The target of the two mechanized companies commanded by Tang Ziqiang was directly aimed at the artillery position of the 14th Division of the Yue Army, but the Renault FT17 tank and the Venera armored car were the products of two pairs of load-bearing wheels with narrow tracks, and their adaptation to the snow was very poor! The slow speed made Tang Ziqiang almost anxious.

For the unexpected counterattack of the middle [***], Matsuki Naoliang can be said to have been taken by surprise, and the troops that have all the fighting spirit cannot organize decent resistance at all, knowing that the counterattack of the middle [***] will not be too much, but because the troops fell into chaos, it was difficult to control it for a while, so that Xu Guohui's counterattack could be carried out smoothly.

In desperation, Matsuki Naoliang had to order the troops to quickly retreat five kilometers and reorganize to put in the counterattack, Matsuki Naoliang knew that the depth of the counterattack force in [***] would definitely not be too large, because the main force of [***] was used to hold Chengde, Zhang Xuewu learned at this moment that the counterattack was successful, and Tang Ziqiang's mechanized company was attacking the position of the field artillery wing of the Yue Army, and he was so happy that he slapped the table fiercely.

Standing in front of the map, Zhang Xuewu suddenly realized that the large-scale overall retreat of the 14th Division of the Yue Army seemed to provide him with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to break through? Break out of the encirclement, as long as you enter the pass of the Great Wall, it is considered safe?

Zhang Xuewu knew that he had not made any preparations for a breakthrough at this moment, and if he broke through the siege, he would inevitably fall into an extremely passive situation, and the army had added several cavalry brigades for the Battle of Rehe, and each division of the army also had a cavalry wing, and two legs could run over a four-legged brute? Zhang Xuewu is not optimistic about this so-called rare opportunity.

If he led his troops to really give up the Chengde breakthrough, then he didn't know whether history would return to the original trajectory, what he knew was that the loss of Chengde would mean the complete defeat of the Battle of Rehe, so Zhang Xueliang would definitely go into the wilderness, Zhang Xueliang would go into the wilderness for himself, even if it was a bolt from the blue, it meant that his identity was no longer popular.

If he holds Chengde, once the main force of the army implements a counterattack, the nearly 200,000 troops of the army in Rehe must always be on guard against [***] to recover Shanhaiguan and cut off his supply lines, then naturally North China will not be reduced to the so-called demilitarized zone, and Zhang Xueliang will not go abroad in the dark.

If you want to have the name of the first division of the new formation of the Nanjing Political Axe Central Army, and you can rely on Zhang Xueliang to help it redevelop the military industry and restore its strength, and you should also be left and right to increase your strength, the prospect is undoubtedly very good, but the reality is extremely cruel, that is, he Zhang Xuewu must first pass the Chengde lonely city to defend this pass.

In the eyes of many people, Zhang Xuewu's lonely city is self-defeating, but in Zhang Xuewu's opinion, this is to survive in death! In any case, Zhang Xueliang must not be allowed to go into the wilderness!

The fierce exchange of fire in the direction of Laohugou has weakened a lot compared to the direction of the side ridge of Majiagou, and the commander of the Eighth Brigade of the Army, Major General Enbe and Ichiro, personally arrived at the front line to supervise the battle, but the so-called front line of Enbe and Ichiro is actually more than ten kilometers away from the attack position, and for Enbe and Ichiro, safety first has become his criterion, and Enbe and Ichiro do not want to be promoted to lieutenant general in the same way as the Hiramatsu heroes.

Enbe and Ichiro formulated a very perfect battle plan, the plan pointed directly to the key point of Zhang Xuewu, especially after the Tiger Ditch counterattack, but due to the death of the hero of Pingsong, the senior officers of the army subconsciously stayed away from the battlefield and commanded their subordinates to fight by telephone, and after a night of fierce fighting, the various departments of the army had long lost the confidence that the Chinese defenders who were attacking the fierce firepower had already lost the confidence that they would win the battle, so the seemingly fierce offensive was actually just in response to the death order issued by Enbe and Ichiro, The thunder was heavy and the rain was small, and the casualties of the troops were also reduced a lot.

