Out of Wusheng, the south of the pass is a hilly landform, but the more south the hills are less and lower, dozens of kilometers later is the endless Jianghan Plain. There are only occasionally small hills on the plain, to be exact, large mounds, which are only a few tens of meters horizontally high, and basically do not exceed a hundred meters.

Han Guang, the commander of the cavalry brigade, still remembers Wei Guanghui's explanation, has been restraining the troops, and all the way through the march is a decent march, which can suffocate the cavalry who are used to galloping on the grassland, especially some Mongolian soldiers. Leaving Song Zhewu's sight at this moment, Han Guang just smiled at the cavalry running with joy. Seeing that the brigade commander did not interfere, and several regiment commanders were also young people in their 20s, they immediately commanded the troops and ran all the way south.

Behind them were more than 300 trucks carrying more than 9,000 troops from the Special Brigade and the 1st Regiment of the 2nd Division. In order to carry out Song Zhewu's plan to attack Wuhan, the cavalry brigade and the second division and one regiment formed an advance group, which was personally commanded by Gao Zongbao, and rushed to Xiaogan in advance to open the way for the army. The task of the special brigade was to infiltrate Hankou and Hanyang in the early morning of the 2nd, control the Hankou railway station, airport, Hanyang Arsenal and other key centers, and cooperate with the follow-up troops to occupy Wuhan.

The advance group marched quickly and arrived in Xiaogan at noon. The vanguard cavalry reported that the blocking position of Xiaogan's Yang Tenghui division was just ahead, and there was a brigade of Gui troops, and a regiment immediately got out of the car and marched towards Xiaogan in battle formation. The special brigade changed into Guijun clothes and set off in the direction of Wuhan on a detour, which had been prepared in advance as early as Laiyuan. The more than 300 empty trucks immediately returned to their original routes to pick up the follow-up troops.

When Song Zhewu and Xiao Guodong rushed to the headquarters of the Second Division near Xiaogan with their headquarters, it was already more than 3 o'clock in the afternoon, but the two subsequent regiments also caught up one after another. Song Zhewu and Xiao Guodong went straight to the headquarters of the Second Division as soon as they got off their horses.

In the headquarters of the Second Division, Gao Zongbao was holding an operational meeting. As soon as Song Zhewu and Xiao Guodong came in, everyone stood up, and Gao Zongbao gave up his seat. Song Zhewu waved his hand to stop him and asked him to continue organizing the meeting, and he and Xiao Guodong sat down beside Gao Zongbao.

Gao Zongbao first introduced the situation to Song Zhewu and Xiao Guodong: "According to reconnaissance, Yang Tenghui's division of the Seventh Army of Xia Wei of the Gui Army is stationed in the Xiaogan area, and a brigade is to build a defensive position around the two small heights in front of us; A brigade was stationed west of Xiaogan to defend against the Northwest Army in the direction of Nanyang; The division headquarters and directly subordinate troops, as well as a brigade, were stationed in Xiaogan City. The brigade in front of us had built semi-circular fortifications on two heights of less than 60 meters, one large and one small, and a regiment was stationed on the high ground on the north side, which had been taken by us an hour earlier. The attack on the high ground on the south side was unsuccessful, mainly because the enemy had built a lot of underground bunkers, and the enemy hid in bunkers during the shelling, so the artillery fire did not kill the enemy much. Moreover, these enemies are so fierce that they dare to take the initiative to fight with us with bayonets. Now that the 2nd and 3rd Regiments have arrived, we plan to first carry out the artillery bombardment with the artillery battalions of the 1st Regiment and the artillery of the battalions, and then launch an attack with the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 1st Regiment in the east and the 3rd and 4th Battalions in the north. Lure the enemy into the position, the attacking force stops the attack when it charges to a distance of 200 meters from the enemy's position, and then concentrates all the artillery fire of the three regiments to saturate the enemy's position, annihilate the enemy who has entered the position, and then the attacking force rushes to the enemy's position in one fell swoop. The third regiment was in reserve, and the second regiment was deployed on both sides of the heights first, and after the first regiment occupied the heights, the first and second regiments simultaneously attacked the enemy's semi-circular fortifications behind the mountain from both inside and outside, completely annihilating the brigade. ”

Song Zhewu looked at Xiao Guodong, and Xiao Guodong nodded. Song Zhewu turned to Gao Zongbao and said, "I basically agree with your plan, we often use this tactic in peacetime exercises, and I believe that the soldiers will be very proficient." Powerful firepower is our strength, and we just want to maximize our strengths to fight. I would like to add a little to your plan: you must have marked the location of the enemy's trenches and fortifications during the last attack. Gao Zongbao nodded, and Song Zhewu continued: "After all, we used to conduct exercises, but this time it is a battlefield with real guns and live ammunition. In order to paralyze the enemy, the artillery of the two regiments had to be tested separately, and the test firing of the three regiments was used as artillery preparation before the attack. After the enemy enters the position, all artillery salvos are concentrated to destroy the enemy who has entered the position in one fell swoop. ”

Song Zhewu looked at his watch and said solemnly: "It's 15:50, and you will attack at 17 o'clock." You still have to refine the specific deployment, but I want to emphasize that the special brigade has already set off, and in the early hours of tomorrow morning, they will start at the same time in Hanyang and Hankou on time, after all, they only have 2,000 people and need the support of a large army. So you must take this high ground before 20 o'clock tonight, open the way for our truck fleet and surround Xiaogan. ”

At this time, the reconnaissance staff officer came in and reported: "The enemy's brigade west of Xiaogan has driven back to Xiaogan. ”

Xiao Guodong smiled and said, "It's good to come back, this is just so that you can be surrounded together." Xiaogan can surround it, just don't let Yang Tenghui come out, and don't ask you to attack the city and annihilate the enemy. We don't have experience attacking towns, but we can try to attack and gain experience for the future. You must conscientiously carry out the commander's intention, that is, to give full play to our superiority, kill and wound the enemy with powerful firepower, and reduce our casualties. ”

Back at the headquarters, Xiao Guodong was busy going to various parts of the staff to check the troop movement plan, material supply and many other matters, after all, this army is still too young, such a long-distance march has no experience, Xiao Guodong is not at ease. Song Zhewu hurried to eat, because Song Zhewu had not yet eaten lunch because he was in a hurry to march.

An hour later, Song Zhewu was already standing in the forward observation post of the Second Division, and Song Zhewu told Gao Zongbao to continue to command, not to ask him for instructions, and he lay on an artillery observation scope specially prepared for him and could not get up.

The artillery test firing began on time at 17 o'clock, first the second regiment test firing, although it was a test firing, but the power was also very amazing. Each regiment of the Security Army has an artillery battalion, one battalion contains two artillery batteries equipped with nine 75mm mountain guns; Two artillery batteries armed with 18 82 mortars. Each infantry battalion had a machine gun company, consisting of two platoons each armed with six 82 mortars. Each infantry platoon had a squad armed with 3 60mm mortars. An infantry regiment had a total of 18 75mm mountain guns, 66 82 mortars, and 172 60mm mortars. These cannons add up to 256 guns. The power of the test launch of the 256 Gate Run was absolutely amazing, and the Gui position on the opposite side was immediately blown up in smoke and dust, and the logs used to build the position were scattered in all directions. Song Zhewu saw an enemy's heavy machine gun position, and I don't know whether it was directly hit by the shells of the 75mm mountain gun or the 82 mortar, and the people inside and the parts blown up by the heavy machine gun flew into the air.

Each gun of the 2nd Regiment stopped after three test shots. After a momentary pause, the artillery of the 3rd regiment continued to rain bullets on the enemy's positions......

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