Chapter 15: Rescue of the Red 34th Division (1)
Just like Liu Hua said, the Red 34th Division is undergoing the test of ice and fire. Although the Gui army was wiped out by Liu Hua by several regiments, Li Zongren was not a loser. Seeing that he caught the tail of the Red Army, he was finally able to take revenge with one arrow. Under his strict orders, the only heavy artillery battalion of the Gui army itself was sent out to bombard the Red Army positions indiscriminately.
The Red 34th Division, which was originally fully staffed, had suffered most casualties after several days of blocking, and only Chen Shuxiang was seriously injured among all the senior cadres and persevered.
In terms of personnel, there is less than one regiment that can move on the position, only more than 700 people, and there is an extreme shortage of ammunition.
At this time, looking from the sky to the ground, on the road from Gulingtou to Xinyu, a group of troops lined up in a neat queue was running forward, and the direction of the arrow pointed directly at Xinyu.
This team is the Red Tenth Regiment led by Liu Hua. Under Liu Hua's encouragement, the soldiers of both the Red Tenth Regiment and the Red Eighteenth Regiment were full of confidence in the battle to rescue the Red 34th Division, everyone ran forward with a roar, and even the prisoners carrying supplies on their backs were infected, and no one shouted tired.
Liu Xiaogang and the others, who went out to investigate, had a little martial arts skills, so they soon came to Xinwei. Liu Xiaogang immediately arranged for the troops to conduct reconnaissance.
As soon as he reconnoitred, he made a big jump, and the 34th Division was surrounded by three enemy divisions, and a heavy artillery battalion was also strengthened. Knowing that the situation was more serious than expected, he immediately sent all the men of the reconnaissance platoon out to find out the enemy's position, and ran to the Chinese army himself to report the situation to the regiment commander.
Liu Hua listened to Liu Xiaogang's report quietly, did not speak, and the four battalion commanders who came in a hurry also fell into deep thought after listening to the report, you know, this is one or two thousand enemies, give Liu Hua a bold, Liu Hua does not dare to fight with the other party.
It was the Chen Revolution that broke this atmosphere.
"Regiment commander, why don't we finish off the enemy's artillery like the first time, and then bombard the enemy, assault the whole regiment, just like the last time we beat Tan Lianfang" After speaking, he looked at the regiment commander with a smile, as if waiting for the regiment commander's praise.
Liu Hua was worried, and when he heard that Chen Revolution had such a ghost idea, he immediately said in a hurry: "Have you lived enough, that's nearly 20,000 people, just rely on our more than 1,000 people, to go to the assault, and I don't know how to die." After that, he continued to think of a way.
After listening to the regiment commander's words, Chen Revolution stuck out his tongue and continued to think.
"Wait! Liu Xiaogang, you just said that the Gui army also strengthened a heavy artillery battalion. Liu Hua suddenly looked at Liu Xiaogang with a smile on his face.
Lao Sun and others are inexplicable.
"Yes, regimental commander, a total of 18 mountain guns, and dozens of mortars." Liu Xiaogang looked at the strange expression of the regiment leader and replied seriously.
"Haha, there's a way! Liu Hua shouted loudly. Seeing Lao Sun and the others looking at him with strange eyes, he immediately quieted down and said to Lao Sun.
"Old Sun, do you know how many heavy artillery there are in the entire Gui army?"
Lao Sun shook his head.
"As far as I know, there is only one heavy artillery battalion in the entire Gui army, and today it is all here. Think about it, if we take the enemy's artillery positions and constantly bombard the enemy, what do you guess the enemy will do? ”
"The enemy will definitely fight back violently and recapture the heavy artillery. After all, heavy artillery can't be bought in the country. Lao Sun raised his head and replied suspiciously.
"That's right! I just want to let the enemy mess up, after the chaos, we have a chance to open a passage, and when we find the right opportunity to rescue the 34th Division, we will give him a counter-charge, take the opportunity to break away from the enemy and retreat, and blow up all the artillery, do you say the enemy still dares to pursue us? Liu Hua said excitedly.
"That's right! That's it" " Several people shouted excitedly at the same time, and even Lao Sun, who had been silent and didn't like to talk, also shouted happily.
Soon, orders were given to all companies.
The 1st Battalion, the old foundation of the 10th Red Regiment, occupied the enemy's artillery positions, captured as many enemy artillery as possible, assisted the fire battalion in building artillery positions, and together with the 2nd Battalion held the artillery positions, resolutely repelled the enemy's counterattack, and all the heavy machine guns were arranged in the 1st and 2nd Battalions. Listen to my commands, launch a counterattack at the right time, and break away from the enemy.
All the rest of us will open the rescue passage with me, and try to solve the problem with bayonets so that the enemy will not find out. The reconnaissance platoon opened the passage for the main force. Execute it right away,
The Red Tenth Regiment immediately became like a war machine, operating in an orderly manner.
Lao Sun led a battalion under the leadership of the reconnaissance platoon, and soon touched the enemy's artillery position, and under the influence of the regiment commander, he tried his best to give full play to his firepower superiority, and all the automatic firepower of the battalion opened fire at the same time, and almost instantly, all the people standing in the artillery position were knocked down.
