Chapter 43: The Wind Rises in Southern Hebei (6)
As the ambush battle began, the three regiments attacking Zengjiazhai also sharply increased their attack, and the original sporadic and accurate artillery bombardment turned into a fierce cluster bombardment. Under the bombardment of a large number of mortar shells, many sections of the second wall were blown down. As the artillery fire extended and fired, the soldiers of the first and second battalions rushed to the second wall, and the bandits, who had been hiding in bunkers and were not killed or injured by the shells, began to rush out and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the fighters. These bandits were the opponents of the security army, and they were quickly subdued by the security army soldiers in groups of 35, and a few were directly killed by bayonets, and most of them chose to surrender.
The soldiers of the Security Brigade, who broke through the second wall, continued to attack along the mountain road to the top of the mountain. At this time, the sound of intense and dense submachine guns and grenade explosions suddenly came from the top of the mountain. It turned out that the two squads of the special squadron climbed up from the cliff of the back mountain, and concentrated on the bandits shooting at the bottom of the mountain, under the strafing of more than 70 submachine guns, most of the bandits on the mountain were killed, Liu Yuru was also killed in the melee, and the rest of the bandits surrendered one after another when they saw that Liu Yuru was killed. The bandits below were caught on both sides of the mountain, and all but those who were killed also surrendered.
Subsequently, in a purposeful search, the special forces found two large boxes of gold bars and more than 700,000 oceans from Liu Yuru's residence. In the cave behind Liu Yuru's residence, hundreds of boxes of ammunition filled with gold, silver, jade, ancient books, calligraphy and paintings were found. This is when Liu Yuru came here again, in order to hide people's eyes, these treasures were disguised as ammunition.
Song Zhewu, who got the news, immediately ordered Ye Changgui to take his two squadrons to escort this batch of treasures back to Laiyuan. Other units accelerated to clean up the battlefield.
Song Zhewu, who was standing on the small high ground in front of Zengjiazhai and observing the first and third battalions cleaning the battlefield, suddenly heard a dull sound of artillery coming from the direction of the mountain pass, and from the sound of the artillery, he could hear that it was the sound of a 75mm mountain artillery salvo. Because of the first and third regiments, whether it was the third regiment fighting Zengjiazhai or the first regiment fighting in ambush, because of the small area, the mountain artillery was almost unusable, not to mention that they still had dozens of 82 mortars. Therefore, the mountain artillery of the two regiments was handed over to the unified command of the second regiment that fought the blockade as planned. Although the caliber is not very large, the three regiments of mountain artillery have a total of 36 guns, which is more powerful than an artillery regiment in China. This burst of artillery is the sound of 36 mountain guns firing.
The second regiment plus the four mountain artillery companies of the first and third regiments, with a number of nearly 9,000, and such a powerful firepower, he had no worries about blocking the attack. So there was no rush to return to the headquarters of the first division. It's just that he received a report from Zhang Yafei: "Han Fuyu's 55th Division, who lives in Linzhou, has rushed to the mountain pass to start attacking. After that, the staff officer of the 1st Division, who was going to come to report, went back and told Zhang Yafei: "All combat orders will be issued by him on his own, and there is no need to ask for instructions." Report to the Chief of Staff in a timely manner afterwards. He himself took the new adjutant Huang Bin and his personal guards to inspect the battlefield.
The reason why he did this was because neither Song Zhewu in the previous life nor Song Zhewu in the present life had actual combat experience, and all the understanding of war was only on paper, and if he wanted to realize his dream and fulfill his wish, he had to experience the actual battlefield on the spot. In his previous life, he had read many fictional novels on the starting point website, and all the people who crossed in there almost without exception became the god of war, and he now deeply realized that it was all nonsense. At least he is not a god of war now, and his actual combat experience and command art can be said with certainty, not as good as Xiao Guodong, Zhang Yafei and others, and even some of his students in the security army. He believed that commanding war was an art, and it was a very profound art, and it was a discipline that required a high degree of talent. Even the art of war at the beginning of the 20th century was far more advanced than the chemical knowledge he had mastered in his previous life.
