When the order reached Haining County, Zhang Dongning handed the telegram to Chen Yanhua and said with a smile: "This is the time to fulfill your wish."

Chen Yanhua glanced at ten lines, quickly read the order, and was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth.

"Never disappoint the expectations of the division commander and the chief of staff"

After Chen Yanhua finished speaking, he solemnly saluted Zhang Dongning and turned around to go out. Seeing his figure running and running, Zhang Dongning smiled heartily, Wu Ming can be regarded as suffocating Chen Yanhua, a tiger.

Chen Yanhua returned to the regiment headquarters and immediately called a meeting of the battalion and company commanders and assigned tasks. At ten o'clock in the evening, the troops were assembled and drove to Jiaxing City overnight.

After a hurried march all night, at seven o'clock in the morning, Chen Yanhua's supplementary regiment arrived at Caowang Temple in the south of Jiaxing, where they met the messenger sent by Zhang Fakui. Half an hour later, Chen Yanhua was brought to Zhang Fakui.

Zhang Fakui was not only shocked by the fact that the reinforcements came so quickly, but also sighed more - the new Second Division acted quickly and resolutely, and the results did not fall out of thin air.

At this time, the 18th Division of the Japanese Army and the Kunisaki Detachment had detoured to the north gate of Jiaxing, and the Japanese army took advantage of the night to attack with all their might, and half of Jiaxing City had fallen into the hands of the enemy.

The situation was urgent, and Chen Yanhua immediately said that his subordinates could immediately enter the battle, which almost shocked Zhang Fakui's jaw. However, at this time, Zhang Fakui could not really order people to join the battle group with a tired group, so he patted Chen Yanhua on the shoulder appreciatively and gave the group an eight-hour rest.

Despite his eagerness to fight, Chen Yanhua did not refuse Zhang Fakui's kindness in order to give his troops time to rest and adjust.

The most important honor for a soldier is that Japan has the spirit of bushido as a pillar, and the new Second Division is the same at its root, united into a strong collective under the guidance of the nationalist ideology of defending the homeland and defending the country against foreign humiliation. The more such troops, the stronger their combat effectiveness and the stronger their sense of collective honor.

In terms of qualifications within the new Second Division, Chen Yanhua is only slightly inferior to Luo Yuming, Yang Sixian, and Yin Di, and is one level higher than Han Tiecheng, Fan Daoquan, Zhou Juncheng and other main regiment commanders, not to mention other supplementary regiment commanders. Two days ago, the four main regiments all had their own banners, and Chen Yanhua was stimulated when he got the news, after all, the first regiment of the supplementary regiment has always maintained its structure, and in terms of combat effectiveness and military quality, it is not inferior to the four main regiments that have long been full of recruits after continuous replenishment.

The Supplementary 1st Regiment also had the opportunity to become the fifth main regiment of the new 2nd Division and had its own banner, but it was sent by the division headquarters to collect the rout, and missed a good opportunity to make meritorious contributions.

Now that there is finally a battle to fight, how can Chen Yanhua not be very happy?

After receiving a telegram from the division headquarters, Chen Yanhua led people to Jiaxing City overnight, but now that he was on the battlefield, Chen Yanhua was not so anxious, arranged for the officers and soldiers to eat and rest, and then personally went to the northern area of the city filled with gunpowder to check the Jiaxing city defense.

In the early years of the Republic of China, the scope of Jiaxing City was basically limited to the moat, but after more than 20 years of development, especially in the last ten years, the area of the city expanded several times, the south included the East and West South Lake, the north was bounded by the Sujia Railway Station, the east arrived at Dongpeng Town, and the west encircled the Santa Temple into the city.

Nowadays, the area in the north of the city occupied by the Japanese army is mainly between the ring road and the moat in Jiaxing in later generations, and the national army is guarding the city river and the city wall, but it can also be supported for the time being.

Back at the regiment headquarters, Chen Yanhua, deputy regiment commander Zhao Shuqing, regimental staff officer Zhou Cheng, and three battalion commanders studied the current situation and formulated a targeted operational plan.

When the cooking squads of each company were ready, Chen Yanhua ordered to wake up the sleeping officers and soldiers. After the meal, the regiment headquarters ordered all battalions and companies to check the sand table and familiarize themselves with the orders received by the headquarters and the topography of the corresponding urban area, and in the blink of an eye, it was evening.

Dark clouds were shrouded, the stars and the moon were gone, and in the headquarters of Zhang Fakui's Right Wing Army, the chief of the intelligence section reported all the performance of Chen Yanhua's regiment to Zhang Fakui.

