Two days later, June 26th arrived when people were busy. A thousand war horses were covered with red silk, and all the cavalry were wearing red ribbons. The bride rode a fiery red pony and wore a slim white dress.
Wedding dress. A band composed of Russians led the way, advancing from Chifeng City in the north towards the Prince's Palace in Jinshan Town.
Outside Jinshan Town, Hu Zhiyong and Hou Dashun stood side by side, waiting for the bride to arrive to welcome the couple into the bridal chamber. A man dressed as a priest was looking behind, and he kept looking at the watch on his wrist.
"Here it comes!" The music came first, and the people of Jinshan Town suddenly became excited. There were a sea of people in the square, looking at the beautiful bride and commenting on her.
"The bride is dismounting!" the priest shouted in a high-pitched voice, and two girls from the ethnic minority went over to help her.
"Bridegroom, bride worships heaven and earth!" At the gate of the palace, the ceremony was held as normal according to the wedding requirements.
Hu Zhiyong stood outside the human wall, unable to calm down with excitement. He was a special operations commander and had never experienced a major battle. Will Rehe's first assault against the Japanese army trigger crazy revenge from the Japs?
"Nervous?" Hu Zhigang appeared next to his younger brother, looking at the weak third son of the Hu family with concern.
"Brother, is what I'm doing right or wrong?" Hu Zhiyong was a little hesitant at this moment. The four Japanese divisions are not scary. What's scary is that if the island country desperately increases its troops, I don't know how many people will suffer. 2
"Yes, very true!" Hu Zhigang affirmed as if encouraging his younger brother: "It would be abnormal if the Japanese army blocked us and did not take any action. Fighting a battle can not only train our troops, but also learn ground and air steps from actual combat.
The experience of cooperation between the three armies. The Japs don’t have many troops in Chahar, why don’t you start there?”
Hu Zhiyong sighed: "Chahar is Feng Yuxiang's defense area. We can't occupy it even if we fight it. We can't make excuses for the national army, let alone let the Chinese people scold us as warlords who occupy land and are kings."
"Are we allowed to let the little devils plunder wherever they go?" Hu Zhigang looked at his younger brother dissatisfied.
"No!" Hu Zhiyong said calmly: "Chahar must be received into our hands within this year, otherwise our supplies can only be purchased at high prices from the Soviet Union."
"Within the year? You said Feng Yuxiang can't hold on within the year?" Hu Zhigang was surprised. A province with 120,000 troops could be defeated so quickly?
"The little devil alone can't do it. Chiang Kai-shek will not let Feng Yuxiang mess up his plan and will definitely send troops to encircle and suppress Chahar." Hu Zhiyong said calmly, and he was also trying to recall the historical process.
"Old Chiang? Isn't he afraid that the people will poke his spine?" Hu Zhigang was stunned: "It doesn't support fighting the Japanese, but it still dares to use black guns behind his back?"
"According to intelligence, the Peiping Military Commission repeatedly called Chiang Kai-shek, requesting more reinforcements and supplies. Chiang Kai-shek insisted not to send more troops, let alone send his own troops to the anti-Japanese battlefield. He Yingqin lost confidence in the victory of the Anti-Japanese War and had already sent his troops
further contraction.
Feng Yuxiang expanded his troops too quickly and the good and bad were mixed. Chiang Kai-shek would bribe some of his troops to overwhelm him. Chiang Kai-shek went north to Baoding to reach an agreement with Feng Yuxiang, but he refused. It is estimated that spies have been sent to assassinate his various commanders. The second brother this time
They were also dispatched, and they were personally appointed by Dai Li."
"Hi!" Hu Zhigang shook his head sadly: "He was blinded by lard!"
Hu Zhiyong said in embarrassment: "This is just the beginning. I don't know what will happen to our three brothers in the future, but I am sure that you and him will meet on the battlefield."
"You mean after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War?" Hu Zhigang wondered, could the civil war continue?
Hu Zhiyong was about to speak when he suddenly saw fireballs coming from two directions in the southeast. As he watched, the sound of cannons began to rumble. "Buzz--" The plane took off, and a group of three planes flew high into the sky.
Fly towards the Japanese defense direction.
