Chapter 64: A Little Victory
As for the final destination, Li Jue is devoted to the ranks of the people. As early as after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Li Jue neglected the civil war, was dismissed from his military post by Gu Zhutong, and was transferred to the director of the Chongqing branch of the Kuomintang Central Training Corps and the president of the army. In 1949, Li Jue served as the deputy commander of the First Corps, and he actively ran between the Hunan and Guizhou warlords, and together with Cheng Qian, Tang Shengzhi, Chen Mingren and other senior Hunan generals, he held a peaceful uprising in Hunan. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li Jue successively served as deputy commander of the 21st Corps of the People's Liberation Army, senior staff member of the Central and Southern Military Region, member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and member of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang.
At this time, Li Jue, the commander of the 19th Hunan Division, who later transferred to the ranks of the people, was still urging the troops to move forward, stepping into Xiaoshui for the second time, intending to pursue and annihilate the Red Army.
Last night, I contacted Zhang Liangji, Tao Guang, and other units, and learned that the two divisions had arrived at the predetermined location and had engaged the red bandits one after another, and that they had repelled the red bandits and were in pursuit. Li Jue believed that when his unit was inserted into the flank of the Red Bandits from here, it would definitely be able to have the same surprise effect on those central Red Bandits as it had when they had a huge impact on the Red Sixth Army when they marched into Xiaoshui last time, so as to deal a heavy blow to or even completely annihilate those Red Bandits. Therefore, when his troops entered Xiaoshui in two columns all the way to Xiaoshui, which had repelled the Red Bandits Sixth Army a few months earlier, his state of mind was unusually peaceful. However, this peace did not last long before the sound of heavy gunfire and explosions rang out all around.
Li Jue, who had been in battle for a long time, immediately knew: his unit was ambushed! And it's definitely a red bandit!
Li Jue jumped off the horse as soon as he was born, and he drew his pistol while he was still in the air, thinking to himself: It seems that the revenge of the red bandits is coming!
Li Jue really guessed correctly. It was Li Jiansheng's troops, the Red Seventh Legion, who ambushed him!
Li Jue rolled off his war horse and took out his pistol when the first shot rang out, but the guards around him were not so lucky, most of them were shot through their heads, and Bai Huahua's brains and blood were mixed together and sprayed on his war horse, which made people look disgusting!
Li Jue immediately knew that there were high-ranking people among the red bandits who ambushed his troops on both sides of the mountain, and some people beat him with cold guns, and he didn't dare to hold it up in his heart, so he immediately relied on his war horse to cover himself, and then looked at a stone protrusion under the cliff as a support, and hid in the past with a dodge. The stone was holding him back. As soon as he hid his body, several bullets struck the stone in succession, sending sparks flying everywhere.
Li Jue hid behind the stone and looked at the opposite side, and he didn't know when a long heavy machine gun stretched out from the opposite mountain forest, and the muzzle of the gun was spitting tongues of fire at his 19th Division. Listening to the sound of gunfire, there are also countless Czech light machine guns and submachine guns firing.
What kind of unit of the Red Army is this, with such great firepower. Just as he was about to call out to the herald to order his troops to lie down on the spot, he heard a "sizzle" sound overhead, which he knew was the sound of a swarm of grenades about to fall. A Hunan soldier had just taken off his gun and had not yet opened the safety when he heard the sound of "poof, poof, poof" ringing around him, and he knew that it was the sound of a machine gun bullet when it entered the human body. When he looked around, there was no one standing around him, so he screamed "Mom" and ran towards the flat ground by the side of the road. However, before he could run two steps, a grenade exploded next to him, and he saw his right leg flying out of his body. He didn't feel any pain, he just landed. Because he lost his right leg, he stumbled and fell to the ground on his back. Beside him was another grenade exploding. This Hunan soldier, who only had empty eyes staring at the clouds in the sky, was blown up into three pieces before he could snort or even feel any pain.
Li Jue didn't see this scene, but he saw his soldiers fall in pieces. He knows that he has met a master this time, and if he can't do it, his own division and his own person will be sent here this time! This is clearly not in line with his style. Almost without thinking about it, Li Jue dodged a few times, dodged the bullets fired at him, and came to the side of his own war horse that was killed. Look at some soldiers not far away, one with a machine gun on hand. It's just that these soldiers are now suppressed by the bullets of the red bandits, and they can't raise their heads. Li Jue swept to his side, picked up a rifle from the dead guard soldier, and shot at the red bandit machine gunner on the opposite side with the sound of the gun. As soon as his gun rang out, the machine guns of the red bandits over there immediately stopped. Out of the corner of his eye, he could see the heavy machine gunner shooting at him tilting to the side. He knew he had it. The man who fed the bullets next to the machine gun pushed the soldier who had been hit by himself to the back, took the machine gun and continued to shoot, and then fired another shot. The red bandit was knocked down after only two shots.
After firing this shot, Li Jue felt bad, and left the side of the war horse with a flying body. Sure enough, his two shots had caught the attention of the Red Bandits, and several machine guns and several sniper rifles were coming to him. The place where he had just avoided was immediately shattered by the bullets of the red bandits. Li Jue took advantage of this rare opportunity to pounce a few times, and when he got to his subordinates, he didn't care whether the soldier was up to the right or not, grabbed the machine gun, and shot at the red bandits on the opposite side. Seeing that his division commander personally strafed with a machine gun, the soldiers around him suddenly got up and quickly organized fire to counterattack the red bandits. With the solid positions they had established, more and more Hunan soldiers began to rely on material resistance. The two sides fought hard. Some of the Red Army soldiers who had just charged were hit by Li Jue's troops and fell to the ground one after another. Li Jiansheng looked at these on the position of the 46th regiment, his heart ached, and he immediately called the phone and scolded the two division commanders of the 16th and 19th regiments to the death. The two division commanders hurriedly gave the order, and the soldiers of the Red Seventh Army temporarily cushioned the front, only stopping to rely on trenches and bunkers to attack the enemy. Despite this, the Red Army still suffered more than 700 casualties.
