January 18, 1939 was destined to be an extraordinary day, on this day I truly saw what modern warfare is, what is the art of command, and at the same time I know what a real iron-blooded soldier is. Fu Zuoyi, who later grew up to be the vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and the minister of water resources, wrote in his private diary.

In fact, Fu Zuoyi was not the only one who had insomnia this night, but also Chen Geng and Mr. Peng and others who didn't sleep all night. This is the first time that Chen Geng has commanded a unit of the Inner Mongolia Military Region to fight, and Chen Geng still does not know much about this well-armed unit, let alone the combat methods of this unit. However, fortunately, there is political commissar Wang Yuanhua here, compared to seniority, Wang Yuanhua can't catch up with Chen Geng, Wang Yuanhua, who is only 31 years old this year, has been in the army for more than ten years, but before the troops arrived in Chahar, he was only a company instructor. Later, the army was expanded and there was a shortage of military and political cadres, so he, a cultured old Red Army, became a sweet spot in Han Yunhua's hands, and in just over a year, he was promoted from a company instructor to a division political commissar. Only the troops led by Han Yunhua can create such a young senior general, think about how long it took Chen Geng and the others to climb to this step, and how long did it take for this little-known Wang Yuanhua to be promoted to this step. One year, when Chen Geng finished reading Wang Yuanhua's basic information, he smiled bitterly in his heart, there was no normal person under the demonic chief.

However, Wang Yuanhua is not a, although his military command talent is limited, Han Yunhua gave him an evaluation of the infantry battalion commander, commanding troops below the battalion level Wang Yuanhua is barely competent, if he is asked to command the troops above the battalion level, it will be a big incident. However, Wang Yuanhua is an old man who followed Han Yunhua's troops, so his prestige in the military region is not limited to the independent 77th Division, almost all the commanders of the troops know this Wang political commissar, and Wang Yuanhua himself has done an extremely good job in political work, which has won Han Yunhua's praise. At that time, considering that Chen Geng's military command ability was absolutely passable, coupled with Wang Yuanhua's political work ability, he would definitely become another major force in the Inner Mongolia Military Region when he became independent in 77.

Because Chen Geng's understanding of these units under his command was really limited, and he had only been in the Inner Mongolia Military Region for less than a month, he had no choice but to call the generals above the 77th Independent Division to draw up a battle plan together.

In addition to Chen Geng, commander of the 77th Independent Division, Wang Yuanhua, political commissar, Jiang Mingyuan, commander of the 88th Regiment (transferred from the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army), Zhang Mingming, commander of the 99th Regiment, Li Jinlong, commander of the 100th Regiment (transferred from the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army), Yang Hu, commander of the Cavalry Regiment (transferred from the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army), Wang Chenghu, commander of the Engineer Regiment, Li Shoutian, commander of the Artillery Regiment, and Dong Mengguo, commander of the Fire Support Regiment, also attended the meeting.

Regarding Chen Geng's question, the old officers of the former Inner Mongolia Military Region did not think so, isn't it just two Japanese blockade lines? Maybe Commander Chen Geng doesn't know how strong the combat effectiveness of the special forces is, but they always have a scale in their hearts, and they have their own evaluation of the most mysterious unit in the military region.

The special forces were able to infiltrate Datong, Guisui, Jining, Chengde, Zhangjiakou and other cities under the noses of the Japanese army, open the city gates, capture prisoners, rescue hostages, and assassinate enemy officers.

However, taking into account Chen Geng's face, none of these officers spoke, but Wang Yuanhua couldn't stand it anymore, so he had to suggest: "Since everyone doesn't speak, let Captain Wang of the special forces talk about his thoughts." ”

Wang Xiaohu turned out to be Han Yunhua's personal guard, and later Han Yunhua saw that he had the potential to become a special forces, so he kicked him into the saber to participate in the training of the special forces. But Han Yunhua didn't expect Wang Xiaohu's qualifications to be so outstanding, more than 1,500 people participated in the first batch of special forces training, and after several rounds of selection and elimination, only more than 760 people really became special forces. Among the more than 760 people, Wang Xiaohu's final assessment score was fourth, only slightly lower than Li Dingguo, Wei Peng, and Jiang Long. Therefore, Han Yunhua simply appointed Wang Xiaohu as the squadron leader of the Xiaofeng Special Squadron, and found two guards to replace Wang Xiaohu. Until now, Han Yunhua has been promoted to the commander of the Inner Mongolia Military Region and the commander of the 300th Division, so his guard level has also changed, and at least one special operations team is followed by Han Yunhua at all times. Because of the relationship between Han Yunhua and Chen Geng, Wang Xiaohu and Chen Geng are very familiar. However, because Wang Xiaohu's face is now painted with yellow and green oil paint, the whole face can't see the original appearance at all, so after entering the door for so long, Chen Geng didn't recognize him as the tiger next to Han Yunhua at all. ,

