At this time, it was Zhang Laixiao's second detachment and more than 1,000 Tusi soldiers who were guarding the baoza. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Since the fall of the 1st Division, the enemy troops guarding the Baoza have been frightened three times a day, and they have been in panic all day long. To this end, they built a large number of fortifications and pillboxes outside the city, in a vain attempt to hold on to the reinforcements and block the Red Army's northward passage.

In addition, more than 10,000 people from Wu Chengren's division of the enemy's 49th Division, who had received a rescue order, were rushing to the chartered seat.

Destroying the enemy in Baoza and opening up the way forward is an urgent task facing the army on the right flank of the Red Army. In view of the fatigue of the three corps, which had always been responsible for the rearguard task, and the fact that the young column had the most powerful artillery unit of the Red Army, it was more conducive to attacking the fortified positions, Zhang Cheng took the initiative to suggest to the central authorities and the commander-in-chief that the young column, which had rested for more than ten days, take on the task of attacking the garrison, and the commander-in-chief quickly approved this request.

At 8 o'clock in the morning of June 18, Zhang Cheng led the main force of the Shaozong to the front line of Baoza, and in accordance with the order of the Military Commission, the Shaozong served as the vanguard of the right army, captured Baoza, and opened the passage for the whole army to go north.

Attacking the Baoza is a combat mission that Zhang Cheng took the initiative to strive for, and Zhang Cheng is bound to win this battle.

In view of the enemy's situation, Zhang Cheng immediately ordered the whole army to divide into two routes, with the 1st Division, which is good at attacking fortifications, responsible for capturing Baoza, and the 3rd Division responsible for setting up ambushes and reinforcements to annihilate the enemy's 49th Division that came to the rescue.

Baozuo is located in the north of Songpan Baozuo River, divided into upper and lower Baozuo, Baozuo River traverses the north and south, it is the rainy season, the water flow is urgent, the Red Army wants to go north to Gannan and northern Shaanxi, it is necessary to lay Baozuo.

On the eve of the assault on the block, the commander-in-chief personally inspected the Shaozong column, which greatly encouraged the officers and men of the whole army, and Zhang Cheng, on behalf of all the officers and men, expressed his determination to the commander that he would definitely take the seat and annihilate the enemy's 49th Division.

Zhang Laixiao, the 2nd detachment defending the enemy, stationed a battalion in the Dajie Temple on the upper Baozuo, and two battalions in the Qiuji Temple.

The battle to capture Baoza began at 9 a.m. on 19 June, when the 1st Division, 1st Brigade, and the divisional artillery battalion first surrounded the Dajie Temple south of Baoza, and used the artillery battalion's artillery to open the way and bombard the enemy's position.

The 6th Brigade of the 1st Division and an artillery battalion supported by the column surrounded and attacked Qiuji Temple, about 10 kilometers north of Baoza. As a result, Zhang Laixiao's second detachment was divided and surrounded by two brigades of the 1st Division in two isolated strongholds, and they could not escape.

In the evening of the same day, after nightfall, under the cover of the artillery battalion artillery, the 1st Brigade quickly launched a strong attack on the besieged enemy of the Dajie Temple, and killed it from a jungle in front of the Dajie Temple to attack the enemy's outer positions.

The enemy relied on the strong pillboxes and fortifications to resist stubbornly, and the fierce cannon fire shook the entire valley, and the silent earth shook in an instant.

The artillery shells from the artillery battalion constantly jumped up into the air above the pack, forming large red fireballs and smashing on the enemy's carefully constructed positions.

There was only one battalion defending the enemy at Dajie Temple, and under the attack of thousands of soldiers of the first brigade, the enemy battalion commander underestimated the powerful firepower and combat effectiveness of the Red Army, and it had become a luxury to hold on. Seeing that the situation was not good, he immediately led more than a dozen of his cronies and guards to flee first, and the rest of the troops saw that the battalion commander was the first to escape, and the dragons also abandoned their positions one after another, and all of them retreated in the Dajie Temple, relying on the high walls of the temple to resist stubbornly, and on the other hand, they stepped up to ask for help from Wu Chengren's 49th Division.

