Chapter Ninety-Seven: Decapitation Tactics Annihilation of the 6th Division
Zhao Menghao didn't understand until he died, he had similarities with Deng Guangwu, and he was also killed by the artillery of his own troops. It's just that Deng Guangwu was accurately "beheaded" by the artillery of his own troops; And Zhao Menghao was killed by the artillery of his own troops!
He didn't know that Li Jiansheng, who had been influenced by the cannon thinking of later generations, continued to think about cannon after arriving in this world. Several victories in which he personally participated were related to artillery: either the artillery of his own troops directly and violently bombarded the enemy, crushing the enemy, and thus won the victory; Either a sneak attack to obtain someone else's artillery position and then counterattack, so as to win in one fell swoop. Whether it was from the very beginning to assist Wang Erzhuo to seize the enemy's artillery position in Mangshan and then hit him backhand, or the artillery bombarded Deng Guangwu to death not long before, anyway, he Li Jiansheng tasted the sweetness of blinding the enemy's artillery and developing his own artillery. Therefore, this time without hesitation, two companies of the special service regiment were sent to destroy the enemy's artillery.
The 1st and 2nd companies of the special agents, under the leadership of Licorice, the new deputy commander of the 1st Battalion of the Special Service Regiment, infiltrated the position of the 6th Independent Division, caught their tongues, and after figuring out the location of the artillery position of the 6th Independent Division, they sneaked over. The artillery of the 6th Division had just received the order and was preparing, when the artillery of the red bandits roared. These artillerymen have always had only experience in bombing others, but not in being bombed, so as soon as the red bandits' cannons rang out, everyone was stunned and slowed down. The commander of the artillery regiment was born in a regular artillery department, and when he saw his subordinates like this, he was angry and immediately let his artillery fight back. But only then did he return a batch of artillery fire, and immediately led the artillery fire of the red bandits, and this artillery company was lost at the moment! Even some of the surrounding artillery positions were destroyed. When the regiment commander reacted and asked the other artillerymen to fire back, the other artillerymen had already seen the consequences of the artillery returning fire in a row, so they refused to do it, but they just made preparations and did not let go of the artillery. The artillery commander couldn't either, just fired. But no matter how loud his voice was, all the soldiers could not hear it because of the rumbling of the cannons. A little later, a group of men in strange costumes pointed guns at them. The artillery commander wanted to resist, but was shot in the head by licorice at once.
If it weren't for Licorice to accurately predict and persuade the Red Army artillery units, these artillery units would have been completely destroyed by Li Jiansheng's artillery units. You must know that Li Jiansheng has always wanted to get more artillery, so he sent this spy battalion out. When Liu Fugui, the commander of the artillery brigade, heard that the regiment commander was going to help him get artillery, he was so excited that he personally stood in front of a radio station, answered the licorice report, and then directed the artillery unit to bombard accurately, so as to ensure that the enemy's artillery fire was suppressed, that the enemy's artillery fire would not be threatened, and that he would not accidentally injure his own special service battalion, so that the special service battalion could capture the enemy's artillery. Unexpectedly, after everyone's concerted efforts, it was really successful.
Once Licorice captured the enemy's artillery position, he immediately cleared all the enemy soldiers around him and immediately reported the situation to Li Jiansheng. Li Jiansheng was overjoyed and asked the Red 1st Division to give him a battalion for ground support, while Liu Fugui's artillery was extended to other places. After 20 minutes of artillery bombardment by the main force, Licorice forced the artillery of the 6th Division of the Jiangxi enemy to bombard, and Zhao Menghao was blown up in the chaotic artillery. Later, when the merit was recorded, this Zhao Menghao's death had no accurate counterpart, so he had to be recorded in general terms to the artillery brigade.
As soon as Licorice's artillery stopped, when Li Jiansheng's troops launched the final encirclement and annihilation battle, the remaining soldiers of the entire 6th Division knelt down and raised their guns one by one and surrendered. In less than 45 minutes, the 6th Division was completely annihilated. More than 1,800 people in the division were captured.
