When the enemy began to bombard, Li Qing led the 4th and 5th battalions and the attached heavy machine gun company to finally join up with Hu Laohu's cavalry company. Li Qing asked about the situation of the blockade just now, and Hu Laohu said that the enemy's cavalry company had basically lost its combat effectiveness, but the distance was too close, and his cavalry company had also sacrificed five soldiers. Li Qing ordered the cavalry company to withdraw from its position and undertake the task of monitoring the enemy situation in the direction of Xikou, and at the same time make preparations for a cavalry assault. Hu Laohu agreed, and took his soldiers to carry the remains of the martyrs and withdrew.

Li Qing, Hong Chaoyuan, commander of the 4th Battalion, and Zhao Shan, commander of the 5th Battalion, climbed to the top of the hill to see that the enemy's mortars and heavy machine guns had turned the front hillside into dust, and it was estimated that the heavy firepower of the enemy's Zhong Guangren Brigade was used intensively. At the foot of the hill, the strength of one of the enemy's regiments had begun to attack upward. It seems that he wants to take down the mountain where he is in one fell swoop. Looking at the hill on the right side, the front is the enemy's infantry moving, and the back is the main force of the regiment led by Liu Yimin is moving, it is obvious that the enemy is far away from the mountain, and the speed of movement is relatively slow, it seems that he does not realize the danger from the other side of the mountain, and the main force of the 18th regiment is racing against time to seize the mountain.

Li Qing understood that there was no danger for the regiment commander, and it was likely that he would be able to catch the enemy by surprise. Turning around, he immediately ordered four mortars belonging to the fire support company of the two battalions to quickly establish positions, aim at the enemy mortar positions and open fire, in an effort to destroy the enemy artillery positions. The 1st Heavy Machine Gun Company was ordered to command all the heavy machine guns on the position to cooperate with the 4th and 5th Battalions to organize an anti-slope position, and when the enemy attack force occupied the ridge line on the hill, launch a surprise attack, strike the enemy off guard, and wipe out the enemy's first wave of attack troops on the hill. When the enemy's second and third waves of attacking troops turned around and fled, mortars and heavy machine guns provided fire support, and all light machine guns and submachine guns of the two battalions were used intensively to launch a powerful attack on the enemy, chasing and crushing the enemy onto the highway and completely crushing the enemy's avant-garde regiment.

The commander of the enemy brigade, Zhong Guangren, did not expect that the counterattack of the Red Army would begin in this way.

He hid behind a rock on the side of the road, holding a telescope, observing the effect of the shelling on the hillside in front and the progress of the attacking troops. The artillery bombardment effect was good, the firepower of the brigade mortar company and the two regimental heavy machine gun companies was strong enough, and the frontal hillside was riddled with holes, not to mention that there were only a few dozen Red Army just now, even a few hundred of them were probably almost wiped out.

The avant-garde regiment launched an attack, although it was a back attack, but the speed of the attack was still very fast, the rhythm of the attack and the distance between the troops were well controlled, basically charging upwards along the channel fired by mortars and heavy machine guns. Strangely, there was no movement at all on the hill in front, and it seemed that the Red Army, which had just been blocked, had retreated. Is it really that I am too suspicious?

Just when Zhong Guangren was about to give the order to stop firing mortar and heavy machine guns, he heard a voice that he didn't expect at all, and it was the last thing he wanted to hear: a mortar shell flew from the hill in front of him and landed near the mortar position of the 62nd Division. Zhong Guangren shuddered, this Red Army actually had mortars.

The enemy artillery has not yet reacted, and some people are still wondering that their shells are so miraculous that they can land near their positions. Without waiting for them to react, a group of four mortar shells with the impact point corrected accurately hit the enemy's mortar position, and the enemy artillerymen realized that it was the enemy's artillery that was destroying their own artillery position, and the position immediately began to cry wolf and busily move their position.

It was too late, and a group of four mortar shells continued to explode on the enemy's mortar positions one after another, until the shells on the positions exploded, blowing up all the mortars and blowing up the artillerymen.

The sound of the shell explosion woke Zhong Guangren, this is not an ordinary fucking ambush, this is an encounter with the elite of the Red Army. Judging from the method of destroying their own artillery positions from the very beginning, the Red Army wanted to completely wipe out one of its brigades here, and I am afraid that the next step was to strike at its own heavy machine-gun positions.