"fire!"
Those who saw it screamed. There was a sea of fire seven or eight kilometers outside. The gun towers and fortifications that the Japanese army had just built were all submerged in the sea of fire. Tanks and armored troops began to walk out of the checkpoint, and an infantry regiment was followed behind the tank regiment.
"Fight the devil!"
"The war is on!"
"Look, our air force, tanks and infantry are all out!"
The most lively day in the Rehe Autonomous Province was the wedding from morning to noon. The shelling started at 12 o'clock and the tank troops set off. Everyone rushed up the hill to observe how the Japanese army was defeated by their own troops.
The commander of the Japanese Kwantung Army, Muto Nobuyoshi, was surprised and ordered the troops in the south to retreat towards the Qinhuangdao area. However, the other troops ignored the refusal of Feng Yuxiang's army and rushed towards the Chahar area.
The Japanese aircraft took off, and the heroic Jehol Air Force flew over and started a fierce battle with the Japanese army. The Japanese army on the eastern front resisted desperately and were hit by rocket launchers on armored vehicles and fell into fire. Most of the Japanese army huddled in the city, using rifles, machine guns, and missiles.
The cannon kept firing.
"Charge!" Seeing that the Japanese artillery fire could not damage their tanks, the tank division rushed to the city wall. The infantry hurriedly launched an attack on the city and easily climbed into the undefended city.
"The Japanese troops retreated from the east gate and south gate, don't pursue them, retreat!" the infantry division commander informed the frontline troops, asking the soldiers cleaning the battlefield to evacuate quickly with supplies.
"Report, the Japanese army has begun to increase aircraft again, and the Air Force can no longer bear it!" The chief of staff took the phone and asked Su Xiqing, who was commanding the operation, for instructions.
"The female soldiers prepared rocket launchers and used firepower to block the Japanese support aircraft. Anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns looked for opportunities to annihilate the retreating Japanese aircraft!" Su Xiqing was not panicked. Before the war, he had considered that the enemy's aircraft were more numerous than his own.
"yes!"
"Order the Air Force to keep distance from the Japanese army. Their mission has been completed and they can return!" Su Xiqing gave an order to another staff officer and asked him to notify the Air Force.
"yes!"
Before the fire on the ground was extinguished, another sea of fire appeared in the sky. A beautiful fire net blocked the reinforcing Japanese troops, preventing them from approaching within a hundred miles of Rehe.
The sound of artillery was rumbling, and Logistics Minister Guo Dawei was constantly directing his men to transport artillery shells to the front line.
The Kwantung Army headquarters was in chaos. Nobuyoshi Muto looked at his watch: "Five hours, five hours of non-stop firing. How many artillery shells are there in Rehe? How many cannons?"
"Order our troops to retreat further. They dare not step out of their own artillery fire zone," the Japanese chief of staff suggested.
"Yo Xi!" Muto Xinyi nodded and ordered to withdraw the troops again.
"Make way for the remaining Japanese aircraft to go back!" Su Xiqing listened to the reports from everyone and knew that the battle should be over.
"Acting Commander, we can annihilate the remaining Japanese air force!" the foreign air force commander insisted, believing that the opportunity was rare.
"No, execute the order!" Su Xiqing was unceremonious and hung up the phone immediately.
"What a pity, what a pity!" The foreign commander spread his hands helplessly. He was a soldier and did not dare to disobey his superiors' orders.
In the courtyard of the royal palace, Hou Dashun listened absentmindedly in the distance, his heart already flying to the front line. The bride stood beside him, staring tenderly at the man who was about to share the bed with her.
"He is the commander!" Narentoya, who was born in a military family, had never seen such a young general. She was a medical student. The war made her leave the motherland with her parents. Her parents were killed by the Soviet Red Army.
Later, she followed her compatriots to wander on the Mongolian grasslands.
"Oh, leave the bride alone, you are an incompetent groom!" Hu Zhiyong approached with his eldest brother and looked at the guests leaving after the banquet: "Come on, let's go to the living room for a drink!"
"Commander, how long will the fight last?" Hou Dashun was very concerned about the situation on the front line, but he was too embarrassed to ask.