As one of the top three graduates of Lu University, the identity and talent of Kazuichiro Enbe have always been valued by the General Staff Headquarters, and Kazuichiro Enbe's proudest specialty is the near-perfect staff plan, listening to the fierce gunfire in the distance, Kazuichiro Enbe smiled and marked the attack of each unit on the map with a red and blue pencil.

Where did Enbe and Ichiro think that the captains of the four infantry wings under his unified command seemed to have reached a tacit understanding and would not contribute to their work! It can be said that the military commanders of many countries' armies hate those blind staff officers and bad officials of the theoretical and data faction who cause chaos, and if such a top-heavy commander of the theoretical faction is put on the table, then the subordinates who are constantly complaining will really want to cry without tears.

For example, His Excellency the Commander of the Yuanbu and Ichiro Brigade decided that as long as the Central [***] counterattack was launched in the direction of Laohugou, then the defense of the Majiagou side ridge would be relatively empty, and he did not care at all about the fatigue of the officers and men, the low morale, the unfavorable terrain, the fierce fire of the enemy, and the stubborn will to resist.

Just when Enbe and Ichiro were triumphantly calculating that they should break through the first few lines of defense of the Chinese defenders, the soldiers of the Yue army, who had exhausted their physical strength, were cold and hungry, and they launched futile attacks again and again.

Many officers and soldiers of the new third regiment of the Chinese defenders in the front-line position have already been soaked in cotton clothes by ice and snow at this moment, and everyone sweated after the previous bloody fight, and soon the cotton clothes froze into ice-like armor, and the whole person was like being in an ice cave, and the extremely tired officers and soldiers shouted their names to each other, bit their lips, and slapped themselves to remind themselves that they must not fall asleep, because if they fall asleep in this environment, it will be equivalent to a long sleep.

Regiment commander Zhao Xinyu walked in the trenches of the first line of defense one by one, patted the shoulders of the surviving soldiers one by one, said a word of encouragement in everyone's ear, and handed the water bottle to the officers and soldiers to drink a small sip of the burning knife sent by the division seat to warm up their bodies and refresh themselves.

Undoubtedly, Zhao Xinyu's behavior boosted his morale due to extreme exhaustion! In order to prevent the final blow of the army's desperate attack, Zhao Xinyu divided a battalion stationed in the third line of defense into two parts to strengthen the first and second lines of defense, and planned to change the defense at seven o'clock to replace the exhausted first-line defenders.

At 7 o'clock in the morning of 5 March, the dense fog had already dissipated, and the two mechanized companies and sorties after successfully attacking the artillery positions of the Yue Army began to retreat one after another, and two of the 21 Renault FT17 tanks and Venera armored vehicles that attacked were destroyed and abandoned by themselves due to mechanical problems, and four of them were destroyed by direct fire from the mountain field artillery.

The iron-faced and bloodless pine wood looked at the still burning chariot and the blown up artillery, and there were only the corpses of the imperial soldiers on the ground, and there was not a single one in the [***]? What does this mean? [***] can still calmly take away the remains of comrades who died in battle? An unprecedented sense of humiliation triggers a fury from Naoaki Matsuki!

"Gather your troops!" After Matsuki Naoliang viciously gave the order, the chief of staff Shimada Nakasa, who was standing behind him, was slightly stunned, the troops were all driven away at the moment, and the officers and soldiers were running everywhere, how to assemble and reorganize? The rest of the staff officers all looked at Shimada's unlucky guy helplessly with a kind of pity.

At this moment, the roar of an airplane motor sounded in the clouds in the sky! Matsuki Naoliang looked up at the sky and nodded, "Yo Xi!" Immediately set up an air contact map to indicate the direction of air explosion (bombing)! ”

"Hey!" Shimada hurriedly knocked his legs to carry out the order of His Excellency the division commander, and the rest of the staff officers immediately turned to look at Shimada, the lucky guy, with jealous eyes!