The Milky Way is Also a Grain of Sand
Chapter 322 Is Mao Wenxing Really That Important?
At 12:13 PM on March 29, 1938.
Liu Jiahu position, the Japanese Sato Taka infantry company stationed at the position was suppressed by the firepower of Shan Huacan and Shan Chengfu's two companies.
The Japanese infantry company did not even dare to look up and observe the battlefield.
Now Shan Huacan and Shan Chengfu's two companies had rushed to thirty meters in front of the position.
More than a hundred hand grenades were thrown into the trenches.
Those Japanese soldiers who had buried their heads deeply could no longer hide this time.
They were blown to pieces by so many grenades.
Like fish lurking in the water, they were blown up by explosives and floated on the surface of the water in a thick layer.
The Japanese soldiers of the Sato Taka company were destined to be unfortunate today.
They had just been unable to raise their heads or show their faces by the snipers of the Third and Fourth Companies.
Now they were being bombarded with grenades by the infantrymen of the Third and Fourth Companies who had rushed close.
The entire company was like a hornet's nest that had been blown up, and had to rush out to face reality.
But now, the snipers in the distance were still sniping at them.
More than a hundred soldiers of the Special Operations Brigade in the vicinity had already rushed up.
The bright bayonets were so dazzling.
Company Commander Sato Taka was so angry that smoke was coming out of his ears: This team was too rogue.
If you want a bayonet fight, then have a bayonet fight, what's with a sniper team in the distance?
When the warriors of the Empire jumped out of the trenches, ready for a bayonet fight.
They were shot in the middle of the forehead and fell backward.
Such a dishonorable team was too bad!
Shan Huacan and Shan Chengfu, the two company commanders, never thought of talking about martial ethics.
They only had one thought in their minds: to complete the task assigned by Brigade Commander.
As for other things, they were not considered at all.
The Liu Jiahu infantry that the First Field Artillery Battalion, led by Battalion Commander Ikuma Takenari, had high hopes for, could not send a single Japanese soldier to help.
It could only ask for help from the distant 63rd Regiment, led by Regiment Commander Tani Keiji.
This was shocking bad news!
At this time, Regiment Commander Tani Keiji already knew that Hanzhuang had been occupied by the National Army.
He was concentrating all his forces to attack Tai'erzhuang, and he only had one thought in his mind: to completely occupy Tai'erzhuang, thereby reversing the unfavorable situation on the periphery.
As a result, at such a critical time, the artillery had failed.
The entire artillery team had been bloodbathed by the National Army, but fortunately there were still more than thirty cannons left.
Having cannons was good!
Now, the question was where to send Japanese soldiers to rescue those cannons that had been left behind.
Regiment Commander Tani Keiji's idea was the same as Battalion Commander Ikuma Takenari's: They both believed that the National Army would definitely not just finish with the bombing.
Perhaps the infantry of the National Army was already rushing towards this artillery position at this time.
Their idea was correct.
Lin Fan had indeed led his team towards the artillery position at Liu Jiahu.
And at this time, it was only a little over a thousand meters away from the Japanese artillery position.
Mao Wenxing in the air could see everything on the ground clearly.
He planned the best route of advance for the First and Second Companies of the Special Operations Brigade in detail.
Ten tanks rushed in the front, with infantry following on foot on both sides.
The speed of the tanks could have been much faster, but Lin Fan did not want any accidents to happen.
It was necessary to advance in coordination with the infantry.
When Battalion Commander Ikuma Takenari saw an Imperial tank appear in front of him.
The excited expression had just appeared on his face when he noticed the Special Operations Brigade soldiers beside the tank.
The Special Operations Brigade soldiers were all wearing National Army uniforms, which immediately stunned Battalion Commander Ikuma Takenari and made him wake up.
At this time, there were less than a hundred Japanese soldiers around him in total.
Among them, there were more than thirty dazed and frightened Japanese soldiers.
The two companies that Regiment Commander Tani Keiji had just ordered to send over to support had no trace.
What should he do now?
Battalion Commander Ikuma Takenari was not an infantryman. All along, they had been far away from the battlefield, quietly providing firepower on the battlefield, without taking any risks.
