At noon, Wei Mingyang received the order to attack along the highway in the direction of Yangjiazhai.

The combat mission of his regiment remained unchanged, except that the attack time changed from morning to one o'clock in the afternoon.

After receiving the order, Wei Mingyang immediately sent guard company commander Li Cheng to lead the team to reconnoiter the situation ahead.

He and his team only arrived here last night, so they don't know anything about the surrounding situation and don't know anything.

My eyes went dark and I felt really bad.

It’s really not good to start reconnaissance work only after receiving the order to attack!

The order received now was directly issued by the 15th Army.

Let his regiment attack along the road in the direction of Yangjiazhai.

After a brief understanding with Staff Officer Zhao, Wei Mingyang knew that this task was not easy to complete.

The Fifteenth Army Group has been fighting the Japanese here for twenty days, and the Japanese have been attacking all the time.

Although the Japanese have been attacking, it is not that they have not built a defense line.

On the contrary, the Japanese's attack was solid, and they were serious about building defense lines.

It is not that the national army has not launched a counterattack in these more than 20 days.

They were all repelled by the Japanese. It wasn't that the attacking national army didn't work hard, but it was really impossible to charge forward.

In the counterattack that started today, the national army also tried its best. Yesterday, it annihilated several divisions of the Japanese 17th Brigade and added two more divisions to the original defense.

There were even more troops, with more than 100,000 troops crowded into this area, attacking the Japanese 11th Division from all directions.

Wei Mingyang's group only performed one of the small tasks.

But the mission of his regiment is undoubtedly the most important: only his regiment attacks along the road.

In the past, the national army would not have dared to organize such a dense offensive force for fear of being bombed by Japanese planes and heavy artillery groups.

Today, this worry was relieved by Wei Mingyang. The Japanese planes were beaten so that they did not dare to come over, and the Japanese artillery positions had been blown up.

This also gave Commander Luo Zhuoying the confidence to issue a comprehensive counterattack order.

Li Cheng, the new reconnaissance company commander, just took his team out and came back within half an hour to report:

"Tuanzuo! Three thousand meters ahead, there are trenches dug by the Japanese.

From observation, there should be a squadron of Japs stationed there."

"Can you see where their firepower is?" This is very important.

"Can't see it! Can't see it at all!"

If you can't find the enemy's firepower, you can only use people to test it.

Wei Mingyang held a military meeting above the company level and explained the mission and the reconnaissance situation.

Li Zhongxian, the commander of the fourth battalion, stood up and said: "Regiment! The fourth battalion will be the vanguard this time."

His battalion was the former Third Battalion of the 583rd Regiment. He had just arrived here and he wanted to show his strength.

First Battalion Commander Gu Zuo stood up immediately: "Regiment leader! Let the First Battalion handle such a task!"

The second and third battalion commanders all stood up.

Wei Mingyang motioned for them to sit down: "Tell me about the advantages of your battalion being the vanguard."

Li Zhongxian immediately said: "My battalion has many veterans, and we have also fought against the Japanese in Baoshan County.

Compared with the other infantry battalions, our combat effectiveness is the strongest.

Good steel must be used on the blade. Today is the first battle since the establishment of our regiment, and of course the fourth battalion will attack."

Gu Zuo was immediately reluctant: "Why is your battalion's combat effectiveness the strongest?"

Wei Mingyang said: "I think what Battalion Commander Li said is right! Our regiment has just been established, and we must do a good job in the first attack.

And the soldiers in the remaining battalions are indeed not trained enough.

Then it was decided that the fourth battalion would be responsible for the main offensive task in the front.

I will take the guard company and artillery battalion to follow you."

What Battalion Commander Li Zhongxian said is indeed correct. Among the entire regiment, the fourth battalion has the most veterans, and the total number of veterans in Gu Zuo's battalion is less than fifty.

In each squad, only the squad leader is a former veteran, and the rest are soldiers from the security regiment who just joined two days ago.

There are more soldiers from the security regiment who just joined today. These new recruits have never fired a bullet.

Wei Mingyang was really worried that there would be chaos if they went to the battlefield.

Therefore, he very much agreed with Li Zhongxian's analysis and agreed to his request to serve as a pioneer.

At the same time, he also decided to follow behind to provide artillery support.

"Leader! You stay at the command post, I'll go up!"

Hearing that he wanted to move with the Fourth Battalion, Yao Ziqing, a regiment affiliate, immediately dissuaded him.

"I won't charge at the front, everyone knows my marksmanship.

I will bring the artillery battalion to provide you with artillery support, and it is relatively safe." Wei Mingyang explained.

With this explanation, Yao Ziqing was speechless.

The whole regiment's accurate shooting of Wei Mingyang was very impressive.

Moreover, Li Zhongxian was originally the company commander under Deputy Yao Tuan. Yao Ziqing was also very happy that the captain could personally escort the Fourth Battalion.

Battalion Commander Li Zhongxian was of course even happier and immediately said: "With the support of the regiment's artillery, our attack will be smoother."

Regardless of whether this is flattery or not, Wei Mingyang sounded very happy anyway.

Accept it with a smile!

"You should rush forward and attack tentatively first, after you find the enemy's firepower point.

Pay attention to protect yourself, our artillery in the rear will knock out the enemy's firepower points, and then you can continue the attack."

"yes!"

"Our combat method is: advance slowly, steadily, and keep advancing! The number of vanguard troops at the front can be smaller.

The teams following behind must be timely and be able to reinforce them at any time.

Don’t be afraid of wasting bullets with machine guns, and try to provide fire support to the attacking team.”

"yes!"

The battle plan was simple and crude. The fourth battalion attacked and advanced at the front, and the first battalion followed.

The artillery battalion followed with Wei Mingyang in the middle,

The remaining two infantry battalions were following behind the artillery battalion, ready to attack at any time.

After the plan is formulated, it is immediately issued, and the next step is to set off as a team.

The Fourth Battalion is indeed as Battalion Commander Li said: with many veterans, we can move quickly.

The Third Battalion was originally here, but today only a few people from the security team came in.

The Tenth Company was the vanguard of the Fourth Battalion's attack, and the platoon leader Chang Jieying was the vanguard among the vanguards.

Chang Jieying led a row of hunched bodies and rushed towards the Japanese defense line in front.

Three hundred meters behind them, Ren Zhi, commander of the 10th company, was following with his entire company.

Further away are the 11th and 12th companies.

If you look down from a high altitude at this time, you can see that there seems to be a line connecting the attacking national army teams.
Chapter completed!