The two sides are in a stalemate phase. A dozen and more than two hours. Li Jiansheng sighed, this Li Jue is indeed true, there are really two battles in organizing battles, and their soldiers are also well-trained, and they fight in a disciplined manner, so that they can't succeed for a while. And Li Jue, who was in the center of the position, breathed a sigh of relief, and sighed at this time, there are characters among the red bandits, and it can be seen that the ambush of this organization is very good, and the rules are clear. If it weren't for the fact that his own unit was quite combat-effective, it would have collapsed long ago if it had been replaced by other troops!
It is not said that the two figures who admired each other were organizing troops to strike at the enemy in an all-round way, but it was said that the two divisions of Xia Wei's 15th Army of the Gui Army came to fight for several days in a row. At this time, he suddenly received a telegram from Liu Jianxu of the Hunan army, saying that Li Jueshi, who had been under siege by red bandits, was in danger, and asked for support. After reading this telegram, the telegram from the chairman of the Jiang Yuan Committee came again, but it asked him to rush to the aid immediately. The orders of the two commanders, Li and Bai, also came, allowing Xia Wei's troops to participate in the battle. After receiving orders from the three parties, Xia Wei immediately ordered his subordinates to rush to Xiaoshui's aid. Fortunately, his 78th Division was not too far from Xiaoshui, and it could arrive in a hurry in three hours, and immediately rushed to help. At the same time, under the order of Chairman Chiang, the 24 planes of the Central Army and the 10 planes of the Hunan Army were all lifted into the air to participate in the battle and bomb Li Jiansheng's troops.
Seeing that more than three hours had passed since the battle between the two sides, Li Jiansheng knew that it was unlikely that this division would be completely annihilated this time. He estimated that enemy reinforcements would soon arrive. Fortunately, according to current estimates, Li Jue's Hunan 19th Division has been disabled at the moment. As long as he gives himself another hour, he dares to guarantee that he will be able to completely annihilate this division. But he knew that the enemy's planes would soon come and could inflict heavy losses on his own troops. Sure enough, in just a few moments, enemy planes appeared in the sky. Fortunately, Li Jiansheng's unit had been trained to fight enemy planes, and at this moment, some fighters immediately opened fire on enemy planes. But this immediately weakened the firepower against Li Jue's troops. Although four enemy planes were also shot down, the losses of Li Jiansheng's unit were even greater. After a while, political commissar Luo Ronghuan called, saying that the reserve had engaged the Gui army. Although he believed in the strength of the special service group and the guard regiment, Li Jiansheng felt that in this way, his troops would fight on two fronts at the same time, and it would not be good if they were stuck by the enemy, so it was better to take the initiative to give up. Fortunately, now that his strategic goal has been achieved, there is nothing wrong with taking the initiative to withdraw from the battlefield! After thinking about it carefully, now that his subordinates have actually won this battle, they cannot and do not need to consume the enemy like this, and it is not good for their subordinates to consume them any longer. After thinking about it, Li Jiansheng finally gave a decisive order: the whole army immediately withdrew from the battle. The 46th Regiment of the 16th Division and the 55th Regiment of the 19th Division were also ordered to act as rearguards, alternately covering the retreat of the main force. The 47th Regiment was ordered to rush to the aid of the reserves, and then alternately retreat with the reserves.
Because of the pre-plan, all divisions and regiments carried out the orders solidly. An hour later, all the members of Li Jiansheng's department withdrew from the battle on both sides, and joined forces in one place, heading directly to the north.
By the time Xia Wei's two divisions and Li Jue's 19th division were connected, both armies had suffered heavy losses. Xia Wei's Gui army lost more than one regiment. And after the 19th Division was reorganized, no more than 2,500 people were able to stand up, of which a surprising 6,800 soldiers had died! The rest were lightly and seriously wounded.
This is a whole full division, with more than 11,000 people in the division! If you add the more than one regiment of the Gui army, the total loss is still more than 10,000 people, which is equivalent to an integrated division!
Whether it was Xia Wei or Li Jue, there was a cold sweat afterwards, and they all sighed at this battle together. Later, I learned that this was Li Jiansheng's Red Seventh Army, and they all ordered their own troops, and they must be careful next time they encounter this army. The two unanimously determined that this Li Jiansheng was the "number one warrior" among the red bandits.
What Li Jue didn't expect was that a few years later, Li Jiansheng and Li Jue cooperated with each other to fight against the Japanese and had their first cooperation. Many years later, after the founding of New China, Li Jue and Li Jiansheng had more cooperation. The two became friends in private. However, when it came to this battle, both of them were a little lucky, thinking that if it were not for the strength and speed of the troops rushed to the aid of the Gui army, and the main attacker Li Jiansheng did not want his troops to have too many losses and took the initiative to retreat, the two would never have had this interaction. Because there is only one result: if Li Jiansheng's troops hold out for another hour, Li Jue's troops will be completely annihilated. Although Li Jiansheng is modest in his mouth, he agrees with it in his heart. He also thinks that Comrade Li Jue is a real generation of famous generals, with vision and self-knowledge, and he dares to express his own shortcomings! may also be because of these things, Li Jiansheng later introduced Li Jue as a confidant, and they had a deep relationship.