The two regiments of the National Army, which were ordered to rush to repair the fortifications at Fengxing Mountain, discovered the New Fourth Army that had arrived before the fortifications were repaired. The two regiment commanders did not care about repairing the fortifications any longer, and ordered the soldiers to hurry into the half-repaired position. The terrain of the main peak of Fengxing Mountain on the right is relatively dangerous, and the regiment commander with the troops is not very nervous about the terrain, but the regiment commander on the two heights on the left, looking at the half-built fortifications and the terrain that is not difficult to attack, is worried and nervous.

However, neither of these two regiment commanders expected that there would be such a powerful artillery bombardment before the communist attack, and this artillery fire broke not only the fortifications on the position, but also the morale and confidence of the officers and men. The Sichuan army was indeed an army that was not afraid of sacrifice and had a tenacious style in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, but their weapons and equipment were too poor, a regiment of more than 1,000 people, not to mention artillery, even a few heavy machine guns, and the Hanyang-made rifles in the hands of the soldiers were considered good guns.

Such weapons and equipment, not to mention Wang Haitao's troops, are even much worse than the equipment of the New Fourth Army. In order to take the Fengxingshan position as soon as possible, Wang Haitao could not care about the casualties of the Sichuan army, and after ten minutes of salvo fire from 70 muskets, hundreds of shells were fired, plowing the position of the Sichuan army.

As soon as the artillery fire stopped, more than 100 officers and men of the first battalion and one company of the first battalion at the forefront were only less than 100 meters away from the front of the Sichuan army's position. That is, the terrain is not conducive to attacking, and it will take longer to launch a charge when attacking upward, and if it is on flat ground, this distance of more than ten seconds is enough for the officers and soldiers to kill the defenders' positions.

As soon as the company rushed upwards for twenty or thirty meters, the defenders who reacted opened fire to block the attack, and the sparse gunfire rang out on the defenders' positions. When the first company rushed up another twenty meters, the only light and heavy machine guns on the defender's position also rang out, and the strafing machine gun bullets caused the first company of soldiers to fall several times in a row. Huang Guizhong saw that the defenders opened fire to block the attack, and the light and heavy machine guns posed a threat to the attacking battlefield, and immediately ordered the heavy machine guns to cover the fire.

The independent regiment alone had dozens of heavy machine guns, and as soon as they opened fire in a concentrated manner, the defenders could not even lift their heads on the position hit by the dense bullets. The officers and men of the first battalion took the opportunity to attack the front of the defenders' positions. Seeing that the troops were approaching the defenders' positions, the heavy machine gunners raised their guns for fear of injuring their own people by mistake, but now it doesn't matter even if there is no cover and suppression of the heavy machine guns, the officers and men of the first battalion took out grenades and bullets and threw a round at the defenders' positions.

The explosions of grenades and bullets were mixed with the screams of the defenders, and at the same time, the gunfire on the position became even more scarce, and the officers and men of the first battalion took the opportunity to rush to the position in one go. The commander of the first battalion rushed into the position to take a look, and the tragic situation in front of him made him secretly frightened. The positions were littered with corpses and wounded soldiers, and some of the defenders laid down their weapons and cowered to the side at the guns of a battalion of officers and men.

These defenders were not Little Japan, they were also Chinese soldiers, they were just cannon fodder and victims because of the ambitions of the high-level, and the officers and soldiers who rushed to the position had completely lost the joy and excitement of victory, and they had no idea of pursuing those soldiers who fled. ended the battle in such a short time, which made Wang Haitao, who was watching the battle, a little surprised.

However, Wang Haitao also fell silent after listening to the report of the soldiers who came to report. Soon after the battle here ended, the gunfire on the high ground on the left also stopped, and Huang Yuting also sent someone to report to Wang Haitao that the defenders on the position had resisted for a while and then all retreated, and the troops had occupied all two high grounds. Wang Haitao, who received Huang Yuting's report, was already standing on the captured position and was directing his medical staff to rescue the wounded.

After a while, a Sichuan battalion commander was brought to Wang Haitao, the Sichuan battalion commander was slightly injured in the leg, he didn't have time to escape, he was captured, and the battalion commander was still a little unconvinced when he was brought to Wang Haitao. Wang Haitao asked: "Are you from the 148th Division, and who is the supreme commander?"

The battalion commander twisted his head and replied in Sichuan: "Lao Tzu won't tell you, if you want to kill or kill you, you can do whatever you want, when Lao Tzu left Sichuan, he didn't think that he could go back alive!" Wang Haitao didn't react, the guards around him were angry, took out their pistols and scolded: "You kid dare to talk to our military seat like this? Believe it or not, Lao Tzu will collapse you now!"

Wang Haitao suppressed the guard's hand holding the gun, and said calmly to the battalion commander: "I am Wang Haitao, the commander of the 90th Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and your division commander should know about me. But in order to keep the New Fourth Army, I had to use force. You can't take responsibility for this, so I want to talk to your leader. ”

When Wang Haitao reported his identity, the battalion commander opened his mouth wide in surprise, and after Wang Haitao finished speaking, the battalion commander immediately asked: "Who do you say you are? Commander Wang of the 90th Army? Do you dare to pretend to be Commander Wang's identity? Not to mention that Commander Wang is still in Guangxi and will not appear here, just because Commander Wang said that the muzzle of the gun will never be aimed at his own people, he will not do anything to us, and you still want to splash sewage on Commander Wang?"

