When Chen Dayong arrived at the artillery battalion, the artillery battalion was ready for battle.

Chen Dayong didn't talk nonsense, and directly told the artillery battalion commander that after the fire, he smashed hard in the middle of the enemy's ranks, and he must break up the enemy's ranks and discourage the enemy's will to fight.

In fact, there is no need for Chen Dayong to say that the artillery battalion has already divided every ground coordinate in the firepower coverage area into a grid, which is the method that Liu Yimin taught to the artillery commander Li Chang, and Li Chang naturally passed it on to all the artillery commanders.

Waiting is urgent, especially when the enemy is swaggering from under his own guns and cannot open fire, which is the most impatient.

In fact, it was not Zhou Yi who fired the first shot in the ambush in Hanyang Town, but Liu Bin, a sniper from the sniper brigade.

During the last battle of Xikou, Liu Bin and Wang Shangwu were two sniper groups, Wang Shangwu killed Chen Guangzhong, and Liu Bin killed Chen Guangzhong's chief of staff. After the Battle of Xikou, and experienced the test of the battles of Qingxi Town and Yangping Town, Liu Bin made rapid progress, and like Wang Shangwu, he became the leader of the sniper brigade.

At this moment, Liu Bin took his assistant Li Xiaoshuai and ambushed less than 100 meters from the side of the Shu Road and about 1,000 meters from the frontal blocking position of the 39th Regiment.

The position is very well built, it is a collapsed grave pit, and with a little modification, two people can be hidden. Cover it with straw on top. To outsiders, it looks no different from the firewood and grass on the graves in the fields of the rural people, and no one thought that there was a murderer who was hiding inside and waiting for the opportunity to shoot.

The enemy came up, and on the main road were three columns, and on both sides were search units. It looked like he was tired, and he hurried to the county seat of Jiange. The troops of one of the battalions, who were responsible for the search, did not search further into the distance, but walked exhaustively in the fields about 100 meters from the main road.

Several soldiers walked up to Liu Bin and Li Xiaoshuai's camouflage fortifications, stood down, and began to pee. The urine flowed down the branches and poured Liu Bin and Li Xiaoshuai on their heads.

One soldier urinated and said, "I'm tired and I don't know how long I have before I camp." ”

Another soldier said: "What is this, when you lose a battle, you can't sleep for days and nights when you run, and whoever sleeps dies." ”

A guy who seemed to be a squad leader said, "What's the noise?" Hurry up and finish peeing and walking. If you are tired, you can do it well, and when you become an official, you can ride a horse, and you don't have to run. ”

The second one to speak was a veteran, with a glance at his mouth: "When an official rides a horse, he has a big goal, and he always dies first when he fights." Lao Tzu is not an official, but he is still comfortable running. ”

A few soldiers finally left, Liu Bin shook his head, shook the urine off his face, and his eyes were still firmly fixed on the road.

The target appeared, several officers on horseback, walking in the middle of the ranks, and the guards with torches and leading horses, surrounded around. It seems that this is the head of the first echelon.

Liu Bin signaled to Li Xiaoshuai, made a gesture of "I in front of you", and then stretched out the barrel of the gun and aimed at the target.

After waiting for a while, I didn't see the front blockade start. Liu Bin silently calculated, the enemy's marching team should have arrived at the blocking position, and it couldn't wait any longer, and there would be no chance after a while. I remembered that the corps commander often talked about the great significance of killing the enemy's main commander to the battle. Liu Bin pulled the trigger without hesitation.

At a distance of 100 meters, for Liu Bin now, there is no need to consider factors such as wind speed at all, he can clearly feel that the bullet has penetrated into the body of the enemy officer and knocked him off the horse.

Pushing the bullet to load, Liu Bin aimed at another officer, and when he pulled the trigger, he heard the sudden burst of gunfire, and he knew that the Hanyang ambush was in full swing.

On the blocking position of the 39th Regiment of the Red 13th Division, Zhou Yi was calculating the distance of the enemy, 60 meters, 50 meters, 55 meters, and was about to shout when he heard a gunshot from the north. Zhou Yi no longer calculated, and immediately shouted: "Fight!" The shell gun in his hand shot at the enemy.

The machine guns and rifles on the arc-shaped blocking position of the 39th Regiment suddenly broke out, and the bullets whizzed towards the marching ranks of the 1st Division, and the troops of the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division who were in the forefront were immediately beaten to the ground.

