The Xueyi Division and the Xuebing Army Mountain Division are now under the command of Zhang Zizhong. Because Zhang Zizhong did not have the experience of serving as the commander of the left-behind garrison in Beiping, he was not ideologically misunderstood by the Chinese people as a traitor's burden, and when he commanded the battle, he did not have to worry about being angry and doing things, and completely debated the war with war, and his personal command level was brought into full play. After receiving Li Zongren's order, he carefully analyzed it with Guo Da and others, and felt that this battle was going to be this trip, so he immediately acted according to the order.

When the 57th Army was in Hebei, it had eight divisions and two brigades at its peak, and after a hard battle with the Japanese army, only five divisions remained, three of which were still disabled. These three divisions were sent to Guangdong by him, in exchange for the first division and the mountain division. Li Zongren's suggestion was to send out the 1st Division and the Mountain Division together, go down to Linyi with a drum, and then turn to the direction of Dushan Lake, and cooperate with Yu Xuezhong's 51st Army to attack Tengxian.

The Japanese troops stationed in Linyi were the main force of the Aoben Detachment under the jurisdiction of the Fifth Division, with nearly 7,000 men in six brigades; In Teng County, a whole division has just been entered, the 10th Division of the Japanese Army, with nearly 40,000 people. As early as three days ago, that is, on the night when the 10th Division had just entered Teng County, the Foreign Affairs Department of Fox Tong telegraphed the detailed information of the Japanese troops in these two cities to Guo Da. Guo Da reported to Zhang Zizhong and Li Zongren, and the latter, based on this information and in light of the actual situation, concluded that the Japanese army was gathering troops in Linyi and would launch an attack on Xuzhou from Linyi and Tengxian, so he made a decision to take the initiative to attack and disrupt the deployment of the Japanese army.

On the night of April 17, at about nine o'clock, the troops under the jurisdiction of the 57th Army set out from the hidden camp near Xiangcheng. Among them, the mechanized march of the 1st and Mountain Divisions rushed to Linyi at the fastest speed, while the 38th and 132nd Divisions moved towards Beizhuang with heavy supplies (mainly oil and shells). At the same time, the 51st Army, under the leadership of Xuezhong, set off from Xuzhou and took a train to Lincheng.

In order to adapt to the operations in northern Jiangsu, the standard equipment of the 1st Division and the Mountain Division was changed, among them, the rationing of tank units was reduced from one brigade to one regiment, and all the extra establishments were replaced by mechanized air defense units. Considering that the attack on Linyi was carried out at night and there was no need for air defense, he asked the air defense brigade to follow the 38th Division and the 132nd Division. In this way, the troops that actually attacked Linyi actually had only five brigades, but with the full number of the cadet corps and the first division, the number of these five brigades also reached more than 18,000 people, plus nearly one and a half brigades of self-propelled artillery to help, theoretically there was no problem at all.

In the rumbling sound of the motor, Guo Da poked his head out of the Great Wall brand "160A" light armored vehicle and looked at the front and back, but saw a snow-like light dazzling, and the steel torrent in front and behind was nowhere to be seen. He looked at the road in front of the car again, and suddenly felt a little irritable, so he said to Yu Zequan, a staff officer next to him, "Contact the chief of staff." ”

Yu Zequan sat behind him, and when he heard this, he took down the walkie-talkie microphone hanging on the back of the seat behind him, and began to call: "I am the Grand Canal, I am the Grand Canal, please reply when you hear the small canal." Complete. ”

Panasonic sent the button, and soon, a voice came from the microphone: "Little Canal received, over." ”

Yu Zequan handed the microphone to Guo Da. Guo Da pressed the send button, leaned to his mouth and shouted: "I'm Guo Da, let the chief of staff answer the phone." ”

The current chief of staff of the First Division is Xu Dalin, a cadet soldier who was promoted all the way from the student training class, Xu Dalin quickly took over the conversation and responded: "Master, I am Xu Dalin, what are your instructions?" ”

"Lao Xu, Qiu Jun, have they turned around, please notify me in time if there is any situation, there is always something wrong in my heart."

Qiu Jun is a scout who is one step ahead, responsible for surveying the road and the enemy.

Xu Dalin replied: "Received!" Qiu Jun They haven't turned around yet, and there are no warning signs on the road. ”

"Well, there's nothing wrong with being cautious."

On the battlefield, experienced generals tend to be blessed with the blessing of the soul and be alert to the impending unnamed danger. The reason why Guo Da suddenly asked Xu Dalin, the chief of staff in front of the convoy, to send additional scouts was this situation. And how wise and wise his ad hoc order proved to be. A platoon of scouts sent by Xu Dalin had just driven less than 30 kilometers away from the brigade on motorcycles when they encountered a soldier from the first wave of scouts led by Qiu Jun.

The scout, Yunyi, was speeding at an almost frantic speed on his motorcycle, and the two sides met at a bend, almost causing the two cars to collide.

Wang Yanong, the platoon commander of the newly dispatched reconnaissance platoon, drove a motorcycle carrying a soldier named Hu Min to run first, and he and Yun Yi passed by, and the two drivers, including Hu Min and others behind him, broke out in a cold sweat. Under the light of the snowy motorcycle headlights, although Yun Yi stepped on the brakes in time, he drove too fast, and the car still inevitably rolled, but fortunately, he reacted quickly enough and jumped out of the car in time, so he was not injured.