Li Jiansheng quickly asked all units to clean up the battlefield and escort prisoners, and personally led the Red 1st Division and Red 4th Division to support the Red 6th Division and the Red 7th Division. In this battle, the most tragic was the Red 6th Division. Because he was one division against three divisions of the 33rd Army of the Jiangxi enemy. The Red 7th Division also fought badly, but the victory was due to the bombardment of Liu Fugui's artillery, the enemy's momentum was suppressed, and the pressure of the Red 7th Division was doubled.
As for the Red 6th Division, it resisted the enemy's 1st Army for nearly 50 minutes with the strength of the 1st Division, and won a complete victory after paying a heavy price. Fortunately, Hu Tingquan, commander of the 6th Red Division, Cai Zhong, political commissar, and Liu Ye, chief of staff, are all masters who can fight tough battles, and they have not taken a step forward in blocking the enemy! In fact, once the position was occupied, Liu Ye personally led the divisional engineer battalion to bury a large number of ground mines on the road where the enemy might come, so as to reduce the speed of the enemy's attack; Later, he never took the initiative to shoot, in order to delay the enemy's attack as long as possible, and waited until the enemy arrived in front of him before launching a sudden attack, and immediately repelled an attack by the enemy; Once the enemy has launched an offensive, first repel it with heavy machine guns, and then counterattack with artillery extensions. This back and forth took more than 20 minutes. As for the next 30 minutes or so, it was to attack the enemy with flesh and blood. But fortunately, the equipment of the Red 6th Division had already caught up with it this day, and it was difficult to solve the enemy's battle for more than 30 minutes. Although there were heavy casualties, they did not take a step back. Once Li Jiansheng and the main force arrived, the Red 6th Division retreated. It would be much easier to fight the enemy's 33rd Army with 2 of the most elite units of the Red 1st Division and the Red 4th Division, which accumulated the power of great victory.
Li Jiansheng personally led his troops to fight with the enemy for nearly half an hour, and waited until all the troops on the side, including the prisoners, retreated in an orderly manner when he suddenly launched a counteroffensive and repelled the enemy's 33rd Army in one fell swoop. When the 33rd Army asked the troops to move forward half an hour later, they found that there were no figures on the Red Army position, leaving only corpses in military uniforms. He Tieqi, the commander of the 33rd Army, knew that the two entire divisions of the 5th and 6th Divisions had been completely annihilated in less than two hours, which was extremely cold; In addition, he had just attacked the red bandits, and he knew the strength of the red bandits, and he was afraid that his own troops would do the same, so he didn't dare to stride forward, but just stubbornly waited for help. On the one hand, the security was strengthened, and on the other hand, people were asked to report the information to He Jian.
Then He Jian received this telegram. The first thought is unbelief. He would never believe that those red bandits of the dog day would dare to pull out their teeth! But the telegram stayed there in black and white, and he couldn't believe it, this red bandit really pulled out his teeth, not only pulled out, but also pulled out two! The second feeling is miserable. You must know that this loss is two whole divisions, although they are not descendant troops, but they are also troops! Two divisions, 10,000 people, just shout and disappear! How do you ask him to explain to the chairman? The third feeling is that I have been fooled. The red bandit fought well before, and he also lost two security regiments, but he didn't see the shadow of the red bandit. Now I understand, this red bandit is cunning, he came to attack the east and west, and used a diversion to leave the mountain, and when his large army went to the west, he would fight me to the death in the east! Damn, it's amazing, there are masters among these red bandits! Well, let's find a way to shrink our forces! On the one hand, they should inform Chairman Chiang of the situation of the battle, and on the other hand, let the various departments shrink and not act alone, especially those independent divisions and security regiments.
Chairman Jiang received He Jian's telegram, and he was also angry, and wanted to scold He Jian a few words or replace him, and thought that this was a special period, and it was the time to employ people, so he must not be angry, so he calmed down, and talked to He Jian with Yan Yuese, only saying that the independent division had nothing to gain, and if it was lost, it would be lost, as long as it was found out where the main force of the red bandits was, and then concentrate on clearing it!