When Zhang Guodong led the Beidao Formation in the north, Shilizhuang started to attack half of the time, and a unit on the north bank of the Yinyang River more than ten miles away from Jiulizhuang was also ready to attack, and this team was the first flying division of the National Defense Army.

The 1st Flying Division of the National Defense Force was adapted from the original Southern Independent Division, and the current division commander is the prince stationed in He was originally a brother from Nanpao, a native of Rong County, and the Wushen Revolution", after which he pulled up a team of robe brothers in Rong County, claiming that the Grass Life Army wanted to capture Rong County, but was defeated by the Rong County Commander and the local salt merchants. Wang Zikang led the troops up the mountain and fell into the grass. It wasn't until the Republican Army's Fourth Expedition to the West that his indiscriminate team "really transformed into a genuine revolutionary army, and then led his troops to be stationed in Rong County and fought with Zhou Hongxun as the head of the security regiment". Yang Shaonan, the two security chiefs, "formed a so-called one-county joint defense committee" to jointly maintain local law and order, but in fact, they were targeting Zhao Bei and Tian Zhenbang, the overlord of the southern soil.

Prince set. Zhou Hongxun. Yang Shaonan's team totaled more than 1,000 people, and their 1,000-man guns combined with Tian Zhenbang's more than 6,000 guns were the so-called Southern Independent Division."

But at that time, the so-called Southern Independent Division was "just a shelf unit, usually not together at all, scraping and practicing well water, not violating river water, its main significance was only a balance problem, and when the United Front came to power and stabilized power, the central government's action to cut the feudal domain was inevitably carried out, and the southern region was handed over by Tian Zhenbang with interest, and the southern town guard envoy" was honestly went to the center to be a senior counselor, as for the prince set. Zhou Hongxun. Yang Shaonan, the people in the rivers and lakes of the south also quickly realized the practical significance of "cold lips and cold teeth", so one person also consciously asked the center to take over power When Zhou Daogang arrived as the commander of the First Army, the south was incorporated and the southern independent division was a prince who was appreciated by Zhou Daogang, so in the end, the position of the commander of the independent division was sat by the prince As for Zhou Hongxun, Yang Shaonan and the two were beaten by Zhou Daogang, and the provincial council was also a senior counselor.

After taking over the Yugoslav Independent Division, Zhou Daogang's biggest headache was the quality of the troops. Coupled with the contradictions between Tian Zhenbang and these two security regiment commanders, as well as within a security regiment commander, this so-called independent division "has no combat effectiveness at all." Although the Central Committee and the 6th Army Headquarters have always stationed staff officers to assist the troops in training, at that time, such a local army composed almost entirely of the robes could not be commanded at all.

Although the center sent Zhou Daogang to take over, the original purpose of the Southern Independent Division was only to disarm the local snakes, and he did not really intend to turn this unit into a regular division of the National Defense Force, but as the commander of the First Army, Zhou Daogang knew very well that if he could successfully transform this local army so that it could at least become a type B division, then his talent would be further affirmed by Mr. President, which would be very beneficial to his future development Therefore, Zhou Daogang resisted the order of the 6th Army Headquarters to downsize the troops, and it took one year to transform the Southern Independent Division into a qualified regular unit of the National Defense Army.

On the one hand, a large number of grass-roots officers who graduated from regular military academies and universities were added to the troops; on the other hand, the officers and soldiers who were too heavy in the rivers and lakes were eliminated from the troops, and with such hard work, Zhou Daogang's talent was indeed affirmed by the center, and this local army has indeed been reborn; after the 6 th Army Department sent personnel to examine and approve it, the Southern Independent Division officially obtained the number of the number, that is, the first hidden division of the National Defense Force, "This is a type B division."

It can be said that the current basin division has no longer gone past the team of robed brothers, although there are still many soldiers with a party background, but most of the officers are from regular military academies, their military quality is qualified, and the army has also established a political and rich personnel system, although the combat effectiveness is not as good as the first division, but at least it is much stronger than the Revolutionary Guards, so this attack on Xiuyan combat. Once the flying division crosses the ocean river that runs across the road of advance, the follow-up troops can quickly attack Xiuyan.

