After Liu Jianhua and Zhao Tiezhu read the telegram one after another, they also showed joy.

Liu Jianhua opened his mouth and asked Qiao Youhua: "Commander, I haven't understood my humble position until now, what are we going to do in the cavalry battalion?" What are the specific combat missions? ”

In fact, Liu Jianhua's words also asked the questions in the stomachs of Zhao Tiezhu and the cavalry officers of the whole battalion, they are still confused, and the reason why they did not ask along the way, but out of extreme trust in Qiao Youhua.

It wasn't until now, when the first and second regiments sent battle reports, that Liu Jianhua couldn't help but ask.

Qiao Youhua smiled and said: "Now is not the time, when the time is ripe, I will naturally tell you, you all have a good rest, I will continue to march in a while." ”

"Yes!" Liu Jianhua and Zhao Tiezhu agreed in unison, without the slightest dissatisfaction, the commander didn't say it, naturally he had a reason, and the two of them, as Qiao Youhua's loyal subordinates, naturally would not be displeased.

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Zhengding County.

Since the last attack on the Wuchun brigade was successfully withdrawn, Wu Ming led the soldiers of the third regiment to strengthen the fortifications of Zhengding County with the help of the elders in the county and urban areas.

After this period of emergency repair and reinforcement, the three regiments have established a perfect defense line in Zhengding County, and the first line of defense is to rely on the Yongling River, a tributary of the Hutuo River, and arrange it along the river.

When the 21st Infantry Wing of the 83rd Division of the Japanese Army and the Tank Brigade, including more than 500 people from the remnants of the former Wuchun Garrison Brigade, formed thousands of attack troops, crossed the Taiping River and arrived at the Yongling River Bridge.

It was found that the bridge had already been blown up, but fortunately, during the past period, the logistics department of the North China Front replenished the 21st Division with many boats and other river-crossing equipment.

The commander of the 83rd Infantry Wing, Saho Tsutsumatsu Daisa, ordered his troops to build a pontoon bridge using river crossing equipment at a distance of 500 meters north of the Yongling River Bridge and prepare to cross the river.

Some soldiers of the 83rd Infantry Wing cruised on the river in armed patrol boats and small gunboats to provide cover.

The troops of the 3rd Regiment stationed on the west bank of the Yongling River quickly reported the situation to the regimental headquarters, and organized troops to take the initiative to fire at the Japanese army to interfere with the Japanese army's action of building a pontoon bridge.

Japanese troops on the east bank and the armed patrol boats in the river returned fire, and a fierce exchange of fire ensued across the river.

The Devil's Chariot Brigade and the artillery unit of the 83rd Infantry Wing jointly suppressed artillery fire on the West Bank, and the Dragon's Tooth Force on the West Bank was only a company of the Third Regiment for vigilance purposes.

Equipped with heavy weapons such as artillery, it was naturally not an opponent of the Japanese army, which was armed to suppress and equipped with tank artillery.

Suppressed by the Japanese artillery fire, the casualties increased sharply, and they had no choice but to retreat to the existing positions along the west bank near the Yongling River bridge section to avoid the artillery fire of the devils.

However, this could not interfere with the erection of pontoon bridges by Japanese sappers and baggage soldiers.

Seeing that the Japanese pontoon bridge was about to be erected, at this critical moment, Wu Ming, the commander of the third regiment who got the news, finally arrived with reinforcements from two infantry battalions plus an artillery company directly under the regimental headquarters.

In addition to the above-mentioned reinforcements, there was also Qiao Youhua's artillery battalion to reinforce his Ma Yunlong.

After Wu Ming led his troops to arrive, after briefly understanding the situation from the company commander, he immediately ordered the artillery company directly under the regiment to use the 60mm mortars they were equipped with to open fire on the Japanese sappers and baggage soldiers who were building the bridge.

At this time, the Japanese artillery and tank guns had stopped shelling, and the artillery of the 3rd Regiment of Longya suddenly attacked, even if they wanted to suppress and stop it, it was too late.

With a whoosh, more than 20 mortars of the artillery company directly under the Third Regiment and some mortars equipped with two battalions opened fire one after another, and in the blink of an eye, dozens of shells rushed to fall on the heads of the bridge-building troops of the devils.

These mortars were captured by the Dragon's Tooth Column from the devils in previous battles, and now each regiment is equipped with at least 30 or more, which can be regarded as a not weak artillery force.

Boom boom boom ......! In the deafening explosion, the devil sappers and baggage soldiers, who were almost about to complete the construction of the pontoon bridge, were blown down one after another and fell into the boiling river.

Some shells landed on the pontoon, which broke and caught fire, and the surrounding river was also blown up in waves.

Although the caliber of the 60mm mortar is small and the projectile is not large, dozens of shells have exploded one after another, and the power is still very amazing.

The area where the devils built the pontoon bridge was soon covered in water, smoke and fire, and a ghost patrol boat close to the pontoon bridge was also overturned by the huge impact of a cannonball, and the devil soldiers on board fell into the water one after another.

Tom tom tom ...... The artillerymen of the 3rd Regiment of Dragon's Tooth fired three more rounds of rapid fire in succession, completely destroying the pontoon bridge that the devils had built with great difficulty, and inflicting great damage on the devils' patrol boats and gunboats, as well as the sappers and heavy soldiers on the pontoon bridge.

It was not until the sound of retaliatory artillery of the Japanese army sounded on the east bank that Wu Ming asked them to stop the shelling one after another and began to shift the shelling position.

The transfer of mortars was much more convenient than that of the Type 92 infantry guns, and several artillerymen carried the barrels, bases, and ammunition boxes and turned around and ran, and soon they were able to get out of danger and enter a safe area.

The first round of retaliatory artillery fire of the Japanese army was not very accurate, and although the shells fell correctly in the general direction, they failed to cause substantial damage to the artillery of the 3rd Regiment of Longya.

Seeing that the pontoon bridge that was about to be completed by his side was blown up, and the plan to cross the river was frustrated, the commander of the 83rd Infantry Wing of the Japanese Army, Sahotsu Matsu Osa, was so angry that he jumped three feet high one by one, and roared one after another: "Bagaya Road, open the artillery, open the artillery!" Raze the artillery positions of the Chinese to the ground! ”

As a result, the Japanese tank brigade approached the river bank one after another, joined forces with the artillery squadron directly under the 83rd Infantry Wing, and poured shells on the opposite bank with their lives.

Since the 21st Division was only a three-unit B division, the artillery unit directly under the infantry field wing under it was only a squadron size.

There are only eight Type 92 infantry guns in total, and the 89 tank guns that belong to the tank brigade come with their own 37mm tank guns, and the power of the artillery fire is only equivalent to the size of an artillery brigade.

The commanders of the Japanese artillery and tank brigades, including Sahotsumatsu, who was in anger, did not know that their fierce retaliatory artillery strikes not only did not cause any substantial damage to the artillery units of the China Army on the other side.

is also about to bring disaster to himself.

Because, the artillery battalion directly under the Longya Column that arrived with Wu Ming was under the command of battalion commander Ma Yunlong, and was quickly repairing and building its own artillery position.

At the same time, Ma Yunlong also asked experienced artillerymen to take observers and begin to lock on the positions of the Japanese tanks and artillery on the opposite bank, ready to put them in one pot! Completely kill the opponent's artillery troops, as long as they have the advantage of artillery fire, then the little devils on the other side will cross the river again, it will be a pipe dream.

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