[177] Luoyang Battalion against the 75th Army

Before Hong Kong, penicillin was monopolized by Pangu & Co., and the big east of Pangu & Co. was Sir Humphrey, an Englishman.

There are many smugglers in Hong Kong who know about the penicillin smuggling by the red regime on the mainland, but he is not so stupid as to get along with the money. Now the people of Hong Kong are panicking, and every day there are rumors that the People's Liberation Army is going to attack and liberate Hong Kong. For Humphrey, if the People's Liberation Army really wants to liberate Hong Kong, then it is always the best choice for him to make more money before fleeing Hong Kong, as for the so-called embargo, what does it have to do with him, besides, he is not obliged to keep an eye on the flow of penicillin that he sells.

However, Humphrey was disappointed by this week's sales report, and the sales of penicillin in Pangu Foreign Company have dropped by 50% this week, especially the small clinics, which are almost completely unstocked. There's a problem here! Humphrey immediately became alert.

But what the problem is, Humphrey will have to investigate before he can find out. So he sent a few trustworthy assistants from the foreign bank to visit various small clinics to see if he could find the reason.

Before the results came out, Humphrey guessed several possibilities, first, maybe the mainland would no longer smuggle penicillin imported into Hong Kong. After all, the smuggled goods on the mainland were collected from the channels of various small clinics. These underground parties are afraid that if they gather in one clinic to get the goods too abruptly and the amount is too large, they will be discovered, so they take the goods evenly in each small clinic, and under the pretext of prescribing medicine, they take one or two boxes at each clinic each time. Humphrey actually knew that sooner or later the Soviets would master the jishu of industrializing the mass production of penicillin, and at that time, the Chinese would stop smuggling from Hong Kong and import from the Soviet Union instead. However, Humphrey hoped that the day would come as late as possible.

The second possibility is that the British authorities in Hong Kong have seized a large number of smuggling ships. Humphrey doesn't believe this reason even more, these marine police and these smuggling gangs in Hong Kong basically wear a pair of pants, you say cats don't eat fishy? The devil believes it.

The third possibility is that penicillin from other manufacturers appeared on the market, which began to impact the monopoly position of Pangu Foreign Company. If that's the case, Humphrey is really going to have a headache and has to take it seriously.

Under the inquiry of several shrewd assistants, the results of the investigation came out, and several assistants got the same news from the small clinics they visited, and penicillin from Bayer in Germany appeared on the market, with 100,000 units per bottle, and the drug effect was very good. What made Humphrey feel most torn apart was that the price of these penicillin was cheaper than the purchase price of the foreign company from the pharmaceutical factory, only $20 per box, almost half the retail price of Pangu foreign company of $35.

As soon as he heard the news, Humphrey felt so uncomfortable that he felt uncomfortable all over. After inquiring and learning that the source of this batch of goods was Huo Yingdong, Humphrey knew that this person was very miscellaneous and was not an opponent who could be easily handled, but he was afraid that Pangu Foreign Company's stable income in penicillin in the future would be lost.

Humphrey made up his mind to stop purchasing from pharmaceutical factories on the one hand, and on the other hand, he quickly cleared the inventory at the purchase price and processed it to major hospitals and Southeast Asian markets such as Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines.

After Humphrey arranged what these shrewd businessmen should do, he began to investigate where Huo Yingdong got such cheap penicillin!

The smoke of gunfire on Zhoushan Island continues to disperse.

With the destruction of Hu Lian's 67th Army on the East Road under the fierce pursuit of the 193rd Regiment, the advance channel of the 64th Division that arrived later was completely opened, and the entire Dinghai area was opened to the 64th Division, and the 64th Division continued to march east to attack Zhoushan Town and Shenjiamen Wharf non-stop after occupying Dinghai.

After the 194th and 195th regiments in the Zhoujiayuan area defeated the "genius large-width assault tactics" of Zhao Erna of the 14th Division of the 19th Army, the two regiments began to attack northward, wanting to eat the remaining remnants of the 19th Army's northern channeling in one go.

However, the first battalion of the 195th Regiment, the "Luoyang Battalion" led by Gao Xiangyu was an exception, they did not follow the north, but went directly to the west, went up to Jianfeng Mountain, and guarded here alone, blocking the 75th Army coming from the west tide and intending to climb the mountain into the Zhoujiayuan area.

