"General, look, this is a telegram from the 44th Division. Currently, the Pingyuan Army was launching a probing attack on them. Lu Yinglin estimated that the Pingyuan Army would soon launch their final attack. They definitely won't wait for us to arrive!”
The Chief of Staff of the Third Corps, Li Jue, handed a message to Wang Jingguo.
Wang Jingguo slowly picked up the message.
After a while, he said,"I've already expected this." That Han Ling only rashly launched an attack on Shanxi after we started the war with Jiang's army. This already shows that this person's vision is very unique!
If he doesn't take care of the 44th division now, I'll doubt his intelligence!
How is the 44th Division doing?”
Wang Jingguo put down the message in his hand and asked.
"The situation isn't too good. Their 1st regiment had already been taken down by the Pingyuan Army, while the 2nd and 3rd regiments each had a battalion that was sent out to support the 1st regiment.
Now, they had lost more than half of their combat personnel.
However, he could still resist the current situation. He just did not know what would happen next!”
Li Jue said worriedly.
It was not like he did not know the relationship between his commander and Lu Yinglin.
The entire Jinsui Army was very clear that this was not a secret.
"Losing more than half?"
Wang Jingguo's expression did not look too good.
It was not good news for an infantry division to lose more than half of its combat personnel.
"What did Officer Yan say?"
Wang Jingguo asked after thinking for a while.
"Officer Yan told us to hurry up and get to the Duan Castle as soon as possible. Hopefully, he could save the 44th division there!”
Li Jue looked at Wang Jingguo hesitantly.
"Officer Yan didn't say anything about sending reinforcements?”
Wang Jingguo sounded a little disappointed, but he also understood.
In the entire territory of Shanxi, it was not wrong to say that there were no soldiers, but it was not bad to say that there were soldiers.
In the entire territory of Shanxi, other than them and the remnants of the 44th Division, there was actually another unit in Shanxi.
None of the troops had ever left Taiyuan.
He was Yan Baichuan's Taiyuan garrison.
This unit had always been responsible for the safety of Taiyuan and had never left Taiyuan.
Yan Baichuan's guards were a reinforced division.
The entire division had five infantry regiments, one artillery regiment, one cavalry regiment, one pistol battalion, one logistics regiment, and so on. There were a total of twenty-six thousand people.
From the very beginning, Yan Baichuan had never sent out this troop.
Even in such a situation, Yan Baichuan had never thought of sending this unit out.
Wang Jingguo understood what Yan Baichuan meant.
Because this was the last force to defend Taiyuan.
If this unit was sent out separately and failed…
Finally, the power to defend Taiyuan would be lost.
Wang Jingguo had obviously thought of this relationship, but he had thought of it.
He was still a little dissatisfied with Yan Baichuan.
It would be good if you sent 61,000 troops to support the 44th Division.
As long as they could hold on until they returned, there would be no problem.
"Alright! Let's not talk about this. I still need to study the Pingyuan Army. We should be able to reach the Duan Castle around noon tomorrow. Let's study it again!"
Wang Jingguo threw all of this aside and stopped thinking about it. He continued to look down at the map on the table.
Li Jue couldn't help but sigh.
Then, he went to do his own things.
While Wang Jingguo was studying the Pingyuan Army…
In the Duan Clan Castle, Han Ling was commanding his troops to attack Lu Yinglin.
"The elite troops of the Jinsui Army are really different. They are equipped with many light and heavy machine guns! Judging from their firepower, the mortars were equipped to the battalion level! " Huang Kelin, go and tell the Heavy Artillery Regiment to release reconnaissance balloons and determine the firepower support points on the enemy's position. Get rid of the firepower support points on their position.
Also, tell the Sixth Regiment to launch a feint attack on the enemy.
The Heavy Artillery Regiment provided full support to the 2nd and 4th Regiment. He tore open a hole here and entered!”
"Yes, sir! Marshal!"
Huang Kelin immediately ran to pass on Han Ling's order.
Han Ling put down his binoculars, walked to the table and sat down. He took out a cigarette and slowly lit it.
She saw Wang Ming, who was extremely embarrassed and didn't know whether to stand or sit.
Wang Ming was no longer wearing the uniform of the Jinsui Army.
Instead, he was wearing a sky-blue military uniform, and the crest on his military cap was a blood-colored Chinese character.
"Sit! Why are you standing there? Don't have any psychological burden. I won't let you fight the Jinsui army!”
Han Ling said indifferently as he looked at Wang Ming.
"Thank you, Marshal!"
"En! Let's just watch!"