"Hello chief, just now our team members have personally gone to reconnoitre, the two lines of defense themselves are not a problem, at most we can dispose of them unconsciously in an hour, but there is a devil turret in the tile kiln mouth and the stone Buddha Temple, and there is a telephone and radio in each turret, the telephone is used to communicate between the two turrets, and the radio is used to communicate with the devils in Tianzhen City, every half an hour the Japanese troops in the two turrets will talk to each other, and every hour they will send a telegram to the devils in the city, Mutual safety. It is not a problem for us to solve these two blockades, but the problem is that if we can't find the Japanese codebook, then the Japanese troops in Tianzhen City will soon know that the devils outside the city are attacked. Once the devils in the city are prepared, those fortifications that have been built will exert 200 percent of their effectiveness, and our military region will definitely lose a lot of losses when it storms the enemy's well-fortified county town. Wang Xiaohu told Chen Geng and others about his analysis ideas, he didn't know what Chen Geng's final decision was, but he really didn't want the troops to attack the enemy's heavily defended fortifications.

Lessons from the past, during the Battle of Saibei, in order to rescue Han Yunhua's retreat from the side, Shen Yuquan had to concentrate a large number of troops to attack Zhangjiakou City, which was personally guarded by Major General Fengwen under the mountain, and the battle was fought without light and blood, although in the end almost all the Japanese garrison troops were annihilated, but Shen Yuquan's troops suffered heavy losses, and nearly 10,000 people were killed and wounded and thrown into Zhangjiakou City, and the real casualties of the Japanese army were less than 4,000. This also made the officers of the Inner Mongolia Military Region more cautious about attacking the enemy's well-fortified cities, and if one was not good, they would steal chickens and rice.

Wang Xiaohu's words made Chen Geng's heart happy, he took a pencil and drew on the map for more than three minutes, and then said: "It is only less than ten kilometers from Wayaokou to Shifo Temple, and then to Tianzhen County, as long as we solve these two blockade lines within half an hour, then it is impossible for the Japanese army to know that we are coming from the radio or telephone." Therefore, our chances are still very large, as long as the problem of the two blockade lines is solved, then we will win this battle, and the task given to us by the commander is not to occupy the county seat of Tianzhen, but to let us fully mobilize the enemy, and beat the ghost son of Tianzhen, so that they can ask for help from the ghost Laozi of Datong and transfer the tiger away from the mountain. ”

"Then the division commander, you can give orders, how to beat us to listen to you." Zhang Mingming, the head of the 99th regiment, said loudly. Like Wang Yuanhua, Zhang Mingliang is also an old man in the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and he is also very disciplined when he fights, and he also admires Chen Geng very much.

However, now it seems that Master Chen Geng is indeed worthy of his reputation, but after combining the information of several people, he found the enemy's defense loopholes, which is indeed not comparable to these young people, although he himself is thirty-three years old, and he is only three years younger than Chen Geng.

Chen Geng said with a smile: "To be honest, I am a newcomer, and I still don't know a lot about these troops of our independent 77th Division, and Lao Jiang (Mingyuan), Lao Li (Jinlong), and Lao Yang (Tiger) The three of them, like me, don't know much about the troops, so I have to help you veterans." ”

"Commander, don't say that. The commander taught us that no matter how much success you have achieved, no matter how much you have scored, no matter how much you have screwed off the head of the Japanese emperor, we must remember that we are all soldiers of the people, and serving the people wholeheartedly is our purpose. Say a thousand things and ten thousand, whether it is a division commander or a small soldier, we all have to carry a gun and follow the party, fight devils and listen to commands, and everything else is floating clouds. Zhang Mingliang understood what Chen Geng meant, of course, he didn't dare to really put on old qualifications. He already knew that Chen Geng was Han Yunhua's old leader, even if Han Yunhua's position was much higher than Chen Geng's now, the results he achieved were far from being comparable to Chen Geng's, but in front of Chen Geng, Han Yunhua still didn't dare to be presumptuous. In addition to the reasons for his military position, Chen Geng can be said to be Han Yunhua's teacher and godfather. Putting seniority in front of the commander's godfather, isn't that looking for death? Besides, putting aside Han Yunhua's stubble, Chen Geng's prestige in the Eighth Route Army alone is beyond the reach of these rookies in the Inner Mongolia Military Region.

Zhang Mingliang's words made Chen Geng very satisfied, of course, on the one hand, because of the attitude of Zhang Mingliang and others, and not as worried by the Party Central Committee and the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, the officers and soldiers were proud and complacent, and they looked like the second grandfather of the old man and the third grandfather. It seems that Han Yunhua has been very strict in grasping the political ideology of the troops, and he has been very effective. On the other hand, he is happy for his old friend who died, Han Laohu's son does have the style of a father, and it can even be said that he is better than the blue, much stronger than his old son.