When the gun rang out, the deputy commander of the 1st Brigade immediately rolled off the saddle and escaped being killed on the spot. Looking back, the brigade commander and the chief of staff had been hit, and they saw that they had more air out and less air intake, and they couldn't survive.

The enemy deputy brigade commander knew that he had encountered the legendary sniper, and if he wanted to survive, he had to hide his body.

The enemy deputy brigade commander, who was hiding on the side of the war horse, was thinking about judging what was going on, when a dense burst of gunfire came from the front. The heart of the enemy's deputy brigade commander was half relieved, and it turned out that he had encountered a blockade, which should have been a blockade sent by the red bandits besieging Mianyang. Just as he was about to order the troops to organize firepower, cover the charge, and resolutely defeat the enemy in front of them, he saw bright lights in the night sky. He knew it was the trail of swarms of shells flying across the night sky.

Sure enough, the artillery battalion of the 13th Division, which was erected on the hill on the right, began to shell, and dozens of mortars from three artillery companies fired at the same time, and one shell after another fell in the middle of the marching ranks, setting off a bloody storm and blowing the marching ranks of the 1st Brigade to pieces.

As soon as the mortar sounded, the enemy's deputy brigade commander knew that the red bandits wanted to completely annihilate the 1st Brigade, no, it should be the 1st Division. With such a large-scale artillery, it must be the whole army of the Red Bandits here. Alas, the commission has calculated everything, but he still fell into the red bandits' plan to encircle and help, I'm afraid he never dreamed that the purpose of the red bandits' siege of Mianyang was to plot his first division in the world! It seems that today is in danger.

The enemy's deputy brigade commander no longer hesitated, with such a big move of the red bandits, there must be heavy soldiers in ambush on the front and back, left and right, waiting for him to collide with him! Although the two wings are not firing now, I don't know how many dangerous traps are hidden under the night of the black hole. Only by opening the forward channel and resolutely rushing over can we open a bloody road for the whole division.

It seemed to confirm the speculation of the deputy brigade commander, and there seemed to be many people rushing in the direction of their own troops in the direction of the two wings.

As a result, the enemy's deputy brigade commander immediately informed the whole brigade of the news that the brigade commander and chief of staff had been seriously wounded, took over the command of the troops, and resolutely ordered the artillery of the brigade to quickly establish positions to cover the troops' assault. The three regiments of the brigade quickly reorganized their troops, launched assaults on multiple fronts at the same time, and resolutely broke through the enemy's blocking line.

It should be said that the decision of the enemy's deputy brigade commander was correct. Because at this time, the 13th Regiment and the 38th Regiment of the 37th Division ambushed on both flanks were still moving towards Shu Dao.

Although it is an ambush battle, the terrain here cannot be compared with the terrain of the Xiaoshui ambush and the Qingxi Town ambush, both of which are a road under the cliff, and the enemy has nowhere to hide when marching on the road, except for being shot and bombed, there is no second way to go. This is a shallow hilly area, and there are no big rivers as natural blocking lines. When fighting in large forces, it is very difficult to conceal. Therefore, when Liu Yimin reported that the search distance of the enemy's two flanks was calculated as 300 meters, the troops of the 11th, 12th, and 13th Divisions ambushed on the two flanks basically retreated more than 700 meters, except for some troops hiding on the hilltop to prevent the enemy from seizing the hill. Fortunately, it was late at night in Sichuan winter, and the sky was dark and the visibility was too low. If it is a clear night in the north, it is difficult to avoid being detected by the enemy. If it was daytime, it would not be possible to conceal the large army at all.

As soon as the 39th Regiment started, the 37th and 38th Regiments quickly moved closer to the center, the intention needless to say, the tactics were also very simple, that is, to squeeze the enemy in the middle and talk to the enemy with firepower.

At this time, the 1st Brigade moved, and although the 39th Regiment's blocking and artillery bombardment just now caused great casualties to the 1st Brigade, it was not enough to break the muscles and bones, and the main force was still there.

Under the strict orders of the enemy's deputy brigade commander, three regiments of the 1st Brigade, with one battalion in each regiment in front and two battalions in the rear, rushed to the 39th Regiment's blocking position in three directions. intends to tear the hole and break out of the encirclement.

Li Qing, who was commanding the division headquarters, knew that this unit was fierce enough as soon as he saw the posture of the First Brigade. He immediately ordered Chief of Staff Lei Ming to lead the reconnaissance company of the supplementary regiment, engineer battalion, and baggage battalion as a reserve to rush to the position of the 39th Regiment and resolutely block the enemy. The 37th and 38th regiments were ordered to move quickly and encircle the enemy.

