On May 5, it was 8:10 in Shangmu.

In the former enemy headquarters of the Heilongjiang Front Army in Zhaodong County, Zhang Xueliang got up early in the morning and received an urgent military report from the front line.

"Jiang Chao's sixth commander-in-chief on the northern flank reported that the front and right flanks of the Red 29th Division found a large number of troops of the Trotten Bandit Army at the same time, and it was suspected that they were the main force of the Second Army of the Trotten Bandit Army, and the vanguard of the Red 29th Division had begun to exchange fire with the enemy, and the main force of the division was deploying to seize the favorable terrain and arrange defense. At present, the location of the Red 29th Division is about 10 kilometers northeast of Lindian County, and it is about 12 kilometers away from the Red 30. Sun Mingjiu's voice was calm and indifferent, and seeing that Zhang Xueliang did not say the slightest, he picked up another telegram: "Commander-in-Chief Rong of the Southern Wing reports that after a day and night of fighting, the enemy in front of our department has retreated in the direction of Qiqihar, and according to investigation, the enemy blocking our department is the ...... of the Bandit Army" Sun Mingjiu said and picked up another telegram, looked at it and read: "The Red Air Force reconnaissance report, a large number of Gang Gang troops have been found in the northeast and north of Lindian County, 5 kilometers to 15 kilometers northeast, and the total strength is estimated to be more than 50,000, in addition to a large number of artillery positions... Jiang Dengxuan is also worthy of being a veteran general who has been in battle for a long time, and he did not get carried away because of his superiority in strength, but sent a large number of scouts to search and reconnoiter in front of the Fifth Route Army, and as a result, in the early morning of May 5, the search company of the Red 29th Division Cavalry Regiment found the main force of the Alliance Army (Bandit Army)!

Judging from the current situation, it seems that the alliance army does not intend to hide itself, but has spread out its troops generously, and it seems that it is ready to fight a dignified battle! And the target of their attack was also obvious, that is, the Red 29th Division, the northernmost flank of the Red Army's Ninth Route Army. It seems that the opponent wants to concentrate his forces to break it in the shortest possible time, and then sweep the entire northern flank of the Heilongjiang Front from the flank.........

What surprised Zhang Xueliang was that the other party actually concentrated all his forces, ignored the rest of the troops on the northern flank, and attacked the Red 29th Division with all his might, this style of play was almost a gamble! Isn't Wang Zhongyi not at all worried that his main force will be outflanked by his own four divisions?

"Comrade Commander! The Trotto army appeared on the flank of our northern flank, and the weak strength of the Red 29th Division may not be able to support it for long. Now Commander-in-Chief Jiang asks for instructions, should he shrink his forces to the south, or concentrate the main force to go north and repel the Trotten bandit army? Sun Mingjiu took another telegram from the communications staff officer and read it aloud. This is Jiang Dengxuan sent to ask for instructions on how to deploy the battle, this time the Heilongjiang Front Army has no ideological preparation for a decisive battle, just want to rely on the strong force to "force" the bandit army, I didn't expect that Wang Zhongyi actually concentrated the main force to fight with himself, and Jiang Dengxuan, who was the commander-in-chief of the northern wing, was also a little panicked all of a sudden.

Zhang Xueliang just glanced at him, turned his head and asked Ye Ting, the chief of staff who was lying on the map, "Does Brother Xiyi have any opinions?" Ye Ting's face was also a little dignified, he, like Zhang Xueliang, didn't expect that the opponent would really work hard, and he didn't expect that the target and timing chosen by the opponent were just right! This situation is a bit abnormal. Ye Ting shook his head slightly: "The main force of the Trotto bandit army should have been violent, the key now is to see if the Red 29th Division can withstand it, as long as they can hold out until the reinforcements arrive, this battle will be a complete victory for us, otherwise, the Trotten bandit army may destroy our northern flank in turn, and this battle will be our fiasco." As he spoke, he asked Zhang Xueliang rhetorically: "How much time will it take for the eight divisions of the Heilongjiang Front to adjust their deployment and enter the battle?" Ye Ting's question was not asked casually, the current Red Army is different from the Kuomintang Army, and the training and equipment levels of various units are very different, and they are not standardized at all. Therefore, it was impossible for the commander of the Red Army to quickly grasp the situation in the troops after the "change of the guard". Ye Ting, the new chief of staff, is no exception, if he is now commanding the elite of the Red Army, he is confident enough to let one division drag the other party's 50,000 or 60,000 troops, and he also believes that the remaining eight divisions will rush to the battlefield as quickly as possible, but he really has no confidence about this Heilongjiang Front Army, which has just been reorganized from the Northeast Army.

