Tang Longzai came to the division headquarters and saluted the division commander Tang Renxin. Looking at the calm major general and brigade commander in front of him, thinking of the arrogant young master in the Evil Tiger Village before, Tang Ren felt too much emotion in his confidence. But Tang Renxin's face did not show it, and he said calmly: "Brigade Commander Tang, receive the order from the military seat and the military headquarters, and transfer your 272nd Brigade to immediately reinforce the 92nd Division in Yuexi County." ”

Tang Longzai replied loudly: "Yes, Master." Tang Renxin said to Tang Longzai at this time: "Longzai, this time Little Japan launched an attack on Yuexi County with a division of the 27th Division, and the military seat decided to clean up this 27th Division outside Yuexi City, so your brigade went to Yuexi to assist the 92nd Division in completing this task. Are you having any difficulties?"

Tang Longzai replied: "Report to the division, the 272nd Brigade guarantees to complete the task!" Tang Renxin nodded with satisfaction, and then said: "Longzai, this time I will go to Yuexi to obey the command of the commander of the 92nd Division, and we must fight this battle well and add glory to the military seat." I'll give you more ammunition and be careful myself. ”

Tang Longzai responded: "Master, don't worry, I'm not a child anymore, I will pay attention to these." Tang Longzai returned to the 272nd Brigade and immediately asked his three regiment commanders, Zhao Fei, Wei Erxi, and Zhang Lingfu, to gather their troops, and then notified the baggage battalion, guard battalion, and artillery battalion to prepare for departure. Two hours later, Tang Longzai led the 272nd Brigade to leave Qianshan County.

The 272nd Brigade now has three regiments under its jurisdiction: the 545th, 546th, and 547th regiments, and a total of 7,800 guards battalions, baggage battalions, and artillery battalions directly under the brigade. Originally, the 272nd Brigade also lost more than 1,000 people on the battlefield in Xuzhou, but when it retreated from Xuzhou, the 272nd Brigade on the road incorporated some scattered troops, and the number reached 27800 at full strength.

The 90th Division was the unit started by Wang Haitao, and the 2nd Brigade and 6th Regiment of the whole division, plus the guard regiment, reconnaissance regiment, armored regiment, and heavy artillery regiment, reached 18,000 people when it was in Nanjing, and it was a real A division. After the Battle of Nanjing, the 271st Brigade's 542nd Regiment and the armored regiment, a battalion of the guard regiment, and a reconnaissance regiment went to Jing County with Wang Haitao, Su Zuxin led the 90th Army to fight with the Japanese army continuously, and the personnel losses were not small, but several divisions in Xuzhou had supplementary regiments to join, and Longzhou in Guangxi also sent a fully equipped infantry regiment, and Su Zuxin directly handed over this regiment to the 271st Brigade and supplemented the 542nd Regiment.

In addition, the guard regiment has also been expanded on the basis of one battalion, and the training of the reconnaissance regiment is quite special, and now there is only one reconnaissance battalion in the entire 90th Army except for the 93rd Division. Even so, the combat effectiveness of the 90th Division was a cut above that of the 91st and 92nd Divisions. Only the 545th Regiment of Tang Longzai's 272nd Brigade is still dominated by Guangxi soldiers, while the 546th Regiment and the 547th Regiment are not many Guangxi soldiers, and some of them are also grassroots backbones.

But the 272nd Brigade is all new equipment, and Wang Haitao will not treat his brother-in-law badly, good weapons and equipment, other troops may not have them, but Tang Longzai must have them, just like the Mauser sniper rifle equipped with a scope, Tang Longzai has two in each platoon. There are also 40 bazookas and 82 recoilless guns. Even in the heavy fire battalions of the three regiments, each battalion had two Gaoping dual-purpose twin heavy machine guns. In addition to the captured Japanese-style 75 mountain guns, the artillery battalion directly under the brigade also had 24 120 heavy mortars.