"It's over!" Hu Zhiyong said with a slightly embarrassed look on his face: "The Japanese troops in Chahar were frightened by us and broke through Feng Yuxiang's defense line and a melee broke out. I guess they were in trouble and there will be a bloody battle!"
"Sooner or later we have to face each other!" Hou Dashun looked away. It was only a matter of time before the two armies would fight. Whether to fight or not could not be decided unilaterally.
"Well, you are right." Hu Zhiyong nodded: "Perhaps it would be more beneficial for them to fight the Japanese army now. With our artillery fire blocking the archway, the Japanese army cannot feed his troops."
"Have we suffered a lot of losses?" Hou Dashun finally couldn't bear it anymore and asked as soon as he sat down.
"Two planes were shot down. Fortunately, the pilots bailed out in time and there was no danger. Four tanks were damaged, 15 were paralyzed, and more than 100 infantrymen were killed or injured." Hu Zhiyong smiled: "Compared with the results, the losses are almost negligible. The only pity is that
Yes, the artillery shells fired as I expected, with a total of about 300,000 rounds. In other words, all the items produced by the arsenal in a year were released today!"
"Hey, the people have seen enough and are more confident in the war! Your money bought so much steel, we will not be short of steel in three to five years." Hu Zhigang interrupted, thinking about the fire he saw outside the town, laughing.
He said: "On Commander Hou's happy day, the most beautiful thing is the two fires. The fire of the earth and the fire of the sky!"
"Earth fire, sky fire?" Hou Dashun stayed in the yard and was surprised by the two fires.
"It was fired by a rocket launcher! Three regiments fired at the same time. It was like a volcanic eruption, thundering and roaring, pouring overwhelmingly into the Japanese fortifications. When I was masturbating, the sky was so red that the sun was covered by the fire and disappeared!" Hu Zhiyong described!
The scene at that time.
"Master, I suggest that the rocket launcher regiment be dismantled and the rocket launchers be divided into three corps of infantry." Hou Dashun poured red wine for the guests and talked about his idea.
"Tell me about it." Hu Zhiyong looked at Hou Dashun with great interest, his eyes filled with joy as he waited for the young commander to continue.
"Bazookas are not suitable for team building, that's what I think about it." Hou Dashun took a few teacups and placed them on the table: "An army can have one battalion of rocket launchers, and one division can only equip one company. One regiment has one platoon.
Rocket launchers are enough to attack fortresses and provide fire support, so our troops will be more flexible."
"Well said!" Hu Zhiyong praised: "The troops move more quickly and are more flexible in mobilizing and attacking the enemy. Equipped with anti-aircraft machine guns and a few anti-aircraft guns, they are not afraid of Japanese aircraft even when they are in enemy-occupied areas!"
"You agree?" Hou Dashun was overjoyed, as if marrying a wife didn't excite him.
"Agree!" Hu Zhiyong became serious: "Your task within three days is to serve the bride, and the headquarters will not allow you to go!"
"Master, sooner or later, your wife will be yours, how about you let me finish this?" Hou Dashun was so anxious that he could not wait to go to the headquarters now.
"No!" Hu Zhiyong said to his bride Narentuoya: "Look after him, you are his commander now!"
"Hahahaha!" Everyone in the living room laughed...
"Report, Acting Commander Su Xiqing has completed his mission. Please give instructions, young master!" Su Xiqing, Ma Xiandeng and others walked in with high spirits, and together they performed military salutes towards Hu Zhiyong and Hou Dashun.
"Okay, it's time for us to have dinner!" Hu Zhiyong patted his belly: "From morning to now, I haven't eaten rice yet."
"Ah!" Hou Dashun exclaimed in surprise: "I didn't eat either. Are you all like this?"
"Hehehehehe!" The commanders lowered their heads and snickered. As the battle started, these people even forgot to eat.
"Quickly, serve the food and wine, we should toast the newlyweds!" Hu Zhigang shouted, pulling out the table and chairs in the living room.
"You should give a toast to the young master!" Hou Dashun's eyes were moist, and he pulled the bride and said: "Without the young master, I would have died at the gunpoint of the Japanese. Without the young master, how could I marry such a beautiful bride?