On 29 November, just after dawn and before the Young Communist Division had time to carry out its battle plan, groups of enemy planes of the Kuomintang dropped bombs on the Red Army's defensive positions, and then the enemy's artillery launched the most intense bombardment of the Red Army positions. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The front-line positions of the waterwheels garrisoned by the 1st and 6th Brigades of the Young Communist Division were also bombarded by heavy artillery from the enemy's 5th and 99th Divisions.

"According to the reports of the two generals, Chen Cheng and Jiang Dingwen, to the chairman of the committee, the International Division of the Red Bandits and Young Communist Party has invented an extremely effective method of tunnel warfare in response to the bombing of our army's aircraft and artillery, and immediately sent a report to the chairman of the committee asking the chairman to send more air forces to continue dropping bombs.

With the dispatch of Zhou Hunyuan's telegram, eight more planes flew over the heads of the 1st and 6th Brigades, constantly hovering over the positions, and the enemy planes continued to carry out low-altitude dive bombing and strafing on our positions, and finally caused great trouble to the Red Army troops.

Seeing the enemy planes recklessly bombing and strafing our troops, everyone in the division's party committee frowned.

Similarly, the pillbox fortifications built on the positions were the focus of bombing by enemy planes. It couldn't go on like this any longer, and finally, Zhang Cheng made up his mind: "Order the air defense company to be dispatched, and the rest of the departments to mobilize two hundred machine gunners to stand by." ”

When the communications corps heard Zhang Cheng's order, they immediately became excited, knowing that the division commander was going to take action against the arrogant enemy planes. You must know that although the Tibetan Soldier Cave avoided a large number of casualties among the troops, the non-stop bombing of enemy planes also caused a lot of casualties to the Young Communist Division, and hundreds of soldiers had fallen under the enemy's bombardment.

At this time, all the officers and men of the Young Communist Division held their breath and vowed to avenge the sacrificed comrades-in-arms and give the arrogant enemy planes a little color.

Previously, the division headquarters had a strict order that in order not to attract more enemy planes to bomb, the air defense company was forbidden to deal with enemy planes. However, the division headquarters obviously underestimated Zhou Hunyuan's determination not to give up if he did not raze the waterwheel to the ground, and the forbearance of the young communist division was no longer necessary.

Soon, the order reached the air defense company, and the soldiers of the air defense company were already hungry and thirsty, and there were so many planes overhead, but they could not go up to fight because of the order of the division headquarters, and the soldiers had long been suffocated.

The machine gunners of various units also rushed to sign up, and although many of the fighters had never hit a plane, the enemy's planes continued to take the lives of their comrades, and they had already gone crazy with anger.

Soon, in order to better combat the enemy planes, the commanders of the various units transferred the best machine gunners, so that in less than half an hour, 200 machine gunners and soldiers of the air defense company came to the division headquarters to assemble and stand by.

Because the air defense company had the experience of fighting planes last time, several hundred machine gunners quickly divided into several combat detachments under the command of the commander of the air defense company, Fang Zizi, and rushed to their respective combat positions.

Soon, the enemy planes of the Red Army immediately shifted direction, and in less than a minute, eight planes flew over, and the troops acting as luring the enemy quickly burrowed into the woods on both sides of the road, while the machine gunners who were lying in ambush on both sides of the road aimed their crosshairs in front of the enemy planes.

Dada......

With Fang Zizai's order, hundreds of machine guns fired out a fire blockade line, and six planes could not dodge, and were immediately swept by machine guns, and the wings and tails of the planes fell one after another with thick smoke and exploded.

Zhou Hunyuan saw this scene through the telescope, and immediately ordered all the rest of the planes to fly into the air, and go back after throwing all the bombs.

After knocking out the planes that were the most threatening to the troops, the counteroffensive of the Young Communist Division seemed to be imminent.

However, Zhou Hunyuan did not intend to let go of the Young Communist Division, as soon as the plane left, the enemy immediately opened artillery bombardment of the forward positions of the 1st Brigade and the 6th Brigade, and the battle was white-hot at the beginning, and all the fortifications were leveled by artillery shells.

Zhang Cheng has also understood this battle so far, not only Zhang Cheng is fighting Zhou Hunyuan's column's attention, but Zhou Hunyuan's column is also fighting the idea of the young communist division.

After Zhang Cheng figured it out, he was angry and laughed at the arrogant enemy: "If the tiger doesn't threaten you, I will be a sick cat!" ”

At this time, the forward position was held by a regiment of the 1st brigade, a group prostrate among the remaining trenches, craters and steep slopes, either clutching their guns or carrying grenades, and the heavy machine gunners also reloaded, waiting for the enemy to attack.

Zhang Cheng saw through the telescope that the enemy who rushed up was the 99th Division of Zhou Hunyuan's column, and the enemy had learned wisely, and the attack formation was no longer densely stacked together, but scattered in small groups in twos and threes.

After Chen Zhengxiang, the former commander of the First Regiment, was promoted to the commander of the Fifth Brigade, Li Yunlong was exceptionally promoted and handed over the regiment with the strongest combat effectiveness to Huang Dingji, which shows Li Yunlong's trust in him.

Huang Dingji was very calm, and did not give the order to open fire until the enemy was close to 50 meters, and there were many automatic firearms in the less communist division, and one regiment had 36 heavy machine guns and hundreds of light machine guns; Submachine guns and automatic rifles were widespread in squad platoons, the intensity of fire was predictable, and the regiment was also equipped with eight mortars specifically to deal with the enemy's heavy fire.

As soon as a regiment launched a counterattack, the attack of the 99th Division was quickly repulsed, but the enemy, relying on the superiority of troops, repeatedly rushed and killed regardless of the cost, and the people in front fell, and the people behind rushed up again, like waves, wave after wave.

A regiment is strong, the enemy's 99th Division is not a bad seed, the two sides quickly killed red eyes, close shooting, bombing, and even fighting bayonets, the casualties of a regiment also began to gradually increase, and there were gaps in the position several times, fortunately, Huang Dingji took the lead and led the reserve team to kill the enemy several times.

As the enemy's 5th and 99th Divisions continued to increase their forces and repeatedly put pressure on the positions of the 1st and 6th Brigades, the positions of the two brigades were already shaky.

In this regard, Zhang Cheng had already made full preparations, and he ordered Li Yunlong and Zhang Fengming to resolutely hold their positions at all costs and firmly hold back the troops of these two divisions.