They all belonged to the reconnaissance battalion directly under the division, and the big guys were very familiar with each other, and immediately someone recognized Yun Yi and shouted: "Yun Yi! What happened? What about you platoon commander Qiu? ”

Yun Yi climbed up, he gasped for breath and said sadly: "We have been ambushed by the little devils, Platoon Commander Qiu, Platoon Commander Qiu and they have all been sacrificed." ”

"What? Caught in an ambush by a little devil? Wang Yanong asked, "Where is it?" How many little devils are there? ”

"It's fifteen kilometers from here, and there are several villages nearby, and there is at least one brigade of devils. Platoon Commander Wang, please turn around immediately and report the situation to the Chief of Staff-" Yun Yi said, picking up the motorcycle that had already turned off, and turned the front of the car to drive in the direction where it was about to go when it caught fire.

Wang Yanong immediately stopped him: "What are you doing?" ”

Yun Yi stretched out his hand to wipe away the tears in his eyes, and hissed: "Platoon Commander Qiu, they are still blocking the Japanese army, as a comrade-in-arms, I must go back and fight with them." ”

The Wolf Tooth Special Operations Brigade belongs to the special vanguard in the large system of the Cadet Army, and this reconnaissance unit is the special elite in the subordinate units at all levels. The establishment of special forces is different from that of conventional troops, for example, Wang Yanong's platoon has only two squads, and each squad has no more than seven people. Qiu Jun's platoon, including Qiu Jun's platoon commander, was only fifteen people, and Yun Yi was missing, and with fourteen people fighting against more than a thousand devils, the result can be imagined. Yun Yi rushed over at this time, saying that he was fighting with his comrades and brothers, but in fact, how different was it from sending him to death?! Wang Yanong and Qiu Jun, as the platoon commanders under the same company, have a good relationship with the latter as Yun Yi, and if he can, he would rather kill them regardless of it - what if Qiu Jun and they are not dead? Even if you die with Qiu Jun, it is better than living alone. But as the supreme governor of this place, and with a mission, although he was sad in his heart, he could only suppress himself, and shouted to Yunyi: "Confused! Stop me - don't you want to avenge your platoon commander? You have to take revenge on other brothers, but you have to help you avenge it. Are you afraid to take on this responsibility when you go to death like this? ”

Yun Yi was stunned - when he was strictly ordered by Qiu Jun to return to report the news, four of the brothers in the platoon had already fallen, and now after such a long time, how could anyone still be alive. The brothers used their blood and lives to exchange their blood and lives for themselves a chance to survive, so it is natural that they should take on the responsibility of avenging them - yes, if they die, who will help them avenge them! Thinking of this, he said to Wang Yanong: "Platoon Commander Wang, I will go back with you." ”

Wang Yanong skillfully persuaded Yun Yi and dispelled his idea of sending him to death, he had no intention of going back. Those who can be selected for the reconnaissance unit and serve as officers, in addition to their outstanding combat skills, are also first-class smart. The information that Yun Yi brought back was still too general, and it was necessary to continue reconnaissance and obtain more detailed information; To go back and report the news, only a few people are enough. With this decision in his mind, he divided everyone into two groups, and asked the squad leader to hurry back with a few soldiers and Yun Yi to report the situation, and then he took the others to continue to move forward, trying to figure out the specific enemy situation.

The others had no opinion when they heard it, but Yun Yi stopped doing it and strongly asked to act with Wang Yanong. How could Wang Yanong agree, using the excuse that no one knew the situation better than him, let the squad leader and a few soldiers directly take him away.

Qiu Jun: They were ambushed by the Japanese army, which was a complete coincidence.

Who would have expected that the detachment would hold a night raid exercise today, and that these devils, who had eaten too much, set off from Linyi by car at 8 o'clock in the evening, and this drive actually came to the area of Xiaocang Village, which is more than 30 kilometers away from Linyi.

The information Yun Yi obtained was not detailed, because although there was only one devil brigade that ambushed them, it was two brigades that participated in this exercise. The supreme commander of the detachment, Major General Tuo Benshun, drew on the lessons of the little devil's fiasco in the Huai River area to come up with the idea of holding this night raid. He personally commanded the exercise, and a total of two brigades of devils were dispatched. With regard to this exercise, the idea of Lu Benshun is to take advantage of the cover of night to first dispatch a part of the troops in the form of a rapid march to set up an ambush on the offensive line, and then send another part of the troops to launch an attack in a grand manner, luring the Chinese army to intercept it halfway, so as to create an ambush and directly follow the defeated Chinese army into it.

Qiu Jun and the others didn't expect that the little devil would set up an ambush more than 30 kilometers away from Linyi, and he also didn't expect that he would really be able to catch the enemy in this purely theoretical night raid exercise. Qiu Jun and the others plunged headlong into the ambush circle of the little devils, a platoon of fifteen soldiers, and in the end only Yun Yi and one person escaped. Fortunately, he escaped from Yunyi, otherwise, if he was ambushed by Wang Yanong, the general of Benshun, then Xueyi would inevitably suffer heavy losses.