While he was inspecting the battlefield and thinking about the gains and losses of the battle, he did not notice that the 1st Regiment had assembled and set out to support the 2nd Regiment in the blocking battle at the mountain pass. Didn't even notice that the artillery fire in the direction of the pass had long since stopped......
Xu Fang, the commander of the Second Regiment, and Xu Zheng, the deputy commander of the First Division, are brothers. If you can't fight the battle of the ambush of the 26th Brigade, it's good if you can go to Zengjiazhai! But I was only assigned a blocking mission that I don't know if it will become a reality. Even if Han Fuyu's 55th Division in Linzhou really came, as long as he came slowly, the 1st and 3rd regiments of the 26th Brigade and Zengjiazhai would unceremoniously pounce on him and get a piece of the pie. The more Xu Fang thought about it, the more frustrated he became, and after arranging the blocking position, he kept sighing in the command headquarters.
All the officers of the Security Brigade are young people, and one of the distinctive characteristics of young people is that they dare to fight and are unwilling to be left behind, and this is especially prominent in the Security Brigade. Song Zhewu's series of measures in the training and assessment have greatly contributed to this trend.
Meng Xi, chief of staff of the Second Regiment, saw Xu Fang's thoughts. Mengxi is a native of Tianjin, studied in Nankai in his early years, but after his father who pulled a foreign car was beaten to death by himself, he couldn't bear to watch his mother endure hardships and hardships in order to provide him with education, so he resolutely joined the security brigade. He has only one idea, which is to become a general who leads troops to fight---- a real soldier who can avenge his family's hatred of the snow country. In fact, since he saw this campaign plan, he had a different idea. He believed that the plan drawn up by the Operations Department was too conservative, and with the strength of their first division, it would be more than enough to separate the 26th Brigade and the 55th Division and attack them, even if they were to be eliminated together. He understood the intention of the operation, that is, he wanted the people to see that it was Henan's troops who had come to Hebei, and that the security forces were self-defense. But he thinks that there is no need at all, whether it is Shi Yousan or Han Fuyu's troops in Henan, whether they will fight Hebei or not, it is up to them to say, in layman's terms, there is no excuse for the crime they want to add, and there is no need for many fancy tricks at all. The Second Regiment is equipped with four 75mm mountain artillery companies of the First and Third Regiments, and the four divisions of the Northwest Army are not opponents in terms of firepower, let alone only one division. If he had drawn up a campaign plan, he would never have just blocked Han Fuyu's 55th Division, he would have annihilated the 55th Division together.
Mengxi is the young man's surname, and when he saw Xu Fang's thoughts, he came up and said with a smile: "Commander, don't be upset, our blocking mission is not necessarily worse than others." Seeing Xu Fang's puzzled expression, Mengxi explained with a smile: "The 55th Division of Han Fuyu in Linzhou, according to intelligence, is Han Fuyu's main division, with six main regiments, two supplementary regiments and an artillery battalion, with more than 10,000 people in the division. Xu Fang pursed his lips and said disdainfully: "More than 10,000 people!" Our regiment plus the four artillery companies of the 1st and 3rd regiments have a total strength of more than 9,000 people, not to mention that the 55th Division has only more than 10,000 people, even if there are 20,000 people, it will absolutely not be able to break through our defensive line. Seeing that Xu Fang didn't understand what he meant, Mengxi laughed a few times and said: "That is, with the firepower of our regiment, don't say a 55th division, even three or four divisions, we are not afraid." Then he changed the conversation and said: "But there is only one 55th Division around here, which is not enough for us to practice?" ”
Xu Fang looked at Meng Xi with a wicked smile on his face, his heart moved, he grabbed Meng Xi's hand, and asked impatiently: "You mean, we will take the initiative to attack and destroy this 55th Division." ”