Zhang Youquan put down the binoculars, his face full of disbelief: "This little Japanese didn't take the wrong medicine, right?" He has an infantry brigade, as well as artillery and tanks to fight together, facing one of our battalions, and actually acting as a mouse, captain, why do I think this matter is a little unreliable, little Japan should not be playing any tricks

Xu Shijiu groaned and did not speak, he also felt that things were a little abnormal, after the Battle of Songhu, the combat effectiveness of the national army and the Japanese army had been seriously unbalanced, the Japanese army was well equipped and trained, and the combat effectiveness was stronger after having actual combat experience, and the national army had lost a lot of equipment and veterans, but the combat effectiveness had an extremely serious decline.

In the Battle of Xuzhou, an infantry squadron of small Japan dared to single-handedly challenge a regiment of the National Army, an infantry brigade could defeat a division of the National Army, and a division dared to fight against more than a dozen main divisions of the National Army.

There is a brigade of small Japanese feet on the opposite side, as well as artillery and tanks, but the 19th brigade has a defensive jiashi, which is indeed a bit unusual, Xu 19's sense of smell on the battlefield is keen, and the ability to analyze the battle situation is excellent, but for a while he can't guess what medicine is sold in the little Japanese gourd.

In fact, Xu Jiu and Zhang You were all complicated, but it was the black blind man who said something to the sky: "Captain, most of the commanders of the Japanese army on the other side are cowards." ”

Xu Shijiu shook his head and ordered: "Pass the order, all companies and platoons will step up the construction of fortifications, and the first company will continue to lurk, and without my order, it will never be allowed to attack rashly." ”

The 19th Brigade and the 3rd Brigade of the 38th Infantry Wing of the Japanese Army fell into a strange confrontation on the Shanfeng Highway, but the 174th Brigade of the 58th Division rushed to Feng County under the leadership of the brigade commander Zhu Qi.

However, taking the trail also has the advantage of taking the trail, because both sides of the trail are all wheat fields or bud valleys, or they are overgrown with trees, and the national army wears grass-green military uniforms, and the march in the shade of the fields is very hidden, plus the little Japanese aerial reconnaissance planes have to fly from Jinan and Tianjin to reconnoitre, and the time in the air is not long enough, and the center of gravity of the reconnaissance is still in Zaozhuang and Linyi, so until the 174th Brigade approached Wanggou more than ten miles away in the western suburbs of Fengxian County, little Japan has not noticed that something is wrong

Arrived at Wanggou, Fengxian was already close at hand, Zhu Qi sent scouts to reconnoiter the movements of the Japanese army in Fengxian County, and ordered the troops to rest in situ, Wanggou is a relatively large market town, hearing the arrival of the national army, the people in the town have set out, this carrying a kettle and that carrying a basket, the tea, eggs, boiled potatoes, sweet potatoes and other flowing water to the hands of the national officers and soldiers, the common people know that the national army is here to protect them, so they are very enthusiastic.

The Yellow River has not flooded for a long time in this era, so the life of the common people in Henan is still quite solid, but all this will soon be over, with the defeat of the national army and the loss of Xuzhou, the old Jiang ordered to blow up the mouth of the garden, resulting in a yellow flood area that stretches for hundreds of kilometers, millions of people were drowned, and tens of millions of people were displaced.

The formation of the Yellow Flood Area has made the ecological imbalance of the Huanghuai River Basin serious, and in the following years, there was a serious drought in Henan in succession, and in the 3l year of the Republic of China (194 years), the drought spread to more than 100 counties in Henan, followed by the locust plague, the farmland was not harvested, resulting in an unprecedented great famine, and more than three million people starved to death

The scouts sent out soon returned, and the Japanese troops in Fengxian were not abnormal.

What made Zhu Qi even more happy was that the reconnaissance platoon sent out also captured a plainclothes team who went out, and when he asked this group of plainclothes team a little, he said that when he learned that the headquarters of the 16th Division of the small Japanese army was in Feng County, and the Japanese army left in Feng County only had an infantry brigade, Zhu Qi was so excited that he scolded his mother.

