Sun Liansheng came to Macheng much faster than Tang Cheng expected. However, when he saw Tang Cheng again, Sun Liansheng was no longer as arrogant as when he came to Macheng last time. Tang Cheng could guess that the 88th Division must have warned the Sun family.
, Sun Liansheng, who is both powerful and capable, can be regarded as the leader of the Macheng garrison. The Sun family will never let Sun Liansheng provoke Tang Cheng again. Tang Cheng is now the person Zhong Bin named to protect.
Entering Tangcheng is equivalent to provoking the entire 88th Division.
When the garrison was handed over, Tang Cheng did not go. No one in Macheng, including Zhou Peilin, knew why Huang Hanju was suddenly transferred to Wuhan, and the entire Huang family had to move to Wuhan. "Company commander, the garrison has already
It's over. The look on that bastard Sun Liansheng's face was so satisfying that a guy from the garrison almost shot Sun Liansheng's head open." Niu Laogui and several others who came back from the garrison camp brought a message to Tangcheng.
, when Sun Liansheng took over the garrison, a soldier in the queue misfired his rifle and almost hit Sun Liansheng.
Tangcheng was not so stupid as to really think that the rifle went off. No need to guess, it was Huang Hanju's instruction. It was the Huang family expressing their anger towards Sun Liansheng. "We have to change places. There is no one in the 88th Division yet."
Before coming to Macheng, we need a military camp of our own to avoid conflicts with Sun Liansheng's people in the city." Tangcheng knew that Sun Liansheng did not come to Macheng alone, and he also brought an infantry company to communicate with those guys.
For example, the rebuilt Erlian is not an opponent yet, so Tangcheng needs to avoid Sun Liansheng for the time being.
With the evacuation of Tangcheng and the entry of Sun Liansheng, Macheng seemed to have returned to its former peace. There were more soldiers wearing Japanese military uniforms on the streets, which provided a topic for the people in the city to chat about after dinner. As time passed,
Day by day, the benefits of returning to the 88th Division gradually became apparent. The 88th Division not only did not send officers to the rebuilt Second Company, but also allocated a radio station and two telegraph operators to Tangcheng. With the radio station, Tangcheng no longer
They were blind and could only follow their feelings. The movements of the Japanese troops around Macheng were sent to Tangcheng every day by the 88th Division via radio.
The Japanese army in Tangcheng did not appear as early as expected, and the first round of the Japanese offensive did not include Macheng, the east gate of Wuhan. After the Japanese army captured Jiujiang in July, they forcibly attacked the port northeast of Ruichang on August 11.
The landing was successful, and the counterattack of the 12th Army of the defender Sun Tongxuan was defeated, and the 3rd Army fought hard with the reinforcements of Tang Enbo's 32nd Army. In late August, the Japanese 9th Division also arrived in Ruichang under the escort of ships.
After landing in Changchang, the 6th forward brigade made great progress and marched down Liyu Mountain, Beacon Mountain and other important places, and captured Ruichang on August 24.
On September 3, the Maruyama detachment of the Japanese army occupied Huimaling. The 4th Army, 64th Army, 18th Army and other units guarding the front of Nanxun Road were threatened on the sides and were forced to retreat. They retreated to the next line of defense, the Wushimen position, and continued to hold on. "Now.
We know that the Japanese Maruyama Brigade has returned to Ruichang to join their 9th Division Guijian and Botian detachments. According to the current situation, the Japanese army will definitely continue to advance westward along the Yangtze River. After the fall of Nanjing and Xuzhou, Wuhan will be
Their next big target." There is a map in the simple command post, and Tang Cheng, Niu Laogui and others are working on the map.
Map work is a compulsory course for officers of the 88th Division. Map work in Tangcheng was learned from Xie Bo and Liu Yangyang. Niu Laogui and others who have been appointed as officers must learn map work from Tangcheng. "Company Commander
"Urgent telegram from the division headquarters." The telegraph operator sent by the 88th Division came to Tangcheng with a telegram he had just received. After reading the telegram, Tangcheng understood why the 88th Division had not arrived in Macheng for so long, because they were fighting with
The Japanese army fought fiercely.
On August 22, King Dong Jiure Gongminyan led his troops from Hefei. On August 1, the Japanese 2nd Army simultaneously attacked Lu'an and Huoshan, the gateways to the Dabie Mountains. At the beginning, the Japanese army stormed the front positions of the defenders, and the defenders relied on the periphery.
The fortifications and city walls resisted tenaciously for two days, causing repeated setbacks in the Japanese attack. As before, the Japanese army saw that a frontal attack was not possible, so they resorted to the old trick of attacking from the front and making a detour at the same time. The Japanese army made a detour successfully, and the defenders were
Forced to retreat, the Japanese army captured Lu'an and behind Huoshan, the Japanese 2nd Army divided into two groups. The 13th and 16th Divisions on the left passed through the northern foot of the Dabie Mountains and pushed directly towards Wuhan, while the right group attacked Luoshan and Xinyang and detoured to Wuhan.
The 13th Division of the Japanese Army on the left approached Yejiaji on September 2nd and began to attack Fujin Mountain. Fujin Mountain is very close to Yejiaji and is on the south side of Shangliu Highway. It can block the road from a high position on the mountain. The Japanese army wants to bypass it.
It didn't work in the past, so I had no choice but to bite the bullet and attack Fujin Mountain. Defending Fujin Mountain were two divisions of Song Xilian's 71st Army and the 114th Division of the 51st Army of the former Northeastern Army. Song Xilian used his most elite 36th German Division to guard the center.
In the main position, the former 114th Division of the Northeastern Army defended the left side, and the 88th Division on the right.
