Chapter 26: Counter-Encirclement and Suppression (3)
The Central Army was well-trained, and under the orders of its own commander, the artillery position was quickly constructed.
"Woo" With a whistling sound, 12 shells accurately landed on the front-line position, looking at the position covered by artillery fire, Lao Sun sighed: "It's still the division commander who is powerful, let me arrange a few more positions for echelon defense, if I put all the troops on the front line, my troops will really be finished." ”
"Order the artillery platoon to immediately return fire and destroy the enemy artillery positions." Lao Sun did not forget his duty, and when he saw that the enemy was concentrating all his firepower on his front-line position, he decisively ordered.
"Boom boom boom" As a group of 4 mortar shells continued to fall on their artillery positions, those [***] artillerymen saw the corpses of their comrades who were shattered by the artillery fire, and they couldn't stand it anymore, so they didn't care about those cannons, and ran backwards, no matter what their commander ordered them, they just didn't step forward.
In this way, after a few rounds of artillery fire, the enemy's artillery position was already in a mess, seeing that his only artillery company was gone, and the commander of the vanguard brigade was stunned, when did the communist army have such strong firepower, without the support of artillery, how could they still fight? But no matter what, you have to attack, otherwise the division commander will come over and see that he has not yet attacked and will lose the artillery company, and he will have to shoot himself. Thinking of this, he quickly ordered his own regiment and battalion to attack, and all heavy machine guns to cover it.
The soldiers of the first battalion slowly approached the communist position, but there was no movement on the position. It is absolutely impossible, their own artillery has just been destroyed, how could the cunning communist army give up such a good opportunity? The brigade commander couldn't help but smile at his stupid idea.
The first battalion has already touched the front-line position, why hasn't it reacted yet, could it be that the communist army has really retreated. Seeing that his troops continued to pour into the communist positions, his original suspicion finally let go.
"Da "I've been fooled, the commander of the first regiment, immediately order the second battalion to go up to meet the first battalion, quickly." The brigade commander shouted loudly, but he was greeted by mortar shells in groups of four, and under such fierce shelling, his own troops could not concentrate at all, let alone rescue his own battalion.
The commander of the 1st Brigade sat on the ground under the protection of his own guards, staring blankly at the place where the guns rang out. His artillery company was gone, and he couldn't provide long-range support to a battalion at all, so he could only watch as the gunfire continued to decrease, until finally there was no gunfire, and he knew that his battalion was gone. It's gone.
"Order the troops to stop the attack, wait for the division commander to bring artillery, and the attack is being carried out." Thinking of his own battalion, the brigade commander commanded with the thought of fighting desperately with the communist army.
It turned out that after seeing that the enemy's artillery company was destroyed by himself, and the troops attacking him had only one battalion, plus he still had a second line of defense, and the second battalion and three battalions were guarding there, Commander Sun immediately thought of the example of his division commander leading the former Red Tenth Regiment to completely annihilate one battalion of the enemy, and wondered if it was a surprise to the Central Army. Thinking of this, Lao Sun told the first battalion commander of the idea, and the first battalion commander was also a veteran of the former Red Tenth Regiment, and immediately agreed after hearing it. In this way, under the conspiracy of the two, a battalion of the Central Army was gone. Looking at the soldiers happily cleaning up the battlefield, Regiment Commander Sun couldn't help but sigh, "This battle is really exciting."
"Regiment commander, the enemy has shrunk the defensive line, and it seems that they are about to retreat." After hearing the correspondent's words, Lao Sun hurriedly ran to the position and picked up the binoculars. Seeing that the enemy troops seemed to be forming a formation and retreating, "What's wrong with them?" Lao Sun said to the political commissar next to him with a puzzled expression.
"Regiment commander, division commander telegram."
"Haha, I know, Battalion Commander Zhang, immediately run forward with the first battalion, you must rush to the front of the first brigade, block him for me, you must block him. Order the artillery platoon to open fire immediately, disrupt their formation, and slow down their retreat. The 2nd and 3rd Battalions were ordered to assemble at once and support the 1st Battalion to resolutely block the enemy's retreat. Captain Sun, who glanced at the telegram, immediately ordered.
As the order came out, the 4 mortars of the artillery platoon began to roar, and with the sound of artillery, the formation of the Central Army was instantly disrupted. However, it did not take long for the 1st Brigade of the enemy to retreat beyond the range of mortars, after losing some troops. The normal march began. It turned out that the commander of the enemy's 1st Division, after hearing that his rear guard brigade was under attack and that contact was cut off, immediately judged that the communist army had an ambush, and as a division commander who had always been cautious, after seeing the telegram sent by the avant-garde brigade, he was even more sure of the trap set by the communist army at this time, so he immediately ordered the avant-garde brigade to retreat. After all, preserving strength now comes first.
In this way, the two armies began to compete, the Central Army trotted on the main road, and the fighters of the first battalion pursued closely on the hillside by the roadside, and after about half an hour, finally caught up with the vanguard of the vanguard brigade of the Central Army. The soldiers of the first battalion were like tigers descending from the mountain, unstoppable, cutting off the way of the Central Army at once.
