A Dream of Jinling Chapter 328 Retreat (5)

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Ma Xiaoming doesn't like to scold, which doesn't mean that Ma Xiaoming doesn't have the urge to scold. The tables of the first and second battalions made Ma Xiaoming question in his heart how Hu Xingzhi, the regiment commander who was in the military hospital, built this army.

"The third battalion has begun to attack!" The political commissar in charge of the command breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the news, and it seemed that he was not satisfied with the appearance of the troops either.

"I'll go to the third camp and have a look." Ma Xiaoming said a word to the political commissar of the regiment and walked out of the headquarters with the guards.

The field command is probably the same model, a position suitable for defense and close to the front line is under the upper guard troops, pull a few ropes and pull up a camouflage canvas, and the regimental headquarters begins to operate under the canvas. Before the motorization of the troops, the regimental headquarters was like this. After the motorization, the smell of gasoline in the air at the regimental headquarters became stronger. The gasoline-smelling motorcycles were parked not far from the regimental headquarters, ready to transport the communicators and other military personnel.

Replaying the battle he saw like a movie in his mind, Ma Xiaoming subconsciously tightened his face. With the help of the Air Force, reconnaissance work is much easier. The southward enemy, numbering about 2,000, had departed from the general direction of the United States from west to east, and turned from north to south, apparently trying to avoid Duluth, which had been occupied by the Liberation Army, and find a way to escape from the south.

The 2nd Regiment collided head-on with the Yankees from south to north, with the 1st Battalion blocking the enemy head-on, and the 2nd Battalion and 3rd Battalion outflanking them. After seeing the table of the first battalion, Ma Xiaoming decided not to look at it anymore, but to go to the third battalion where the battle began.

The three-wheeled motorcycle drove along the relatively smooth river, and just past a raised rock, I saw trucks parked behind the rock. The garrison is laying barbed wire and arranging positions against the mountainous terrain. After getting off the motorcycle, Ma Xiaoming went up to the mountain rock to look down, the barbed wire fence was in front of the mountain rock, and a rather echelon defensive position was set up above the mountain rock. Although there were only two platoons of troops defending here, Ma Xiaoming firmly believed that with his command ability, the enemy would only carry out a surprise attack when the light was bad, otherwise he would not be able to break through this defensive position at all.

Moving on, the defensive positions of the 3rd Battalion were set up very in line with the terrain, with a small number of troops and a large amount of equipment to form a position that the enemy needed to break through with heavy troops and a considerable period of time. Ma Xiaoming's evaluation of Hu Xingzhi has turned higher, and it seems that Hu Xingzhi is not without capable people in his hands.

Further on, the terrain has reached the point where motorcycles are impassable, and this is where the battle is most intense. Ma Xiaoming went straight to the front line with the guards, and a battalion of the 24th Army had five companies under its jurisdiction, and the heavy equipment of these five companies was not all complete, the troops had been replenished, and the infantry weapons were also very neat.

Ma Xiaoming could see that two companies had been arranged on the front of the third battalion, and at this time, there were only two companies in the position commanded by the commander of the third battalion. This is quite different from the mode of operation of the other two battalions.

The appearance of the battalion commander Wei Jianjun was quite impressive in Ma Xiaoming's mind, and the new battalion commander had a long gauze on his face, and it seemed that he was not lightly injured. Regarding Wei Jianjun's extremely brief answer, Ma Xiaoming didn't care. It's too much to ask for a person with a wounded face to speak at length.

Wei Jianjun's orders were concise and clear, and the troops were launching an offensive on two high grounds. All the field artillery, mortars, and heavy machine guns in the battalion were providing fire support to the attacking troops. Ma Xiaoming looked up at the sky that was about to enter the evening, and then at the smoke from the cannonballs rising from the two high grounds. He didn't say anything, just calmly looked at the battle command of the battalion commander Wei Jianjun.

West Virginia was a predominantly mountainous region, and at the time of the Civil War, Virginia was not yet divided, and the state government immediately joined the Confederacy. However, the mountains of West Virginia were not suitable for slavery, and the counties were dominated by yeoman farmers. The local forces in these counties immediately declared their secession from Virginia and joined the Northern Union. A war led to the division of Virginia, which is why General Lee said bitterly, "I have to draw my sword against my fellow Virginia."

