Shannan County.

The headquarters of the independent division was brightly lit and busy, and the command hall became the center, Ye Feng, Guo Weiquan, Chu Tianyuan, and even Liu Yongyan, etc., everyone was in the command hall.

A steady stream of battle reports from the front-line battlefield is gathered here, and the latest situation will appear here as soon as possible.

Ye Feng was in good spirits and in a very good mood, although the Third War Zone had already sent a telegram ordering him to withdraw to Shannan County again, but Ye Feng ignored it.

Not only is Si Yefeng in a good mood, but all the high-level leaders of the independent division are in a happy mood, that is, ordinary soldiers in the command, everyone is full of energy, and their steps are much brisker than usual.

A captain's staff officer, holding a telegram he had just received, walked in briskly with joy on his face, and when everyone saw this captain, they were eight points sure in their hearts, maybe it was good news.

Sure enough, the captain walked in quickly, stood upright in front of Ye Feng, saluted a military salute, and reported loudly: "Division, the 1st Infantry Brigade has sent good news, and the artillery unit of the little devil has been completely annihilated. ”

Ye Feng took the telegram, looked at it with a smile, and then handed it to Guo Weiquan, the chief of staff next to him.

"Ha Luha, the little devil is stealing chickens and rice, and he wanted to sneak attack our artillery group, but he didn't expect that his army would be wiped out." Guo Weiquan took the telegram and smiled happily.

Ye Feng also laughed, as all 12 105 mm caliber heavy guns of the Japanese Sixth Division were destroyed, and all the remaining small guns below 100 mm were not worried.

"Master's seat. We will soon be able to attack the third line of defense of the Sixth Division, and if we break through this third line of defense, our large army will be able to enter the city directly from the west of Hangzhou. Deputy Division Commander Chu Tianyuan said.

Ye Feng groaned. After thinking for a while, he said, "It's only a matter of time before we enter the city, but we still have one more thing to do before entering the city." ”

"Oh, what's the matter?" Guo Weiquan asked.

Ye Feng walked in front of the huge military map in a few steps, pointed to Hangzhou City, and said: "The Qiantang River divides Hangzhou into two, and we are attacking Hangzhou City north of the Qiantang River now, and we have not moved Hangzhou City in the south of the Yangtze River for the time being." I suggested that our cavalry battalion, the first battalion of the guard regiment, be detoured overnight to cross the river. Without letting the little devils find out about the situation, we arranged these two battalions in the north of the river, and when the time came, we would receive the large army to cross the river. The city of Hangzhou south of the Qiantang River was recovered. ”

"I think so. For the time being, I agree with the teacher's suggestion. Guo Weiquan, Chu Tianyuan and the others immediately agreed.

The matter was thus settled, and the cavalry battalion and the first battalion of the guard regiment made a detour to cross the Qiantang River, and ambushed in the south of Hangzhou, as a surprise army, so as to meet the large army in the north of the city.

"Division, didn't we receive a telegram from the 3rd Infantry Brigade just now, the vanguard of the 26th Division of the reinforcements from Shanghai has almost reached the north of Hangzhou. It is estimated that it will not be long before the 1st Infantry Brigade will be fired. Chu Tianyuan said again.

"Command the armored brigade, the 3rd Infantry Brigade. Cooperate with each other, block enemy reinforcements, and report to the division headquarters as soon as there is a new situation. Ye Feng said decisively.

In the north of the city, there are two brigades, Ye Feng is not worried that the Japanese 26th Division can break through his own blocking line, Ye Feng is a little worried about the next street battle into the city.

Tonight, we will definitely be able to break through the third line of defense of the little devils, and at that time, the mechanized infantry brigade, the first infantry brigade, the second infantry brigade, and the three brigades will enter the city to eliminate the little devils in the city, and in the city of Hangzhou, the number of the sixth division is still 10,000, and the number of troops in the city is not less than that of the independent division.

In addition, street battles are not better than field battles, and the casualties are definitely greater, Ye Feng is a little worried about the safety of the soldiers, everyone is Ye Feng's soldiers, Ye Feng naturally does not want everyone to die on the battlefield.

"Order the armored brigade, mechanized infantry brigade, first infantry brigade, and second brigade in the west of Hangzhou, everyone now seize the time to rest, recuperate, and start large-scale artillery bombardment at five o'clock in the morning before dawn tomorrow, attack the third line of defense of the Japanese army, and attack the city after breaking through the defensive line." Ye Feng thought for a moment and made such a decision.

"Shizao, you are not afraid that if the time drags on for too long, there will be more and more reinforcements from Little Japan, and then there will be more and more reinforcements," Liu Yongyan, who had not spoken, said a little worriedly.

Liu Yongyan's worries are not unreasonable, now is a big war, time is a race against time, if we can rush to destroy the Sixth Division before the arrival of a large number of Japanese reinforcements, it is best to destroy the Sixth Division, the time drags on for too long, once the Japanese reinforcements increase, there will be many changes.

However, Ye Feng's face was resolute at this time, and he had already decided to go into the city after dawn to fight, so that the casualties of the soldiers would be much less.

Guo Weiquan next to him, Chu Tianyuan saw that his master had made such a decision, and immediately knew what Ye Feng was planning in his heart, and couldn't help but nod secretly, unconditionally supporting Ye Feng.