Soon, the charge also remembered, and a battalion shouted slogans and killed it, because most of the artillery was not equipped with infantry weapons, and the enemy did not expect that there would be a Red Army attack on their own artillery, but a symbolic surname placed an infantry company.
Just take an infantry company, how can it be the opponent of Liu Hua's most elite battalion? Soon, the infantry company disappeared completely, and the remaining artillerymen could only obediently raise their hands and kneel on the ground, waiting for the Red Army to fall.
Occupying the artillery position, Lao Sun was not happy that a large number of artillery pieces had been captured, but hurriedly worked with Chen Revolution to build a defensive line around the artillery position to prevent the enemy's counterattack.
Which prisoners and cannons, naturally Chen Guangrong will deal with them. Battalion Commander Chen was still the same old-fashioned, and he was shot without obeying orders, and after shooting several battalion commanders and company commanders, the remaining prisoners could only obediently obey.
Reluctantly, he pointed his guns at his troops and waited for the order of the commander of the Red Army.
At this time, the general headquarters of the Gui Army was in a mess. When the guns rang out from the artillery position, I thought that the guerrillas were making trouble, but the more I listened, the more wrong it became, because the firepower was almost equal to my two battalions.
As a person who climbed to the position of division commander by virtue of military merits and now serves as the commander-in-chief, Wang Zanbin, commander of the 44th Division of the Gui Army, immediately judged that the main force of the Red Army was coming, immediately asked to call the artillery position, and sent an elite battalion to support. But she didn't know that while he was thinking, the Red Tenth Regiment had already occupied the artillery position.
How can the phone get through. And just as the first and second battalions were building fortifications, a battalion that came up to support them came. After the consultation of the two battalion commanders, the enemy was close to 50 meters before launching a counterattack. A volley of fire, plus a grenade, and one of the enemy's battalions immediately lost more than half of its strength and fled.
After the rescue of the Red Eighteenth Regiment, a large amount of ammunition was seized, so that the commanders and fighters of the Red Army, who had been worried about ammunition, no longer had to save ammunition and desperately pull the plate.
After receiving the report from the front, Wang Zanbin was about to go crazy, you must know that it was the only heavy artillery battalion in his Gui army! If the two chiefs Li and Bai knew, they would have to kill themselves.
Just when Wang Zanbin was thinking wildly, a familiar scream reached his ears.
"Shelling, get down, get down...", someone suddenly shouted.
And I don't know who is crushing me. There was an explosion of "boom, boom, boom ......" in his ears, and Wang Zanbin quickly judged that this was his heavy artillery battalion shelling.
"Damn*, if you capture the cannon, you will capture it, and then our cannon will come against us... I will definitely not let you go..."Wang Zanbin said to himself.
During Chen Guangrong's shelling, Wang Zanbin, under the escort of his own guards, came to a shooting corner. Watching his troops constantly die and decrease under the bombardment of his own artillery, my heart is bleeding again.
"Quick, quick, quickly order the troops to recapture the artillery positions, and if this continues, the troops will disperse. Quickly pass on my order to recapture the artillery position at all costs...."Wang Zanbin shouted loudly to the staff officers beside him.
"But, commander-in-chief, we only have a regiment in reserve, and the rest of the troops are besieging the Red Army on the mountain." An operations staff officer whispered.
"Then withdraw the troops and give the order quickly." Wang Zanbin watched more and more of his own people fall under his own fire, and he was completely angry.
"What about the hills, what if they launch a counterattack," the staff officer reminded again.
At this time, Wang Zanbin finally calmed down, watched the troops continue to suffer casualties under artillery fire, and ordered decisively.
"Leave two regiments to guard and surround the Red Army on the mountain, and all the troops will recapture the artillery positions for me and completely annihilate the enemy, I want to see who dares to break ground on the head of our Gui army." After speaking, he showed a look of wanting to eat people. was so frightened that the staff officers next to him didn't dare to approach him.
Just when Wang Zanbin thought that he would definitely be able to eliminate Liu Hua, Liu Hua laughed, because after listening to Liu Xiaogang's reconnaissance report, Liu Hua knew that the Gui army was withdrawing from its position, leaving only two regiments as a guard. Such a good opportunity, can Liu Hua not laugh?
At this time, Chen Shuxiang, the commander of the 34th Division, who was seriously wounded, looked at the artillery fire of the Gui army's position, but was blinded. If it was said that his reinforcements came at this time and were shelling the enemy, Chen Shuxiang would not believe it, because he knew that although the entire Red Army had heavy artillery, there were no shells, not to mention that dozens of artillery pieces were bombarded together.
Could it be that the Gui Army and the Central Army are fighting again, Division Commander Chen Shuxiang couldn't help but smile at his ridiculous thoughts. What's going on?
Just as Chen Shuxiang insisted on analyzing the enemy's situation, a staff officer ran over and reported that the Gui army had retreated, leaving only two regiments to guard and surround him.
Chen Shuxiang smiled, even if the enemy only left two regiments, it would be impossible for him to break out, now there are only more than 500 troops in the whole division that can walk, ammunition is extremely lacking, each soldier has an average of only two bullets, and the light machine gun that has been providing fire support to himself does not have a single bullet. Thinking of this, Chen Shuxiang smiled bitterly and ordered the soldiers to rest well and prepare to give the enemy the final blow.