Zengjiazhai is located in the southernmost part of the Taihang Mountains in Hebei, and then less than 20 miles south to Henan. The Taihang Mountains are high in the north and low in the south, and the mountains at the southern end are not high, and the slope of the mountains is also slowing. But Zengjiazhai is very special, although the mountain is not high, but it is a little different from the surrounding mountains, it is steep on three sides, only one side is a gentle slope of more than 100 meters wide leading to the top of the mountain, the top of the mountain is not only flat, but also the area is very large. Because here is backed by Taihang Mountain, south to the Henan Plain, the road out of the mountain passes 5 miles in front of the mountain, can be attacked and retreated, and it has always been a mountainous area where bandits gather. It's just that after the Second Northern Expedition, the garrisons in various places carried out local banditry to varying degrees. This is the triangle where the three provinces of Hebei, Henan, and Jin meet, and no attention is paid to it everywhere, so for a while, several bandits came here to avoid the limelight.

In the early morning of the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, on the road in front of Zengjiazhai Mountain, by the bright moonlight, a group of soldiers wearing grass-green uniforms quietly drove in, they were the troops of the First Division of the Hebei Security Army living in Laiyuan.

As early as a few months ago, Song Zhewu knew the truth about the fake Northwest Army that attacked them from the mouth of Sun Dianying, the deputy battalion commander named Sun Li, who was captured in Yangjiazhuang. According to Sun Li, their destination was Zengjiazhai, and there was already a battalion in front of them, and the people in this battalion were all Sun Dianying's old subordinates when he was a bandit in western Henan, and they were the ones who robbed the tomb.

Song Zhewu knew that Sun Dianying had stolen and excavated the tombs of Cixi and Qianlong, although there was a lot of uproar at the time, but in the end, Sun Dianying was almost never punished, and in the end, there was only one division commander named Wen Ruijiang or Tan Wenjiang, and even this division commander was released on bail soon after. Sun Dianying stole dozens of large boxes of treasures from the tombs of Cixi and Qianlong, and sent some out of the tomb robbery lawsuit, but there were still a large number of treasures missing, until the end of the 40s, after Sun Dianying was captured by JFJ, he still did not figure out the whereabouts of these treasures. Song Zhewu speculated that these treasures had two destinations, one was that they were secretly buried by him; The second is that he resold it in batches. Song Zhewu believes in this second possibility. Therefore, Song Zhewu immediately arranged for personnel to reconnoitre, and found out that the two battalions settled in Zengjiazhai, but they all took off their military uniforms and fell into the grass as bandits. The leader of the bandits was Liu Yuru, the commander of Sun Dianying's regiment, and most of the second battalion was annihilated by Song Zhewu's guard battalion in Yangjiazhuang, and the bandit leader who happened to attack Yangjiazhuang with him was killed by mortar shells. The commander of the second battalion took the remnants of the bandits up the mountain. Liu Yuru is a habitual bandit in this area, and the bandits who hide here to avoid the limelight are all old bandits in the Jin, Hebei, and Henan areas, and they are all familiar with Liu Yuru, and he quickly gathered these bandits under his command. The two battalions he brought, plus the remnants of the bandits who were carried up the mountain by the second battalion, formed two regiments, and some of the bandits who gathered formed a regiment, totaling more than 3,000 people, and they were stationed in Zengjiazhai.

This group of bandits has a characteristic that is absolutely different from other bandits, that is, they never loot villages and towns, and they do not even rob past business travelers, and all daily necessities are bought by themselves in Linzhou, which is outside the mountains and Henan.

Linzhou was stationed in a division of Henan Provincial Chairman Han Fuyu, whose mission was to block the passage of the famous Grand Canyon in Taihang Mountain and prevent the Jin Sui army from suddenly leaving the Grand Canyon. Taihang Grand Canyon from Linzhou Rencun Town back to the corner in the north, south to Jingdi Village, Pingshun County, Shanxi Province, 30 kilometers long from north to south, 200 meters wide from east to west, 60 meters at the narrowest point, steep and abnormal, can be called the ninth in addition to the Taihang Eight Mountains. Han Fuyu's hardcore brother --- then the commander of Qingxiang, Henan, and Shi Yousan's 26th Brigade stationed in Xinyang was stationed in Rencun and Huishanjiao to block the valley mouth.

If the people of Zengjiazhai want to go out of the mountains to Linzhou, they must pass through Rencun Town outside the mouth of the Grand Canyon. According to the investigation, the bandits in Zengjiazhai were very arrogant, and they had to go to Linzhou every month to purchase a large amount of wine, meat, rice and noodles, and every time they passed through Rencun Town on the way back, they left some wine and meat for the 26th Brigade before going directly into the mountains. Rencun Town and Zengjiazhai are less than 20 miles apart, and it is impossible if you don't know that the people in Zengjiazhai are bandits. Although the bandits in Hebei and the Qingxiang troops in Henan are not necessarily in charge, it is a little suspicious that the two families respect each other like guests. Moreover, Zengjiazhai not only has a radio station, but also often haunts foreigners. All of these have strengthened Song Zhewu's opinion, the treasure of the tomb robbery must be hidden in Zengjiazhai, Sun Dianying will never run around with the army with these many treasures, and Shi Yousan is likely to have a tacit understanding with Sun Dianying. The Northwest Army in history has always been short of food, but this Shi Yousan has been defeated several times and quickly recovered several times, as if he has never been short of money. Sun Dianying's new 10th Division is now stationed in Jiaodong, and it is naturally beyond the reach of the whip. Although Shi Yousan is far away in Xinyang, southern Henan, he can send a brigade to northern Henan because of his relationship with Han Fuyu, and Han Fuyu will not disagree.

