Chapter 55: The Battle of Guantian
Unlike the hustle and bustle of the Minzhou troops, the mountain brigade is unusually quiet here.
If it weren't for the obstruction of the small hill, the Minzhou troops would have discovered the other party a long time ago.
Unlike Liu Taimeng, even if the headquarters is evacuated, there are still two reconnaissance platoons by Cao Xueyou's side. One is specially used to explore the road in front, and the other is staring at the movement in the direction of Lufeng in the back. Seeing that it was getting dark, I didn't see any troops coming.
Receiving the report, he asked the platoon to withdraw to Nagaoka. I don't say it, but I also feel that I am making a big fuss in my heart, like a bird with a bow. But I don't want to go back to Lufeng, after all, I feel safe behind my own army. After all, Liu Taimeng was fighting for the first time, and the brigade headquarters was still so lively and brilliant. Commander Cao was already looking forward to walking in front of the other party as a victor.
For a moment, he thought of giving the order for the Independence Regiment to advance westward, attacking on both sides at the same time. Seeing the darkening sky, I felt that it was better to leave the independent regiment there for the time being. Liu Taimeng's large army will definitely go from that direction, this is his own intuition for many years, as if his intuition has never been wrong.
In fact, it cannot be said that Jacky Cao's inference is wrong. When, the troops of the raid were all partial divisions. Deng Ai in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, commanded the troops to raid, didn't he lead 2,000 people to appear directly in the Chengdu Plain?
No matter when Liu Taimeng's large army arrived at the Huangtan River in Guantian, as long as the brigade headquarters was overcome, the exercise would be over.
At that moment, his phone rang.
Jacky Cao still thought a lot about this interception. He not only sent the independent regiment with the strongest firepower in the military headquarters, but also asked the deputy army commander Duan Mingqiang to come with the army. The head of the regiment, Zhang Weixing, is a hot-tempered person. It is a very interesting phenomenon that Cao Xueyou's military department is all gentle and elegant people, including Duan Mingqiang, the deputy commander of the current Linjiazhuang Outer Command.
"Commander Zhang, the soldiers have all entered the position, right?" Deputy Army Commander Duan saw Zhang Weixing walking into the temporary war room, staring at the map without raising his head.
"Deputy commander, don't worry, I've been patrolling the position a few times, no problem." Zhang Weixing said, picked up the thermos from the side, and poured a glass of boiling water.
"Head Zhang, something suddenly occurred to me," Duan Mingqiang's head finally raised.
It was a thin face with no smile.
"Deputy Commander, you say!" Zhang Weixing hurriedly put down the enamel jar. What he was most afraid of in the military department was this iron-faced and selfless deputy commander, and when he saw that face, his heart trembled. This is also the strength of Jacky Cao, a Zhang Weixing, who was overwhelmed by Duan Mingqiang, was so hot-tempered. For another person, even if Yang Zhengquan comes over, it may not be easy.
"Make a noise, the bigger the better!" Deputy Commander Duan saw that Regiment Commander Zhang wanted to speak, and then explained: "In this way, the other party will think that we are the main force." ”
As soon as Zhang Weixing set it up, he heard a lot of voices, and his rigid face was slightly soft, and the execution of the soldiers was still very strong. No, his brow furrowed, like the sound of running. Others heard it too. Everyone was immediately relieved, thinking that the people below really had a way to arrange people to run.
Actually, at this time, the people of the mountain brigade had just arrived.
It is also an omission that Liu Taimeng and the brigade bosses did not expect.
Sun Tzu said: "Soldiers, the major affairs of the country, the place of death and life, and the way of survival, must not be ignored."
We still have a long way to go.
If it was to be placed in the past, Rong Fusheng had already thought of it. The old man, who is nearly seventy years old, stands at the last shift. He was already tired as if he had nothing to do on the surface. Now I really want to lie down and sleep beautifully.
"Now let's start the table!" Liu Taimeng didn't even dare to turn on the flashlight, but fortunately, the luminous watch that had already been configured was all there: "Wu Gaofeng, take your troops and enter the position immediately." Fifteen minutes later, I'm going to see the battle begin on your side. ”
"Yes!" Commander Wu Gaofeng saluted and left with the troops without looking back.
"Zhong Tingci, Jin Baoquan!"
"Here!" Everyone's voices were kept as low as possible, and there was still a sonorous atmosphere.
"Fifteen minutes later, the fifth regiment started, and the first and second regiments immediately crossed the river with us and went straight to Linjiazhuang."
"Yes!"
Everybody, nepotism, everywhere. For example, Jin Baoquan is Jin Baohua's cousin.
