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"It's finally here." Hearing the unhurried Tsarist artillery fire on the other side of the river, the rhythm suddenly became faster, and Lan Chengchun, the deputy commander of the Red Fourth Division and the commander of the first regiment, who was responsible for holding the front line of the bridgehead, stood up, smiled slightly, picked up the telescope and climbed a small high slope behind him. He understood that the Tsarist ghosts, who had been gasping for breath for nearly half an hour, were unwilling to fail, and another attack was about to begin.

In the north, the annihilation war against the main force of Tsarist Russia has begun, and if there is no accident, it is estimated that this time will be the final stage. The Tsarist ghosts in front of him will not have much time to jump to their heads. Bunny, you want to drag me? Hehe, I didn't expect it, Lao Tzu is also looking forward to you, but don't run.

"This group of Tsarist ghosts, I didn't dare to go up, and I found some substitutes for the ghosts." The chief of staff saw through the binoculars that the people who had rushed down to the river this time were shirtless militia groups with white cloth strips wrapped around their heads, and a contemptuous smile appeared on the corners of their mouths.

"It's not good," Lan Chengchun seemed to be thinking about something, and stretched out his hand to point to the other side of the White Horse River in front of him, "Look at it, the banner of the Tsarist ghost behind them is also moving." ”

"Shouldn't the third battalion be pulled up for a while, and slammed into the side at the critical moment to disrupt them?" The chief of staff also noticed that behind the large group of Manchu militias, there were indeed hundreds of ghost soldiers of Tsarist Russia. He looked up at the sky and sighed faintly, "Alas, it would be nice if the second battalion was still in our hands." Until now, as long as we defeat the attack of the Tsarist ghosts again, and then counterattack and cross the river, our own strength alone will be enough to eat this enemy. ”

"It's not that simple, is it?" Lan Chengchun moved the telescope to the defensive position less than two hundred steps away from the village. He saw that in the first trench, while the Russians were constantly shelling, except for a few surveillance posts who were holding out there, his men had already retreated to the second trench, forty or fifty paces behind. Now, the screaming Manchu joint defense regiment has climbed the river bank one after another, and his soldiers have begun to sneak back to their positions along the communication ditch between the two trenches. He smiled with satisfaction.

"Tossing up to now, the Tsarist ghosts have indeed suffered a lot of losses." Lan Chengchun put down the binoculars, looked at his chief of staff and smiled, "However, the captive has already said that it is the regimental headquarters of the Eighth Regiment of Tsarist Russia in front of him." In addition, although his casualties were not small, I noticed that several of their direct detachments were not injured, especially their cavalry, which had never been involved in the battle at all. This Valaki is not simple. If we rush over in a hurry, we will inevitably form a kind of sheep bombing tactic, and we will not be able to achieve the goal of annihilating them. Don't be in a hurry, wait, hold them back, according to the time calculation, the battle in the north should come to an end, as long as the friendly troops detour behind their backs, at that time, it is to tell them to run, then there is no way to go to the sky, and there is no way to go to the ground. ”

As he spoke, he looked at the dense bursts of gunfire and grenade explosions, and the two armies had already begun to fight each other in close quarters, "Inform the second battalion and take out a company to prepare for the attack." ”

As a native of Guangxi, Lan Chengchun is also a young "old Jintian". Moreover, in the current three-front army, as long as the nickname of "Blue Shorty" is mentioned, almost everyone knows it, and no one knows it. However, this "blue dwarf" refers not only to his short stature, but also to an important reason, which is the style of the troops he brought out.

Unlike generals such as Liang Chengfu and Qiu Yuancai, who are usually willing to be lively in the Red First Army and like vigorous and crazy on the battlefield, Cao Wenyu and Lan Chengchun of the Red Fourth Division are a pair of natural chronic sons. Although Cao Wenyu is even a national uncle, he is silent, careful and cautious, and does not fight or grab. Therefore, it is generally difficult for them to take their turn when it comes to "showing their faces" and "picking up big bargains" in the Red First Army. In the words of the proud self-deprecation of the soldiers of the Red Fourth Division, that is, "We can beat any opponent, but unfortunately, we can't rob our allies, so we can only eat dirt behind their buttocks, and there is no way, we are angry, ......."

In the operation to suppress bandits in Guangxi at the beginning of last year, Lan Chengchun, who had just been transferred from the Teaching Brigade Police Company to the Red Fourth Division as a battalion commander, finally had a chance to "come out" and become famous in the first battle by virtue of his carefulness and tenacious endurance that he had cultivated bit by bit.

In Longlin, Guangxi, according to the information obtained in advance, only 300 people led by Lan Chengchun were used as bait to enter the mountain first. Just like a stone stirring up a thousand waves, this "adventurous" lone army really aroused the interest of the remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty scattered in the mountains. When Lan Chengchun dragged six or seven thousand Manchu remnants to the predetermined location, according to the prior battle deployment, he would turn to block, and when the main forces on both sides should appear, the main force of the Red First Army, which had been delayed by an unexpected rain, did not appear in time. In the face of this mutation, Lan Chengchun did not hesitate, he firmly believed that the main force would definitely arrive, and refused to let go of this rare good opportunity to wipe out these Manchu bandits. As a result, one of his battalions fought an unusually difficult and tragic defensive battle here.

In that defensive battle in the rain that lasted for more than half a day, in the face of the frantic pounce of more than ten times his own stubborn bandits, Lan Chengchun led his heroic brothers, flexibly and skillfully used the terrain, terrain and features, and created a variety of tactics such as the "stone thunder array" that combined grenades and rocks, and brought the effectiveness of the only firepower and firearms to the extreme. In the end, the ammunition ran out, and the Red Army officers and men still relied on the swords in their hands to cut back one stubborn attack after another.

