Chapter 692 Ace (Thanks to ‘Kitchen Fat Cat’ for the reward)
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The rooster crows at dawn.

When the chickens in Xin County crowed towards the rising sun, Xu Chaoyang turned his head and glanced out the window in the lighted headquarters.

Inside the house, Xu Chaoyang raised his wrist and glanced at his watch, which even had a crack on the watch glass. As others looked at him, he responded, “It’s almost five o’clock.”

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The man turned his head towards the direction of the snoring and said, “You have a big heart!”

He hadn’t slept all night, just like Xu Chaoyang, but what was Xu Chaoyang’s physique like? How could his body stay up all night? What about him? He curled up with his head down, and even developed a habit that had never existed in history: smoking. There were cigarette butts all over the floor under his feet, and his spirit was all supported by the cigarettes…

“Teacher, how about you take a nap too?”

This bad habit of his was developed by Xu Chaoyang. If Xu Chaoyang had not stuffed cigarettes in his mouth, he would not have smoked originally. Perhaps Xu Chaoyang’s behavior reminded him, and slowly, this habit was formed.

“I’m not sleepy…ah…”

After Xu Chaoyang said the three words “I’m not sleepy”, the teacher yawned involuntarily, but he understood this feeling.

Commanders of their generation all grew up on the battlefield. Even if they were extremely sleepy and couldn’t fall asleep in bed, as long as they closed their eyes, their minds would be full of predictions about the battlefield and the strategies they should prepare to deal with the enemy’s reactions. They would go over the entire plan in their minds over and over again until the end of the war.

“report!”

“News came from the New Second Regiment: Fanzhi has been taken!”

Xu Chaoyang hurried back to the map, raised his hand and stuck a small red flag on the map at the location of Fanshi, and then immediately said: “Order the 1st Cavalry Battalion to advance to Tuanchengkou!”

“Order the Sichuan Army to station in Fanzhi. The 45th Army will head to the foot of Hengshan Mountain and block the direction of Tiejialing. Build fortifications on the spot. As long as anyone comes from that direction, no matter if it’s civilians or Japanese invaders, even if it’s a fly, you can’t let me go!”

Xinkou, Ekou, Fanzhisi, Tuanchengkou, this is his marching route, what would happen if it was cut off?

“Yes!”

At this moment, a voice came from sleep: “In this season, where are the flies?”

Xu Chaoyang was amused. He looked at the person leaning on the chair beside him and responded, “How can you talk to someone while snoring?”

……

Fanzhi.

On the tower, the soldiers shouted: “Captain, it’s our armored unit!”

“What are you yelling about!”

Wang Tianhao was cursing at the people on the tower, and he mocked Hu Daben like his grandson…

“You can do it!”

“A reconnaissance company took down Fanzhi for me… Since you are so capable, why don’t you take down Tuanchengkou as well?”

He pointed his hand to the east and said, “Go ahead! Go ahead now!” As he spoke, he raised his leg and kicked Hu Daben’er’s butt hard, “Go ahead!”

“If you can’t beat me, I’ll kill you!”

Wang Tianhao was gasping for breath!
He led the New Second Regiment to attack the city gate, and had arranged for people to carry explosive packs and rush to the city gate, but in the end, the city gate opened…

Hu Daben’er was covered in blood. He stood alone at the city gate, shielding his eyes from the sun with his hands and looking up into the distance. Behind him, the wounded soldiers of the reconnaissance company followed him with their arms around each other’s shoulders, while the uninjured soldiers were either dragging or pulling carts to carry the bodies of the Japanese out.

But when Wang Tianhao came over with his men, without waiting for him to open his mouth to ask, Hu Daben saluted and said, “Report to the regiment commander, the reconnaissance company has exceeded its mission and completely wiped out the enemy’s frontier outpost in Fanshi, killing a total of 77 enemies!”

“Please give instructions!” Wang Tianhao looked at the remaining thirty or forty people behind Hu Daben and his lips trembled with anger!
You, Hu Daben, brought out a whole company, a whole company!

After one night, only thirty or forty people are left?

What about the others? Did you lose everything at the poker table?
Why did they ask you to open the city gate and wait for the whole regiment to arrive before launching the attack? Didn’t they know what was going on? Would a regiment attacking a squad and a company attacking a squad have the same effect?

Wang Tianhao followed Xu Chaoyang from the Northeast and fought his way out. He had learned a bloody lesson, but this Hu Daben joined the team only after Xifengkou. Since Xifengkou, Xu Chaoyang has changed and will never use human lives to exchange for results, but…

The examples of the old company’s failures were told over and over again in Yang Jingyu’s small classroom, but none of these kids took them to heart!

