Yuandun Mountain, which is more than 200 meters above sea level, is located at the junction of Yushan County, Jiangxi Province and Jiangshan County, Zhejiang, and the winding mountain road connecting eastern Jiangxi and western Zhejiang winds through the mountain.

Under the gentle hill east of Takeuchi Village at the foot of Yuandun Mountain, Tang Shengzhi, who was riding on a tall horse, received a thick stack of telegrams from Qian Dajun, and he was shocked into a cold sweat after reading the first one.

Tang Shengzhi originally thought that victory was within reach, and he only needed to mobilize his troops step by step, and when the army arrived at the main battlefield of Lianhua Mountain, Wu Ming's new second division could be consumed alive even if he used a heap of people. It's a pity that the original tactics of nine out of ten are stable, but the blue side does not know how to cooperate, desperately trying to mess up the celebration banquet of their comeback, and now the blue side's supplementary group has been dispatched, if it is waiting for it to take root at the tip of the wind tunnel, the chairman's guard as the red side's forward and the special service group and guard regiment directly under the Central Military Committee will be separated from the large army.

After reading all the telegrams, Tang Shengzhi was even more surprised

According to Yu Jishi and Chen Cheng, the new Second Division's mountain combat capability is unparalleled, and one can imagine how strong its combat effectiveness is.

Now, the special service company directly under the New Second Division has even come straight to its own artillery unit -- the special service company of the New Second Division has had a great reputation since the Lushan exercise, and if they keep an eye on their own artillery regiment, the situation will not be good

After reading the telegram, Tang Shengzhi began to ponder the cards in his hand.

At present, the exercise force of the red side is mainly composed of three parts:

The vanguard is the chairman's guard under the command of Feng Shengfa and the special service regiment and guard regiment directly under the Military 丨 Committee, all of which are Chiang Kai-shek's guard troops, and the total strength is equivalent to a three-regiment division. At present, this Royal Forest Army is all alone in the northwest area of the wind cave tip, confronting the blue side on the line of Lotus Mountain.

In the center was the middle army commanded by Tang Shengzhi himself, of which the two brigades and four regiments of the 45th Division were in front, followed by the supplementary regiment of the 45th Division, and then two regiments of the 1st Brigade of the 63rd Division and a regiment of the 2nd Brigade. However, even if it is known as the middle lane, it is actually dragged into a long snake formation, and the battle line is very open, extending from Tangbian Town to Xianyan Town, and there is a distance of more than 20 kilometers between it and the forward

The troops behind the palace were also divided into three parts, of which closer to the central army were a regiment of the 2nd Brigade of the 63rd Division, an artillery regiment and a baggage regiment under the command of the Red Headquarters, and the last was two regiments of the 3rd Brigade of the 63rd Division. This part is still on the way to Tangbian Town.

After all, Tang Shengzhi has been in the war for a long time, and he was already the lord of the Northern Expedition eleven years ago, commanding hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the Hunan army, and the crisis in front of him was nothing to him, so he quickly regained his composure and sent several urgent telegrams in succession:

First, Feng Shengfa's department, which is the vanguard of the whole army, and the 45th Division, which is in the forward position of the central cluster, are required to rush to the front line of the wind tunnel as soon as possible, seize the high ground, wait for the arrival of the follow-up army, and thwart the blue side's attempt to divide the red side's various divisions; Second, the two regiments behind the 63rd Division were ordered to rush to the artillery regiment and the baggage regiment directly under the headquarters as soon as possible to escort the artillery unit to the main force.

The new second division supplementary brigade is Wu Ming to meet its own development needs and to cope with Yu Jishi's possible transfer at any time and the formation of a large number of troops, by Yu Jishi in the military committee and the Ministry of Military Affairs filed the case, under the jurisdiction of five supplementary regiments, of which the second to fifth regiments are currently under the leadership of deputy division commander Long Shaogang and deputy chief of staff Fang Zhibin in northeast Zhejiang to build Zhajia defense fortifications, this exercise, as the first regiment formed by the elite of the whole brigade, is the façade of the supplementary brigade.

At 7 o'clock in the morning, the officers and men of the 1st Regiment of the Supplementary Brigade quietly passed through the narrow road between Lianhua Mountain and Zhugan Mountain, and successfully arrived at Huacun in the southeast of Zhugan Mountain at about 10:30 a.m

At half past four o'clock in the afternoon, all the sleeping officers and men were woken up by the company platoon commanders, and then began to drink water and eat food. At this moment, many people heard a noisy sound of footsteps, from far and near, sounding fast.

Zhang Fachun, an eighteen-year-old soldier from Yueqing, Zhejiang, stood up curiously, took a few steps to a four- or five-meter-high rock next to the camp, climbed up in twos and threes, and craned his neck to check what was going on. Since there was no alarm from the officers and men stationed at the perimeter and everyone knew that it was their own people, the troops were very relaxed.

Groups of officers and men emerged from the northern horizon, getting closer and closer, and soon came to Zhang Fachun's side, and then flashed by, and continued to advance south. These officers and men were agile and vigorous, and marched at an astonishing pace, and in less than ten minutes, a team of six or seven hundred men brushed the ground.

