War of Resistance: Glory of the Beasts

Chapter 235: Big sword, big sword, snow dancing in the wind!
"Get off, get off, everyone get off!"

Qianxi County seat, train station.

After speeding day and night, the train finally arrived at Qianxi County Station, 40 kilometers north of Xifengkou. The soldiers of the 29th Army, who were in the station, jumped off the train, rubbing their eyes.

They arrived at Qianxi County at 02:30 in the morning. They were only halfway through their sleep when they were called up. It was extremely uncomfortable.

But this is the fate of a soldier. The order given to the 29th Army is to defend the Great Wall from Lengkou in the east to Malanyu in the west...

"217rd Regiment!"

"Where is the 217th Regiment intercepting the carriage?"

A messenger kept shouting at the station where soldiers from the 29th Army were everywhere. Wang Changhai heard the shouting and raised his hand in response: "The 217th Regiment is here!"

The messenger squeezed through the crowd, stood next to Wang Changhai and said, "Brigade Zhao wants all the regiment leaders to have a meeting at the station."

"What? Why can't they even let me breathe? Can you at least find a place for my brothers to sleep for the rest of the night?"

"My Wang Tuan, there is no time for that now!"

Wang Changhai felt that something was wrong, so he turned around and said, "Chaoyang!" without asking any more questions.

"Prepare your troops!"

Several staff officers of the 217th Regiment were stunned. They stared blankly at the deputy regiment commander, who simply turned his head away.

What's the point of looking at him? He is the deputy commander of the regiment, but can Xu Chaoyang's military exploits be suppressed by a commander who is half a level higher? He is a person who is not afraid of even the old man Song Zheyuan, and he is the chief instructor of the entire regiment!
Chang Zhan then came to Xu Chaoyang and asked in the chaotic crowd: "Chaoyang, why don't you cut it off again? What happened in there?"

"How would I know!"

How could Xu Chaoyang not know? He knew it too well, but now was not the time to tell it, otherwise it would be too scary.

"Chaoyang, something's wrong. Why is our camp so chaotic today?"

"We can't just ignore these bastards... You prepare the entire regiment first, and I'll help these bastards with their tendons and bones."

Chang Zhan woke up in the middle of the night and was a little bit unclear, so he didn't react. He didn't even notice that the first battalion was now missing a crucial person, Yang Jingyu, who would follow every soldier and chatter endlessly during every migration and march.

How can it not be chaotic?
Many soldiers felt awkward after getting off the vehicle, as if an old ox that was used to plowing the fields had suddenly had its nose ring loosened, and they were a little at a loss for a moment.

However, the good training habits that the 217th Regiment had developed under Xu Chaoyang's training for a long time made them stand out in the entire station very quickly. While the soldiers of the entire Zhao Brigade were in disarray, the 217th Regiment had already been divided into three battalions and lined up in a "品" shape;
After the regiment commanders received their respective tasks in the station, the only place in the station where there was no noise was the 217th Regiment. All the soldiers stood in a row with their guns in hand. Next to them were ten dark, cold artillery pieces that shone brightly under the street lights, and a row of ammunition boxes flush with the wall. The regiment commanders looked at each other. Wang Changhai had a beautiful face. He stood there with a smile on his face, lit a cigarette for himself, and smoked it alone without even asking to move to the side...

"cut!"

"grass!"

Although those regiment leaders still expressed their unwillingness, they started cursing when they returned to the assembly point, and some even raised their hands to hit people. The whole station was filled with the howling of ghosts and wolves.

They proved with actual actions that the soldiers under their command were inferior to those of the 217th Regiment, no matter how much resentment they showed on their faces.

Wang Changhai walked to the formation in the shape of a Chinese character "品" and suppressed the smile on his face, because he had suffered a loss, and it was a loss that could not be heard!
Just now, when assigning tasks, because the equipment of the 217th Regiment was much better than that of other troops, Brigade Commander Zhao directly assigned the most difficult task of the entire brigade, which was to recapture the northeastern heights of Xifengkou!

Yes, the mission of the 217th Regiment was not to hold a position after being assigned it, but to recapture the Northeastern Heights while replacing the 683rd Regiment in guarding Xifengkou, because the 53rd Regiment of the 129th Division of the 683rd Army, which had previously assisted in the defense of Xifengkou, had lost the Northeastern Heights of Xifengkou through their stable performance!
The 14th Brigade of the 217th Division of the Japanese Army fought its way from Lama Cave to the front battlefield north of Xifengkou, facing the 53rd Regiment of the 129th Division of the 683rd Army before the arrival of the th Regiment. This was Wan Fulin's unit, the old unit that Chang Zhan had been thinking about.

But when the two sides fought, the Japanese army only used one battalion to defeat a regiment!
Xifengkou is an important pass in the eastern section of the Yanshan Mountains in the northern part of North China. It is the throat of northern Hebei. The terrain here is dangerous, with two gates and two high grounds on the left and right. The high ground on the right is located in the northeast direction, so it is also called the Northeast Highlands.

The Great Wall was built on it, connecting the two gates to form a pass. One kilometer south of the west gate is the pass city. Due to the construction of the Panjiakou Reservoir, the pass is now sunk into the reservoir area of ​​the Panjiakou Reservoir.

This place is easy to defend but difficult to attack. If it is defended properly, it would be impossible for the Japanese to capture the Northeast Highlands so easily unless they sent planes to drop bombs on it.

But how many Japanese troops did they send out?

A brigade!
One battalion captured the high ground guarded by a regiment of the 129rd Regiment of the 683th Division... This lawsuit would be lost no matter where the case was fought.

In other words, the situation in Xifengkou is now so critical that unless the 217th Regiment does not rush to provide assistance overnight, perhaps after sunrise tomorrow, news of the fall of Xifengkou will be heard!

Therefore, the 217th Regiment not only had no time to rest, but also had to travel a long distance and quickly rush to Xifengkou to garrison; that was not all, even if the 217th Regiment arrived at Xifengkou, it would still face the Japanese army's dominant offensive in the Northeast Highlands.

In other words, even if the Japanese went crazy and watched your 217th Regiment enter the garrison without attacking you, the 217th Regiment would still have to endure the situation where someone was watching you every day.

Just imagine that the Japanese soldiers were looking at you with the same eyes as they were looking at a beautiful young lady, and they lived upstairs from your house. Every day, even when you went to the balcony to hang clothes, you had to worry about whether anyone was secretly looking at you. How disgusting would your life be?
"Chaoyang, what do you think is the best way for us to guard Xifengkou when we get there?"

At the moment when the troops were packing up their equipment and preparing to set off, Wang Changhai actually asked Xu Chaoyang for his opinion for the first time. When they first met, Xu Chaoyang was just a company commander. If Wang Changhai had not seen his cleverness in the Rehe battle, what happened today would never have happened.

"Shou Xifengkou?"

Xu Chaoyang knew too well the course of history, and too well every story that happened after the 29th Regiment of the 217th Army Zhao Brigade entered Xifengkou. Otherwise, how could there be the legend of the broadsword in Xifengkou? How could there be the phrase "broadsword, broadsword, dancing in the snow and blowing in the wind" in Xifengkou?
"Hahahahahaha!" Wang Changhai laughed.

This time, the two of them thought of the same thing. As long as the 217th Regiment moved their equipment to Xifengkou, the legend of the broadsword would probably be gone, but the dance of snow and wind would definitely be changed to 'blood dance and madness'!
(End of this chapter)