Section 5: Counterattack (1)
As soon as the two Guangxi were telegraphed to the whole country, the Nanjing political axe immediately announced a military crusade, and the two Guangzhous did not flinch, and the Guangdong army, which had long been assembled in Shaoguan and Dayu, launched an attack on Jiangxi, while the Gui army, which had assembled in Quanzhou and Guilin, launched an offensive in Hunan, and the vanguard occupied Yongzhou and Chenzhou.
However, their good fortune ended here, and the attitude of He Jian, who had been oscillating between the two sides, began to become clear, the Central Army entered Hunan in a big way, Chen Cheng sat in Changsha and commanded the two armies to seize Hengyang and cut off the road of the two armies of Guangdong and Guizhou to the north, while the first army of Yu Hanmou, the main force of the Guangdong army, lingered on the border of Jiangxi and Guangdong, and was unwilling to act.
Chiang Kai-shek decided to convene the Second Plenary Session of the Fifth Central Committee, and ordered the two Guangxi provinces not to act without authorization.
The confrontation between the 800,000 troops of the two sides of the Liangguang Incident attracted the attention of the whole country, and the changes that occurred in the southwest corner were quietly drowned in the news pile of the Liangguang Incident.
A winding road passes down the mountain, the dense woods on both sides are quiet, the fragrance of wild flowers wafts through the mountains, and the laughter of birds comes from the depths of the woods, and the peace and serenity pervade this pristine mountain wilderness.
Since the siege of Huili, the originally busy road below the mountain has become cold, and only the occasional passing carriage can break the peace of the mountain. Today, however, there is a hint of mystery in this tranquil mountain.
The little white dragon Fan Chunshen hid behind a rock and did not move, his body was draped in a cloak full of branches and leaves, he knew that there were four more such soldiers around him, they were also lying there motionless, watching the road below the mountain, and there were the same number of soldiers in the opposite woods.
After a long period of lurking, his mind inevitably began to swim, this is the first time that the special forces entered the actual combat, when he accompanied Zhuang Jihua to Yucheng, he was incorporated into the special forces, at first he still had some ideas, thinking that it was better to go to the army as a regiment commander or battalion commander prestige, but with the development of training, the passage of time, he found that he liked it more and more here, and later it evolved into a simple look down on ordinary combat troops.
What is a special forces, it is an army within the army, it is the elite of the army, what is the elite, the elite is selected from tens of millions of people, undergoes the most rigorous training, and performs the most dangerous tasks. Don't think you can stay here, I tell you, every step is an assessment, failure means leaving, there is no need for losers here.
In the following days, they went to hell, armed cross-country, armed swimming, tired half to death every day, but when it came to lurking, they remembered these exhausting sports, lying there motionless all day, allowing mosquito bites, people were sent away every day, and when it came to their favorite shooting, they found that even the simplest thing had been played with tricks, what night shooting, shimmering shooting, shooting on the march, shooting in the rain, shooting in the wind, passing the shooting level, What will be it in the future, mortars, driving, explosions, survival in the wild, and so on, he found that there were more than 400 people who came with him at the beginning, and only thirty-two people remained, which is also right, only a few can climb up from the eighteenth layer of hell, but they haven't had time to be complacent, and Captain Song, who can't see a smile a few times in a year, is still reminding them that this is a lower requirement.
This year's training made him completely convinced, and he thoroughly understood the difference between the regular army and the green forest, jungle operations, plain operations, the role of formations, and how to support firepower.
This time, he brought two special detachments of twenty-four people to act as Zhuang Jihua's escort, originally thought that he would not be involved in the battle as before, but after Xichang's detachment arrived, Zhuang Jihua ordered them to attack and cut off this transportation artery of the Yunnan army in a special operation.
Just as he was thinking wildly, there were two long and one short bird calls in front of him, and the little white dragon's expression suddenly became serious, and the target was coming. He picked up the telescope and looked into the distance, and the southern sky raised a trace of dust, which was so fine that it was impossible to see without paying attention. He gently plucked a flower from the rock, which was a code for the other side.