Things are really developing according to Zhong Guangren's thinking. Seeing that the enemy's artillery position had been destroyed, the four mortars on the opposite hill immediately turned to the enemy's heavy machine-gun position, which was being used as a cover shot, and the enemy's heavy machine-gun position was completely destroyed, and the covering fire naturally stopped.

Zhong Guangren was about to order the trumpeters to blow the trumpets and inform the troops to retreat, but there was a scene in the telescope that made him feel lucky: on the front hill, the first wave of the attack of the enemy avant-garde regiment was almost on the top of the mountain, and the soldiers were holding guns, shooting, shouting, and about to occupy the commanding heights, but there was no Red Army infantry on the hill to counterattack. Zhong Guangren thought that as long as he occupied the commanding heights, he could take the initiative and change the offensive and defensive situation, and with the combat effectiveness of his own troops, even if he encountered the elite Red Army, he could also rely on his geographical advantages to hold on.

Seeing that the first wave of attack troops of the enemy's avant-garde regiment had rushed up the hill and reached the ridge line, Zhong Guangren's excited palms were sweating, and he shouted in his heart: "Quick, attack the enemy's mortar position, hurry!" ”

The roar of light and heavy machine guns suddenly sounded on the top of the mountain, and in Zhong Guangren's binoculars, the soldiers of the Hunan army collapsed backwards as if they had been pushed by the surging tide of Qiantang. The tide overflowed the fragile levee where the stumps were piled up, and continued to the next.

It's over, a battalion of the first wave of attacks is completely finished, and it's the elite of Hunan who have been carefully trained by themselves! Damn the red bandits, they are so cunning that they hide on the back of the mountain to carry out a fire raid! This is nothing but fucking nasty murder!

The last trace of luck in Zhong Guangren's heart was completely shattered. Listening to the sound of gunfire, there are at least more than 10 heavy machine guns and more than 30 light machine guns firing on the hill, and there is such dense firepower on a small hill, not to mention that the ordinary troops of the Red Army cannot reach it, and its own 62nd Division cannot reach it. This Red Army unit must be the main force of the main force of the Red Army, the elite of the elite, is it a fake that the main force of the Red Army fled to Guizhou? It can't be that the main forces of the Red Army are all hiding here and waiting for themselves to take the bait, right?

Zhong Guangren did not hesitate any longer, and issued several orders in one voice: order the trumpeters to blow the trumpets and notify all the attacking troops to immediately turn around and retreat; ordered the remaining heavy machine guns to shoot at the hill to cover the retreat of the troops; ordered the commander of the enemy's avant-garde regiment to organize troops on the spot to block the pursuit that the Red Army was about to launch, and arrange a retreat while blocking the attack; ordered the brigade guard units to immediately protect the brigade headquarters, division headquarters, and quickly retreat along the road; The brigade rearguard battalion was ordered to immediately seize key points on the side of the road, establish positions, and cover the retreat of the troops.

Withdraw, can you withdraw?

When the call to retreat was heard, the troops on the hill in front of them were on the task of attacking the second wave, and they were already running away. They were only 100 meters away from the first wave of attackers, and the fate of the first wave of attackers was clearly visible. With such a powerful firepower, fools understand that rushing up is incompatible with their lives. The soldiers of the 62nd Division were not fools, but veterans of the Red Army for a long time, who knew best when to rush and when to run. Seeing that the firepower of the Red Army summoned the brothers who were attacking in the first wave to Lord Yama, they would immediately call themselves to be the companions of those dead ghost brothers, and the commander and the soldier were highly consistent in their thoughts and movements, and at the same time as a soldier shouted and turned around and ran away, he turned around as a whole and began a 100-meter race towards the road.

This time it was like rolling a grinding disc down from the top of the mountain, no one could control it, and even the third wave of attack troops was driven, and the Hunan army's attack formation completely collapsed.

As soon as they saw the enemy retreating, the Red Army's heavy machine guns on the hill immediately moved forward and carried out a rapid fire attack on the enemy according to the favorable terrain and condescendingly.

