Outside the stone gate, the guard regiment is stationed.

Xiao Li, a communications soldier, took off the headset on his head, then picked up the message he had just received, then turned around and handed it to another confidential officer, and said to him: "Xiao Wang, at this time, the headquarters ordered, you go and hand it over to the regiment commander immediately." ”

"Okay!" Xiao Wang nodded, and then turned around and walked out of the confidential room. Since the guard regiment was only temporarily stationed in Shimen, it did not connect with the headquarters of the First Division, so Liu Cheng would give them orders in the form of a telegram.

Confidential officer Xiao Wang took the telegram and quickly walked to the headquarters of the guard regiment next to the confidential room, Xiao Wang shouted a report, and then strode in.

Xu Wen, the commander of the guard regiment, was getting together with several battalion commanders to discuss the military situation, Xiao Wang stepped forward and strode in and then snapped and said: "Tuanzao, the headquarters is calling!" ”

"Oh? Read! Xu Wen raised his head and gestured.

"Yes!" Xiao Wang, the confidential officer, immediately opened the telegram and read: "The commander-in-chief personally ordered, and the guard regiment immediately marched north to launch an attack on the Cangzhou defense line of the Yue Army. I hope that all the brothers of the guard regiment will give full play to the indomitable spirit of the old guard battalion who are not afraid of death, be an example for the whole army, be a model for the whole army, bravely kill the enemy, and play the majesty of the iron army! ”

"Slap" Xu Wen threw the pencil in his hand on the table, and said with a slight emotion: "Call back to the headquarters, all the officers and soldiers of the guard regiment will fight to the death and never discredit the Iron Army!" ”

"Yes!" The confidential officer snapped to the ground, then turned around and happily took the order.

Xu Wen turned around slowly, and said to the battalion commanders behind him with a firm gaze: "Brothers! Assemble your troops now! ~Set off with me in fifteen minutes! ”

"Yes!" Everyone said in unison, and then went separately to gather the troops.

Ten minutes later, the officers and men of the battalions and companies of the guard regiment had assembled one after another, and the soldiers were lined up in a neat queue, rows of shiny bayonets, and grim faces.

Invisibly, a murderous atmosphere spreads, although these recruits have not really been on the battlefield, but in the past three months, they have been getting along with these iron-blooded veterans around them day and night, and they have learned the veterans' temper and the momentum of seeing death as home.

At this time, Xu Wen, the head of the guard regiment, dressed in a brand-new colonel uniform, strode over surrounded by several adjutants, and walked to the front of the queue.

Xu Wen retracted his gaze, then pulled his white gloves, and said in a voice like a bell: "Brothers, I have good news for you, I just received an order from the group army headquarters, and our guard regiment has been selected as the main vanguard force!" Ordered to clear the obstacles for the main forces. ”

Saying that, Xu Wen paused and continued: "Brothers, when I received this order, I was very entangled in my heart, because this is both an honor and a pressure! The honor is that since ancient times, all pioneers must be elite! The pressure is, if we don't fight the first battle, we will lose our faces, do you know what the head seat calls us? ”

Seeing that the soldiers shook their heads, Xu Wen said in a deep voice: "Just the army! Fist! The head seat once said to me that the guard regiment is Lao Tzu's trump card, if you can't pick up the girder in your hands, then don't fucking give Lao Tzu a shame and conspicuousness in the position of the regiment leader, and only deserve to be Lao Tzu's husband. ”

Hearing this, the warriors in front of them burst into laughter.

Xu Wen waved his hand and continued: "So, you are enough to listen to Lao Tzu!" This battle can be won and not defeated! If you lose this battle! The officers and men of our guard regiment will have no shame to see the three Jin fathers and elders, and they will be ashamed of the cultivation of the general seat for us! So! This battle will be won! ”

"Victory! "The warriors shouted in unison, and when the last shout arose, they shouted hoarsely.

The sound vibrated through the eardrums and spread for miles around.

Xu Wen waved his hand again and said, "Okay!" Victory is not shouted out of mouth! Put a bayonet on Lao Tzu! Let's go! Use your bayonets to tell the little devils who the real elite is! Tell the world who is the king of land warfare! ”

"Yes!" The warriors replied hoarsely. Immediately, the battalion commanders shouted, "All of them! ~Look to the right and go! ”

Xu Wen stood at the back of the team, watching the officers and soldiers who had already lined up in a long line waving their troops north with enthusiasm, and suddenly felt a sense of pride.

After all, it is every man's dream to be able to command an elite division to gallop across the field, because every man has a heroic dream in his heart.

The defense line of the army in Cangzhou is based on Cangzhou as the middle line, Beiping as the backing, and Hengshui to the east-west defense line of Beiping. The guard regiment set off from Shimen and went north through Jinju and Xinji.

After three days, they arrived at the former Motai town on the periphery of Hengshui, because the highway from Shenzhou to Hengshui passed through the former Motai, so the strategic location of the former Motai at this time was very important, and it was the first peripheral defense line of the Hengshui defense line of the army.