A battalion of more than 1,000 people to block an army of 30,000 people is a difficult task, if it is in the plains, it is an almost impossible task. But this was a blockade on the ridge of the Jianfeng Mountain, which ran north-south, and the executing force was again the "Luoyang Battalion" of the 195th Regiment.

The origin of the Luoyang battalion is because the first battalion of the 195th Regiment carried out the task of attacking the east gate of Luoyang in the Luoyang Battle in 1948, and under the defense of more than 10,000 defenders of the 206th Division of the Kuomintang Youth Army, it unstoppably broke through 18 enemy fortifications in succession, and first attacked the city after blasting open the two city gates. The brave attack was not over, they carried out a stubborn resistance in the city, and repelled several large-scale counterattacks by the Kuomintang army under the cover of heavy artillery fire in vain attempts to recapture the city gate. As a result, this prestigious "Luoyang Battalion" has been famous all over the world since then, and it can be said that it can be attacked, retreated, and defended, attacking the fortified position like a thunderbolt and being unstoppable, and the garrison is like an iron cable across the river without retreating an inch.

As the battalion commander of the Luoyang battalion, Gao Xiangyu breathed a sigh of relief, the previous landing operation and the subsequent attack on Duntou Mountain were not challenging at all, the entire Zhoujiayuan area was washed by 130mm cannon clusters, and the remaining enemies were all like frightened birds, and they were crushed in one fight.

Gao Xiangyu was depressed, and said in his heart: Lao Tzu, this is "Luoyang Camp", is it good! Is the old foundation of the 115th Regiment of the 686th Division good! Since 1945, the heroic units that have fought more than 600 battles of various sizes are good! There have been more than 100 combat heroes and more than 600 heroes! Not to mention in the 195th Regiment, not to mention the 65th Division, that is, in the entire 22nd Army, it was the No. 1 main battalion! I usually walk with my nostrils facing up.

However, after landing on the island, the other troops fought smoothly one by one, and they could not find the north for thousands of miles after killing the opponent, but their own battalion seemed to be playing hide and seek with the opponent. Except for pulling out two bullshit bunkers with the Type 69 40 bazooka, I didn't see any enemies!

Finally, after Gao Xiangyu rushed up Jianfeng Mountain with his troops, he took a look to the west with a telescope, good guy, only then did he know how many enemies there were in front of him, and he saw that there was no end in sight at the bottom of the mountain, all of them were the troops of the 75th Army advancing eastward, and the first batch of the enemy's vanguard regiments had begun to attack on the mountain.

Gao Xiangyu went from a soldier to a battalion commander step by step from the first battalion of the 195th regiment, and every time he encountered difficulties, he would always wonder what the previous heroic battalion commanders of the first battalion would do.

Seeing so many enemies in front of him, Gao Xiangyu immediately arranged for a battalion to spread out on the ridge, the spacing between each soldier should be large, and the entire ridge of the north-south Jianfeng Mountain should be occupied, and the advantage of scattering is that once the enemy bombards the ridgeline with mortars, our casualties will be relatively small.

It is about 400 meters from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain, and Gao Xiangyu is used to fighting, so he is not in a hurry at all. Looking at the Kuomintang 75th Army slowly climbing the mountain, Gao Xiangyu said to the guards around him, telling all companies to hurry up and dig fortifications, pay attention to concealing themselves, and let the enemy in to fight.

After speaking, Gao Xiangyu continued to squint and looked at the 75th Army under the mountain from the telescope. While watching, he said to himself:

"Hehe, bolt rifles, American-made Springfield, heh, there are eleven machine guns, and I don't know which division and regiment of the 75th Army this is, so shabby. Hey, whatever, whoever turns around and beats him doesn't care which regiment he belongs to. ”

After muttering to himself, Gao Xiangyu bowed his body and trotted all the way behind the ridge, ran to the side of the company's position, and with a shy face, he used both soft and hard from the hands of the unhappy heavy machine gunner, and grabbed an 85 again.

The Luoyang battalion put the enemy at a close distance of 50 meters, first washed it with a rain of grenades, and then used dense bullets to beat the enemy's mountain-climbing troops and fled down the mountain, and the 81 bar sent the enemy down 300 meters all the way, killing corpses all over the field, and 85 heavy continued to chase ducks with a range of 1,000 meters, and the enemy did not dare to wait at the foot of the mountain, and retreated from the mountain like a collapse.

