Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Beginning of the War in the North (2)
The red flag in his hand fell, a sudden sound came out, and the mortars quickly finished the two boxes of shells next to them and then disassembled and reloaded the truck.
Tanks and armored vehicles were in front of the trucks in the rear, and two companies of cavalry followed. From a distance, I saw a wasp-like cavalryman rushing towards him with a horse pistol in his mouth.
Machine guns on tanks and armored vehicles burst out of fire chains to harvest the cavalry, and armored vehicles were like hedgehogs, and gunfire rang out from time to time from each shooting hole. A charge that had just been tangled up by the 28th Cavalry Division collapsed.
Two cavalry companies gathered up the rout under the cover of two armored vehicles, and Gao Jinchang shouted on the radio: "The tank is in front, the armored car is in the back, and the truck is left behind to assault the headquarters of the 28th Division." ”
The tank crashed into the earthen walls and houses outside the town, turning the turret and firing into the center of the town. Houses were torn down by tanks and armored vehicles, the 28th Cavalry Division was beaten and blinded, and there were soldiers on their knees with their hands raised.
The horn of the armored car behind kept shouting: "Throw away your weapons, raise your hands, and line up outside the town." The man with the weapon was immediately killed. ”
Under the threat of tank artillery, groups of Feng troops raised their hands and lined up in the fields outside the town to accept the surrender.
The 28th Cavalry Division of Jilin was nominally a cavalry division, but in fact it consisted of only two cavalry brigades and three infantry brigades, with six or seven thousand men and horses. Gao Jinchang did not meet with the commander of the 28th Division who surrendered, and sent a telegram to Wu Peifu and Hu Wenkai in the command vehicle to annihilate the 28th Cavalry Division in Jilin, asking Wu Peifu to send men and horses to accept prisoners of war as soon as possible.
Wu Peifu replied quickly, and the two cavalry regiments would arrive in two hours under the command of Gao Jinchang, and a battalion of men and horses would stay behind to contain the prisoners of war.
Gao Jinchang commanded the special forces to check the headquarters of the 28th Division, but the speed at which the troops advanced was too fast, and the radio station in the communication room of the 28th Division was still on state. Wang Xiaojun took the transmitter and pressed him on the chair and pointed at his head with M1911 and said: "Send a report to Xu Lanzhou, commander of your cavalry group, encountering harassment by a small group of direct troops, our department has defeated a regiment of direct army and is expanding its results. Also asked about the location of the 27th Division. ”
The dispatcher sent out the telegram under the supervision of Wang Xiaojun, and soon received a telegram from Xu Lanzhou to commend the 28th Cavalry Division for defeating a regiment of the direct army, and the 27th Division was attacking Niutou Town southeast of Yongqing and Gu'an, and asked the 28th Division to immediately turn to Niutou Town to assist the 27th Division after clearing the remnants of the enemy.
Gao Jinchang and Sun Xiaolan glanced at each other, then looked at the map on the wall and drew with a pen.
"Brother Xiaolan is 50 kilometers away, and we can go around to the back of the 27th Division."
"Wait a minute, wait for two cavalry regiments to come up." Sun Xiaolan said smoking a cigarette.
The sweepers still had a harvest, a hundred small yellow croakers and thirty boxes of silver dollars were found and loaded onto trucks.
Just after ten o'clock, two cavalry regiments arrived, and Sun Xiaolan was impressed by the discipline of the direct army, and he didn't even look at the mountains of weapons and equipment, and the two regiment commanders ran directly to accept the order.
Gao Jinchang said to the infantry battalion commander who stayed behind: "You can send a cavalry company to transport the meat and vegetables from here to us in Cangzhou, and let them cook a good meal over there and wait for us to go back and eat at night." ”
The soldiers were very fast, and Gao Jinchang immediately planned the marching route and let the two cavalry regiments clear the barricades in front, and the heavily armored regiment was delayed.
The road is high and uneven, and the armored car is like driving in the rough sea, swaying from front to back, left and right, Sun Xiaolan shamefully spit out the meal he just ate in a paper bag, holding the ring in front of him and panting, but it is much better than yesterday.
There are still ten kilometers away from Niutou Town, and he heard the fierce sound of heavy artillery coming from that direction, Gao Jinchang asked Sun Xiaolan on the walkie-talkie how long it would take for the heavy artillery to turn around and aim at the firing unit, Sun Xiaolan scolded You are testing me, at least 10 minutes. Gao Jinchang said that we should go straight to the heavy artillery position, and Gao Jinchang shouted on the walkie-talkie to increase the speed to 45 yards and go straight to the heavy artillery position of the Feng army.
Sun Xiaolan grabbed the ring with both hands, and the body began to sway sharply. The cavalry of the two regiments behind had fallen behind the heavily armored regiment, and the dust raised made the cavalry cry bitterly.