His team was certainly not as tenacious as the infantry.
Battalion Commander Ikuma Takenari decided to temporarily retreat, and after receiving the two companies, he would recapture this artillery position.
With a plan, the execution was very fast.
More than thirty dazed Japanese soldiers were unwilling to retreat.
Then he would free them, and let them understand.
Intense gunfire rang out, but these gunshots were not aimed at the Special Operations Brigade that was coming to attack.
These gunshots were to send off the more than thirty frightened Japanese soldiers.
Lin Fan and the others rushed to the Japanese artillery position, and what they saw was a mess:
On this large artillery position, there were craters everywhere, and Japanese cannons were lying on the ground everywhere.
In one corner of the artillery position, a large pile of Japanese corpses was piled up.
Those Japanese soldiers of the Ikuma Takenari Battalion who were hiding in the command post were not doing nothing during that time.
They had been cleaning up the battlefield and clearing the corpses of the dead Japanese soldiers.
Lin Fan patrolled the battlefield.
He immediately ordered: "Organize all the intact cannons, fifteen minutes.
We are going to shell the Japanese in the direction of Tai'erzhuang."
Lin Fan's order was immediately transmitted to Mao Wenxing in the air.
The task of guiding the bombing, of course, could only be completed by him.
The Japanese set up an artillery position at Liu Jiahu, and in theory, they could hit the entire territory of Tai'erzhuang.
Now that the Special Operations Brigade was going to bomb the Japanese, of course, they had to choose the most dangerous place.
Mao Wenxing in the air had already seen the periphery of Tai'erzhuang clearly today.
In fact, Tai'erzhuang was now surrounded on all sides, with heavy Japanese troops attacking from the east, west, and north.
Even inside Tai'erzhuang, it was the same.
However, Mao Wenxing still decided to bomb the Japanese on the west side first.
Because outside the west wall of Tai'erzhuang, there were Japanese soldiers attacking.
There were also National Army soldiers attacking the Japanese on the periphery.
Today, the troops of the 27th Division were attacking the Japanese on the periphery.
They had been attacking the Japanese from this position for three days.
In three days, although they could hold back some of the Japanese, they had not been able to stop the Japanese from sending troops from this direction to strengthen Tai'erzhuang.
Wu Shizhong, the commander of the 181st Regiment, did not know how many times he had ordered his troops to charge at the Japanese.
Although the soldiers were not afraid of death and bravely charged at the Japanese.
However, the Japanese heavy machine guns, machine guns, and grenade launchers were too powerful.
The soldiers fell one by one, but they could not break through the Japanese defenses.
They could only watch helplessly as the Japanese blocked their troops outside.
While still charging at the brother troops on the village wall.
The Japanese were fighting on two fronts like this, and they were still able to break through the village wall from time to time and rush in.
They rushed ammunition and supplies to the Japanese inside Tai'erzhuang.
At this time, a shell fell on the village wall.
It did not explode!
The officers and soldiers of the 186th Regiment guarding the village wall secretly rejoiced:
Fortunately, it was a dud!
Otherwise, this wall would collapse again.
The National Army soldiers knew that the shelling that had stopped for more than half an hour was about to begin again.
The Japanese shelling had just stopped, making these soldiers happy for a while.
Sure enough, five minutes after the shell landed.
Dark shells flew over from the horizon.
"Hide! Hide!"
The officers were shouting, but how could these soldiers guarding the village wall hide?
As long as they hid, the Japanese could swagger in.
The shells flew very fast and exploded instantly.
It shocked the eyes of all the National Army soldiers:
This batch of shells all fell on the heads of the Japanese who had just been encouraged.
The Japanese who were organizing the attack had also seen the dud shell falling on the village wall just now.
They were greatly encouraged, and under the command of the captain, they were charging with great ambition.
As a result, just as they were charging, the momentum of the charge was interrupted by the shells falling from the sky.
The National Army soldiers guarding the west wall of Tai'erzhuang would certainly not let go of such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Anyway, the shells were exploding on the Japanese, and the National Army soldiers were taking advantage of the high ground.
