Chapter 51: The Knock-off Version of Shentouling's Great Victory
Wang Bing is worthy of being a student from the Whampoa Military Academy, and the troops he leads are indeed different. In addition to the first company acting as the vanguard company of the troops, a company of reconnaissance units was placed on both sides of the troops to prevent the enemy from ambushing.
Soon, the troops had been walking for several hours, and it was only a dozen miles away from the Shimen Bridge, the terrain in front of them gradually slowed down, and the plains began to appear in front of the troops, and the Wang soldiers, who had been raising their vigilance, were also relieved, not to mention the two company scouts who were 500 meters away from the troops, and they all raised their heads and marched forward.
Liu Hua and Sun Xingbang stood at the command and nervously looked at the enemy troops who kept entering the ambush circle with binoculars, the two were afraid that something would happen to the ambush troops, gradually, Liu Hua began to smile, through the binoculars, Liu Hua found that the enemy had entered his ambush circle.
A gunshot rang out, 30 meters away from the side of the road suddenly lifted a piece of dust, countless straw mats were lifted, at the same time, countless light machine guns and submachine guns began to spew tongues of fire, the soldiers fired a bullet in their guns, they threw grenades, Wang Bing was suddenly awakened by the sudden attack, after paying the lives of several guards, Wang Bing finally rolled off the horse and lay on the ground.
"Get down, get down" Wang Bing kept roaring, but at this time, the charge horn sounded, Liu Hua's battle this time was not at all to carry forward the firepower, but to rely on his own surprise attack to disrupt the enemy, and then immediately launched a charge, using momentum and sudden attack to knock the enemy down.
The distance of 30 meters does not take a few seconds, the fighters in the front row, the submachine guns in their hands, the light machine guns constantly spit tongues of fire to kill the enemy, and the fighters who follow behind constantly throw grenades. In Liu Hua's words before the war, "At a distance of thirty meters, even a girl can throw a grenade on the road." ”
Standing in the concealed headquarters, looking at the battlefield from a distance, it was like two yellow currents suddenly blowing from the ground, rolling towards the road, and the two yellow currents soon converged.
The soldiers raised their bayonets one after another and stabbed at the enemy soldiers who were stunned there, while Wang Bing, who was lying on the ground, froze there, looking at the two yellow currents rolling towards him, and was completely stunned, "How can this be, there are obviously no ambushes, how can there be so many communist troops." Wang Bing said to himself.
In the face of the earth-shattering roar and a burst of bayonets reflecting the cold light, the legs of the enemy soldiers lying on the ground began to tremble, and they threw out their rifles and lay on the ground. Gradually, the sound of gunfire weakened, Liu Hua and Sun Xingbang rode to the position, saw guns and corpses all over the ground, and the soldiers escorted the prisoners, busy and happy.
An officer wearing a major general's uniform was escorted in front of Liu Hua, "Contemptible Wang Bing, commander of the 1st Brigade of the 28th Division of the Central Army, ask the general's name." The captive saluted Liu Hua and said.
"Hehe, your name is Wang Bing, brigade commander, I am Liu Hua, the commander of the Seventh Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and this is Sun Xingbang, the direct commander of the First Division of this battle." Liu Hua said with a smile.
"It turns out that you are Liu Hua, the former teacher of the Reading Power Division. The contemptible man is planted in your hands today, and you are convinced. As he spoke, he arched his hand at Liu Hua.
"Brigade Commander Wang, your troops are not bad, I saw it just now, your troops march very neatly, the discipline is also very strict, and it seems that leading troops is also very powerful!" Liu Hua also replied with a smile.
"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be." Wang Bing humbly arched his hand.
"Commander of the corps, political commissar, we have captured the enemy's radio station, and the captured telegraph man, according to the telegraph man, just now, Shimen Bridge sent a telegram asking where the troops were." A regimental commander approached with a prisoner.
"Master Sun, it seems that we have another chance." Liu Hua looked at Lao Sun with a smile.
"Let the captured telegraph operator call back, and say that our unit has been blocked by the communist army and is on its way." After saying that, he asked a regiment commander to escort the prisoners to the radio station.
"Lao Sun, you take two regiments, change into their clothes, escort their brigade commander Wang Bing, and take Shimen Bridge down for me, and you must ensure the safety of the shells and materials stored in Shimen Bridge." Liu Hua hurriedly issued an order,
Soon, Sun Xingbang escorted Wang Bing and rushed to Shimen Bridge with the first and second regiments that had changed their uniforms, and Liu Hua continued to clean up the battlefield with the remaining troops.
Soon, the results of the battle were counted, looking at such results, Liu Hua was almost overjoyed, he didn't expect that one of Wang Bing's brigades had so much ammunition, I really didn't expect it!
"In this battle, two enemy regiments were annihilated, a brigade headquarters totaled 3,800 people, more than 1,700 people were captured, 24 mortars, 24 heavy machine guns, ammunition were all 5 bases, 56 light machine guns, a total of 2,200 rifles and submachine guns, a total of 400,000 rounds of ammunition, and 12,000 grenades."
"It seems that Changde County is really rich!" Liu Hua said with emotion, and at the same time, Changde, a rich place, entered Liu Hua's heart.
"Casualties," Liu Hua asked suddenly.
"Commander, because we did not carry forward our firepower superiority this time, the enemy troops in the ambush position were too close, so the casualties were very large, and all the personnel who participated in the battle suffered a total of more than 1,200 casualties, of which 250 were killed, more than 100 were seriously injured, and the rest were lightly wounded, mainly due to the enemy's grenades, and there were also those who were too close to each other when they charged, and they were injured by mistake." Hearing that the third regiment commander made a detailed analysis of the casualties, Liu Hua nodded.
Although I was fully prepared for this casualty, I didn't expect such a big casualty. It seems that in the future, we will still have to fight less battles in such short-handed contact, and the troops will still have to strengthen their training! Liu Hua couldn't help but sigh.