North China is full of flames, and Chengde City is even more cloudy. Jin Zhao, who was thousands of miles away, could only be in a hurry. Seeing that the war situation was becoming more and more unfavorable to China, Jin Zhao personally went to Fujian to persuade Jiang Guangnai and Cai Tingkai to organize troops to go north to resist.

Jiang Guangnai and Cai Tingkai also had the heart to go north to resist, so under Jin Zhao's prodding, they agreed to Jin Zhao's suggestion. Began to organize the army to go north to resist.

In fact, as early as after the fall of Shanhaiguan, Cai Tingkai had asked Nanjing for instructions, hoping to lead his troops north to resist. However, this telegram was lost, and there was no reply from Nanjing.

This time, at the suggestion of Jin Zhao, Cai Tingkai sent a telegram to Nanjing again, asking Ying to go north to rescue Rehe and continue to resist. The telegram said that even if the political axe did not agree to the full northward transfer of the 19th Route Army, it should respond with an advance force to encourage the morale of the front.

After repeated requests for instructions, the Nanjing Political Axe allowed the 19th Route Army to send volunteer officers and soldiers from various divisions to form an advance team to help the north, and gave the 19th Route Army two columns the number of numbers.

Cai Tingkai immediately rushed back to Zhangzhou to convene a meeting of division commanders, and it was presumed that Tan Qixiu, commander of the supplementary brigade, would be the commander of the first column, and Jin Zhao, commander of the reading brigade, would be the commander of the second column. A total of six regiments were transferred, and at the same time, the two provinces of Guangdong and Guizhou also planned to form a division to set off together, with Cai Tingkai as the commander-in-chief and going north to resist the war.

Lao Jiang was very dissatisfied with Cai Tingkai's move, but due to the current situation, he had no choice but to allow him to go north to resist. However, it will take time for the troops to reorganize and go north to reach Rehe, which is thousands of miles away, and Chengde can no longer wait. Because the main force of the Eighth Division of the Chinese Army had rushed to the outside of Chengde City, a major battle was about to break out.

Lieutenant General Xi Yiyi, commander of the Eighth Division, led the Eighth Division to successfully defeat tens of thousands of Chinese troops and break through the defense line of the Chinese army. was originally the time to be complacent, but he was slapped on the head by Li Long, and he woke up the moment he was beaten. First of all, a cavalry squadron was completely annihilated by Li Long's department before, although Xi Yiyi was very angry, but he didn't take it to heart, after all, a cavalry squadron was only more than a hundred people, and it was ambushed and annihilated, which is nothing. However, although the strength of an entire brigade was completely annihilated by the Chinese army outside Chengde City, this had to attract the attention of Xi Yiyi. Enraged, Lieutenant General Xiyi immediately commanded the main force of the Eighth Division to drive towards Chengde, and Xiyi swore in his heart that he must defeat Chengde and kill all this branch of the army in order to wash away the shame caused by his previous defeat.

After the First Sino-Japanese War, the army received a large amount of indemnity from the Qing government, and the army expanded six divisions for this purpose, including the eighth division. Hirosaki Division, marshalling place: Hirosaki. The soldiers were constituted mainly by graduates of the Northeast local schools. The infantry wings are the 5th Infantry Wing (Aomori Prefecture), the 17th Infantry Wing (Akita Prefecture), the 31st Infantry Wing (Hirosaki Prefecture), and the 32nd Infantry Wing (Yamagata Prefecture). He participated in the Russo-Japanese War and the Siberian Invasion in 1921. It is one of the permanent divisions of the company, the combat effectiveness is not weak, and the fighting style is very tenacious, in the Russian war was surrounded by several times the Russian army, the eighth division suffered more than half of the casualties, but the officers and men of the eighth division fought bravely, and finally waited for the reinforcements of the fifth division to relieve the siege, which shows the tenacity of the eighth division. During the Anti-Japanese War, the Eighth Division only participated in the Rehe Anti-Japanese War, and later stationed in the Northeast for a long time, and was transferred to the Pacific Theater after the outbreak of the Pacific Ocean, so it was not famous in China.

The first to arrive was the 17th Infantry Wing, and due to the total annihilation of the forward brigade, the 17th Wing at this time only had two infantry brigades left, with more than 2,000 troops. But the fierce little devils did not wait for the large army behind to arrive, and immediately launched an attack on the defenders of Chengde.

At the beginning of the battle, the Yue army first sent two squads of the Yue army to launch a tentative attack on our defenders' position. It was not the first time that Chen Zhenpeng had fought with a little devil, he was naturally experienced, and he immediately saw that this was a temptation attack by a little devil. But Chen Zhenpeng saw it, it doesn't mean that others also saw it. Guarding the position on the left was a battalion of Ding Xichun's department, and the little devil had just walked into a distance of five hundred meters, and more than a dozen light and heavy machine guns on the position took the lead in firing (due to the heavy losses of the 117 Brigade before, especially the weapons and equipment, after arriving in Chengde, Li Long added a lot of equipment to the 117 Brigade, anyway, these things were originally from the Northeast Army, and Li Long naturally would not feel distressed).

The little devils who were caught off guard were swept to seven or eight, but the other little devils fell to the ground one after another, and after firing a few shots at the position, they hurriedly retreated!

Tian Lei is a battalion commander of the 117th Brigade and is now responsible for guarding the left position with a battalion of troops. At this time, seeing that the little devil couldn't help fighting, he patted a heavy machine gun in front of him, laughed and said, "The little devil is just like this, if we had so many good things, we wouldn't have lost so badly!" ”

Tian Lei turned his head and glanced at the position on the right, only to see dozens of little devils still rushing cautiously towards the direction of the position, but the position was quiet, only sporadically gunshots rang out, but almost every time the gunshots sounded, a little devil fell to the ground. Tian Lei couldn't help but say disdainfully, "Will these buns fight, so dozens of little devils can't deal with it!" For Chen Zhenpeng's irregular army, Tian Lei looked down on him from the bottom of his heart, Tian Lei really didn't understand why the brigade seat would be willing to give up command and be the deputy of that dumpling Li Long!

On a hillside two miles away, a little devil with the rank of Dazuo slowly put down the telescope in his hand, and a disdainful smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "Order the artillery, prepare artillery fire on the left position of the Chinese people, and order the second brigade to prepare for the attack!" ”

"Hayi!" The adjutant behind him replied respectfully.

The order soon reached the artillery position of the Japanese army, and a lieutenant of the Japanese army waved the command flag in his hand, and shouted in his mouth, directing his artillery to prepare for artillery fire.

At this time, there were a total of eight old Taisho 10-year infantry guns on the artillery position, and this kind of old artillery was small in caliber, lacking in power, and was seriously outdated, and it was a little powerless to deal with the Chinese army without artillery. However, the pig's feet of today's artillery are not these old Taisho ten-year infantry guns, but the six infantry guns that are no more than half a meter tall and have very short barrels, which look very delicate. If Jin Zhao saw these artillery, he would definitely be able to recognize it, this was the famous Type 92 infantry cannon in later generations. (To be continued.) )