Bullets rained down on the Japanese.
The excited ones were not only the National Army soldiers guarding the village wall.
Wu Renzhong, the commander of the 181st Regiment, who had been attacking this direction for three days and three nights.
He saw the shells falling in the air, and it was not just a wave of bombing.
But it was like continuous autumn rain.
Those Japanese machine gun fire points hiding in the bunkers were hit by heavy bombs one by one.
They were annihilated in their eyes.
What should they do now?
Regiment Commander Wu Renzhong ordered: "Charge! Charge!"
As far as this kind of order was concerned, he had issued it countless times in these three days.
His voice was already hoarse, but this time, Regiment Commander Wu's voice was unusually loud.
As if the day and night fighting for these three days had not affected him at all.
The soldiers of the 181st Regiment were also the same, watching those bunkers that had been in front of them for three days and three nights collapse.
The soldiers' enthusiasm suddenly rose.
The shelling did not last long, only ten minutes.
The damage caused by these ten minutes of bombing to the Japanese was more of psychological damage.
After the bombing, the Japanese who were attacking stopped their steps in confusion, and they did not know in which direction they should charge.
The artillery regiment of the Special Operations Brigade, the Eighth Regiment, was originally an infantry regiment.
The veterans of the First and Second Companies had also trained with the 88mm anti-aircraft guns every day at the Jiangyin Fortress.
At that time, their ability to operate these cannons was actually stronger than that of the Eighth Regiment.
It was just that Lin Fan considered that the First and Second Companies had stronger close combat capabilities.
That was why he did not change them to artillery regiments.
Today was the time for the First and Second Companies, these two infantry companies, to be guest artillery regiments.
Just now, Lin Fan fired the first sand-filled shell, which was a test shot.
After firing it, he found the firing data.
Then he adjusted it and bombed it comprehensively.
In ten minutes, although they did not wipe out all the Japanese who were attacking Tai'erzhuang on the west side.
But they had also knocked out the momentum of the Japanese charge.
In fact, Lin Fan and their bombing had knocked out the arrogant momentum of the Japanese in this direction, and they were already depressed.
It was not that Lin Fan wanted to change the target, but that Mao Wenxing had discovered in the air that the Japanese inside Tai'erzhuang were surrounding and attacking the last small piece of the position guarded by Deputy Division Commander Wang Guanwu from three sides.
The 31st Division headquarters was in imminent danger.
Their position was crumbling.
Lin Fan fired another test shot.
Mao Wenxing's voice came from the microphone: The impact point was thirty meters in front of the first line of defense of the 31st Division.
This shell fell in front of Chi Fengcheng's eyes.
In a critical situation, although Chi Fengcheng was a division commander, at this time he was already standing on the front line to boost morale.
Just now, he had once again requested Commander-in-Chief Sun Lianzhong to withdraw from the position.
When Commander-in-Chief Sun Lianzhong requested from the Fifth War Zone: "Commander Li! Leave a seed for our Northwest Army!"
Li Zhongren certainly knew that these Northwest men were the most resistant to hard fighting and never lied.
Even they were complaining.
This battle had indeed reached the most difficult time.
But he had no troops to send at all.
The Japanese Fifth Division withdrew the Sakamoto Detachment from the direction of Linyi.
It was strengthened to the direction of Tai'erzhuang and was stepping up its attack on Xiangcheng.
The entire Fifth War Zone had already sent its last strength to strengthen Xiangcheng.
Xiangcheng could not be lost, otherwise, a nail would be driven in by the Japanese between Tai'erzhuang and Linyi.
Even if Tai'erzhuang and Linyi were defended, it would not be possible to attack the next plan of operation.
Li Zhongren could only give Sun Lianzhong a death order: "No matter what, we must defend Tai'erzhuang."
Sun Lianzhong could only pass this order to Chi Fengcheng unchanged.
This division commander Chi Fengcheng could only personally go to the front line to command the battle.
Then he saw a shell fall thirty meters in front of him.
This was a very strong shell.
An experienced guard's face changed greatly: a 150mm howitzer shell.
