blood feud

In the early morning of March 1935, after Li Shouxin plotted, a cavalry regiment attacked eastward to block the cavalry in Datan Town.A cavalry regiment rushed to the southeast, blocking the enemies on the line of Jiucaigou.

Then an infantry regiment and a cavalry regiment were left to defend all directions of Guyuan County, and Li Shouxin personally led the Mongolian detachment and an infantry regiment to attack the Dushikou Great Wall pass.

As soon as the enemy moved, Zhang Bao's cavalry regiment on the front line of Datan Town in Fengning already knew about it, and then urgently reported it to the division headquarters.Shao Jianzhang and Zhan Jinguo did not dare to neglect, and immediately informed Bai Shujie of the enemy's situation.

When Bai Shujie received Shao Jianzhang's report on the enemy's situation, he really couldn't believe it: "Li Shouxin sent troops from Guyuan, and the troops were divided into three groups?"

Gan Tong was the first to get the news, because she was the commander of the Rehe garrison.She also felt very strange that Li Shouxin sent troops first: "Yeah, this bastard is not lying on his stomach in his own den, why is he running out and jumping? Does he feel that his tortoise shell is harder than before, and it is not good to go out to bask in the sun Is it?"

"This is also easy to understand." Zhao Jinxi picked up his baton and pointed to the map and said, "Zhang Bao and Zhou Ting set up their forward positions in Datan Town and Jiucaigou, which means they are going to take down Guyuan County at any time. Li I have been leading troops for more than ten years, so I naturally know what this means. And we are forming troops, and outsiders will see it as a mess. If you don’t take advantage of the opportunity at this time, you will have no chance in the future.”

"I see!" Bai Shujie nodded and said, "Li Shouxin must think that Fengning and Chicheng are recruits who have not undergone rigorous training. They have just been compiled and have no combat effectiveness at all. Yes, his starting point is not wrong. It shows that Li Shouxin is not all idiots! Unfortunately, he didn't know that Lao Tzu's recruits have been trained for more than two years, and they have been on combat duty in Sanxian Cave for a year!"

Gan Tong raised his head and asked, "What are you going to do? After all, Li Shouxin came up with 5000 troops, so it should not be underestimated. Especially Li Shouxin is good at using cavalry, and his three cavalry regiments still have some combat effectiveness."

Bai Shujie shook his head: "It's no big deal! Gan Tong sent a telegram to Shao Jianzhang, ordering the front line to be on the defensive. Pull all the troops up to defend in turn, and never allow the enemy to move forward. We don’t need to worry, we should sharpen the enemy’s temperament first, and let the new troops get familiar with defensive operations in various situations.”

"I agree!" Zhao Jinxi nodded: "Especially Zou Baoyin's infantry regiment has just taken over the Great Wall. This is a new topic. We used to use the 'point defense' of positional warfare, but now because of the existence of the Great Wall, it has become a 'line defense'." Defense'. This is a complete change in tactical thinking, which requires a period of familiarity and experience."

At noon on March 1935, Zhang Bao, head of the cavalry regiment of the 3rd Rehe garrison division, had already arrived at the front of the Datan Town position, and Zhou Ting, the deputy head, also rushed to the Jiucaigou position.The enemy in front of them did not swarm up, but stopped 1000 meters away, and the two sides temporarily formed a stalemate.

Both Zhang Bao and Zhou Ting came from bloody battles at the lowest level and have rich practical experience.The enemy's action is obviously to restrain his own troops, and the real battle should be on the front line of Dushikou.

However, Zou Baoyin, the head of Chicheng's infantry regiment, was a fierce general from Bai Shujie's guard battalion, and the cavalry battalion he personally brought out was definitely not a vegetarian.Now that there is a natural barrier like the Great Wall, Li Shouxin only attacked with more than 2000 people. Zhang Bao and Zhou Ting were not worried at all that Zou Baoyin would lose Chicheng.

Chicheng County has a well-developed water system, and the Baihe River runs through the whole area from north to south. The entire Chicheng County can be regarded as the source of the Baihe River System.The two largest branches are Dushikou in the north and Maliankou in the west.It is at these two places that the Great Wall forms a pass to curb the passage of the Mongolian Plateau.Li Shouxin attacked from north to south. From the perspective of the terrain, he rushed along the Baihe River from a high position.

However, Dushikou is not on the Great Wall.The real pass is the Beizhazi Pass of the Great Wall, 5 kilometers north of Dushikou.

After Zou Baoyin took over Chicheng's defense, the focus of defense was on the Great Wall at Beizhazi.One of his three defensive support points is the Great Wall at Beizhazi, and the other two are outside the Great Wall.One is Hongnigang in the east of Baihe River, and the other is Xiajialiang in the west of Baihe River.

These two support points are 3 kilometers away from the north gate, and a platoon of troops is placed on each point, equipped with 3 Type 12 heavy machine guns and 6 crooked light machine guns.A total of [-] [-]-type heavy machine guns used east-west attack, completely blocking the road along the Baihe River.

北栅子长城上面，按照500米的间距部署了2门105mm野战加农炮，2门75mm野炮和2门75m山炮。6门火炮组成一个要塞炮群，为长城外面的两个支撑点提供远程火力支援。

小鬼子的41年式改制75mm野炮射程6.5公里，奉天军械厂仿制的是标准41年式75mm火炮，射程5.5公里。

When Li Shouxin escaped from Fengtian, he took away a total of 35 75mm artillery pieces, so his troops were also equipped with many 41-style 75mm imitation artillery pieces.It is for this reason that he set up his headquarters on the Xiwan line, 6 kilometers away from the Great Wall in Beizhazi.The only thing he didn't expect was that Zou Baoyin had a 18.2mm field cannon with a range of 105 kilometers in his hand!

