

"The assault column is preparing the battalion, and the camp is being built outside the village, and now we have to go in and meet the commander." Zhang Wei said in a deep voice.

"Brothers, be accommodating, our assault column should have someone in there to answer you."

Just now, madman Qiu sent someone to bring him a tent, and if he wants to go in, there should be someone to pick him up.

"Okay, wait a minute, I'll report it." A soldier ran inside, as if to verify the notice, and the vigilant soldier was quite vigilant.

In front of Zhang Wei was almost a platoon of soldiers, with three Czech light machine guns, as long as he dared to move, he was afraid that he would be beaten into a sieve.

Soon, the soldiers who had verified it in the past confirmed that there was no problem and let Zhang Wei go.

Zhang Wei, led by the people sent by the madman Qiu, walked into the village.

The outside of the stockade looked desolate, but inside it was very lively, and the officers and soldiers who conveyed the military situation were running around with nervous faces.

There are all kinds of telephone lines, and there are more than a dozen soldiers operating several field generators in the open battleground, and more than a dozen people take turns to go up and shake the handles of the generators with their hands to provide electricity to the command headquarters.

On the towering observation platform in the stockade were several Type 24 heavy machine guns, the tripods of the machine guns were anti-aircraft mounts, and the guns were equipped with circular anti-aircraft sights, and the gunners of the heavy machine guns operated their guns around to conduct anti-aircraft alert.

"It's very lively inside," Zhang Wei said.

"Sir, this is the headquarters of an army, large and small organs are all in it, and we have dozens of column headquarters."

The assault column was temporarily formed by the 200th Division, and the formation was relatively hasty, so the scale of the column headquarters was very small, and in addition to the equipment such as the signal corps and the radio station, there were only a few staff officers and guards.

"Where is the column headquarters?" Zhang Wei asked.

"Yes, sir, there are not many of us, the column headquarters is in an old courtyard, there is a radio station, cleaning and cleaning, and the column headquarters is basically done."

"Brother is the staff officer of the column headquarters?"

"Yes." After the second lieutenant finished speaking, he guided Zhang Wei to a small courtyard, which was relatively simple, and the earthen wall outside the courtyard was almost in a state of collapse and was in disrepair.

The house inside is quite sturdy, a large house and a side house, both stone houses, and log beams.

When the common people built these houses, they took into account life and anti-bandit and anti-rebel soldiers, and the materials were quite strong and durable.

There were several soldiers with guns standing in the courtyard, and a communication line for the radio station was erected in the courtyard.

The second lieutenant pointed to the courtyard: "Sir, please first, it's in the big house, and Chief Qiu should be inside." ”

"Okay."

The second lieutenant took Zhang Wei into the courtyard and walked directly to the big house with Zhang Wei. sheet

Wei walked ahead, the room had no door, only a hanging rag, and the sound of tapping a telegram came from the mouth of the house.

"Report!"

"Who!"

"Report to the commander, Zhang Wei, the commander of the preparatory battalion, was ordered to report!"

"Come in!"

The second lieutenant nodded at Zhang Wei, turned around and went to the small side room next to him. Zhang Wei motioned for his signal corps to wait outside, lifted the curtain, and walked into the room, where a table was placed in the big room, radio soldiers and several staff officers were working, Zhang Wei looked at Qiu Qingquan, Qiu Qingquan had just raised his head, and seemed to be reading a telegram, and his military uniform was blackened by cannon smoke.

"Hello sir!"

Zhang Wei stood up and saluted. Qiu Qingquan nodded: "I'm back, I read the battle report from the friendly army, and the fight is good, how is the specific situation?" Without too much nonsense, Qiu Madman directly talked about the issue of combat, and Zhang Wei also liked to be straightforward, so he reported the battle situation in the past two days to Qiu Qingquan.

"We prepared the battalion to be assigned to the 46th Regiment of the 138th Brigade of the 276th Division, and our battalion fought with two battalions of friendly forces, we launched an attack on the Japanese army, the opponent was a main brigade of the 59th Wing, the first attack was coordinated by the tank, and the two positions were captured, and the tank withdrew, and the Japanese launched a counterattack, and our army repelled it, killing more than 100 enemy people, and wounding the enemy unknown."

"The Japanese army carried out emergency fortification construction after the failure of the counterattack, and built nearly ten fortresses with logs and building materials of sappers, grenadiers and eighty-two mortars could not be completely destroyed, and at the same time strengthened the surrounding foxholes, and all pillboxes had at least two or more firing ports, our battalion applied for battle defense artillery support, and asked the friendly 46th Division for mountain artillery fire to attack the Japanese foxholes, and finally attacked and advanced under the cover of artillery fire, and the battle defense artillery knocked out the Japanese fortress with direct fire, and our battalion first opened a breakthrough in the Japanese position, Friendly forces took the opportunity to reinforce and cooperated to capture the Japanese positions. ”

"Report sir, I'm done, that's the general situation." "You fought well, you took the Japanese position, how about the losses of your battalion?"

Zhang Wei sighed: "It's very big, there are only more than 200 people in the whole battalion now, and nearly half of the casualties have been lost, and the Japanese army is really not easy to fight." ”

"You guys fought well, the casualties of our army in the past few days can be described as tragic, of course, the casualties of the group of devils on the opposite side are also large." Qiu Qingquan said.

"Sir, how serious are the losses of our army?" Zhang Wei asked tentatively. Qiu Qingquan stretched out his right arm, rolled up his sleeves, and a bright red scar appeared on his arm.

"When you were attacking the 46th Division, I was directing the tank troops to go to the front line to reinforce the operation, in the direction of the 74th Army, the regiment commander had already killed one, and the casualties of the battalion company commanders and soldiers below were even greater.

"That sir, we have such heavy casualties, as the saying goes, at the end of the strong crossbow, the arrow can't wear Lu Min, according to this style of play and casualties, the offensive of the national army has declined, and the 14th Division of the little devil who was surrounded has not been annihilated, and now in this situation, will the Japanese army in all directions make any moves?" Zhang Wei asked.

Qiu Qingquan smiled, it was a bitter smile, a helpless bitter smile, and he glanced at Zhang Wei again in his heart.

"I understand what you mean, it's not easy for you, a battalion commander, to think of this." In the past few days, the Nationalist Army has attacked fiercely, and the 14th Division has suffered heavy casualties, but heavy casualties do not mean that it has been annihilated, and the main force of the Nationalist Army in eastern Henan has received heavy losses from the 14th Division with great investment and casualties.

As the battle continued, it was very likely that the Nationalist Army, which had exhausted its strength, would be held back by the 14th Division, which had suffered heavy losses, and the entire main force in eastern Henan was dragged.

The point in Zhang Wei's words was that the Japanese army in "other directions" took the opportunity to attack the national army besieging the 14th Division, and when the time came, the consequences would be unimaginable!