In the early morning of April 24, a cavalry force of more than 100 people quietly walked out of the north gate of Taierzhuang, got the horse's hooves, and galloped away in the direction of Yicheng.

Then, an elite infantry battalion quickly followed, searching and advancing in battle formation along the road north of the city.

In the night, the shadow of the horse was hazy, and only the sound of the horse's hooves on the ground was heard...... Passing through the villages, there were no Japanese troops, and the plains seemed quiet.

After the mud ditch, it was getting closer and closer to Yicheng, at this time, there was a strange sound in front, Ma Hongyang, the commander of the cavalry company, raised his hand and signaled the whole company to stop, he listened carefully for a while, and the voice in front was clear.

It's the sound of footsteps, and the sound of Japanese people talking.

"It's a little devil, ready to fight!"

A group of Japanese soldiers came out of the darkness, their figures becoming clearer and clearer, and the plaster flag hanging on the rifle was so eye-catching that they could be recognized at a glance.

The Japanese did not expect that a Chinese cavalry would appear in front of them, and they were in battle formation, holding their guns, and aimed at them silently.

"Twitter, goo......"

This group of Japanese soldiers presented a straggler formation, one by one listless, as if they had come out for a night tour.

"Fire!"

"Woo ......"

The Japanese soldiers were still 100 meters away, and when they heard the gunshots, they immediately reacted and encountered the enemy, but they were still a step too late, and under the intensive fire, they suffered heavy casualties.

"Rush!" Ma Hongyang had already drawn his sword, took the lead, and rushed towards the Japanese army's top soldiers.

Cavalry!

The rest of the Japanese soldiers were scared of the dead, they actually encountered a Chinese cavalry, isn't this looking for death, infantry against cavalry, in the encounter, the infantry is not the opponent of the cavalry at all.

In an instant, this Japanese spearhead squad was slaughtered.

Ma Hongyang, the commander of the cavalry company who had some combat experience, knew that the Japanese army rarely dispatched at night, and what they encountered was clearly a sharp soldier of the Japanese army.

Their duties are the same as they are, and they have come to explore the way.

This shows that there is a large Japanese army behind it.

I can't go to the front, and the gunfire just now is equivalent to calling the police to the Japanese soldiers behind.

"Company commander, devils, a lot of devils, at least a thousand people......"

"Turn the horse's head, go, and join Camp Commander Cao!" Ma Hongyang did not hesitate to give the order to retreat.

The sudden sound of gunfire startled the commander of the mixed detachment of the Japanese army, Shimayama Shaosa, who planned to attack Taierzhuang, and not long after they came out of Yicheng, reconnaissance showed that there should be no traces of Chinese army activities here.

What's going on with this sudden firefight?

"Speed up!"

About five or six minutes later, the location of the encounter.

"Shao Zuo, most of our soldiers were shot and killed indiscriminately, and all their weapons and ammunition were taken away......"

"Who did that?"

"I don't know, there should be a lot of people on the other side, they are still riding horses, not like guerrillas, looking at the marks left by their horses' hooves, it looks like our cavalry troops......"

"Yaga!"

"Hay!"

"Immediately send a telegram to Furong Dazuo, saying that shortly after we left the city, the sharp soldiers sent to search were attacked by the cavalry scouts of the Shina Army, and the combat intention had been exposed, and asked if we should continue to advance?"

A moment later, Fukuei sent a telegram: "Keep going!" ”

On the front line of Zhangshan, Cao Xingyang had already led a battalion to occupy the ridgeline heights on both sides, and after receiving the enemy's situation, he was ready to block the Japanese army here, and at the same time immediately reported the enemy situation to the brigade headquarters in Taierzhuang.

The Japanese army really had the intention of taking Taierzhuang lightly.

After getting the news, Luo Yufeng and Qin Yankun immediately judged the intentions of the Japanese army.

The Japanese army underestimated the enemy, if such a good fighter plane was not caught, it would not be his "Luo madman", Zhangshan was too close to Yixian, although the terrain was advantageous, but it was still not suitable for ambush.

After all, there are more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers, and it is still difficult to eat, so they must be beaten closer, so as to ensure that they can eat this piece of fat in one bite.

Moreover, eating this Japanese army will inevitably attract the retaliation of the Japanese army, so that the main force of the Japanese army will inevitably go south soon, and the purpose of luring the Japanese army south to Taierzhuang will also be achieved.

"Send a telegram to Lao Leng, please instruct, I want to use our tank brigade!" Luo Yufeng said.

"Use it now, isn't it too early?" Qin Yankun asked puzzledly, didn't this kind of sharp weapon have to wait until the most critical time to take it out and use it?

If you use it now, it doesn't mean that it's exposed.

