Chapter 57: Night Attack on Renhua
Li Jiansheng, who studied history, knew that it was not easy for Yu Hanmou to be a person, he was very good at the army, he was a typical professional soldier, and he was also a famous anti-Japanese general; Moreover, the combat effectiveness of his First Army is not ordinarily strong. Therefore, this time to move Yu Hanmou's troops, Li Jiansheng was extremely careful.
Intelligence shows that the main force of Yu Hanmou's 1st Army is all stationed in Shaoguan, and although there are garrisons in Lechang, Nanxiong, Renhua, Shixing, Wengyuan, Xinfeng and other places, there are not many. For example, at present, Lechang, which is feinted by Yuntian's department, only has one regiment of the 2nd Division of the 1st Army, and another part of the City Defense Bureau, with a total number of 1,500 people.
But this information made Li Jiansheng a little confused, because he couldn't understand why a good army should be dispersed and stationed so widely. A closer look at the third page of the information made it dawn on me. It turned out that although the current Guangdong army has not yet reached the scale of 3 armies with a total of 13 divisions at its peak, it is not much different. According to Chen Jitang's method, these 13 divisions, in addition to the instructors, the other 12 divisions are subordinate to these three armies. That is, each corps has 4 divisions under its jurisdiction. Although the number of divisions under the jurisdiction of the 2nd Army and the 3rd Army has not yet reached 4, the First Army, which is the absolute main force under Chen Jitang's command, has 4 divisions under its jurisdiction at present, including the 1st Division, the 2nd Division, the 6th Division and the 8th Division. Yu Hanmou stationed these four divisions separately. Among them, the 4 regiments of the 1st Division were stationed in Shaoguan as a whole, the division headquarters and 1 regiment of the 2nd Division were stationed outside Shaoguan, and the other 3 regiments were stationed in Lechang, Renhua, and Shixing counties; The 6th Division was composed of three regiments, the division headquarters and one regiment were also stationed in Shaoguan, and the other two regiments were stationed in Xinfeng and Ruyuan; The 8th Division is also composed of three regiments, of which three regiments are stationed in Qujiang, Wengyuan, and Nanxiong, and the division headquarters is also stationed in Nanxiong.
However, Li Jiansheng did not mean to beat Lechang at all. Right now, he was only letting Yuntian's troops make a big attack, but he himself led his troops to lurk and gradually approached Renhua. Sure enough, after the fierce battle on the first day, the Lechang defenders asked for help.
This gives the impression that the red bandits are besieging Lechang in a big way. Therefore, when Li Jiansheng and others led their troops to Renhua, the enemy did not feel anything. After surveying the surrounding terrain, Li Jiansheng decided to use the old routine, which was to attack Renhua at night. That night, he personally led the reconnaissance company to the city, and before leaving, he asked Wang Hanying to lead the main force to hide overnight, and once he succeeded, Wang Hanying led the main force to attack the city.
The information that the Yuntian Department attacked Lechang during the day has obviously been obtained by the Renhua defenders. This made them a little frightened, but it also gave them a delusion: the red bandits would not attack them for the time being. This can be seen from the sentries at the head of the city. When he contacted the local party organization, Li Jiansheng had already learned about the previous sentry here, and according to the current situation, this sentry has more than doubled. But perhaps because the red bandits were attacking Lechang, these sentinels were mediocre in their vigilance. Therefore, when Li Jiansheng led the reconnaissance company to touch the city, those sentries still did not notice. Xu Kai, the deputy commander of the reconnaissance company, turned out to be born in Orion, and he was good at marksmanship and good skills. At first, he was assigned to the guard platoon and worked under Li Zhi. By chance, he and Li Zhi had two competitions to climb trees, which immediately made Li Jiansheng remember, and he was promoted to be the first squad leader of the guard platoon at that time, and later promoted to the deputy platoon leader of the guard platoon; After the establishment of the reconnaissance company, Li Jiansheng did not hesitate to use Xu Kai in the position of deputy company commander, this time the troops went out of Guangdong, and the original company commander Wu Kelie was arranged to stay behind to protect He Changming. Considering that this stay not only had to reconnoiter the local situation, but also to be responsible for training the scouts of the independent battalions in various localities, and also to assist He Changming in commanding the six battalions left behind, Li Jiansheng had no choice but to keep him; As a result, Xu Kai was promoted to the post of commander of the reconnaissance company.