At a distance of thirty meters, this was within its complete killing range.
Several guards pulled Chi Fengcheng down and hid in the trenches at once.
After a while, the shell did not explode.
Chi Fengcheng stood up and said with a smile: "I am lucky, the shell did not dare to explode in front of me."
The officers and soldiers on the front line believed it.
These people believed: it must be because the commander was blessed by the heavens, which made the shell not explode.
Since the commander survived such a disaster, he must have good fortune in the future.
Then they, who persisted in Tai'erzhuang with the commander, would also have good things!
These soldiers who had been fighting for more than ten days had hope of surviving in their hearts again.
Five minutes later, dense shells fell in front of the position.
Those shells all fell in the middle of the Japanese troops.
Chi Fengcheng suddenly understood: the one just now was a test shot from friendly forces.
He looked around, and there could not be any eyes of the National Army artillery in Tai'erzhuang.
Only the plane in the air!
At this time, Division Commander Chi Fengcheng thought of the legend a few days ago: a plane seized from the Japanese by the Special Operations Brigade was parked at the Xuzhou machine gun.
Some people took a fancy to it and fabricated charges to arrest the pilot as a traitor.
They were preparing to sell the plane.
As a result, Brigade Commander Lin of the Special Operations Brigade led his troops into the airport, took the people away, and surrounded the Xuzhou Military Intelligence Station.
In front of all the Military Intelligence agents, he shot and killed the people and rescued his pilot.
The plane above his head was from the Special Operations Brigade?
He asked the guards around him: "Does the plane above have a tiger painted under its belly?"
"Yes!"
At this moment, Chi Fengcheng understood: "This is a plane from the Special Operations Brigade, guiding the artillery of the Special Operations Brigade to bomb the Japanese."
It's just that where did they find the cannon?
Thinking of the Japanese artillery bombing had stopped for more than half an hour.
"Could it be that the Special Operations Brigade found the Japanese artillery position and occupied it?"
Chi Fengcheng strongly hated those military intelligence agents at this time.
If it weren't for those people making trouble, allowing the pilot of the Special Operations Brigade to fly into the sky earlier.
Maybe the Japanese artillery would have been taken down long ago.
His 31st Division would not have suffered so much.
No matter how many thoughts he had, Chi Fengcheng still focused most of his attention on the battlefield.
He immediately saw that no matter who was bombing.
Their bombing was gradually retreating to the north.
This was completely using shells to wash the ground.
They first knocked down the Japanese troops charging in the front. Da Feng Novel
Then slowly bomb backward.
Division Commander Chi Fengcheng ordered: "Counterattack! Counterattack! Catch up!"
The 31st Division only needed to maintain a safe distance from the range of the shell bombing.
Mao Wenxing reported on the plane: "Inside Tai'erzhuang, the 31st Division has begun its counterattack."
Lin Fan directed these troops of his who were guest artillerymen, slowly adjusting the firing data.
Guiding the 31st Division's counterattack.
An hour later.
Division Commander Chi Fengcheng reported: "Commander Sun! My division organized a counterattack and has recaptured two-thirds of the entire Tai'erzhuang position."
Sun Lianzhong, the commander-in-chief of the Second Group Army, was puzzled: Just now, you firmly said that you wanted to retreat.
Now you are happily reporting that you have recaptured so many positions.
Isn't this a contradiction?
Division Commander Chi Fengcheng reported: "Just now, after my division received the order to hold the position.
I don't know which artillery team bombed the Japanese for an hour.
The Japanese were directly bombed to the point of wailing, and my division took the opportunity to recover the lost land.
In addition, the west wall of Tai'erzhuang also reported that an unknown artillery team bombed the Japanese for ten minutes.
A large number of Japanese soldiers were killed! Commander-in-chief! Which artillery team is this?"
How would Sun Lianzhong know?
In any case, the situation inside Tai'erzhuang had eased.
This was reassuring.
He also asked the Fifth War Zone about Chi Fengcheng's doubts.
Li Zhongren, the commander-in-chief of the Fifth War Zone, was also confused:
"I don't have any troops to send out.