The commander of the 1st Division's Avant-garde Brigade finally understood that the communist army wanted to leave one of his brigades here, which was too underestimated, and immediately ordered his second regiment to launch a group charge and must rush over. At the same time, he sent a request for help to his division commander.
"Battalion commander, the enemy is coming."
The commander of the first battalion, who was building a simple trench, did not hesitate when he heard the communicator's report: "Order the troops, prepare for battle, and the enemy will shoot as soon as he gets within two hundred meters." The enemy must not be allowed to break through the position. ”
At this time, Battalion Commander Zhang was full of confidence, knowing that the enemy's avant-garde brigade had no artillery support, and he had 20 light machine guns in his own hands, which had to be placed in the Central Red Army, and he didn't dare to think about it, and he had enough ammunition, and the regiment commander's reinforcements would arrive in a while, and he had nothing to fear, and he must resolutely hold his position.
Watching about a battalion of enemy troops slowly approach, all the guns that "hit" immediately erupted tongues of fire, and the first platoon of enemy soldiers immediately fell in a pool of blood, and the enemy troops behind immediately lay down and fired at the first battalion. If this continues, it may be possible to slowly increase the casualties of a battalion and finally break out. After all, the first battalion did not have a complete trench, only simple bunkers, and dozens of casualties immediately appeared under the strafing fire of the enemy's heavy machine guns, and the battalion commander gritted his teeth all the time.
But this did not last long, and one of the enemy officers held up his gun and asked the soldiers lying on the ground to start charging, so that the automatic fire of the first battalion began to exert its might, and the machine guns fired desperately, and the enemy fell one by one, and the pieces did not come up, and the machine gunners were addicted. It turned out that when the commander of the avant-garde brigade saw that his troops and the communist army were firing at each other, he became worried, worried that his troops would be surrounded by the communist army for too long, and coupled with the constant agitation of the chief of staff who was afraid of death, the brigade commander finally gave an order to take the communist position and break through the encirclement regardless of the casualties of his troops.
Looking at the enemy troops below charging upwards without dying, Battalion Commander Zhang was also happy, he now has enough ammunition, if it continues like this, one of his brigades will not be enough to fill, looking at the corpses below, Battalion Commander Zhang shook his head, thinking that according to his estimates, within this half an hour, the enemy army who fell under the guns of his battalion was almost two battalions, but the enemy still rushed desperately, is it that the commander below is crazy.
"Battalion Commander Zhang, what's the situation now?" The commander of the first battalion finally rushed over with the second battalion, the third battalion and the directly subordinate troops, and followed the direction of Battalion Commander Zhang's finger, Lao Sun was also stunned, this is a fucking massacre. Hearing Battalion Commander Zhang say that two enemy battalions had been annihilated, Sun Xingbang's mind immediately turned away.
"Damn, so we have only one regiment of enemy troops in front of us." After hearing Camp Commander Zhang's introduction, Political Commissar Zhao Dahe also thought about it, and the two of them smiled at the same time.
"Commissar, how about it, let's do it."
"Hehe, you're not afraid, I have nothing to be afraid of, do it."
"Okay, let's do it, order the first battalion to continue to hold on, the second battalion to detour to the enemy's right flank, and the third battalion to be on the left flank, ready to charge, and all automatic fire is arranged in the first row. The artillery platoon immediately set up a position, and after listening to my order, carried out artillery bombardment, and specially attacked the crowded places, so as not to allow the enemy to gather. Half of the heavy machine guns are assigned to the first battalion, and the other half will immediately detour behind the enemy, and the two ends will definitely be blocked by me. ”
Another half an hour passed, and perhaps the commander of the avant-garde brigade, seeing that one of his regiments was thrown on the way to the charge, finally stopped the attack and began to rest and prepare for the next attack. But he didn't know, he had entered the countdown stage, after half an hour of preparation, a regiment of all personnel had been arranged in place, with the regiment commander an order, another 4 rounds of mortar shells fell in the enemy army for rest, constantly killing and wounding the enemy, seeing that the enemy army was in chaos, Lao Sun ordered to blow the trumpet, immediately, on both sides of the highway appeared countless machine guns and submachine guns with tongues of fire, and the soldiers shouted slogans and rushed to the road. Looking at the swarming communist troops, the brigade commander could no longer raise the spirit to resist, and sat on the ground in a daze.
The battle was fought smoothly and fiercely, although the Central Army was chaotic, but under the organization of the company platoon commander, a large number of casualties were still given to a regiment, after the post-war statistics, the battle annihilated a brigade of more than 4,100 people, more than 600 prisoners, more than 300 people killed by themselves, more than 40 seriously wounded, more than 200 other lightly wounded, and a battalion was lost at once.
"It seems that the Central Army is really well-trained, pay attention in the future." After the war, Commander Sun couldn't help but sigh to the political commissar.