At half past four o'clock in the afternoon of May 29, Zhou Weiguo of the Third Division sent a report saying that the enemy's independent brigade had entered his defense area. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

To the north of Luochong, the enemy began to send several search units near Gudao, one of which was less than a mile away from the concealed 3rd Division.

Zhang Cheng calculated in his heart that because the terrain of the plateau was extremely complex, it was very likely that the target would not be found even if it was one or two hundred meters apart, let alone one mile away, and the third division at this time should be safe from being discovered by the enemy's reconnaissance troops.

Sure enough, at five o'clock in the afternoon, Zhou Weiguo reported that the enemy's independent brigade had all passed through his defense area and entered the Luochong Valley Road, and the third division was not discovered by the enemy's search force.

At the same time, Ding Wei of the 2nd Division also sent a report saying that the enemy's independent brigade had entered his defense area and released reconnaissance troops, and that our troops were hidden in the mountains and forests and were not discovered by the enemy's search forces.

Seeing that the battle situation was getting smoother and smoother, and that the enemy had gradually fallen into the trap of our army, Zhang Cheng felt that the combat missions of various units could be further clarified.

Zhang Cheng immediately issued a further operational order, ordering Li Yunlong's division of the 1st Division to stand by in strict formation, and as soon as the enemy's independent brigade showed up, it would take the lead with artillery, launch a five-minute artillery bombardment, and crush the enemy's independent brigade in one fell swoop, and then launch a fierce charge to resolutely destroy the enemy.

At about 5:25 p.m., the enemy's independent brigade walked out of the Lochong Valley Road, and just after a great sigh of relief, our artillery immediately launched an artillery attack on the enemy.

Ding Delong did not expect to be ambushed in the valley road at all, but was hit by the powerful artillery of the Red Army after leaving the valley road. When more than 200 shells landed in his two columns at the same time, he was stunned, and his heart was hit extremely strongly.

! Is this still a mud-legged red bandit with millet plus a rifle? How can it be possible to have such a powerful artillery, it is even more powerful than our first division in the world!

Tin Delong found that this Red Army was very different from the Red Fourth Front Army he had encountered, and he had a hunch that he might be in bad luck today.

After a burst of artillery bombardment, De Ding Delong, who had many years of combat experience, quickly calmed down, and began to quickly direct his troops to launch a counterattack on the spot, and hurriedly ordered the radio to immediately request reinforcements from Commander Hu Zongnan and Li Wen's Second Brigade behind him.

After receiving the distress message, Hu Zongnan immediately ordered Li Wen's Second Brigade to rush to the rescue, and told Ding Delong that the main force of the division headquarters would soon arrive for reinforcements, and ordered Ding Delong to hold back the red bandits and wait for reinforcements.

At the same time, Li Wen, who was less than ten miles away from Ding Delong's independent brigade, heard the sound of artillery in front and knew that there was a big battle ahead.

Li Wen is a native of Nanmu Village, Longxipu Town, Xinshao County, Hunan Province, and is a first-term student of Huangpu, and he was a classmate of his Shangguan Hu Zongnan, but the development between people cannot be compared; when he was brigade commander, Hu Zongnan was already the commander of the world's first division in charge of a 30,000-strong army.

However, Li Wen has always been unconvinced by Hu Zongnan, a little man, if it were not for Hu Zongnan's township party, how could he be promoted so quickly, just like riding a rocket.

Li Wen was very jealous of this, but no matter how Li Wen was dissatisfied with Hu Zongnan, Hu Zongnan's military order was still something he could not disobey.

Sure enough, a few minutes later, Ding Delong's call for help and the reinforcement order behind Chief Hu arrived one after another. Although it is difficult to walk on the plateau mountain road, Li Wen, who is a student of Whampoa, has always regarded himself as a professional soldier, and it is his duty to obey orders.

As a result, Li Wen's Second Brigade was sent into the ambush circle of the Second Division by Hu Zongnan's telegram and Ding Delong's distress telegram, and rushed headlong into the Luochong Valley Road.

Just when Li Wen's Second Brigade plunged headlong into the ambush circle of our Second Division, the Dingdelon Independent Brigade, which had been beaten by the Young Column Artillery Regiment, was still struggling.

The previous sudden five-minute artillery attack caused nearly half of Ding Delong's troops to be reimbursed, and more than 2,000 people were lost at once, but before Ding Delong's troops could react, Li Yunlong's first division attacked Ding Delong's brigade with the momentum of a tiger descending from the mountain, and quickly crushed its troops with a fierce and decisive charging formation.

Although it was a surprise attack, Ding Delong was a veteran of the battlefield after all, and he decisively ordered the remaining artillery to concentrate the mortars and quickly establish artillery positions to cover the troops for a decisive assault.

He immediately gathered hundreds of remnants to quickly put together and launched a counter-assault on the positions of the First Division, intending to break through the encirclement of the First Division and seize the initiative in the battle.

It should be said that Ding Delong's decision was extremely accurate and rapid, and he deserved to be a general who came out of the Whampoa Military Academy, because the place of ambush was not in the valley road, and the front of the enemy's independent brigade was an open field, and as long as Ding Delong concentrated his forces and desperately assaulted, broke out of a gap, and led the area with points, it was very likely that the encirclement of the first division would be highlighted.

At this time, the enemy's independent brigade launched a surprise attack en masse, and although the artillery bombardment of the 1st Division's artillery for five minutes just now caused great casualties to the enemy, the grassroots officers of the enemy's independent brigade were basically Huangpu Sheng, and their fighting will was very tenacious; they took the lead with machine guns, and Huangpu Sheng took the lead in the charge, concentrating their forces on the blocking position of the 2nd Regiment, which had a relatively weak defensive line, with the intention of tearing a hole and breaking out of the encirclement.