Not to mention sending out an artillery team that can affect the battle."
After putting down the phone, Li Zhongren ordered: "Check it out! Which artillery team bombed the Japanese in Tai'erzhuang."
While the Fifth War Zone was looking for the mysterious artillery team, Mao Wenxing continued to guide Lin Fan and his men to bomb the Japanese on the north and east sides of the Tai'erzhuang village wall.
Although the Japanese in the city were being bombed, the Japanese outside Tai'erzhuang were still charging with full morale.
The shells did not fall on their heads, and these Japanese soldiers were still able to be arrogant.
This time, the bombing by the Special Operations Brigade did not last long.
It was not that Lin Fan was unwilling to fire, but that they had used up all the shells on the Japanese position.
The First and Second Companies still had the shells they carried.
But Lin Fan would not move them, as they were to be used to prevent the Japanese from charging.
However, the Special Operations Brigade had a lot of shells.
It's just that they were all still in Weishan Lake.
Through the radio, Lin Fan learned that the supplies that had been seized from Lincheng would arrive in Lincheng in one hour.
Of course, Lin Fan knew that in this situation, if he had enough shells in his hand, what a great role it would play in the entire Battle of Tai'erzhuang.
At this time, it was unrealistic to send the shells to Liu Jiahu as soon as possible with the strength of the Special Operations Brigade alone.
This kind of thing could only be coordinated by the Fifth War Zone.
The Fifth War Zone's investigation was still continuing, and the number of artillery teams they had arranged in Tai'erzhuang was limited.
After asking them one by one, no artillery team had fired a single shell at Tai'erzhuang today.
At this time, the Special Operations Brigade's rescue telegram came.
Li Zhongren saw Lin Fan report in the telegram: "The First and Second Companies of the Special Operations Brigade cooperated with the 22nd Group Army to occupy Hancheng this morning.
Continue to pursue the enemy puppet troops in the direction of Tai'erzhuang.
Along the way, 5,000 puppet troops were captured, and 370 Japanese soldiers from two squadrons were annihilated.
My brigade's flight reconnaissance officer, Mao Wenxing, returned to the team after recovering from his injuries, and at 10:35 today,
Discovered the Japanese artillery position located northeast of Liu Jiahu.
My brigade's First and Second Companies went to occupy it.
Under the guidance of reconnaissance officer Mao Wenxing, the Japanese troops attacking Tai'erzhuang were bombed.
Until the shells were exhausted.
Now my brigade has a large number of shells seized in Lincheng, which are in Weishan Lake and will soon arrive in Hanzhuang.
If they can be sent to Liu Jiahu in time, they will surely cause greater damage to the enemy in Tai'erzhuang!"
Commander Li Zhongren and the senior officers of the Fifth War Zone Command exchanged this telegram with each other.
Bai Chongxi asked: "Is this Mao Wenxing really that important?"
Li Zhongren was the one who personally came forward to mediate and deal with the relationship between the Special Operations Brigade and the Military Intelligence Service that day.
He only knew that Lin Fan killed four people for this Mao Wenxing.
At that time, he did not think that this pilot named Mao Wenxing was important.
He just thought that this was a means for Lin Fan to win people's hearts.
Now it seemed that he was really superficial?
It was still a matter of minutes for the Fifth War Zone to understand the situation at Xuzhou Airport.
Soon, they learned from Xuzhou Airport that this Mao Wenxing had come to the airport at 3:00 in the morning with a fully armed infantry squad.
As soon as he arrived at the airport, he ordered the airport ground crew to conduct a comprehensive inspection of the aircraft overnight.
The aircraft was also refueled.
At dawn, this aircraft took off without reporting where it was going.
It had already returned twice today to refuel.
"Commander! This can't go on like this. The oil depot does not belong to the Special Operations Brigade.
If they use oil so wastefully, other aircraft will not have oil to add."
The staff officer of the Fifth War Zone who received the call did not dare to make the decision and immediately reported the situation to Li Zhongren.
At this time, the focus of Li Zhongren and Bai Chongxi was not on small matters such as refueling.
