As night fell, the first day of the battle in the General's Hall finally ended, the first battle of the Young Communist Division was won, and a brigade sent post-war statistics, a total of more than 2,200 enemy troops were destroyed, more than 2,000 guns were captured, and nearly 100,000 rounds of guns and ammunition were captured. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The casualties of the 1st Brigade were only 385, and Zhang Cheng was quite satisfied with this battle loss, and he personally called Li Yunlong to praise the 1st Brigade for fighting well today, and asked them not to be proud, make persistent efforts, and make more and greater contributions to the revolution.

In the evening, the party committee of the division summed up the situation of today's battle, and after the meeting, it was decided to send a circular to all brigades in the name of the division headquarters: First, the first brigade was to be commended for its first battle; Second, all brigades are required to analyze and summarize the combat situation observed today, so as to know themselves and their opponents, and lay a good foundation for the next round of battles; The third is to order the engineer battalion to repair the fortifications and pillboxes that were destroyed today overnight to further strengthen the quality of the fortifications.

In addition, Zhang Cheng found that the enemy's planes were too rampant, bullied the Red Army and had no anti-aircraft weapons, and repeatedly dived to low altitudes to strafe and drop bombs, posing a great threat to the Young Communist Division.

The high-altitude bombing of Zhangcheng can be tolerated, as long as the troops hide in the cat's ear hole, the enemy planes will not be able to take the less communist division, but this low-altitude attack will make Zhangcheng more uncomfortable, and it is easy to cause a large number of casualties to the troops, and most of the casualties in today's battle are also caused by the dive strafing of enemy planes.

In the end, after the study and decision of the divisional party committee, 18 sharpshooters were transferred from the blocking company with the most accurate marksmanship, and 50 machine gunners were transferred from the heavy firepower battalion to establish an air defense company, with sharpshooter Fang Zizi serving as the company commander.

The main task of the air defense company is to knock out enemy planes that are diving at low altitudes, forcing enemy planes not to dive at low altitudes, and reducing the actual threat to the Young Communist Division.

The Young Communist Division won the battle, but Zhang Cheng still had some hidden worries in his heart, and the original logistics chief came to report to him that due to the continuous expansion of the troops, the total strength of more than 20,000 troops, the food supply of the troops has been in short supply, and the current food can only support the needs of the Young Communist Division for a month.

In addition, Zhang Cheng had to worry about ammunition, the Red Army did not have an industrial base, and could not produce guns and ammunition independently. He knew that the defensive operation lasted for a relatively long time, the enemy had planes and heavy artillery, and the Young Communist Division could only fight a rout battle but not a war of annihilation under this threat, and the captured ammunition was far from keeping up with the consumption.

In this regard, the division headquarters issued a circular, requiring the commanders and fighters of all units to strictly control the use of ammunition; As for grain and grass, because the enemy in front of him was extremely strong, and the Young Communist Division had no way to bypass the enemy to get food, the division headquarters had no choice but to decide to reduce the three meals a day to two.

Of course, Zhang Cheng was not a person who sat idly by, he sent a special operations brigade to disperse to nearby places, and cooperated with the local guerrillas to fight against the local tyrants and inferior gentry, and after defeating the local tyrants and inferior gentry, the land of the local tyrants and inferior gentry was distributed to the local people, and the captured grain was pulled back to the division headquarters to solve part of the grain and grass problem for the troops.

The next day, the enemy's 38th and 42nd divisions, under the cover of aircraft and artillery, intensified their attacks. The enemy adopted the method of wave attack, with the strength of six regiments, divided into three major parts, and took turns to launch continuous attacks on the positions of the Young Communist Division, so as not to give the Young Communist Division a chance to breathe.

Under the personal command of Li Yunlong, the troops calmly responded to the battle, and with the strong support of the divisional artillery battalion and the heavy firepower battalion, they firmly held the front-line position of the Young Communist Division, repelled all the enemy's attacks, and inflicted great casualties on the enemy.

What made Zhang Cheng particularly gratifying was that the newly formed air defense company was victorious in its first battle and achieved the result of shooting down four enemy planes, which frightened the enemy planes no longer dared to carry out low-altitude dive strafing and greatly reduced the threat posed by enemy planes to our troops.

The battle on the second day was even more intense than yesterday, and the enemy suffered about 1,500 casualties today, and because the enemy planes did not dare to shoot at low altitudes, the casualties of the Young Communist Division were also greatly reduced, with only more than 200 casualties.

Compared with yesterday, the results of the battle have decreased, and the battle losses have also been lower, judging from today's battle situation, both sides have summed up the lessons of yesterday, and their tactics and fighting style have made obvious progress compared with yesterday.

However, what surprised Zhang Cheng was that after the air defense company defeated the enemy plane, two pilots of the enemy plane parachuted and landed and were captured by the ground forces of our army.

At dusk, Zhang Cheng went to visit the two pilots, named Huang Yong and Li Sheng, and Zhang Cheng had a cordial conversation with them.

These two people were also intellectuals, and at first they were more arrogant to Zhang Cheng, but Zhang Cheng quickly conquered them with his rich knowledge in his previous life, and the three of them talked very happily, and then Zhang Cheng took the opportunity to give a detailed explanation of the purpose, ideals, and goals of struggle of the Workers' and Peasants' Party and the relevant policies of the Party, and repeatedly emphasized the basic policy of the Workers' and Peasants' Party that it had no intention of civil war and actively resisted Japan, and earnestly invited them to join the Red Army and fight devils together.

Perhaps it was Zhang Cheng's sincerity that moved them, or perhaps it was Zhang Cheng's intention to resist Japan that infected them, in short, the two expressed their willingness to join the Red Army on the spot, but asked Zhang Cheng to keep it secret for them, because their families were still in the enemy-occupied area.

Zhang Cheng agreed on the spot and warmly welcomed them to join the Red Army, and from then on Huang Yong and Li Sheng followed Zhang Cheng all the way to the south and the north, and formed the first air force unit of the Workers' and Peasants' Party, becoming the founder of the Republic Air Force.

In the evening, Zhang Cheng received a report from the reconnaissance battalion that the main forces of the enemy's three divisions of Jiang Dingwen had arrived at the General's Palace, and in addition, Li Yunlong and Lin Jianshe jointly sent a report that the front-line positions had caused permanent damage to most of the fortifications due to the enemy's wanton bombardment in the past two days, and it was impossible to repair and use them.

In view of these two new situations, the divisional party committee held an operational meeting overnight, which was attended by the commanders of the three brigades as observers; finally, after some study, the divisional party committee decided to avoid the enemy's front, abandon the first-line position, and retreat the entire line to the second line of position for defense.

After the troops withdrew from the front-line positions, he issued two successive orders to the engineer battalion's Lin Jianjian, one was to order the engineer battalion to widen and deepen the trenches of the first-line position, and to lay mines and mines, and the other was to order them to arrange more fake fortifications and false pillboxes to make scarecrows wearing Red Army uniforms.

After the enemy occupies the front-line position, the artillery battalion immediately shells the enemy troops occupying the position, and triggers mines and mines, inflicting huge casualties on the enemy; The second is to confuse and contain the enemy army and consume the enemy's ammunition as much as possible.