Chapter 195: Breaking the Heavenly Fort City Again
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Most of the combat styles of an army are deeply influenced by military commanders, and the first division of the Sichuan Army has deeply imprinted Hao Gang, the division commander. ●⌒,.
Hao Gang was originally a tough and straightforward soldier, and the First Division of the Sichuan Army under his leadership was also the most daring unit in the Sichuan Army. If you talk about fighting delicate and changeable battles, he is indeed a little worse, but when it comes to fighting fierce and direct battles, he is definitely the most powerful one.
There was no temptation, no prelude, and the 1st Division of the Sichuan Army invested all its forces in a general attack as soon as the battle began. The momentum was so fierce that it was like a tsunami that swept over in a continuous manner, so that the officers and men of the Kuomintang who had not yet completely recovered from the shelling were almost out of breath.
"Wei Dahai, come over to Lao Tzu!" Hao Gang shouted at Wei Dahai, the head of the regiment.
Wei Dahai, who was almost thirty years old and had a stiff face, heard Hao Gang's shout, and hurriedly trotted all the way to Hao Gang, standing up and saluting: "Commander!" ”
"Do you see that hilltop position?" Hao Gang raised his hand and pointed to a small hill in the middle of Yuhuatai that was only a few tens of meters high, and said, "That is the hilltop position guarded by the Kuomintang heavy troops, as long as we take this place, we can condescendingly use firepower to strafe the Kuomintang troops in various positions around it, and it will be easy to break through Yuhuatai!" Now, you are rushing with a group, and you must take this hilltop position for Lao Tzu! ”
When Hao Gang was halfway through his words, Wei Dahai was already dumbfounded, and the whole person was stunned.
This... Is this still their reckless and war-fighting division commander?
Wei Dahai looked at Hao Gang, who was very good at the analysis, in disbelief, and was a little skeptical that his division commander had been given a bag.
When Hao Gang saw Wei Dahai's unbelievable eyes, he was immediately a little annoyed and angry, and scolded: "You turtle son, what do you mean by looking at Lao Tzu like this, do you think Lao Tzu's military school is for nothing?" Get lost! Get out of here! can't take this hilltop position, Lao Tzu has to clean you up ruthlessly! “
"Yes...... Be...... Go right away, go right away! Wei Dahai shrank his head in fright, and hurriedly ran to command the troops to attack the most important hilltop position in the middle of Yuhuatai.
Bang bang
Dada-da
Kuomintang troops began to fire at the 1st Division of the Sichuan Army, and many hidden machine-gun positions began to show their might. It really caused a lot of casualties to the 1st Division of the Sichuan Army.
If it goes on like this, I am afraid that the task of no more than 500 casualties will not be completed, Hao Gang was so anxious that he jumped to his feet and shouted: "Order the artillery regiment." Keep opening fire and knock out those shitty machine guns for Lao Tzu! ”
The artillery regiment fully cooperated with the operation of the 1st Division, which was the order of the commander Wang Haoshan.
Therefore, after a while, the ferocious shelling of the artillery regiment returned.
Boom
Unlike the previous covering bombing. This time, it was a fixed-point artillery attack on the machine guns in various positions in Yuhuatai.
After being tempered by these many wars and trained in the artillery department of the military academy for half a year, the Sichuan Army Artillery Regiment is no longer the grass platform team it used to be, and now their artillery accuracy is definitely the first-class in China.
Boom
It was almost a machine gun with one shot, and the machine-gun fire points on which the Kuomintang relied were quickly cleared one by one by the Sichuan Army Artillery Regiment.
Without the suppression of machine-gun fire, the pressure of the attacking troops of the Sichuan army was suddenly greatly reduced, and the degree of charge was accelerated in vain.
"Brothers, rush with Lao Tzu and take the hilltop position in front!" Wei Dahai shouted loudly, and then led a group of all the officers and soldiers to rush towards the most important hilltop position in the middle of Yuhuatai.
When rushing to about 3o meters from the KMT position. A group of grenadiers threw a grenade into the position of the Kuomintang, which immediately blew up the defense line of the Kuomintang, and Wei Dahai took the opportunity to lead a regiment to rush in.
The Kuomintang troops were originally a rabble, and they could not fight against the wind at all, and when they saw the Sichuan army rushing into the position, they threw down their rifles and surrendered on their knees with their hands in their hands without thinking about it.
After taking control of the hilltop position, Wei Dahai immediately set up machine guns on the northwest and east sides, and condescendingly launched a frantic strafing fire on the KMT troops on the surrounding positions.
After only one chain of machine gun shots, the KMT forces completely collapsed. The 1st Division of the Sichuan Army took advantage of the situation and rushed forward and captured the entire Yuhuatai.
The battle on Yuhuatai's side is over, but the battle on Tianbao's side has just begun.
When the gunfire was loud on Yuhuatai's side, Xu Chongzhi knew that the situation was not good. Immediately ordered the only six artillery pieces in Tianbao City to provide artillery support to the Yuhuatai side.
However, only two of the six guns in Tianbao City were completely destroyed by a covering artillery bombardment by the Sichuan artillery regiment.
In the front-line headquarters of the Sichuan Army, looking at the Yuhuatai position planted with the black wolf flag, Liao Yan, the combat staff officer, praised with admiration: "The ability of the first division led by Division Commander Hao to attack the fortifications is indeed admirable, and the marshal set him half a day. Now that the morning has not passed, the first division has completely taken Yuhuatai. ”
Wang Haoshan also nodded with satisfaction and said, "Hao Gang's reckless goods, nothing else is good, but it is really not bad to fight a hard battle." ”
"Marshal, next, I suggest that we focus on attacking Tianbao City. As long as we take the Castle City, then we can move the artillery to the Castle City. With the firing range of our Sichuan army's 75mm Grusen Mountain Cannon, it is completely capable of shelling any corner of Nanjing City on Tianbao City. Liao Yan said again.