To be honest, Song Zhewu did not fully agree with these so-called treasures. He believes that ancient texts, celebrity calligraphy and paintings, which record the splendid civilization of the Chinese nation for thousands of years, can be called treasures, even national treasures; Objects with a representative surname and special significance in a certain historical period can also be called treasures, even if it is a clay pot. And all other items such as gold, silver, beads, jade, etc., as long as they have no special significance, cannot be regarded as treasures, no matter how valuable they are. If it is in his hands, he will also use these gold, silver, pearls and jade to sell for money, which will be used to expand the army and have a territory to develop production.

Originally, Song Zhewu had been playing the idea of this group of bandits, but because the troops had not yet been trained, they had not been moved. Now that Lin Wei wants him to make some moves, Song Zhewu naturally understands that this is to create chaos, distract the attention of various factions, and distract everyone from the upcoming chaos in North China. But in order to achieve this goal, it is impossible to eliminate this group of bandits, only the idea of fighting Shi Yousan's brigade outside the mountain. If Sun Dianying and Shi Yousan really have any tacit understanding, and the bandits are attacked, the 26th Brigade will definitely come to the rescue, as long as he is willing to come to the rescue, Song Zhewu's opportunity will come. Because Zengjiazhai is in Hebei, once the fight starts, the provocative side will not say that everyone knows that it is Shi Yousan. If Shi Yousan's 26th Brigade is eliminated, then this movement is definitely big enough. In order to ensure that there was a disturbance, Song Zhewu also made preparations in case the 26th Brigade did not move. He asked Ye Changgui to take the special brigade out of two squadrons, one to cooperate with the attack on Zengjiazhai, and the other to prepare to take the initiative to attack once the 26th Brigade does not move, luring it to pursue and encircle and annihilate.

After Shang Zhen, Lin Wei, Zhang Zhi and others left, Song Zhewu immediately stepped up intelligence reconnaissance of Zengjiazhai, and intelligence came back every day. In the Chinese lunar year, the Spring Festival is not over until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Therefore, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month will be celebrated. Song Zhewu decided to take advantage of this opportunity to launch an operation against the bandits in Zengjiazhai.

A good and efficient staff is crucial to the impact of the war situation. Song Zhewu is very clear about this, so Song Zhewu has always attached great importance to the building of the staff system, and now the general staff of the security forces consists of an operations office, a training office, a logistics support office, an intelligence office, a communications office, and a security office. After explaining the purpose of this campaign, the entire combat operation was completely handed over to the group of young people in the combat department, and Song Zhewu asked them to let go of the entire combat plan, the purpose of which was to temper them and give them the opportunity to practice.

Song Zhewu was very satisfied with the battle plan drawn up by the Operations Department, and the specific battle plan was to encircle the point and send reinforcements: In this operation, Zhang Yafei's first division was mobilized, with the 122 battalions of the 1st division and 3rd regiment and the regimental artillery battalion, accompanied by a squadron of the special brigade, to encircle and annihilate the bandits in Zengjiazhai; The 1st Regiment and the 3rd Regiment set up an ambush on the road to the outside of the mountain, and once Shi Yousan's 26th Brigade came to help, they were eliminated. The second regiment was ambushed on the way into the mountain, as a reserve, and if Han Fuyu's division in Linzhou came to the rescue, it would block the mountain pass. As a precaution against the 26th Brigade not coming, the special squadron that went to lure the enemy acted with the 2nd Regiment.

The commander of the third regiment who commanded the attack on Zengjiazhai was Sun Li, who was born in Sun Chuanfang's lecture martial arts hall, and after Song Zhewu talked with him, he found that he was very talented in military affairs, so he invited him to join the security army. Sun Li already had an understanding of the security army during his recuperation, and immediately readily agreed, Song Zhewu immediately gave him the position of the head of the new regiment, this reorganization, his regiment was divided into a division, and the three regiments were reorganized, and he served as the commander of the third regiment. The task of the three battalions of the Third Regiment is to cooperate with the squadron of the special brigade before dawn to first take a small high ground about 1,000 meters away from Zengjiazhai as a fire support point to cover the attack on Zengjiazhai. Although this small plateau is small, the topography and location are important, and the height is only slightly lower than the summit of Zengjiazhai, which just blocked the only road up the mountain to Zengjiazhai, where the bandits stationed a company and built strong fortifications.

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