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As night fell, a train full of more than 6,700 generals from the three main regiments of the Independent Division slowly stopped at Zhaotun Station, eight kilometers west of Dangshan. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The officers and men of the three regiments, under the support of the brothers of the two detachments of the special brigade, quickly crossed the swamp north of the town, marched all the way to the north, and finished resting and drinking horses in Houjing Village in the southwest of Fanzhai, and then began a high-intensity rapid march, and the pack horses carrying mortars, heavy machine guns, and ammunition boxes were put on the horse's dragon heads, and the soldiers who gave up all their luggage and carried ammunition as much as possible before leaving walked silently, and all the soldiers had to cross the Dasha River and cross the Shanfeng Highway within ten hours, and travel 52 kilometers to Changdian in the north of Fengcheng. Waiting for the 33rd Army led by An Yi to start the battle of attacking Fengxian, he immediately attacked from behind.

Hu Jialin on the mound could not see the advancing troops in front and behind, and he was faintly excited in his heart, this was the first time he had full authority to command a division to fight, and it was also the first battle after the reorganization of the independent division and won the title of "Iron and Steel Hero", he couldn't help but feel not excited.

Gu Changfeng, who was on the side, saw the glint in the deep eyes of the beard, and made a joke about the beard in a low voice, causing a burst of laughter from the surrounding brothers.

Li Fuqiang, the captain of the special brigade, whispered to Hu Jialin: "Do you know that the boss is slowly letting you control the overall situation?" ”

"I wouldn't know if there was such an obvious intention? Shizuo probably wanted to be a military commander and wanted to go crazy, so he drove the ducks on the shelves and pulled the brothers up to the top tank. Think about the garrison division of Jinan and the security headquarters of Xia Jian, now our independent division has the foundation of three divisions unconsciously, just wait for the time to come, it can be expanded into an army at any time, and the lineage of all descendants is far from being comparable to others! As soon as Hu Jialin's words came out, the brothers smiled knowingly.

At the same time, more than 14,500 reorganized brothers of the 33rd Army, who had moved north to the north of Liangzhai on the east bank of the Dasha River, were ordered to sleep after checking their weapons and ammunition.

The officers and soldiers with their stomachs stuffed with compressed biscuits and canned pork burped and lay in the woods, unable to sleep.

The brothers who couldn't sleep quietly lay together and whispered, saying that General An was a god who had to obey it! Didn't the one who said he had seen the thirty black and shiny new guns of the Independent Division? They are all brand-new big trucks, and the artillery guards of all of them wear steel helmets, all of them are equipped with pistols, and they are even better than our battalion company commanders, and they don't have to walk at all when they run dozens of kilometers in the blink of an eye while sitting on the shell box in the carriage, and the artillery escort of a battalion is all light machine guns and machine guns, and their firepower is stronger than that of our regiment. Another mysteriously said that I had asked them about the sapper brothers, who ate and drank well and paid a lot of money every month, wore sturdy new military uniforms, and used all the best goods, and the worst soldiers were also equipped with a hundred bullets per person with a German authentic cargo, and there was a new dagger with a saw on the thick canvas green belt that could cut off our bayonets, not to mention the sharp sapper shovels, the sappers were like this, who was still their opponent......"

In the tent temporarily erected under the big tree, An Yi stood in front of the large map of Feng County and explained in detail to the chief officers above the regimental level:

"Our position is only 30 kilometers away from Feng County, and when all the officers and men of our army are having dinner, the three main regiments of the independent division have already moved north from the direction of Yangshan, and they will travel 52 kilometers through two enemy patrol lines, and reach the Changdian line behind Feng County before 5:30 a.m. tomorrow, and together with our army, they will launch a north-south flanking attack on the enemy's division and brigade, and they will be more than twice as tired as us.

Therefore, I hope that all of you here will not complain about the 30-kilometer night march, and tonight is the 20th lunar month, the weather is very good, and the brightness of the moon is very suitable for night marching, and the two companies of the 3rd Battalion of my teaching regiment have infiltrated within 5 kilometers of the county seat of Fengxian County, and they will start at 3 o'clock tomorrow morning to clear the enemy's light and dark posts for us all the way to ensure that our army can smoothly reach the south of the city and attack. ”

Obviously, it was the first time for the generals and colonels to hear such a thorough coordinated combat plan, one by one they stretched their necks and looked intently at An Yi and the huge arrows on the map, and they were envious of An Yi's arrangement of troops and the rapid and powerful combat effectiveness of the independent division. How do the generals know how much effort and money An Yi spent in order to establish such a special force, and how many baptisms of blood and fire and how many times the hard training of ordinary people the special soldiers have undergone.

