Chapter 484 Bamboo Pole Shop
The Central Army, which was besieging the encircled New Fourth Army with all its might, was suddenly suffocated by the shells coming from behind, and before it could come to its senses, it saw countless New Fourth Army troops coming out from behind, rushing the position to pieces. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The Central Army guarding here was only one battalion in size, and there was another battalion in front of them, and another battalion was arranged five miles to the left.
They originally focused their attention on the west side, but they were brutally beaten from behind, and before they could react, three companies of a regiment and a battalion rushed up with a shout, and many soldiers were hit by bullets flying from behind before they could come to their senses, especially those officers such as company platoon commanders in the Central Army, who became the first objects of care of the first battalion.
In less than two minutes, the New Fourth Army rushed to the position, and after the Central Army lost many company and platoon commanders, the rest of the soldiers retreated to the left in a swarm.
Tong Guijie saw the first battalion tearing open the gap, and hurriedly ordered the second battalion to continue to launch a fierce attack to the west, and at the same time, after the first battalion expanded the results on both sides, it quickly occupied the high ground on both sides and quickly built fortifications to ensure that the second battalion would withdraw quickly after completing the task.
At the same time, the mortar battalion, which was cooperating with the operation, immediately set up artillery positions on the hills on both sides. The other platoon followed the second battalion forward.
The sound of gunfire sounded in the east, which made the Central Army, which was in front of the Second Battalion and was fighting fiercely with the New Fourth Army, which was desperately breaking through, panicked, and hurriedly drew out part of its forces to turn around to meet the battle, but unfortunately the Central Army in front was only the size of a battalion, and the troops that Tong Guijie killed to the west were a fully equipped Second Battalion, which not only had a large number of grenadiers, but also a machine gun company, and its firepower was only stronger than that of the Central Army, and the officers and men of the Second Battalion knew that it was their comrades-in-arms who were surrounded in front, and they were even more brave in the lead.
A company drawn from the Central Army fought fiercely with the second battalion for less than ten minutes, and then had to retreat with a loss of troops.
Gui Xuebing saw the retreat of the Central Army, and immediately commanded the troops to follow closely to cover the kill, at this time, the New Fourth Army, which was desperately rushing to the east, heard the fierce gunfire behind the enemy, and immediately shouted in surprise: "Comrades, rush quickly, our reinforcements have arrived." ”
The Central Army was flanked from here, lost more than half of it in a blink of an eye, and had to retreat to the left.
Gui Xuebing rushed to the mountain range in front with his troops, and a group of New Fourth Army ran up below, and the two troops converged, all with tears in their eyes.
However, Gui Xuebing only greeted one of the cadres who was running in front and asked them to quickly pass through the mountain pass, and his second battalion immediately established a position on the high ground on the left.
In another half an hour, it will be dark, although they have broken through the defense line of the Central Army, but he knows that there are tens of thousands of Central Army around, only a mere seventh detachment, and it cannot hold out for long, and the New Fourth Army is surrounded in the Maolin area, but it is scattered in a very wide area, and it is impossible to take all the encircled New Fourth Army out.
Liu Tianshu learned that Tong Guijie had opened the gap, and immediately ordered him to hold on firmly and rescue as many of his comrades as possible.
At the same time, Liu Tianshu sent a platoon of guards to disperse a twenty-mile guard.
The Third Theater Commander's Department received a report that a group of New Fourth Army that had appeared out of nowhere had broken through the defense line of the Central Army on the west side of Ningguo, and that the besieged New Fourth Army was breaking through that gap. Immediately draw the strength of two divisions and rush to the gap.
Zhou Aiguo found that the theater commander's headquarters had begun to transfer troops to plug the gap, and immediately used the radio to shrink the troops, and then took advantage of the night to harass and attack the two divisions with all his might.
Although Zhou Aiguo and his reconnaissance unit blew up an arsenal of the Central Army and took advantage of the darkness to cause some trouble for the Central Army, the two divisions, under the strict supervision of Commander Zhu, still rushed to the gap controlled by Tong Guijie's regiment at dawn.
Liu Tianshu learned that the reinforcements of the Central Army were less than ten miles away from the gap, so he had to report the situation to the Northern Jiangsu Headquarters through the radio.
The Northern Soviet Command knew that if the 7th Detachment did not retreat, it would also fall into the siege of the Central Army, so it had to order them to withdraw from the open gap.
When Liu Tianshu received the order, tears fell like rain, and a feeling of helplessness arose.
What is the saddest thing about people? It is this situation of watching his comrades fall into siege while he is unable to do anything about it.
Tong Guijie received the order from the detachment commander to retreat, looked back to the west, and saw that there were still many New Fourth Army running in the mountains and forests, and he couldn't stop shouting: "Hurry up, hurry up." ”
By this time, the Central Army on both sides had reached a place less than two miles from the breach, and his alert troops had exchanged fire with the approaching Central Army.
The artillery on the hills on both sides had begun to retreat, and the rest of the fighters were also preparing to retreat with tears in their eyes.
At this moment, Tong Guijie saw a group of New Fourth Army suddenly running out of the mountains and forests in the distance, and many of them still had the marks of medical personnel on their arms, he suddenly felt nervous, and turned to Long Zhishui, the commander of the first battalion, and said: "First battalion commander, order the troops to hold their positions at all costs and retreat in ten minutes." ”
After speaking, he shouted to the guards beside him: "Stone, quickly lead the guard platoon to answer, quickly." ”
As soon as the stone heard this, he shouted for the guard platoon to follow me, and immediately ran west with dozens of fighters.
