Chapter 153 Horizontal Trip Under the Seat
Wu Chengren is a first-term student of Huangpu, and his combat command ability is still very good. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
He was also worried that his troops would be ambushed by the Red Army, so he deliberately sent a main regiment as the vanguard to explore the road first, while the main force of his division headquarters had been hanging five miles away from the rear.
However, even if Wu Chengren was so meticulous, he still suffered the loss of experience, misjudged the strength of the regular troops of Shaozhong, and finally fell into Zhou Weiguo's calculations.
At 11 o'clock in the evening, under the lure of the 7th Regiment step by step, the main force of the enemy's 49th Division plunged headlong into the ambush circle preset by the 3rd Division, and Zhou Weiguo decisively ordered to launch an attack.
Suddenly, under Zhou Weiguo's order, hundreds of artillery pieces were fired at the edge of the several kilometers long mountain road and jungle, and grenades and heavy machine guns desperately fell on the dense column of the enemy's 49th Division like heavenly fire meteors.
The sound of gunfire, shelling, and explosions all converged into a majestic symphony. Bullets flew and gunpowder filled the air, and the enemy's 49th Division was suddenly stunned by this sudden blow. Wu Chengren, commander of the enemy's 49th Division, was seriously injured and unconscious by a shot shot from the 3rd Division's blocking company.
Five minutes later, the artillery fire was suspended, and more than a dozen buglers of the Third Division sounded the charge horn at the same time. Suddenly, a red flag was waved on the battlefield, and the officers and men of the Third Division jumped out of the hidden jungle and trenches, forming a tight battle formation and rushing towards the enemy troops who were still in a daze.
The enemy's 49th Division was quickly cut into several pieces by the brave 3rd Division, and was soon surrounded. Due to Wu Chengren's serious injury, the enemy's command system was completely disrupted, and the enemy army was leaderless for a while, so they had to fight separately in panic, and they could not form any decent combat strength at all.
The most ferocious rush was the Seventh Regiment, which had previously assumed the task of blocking and luring the enemy, and the Seventh Regiment was the first-class main force of the Third Division, and it was also the seed unit of the First Regiment of the First Division and the Fifth Regiment of the Second Division, which were called the Old Third Regiment of the Young Communist Division.
However, because of the need to lure the enemy into depth, he had to pretend to be invincible, and he could not give full play to his strength, and was chased and beaten by one of the enemy's regiments. The Seventh Regiment, one of the dignified old three regiments, had never had such an embarrassing moment, and the proud officers and soldiers of the Seventh Regiment had already held their breath and couldn't hold back their anger and were about to explode.
Therefore, as soon as the charge horn sounded, the strength that the officers and men of the Seventh Regiment had been holding back suddenly burst out, and it was even faster than the athletes who had taken doping in later generations, and it was unstoppable at all.
The soldiers of the 7th Regiment who led the charge poured bullets at the enemy with machine guns, and the soldiers behind pulled out their grenades one after another, constantly throwing their anger at the enemy.
In the case of holding their breath, the fighters' throwing ability was exerted at a super level, and they actually threw the grenade accurately and far, and the enemy was blown up and howled in all directions. Under the frantic assault of the third division led by the 7th regiment, the enemy's 49th division was quickly defeated and had no power to fight back.
Just when the 3rd Division and the enemy's 49th Division were fighting fiercely, the 1st Division's general attack on Dajie Temple and Qiuji Temple also began.
Due to the need to catch the enemy's 49th Division to take the bait, the previous attacks launched by the 1st Division were all fought with gusto, and a large number of automatic weapons were not used. At this time, the enemy's 49th Division had already entered the trap of the Third Division, and the two divisions had also exchanged fierce fire, and the attack of the First Division no longer had to be hidden.
On the artillery position, the artillerymen had already aimed at the target, and now it was time for the artillery unit to show its might. As soon as Li Yunlong gave an order, dozens of artillery pieces of the first division roared at the same time, and the fierce artillery fire immediately leveled the enemy's fortifications. After five minutes of non-stop shelling, almost all of the temple's tall courtyard walls were blown down.
Subsequently, under the cover of mortar and heavy machine gun fire, and accompanied by earth-shattering shouts, the officers and men of the 1st Brigade broke through the enemy's defense line at once, quickly entered the monastery, and launched a fierce street battle in the many houses of the monastery.
At this time, the morale of the enemy army had already been broken by our artillery fire, and the commandos of the first brigade only used mortars to collapse a few houses, and almost all the enemy soldiers who were heartbroken chose to surrender, and those who stubbornly resisted to the end had already been killed.
The attack on Qiuji Temple was similar to the attack on Dajie Temple, the Sixth Brigade also opened the way with artillery fire, automatic firearms took the lead in charging, and the enemy chose to abandon his weapons and surrender without much resistance.
At this point, the upper and lower seats were taken by the first division, and the passage of the Red Army north to northern Shaanxi was opened.
The ambush warfare of the Third Division was also completed very beautifully, and the officers and men had experienced at least 100 large and small wars since the Long March, and the most fought among them was ambush warfare. Under many bloody battles, the three divisions had incomparably rich experience in ambush warfare, and various tactics were applied with ease, and the battles became stronger and stronger, and the cooperation became more and more tacit.
Although the enemy's 49th Division was the elite unit of the Central Army of the Kuomintang, it belonged to the southern part of Hu Zong, and it also got a lot of cheap advantages from the First Division, its weapons and equipment were not under our army, and its training was also very well-trained, but it still could not stop the fierce charge of the Third Division.
Whether the Kuomintang army is an elite or a weak brigade, one of their obvious shortcomings is that they are afraid of the opponent to launch a charge, as long as the opponent rushes up, they will be frightened, panicked and easily rushed to collapse, once collapsed, they want to turn around and flee.
In fact, the confrontation between the two armies is to see who can withstand it and who can hold out longer. It is obvious that the current enemy 49th Division can no longer hold on, and the officers and men have turned around and started to flee.
No matter how elite the troops, as long as they give their backs to their opponents, even if they have a machine gun in their hands and the opponent is holding a kitchen knife, the machine gunner with a bright back will still be cut to the ground by the one with the kitchen knife.
When the officers and men of the enemy's 49th Division gave their backs to the Third Division, it was doomed that the defeat of the enemy's 49th Division was decided, and all that remained was how many people could escape, which no longer affected the battle situation.
The enemy's 49th Division was soon defeated by the Third Division, and hurriedly returned in a panic and fled.
The three divisions took advantage of the victory and pursued fiercely, and the enemy's 49th division lost its armor and corpses were scattered all over the field until they knelt on the ground and begged for mercy. In this battle, from the time the 7th Regiment lured the enemy to the end of the battle, it took only three hours, and the 3rd Division eliminated the enemy's 49th Division, which was still above itself in strength and firepower.
As a result, Zhou Weiguo, the commander of the Third Division, also became famous in a fight, and his momentum soon caught up with Li Yunlong and Ding Wei, who had long been remembered by the commander-in-chief and the central leaders.
With the annihilation of the enemy's 49th Division, the Battle of Baoza came to a successful end. In this battle, the enemy's 49th Division was completely annihilated, and more than 4,000 people were killed in the battle, including the division commander Wu Chengren, and more than 5,000 were captured.
The 3rd Division captured all the weapons, equipment, ammunition, and various combat materials of the enemy's 49th Division, but it suffered only more than 800 casualties, which can be called a brilliant victory.