After a while, a large cart came slowly, the soldiers of the Yunnan army wearing blue-green French military uniforms sat leisurely on the cart, occasionally shaking the reins twice, they had more than 20 carts about seventy or eighty people, they obviously walked a relatively long way, many soldiers took hats to fan the wind, guns hung on their shoulders at will, Fan Chunshen estimated that the bullets were not loaded.
After more than a dozen cars passed, an officer appeared in Fan Chunshen's field of vision, "It's you." Fan Chunshen concluded at a glance that this was the commander of this army, he quietly aimed at this officer, gently pulled the trigger, and a crisp gunfire pierced the silence of the mountains, and the officer in the scope was loaded into the carriage at once.
With the sound of this gunshot, gunshots rang out in the mountains and fields, and the twenty-four team members scattered within more than a hundred meters fired almost simultaneously, and each shot fell a soldier of the Dian army.
The soldiers of the Dian army were a little blind, they reflexively lay on the ground, but they couldn't see where the bullets came from, they tried to look up, but they were immediately knocked down, they could only lie on the ground and listen to the gunfire to judge where the enemy was? However, to their relief, they did not hear the sound of machine guns.
But the experienced veterans were afraid, the other party was too calm, every shot was not empty, they did not believe that these people who dared to ambush them would have no machine guns, and the machine guns did not go off, which only showed that the other party believed that they could be eliminated by this kind of point fire alone.
After two rounds of shooting, the Dian army below hid between the wheels, not daring to show their heads again, and the god of death from the mountains and forests did not come out again, Fan Chunshen smiled coldly, he was not worried about his team members at all, these team members were all killed from hell, the gunfire stopped, and the two sides fell into a stalemate, but this stalemate was a torment for the escort soldiers.
Fan Chunshen's ambush on the entire road was divided into six groups, each responsible for a 30-meter range, and blocked the road as soon as the battle began.
Finally, someone couldn't help but look up at the gloomy woods around them, looking for the killing god in the forest, but the terrifying sound did not sound in the forest, and gradually more people poked their heads out, "pop", the gun rang out, and people fell, "Over there!" A voice shouted at the left side, and then a dozen of the soldiers immediately shot from that side, and several brave soldiers immediately rushed to that side, but they were immediately knocked down by bullets from all directions, "Under the pile of grass." The machine gun began to shoot wildly into the woods, but before he could shoot twice, he was accurately hit by a bullet into his head, and the morale that had just been boosted immediately declined, and everyone hid between the carts again, refusing to show their heads again.
"Forget it, don't be poor with them, blast them out." Fan Chunshen coldly signaled, and the mortar, who had long been impatient, lifted his camouflage, grabbed a shell and stuffed it into the muzzle.
"Boom", "boom", the shells accurately fell in the big car pile, several figures flew into the sky, and the Dian army below immediately fell into despair, there were still cannons, "Rush over!" "There aren't many of them, rush over!" An officer shouted as he crouched under the car, and a group of soldiers got up and threw themselves into the woods, but just then the sound of gunfire changed.
A machine gun roared on the left and right sides of the "Da Da Da", and the bullets quickly scraped down the attacking soldiers, but at this time, the ambushers' hidden fire points were all exposed, and the living soldiers of the Dian Army quickly judged the weak point of the gunshot, and they automatically entangled themselves and rushed to where to go.
Rush, rush into the woods to be safe, the front fell, the back avoided their corpses and continued to rush, and finally seven or eight soldiers rushed into the woods, but they did not search for the ambushers, but desperately fled into the depths of the woods.
"Moma Bazi!" Fan Chunshen punched the ground, he knew that this was not to blame his team members, they had done their best to shoot, and had long suggested changing weapons, the official rate of fire was too slow, and it should be equipped with submachine guns, only this kind of weapon could be slow The needs of special operations, but I don't know why, I asked to report it, Zhuang Jihua just didn't approve it, but instead got a batch of 38 guns for them to train, this kind of gun has two eyes, and the lethality is not as good as the official one, and it is extremely unpopular in the special forces.
"How many people ambushed you?" Sun Du's cold gaze shot coldly at the captain of the escort team who was getting back.
"No..., I don't know," the squad leader dodged Sun Du's gaze, and then felt that something was wrong, and immediately added: "I judge that they have a regiment, they have machine guns, and mortars." ”
"Nonsense, if there is a regiment, you can still come back! Go down. Sun Du waved him away impatiently.