Gao Jinchang sent a report to Wu Peifu's heavy armored regiment that had penetrated directly into the rear of the 27th Division and heavy artillery positions of the Feng Army, and it was estimated that it would be able to break through the opponent's defense line in one hour.
Sun Xiaolan was thinking about how this battle was fought as smoothly as telling a story, and remembered that Hu Wenkai said that advanced weapons must be accompanied by advanced combat concepts. The heavy armored regiment is a mountain-opening axe, as long as it tears a hole, the opponent's defense line will inevitably collapse. The Zhifeng troops were still in positional warfare mode, and in less than an hour a cavalry division was wiped out, and it is estimated that the 27th Division would not escape annihilation.
The sound of artillery was getting closer and closer, and Gao Jinchang's voice came from the walkie-talkie: "Our tank gun has a range of ten kilometers, drive the horsepower to the end and stop at 3 kilometers from the heavy artillery position to shell the heavy artillery position of the Fengjun army, and two cavalry regiments and others will charge together with the armored personnel carrier." ”
The chariot roared, and its speed increased suddenly. In the blink of an eye, the armored vehicle rushed forward past the tank, and behind its ears came the muffled sound of the tank firing shells.
The two cavalry regiments roared and followed the armored vehicles with their horses in their hands and rushed forward, 20 armored vehicles crossed the trenches that were not wide, and the machine guns kept harvesting the resisting Feng troops, and one by one the soldiers jumped out of the armored vehicles with their guns in hand, and the armored vehicles were in front and the soldiers in the rear took care of the explosives and wrapped the Feng troops. After the trenches were torn open, the cavalry of the two regiments roared past and rushed straight to the heavy artillery positions, and there was no suspense in the battle.
The heavy armored regiment marched behind the 27th Division, and after converging with the 9th Division, it directly crushed the 27th Division's defensive line. The reinforcements of the Feng army stayed on the north bank of the Yongding River and watched as the 27th Division was completely annihilated. Gao Jinchang directly called over by radio, and three sparrow bombers bombed the Feng army on the north bank of the Yongding River.
Wu Peifu personally led the Ninth Division to fight, watched the heavy armored regiment annihilate the 28th Cavalry Division and the 27th Infantry Division in one day, patted the tank and said: "What a rabbit cub, what you sell me is lame goods, and what you use yourself is elite." ”
Within a day, the ratio of troops was equal, and the 27th and 28th divisions, which defeated the Feng army, had already lost a tooth. Gao Jinchang saluted Wu Peifu and said: "Sir, according to our Commander Hu's operational intentions, our troops need to return to the Cangzhou garrison immediately for repairs, and the day after tomorrow we will launch a surprise attack on the Feng army in Jinghai, and we need the cooperation of these two cavalry regiments." ”
Wu Peifu nodded and said, "I won't interfere in your battles, I have an agreement with Wen Kai." These two cavalry regiments are under your command and incorporated into your formation. In recognition of your battle today, I would like to reward your department with 500,000 oceans. It will be sent to your Cangzhou station tomorrow. ”
I rushed back to Cangzhou at eight o'clock in the evening, and the strange thing was that Sun Xiaolan didn't react to motion sickness at all. The first thing I did when I returned to the station was to take care of the vehicle, add fuel and ammunition. Gao Jinchang was busy sending a telegram to Hu Wenkai to report the war, and Sun Xiaolan commanded the special combat team members to load the loot on the plane and transport it to Xuzhou early tomorrow morning.
The cavalry companies that arrived early had already cooked their meals, and the troops were strictly ordered not to drink alcohol during wartime. After eating a dinner peacefully, Gao Jinchang learned that this cavalry company had been stationed in Cangzhou before, and was familiar with the terrain. He then summoned the staff office to inquire in detail about the road conditions, and the North China Plain was really a good place for armored combat vehicles, and there was not even a river on the way.
The soldiers who had just eaten dinner were scrubbing the chariots with buckets and rags, and two soldiers were holding long probes and sticks and stuffing them into the barrels of the tanks to clean the barrels, and the soldiers were wiping their weapons by the lights of the camp.
It's all too easy, like an adult fighting a child who can just walk. Although Gao Jinchang and Sun Xiaolan felt that the battle was too easy, they did not dare to take it lightly. The commanders of the two cavalry regiments and their staff officers were summoned to draw up a battle plan for the day after tomorrow.
Hu Wenkai was fulfilling his promise at this time to entertain Wang Changhui's group of classmates, and tonight Carrotta was requisitioned by Wu Hongxia to stay at Far Eastern University to give students a big lecture in philosophy, and he didn't want to eat alone and exchange his debts by the way. Wang Changhui, who received the call, was pleasantly surprised, and after a while, she contacted seven or eight alumni she knew, she was in the position of radio station director, and she usually helped the alumni enthusiastically.