"We are fighting a defensive counterattack war, tanks are offensive weapons, we don't have many opportunities to use them, we can't hide them when we can use them, more than a thousand Japanese troops, if we can eat it in one bite and use the tank brigade, do you think it's worth it?" Qin Yankun said with a smile.

"Well, what you said seems to make a little sense, but although the chariot brigade is under my command, how to use it is still up to the division."

"It's nature." Luo Yufeng smiled.

The Japanese army came too fast, and even the new 38th Brigade did not have time to react, they occupied Yicheng, and the 85th Army fought the Japanese army at Taierzhuang and Yicheng.

Luo Yufeng received a telegram from Leng Feng and closely monitored the Japanese army.

Tang Keqin was supposed to come to Taierzhuang to meet Luo Yufeng and Sun Lianzhong, but he looked down on people, Sun Lianzhong went to see him, and Luo Yufeng asked his radio station to send a telegram over to it.

This attitude of completely looking down on people made Luo Yufeng and others very annoyed.

Sun Lianzhong came to see Luo Yufeng, and he also felt that Tang Keqin had done a little too much, even if Luo Yufeng was a junior character, how could he be so hasty in this military matter?

Subsequently, the order of the Fifth Theater Commander's Department came down, appointing Luo Yufeng as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy in Taierzhuang, with full authority to command the troops of the GJ in the Taierzhuang area to fight against Japan.

This is an exceptional promotion!

Some people in the Fifth Theater Commander's Department have opinions on this appointment, but Li Delin is bent on going his own way, and at this time, he must act arbitrarily.

War is not child's play, and if a suitable former enemy commander cannot be appointed, the consequences are terrible.

Luo Yufeng can be said to be famous in the battle of Yuxikou and Jiangfang blockade, and what Li Delin values is his ability to attack and defend well.

Moreover, the new 38 brigade is the bottom of the pocket of the whole pocket, which must be retracted.

However, Li Delin is also worried, Luo Yufeng has no problem commanding the new 38th Brigade, but it is difficult to say that the proud generals of the 2nd Group Army, such as Chi Fengcheng, the commander of the 31st Division, is a winning general, proud, and no one looks down on officers of the same level, that is a master who does not hesitate, even his boss Sun Lianzhong dares to contradict it, and has suffered a lot for this.

Chi Fengcheng is the division commander, and he is also a lieutenant general, although Luo Yufeng is a red seedling, but after all, he has just been promoted to major general, and he is only a brigade commander.

But Luo Yufeng, the brigade commander, is strong and strong, and his strength is more than twice that of the 31st Division in Chifeng City.

In terms of strength, Luo Yufeng did not know how many streets he had left Chifeng City.

At two o'clock in the morning, Tang Keqin's radio station "Swimming Sentinel" sent a telegram to the headquarters of the Fifth Theater Commander, saying that the 85th Army had disengaged from the Japanese army and was moving to the Baoqinggu Mountains in concealment.

The explanation he gave was that the Japanese army was strong and the offensive was fierce, and the 85th Army could not support it alone, and when Guan Yudong's 52nd Army felt it, it would attack the Japanese army together.

After receiving this telegram, Li Delin's face turned blue with anger on the spot, and he directly scolded Tang Keqin for being a soup straw bag, obviously Tang Keqin wanted to avoid the important and save his strength.

deliberately released water to the Japanese army, so that the new 38th Brigade of Taierzhuang and Sun Lianzhong's 2nd Army could consume the strength of the Japanese army.

Then he came out again to pick peaches!

The intentions are very sinister!

"Duke De is angry, Tang Keqin does this, there is a certain reason, isn't our goal to annihilate the area north of the canal near Taierzhuang, which the Japanese army attracted, now although the Japanese army occupies Zaozhuang and Yicheng, if we attack with the main force at this time, then how much strength will we use?" Liu Weizhang stood up to relieve Tang Keqin.

Liu Weizhang's words made Li Delin's face look a little better.

Even if Tang Keqin is clever and calculates others with certain considerations, from a strategic point of view, it is not a correct decision, but it is really annoying that he avoids war so much and preserves his strength.

But it really shouldn't, the last thing Tang Keqin should do is to let Taierzhuang bear all the pressure of the Japanese Seya detachment alone.

Li Delin did not pursue this matter further, after all, if the Tang Army was exposed too early, it would have a certain negative impact on the deployment of the next battle.

Tang Keqin is going to drill the ravine, so let him drill it.

Tang Keqin picked this pick, sat on the mountain and watched the tiger fight.

When Leng Feng received this news, his gloomy face was about to drip water, he underestimated the shamelessness of some people, but he didn't expect that at this time, there were people who would do such things for their own selfishness.

The new 38th Brigade confronted the Seya detachment head-on, and Leng Feng believed that Luo Yufeng could do it.

