Chapter 282
Marches and battles have always been fought day and night.
Since the troops of the second uncle of the Huang family rushed to make peace with Huang Shaoyan, those troops who watched and did not contribute made up their minds.
It's like beating chicken blood, they all rush forward without their lives, and the artillery planes take turns to play, as if they must take Nanshan Pass regardless of casualties.
The Huang family once launched a night attack, but fortunately, Xu Zhengting always had scouts in the air, who noticed it at the first time, and reacted very quickly, so as not to cause major losses.
After this defeat, the Huang family settled down a little, and there was no major movement for a few days, only some small fights, which bought Xu Zhengting time, and immediately contacted Li Jiang and asked them to transport the armored troops over.
The four infantry regiments of Xu Zhengting's Fifth Army, plus two artillery regiments, had all been arranged to the front line, ready to meet the Huang family's attack head-on.
With this arrangement, the Fifth Army will certainly face the most violent impact. The soldiers under Xu Zhengting are only on the battlefield for the second time, and their experience is inevitably insufficient, so he can't be said to be nervous.
Xu Zhengting personally inspected the position for two days, constantly supervising the construction of fortifications and the delivery of materials.
On the one hand, he was urging the armored combat vehicle regiment to arrive immediately, and there was a total distance of more than 400 kilometers from Lijiang to the Nanshan front, and because it was the first time for the armored troops to be transported by train, the two armored vehicles collided together because of their lack of fixed experience at the beginning.
When the re-fixing was completed, the planes of the Japanese and the Huang family arrived, and Han Zongxin got the order to take off and take the lead to fight with the Japanese planes, but after all, the experience was too poor, an eight-plane formation flew over, one was shot down by the Japanese, and the remaining seven were damaged to varying degrees.
Whether it is the Fifth Army, or the flying squad, or the armored forces, for them, theory is greater than practice, and they lack actual combat experience, and they are almost all suffering on the battlefield.
However, the successful start of the armored forces was finally preserved.
But they were stuck in the tunnel during the day, and they didn't dare to come out at night at all, so Xu Zhengting sent a telegram to the east and asked them to transfer two anti-aircraft machine gun companies over to cover the advance of the armored troops.
The Japanese army and the Huang family were too strict, and the armored troops had no way to set off, and Xu Zhengting could only hope that they would arrive soon, no matter how anxious he was.
Xu Zhengting was ready to fight, always vigilant against the attacks of the Huang family and the Japanese, but he didn't expect the cunning Huang Shaoyan to choose to attack head-on.
Since Su Ruo called that day, Xu Zhengting called her every night in order not to worry too much, but he was afraid that she would hear something, so he didn't dare to say anything.
As soon as he put down the phone and discussed tactics for a while before stopping, he heard a sudden thunderous cannon sound!
Xu Zhengting immediately jumped out of bed, his heart was terrified, and he immediately rushed out of the tent, only to see the red light from the cannonballs in the sky reflecting the night like day.
Xu Zhengting's face was solemn, this shell was not in the direction of his position. Rather, it was to bypass him and strike at the troops of Zhao Quan on the left flank.
He immediately understood what the Huang family meant, persimmons should be pinched softly, this is a decision to specialize in one place, desperately to tear a hole in the narrow space on the left, and copy his back road.
Xu Zhengting immediately ordered to change the layout of the position, and at the same time ordered the artillery to hurry to support Zhao Quan, who was not as ruthless as Zhang Beihe, and the losses this time were estimated to be immeasurable.
After finishing the order, he grabbed the phone again and said again: "Han Zongxin, take this opportunity to attack his artillery position for me." ”
Last time, they took the opportunity to blow up several of his cannons, which made him feel distressed for a while, and he couldn't find a chance to attack.
Han Zongxin also held this breath for a long time, the Japanese army attacked him shamelessly, he wanted to go back but was stopped by Xu Zhengting, taking into account the overall situation.
At that time, as soon as he heard Xu Zhengting say this, he put down the phone and immediately adjusted his artillery position, but after a while, he saw that there were also shells crossing the sky to pay tribute to the Japanese artillery position.
Sun Zhenhua, the commander of Xu Zhengting's Sixth Regiment, rushed with troops to reinforce Zhao Quan.
But I didn't expect to rush over there, and I couldn't see where the battle line was at all, and the mountains were full of soldiers from Zhao Quan's 67th Division, fighting indiscriminately.