They were concerned about what this pilot named Mao Wenxing had done.
They heard that he arrived at three o'clock in the morning and immediately prepared to take off, took off at dawn, and then stayed in the air all day.
Such a pilot was certainly worthy of praise.
Not to mention that the Special Operations Brigade seized the Japanese artillery position on the edge of Liu Jiahu because of him.
Just this artillery position with more than 80 cannons was worth exchanging for the entire Xuzhou Airport.
Now Li Zhongren would not even blink an eye.
More than 80 cannons, this was all the Japanese field artillery in the direction of Tai'erzhuang.
At least for five days, it was impossible for the Japanese to have any major shelling operations against Tai'erzhuang.
Bai Chongxi ordered: "Let the airport improve the treatment of the soldiers of the Special Operations Brigade.
The living treatment of Mao Wenxing should be according to the division-level standard, and the soldiers of the infantry squad protecting him should be according to the regiment-level standard.
Fully guarantee the various needs of the aircraft of the Special Operations Brigade.
Fuel and spare parts must be guaranteed.
If there is not enough fuel, all aircraft will be grounded, and the aircraft of the Special Operations Brigade must have enough fuel.
If there are not enough spare parts, they will be removed from our aircraft.
We must also ensure that their aircraft can take off."
Bai Chongxi was one of the most trusted generals of Chang Kaishing.
His order represented Li Zhongren's attitude.
The officer at Xuzhou Airport who reported the situation was stunned:
What was going on?
The Special Operations Brigade had shot and killed one of our officers without trial.
It was normal to create some difficulties for them without difficulty.
Bai Commander's order made this officer a little unable to understand.
What kind of order was this, providing a division-level treatment to an ordinary pilot?
Providing the highest level of protection for an aircraft from an outside unit?
Was it my ears that misheard, or was the commander on the other side wrong?
After he verified it again.
He finally understood: Commander Bai's order was serious, and it was to gather the strength of the Fifth War Zone to protect this aircraft of the Special Operations Brigade.
As the officer at the airport, he was not clear about Mao Wenxing's role.
The Fifth War Zone Command now realized the role of this pilot.
Mao Wenxing alone was completely worth a division of the National Army!
The Special Operations Brigade had not attacked the Japanese artillery position for so many days.
This Mao Wenxing had just piloted the aircraft into the air today.
He immediately took the Japanese artillery position over.
Taking it over was more difficult than destroying it.
It was also more beneficial to the defense of Tai'erzhuang by the 31st Division.
And this benefit had now been reflected:
As soon as the Special Operations Brigade took the artillery position, it immediately launched a fierce bombing of the Japanese troops attacking Tai'erzhuang and inside Tai'erzhuang.
The results of this bombing were immediate.
Not only did it repel the Japanese on the west side of Tai'erzhuang, but more importantly, it frightened the Japanese inside Tai'erzhuang.
It was able to allow the 31st Division stationed in Tai'erzhuang to reoccupy most of the position.
This was great news, at least the battle was developing for the better.
Bai Chongxi, nicknamed "Little Zhuge", thought more.
In his excitement, he asked: "Where did the Special Operations Brigade get so much artillery?
They can rob the Japanese of cannons on the battlefield.
But what about the artillerymen?
Are they also using Japanese soldiers?"
Li Zhongren immediately denied: "In the battles of the Special Operations Brigade in the past six months,
They have never taken in a Japanese artilleryman.
In their team, as far as I know:
Only the Japanese doctors and nurses were left behind.
Even the medical soldiers in the Japanese infantry were not left behind by the Special Operations Brigade.
It is impossible for them to find Japanese artillerymen to help.
And the Japanese artillerymen would not do this."
"That's true!" Bai Chongxi agreed with this view.
The Japanese across the country were now dreaming of becoming a great power and a strong country.
Their soldiers would never surrender.
Even if these Japanese soldiers became prisoners for various irresistible reasons.
They would not cooperate with the National Army soldiers' command at all.
These Japanese soldiers would not follow the Japanese soldiers on the battlefield at all.
The National Army soldiers who had no way could only carry these Japanese soldiers away like dead pigs.
