Chapter Seventy-Six: Meng Yan's Great Victory (4)
Li Jiansheng rushed to the front blocking position with the main force of the 19th Division, and the cleaning of the battlefield here was handed over to Bai Kaishan, the political commissar of the 19th Division. As for Niu Dali, Hu Tingquan, and Cai Zhong, they also rushed to a new position with him.
As Li Jiansheng speculated, Zeng Zhongsheng's blocking position was now engaged in fire with the enemy.
The people who came were none other than Tang Yunshan's 93rd Division, 276th Brigade and 277th Brigade. Tang Yunshan moved with 276 travels. He was the first to know that the troops in front of him were being surrounded and attacked by the red bandits, and immediately urged the troops to speed up their advance. Although he believed that the Red Bandits did not have the ability to eat the two divisions of his department at once, he still had an ominous feeling in his heart, and at the moment he reported the situation to Commander-in-Chief Xue Yue, he launched two brigades to attack forward at all costs. He knew that as long as the three brigades of his army were merged into one regiment, his division would be fine. It's just that he didn't expect that the red bandits in front of him were like an iron wall, blocking his two brigades here! Originally, he thought that with the firepower of the two brigades, he would be able to repel the red bandits, but unexpectedly, the firepower of the red bandits on the opposite side was not inferior to his own troops at all, and even better than his own troops. This fight, but it was more than half an hour, and his troops did not advance a mile! He didn't know that the person on the other side was Zeng Zhongsheng, who was a legendary general in the Red Army, and he was the first class in battle. In the original Red Fourth Front Army, I am afraid that Xu Xiangqian, the commander-in-chief and the founding marshal of later generations, will be compared. What's more, the combat effectiveness of the current Red Seventh Army is no worse than that of the Red Fourth Front Army, and in terms of firepower, it is even higher than that of the Red Fourth Front Army! With such troops, such firepower, and such a commander, and such a geographical advantage, how could Tang Yunshan please him?
When Wen Shuxun, the commander of the 275th Brigade, could no longer reply from the other end of the telegram, Tang Yunshan's heart was inexplicably cold. Of course, if it is determined that the 275 Brigade is gone, it is unlikely, because the combat effectiveness of the 275 Brigade is there, and others do not know, but he, the direct commander, still understands it; He can only think that Wen Shuxun has died in the line of duty!
This time, this Mr. Tang Yunshan guessed completely wrong. The 275 Brigade is all gone. Of the more than 3,600 people, less than 800 survived. Brigade Commander Wen Shuxun, Deputy Brigade Commander Yu Dakai and other major officers were all captured.
Tang Yunshan didn't know, but guessed that the 275th Brigade in front was a little bad according to the situation; Guess the situation of the 59th Division again. After a while, the scouts came to report that a red bandit unit had appeared behind his department. The 1st section of the 277 Brigade has already received fire.
When Tang Yunshan heard this, he said secretly: Where did so many red bandits come from? Is this unlikely? However, since the fire is received, it is better to fight it!
The idea was certain, he immediately asked the deputy division commander Zhou Guangda to take one to fight back, and he must give those red bandits some color to see, while continuing to report the situation to Commander Xue. The commander-in-chief soon called, asking them to hold on and wait for reinforcements, and he personally led the middle lane troops to rush over! This telegram immediately gave Tang Yunshan great confidence, and he immediately organized his troops to counterattack the Red Bandits in an orderly manner.
Tang Yunshan would never have expected that his judgment would be regarded as completely leaving this division here this time. There was no other reason, because those who rushed over were the main force of the Red 19th Division of the Red Seventh Army led by Li Jiansheng.
As soon as the Red 19th Division entered the battle, it immediately contained the firepower of Tang Yunshan's headquarters, and the pressure on Zeng Zhongsheng's headquarters was greatly reduced. At this time, the 20 planes under the command of Commander-in-Chief Xue personally rushed over to help in the battle. Although it was a heavy bombardment, inflicting heavy casualties on the Red Army troops, it did not cause fundamental damage, because Zeng Zhongsheng's troops dug and hid the trenches well, and the damage caused by aircraft bombs was limited; However, Li Jiansheng's unit had already received relevant air defense training, and there was a special air defense unit before the war, although the weapons were primitive, but because of the good organization and good terrain, as soon as the plane came, it was shot down 5 planes, so that other planes did not dare to fly low, so they had to bombard indiscriminately. As a result, part of the aircraft bombs, which were not very accurate, continued to fall on the positions of the Red Army, killing a group of Red Army soldiers, but the other group was thrown on the positions of Tang Yunshan's headquarters, and the soldiers of the 93rd Division were bombed for a while. As for more bombs, they were dropped in other spare places, and they were blown up in vain!
After more than half an hour, Tang Yunshan complained a little, because there were red bandit troops on all sides of the department, and the whole army was receiving fire everywhere. At this time, he knew that the red bandits on the opposite side were afraid that they wanted to eat their division in one go. On the one hand, he laughed at the fact that those red bandits were a little self-conscious, on the other hand, he seriously organized a counteroffensive, on the other hand, he wanted to break through, and on the other hand, he urgently asked the troops under the command of Chief Xue. But right now, Xue Yue can't say anything, because he extremely believes in the combat effectiveness of his department, not to mention that this time it was two divisions acting together at once, how could he have thought that this red bandit would do something to these troops? Therefore, the main force he led is far away from here. Even at the fastest speed, we will not be able to arrive until 12 o'clock tonight!
This made Tang Yunshan move and despair. Because, he is a real professional soldier, and he knows the situation on the battlefield too well, because judging from the current situation, his troops will not say that they will hold out until 12 o'clock in the evening, but they are afraid that it will be impossible to hold on for another half an hour! That is, hold out until half past five in the afternoon at most!
Unexpectedly, this telegram exchange between him and Commander-in-Chief Xue accelerated the destruction of his division. It turned out that Li Jiansheng was worried that Xue Yue would lead the main force to come too quickly, which would not be conducive to the battle, so he asked the Red 16th Division, which arrived last, to turn into a reserve battle and monitor Xue Yue's main force with the political commissar. Later, after Ou Zhengping handed over the deciphered telegram from Xue Yuebu to Li Jiansheng, Li Jiansheng was overjoyed and immediately ordered the 16th Division to turn around and fully engage in battle. At this time, the Red 16th, 17th, and 18th Divisions each successfully eliminated their enemies, that is, they completely annihilated Han Hanying's 59th Division of the Central Army and captured Han Hanying alive. At present, the main forces of these three divisions have all rushed here with the joy of victory! Although one regiment of each stayed in place to clean up the battlefield, the main forces of the three divisions combined still had more than 25,000 people! Once these troops were fully engaged in battle, the remaining two brigades of Tang Yunshan, which had been beaten very passively by Zeng Zhongsheng's troops, would no longer have any chance of survival. Hold on for half an hour, that's when he overestimates himself. In fact, when Li Jiansheng's entire army was fully engaged in battle, in just 11 minutes, the two brigades were wiped out. Pathetic, there were almost 8,000 people in the two brigades, and in the end less than 1,800 were captured, and more than 2,000 wounded, and the rest were all killed!
When Xue Yue arrived at the scene overnight with two divisions and another division-level detachment of the Chinese Army, he was greeted only by the corpses of soldiers left behind by the two divisions, and how could he find the shadow of the red bandits in Li Jiansheng's department?