Zhang Xueliang is also bottomless, on the one hand, he also expects that his Northeast Army will be able to increase its combat effectiveness after hanging the brand of the Red Army, and the military leaders at all levels below can also sell their strength at critical moments, don't always regard the troops as the capital for their own promotion and wealth: on the other hand, he is also worried that his northern flank will be completely destroyed by the bandits, so that he will also lose his troops and lose the capital to maintain a low position in the middle G.

Seeing that Zhang Xueliang and Ye Ting were a little hesitant, Sun Mingjiu couldn't help but shout: "Comrade commander, Commander-in-Chief Jiang is still waiting for your instructions!" Now the 29th Division on the northern flank is about to be attacked by the Trotten bandit army, and if the 29th Division is broken, the entire northern flank will be shaken and may even collapse! Now it is necessary to shift the focus of the battle and focus on the northern flank to start a decisive battle with the Trotten bandits! Zhang Xueliang's god was slightly distressed, and at the same time there was some hesitation. He looked at Sun Mingjiu, and finally gritted his teeth and said: "Tell Jiang Chaoliu that the order must stabilize the northern flank, and the Red 29th Division must hold on independently for 12 hours to cover the turn of the whole army!" Before the main force of our army completes the adjustment, if the situation is shaken, only military law will deal with it! …，

"The order is honored, the main force of the southern wing immediately stops advancing, quickly moves closer to the wing, and after meeting with the northern wing, the troops will be handed over to Jiang Xuan for unified command. The transfer shall be completed within 12 hours, and the offender will be severely punished.

Sun Mingjiu saluted and left, trotting all the way to the telecommunications room to give orders. Zhang Xueliang sat down slowly, and smiled bitterly at Ye Ting, the chief of staff who was still frowning and pondering: "I didn't expect this battle to give Wang Zhongyi the first opportunity, it seems that our Heilongjiang Front Army is going to have a bloody battle, and these bandit troops are really fierce to ask the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, have you found a large force of the Trotten Army in the border area between Rehe, Chahar and Ménggu?" Is there any definite information on the deployment of the Trotsky? Now we have so little information that we don't even know how many troops the other side has... Then give an order to Wang Yizhe in Harbin to drive the Red Eighth Army and the heavy artillery brigade directly under the Front Army together. If this battle is not done well, it will be a decisive battle......" Ye Ting threw down the red and blue pen in his hand, and said lightly: "If the main force of the Tuo Bandit Army is placed on the Heilongjiang line to fight a decisive battle with our army, then it will also be a good thing for our overall situation... We have always feared that the Trotskyist army would pin down the main force of the Red Army in the Heilongjiang area and divert the main force to Chahar or Suiyuan, so that they might cut off our party's territory from the middle and open up the land lines of communication with the Kuomintang. It would also be a good thing if this battle could determine that their main force was in Heilongjiang. If we can carry out the decisive battle of the main force in Heilongjiang, relying on the superiority in troops and the continuous logistical supply of the Soviet Union, the final victory will definitely belong to us. …，

Zhang Xueliang smiled and nodded: "What Brother Xiyi said is extremely true, if we can really eliminate these main forces of Trotskyism in Heilongjiang, then we will have a lot of strategic room for maneuver if we take down Méng Gu."

"The Fourth Army has successfully detoured back to the enemy's right flank, and now it has begun to flank!" A joyful exclamation suddenly loosened the atmosphere of the former enemy headquarters of the Alliance Army in Lindian County. The key to the success or failure of this battle was to defeat the northern flank defended by the Red 29th Division in the shortest possible time, and the outflanking of the Fourth Army of the Alliance Army was the key among the keys. Now the Red 29th Division will be flanked from the northwest, and a cavalry brigade assigned to the Fourth Army can also threaten the eastern side of the Red 29th Division...... Under the siege on three sides, with the old foundation of the Northeast Army, most of the Red 29th Division was about to be defeated and retreated.

