Chapter 4 The North Battalion and the Seventh Brigade
Returning to the camp, Zhang Xuewu took out Wang Tiehan's big green horse, rode on the horse and turned around in the Peking University camp.
If you look at it from the air, you will find that the whole camp wall of Beida Camp is square, about two meters long on the side, and there is a two-meter-high earthen fence built around the camp wall, which is covered with artemisia grass in summer, and two people can be parallel here.
There are dry moats about one meter deep and three meters wide on both sides of the earthen enclosure, and there is a checkpoint for passage in the middle of each side of the wall, and there is a sentry post near the gate.
As the main passage of the Beida camp, there is a guard room at the south gate, where Zhang Xuewu observed that there was a platoon of troops, and there were two opposite posts outside the door, standing guard and patrolling in shifts day and night.
After returning to the regiment headquarters, because Wang Tiehan was taken away by the brigade commander and the deputy of the regiment returned to his hometown and province, Zhang Xuewu, the chief of staff, became the actual commander of the 620 Regiment.
Standing in front of the sand table in the war room of the regiment headquarters, Zhang Xuewu, Li Xinkai, Wang Chuang, Zhao Xinyu, Xu Guohui, Zhang Tianpeng, and others were seriously studying the topography of the Beidaying.
Beidaying is about 10 miles away from Shenyang City in the south, about 20 miles away from Dongdaying in the east, about 300 meters away from the South Manchurian Railway in the west, and less than 500 meters away from Liutiaohu Village in the south of Wenguantun Station.
Outside the north and south gates, there are family residential areas and camp streets, with restaurants, grocery stores, barber shops, and regular markets. In the middle of the camp is the big camp, which is the place where each regiment and team practice. In the middle of the barracks in the north row is the brigade headquarters, on the east side is the brigade company, on the west side is the 621st Regiment, on the east side there are four barracks, the 620th Regiment occupies three, and the southeast corner is occupied by the sergeant corps.
Outside the eastern wall, there are the same four barracks, three of which are occupied by the 619th Regiment and one in the southeast corner by the Infantry Research Class. Behind the brigade headquarters was a column of barracks: repair shops, ammunition depots, stables, haystacks, toilets, etc.
Outside the east and west barracks to the fence except for the toilet, are vegetable fields, there is a horseshoe-shaped boulevard at the edge of the big field and in front of the camp, the ancient trees are towering, the branches are luxuriant, the road is about three meters wide, you can go through the four-way column, only the main road in front of the south gate leads to the brigade department, because there is a shadow wall, there are no trees.
On the whole, if the Beida Battalion is attacked by an organized surprise attack by the Yue army, even if the defenders resist, it will not be able to effectively defend it on such an open terrain. On the night of 18 August, the 29th Infantry Wing of the Yue Army and the 2nd Infantry Brigade of the Reading Force Garrison Infantry were attacked, accompanied by a field artillery squadron.
During the attack, Itagaki Seishiro not only dispatched the 5th Brigade of the Yoriku Garrison Infantry to participate in the attack on the Kita-Battalion, but also transferred an armored train equipped with 210-mm naval guns at the headquarters of the Kwantung Army in Arthur to assist in the vicinity of Kita-Camp.
Zhang Xuewu paced repeatedly in front of the sand table, and a bold plan was born in his mind!
