Chapter 74 Chengde Prominent Part (I)

On March 2, 22nd year of the Republic of China, the Japanese reconnaissance cavalry had already appeared in the periphery of Chengde. After a brief fire with the defending defensive positions, the Japanese cavalry quickly retreated.

Zhang Xuewu held a meeting of officers above the division camp. After the first floor lobby of the Women's Middle School, Zhang Xuewu stood on the stairs and looked around the audience with Zhang Ying's vigorous faces. Perhaps after this bloody battle, many people, including himself, will sprinkle their blood on this land!

Zhang Xuewu took a deep breath and said, "Brothers! I can tell you clearly that the national army in Rehe is now retreating to the front line of the Great Wall. Chengde has become the only prominent part. When the heavy Japanese invaders attack, we may be surrounded by enemies on all sides at any time!"

Zhang Xuewu paused slightly and said in a slightly slowed tone: "Chief Jiang from Nanjing gave me a handwritten order, which is when the enemy and us are disparate, and I will grant me the right to move forward in an instant, and I cannot sacrifice easily! More than 100,000 troops were defeated like mountains. Can my new first division be created and turned the tide? The reason why miracles are called miracles is because their chances are slim, but the nations have reached the last moment of sacrifice. Is it a Japanese invaders ridiculed us as an army made of sand?

?The Japanese invaders acted recklessly in the Northeast. After the Shenyang Incident, we left our parents, brothers and sisters, and our wives and children, and were scolded by others. What kind of life are we living? Do we have to throw all the four northeastern provinces cleanly before we know that we are heartbroken? The reorganization and expansion of the Central Army is about to be imminent. Most of us can live, and we will be promoted and promoted. There is only a dead end to stay here. Now I will let you all choose for yourself! Should we fight or retreat!"

In addition to the company-level officers and platoon-level officers of the newly compiled First Division, 90% of the officers and soldiers were soldiers from Northeast China. After a brief silence, Huang Tao, Li Xinkai, Xu Guohui and others, who were hinted by Zhang Xuewu, took the lead in shouting: Martyrdom for the country! Vow to live and die with Chengde! Fight back to their hometown in Northeast China! Fight back to their hometown in Northeast China! Fight back to their hometown in Northeast China! Fight back to their hometown in Northeast China!

Amid the slogans that were rising higher and higher, Zhang Xuewu breathed a sigh of relief. The morale of the new First Division was as strong as a rainbow. The Northeastern officers and soldiers who were determined to avenge their worries to fight to redeem the crime of abandoning the three eastern provinces were vowed to prepare for the war to the death.

Zhang Xuewu was determined to defend Chengde, the capital of Rehe, which was abandoned in history! At 2:35 pm, sixteen Japanese planes bombed and strafed Chengde. More than a dozen streets in Chengde were hit by bombs and ignited a raging fire. Chengde had been bombed by Japanese planes on a large scale. Will the attack of its army division be far away?

In the early morning of March 3, 22nd year of the Republic of China, as the thin morning mist dissipated, the small-sized and pointed monkey three-headed, with severe legs, Lieutenant General Hirose Susuke, the commander of the 10th Japanese Division, held a snow-white glove and looked towards Chengde. The mist in the telescope disappointed Hirose Susuke.

In contrast, Naoki Matsuki, the commander of the 14th Division, who was tall and thin, had a pockmarked face, stood in front of the cannon mirror to observe the terrain of the Hugou line. The 10th Division and the 14th Division both arrived at night. Last night, the two divisions launched squadron and brigade-scale attempts to attack along the side ridges of Hugou and Majiagou. The illuminated ice slope of the Hugou position before seemed very dazzling in the rising sun.

What is even more dazzling is the more than 300 corpses lying down the ice slope. Before the attacking troops arrived at the defenders' positions at night, they found that nearly 300 meters of gentle slopes were covered with solid ice. Stiff-sole fur shoes even stood up, let alone attack. Except for a small number of lucky enough to withdraw from the battle in time, the remaining Japanese troops, who were blocked by the firepower of the defenders, almost froze into popsicles after a night of cold.