After An Yi introduced the overall situation, he saw that everyone was listening attentively, and then told everyone about the combat mission:

"As you all know, there are two roads in Shangfeng County north of Liangzhai where we are now, the left road takes Tanglindu and Dasha River through Wang'an, and the right road passes through Zhaozhuang to bypass Huashan Town to cross the Dasha River, this road is 3.5 kilometers away, and the villages and towns along the way are dense, which is not conducive to the secrecy of our army's operations, therefore, we give up the left and right roads and only take this road: go straight north to Jurenzhuang, directly cross the Dasha River, cross the river and Pingchuan, and the two divisions will immediately divide the troops into two roads and advance, the road is sparsely populated, and it can also save about four kilometers of distance."

"Junza, this road is not easy to walk! When we fled back, many brothers died when we crossed the river, and the river was more than ten feet wide! A colonel stood up to report, and several officers on the side also reacted in the same way.

"It's very good, when you run for your life, you still remember how wide the river is, which proves that you are not without courage!"

When everyone heard An Yi's words, they smiled embarrassedly, and An Yi motioned for a few people to sit down: "The exact width of this river section is about thirty-one meters, and there is a small sandbar more than ten meters long and four meters wide in the middle of the river section of one hundred and fifty meters west of the ferry. Build a two-meter-wide and 34-meter-long sturdy wooden bridge for the main force of our army, everyone can rest assured. ”

Pan Shanzhai stood up and asked, "Commander, how can the artillery regiment advance?" ”

"It's very simple, when we cross the Dasha River, we will use the radio to inform the artillery regiment to leave, and Dafang will move quickly from the road on our left, and it will only take an hour and a half to complete the thirty-one kilometers, and even if the enemy appears, he will not be able to return the letter.

For the sake of safety, we set up an artillery position on the line of Zhangxinzhuang, six kilometers south of the city, and an engineer company that had completed the construction of the wooden bridge was carried out in advance to ensure that the artillery could be fired within 10 minutes of being in place.

Preliminary calculations have calculated that under normal circumstances, the artillery regiment only needs to march 25 kilometers, and in one and a half hours it can complete the preparation for firing from the exit to the stop and enter the position, which is exactly in line with the progress of our main force, and after 20 minutes of artillery bombardment, the two divisions of our army must not hesitate to charge, and once the charge horn is sounded, no one can stop, and take Fengcheng in one go! An Yi replied in detail.

The generals and colonels were excitedly discussing, most of the small county town walls had collapsed, and how many people could be left after twenty minutes of heavy shrapnel bombardment from thirty guns? Based on an average of six shells per minute for a piece of artillery, that's the coverage of 3,600 shells! Now that the divisions and regiments have sufficient ammunition and morale has been raised, more than 25,000 people have attacked the small county town garrisoned by more than 17,000 people in the north and south with the help of powerful artillery fire. None of the generals here have fought such a rich and well-planned battle, how can they not let the full of generals and schools be enthusiastic***?

Seeing this, An Yi raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet: "Ladies and gentlemen, this battle is very critical, Commander-in-Chief Jiang and the commander of the headquarters attach great importance to it, as long as Feng County is taken, it can not only lift the encirclement for the main force of our Third Army, but also revive the prestige of our 33rd Army, get rid of the reputation of being greedy for life and fear of death in one fell swoop, and have an explanation for the friendly army, which will also be of great help to your future."

Therefore, I hope that everyone will go all out to fight this battle, and if they still do not fight well under such favorable conditions, then no one can be blamed. I would like to emphasize that you must tell your soldiers when you go back that my spy battalion will wear the armbands of the Overseers, and those who retreat will be killed! Do you understand? ”

"Understood!"

The generals replied sparsely.

An Yi puffed up his chest and shouted, "Stand up!" What do you understand? ”

The generals were so frightened that they quickly stood up: "Those who retreat, there is no mercy for killing!" ”

"Be louder, are you scared?" Wen Yi yelled again.

"Those who retreat will be killed!"

All the generals roared in unison, and the sound shook the tent, and it was extremely terrifying to reach the ears of tens of thousands of soldiers in the distance.

An Yi nodded with satisfaction: "Very good, go back and prepare, and all of them will be pulled out in an hour!" ”

"Yes!"

