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Chapter 737: Who is the Boiled Duck (4)

"Boom-"

The mortar shells flew accurately between the two boulders, blowing up the four staff officers of the 51st Brigade into a bloody blur and killing them in an instant, and the two wounded and two corpses who fell in them were again attacked by the rain of rubble shrapnel and were blown into bloody gourds, and the thick smoke of gunpowder rushed up more than 20 meters high after a burst of firelight. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Brigade commander Zhang Zuying climbed up in the depression of about four meters outside the natural stone gate formed by two boulders, the steel helmet had been knocked away by the debris shot several meters away, a three-inch-long cut was cut on his left cheek, and hot blood flowed down his neck, soaking half of his shoulder, but he seemed to have no idea about his injuries, and in the exclamation of the guard commander, he suddenly rushed to the suffocating stone gate filled with gunsmoke, picked up the deputy brigade commander who fell under the two corpses and his face was covered with blood, sat on the ground and kept shaking and calling his name:

"Wake up, Iida, old man, don't scare me...... Where did the hygienist die? Hygienist ......"

"Cough, cough ......" Jiao Yida, who had been silent, coughed suddenly, wiped his bloody face with difficulty, and barely opened his eyes: "I can't die...... Lao Zhang, quickly draw out a battalion, order the spy company to rush back to the south bank with them, control the high ground on both sides of the ferry, and make every effort to plan the retreat of the main regiment, and then think about crossing the river when you get to the river, how many can you survive, if it is all gone, our number will be gone......"

Zhang Zuying nodded heavily with tears in her eyes, and the radio team led by the hygienist and the special service company commander Zhu Bin ran in, and saw the brigade commander and deputy brigade commander covered in blood, and shouted in fright.

Zhang Zuying pushed the hygienist away and asked him to help Jiao Yida check and bandage first, and then wiped his black face and wiped away the tears on his cheeks.

The hygienist didn't dare to disobey the order, immediately squatted down, picked up Jiao Yida and got busy, Zhu Bin leaned forward, carefully checked the wound on Zhang Zuying's face, tore open the first-aid kit on his waist, took out a triangular scarf and bandages and quickly bandaged Zhang Zuying, and the two signal soldiers holding the radio station on the side were in the face of the blood of the corpses all over the ground in the sound of bullets, and they were so anxious that they turned around helplessly.

"Don't turn around in front of Lao Tzu's eyes, your head is about to turn dizzy...... Find a clean place, put the radio on and get in touch with the division headquarters immediately! Dog, I really don't know how you two grandsons became special forces, so uncontrollable......" Speaking of this, Zhang Zuying pushed Zhu Bin away, grabbed the bandage head by herself, tied a knot indiscriminately, took the steel helmet handed by the head of the guard, buckled it on her head, and ordered loudly:

"Zhu Bin, lead more than 100 of your brothers to evacuate the battlefield quickly, go to the rear of the flank and ask Commander Chi for a battalion of brothers, take advantage of the fact that the red bandits have not yet completed the encirclement, rush out along the ditches on both sides of the path, be sure to take the high ground on both sides of the ferry on the south bank, set up light and heavy machine guns and mortars, and make every effort to block the attack of the red bandits, and take the retreating brothers to withdraw to the ferry smoothly. There was a faint burst of gunfire behind just now, it is estimated that the engineer company left behind at the ferry has been attacked, no matter how many troops the red bandits have, you have to take the high ground on the road for Lao Tzu and control the ferry that he relies on to escape, understand? ”

"Understood! The subordinates will go. ”

Zhu Bin glanced at Zhang Zuying, who was grinning with bared teeth, worriedly, dragged the guard chief to the side and commanded in a low voice: "Zhuzi, you and the brothers in the guard platoon must escort the two brigade seats to the ferry safely, otherwise don't blame the eldest brother for not giving you face!" ”

"Don't worry, even if the little brother uses his head to block the bullet, he will definitely ensure the safety of the brigade." The pillar replied through gritted teeth.

Zhu Bin gave the pillar a punch and left quickly, and Zhang Zuying's big voice sounded again: "Get away!" Lao Tzu is not going anywhere, just send a report here, Lao Tzu does not believe that the mortar shells of the red bandits will hit the head again, what a fucking evil man......"