The officers of the 1st Brigade now knew that they had been ambushed and that they had to rush out if they wanted to survive. Therefore, officers at all levels raised their submachine guns and led the troops to charge.

Zhou Yi saw that the enemy had launched a multi-way group charge, obviously trying to fight with himself, and he could no longer be conservative, so he immediately ordered the engineer company to immediately detonate the buried explosive package. The huge explosion set off a wave of qi, throwing the charging team of the First Brigade high and high, and then falling down, just like the handjob staged in later movies, the difference is that what is thrown up is the human body, and what falls is the stump and broken flesh.

Then, the regimental artillery company, the heavy machine gun company, and the flying mines supported by the artillery regiment all opened fire, and the shells, explosive packs, and heavy machine gun shells staggered the enemy's charging team, and the 1st Brigade was like a broken ship, fluttering in the wind and rain.

After all, the 1st Brigade is the elite of the elite, and although the heavy casualties make every officer and soldier shed tears, the confidence in the decisive battle has not yet been shaken. Under the leadership of the officers, the artillery of the 1st Brigade, which had been rushing up one after another, finally opened fire, and soon suppressed the regimental mortar company of the 39th Regiment. However, the good times did not last long, the artillery of the 1st Brigade opened fire, which brought them a catastrophe, and the artillery battalion of the 13th Division quickly aimed at them, causing the artillery of the 1st Brigade to cry and abandon the artillery and flee.

The enemy deputy brigade commander followed behind the charging team, and he was dumbfounded by the scene in front of him. He couldn't believe that the red bandits, who had been chased and beaten by [***], and drilled into the deep mountains and old forests all day long, became so tough, not to mention the ferocious firepower, and the defensive tricks became extremely vicious, the road was a pre-buried explosive package, the front of the position was densely covered with minefields, and the overhead was a cannonball and a black bomb. With this charge, the 1st Brigade, which was proud of the commission and division, was incomplete.

But the enemy's deputy brigade commander knew that it was better to be completely destroyed than to be completely annihilated, and listening to the sound of artillery and machine guns coming from the direction of the second echelon behind him, which was many times more powerful than here, the enemy deputy brigade commander couldn't help but curse this damn night, the damned cavalry regiment, and completely sent the elite first division to death.

Curse to curse, the enemy deputy brigade commander snatched the submachine gun from the guards' hands and led the most elite brigade special battalion of the brigade to rush forward.

As soon as the brigade commander took the lead in the charge, the morale of the brigade battalion rose at once, and they rushed forward in the rain of bullets and bullets.

The 1st Brigade, which had waded through the minefield in front of the position, finally rushed to the front of the position of the 39th Regiment. The defending Red Army soldiers raised their bayonets and killed the enemy. In front of the position, there is immediately a short battle between you and me.

The enemy deputy brigade commander who caught up saw it and knew that the breakthrough was in front of him, where would there be the slightest hesitation, picked up the submachine gun, and took the guard battalion is a wild sweep, even the Red Army took [***] to fight together, regardless of whether it was the Red Army or his own soldiers who were killed, with strong firepower, he forcibly tore a hole in the defense line of the 39th Regiment, and he could get out of the encirclement.

Zhou Yi, the commander of the Red 39th Regiment, saw that the defense line had been broken, shouted to press the enemy down, picked up a machine gun, stood up and swept towards the enemy. A bullet flew and hit his right shoulder socket, and as soon as Zhou Yi let go of his hand, the machine gun fell to the ground.

At this time, the reserve led by Lei Ming arrived.

Light and heavy machine guns and submachine guns lined up in a line of fire and pressed back the troops of the 1st Brigade that rushed towards the gap.

Seeing that the success was lost, the enemy's deputy brigade commander sighed and ordered the troops to retreat and organize a defense on the spot.

At this time, the 37th and 38th regiments had already been tightly surrounded, and the complete destruction of the first brigade was a sure thing.

Just when the enemy's first brigade launched a decisive charge, the enemy's second echelon's Reading Brigade and Northwest Supplementary Brigade also started a fierce battle with the Red 12th Division.