Pingyuan Army Heavy Artillery Regiment Position
"Target the enemy's fire support point!”
"Ruler 290!"
" Direction: 009 to the right!"
"High and low plus two!"
" reload! Activate the delay fuse!"
"Test fire!"
"Ready! Release!"
"Boom ~"
After the data from the reconnaissance balloon was corrected, the first round of the cannon was fired.
"Bang ~"
"Bang ~"
Dozens of artillery shells exploded on the Jinsui Army's two-to-three-mile-long position.
"All hit! All cannons, fire three shots at once!"
When the people on the scouting balloons reported that they had all hit the target, the commander below immediately gave the order to fire three shots at once.
One heavy artillery shell after another flew towards the Jinsui Army.
The 44th Division suffered heavy artillery fire on the entire front line.
The Pingyuan Infantry stopped attacking.
"Company commander! Our heavy artillery regiment is firing at them!”
Zhao Tiezhu was sprawled on the ground as a soldier crawled to his side.
"I know!"
Zhao Tiezhu spat out a mouthful of saliva and turned to look at the huge balloon rising in the sky behind him. He knew that this was the reconnaissance balloon of the artillery unit.
"Send a message to the artillery unit and ask them to cover our attack. We're now 300 meters away from the enemy's position. We'll take advantage of the heavy artillery's bombardment to push the distance to 150 meters in front of the enemy's position!”
Zhao Tiezhu gritted his teeth as he looked at the soil in front of him.
"What is it? Captain, a distance of 150 meters is too dangerous.
If we're not careful, the artillery troops might hurt our own people!”
When the soldier heard Zhao Tiezhu's words, he couldn't help but exclaim in shock.
"I know! The f * cking firepower of the Jinsui Army isn't weak either. If we don't take advantage of this period of time to press our troops forward, how many people will we have to sacrifice to cross this 150-meter distance after the bombardment?
Besides, didn't we also train in gunner coordination in the recruit training camp?
Although this is the first time we're using cannons, what are we afraid of?
The artillery of the Heavy Artillery Regiment is the elite of our Pingyuan Army. I believe in them!"
"Yes."
"But what? Carry out the order! If anything happens, I'll take responsibility!"
The soldier wanted to say something, but he was stopped by Zhao Tiezhu's glare.
Following that, Zhao Tiezhu led his men and began to slowly press down on the Jinsui Army's position.
When the other troops around them saw Zhao Tiezhu doing this, they immediately moved their troops forward.
"Master! The Pingyuan Army's heavy artillery is firing at our position in Duanjiabao Village. Should we let the Field Cannon Regiment counterattack as well?”
Li Mingding said as he held a piece of lightning in his hand.
"Counterattack? No! Our field artillery regiment only has 75mm field artillery.
Whether it was in terms of power or range, it was not enough to reach the Pingyuan Army's cannons.
If we rashly fire at their infantry, we must expose our cannon position.
We are in a critical situation right now. We can only use the Field Artillery Squad at the most critical moment!”
"Right! Send my pistol battalion there. I think they will attack us after this bombardment.
There would probably be a lot of casualties on the battlefield. There aren't many people there to begin with."
Lu Yinglin thought for a moment and said to Li Mingding.
Li Mingding did not refuse. He knew that their forces were very tight now. If they couldn't even block the front line, the pistol battalion left behind wouldn't be able to guarantee Lu Yinglin's safety.
"Which army is the one in front of us?”
Han Ling asked when he saw that one of the troops had actually taken the lead to charge towards the Jinsui Army's position.
"Reporting to the marshal! That was the direction of the 4th Regiment 1st Battalion's attack!”
Huang Kelin said expressionlessly.
"4th Regiment 1st Battalion? After this battle is over, find the commander of this unit for me. He was a seedling.
They dared to press so close on their first time using the coordinated artillery!”
Han Ling nodded.
After the Heavy Artillery Regiment stopped firing, Zhao Tiezhu immediately led his prepared company to charge towards the Jin Suijun camp.
As the bombardment had just stopped, many of the Jinsui Army had yet to react.
It was only when Zhao Tiezhu and the others were about 50 meters away from the Suijin Army that the Suijin Army finally reacted. They began to stand out of the trenches and fire bullets at the Pingyuan Army.
However, 50 meters was too close.
And the Pingyuan Army's overall firepower was much stronger than the Jinsui Army's.
The heavy firepower of the Jinsui Army had already been destroyed during the bombardment, so only sporadic gunshots could be heard.
For a speeding person, a distance of 50 meters could be covered in a few seconds.
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