In the early morning of the 19th, Kunlun Pass, a strategic location since ancient times, was filled with flames and shouts of killing.
The Fifth Army's attack near Kunlun Pass officially began.
The Fifth Army first bombarded Kunlun Pass with artillery, and then the Honorable First Division launched an attack.
Before the Fifth Army entered Guinan, it received firepower reinforcement from three artillery battalions, one of which was a 150mm heavy artillery.
The other two are the 75-caliber mountain artillery battalion and the 75-caliber field artillery battalion.
These artillery pieces became a powerful covering fire for the Fifth Army.
The 150mm heavy howitzer, the 75mm Bofors mountain gun, and the 75mm Type 38 field gun took turns to bombard various highlands of the Japanese Kunlun Pass defenders.
Before dawn, the area near Kunlun Pass was blown up like daylight.
This was a rare overwhelming advantage of the Chinese army over the Japanese army in terms of firepower.
The infantry of the 1st Rong Division launched a fierce attack on Luotang and other highland strongholds after the artillery fire stopped.
And all this has nothing to do with the New 22nd Division, Zhang Wei and his teaching brigade.
After the attack of the Honorable 1st Division began, the New 22nd Division, which had strengthened a mountain artillery company, began to detour back to the area south of Kunlun Pass.
Cutting off the Japanese army's retreat at Kunlun Pass, they searched and advanced along the Nanbin Highway.
The three main regiments of the New 22nd Division, excluding the division's supplementary regiment, were lined up along the Nanbin Highway, looking like a long snake formation.
They were personally commanded by Qiu Kuangzi, searching forward for tactical purposes.
In order to cut off the Japanese army's retreat.
When launching attacks on Batang, Wutang, Jiutang and other places, Zhang Wei's teaching brigade was at the forefront and became the vanguard of the entire division.
On the Nanbin Highway in the early morning, it was silent.
The fog had not completely dispersed.
All that could be heard was the bursts of gunfire coming from the direction of Kunlun Pass.
Zhang Wei was walking on the highway, surrounded by soldiers from the training brigade.
Zhang Wei Under the arrangement, three infantry squadrons formed It formed a triangular formation, with the No. 1 Squadron in front, the No. 2 and No. 3 Squadron in the rear, the fire squadron and the engineer platoon, and the lightly equipped baggage platoon sandwiched in the middle.
The entire brigade and the 65th Regiment behind were separated by seven or eight.
In the ground, the forward dispersed the skirmishers and searched forward.
"Is there any news later?"
Zhang Wei put down the telescope in his hand.
After confirming that there was no news, he asked the telegraph soldier beside him.
"Sir, no."
The speaker was a telegraph soldier carrying a radio on his back.
In order to facilitate communication, Crazy Qiu temporarily allocated a wireless telegraph to the teaching brigade.
The two telegraph operators were ready to communicate with the 65th Regiment behind him at any time.
Keep in touch, and contact the division headquarters when necessary.
The original battalion headquarters of the teaching brigade only had Zhang Wei and three signal soldiers.
All communications relied on shouting and all maneuvers relied on walking.
It was very troublesome to observe.
The teaching brigade is a battalion-level unit.
According to the current configuration of the national army, battalion-level units do not set up separate wired and wireless communication equipment.
Instead, the higher-level, regiment-level units help establish communication settings.
There was no regiment in the teaching brigade, so Crazy Qiu had to temporarily allocate a telegraph machine to Zhang Wei to strengthen his communication capabilities.
On the surrounding roads and in the fields on both sides of the roads, the soldiers of the First Squadron launched in a search and advance manner.
After several hours of marching, no Japanese troops were found so far.
Zhang Wei continued to lead the troops forward and started fighting at Kunlun Pass.
Since then, the teaching brigade has not fired a single shot.
But Zhang Wei never dared to take it lightly.
Once the Japanese army came for reinforcements, the scale would never be small, and it would be a fierce battle.
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"Okay, continue to maintain contact.
The communications corps asked Captain Qiu to strengthen the search," Zhang Wei said to his communications corps.
After putting away the telescope, Zhang Wei grasped the diagonal machine gun and rushed forward with the telegraph soldiers.