Zou Baoyin's guard platoon had already scouted the places along the Xiwan-Qiaojiadian line, otherwise they would not have chosen Hongnigang and Xiajialiang as support points.

Seeing that Li Shouxin set up his headquarters within the range of his heavy artillery, Zou Baoyin no longer worried about this defensive operation.Now there is no need to use 105mm heavy artillery at all, just four 4mm artillery can blow up Li Shouxin's headquarters to pieces.

The Art of War says: Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles.Only know yourself but don't know the enemy, one wins and one loses.If you don't know yourself or the enemy, you will be perilous in every battle.

Li Shouxin did not have the most accurate information about the enemy. Although he had full confidence in his equipment, this had already planted a huge hidden danger.

At 1935 o'clock in the afternoon on March 3, Li Shouxin ordered a company of the infantry regiment to leave Tangnigou for the first tentative attack.The Hongnigang position on the east side of the road did not receive an order to fire to stop the enemy, so there has been no movement, and the enemy has not discovered that there is an enemy ambush on the east side of the road.

After crossing Hongnigang for more than 500 meters, the forward position of the Xiajialiang position on the west side of the main road received an order to fire. Four crooked machine guns in the forward position blocked the road going south. up.

Li Shouxin felt a little bad when he found out that the enemy on the opposite side had set up a blocking position outside the Great Wall.Under normal circumstances, since there is such a solid natural fortification as the Great Wall, how can it be thankless to run out to build a position?Unless the enemy can provide artillery support!

This time, the two regiments brought out 12 75mm mountain cannons. Li Shouxin is now divided into three artillery positions, which are arranged on the front line of Qiaojiadian.

A company retreated after losing more than 20 people, and reported to Li Shouxin the firepower situation at Hongnigang.He immediately decided to send a battalion to attack, and 4 artillery pieces from an artillery position provided fire support.Strive to win the commanding heights of Hongnigang once, and open the passage to attack the Beizhazi pass.

Standing on the city wall, Zou Baoyin saw through the binoculars that the enemy came up with a battalion and three companies. He felt that it was necessary to teach him a lesson, so he asked the first battalion commander to issue concealed heavy machine guns to Xia Jialiang's formation, and all of them used light machine guns. , At the same time, do a good job of anti-gun orders, and require the Hongnigang position not to expose the target.

The enemy's leading company was still more than 800 meters away from Xiajialiang's position, and four shells had already flown over from the north.Although no specific target was found, the explosive deterrent effect of the shells still exists.

Zou Baoyin kept staring at the binoculars, and shouted in a low voice: "Immediately measure the position of the enemy's artillery positions, and use two 75mm field guns to suppress them, and don't let the enemy be too presumptuous!"

The two cannons were condescending on the city wall, fired three times in a row, and the opponent's cannons became silent.However, in this gap, the enemy's vanguard company had already fought fiercely with Xia Jialiang's forward position.

Although the soldiers didn't know why the heavy machine guns couldn't take part in the battle, the 12 light machine guns were quite powerful.The enemy charged from one company to two companies, and in the end they did not get within 80 meters of Xiajialiang's position.After fighting for half an hour, the enemy left more than 30 corpses and retreated.

"Order: Two 105mm heavy guns immediately move westward along the Great Wall, Xia Jialiang's heavy machine guns retreat along the mountain ridge to the top of the mountain, and the Hongnigang position continues to be hidden and on standby!" After the enemy retreated, Zou Baoyin immediately looked dignified: "The gate of the city gate Leave a squad in the position to stop the enemy, and the others all retreat! Order: The cavalry battalion immediately arrive at Chengxigou and Beiqingyanggou on the west side of Dushikou to hide!"

At six o'clock in the afternoon, the sky was slowly getting dark.A red cloud suddenly rose in the northern sky, and then there was the shrill scream of shells piercing the sky.In less than a minute, Xia Jialiang's position was blown up into a sea of ​​flames!

Zou Baoyin smiled at the commander of the first battalion and said, "My good fellow, Li Shouxin is very rich. There are 12 cannons firing at the same time. The scene is very spectacular!"

"Regiment commander, what exactly do you want to do?" The first battalion commander was a little confused: "This battle has not started yet, you have withdrawn all my people."

"Of course we need people to fight, but the more the better, the key is where and when to use them." Zou Baoyin said patiently: "The enemy's two regiments only have more than 2000 people. If we can eat half of them , Do you think they still dare to attack? Order all the light machine guns in the Xiajialiang position to retreat immediately after firing a bullet!"

Li Shouxin's artillery shelled for half an hour, and then there was a big earthquake, and the cavalry regiment came up!And not far behind was the infantry regiment that followed. It seemed that Li Shouxin was not going to procrastinate any longer, but was preparing for a gamble to determine the outcome.

"Immediately give an order to abandon the city gate and retreat across the board, and let the enemy's cavalry in!" Zou Baoyin screamed strangely, then turned and ran down the city wall, got on his horse and turned around!

After all, what happens next, let's see the breakdown in the next chapter.