Chapter 99 is beginning to bear fruit

On the 29th, the Fourth Corps continued to attack the Huangmei area, striving to recover Huangmei, but the continuous increase of the Japanese Sixth Division led to the fact that the Fourth Corps could only capture some hills.

On the 30th, the 6th Division of the Japanese Army had completed its understanding in the Huangmei area, plus a machine gun brigade, a mountain artillery brigade and two squadrons of armored vehicles, with a strength of more than 30,000 troops. Although the Fourth Corps was outnumbered, it was distributed in various parts of the southern foot of the Dabie Mountains, and in the Huangguang area, there were only tens of thousands of disabled five armies, but the weapons and equipment were not comparable to the Japanese army, not to mention the support of aircraft and artillery.

After the Japanese army was assembled, the 36th Brigade of the 6th Division attacked Guangji from Huangmei along the Huangguang Highway, and the 11th Brigade attacked Guangji side by side along the south side of the Huangguang Road.

At 10 o'clock in the morning of the 31st, Zhang Ziwen received the news that the Japanese army had captured many positions, and the 176th Division, which was the frontal resistance of the Sixth Division, was defeated and retreated one after another, and it was not until the night that the Japanese army stopped attacking, and the 176th Division had to breathe a sigh of relief in the area of Duoyunzhai and Taerzhai.

Early the next morning, after a night's rest and recuperation, the Japanese army successively captured the area of Bijia Mountain, Broken Mountain Pass and Phoenix Mountain in two days, and the entire Meichuan was surrounded by the Sixth Division on the east and north sides.

On 2 September, the 103rd Division received an order from the Corps to restore the Tianjiazhai position, and Zhang Ziwen's third battalion, as the battalion with the most convenient communication, directly received He Shaozhou's telegram order to rush to Tianjiazhai as the vanguard to launch an attack on Tianjiazhai the next morning.

"Rao Xiangyun, notify the platoon commanders of each company and immediately rush over for a meeting."

Tianjiazhai is located between Meichuan and Yuchuan, and can be seen in Longshan, with a gentle slope when attacking from the east and a steep hill when attacking from the west.

"You take a look at the terrain of the highlands where Tianjiazhai is located, the east is low and the west is high, if the charge is bound to cause huge casualties, the Japanese army has a favorable location and aircraft and artillery support, and the strong attack will definitely not be able to be defeated."

"Battalion commander, do you think we can make a detour to the Prince Temple and attack along the ridge, so that we don't have to charge head-on."

"Yes, yes, this is also my idea, bypass the Immortal Dam and take the Prince Temple to the north for a raid. However, to disobey the orders of the division headquarters, this needs to be considered, and the responsibility will be on us in case Tianjiazhai is not captured. ”

"Battalion commander, you see that we took advantage of the night, the first and second companies attacked from the north from the chestnut mountain and under the camphor tree, and the battalion directly under the battalion and the third company attacked from the south.

Zhang Ziwen looked at the map, and Zhang Li's plan was okay, attacking from the north and south sides of the mountain, reducing the possibility of charging, and at the same time putting pressure on the Japanese army through sniping.

"Rao Xiangyun, immediately go to the division headquarters, take the battle plan of tension as the standard, and at the same time ask the division headquarters to ask Zhao Xuying of the 618th Regiment to feint on the front."

"If the division headquarters agrees to this combat plan, then we will have no time to rest, and from now on we will be ready to go at any time."

"I immediately had people pack their things up"

Ma Xiaobao knew Zhang Ziwen's style of doing things, and went out to arrange things without waiting for Zhang Ziwen to speak.

"Okay, now let's talk about the details of the battle, first, the artillery platoon brought the radio and the second company attacked from the north. The 2nd Training Team gave up all supplies, brought enough ammunition and dry rations, and infiltrated the vicinity of Tianjiazhai from all directions in small groups to attack everything important to the Japanese army. Third, after having a radio station, we can communicate in a timely manner, and if there is an accident, we must be notified as soon as possible, this is the first battle of our 103rd Division after retreating from Nanjing, I hope we will not lose the face of the 103rd Division, can we do it. ”

"Yes~"

The people sitting were all veterans of the 103rd Division, and Rao Xiangyun, who was recorded on the side, was jumped before he reacted.

The next thing is to wait, as long as Zhao Xuying is informed to attack from the west, Tianjiazhai will definitely be able to take it.

He Shaozhou carefully studied Zhang Ziwen's battle plan on the operational map, and found that if Zhang Ziwen could contain most of the Japanese army and attack from the front with the 618th Regiment, the probability of recovering Tianjiazhai was 9 out of ten.

"Telegraphed Zhang Ziwen to agree with his battle plan, and at the same time I will notify the northern and southern troops to attack and contain the Japanese army to reduce his pressure, and at the same time I will place the entire 618 regiment directly west of Tianjiazhai to attract Japanese firepower."