The place chosen by the master to cross the river was a ferry more than 20 miles upstream of Xiuyan, where there used to be a village, but since the Japanese took over the Luda leased land, the Japanese army used the excuse of clearing out bandits, "razing the village to the ground, and the foresters were also relocated to other places, so when Wang Ziyu arrived at the ferry with his troops, he didn't even see a boat.

When they went out, the heavy troops brought a few small boats, but they could only sit in small boats of five people, and it was impossible to cross the river before dark.

Just when Wang Zinuan was scratching his head in a hurry, a Japanese reconnaissance plane flew over the head of the flying division and circled around a few times, and then flew in the direction of Xiuyan. Although the officers also instructed the soldiers to shoot at the Japanese plane with machine guns, the anti-aircraft guns did not arrive at the forward position in time because the distance was too long, and the reconnaissance plane was not shot down after all.

Whereabouts Exposed The chief of staff of the flying division and the staff officers under his command were all as anxious as ants on a hot pot, complaining again and again that the staff headquarters of the Sixth Army had not made logistical preparations, and that the sapper bridge-building troops were slow, and if the Japanese defenders in the direction of Xiuyan were allowed to rush over to block the troops, they would not want to cross the Dayang River quietly.

Since he couldn't cross the river secretly, Wang Ziji calmed down instead, and his head slapped and he simply decided. Set up positions on the north bank of the Ocean River and wait for the Japanese army to come.

This is also a helpless way, before all the bridge-building equipment of the engineer unit arrives at the front line, I am afraid that the hidden division can only monitor the Japanese troops on the other side of the river on the north bank of the Dayang River.

At the sound of the prince's mule, the flying division quickly set up a line on the north bank of the Dayang River, built a defensive position on the slope of the river valley, and the artillery also established an artillery position on the hill, preparing to condescendingly suppress the Japanese artillery fire on the opposite bank. Second-line troops, but in this offensive operation, the staff of the 6th Army deliberately strengthened the artillery for the division. In addition to the original equipped Naimm mountain artillery flying field artillery, the unit has now strengthened half of the artillery regiment, equipped with 20 heavy howitzers, and has a supporting car, company, mule, and horse

Of course, the heavy howitzers were too heavy to be pulled up the hill to establish a position, so they could only choose an open village near the division headquarters, although it was far away from the first-line position, but the heavy howitzers had a long range, and they could easily suppress the Japanese artillery coming over the river bank, and under the command of the two artillery schools, the artillery could accurately shoot at any target within the firing range.

In view of the threat posed by the Japanese reconnaissance plane just now, the chief of staff of the division specially transferred the six antiaircraft guns of the artillery regiment to the communication company headquarters between the forward position and the heavy artillery position, so that under this arrangement, the antiaircraft guns could take into account the four directions of the north, south, east and west, and no matter which way the Japanese planes flew in, the antiaircraft guns could disperse them, and the division staff also sent a telegram requesting the Liaoyang Field Airfield to send fighter planes to patrol the battlefield airspace as soon as possible.

Everything is going according to plan, it has to be said that the scraping and training of Yiji for more than a year is not a showmanship, and the quality of the officers is there Wang Ziyu is not worried that the troops will not be able to withstand the attack of the Japanese army, but what he is worried about is. Can the commander of the Yu Division, Wu Guangxin, lead the troops to the battlefield in time.

Wang Ziji and Wu Guangxin have never dealt with each other very much. One is a Beiyang officer who once studied in Japan, or the brother-in-law of Duan Qirui, the commander-in-chief of the 6th Military Department, and the other is a fourth-robed brother who leads the military quality, and the prince is far inferior to Wu Guangxin, and in terms of popularity, the prince and the mule are far from being Wu Guangxin's opponents

If it weren't for Zhou Daogang's efforts to suppress the Beiyang Fengjiao in the First Army, it would be impossible for Wang Ziji to get the full support from the army commander.

To tell the truth, Wang Zimu was very disgusted with Wu Guangxin's gang of Beiyang remnants, and the Beiyang officers were "in his opinion, they were small groups, and their style was serious, just like in the past when his Wang family was in the south. They are all engaged in their own small circles, and now that he is in the middle of the can, the center has made a mistake, but Wu Guangxin's gang still seems to be looking forward to Duan Qirui, and even this attack on Liaodong is also an order given by Duan Qirui personally to the commander of the Zhengfei Division, otherwise, I am afraid that Zhou Daogang will only have two divisions in the First Army.

