Chapter 3 Ambush of the Enemy's 26th Division

In the early morning of the next day, Li Yunlong, who had been assigned to the combat mission, got busy early. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

According to the order of the division commander, Li Yunlong hid the main force of the 58th Regiment in the dense forest on the side of the Tiger Mountain in the north of the canyon, and all the soldiers hung green branches and leaves on their bodies, waiting for the enemy to enter the ambush circle.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, after inspecting all the ambush positions of the 58th Regiment, Chief of Staff Zhang Fengming called Li Yunlong, Liu Yutang, and the three commanders of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Battalions, Wei Mingyuan, Daniel Zhang, and Wang Ziming, to hold a pre-battle meeting.

Zhang Fengming suggested that the three battalions be deployed in echelon formation, with the first battalion with the strongest combat effectiveness and the most veterans serving as the main force and garrisoning the first-line positions, while the second battalion, which is half old and half recruited, acted as the rear guard and stationed the second-line positions, and the third battalion was to act as a reserve together with the regimental headquarters.

Li Yunlong had only one reason: the 58th Regiment was a gun for the whole regiment, and there was never a statement that the main force or reserve was there, and all three battalions were stationed in the front-line positions, and veterans were used to lead new recruits, and the whole regiment was a veteran after this battle.

After Zhang Fengming thought about it, he also agreed with Li Yunlong's statement, but he was a cautious person, so he still called Li Yunlong's suggestion to report to the division commander, and the division commander's answer was only two words: "Very good!" ”

In the end, the battle plan negotiated by the 58th Regiment was that the whole regiment would spread out in a "one" formation, make a desperate bet, and plunge into the battle with the greatest strength and firepower.

After the combat mission was issued, all the positions of the 58th Regiment were immediately busy, and all battalions, companies, platoons, and squads quickly arrived in place and made concealed movements.

At 13 o'clock in the afternoon, all the soldiers of the Young Communist Division were already concealed in place, and the entire Nakou area was extremely quiet, just waiting for the enemy to enter the ambush circle.

Zhang Cheng's prediction was correct, and the 26th Division had already begun to force the Minjiang River at this time. At 14 o'clock in the afternoon, a report came from the reconnaissance battalion that the enemy had all crossed the river, and the whole division began to march rapidly, and a vanguard regiment of the 26th Division began to enter the ambush circle, and the main force was divided into three roads to advance in columns.

Zhou Zhiqun, the commander of the 26th Division, should be a promising soldier on the whole, Zhou Zhiqun was born on December 10, 1898 in Qiongshui County, Guizhou Province (now Sansui) Qingdong Cink, his family is a local noble family, the local name Confucian, the family is rich and rich, in such a family background, Zhou Zhiqun received a good education since he was a child, and was inspired by revolutionary ideas during the education period, when Yuan Shikai stole the fruits of the revolution, Zhou Zhiqun resolutely abandoned his pen and joined the revolutionary army.

Zhou Zhiqun joined the army after the southern and northern wars, accumulated merit and rose to the division commander, when the Red Army was encircled and suppressed, he saw through the true face of Chang Kaishen to eliminate the local warlords by the hands of the Red Army, and often avoided the Red Army passively, but unfortunately Zhou Zhiqun refused the Red Army's pull in 1931, or with the mentality of local warlords to deal with the situation.

It was not until the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War that Zhou Zhiqun changed from a warlord to a patriotic general, throwing his head and spilling blood for the anti-Japanese war, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhou Zhiqun once again saw through Chang Kaishen's fake democracy and true dictatorship, refused Chang Kaishen's call, and resolutely took off his military uniform and went home, and there was no news since then.

Although Zhang Cheng knew that Zhou Zhiqun was a meritorious person in history, it was a pity that the two of them were fighting against the battlefield at this time, during the war, Zhang Cheng treated the enemy only harshly, and if you want to be generous, you must wait until after the victory, as the old saying goes, only the winner can be generous.

Recently, Zhou Zhiqun's mood is not very good, he inherited the old foundation of Wang Tianpei's Tenth Army, he has a deep affection for the Tenth Army, the 26th Division is the only remaining soldier of the Tenth Army, he does not want to fight with the Red Army at all, and the Red Army will be defeated and injured, and his own soldiers will be exhausted.

Moreover, Zhou Zhiqun knew that the Red Army was an extremely difficult hard bone, the bravest unit he had ever seen, and that as long as an order was given, the Red Army completely ignored the ground-to-air firepower network composed of artillery, aircraft, and heavy machine guns of the Kuomintang Party, and often rushed into the fire trap of the Kuomintang army with flesh and blood. In battle with such a brave army, even if it is victorious, it will kill a thousand enemies and lose eight hundred.