……

Gala la la la!
The armored troops of the 1st Cavalry Battalion galloped past the city of Fanzhisi. Behind the two Type 95 light tanks were four armored vehicles, raising a trail of dust. Feng Yaohe poked his head out from the top of the Type 95 light tank’s turret and waved at Wang Tianhao. Wang Tianhao took a glance at him, then turned his head away and glared at Hu Daben fiercely.

Feng Yaohe was still puzzled. He hadn’t offended the New Second Group… How could this…

“Captain, does Yin Jiayemei take you seriously?”

“Go away! Just drive your tank.”

Feng Yaohe got into the tank and cursed, then raised his hand to close the turret cover.

“This is the military. Whether they respect you or not is not something you can tell with words. You have to have a record of success. You don’t know shit!”

“Listen to me, you little brats. Once we get to Tuanchengkou, you’ll fight as hard as you can. As long as we fight well at Tuanchengkou, I don’t see who will dare to turn their backs on us.”

He also misunderstood.

Two Type 95 light tanks and four armored vehicles all loaded with ammunition moved forward and crossed Fanzhi in the smoke and dust. They had to rush to the foot of Lingshan Mountain to meet up with the Sichuan Army. The Sichuan Army coming out of Lingshan Mountain would follow them to attack the Tuanchengkou defense line. The mission of the 1st Cavalry Battalion this time was to act as the needle to pierce the defense line and then fill a gap for the Sichuan Army behind them.

By repeatedly infiltrating the same channel and burying more Sichuan troops into the gap, they gradually connected the entire defense line by relying on the Sichuan Army’s expansion ability, thus achieving the goal of breaking through the defense line.

It can be said that in the entire battle, the mechanized armored forces of the 1st Cavalry Battalion were the top priority!

They should be the troops with the highest hopes in the entire battle…

The 22nd Army Group, which they were going to meet, was a ragtag group of the Sichuan Army. Yes, you read that right, the Sichuan Army was a ragtag group of troops, and the 22nd Army Group was an even more ragtag group among ragtag groups.

Deng Xihou, commander of the 22nd Army Group of the Sichuan Army, has three armies under his command: the 41st Army, the 45th Army, and the 47th Army. It sounds very intimidating, and coupled with their impressive combat record in history, it makes people feel that this is a very powerful team. But in fact, it was only after Xu Chaoyang came into contact with them that he realized that this was all nonsense.

The deputy commander of the 22nd Army Group is Wang (Sun) Zhen (I don’t know why, my real name is always blocked, so I changed it). He is also the commander of the 41st Army. In addition, the 41st Army has the 122nd and 124th Divisions under its command. The commander of the 122nd Division is Wang Mingzhang, and the commander of the 124th Division is still Wang Zhen!
In other words, Wang Zhen was both the deputy corps commander and the commander of the 22st Army of the 41nd Group Army, as well as the commander of the 41th Division of the 124st Army. The 124th Division had only one 370th Brigade under its command, which contained two regiments, the 739th and 740th.

Then why are they said to be the worst of the worst?

First of all, the 22nd Army had no cavalry or artillery. The division’s security force had only one pistol company and the communications force had only one communications company. Even Xu Chaoyang was protected by a guard battalion, and their division headquarters only had one company.

Secondly, this unit has to be at the regimental level to be equipped with a ‘mortar’ company, yes a company! A battalion can find a few machine guns. It is normal for a company to have no machine guns, but their people are not all idle, at least there is a… stretcher platoon.

Finally, what caused the 22nd Army to be in such a predicament was the chaotic distribution of forces in Sichuan. The main transportation routes were cut into pieces due to the complexity of the forces. Even if you bought the weapons, you didn’t know who would snatch them away. Then who would buy them?
More importantly, this unit has no baggage troops or military stations at the army and division level, so transportation and assembly are a problem. You are not a regiment, you are the 22nd Army Group!

Next, let’s talk about the weapons and equipment of the 22nd Army… When Xu Chaoyang observed this unit up close for the first time, it was unbearable!
After all, his old company started with the Liao 13-style army, Sichuan Army?
Okay!

A whole DIY workshop trade fair!
You can see all kinds of weird hand-rubbed weapons here. Xu Chaoyang has seen an antique gun with a thick muzzle and a very British-style percussion cap on the gun body in this unit. With the types of weapons they use, they can’t equip them with bayonets even if you give them bayonets. Otherwise, how can they be equipped with broadswords collectively?
In this unit, the rifles made in Hanyang and Chengdu have reached their peak…

In this case, can Xu Chaoyang not give priority to the Sichuan Army in allocating the H34Y from the arsenal? They are almost out of food!
Feng Yaohe was going to Lingshan to pick up this troop, which was said to be the trump card of the Sichuan Army… well, the trump card…

(End of this chapter)