Halfway up the mountain to the east, the deputy commander of the Red Army put down his binoculars, kicked the small tree next to him a few times in annoyance, kicked the small tree violently, and dropped a leaf. He can't die if the cannonball hits him directly, what a dog! ”

"Lao Li, don't blame yourself, you have done your best, play well, fight well!" The deputy regiment commander calmed down, gently patted the artillery commander on the shoulder, and comforted him in a hoarse voice.

The guard pointed to the team of more than 100 people who were rushing quickly to the west side of the boulder in the valley below, and shouted: "Commander, look, the enemy is about a company rushing north from the edge of the mortar position in front of it, and it seems that it is very likely that they are rushing to the ferry to rescue, what should we do?" ”

When the deputy head of the regiment heard this, he hurriedly raised his binoculars and shouted, "It's not good! This team of automatic weapons, equipped with at least six heavy machine guns and a dozen light machine guns, is definitely the enemy's spy company...... Chunmao, find a way to hurry down the mountain to inform the regiment commander that they must be intercepted, otherwise the independent regiment attacking the ferry will be struggling! ”

"It's too late, Commander, go down to the foot of the mountain for at least fifteen minutes!" The guard was so anxious that he stomped his feet.

At this time, Lao Li, who was squatting on the ground, suddenly yelled: "Lie down!" Enemy shelling-"

More than a dozen mortar shells roared from the position of the 51st Brigade of the Kuomintang Army in the middle of the valley, and the piercing screams overshadowed the dense gunfire, echoing over the valley, Lao Li Fei jumped up and knocked down the deputy regiment commander, and the astute guards and several artillery soldiers also quickly lay down, but several staff officers and seven or eight soldiers behind the deputy regiment commander were stunned for a moment and did not react, and the dense shell explosion sounded immediately, and the trees and branches and leaves in a radius of tens of meters flew horizontally, and the gunpowder smoke rolled up after the skylight of the sky.

The deputy regiment commander and Lao Li and the others shook off the stumps and mud and stones on their bodies, and when they got up, they saw that the more than ten officers and soldiers around them were gone, and the old mortar, which had made great achievements, was only a shelf hanging on the broken trunk with the thick mouth of the bowl.

In the face of a mess, the deputy regiment commander's eyes were red, he roared like a wounded tiger, and rushed down the mountain road as if flying, the guards shouted in fright, and tried to catch up, and Lao Li, who had no mortars, also followed the deputy regiment commander and ran wildly, they wanted to go down the mountain as soon as possible to join the main force, and to avenge the dead comrades.

The battle in the valley became more and more intense, the officers and men of the Red Fifth Army saw that the enemy troops were taking the battalion as a unit, cross-covering, and quickly retreated to the rear, and jumped out of the fortifications and bunkers on three sides to pursue downward, and the army commander Deng Ping decisively ordered all the troops to sound the charge horn, and made up their minds to annihilate all the stubborn enemies who had strong firepower and desperately resisted.

At the same time, on the south bank of the Huangmei Ferry, on the east side of the high ground more than 100 meters away from the river bank, bullets rained down one after another, and the roars were incessant; the spy company and a battalion led by Zhu Bin encountered the stubborn resistance of the independent regiment of the Red Fifth Army that had arrived ahead of schedule and annihilated dozens of engineers left behind; although the independent regiment of the Red Army was at an absolute disadvantage in terms of equipment and firepower, they occupied favorable terrain, condescended with grenades, launched a blow against the attacking enemy, and repelled the enemy who was not afraid of death three times within half an hour.

The enemy threw down dozens of corpses and wounded, and was again pinned down under the high ground 200 meters away, and with superior machine-gun fire, they launched frenzied fire, and divided into a group to make a detour under the gentle slope on the east side in an attempt to flank the Red Army positions on the high ground.

The commander of the independent regiment of the Red Army saw through the enemy's tricks, commanded decisively, and once again repelled the enemy attacking from both sides, but he also paid a heavy price for more than 100 officers and men with casualties, especially the ammunition carried by the officers and men of the independent regiment was huge, and the grenades of the vast majority of the officers and men had been thrown out, and the well-equipped and well-trained stubborn enemy was like an outlaw, and after an hour of uninterrupted attack, he did not wait for a slight breath and once again relied on superior firepower to launch a fierce attack. The 3rd Battalion and the Teaching Company, which were holding the high ground on the west side, had to send a signal to a group of men and horses to support the high ground on the east side.

