Chapter Forty-Nine: The Battle for Life Extension

In late autumn, the fog is deep. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

As Qingshi Village is close to the Yanshou River, the water vapor forms a large mist under the action of the temperature difference between the day and night, covering the nearby mountains, forests, villages, roads, etc.

Zhang Cheng stood on the trench, looked at the bluestone village a few miles away with a telescope, and couldn't help but show a smile.

Such a heavy fog is just right for the troops to lure the Cantonese army into pursuit, and it is difficult for our army to hit the Cantonese army, and in the same way, it is equally difficult for the Cantonese army to hit our army, which is very good for the Sixth Brigade that will lure the Cantonese army to attack.

Of course, Zhang Cheng hoped that the casualties of his troops would be as small as possible, and the 4,000 people of the Sixth Brigade feinted to attack Qingshi Village, which would inevitably cause certain casualties, but in this foggy sky, the losses of the Sixth Brigade could undoubtedly be minimized.

At this time, the Sixth Brigade was already under the cover of heavy fog, rapidly approaching the defense line of the Cantonese army, and the reason why the Sixth Brigade was used as a decoy was precisely because the Sixth Brigade was a new unit that had just been established, and most of the soldiers were new soldiers converted from the prisoners of the Kuomintang.

Such a unit, because it has never won a victory, the morale of the troops will not be too high, and those soldiers have stayed in the Kuomintang troops for a long time, although the battle is not very good, but it is the ability to escape! Sending such a force to be used as bait doesn't need to feint defeat at all, using them to fight Qingshi Village is to let them defeat the battle.

Everything went smoothly according to plan, the Sixth Brigade attacked Qingshi Village three times in a row, and the Cantonese Army repelled the Sixth Brigade three times in a row, and when the fourth Sixth Brigade attack continued to be defeated, the enemy judged that the Sixth Brigade had been defeated, and immediately blew the trumpet of the charge, chasing the butt of the Sixth Brigade and crushing it.

At this time, Ye Zhao, the commander of the 2nd Division of the Guangdong Army, led the 2nd Division to Qingshi Village, and the commander of the enemy's 3rd Division immediately informed him of the fact that the main force of the Red Army had been defeated.

Ye Zhao was overjoyed, before the war, he had received news from the commander Yu Hanmou, Chang Kaishen offered a huge reward to all the Red Army, capturing a Red Army alive would reward 10 oceans for killing 5 oceans, and now where are the Red Army fleeing all over the mountains? It's a moving ocean!

Ye Zhao was also not polite to the commander of the Third Division, waved his hand at the defeated Red Army troops, and ordered the entire Second Division to enter the pursuit, and there was a great reward for capturing the Red Army.

Twenty minutes later, the defeated Sixth Brigade led by Zhang Fengming finally joined up with the main force of the division that came to meet them. Listening to the enemy's arrogant pursuit shouts, Zhang Cheng didn't care about greetings, and immediately inquired about the enemy's situation, and Zhang Fengming directly introduced the situation of the enemy's pursuit. Zhang Cheng asked whether the losses of the Sixth Brigade were large, and Zhang Fengming said that due to the cover of the fog, even if the soldiers were shot, they were rarely injured, and there were not many casualties, but the injuries were relatively serious.

Zhang Cheng saw that the feint defeat of the Sixth Brigade seemed to be a real defeat, and the morale of the troops was also very low, knowing that it was impossible for the Sixth Brigade to fight any longer, Zhang Fengming was also aware of this situation, and he ordered the troops to rest on the spot, carry the casualties back to the rear, and hand over the task.

Zhang Cheng patted Zhang Fengming's shoulder comfortingly, turned around and immediately ordered the mountain artillery and mortars of the artillery regiment to quickly load Zhuyuan and aim at the pursuing enemy.

Then he ordered all the heavy machine guns of the heavy fire battalion to cooperate with the 1st Brigade and the 3rd Brigade to organize an anti-slope position, and when the enemy's pursuing troops climbed the hill, they launched a surprise attack to catch the enemy by surprise and destroy the enemy's first wave of pursuing troops on the hill.

When the enemy's second and third waves of pursuing troops saw that the situation was not good and wanted to turn around and flee, mortars and heavy machine guns provided fire support, and all light machine guns and submachine guns of the two brigades were used intensively to launch a powerful impact on the enemy.

Zhou Huaiqing, the brigade commander of the Third Division of the Guangdong Army, did not expect the Red Army's counterattack to come so quickly and fiercely.

He stood on a rock on the side of the road, holding a telescope, observing the progress of the troops' pursuit, and the situation was very optimistic, the Red Army had no power to counterattack at all, but only fled.

Escape? Can you escape? Zhou Huaiqing felt very proud, the equipment and combat effectiveness of the Guangdong army was too strong, thinking that Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi coveted the territory of Guangdong Province back then, and dared to lead troops to attack Guangdong Province, but was not only driven out of Guangdong Province by the Guangdong army, but also took advantage of the situation to attack the other party's Gui Province, if it were not for the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese Great Wall War, the people of the whole country opposed the warlord civil war, and the Guangdong army stopped attacking under great pressure, maybe Gui Province has been defeated by the Guangdong army.

Even the Gui army, which is famous throughout the country for its ability to fight, was beaten by the Cantonese army, and the Turkish Communist Party, which was composed of a mere mud leg, dared to attack the Cantonese army.

The avant-garde regiment launched an attack on the hill occupied by the Red Army, although it was an upward attack, but the attack speed of the avant-garde regiment was still very fast, and the rhythm of the attack and the stragglers between the troops were also very good, and the attack formation was basically carried out in strict accordance with the guidance of the German military instructors.

It's just strange that there is no movement at all on the hill occupied by the Red Army, and it seems that even the hill that is extremely beneficial to the target of blocking is not wanted, and this rout is too unorganized, is this rout still the Red Army, which claims to be heroic and fearless?

However, just as Zhou Huaiqing was about to order his troops to intensify the pursuit, he heard a voice that made him lose his soul: a mountain artillery shell flew from the opposite hill and landed in the pursuing force of the Cantonese army. Zhou Huaiqing's eyes widened, he couldn't believe that this mud-legged Red Army actually had mountain artillery.

The pursuing troops had not yet reacted, and some of them were still scolding their artillerymen for being blind and even hitting their own troops with shells.

Without waiting for the enemy to react, the Red Army artillerymen on the artillery position had already completed the correction of Zhu Yuan, and one shell after another accurately hit the enemy's attack formation like a heavenly fire meteor.

Unfortunately, it was too late, and the successive shells continued to explode on the heads of the enemy soldiers, blowing up the unsuspecting Cantonese soldiers into the sky.

The violent sound of shell explosions woke up Zhou Huaiqing, this Red Army is really so dark! They were not fleeing at all, but deliberately led the Cantonese army into a trap, which was a trap for the Red Army, and they themselves were stupidly fooled.

Judging from the battle formation that destroyed its own troops from the first time, the Red Army wanted to eat its own troops in one bite, and I am afraid that the Red Army's charge and counterattack would follow.

Thinking of this, Zhou Huaiqing did not hesitate any longer, and ordered a battalion to be broken to cover the main force of the troops to retreat.

But can the ambush carefully prepared by the Young Communist Division make it easy for the enemy to withdraw?