Although Tang Yikuan did not report the casualties of the 62nd Army, the 90th Division only sacrificed more than 300 soldiers to completely annihilate a Japanese brigade, and Wang Haitao was still satisfied with this result. Wang Haitao looked at his watch and said to Tang Yikuan: "Yikuan, there is still more than an hour before dawn, you organize some troops to quickly clean up the battlefield, and other troops will go to hide and rest." As soon as the morning dawns, the planes of Little Japan are coming, so do not expose the fighters to the planes of Little Japan. ”

Tang Yikuan naturally understood what Wang Haitao meant, and replied: "Don't worry, I have already arranged it." By the way, what should we do next?" Wang Haitao replied: "Our next step is to deal with the 123rd Brigade of the Japanese Army coming from Guangzhou, and the 11th Division will be handed over to the 93rd Division and the 210th Division." Tang Yikuan responded: "I understand, I'll go to see the situation of cleaning the battlefield first." After Wang Haitao nodded, Tang Yikuan saluted and left the headquarters.

As soon as Tang Yikuan left, Wang Haitao called the people in the confidential room, dictated a few telegrams, and asked the confidential room to send them out immediately. The first letter was addressed to Tang Renxin, deputy commander of the army, in which Wang Haitao told Tang Renxin that the 90th Division had completely annihilated the 22nd Brigade of the 11th Division, and asked Tang Renxin to command the troops to attack the rest of the 11th Division. The other two telegrams, one to the general headquarters in Chongqing, reporting on the battle situation of the 90th Army, and the other to General Yu Hanmou, the commander-in-chief of the Guangdong Campaign, also informed him of the battle situation in Yingde County.

In the days when the 90th Division was dealing with the 22nd Brigade of the Japanese Army, the 93rd Division and the 210th Division commanded by Tang Renxin were not idle. In order to ensure that the 11th Division could be encircled in Shaoguan City, it was necessary to clear the Japanese troops on the periphery of Shaoguan City, and the first thing to be captured was the pass on Weiling, the gateway to Guangdong. This pass between the two mountains is the only way from Guangdong to Hunan and Jiangxi provinces, and the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

From Tang Renxin's hidden place to Ulling, taking the main road will definitely alarm the Japanese army, and his troops have a high degree of mechanization and high requirements for roads, so it is impossible to cross the mountains and mountains from the small road to Ulling. Tang Renxin thought about it for a long time before deciding to send the 277th Brigade of the 93rd Division to advance lightly, taking advantage of the Japanese army's surprise attack on the Weiling Pass, and he must take this pass to prevent the Japanese army from escaping from here to Hunan or Jiangxi.

The three regiments of the 277th Brigade were 2,200 men each, and the total brigade was 7,800 men. There are two regiments in this regiment that are the old foundations of the original 90th Division, and there is no need to say much about their combat effectiveness. The brigade commander Mu Suzhong accepted the order, and after gathering the troops, the whole brigade rushed to the direction of Ulling lightly on the small road, and the reconnaissance brigade also sent a battalion to assist the 277th brigade.

In order to ensure the smooth attack, division commander Li Yuanhong specially mobilized 10 bazookas and handed them over to the 277th Brigade. The officers and men of the 277th Brigade basically came out of the mountains, and the mountain paths were the most familiar to them. Along the way, the 277th Brigade crossed the mountains and mountains, and with the soldiers of the reconnaissance brigade as the spearheads, it took two days to rush to the vicinity of the pass of Ulling.

As soon as Mu Suzhong arrived at the location, he took the three regiment commanders to observe the terrain without taking a break. They all gasped as they stood on a hill and looked at the pass with their binoculars. This pass is stuck between two peaks, which are very steep and difficult to climb. The height of the pass is more than 20 meters, and a road in the middle of the pass winds into the mountain.

In the absence of artillery, it is difficult to capture such a pass from the front, and the machine guns and a few Type 92 infantry guns in the Japanese fortifications on the wall of the pass will cause great damage to the besieging troops. The advantage now is that the Japanese did not know that they were going to attack this area, and they were not prepared. But how to get the troops close to the pass without being detected by the Japanese was a difficult problem.

After looking at the terrain, Mu Suzhong and the three regiment commanders returned to the garrison and immediately held an operational meeting, which was attended by officers at and above the battalion level of the entire brigade, and battalion commanders sent by the reconnaissance brigade to assist also attended the meeting. After the meeting began, Li Chunshan, the commander of the 568th Regiment, first introduced the results of inspecting the terrain, and then Li Yuanhong asked everyone to use their brains to see how to attack the pass.

Everyone thought for a while and began to put forward ideas, Li Yuanhong listened one by one, and discussed with everyone from time to time. An hour later, a battle plan that everyone agreed on was released. In fact, this plan is also very simple, that is, at night, the troops take advantage of the undulating terrain on both sides of the highway to sneak to a place very close to the pass, concentrate bazookas, blow up the door, and then use mortars and heavy machine guns to suppress the Japanese firepower points on the head of the pass, and then the soldiers will charge and attack the pass in one fell swoop, as long as they attack the pass, with the number and combat effectiveness of the 277th Brigade, take down a large brigade of the Japanese army, there will be no problem.

