Mengxi shook her head and said, "That's not good. The task of our regiment was to fight and block the attack and ensure the safety of the 26th Brigade and the 1st and 3rd Regiments that attacked Zengjiazhai. If we take the initiative to attack, in case we are drilled by the other party, we will stab Lou Zi big, and there is a suspicion of battlefield disobedience. However, if the 55th Division had been routed or even eliminated by us when attacking our blocking positions, we would not have disobeyed the order. The order does not say that we are only allowed to block the enemy, not to destroy the enemy. Xu Fang patted his thigh: "High!" You dream of being a great talent, worthy of being my chief of staff, do you have any way to say it quickly, don't talk about it. As soon as Mengxi said his thoughts, Xu Dacheng was overjoyed and immediately ordered: "6 75mm mountain artillery batteries and all 82 mortars must move all the artillery positions to the mountains on the front line, and they must be well camouflaged." These cannons were used intensively and were under the direct command of Mengxi. At the same time, the whole regiment should be ready for the attack. ”

Early in the morning, Han Fuyu, chairman of Henan Province in Kaifeng, received a telegram from Shi Yousan, saying that the troops of a division of the Jin Sui Army had attacked Zengjiazhai in southern Hebei, and he had sent the 26th Brigade to the rescue. He was afraid that the 26th Brigade would be outnumbered, and hoped that his eldest brother would send the division from Linzhou over to support the 26th Brigade.

Regarding Sun Dianying's matter, Shi Yousan did not hide it from his eldest brother. After the downsizing of the troops, Shi Yousan's troops were unified into the 24th Division, stationed in Xinyang, or he entrusted the affairs of Qingxiang to him for the sake of his old brothers. Military salaries were uniformly allocated to the General Headquarters of the Second Group Army in accordance with the downsizing posts in Nanjing, and then part of the funds were allocated by Feng Yuxiang to reduce expenditure. This military salary is only enough to maintain food and clothing for the troops, which is really not starving, but it is not fat. But in this way, Shi Yousan was downsized, but the salaries of the troops who were not cut could not be solved. With Feng Yuxiang's acquiescence, although all the troops of their Northwest Army were downsized according to the deployment plan, the downsized soldiers were retained under various names, such as Shi Yousan's 26th Brigade and his 55th Division in Linzhou, all of which had been dismantled. In other words, these troops are now black households without official numbers. Although he often gave Shi Yousan help, after all, Henan's finances and taxes could not be used for the army, and he also had 60,000 or 70,000 troops to eat, drink, weapons and ammunition.

This time, Shi Yousan was able to get money from Sun Dianying, and to be honest, he was still very happy for this old brother. Shi Yousan knew that the Jin Sui Army that fought Zengjiazhai had a division, but he still sent the 26th Brigade, Han Fuyu knew that Shi Yousan had no choice, he had to go to the rescue, otherwise he would cut off the financial route of hundreds of thousands of oceans every month. Although their Northwest Army generally looked down on the combat effectiveness of the Jin Sui Army, the other side was outnumbered after all. It is not easy for his brother to save these belongings, in case he loses this brigade, he will not be able to live with Shi Yousan. Therefore, after receiving Shi Yousan's telegram, Han Fuyu immediately ordered the 55th Division stationed in Linzhou to set off immediately and cooperate with the 26th Brigade to fight.

Han Fuyu's 55th Division received the telegram and did not dare to slack off, and the six main regiments immediately moved forward, followed by two supplementary regiments and the divisional artillery company. During the Second Northern Expedition, Han Fuyu was known as General Fei, that is, his troops were fierce and strong, good at fighting evil battles. His troops were the first to hit the city of Beiping, and the pioneer was a regiment of this division. However, due to years of war, many people were displaced, and the soldiers were sufficient, and there were basically no old and weak people in the army. Moreover, Han Fuyu and Shi Yousan did not all withdraw troops with weak combat effectiveness, on the contrary, some were still their main forces. Xiang 26 Brigade, his so-called 55th Division, a regiment, are their elite soldiers. This is done in order to facilitate the rapid expansion of the number of personnel once the situation changes.

