Hirose Shousuke looked at the direction of the attack very helplessly, at the moment it is more appropriate to say that it is helpless than desperate, he didn't expect that the middle [***] defending the city would be so difficult to deal with? At this moment, there has been a trace of fish white on the horizon, and more than three hours of hard fighting have been fruitless? Judging from the more than 500 wounded who were carried down the position, at least more than 500 imperial officers and soldiers were smashed in front of the enemy's position.

At 8:40 a.m. on 10 March, the Sixth Division of the Chinese Army, under the personal supervision of its division commander Itamoto Masaemon, fought fiercely for five hours, and after suffering more than 2,000 casualties, finally broke through the last line of defense of the Chinese defenders from the right flank, and about 200 remnants of the Chinese defenders fled in a rout.

It can be said that such rapid progress made Itamoto Masaemon himself a little surprised, Itamoto Masaemon knew very well that if it was the previous battle, the Sixth Division suffered more than 2,000 casualties before it broke through the enemy's three blocking lines, and I am afraid that he, the division commander, would not be able to escape the condemnation of the commander.

However, the situation in Chengde is special, in contrast, the 8th Division is still struggling to fight the impregnable Seng Guanfeng, while the 10th Division and the 14th Division have made no progress, except for their own 6th Division to break through the enemy's defensive line, everything is comparative.

Standing in the forward command post, Itamoto Masaemon looked at the fleeing Chinese soldiers in the artillery team mirror, and was excited, directly attacking the old street in Chengde City, reaching the core area to destroy the [***] headquarters, capturing or killing Zhang Xuewu, it seems that everything is so simple, compared to the remaining three waste divisions, the sixth division must be the first to do miraculous feats!

The soldiers of a battalion under Zhao Xinyu of the newly formed Third Regiment poured soybeans on the bluestone pavement and ice on the street, and the beans rolled to the ground, throwing the Chinese soldiers who poured the beans to the ground.

Zhao Xinyu was extremely shocked to look at the master seat who always had strange tricks, Zhao Xinyu now has more than simply admired Zhang Xuewu, but has upgraded to the point of worship.

However, the loss of armor and abandonment of more than 200 remnants of the fifth battalion of the new third regiment who were responsible for the task of luring the enemy also opened Zhang Xuewu's eyes, while Zhao Xinyu frowned and pressed the pistol holster on his waist and was silent.

Zhang Xuewu didn't say anything, with a battalion slack, the repeated attacks of a brigade and regiment, and more than 200 people could be withdrawn, Zhang Xuewu thought that this battalion commander was a talent, so he smiled at Zhao Xinyu and said: "Yes, the fifth battalion of your regiment has done a very good job of luring the enemy into depth, you must know that the sixth division opposite us is a difficult role, you have to act like Xiao Yue, who will definitely not take the bait, go and call the battalion commander of this battalion, I want to meet!" ”

Hearing the expectation of the division, Zhao Xinyu gave his herald a kick in the ass and said, "Didn't you listen?" Call the fifth battalion commander Hu Zhenglong to come over, do you understand running? ”

But after a while, a typical Northeast man with a tall height ran over, snapped a straight salute and said: "Hu Zhenglong, the commander of the temporary fifth battalion of the new third regiment, has seen the division!" ”

Zhang Xuewu frowned slightly when he listened to Hu Zhenglong's irregular report, and saw Hu Zhenglong's open arms in the cold weather, with two Mauser pistols pinned to his waist, straddled a flower mechanism, and held a Czech-made in his hand. The 1,200 men he brought in were organized into a battalion, and he is now my lieutenant colonel battalion commander! ”

Zhang Xuewu nodded and looked at Hu Zhenglong and said, "How many people are there in your fifth battalion?" ”

Hu Zhenglong was slightly stunned, looked around at the brothers who were sitting on the ground like dead dogs not far away, and said a little bleakly: "Except for the more than 200 people who were lightly and seriously injured, there are only about 200 people left!" ”

Zhang Xuewu nodded and said, "If I hand over the main position in front of the old street to you, are you sure?" ”

The main front of Lao Cai? Hu Zhenglong looked around in confusion, and then said in great surprise: "Behind the old street is the girls' middle school, where is the division headquarters!" ”

Hu Zhenglong was suddenly stunned, because he found that Zhang Xuewu was looking at him with interest, Hu Zhenglong felt a little sad for a while, the world was as black as a crow, and he first spelled miscellaneous cards on the main force, and he knew that it was better to take his brothers and fight like the grass, and now he is being used as cannon fodder on the side ridge of Majiagou and spent a clean one? There are more than 1,200 of his own, and even less than 400 people who are missing arms and legs! What kind of iniquity have you created!

Hu Zhenglong took a deep breath, he knew that it was not so easy to mix in the Central Army, especially for a unit like the newly formed First Division with German instructors holding German weapons.

But if the position of Lao Cai is lost, the girls' middle school where the division headquarters is located will be directly exposed to the attack of the army, and the division seat will not be unclear about the stakes between them, Hu Zhenglong immediately did not hesitate and said: "Please rest assured, I dare not guarantee anything else, the only thing Hu Zhenglong can guarantee is that my fifth battalion headquarters will defend Lao Cai, and I can only step on our corpses, and I can't care so much about my death." ”

Zhang Xuewu smiled slightly and said, "Then you don't want to be the battalion commander!" ”

Yes? Hu Zhenglong was stunned for a moment, and before he could come to his senses, Zhang Xuewu continued: "Draw out a battalion from the division reserve and hand it over to Lieutenant Colonel Hu Zhenglong, deputy of the newly formed Third Regiment, to command and defend the main position of Lao Cai!" Order the 1st Assault Company and the 2nd Assault Company to all concentrate, I want to speak! ”

Soon, within the girls' secondary school, the first assault company and the second assault company, two reinforced companies with 189 men each, were assembled.

These two assault companies are specially prepared by Zhang Xuewu for the street fighting, each squad is a standard sixteen people, a combat group of eight people, each person is equipped with two Mauser pistols, P-18 submachine guns, each combat group is equipped with a Czech-made light machine gun, Zhang Xuewu because he disarmed the two reinforced regiments of Tang Yulin's pistol brigade, so now the richest is the Mauser pistol, which is commonly known as the barge gun, Tang Yulin's batch of Mauser pistols are all real 28 rapid-fire models imported from Germany, equipped with inserted ten and twenty rounds of magazines, Its standard cowhide companion is six ten-round magazines and four twenty-round magazines, for a total of one hundred and forty rounds.

Du Kefeng, the commander of the first assault company, and Deng Li, the commander of the second assault company, are both company commanders with the rank of major, and the reason is mainly because these two companies are directly under the division headquarters, and it can be said that Zhang Xuewu has the most elite troops at hand except for the division reconnaissance battalion. The task of these two companies was to use the dense houses on the left and right sides of the old street to maximize the casualties of the infiltration troops.