The army not only built a large number of strongholds and pillboxes along the road, but also armed the entire Qianmotai town to the teeth. A ditch four meters wide and three meters deep was dug around the town.

A stronghold was built every 500 meters, and the stronghold consisted of a turret and two or three bunkers or pillboxes, the three bunkers were arranged in a triangular formation, guarding the middle turret, and the light and heavy machine guns above the turret were just enough to make up for the blind spots of the three pillboxes below.

I have to admit that Xiao Yueben's defense is very good, and the arrangement of this kind of bunker combined with the stronghold is almost perfect, no matter which direction [***] attacks from which side it will be hit by double fire from the turret and the pillbox.

In a budding rice field less than 400 meters away from Qianmotai Town, Xu Wen, the head of the guard regiment, with several adjutants and several guards holding quadruple binoculars, was secretly observing the situation of the army.

After looking at it for a moment, Xu Wen handed the binoculars in his hand to the adjutant beside him, and then said, "Let's go, go back to the regiment headquarters!" After saying that, he took the lead and walked the way he came.

Several adjutants hurriedly got up and followed closely, while the guards looked around vigilantly, and then slowly retreated.

Five miles away, the regimental headquarters of the Guard Regiment.

Xu Wen convened several battalion commanders, deputy regiment commanders, and regimental staff officers to hold a pre-battle preparation meeting, and one staff officer had already laid out a detailed operational military map on the table of the regiment headquarters.

Xu Wen and the others immediately gathered around the table, Xu Wen pointed to the map and said: "The town in front of us is called Qianmopan Town, which has reached the periphery of the first line of defense of the Yue army, I just took people to take a look, the devil's defense is very tight, judging from the fortifications they built, they have worked hard in this town." ”

As he spoke, Xu Wen took out a pencil and made a circle on the map, and said, "Qianmopan Town." The east and west are only three miles wide, but the north and south are five miles long, and on the east and west wings of the town is a highway from Shenzhou to Hengshui, and the devils have also built a large number of stronghold turrets along the road. So it's obviously impossible for us to sneak around. ”

"Tuanza, since Qianmopan Town is so difficult to fight, why don't we directly divide our troops into two ways to raid the devil's strongholds on the east and west wings, cross the road and continue to fight in depth towards the devil's defense! This will definitely be able to disrupt the devil's entire defense system! Ma Bukun, commander of the third battalion of infantry, said.

This Ma Bukun was the only one of the three battalion commanders selected from among the recruits, and the other two infantry battalion commanders and machine gun battalion commanders were selected from among the veterans.

Seeing that it was Ma Bukun, Xu Wen secretly shook his head in his heart, the military academy still needs to be honed, after all, there is only theory and no practice, to put it bluntly, it will only be on paper.

But Xu Wen still patiently explained: "Third battalion commander, the method you said is not bad, but it is not suitable for our current situation, first, we raided the artillery tower stronghold set up by the devil along the road, whether we can successfully take the turret before the arrival of the devil's reinforcements This is a question, after all, the devil's highway patrol force can reach it in half an hour."

Second. Even if we successfully raided the flanks of the devils, as you said, continuing to advance in depth of the devils' defenses may certainly cause the devils to be scrambling for a while, but it is far from making their entire defense system chaotic.

Third, if we go deep behind enemy lines, what will happen to the logistics supply? You know, there are still many strong "fortresses" like the former mill town waiting for us. Once the troops lose their logistical support, their combat effectiveness will drop to half until they are all incapacitated. ”

Xu Wen explained so much in one breath, and after finishing speaking, he picked up the kettle and poured it violently for a while, and then pricked his mouth and continued: "So, we have to work steadily and steadily, and gradually advance!" Because we have strong logistical supply as a backing. ”

"Yes! Humble duty understood. Ma Bukun said sincerely. It can be seen from his face that he admires Xu Wen from the bottom of his heart.

"Alright, now I'll assign the task."

Everyone hurriedly straightened up, and looked at Xu Wen with longing.

Xu Wen paused and said: "This time, the third battalion will be the main attacker, and the machine gun battalion will be responsible for providing fire support for the third battalion and destroying the devil's turret and pillbox!" In Xu Wen's opinion, the devil's bunkers and turrets are okay to block the Eighth Route Army without heavy weapons, but it is not so easy to block the guard regiment with all kinds of artillery and anti-defense artillery.

As soon as Xu Wen's words came out, everyone was stunned, including Ma Bukun himself, who was a little surprised that his battalion would serve as the main attacker.

It's not that he was afraid of being the main attacker, but it came too suddenly, just like the group army headquarters chose their guard regiment as the vanguard, which is an honor. But any pioneer must belong to the elite division, this sentence echoed in Ma Bukun's mind for a long time.

Seeing that Ma Bukun didn't react, Xu Wen said, "What's wrong?" Third battalion commander, have difficulties? ”

"Oh... There is no difficulty, the third battalion guarantees the completion of the task, please rest assured! Ma Bukun reacted suddenly, and hurriedly expressed his determination.

(To be continued)