Seeing that the staff officers were talking there, Lin Yurong just looked at his watch and said to himself: "The Red 29th Division must be defeated within three hours, otherwise the Red 30th Division will join the battle...... Send a telegram to Commander Shen, ordering him to crush the Red 29th Division in the first attack! Don't be afraid of losses, don't be afraid of wasting shells, don't fall in love with the Red 29th Division after repulsing it, immediately use your forces for the Red 30th Division, and likewise do whatever it takes to defeat it in the shortest possible time. He walked to the front of the map and stared at the large wasteland around Lindian County with heavy eyes, and suddenly felt a little irritable: "Really...... Brothers read the wall, and don't look at the general trend of the world! ”

At this moment, in the northern part of this great wilderness, the sound of artillery has been resounding all over the world, and since 10:30 this morning, the artillery mortars on both sides have begun to desperately "fire" shells as if they were not paying for money. Of course, the vast majority of this firepower was fired by nearly 300 Min-13 Type 75-mm mountain guns owned by the eight artillery regiments of the Union Army. Most of these cannons were originally stored by the Northeast Army in the warehouse of Songbei Camp in Heilongjiang, and were later obtained by Wang Zhongyi's troops, and now they have become a sharp weapon for them to bombard the Red 29th Division adapted from the Northeast Army!

These simple and lightweight Namm mountain guns were placed on the forward position, lined up in a row, and the position of the Red 29th Division on the opposite side was a fierce bombardment. The 300 cannons roared at the same time, and the shells rained down like droplets, and clusters of orange flames exploded one after another on the hastily arranged positions. Since the Red 29th Division was caught off guard by the Allied Army, it did not have time to build continuous positions and strong anti-artillery fortifications. Nearly 15,000 officers and men of the division were violently attacked by the enemy. For a time, the artillery group repeatedly slapped, and the shards of steel flew wantonly, harvesting lives to their heart's content, turning the entire position held by the Red 29th Division into a terrifying hell,.........,

Artillery fire is like thunder, bayonets are like a forest.

As soon as the 30 minutes of artillery fire were ready, tens of thousands of infantry of the Allied Army faced the sporadic "fire" from the positions of the Red 29th Division and advanced along the road opened by the artillery fire. These Red Army, which had been reorganized from the Northeast Army, were apparently stunned by the sudden heavy artillery fire, and it was not until the assault Union soldiers rushed almost under their noses that they began to organize effective resistance, and machine gun and rifle fire began to fire intensively. One by one, the Red Army infantry who survived the artillery fire stared at the Union infantry who were swarming forward in front of them, firing desperately.

The Soviet-made M1910 Maxim machine gun emitted a heavy "firing" sound that resounded on the entire front.

However, the Red 29th Division's resistance ended there, suffering heavy casualties due to the overwhelming coverage of Xing artillery fire. It was also attacked by the enemy's superior infantry several times its own. This is just a red flag, and the others are all changing the soup and not changing the "medicine", and the former Northeast Army Infantry Division has only resisted for an hour, and it has already fallen into a state of collapse!

The battle report from the front line was quickly delivered to Lin Yurong.

"Good! After a good fight, an hour and a half of them was crushed by one of their divisions. In the headquarters of Lindian County, Lin Yurong finally couldn't hold back his excitement, and couldn't help praising the phone: "Comrade Yizhi, this can be regarded as the prestige of our alliance army!" However, the next combat mission is still very heavy, you don't want to fight, just defeat the Red 29th Division, and then count the Red 30th Division...... Knock them off one by one! Did the cavalry send out? Okay, let the cavalry brigade go after the remnants of the Red 29th Division...... We must break through the northern flank of the enemy army as soon as possible, not to annihilate them completely, but only to break them. On the side of the Red Army, Zhang Xueliang also grabbed the phone and earphones, and listened to the unfavorable news from the northern wing command with a pale face.

The Trotskyist army has an absolute advantage in artillery fire, has excellent "shooting" technology, and has sufficient ammunition and "medicine." At the beginning, it was bombarded with intensive artillery fire, causing heavy casualties to the headquarters of the Red 29th Division. The headquarters of the 57th Brigade was hit by enemy artillery fire, and the brigade commander Shen Ke was seriously wounded. The artillery battalion of the Red 29th Division was simply unable to suppress the opposing artillery group......

After the artillery was prepared, the Trotskyist army quickly launched an infantry attack.

Tens of thousands of infantry rushed to the front of the Red 29th Division with the tactics of crowds, achieved a breakthrough in a very short time, and launched a white-knuckle melee with the officers and men of the Red 29th Division, trying to use the absolute superiority in numbers to annihilate the Red 29th Division! And Liu Duoquan, the commander of the Red 29th Division, decisively ordered a retreat after seeing through the conspiracy of the bandits to preserve the living force.

