Chapter Seventy-Five: Meng Yan's Great Victory (3)

Li Jiansheng personally instructed all units of the 19th Division to arrange ambush positions.

Fortunately, these are all veterans, and it's not once or twice that they are ambushed, practice makes perfect, and doing such things at this time is one after another. At present, some soldiers who have just been transferred from the Hunan Army and the Zhou Hun Yuan Department of the Central Army are not issued weapons for the time being, except for some active ones, and are temporarily used as transport troops for artillery units and logistics units. This is also what Li Jiansheng meant. After all, this battle was too important, and he did not allow any accidents, for fear that these soldiers would have some counterproductive effects temporarily, so he gave such an order. Because at the critical moment of the ambush, if one soldier fires a shot, all the efforts of all will be in vain.

Li Jiansheng personally walked through the trenches and inspected the bunkers, and was satisfied with the work of the engineer troops. As for the artillery, with Liu Fugui here, he is not worried. Now this kid has become a real artillery expert. Heavy machine guns, however, were one of the key places for Li Jiansheng to inspect, and he even personally checked the firing elements of 20 heavy machine guns and found that there was no problem, so he stopped. Li Jiansheng meant that after the enemy troops in front of him passed, he would use the enemy behind to plant the mines when he was traveling 10 miles apart, so as to achieve the effect of giving the enemy a surprise attack. Of course, there are more grenades at the moment, and Li Jiansheng has equipped each fighter with enough standard grenades. Other former enemy soldiers who had turned around formed a grenadier team with 30 grenades each, and found a few of the 117 old Red Army soldiers they had saved on the edge of the Xiangjiang River to lead. What Li Jiansheng meant was that these people played the role of the "Second Artillery" in the waiting battle, and they only threw bombs, throwing bombs wherever there were many enemies, with only one purpose, to cooperate with the artillery to break up the enemy and break their will. In order to maximize the effect of the grenade, Li Jiansheng even stood in the trench and tried to throw several grenades, and only after confirming that the grenade could achieve the best effect at the best dropping point did he stop.

The work of the 19th Division was done meticulously, and the news from the commanders of several other corps on the phone also showed that whether it was Yun Tian, Ji Zhentong, or Peng Zhi and others, they had done their work extremely meticulously. Obviously, everyone has long been influenced by Li Jiansheng's idea of "heavy firepower and light charge", and the first thing at the head is to allocate firepower. After hearing the detailed introductions of several generals, Li Jiansheng felt that it was similar to his own configuration, so he didn't say much.

In the morning, the position was set up, and at about 2 p.m., the observation post reported that the enemy's leading troops had come. Li Jiansheng knew that this was the 173rd Brigade of the enemy's 59th Division, and he didn't care. Because the ministries have long been ordered to let the enemy pass. Because of the good concealment, standing on a high place, you can't find the trenches and bunkers of Li Jiansheng's department at all, and only when you get closer, you will find that there is an army in ambush on the hills on both sides. And Li Jiansheng had already ordered that if the enemy's scouts came, they should not be alarmed as much as possible, and if they were too close, the guard troops would solve the problem.

Xue Yue is indeed a famous general with troops. You can see it just by the scouts sending out in all directions. And the appearance and formation of the troops also show that this is an elite army. However, perhaps because they had not been subjected to major blockades or harassment by the Red Army along the way, most of these scouts only looked at them from a distance, and did not look at them in detail. Therefore, Li Jiansheng's ambush position was able to pass smoothly. The 173 brigade passed. Obviously, the enemy was very contemptuous that he had not been blocked by the red bandits, and the reconnaissance was basically passed through the door, because the news of the enemy's passage came out of the next few positions. As for the other brigades that followed the 173rd Brigade, because their own troops had just passed in front, the scouts were not sent, but just swaggered over.

Finally, the 275th Brigade of the Tangyunshan Division of the 93rd Division of the enemy entered the ambush circle of the 19th Division, and Li Jiansheng chose an appropriate time to shoot first, killing an enemy officer on a horse on the spot. With the gunfire of the corps commander, the divisions of the 19th Division quickly opened fire. And some other fighters, one after another, pulled the cables, and batches of mines were detonated, pitiful, such an elite brigade, before it could be fattened, was blown up by mines first. Some officers, gunners, and firefighters were shot in the head one after another before they had time to organize firepower. And the muzzles of the swarms of machine guns on the hills on both sides, the spray of bullets towards the sickle harvesting weeds, one by one, the enemy fell in an instant. As for the artillery, at this time they spared no ammunition, and only threw the cannon on the enemy's ground, especially where there were many enemies and dense crowds, they would smash them wherever they were. Others had to counterattack on the hilltops, either under light machine gun fire or by a burst of grenades from the recruits who had turned around.

Because the method used in the last ambush of Zhou Hunyuan's department was adopted, that is, the ambush circle was drawn into a grid, and each company was responsible for a grid to ensure that there were no dead spots in firepower, so the current ambush battle was together, and the enemy could not hide at all. No matter where you run, there is always firepower to follow, and there is no way to do it except for real death, or fake death!

After Li Jiansheng's 19th Division slammed ammunition for more than 20 minutes, this elite Central Army collapsed. Although these enemy soldiers were not afraid of death and constantly organized counterattacks, Li Jiansheng's department did not give them a chance at all, but only greeted them with bullets, artillery, and grenades, plus they were three times the enemy's strength, and their firepower was much fiercer than the enemy's.

When the crazy artillery of Liu Fugui's artillery unit erupted from the center of the enemy and then spread to the periphery; and then from the periphery to the central bombardment; After the explosion, the center spread out in all directions, like a comb combing hair, and the one combed back and forth three times, blowing up an enemy without a temper. When Liu Fugui was about to comb for the fourth time, Li Jiansheng found that if he combed again, there would definitely not be a few people left in this brigade. The enemy has collapsed, there is no need to spend more shells, it is always good to catch a few more prisoners, the quality of these central armies, that is not comparable to the Hunan army! Therefore, Liu Fugui's actions were stopped and he took the lead in rushing out of the trenches. As soon as he moved, the guards around him moved first, and Xu Jinsong was inseparable from him. As soon as they moved, the 61st Regiment of the Assault Regiment designated by Li Jiansheng, those soldiers who had long been unable to bear to charge and were only waiting for the order of the regiment commander saw that the regiment commander and the guard company had rushed first, so they could not care so much, and climbed out of the trenches in batches and rushed straight towards the enemy. As soon as they charged, the whole division moved. More than 12,000 people are all moved! However, they were a little late, and by the time they rushed to the center of the ambush circle, there were less than 800 prisoners who could spare their lives, and quite a few of them were seriously wounded!

In this way, a whole brigade ended their mission. And once the 19th Division completely broke the enemy of this brigade, it immediately divided its troops into separate routes, and most of them rushed to the front from the hills on both sides to support Zeng Zhongsheng's division in blocking the 276th and 277th Brigades!