The commander of the independent regiment did not see the two heavy machine guns erected in the grass on the side of the road 300 meters away from the lower right, as well as the muzzles of more than a dozen machine guns sticking out under the grass around the machine guns, the commander of the third battalion led two companies to rush down the high ground to help the position on the east side, and just rushed to the open area in the middle of the two high grounds, they were hit by the enemy's heavy machine guns and machine guns intensively, and in the blink of an eye, more than 40 officers and men were shot and fell to the ground, and more than 200 charging soldiers could only quickly lie down and raise their muzzles to return fire. However, without the help of machine gun fire, more than 200 soldiers were suppressed by the rain of bullets and could not move on the unobstructed open ground. The Kuomintang officers and soldiers on the east and south sides of the heights on the east side launched a fierce attack again, and the independent regiment commander on the high ground was anxious in his eyes and finally shouted out the order to "get on the bayonet."

However, an even greater crisis was still to come, and from the beginning of the fighting at the ferry on the south bank, more than 600 officers and men of the special service company of the 17th Division and the engineer battalion directly under the north bank, with the help of more than 500 pack horses, quickly bypassed the north of Huangmei Village and went straight to Caojiawan, two kilometers upstream. As soon as more than 600 panting officers and men arrived at the entrance of the village, they immediately brandished machetes and sharp sapper shovels, and under the terrified gaze of more than 100 villagers, they cut down pieces of thick bamboos, cut off the tails of bamboos, and quickly carried them to the riverside where the turbid waves were rolling and tied them up.

In less than an hour, more than 60 huge bamboo rafts made of tens of thousands of bamboos were dragged into the water one after another, and officers and soldiers with long and short guns on their backs, soaked with sweat and rain, jumped on the bamboo rafts, clung to the simple paddles made of broken bamboo, and drove the bamboo rafts into the surging river one after another, regardless of the sharp edges of the bamboo chips, and rowed desperately to the opposite bank.

More than a dozen officers and soldiers who accidentally fell off the bamboo raft were desperately struggling in the raging waves, ups and downs, but no one on the bamboo raft reached out to save them, as if they didn't know it, they went all out to the south bank, and more than 100 villagers were stunned and extremely moved.

It was precisely the arrival of this new force that was not afraid of death that made the independent regiment of the Red Army, which was unaware of the fact beforehand, pay an extremely heavy price, and the soldiers of the Red Army, who had just inserted bayonets in the head of their guns and were ready to fight to the death, suffered from the enemy on their backs, and under the blow of the enemy's powerful firepower, they had to withdraw to the southwest with hatred, and the main force of more than 1,400 people was finally safely withdrawn, and only 500 people remained, and nearly half of them were wounded who had lost their combat effectiveness. It was under this unexpected circumstance that Zhang Zuying's 51st Brigade broke out of the encirclement of the Red Army's superior forces at all costs, and the two battalions that had arrived on the high ground on the south bank in advance quickly established a blocking position under the guidance of the receiving troops, and used powerful machine-gun fire to put in the main force that had been unable to form an army, and launched a fierce fire on the Red Army units that were bravely pursuing under the encouragement of the charge, and the 51st Brigade, which had more than 4,000 people, escaped most of the men and horses, rushed to the shore one by one and jumped on the huge bamboo rafts. Fleeing for their lives down the river, at least more than 100 people climbed on each bamboo row, like ants clinging to floating sticks in the flood, and the bamboo was completely invisible in the black.

In the fierce gunfire, Zhang Zuying, the brigade commander who was carried onto the boat, held his left arm that had been broken by a bullet and shouted loudly at the officers and men of the machine gun battalion who were the last to withdraw from the shore:

"Listen to the order and throw all the heavy machine guns and mortars into the river! As long as you leave a life, everything will be there, carry out the order! ”

A heavy machine gun and a mortar were thrown into the torrent one after another, and after the two sergeants who were reluctant to carry the mortar barrel on their bodies were slapped a few times by the company commander, they threw away the cannon barrel and lay on the bamboo raft, half of their bodies were immersed in water, and tears flowed non-stop, allowing the surging torrent to rush themselves and the bamboo raft downstream. The officers and men of the 51 st Brigade, who had learned how to make trade-offs and give up, miraculously escaped more than 3,700 people.

Half an hour later, more than a dozen war horses rushed to the south bank full of corpses and blood, and the regiment commander Peng Dehuai looked at the last rows of bamboo rafts that had gone away, shook his head and looked up to the sky and sighed, he could never have imagined that the enemy's 51st Brigade would escape from most of them under the siege of more than 18,000 soldiers on three sides.