The battalion commander's voice was very loud, and the surrounding Sichuan soldiers listened to his words, and they all turned their disdainful eyes on Wang Haitao. Wang Haitao's face was feverish when he was said, and he replied: "There is some misunderstanding here, and I can't tell you clearly." In this case, I will write a letter to your division commander and ask you to help me forward it. In addition, the brothers of the Sichuan army who were killed or disabled in the battle here, I will give each of them a pension of 100 yuan. ”

The battalion commander asked in surprise: "Are you really Commander Wang of the Ninety Army?" After seeing Wang Haitao's solemn nod, he immediately stood up and saluted and said: "Liu Minsheng, commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 334th Regiment of the 108th Brigade of the 148th Division of the 50th Army of the National Revolutionary Army, has seen Commander Wang. After Wang Haitao returned the military salute, Liu Minsheng continued: "Commander Wang, the order we received is to stop the rebellious New Fourth Army troops from fleeing to Jiangbei, and we don't know that it is Commander Wang's troops who are facing it, otherwise we will not come to fight this battle." ”

Wang Haitao nodded and said, "There is some misunderstanding here, who is your division commander?" I will write a letter to him, please help me forward it." Liu Minsheng replied: "Our division seat is General Liu Ruzhai, please rest assured that Commander Wang will definitely hand over the letter to our division." Wang Haitao nodded again, took out a pen and paper and began to write a letter to Master Liu Ruzhai.

At the time when Wang Haitao wrote the letter, the officers and men of the Independent Regiment and the Sichuan Army buried the bodies of the officers and men who died in the war, and sorted out the names and home addresses of the officers and men who died in the war so that they could be paid pensions in the future. After Wang Haitao wrote a letter, he handed it to Liu Minsheng, asking Liu Minsheng to leave with the Sichuan army and the wounded, and promised again that he would send the pension to the families of the soldiers and soldiers after returning to Guangxi.

After Liu Minsheng and the others left, Wang Haitao did not let the troops continue to advance, but chose to camp on the spot. With a terrain like Fengxing Mountain in hand, Wang Haitao was not afraid that the national army would come to attack at night, and after arranging the alert troops, Wang Haitao came to Commander Ye Ting again, told Ye Ting and others about the situation, and suggested that the New Fourth Army should also camp and rest, and wait until dawn to see the reaction of the 148th Division before deciding on the next move.

It is also the trust of Wang Haitao, Ye Ting and others agreed with Wang Haitao's opinion, and the New Fourth Army also camped at the foot of Fengxing Mountain to rest. Besides, Liu Minsheng led these Sichuan troops all the way to Maya Town, and the brigade commander in the town, He Zhengliang, was worried about the strength of the New Fourth Army, and when he heard the news that Liu Minsheng was back, he immediately asked Liu Minsheng to see him.

When Liu Minsheng said that the troops he was fighting with were not the New Fourth Army, but the troops of Wang Haitao of the 90th Army, He Zhengliang and the two regiment commanders who had fled back were stunned, and the commander of the 334th Regiment said after a long time: "Grandma, did Lao Tzu say that the New Fourth Army got so much artillery? It turned out to be the troops of the 90th Army, and Lao Tzu was not unjustly defeated in this battle." But He Zhengliang said: "It's strange, how can the troops of the 90th Army appear here, and they are still regarded as the New Fourth Army? Could it be that Huang Zhenghua, the turtle son, dares to lie about the military situation?"

After He Zhengliang heard that Wang Haitao had written a personal letter to Division Commander Liu, he did not dare to delay, and immediately sent someone to escort Liu Minsheng back to Guichi in front of Division Commander Liu, while he himself ordered the troops to hold the town of Maya, and without his own personal order, no one was allowed to shoot at the troops outside the town, and the violators were immediately shot!

Liu Minsheng rushed back to Guichi overnight, and asked to see Liu Ruzhai, Liu Ruzhai had fallen asleep at this time, and heard that the front line had an urgent matter to see, so he got dressed and got out of bed, and summoned Liu Minsheng in the hall. Liu Minsheng told Liu Ruzhai about the situation, and presented Wang Haitao's handwritten letter with both hands. Liu Ruzhai immediately gasped after learning that his troops were fighting with Wang Haitao's troops of the 90th Army, and when he took Wang Haitao's handwritten letter, he also felt that this letter weighed a thousand pounds.

Liu Ruzhai opened the letter and read it carefully. The content of the letter was not much, and Wang Haitao's tone was also very polite, so much so that he told Liu Ruzhai that the New Fourth Army was once an army under his command, and now it was the invasion of foreign enemies, and the enemy was at the moment, as a patriotic soldier, he did not want to see the things happening in the same house, so he would lead the troops to escort the New Fourth Army across the river to the north. It is hoped that Division Commander Liu Ruzhai will see that he is also a Chinese soldier, open the road, and let the New Fourth Army smoothly reach the riverside and cross the river to the north.

In the letter, Wang Haitao also expressed his attitude that he would definitely take care of the affairs of the New Fourth Army to the end, and there was a mountain of swords and a sea of fire in front of him, and he would also lead his troops to break through. This letter was politely worded, but the content was strong, which made Liu Ruzhai feel very complicated. The prestige of the 90th Army and the affection and righteousness of the army commander Wang Haitao have a high reputation in the Sichuan Army, and one of the main divisions of Wang Haitao's 90th Army was adapted from the Sichuan Army, and the two brigade commanders and Liu Ruzhai have more or less some friendship, out of the heart, Liu Ruzhai never wants to meet the troops of the 90th Army on the battlefield.