Zhang Wei planned to set the command position at the forefront, close to the front line, to facilitate command.
The unit for the forward search is Qiu Wei's No. 1 Squadron.
The brigade has a forward squadron, the squadron has a forward platoon, the platoon has a forward squad, a squad, and a forward corps.
The First Infantry Squadron has one platoon and one squad, which is the forward squad.
The first squad sergeant and deputy squad leader Yang Ming, the second-class private Zhao Lisan, and the first-class private Zhang Hai are a rifle combat group of one platoon and one squad, equipped with three Zhongzheng rifles.
Among the three, Yang Ming and Zhang Hai are veterans with combat experience, with the military ranks of sergeant and private respectively.
This is also the prerogative of the assault team, and veterans are given priority.
These three people are also the forward team of their class.
The distance between the forward team is not close.
The main purpose is to provide early warning.
The three people advance on the Nanbin Highway in a triangular formation that is standard in tactical training.
What was more astute was that these three people did not just stupidly walk along the road alone.
Instead, they walked side by side under the leadership of Sergeant Deputy Squad Leader Yang Ming, which reduced the chance of being discovered.
The longitudinal section of the road is roughly similar to a trapezoid.
The current road is not like the green belt road before Zhang Wei came.
The main road trunk is higher than the two sides, and both sides are full of unmaintained mud and soil.
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"Deputy squad leader, why do you let us go in front?
Isn't this harmful to others?"
Private Zhao Lisan said reluctantly, holding a Zhongzheng rifle.
His words revealed both slight dissatisfaction and carelessness.
"Stop talking nonsense."
There was a sound of a rifle butt hitting something, and before deputy squad leader Yang Ming could say anything, First Class Zhang Hai gave Zhao Lisan a rifle butt.
Zhao Lisan was a recruit recruited by the teaching brigade after arriving in Hunan, Hunan.
He turned out to be a hawker and was captured.
Compared with those captured peasant soldiers, they were all arrogant and talked a lot of nonsense.
He didn't want to complain at this juncture.
Soldiers who talked a lot of nonsense were the most annoying, let alone those who complained at this time.
As soon as Zhao Lisan finished talking, the butt of the gun hit him.
Deputy squad leader Yang Ming did not take action, but said in a low voice: "The vanguard of serving snacks to me takes turns.
Today you report to others, and tomorrow someone will risk their lives to protect you."
The three of them slowly searched forward along the road.
There was still scattered fog on the Nanbin Highway, so both Zhang Wei at the back, the main force of the brigade, and the front team were very careful.
"Wait for some movement."
First-class soldier Zhang Hai noticed something was wrong and stopped.
"On the road over there" Zhang Hai mouthed.
The three of them immediately lay down.
Zhang Hai pointed in the direction of the road.
He had just heard some sounds coming from the road.
Deputy squad leader Yang Ming did not dare to neglect.
He waved his hand and led the other two people up the slope beside the road.
The three of them were careful and did not dare to make any unnecessary noise.
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The Zhongzheng rifle was held in their hands, along with a kettle and so on. were tied up early.
In order to reduce noise, the three of them grabbed the soil with their hands and moved up the slope inch by inch.
Deputy squad leader Yang Ming climbed to the front and climbed up the slope.
He lightly kicked Zhang Hai.
Zhang Hai understood that this meant asking him to stop moving, so he dragged Private Zhao Lisan to stop and stood guard on the slope. .
Private Zhao Lisan, who had been complaining just now, turned green with fear and did not dare to speak out loud.
There was mist on the road now.
Yang Ming, the deputy squad leader, raised his head inch by inch at an extremely careful speed and exposed it to the roadside.
What caught his eyes were four Japanese soldiers, with vague figures in front of them.
These Japanese soldiers were also lightly armed and wore tight armed belts.
Based on his own experience, Yang Ming judged that this group of people, like them, were the vanguard of the search.
"Ding!"
Yang Ming was shocked.
There were four of them in front of him.
There were people behind and behind these four Japanese soldiers, which meant that the three of them were probably at a certain distance from the Japanese soldiers on the main road.
In other words, the Japanese army's vanguard is now behind them :
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