Ma Liang Mountain, guard battalion position.

All the soldiers of the guard battalion have recovered their physical strength after a day's rest, the three infantry companies have all been deployed in place, and the machine gun company has also set up machine gun positions.

Thousands of black hole guns were coldly pointed at the road ahead, and a murderous aura spread invisibly.

Li Gangzheng swallowed the dry food in his hand with cold water, and the confidential officer brought a telegram to report: "The battalion seat and the military seat have sent an urgent telegram. ”

"Oh?" Li Gang took the telegram, and after reading it, he immediately shouted to his guards: "Pass my order, and the whole battalion is ready to fight!" ”

Not long after Li Gang gave the order, about a regiment of the vanguard of the 35th Division came, and it is said that the 35th Division can be regarded as the main division of the Ma Jiajun, but looking at its forward, we know that the combat effectiveness of this unit is not much stronger.

A whole regiment, more than 2,000 people, the marching army column was extremely scattered, and even the search squad was not dispatched.

After it entered the firing range, Li Gang shouted: "Fire!" Call me! ”

Suddenly, all kinds of guns opened fire at the same time, and the Ma family army, which was caught off guard, was suddenly knocked down in a large area, and the horse commander of the Ma family army was frightened and immediately fell off the horse.

When the guards helped him up, the commander of the Ma family army was furious and said, "His grandmother's, what's the matter?" ”

A company commander ran back from the front and said with a panicked expression: "Tuanzao, we have been ambushed!" ”

The commander of the Ma family's army is named Ma Li, and when Ma Li heard that someone was ambushed, he immediately said angrily: "Damn it, is that army?" ”

"I don't know, they opened fire all of a sudden, and the brethren didn't even see where they were, and they were swept down in a large area." The company commander said with a bitter face.

"Grandma, you go back, resist Lao Tzu, and I'll report to the division commander immediately!" Ma Ma cursed.

"Yes!" The company commander turned and went back to the front.

At this time, there was already a communication soldier who set up a telephone, strode over, dialed the phone of the division headquarters, took the telephone and said: "Hey, division, I am Ma Li, we were ambushed by unknown armed men!" We were ambushed by unknown armed men, please instruct! ”

"What?" Ma Dianbang on the other end of the phone exclaimed: "What kind of ambush did you say?" ”

"I don't know, it's a reading force, you listen to this firepower!" As he spoke, he moved the microphone into the air.

Ma Dianbang, who was on the other end of the phone, was shocked when he heard the dense gunfire and shouted: "Mali, your regiment will retreat immediately and wait for orders!" ”

"Yes!" The horsepower on the other end of the phone agreed.

After hanging up the phone, Ma Dianbang said to staff officer Li Xiang: "Send a telegram to the commander immediately!" Let's just say that we have been attacked by the Reading Army! Ask him for advice, what should we do? ”

"Yes!" Li Xiang happily accepted the order and left.

But he returned in less than ten minutes, still holding a telegram in his hand, and Ma Dianbang asked impatiently: "What did the commander say?" ”

Li Xiang said unhurriedly: "The commander ordered us to fight over, this is just a blocking force of the Reading Army, they want to delay our march." The commander also ordered us, after breaking through the blockade, to immediately advance towards Anshan and seize the arsenal. ”

"Good!" Ma Dianbang said awe-inspiringly: "Order Ma Li, let him storm Maliang Mountain at all costs, and then order the artillery support of the mountain artillery battalion." ”

"Yes!" Li Xiang snapped upright, then turned around and gave the order.

On the mountain of Maliang Mountain.

On the position of the third company, Xu Wen followed Wang Hanshan and transferred to the guard battalion, and now he is a squad leader of the third company, he looked at Ma Jiajun, who had retreated in a hurry, and sneered: "It's really a rabble, we haven't fought yet, they ran away." ”

As soon as Xu Wen's words fell, the sky suddenly remembered the whistle of "Yu Li", the soldiers of the guard battalion are all iron-blooded veterans, and they are very familiar with this sound, this is the sound of the German mountain cannon, it should be said that it is made by the Reading Army, but the German-style equipment produced by the Reading Army Arsenal.

Without being greeted by the commander, all the warriors automatically looked for cover, or lay down tightly in the trench with their heads in their hands.

This imitation German-style mountain gun, with a firing range of about 5,000 meters and a caliber of 75, is less powerful, but it is easy to carry, and the gun body and bracket can be transported separately by mules, horses and camels.

This kind of mountain artillery is not very powerful, and the accuracy is not very good, and the quality of the Ma Jiajun artillery is really not flattering, so the first round of shelling that lasted for nearly five minutes almost created a zero loss for the guards, only two soldiers when they were lying on the ground, their buttocks were relatively high, and their buttocks were grazed by shrapnel, but it did not affect their fighting.

The artillery bombarded over, and the infantry began to charge, but obviously Ma Jiajun's running and training were really not good, and they were really far worse than the devils.

Some of the soldiers heard the sound of the cannon and fell to the ground in fright, their buttocks sticking high. Ma ordered the whole regiment to charge, only to find that many soldiers were pouting their buttocks and holding their heads in their hands and trembling in fright.

Seeing this scene, Ma Li was furious, stepped forward and kicked those buttocks one by one, scolding: "Damn, hurry up and charge Lao Tzu, charge!" ”

In this way, the infantry of the Ma Jiajun rushed up to the position of the guard battalion with shouts and shouts, and the officers and soldiers of the guard battalion responded calmly, and when they rushed to less than 200 meters away from them, they opened fire suddenly, and the powerful firepower immediately knocked the Ma Jiajun who rushed up to the ground in pieces.

In less than ten minutes, Ma Jiajun, who could not bear the pressure in his heart, retreated, and when he heard that he was fighting with the Reading Army, the junior officers and soldiers of the Ma Jiajun were a little timid, knowing that they were facing a reading force that was even stronger than himself, and the Reading Power Army was notorious in the northwest.

As soon as the battle began, Ma Jiajun, who was already lacking in confidence, could only choose to retreat after being hit head-on. In this way, the 35th Division mobilized two main infantry regiments to carry out no less than ten fierce attacks on the positions of the guard battalion, but in the end all of them returned in vain.

As night fell, Ma Dianbang was forced to order his troops to withdraw to camp five miles away, after all, night fighting was not what Ma Jiajun was good at.

Although the combat effectiveness of the 35th Division was not very good, after suffering a loss during the day, its vigilance was markedly improved, and all regiments and battalions were arranged with tight sentry posts, and all kinds of light and dark posts and mobile patrols surrounded the entire camp.

In this way, Ma Dianbang slept with peace of mind.

During the night, there was no surprise attack by the Reading Army, and Ma Dianbang had just woken up when he saw Chief of Staff Li Xiang running in in a panic. Seeing Ma Dianbang, he said loudly: "Master, it's not good, we are surrounded!" ”

(To be continued)