Chapter 31: The Capture of Ningdu

A consensus was reached at the meeting, and Zhang Cheng immediately issued an order: "1. After the Li Yunlong Division of the 1st Brigade of the Young Communist Party has made war preparations, it will immediately set off to attack Ningdu, and it is necessary to take Ningdu today." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

2. The Second Brigade of the Young Communist Party laid an ambush on the road from Shicheng to Ningdu, and once Jiang Ding's Ministry of Culture rescued Ningdu, immediately block the enemy and make sure that he could not move.

3. If Jiang Ding's Ministry of Culture and Culture is indifferent, the 1st Brigade of the Young Communist Party will immediately attack Guangchang in the north, and the tactic of besieging the city and sending reinforcements can be implemented, and the enemy in Guangchang will be surrounded but not attacked, forcing him to send a telegram to Jiang Ding's Ministry of Culture and Culture for help.

Fourth, all the remaining units are on standby, and after the reconnaissance battalion transmits back information about the enemy's troops, they will come to assign combat missions, and the officers and men assigned to the tasks will immediately return to replenish ammunition and mobilize the fighters. ”

"Yes!"

Zhang Cheng continued to mobilize: "Remember, we and the Kuomintang army are now engaged in a time war, whoever is one step ahead in the battle will win the battle, don't talk nonsense, act immediately!" ”

All the generals rushed out, and those who had a task quickly rushed to their troops to prepare for battle. Those who did not have a task were all vigorously armed, and the whole army was on standby.

At 3:30 p.m. that day.

Li Yunlong, the commander of the 1st Brigade, led the soldiers of the 1st Brigade to attack for five hours, and then slaughtered the county town of Ningdu in the west with an indomitable momentum.

"Boom!"

Outside the east gate of Ningdu, thunderous cannons suddenly sounded, and the gate of the county town that was closed was immediately overturned by mortar shells, and the soldiers of the security regiment stationed at the east gate were either killed or wounded.

The heroic Li Yunlong picked up his machine gun and led the stormtroopers to immediately rush into the chaotic East Gate, shooting at the enemy who was still armed and trying to counterattack.

Dozens of soldiers who followed opened fire one after another, launched intensive strafing at all targets, and in a blink of an eye, they occupied the east gate of Ningdu, and the 4,000 soldiers of the 1st Brigade of the Young Communist Party drove straight into the center of the county.

The battle at the eastern gate of the county frightened the unprepared defenders of the city.

Zhang Fengliang, the head of the Ningdu Security Regiment, fell from the third aunt's too smooth carcass in fright in the dense gunfire, and when he fell to the ground, he immediately woke up to the fact that Ningdu had suffered a large-scale attack by the red bandits, and under the anger, he could no longer care about enjoying the jade body of the third aunt, and hurriedly issued an order to rescue the east gate.

Zhang Fengliang loudly ordered the adjutant to mobilize men and horses to gallop to the east gate, and on the other hand, he quickly put on his military uniform and put on his weapons, and turned over his horse surrounded by several busy adjutants, and then led hundreds of guards to rush through the chaotic street, hurriedly gathered hundreds of soldiers of the security regiment, and rushed straight to the east gate.

"What are you still doing in a daze, don't you join the big army soon, the enemy is coming from the east gate!" An undressed officer, shouted angrily at the panicked soldiers.

The soldiers of the security regiment heard the commander's words, and a group of panicked soldiers began to join the marching array, preparing to rescue the east gate, but the four thousand soldiers of the first brigade were not easy to provoke, and the soldiers of the security regiment had just entered the east gate avenue, and the mortars that had been erected immediately let out an angry roar, and the artillery fire directly overturned the dense queue of security regiment soldiers.

Hundreds of soldiers of the security regiment suffered heavy casualties from the shells, and they were immediately defeated as soon as they came into close contact with the Red Army, and the soldiers who came from behind were also crushed to death by the powerful firepower of the first brigade.

"Comrades, rush with me! The enemy is in front, as long as we destroy this group of enemies, Ningdu will be taken! Li Yunlong gave an order, picked up the machine gun, and shouted at the soldiers behind him, and then he took the lead and rushed forward.

The sound of machine guns "da-da-da" constantly rang out on Dongmen Avenue.

