How far is it from Chengde? Shen Ke, who had an anxious expression on his face, had already thrown off his coat, and two more Syrian army biplane reconnaissance planes had spotted them two hours earlier, and with the help of two more Syrian army biplane reconnaissance planes circling nearby, although Shen Ke organized machine gun fire to drive them away, the Japanese army's reconnaissance planes were buzzing around like nasty mosquitoes.

There are so many military reconnaissance planes in the sky over you, but there are no destroyers and bombers? Shen Ke had already realized that the ground forces of the Yue Army were probably galloping towards him!

The tactical staff officer on the side rolled up the map and said helplessly: "Division, there are still fifty miles!" ”

Shen Ke took a deep breath and said, "Order the whole division to abandon the baggage and move forward lightly, be fast!" Be sure to be fast! ”

Travel light! Travel light! The officers and men of the 106th Division, who were exhausted, were slightly stunned when they heard this order, and the equipment was the old foundation of the troops! Until the last resort, they will never move forward lightly, because the discarded equipment and materials may not be replenished in two or three years, and moving forward lightly means that there are two possibilities, one is that Chengde is already in danger, and the second possibility is that they were bitten by themselves.

The blue-faced Xiyiyi looked at an unknown dot on the map wrapped in a thick coat and said, "Here! Right here, order the automatic convoy to go immediately to the cavalry wing and intercept the reinforcements in the middle [***]! ”

Lieutenant General Xi Yiyi, commander of the Eighth Division of the Army, learned from the plane reconnaissance report that there was actually a brigade of troops along the way [***] who was moving towards Chengde and the Eighth Division. If it weren't for the two consecutive confirmations by the reconnaissance planes of the flight team, Xi Yiyi would have thought that the severe cold of Rehe had caused those pilots to hallucinate, and since the meat was delivered to the door, Xi Yiyi naturally had no reason not to eat it! Xi Yiyi didn't know that the strength of the so-called brigade was actually a Chinese division with a serious shortage of staff!

All the officers and men of the 106th Division have turned off the radio station since they crossed the pass, Shen Ke knows the danger of this battle, he really can't believe the bigwigs of the military branch, he is afraid that his telegram has just arrived, and the back foot says that he also knows it, but even so, he still has not escaped the patrol of the reconnaissance plane, Shen Ke can only hope that he will quickly get rid of the encirclement of the Yue army after dark, and rush into Chengde in one go, which can be regarded as an explanation to Zhang Xueliang!

In the snow, the Chinese soldiers were panting and marching forward with difficult steps, and the weapons on their bodies and grenades made the clanging sound of collision from time to time, and the only few mortars and heavy machine guns of the 106th Division were protected in the middle of the marching column.

Feet on the creaking, creaking snow, the mountains in the distance become blurred with the westward sun, the winter Rehe gets dark very early, and as the sun disappears, the temperature seems to drop by a few degrees in an instant? The nasty military reconnaissance plane in the air also disappeared!

Marching on the snow is almost a great test of human physical fitness, the soldiers in front are struggling, but the soldiers behind fall on the solid and smooth snow that is trampled from time to time, and from time to time there are extremely tired soldiers who fall to the ground unconsciously, and the comrades on the side will quickly help them up, at this time it is impossible to stop, because once the big man stops, it is equivalent to suicide, but there are also some soldiers who fall headlong on the side of the road without noticing! After two and a half days of sleepless travel of more than 300 miles, the officers and men of the 106th Division did not know how they managed to persevere.

In the end, the two legs still failed to outrun the four wheels, and it can be said that in many specific circumstances, the legs of the infantry could not outrun the four wheels of motorized cars, and it was obvious that the 106th Division did not encounter any miracles, and on a small hill that was not even marked on the military map of the 106th Division, the 4th Infantry Brigade finally intercepted the 106th Division.

Tracer bullets whipped like chains of fire on the snow, a dozen or a dozen white flares rose into the air, the sound of artillery explosions mixed with the dull sound of grenade explosions, and the advancing Chinese soldiers were suddenly in a mess under the chaotic rain of bullets like flying locusts.

