On the dirt road from Fengyang to Xiquan Town, Cao Erzheng, commander of the Second Division, led his troops to march at night.

The Second Division originally had three main infantry regiments, plus a communications battalion, a guard battalion, an artillery regiment, and a motor baggage regiment directly under the division headquarters, with a total strength of about 10,000 troops.

However, due to the fact that the 3rd Infantry Regiment of the 2nd Division was ordered by Qiao Anbang to stay in the base area to serve as the garrison of the base area before departure, the 2nd Division lost one main regiment, but now Qiao Anbang has transferred a regiment of the 1st Division, and the strength of the 2nd Division has recovered as before.

Because it was necessary to divide troops to block the devils this time, and the strength of the two armies had the size of a division, Cao Er divided the entire second division, including the guard battalion and artillery regiment directly under the division headquarters, into two, and the first route was led by Feng Guo, the commander of the first division and one regiment, who was responsible for the defense of Erpu Town.

Cao Er personally led the troops into Xiquan Town, marching with the army, and Cao Er stood on the dirt slope on the side of the road from time to time and waved his hand to urge the troops: "Quick, speed up the march!" "Xiquan Town is more than 20 kilometers away from Fengyang County, if you speed up the march, I am afraid it will be difficult to arrive before dawn, and after dawn the main force will besiege Fengyang, then the army will inevitably ask for help from the surrounding friendly forces, so Cao Er must lead the troops to the area of Xiquan Town as soon as possible, and build fortifications before the arrival of reinforcements.

Under Cao Er's urging, thousands of soldiers couldn't help but speed up their pace. Now the belief that supports the soldiers in fighting is no longer just slogans such as defending the homeland and defending the country, defending the land and defending the frontier, and many of them come from the vast occupied areas of North China.

In the occupied areas, they witnessed a series of atrocities committed by the army, the land was lost, the compatriots were miserable, the entire land of North China was full of mourning, and hundreds of millions of compatriots were in dire straits.

In order to be able to expel the Koukou as soon as possible, recover the lost land, and save hundreds of millions of compatriots, so from then on they had the goal and belief to fight bloodily, that is, to defend the land of China, to defend the dignity of China, the head can be broken, the blood can be shed, and the national dignity cannot be humiliated.

Therefore, now they can't wait to fight with the Yue Kou, pour out the long-suppressed humiliation and national guilt on the battlefield, as a Chinese son, the descendants of Yan and Huang, can not be lower than the country, reproduce the majesty of our Han and Tang Dynasties, and restore the martial arts of our Chinese Han people, they read the sage books in vain.

Who said that useless is a scholar? At the end of the Song Dynasty, when the young emperor threw himself into the sea and was martyred, hundreds of thousands of people from the south of the Yangtze River were martyred, and the entire Chinese elite was lost with the Song Dynasty, so there was a sad saying that "there is no China after the cliff mountain in later generations".

In the 20th century, all the sons and daughters of China were not ashamed to dare to add up their swords and soldiers, and to despise our Huaxia as a branch? 'Our people call themselves 'Han'; Our Chinese are called "Tang" people; Our culture is known as the "Chinese" civilization; Our country is known as the "State of Ceremonies" and "the State of the Center"! "Huaxia", what does it mean! Noble and elegant, what does "China" mean! The center of the world, who won such a glorious name for us?

It is our ancestors, who cut off the enemy's head with a sword in one hand, and maintain the most noble etiquette with a book in the other, expanding the living space of the Chinese people with infinite ambition and inexhaustible **. 1,000 years of conquest, 1,000 years of indoctrination, I don't know how many countries have been leveled, I don't know how many peoples have been exterminated, until one day, when they have all the fertile land as far as their eyes can see, when there is only desert and sand in front of them, they stop, their force and nobility make all their neighbors prostrate and bow their knees before them, and they are willing to be vassals, and these terrified neighbors awe give their ancestors a great country name "China", which means "the center of the world"!

Our great ancestors, they were brave and intelligent, they valued honor over life and death, they emphasized faith and righteousness and despised cunning, they valued civilization and despised barbarism, they loved freedom and hated the cage, "wealth cannot be silver, mightiness cannot be bent, poverty and lowly cannot be moved." "The three armies can win the commandery, but the horseman can't take the will!" They have used their wisdom to create one world wonder after another.

But today, when I was a subordinate of China and a barbarian country, I was able to coerce millions of soldiers to conquer my China, trying in vain to exterminate my race, claiming to be China, thinking about it, how can all the people of the country not wake up?

Since Qiao Anbang and his troops were born, they have achieved a series of unprecedented victories one after another, which have greatly encouraged the determination of the Chinese people to resist the Japanese and accelerated the progress of the awakening of the Chinese sons and daughters.

Only then did Qiao Anbang shout at the pheasant and Ji, and hundreds of thousands of patriots from all over the country obeyed each other, that Chairman Jiang was jealous and secretly suppressed.

If it is said that the destruction of the Song Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty were disasters for the whole nation of our descendants of Yan and Huang, then the war of aggression against China launched by the Yue army was the third disaster of the Chinese nation, and this disaster was no less than any previous disaster.