Zhang Fakui waved his hand in disbelief and sent the intelligence section chief away. By the light of the faint kerosene lamp, he glanced at Liu Jianxu, who was there with the old god, and Zhang Fakui said with some concern:

"Lao Liu, tell me, Chen Yanhua said that he could recover the lost territory in the north of the city with only one regiment, do you think they are a little arrogant? If the attack is frustrated and the losses are serious, what is good? ”

In last night's battle, Zhang Fakui continued to throw troops into the front line, attacking against the Japanese army, but several counterattacks were repulsed by the Japanese army, and the officers and soldiers suffered huge losses, and the Japanese army advanced to the moat, which made Zhang Fakui's heart ache

Now Chen Yanhua has formulated almost the same operational plan: take advantage of the unstable foothold of the Japanese army and fight the Japanese counterattack in the dark. This plan has a strong style of the new Second Division, that is, it will never stick to it, but it really can't see where the bright spots are, which makes Zhang Fakui worried.

Hearing the worry revealed in Zhang Fakui's words, Liu Jianxu pursed his lips - since the Japanese army landed in Hangzhou Bay, although the Tenth Army under his command has performed well, it has suddenly become gloomy against the glorious background of the new Second Division. As far as his heart is concerned, Liu Jianxu can't wait for the new second division to suffer a defeat, so that everyone's eldest brother doesn't talk about the second brother, and they look good at each other

Later, during the Yushan exercise, the 63rd Division, which was the elite of the Hunan Army, was easily defeated by the New Second Division, which caused the bigwigs of the Military Commission and the Military and Political Affairs Department to complain about the combat effectiveness of the Hunan Army, so that after joining the Songhu Battlefield, Nanjing did not attach much importance to the allocation of weapons and ammunition to the troops under his command.

When the Japanese army opened up the battlefield of the southern front of Songhu, Tao Guang and Chen Guangzhong's old troops were defeated in successive battles, and they were all jealous of Wu Ming's limelight, and even Liu Jianxu did not have a good impression of Wu Ming.

Thinking of this, Liu Jianxu smiled: "Commander, you have overthought that the new Second Division stubbornly withstood the bombing of Japanese naval guns and planes in the Pinghu Plain area, and also won a brilliant victory in completely annihilating a division and heavy artillery brigade of the Japanese army. I believe that this Chen Yanhua is by no means a person who has a wine bag and a rice bag, otherwise he would not have been entrusted with a heavy task by Wu Ming

Why does this sound familiar? Zhang Fakui was slightly stunned, then shook his head with a wry smile, now he has no other better way, only a dead horse as a live horse doctor.

It was pitch black all around, and looking at the upper floor of Wumen City in the city, Chen Yanhua rubbed his red eyes and silently looked at the northern area of the city that fell silent in the evening.

During the day, the Japanese army stormed the Beicheng Tower, artillery fire flew one after another, gunpowder smoke rose everywhere, and the price of eight or nine hundred men was paid for a day of hard fighting, but still did not break through the defense line of the Chinese army.

After continuous fighting, the Japanese army faced a shortage of ammunition, and finally reined in its edge, and now the four fields are vast, with a certain suppressed emotion in the silence.

Major Zhou Cheng, a staff officer of the regiment, came over and reminded: "Tuanzao, the time for the attack has come."

Chen Yanhua looked up at the sky, nodded, and ordered Zhou Cheng: "Start attacking"

With the order to attack, in the night, in the west direction of the city, a leafy boat crossed the Xinchengtang River and appeared behind the flank of the Japanese army.

Immediately, the Japanese sentry posts monitoring the movements of the Chinese troops at the north gate were gradually cleared.

Half an hour later, countless figures passed through the ropes, descended to the north gate wall, and then passed several bridges, quickly rushing into the opposite street.

Under the dark corner, a group of officers and soldiers rushed out of the street like civets, and soon under the guidance of a guide who was familiar with the terrain, they got into a deep alley where he came.

In a courtyard north of Qinghe Street on the bank of Muhe River, Chen Dabiao, the commander of the first battalion, clapped his hands and whispered to several chief and deputy company commanders beside him:

"Next, I have only one request, that is, to reduce my own casualties while striking the enemy quickly and effectively, I must be able to change places with one shot, avoid hard encounters, and never let the devils touch the reality of our army, understand?"

"Battalion Commander Chen, you have already explained it several times, you didn't say that you were tired, our ears were almost hearing the cocoon," Lin Dayuan, the commander of the reconnaissance company, said with a smile.

"Get out, let's kill the devil for Lao Tzu...... Lin Manzi, if your reconnaissance company's record is not as good as other companies this time, Lao Tzu will see how you explain to the regiment. When the time comes, the group must have peeled off your skin. Chen Dabiao reprimanded angrily.

