Chapter Ninety-Eight: Bench Tactics

"Didi~"

In front of the radio station, Rapoo himself was full of big men, and the weather in August was already hot enough to steam eggs, and with nervousness, Rapo's clothes were already soaked.

"Report, report completed."

"Okay, pass, let's take the report."

Tian Jiaying confirmed that Rapoo can send reports normally, although it can't send reports quickly, but it can be operated qualified.

"Yes,~"

Another radio station was set up in Lanxi Town, and more than 20 students were divided into two groups to assess each other.

“121、006、059……”

Tian Jiaying uses the simplest numerical code, which is not difficult to decipher, but it is the most suitable for the current situation of the third battalion, and can quickly learn to use it, as long as the codebook is encrypted, the difficulty of deciphering can be increased by a level of difficulty.

"Yes, the assessment is complete, you are a qualified radio correspondent."

Although Rapoo was sweating profusely, everyone could see the joy on his face.

"Congratulations."

Zhang Ziwen stepped forward and handed him the sergeant's collar badge, Zhang Ziwen thought that anyone who could use the radio was a treasure and should be given good treatment.

"Bai Zhangqiu"

Tian Jiaying began the assessment of the next trainees, and it was already 12 o'clock at noon after this assessment, and in the end there were still seven people who did not pass, but there were already more than ten students who were qualified to use the radio station.

Wuhan is a big furnace, in fact, the weather of the two lakes is incomprehensible to the 103rd Division who has lived in Guizhou for a long time, and most people are dizzy by the sun that constantly emits heat from the sky, and the trees look lifeless.

"Here, eat a watermelon."

Zhang Ziwen opened a watermelon with a bayonet and handed it to Tian Jiaying and the other three technical guides, and the atmosphere was very embarrassing. Now that the radio station has learned how to use it, it is time for Tian Jiaying and the others to go back.

Tian Jiaying came to find Zhang Ziwen for the same thing, but he didn't expect to be pulled by Zhang Ziwen to talk about radio encryption before he opened his mouth. Now everyone has a watermelon and can only eat it first.

"Zhang ......"

"This melon is so sweet, isn't it Teacher Tian."

Tian Jiaying didn't expect the usually polite Zhang Ziwen to come back with this trick, and beat the words he had brewed back into his stomach.

"Camp Commander Zhang, now that the teaching is complete, should you let us go back?"

"Lao He ......"

Tian Jiaying was blocked, but the other three didn't, Lao He asked directly, Tian Jiaying wanted to propose it euphemistically, so that he could get by on face, but now he was worried about whether he would annoy the young major battalion commander in front of him.

"Alas, I still can't keep it, when the weather cools down, I will ask Rao Xiangyun to send someone to send you back, you go back first to rest and pack your luggage, and don't forget to find the deputy leader of the horse camp for a while."

"Wages?"

"According to the current situation, your monthly salary is about seventy or eighty yuan, and it will be almost two months, and it will not be enough to pay you one hundred and fifty yuan, right?"

"We are prisoners of the ranks, and it is already very good to be able to teach and reduce the sentence, not to mention that we are highly respected when we come to the 103rd Division, and now Battalion Commander Zhang has returned the money, so righteous, if someone can come to Ritian, he will definitely repay him."

"Paying for work is justified, respecting teachers is also justified, not talking about righteousness, Teacher Tian praised it."

"I've never seen ...... in the Kuomintang"

"Lao Tian"

Zhang Ziwen can only see it now, it turns out that the leader is Lao He who spoke just now, and Zhang Ziwen can hear it from Tian Jiaying's tone, and the identities of the four people in front of him are probably not simple.

Only people like Wu Fatzi dare to use such crooked brains, Zhang Ziwen will not stay after knowing such a sensitive identity, who knows if there is a person in the 103rd Division who is a central commander or a military commander.

It was now 17 August, 20 days after the Japanese army landed in the Huangguang area, and Li Pinxian mobilized the 84th Army to counterattack.

The premise of the counterattack was that the 84th Army held Guangji, and the reason why the 84th Army was able to hold the Japanese army was to adopt a unique "bench tactic".

The Japanese army relied on strong firepower to advance layer by layer, and when the 84th Army was about to retreat to Guangji, Ling Pressi, the commander of the 188th Division of the 84th Army, came up with a bench tactic.