The infantry of the Yellow Army rushed over with the extended artillery fire, and before Sun Zhenhua could enter the position, he was beaten by the fierce attack of the Yellow Army and could not raise his head at all.
Sun Zhenhua saw that his troops were completely in a situation of being passively beaten, and his heart suddenly felt bitter.
also knew that he was just waiting to die in this ditch, so he took the lead in grabbing a submachine gun and jumped up, and took the lead in rushing in the direction of the Yellow Army. The soldiers of the Sixth Regiment saw that the regiment commander was taking the lead, and their fighting spirit was provoked.
Like fire, the momentum of the prairie fire.
Xu Shoufan naturally woke up after such a big movement, but he had no way to contact Zhao Quan at this time, so he could only hurriedly send an additional regiment to support.
Although Xu Zhengting's side adjusted the deployment, it also lost contact with Sun Zhenhua, who went to support, and it was also chaotic, the main strength of the Yellow Army was on the left flank, but there were people looking for a breakthrough in all directions.
On the other side, news came that Zhao Quan's rout had escaped, saying that Zhao Quan had died, which was really not good news, Xu Shoufan almost fainted when he heard the news.
However, there is good news.
The Yellow Army broke through under the cover of artillery fire overnight, and their foothold was not stable, coupled with the fact that they were not good at night fighting, the combined remnants of Zhao Quan and several regiments that came to support them, concentrated their firepower to counterattack, and the momentum of the Yellow Army was suddenly frustrated.
By the time Sun Zhenhua rushed to a commanding height, picked up the dropped machine gun and swept down the hillside, the Yellow Army had no impact to attack, and even if he was unwilling, he had to gather his troops and retreat.
The sky gradually turned white, and finally there was no danger.
As soon as Xu Zhengting's two regiments threw themselves in, they fell into a melee and a bitter battle. Huang Jun is known for his bravery, and he is not as comfortable as the Xu family for many years, and he has been fighting to the death in the northwest for decades, and the soldiers are far better than Xu Jun.
These days, he has won several games in succession, but he didn't take the Xu family soldiers seriously at all, and almost tore apart the Xu family's battle line several times. If it weren't for Xu Zhengyan's Second Army desperately behind him, and Han Zongxin's plane balancing in the sky, I am afraid that he would have been cut and surrounded by the Huang family a long time ago.
Xu Zhengting was really exhausted and anxious for a few days, and basically didn't close his eyes.
The armored troops finally reached the front line, but there was no infantry to cover them, so they could only hide in the woods and remain motionless, not daring to break into the Yellow Army's stronghold alone.
In addition, he had to guard against the bombing of the Japanese air force and the attack of artillery, and the right flank had been attacked several times stronger than before these days, but he began to be a little more discouraged and insufficient.
When he was in Zhang Beihe's command post that day, he was injured in the shoulder by artillery fire, and he dealt with it briefly, but he didn't expect it to be infected and had been suffering from a high fever. Xu Zhengting gritted his teeth and asked the soldiers to take the snow and wrap it in a towel, and constantly wiped his forehead to cool it down before he could continue to command.
Because the plane had been damaged, but there could be no balance in the sky, Han Zongxin could only be ordered to pilot the injured plane to barely take off and confront the Japanese army.
He also ordered the soldiers to burn a large amount of wet wood, and only then did the smoke fill the sky to greatly reduce the power of the Japanese planes.
It was only when the rest of the troops caught up, and the left flank continued to attack the flank, that the front line was gradually stabilized.
In the past few days, the losses on both sides have been very serious, as soon as Xu Zhengting relaxed, he almost fainted, and the high fever did not go away and almost scared Xiao Qin to death, so he quickly found a doctor to take a look at him.
During this period, Xu Shoufan was injured by shrapnel from an artillery shell when he inspected the situation and was forced to return to Lindong for treatment.
Xu Zhengting was already the highest commander in fact, even if they didn't want to listen to him, they had to listen to Xu Zhengting. What's more, at this time, the war is stalemate, and if it is not very good, it will definitely collapse.
Once the Nanshan Pass is lost, then there is no need to hinder the soldiers and horses of the Yellow Army and the Japanese army, and they will face them with a flat river and Lindong at their fingertips.
Simply, I kept it.
Xu Zhengting didn't call Su Ruo for several days in a hurry, this time Xu Shoufan was injured and sent back to Lindong, although she was in Lijiang, it was impossible not to know the news.
Xu Zhengting was in a daze and fell asleep halfway, and suddenly woke up when he thought of this, and endured his physical discomfort and picked up the phone and dialed her.