Zhang Ying, the chief of staff of the brigade, did not let go, and Han Tiecheng did not dare to insist on continuing to lead people to sabotage, so he waved his hand and asked Wei Gang, the commander of the first battalion, to lead the team back.

Zhang Ying immediately stopped the team, smiled at Han Tiecheng, and said, "Since you are here, let's help fellow villagers do some work."

Zhang Ying quickly assigned tasks to each soldier to help the villagers chop wood and boil water, which was brought back to the mountain by the officers and soldiers of two companies. Zhang Ying supervised the participation throughout the process, and half an hour later, the sky gradually brightened, and the team carrying the big and small burdens began to set off, Han Tiecheng reluctantly led the way in front, Zhang Ying glared at him angrily, and snorted: "Look at your unwilling appearance, what is the difference between you and an angry child?" Like the performance of a regimental commander? By the way, you also released your baby pimple sharp knife, and turned around to let the family make dumplings, what should you do? ”

"Jade can't be sharpened"

Han Tiecheng smiled, and a hint of cunning flashed on his face: "Wrapping dumplings, you can just cure those guys who don't know the height of the sky."

The 1st Brigade and 1st Regiment belonged to the elite of the main force in the regiments of the New 2nd Division, and each regiment selected elites from all battalions of the regiment to form a sharp knife company.

Like the two spy companies under the direct command of the division's guards, this sharp knife company has very strong combat effectiveness, and the quality of individual soldiers is only one step behind the officers and men of the special service company.

As the chief of staff of the brigade, Zhang Ying is not in the brigade headquarters of Puning Temple at the foot of the northern foot of Lotus Mountain, but acts with a regiment, and also has the intention of suppressing the arrogance of Han Tiecheng's department.

Seeing that Han Tiecheng was so confident in his sharp knife company, Zhang Ying nodded with satisfaction. If a unit wants to continue to inherit and develop and grow, it must have the strength not to admit defeat

Before Han Tiecheng took the initiative to send a sharp knife company to harass the vanguard of the red side, Zhang Ying knew that as long as he didn't cause a big mess, he would not attack Han Tiecheng's enthusiasm, but thinking about the opponent targeted by the sharp knife company this time, Zhang Ying frowned slightly and glanced at Han Tiecheng:

"If your sharp knife company goes too far with the Imperial Forest Army of the chairman of the committee, causing the opponent to retreat and huddle in a group, and then disturb the entire operation plan, I am afraid that you will not be able to explain it to the division commander."

After all, Zhang Ying is the chief of staff of the brigade, and he has a more comprehensive consideration of the battle situation, if the imposing Imperial Forest Army suffers a big loss when he first arrives, those arrogant soldiers will go from extreme self-confidence to inferiority, and it is difficult to say whether they will become shrinking turtles.

Han Tiecheng smiled faintly and waved his hand indifferently:

"That will never happen...... Most of the officers and men of the Imperial Forest Army had rich combat experience and should be prepared to deal with attacks by small groups of troops. ”

"Besides, those guys have always been arrogant and domineering, how can they bear it when they suffer losses? When the time comes, not only will it not shrink back, but it will speed up the march, hoping to meet us sooner and say that it may not be possible to make more money."

"In that case, then I don't care...... But ......"

Zhang Ying's face was solemn, and he stretched out his hand to the guards behind him, took the map of the main peak of Lotus Mountain and the surrounding area, and put his fingers on the Huangchao Cellar of the main peak of Lotus Mountain, and looked at Han Tiecheng with a cold face:

"Although the main peak of Lotus Mountain and the north and south wings are not high, they are the commanding heights of the entire battlefield, as long as you control here, you will have the strategic initiative, and the division commander requires you to hold it firmly, if you lose your position, you will go to the division commander to confess your guilt when the time comes."

"Yes, guaranteed to get the job done"

Han Tiecheng saluted, his face full of confidence.

Lianhua Mountain is located in the center of the entire exercise area, and it is the key to the entire battle situation, and its importance Han Tiecheng knows better than anyone else, but he is confident that he will hold it.

After distributing the hot boiling water to the cooking squad leaders of each company, Zhang Ying and Han Tiecheng went one after the other, and then inspected the fortifications that had been built along the ridge.

Relying on the topography, the first regiment arranged four defensive positions in front and behind the eastern foot of Lianhua Mountain, crisscrossing and crisscrossing, in addition to the anti-artillery holes, there are also several Tibetan tunnels, which are connected by communication ditches with each other, and can support various positions in time

At this time, except for the engineer company directly under the regiment, which was still busy reinforcing the newly dug anti-artillery holes, the other officers and men silently leaned their backs against the trenches, eating flatbread with hot water, silent and orderly, and every soldier had pride and self-confidence on his face, and he already had the temperament that a steel unit should have.

By a quarter past six in the morning, the sky was completely bright, a red light flashed on the eastern horizon, but the mist rose silently in the ravine, the distant mountains gradually became hazy, and the morning dew gradually wet the clothes of every warrior.

"Ahh

Han Tiecheng jumped to a raised rock on the top of the mountain in a few vertical steps, brushed away the branches blocking in front of him, and looked ahead with a telescope, in a short period of time, the entire Lotus Mountain was shrouded in heavy fog, and the sky and the earth were white. Han Tiecheng couldn't help but lower his head and looked at his watch, twenty-one hours had passed since the beginning of the exercise, and he hadn't seen the shadow of the Imperial Forest Army, nor the news from the Sharp Knife Company, he couldn't help but be a little irritable.