Like the 14th Division, the tentative attack of the 10th Division also hit the iron plate. The two divisions, which had almost no bullets, were blocked at the city of Chengde at the same time. Out of their own selfish desire and contempt for the Chinese army, Hirose Shousuke did not cooperate with Naoki Matsuki. The two division commanders almost tacitly sent a message to their respective commanders, Masaemon and Nishiichi. Masaemon and Nishiichi also selectively forgot each other and gave the fat meat from their mouths a share of the pie? The Japanese Imperial Army has never had this tradition.

In anyone's opinion, the attack of a city with only one division of the Imperial Army with more than 20,000 troops, with only one division, is simply a big deal. What's more, two divisions attacking the same city, and the Chinese army has mostly organized divisions, so the Japanese naturally knew very well that the quick victory of the Battle of Rekawa turned this battle into a marching force. The vulnerable Chinese army caused arrogance to breed within the Japanese army. Perhaps Chengde would be occupied in the afternoon, so there was no need for joint combat between the 10th Division and the 14th Division. In fact, what Hirose Shousuke and Matsuki Naoki were most concerned about was the distinction between joint combat command.

Since they were unwilling to accept the other party's command, they simply beat their own people, and those who first entered Chengde won the first prize! Hirose Shousuke and Matsuki Naoki signed a so-called gentleman agreement, but this agreement was more like a challenge letter.

Zhang Xuewu stood nervously in the temporary command post in the basement of the Women's Middle School. Due to the bombing of Japanese planes, Zhang Xuewu was forcibly transferred to the basement. After all, the guns and shrapnel were blind, and the positions of the two divisions and brigades that the Japanese army arrived in Chengde and all the brigades they belonged to were marked.

The 10th Division of the Japanese Army attacked the Majiagou side ridge, which was stationed by Zhao Xinyu's unit of the Third Regiment, while the 14th Division of the Japanese Army attacked the Tiger Gou. The 8th Brigade of the Japanese Army's 10th Division was the 8th Brigade of the Japanese Army's 10th Division. The brigade commander Yuzui and Ichiro were top students in infantry tactical command of the Imperial Army University. Yuzui and Ichiro learned the lesson of the blind attack failure last night. From the beginning, they concentrated the field artillery gangs under the division to shell the ice belt in front of the main position of Majiagou side ridge, using the tactics of barrage Xu Jin to

The two brigades of the 16th Infantry Regiment were the main force and forcibly attacked the main position of the Chinese defenders on the Majiagou side ridge. At the same time, all the main forces of the 17th Infantry Regiment were put into the fierce attack on the right wing position of the Majiagou side ridge. Yuanbu and Ichiro simultaneously led the remaining two brigades of the 16th Infantry Regiment to ambush under the left wing position of the Majiagou side ridge. Once the Chinese defenders draw troops from the left wing to reinforce the right wing, the Japanese army hidden under the left wing position will attack and open a breakthrough to Chengde.

Boom! Boom! With the dense rain of bullets falling like raindrops of the Japanese army, ice and snow dust rising into the sky mixed with shrapnel flying indiscriminately.

Japanese soldiers wearing coats, leather hats, and hard-soled overgrown shoes, and carrying Meiji-style ties, were lined up with scattered soldiers on the thick snow, bent over and pushed towards the attacking position with difficulty. When they advanced three hundred meters away, Japanese scattered soldiers began to lie down and dig out individual bunkers.

Since the beginning of the battle, Zhang Xuewu took Materlin and several other German consultants to the Majiagou side ridge stationed by Zhao Xinyu's troops of the Third Regiment to supervise the battle. In name, it was supervising the battle. In fact, Zhang Xuewu wanted to see how effective the Japanese 10th Division attacked the Majiagou side ridge was.
Chapter completed!