In the final analysis, there are still too few troops, if Ye Feng has seven or eight infantry brigades in his hands at this time, he will definitely not delay until dawn, and immediately enter the city to fight with the little devils and little devils in the streets, and eliminate the sixth division.

Ye Fengneng can temporarily use only two infantry brigades, plus a mechanized infantry brigade, only these three brigades into the city street fighting, armored brigade and infantry third brigade soldiers can not get out, the task of these two brigades is to block the little devils who reinforced Hangzhou.

Ye Feng made such a decision, which means that there is no war in the west of Hangzhou for the time being, and the focus of the battle tonight is in the north of Hangzhou.

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North of Hangzhou.

The main road from Shanghai to Hangzhou has long been controlled by the Third Infantry Brigade, and even several other roads or roads into the city in the north of the city have deployed a certain number of soldiers, of course, the road is the key object of defense.

There is a large blocking position on the Shanghai-Hangzhou Highway, and this blocking position is the position of the Second Infantry Regiment, that is, the position of Liu Funan, relying on several small hills on both sides of the highway, and building a lot of fortifications.

At a little more than nine o'clock in the evening, reinforcements appeared, which was the vanguard of the 26th Division of the Japanese Army, the cavalry wing of the 26th Division, a total of nearly a thousand devil cavalry, in addition to more than a dozen combat vehicles.

The 26th Division is a new division that has not been formed for a few months, and it belongs to the B Division, with three field infantry wings under its jurisdiction, and four field infantry wings under the jurisdiction of the A Division Regiment, and the 26th Division has one infantry wing less than the ordinary A Division Regiment.

In addition to the three field infantry wings, there is also a cavalry wing, a field artillery wing, an engineer wing, a baggage wing, and a number of other auxiliary personnel.

The 26th Division of the Japanese Army did not have a tank brigade, but only a light tank squadron, equipped with 11 Type 92 light tanks and several wheeled armored vehicles, and this tank squadron was part of the cavalry wing. The cavalry wing of the 26th Division has two cavalry squadrons, one light tank squadron (search squadron), a total of three squadrons, and more than 16,000 people in the 26th Division.

As the vanguard, the cavalry wing of the 26th Division was more mobile, and along the Shanghai-Hangzhou highway, it was the first to reach here ahead of the large troops behind.

Seeing the little lights in front of him, and even some trenches and other fortifications, the cavalry wing commander who led the team knew that the front must be the blocking fortifications of the Chinese army.

"Your Excellency Wing Commander, do we report to His Excellency the Division Commander before launching an attack?" The chief of staff of the Devil Wing suggested.

"Yes, report the situation to the division commander, and in addition, order our warriors to prepare for an attack, we must rush to the position of the Chinese army and destroy the Chinese army on that position." The captain of the devil wing was very proud and did not pay attention to the second infantry regiment in the distance at all.

I haven't really fought with the independent division, the little devils are all arrogant and full of pride, this Japanese army is the same, the 26th Division must know the way, the independent division has now almost beaten the 6th Division all over the ground, and the 6th Division is much stronger than the 26th Division, however, these little Japan still don't have a little consciousness, and actually want to rush directly to the position of the 2nd Regiment of the 3rd Infantry Brigade in the distance.

A few minutes later, the Japanese cavalry wing received a reply from the 26th Division, asking to wait for the 1st Infantry Wing behind, together with the vanguard of the 1st Wing, to attack the Chinese positions.

The 1st Infantry Wing of the 26th Division was almost semi-motorized, and about an infantry brigade was coming by car, all in large trucks, along the Shanghai-Hangzhou Highway, and it might not be long before it came.

This time, in order to reinforce the 6th Division, the Japanese army allocated a lot of large trucks to the 26th Division, otherwise, if you go from Shanghai to Hangzhou, you will have to walk to when will it take.

The soldiers of the 26th Division were divided into two routes, one way by large trucks, along the Shanghai-Hangzhou Highway for reinforcements, all the way from Shanghai to the train, from the railway reinforcements, to reach the border town more than 30 kilometers away from Hangzhou City, where they got off the train and came on foot to reinforce Hangzhou.

The task of the 1st Infantry Brigade was to block the Japanese reinforcements by rail, the 2nd Regiment was to block the Japanese reinforcements through the Shanghai-Hangzhou Highway, and the 3rd Regiment was to block the Japanese reinforcements through other roads or roads to reinforce Hangzhou.

Second regimental position.

The forward observation post on the position had faintly spotted the Japanese troops in the distance of the road, so many cavalry, and more than a dozen chariots coming, the movement was still very large, and it was difficult not to find it.

In addition, although the height of these small hills guarded by the soldiers of the Second Regiment is not high, only a few tens of meters, and the radius is only a few hundred meters or thousands of meters, the surrounding terrain is more flat, and the vast plain has a wide field of vision, and if it is daytime, you can see far away at a glance.

"Regiment commander, reinforcements of the Japanese army have been found."

On one of the hills, there is the temporary headquarters of the 2nd Regiment, the temporary headquarters of the civil structure was built by the soldiers during the day, thick logs, sandbags, and this temporary headquarters can withstand the bombardment of small-caliber artillery.

Colonel Liu Funan, who was studying the enemy's situation at the headquarters, heard the report and immediately left the headquarters with a telescope, stood on the top of the hill, and looked into the dark distance.

A little light appeared in the distance, but the light was too dim and the distance was too far to see, so Liu Funan immediately said to the communication soldier next to him: "Pass my order and fire a flare!" ”

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