This situation is very speechless, although Wang Zishu is a rough person, he also understands one

One mountain does not tolerate two tigers", although Zhou Daogang is still the army commander, but for Wu Guangxin, he can ignore the direct orders of the army commander. If it were not passed by the 6th Army Department and Duan Qirui, Zhou Daogang would not be able to command Wu Guangxin at all; Under Wu Guangxin's example, many officers from Beiyang in the Zhengfei Division also despised Commander Zhou's orders, in other words, there was a very bad atmosphere in the troops of the Zhengfei West Division, that is, the paternalistic style, which was also inherited from the Beiyang Group back then.

It is undeniable that the center has been in the middle of the year and is changing blood for the Feidi Division, "Many grassroots companies in these two divisions are already in the hands of the center, but as long as this Wu Guangxin is still the division commander, it will be impossible for the two troops to work together, and this is probably also an important reason why the General Staff Department ranks these two units as second-line troops."

Wang Ziyou once asked Zhou Daogang, since the president was so strong, he could decisively order someone to execute Xu Baoshan, the overseer of Jiangsu, on the warship. So why can't you decisively kick Wu Guangxin's kid out of the army now, Zhou Daogang didn't answer positively about this, just told him

To be a man, you must learn to be patient."

"Wang Ziyu's character is not suitable for forbearance, but whenever Wu Guangxin takes the lead in provoking trouble and does it with Zhou Daogang. He Wang Ziji jumped out to act as a shield for Commander Zhou, and because of this, he was particularly valued by Zhou Daogang, but at the same time, he also offended a large group of middle and senior officers from Beiyang.

This time, the First Army was ordered to attack Xiuyan Pass, and the division was supposed to go ahead with the flying division, but Wu Guangxin didn't know how to get out of Yu Shi's negative mentality. The march of his troops was extremely slow, and when the Wen division had already reached the Dayang River, the main division was still more than ten miles away, slower than the engineering troops, and only a little faster than the military headquarters.

The combat effectiveness of the Yu division is stronger than that of the flying division, which is also the main reason for Wang Ziyu's annoyance, and he suspects that Wu Guangxin's move may be to preserve his strength. This idea was also endorsed by the chief of staff of the division; In the final analysis, the Chinese people in Beiyang and President Zhao Da are still in harmony with each other, and this is a hidden danger that must be eliminated.

Wang Ziji had to take another telegram to the main division, urging Shi Fang to come over as soon as possible, but when the telegram was taken, the caller was not the division commander Wu Guangxin, but the commander of the First Army, Zhou Daogang, and the content of the telegram was also surprising.

Wu Guangxin moved to delay the war, delayed the warplane, and the center ordered the military police to arrest him, and he is now being escorted to Shenyang to await trial by military law. In addition, the Air Sheep Assault Force is about to arrive in the airspace of the battlefield, and I hope that your department will do a good job of ground bow guidance and avoid accidental bombing. ”

After reading the content of the telegram, Wang Ziji and the chief of staff of the division were very surprised, and judging by the content of the telegram. Not only Wu Guangxin was taken away by the military police, but also an officer from Beiyang who was born in the Beiyang division was also taken away for questioning: "The center decisively purged Tian Fei's division before the war, which is really incomprehensible.

It seems that the center no longer holds back, and the Beiyang minister in the 6th Army Headquarters is afraid that he will also have to move the place, and the position of the commander of the 6th Army is not something anyone can sit in. ”

The words of the division chief of staff are so unfathomable that Wang Zikang doesn't understand it very well, but there is one thing he understands, that is, as soon as Wu Guangxin leaves his post, this hidden danger will disappear As for. The military spirit of the division. It seems that there is no need to worry about this, with Zhou Daogang personally in charge, plus the political officers in this company should not be in control of the troops.

Just when the prince was warm up, there was a roar of motivation in the sky, and when he walked out of the division headquarters, Wang Zishu saw dozens of planes flying towards this direction, this was the Chinese Air Force assault group coming from the direction of Liaoyang, and they were bombing the Japanese army in Xiuyan.

A few minutes later, the assault plane group swept over the flying division's position, and after another few minutes, thunder rolled in the direction of Xiuyan, and the battle of Xiuyan officially began.