At 10 o'clock in the morning of November 25, on the east bank of Xiaoshui, the 15th and 23rd divisions of the Hunan Army led by Li Yunjie swooped down on the left and right sides of the east towards the orange orchard position garrisoned by the Young Communist Division, and the battle was white-hot from the beginning. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Like the battle of longevity, the Sixth Brigade once again received the task of feints to defeat and lure the enemy, but the difference is that this time the Sixth Brigade has the same hatred for the enemy, from the brigade commander Zhang Fengming to the small soldiers, the officers and men of the whole brigade vowed to wash away the shame of feints and defeats in the battle of longevity, and resisted extremely fiercely.

As early as the late Qing Dynasty, especially in the suppression of the Taiping Army, the courage of the Hunan army was famous all over the world.

As expected, the soldiers of the 15th and 23rd Divisions of Li Yunjie's division were all from the Yizhang and Linwu areas of Hunan Province, and because they were fighting at home and the Kuomintang's malicious propaganda against the Workers' and Peasants' Party (Communist wives, etc.), the soldiers of the Hunan Army were also highly motivated, and launched a needle-to-needle offensive and defensive battle with the Sixth Brigade.

Since most of the senior leaders of the Young Communist Division were from Hunan Province and had an accurate judgment of the combat effectiveness of the Hunan army, the Sixth Brigade did not panic in the face of a fierce and abnormal enemy.

With mental preparation, the officers and men of the Sixth Brigade did not panic, calmly responded to the battle, made full use of the advantages of the terrain, and inflicted a large number of casualties on the enemy with mortars and heavy machine guns, which seriously dampened the spirit of the Hunan army.

After more than an hour of fighting, at the signal of Zhang Cheng, Zhang Fengming led the officers and men of the Sixth Brigade to cover alternately, block the attack layer by layer, and gradually retreat to the Baimadu position in an orderly manner, and jointly block the Hunan army with the officers and men of the Fifth Brigade.

Zhang Cheng observed the retreat of the Sixth Brigade from a distance, nodded and praised: "Shibei three days, when you look at it, this battle of the Sixth Brigade is well fought, and the progress is very great, compared with the last feint defeat turned into a real defeat, it can be said that it has been reborn." ”

Xiao Hua echoed: "Chief of Staff Zhang Fengming has seriously grasped the work of the Sixth Brigade since the battle of Yanshou, although there is still a gap between the tactical quality and the old Third Brigade, but compared with the past, it can be said that there has been a huge improvement.

After retreating to the Baimadu position, the 6th Brigade and the 5th Brigade joined forces, and the Hunan Army suddenly felt that the resistance of the Young Communist Division had suddenly doubled, and the spirit of the attack was greatly reduced again, but ferocity was the gene of the Hunan Army.

Even if they were more than five miles away from the Baimadu position, they could still smell the bloody spirit of the Hunan army in Zhangcheng. Although the two sides fought separately, Zhang Cheng couldn't help but admire this group of soldiers in his heart, and thought in his heart: "No wonder the Japanese devils who swept most of China within a year were blocked outside Changsha City, if there was no blood of the Hunan Army, the People's Party would have decided not to hold out on to the day of victory in the War of Resistance." ”

Xiao Hua was also a little shocked when he saw it, and said worriedly: "Our position will not really be broken by the Hunan army, right?" I'm afraid that the feint will turn into a real defeat, and the loss will be very large. ”

Zhang Cheng said: "To believe in our soldiers, Chen Zhengxiang is definitely not easy to deal with. You wait, one blow, then decline, decline and exhaustion, after the afternoon, the Hunan army will show a decline. ”

Xiao Hua quickly calmed down when he heard this, and he said again: "What are the casualties of the Sixth Brigade, I'll call and ask." ”

After the phone was connected, Zhang Fengming replied that the casualties of the Sixth Brigade were only more than 300, Xiao Hua was completely relieved this time, thinking that even the Sixth Brigade, which accounted for the vast majority of recruits, only suffered more than 300 casualties, and the Fifth Brigade, which accounted for half of the old Red Army, should be stronger than the Sixth Brigade.

In the afternoon, the attack of the Hunan army really slowed down, but the background was still there, so Zhang Cheng ordered the fifth and sixth brigades to cover alternately and withdraw to Daozhou City.

The battle situation of the two brigades was also quickly counted, although the battle was very hard, but the final casualties of the sixth brigade were only more than 400 people, and the fifth brigade suffered more than 300 casualties.

At about 2 p.m., the arrogant 15th and 23rd Divisions, ignoring the huge casualties in the morning, immediately launched a group charge against Daozhou City after a round of mountain artillery bombardment, in a vain attempt to break the city wall in one fell swoop and annihilate the "defeated and fled" Red Army. At this time, the combat units of the Young Communist Division were already in place and were also ready to counterattack.