But Tang Keqin's extremely irresponsible approach is simply too hurtful.

"Report!"

"Come in!"

"The commander of the new 38th Brigade, Luo Yufeng, sent an urgent telegram, this night the 38th Brigade sent a search force to Yicheng, and encountered a mixed detachment of the Japanese army near Zhangshan in the southeast of Yixian, with a number of about 1,000 people, and the 38th Brigade judged that this Japanese army should be planning to surprise and attack Taierzhuang in the early hours of this morning......

"The little devil is coming so fast!" In the war room, the staff officers who had not yet rested gasped one by one.

"What is Luo Lu's coping strategy?" Li Delin asked.

"Brigade Commander Luo said, the little devil is too crazy, I really think that there is no one in our Chinese army, he decided to adopt the strategy of luring the enemy into the depths, put this Japanese army in, teach them a good lesson, let them understand, dare to invade China, there is the consciousness of being fertilizer!"

"What does it mean to make fertilizer?"

"It means that only the dead are qualified to make fertilizer."

"What a big breath!"

"Isn't this Luo Yufeng just won two battles, this is crazy to the limit!"

"Degong, listen to the meaning, they want to take the initiative to attack, this is too dangerous, Taierzhuang is related to the safety of Xuzhou, and the task of the new 38th Brigade is to hold Taierzhuang, not take the initiative to attack!"

"What do high school generals mean, we can only be beaten passively?"

"I don't mean that, I'm just emphasizing the importance of Taierzhuang has been the responsibility of the new 38, once Taierzhuang has a mistake, who will take responsibility?" High school will be the road. (Senior Staff of the Fifth Theater Commander's Department)

"Brother Jiansheng, for Brother Zhang, what do you think?"

"The new 38th Brigade can fight at Yuxikou The Sixth Division lost troops and lost generals, I think they will not be too bad in Taierzhuang, the so-called hundred is better than seeing, I also want to see the real combat effectiveness of this steel brigade." Bai Jiansheng slightly, obviously agreeing with Luo Yufeng's suggestion.

"For Brother Zhang, what about you?"

"Whether it's active or passive, we have to fight after all, and if we don't fight, I don't know if we can defend Taierzhuang." Liu Weizhang said, "Degong, I want to go to Taierzhuang in person." ”

"It's okay, then it's hard work for Brother Zhang!" Li Delin said gratefully, he knew what Liu Weizhang was worried about, and coordinated the coordination of the new 38th Brigade with the 2nd Group Army and the Tang Army, and it was really not possible to have no one with weight in Taierzhuang.

He can't leave, Bai Jiansheng is not a descendant of the central government, and the Tang Army may not be willing to listen to his command, only Liu Weizhang, the director and deputy director of the War Department of the Military Command Department, regardless of identity and qualifications, is enough.

Weishan Island, the apse of Tianqi Temple.

Luo Yufeng's urgent message woke Leng Feng from the bed.

Leng Feng read the content of the telegram and was a little surprised, Luo Yufeng actually planned to use the chariot brigade as soon as he came up, which was a bit inconsistent with military conventions, how could anyone expose his strength to the enemy army at the beginning?

Once the chariot brigade appears on the battlefield of Taierzhuang, the Japanese army will inevitably be prepared after suffering losses.

However, he also saw Luo Yufeng's intentions, the defensive battle and the war of attrition he fought in Taierzhuang did not have many opportunities for the tank brigade to be used intensively, and if it was disassembled and used, the effect would not be great, but it would be consumed, so it was not cost-effective.

Only when it comes to the counteroffensive can it play a huge role.

When will the counteroffensive be, no one can say for sure, maybe three or five days, maybe ten days and half a month.

In this way, it is better to give the Japanese army a ruthless blow in the first battle, so that it can not only eat this mixed detachment of the Japanese army, but also avoid more casualties as much as possible.

He learned it from himself.

At the beginning in Nanjing, he used the heavy artillery regiment in this way, and when he ran out, he directly pulled it to Jiangbei, hid it in the snow, and waited until the last moment of the battle to pull it out again, and he finished his work in one battle!

In the same way, after the tank brigade is used up, the next battle will probably not be used again until the counteroffensive.

The idea was good, and the target he chose was not small, to dispatch a tank brigade to unexpectedly eat a mixed detachment of thousands of Japanese troops.

This was a heavy blow to the Japanese army.

"Call back, agree with Luo Yufeng's request, please be careful not to underestimate the enemy, pay attention to intelligence collection against Japan, whether Taierzhuang is fought well or not is related to whether our army's counteroffensive plan can proceed smoothly in the next step." Leng Feng personally signed the message, "Send it out." ”

"Yes!"

(To be continued.) )