When Tang Xiaoshan reported, Wang Haitao listened and thought about the preparations to be made before attacking Vietnam, until Tang Xiaoshan finished his report and the temporary headquarters quieted down, and Wang Haitao did not withdraw from thinking. All the people in the temporary command looked at Wang Haitao, and when they saw Wang Haitao sitting there without saying a word, they were thoughtful, everyone knew what Wang Haitao was thinking, so no one alarmed him.

After a long while, Wang Haitao reacted from his thoughts, and when he saw that everyone was staring at him in the quiet headquarters, he couldn't help but feel a little apologetic. Wang Haitao coughed and said, "Apologize, I just thought about something and was distracted." I have already considered the troops participating in the attack on the Japanese army in Vietnam this time, and now I propose it so that we can discuss it. ”

Wang Haitao's words made everyone nervous, rushed out of the country, and raised the prestige of our country in a foreign country is what everyone wants to participate in. Wang Haitao looked around and then said: "In this attack on Vietnam, the 93rd Division and the 211th Division will be the main attacker, the armored brigade will assist in the attack, and the reconnaissance brigade will be responsible for all aspects of the unit's intelligence work in Vietnam. The 271st Brigade of the 90th Division was responsible for the defense of Zhennan Pass and covered the delivery of logistics supplies to Vietnam. If you have any suggestions, you can put them up now. ”

All of these people present were named, so naturally they didn't have any opinions. After a while, Wang Haitao saw that everyone did not speak, so he said: "Since everyone has no opinion, then hurry up and go back to prepare, Tang Xiaoshan, your troops will soon go deep into Vietnam and grasp the deployment of the Japanese army on the way to Hanoi, as well as the road traffic situation." The rest of the troops left five days later. ”

As soon as everyone heard this, they all left one after another, and went back to prepare. The reason why Wang Haitao had to set off in five days was because there were many things to prepare, first of all, the preparation of the medical staff. As a former special forces instructor, Wang Haitao knows very well how serious non-combat attrition can be when fighting in such a tropical rainforest in Vietnam without preparation.

Fortunately, his subordinates are basically Guangxi soldiers, and they are still relatively adapted to the climate and mountains and jungles, but professional medical personnel and penicillin and quinoline drugs are indispensable, and these must be transferred from Pingxiang. Moreover, in view of the poor road conditions in Vietnam, the engineer regiment of the logistics department had to be transferred to ensure the movement of its own highly mechanized troops.

Fortunately, when the road from Longzhou to Pingxiang was repaired, the engineering regiment had already arrived in Pingxiang City, and now as long as the 93rd Division escorted him over, there was no need to pass through Longzhou, and the time saved a lot. Wang Haitao called the confidential officer and asked the confidential officer to immediately send a telegram to Chief of Staff Su Zuxin in Pingxiang, and asked Chief of Staff Su to immediately send the entire 93rd Division to Zhennanguan and escort the medical personnel and the engineer regiment to come.

After Su Zuxin received Wang Haitao's telegram in Pingxiang City, he immediately found Li Yuanhong, the commander of the 93rd Division, and handed Wang Haitao's telegram to him. After reading the telegram, Li Yuanhong said to Su Zuxin with an excited expression: "Chief of Staff Su, the military seat has finally sent our 93rd Division out. I immediately went back to prepare and let the troops go immediately. ”

Seeing that Li Yuanhong was about to leave, Su Zuxin hurriedly said: "Division Commander Li, the military seat asked you to escort the medical staff and the engineer regiment to Zhennan Pass, don't leave them and run away first." Li Yuanhong replied: "Chief of Staff Su rest assured, find an infantry regiment to be responsible for escorting them, plus the armored regiment of our division also acts together, there will be nothing wrong along the way." With that, he turned and left.

Seeing Li Yuanhong's rushing appearance, Su Zuxin didn't want to say anything, but immediately asked the logistics department to prepare a batch of military supplies and let the 93rd Division take them to Zhennan Pass. Two hours later, the 560th Regiment of the 277th Brigade, which was the vanguard of the 93rd Division, was the first to leave Pingxiang City, and then several regiments except the 565th Regiment left the city in turn.

The 93rd Division was also a semi-mechanized division, and there were many trucks in the troops, and although the road was not very easy to walk, with the trucks, the troops were still moving very fast, and the 560th Regiment had already reached Zhennan Pass. The troops behind also arrived one after another, only the armored regiment and the 565th regiment of the escort engineer regiment and medical personnel walked last, and arrived at Zhennan Pass the next day.

After the arrival of the medical soldiers, a large number of wounded people left behind in Zhennan Pass were also treated, and the Tangshan leopard was no longer injured after further treatment by the medical soldiers. On this day, Tangshan Leopard came to Wang Haitao's temporary headquarters, and when Wang Haitao saw Tangshan Leopard, he asked with concern: "Mountain Leopard, how is the injury?

Tangshan Leopard nodded and replied: "Report to the military seat, my injury has nothing to do with it, the military seat attacked the Japanese army in Vietnam this time, and I ask the military seat to take me with me." Wang Haitao shook his head and said: "Your guard brigade has been injured this time, you have to stay, rebuild the guard brigade, and strive to restore the guard brigade to combat effectiveness as soon as possible." Tangshan Leopard first bowed his head and was silent, and then raised his head to look at Wang Haitao after a while.

