The local people looked at the huge military formation, although they were curious and wanted to look forward, and were frightened by the murderous momentum of the soldiers, and the people who were used to being harmed by the warlords hurriedly hid in their homes. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhou Hunyuan's column took the initiative to retreat under the Young Communist Division, and soon approached Liping City, but when they saw Liping City hanging alone on the top of the mountain, they still gasped, and there was only one mountain road to attack Liping and enter the city, and the terrain was obvious that it was easy to defend and difficult to attack.

But at this time, Guo Siyan had just grabbed the opportunity to fight the first battle in front of Zhou Hunyuan, so he could only attack hard.

Fortunately, Zhou Hunyuan's column was a descendant of the Central Army, and Zhou Hunyuan was also extremely favored in front of Chang Kaishen, and in order to successfully eliminate the Young Communist Division, he specially mobilized 6 planes to provide air support.

Seeing the planes flying over the Red Bandits' positions, Guo Siyan ordered the 99th Division to attack first, and as soon as it came up, it adopted the standard textbook attack method strictly formulated by the German instructors, concentrated all the artillery fire, and launched a fierce attack on the forward positions under the county seat of Liping under the cover of the planes.

Jiang Yonghui, commander of the Fifth Regiment of the Second Brigade, commanded the front-line garrison, and he strictly followed Zhang Cheng's prior arrangements and under the direct command of Ding Wei, he did not blindly fight to the death with the enemy's 99th Division. Instead, they made use of the fortifications that had already been built in advance to fight against each other.

During the battle, Jiang Yonghui strictly carried out Ding Wei's order to get the enemy closer before fighting, and waited for the enemy's fire to cover it and then fired after reaching a straight-line distance of nearly 80 meters.

The Fifth Regiment made up for the lack of troops with powerful automatic firepower, and also allowed the enemy planes in the sky to drop rats because of the extreme proximity of the two armies, which greatly reduced its bombing effect on the ground.

The combat effectiveness of the 99th Division is far from being comparable with the original 99th Division that was eliminated before, but it was also able to become an army after formal training, and its soldiers are relatively proficient in tactical movements and have tacit cooperation.

In addition to strictly implementing Zhang Cheng's policy of concentrating a large number of light and heavy machine guns and grenadiers in the forward positions to kill and injure a large number of enemy troops at close range, Jiang Yonghui also made certain improvements to Zhang Cheng's tactics in light of his own situation.

He concentrated all the machine guns of the 5th Regiment in the hands of a reconnaissance company with the strongest combat effectiveness, plus a grenadier company with a large number of grenades and grenades and a particularly outstanding throwing ability, to form a firefighting assault battalion.

The assault battalion specializes in using a dense rain of grenades and powerful automatic firepower to exert its mobile and flexible characteristics to strike at attacking troops that are about to break through the firepower to intercept the approaching forward positions. Using this method of operation, the Fifth Regiment commanded by Jiang Yonghui repelled the first wave of attack of the enemy's 99th Division, inflicting considerable casualties on the enemy's 99th Division.

However, the first wave of the attack was only a tentative attack by the enemy's 99th Division, and the second wave of formal offensive soon began again, this time the enemy's 99th Division attacked the 5th Regiment with two whole regiments, and easily took the position of the 5th Regiment.

Guo Siyan was originally excited to get the task of the main attack, and when he saw that his troops only used one charge, they took the front-line position that had caused huge casualties to the troops before, and his heart suddenly blossomed.

The staff officer next to him saw a smile on the corner of Guo Siyan's mouth, although he felt that something was wrong, he didn't dare to sweep the interest of his boss, and he didn't dare to say it. He felt his temper as a division commander very clearly, and if he said something he shouldn't say at this time, I was afraid that a big mouth would fan him directly.

On the contrary, the staff officer also patted Guo Siyan very knowingly and said: "Master, this time we have a big face." The attack of the other two divisions has not yet been captured, and our division will be the first to attack, and after the elimination of the International Division of the Young Communist Party, the high promotion of the division seat is just around the corner. Perhaps, as soon as the chairman of the committee is happy, you don't have to be the deputy commander anymore, and you will directly become the commander of the army. ”

As soon as his sycophant came out, although several staff officers around him despised this guy in their hearts, they were not willing to lag behind, and they almost didn't say that Guo Si was the reincarnation of a military god.