When Tangcheng received this telegram, the battle at Fujin Mountain had already begun. The Japanese attack was first directed at the main position of the 36th Division in the middle. The Japanese attack first used aircraft to bomb in turns, then concentrated bombardment with heavy artillery, and finally
Infantry charge. Although Fujin Mountain is not very dangerous and the slope is not very sloped, the 36th Division fought fiercely to hold on and the Japanese offensive was repeatedly frustrated. By the time the 88th Division sent a telegram to Tangcheng, the 36th Division had already repulsed
The Japanese army attacked more than a dozen times, but the Japanese defense line was still impregnable.
"The Japanese army is coming. The 71st Army has already exchanged fire with the Japanese army at Fujin Mountain, and our 88th Division is also here." Tang Cheng's words made Niu Laogui and the others in the command post breathless. It is certainly the true nature of a soldier to go into battle to kill the enemy, but
The current Second Company is not ready yet. If you rashly pull us up to fight the Japanese army, there will only be one end, and that is to be defeated by the Japanese army. "Don't worry, the division headquarters is not trying to pull us up, but wants us to station in Macheng immediately and replace
The garrison regiment serves as the guard of Macheng." Tang Cheng's next words made Niu Laogui and the others finally heave a sigh of relief.
Tang Cheng did not show the telegram to Niu Laogui and the others. He told Niu Laogui and the others that what he told Niu Laogui and the others was only a part of the telegram. The 88th Division judged that the Japanese army would attack Macheng, so he let Tang Cheng's Second Company take over instead of the garrison.
Macheng's defense. Compared with Sun Liansheng, the troublemaker, the 88th Division seems to have more faith in Tangcheng, who has experience in fighting the enemy. What's more, most of Tangcheng's second company are veterans who have fought with the Japanese army.
The 88th Division's message did not confirm that Japanese troops would attack Macheng, but a scout unit of the 88th Division found traces of Japanese troops crossing the direction of Macheng. The number of Japanese troops is not yet certain, but the 88th Division estimates that this
The number of people who joined the Japanese army would not be less than one Japanese squadron. Mengcheng was a painful place in Tangcheng's heart. Liu Yangyang died in Mengcheng, but Tangcheng never forgot Liu Yangyang's arrangements in Mengcheng. If
Without the arrangements Liu Yangyang made outside the city, Mengcheng might not have been able to defend it for even a day.
"Inform Lao Dongbei not to take care of the defense of the city gate, and ask him to lead his brothers to patrol the county. All those who have committed crimes will no longer be sent to jail, but will be taken to dig trenches outside the city. Tell him that no matter who they are, even if they are just criminals,
Even trivial matters as big as sesame seeds were brought to me to dig trenches." The city gate of Macheng could be seen in the distance. Tangcheng on horseback called Niu Laogui to give him a few words. The garrison alone obviously did not have enough manpower.
, Tangcheng not only had to go to the county magistrate Zhou Peilin to recruit civilian husbands, he also had to arrest people from the streets to make up for the shortage of manpower.
This order from Tangcheng caused a stir in Macheng. Laodongbei led the soldiers of the Second Company to scatter beans in the county. They first caught all the refugees and beggars in the city, and then began to rectify those
Idle people. Before the Huang family moved to Wuhan, they left all the food they couldn't take with them to Tang Cheng. When they returned to Macheng, Tang Cheng lived in the Huang family's house. The food they couldn't use was also taken away by Tang Cheng.
Orders were given to move outside the city, and those digging trenches could receive two meals of dry food a day.
"Company Commander Tang, are the Japanese about to attack?" County Magistrate Zhou Peilin is more scared than Sun Liansheng. He is just a county magistrate and belongs to the rank of civil servant. When it comes to war, Zhou Peilin is a complete layman. Zhou Peilin has never seen a war.
, he didn’t know how to fight, but his brain was not stupid. Tang Cheng’s subordinates captured people and sent them to dig trenches outside the city. This abnormal behavior attracted Zhou Peilin’s attention, and he had to come to Tang Cheng to ask for answers.
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"The 71st Army already engaged the Japanese at Fujin Mountain yesterday. The 88th Division asked me to temporarily take over the defense of Macheng. The trenches were dug just as a precaution. If the Japanese attack, at least we must have a position that we can rely on." Tangcheng.
I was surprised by Zhou Peilin's insight, but when Zhou Peilin arrived, I didn't have to go to the county government to find him. Anyway, he had to recruit civilians through Zhou Peilin to participate in trench excavation. Tangcheng simply didn't hide the contents of the 88th Division's telegram from Zhou Peilin.
Inform Zhou Peilin one by one.
"How good is this, how good is this." Zhou Peilin, who had never experienced a war, panicked. Although Macheng now has a garrison regiment and Tangcheng's second company, with a total strength of 800 people, Zhou Peilin is not optimistic about it.
Sun Liansheng's garrison. Excluding the more than 600 people in Sun Liansheng's strengthened garrison, the only people Macheng can actually rely on are the more than 140 people under Tang Cheng. Zhou Peilin does not think that these 140 people can withstand the Japanese attack.
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"County Magistrate Zhou, we are in a critical moment right now. Whether we can hold Macheng depends on the county government's support for the Second Company. If the defensive positions outside the city are completed earlier, the Second Company will have more hope of holding Macheng. There are 71
The army is here, so what are you worried about?" Tang Cheng's words reminded Zhou Peilin that the 71st Army is in Fujin Mountain. If Macheng is lost, Wuhan will be directly exposed to the Japanese army. The 71st Army will never sit back and watch Macheng fall.