These situations were clear to commanders like Bai Chongxi.
This was why the Japanese were so difficult to fight now.
"Could it be that every soldier in the Special Operations Brigade is an artilleryman who can fire a cannon?" Bai Chongxi muttered to himself.
His guess was correct.
However, whether it was Bai Chongxi or Li Zhongren, they were willing to believe this.
Artillerymen were different from infantrymen. Artillerymen were technical soldiers who needed to be trained step by step.
Although they did not know how the Special Operations Brigade did it, it was all a good thing.
The Fifth War Zone Command did not delve into this detail.
Their focus shifted to the next step in the telegram:
The shells on the position had been used up.
Those cannons had completely become decorations.
But the Special Operations Brigade had shells on Weishan Lake, not only did they have them, but they had a lot of them.
They needed the Fifth War Zone to coordinate and send them to Liu Jiahu.
It was difficult for Lin Fan to do this.
Although the Special Operations Brigade had established a friendship with the 122nd Division of the Sichuan Army in Tengxian.
But most of those people had already sacrificed in Tengxian.
The hundreds of people who rushed out with the Special Operations Brigade were now also publicizing the Special Operations Brigade's help to them.
But these remarks had not been widely spread.
However, these things were not a problem for Li Zhongren and Bai Chongxi of the Fifth War Zone.
Li Zhongren personally ordered Sun Zhen of the 22nd Group Army: "After the logistics team of the Special Operations Brigade arrives in Hanzhuang,
Immediately send someone to urgently send the shells to the Liu Jiahu artillery position in Tai'erzhuang.
The front line is waiting for these shells to attack the Japanese."
The 22nd Group Army had been attacking non-stop these days, and only today did they occupy Hanzhuang.
Commander-in-Chief Sun Zhen knew how difficult it was to fight the Japanese.
Hearing that he was only asked to send shells to the front line, not to send a large army to fight the Japanese.
This was not difficult at all.
He immediately patted his chest and promised: "As long as the shells arrive in Hanzhuang, the 22nd Group Army will not delay for a minute.
We will immediately send the shells to the front line."
When Commander-in-Chief Sun Zhen heard Commander Li Zhongren order the shells to be sent to the Special Operations Brigade.
He could not help but feel very strange.
Of course, he knew that this team had only occupied Hanzhuang this morning.
If it weren't for their attack, his 22nd Group Army would probably still be unable to take it down.
Now that team had actually rushed into the periphery of Tai'erzhuang and occupied the Japanese artillery position.
And these shells of theirs that came from Weishan Lake were still robbed from Lincheng yesterday.
"What kind of team is this?" Commander-in-Chief Sun Zhen was very curious about the Special Operations Brigade.
The Special Operations Brigade's Third and Fourth Companies each dispatched half a company to attack Liu Jiahu.
Now that they had occupied the position, company commanders Shan Huacan and Shan Chengfu saw Lin Fan at the artillery position.
Lin Fan ordered: "Half a company of the Fourth Company, cooperate with the First and Second Companies to defend Liu Jiahu well.
The First and Second Companies are stationed at the artillery position.
The Fourth Company is stationed at Liu Jiahu.
The Third Company will now go back immediately, organize the team, and cooperate with the Second Battalion of the 185th Regiment to occupy Dunshang Village.
After the occupation, it will be defended by the Third Company."
Now that they had their own eyes in the air, they could clearly see the movements of the Japanese around the position.
Lin Fan was no longer afraid of dividing his troops to defend.
In order to cooperate with the attack on Dunshang Village, Lin Fan ordered platoon leader Feng Ruili's tank company to send five tanks to support the attack on Dunshang Village.
The attacking team had just left Liu Jiahu.
Mao Wenxing in the air had already reported to Lin Fan: "Three kilometers north of the artillery position, there is a squadron of Japanese soldiers marching rapidly.
Five kilometers east, there is also a squadron of Japanese soldiers marching rapidly towards Liu Jiahu."
After receiving the order to reinforce the Liu Jiahu artillery position, squadron leader Tanaka Yuenzhong.