The journey of dozens of miles took three hours to arrive. During the march, it was reported that after the 26th Brigade entered the mountain, it had already fired with the other side, and the cannon fire was very fierce. By the time he arrived at the pass with six regiments, the sound of artillery could no longer be heard. He thought that the artillery sound just now must have been attacked by the 26th Brigade from the Jin Sui Army, and now that there is no artillery sound, the two sides are fighting together, and the gunfire cannot be heard at such a distance. Because he absolutely did not believe that the Jin Sui Army would wipe out the 26 Brigade in an hour with only one division. With a burst of gunfire in front of the pass, the avant-garde reported that there was an enemy blocking the pass.

At this time, the commander of the 55th Division did not hesitate anymore, and immediately ordered a regiment and the whole regiment to attack, and it was necessary to break through the blocking position in one fell swoop. The other 5 regiments did not need to be deployed, nor did they need to build positions, they kept marching columns, and once one regiment broke through the blocking position, the whole division followed. Because he was sure that the division of the Jin Sui Army was going to destroy the 26 Brigade, then he would definitely send a large number of troops to encircle and annihilate it, and it was only a small force that was blocking here, and as long as he quickly broke through the blocking position and rushed over, he would be caught off guard by the Jin Sui Army. What he didn't know was that it was his misjudgment that completely ruined his troops and his surname.

Xu Fang, who was observing the enemy's situation in the shelter on the mountain, was overjoyed when he saw the arrangement of the 55th Division, and shouted: "Providence!" Providence! "Immediately change the order to first attack the front-line troops after killing and wounding a large number of the enemy. All 60mm mortars were ordered to open fire on enemy attack formations as soon as the enemy's attacking forces were 200 meters from the front line. At the same time, all 75mm mountain artillery and 82 mortars concentrated on the five regiments on standby.

According to the general rule, artillery positions should also be located at least 2 miles from the front line. In that way, the current positions of the five regiments of the 55th Division are all outside the range of mountain artillery. But what they absolutely did not expect was that someone would set up an artillery position at the front of the first line, and it was still on the mountain. This setting suddenly increased the firing range of the 75mm mountain gun by four or five thousand meters, and his troops were now all far within the range of the artillery.

The regiment attacked by the 55th Division, the three battalions were arranged in echelons, all of which were loaded with bayonets, and the regiment commander personally led the guard company to supervise the formation in the rear. Without any artillery preparations, as the order was given, the shouts began to charge. Suddenly, there was a muffled sound of "bang" 60mm mortar fire behind the blocking position, followed by dozens of clouds of smoke and dust in the attacking queue of the battalion rushing to the front, and shrapnel and gravel flew everywhere wrapped in flesh and blood. Hundreds of light and heavy machine guns and several thousand rifles and submachine guns from the blocking positions on the hills on both sides began to fire fiercely, and the dense and violent rain of bullets and the shrapnel scattered by the mortars immediately knocked down more than half of the soldiers of the battalion who rushed to the forefront. Almost at the same time, a sharp whistling sound flew high over the attacking regiment, flew over their heads, and plunged fiercely into the dense and neat queue of the five regiments waiting to follow. Nearly 100 shells of 75mm mountain artillery and 82 mortars exploded violently in the crowd, and suddenly a piece of blood and stumps and broken arms rose in the crowd, and the commander of the 55th Division was torn to pieces by two mountain artillery shells that fell beside him at the same time before he had time to regret it. The smoke and dust from the continuous rapid and dense artillery fire soon obscured the ranks of the five regiments.

Since the first round of shells landed, the five regiments were blown up in disarray, and many of them rushed backwards, all wanting to leave the brigade as soon as possible and get out of the shelling range. However, their run immediately led to the rout of the brigade, and those who had already been lying on the spot to avoid the cannon also immediately got up and joined the fleeing team.

The first regiment of the 55th Division, which was attacking, did not flinch when the first round of 60mm mortar shells fell on the attacking team, and even when the dense and ferocious light and heavy machine gun fire from the blocking position was fired, it continued to shout and charge, although the people in the charging team were constantly killed and knocked down by bullets. The fierce and powerful style of the Northwest Army was undoubtedly revealed at this time. However, the dense and violent explosions in the positions of the five regiments behind them, and the scene of the bombed crowd fleeing frantically, completely dissipated their morale. The commander of the first regiment supervising the battle knew that there was no possibility of breaking through the position, and now it was a question of whether his regiment could be kept. Immediately ordered the entire regiment to retreat.

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