After the combat order was issued, the whole army entered a state of emergency alert. The 162nd and 127th Divisions, as well as heavy artillery regiments, urgently shrank their forces from the hot training ground to check weapons and ammunition. In just five hours, the march to the predetermined location had already begun.

Wang Zilu listened to the telegram on the movement of the troops from the radio squad in the combat duty room, and sighed secretly in his heart. I have to admire the advanced foresight of the military seat. At present, on the Chinese battlefield, except for the Japanese army, which can be transported by rail, transported by aircraft and part of the troops, and the motorized mobile march, the rest of the troops that can have so many motor vehicles are the only ones in our army! Even the Central Army, which Chiang Kai-shek regarded as the treasure in his hands, could not realize the motorized march of the entire division-level unit.

At three o'clock in the morning of May 8, 1935, the 162nd Regiment of the 162nd Division stationed in Dong'e County, Liaocheng, was the first to arrive at the predetermined location of Houzhai Village. Houzhai Village is less than 60 kilometers away from Dongping County. Qin Ming, the commander of the first regiment, ordered the second battalion, the third battalion and the directly subordinate companies to rest on the spot, set up camp, and set up supply depots. The first battalion sent a company to concentrate on automatic weapons from the second and third battalions to ensure that each squad had two light machine guns, each soldier had a Type 56 semi-automatic rifle in his hand, and each person was equipped with three bullets and four grenades, and the company was equipped with three rocket launchers and three mortars as a vanguard unit to search and advance to Pingyin County on foot. The second and third companies were followed as follow-up troops. After waiting for the company to find out the situation, he began to establish a forward stronghold, and then began to attack the garrison in the city and take on the task of luring the enemy out of the city.

Qin Ming reported the battle plan to the military department, but Tian Zheng didn't even look at it. Said directly to Wang Zilu, "You play by yourself!" Anyway, if you lose. Go back to the company and be a soldier for me one by one! Wang Zilu said to the radio squad leader, conveying the order of the military seat. As a result, the radio squad leader directly sent Tian Zheng's original words to the participating troops.

What the radio squad leader didn't expect was. This telegram gave a hard blow to the commanders of all the troops participating in the war!

After seeing the telegram, Xie Feng, the commander of the heavy artillery regiment, who was hurrying around the clock, thought to himself, "I didn't have any carelessness about underestimating the enemy?" Even the march on the territory of their own troops in Liaocheng at night turned off the headlights of their vehicles, and they all chose to avoid the places where the crowds gathered, and they were all relatively sparsely populated roads. Although this would bring great difficulties to the officers and soldiers, Xie Feng deeply knew how important it was to hide the route and purpose of his march before the battle began! Now after reading the telegram from the military headquarters, Xie Feng did not dare to be careless, and immediately contacted Han Zhao, the commander of the fourth regiment of the 127th Division who accompanied the army. The 4th Regiment is requested to send spearhead troops to search and advance along the way, and the 4th Regiment is requested to retain a part of its troops as an accompanying emergency force. Han Zhao, the commander of the Fourth Regiment, smiled after hearing Xie Feng's request, pointed to the surrounding troops and said, "I have already done this!" However, the telegram I received just now from the military seat made my heart beat violently. Now it has not only strengthened the strength of the top troops and expanded the search range, but also ordered the whole regiment to enter the second level of combat readiness, which can respond to emergencies at any time! ”

After hearing Han Zhao say this, Xie Feng was relieved.

For the time being, I will not mention the tension of the second line troops. Qin Ming, the commander of the 162nd Regiment of the First Route Army, was even more nervous. Their current spearhead units are close to the enemy. Qin Ming hurriedly dispatched a communication corps. I specially instructed the top soldiers to search carefully and not let go of any suspicious places!

At one o'clock in the morning on May 9. Everything is quiet, the gate of Pingyin County, Tai'an is closed, and the streets and alleys have basically fallen into a dead silence. People go to bed early. Doors are closed on the streets. Occasionally, there was the noise of drunken customers in a few taverns, and the sound of the pipa and piano in the red mansion that had not yet completely subsided. A soldier standing guard on the west tower of the county seat was bending over the battlements to hide from the night wind and smoking, and another sentry was also lighting a cigarette and scanning the city. Leaned against the battlements and lit a cigarette and took a beautiful puff. Then he scolded and whined, "In the middle of the night." There wasn't even a ghost shadow, and we brothers drank the northwest wind on the city wall! His grandma is a bear! ”

Another sentry pulled a bottle of soju out of his bosom, "Fuck! If you complain again, don't we still have to stand guard here and be frozen? Aren't those who are in power still spending their days drinking in warm rooms? Anyway, the hardest and most tiring thing is always done by a group of people who have nothing to do with it and no money at home. Those who have money and connections are all dragged like uncles. I've seen it through! This day, mixed day is a day! When I stand guard every day, I burn the knife in two or two, it's really fucking beautiful! Hey, I said, do you drink it? If you don't drink it, I won't leave it for you! ”

When the previous sentry heard this, he hurriedly nodded, "Drink!" The wind in the middle of the night is really good! It's like a knife! It's much more comfortable after two sips! ”

The two sentinels drank one sip at a time. Later, I simply chose a comfortable position and squatted down, so that I could avoid the night breeze and squint for a while.

The two sentries were unaware of the investigation of the 162nd Division's 1st Regiment's spearhead troops, 1st Battalion, and 1st Company. The elite sent by the first company had a squad, and the soldiers of this squad circled around Dongping County. Except for the sentry on the West Gate Tower just now, there was no shadow of the sentry on the other three gates. I probably don't know where I hid in the corner to sleep. The weather at this time of year is still very cold in the early hours of the morning, and it is the time when people are most likely to get sleepy, and those sentries must have never worried about problems before they were so lazy.

After all the surrounding situations in Pingyin County were clearly investigated, the commander of the first company summarized the situation, drew a map, marked the surrounding situation and terrain on it, and then ordered to retreat ten miles and establish a stronghold in Xiaoliuzhuang. Then a telegram was sent to inform the regimental headquarters to march forward and assemble at Koyanagiso.

After Qin Ming received the telegram, he immediately sent a telegram to the second and third regiments, asking them to also assemble in Xiaoliuzhuang. After that, he let the first battalion march lightly, and first rushed to Xiaoliuzhuang to make peace with the first company, and strive to make a feint attack on Pingyin County early tomorrow morning.

"Regiment commander, our large army has not yet been assembled, if we let a battalion rush forward to attack, I am afraid that it is very likely to be eaten by all of them! Garrisoned in Pingyin is a brigade of Han Fuqu! The regimental chief of staff said with some concern.

Qin Ming smiled, "That's what I want." Let's give the enemy a false impression that we are too arrogant, and that we are not aware of them enough to attack rashly. The enemy will definitely go out of the city in pursuit. Xiaoliuzhuang is ten miles away from the county seat, and if the enemy can't see an ambush after chasing for ten miles, then he will definitely be even more careless. When the time comes, we will block the enemy with dense firepower in front, and then there will be two and three regiments on both flanks. I'm afraid that Han Fuqu's brigade will be explained here! ”

The chief of staff of a regiment laughed loudly. The two of them studied the map for a while, and thought again about whether there was anything missing. It was not until a perfect battle plan was drawn up and the second and third regiments were telegraphed that Qin Ming ordered the large army to advance quickly. After arriving at Koyanagiso, quickly reconnoiter the terrain and set up an ambush position! (To be continued......)

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