"Ou Xujiang!"
Ou Xujiang, who had just brought two people back to look for the brigade headquarters, couldn't think of his own affairs. When they came back from wading, the lower half of their bodies were soaked when they crossed the river, and they had been scouting in front wearing heavy wet cotton pants. The brigade headquarters could not be contacted, but he was in a hurry. As soon as I came back from the other side of the river, I met people from the brigade headquarters. Liu Taimeng also asked them to change out of their wet pants and found a military coat for each of the three of them to put on.
"Here, Brigadier Commander!"
"The three of you are assigned, take us all the way to capture the enemy's regimental headquarters, and take three regiments and four regiments all the way to attack the enemy's rear road."
"Yes!" The answer was loud. But the movement of the Minzhou troops was too big and drowned.
"Zhang Youlu, Tian Chunhua!"
"Here!"
"After the first and second regiments have crossed the river, you will cross the river immediately. Get behind enemy lines and quickly get into battle! Remember, your battle is the key to victory or failure in this time! Liu Taimeng's palms were sweaty.
"Yes!"
Fifteen minutes, like a century.
"Papapapa" three signal flares rose into the sky in a row, and Wu Gaofeng's pistol had not yet been put down, and the ten mortars around him roared angrily.
"Let's go!" Liu Taimeng felt that the blood was boiling in his heart, and he took the lead in going down the river.
In winter, the water of the Huangtan River is only knee-deep. The water is not very current, and in the quiet of the night, you can still hear the sound of bubbling water. But a squad of fighters in a row, like dumplings, blocked the river. Jin Baoquan of the second regiment walked behind the most, and the water was up to his waist.
Outside Linjiazhuang, the war room of the independent regiment.
The noise of the soldiers outside was indeed not small, Duan Mingqiang shook his head.
"Deputy Commander, what's wrong?" Zhang Weixing thought that he had done something wrong again.
"The soldiers are so noisy that the common people can't sleep well," Duan Mingqiang's closed eyes opened: "Let people compensate tomorrow." No, now, immediately find a logistician to compensate the locals. ”
When Zhang Weixing came out, Duan Mingqiang also walked out of the war room.
The sky was still overcast and nothing could be seen. Only near the regiment headquarters, a flashlight from far and near, occasionally shines on this side, emitting a dazzling light.
He also knew that his personality was relatively cold, and he saw that Zhang Weixing, the head of the regiment, did everything himself. Duan Mingqiang knew it. The other party is not worried about his subordinates, but he doesn't want to stay with him.
Just thinking about it, Zhang Weixing had already returned and stood beside him. I didn't report to him, and everyone was used to the big grin style of the independent head of the regiment.
At this moment, a flare was spotted flashing in the sky two kilometers away.
"It's coming!"
"The enemy is coming!"
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
The task of the separate regiment was to intercept. If the target does not follow this path at all, then the operation will undoubtedly fail.
"Do you want to send a report to the military department right away?" Zhang Weixing originally wanted to give an order, but saw that Duan Mingqiang temporarily changed it to a question.
"Let's send it!" It was rare for the deputy commander to speak so softly.
"It's the sound of mortars!" Zhang Weixing gasped.
"What are you afraid of?" Duan Mingqiang disagreed: "Didn't our army also bring artillery?" More powerful than that. In the past, it was a siege artillery. This shows that the enemy on the opposite side is the main force. ”
Duan Mingqiang never expected that Liu Taimeng almost even emptied his own brigade headquarters. Except for the giant cannon that I didn't wear, I felt that it was inconvenient to move in the mountains, so all the other conventional weapons that should have been brought with me were brought over.
Zhang Weixing nodded again and again like a chicken pecking rice, secretly admiring the deputy commander in his heart. My personality seems to have been like this since I was a child, but fortunately, there is a deputy commander next to me.
"Since it's the main force, will our reserve force be sent, deputy commander?" Zhang Weixing participated in many wars against Taiwan, but never commanded independently. This time, I also mixed up with the second person of the partial division, and I felt a little proud in my heart. At the same time, he also secretly felt that Deputy Army Commander Duan was not as difficult to get along with as he imagined.
"Wait!" Duan Mingqiang was quite patient: "It's a big night, and they don't know the terrain when they come. It should be tomorrow morning when the fighting is at its most intense. At that time, it was not too late to send it out. However, it is estimated that our main force will also start to act at this time. ”
"Deputy commander, you are too right," Zhang Weixing smiled embarrassedly: "If you rush over, our regiment will become a tired division by then." Well, at that time, our main force had already been copied from the back bread. ”
He tilted his face slightly, and noticed that the deputy commander seemed to be smiling. wiped his eyes, and when he secretly looked at it again, it was still the same eternal face.