When Liu Yimin led the main force to the top of the hill on the east side of the road, the Hunan army's attack force was still about 150 meters away from the mountain. Liu Yimin took a telescope to see that there was a highway at the foot of the mountain, and he made a big bend here along the mountain, and the south end of the bend was a small hill, which was not high, and it should be the blocking position originally selected by the Hu Laohucavalry Company, because it was just right to cut off the road; There is a small mountain village at the north end of the bend, built next to the hillside; On the west side of the road, opposite where Liu Yimin is standing, is a flat farmland, and there is a river on the edge of the farmland, which should be the Yangsu River, the main tributary of the channel river. Looking at the position of the Zhong Guangren Brigade of the 62nd Hunan Division, he found that the mortars and heavy machine guns of the Zhong Brigade had set up positions on the side of the road, covering the strength of about one regiment to launch an attack on the hill at the south end of the road, and it seemed that they would soon reach the top of the mountain. Looking at the bottom of the hill where he was, the strength of about a regiment of the Zhong Brigade was attacking the mountain. There are also some units on the road, estimated to be directly under the 62nd Division and the Zhong Brigade, which are also ready for battle.

Liu Yimin looked back and saw that the 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion, Engineer Battalion, 3rd Heavy Machine Gun Company, and 2nd Mortar Company he had brought were all in place, and he was about to give the battle order when he saw that the mortar shells fired by Li Qing and them exploded on the mortar position of the Zhong Brigade. Liu Yimin thought about it, it's bad, Li Qing and they want to destroy the enemy's artillery position, in that case, wouldn't they tell the enemy that they had met the elite units of the Red Army? The first thought of the enemy commander was definitely to withdraw. Because the Red Army has very few artillery, the presence of artillery means that it is a large force and the main force of the Red Army, and this brigade of the 62nd Division has suffered a great loss from being ambushed by the Red Army.

After a lot of thoughts, Liu Yimin decided to immediately carry out a surprise attack on the enemy in front of him. He ordered Li Chang to command two artillery companies and the first and second battalions with mortars, and immediately and sequentially shell the enemy in front and the enemy on the road; All heavy machine guns opened fire at once, and coordinated with the frontal assault of the engineer battalion to knock down the enemy who was attacking from the back; The sniper platoon stealthily approaches the highway and selects its own targets; The first battalion moved to the left and the second battalion moved to the right, forming a downward pincer assault, and after rushing onto the road, it was necessary to strike and rush violently, divide and encircle, and do not give the enemy time to reorganize the troops and establish a blocking position, and strive to crush the enemy in one fell swoop.

As expected, as soon as Liu Yimin was arranged here, the horn of the enemy's retreat sounded. The enemy troops, who were attacking upwards, immediately turned around and retreated down the hill. The enemy on the highway also began to form up formation and retreated back along the road.

Want to run? There are no doors. Two mortar companies under the command of Li Chang plus four mortars attached to the 1st and 2nd battalions began to shell, and 28 mortars lined up on the hill to shell the fleeing enemy troops. The soldiers and officers of the Hunan 62nd Division were terrified, when had they ever seen such a scene, they had always used mortars to talk to the Red Army, and when did the Red Army use mortars to talk to them!

The most terrible thing is the heavy machine gun that chased the buttocks, and the bullets were windy, and they went straight to the backs of the Hunan soldiers. The soldiers of the Hunan army only hated their parents for having two legs less, and ran to the highway with rolling belts. It seems that it is safe to flee there.

The task of Liu Jianli and the 3rd and 6th Battalions was to intersperse a detour back to the back of the 62nd Division and cut off the enemy's escape route, so the road was farther and more difficult to walk. The old Red Army soldier was okay to say, gritting his teeth and running without saying a word, and the new fighters who joined Xiaoshui Combat couldn't keep up with the speed. The cadres were so anxious that their eyes were on fire, so they had to pull and run. That's it, but two new fighters accidentally fell off the cliff.

All the way over the mountains and mountains, I finally arrived at the side of the road. Listening to the sound of gunfire in front of him, Li Qing did not allow the soldiers to rest, and directly ordered the first company of the sixth battalion to strengthen five heavy machine guns to control Beishan Village, the second company of the sixth battalion to strengthen two heavy machine guns to seize the hill on the east side of Beishan Village, and the third company of the sixth battalion to strengthen four heavy machine guns to establish a blocking line on the farmland on the west side of the road; The four mortars attached to the two battalions immediately set up positions and marked the firing boundary; The third battalion followed him behind Beishan Village and took on the task of assaulting the enemy.

At this point, the fate of the Hunan 62nd Division and Zhong Guangren's Brigade was completely in the hands of the Red 18th Regiment.