Looking at the burly and sturdy figures of the officers and soldiers of this unit, the little soldiers were very envious, and then looking at their equipment, saliva was about to flow out.

With a "snap", Zhang Fachun touched his head, turned his head in annoyance, and saw the squad leader's angry black face at a glance.

Liu Rui, the squad leader, is half of Zhang Fachun's fellow countrymen, from Wenling, north of Yueqing, who enlisted in the army two years earlier than Zhang Fachun, and will be 20 years old in the second half of the year.

The squad leader said angrily: "Look at it, don't hurry up and eat, or we will have to set off soon." ”

Zhang Fachun smiled and said to Liu Rui: "Squad leader, which part are they?" Such a awesome ...... It's really fast, and the guys who use it are better than us."

"You've only been in the army for half a year, so naturally you don't know what to do...... Those guys are not human beings at all, how to say it, they climb over mountains and mountains, they cross a hundred-meter-wide river, they don't need to build bridges at all, they just swim over with arms, and it is even more unambiguous to start a battle, one person can deal with a dozen small soldiers like you, they are the special service company under the guard battalion of our new second division, and the division commander's heart is at the tip. ”

The squad leader turned the soldier's head again, and hummed: "Don't look at it, it's useless to look at it again, if you let the platoon commander see it, you will definitely find an opportunity to add food to you."

Zhang Fachun was taken aback, didn't dare to look at it anymore, and hurriedly jumped off the big stone with the squad leader.

Liu Rui's extra meal refers to additional training in addition to daily training. Zhang Fachun thought that as a soldier in the New Second Division, the food was good, three meals a day, meat every other day, and rice was full, but the intensity of the training was too tiring.

The squad leader secretly looked at the platoon commander who was checking the readiness of the troops in the distance, and whispered to the little soldier: "Let me tell you, in fact, our platoon commander participated in the selection of the special service company at the beginning, but unfortunately he was eliminated. ”

"Huh?"

This little soldier Zhang Fachun was even more surprised, and at the same time had a trace of fantasy about this mysterious spy company, if he could join in and become a member of it, what a wonderful thing it would be

"Don't be in a daze, let's get ready, it is estimated that the task will come down soon, if we are not ready by then, the platoon commander will ensure that we wear small shoes"

Liu Rui woke up Zhang Fachun, who was in a daze, and the two began to sort out housekeeping and maintain guns, and the entire camp was in order, and it was not at all obvious that it was a recruit unit.

An hour later, at the foot of Jianshan Mountain, three kilometers southeast of the temporary camp of the First Regiment of the Supplementary Brigade, the advancing team suddenly stopped and quickly hid into the dense forest next to the trail for a short rest.

Several people gathered in a circle, Lu Kuiyuan pointed at the map that was laid out, introduced the situation, and then said with a serious face:

"Brothers, the sharp knife company of the first brigade and one regiment successfully completed the task at the cost of zero casualties, and performed very well, so that the division commander and they can't trust our spy company, if it weren't for Lao Tzu's military order, none of you would have thought of it, just nest in the division headquarters as a guard."

"Thank you, battalion commander, for your reasoning," everyone thanked with a smile.

Lu Kuiyuan didn't laugh, and whispered to Lei Yan, Lei Biao, Lei Peng and other company commanders: "The latest news from the front line from the scouts, the enemy is shrinking its forces, so I judge that the other side will definitely send troops to strengthen the defense of artillery and baggage troops, once they complete the assembly, it will be extremely difficult for us to complete the task."

Lu Kuiyuan looked at his watch: "It's half past five in the afternoon, let's go on the road after a little rest, and strive to spend six hours through the gaps between the various departments of the red side, walk the thirty-mile mountain road by shortcut, approach the red artillery unit, and then look for opportunities." The division commander has already reported to the exercise headquarters that our side is striving to attack the Red artillery unit at the junction of Yushan and Jiangshan, and we are doing our best to solve the opponent's problem in the hilly area south of Tangbian Town, Jiangshan County."

"Brothers, we have trained in the mountains in the southwest of Jiangshan County before, and the terrain is familiar to everyone, I hope this time we will not be strained to lead us to a race against time, and if we win, we can defeat the enemy's artillery smoothly, and the rest of the Red side will also be divided into pieces and eaten as a snack...... If we lose, then the military order at the division headquarters will be a disgrace to our guard battalion, especially the special service company."

"Do you have the confidence to complete the task?"

"Yes"

A uniform response was heard, and everyone's faces were full of fighting spirit, and it was clear that they were confident in the attack.

After a simple mobilization, the two spy companies and the second company of guards who accompanied the operation soon set off again and disappeared into the vast forest.

At the same time, the 1st Regiment of the Supplementary Brigade was also on an empty dam at the foot of the wild boar mountain in Huacun, doing the most difficult mobilization before departure, and Chen Yanhua, the lieutenant colonel of the 1st Regiment of the Supplementary Brigade, shouted hoarsely: "...... Victory is one step ahead of the enemy, and victory is one second ahead of the enemy to the top of the wind tunnel."