Chapter Seventy-Five: Tactical Deception

The unexpected capture of the enemy's 63rd Division's radio station disrupted Zhang Cheng's arrangement, but Zhang Cheng was very pleasantly surprised by the surprise. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 As soon as he entered the door, Lin Li, chief of the communications section, reported to him that Li Jue, commander of the enemy's 19th Division, had called to ask what was happening in front of the 63rd Division, why there was fierce artillery fire, whether he had caught up with the Red Army, whether he had fought with the Red Army, and what was the result of the battle.

Zhang Cheng immediately asked if he had captured the enemy's operator? Lin Li said that she had captured the enemy's telegraph operator, but the enemy telegraph operator refused to cooperate and refused to hand over the code book, and now the comrades of the communications section were helpless against the enemy's 19th Division's inquiries, and once the delay was too long, the radio station of the enemy's 19th Division would definitely find out the clues.

Zhang Cheng immediately ordered: "Call the butcher of the special operations brigade, I still don't believe that he is still obedient under the torture of the butcher." ”

The butcher came over immediately, but under the intimidation of the enemy telegraph operator with the "Ten Tortures of the Manchu Dynasty", the enemy telegraph operator was quickly frightened and obediently recited the code book, which Lin Li immediately used to answer the inquiry of the 19th Division radio.

At Zhang Cheng's suggestion, the telegraph operator replied: "Our division encountered the stubborn resistance of the troops behind the Red Bandit Palace in the Mujiao area, although our army has superior equipment, but the Red Bandits are numerous, and our army is almost unable to hold on. ”

The radio of the enemy's 19th Division immediately replied: "You must hold on, our army will arrive immediately." ”

Thirty minutes later, Wang Hui also sent a telegram that the enemy's 19th Division in the Shiyan area was marching forward and swooping down on Mujiao. Zhang Cheng was overjoyed in his heart, the enemy's 19th Division was really fooled, and then Zhang Cheng told Lin Li to send a telegram every ten minutes to urge the enemy's 19th Division to speed up the pace of action, and then immediately went out to arrange combat deployment.

Under Zhang Cheng's order, the cleaning of the battlefield stopped, and the Second Brigade quickly pulled off the military uniform of the enemy's 63rd Division, and then put it on his body, and there were still a lot of blood stains on his clothes.

Zhang Cheng did not give a briefing on the enemy's situation, but quickly issued an operational order; the troops directly under the Fifth Brigade and the division were concealed and stood by; the Second Brigade disguised themselves as troops of the enemy's 63rd Division, and the First and Fourth Brigades blocked the "enemy 63rd Division." From time to time, the two sides fired guns into the sky, and mortars also fired at the no-man's land, camouflaging a fierce and uplifting appearance.

At this time, all the officers and men of the Young Communist Division had already set up a position, waiting for the enemy's 19th Division to obediently take the bait.

Li Jue, born in 1900, was born in Changsha, Hunan Province. He graduated from the 9th Baoding Military Academy in 1924 and participated in the Northern Expedition in 1926. After 1930, he served as the commander of the 19th Division of the Revolutionary Army of the People's Republic of China and the director of the Hunan Provincial Security Department.

Li Jue is a subordinate of the old warlord Tang Shengzhi in Hunan Province and the eldest son-in-law of the new warlord He Jian in Hunan Province. Since the Agrarian Revolutionary War, relying on the strength of the population and the excellent armament, Li Jue led the 19th Division to defeat the troops of the Red Second Front Army in Xiangxi many times. In the Xiangjiang Campaign to pursue the Central Red Army, his 19th Division broke through the positions of the 1st Army Corps many times, inflicted heavy casualties on the 1st Red Army, and almost captured Lin Nie's two bosses alive.

After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the troops led by Li Jue participated in almost all the battles on the frontal battlefield of the Kuomintang, such as the Battle of Songhu, the Battle of Wuhan, the Battle of Changsha, and so on.

At this time, Li Jue was a little complacent, he participated in the Xiangjiang Campaign, all the way to the momentum, although the Red First Army finally completed the task of covering the Red Army across the river, but the Hunan 19th Division also played its own prestige, repeatedly broke through the Red Army positions, and one of his own partial divisions even attacked near the headquarters of the Red First Army, if it were not for the desperate counterattack of the guards and soldiers of the Red First Army, the famous Lin Husan, Nie Rongzhen, Zuo Quan and other senior generals among the Red Bandits almost became prisoners under him.

Of course, Li Jue also admitted in his heart that the main reason why his troops had the advantage was that they used several times or even ten times the strength of their troops and a strong firepower advantage to fight against the Red Army, which was extremely tired and short of ammunition.

Deep down, he still admired the heroic and tenacious unit of the Red Army. In particular, the Red First Army, which is known as the first-class main force of the Red Army, as long as he gives an order, even if there is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire in front, the Red Army soldiers will rush forward without hesitation, and fight against such a tenacious force.

However, if today's time and place are favorable, and the people are on the side of the Kuomintang, the officers and men of the Red Army, no matter how tenacious they are, are flesh and blood, and they will not be able to resist the bombardment of the Kuomintang planes and artillery. What's more, after the Battle of the Xiangjiang River, the Red Army is almost a remnant army, and its combat effectiveness should be far less than before the war.

Looking at his own 19th Division, because of its particularly good performance in the Xiangjiang Campaign, even Chairman Chang Kaishen heard of his reputation, and specially instructed the 19th Division to give priority to replenishing troops, making up for food and salary, and even strengthening its automatic firepower and artillery a lot, which is not much worse than that of the Central Army.

In the past few days after the Battle of Xiangjiang, he led the 19th Division to chase the Red Army and beat him in the ass, and there were still many results, and many lone Red Army soldiers were either eliminated or captured by him, accumulating great merit. Although the results of the Xiangjiang Battle were not as great, no matter how small the mosquitoes were, they were still meat, and under the chairman's large bounty, these captured Red Army troops and their heads were worth a lot of oceans.

But today's situation is very surprising, the 63rd Division, which was pursuing the Red Army more actively than himself, was actually blocked by the Red Army's rear troops, and also sent a telegram to himself asking for help, obviously the situation is very urgent,

This is really unreasonable, didn't the Battle of Xiangjiang cripple the Red Army? Moreover, the Red Army is far from the base areas, and its troops and ammunition cannot be replenished at all, so how can it still have the strength to launch a counterattack?

Although there are some suspicions, after all, the 63rd Division belongs to the same Hunan army sequence, even if he doesn't like Chen Guangzhong again, the 63rd Division still has to save it, otherwise it will be difficult to explain to Chairman He Jian and Commander Liu Jianxu.

Fortunately, his troops are not far from the 63rd Division, and if they march in a hurry, they will be able to arrive in just over an hour, but they still have to speed up the march, lest the 63rd Division have an accident.

Thinking of this, Li Jue said to the communication soldiers beside him: "Order the whole army to speed up." ”

Under the strict orders of Commander Li Jue, the 19th Division rushed towards death and hell at a speed unprecedented since its formation.