Zhang Xueliang lost the ability to judge almost for a while, and in just one and a half hours, an entire division of troops was actually defeated by the enemy with a sea of fire and a sea of people! And now the four divisions on his southern flank have not yet completed the assembly, let alone marched north. The remaining four divisions on the northern flank have just completed the turn, and only the Red 30th Division has moved north to reinforce the Red 29th Division, but I am afraid that it will soon encounter the Trotten bandit army that broke the Red 29th Division, and now another division will fight 50,000 or 60,000 people! If the Red 30th Division is defeated again, there will only be three divisions left on its northern flank...... Will they be able to hold back the main force of the Trotters before the four divisions on the southern flank come up? Even if they can hold back the main force of the trotten bandits and turn the situation around together with the four Red Army divisions that came up later, how many casualties and losses will there be? Will you use up all your money?

Jiang Dengxuan, the commander of the Red Eleventh Army and the commander-in-chief of the northern wing, was heard in the telephone headset, asking for reinforcements in a hoarse voice. Artillery reinforcement is required, more reinforcements are needed, and the Air Force is required to immediately dispatch to suppress enemy artillery. And Zhang Xueliang fell into his own thoughts for a while, and did not answer.

Ye Ting, chief of staff of the Heilongjiang Front, was quite calm. He and several staff officers drew on the sand table, and finally shouted at Zhang Xueliang: "Comrade commander, the combat effectiveness of the Trotten bandit army is indeed very strong, but their focus on breaking through the northern flank of our army will create a favorable battlefield situation for us. Our northern flank can become a target for a decisive battle to attract the main forces of the Trotskyist army. We can order the northern flank to go on the defensive, build fortifications on the spot, and fight a war of attrition with them...... You must know that we have a steady stream of weapons, ammunition, ammunition and material replenishment from the Soviet Union behind us, and they can only rely on the war materials stored before the war to fight, and if we start a war of attrition, we will soon see the bottom! Moreover, we are still close to the railway behind us, so we can quickly transport the troops in the rear, and when the time comes, we will be able to reverse the situation in one fell swoop, and even annihilate the main force of the Trotten bandit army on the front line of Heilongjiang in one fell swoop! Chief of Staff Ye Ting's suggestion seemed to wake up Zhang Xueliang, the combat effectiveness of the Totoist army is very strong, but they are far inferior to the Red Army in terms of strength and logistical supplies. Therefore, if you really want to fight the main battle, the advantage is still on your side...... And even if you want to preserve your strength, you can't retreat now, and if you retreat, I'm afraid it will become a collapse of the whole line. The best thing to do is to order their northern flank to hold on to the spot, and if the Trotter army wants to preserve its strength, they will naturally retreat. On the contrary, the main force of the Red Army in Jilin will rush to the Heilongjiang front in less than a few days, and the winner of this war will still be himself, and his position in the party will only be more stable at that time.

He put down the phone, walked to the sand table and discussed a few words with Ye Ting, hastily decided on a plan for the adjustment of the troops, and then issued an order to the staff officer: "Send a telegram to the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, the main force of the Tuo bandit army in Heilongjiang has already had a decisive battle with our army, and the enemy army has taken out the spirit of breaking the cauldron and launching a fierce assault on the northern flank of our front, and asked the Central Revolutionary Military Commission to quickly transfer the reserve troops on the front line of Jilin Province to the direction of Heilongjiang, and our army will stick to the first-line position, try its best to expand the two wings, and when reinforcements are gathered, The time for a decisive battle has come, please ask the Central Revolutionary Military Commission to make a decision quickly! Then he issued another order to the staff officer solemnly: "Order the commander-in-chief Jiang of the northern flank, order the Red 30th Division to organize defense on the spot, drag the main force of the bandit army, and buy time for our army to adjust its deployment." In addition, gather the main force in the direction of the Lindian County front, hold it with all its might, and do not take a step back! Tell Jiang Chaoliu that the Red Eighth Army and the main forces of the Red Army in Jilin Province will soon arrive here! As long as we stay the course, victory will be ours! If, before the main forces of the Red Army came up, the northern flank defense was crushed by the trotten bandits, then military law was engaged! "Order, reluctant Liu Duoquanhong to be the commander of the 29th Division! The commander of the regiment who first abandoned the position was shot to the correct military law! ”！。