At this time, the officers and men of the 174th Brigade had recovered their physical strength after a short rest, and it was getting late, which was just right for the national army to give full play to its advantages in night fighting, so Zhu Qi, the commander of the 174th Brigade, decisively issued an order, with Li Song's 348th Regiment as the main attack, and the 347th Regiment as the reserve, ready to block the possible arrival of Japanese reinforcements at any time.

Under the cover of night, Li Song and more than 2,000 officers and men of the 348th Regiment quietly entered the designated attack position, and the hour hand could be pointed to 6 o'clock in the evening, and with the launch of a red signal flare, more than 600 officers and men of the 3rd Battalion of the 348th Regiment jumped up from the ground and launched an attack on the west gate of Fengxian County with a roar under the leadership of the battalion commander Li Shouqing.

For little Japan, the battle began suddenly.

Nakajima is almost sixty years old, and he was injured in the Russo-Japanese War in his early years, and his physical condition has not been good, so he was ready to rest early, but as soon as the old devil lay down on the tatami mat, there was a scream of "boom" outside, and then a faint red light reflected the papier-mâché door.

Although the old devil Nakajima is not young, his reaction is not slow, and he sat up at once.

By the time Nakajima walked into the war room of the division headquarters in full dress, the gunfire in the direction of the west gate of Fengxian County had already resounded, and Major General Shinohara Jiro, commander of the 30th Infantry Brigade, Yoshio Mizawa, chief of staff of the 16th Division, and several senior staff officers of the division headquarters had all gathered in the war room.

The 16th Division is a horse-pulling division, under the jurisdiction of the four infantry wings, also under the jurisdiction of the cavalry wing, the field artillery wing, the 16th engineer wing, and the 16th baggage wing, in addition to the division headquarters directly under the signal team, health team, gun repair station, and field hospital.

At this time, the 19th Infantry Brigade (under the jurisdiction of the 9th Infantry Wing and the 1st Wing) had been organized into a separate grassland detachment, and cooperated with the 13th Division of the Central China Command Army to attack Dangshan, and the field artillery wing, the 16th engineer wing, and the 16th baggage regiment were all assigned to the grassland detachment.

The 1st Cavalry Wing stayed, but the 1st Cavalry Wing originally only had two cavalry squadrons, and one of the cavalry squadrons had been sent to Shanxian County, originally wanting to test the details of the national army, but until now there has been no news back, and I can figure out with my toes that this cavalry squadron must have been eaten by the national army.

The 33rd Infantry Wing went to Pei County again, and the combat troops left in Feng County were only a brigade of the 38th Infantry Wing, and the ammunition reserves of the troops were already very small, and the details of the national army were completely unclear, so Shinohara Jiro, Misawa Yoshio, Kondo Moto, deputy commander of the 38th Infantry Wing, and other senior officers were a little nervous.

If there are several regiments or even divisions of the national army that suddenly appear outside Fengxian County, then the division headquarters of the 16th Division is likely to become the first division headquarters to be annihilated by the national army since the full-scale outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, and Nakajima Imago will also become the first division commander to be killed or captured by the national army.

For the Japanese army, this was simply a big event

Bowing to Nakajima Isago, Yoshio Misawa said, "Division commander, the garrison of Fengxian is too thin, do you order Sukegawa-san to come back?" Or did Yu Crisp transfer the 33rd Infantry Wing back from Peixian? ”

"No, let's wait and see." Nakajima Imago seems to be careless, this old devil is not to stabilize the morale of the army, but really don't care, the old devil is so confident is not for nothing, although the combat unit of the Japanese army in Fengxian County has only one brigade, but in addition to this infantry brigade, the division headquarters also has a direct communication team, a health team, a firearms repair station and several field hospitals, these non-combatants add up to more than 2,000 people, and the non-combatants have actually received strict military training, Just give them weapons and they will be able to participate in the battle.