Deng Ping came to Peng Dehuai's side, blushed and whispered a review, saying that he had made a big deal and only sent an independent regiment to block the enemy's rear road, and was attacked from both sides by enemy reinforcements from the upstream and downstream, causing the entire carefully organized operation carried out with huge strength to come to naught, and the cooked duck flew like this.

Peng Dehuai did not blame Deng Ping, he knew how big the gap between the enemy and us was in terms of weaponry and training, and he also knew very well that except for the independent regiment, it would be impossible to draw out more troops to serve as a blocking mission. The most important point and what made Peng Dehuai haunted was that the main forces of the three divisions that served as ambushes on three sides failed to hold back the enemy forces who broke through decisively, and the cunning opponent frantically broke through at all costs before the three divisions and the three regiments of the reserve team could complete the encirclement. Peng Dehuai was unable to say and was unwilling to explain in detail the deep-seated reasons for such an outcome, that is, the large-scale anti-counterinsurgency campaign had caused the loss of a large number of experienced commanders at all levels, the long-term struggle against encirclement and suppression, groups of veterans had died one after another, and the newly recruited soldiers of various divisions and regiments lacked the necessary training and experience in large-scale operations, resulting in the failure of this well-planned and successful ambush.

Peng Dehuai took a deep breath and gave a loud order: leave one regiment and the Red Guards to clean up the battlefield, and the other departments rush to the east as fast as possible, striving to rush to the Datongan battlefield before dark, and together with the Red First Army, launch an attack on the main force of the 17th Division of the Kuomintang in the encirclement of the Eastern Front!

Night was approaching, Lu Yixuan in Dayu City received the news that most of the 51st Brigade had escaped but suffered heavy losses and all heavy weapons had been lost, and his heart was extremely painful, he did not have time to send comfort to the 51st Brigade, nor could he ride his horse to the barracks above the wharf outside the city to visit the two wounded brigade commanders, because the Datongan Pass had been firmly occupied by the three main regiments of the Red Army, and the 50th Brigade and the 49th Brigade under his command were struggling in the encirclement of several times the ** regiment.

At 7:10 p.m., Lushan Williams Villa, Chairman Chiang's headquarters.

Many generals failed to finish the sumptuous dinner, and were urgently summoned by Chiang Kai-shek to the spacious hall on the first floor of the villa, and after Ge Jingen read out the news that the 17th Division on the right flank of Chen Cheng's column was surrounded by the Red Army, the generals in the hall were surprised and looked incredulous.

Chiang Kai-shek sat straight at the head of the center, his face was pale, and he didn't say a word, and He Yingqin, the direct leader of Chen Cheng's column, sat at the bottom right of Chiang Kai-shek, and a pair of eyes behind the lenses were fixed on the battle report in front of him, thinking nervously about countermeasures and calculating the situation of the other divisions of Chen Cheng's army.

Mr. Wei Cai'er, who was sitting in the position of Ge Jingen's subordinate on the left, looked around, and did not find the familiar An Yi, so he turned his face sideways and asked Ge Jingen in a low voice: "Why didn't General An come?" ”

Ge Jingen replied in a low voice: "It may be that I went to Xingzi Wharf to inspect the Poyang Lake Water Guard, but the incident happened suddenly, and we couldn't contact him for a while." ”

Wei Cai'er sighed secretly, glanced at Chiang Kai-shek and the generals whose faces were uncertain, shook his head slightly, and thought to himself that what An Yi was worried about had finally happened, although it was just a division surrounded by the Red Army, and the impact on the overall situation was not very great, but the potential danger and the chain reaction that might be brought about by it were enough to attract the attention of the generals.

Wei Cai'er knew very well in her heart that the reason why An Yi's opinion was difficult to gain the attention of the generals present was that An Yi fundamentally repudiated the strategic guiding ideology carefully formulated by the top level of the General Command, although An Yi's views and understanding of the battle situation were very unique, and even clearly pointed out possible crises in a very foreseeable manner, such a sharp contrary opinion would definitely offend the formulators and commanders of the strategic plan.

However, the crisis that appeared in front of him strongly proved An Yi's foresight and proved that his worries were not superfluous, Wei Caier suddenly wanted to know, how would the supreme commander of the squadron in front of him deal with this thorny problem? What will be the next step in the current crisis? Will it get worse and worse as An Yi hinted?