Wan Shijiong is very confident in Zhang Ziwen, and he also proposed that Zhang Ziwen lead the attack, otherwise He Shaozhou only knew that the 613 regiment and the battalion commander were called Zhang Ziwen.

"Don't worry, it's going to be fine, he has three mortars and a machine gun platoon, and now his battalion is almost a thousand people, and Tianjiazhai is only about 300 people in one or two squadrons. What's more, this guy also secretly trained more than 100 people in the name of the teaching team, and used 100,000 rounds of ammunition before and after. ”

"What training for a man with a thousand bullets?"

Wan Shijiong nodded to confirm, he had long wanted to know He Shaozhou's surprised expression after knowing this situation, a thousand shots per person, Wan Shijiong couldn't bear to think about it. But He Shaozhou came up with another idea.

"Ah~湫"

Zhang Ziwen rubbed his nose, and was just about to scold that bastard for talking to himself behind his back, when he heard Lei Bo's report.

"Report, call from division headquarters."

"Reading"

"Agree with your unit's battle plan......"

Zhang Ziwen almost died of anger when he heard that there were only 300 Japanese troops in Tianjiazhai, and he made such a big fanfare to deal with 300 Japanese troops.

"Hear, the Japanese army only has 300 people, and that team will have the least military merit at that time, so let's wait to double the training. Inform the whole camp to gather in thirty minutes, and don't forget to hand over the suicide note to Ma Xiaobao first. ”

When the suicide note in Zhang Ziwen's mouth was from Macheng to Xishui, Zhang Ziwen knew that no one knew when he would die when the war started, so he wrote a letter to his family first, and he could bring a message to his family if he died, Zhang Ziwen wrote three letters, one to Lu Qingman, one to his parents, and one to the flue-cured tobacco factory.

"Brothers, most of our brothers here are new recruits who have not yet experienced real fighting, but now I have received orders that tomorrow morning we will attack Tianjiazhai in the east.

We all know that attacking means death, and you may be afraid, but now that the Japanese have invaded a large part of our land in the year since the July 7 Incident, they are now staying on the other side. If we don't repel them, they will continue to attack Wuhan, Changsha and even Guiyang in the west, and then our fathers, elders, brothers and sisters will suffer from the poison, will you agree? ”

"Don't agree~"

Nearly 1,000 people in the third battalion held torches and shouted in the valley, Zhang Ziwen was afraid that the recruits would be afraid of the enemy, so he had to mobilize for battle first.

"Okay, now we will sneak into the north and south of Tianjiazhai in advance, and your commander will arrange the specific matters, I hope you will not weaken the name of the 103rd Division of our Guizhou Army, and go!"

The three battalions were divided into two fire dragons, marching separately in the north-south direction, and Zhang Ziwen ordered to extinguish the torches when they left Longshan, which had been arranged a long time ago, Zhang Ziwen took the teaching team, machine gun platoon, engineer platoon and three companies to the Taizi Temple, and Ma Xiaobao followed behind with the supply platoon and battalion personnel.

At four o'clock in the morning of the third day, it was only one and a half hours before dawn that Zhang Ziwen touched the Prince Temple.

The devil saw it from a distance at the sentry post in the Prince Temple, and Zhang Ziwen motioned to Tang Song. Tang Song took two groups of people to touch it, and after two low muffled snorts, the two Japanese soldiers on duty saw the emperor, and the devils around the fire were stabbed to death with bayonets by the two groups of people in the teaching team.

Zhang Ziwen led people to continue to advance, Zhang Ziwen had a hunch that there were definitely more than two squadrons in Tianjiazhai, at least one brigade of troops, otherwise the sentry would not have been placed so far.

"Rao Xiangyun took the radio and walked behind, and called the division headquarters, Tianjiazhai may have more than two squadrons, and at the same time see if the radio of the artillery platoon is turned on, and call them to be careful."

Zhang Ziwen no longer let the teaching team lead the way, but ordered them to be divided into groups and infiltrate the investigation. Sending out the company reconnaissance squad to explore the way, the soldiers brought out by the old pole still have this ability.

After Zhang Ziwen took people to touch the mountain, he found that there were still a lot of devil sentry posts, but they were no longer based on the class system, which was cheaper than the teaching team, a group of ten people, and it was very simple to shut up only two people. The Japanese originally wanted to use the sound of gunfire to transmit the news of the enemy attack, but the first sentry post was silently resolved.

The more vigilant the Japanese army was, the more afraid they were of being attacked, that is, Tianjiazhai Zhang Ziwen had to be taken, and stopped at Li Wa, which was a sufficient distance from Tianjiazhai.