Li Yunlong, who was commanding the temporary division headquarters, observed the posture of the enemy's independent brigade with a telescope, and knew that the first division had encountered a hard stubble, and the enemy's independent brigade was indeed fierce enough.

Li Yunlong immediately ordered Li Yunqiang to lead the first regiment to quickly move closer to the direction of the second regiment, gallop to the position of the second regiment, and resolutely block the enemy's onslaught; At the same time, the 6th Brigade was ordered to speed up its actions and encircle the enemy as soon as possible.

The officers of the enemy's independent brigade were already very aware at this time that their troops had been ambushed by our troops, and if they wanted to survive, they had to stand out, otherwise they would either be annihilated or captured.

Most of the enemy officers were Whampoa students, and they were deeply taught by Chang Kaishen to become benevolent if he did not succeed. Therefore, officers at all levels took up machine guns and led the troops to charge, and everyone rushed to the front line.

Li Yunqiang saw that the enemy had launched a group charge, and the Second Regiment was obviously unable to hold on, and his troops were still some distance away from the Second Regiment, and it was almost impossible to close the encirclement before the enemy rushed out.

Li Yunqiang immediately made a decision, and immediately ordered the artillery company to organize a mortar position, calibrate the Zhuyuan, and hit the enemy's dense charging formation with a burst of fierce bombardment.

The explosion of mortar shells suddenly set off a wave of air, blowing up many grassroots officers of the enemy's independent brigade who took the lead in the charge, but what fell was the fragments of the human body, this scene caused a huge psychological shadow on the soldiers who were charging behind, and many soldiers were so frightened that they turned around and ran, and the group charge that the enemy independent brigade had managed to organize was blown apart by these shells.

The 2nd Regiment was given a chance to breathe, and then the artillery company and heavy machine gun company of the 2nd Regiment were also reorganized and fired at the enemy at the same time, mortar shells and heavy machine gun bullets formed an impermeable network of vitality, which immediately knocked the enemy's charging team to the ground, and the enemy's independent brigade was like a broken ship that was constantly entering the water, fluttering and undulating in the sea full of storms.

However, after all, the enemy's independent brigade was the main force in the first division under heaven, and although a large number of officers suffered heavy casualties, which made every officer and soldier tremble in pain, the confidence in breaking through the siege to the death was not shaken, and under the leadership of the Whampoa officers, they once again rushed forward one after another.

At the same time, the mortar positions organized by Tindelon finally opened fire, and they quickly suppressed the regimental mortar company of the 2nd Regiment with numerical superiority.

However, the good times did not last long, and the firing of the artillery of the enemy's independent brigade soon attracted the attention of the artillery regiment of the young column, which brought them a catastrophe, and the four mountain guns of the artillery regiment quickly corrected Zhu Yuan aimed at them, and a round of artillery bombardment immediately made the artillery of the enemy's independent brigade cry and cry for their fathers and mothers, and even the mortars were abandoned and ran away.

Ding Delong did not charge like a Whampoa officer at first, but followed behind the charging team with his guards, but he was horrified by the scene before him.

He couldn't believe his eyes, he had been chased and beaten by the Central Army, he didn't dare to show his head during the day, and when did the red bandits, who could only drill into the deep mountains and old forests all day long, become so powerful, not to mention the ferocity of automatic firepower, mortars have been popularized to the regiment just like their first division.

He watched more than a dozen mortar shells fall above his head, and suddenly blew up his group of Whampoa officers who were not afraid of death.

But Ding Delong knew that now was not the time to shock the enemy's strength, and if he didn't stand out, he would be dumpled by the red bandits. Seeing that the red bandits rushed from all directions, it was seen that this force was at least twice as strong as before.

Without time to hesitate, Tindelon snatched the submachine gun from the guard's hand and immediately led the most elite brigade guard company in the brigade to rush forward.

This guard company of the Independent Brigade used all submachine guns, and the officers above the squad leader were all Ding Delong's Whampoa juniors.

The morale of the brigade commander who took the lead in the charge was still very high, and they soon rushed to the front of the second regiment, and the soldiers of the second regiment were cunningly killed.

Ding Delong saw that the siege was about to be broken, and his natural selfishness flared up, and all his colleagues and juniors were thrown aside, and he took his henchmen and guards to the people in front of him for a frenzy, regardless of whether he was killed in front of him by the Red Army or his own subordinates.

This trick really worked, and the officers and men of the Second Regiment did not expect the enemy to be so crazy, and even killed their own people in order to escape for themselves.

Who would have thought that at this critical moment, Li Yunqiang led his troops to rush to the ground, and seeing that the defense line of the Second Regiment was about to be broken through, he roared and immediately picked up a machine gun and immediately swept towards the enemy.

With the timely arrival of a group, the dense light and heavy machine guns immediately formed a network of fire, blocking the gap that Ding Delong had barely tore apart with great effort.

Ding Delong sighed, all his efforts failed with the reinforcements of the red bandits, and he had no choice but to order the troops to retreat immediately, organize defense on the spot, and wait for reinforcements.

However, at this time, the 6th Brigade, the 11th Regiment, and the 12th Regiment had already been densely encircled, and the annihilation of the Independent Brigade was already a sure thing.

Tindelon tried in vain to hold on to reinforcements, but all his efforts were in vain, for the 2nd Brigade, which he had been waiting for, was not much better off than his Independent Brigade. (To be continued.) )