Zhang Xuewu, who inspected the Laohugou position in the face of the wind and snow, returned to the headquarters, and the sudden wind and snow caught the Yue army and the Chinese defenders a little unprepared, and at this moment Zhang Xuewu did not know that Zhang Haipeng's two salvos of the artillery regiment had caught a big fish.

Worried that the Yue army would take advantage of the wind and snow to launch a surprise attack overnight, Zhang Xuewu ordered additional observation posts to be dispatched at the front to continuously use firepower combined with artillery fire to reconnoiter and harass the Yue army.

In the headquarters, Li Songtao, who had a relaxed smile on his face, took Zhang Xuewu's fur coat and smiled slightly: "This heavy snow is really timely!" At least it helped us stay for an extra day! ”

Li Songtao looked at Zhang Xuewu's ordinary light gray cotton coat, the white cloth cover on the outside and the sheepskin on the inside of the coat, frowned, and said, "Master, where did you learn this hand?" This is the housekeeping skill of an old beard who has been running in the mountains for many years! ”

Zhang Xuewu roasted his hands by the stove and said, "What ability?" It's all forced out, and the accuracy of the 38-meter rifle is terrifyingly accurate from 200 to 300 meters. The snow may be heavy tonight, and I ordered all regiments to draw troops and firepower from the second and third lines to strengthen the first-line positions, saying that I would not sit back and wait for such a good opportunity to attack the weather, the wind direction on the front of the Majiagou side ridge is favorable to us, but the tiger ditch is the windward side, tell Xu Guohui that two of the three artillery groups directly under the division are under his command, and I will give him three base firepower. ”

Li Songtao's expression suddenly became serious when he heard the shells of the three bases, and Li Xinkai, who handed Zhang Xuewu a cup of hot water, also nodded and said, "I'm afraid it's going to be difficult tonight!" Although the artillery power of the army will be weakened a lot by such a big snowstorm, the same is true for our army, and the night battle is the most testing of the troops! ”

Zhang Xuewu stood in front of the map and frowned and said, "If I can't nibble on our triangular support system tonight, then their only choice is here!" ”

Li Songtao and Li Xinkai, who was standing aside, came over, looked in the direction of Zhang Xuewu's finger, and said in unison: "Old Street? ”

Zhang Xuewu nodded and said: "Put me in to fight, on both sides of the street, I have prepared two assault companies equipped with P18 submachine guns, equipped with a large number of explosives and incendiary materials and grenades, and the walls between households have been opened to block the doors and windows, as long as I dare to infiltrate, in such a narrow area, we are prepared to attack unprepared, even if I put in a wing, I can't eat a company of mine, let's fight and retreat until we give up the entire old street, and then give Xiao Yue a big fire, In close combat between the two armies, they dare not use artillery support, we are not afraid, at that time, we will bombard the army fiercely and blow up the old street! ”

Zhang Xuewu waved his arm violently, Li Xinkai and Li Songtao looked at each other, Zhang Xuewu's battle plan is really perfect, since it can effectively consume the living force of the army? What a win!

However, Li Xinkai and Li Songtao also understand very well that the success of Zhang Xuewu's plan lies in whether the three support points of Laohugou, Majiagou Side Ridge, and Seng Guanfeng can make Yue himself desperately hit his head and break the bloodstream, so that he desperately looked for a breakthrough between the two support points for street fighting.

At 20 o'clock in the evening, Naoliang Matsuki and Shousuke Hirose nodded slightly to each other in the joint headquarters that had just been established, and they had met, before the two divisions attacked Chengde separately, but both of them sank into the sand and collapsed, and now the two of them are sitting together for a telegram from His Excellency Commander Muto Nobuyoshi, the former commander-in-chief of the enemy headquarters, in the afternoon, this telegram with very strict wording must capture Chengde within three days, annihilate the headquarters of the newly formed first division of the Central Army in Nanjing, and then divide the troops into five routes to attack the mouths of the Great Wall, directly threatening Beiping.

The direction of the main attack of the 10th Division of Hirose Shousuke was the side ridge of Majiagou, while the direction of the main attack of the 14th Division was Laohugou.

Although nominally a joint command center, there seems to be a deep gap between the operational staff officers of the 10th Division and the operational staff of the 14th Division, and the operational orders of both sides are different except for the fact that the attack time is 22 o'clock, and even the offensive plan is different.

The 10th Division concentrated all its artillery fire on the right flank position on the side ridge of Majiagou, and the breakthrough point was also chosen there! The 14th Division, on the other hand, was completely unprepared for artillery fire, and used all the strength of the two wings of the 27th Infantry Brigade to attack the Chinese defenders' positions in Laohugou, and the strength of one company of the 28th Infantry Brigade as a reserve.

More than 40,000 people in two divisions attacked Chengde? If it had been before this, Hirose Shousuke and Matsuki Naoliang would have been dismissive, and they might have thought that once they broke through the castle defense and reached the castle wall, the [***] team would have collapsed, but the previous fierce battle made them not as optimistic as expected.

The Chinese defenders' triangular defensive core positions in Chengde were very narrow on the front, and often the seemingly wide offensive front had only a few points for the troops to break through, and even if they had a large number of troops, the battlefield was extremely limited, which also meant that it was impossible to invest a strong assault force to completely destroy the enemy's defenses at once.

However, with the superiority of troops, the army can attack wave after wave of continuous attacks, slack off and consume the defenders to achieve the goal of breaking through the whole line, of course, the cost of casualties is higher.

In fact, unlike Naori Matsuki, who was anxiously waiting for the attack, Shousuke Hirose seemed very patient, Hirose Shousuke knew that Naori Matsuki was eager to show that he was trying to redeem the lost honor, and killed a brigade commander on the first day of the attack.

The Eighth Brigade lost an infantry brigade in the tentative attack on the side ridge of Majiagou, Hirose Shousuke didn't think that Zhang Xuewu's division defending the enemy in Chengde was so easy to gnaw down, let the 14th Division gnaw this hard bone first, in case Matsuki Naoliang lost the troops and didn't gnaw it, then he launched a fierce attack smoothly and down, then Matsuki Naoliang couldn't complain about himself, after all, the opportunity had been given to him, and he didn't grasp it.

In the wind and snow, the 1,360 officers and soldiers of the Shuimu Brigade of the Yue Army, which attacked Laohugou, quietly began to enter the battlefield after being strengthened before the war, and everyone except for the two ** heavy grenades and bullet boxes, the rest of the gas masks and water bottles were taken off, although the officers and soldiers were cautious, but the hard-soled suede shoes still made a piercing creak sound when stepping on the snow, even in the whistling wind and snow, this sound could still be heard far away!

As a rare Shaozuo captain in the division, Mizuki Fanhe has always been known for his combat bravery, but if he praises a person's bravery in Lu Dazhong, it is actually equivalent to saying that this person has no brains, so Mizuki Fanhe has not been reused, but today Mizuki Fanhe was unexpectedly summoned by His Excellency the division commander, as the offensive leader of the entire brigade, it can be said that the Mizuki Brigade has a heavy responsibility.

Mizuki Fanhe, who was finally appreciated by Shangguan, secretly made up his mind that he would break through the [***] defense line at all costs!