It's a pity that after eating Chang Kaishen's grain and taking Chang Kaishen's salary, he has to listen to Chang Kaishen's orders, even if Zhou Zhiqun doesn't want to fight, then he can't help it, especially in the face of Zhu Peide's urging telegrams one after another, he had to order the whole army to speed up and enter the war zone with a rapid march.

Soon, the vanguard regiment of the enemy's 26th Division ran through the ambush circle of the Grand Canyon to the south of Nakou Village, and the main force of the 26th Division also completely entered the ambush circle, the 26th Division is the old foundation of the 10th Army, the 10th Army is known as the "Steel Army", the soldiers with high morale are carrying rifles on their shoulders, the Makqin heavy machine gun is carried by four people, and the mountain artillery and mortar are dragged by donkey carts.

Seeing that the enemy's vanguard regiment was about to arrive at the entrance of the village, and the scouts also sent a report that the enemy's rear guard had completely entered the ambush circle, Zhang Cheng felt that the time had come, and aimed his rifle at an officer on a horse in the ambush circle.

Under the leadership of company commander Zhang Feng, the sharpshooters of the sniper company opened fire one after another at the targets they had already locked, and for a time, the enemy's junior officers, gunners, and machine gunners were shot and killed one after another.

The soldiers of the 26th Division were suddenly ambushed, and they subconsciously looked at their superiors, but when they saw that blood was constantly gushing from their superiors' heads and chests, they were all horrified. At this moment, where is there still time for them to be stunned and stunned, and they are not allowed to react, on the mortar position, there was a burst of artillery fire, and the artillery fire composed of eight mortars suddenly exploded, which immediately made them cry wolf howl, and stumps and broken arms flew all over the sky.

The light and heavy machine guns of the temporary firepower battalion led by Zhang Cheng also began to continuously spray at the enemy in the ambush circle, and the firepower network formed by 18 heavy machine guns and 36 light machine guns swung into the crowded marching ranks of the 26th Division like the sickles of death.

At the same time, the soldiers of the 58th Regiment on the slope on the other side of the canyon withdrew their camouflage one after another, and under Li Yunlong's order, they threw off their arms one by one and threw them violently, dropping more than 2,000 grenades like a torrential rain.

The artillerymen at the end of the 26th Division hurriedly removed the mortars from the donkey carts and tried to counterattack our troops. Seeing this, a more astute officer hurriedly shouted: "There's no time to assemble the mortar, what about the machine gunner, rush over to Lao Tzu and fight a bloody way!" ”

It's a pity that the officer just finished shouting, "bang", a bullet was shot into his head, the skull was opened, the white brain mixed with blood spurted out, flowing all over the ground, the soldiers saw their commander was shot in the head, frightened, hurriedly threw the girl back and ran, only hated the father and mother for missing two legs, but unfortunately they were still greeted by a storm of cannonballs, grenades, bullets.

The soldiers of the vanguard regiment running at the front of the marching procession immediately understood that their troops were ambushed after hearing the sound of gunfire behind them, and quickly turned around and fled in the direction of Yicheng, hoping to break out of the encirclement.

Who knew that at the end of the horizon, hundreds of cavalry appeared, and before they could react, a dense barrage of bullets came head-on. When they met on a narrow road, the soldiers of the 26th Division did not have time to stop their steps, and they were like dominoes in a chain reaction, and they continued to fall one after another.

Drip Tick Tick Tick ......

Zhang Cheng saw that the 26th Division had been cut off by our army and divided into several teams, and judging that the enemy had completely collapsed, he immediately ordered the trumpeter to blow the horn of the attack, and then grabbed a light machine gun and shouted; "Comrades, come with me!" , they jumped out of the trench and rushed towards the enemy.

On the other side of the canyon, Li Yunlong threw his rifle to the guards, picked up a ghost-headed knife, and shouted the same "Comrades, follow me!" The soldiers of the whole regiment, from the political commissar, battalion commander, company commander, to the soldiers, grooms, and cooks, everyone immediately followed the regiment commander and launched a charge.

At the same time, the soldiers of the 59th and 60th regiments ambushed in Nakou Village were also led by Ding Wei and Zhou Weiguo, picked up red cherry guns, flat poles, and hoes, and all kinds of cold weapons swept towards the 26th Division in the ambush circle......

The enemy's position was completely disorganized.