The team came out with straw hats, straw sandals, rifles, and a bench. The average height of the Japanese army was only 1.6 meters, and although the southerners were not tall, they were also taller than small Japan. In view of this characteristic, the construction of the defensive line was not only based on height, but also the height of a small bench, so that the Japanese could not see the outside situation when they jumped into the trenches.

The 84th Army took advantage of its own conditions to build a number of trenches, lure the Japanese army into the trenches, and attacked with grenades to repel the Japanese attack and counterattack Huangmei.

Then it fought back and forth with the Japanese army in the Huangguang area until the 26th. The 84th Army attacked Admiralty Pu and Loess Bao with a part and captured it in one fell swoop, but the Japanese reinforcements continued to fall to the enemy. Taking advantage of the availability of morale, the Japanese army attacked on all fronts, broke through Kuzhukou, and attacked the areas of Duoyun Mountain, Baiyangling, Paizi Mountain and Houshanpu, and the national army had to retreat to the area of Honghuazhu and Xianggangling.

Li Pinxian couldn't bear this breath and ordered the 189th Division, the 176th Division and the 31st Brigade of the 68th Army to counterattack Huangmei. The 29th Group Army counterattacked Duoyun Mountain and Baiyangling, and then took the Suhuang Highway from the left north. The newly arrived 26th Army and 68th Army restored the original Dajinpu, Bijia Hill and Platoon Changshan. Li Pinxian, who had just formed the 86th Army, was not aware of its combat effectiveness, so he used it as a reserve to build a reserve position on the Lianglukou and Longshan lines south of Meichuan.

On the 23rd, after Zhang Ziwen sent back the 618 regiment and the training personnel sent by Wang Jingyuan, Wang Jingyuan came over with the code book the next day, and at the same time asked Zhang Ziwen to ensure that it could not be leaked, and Zhang Ziwen was sent to study the radio station to be reliable, and after repeated assurances, Wang Jingyuan gave the code book to Zhang Ziwen, and at the same time, there was a lieutenant sent by He Shaozhou to watch at all times.

On the 27th, after receiving the order, He Shaozhou immediately telegraphed the 3rd Battalion of the 613th Regiment to the easternmost part of the 103rd Division.

"Didi~"

"The translation has come out, the division headquarters ordered our battalion to go directly to the main peak of Longshan in Guangji to build a core position along Longshan Temple, and quickly notify the battalion commander."

Rapoo is now in charge of all communications as the communications captain of the 3rd Battalion, the second team of the communications team is placed in the teaching team, and the third team is placed in the artillery platoon.

The third battalion began training again after resting, and when Zhang Ziwen received the telegram, the third battalion was conducting training.

"The whole battalion packed up their things, set out in an hour, and ordered the teaching team to be the vanguard and go twenty miles. The main force set off in the order of seven companies, eight companies, and nine companies, with the battalion headquarters and artillery platoon setting off behind, and the machine gun platoon setting off with me. ”

Zhang Ziwen's old method is to take people to set off by himself, and Ma Xiaobao will take care of the aftermath.

It was already late at night when he rushed to Longshan from Lanxi, and Zhang Ziwen could already hear the sound of cannons. At about 6 o'clock on the 28th, all units of the Fourth Corps had already counterattacked the Japanese army according to Li Pinxian's deployment.

All divisions have been captured, the 150th Division directly surrounded more than 200 remnants of the enemy in Baiyun Mountain, the 161st Division occupied the left north, and the 189th Division took back the Houshanpu. The Japanese army was passive on all fronts, and after the Seventh Army captured Susong in Anhui, it went directly west to Huangmei to hold on.

At this time, the 103rd Division had all assembled in the southeast of Meichuan, the 121st Division completed its training in Macheng, and the former division commander Wu Jianping was transferred to the Army University to study, and the former deputy division commander and current division commander Mou Tingfang served as the division commander, and took the 121st Division to Huangguang.

"The third battalion was transferred to Hengshantou for defense"

Wang Jingyuan's telegram ordered Zhang Ziwen to lead people to Longshan South to build his own position, Zhang Ziwen felt that sometimes the radio is not a good thing, since there is a radio station, the third battalion is about to become an engineer battalion.