This battle of Lan Chengchun's battalion bought precious time for the main force to finally rush to annihilate the Manchu and Qing stubborn bandits. The main force is coming.

However, finding that the Manchu bandits, who had fallen into a dilemma, became more and more frenzied, and they rushed to their faces like waves, and they felt that they had absolutely crippled the Red Army position, and they were desperate to defeat this roadblock.

The final battle was even more brutal.

On the position held by the first company, only a dozen wounded remained, and hundreds of Manchu Qing swarmed in, and the position was about to fall. At this critical moment, the last warriors of the first company ignited the only three explosive packets, and died together with the Manchu rebels who rushed to the battlefield before they had time to laugh wildly. The fearless actions of the brave men of the first company gave the reinforcements sent by the battalion a precious opportunity, and the reinforcement team, composed of the battalion commanders, cooks, and other service personnel, counterattacked the Manchu bandits who had been shocked by the feat of the Red Army warriors, and once again consolidated the position.

The Lan Chengchun battalion used more than half of its own casualties to pay a heavy price in exchange for the great results of the Red First Army in completely eliminating the Longlin Manchu recalcitrant bandits, and annihilated more than a thousand enemies alone.

"Lan Chengchun, this guy, a short man has the advantage of being a short man, his legs are short and his butt is heavy, and he is afraid that he will be chased by the Qing Demon if he runs down again, so he will defend it. Hehe, in the end, he is a person from the police company, and he is really well guarded. "At the post-war review meeting, someone joked.

"The Blue Dwarf is a master at defensive warfare." Lin Fengxiang, the former army commander, said this, and Chen Yucheng, the successor army commander, also said this.

Later, when the battle report was submitted to Shanghai, Lin Haifeng, the king of An, repeatedly read the whole process of the battle several times, and praised Lan Chengchun's ability and courage.

Since then, the "Blue Shorty" has become famous.

Today's Lan Chengchun Battalion has become the Lan Chengchun Regiment, which has affected the whole division. Everyone knows that the Red Fourth Division is a unit in the Red First Army that is known for its good defense, and naturally, the Lan Chengchun Regiment is even more good. Otherwise, Cao Wenyu would not have entrusted him, the deputy division commander, to come here in person.

For this blocking battle, from the very beginning, Lan Chengchun did not take it lightly.

Because his second battalion had already undertaken the task of providing logistical support for the main force of the division, it had not yet been returned to its formation. In the south of Tianfu Mountain, the Red Third Division with a division of strength wanted to encircle and annihilate an entire regiment of Tsarist Russia, after all, this is not the previous combat environment, the troops are far away from the rear, not only to fight, but also to undertake other rear service tasks. Therefore, the number of men and horses that the Red Third Division can really rush into battle to kill is not twice as many as that of the Tsarist ghosts. In this case, will there be remnants of the enemy who will slip through the net? No one knows for sure. Just in case, he had to send another guard force to the south.

Therefore, at the bridgehead, the men and horses he can really fight are only less than 600 people in two battalions, and the number is less than half of the opponent's, so he does not have an advantage. In terms of weapons, a regiment is all equipped with six-round short guns, which can only be used in close combat. And when it comes to artillery fire, it's even more pitiful. In the middle of a long-distance attack, a regiment has just been newly equipped with an artillery company with two mortars and eight grenadiers, which is absolutely powerful. It's a pity, but they also supported the main force of the division. Right now, the only thing he has mass destruction in his hands is a grenade. This is even more different from the opponent.

In order to reserve sufficient strength for the great pursuit in the near future, in the blocking position on the first line, he still invested a battalion of men and horses, and firmly held the reserves of the two main companies in his hands. The same is true of the first battalion on the position, they only have one company in the first line, and the main force of the battalion in the second line is only used to carry out tactical counterattacks and avoid being killed by Russian artillery fire.

Valaki could see very clearly in the telescope, and as soon as his artillery fire extended, Qiu Ziyin, who was as strong as a cow, led the first wave of more than 200 soldiers of the joint defense regiment, and under the fierce blows of the Red Army's guns and grenades, he still stubbornly approached the position of the Taiping Red Army. He had to marvel that these outlaws were more courageous and willing to give than his soldiers.

With the second wave of joint defense regiments coming ashore, the Taiping Red Army in the trenches did repeat its old tricks. They put the men and horses of the Joint Defense Regiment close to the area, and after a burst of grenades and short guns, they pounced on the men and horses of the Joint Defense Group.

Looking at the opponent's second-line army, they also rushed into the battle group, and a big battle of six or seven hundred people had just started, and Valaki saw that the strength of the joint defense group was actually gone. Collapse, that's just a matter of moments. Opportunity, opportunity is rare, loss will not come again!

"Major Dawa, begin!" Valaki didn't turn his head, and towards Major Valla, who was already waiting, he gave a faint order that only the two of them understood.

"Deputy division commander, the third battalion and seven companies are on standby to attack!"

"Okay, wait, let's start when all the Tsarist ghosts in the back come ashore." Hearing the report of the seventh company commander, Lan Chengchun put down the telescope in his hand, turned his head and smiled.

"Not good!"

With the exclamation of the chief of staff, Lan Chengchun turned his head with a sigh. At this look, he immediately bled to the top of his head and his eyes straightened.

The artillery fire that had already been extended by the Tsarist ghosts actually came back at this time, and dense shells rained down on the two armies that were struggling together......

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