Chapter Ninety-Nine: Hard-hitting the Gui Army, which has the strongest combat effectiveness
However, not selling He Jian's battle does not mean that he Wu Shijie will not go to support, on the contrary, he made the decision to fight the red bandits at the first time, and issued a combat order to the troops under his jurisdiction at the first time. In fact, at the first time, Wu Shijie received a call for help from Yi Zhoushan, the commander of the 9th Division. For the sake of his colleagues, Wu Shijie decided to go out, not to mention that he really didn't like those red bandits. Therefore, he let the 73rd Division and the 74th Division advance to the Linwu attack, and the deputy commander Zhou Zehai personally went to the front line to command, and he sat in the back to control the remote control! You must know that Yi Zhoushan made it clear on the telegram that the strength of the red bandits was very strong, and they had already lost a regiment. This made Wu Shijie believe that the other party must be the main force of the red bandits! It is necessary to gather and annihilate!
As soon as they received information on the movements of the 73rd and 74th Divisions, more than seven divisions under Li Jiansheng's command moved overnight, silently reached the periphery of Daoxian County, and quietly opened the encirclement. The 1st and 8th Red Divisions and units directly under the corps were used to send reinforcements, that is, to prevent the 73rd and 74th Divisions from potentially returning to the defense. The Red 7th Division was the general reserve and was located on the periphery of the southeast of Dao County. Red 3, Red 4, Red 5, and Red 6 had a total of four divisions, as well as artillery brigades and machine gun brigades directly under the corps, all of which were used to attack the county seat of Daoxian. At that time, the special task force was already marching in lurk with the help of local party organizations.
said that Wu Shijie came together the next morning, and the chief of staff ran over a little angrily: "Military seat, it's broken!" Broken! ”
"What's the alarm?" Wu Shijie is a typical soldier, not in a hurry, while buttoning the military discipline buckle and wearing a military hat, he said to the chief of staff more seriously. The chief of staff was startled, quickly calmed down, and then said: "The red bandits have surrounded the county seat of Dao County?" ”
"Surrounded the county seat of Daoxian?" Wu Shijie was taken aback, but then laughed.
How is this possible?
The chief of staff didn't believe it when he saw the military seat, and asked Wu Shijie to go up to the city to have a look. Wu Shijie nodded, and before he was about to act, he heard the earth-shattering sound of cannons. After listening carefully, Wu Shijie believed it. However, I also believed it honestly. He still has confidence in the combat strength of his troops. After thinking about it for a while, he dictated to the chief of staff: "Let the 74th Division continue to support the 9th Independent Division, and let the 73rd Division come to the rescue!" "Anyway, put on your coat and hat, don't put on your pistol, and under the escort of the guards, you don't eat breakfast, and you just go to the headquarters. When he arrived at the headquarters, the commander of the 72nd Division, Wen Bo, had already organized his troops to start a counterattack. However, the firepower of the red bandits was obviously very fierce, and even regular troops like his 72nd Division were now overwhelmed and unable to raise their heads. It's no wonder, neither Wu Shijie nor Wenbo could have imagined that this Li Jiansheng's department, the previous equipment was the number one in the entire Red Army system, and this time it ate two independent divisions of the Jiangxi Army, and the number of artillery and shells were greatly discarded, so they didn't care much about the supply of shells at the moment!
I have to say that the county city wall of this county is really not good. On Li Jiansheng's order, Liu Fugui concentrated four artillery pieces and bombarded the city wall in the east of Nadao County for two rounds, and the city wall collapsed. After two more rounds of concentrated bombardment, a large gap was formed. The artillery immediately extended in depth and to the sides. The current Liu Fugui is no longer the former "Wuxia Ameng". In the past, he was illiterate in big words, but because of his great strength, spirituality in bomb throwing, punctuality, and loyalty, he was entrusted with an important task by Li Jiansheng. However, this kid knew his gap, so after the commander called on everyone to study and took the lead himself, he was the first commander to receive education. In particular, he was not good at artillery, and during the whole training process, he either discussed and studied with Li Jiansheng, or exchanged ideas with several artillerymen from professional classes. These, coupled with his own understanding, have improved a lot, and he has long been able to independently command artillery operations. As for his own individual soldier quality, there has also been a leap forward. I was not familiar with this profession, but now I have created a "thumb method", that is, just by using the thumb to aim at the eyes, a pair, he can immediately judge the distance of the bombing target, and then adjust the mortar to blow up, the hit rate is extremely high! Li Jiansheng knows that this person is relatively simple, but he feels good and works hard the day after tomorrow, so he has today's results. Once again, Li Jiansheng saw an example of "diligence can make up for clumsiness" from Liu Fugui!
As soon as Liu Fugui's artillery blasted the city wall open and extended it in the forward, left, and right directions, the harsh winter, who had been waiting for a long time, waved his hand, and all units of his Red 4th Division immediately charged. At the head of the platoon was a whole light machine gun squad, with 8 light machine guns opening the way. It was followed by two more rows of light machine guns, 6 in each row.
No matter how tenacious the Gui army was, it could not resist the artillery and machine guns, and the Red 4th Division finally succeeded in occupying the city after paying a lot of casualties. Liu Limin's heavy machine gun brigade immediately had four heavy machine guns follow, and quickly set up a heavy machine gun position in the ruins of the gap. The commander of the 4th Red Division was still not at ease in the harsh winter, so he let his division's heavy machine gun battalion set up four more heavy machine guns at this gap, and he must firmly grasp this gap. He dared to assure that unless the enemy was bombarded by artillery, the gap would be his own. As for the other units of the Red 4th Division, they squeezed into the county town with all their might according to Li Jiansheng's instructions.
As a matter of fact, as early as in peacetime, when military training was conducted, Li Jiansheng gave special lectures to these military and political commanders and personnel of the teaching regiment. Among them, I talked about some tactics of attacking fortified positions. In fact, it was all summed up by the generalissimo Lin to Siye in the later generations: First of all, after the breakthrough was opened, the attacking troops should pour in as much as possible with all their might, like a big play, so that the troops could enter the city as much as possible, so that the enemy's counterattack troops would be difficult to counterattack the assault force of the attacking troops, so that the siege assault troops could not only firmly control the breakthrough, but also have the ability to develop in depth and quickly form a real breakthrough.
Li Jiansheng, who majored in history, actually admired Generalissimo Lin very much. Of course, it refers specifically to military talents. Seeing the shortcomings of the previous tactics, Generalissimo Lin proposed that as soon as the siege broke through, even when the enemy had not yet reacted and organized an artillery counterattack, the army should put in as many troops as possible at one time, the more the better, and not be afraid of crowding. Although this tactic is not found in official tactical writings, it is a very effective and practical tactic of Generalissimo Lin's Siye, which ensures the effectiveness of Siye's one-time breakthrough of the city wall. This tactical point should have been discovered and proposed by commanders at the army and division levels, but in fact it was put forward by a commander of a major strategic region like Lin Biao. And Li Jiansheng learned this, especially in his own training.
In fact, Generalissimo Lin also proposed: After the troops break through the city walls, they should immediately advance in depth, eating meat first and then gnawing bones. That is, the troops in front pick the enemy that is easy to fight, and leave the more difficult fortresses for the follow-up troops to attack. The main task of the vanguard is to make a detour and advance straight into depth regardless of the enemy's flank fire, and directly attack the enemy's command organs. Li Jiansheng learned this point long ago, and he also gave a special explanation to his troops. Right now, the harsh winter headquarters is so violently impacted, and the large army poured straight into the city, quickly dividing and encircling the headquarters of the 72nd Division of the Gui Army!