The terrain of the Red 12th Division's defensive line is a little better than that of the 13th Division, and it is located between Hanyang Town and the current central village. The west side of the road is all farmland, and the height is uneven. Therefore, when Liu Jianli arranged the defensive line, he deployed the regimental artillery regiment and the heavy machine gun regiment on the west side of the Shu Road, the two main regiments of the 34th and 35th were also deployed on the west side of the road, and the 36th Regiment was deployed at the southernmost end of the defensive line, taking on the task of blocking the retreat of the enemy's first brigade and blocking the enemy's second echelon from moving south. The division's direct units were deployed on the hills on the eastern side. Liu Jianli was determined to use the powerful firepower of the legion to beat the enemy's second echelon on the Shu Road with a single fire assault.

After the enemy's first echelon passed, Liu Jianli found that the enemy's search troops were just putting on a show, and they were not even willing to climb the hill, so they bypassed it halfway up the slope, and it seemed that they were indeed in a hurry to camp and had no precautions at all.

This battle will be fought!

Liu Jianli immediately ordered the 34th and 35th regiments to take advantage of the terrain cover to quickly move closer to the Shu Road, with a distance of no more than 500 meters, and ordered the artillery regiment and the heavy machine gun regiment to quickly establish positions. Let the political commissar lead the troops directly under him to hold on to that small hill, let the chief of staff Zhao Shan lead the 36th regiment to be responsible for blocking the head, and rush to personally command the heavy firepower and the 35th and 36th regiments. As for the issue of the enemy's retreat to Hanyang, Liu Jianli did not think much about it, he believed that the corps commander would reinforce the baggage regiment.

When the Red 39th Regiment started, two brigades of the enemy's second echelon entered the ambush circle established by Liu.

The Reading Brigade of the First Division, formerly known as the Reading Force 11th Brigade, was annexed by Hu Zongnan after he became the commander of the First Division. Brigade Commander Peng Jinzhi is a native of Hubei and graduated from the Fourth Infantry Section of the Baoding Military Academy. At this time, he was the deputy commander of the 1st Division and the commander of the Reading Brigade.

Speaking of this Peng Jinzhi, he is a celebrity in the military circles. There are three reasons why he is famous, one is that during the Northern Expedition in 1926, he relied on a pair of sharp mouths and entered Hanyang alone, saying that Liu Zuolong, who was guarding Hanyang, turned against the water, so that the Northern Expeditionary Army was able to capture Wuhan, and the famous Wu Peifu has been in a slump since then. The second is that the ace general Zhang Lingfu served under him twice, when he began to be a brigade commander, Zhang Lingfu was the company commander under him, and now he is the commander of his first regiment. The third is that he has slapped [***] in the face. During the Northern Expedition, Peng Jinzhi was the battalion commander, and [***] was the trainee platoon commander under him. When he checked the sentry, he grabbed [***] for a little mistake and scolded, [***] retorted, and he directly instigated [***] to slap [***]. This is probably the only slap [***] has ever received in his life.

Historically, Peng Jin lived in Wuhan after retiring from the army, and did a lot of work in the liberation of Wuhan and had certain achievements. When he led Siye to the south, he passed through Wuhan. Others only knew that he used to be [***]'s superior, but they didn't know about him slapping [***], and dragged him to the train station to greet him. Peng Jinzhi was afraid that [***] would hold a grudge, so he dodged at the train station and didn't dare to meet [***]. Who knew that those leaders introduced him in order to welcome [***]. [***] muttered in a low voice, "Why is he here!" After Peng Jinzhi heard it, he knew that although more than 20 years had passed, [***] still remembered the slap, and after returning home, the tea and rice were not fragrant, and he soon committed suicide by swallowing gold.

Hearing the gunfire of the first brigade in front, Peng Jinzhi rolled off the saddle and hid himself. Looking around, the surroundings are still quiet. After a closer look, there seemed to be a large army in the distance touching the side of Shu Dao.

Zhang Zhonglin (Zhang Lingfu), the commander of the first regiment, did not know whether he was alive or dead, and when he saw the brigade seat rolling off the saddle, he hurriedly ran to the front to salute and report, so frightened that Peng Jinzhi hurriedly pulled him down and squatted down.

Zhang Zhonglin said: "Brigade seat, the first brigade in front of you has started, and it may have encountered resistance. We rushed up to meet them. ”

Peng Jin's anger is not in one place, this Zhang Zhonglin is brave in battle, and his brain is also very effective, why don't you open up for a while? In the middle of the night, the 1st Brigade encountered the enemy, and as soon as it came up, it was mortars and heavy machine guns, and it was obviously caught in the ambush circle of the red bandits.