The gunfire was intense, and the voices of both men were quite loud. The rest of the staff officers and the battalion headquarters of the reserve battalion were a little further away from them. The deputy commander seems to have a tendency to reject people thousands of miles away, which makes people dare not get close.
"Let the comrades in the reserve camp rest," Duan Mingqiang's voice returned to coldness: "Otherwise, I won't be energetic tomorrow morning." ”
The guards were about to go down to carry out the order, and on the shore on this side, the sound of mortars sounded.
"Eh, why did the mortars come over here?" Zhang Weixing's eyes widened.
It seems that the person in front of him can only be a deputy at most. It's not a good fit. Duan Mingqiang sighed in his heart.
"The other party has already touched the river!" Duan Mingqiang sighed: "What do our reconnaissance troops eat?" ”
"Deputy commander, the reconnaissance company accompanying the army has captured a platoon of the other side, and it is currently on guard in the vicinity of Caikeng Village." Yang Tianhai, the political commissar of the regiment, came out to talk: "You know that the company is not under our jurisdiction. ”
"Deputy Commander, let's go up to our reserve camp. Otherwise, the army will not be able to hold out for long if it is attacked by the enemy on its belly and back. Zhang Weixing was quite anxious.
"Let the battalion send someone to act as a reconnaissance force, and find out the situation of the enemy army as quickly as possible!" Remember, ten minutes, I only give them ten minutes! Duan Mingqiang was very annoyed in his heart, and his voice was no different from his usual voice, which stabilized the morale of the army here to a certain extent.
Speaking of which, the mountain brigade, like the other side, is just a number in terms of reconnaissance troops. The combat effectiveness of this army is indeed not flattering.
The Minzhou troops had no choice, and all along, their combat object was the armed forces on Taiwan Island. How to scout? Enemy planes hovered overhead, and the fleet of the United States cruised in the strait. Don't let the reconnaissance unit swim in the sea to reconnoitre, if you send a ship over, you will definitely be attacked from the sea and the sky.
The mountain brigade is actually a little selfish on Xu Shiyou's part. The Beijing division agreed with him to establish a mountain brigade, but the position of the officer was given to a chief of staff. Others, including the platoon commanders of the grassroots companies, brought quite a few to the Huacheng Military Region. As the boss of the Huacheng Military Region, he was naturally dissatisfied and left it alone. In the entire army, the original Huacheng Military Region was in it, but there were only one or twenty people, and most of them were low-level officers. Even his own guard is just a deputy regiment commander. If it weren't for this military exercise, maybe he wouldn't have bothered to come and watch.
In fact, Wushan is proud enough. If you explore it a little bit, you can also form your own system. If you communicate with other troops, you will basically be able to improve the whole set of reconnaissance methods.
The reserve battalion rushed to carry out the order, less than three minutes. The shells were already whistling, hitting the command headquarters with three direct shots. The people in the command headquarters are all observing the battle situation outside with the deputy commander and the regiment commander. At this time, almost none of them were pulled, and all of them were "killed".
Duan Mingqiang had only one thought in his heart: "It's over!" ”
Immediately, he closed his eyes.
Immediately afterwards, the trumpets of the three places sounded in unison. The fighters of the reserve battalion were at a loss for what to do. Everywhere there was the sound of submachine guns, occasionally accompanied by the explosion of grenades.
Duan Mingqiang's eyes were kept closed, not wanting to see the miserable situation.
I don't know how long it took to go, about a minute or two? His face was illuminated by a flashlight. Deputy Army Commander Duan frowned slightly and opened his eyes.
"Is it Mingqiang?" A slightly familiar voice came.
He turned his head to avoid the light of the flashlight, which wasn't specifically aimed at him.
His eyes gradually adjusted: "Are you Brother Liu?" ”
"Isn't it!" Liu Taimeng was refreshed.
"Hey, there are still your big brother Chen and big brother Luo here." Luo Dongyang came up with a hippie smile.
Duan Mingqiang smiled bitterly: "In other words, your mountain brigade poured out?" ”
Then, Duan Mingqiang regained his confidence: "Next, you won't be able to win." Our main force is still four or five thousand more than yours! ”
Originally, the people of the Mountain Brigade were ecstatic, and this was the first big victory of the Eight Classics.
This scoop of cold water was splashed over, and everyone felt cold in their hearts.
"Humph!" Liu Taimeng instantly regained his self-confidence: "I don't believe that Jacky Cao doesn't divide the troops, I will eat up the troops as soon as I divide them, and swallow this army little by little!" ”