Some officers were brandishing pistols to beckon the soldiers beside them to stabilize their defense, and on the one hand, they sent people to report the situation to the division headquarters behind, and these officers wielding pistols soon became excellent targets for the Japanese army, and soon they all fell in pools of blood, and the bullets hit the snow and burst into a pillar of snow more than one meter high.

Some of the Chinese soldiers in a panic lay on the spot and did not know what to call back, while others ran in all directions! The vanguard of the 106th Division fell into a state of collapse in an instant.

The gunfire in front of him made Shen Ke's nerves tense violently, this place is only less than ten kilometers away from Chengde, and when he encounters an ambush by the Yue army here, it is self-evident what the problem is, what should I do? Shen Ke already knew that he had no way out, the Yue army had five divisions and several brigades in Rehe, and there were two divisions of the Yue army on the periphery of Chengde alone, and the 106th Division, which had maintained radio silence along the way, did not know whether the strength of the Yue army besieging the city had undergone major changes.

Shen Ke first immediately ordered the radio station to be turned on to contact the branch of the Beiping Army, and then ordered the whole division to attack the flank of the position of the Yue Army in front of him, and after breaking through the defense of the Yue Army, he wanted to attack and advance in Chengde at all costs, and contacted the newly formed First Division of the Chengde garrison to respond.

Shen Ke looked at the panicked officers and soldiers beside him and said loudly: "Brothers! It's only one step away from Chengde here, and I said that I was a beast with two legs, and I surrendered as a prisoner? He said that he didn't want to be taken prisoner, they would treat you all as a target for assassination, and falling into their hands would be worse than death, and there would be a glimmer of life in a battle to the death! Today is the day when we are martyred for the country, in order to atone for our sin of losing the three northeastern provinces without a fight! Brothers, rush with me! ”

Under the exemplary role of the division commander Shen Ke, the Chinese soldiers who fell into chaos in the dark night instinctively gathered around a large group of people, Shen Ke took the lead in rushing to the front of the troops with a Czech-made light machine gun, and the officers and soldiers of the 106th Division knew very well that if they could not break through the resistance of the Japanese army, then they would all be buried in this wilderness and snow, becoming a frozen and abandoned corpse, torn by wild wolves and wild dogs, until spring, little by little, decaying into the earth.

The anxious Shen Ke led his troops like a steel knife into the relatively weak right flank of the Fourth Infantry Brigade of the Yue Army, and Major General Mitsu Suzuki of the Fourth Infantry Brigade of the Yue Army did not expect that the ambushed Zhong [***] would be able to quickly put into a counterattack? It took at least an hour for the main force of the 4th Infantry Brigade to reach the battlefield, and only two squadrons of troops were defending the relatively weak right flank.

The motorized march of the Yue army only arrived in the battlefield area ten minutes earlier than the 106th Division, and the Yue army did not have time to dig bunkers and fortifications, and the two warring sides were almost lying in the snow and shooting at each other.

But tonight, I was destined to be extremely disappointed, because the 106th Division, which was trying to survive in death, was like a sharp knife that was fiercely inserted into the ambush position of the Yue army, and in the fierce hand-to-hand combat, the two infantry squadrons on the right flank of the Yue army were suddenly overwhelmed by the dense flow of Chinese soldiers pouring in from the darkness, and the white assault on which the Yue army relied on its pride hardly played a role.

"Onward! Advance! Brethren, don't stop! Shen Ke shouted to the officers and soldiers beside him to move forward bravely, and their bravery proved that the myth of the invincibility of the army was nonsense.

Major General Mitsu Suzuki, commander of the 4th Brigade of the Army, constantly mobilized troops to attack the weak flanks of Zhong[***], but even if he suffered heavy casualties, Zhong[***] still did not love to fight, and stubbornly broke through in the direction of Chengde.

In the dark and cold winter night, more than 6,000 officers and men of the 106th Division bravely assaulted in the direction of Chengde.

The main force of the 36th Division commanded by the commander of the 36th Infantry Brigade of the 8th Division, Major General of the 36th Brigade of the Eighth Division, and the 106th Division collided like a torrent.

The 106th Division, which had a strong enemy in front and pursuers in the rear, fell into an unprecedented and tragic battle with the Yue army in a large wilderness.