This is in the hands of Zhang Cheng, Zhang Cheng's purpose is to use the charter seat as a bait to catch Wu Chengren, a big fish, to attack the city as a void, and to send reinforcements as a reality. After seizing all the enemy's outlying positions, the 1st Division was ordered to halt the attack, and only trapped Zhang Laixiao's troops in two strongholds, causing them to panic all day long, and constantly sending telegrams for help.

After Zhou Weiguo received the task of Zhangcheng to fight the enemy's 49th Division, he immediately led the brigade and regiment commanders and operational staff officers to conduct a detailed investigation of the roads that the enemy's 49th Division had to pass.

After inspecting for more than three hours, Zhou Weiguo chose an area that was easy to ambush as an ambush position, and ambushed the 3rd and 4th Brigades of the division's main force in the jungle northwest of Shangbaoza, and waited for the battle.

Wu Chengren, alias Kezhai, is a native of Pucheng, Fujian Province. This tall and mighty general has a rough appearance, and Hu Zongnan is a classmate of the first phase of Whampoa. This person is a protégé of the Son of Heaven, and he is deeply trusted by Chang Kaishen, so he is arrogant and arrogant.

Wu Chengren led the 49th Division to advance all the way along the road leading to Baoza, and arrived at Songlinkou, about 15 kilometers away from Shangbaoza, at 7 p.m. on June 19. After nightfall, the dark curtain fell, the vision was blocked, Wu Chengren immediately ordered the whole division to light the torches and continue to advance, and in an instant, the long line of the 49th Division was like a huge fire dragon winding towards the Baoza.

Although Wu Chengren had already learned the power of the Red Army in previous battles, Wu Chengren firmly believed that the Red Army, which had just destroyed the First Division, was already at the end of its strength and was no longer capable of competing with his well-equipped 49th Division, so he ordered the troops to reinforce the Baozao with great fanfare.

At this time, Wu Chengren had vaguely heard the sound of violent gunfire coming from the direction of the chartered seat, and the garrison's urgent reinforcement telegram came every ten minutes, which made Wu Chengren, who was impatient by nature, urged the troops to speed up their advance.

Seeing that the enemy was so arrogant, Zhou Weiguo immediately ordered the 3rd Brigade and 7th Regiment to adopt the tactics of blocking and luring the enemy into depth, luring the enemy's 49th Division into the ambush circle of the 3rd Division.

At nine o'clock in the evening, the 7th Regiment, as the decoy force, took the lead in the battle with the enemy's vanguard, and although the 7th Regiment had the advantage in the battle, the 7th Regiment still pretended to be invincible in accordance with the strict orders of the division commander, and fought and walked, retreating step by step.

Wu Chengren soon received a report on the battle situation of the vanguard, saying that he was stubbornly blocked by the red bandits near Shangbaoza, and after the stubborn fighting of the brothers, the red bandits were defeated and retreated.

Wu Chengren immediately climbed high and looked into the distance, and observed the battlefield through the telescope and found that the vanguard of the 49th Division had won successive victories under the cover of superior strength and firepower, and continued to advance into the hinterland of the red bandits.

On the other hand, the resistance of the red bandits who retreated step by step and blocked layer by layer was also quite "tenacious", and the battle was extremely "fierce".

Based on his previous experience in fighting with the Red Fourth Front Army, Wu Chengren immediately judged that this was by no means a trick thrown by the Red Bandits to lure the enemy, but that the Red Bandits were "tragically" carrying out reinforcements to block the enemy and buy time for their main force to encircle and annihilate the enemy in Baoza.

Wu Chengren, who had already made a decision in his heart, immediately ordered the main force of the division headquarters to advance at full speed, reinforce the vanguard troops, and quickly crush the red bandit blocking troops, so as to relieve the siege of the enemy.

However, Wu Chengren made a lot of calculations, he never thought that Shaozhong's weapon configuration was completely different from the Red Army he had fought before, and at this time, the Seventh Regiment, which was responsible for luring the enemy, only exerted one-third of its firepower, which made Wu Chengren make the wrong judgment that the Red Army had done its best.

This misjudgment cost him a terrible price for the annihilation of his entire army.