For the 15th and 23rd divisions of the Hunan Army, Zhang Cheng undoubtedly attached great importance to it. At least in Zhang Cheng's view, after successively defeating the Central Army of the Kuomintang and the Guangdong Army, the Young Communist Division must fight against the Hunan Army for the first time, and it must thoroughly display the prestige of the Young Communist Division, deter the increasingly arrogant Hunan Army, and lay a good front station for the subsequent battle on the Xiangjiang River, so that it will not dare to wantonly pursue and suppress the Red Army again

Compared with the previous heavy damage to the 2nd and 3rd divisions of the Guangdong Army, Zhang Cheng felt that the elimination of the 15th and 23rd divisions of the Hunan Army at present would play a greater role in the overall situation of the Red Army, eliminating the 15th and 23rd divisions, and there was no more pursuing enemy on the east bank of Xiaoshui, and the Young Communist Division could effectively support other combat units of the Red Army.

Looking at Daozhou City, which was still at war, the attack and defense of the Hunan army and the defending troops had completely fallen into a stalemate, Zhang Cheng knew that the time had come, he nodded at Li Dahai, Li Dahai immediately took out a signal gun, pulled the trigger, and with a "bang", a colored signal flare suddenly exploded after rising into the air, and people within a radius of ten miles could see it.

The four artillery positions located behind the city wall, at the moment when they saw the signal flare burst, Sun Youdao, who had been waiting for a long time, gave an order, and the artillery roared.

The sound of the roaring shelling, accompanied by the explosion of the signal flare, once again attracted the attention of the Hunan army. The Hunan army besieging the city immediately realized that something was wrong.

Li Yunjie, who was sitting in the rear headquarters, immediately changed his expression when he saw the signal flare exploding, and exclaimed: "Not good! We've fallen for the Red Bandits! ”

"Order our siege troops to retreat at once. The 23rd Division was ready to block the attack, and the 15th Division withdrew first, and then alternately covered. Damn, why is this red bandit so cunning, too much to bully honest people. ”

At this time, Li Yunjie was a little angry, in his opinion, the battle should be fought in a dignified manner, how could he engage in an ambush as shamelessly as the Young Communist Master?

Just as Li Yunjie quickly gave the order, the skyfire meteor that appeared in the sky in front of him rumbled like thunder, and the adjutant who stayed next to him shouted in horror: "Military seat, quickly dodge, the red bandits have begun to shell!" ”

Li Yunjie, who was forcibly pulled by the adjutant to dodge, soon heard a deafening explosion nearby. Listening to this huge explosion, Li Yunjie, who was hiding under the table, was suddenly dumbfounded.

He was half loud before he said angrily: "Your mother! It's mountain artillery! What's going on? How could the red bandits have so many mountain artillery? ”

When the mountain artillery began to roar, the battle immediately returned to the familiar rhythm of the Young Communist Division, the 3rd and 4th Brigades repelled the enemy's attack with all their strength and took advantage of the situation to launch a counterattack, and the divisional artillery regiment concentrated mountain artillery and mortars to cover the attack; The 1st and 2nd Brigades, which were lying in ambush, immediately launched a full-scale surprise attack when they saw the signal from the division headquarters.

The battle went very smoothly, and under the thunderous counterattack and surprise attack of the Young Communist Division, the 23rd Division that blocked the attack immediately collapsed, and the task of covering the retreat of the 15th Division was instantly forgotten, but the 15th Division fled together.

A good ambush battle turned into a pursuit war, at this time the most outstanding performance is the cavalry battalion, the soldiers under the leadership of Wang Hu, brandishing dazzling sabers, hacked a large number of enemies to the ground, a flying head made the enemy tremble and cold, was rushed by the cavalry immediately scattered, can no longer organize an effective counterattack, only hate the father and mother to give birth to their own two legs, desperately escaped.

In the end, the Young Communist Division pursued the enemy ten miles away, capturing more than 3,000 prisoners, killing 4,000 enemies, and more than 5,000 enemies fleeing to various places.

In this battle, the 23rd Division of the Hunan Army was almost wiped out, only less than 1,000 people fled back, lost all weapons and most of the loaded materials, and the troops could almost be withdrawn, and the 15th Division of the Hunan Army lost 3,000 people, and nearly half of the weapons and materials were also lost, and they were also completely disabled.

In order to prevent the enemy from dispatching planes to retaliate, Zhang Cheng ordered his troops to quickly clean up the battlefield, and then built a pontoon bridge overnight to cross Xiaoshui.