The 272nd Brigade rushed from Qianshan to Yuexi County in a day's rapid march. Cheng Guangyao, the commander of the 92nd Division, did not dare to slack off on this brother-in-law of the military seat, and waited for Tang Longzai and them at the gate of Yuexi County early in the morning. Cheng Guangyao's enthusiasm after seeing Tang Longzai made Tang Longzai a little embarrassed.

Early the next morning, after a night's rest, Tang Longzai came to see Division Commander Cheng Guangyao with the three regiment commanders, who was looking at the map with the information sent by the reconnaissance unit. At this time, when he saw Tang Longzai and them coming in, he greeted him and said, "Brigade Commander Tang is here just in time, and I am about to invite you to come over to study the enemy situation." ”

Tang Longzai hurriedly said: "Division Commander Cheng is polite, if there is a task, please ask Division Commander Cheng to give it, and the whole brigade of my 272nd Brigade will obey the command of Division Commander Cheng." Cheng Guangyao saw Tang Longzai say this, so he said: "Okay, the military situation is urgent, and I'm not welcome." Brigadier Tang, I just received information that the 27th Division of the Japanese Army had bypassed Wanfo Lake and arrived at Shanqi Town last night. Shanqi Town is 170 kilometers away from Yuexi County, but this road is all simple roads in the mountains, and according to the itinerary of the Japanese army, it should take four days to reach Yuexi County. Here's where I've chosen. ”

Saying that he was done, Guangyao pointed to a place on the map and looked at Tang Longzai. Tang Longzai and the others looked at the map pointed by Cheng Guangyao, which said Hot Spring Town, and there was a hill sign next to it, which said Shangongjian. Cheng Guangyao continued: "This hot spring town is next to the road, but the three peaks in front of him are two peaks, like two gates to bring the road in the middle, one of the two peaks is 384 meters high, and the other is 366 meters high. This is a rare type of ground to block.

I have already sent the 276th Brigade of our division and the engineer battalion directly under us to build fortifications on the two peaks, and now that Brigade Commander Tang has come up with reinforcements from the 272nd Brigade, how about asking Brigade Commander Tang's 272nd Brigade and my 276th Brigade to guard this place together?" Tang Longzai replied: "Tang Longzai obeys the order, and I will immediately take the 272nd Brigade to Shangongjian as the division commander." Cheng Guangyao said: "Then there is Brigade Commander Lao Tang, and I will live with Brigade Commander Tang." ”

When Tang Longzai led the 272nd Brigade and Cheng Guangyao to arrive at Hot Spring Town, Peng Zhangzheng, deputy commander of the 92nd Division, was studying the defensive position with Zhu Gangwei, commander of the 276th Brigade, in the temporary command post set up in Hot Spring Town. At this time, I was very happy to see Tang Longzai arrive so quickly with the 272nd Brigade, otherwise with only more than 3,000 people from the 276th Brigade and one brigade to block the attack, I really don't know how many days I can hold it.

Since leaving Nanjing, Peng Zhang and Zhu Gangwei have been fighting non-stop in the east and west for more than half a year, and the strength of the 272nd Brigade is clear. Peng Chang knew that the 90th Division would send a brigade to reinforce him, so he chose the blocking position here in Hot Spring Town, otherwise it would be difficult to block the attack of a division of the Japanese army with the strength of a brigade of the 92nd Division.

Although Peng Zhang knew that a brigade of the 90th Division would come, it was impossible to say when he would be able to get here. Now seeing that Tang Longzai, the brother-in-law of the military seat, can lead the whole brigade to come over so quickly, Peng Zhang and Zhu Gangwei have put down a stone in their hearts. So under the chairmanship of Cheng Guangyao, everyone held a pre-war meeting.

