On March 2, the 22nd year of the Republic of China, the reconnaissance cavalry of the Yue army had appeared on the periphery of Chengde as a squadron, and after a short exchange of fire with the defenders' defensive positions, the cavalry of the Yue army quickly retreated.

Zhang Xuewu held a meeting of officers above the division and battalion, after the hall on the first floor of the girls' middle school, Zhang Xuewu stood on the stairs and looked at the heroic faces under the stage, maybe after this bloody battle, many people, including himself, will spill their blood on this land!

Zhang Xuewu took a deep breath and said, "Brothers! I can tell you clearly that the [***] troops of Rehe are now retreating to the front line of the Great Wall, and Chengde has become the only salient department. ”

Zhang Xuewu paused slightly, and said in a slightly slowed tone: "Chairman Jiang of the Nanjing side gave me an edict, that is, when there is a great disparity between the enemy and us, grant me the right to transfer at the right of opportunity, and I cannot be easily sacrificed!" More than 100,000 troops were defeated like a mountain, can my newly formed first division alone create a miracle and turn the tide? The reason why a miracle is called a miracle is because its chances are slim, but your nation has reached the point of final sacrifice, so do you laugh at us as an army made of sand? After the Shenyang Incident, we left our parents, brothers and sisters, wives and children and left their hometowns and were scolded by others, what the hell are we doing? Do we have to leave all the four northeastern provinces clean before we know the heartache? The reorganization and expansion of the Central Army is imminent, and most of us who have returned to the front line of the Great Wall will be able to live, and we will be promoted to knighthood, and there is only one way to die if we stay here, and now I let you all choose for yourself! Fight or retreat! ”

After a short silence, Huang Tao, Li Xinkai, Xu Guohui and others, who were hinted at by Zhang Xuewu, took the lead in shouting: Martyrdom for the country! Swear to live and die with Chengde! Go back to your hometown in the Northeast! Martyrdom for the country! Swear to live and die with Chengde! Go back to your hometown in the Northeast!

In the wave after wave of slogans, Zhang Xuewu breathed a sigh of relief, the morale of the new first division is like a rainbow army, and the heart is still ready to fight! Officers and soldiers from the northeast who were bent on fighting to the death to atone for the crime of abandoning the three eastern provinces swore to prepare for war to the death.

Zhang Xuewu is determined to defend alone in Chengde, the capital of Rehe, which has been abandoned in history! At 2:35 p.m., 16 planes bombed and strafed Chengde, and more than a dozen streets in Chengde were hit by bombs and burst into flames.

In the early morning of March 3, the 22nd year of the Republic of China, as the thin morning fog dissipated, the tall sharp-billed monkey was not tall, and the commander of the 10th Division of the Yue Army, Lieutenant General Hirose Shousuke, with snow-white gloves and a telescope to look in the direction of Chengde, and a fog in the telescope made Hirose Shousuke very disappointed.

In contrast, the commander of the 14th Division, Naoliang Matsuki, who was tall and pockmarked with a thin face, stood in front of the artillery mirror to observe the terrain on the front line of Laohugou, the 10th Division and the 14th Division both arrived at night, and last night the two divisions launched a squadron and brigade-sized attempt attack along the side ridge of Laohugou and Majiagou respectively.

What is even more dazzling is the more than 300 corpses under the ice slope, before the attacking troops arrived at the position of the defenders at night, they found that the original gentle slope of nearly 300 meters was all covered by ice, and the hard-soled suede shoes were even a problem to stand, let alone attack, except for a small number of lucky ones who withdrew from the battle in time, and the remnants of the Yue army, which were blocked under the position by the defenders' firepower, were almost frozen into popsicles after a night of severe cold.

Same as the 14th Division, the 10th Division's tentative attack also hit the iron plate, and the two divisions that had almost not fired a bullet all the way were blocked under the city of Chengde at the same time, out of their own selfish expansion of ** and contempt for the [***] team, Hirose Shousuke did not cooperate with Matsuki Naoliang, and the two division commanders almost tacitly sent a report to their respective commanders, Itamoto Masaemon and Nishiyoshiichi, Itamoto Masaemon and Nishiyichi also chose to forget each other, and gave the fat to the friendly army a piece of the pie? It is said that the Imperial Army has never had such a tradition.

In anyone's opinion, with the strength of more than 20,000 troops of a standing division of the Imperial Army, attacking a city defended by only one division is simply making a fuss, not to mention that two divisions are attacking the same city, and there are many divisions in the middle of a division. Therefore, the 10th Division and the 14th Division did not have the necessary surname for joint operations at all, and in fact, what Hirose Shousuke and Naoaki Matsuki were most concerned about was the issue of distinguishing the command of joint operations.

Since they are not willing to accept the command of the other party, then the surname Suo will fight their own fights, and those who enter Chengde first will get the first credit! Hirose Shousuke and Naori Matsuki made a so-called gentleman's agreement, but this agreement was more like a challenge.

Zhang Xuewu nervously stood in the temporary command post in the basement of the girls' middle school, because of the bombing of the plane, Zhang Xuewu was forcibly transferred to the basement, after all, the guns and shrapnel had no eyes, and the positions of the two divisions and brigades that the army had arrived in Chengde were all marked.

The headquarters of the 10th Division of the Chinese Army attacked the side ridge of Majiagou where Zhao Xinyu's division of the 3rd Regiment was stationed, while the 14th Division of the Chinese Army attacked Laohugou, and the first to attack was the 8th Brigade of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army. The tactics of using barrage Xu Jin to force the main attack on the main position of the Chinese defenders on the Majiagou side ridge with the two brigades of the 16th Infantry Wing as the main force, and at the same time to use all the main forces of the 17th Infantry Wing to attack the right flank position on the Majiagou side ridge, Enbe Kazuichiro at the same time concealed the remaining two brigades of the 16th Infantry Wing and drove them into an ambush under the left flank position of the Majiagou side ridge, once the Chinese defenders drew troops from the left flank to reinforce the right flank, Then the army hidden under the position of the left flank will open a breakthrough to Chengde with a single blow.

Boom! Rumble! As the army rained down a dense rain of bullets, it rose into the sky, and the ice and snow dust that filled the air were mixed with shrapnel flying wantonly.

Dressed in overcoats, leather hats, hard-soled suede shoes, and carrying Meiji-style walking equipment, the soldiers of the Yue army lined up on the thick snow and pushed to the starting position of the attack with great effort, and when they advanced 300 meters away, the stragglers began to lie down and dig individual bunkers.

From the beginning of the engagement, Zhang Xuewu took Meitlin and several other German advisers to the Majiagou Side Ridge where Zhao Xinyu's Department of the Third Regiment was stationed to supervise the battle.

"Shizuo personally took the German advisers to the battlefield, and they all give you spiritual points! If you lose the face of our three regiments, I can't spare you! Zhao Xinyu called the commander of each of his battalions, saying the same set of rhetoric, because of the incorporation of more than 7,000 people in the Tang Army, the reserves in Zhao Xinyu's hands have surged from one battalion to two reinforced battalions, so he has the confidence to speak.