Regarding the big sycophants of his subordinates, Guo Siyan, who was secretly refreshed in his heart at this time, although his face was a little disappreciative, he waved his hand again and again hypocritically, and said modestly: "It is not my work to go so smoothly this time, it is all due to the command of the military seat." The International Division of the Young Communist Party fled in a hurry under the pressure of the military seat, so that our division was able to successfully take the position of the Red Bandits. ”

But before his smug energy had passed, a dense explosion suddenly occurred on the forward position he had just occupied, which made him stunned. Looking at his subordinates who were blown up into the sky in pieces, Guo Siyan was completely dumbfounded.

Before he could wake up from the shock, the next scene almost made his eyes fall off.

Hundreds of red bandits armed with machine guns suddenly appeared from the rear of the position, and they fired one after another without saying a word, and the dense rain of bullets knocked down his troops one by one, mixed with a large number of mortar shells, and even more blew up the follow-up troops of the enemy's 99th Division.

Accompanied by the dense sound of gunfire, the positions of the Red Army suddenly sounded the sound of charging horns. A large number of Red Army, which had just disappeared, appeared out of nowhere, and under the cover of powerful firepower, launched a fierce counterattack, and the position that the enemy had just taken was surrendered to the Red Army, during which the 99th Division also reimbursed two whole regiments.

Guo Siyan, who was watching the battle with a telescope in his hand on the opposite hill, watched his two regiments being defeated in just ten minutes, not to mention, the follow-up receiving troops were also bombarded by the rain of mortar shells and suffered heavy casualties, which made him deeply understand what it means to "the ups and downs of life are too fast, and they are really too exciting."

Guo Siyan's 99th Division failed in the attack, and the attack of the other two divisions was not much better.

The enemy's 13th Division and the enemy's 96th Division launched an attack on the positions of the 3rd and 6th Brigades, and these two divisions quickly retreated after the defeat of the 5th and 99th Divisions in the battle of the Xiangjiang River, so they did not suffer any major losses and their combat effectiveness remained very intact.

The two divisions progressed very smoothly in the first phase of combat operations, to Zhou Hunyuan's great satisfaction. But the next battle was extremely difficult. The firepower and resistance of the Young Communist Division greatly exceeded Zhou Hunyuan's expectations.

The 13th Division was responsible for entertaining Zhang Fengming's 6th Brigade. Zhang Fengming was the most average general in the township party brought out by Zhang Cheng. In terms of tackling tough problems, he is not as good as Li Yunlong; In terms of mobility and flexibility, he is not as good as Ding Wei; In terms of toughness, he is not as good as Zhou Weiguo. But he is the one with the highest overall quality among the four, which can be seen from the fact that he was the first of the four to become a division-level cadre.

In the enemy's ferocious attack, Zhang Fengming led the 6th Brigade to rely on the favorable terrain to block the attack, but it was relaxed and the rhythm was very well controlled, and the enemy's 13th Division was tortured by him very uncomfortable and wanted to cry.

At the same time, the 96th Division, which had been arrogant and almost unimpeded, and thought that its opponent had been frightened by the prestige of the Central Army, had just entered the forward position of the Third Brigade when it encountered a mortar bombardment head-on, and the entire infantry regiment that hit it was torn to pieces in the dense shells.

The 96th Division, which was hit head-on, immediately adjusted its tactics under the command of its division commander. Attack from the front with a part of the force, while the main force adopts the tactic of outflanking on the right flank, trying to open a gap in the defender's right flank.

The commander of the enemy's 96th Division did not know that the Third Brigade was the most tenacious unit in the Young Communist Division, and the military flag and banner awarded to him was "Copper Wall and Iron Wall".

The right flank of the 3rd Brigade looks much smaller than elsewhere, but the automatic fire is frighteningly high. The rain of bullets from the heavy machine guns that were arranged with a large number of cross-fire was perfectly combined with the interceptive fire network formed by mortar shells, and unceremoniously dealt a blow to the enemy's 96th Division, which had never suffered a big loss.

The attacking troops of the enemy's 96th Division were placed at a close distance of 100 meters, and then fired, and the heavy machine guns of the 3rd Brigade almost did not need to be aimed, as long as they kept shaking and firing, they would knock down the attacking enemy troops one by one.

The attacks of the three divisions were defeated together, and Zhou Hunyuan had no choice but to put the 5th Division, which was originally used as a reserve, into the attack, hoping to use the tactics of the sea of people to tear apart the defense line of the Young Communist Division.

This is exactly what Zhang Cheng wants.