The Song Dynasty was wiped out, almost all of our northern Han people were slaughtered, the Manchu Qing Dynasty overthrew our Han people, and there were even more tragic cases such as Yangzhou Ten Sayings and Jiading Three Massacres, and how many Han men fell on the bloody road of anti-Qing and Ming restoration in the past three hundred years.

If it weren't for Qiao Anbang's single-handedness in turning things around, a historical tragedy such as the Nanjing Massacre would certainly have occurred, and the slaughter of 300,000 compatriots could not have been described in half a word.

All in all, the war of resistance and the death of China, the slightest carelessness will put the Chinese nation in danger of extinction, so a strong sense of national crisis has awakened the consciousness of resistance of the vast majority of compatriots and awakened the determination of the sons and daughters of China to restore China.

To get back to the point, when Cao Er led the troops to march towards Xiquan Town, the commander of the first regiment of the first division had rushed to Erpu Town with another army.

This is not to say that the marching speed of the Fengquan Department is faster than that of Cao Ersuo's department, but because Erpu Town is only more than ten kilometers away from Fengyang, which is less than half the distance of Xiquan Town.

After arriving at Erpu Town, Feng immediately ordered the troops to dig trenches, build bunkers, and build fortifications on the spot, and the people of Erpu Town and the surrounding villages were also alarmed, and learned that [***] fought back and wanted to build a position, and thousands of people voluntarily walked out of their homes, carrying their own hoes, shovels and other tools to help [***] build a position.

With the help of the people, the excavation progress of the position of the sealing department is very fast, and before dawn, the main position has been roughly completed, and it only needs to be repaired before it can be put into use.

In a private house in Erpu Town, the regimental headquarters of the sealed situation was set up here, and taking advantage of the vacancy of the troops to build their positions, the sealed situation lay down on the table and slept for a while.

Maybe I was too sleepy, and I didn't think about sleeping until dawn. Sensing a trace of coolness, Feng Shi suddenly woke up, and saw that the weather outside had brightened, and Feng Shi said loudly: "Guard, what's going on?" Why didn't you wake me up? How's the position being repaired? Is the devil coming? Before he finished speaking, he picked up the gun on the table and strode towards the outside of the regiment headquarters.

The guards who had been guarding outside the regiment headquarters hurriedly ran over when they heard the sound, and before they could stand upright, they said to Feng Quan: "Report to the regimental seat, the position has been built, and no trace of the devil has been found yet." You don't have to worry, the second battalion commander has already sent out a reconnaissance platoon last night and equipped them with a radio, if there is any movement of the devils, the reconnaissance platoon will report it immediately. I originally wanted to wake you up, but the second battalion commander saw that you were sleeping soundly, so he didn't let me call you. ”

"Oh!" As soon as he heard this, his tense nerves relaxed, he turned around and turned back, threw the matching gun in his hand back to the conference table with the holster, took out a cigarette from his pocket and said, "Qi Delong, this kid, his ability to do things is still good." ”

Feng Guo was born in the original pheasant and set security regiment, and he can be regarded as a veteran of a hundred battles, because of his brave combat and repeated military exploits in the expansion of the Huben Brigade, he was directly promoted by Qiao Anbang to become the commander of the first main force regiment of the first division.

However, this person is really as crazy as his name suggests. As early as in the original campaign to attack Shanghai, when he was still a battalion commander of the Tiger Brigade, he once led a platoon to rush into the rear of the Yue army's position.

In the pursuit of the outlying positions of the Yue army, he buried alive more than a dozen devil soldiers and dozens of Yue Ben expatriates who were captured by poison gas bombs, so he also earned the nickname of a madman in the original old regiment.

He was very happy to be able to command the troops on his own this time, and what made him even more excited was that Cao Er, the commander of the Second Division, not only transferred him half a regiment of infantry, but also equipped him with an artillery unit equipped with a battalion and a half equipped with howitzers.

With these dozens of le.fh [***] caliber howitzers, the situation has more confidence, at least there is no need to be bombed unilaterally by devils.

The LE.FH18 German howitzer is even slightly better than the American 105 howitzer in terms of range, projectile muzzle velocity and other data, so when the divisions were equipped with artillery regiments, Qiao Anbang did not hesitate to replace all three artillery regiments with German howitzers.

As for the previous American-style howitzers, they were left in the Pheasant and Ji base areas, and they could be equipped with garrison troops if necessary, or they could be used for research by the technicians of the arsenal, so as to lay the foundation for the development of the imperial industry in the future.

Fengyang Gorge, save [***] headquarters, the sky is gray and just bright, Qiao Anbang stayed up all night last night, and he will be holding two compressed biscuits and eating them in a cold and white open.

Suddenly, there was a rush of footsteps outside the headquarters.

Wang Gensheng, the commander of the guard regiment, hurriedly ran in, stood up and saluted Qiao Anbang and said: "Commander, the five regiments of the first division and the third division have all been prepared, and the two division commanders just now called one after another to ask, can we start the attack?" ”

"Hmm!" Qiao Anbang nodded and said solemnly: "Order all divisions, the artillery regiment will fire first, and bombard him for twenty minutes." In addition, the armored brigade was ordered to assemble immediately, and immediately after the artillery bombardment, cover the infantry to launch an attack on the positions of the army! ”

"Yes!" Wang Gensheng suddenly agreed, and immediately turned around and took the order to leave quickly.

(To be continued)