The shells of the Central Army began to hit the hills on both sides, and as the explosions sounded, clouds of gunpowder smoke rose from the hills.
Tong Guijie stood at the mountain pass, staring nervously at the approaching team, and saw Shi and the others rushing up, helping those comrades to carry the wounded and running towards this side, and couldn't help shouting in his heart Hurry up, hurry up.
At this time, the 1st and 2nd companies of the 1st battalion and the 2nd company guarding both sides had already come into contact with the Central Army that was rushing with the shells.
Seeing the group of New Fourth Army coming, Tong Guijie found that there were dozens of female soldiers inside, but he didn't care about asking more, but hurriedly shouted to leave.
After these warriors ran east, he immediately ran eastward under the protection of the stone and others.
Long Zhishui saw that the regiment commander and others had evacuated, and immediately sent a signal to prepare to retreat, but these central armies were swarming up. The troops could not be withdrawn for a while.
Fortunately, at this time, the first company of the mortar battalion that cooperated with the operation had already chosen an artillery position in the east, and when it saw the Central Army storming the mountain, it immediately launched a fierce bombardment towards the attacking Central Army.
The momentum of the Central Army's offensive was immediately stopped, and the 2nd Battalion took advantage of this opportunity to immediately withdraw from the hill and run quickly to the east.
After the 2nd Battalion joined up with the 1st Mortar Company, it immediately spread its legs and ran eastward, and soon joined up with the 1st Battalion under the personal command of Deputy Detachment Commander Zhang, who was guarding behind.
The Central Army, which had been ordered to reinforce the eastern defense line, saw that the shells were no longer flying, and immediately rushed to the top of the hill again, but who knew that the New Fourth Army on the hill had already retreated, and the division commander of the Central Army received the report and immediately ordered the troops to re-plug the gap, and at the same time sent troops to pursue them to the east.
At this time, Chief Gu had already thought that the New Fourth Army that suddenly appeared was most likely Liu Tianshu's seventh detachment, and its small force even disguised itself as the Central Army and infiltrated his defense area.
The thought of an arsenal in his zone being inexplicably blown up made him feel itchy hatred, but he was even more furious when he learned that there seemed to be snipers from the seventh detachment in the zone.
According to the reports of his subordinates, three officers at and above the regimental commander level in the rear were unfortunately shot and killed, and what made him even more angry was that one officer was caught by a group of unknown people and forced him to bring back a letter, saying that the behavior of the Central Army in besieging and transferring the New Fourth Army had aroused great resentment among the people of the whole country, and if it was not stopped, they would snipe and kill the senior officers of the Third Theater by unscrupulous means.
This group of people is really arrogant, and they dare to threaten the high-ranking generals of the party-state, and what makes him even more angry is that a high-ranking general really almost died under a bullet flying from nowhere. It's really unbearable and unbearable.
The Theater Commander's Department immediately sent elite troops to search and arrest, but unfortunately, in addition to being injured by some inexplicable organs on the way to pursuit, many people were injured, but they did not even catch the shadows of these people.
In fact, it was not that the troops sent by the Third War Zone were incompetent, but that Zhou Aiguo received Liu Tianshu's order, and when the Third War Zone reacted, he had already retreated eastward with the reconnaissance brigade.
Tong Guijie commanded a regiment with the New Fourth Army that broke through the encirclement to fight and retreat, and soon arrived at the bamboo pole shop.
At this time, the three regiments and one battalion under the personal command of Liu Tianshu had exchanged fire with the central army that rushed to the bamboo pole shop, but the central army that rushed to the bamboo pole shop first had only one regiment. After discovering that the New Fourth Army was guarding the bamboo pole shop, the regiment commander surnamed Zhu was so anxious to make meritorious service that he didn't even know the situation, so he asked his two battalions to launch an attack on the high ground on the side of the bamboo pole shop, in an attempt to capture the commanding heights in one fell swoop and control the bamboo pole shop.
He had thought that his two battalions had just finished preparing for the attack and had not yet dispersed, when a dense burst of shells suddenly flew out and landed in his dense formation, and the entire assembly area was enveloped in the smoke of the shell explosion in a blink of an eye.
As the explosions sounded one after another, countless soldiers of the Central Army were blown into the air. Liu Tianshu watched this scene through a telescope, and his heart was full of indescribable sadness and loss.
If it weren't for the Third Theater of Operations' brazen attack on the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army, he would not have fired at these soldiers at all, you know, these are the precious national defense forces of a country that has suffered many disasters.
It's a pity that if you don't do it yourself, these people will rush up according to the orders of the commander's department and treat friendly troops like enemies.
When Commander Zhu saw his soldiers engulfed in the smoke of the explosion, he was shocked as if he were like a statue.
Where did these New Fourth Army come from such fierce artillery fire, and pity their two battalions for being hit by this round of sudden blows from the New Fourth Army, and I don't know how many soldiers will survive.
Finally, the shells stopped flying, and when a gust of wind blew away the smoke, he saw dead and wounded soldiers all over the ground. (To be continued.) )