A convoy of seventy-eight people, less than thirty people returned, all the weapons and ammunition escorted were destroyed, Zhuang Jihua began to stretch his hand to his back, this is a danger signal.
"Commander, let's retreat according to the chairman's orders."
"Can you leave? How to go? Sun Du was very angry, after Long Yun's retreat order came, he immediately ordered to adjust the deployment, so that the model brigade was broken and the other troops retreated in order.
Before Sun Du's adjustment was carried out, the escort team on Baolin Mountain launched a counterattack. Seven or eight days of fighting allowed the commander of the escort to find out the strength of the Dian army, and Fan Hanjie and Li Anding felt ridiculous about their earlier attack, such an attack force, even if only one brigade of the escort team could take them outside the city.
After gaining confidence, the group of escorts began to plan a counterattack, the initial target of the counterattack was An Enpu at the foot of Baolin Mountain, Fan Hanjie believed that this was the main force of the Yunnan army, as long as this brigade was defeated, Sun Du would know the difficulty and retreat. But when he reported their plan to Zhuang Jihua, Zhuang Jihua ordered them to drag Sun Du to death, and not let them escape back to Yunnan easily, and at the same time told them that a vanguard led by Du Yuming had arrived in Xichang, and Dechang could be felt in three days at most, and a detachment of Dechang escort team (regiment) was rushing to Huili, in addition, Xiaobailong Fan Chunshen had led special forces to the south of Huili to cut off Sun Du's transportation line, and finally Zhuang Jihua told him murderously, His goal was to keep all the main forces of the Yunnan army north of the Jinsha River.
With this order, Fan Hanjie began to shake off his hands, he reformulated a battle plan, this is very risky, with the strength of two regiments to attack An Enpu, and must defeat An Enpu, forcing Sun Du to draw men and horses from the besieging troops to support him, and then with the troops in the city to launch a counterattack from the south gate, occupy the Qishuping Heights and turn left, block the waist and cut at Sun Du's troops.
After the offensive began, the generals of the Dian army, including Sun Du, found that the combat effectiveness of the escort was beyond their imagination, the fierceness of the artillery fire during the attack was unprecedented for them, the tactical use of the soldiers was extremely reasonable, and they could give full play to their firepower superiority, and their generals were extremely bold, and a regiment dared to attack the model brigade head-on.
An Enpu failed to block the attack of the escort team, and the model brigade was defeated and retreated, and An Enpu led the brigade guard company to rush up to counterattack, only to suppress Wang Guobin's counterattack and stabilize the position.
But he still underestimated Wang Guobin's courage, Wang Guobin did not rest, and immediately launched a second wave of attack, three battalions lined up and pressed forward, and the regiment of Su Zhe (from the 19th Route Army) attached to him was divided into two roads, from between the three battalions, through the gap in An Enpu's defense line, and then attacked An Enpu from behind, this hand caught An Enpu off guard, he had never seen this kind of play, An Enpu was defeated, and Sun Du was forced to send Liu Zhengfu's brigade to meet him.
After receiving the report of the reinforcement of An Enpu from the Yunnan army, Fan Hanjie in the city personally commanded the troops in the city to launch a counterattack, with the escort regiment as the vanguard, and Liu Yuantang's brigade followed up, broke the south gate, broke through the position of Yang Hongguang's brigade in one fell swoop, and conquered Qishuping.
Sun Du was forced to put his reserves into battle to stop Fan Hanjie's counterattack, but in this way, Sun Du knew that he could not go.
The roaring Jinsha River is behind him, the troops are now glued together, once they retreat, they are bound to be hunted down, and the troops are in danger of collapsing, and only by beating Fan Hanjie back first, and then they can retreat safely.
The battle situation on the front line changed dramatically, Sun Du was entangled in death, Zhuang Jihua felt a little more comfortable in his heart, Du Yuming rushed to Dechang with the guards and Song Yunfei in the evening, and there was another person who surprised Zhuang Jihua with him, that is, Yang Yongtai, the director of the Yucheng camp.
If Zhuang Jihua had not taken Yunnan before this, then the arrival of Yang Yongtai completely reversed the trend of the war in the Battle of Huili, and eventually led to Yunnan changing hands.
(To be continued)