Chapter 32: The Temple of the Hundred Souls

Hu Fei led the cavalry brigade to kill the puppet regiment commander Bayar in the middle of the road, and defeated his puppet cavalry regiment, and after forcibly collecting a large number of defeated troops, he then waved his army to the main battlefield of Honggertu.

On the main battlefield of Honggertu, Wang Ying commanded the various units of the puppet army to begin to retreat one by one. Peng Yumin, the commander-in-chief of the front line of the Honggertu battlefield of the Jin Sui Army, noticed that the puppet army had the intention of retreating, and immediately organized his troops to counterattack at night!

General Fu Zuoyi, who paid close attention to the battle situation on the front line, keenly captured the fighter plane, and immediately ordered our army to attack on all fronts in Honggertu, Tuchengzi, Xinghe and other battlefields! After a day and night of fierce fighting, the oncoming puppet army was finally completely defeated in the afternoon of the next day. Wang Ying, commander-in-chief of the Han Righteous Army, led part of the remnants of the defeated army to retreat to Shangdu, and our army won a complete victory in the Battle of Honggertu!

There is a Bailing Temple one hundred and sixty kilometers northwest of Guisui, which was built in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. Bailing Temple is large-scale, incense is prosperous, and there have been more than 1,000 lamas in the temple at most. Coupled with the annual Naadam Conference, the Bailing Temple has been a place for merchants and travelers to gather and distribute goods on the Darkhan grassland since its completion, and is known as the grassland wharf.

In the 23rd year of the Republic of China, with the approval of the Nanjing National Government, the Mongolian local self-government was established in Bailing Temple, and the hereditary prince of Mongolia presided over the government affairs. In February of the 25th year of the Republic of China, King De established the Mongolian Military Government with the support of the Japanese Kwantung Army and appointed himself as the commander-in-chief.

Bailing Temple is nominally the seat of the Mongolian government of the national government, in fact, it has become the rear base of the conspiracy of King De and the Japanese puppet army to invade Guisui, the temple hides a large amount of grain and equipment, it is said that there are more than 1 million bullets hidden in the temple, and there are 20,000 or 30,000 bags of white noodles.

Garrisoned at Bailing Temple was the Seventh Cavalry Division of the puppet army, about 1,800 people, 1,000 cavalry directly under King De, and 40 or 50 Japanese advisers and instructors. That's about three thousand people in total.

With such a Japanese puppet army always entrenched in the Bailing Temple, which is only more than 100 kilometers away from Guisui, Fu Zuoyi, chairman of Suiyuan Province, has long been dissatisfied. However, because of his concern for King De's status as a Mongolian prince, and because he has always been the head of the Mongolian political council recognized by the national government, for the sake of national harmony between Mongolia and Han, Chairman Fu has always turned a blind eye to what King De did.

Unexpectedly, his forbearance was exchanged for the Japanese puppet army's step-by-step pressing and gaining inches! The Battle of Honggertu fully demonstrated the immortality of the Japanese invaders and the heart of China! Wang Ying has already become a frightened bird, even if Fu Zuoyi sends troops to attack the Shang capital at this time, Wang Ying will only lead the remnants to flee when they hear the news. At this time, the Bailing Temple is particularly prominent and eye-catching.

After General Fu Zuoyi synthesized various analyses, he decided to take advantage of the victory of Honggertu to take the Bailing Temple in one fell swoop, seize a large amount of grain, grass and ammunition stored in the temple, and deal another heavy blow to the puppet Mongolian army and the Japanese invaders!

Bailing Temple is surrounded by mountains, and outside the mountain is a large area of flat grassland, and there is no village within 35 kilometers, which can be described as easy to defend and difficult to attack! In view of this situation, General Fu Zuoyi formulated a series of tactical guidance essentials, such as covert engagement with the enemy, the combination of frontal attack and roundabout outflanking, quick victory, and preparation to block and aid the enemy.

Because Hu Fei's cavalry brigade had the experience of a long-distance surprise attack on Shangdu, Fu Zuoyi assigned Hu Fei the vanguard task of this surprise attack on Bailing Temple.

After receiving General Fu's order, Hu Fei immediately sent scouts to investigate the enemy situation and explore the terrain near Bailing Temple. Subsequently, a military meeting was held to assign tasks to the generals under his command.

The cavalry brigade captured and collected a large number of puppet troops in the battle to block the Bayar cavalry regiment, and now these people have just joined the army and have not even been in the army for ten days, can this group of people go to the battlefield?

In this regard, the backbone generals of the cavalry brigade were divided into two completely different opinions: one was resolutely opposed to allowing these soldiers who had just come over to participate in the battle; The other is in favor of bringing recruits to the battlefield.

Those who hold opposing views believe that the puppet army was forced to surrender to our army as a last resort because of the shape of the army, and if they go to the battlefield, it cannot be ruled out that these people may have a battlefield rebellion! If so, bringing these people is not only useless, but it will drag down the entire army and even implicate the entire campaign!

Those who support it believe that since the recruits have joined our army, whether they want to or not, these people are now the national army and not the puppet army! Of course, the troops have to take them with them when they fight. You can't discriminate against soldiers who are in the same unit!

At the same time, the generals who hold this opinion also believe that these people have been puppet soldiers before, so they should arrange for them to go to the battlefield as much as possible, and only if they have fought with the Japanese puppet army on the battlefield, then they will truly identify with their national army identity, and they will draw a clear line with the Japanese puppet army from the heart outward!

These two opinions have their own truths, no one can convince anyone, no one will let anyone, and finally this multiple-choice question is handed over to Hu Fei.

Hu Fei simply made a decision on the spot in front of all the generals: use these recruits to take them to the battlefield! However, the situation of these recruits and the corresponding battlefield scheduling need to be strictly paid attention to by the generals! The general person in charge of taking care of or monitoring these recruits will be handed over to Liu Dong, the chief of staff, who will make him also a member of the supporting side!

Liu Dong was naturally happy to accept the order, and he had already prepared for this when he was in favor of it.

Now that the most difficult problem has been solved, it is time to arrange the order of dispatch of each unit and the location of the station. Who fights the main attack, who is on the left wing, who is on the right wing, and which one is broken, these actually don't need to be spoken, which person is responsible for which part has been demarcated in so many battles before, and Hu Fei is now just repeating the arrangement all along.

Gou Tianxiao plays as a striker and is in charge of the scout team; Ji Jinbiao left wing; Xiong Wei right-wing; Yang Jinsheng after the break; Hu Fei led the Chinese army by himself.

It is already late November, and most of the entire Suiyuan has experienced heavy snowfall for several days, and the snow in the northern Bailingmiao area is even deeper, and the deepest depth is even more than half a meter. The snow made it difficult for our army to attack the Bailing Temple, and at the same time provided some convenience.

In the season when the snow closed the mountain, the Japanese puppet army stationed in Bailing Temple was bound to be lax in defense. The sudden drop in temperature not only made it more difficult for our army to attack, but also reduced the strength of the defense of the Japanese puppet army, which was on the defensive side. And this is the moment to test the wisdom and will of both sides.

Hu Fei looked at the white of the world and was a little distracted, how could he get through the plain area of more than 30 kilometers without being discovered by the enemy? The Bailing Temple is surrounded by mountains, and the Japanese puppet army must have arranged a guard force on the mountain. The Japanese puppet army is condescending on the mountain, and as soon as our army makes a move on the flat grassland of dozens of kilometers, I am afraid that it will be discovered by the enemy on the mountain.

A burst of laughter came from far and near, and Hu Fei turned to look, his gloomy face changed color in an instant.