All of Mr. Peng's actions are unreasonable, and when they are gathered together, the Northeast Army is caught off guard, which is more exciting than common sense.

As three red signal flares rose into the sky, the earth suddenly trembled, and then a sound several times louder than thunder came from the sky, and countless shells fell like hail on this town, on the positions of the defenders of the Northeast Army, on those fortifications that were not strong, and on those shallow trenches......

The air wave formed by the explosion of the shells tossed the defenders one by one, destroyed the fortifications one by one, and the temporarily dug trenches were wiped out at the first time, they were even less conspicuous than the craters, and those craters more than one meter deep were safer than the trenches dug by the defenders, and the defenders were more reassured.

However, these reassurances could not save their lives, and before they could roll into the crater, the successive shells that fell down made their trembling bodies tremble with fear into pieces.

"The artillery fire of the communists and bandits is too fierce! It's too fierce! This is the wail of the commander of the garrison before he died, "It's not that I'm incompetent, it's that I've never seen such a fierce bombardment......"

The shelling lasted only fifteen minutes, but in the eyes of the defenders it was definitely a century long, and many people were not killed by the shells, but they were stunned by the loud sound of the shells and the powerful air waves, and many soldiers were even shocked to death, except for the bleeding from the mouth, nostrils, ears and eyes, there were no wounds to be seen.

Fifteen minutes later, there was no heavy artillery bombardment, but more mortars and infantry guns joined the roar, and these shells ploughed the defenders who were still sporadically counterattacking like old peasants.

Another ten minutes passed, and the Red Army finally rushed out in the midst of the defenders' thousand calls, but they did not rush out of the mountains and fields as the defenders imagined, but rushed out of the cols, woods, and ditches in threes and threes and twos at all, and did not use the charge to guide them to attack in a swarm, as the legend said, but they fought separately, making full use of the terrain and advancing without hurry, with mortars, infantry guns, and heavy machine guns behind them to cover, and they looked not in a hurry at all.

The attacking side is not in a hurry, the defenders can't wait, they can't wait not how to stop the Red Army, destroy the Red Army, but are in a hurry to surrender, they are afraid to surrender now, if they surrender in the smoke of gunpowder, the other party will not be able to see: you stand in the smoke with your hands raised, who knows if you have a gun, who knows if you are shooting at them?

Of course, this was only the idea of a few defenders, and most of the demoralized defenders still came up with a solution, which was to lift anything white, whether it was a shirt or underwear, whether it was a plank or a sheet, as long as the white one could be lifted and shaken, and at the same time they shouted in unison: "We surrender!" We surrender! ……”

In less than an hour, the town of Dongshuanghe changed hands, and even the prisoners were incorporated into the ranks of the Red Army without being escorted, and began to use the craters to start building trenches with the Red Army, waiting for the Northeast Army to come to the "rescue".

Indeed, less than five minutes after the battle began, the Northeast Army to the east and south of Dongshuanghe Town began to mobilize troops to support, and Miao Zhengliu, the commander of the 57th Group Army sitting in Xinyang City, also sent a division to come.

It's just that General Miao Zhengliu doesn't care whether there is one more division or one less division in Xinyang City, since the communists and bandits want to play, he will accompany them to play, and transfer a division over to destroy these feints and communists. He even wanted to use Dongshuanghe Town, a place of four wars, to consume the living forces of the communists and bandits, and deliberately abandoned Dongshuanghe Town to attract the communists and bandits to hold here, and then the Northeast Army wiped them out again and again, until the other party could no longer bear this kind of loss and retreated obediently.

It's just that his idea was not approved by his officers, and was also vetoed by his superiors, Zhang Xueliang, who saw that the Communists were not what they used to be, and they were definitely not the army that the army commander Miao Zhengliu thought in his heart, and that they could easily defeat the Central Army and defeat the Hunan Army, and that they were very strong in combat. If they occupy Dongshuanghe Town and the Northeast Army can't take it back, it will definitely be stealing chickens and rice, and handing over their own neck to the other party to chop.

Although the army commander Miao Zhengliu was very depressed, the colleagues and superiors around him were frightened by the communists and bandits, and they were very depressed that their brilliant plan had been put on the shelf: if the communists and bandits were really so powerful, if the communists and bandits were surrounded on three sides, no, it should be said that they were surrounded on all sides, and they did not collapse under the attack of the Northeast Army, which accounted for the absolute majority of the people, then what else would the Northeast Army fight? It's better to surrender directly, or just dismiss directly, and everyone go home to hug their wives and children.