Next, the 75th Army was mad and began to mobilize all the mortars, and did not want to shell the hill indiscriminately, but fortunately, Gao Xiangyu had experience, and after driving the enemy down the mountain, he withdrew the troops behind the ridge, choosing to hide under the sunken rocks and vertical facades, leaving only observation posts on the mountain. Despite this, some of the fighters were also blown up in muddy water. Fortunately, Gao Xiangyu scattered the battle line on the ridge, and the 75th Army only suffered more than a dozen casualties under the indiscriminate mortar fire of more than ten minutes.

After the shelling was completed, the 75th Army began to climb the mountain in vain, and as soon as it crossed the mountainside, Gao Xiangyu led a battalion out of the back of the mountain and went up the ridgeline again. This was followed by another crackling and slamming blow, once again driving the enemy down the mountain. At this time, the 75th Army's slope position up the hill had already left corpses all over the ground. Seeing such a tragic situation of the mountain siege troops in front, the 75th Army became more and more cowering, and the troops who went up the mountain behind were even more shocked when they looked at the stumps and broken arms along the way. The tree trunks, broken here and there by light and heavy machine guns, were a stark reminder of how powerful the PLA firepower was on the mountain.

The 75th Army was originally completely annihilated in the Shanghai Battle in May 49, but in order to fill the façade, Lao Jiang insisted on turning the remnants of the defeated army composed of a group of policemen and ruffians who withdrew from Shanghai into a ragtag army, claiming that the PLA had lied about its achievements, and the 75th Army was not completely annihilated, but successfully "transferred in". But there is no so-called army system, that is, a 102nd division and an antiaircraft artillery battalion, with a total of about 10,000 people, and there are no 30,000 people as Gao Xiangyu imagined.

How could such a rabble attack the heroic Luoyang battalion? Not only could they not attack, but they could not even hold their positions under the mountain, and they were harassed by the fire of the powerful 85 heavy machine guns of the Luoyang battalion on the mountain, and they retreated 500 meters from the bottom of the mountain before they could stop their footing.

Jiang Qin, the commander of the 102nd Division and the commander of the 75th Army, watched his miscellaneous army rush and escape again and again, and strangely fled farther and farther each time, and hated him so much that his teeth itched, but the fact that he saw it through the telescope made him a little relieved, and he felt that it was normal to not be able to fight.

"Aren't Chen Yi and Su Yumo crazy? When you really become pants, you can't do it? This battalion on the mountain actually has nearly a thousand submachine guns? Even if my 102nd Division is beaten with iron, it can't beat a few iron nails in front of such an enemy? ”

Jiang Qin looked at the firepower of the Luoyang battalion on the mountain in the telescope, and his heart was sour, knowing that if he relied on his own gang of miscellaneous soldiers, it would be as difficult as climbing to the sky, and after these two attacks, he had lost 2,000 people, and the supply army on the mountain did not move, and he fought fiercely each time.

After thinking about it, Jiang Qin decided to harvest it first, wait until the evening to see the situation, and then find a way to touch the mountain. Seeing that there were only 1,000 troops on this mountain, with their numerical superiority, the crowd tactics and bayonets also occupied the mountain. Although the Nationalist army has never won the People's Liberation Army with bayonets, Jiang Qin can only come up with such a bad idea at present.

Of course, this wishful thinking was going to fail, and with the landing of the 64th and 66th Divisions, reinforcements soon came from the Luoyang battalion.

According to the battle, the 64th Division originally planned to attack the 19th Army and the 52nd Army further north, but Sun Jixian, the commander of the 22nd Army, saw the 194th and 195th regiments of the 65th Division chopping melons and vegetables, killing the 19th Army all the way to defeat, and even took down Xujiaao, where the headquarters of the 19th Army was located. Sun Jixian, commander of the 22nd Army, changed his mind and ordered the 64th to send only one regiment to reinforce the 194th and 195th regiments advancing northward, and the other two regiments to advance westward, cross the Jianfeng Mountain guarded by the Luoyang battalion, take the 75th Army directly, and occupy Yandun Township, the westernmost part of Zhoushan Island.