At this moment, Fang Shengde, the commander of the Sharp Knife Company, was also quite depressed, he led the whole company of officers and soldiers to crawl in the grass under a small hill, it had been nearly an hour, and on the way before, he had also found several places conducive to ambushes.

The sky was already bright, but there was no half of a figure in sight, Fang Shengde secretly scolded those officers and soldiers of the Royal Forest Army in his heart, the march was like an old lady with small feet, walking too slowly

Behind them, a mist swept in, quickly drowning their figures.

Major General Feng Shengfa, who was appointed by Tang Shengzhi as the commander-in-chief of the Red Side's forward cluster in this exercise, rode on a majestic tall horse, looked down at the telegram in his hand, and his brows became more and more furrowed.

After reading it, Feng Shengfa put down the telegram and gave it to Major General Lou Bingguo, the head of the guard regiment, who was also riding on a horse and peeping at him, and then ordered the herald waiting on the side:

"Order the whole army, speed up the march"

"Could it be that Wu Ming's forward troops have really seized the Huangchao Cellar, the main peak of Lotus Mountain?" Lou Bingguo pointed to the telegram with a look of disbelief.

"Is this still fake? This is the news that our people came from the command of the exercise...... They arrived in the middle of the night, maybe now that the fortifications have been repaired, they are waiting for us at Lotus Mountain" Feng Shengfa snorted coldly, with a faint worry in his eyes.

Although the exercise command has worked hard to ensure fair competition between the red and blue sides, Feng Shengfa has been staying by Chairman Chiang's side for many years, and the internal relationship between the Military Committee and the General Staff Headquarters is intertwined, and it does not take much effort to get the report submitted by the blue side and the referee team to the exercise headquarters.

Although Feng Shengfa knew that the new second division under the command of Wu Ming was strong, he never expected that the marching speed would be so much faster than his own.

Lou Bingguo's face was embarrassed, and he muttered: "We also marched day and night, walking forty-five kilometers in less than twenty-four hours, and we did it under the condition that the mountain road was winding and rugged and the terrain was unfamiliar...... How could they be so much faster? ”

"Have you forgotten that last night we lost our way in Xianyan Town and walked for nearly four more hours?" Feng Shengfa shook his head: "Forget it, Brother Bingguo, there is no point in talking about this now......" Feng Shengfa turned his head and said to the herald: "Order our guards, the Central Guard Regiment and the Special Service Regiment to all speed up the march, and the first company to rush to Lotus Mountain, each person will be rewarded with five pieces of ocean."

After speaking, Feng Shengfa slapped the car hard, and the black horse under him neighed, raised his front hooves, and galloped forward along the mountain road.

Under the supervision of Feng Shengfa and the stimulation of the ocean bounty, the marching speed of the winding team gradually increased, most of the officers and soldiers of the chairman's guard were the elite of the army, one individual was abundant, although the continuous march of more than 20 hours was tiring but still able to persevere, one by one officers and soldiers seemed to see the white ocean beckoning to them, and their steps unconsciously accelerated, and then the officers and soldiers of the Central Guard Regiment and the Special Service Regiment also gritted their teeth to keep up.

The black-pressed team walked through the fog, due to the obstruction of the line of sight, at most it could only see a distance of thirty or forty meters, and then it was white, Feng Shengfa's face was serious, and he once again ordered the troops to speed up the march and rush out of the fog area as soon as possible.

"Boom-"

There was a sudden loud noise in front of him, Feng Shengfa was excited, and urged the horse to run forward, and several guards who could only walk on foot when the marching car rolled down the cliff at night glanced at each other and followed quickly.

Coming to the front of the long marching procession, Feng Shengfa saw the officers and soldiers of the guards supporting each other and walking back.

Feng Shengfa stepped forward to ask, only to learn that the opponent had planted mines on the road, and a platoon of officers and soldiers who played the vanguard patronized the march and inadvertently entered the minefield. Although the opponent used drill mines and there were no dead people, several stone chips were injured by the explosion, and then forty or fifty officers and men with oil paint on their faces and strange costumes rushed out of the dense fog, and directly disarmed the forward platoon that was dizzy and in a hurry, and then the opponent quickly withdrew from the battlefield and hid in the dense fog.

This active force obviously had no intention of leaving prisoners, and they brought a message to Feng Shengfa through the retreating rout: We are waiting for you to fall asleep, are you wrapped in footcloths like the ladies of the former Qing Dynasty?

Feng Shengfa was furious when he heard this, and when he calmed down, he quickly had an intuitive impression in his heart: it must have been Wu Ming's spy company with strong combat effectiveness.

This judgment made Feng Shengfa extremely excited.

Feng Shengfa is obsessed with special operations and research, and the selection of guards members is also based on this criterion, although the army has experienced the baptism of Songhu and the Great Wall of Resistance, but after all, it is a frontal battlefield, and the role that a small group of troops can play is extremely limited, and now it can finally fight with another unit that also pays attention to special operations.

For a while, Feng Shengfa's blood surged, and his heart was full of fighting intent.