Wang Haitao saw that Tangshan Leopard seemed to want to speak, so he said: "If you have something to say, just say it." Only then did Tangshan Leopard lower his head and said: "Junzao, you remove me as a brigade commander, I just want to follow you, even if it is only a personal soldier." Wang Haitao understood that Tangshan Leopard was worried about his own safety, and couldn't help but be moved by Tangshan Leopard's loyalty.

But he said in his mouth: "Mountain Leopard, you are cultivated by me little by little, in the guard brigade, there is no second person who can surpass you, only if you sit in the position of the brigade commander and personally train those new recruits, I can rest assured." You don't have to worry about my safety at all, not to mention that I still have a regiment of guards, even if I go into battle in person, with Rong's skills, no one can hurt me, you can train newcomers at home with confidence, and I will give you more important tasks for the guard brigade in the future. ”

Only then did Tangshan Leopard raise his head and look at Wang Haitao and said: "Okay, I'll take the troops back to Longzhou first, and the military seat should be careful! I will wait for the military seat to come back in Longzhou." When it comes to training newcomers, I can rest assured that I am in the military seat. After speaking, Tangshan Leopard saluted Wang Haitao and left the headquarters. Before leading the troops to leave Zhennanguan, Tangshan Leopard called Tang Fu, the commander of the first guard regiment, to him, and gave Tang Fuqian some instructions before leaving.

Five days have passed in the blink of an eye, and all the troops that are going to go on the expedition are also ready to go out, and the afternoon before the departure, Wang Haitao held the last combat meeting before the expedition in the headquarters, and all the officers at and above the regimental level of the troops going out to go out attended the meeting. At the meeting, Tang Xiaoshan first reported on the latest information obtained by the reconnaissance brigade, especially about Lang Son.

According to reconnaissance by the reconnaissance brigade, after the defeat of the 16 th Japanese Army, in order to strengthen the 16 th Army and prevent the Chinese army from attacking Vietnam, the Southern Army Command specially transferred the 38 th Division and two independent mixed brigades to Vietnam, and assigned them to the 16 th Army, under the unified command of Lieutenant General Jun Imamura, commander of the 16 th Army.

On the Lang Son line, which is only a few dozen kilometers away from Zhennan Pass, the Japanese army has two infantry wings, a tank brigade, and an independent field artillery wing are stationed, and the Japanese army has built a large number of fortifications on the Lang Son line before, and now after strengthening its troops, it has used these anti-unloading fortifications to form a defense line that is difficult to capture.

The first line of Lang Son was already high and densely forested, and the two roads leading to Hanoi were in tatters, and it was very difficult for a highly mechanized unit like the 90th Army to pass through, not to mention that there were so many Japanese troops stationed there. Wang Haitao listened to Tang Xiaoshan's report and said: "It turned out that the 16th Army of the Japanese Army in Vietnam still had more than 30,000 troops at most after this defeat, but I didn't expect that Little Japan was still very afraid of our 90th Army, and this time it sent a division and two independent brigades, so that now the 16th Army has more than 60,000 troops, and it is really a bit difficult to eat this 16th Army."

However, no matter how difficult it is, we have to fight, and if we don't hurt little Japan, if we are afraid, our base camp in Longzhou will still not be safe. More than 60,000 Japanese troops seem to be a lot, but they are all second- and third-rate troops, and we also have nearly 40,000 troops, and their combat effectiveness is far stronger than theirs.

Wang Haitao nodded and said: "It's good to have confidence, but you have to eat one bite at a time, and now we have to deal with the Japanese troops on the Langshan defense line first." I'm afraid that this Lang Son defense line is really difficult to fight, not to mention anything else, the high mountains and dense forests alone will bring a lot of difficulties to our attack. We must try to give full play to our superiority in firepower and destroy the fortifications on the Japanese positions with artillery fire. I decided to transfer the 130 Heavy Cannon Regiment of the Heavy Artillery Brigade to support our attack. This time, I will hand over the task of attacking the Lang Son defense line to the 93rd Division. ”

The officers of the 93rd Division stood up together, with division commander Li Yuanhong taking the lead, and replied loudly: "Yes, the military seat! The 93rd Division will certainly live up to the high expectations of the military seat!" Wang Haitao raised his hand and motioned for Li Yuanhong and the others to sit down, and then said to Li Yuanhong: "Division Commander Li, you still have a lot of Sichuan soldiers in the 93rd Division, right? We should let the officers and men adapt to the tropical rainforest climate here in Langshan as soon as possible and minimize non-combat attrition." The medical staff should be assigned to each company and tell the soldiers that if there is any discomfort, they should go to the medical staff for treatment in time, and they should not delay the treatment, otherwise the minor illness will become serious and even fatal. ”

Seeing that Wang Haitao, as the commander of the First Army, was careful about some details of the soldiers, these officers of the 93rd Division who came to the meeting, although they all knew the precautions mentioned by Wang Haitao, still felt a little more grateful to Wang Haitao. Li Yuanhong replied: "Xie Junzuo's concern for the 93rd Division, Yuanhong will tell the following to pay more attention to these things." ”