The most important thing is that Fengxian is only more than 50 miles away from Pei County, and it is only less than 100 miles away from Dangshan, once Feng County is really in an emergency, the 33rd Infantry Wing of Pei County and the grassland detachment of Dangshan can come back at any time, and Nakajima Ima does not think that the Japanese troops who stayed in Feng County could not even hold out for several hours waiting for the Japanese troops in Pei County and Dangshan to return.

When the battle in Fengxian began, Feng Shengfa was waiting for news at the headquarters of the 58th Division in Liukou Township.

Due to the lack of Jishu equipment and personnel in the national army, radio stations are generally only equipped with division-level combat units, and Feng Shengfa has made great efforts to equip the 17th Brigade and the 174th Brigade with a radio station each, and the regimental and battalion-level combat units below the brigade level can only rely on the two legs of the signal corps, and at most they will be equipped with horses.

Of course, the Nineteenth Brigade is definitely an exception, and Feng Shengfa specially assigned a radio station to the Nineteenth Brigade.

In the evening, Feng Shengfa estimated that the 174th Brigade should almost arrive in Feng County, so he asked the division headquarters communication squad to start calling the 174th Brigade non-stop, but the radio station of the 174th Brigade has been turned off, and he can't be contacted.

Through the radio waves, Fengxian's intelligence was quickly fed back to the division headquarters of the 58th Division.

After reading the telegram, Feng Shengfa was not calm, the division headquarters of the 16th Division was in Feng County?

Chief of Staff Yang Shaoren was also a little unable to hold back, and said excitedly: "Division, this 16th Division has killed many of our compatriots in Nanjing, and the old devil Nakajima is even more frenzied to the extreme

"Slap" Feng Shengfa slapped the table hard, and said sharply, "If you don't say it, you will drop him"

After saying that, Feng Shengfa picked up the phone and yelled into the microphone: "I'm Feng Shengfa, give me the military department." ”

After a while, the phone was connected, and Feng Shengfa said again: "Military seat, I am Feng Shengfa, I just got the news, the division headquarters of the 16th Division of Little Japan is in Feng County, and the defenders only have one brigade seat, this is a godsend, Nakajima is now the old devil who burned and plundered in Nanjing, his hands are stained with the blood of the countrymen, and now it is time for this old devil to repay the blood debt."

"Junza, it is still certain to encircle and annihilate an infantry brigade of the Japanese army with the strength of a brigade, however, considering that the Japanese army has heavy troops stationed in Dangshan and Peixian, I humbly request that 5 Pei immediately move closer to Fengxian and be responsible for blocking the devil's reinforcements, and then ask Junzao to come forward to coordinate with Commander-in-Chief Xue, and request the 8th Army and the army to contain the Japanese army in Dangshan and not let it return to Fengxian."

Putting down the phone, Feng Shengfa instructed Yang Shaoren again: "Chief of Staff, immediately send a report to Fang Riying, the main force of the 17th Brigade should not go to Shanxian anymore, let him immediately lead the troops to Feng County to reinforce the 174th Brigade" Although Feng Shengfa thought that it was enough for the 174th Brigade and the 19th Brigade to besiege the Japanese army in Fengxian, but for the sake of insurance, he still decided to transfer the 17th Brigade as well.

After finishing it, Feng Shengfa asked the communication staff officer beside him: "Is there any contact with the 19th Brigade?" ”

"Not yet." The communications staff officer shook his head and replied, "The radio station of the 19th Brigade has been turned off. ”

Feng Shengfa's brows furrowed in an instant, could it be that the Nineteenth Brigade was in trouble? This is not good news for Feng Shengfa, because the 19th Brigade is a sharp knife that stabbed the Japanese army in Fengxian during his entire operation, and once this sharp knife cannot reach Fengxian in time, it will be much more difficult for the 174th Brigade to take Fengxian alone.