After formulating the combat plan, Mu Suzhong immediately sent a telegram to the division commander Li Yuanhong to report the combat plan. Soon after, Li Yuanhong called back, agreeing to the 277th Brigade's combat plan, and set the attack time at 12 o'clock the next night. The division headquarters agreed to the battle plan, and Mu Suzhong began to transfer troops. The task of the main attack fell on the 568th Regiment.

The 569th Regiment served as a reserve, and after the 568th Regiment attacked the pass, it then rushed into the pass to support the 568th Regiment. The task of the 570th Regiment was heavier, and they had to set off immediately, with the assistance of a company of the reconnaissance battalion, bypassing Ulling and choosing a type of ground north of the pass to block the Japanese troops fleeing to the north from the pass. The 570th Regiment was required to be prepared to block the attack before launching an attack, and not to let go of a small Japan. The brigade headquarters and the guard battalion were the general reserve, and they were to stop the Japanese troops fleeing south. The other two companies of the reconnaissance battalion were dispersed into reconnaissance detachments and roamed south of the pass to prevent small groups of Japanese troops from escaping southward.

After assigning the task, the 570th Regiment immediately set off under the leadership of the reconnaissance company, and the rest of the troops rested and stood by. Although there were reconnaissance detachments serving as guards outside the garrison, no one dared to be careless under the noses of the Japanese troops, and the lives of several thousand people and the success of the campaign were certainly at stake. You don't have to think about making a fire to cook, you can only nibble on some dry food and drink some spring water.

Finally, when it was dark the next day, the order to move down to the ears of every warrior. First of all, the reconnaissance detachment explored the road in front, followed by the 568th Regiment, the artillery unit, and the 569th Regiment. Finally, there is the guard battalion directly under the brigade headquarters. The brigade headquarters and the guard battalion stopped three kilometers from the pass and cut off the road in the direction of Shaoguan.

The 1st Battalion of the 568th Regiment sneaked until it was only 150 meters away from the gate before taking refuge behind the small hillsides on both sides of the road. Ten bazookas were also set up in unison, and the rockets were aimed at the gate of the pass, which was more than 100 meters away. The artillery unit brought 40 mortars of various calibers, of which 10 120 heavy mortars are the most powerful heavy weapons at present.

The two searchlights of the Japanese army on the wall of the pass kept flowing crosswise, but fortunately, the troops were hiding behind the small hillside and would not be discovered by the Japanese army for the time being. The clock was moving little by little, and at 11:50 in the evening, all departments were in place, and the report on the completion of the preparations for the attack was delivered to Mu Suzhong. At twelve o'clock, with Mu Suzhong's order to start, the sound of ten bazookas firing first broke the silence of the night.

At the same time as the rockets flew out of the barrels, the sharpshooters who had been preparing for a long time extinguished the searchlights of the Japanese troops, and then forty mortars also fired shells at the Japanese fire points on the wall at the same time. With such a big movement, the Japanese troops on the wall could not understand what was going on, and all the firing points spat out tongues of fire outside the pass. However, without searchlights, the Japanese were shooting blindly.

Amid the gunfire of the Japanese fire, a continuous explosion rang out at the gate of the pass. Immediately afterwards, mortar shells also exploded on the wall, and in the firelight, Japanese soldiers, various weapons, and artillery zeros all flew up and down. Many fires on the wall were all dumb at once. A regiment of soldiers jumped up from behind the hillside, took advantage of the darkness of the night, formed a straggler's formation, and quietly rushed towards the gate of the pass.

Mortar shells continued to fall on the wall, and the Japanese troops who bombed them were hiding in all directions, unable to organize an effective blockade at all. When a regiment of soldiers rushed to the city gate, the city gate no longer existed, but it was a fortification built by the Japanese army inside the city gate that really posed a threat to the charging group of soldiers. This is a fortification built by the Japanese army on both sides of the road with sandbags and other materials at the pass, and light and heavy machine guns are placed in the fortification, which was originally a precautionary measure, but it is now being used. At the same time as the city gate was bombed, the Japanese captain at the pass sent an infantry squadron to guard the fortification.

The pass was not large, and the Japanese army was well-trained, so they occupied the fortifications at the first time. A few light and heavy machine guns just sealed the city gate hole, so that a regiment of soldiers could only stick to both sides of the city gate hole and could not attack it. The regiment commander Li Chunshan was a little anxious, the more than 2,000 people of the whole regiment were all concentrated here at the city gate, and once the Japanese troops on the wall organized a counterattack, as long as they threw some grenades downward, then there would be heavy casualties in the first regiment.

When Li Chunshan was in a hurry, ten bazooka fighters rushed up, although they knew that under the dense machine gun bullets of the Japanese army, as long as they showed their heads from the city gate, their lives would be in danger, but for the sake of victory in the battle, they still leaned out without hesitation and fired rockets at the Japanese fortifications. At the same time as the rockets flew towards the Japanese positions, the four torch bearers who leaned out of their bodies fell under the bullets of the Japanese machine guns.

They fell, but the remaining bazooka men rushed out without hesitation and continued to fire rockets at the Japanese positions. The continuous rockets brought a series of explosions, in which several Japanese machine-gun fire points were destroyed, Li Chunshan desperately ordered the machine gunners to set up machine guns to suppress the Japanese positions, and other fighters launched a charge against the Japanese positions.

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