"Tuanza, the firepower of the red bandits is too fierce, not only mortars, but also a large number of automatic weapons, the brothers have suffered heavy casualties, and they are almost unbearable!"

A wounded officer of the security regiment rushed into Zhang Fengliang's regimental headquarters, crying loudly, and the blood on his forehead also flowed down as he spoke, and his image was extremely embarrassed.

"Death will be resisted for me, I will give you another 300 men and horses, and I will definitely recapture the East Gate, and if I lose the East Gate, I will not be able to keep it!" Zhang Fengliang was slightly flustered in his words, but he still resolutely ordered his subordinates to go back and fight to the death.

"Yes." After receiving reinforcements from 300 men, the officers had no choice but to take orders.

"Tuanza, this red bandit is not good! If we continue like this, we will definitely not be able to hold Ningdu, so we have to leave a way back as soon as possible! Seeing that Zhang Fengliang had no one around, the adjutant immediately whispered in his ear, analyzing the current situation and asking him to make plans as soon as possible.

"Then what can I do, it's too late to ask for help from Shangfeng at this time, so I can only find a way to survive today, and hope that tomorrow Commander-in-Chief Jiang will lead the army to rescue us." Zhang Fengliang said helplessly.

It's just that his idea could not be realized, because the fighters of the 1st Brigade did not give him this opportunity.

"Comrades, rush!"

"Shoot or kill!"

Similar voices came and went, and the pace of the charge was getting closer and closer to the regimental command post.

"What's going on?" Zhang Fengliang and the adjutant hurriedly came outside when they heard the voice, grabbed a soldier who had fled backwards and asked.

"Tuanza, run for your life, the enemy's fire is too fierce, and the brothers can't stop it." After the soldier finished speaking, he didn't care whether the one in front of him was his own regiment commander or not, and he just ran away, only hating why his father and mother didn't give him two more legs.

"What?" Zhang Fengliang couldn't believe his ears, he had just pulled out three hundred officers guarding the city, it had only been less than twenty minutes, and he couldn't stand it so quickly?

"Tuanzao, let's run, stay in the green mountains, don't worry about running out of firewood, we will have a chance to escape when we get out of the county!" The adjutant anxiously persuaded Zhang Fengliang, and the sound of the Red Army's charge horn in the distance was getting closer and closer.

"Listen to you, hurry up!" Zhang Fengliang, who reacted, immediately took his loyal guards and fled from the county seat in a hurry.

At night, in the headquarters of the Young Communist Division in Shicheng, Zhang Cheng had already received a good news from the First Brigade, but at this time he did not have any joy, and his expression was still unusually calm and calm.

Since serving as the commander of the International Division of the Young Communist Party, Zhang Cheng has always given people a tall image of calm and self-confidence, tenacity and determination, and command, but no one knows that Zhang Cheng actually has times when he is hesitant and helpless in his heart, but more than 20,000 lives of the Young Communist Division are like a mountain on his shoulders, and he has to face difficulties.

When he received the urgent information from the Central Military Commission of the Revolution and learned that more than 80,000 people were about to attack his troops, Zhang Cheng almost had the idea of leading the whole army to break through the encirclement and fight guerrilla attacks regardless of the immediate disregard at that moment, but the heavy sense of historical mission made him immediately cut off this dangerous thought, and instead racked his brains to desperately think of a way out for the troops, and for this reason, he stayed up all night.

At this time, Zhang Cheng thought most about not whether he could destroy the enemy, but whether he could lead the troops to break through the encirclement and keep up with the pace of the Red Army's main force of the Long March.

However, Zhang Cheng also knew that if he did not eliminate the Jiang Dingwen army in front of him, even if his Young Communist Division could break through, it would be surrounded and pursued by an army of 80,000, and it was very likely to repeat the bloody battle of the Xiangjiang River of the International Division of the Young Communist Party in history, with most of the casualties, and finally arrived in northern Shaanxi and was withdrawn.

It is precisely because of this that Zhang Cheng made up his mind to lead the army to desperately deal with the enemy, resolutely eliminate Jiang Ding's cultural department, defeat the enemy's arrogance, make them frightened of the Young Communist Division, and force them not to dare to launch a pursuit of the Young Communist Division, which was about to march on the Long March.