Zhang Xuewu looked around at Li Xinkai and the others: "On the night of September 18, the old lady Rong Zhen, chief of staff of our Northeast Army, celebrated his 80th birthday, and officers above the regiment level will attend, and I believe that I am very clear, so once I launch an attack on our Beida battalion that night, Li Xinkai, you will immediately lead your battalion to cut off all contact with Beiping except for the brigade headquarters, and if it is possible to temporarily control the chief of staff Rong Zhen, after completing this task, your battalion will quickly insert it into the Yamato Hotel at the end of the South Street, and knock out my own heavy artillery. ”
Li Xinkai nodded cautiously, Zhang Xuewu turned to Wang Chuang and said: "Your battalion will take out all the American pressure mines in stock, and form a minefield along the south side, pay attention to it must be carried out tomorrow night, and send a platoon to carry the mobile radio of the regiment headquarters to the three forks to wait, if I say that I do it that night, I will completely blow up the Manchurian railway exchange road at the three forks." ”
Wang Chuang hesitated after hearing the order and said: "Counselor, we haven't tried to lay mines this night, and this laymap must be difficult to draw accurately in a hurry!" ”
Zhang Xuewu waved his hand and said: "There is no need to leave the mine, after Xiao Yueben stepped on the mine, he would definitely use segment artillery fire to cover and clean up the minelaying area." ”
Zhang Xuewu looked at Zhao Xinyu and Xu Guohui and said word by word: "Once the war starts, your two battalions will give me the 619th Regiment and the 621st Regiment on the left, and if any of them doesn't fight me, you will greet me directly, and if you kill me, count me as mine!" ”
Zhang Tianpeng didn't wait for Zhang Xuewu to arrange, stared at the sand table and said: "My task is to suppress myself with all my strength after receiving the fire, and move towards Tanglin after shooting out the cannonballs?" ”
Zhang Xuewu nodded in a little surprise, and at the same time ordered: "You have to pay attention to the surprise attack of the Yue army on Tanglin, Donglin has the shells you need, but they don't have artillery, and I can't mobilize shells for you now, you can fight as many as there are in our Beidaying!" ”
After the secret meeting ended, Zhang Tianpeng did not leave, and after everyone else left, he lit a cigarette for Zhang Xuewu: "Counselor, you are the cousin of the deputy commander, but you are also playing too much, right?" Cut off all communications with Peking in addition to you? This is a coercion of the Son of Heaven to order the princes! Brother, I want to take my family name to compensate you for this experience, you are really sure that I dare to have such a big appetite? You must know that our hundreds of thousands of Northeast Army are not cotton bales, and anyone who wants to pinch them can pinch it. ”
Zhang Xuewu took a deep breath, threw almost the entire cigarette on the ground and said: "Our Northeast Army is in the middle of the Nanjing Central Committee, the Russians, and myself, since we are soldiers, we must be prepared to die generously for the country at any time, the country, the country, our roots are in the Northeast, where is there a home without a country?" Go get ready! It is better for me not to do it, otherwise we will not be polite, as soldiers, we will lay down our arms and not resist when we are insulting and violating the border? What kind of soldier is that? The dignified seven-foot man is dressed up, facing the enemy in front of him, shooting the last bullet and shedding the last drop of blood! Otherwise, the first thing to be ashamed of is our military uniform! I'm even more sorry for the people who support us! ”
Zhang Tianpeng gave Zhang Xuewu a neat military salute with a solemn expression, and then turned to leave.
After Zhang Tianpeng left, Zhang Xuewu found the establishment table of the Seventh Brigade of the National Defense Force of the Republic of China in Wang Tiehan's secret cabinet, the Seventh Brigade is the elite of the national defense brigade reorganized from the former Northeast Army Guard Brigade, and is the establishment of the three infantry regiments, and the brigade headquarters directly has a cavalry company, a heavy mortar company, a communications company, and a special service company.
The regiment directly under the heavy machine gun company, with 12 Makqin heavy machine guns; The light mortar company had six 82-caliber light mortars, and the flat-fire battery had four 37-caliber flat-fire guns.
Each battalion had four fully manned infantry companies, each with twelve Czech light machine guns, one hundred and twenty Czech rifles, two grenadiers, and one grenade per squad. The company actually has about 150 officers and men, divided into three platoons of four squads each. There are 10 to 12 soldiers in each squad, and each squad has one sergeant, one corporal, one deputy squad, two privates, four first-class privates, and eight privates.
After reading the establishment of the Seventh Brigade, Zhang Xuewu's heart fell slightly into his stomach!
The sunset outside the window is like blood, if you really rise up and slam a blow, will 9.18 still be the same as the historical result?
(Beidaying data from "Historical Materials of the Puppet Manchurian State")