Right now, Li Jiansheng and Xu Kai are ambushed at the foot of Renhua County. After looking at it for a while, the two men determined that the enemy's sentinel, in addition to the two fixed posts, would come to the mobile post about every 40 minutes, and that the 40 minutes would be at least half shortened if the visual distance of the mobile post was included. In other words, the effective time left for Li Jiansheng and the others, including killing the fixed sentry, climbing the city wall, and then killing the mobile sentry, is only 20 minutes!
The two of them discussed it for a while, and with a wave of Xu Kai's hand, two more scouts crawled over. But it was Xing Yun, another deputy company commander of the reconnaissance company, and Guo Kailang, an instructor. A few people exchanged gestures slightly, Xing Yun crawled back, and after a while brought two more fighters over. Each warrior also had a crossbow in his hand. Li Jiansheng was overjoyed, knowing that this was easy to do; He also sighed, in the end, it is a scout, there are all kinds of weapons, even the crossbow that is generally only used by hunters, or only possessed by special forces in later generations, there are fighters specially carried - he does not know that since the last time he used the machine crossbow to kill the enemy lightly, this reconnaissance unit has seen the doorway, up and down, and is equipped with this kind of weapon full-time, I can't imagine that it will really come in handy today - at that moment, Li Jiansheng and the two soldiers exchanged for a while, and then made a detailed arrangement: Among the two soldiers, One of the soldiers named Licorice was in charge of shooting the sentry in the east, Li Jiansheng was personally in charge of the sentinel in the west, and Xing Yun was in charge of raising the climbing rope to the city wall - this Xing Yun was the platoon commander of the original grenadier company, and was later promoted to deputy company commander, and now he was assigned to the reconnaissance company by Li Jiansheng. Not only was he strong, but he was also good at the head - when the climbing rope was ready, another crossbow-wielding warrior, called Chu Zhengbo, was the first to climb up, and then shot the swimming post with his crossbow arrows. Xu Kai climbed up the second, and the first platoon of reconnaissance also followed him, and then climbed up and occupied the city. Li Jiansheng also stressed that after the first platoon occupied the city, it must pay attention to having two soldiers stand guard in disguise as enemy sentries to confuse the enemy. The rest of the soldiers split up and secretly killed the other sentries in the city. After the first platoon went up, the second platoon immediately moved under the leadership of Xing Yun, with only one target, to control the enemy's city head and firepower points, and to cover the first platoon to control the city gate. Guo Kailang was in charge of leading the rest of the soldiers of the reconnaissance company, once the city gate was opened, immediately enter the city, regardless of anything else, just rush to the enemy garrison, and try his best to solve the sentry and firepower points on the periphery of their army before the garrison reacted, so as to create conditions for the main force to destroy the enemy army. Once the main force followed, Xu Kai led a platoon and Xing Yun led a platoon to take out the enemy's city defense bureau and police station respectively. As for the specific arrangements for the various teams of the main force, there has long been a division of labor, and it is only necessary to act according to the plan.
The arrangement is set, Li Jiansheng and Licorice are lurking separately, waiting for the opportunity. As three owl calls sounded, Li Jiansheng and Licorice acted at the same time, and the two sentinels at the head of the city were shot to the ground at the same time before they could come back somehow. Xing Yun had already prepared, his arm fell, and with a hook hand, the iron hook head of the climbing rope flew up to the city, and the four-clawed iron hook in front of him suddenly hooked tightly to the city head. Chu Zhengbo didn't say a word, and climbed to the top in just a few clicks, turned over the wall, and used the crossbow machine to protect the climbing rope. Xu Kai and others climbed up in turn. As soon as Xu Kai went to the city, Chu Zhengbo suddenly drowned in the shadow of the head of the city wall, and it was estimated that he was engaged in the mobile outpost as planned.
After only a while, the city gate was opened, and it was Xu Kai and a few others. Li Jiansheng immediately entered the city, and Guo Kailang's troops on the periphery also rushed in. The two battalions that were secretly guarding outside the city immediately followed into the city silently, and only then surrounded the enemy's barracks of the 7th Regiment, and immediately shot, while shouting according to Li Jiansheng's education: We are the Red Army, surrender our guns and not kill them, and treat the prisoners preferentially!