At the meeting, it was decided that the 272nd Brigade would defend the 384-meter-high mountain on the left, and the 276th Brigade would be responsible for defending the 366-meter-high mountain on the right. Because the strength of the 272nd Brigade was there, the road between the two mountains and the defense of the hot spring town behind it were also taken over by Tang Longzai, and Cheng Guangyao also agreed to transfer two battalions of the heavy artillery regiment to the hot spring town to assist in the defense.

After the meeting, Tang Longzai took three regiment commanders and several battalion commanders to inspect the 384 Heights that he wanted to defend. This 384-meter-high peak is traditionally called the 384 Highlands, which is a typical Dabie Mountain, with vegetation dominated by leafy shrubs, not tall, but very dense. The slope of the hill is not steep, but the weeds and shrubs make the road up the mountain really difficult to walk except for those that have been stepped on.

The soil layer on the mountain is about less than a meter thick, and the bottom layer is mountain rock. The fortifications on this type of terrain are not easy to repair, but the 272nd Brigade is a good hand at repairing fortifications, and when they were in Guangxi, they dealt with the mountains all day long, and this kind of mountain peak was a mound of soil in Guangxi. Among the three regiment commanders, the 547th Regiment undertook the task of defending the highway and the hot spring town, while the other two regiment commanders were all from Guangxi, and Zhao Fei was still the leader of the mountain bandits who occupied the mountains before joining the army, so it was not a problem to build fortifications on this high ground at all.

Optimistic about the terrain, the three regiment commanders each took their men to start repairing their positions. Zhang Lingfu's 547th Regiment was guarding the road, and it was here to withstand the frontal attack of the Japanese army, so there should not only be light and dark firepower points such as bunkers and bunkers on the position, but also barricades and barbed wire to block the advance of the Japanese army.

On the 384th Heights, the 546th Regiment, under the leadership of Tuan Xingwei Erxi, began to build its position from one-third of the heights, and built a defensive line every 50 meters upward, which was enough to build five defensive lines. The last two lines of defense were the most laborious, not only building a large platform, but also using rocks to break through the female wall, and behind the platform a deep anti-artillery hole was blown out with explosives.

Tang Longzai believed that the Japanese army only wanted to open up the road under the mountain, and would not die at the top of the mountain, so near the top of the mountain, only two lines of defense were established, but the artillery battalion directly under the brigade chose the artillery position here in a place with a wide field of vision.

Standing on the artillery position, you can look down on the simple road that zigzags through the mountains at the bottom of the mountain, and behind the mountain, you can see the hot spring town and the county seat of Yuexi. The 12 Japanese-style 75 mountain guns on the artillery position, plus 24 120 heavy mortars, were enough to block the road below the mountain. There was a natural cave on the mountain wall behind the artillery position, and Tang Longzai enlarged this cave and used it as his temporary headquarters. Several anti-artillery holes were dug next to it to prevent Japanese shelling and aircraft bombing.

On the second line of defense near the top of the hill, two battalions were placed on the 545th Regiment, and the third battalion was placed in Hot Springs Town as a reserve for the 547th Regiment and as an escort for the front headquarters of the 92nd Division. The guard of the artillery battalion was carried out by the guard battalion directly under the brigade. On the heavy artillery positions in Hot Spring Town, the air defense tasks were handled by the heavy artillery regiments themselves, and the peripheral vigilance tasks were also undertaken by the three battalions of the 545th Regiment.

The two battalions of the heavy artillery regiment used 122 howitzers and 152 howitzers that Wang Haitao had just taken out. The whole regiment has a total of 122 howitzers and 19 guns, 152 plus 20 howitzers, and Cheng Guangyao sent out two-thirds of them at once this time, which can be regarded as desperate. However, there was no way, the entire 92nd Division was less than 8,000 people, and without these heavy artillery to block the Japanese army, he could not stop the Japanese attack with these thousands of people. Now the 275th Brigade, which is in a better situation, has been sent to Huoshan, and there is only one 276th Brigade of 3,000 people here.

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