More than 20 years have passed since the Civil War, and those old grievances have had limited impact on the current war. At least when the commander of the West Virginia Confederate forces faced the squadron, there was no thought of the Civil War in his mind at all. His biggest feeling is that he "has to hold on and wait for help".

In the morning, when this unit was advancing westward, it learned that there was a squadron blocking the way in front. Minnesota, known as the Land of a Thousand Lakes, is a beautiful place to visit, with fish in the lake and deer on the shore. But Minnesota's northern defense line is mountainous, and the fish in the lake and the shore road can be used as an occasional food supplement, but not as a steady source of food.

The Union troops in West Virginia retreated relatively late, and the towns along the way had already been ravaged by the retreating Union troops of the previous states. The grain that could be "forcibly expropriated" was scraped clean several times, and the sisters were also plagued by the state troops and did not dare to show their heads. As for the taverns in the towns along the way, the Commander found them empty and in a mess when he entered.

Food was scarce, and the Commonwealth of West Virginia commander could not get food from other troops, so he decided to lead his troops south. If you nest with other troops, you can only get hungry and hungry.

However, not long after the troops moved south, they were attacked head-on by the Chinese Yankees who suddenly appeared. The Chinese encircled with great speed. The other Chinese Yankees on the flat map are calmly deploying their forces, and those who are in the more variable terrain are frantically seizing the commanding heights.

West Virginia is mountainous and even though there has been no war in many years, the local-born federal forces have a practice-based understanding of mountain warfare, and the commander knows that if he wants to hold out until reinforcements arrive, he will have to fight the Yankees for control of two key heights. The Chinese moved far faster than the US Federal Army, and the Chinese came so suddenly that the commanders of the Federal Army always felt that China was far-sighted. From the point of view of the Federal Army, since it is very likely to fall into the trap of the Chinese, if the Chinese are allowed to erect crane guns on the high ground that threatens the retreat of the Federal Army, the military operation of the Federal Army will face a complete collapse.

"Onward! Advance! For the Commonwealth, for our West Virginia! Advance! The mid-level commander of the Federal Army ordered the standard-bearers to wave the Union Army flag and the state flag in an attempt to inspire the soldiers to fight.

"Soldiers, what you have before you is the enemy of the whites, before you the enemies of the Church, before you are the wicked infidels, before you are the believers of the devil, before you are the enemies of Christ!" The chaplains shouted at the top of their voices. Priests have held meetings these days, and there is a general tendency for priests to follow jihadist routines when it comes to war propaganda. The three Semitic cults are actually similar, and the best one is to make the end of the world. The more absolute the ending, the more it can incite absolute emotion, and in the agitation of battle, the impulse of emotion that is so impulsive that it loses its rationality is far better than calm and delicate rational thinking.

Hearing about their hometown and the familiar story of God, those big-headed soldiers did feel that their acceptance of battle was much higher. They either felt the cross they were carrying, or made a cross on their chest, then picked up their rifles and headed straight for the high ground under the impetus of the officer.

The Union Army in West Virginia has more than 2,000 people, and the commander did not recklessly put all his forces into the military operation to conquer the high ground, more than half of the troops are barely maintaining the front at this time, about more than 30 percent, that is, more than 600 people and the squadron are fighting for the high ground.

"The faith of Christianity will be reduced to ......armor," the priests said to the group of Union troops who had pounced on the battle lines, a prayer that had been repeated by the old-timers for more than a thousand years.

"Hallelujah! Alleluia! There are also some well-voiced priests who chant more emotionally charged words to the Union soldiers with weapons. If it weren't for the choir at this time, I think the priests would probably have sung the "Hallelujah" from the Messiah, which is a classic piece that has been preserved in religious settings.

The U.S. Federal Army is trying its best to improve its combat effectiveness here, and the Liberation Army is not so fancy. The Yankees have an advantage in military strength, and they also have an advantage in terrain. They were faced with a gentle slope, and the Liberation Army was a steep slope. Without the availability of aviation maps, it would have been difficult for an infantry commander to have the idea of taking the difficult road to seize the high ground by walking only from the ground. But now the Liberation Army is also difficult to ride a tiger, and there is no way to do anything other than to win with the enemy. Once the Yankees captured these two heights, they would be able to construct a defensive position. What is good for the enemy is bound to be bad for us, and there is no other way but to win.