Lin Dayuan, the commander of the reconnaissance company, was honest and honest, but he was extremely tenacious and fierce during training and combat, and was called a barbarian by the officers and men. Although Lin Dayuan was only a company commander, he was directly under the command of the regimental headquarters, and this time he was temporarily assigned to Chen Dabiao's battalion to fight.

Lin Dayuan grinned, didn't care about Chen Dabiao's scolding, turned around and waved his hand to the officers and soldiers behind, and one by one the sturdy figures held submachine guns, bazookas, flamethrowers and other melee weapons, divided into small teams, and quickly disappeared into the darkness.

Seeing that the reconnaissance company was gone, Chen Dabiao waved his hand to a few people behind him, and also led a few officers and soldiers into an alley from the back door, leaving a depressing silence.

Most of the houses in the north of Jiaxing are bungalows, and the residents here have been evacuated as early as when the Japanese army broke through the Pingwang defensive line, and after a few days of fighting, the remaining people have also fled to Yu Jingjing.

Lin Dayuan led people to a courtyard, and the courtyard door was suddenly opened from the inside, revealing a young smiling face. Lin Dayuan nodded as a greeting, and then led people into the courtyard silently.

The courtyard is a typical courtyard house, Lin Dayuan walked into the room to the north, went straight to the window facing the street at the back, carefully opened a crack, only to see that the outside is close to the root of the wall is the Japanese heavy machine gun position, more than a dozen devils are lying behind the barricade, cigarette butts flickering on and off, obviously the devils have not realized that the danger is approaching.

Lin Dayuan carefully checked the surrounding terrain, returned to the front yard, and two officers and soldiers quickly went in and placed a huge explosive bag at the base of the wall near the window.

This room is only separated by a wall from the Japanese heavy machine gun team, once it is blasted, these devils will be affected, and when the time comes, it will be easy to eliminate these devils.

As the two Demomen came out, Lin Dayuan asked in a low voice, "Are you okay?" ”

"No problem"

"Detonation"

With Lin Dayuan's order, only a loud "boom" was heard, and then the sound of the wall collapsing, the roof tiles fell downward, and several devils were pierced by the splashed bricks and tiles on the spot, and the miserable howl sounded into a one.

The devils were extremely brave, and five or six devils screamed and rushed towards the gap created by the blasting, ignoring the burning pain of their exposed skin.

In the smoke, Lin Dayuan had already led people to the gap, and when he heard the screams of the devils, Lin Dayuan yelled left and right: "Up, die little devils"

The two officers and men with submachine guns in front did not immediately rush out of the field, but stepped aside to make room for the flamethrower team behind. In the dark, whether it was the soldiers of the new Second Division or the devils, the vision was blocked, and the chief shooter of the flamethrower group held a slender nozzle and pressed the button in the direction where the footsteps of the Japanese army came, and a fire dragon sprayed out, and the violent high temperature ignited several devil soldiers at once.

The devil soldier howled and threw himself around, rolling around, but he couldn't extinguish the flames on his body.

The fire dragon rotated in a clockwise direction, and everywhere it went, whether it was people or trees, and even the buildings opposite, there were also raging fires, and many devil soldiers hiding behind the barricades were also ignited, and many Japanese soldiers fell to the ground, rolling and howling from side to side, and were burned into a pile of black charcoal at the end......

The officers and men of the reconnaissance company in the house rushed out of the room, and the submachine guns were aimed at all suspicious targets, and a few devils who were ready to break their hearts ran away, but they were overturned to the ground by the dense bullets.

"Boom-"

A violent explosion came from a distance one after another, Chen Yanhua, who was supervising the battle on the city tower, picked up the binoculars and looked for the location where the sound came from, only to see fires flashing everywhere in the north of the city, followed by a deafening sound of killing.

Chen Yanhua waved his fist vigorously and said happily: "Yu Dehao, that is, this is the case, to disturb the Japanese defense line by surprise and win in chaos."

More than 20 Japanese blocking points scattered in the main streets north of Jiaxing were all attacked by Chinese troops at the same time, and calls for tactical guidance were quickly reached by the Japanese forward headquarters near the railway station.

Lieutenant General Tani Toshio, commander of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, was anxious for a while, and the Japanese army was suddenly attacked, especially the flamethrowers used by the opponent, which were almost impossible to resist at close range, and there was no resistance at all in the dark night. The unwavering will to be loyal to the emperor was missing from the eyes of the soldiers who had escaped, and their faces were full of trepidation and fright.