The generals hurriedly saluted and left, Shen Fengdao walked into An Yi and sighed in a low voice: "A loose and unmorale rout army, let you be orderly and disciplined in one afternoon, how many can you do in the whole army?" Not only do you have the way to kill, but you also have the power to lure you to your advantage, which is really unattainable, and I think it is aggrieved to let you command an army. ”

An Yi smiled when he heard this: "Extraordinary times require extraordinary measures, this is also a last resort, when did you see me do this for our independent division?" The 33 officers and men in front of me are very disappointing in all aspects, and if I don't do this, how can I provoke them to fight hard in such a short time? Without them to take on the main attack task of the front, the beard side is very difficult, this battle is the first battle since the reorganization of our independent division, it can only be fought well and not broken, and the losses must be minimized, so I have to be like this, you don't think about me too insidiously, hehe! ”

At 5:50 a.m., the earth-shattering cannon roared, and the inside and outside of Fengxian County, which had just been warned, was instantly blown up in all directions, the smoke of gunpowder rose, and the fortifications were torn apart by powerful shells, and the houses rose into the air in the red firelight, and collapsed in a blink of an eye, and the city wall full of cracks could not withstand the repeated ravages of the whistling shells, shaking and overturning the whole area, and submerging the enemy positions under the corners of the walls.

Thousands of defenders failed to wake up from the barracks in the east of the city, they were covered by pieces of accurately flying shells, and the 7th Division of the Anhui Army, which was originally in sight, and the 4th Mixed Brigade outside the city suffered heavy casualties in the first 10 minutes of artillery attack, and the corpses were strewn all over the ground.

The chaotic enemy troops rushed out of the north of the city in disheveled groups, only to see three red signal flares rising into the air, which immediately illuminated the ground in blood red.

The machine gun battalions of the three main regiments commanded by Hu Jialin began a fierce mortar bombardment, and the light and heavy machine guns erected at the commanding heights were aimed at the enemy troops who rushed under black pressure and sprayed a rain of bullets, and in the dazzling light of the explosion, one by one the enemy troops fell down, the flying stones and sand were mixed with stumps and broken arms, the torn bodies were thrown high in the flames, the broken clothes were swept up into the air by the blazing air, and the enemy troops with heavy casualties wailed back into the city as if they had hit a high wall.

The sound of the cannon stopped abruptly, the loud trumpets of the charge and the earth-shattering shouts of killing suddenly sounded, one after another, Fengcheng, which was shrouded in thick gunpowder smoke and flakes of fire, seemed to begin to shake, the defenders who had just struggled from the ground and under the rubble had not yet found weapons, and the revolutionary army that pounced like locusts was already close at hand, and the dense close-range shooting and the shining bayonets extinguished hundreds of lives in the blink of an eye.

Most of the more than 8,000 surviving enemy troops lost their command and were frightened, and a small number of stubborn enemies failed to kill a few more opponents, so they ambushed the corpses on the spot under the swift and merciless blows of the officers and men of the revolutionary army who were several times their own, and the battle of attacking the fortified fortification, which was originally thought to take at least two to three hours, ended in one hour and ten minutes, and the officers and men of the two divisions of the 32 nd Army completely occupied the inside and outside of Fengcheng, and the work of searching and clearing out was immediately carried out on a large scale.

In the north of the city, the independent division brothers led by Hu Jialin had not yet had time to charge, and the whole battle had come to an end, and the officers and soldiers looked at the corpses and charred black craters on the ground two kilometers in front of the position, and even the ** of the charge was lost, Hu Jialin had to order the second regiment to be on guard, and the first and third regiments to clean up the battlefield.

Gu Changfeng, who was at the front of the fortifications, put down his binoculars: "There are no less than two thousand corpses in front of us, and our three regiments don't even have a chance to charge, it can be seen that the firepower of each regiment is quite perfect, according to the usual deduction, such lethality seems to be out of the original best estimate." ”

Lu Yixuan, the head of the third regiment, sighed: "It's an eye-opener!" During the exercise, the subordinates all thought that the firepower of our division was unmatched, but they didn't expect the effect of the battle to be so good!

The artillery regiment fought well today, the houses in the north and west of the city were basically undamaged, and there were still two rounds of salvo fire covering 500 meters in front of our position, and the technology was high! ”

"Report, three-part team emergency!"

The communications staff officer ran to Hu Jialin to comply with the message.

After Hu Jialin read the message, his beard stood up like a hedgehog, and his tiger eyes flashed with cold light, full of murderous aura.

Hu Jialin swallowed a mouthful of saliva fiercely, gritted his teeth and reported to everyone: "The third division captured two messengers of the Third Army of the Anhui Army six kilometers to the west, and the division that is now galloping from Shanxian County after interrogation is the Ninth Division that slaughtered the wounded soldiers of our division in Baguazhou, and the 109th Regiment that kept shelling me is also among them!" ”

Gu Changfeng looked up to the sky and roared, his eyes were red, and the chief of staff, Cheng Guangfei, jumped onto the high platform, and roared hoarsely: "All assemble—"