Everyone knows that if the two armies are at war, there is always a ratio of the combat effectiveness of the two sides anyway, and the stronger side may have a greater ratio than the weak side, such as 2:1, 3:1, 5:1 or something, it is impossible for one side's combat effectiveness to be infinitely stronger, and one side's combat effectiveness is infinitely weaker, if the ratio really becomes 10:1 or even 20:1, then there is no need to fight at all, one soldier on the other side is against his own ten soldiers, and he still fights?

Now the 57th Army of the Northeast Army is 2.5:1 compared with the number of Peng Dehuai's Second Army, which is still the total number, if it is placed in the small place of Dongshuanghe Town, the army that Peng Dehuai can send cannot be compared with the army that the Northeast Army can send, because Peng Dehuai can only send troops to attack from the west along the rugged mountain road, while the Northeast Army can send large armies to attack from the east, south and north.

The greater advantage is that the Northeast Army can not only be sent from the 57th Group Army, not only from Xinyang City, but also from Fuyang, Xiaogan, Hefei and other places, its troops come from a very wide range of sources, and many troops can completely form a five, ten, or even twenty times superiority over the Red Army here in Dongshuanghe Town!

However, when the people below panicked and reported that Dongshuanghe Town had changed hands, and that the town had been taken by the Communists and bandits in less than an hour, the army commander Miao Zhengliu finally sweated on his forehead:

With such a fierce offensive, the communist bandits are not at all attacking the east and the west, but are completely a posture of closing the door and fighting dogs, and they want to completely annihilate the 57th Group Army, this is a lore!

Now the town of Gan'an in the north is occupied by the communists, and the town of Dongshuanghe in the south has been lost, and Xinyang City has suddenly become an isolated city. Not only did he break out in a cold sweat, but the other officers also panicked one by one, although everyone did not ask the sentence "what to do", the expressions on their faces were unmistakable.

Miao Zhengliu had to cheer up his subordinates, and after a short period of panic, he said with a smile: "Brothers, don't be nervous. Our 57th Army has more than 60,000 people, and they don't have such a good mouth to destroy us. Now that our Northeast Army has set out from Zhumadian, it will definitely recover the town of Gan'an in the north and will definitely open up our passage to the north. And we don't have to worry about the south, most of my 300,000 Northeast lions are concentrated in Nanjing, and there are hundreds of thousands of Northwest Army and Jin Army, how can they watch us trapped in the enemy's formation?

You will remember the strategy I put forward the other day, that is, to use Dongshuanghe Town as a meat grinder, to use the terrain there, to take advantage of our military superiority, to crush the Communists and bandits into powder again and again. Although General Zhang didn't agree with my plan, isn't it great that now the Communists-bandits have helped me realize it? This doesn't come as a surprise, does it? And the generals should be able to imagine that as long as the enemy and us have a fierce battle in Dongshuanghe Town, the Second Army facing Peng Bandit Dehuai will not only be our 57th Army, but will attract more fraternal troops to join, isn't it very good? Isn't it possible to avoid the fact that only our 57th Army will be consumed?

Therefore, don't be afraid, don't worry, the communist bandits taking away Dongshuanghe Town is a bad thing, but it is also a good thing. Perhaps this will also become a decisive battle between us and the communists, a decisive battle that will determine the future and destiny of the country, and brothers should be proud of it. If we win, then we will be able to sit in peace and the shame of our escape from the Northeast will be greatly reduced. Of course, if we fail, it will be the communists who will sit in the world. I, the old man, can know the significance of this battle, President Yan Xishan must also know, General Zhang will definitely know, and they will definitely not sit idly by.

Besides, to put it in my heart, even if we really fail, we have an army of 60,000, and we can't cover the retreat of a few of us? Can't let us go yet? Even if we swim, we can swim across the Huai River and swim across the Shi River, right? ”

I have to say that Miao Zhengliu, the army commander, is still very comforting, and by what he said, the panicked generals slowly calmed down and began to think about how to mobilize the army to recover Dongshuanghe Town.

Obviously, in their eyes, the division sent before was not enough to recover the town that had been taken by the Communists.

The division that was supposed to go to support the defenders was ordered by the army commander Miao Zhengliu to stop advancing, waiting for the arrival of the troops behind to attack together, and at the same time waiting for the troops from Xiaogan, Fuyang and other places to rush over. As long as the general has some ability, he knows that he can't engage in refueling tactics in a war, and in that case, the big losses will be on his own side.

Commander Miao of the 57th Army did not expect at all that his army had not attacked Dongshuanghe Town now, and would have no chance to attack in the future.

When Peng's troops occupied Dongshuanghe Town and cut off the 57th Army's way out of the south, Guo Zhuocheng's Third Army cooperated with Peng's Second Army to begin a general attack on the defenders of Xinyang, the 57th Army of the Northeast Army.

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