Chapter 91: The Longest Night (7)
Chiang Kai-shek, who had not slept well for two or three days, stood in front of the map in his study in thick plush pajamas and pondered, and sent telegrams three times in a row to inquire about the progress of the 17th Army, and the First Military Commission demanded in the name of the 17th Army that the main force of all three divisions quickly move closer to Chengde and rely on the front line of the Great Wall to attack and meet the headquarters of the newly formed 1st Division.
Compared with the uneasy Chiang Kai-shek, Zhang Xueliang is like roasting on a fire at the moment, and Zhang Xuecheng, who he personally ordered the execution, is already a weak talker, but fortunately, Zhang Xuecheng is willing to be driven by the Han Dynasty, and killing him is full of righteous indignation of the countrymen. However, now the first division of his cousin Zhang Xuewu has been surrounded by more than 40,000 people from two divisions of the army in the isolated city of Chengde.
It is said that the army has completed the encirclement, and from a tactical point of view, the newly formed first division may be difficult to fly, and it will be on guard and waiting for reinforcements? Zhang Xueliang smiled bitterly, according to the current situation, it will take at least twenty days for him to mobilize enough troops to aid Chengde, but can his cousin Xuewu hold out for twenty days? If Chengde is lost, then he can only apologize to the people in the wilderness, and at present, He Yingqin, Song Ziwen and others are in Beiping City, these people are probably the people sent by Jiang Gong to clean up the mess for themselves, right?
"Where did Shen Ke's 106th Division advance?" In the face of Zhang Xueliang's inquiry, Huang Jingming, deputy director of the war room, was suddenly slightly stunned, hesitated for a moment, and said: "The 106th Division is on the way to the rapid march, and the radio station is not turned on!" ”
Zhang Xueliang frowned slightly and said, "Call every five minutes, quick!" I want to get in touch with the 106th Division, hoping that they can effectively contain the 1st Army and reduce the defensive pressure on Chengde. ”
After Huang Jingming left, Zhang Xueliang stood in front of the window and looked at his watch, it was almost five o'clock, which meant that the new first division of the Chengde defenders had been fighting all night, no! I must give Zhang Xuewu some practical support!
Air force! Your own Air Force! Zhang Xueliang, who suddenly regained his senses, immediately picked up the telephone, and now scattered among the 317 planes belonging to the Northeast Army at the airports in Nanyuan, Xijiao, and Tanglin in Beiping, 87 are destroyers, and 26 are light bombers that can be immediately put into battle.
In the pilot's dormitory, He Changhui, the chief instructor of the Northeast Army Air Force, patted Gao Zhihang's shoulder with a heroic face and big eyebrows and said: "Zhihang, this is the first time that our Northeast Air Force has taken the initiative to attack since the Shenyang incident, and hit hard!" Cover the bombardment of the artillery group by airburst planes to reduce the pressure on the defenders. ”
Gao Zhihang nodded, saluted He Changhui and said, "Please rest assured, Chief Instructor, this sky belongs to us!" ”
Since 1927, Gao Zhihang returned from France to China, served as a member of the Flying Eagle Major of the Northeast Aviation Department of Zhang Xueliang's Department, and then served as a major instructor of the Northeast Aviation Education Class, and flew to Jinzhou under the cover of the Seventh Brigade on the night of the Shenyang Incident, and then transferred to Beiping, Gao Zhihang's heart was holding a bad breath, the defeat of the Battle of Rehe was like a mountain, so that these air pride sat and watched the mountains and rivers fall, and could only weep, Gao Zhihang and a group of pilots asked for battle many times, but Zhang Xueliang did not want to, and ordered the Flying Eagles to defend the air defense of Beiping.
I didn't expect that today, the battle order was issued so suddenly? Gao Zhihang faintly heard that during the Shenyang Incident, the newly formed 1st Division reorganized by the 7th Brigade of the Yue Army rose up in Beidaying to resist the Yue Army, and was besieged in Chengde by the heavy troops of the Yue Army? Gao Zhihang inhaled a breath of cold air that was cold to the bottom of his lungs, stretched his leather gloves, and stretched his muscles and bones! A feeling of Top Gun is born, I hope I can meet the little devil's plane today! Also in the same mood as Gao Zhihang are Li Guidan and Liu Cuigang!
If Zhang Xuewu knew that he was about to take off and come to support his air force pilots, the four King Kongs of the Republic of China Air Force would come three at a time? I wonder how you feel? The largest fleet formation of the Chinese Air Force in history was born!
Of course, Zhang Xueliang couldn't watch the new First Division annihilated, and in addition, he was really reluctant to let these expensive planes and pilots who were not easy to train, so he sent all the fighters out at once with the idea that there would be many people and not suffer losses.
At five o'clock in the morning, the army finally firmly occupied the first line of the defenders of the tiger ditch, and broke into the second line of defense several times, and the 14th division of the army quietly hid in the darkness like a wounded beast and licked its wounds, and the offensive that had been maintained overnight finally came to an end, but Xu Guohui did not relax his vigilance, because he knew very well that this was the army accumulating strength and preparing to give himself the final blow! Xu Guohui, who was wounded in two places, gasped, and just an hour ago, when his second-line position was in danger by the Yue army, Wang Chuang pulled out a reinforced battalion from the position and threw it into the Laohugou position, thus driving the Yue army down again.
And the army built all the corpses of the soldiers of the two armies who died at the other end of the trench, forming a chest wall! Thus firmly occupying the first line of defense.
Sure enough, just as Xu Guohui judged, the commander of the 14th Division, the commander of the 14th Division, who was furious, Matsuki Naoliang, personally arrived at the front line to supervise the battle, merged and reorganized the remnants, and prepared to break through the enemy's defense line in one go after dawn.
However, it is clear that Naomi Matsuki made a very serious mistake, ignoring the morale of the troops again and again, and again and again, and attacked the Chinese defenders' positions with an uninterrupted offensive at any cost overnight.
The battle has come to this point, and even Xu Guohui, who has been using foul language and trying to have an immoral relationship with a member of the female surname of the Imperial Family, is very convinced, the elite and bravery of the Xiao Yuben army are really fucking blown, and the interval between continuous attacks has never exceeded fifteen minutes? What does this mean? This means that the speed of the army's attack and the deployment of the troops is beyond the reach of the newly formed First Division, and if it is replaced by the former Seventh Brigade in the field battle, Xu Guohui believes that the 8,000 men and horses of the Seventh Brigade may not be able to hold out for even 40 minutes!
Zhang Xuewu looked at his watch and nodded to Huang Tao, who was holding the phone on the side, Huang Tao was full of anger and said loudly: "Order!" Counterattack! ”
Tang Ziqiang put down the phone and jumped on the chariot and waved his hand, and then drilled into the turret, Zhang Tianpeng's artillery regiment fired the first shot of the counterattack, and the dense rain of bullets began to extend from the coordinate area of the front line to the depth of the army, and before the panicked soldiers could react, the roar of the tank's engine and the rolling tracks with pieces of mud appeared in front of them.
Medium [***] tank? Medium [***] chariot! As a large number of infantry broke through, the soldiers of the Yue army, who also lacked effective anti-tank weapons, inevitably fell into a rout.
Brothers, rush! Kill me! Xu Guohui, who was jumping and jumping, didn't wait to rush out of the trench, but was dragged back by several guards and pressed into the trench, screaming angrily.
The scattered soldiers of the Yue army were pursued by the Chinese soldiers in a large-scale chaos, and some units that were originally able to maintain their formation and prepare for resistance were also dispersed by the rout, and more and more soldiers of the Yue army joined the rout in a panic and blindly.