The Chinese fought more by reason, so the Chinese infantry kept their mouths shut and followed behind the junior officers. How the platoon commanders and squad leaders climbed those difficult places, the soldiers also climbed the same way. In the gap between the enemy's bullets, the platoon commander and squad leader jumped out of the stealth and flashed to the next stealth place in the advance as fast as they could. Soldiers will also learn from the officers to grasp the frequency of the enemy's firing rhythm, and in about the same time, under the orders of the platoon commander or squad leader, expose their body to the enemy's guns in the shortest possible time.

The distance between the infantry on both sides is getting closer and closer, and although Ma Xiaoming did not see the Yankees' infantry, he could see that the infantry of the Liberation Army was approaching the key commanding heights of the high ground. The follow-up troops also carried heavy machine guns to the high ground with the greatest force, and as long as the soldiers in front of them controlled the vital points, the soldiers carrying heavy machine guns could safely move to the high ground. So until the final decisive situation is reached, the Heavy can only wait in relatively safe positions. The reason why it could not move forward was very realistic, if the enemy had taken the high ground first, these heavy machine guns would have to fire heavily at the enemy and help the troops launch a battle to seize the high ground.

Ma Xiaoming has not seen such a classic infantry highland capture battle for a long time, in fact, the highest proportion of the battle to seize the high ground that Ma Xiaoming has seen in his life is a drill. In the battles that swept across the West Coast of the United States, most of the troops were street battles or battles fought against houses in rural areas.

So Ma Xiaoming, the division commander, watched the battle without saying a word, this Wei Jianjun battalion commander was a political cadre before, and Ma Xiaoming knew this very well. Political work cadres are by no means synonymous with incompetence in the Liberation Army, but it is also a matter of many years that political work cadres have not personally led the troops to charge into battle.

Finally, the soldiers of the Liberation Army trembled, and then fell backwards. The soldiers who had fought on the battlefield naturally couldn't see clearly where those soldiers were injured hundreds of meters away, but they were shot and fell to the ground or accidentally slipped and fell, but they could be seen at a glance. It seems that the enemy and the Liberation Army have occupied a part of the high ground and are firing at each other in the mountains!

Less than ten minutes later, the phone rang. The battalion staff officer picked up the phone and said a few words, and then handed the phone to Wei Jianjun, "Battalion commander, the call from the fifth company on the mountain." ”

"I'm Wei Jianjun." Wei Jianjun's voice sounded extremely indifferent, which was the effect of his expressionless face and the way he used to guide the pronunciation of the cheek wound as little as possible.

After listening to a few words, Wei Jianjun still asked in this super indifferent tone: "The number of enemies is two or three times that of yours?" Have their main forces gone to the high ground? ”

Ma Xiaoming listened quietly, and he even calmly took out a cigarette and lit it. Such a cold voice not only did not disappoint Ma Xiaoming to Wei Jianjun, but also greatly increased Ma Xiaoming's confidence in Wei Jianjun. Ma Xiaoming raised his head, from the perspective of the Guangfu Army, the road leading to that high ground was very rough, and the telephone operator pulled the wire and ran to the high ground to establish a communication line, which was really intolerable.

"A large force of the enemy is also beginning to attack?" Wei Jianjun's tone sounded as cold as accusing him of not having enough meat in dinner, "You guys resist." Reinforcements will leave immediately. ”

Putting down the phone, Wei Jianjun said to the staff officer: "Let the third company go with me!" ”

After speaking, Wei Jianjun picked up the rifle from the gun rack at the headquarters, turned his head to Ma Xiaoming and said, "Division commander, I'll go to the front line." ”

“…… Be careful! Ma Xiaoming can only say this sentence.

Wei Jianjun's figure quickly blended into the attacking troops, and this force did not follow the route opened up by the troops in front of them and went straight to the high ground, but went around in a farther direction. Ma Xiaoming's eyes narrowed slightly, this Wei Jianjun is really interesting. First of all, they took military action to seize the high ground, attracting the enemy's main force to move towards the high ground. When the enemy's main force was fighting for the Liberation Army, Wei Jianjun led his troops to outflank him from the flank and rear. Such a tactic is very ordinary, but being able to use a very ordinary tactic in a suitable situation is a demonstration of the commander's ability.