Peng Jinzhi said hatefully: "Lingfu, the first brigade was not blocked by the enemy, but surrounded by a large enemy force. We are also dangerous, hurry up and let the troops disperse! ”

Zhang Zhonglin laughed: "Surrounded by red bandits? Okay, I can't find it in the normal day, and I can't catch up with it, but it's good, and in the middle of the night, the red bandits will give us credit. Brigade, don't worry, I will take the first regiment up for reinforcements, and catch a few red bandit leaders to ask for merit for you. ”

After speaking, without waiting for Peng Jinzhi to speak, he jumped out with an arrow and beckoned the troops to prepare to go for reinforcements.

Peng Jinzhi looked at Zhang Zhonglin's back with pity: "You, Shaanxi Leng Wa, you don't know that you are dying, and you have to go to reinforce the First Brigade." When you arrive, I'm afraid the First Brigade is completely finished. ”

As soon as Peng Jinzhi's words fell, he heard the sound of the artillery group firing. Listening to the sound, it seems that there are mountain artillery, 75 mortars, 60 mortars. When I opened my eyes, the sky seemed to be setting off fireworks, and swarms of cannonballs flew across the sky and landed on the road. His own Reading Brigade and the Northwest Supplementary Brigade all tasted the blow of the artillery group at once.

Peng Jinzhi hurriedly ordered the telegraph operator to report to Hu Zongnan that the troops were attacked by strong enemy artillery.

As soon as he finished sending the telegram, Peng Jinzhi tasted what hell it was: on the hillside on the west side of the main road, a heavy machine gun appeared at some point, spitting flames on his own side on the Shu Road. His own soldiers had already thrown away their torches, so why did the red bandits shoot so accurately? Peng Jinzhi was a little puzzled, and when he looked up, he saw that a slip of the mountain bag on the east side had already been filled with torches, and the road under the mountain bag was shining brightly.

Looking at his own troops again, the Reading Brigade is better, and the newly formed Northwest Supplementary Brigade has already bombed the battalion. The soldiers scurried everywhere, and climbed up the hill, some retreated, and some ran in the direction of their own reading brigade.

Peng Jinzhi closed his eyes and couldn't bear to look at it anymore, he knew that the best way at this time was to climb to the ground and pretend to be dead, the happier he ran, the faster he died.

Strange, why didn't the Red Army charge yet? If they charge, let them be taken prisoner. Anyway, this civil war is fought every day, and the people who fight it are weird and upset. As for what will happen after being captured, it is estimated that it is nothing, it is a big deal like He Jian and Xue Yue's division commanders and brigade commanders, and let the commission spend money to redeem it.

Just when Peng Jinzhi was thinking wildly, Zhang Zhonglin rushed out of the circle of fire with his first regiment and broke through to the south.

The firepower assault just now opened Zhang Zhonglin's eyes. It is said that the first division is the first division in the world, and the firepower configuration is powerful, but compared with the army of the red bandits, it is simply disproportionate. Think about it, more than 200 heavy machine guns were lined up in a volley, and nearly 100 mortars were fired in unison. It's a miracle to be able to break out of such a sea of fire! In the future, if there is an opportunity, I will also build such a unit myself.

Looking back at his first regiment, Zhang Zhonglin couldn't help but be overshadowed, an elite regiment of more than 2,000 people, and only a few hundred people rushed out. This red bandit is so fucking powerful!

Just as he was about to think about where to break through, he heard a soldier exclaim: "Tuanzao, we are finished!" ”

Zhang Zhonglin opened his eyes and looked ahead, 50 meters ahead, a row of torches was lit at some point, and rows of black muzzles were facing him and his brothers.

Zhang Zhonglin knew that the reason why the red bandits did not shoot was because they wanted to capture the brothers alive.

Sure enough, the red bandits shouted loudly: "Surrender the gun and don't kill!" Shoot or kill! ”

Zhang Zhonglin only felt that his blood was surging, damn, he wanted to capture Lao Tzu, but there was no door, Lao Tzu would rather die in battle than surrender!

Zhang Zhonglin picked up his gun and pointed at the opposite side, and shouted: "Brothers, rush!" And he rushed forward.

A bullet flew from the opposite side, hitting his right wrist, and the gun in his hand fell to the stone slab on the surface of Shu Road with a bang.

The brave Zhang Zhonglin went to touch the pistol with his left hand, only to hear another gunshot, and his left hand hung down softly.

Only then did he remember that the brothers had not fired, and when he turned his head, he saw that the brothers had already put down their guns and raised their hands.

Zhang Zhonglin's eyes were full of incredulity. After a long time, he squatted on the ground.

(To be continued)