Ge Changchun, commander of the Fourth Division of the Sichuan Army, also agreed: "That's right, as long as our artillery can cover the whole city of Nanjing, the rabble of the Kuomintang will inevitably collapse without a fight, and we will be able to achieve the young marshal's request to prevent the war from spreading to the city of Nanjing as much as possible." Marshal, let's let our four divisions go up this time to attack Tianbao City, and I promise to take Tianbao City before it gets dark today! ”
"Master Ge, Tianbao City is a fortress with very strong fortifications, is it ...... to take it before dark," Liao Yan reminded.
Tianbao City was an important military fortress in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the fortifications were by no means able to be destroyed by the 75mm caliber Grusen Mountain Artillery in the hands of the Sichuan Army Artillery Corps.
From this point of view, it is definitely impossible to conquer Tianbao City before it gets dark today.
Wang Haoshan also understood this, and couldn't help but persuade Ge Changchun: "Tianbao City is no better than Yuhuatai, so there is no need to be in such a hurry, so as not to let the brothers suffer too many casualties." ”
However, Ge Changchun said confidently: "Don't worry, Dashuai, I will never choose to fight for the lives of my brothers below to open the gate of Tianbao City. No matter how strong the fortress is, it is also guarded by people, and Yuhuatai was conquered in less than half a day, presumably now the Kuomintang troops in Tianbao City are panicking and at a loss. Therefore, Tianbao City is definitely not as difficult to attack as imagined. ”
Hearing this, Liao Yan's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said: "Division Commander Ge is right, Yuhuatai was conquered in less than half a day, and it must have greatly deterred the officers and soldiers of all departments of the Kuomintang. The Kuomintang units, which were already unstable, must have become more and more turbulent at this time, and as long as they intensified the offensive warfare, the Kuomintang troops in Tianbao City might not collapse. ”
"Report!"
At this moment, the guards of the command headquarters walked in and reported, "Commander, a person from outside who claims to be a special service officer of the Secret Service Department has come and said that there is important information to report to the commander. ”
Secret Service officers of the Secret Service Division?
Didn't most of the people in the Secret Service Division be transferred to Shandong by Wang Mo, how could they appear here?
Wang Haoshan, who didn't know much about the specific situation of the Secret Service Division, had some doubts in his eyes, and looked at Ge Changchun with an inquiring gaze.
Knowing Wang Haoshan's question, Ge Changchun immediately replied: "Don't worry, the members of the Secret Service Department have a special contact code, and no one can pretend to be one." We have a secret service intelligence team with us, and I'm going to ask them to confirm this person's identity. ”
Soon, the identity of this person was confirmed, and it was indeed a secret service agent of the Secret Service Division secretly lurking in Nanjing.
"See the big handsome!" After the special service personnel entered the command headquarters, they immediately saluted Wang Haoshan.
Wang Haoshan waved his hand and said, "You said that you have important information to report to me, what kind of information?" ”
The secret service officer replied solemnly: "Your lord, the lowly position is the hidden personnel placed by the secret service department in the Sun Mansion in Nanjing. ”
Sun Mansion?
Hearing this, everyone in the command headquarters was shocked, and their faces were full of shock.
Wang Haoshan immediately asked, "Sun Mansion?" You mean the residence of Sun Yat-sen of the KMT? ”
The secret service officer nodded and replied: "Yes, the humble post has been confirmed, this morning, Sun Yat-sen, the leader of the Kuomintang Party, has secretly left Nanjing on a Japanese ship and headed for Japan. ”
What the!
Oh my God, Sun Yat-sen actually escaped and ran to Japan?
Everyone opened their mouths wide in shock and couldn't close them for a long time, this news was really amazing.
After the shock, Ge Changchun laughed excitedly: "Haha...... Well, it's really sleepy to meet the pillow! Marshal, at this time of life and death, the leader of the Kuomintang is about to flee, this news is definitely much more powerful than a hundred heavy artillery! As long as this news is disseminated, it is no wonder that the KMT's forces do not collapse! ”
The rest of the people were also happy, and perhaps the top brass of the Kuomintang was not surprised by Sun Yat-sen's move to go east to Japan, but the soldiers at the bottom absolutely could not accept such an act of escaping.
Wang Haoshan did not hesitate to order: "Order, step up the printing of leaflets, let the bombers go out again to drop leaflets, and spread the news of Sun Zhongshan's eastern trip to Japan all over Nanjing!" ”
Such a killer weapon, but the Kuomintang handed it over, how could Wang Haoshan not use it.
Soon, the leaflets were urgently printed and delivered by bombers. Not only Nanjing City, but also Tianbao City, Shogunate Mountain, and other strategic strongholds of urban defense have dropped a large number of leaflets.
"Mr. Sun ran away? Did Mr. Sun really run away? ”
"Bastard, your life is fate, isn't our life our fate?"
"Since even Mr. Sun has run away, then why are we still working for the DPP?"
"Damn, this city is no longer guarded, let those officials and old men guard it themselves!"
……
When the soldiers of the Kuomintang units learned the news of Sun Yat-sen's Shandong trip to Japan, they were very excited, and a large number of soldiers threw down their guns and left that day, but those officers did not dare to stop them.
Tianbao City didn't need to be fought at all, the fourth division of the Sichuan army had just come to the city, and the division defending Tianbao City quickly took the initiative to open the city gate and surrender to the Sichuan army. (To be continued.) )