Immediately led the entire squadron on a forced march, they departed from Yixian County.
They rushed towards Liu Jiahu all the way at a trot.
The attack order that squadron leader Tanaka Yuenzhong received was personally arranged by regiment commander Seiya Keiji.
On the phone, regiment commander Seiya Keiji sternly ordered him to defend the artillery position.
If the artillery position had been occupied by the National Army, then their squadron had to recapture those cannons at any cost.
"Your actions are related to the victory or defeat of the division's entire battle in Tai'erzhuang." Finally, regiment commander Seiya Keiji said earnestly.
Regiment commander Seiya Keiji was not exaggerating, that was really how he understood it.
This was also a fact.
The artillery position was the place where the entire regiment's long-range artillery was concentrated, and all the independent artillery regiments allocated by the division were concentrated together to be used.
Judging from the effect of using it for so many days: the effect was awesome.
It was very easy to use!
But if this artillery position changed hands and was taken over by the National Army.
How much help it had given his regiment at the beginning, how much harm it would do now!
Sure enough, the two squadrons that regiment commander Seiya Keiji sent out had been dispatched for less than half an hour.
He received unfortunate news from the team attacking Tai'erzhuang: they were bombed by the artillery fire of the National Army.
What made regiment commander Seiya Keiji most sad was that the territory that those Japanese soldiers in Tai'erzhuang had finally occupied after so many days.
It was bombed by the artillery fire of the National Army, and the National Army inside Tai'erzhuang launched a fierce attack again.
They actually lost all the hard work of these days.
The position occupied in Tai'erzhuang had lost most of it.
This was really a sad and disappointing piece of news.
Having their own eyes in the air made it much easier to deal with the Japanese.
The terrain in Tai'erzhuang was flat, and the Japanese could choose from countless routes from every direction.
Of course, squadron leader Tanaka Yuenzhong knew this at this time.
Everywhere was a flat wheat field, and of course he was unwilling to take the usual path.
The usual path meant the path that most people had to take, and it was also the road that was most easily ambushed.
The task was urgent this time, and the Japanese soldiers of the Tanaka Yuenzhong squadron had been taking the shortest road.
Mao Wenxing in the air saw the route of this Japanese army clearly.
He deduced the route they might take and reported what he saw and deduced.
Lin Fan just thought about it for a moment and immediately ordered the First Company to send a platoon to snipe.
Platoon leader Ye Tianshi led more than 50 soldiers and quickly rushed to the battlefield on horseback.
Just now Lin Fan had analyzed the characteristics of the Tanaka Yuenzhong squadron.
This Japanese army was suspicious and had not been walking on the existing roads.
When approaching the artillery position, they were very likely to pass through a large wheat field to the north.
Platoon leader Ye Tianshi only said one word to the brigade commander's analysis: "Yes!"
He was now leading the soldiers on horseback to quickly rush to the wheat field.
He left a squad in the wheat field to install directional mines.
Mao Wenxing, Lin Fan, and Ye Tiangan analyzed the Japanese so much.
Wasn't the purpose to know which direction the Japanese were coming from?
It was convenient to bury the directional mines so that they could entertain these Japanese soldiers well.
In order to stop this Japanese squadron as much as possible.
The Third Platoon had planted a total of twenty directional mines in this wheat field.
The purpose of doing this was only one, to make the ambush site as wide as possible.
It was better to have it than to need it!
Lei Churan, Ji Yangxia, and a few others were ambushed behind the directional mines.
They were all squatting in the pits they had dug, and even the heads of the mines were covered with wheat seedlings.
They could not be seen at all from a slightly farther distance.
Less than ten minutes after the Third Platoon had set up the ambush, the Japanese appeared.
Squadron leader Tanaka Yuenzhong looked at the wheat field in front of him with satisfaction.
He ordered the soldiers, "Pass through quickly! The target is just ahead."
All the way, whether it was a big road or a small road, his team had not taken it.
They had been walking through the wheat field all the time, and sure enough, they had not encountered any ambush from the National Army along the way.
He attributed all this to his proper command.
Now, as long as they crossed this wheat field, they would be