Chapter Forty-Six: The Surprise of Taoyuan
At this time, Taoyuan County was heavily guarded, looking at the city wall, the patrols were in waves, because the reconnaissance battalion was notified every day, after an afternoon of hard work, the entire reconnaissance battalion and the soldiers of the two reconnaissance companies had mixed into the county town There were about 300 people, but the weapons could only bring in some pistols, and the other scouts and all the weapons were hidden in a forest not far from the city wall, waiting for the response of the scouts in the city.
At this time, a patrol team came over, the number was not much, exactly 6, the commander of the reconnaissance battalion Liu Xiaogang and the five scouts who had already mixed into the city were hiding in the dark and quietly waiting for the opportunity, and finally 6 enemy troops came over. Liu Xiaogang waved his hand, and he and the five comrades-in-arms behind him suddenly rushed out, and before the enemy could react, their hearts had been pierced with a dagger shining with cold light, and in this way, the enemy patrol in this area had all been replaced by scouts of the Seventh Legion.
With the sound of two cat meows, more than a dozen ropes were thrown from the city wall, and the scouts under the city wall climbed up the city wall one after another, and then disappeared into the dark Taoyuan County with their weapons.
In this way, after a night of assembly and reconnaissance, Liu Xiaogang had already figured out the exact addresses of important places such as ammunition depots and logistics baggage in the city. At this time, the enemy's ammunition depot gathered the troops of a reconnaissance company, the logistics office assembled two company troops, the enemy corps headquarters assembled a company of troops, and the enemy material warehouse assembled a company of troops, and all the troops were changed into Hubei military uniforms, waiting for the regiment commander's order to attack the city.
Liu Hua led the main force, after more than 3 hours of marching, came to Taoyuan City, and immediately ordered the troops to rest, and asked the mountain artillery battalion to immediately set up cannons and wait for dawn.
At this time, the sky was already slightly bright, and the commander of a battalion guarding the city gate saw that all the 18 cannons outside the city were aimed at him, and he was immediately frightened and sat on the ground, picked up the phone and reported the situation to the regiment commander.
"Regiment commander, regiment commander, it's not good, the communist army has captured all our mountain artillery, and now all the mountain artillery is facing the city gate, regiment commander, send troops quickly, I only have one battalion of troops here, I must not be able to hold it, regiment commander, I want reinforcements." As these words were spoken, the 18 mountain cannons outside the city roared in unison. The 18 mountain artillery shells instantly collapsed the city gate tower, and the enemy battalion commander's report for help was buried under the rubble before he could finish his report.
The mountain artillery battalion was ordered to fire two volleys at the city wall, the second division and the first regiment of the Seventh Army Corps launched a charge, and the other troops blocked several city gates, and those who did not surrender were resolutely eliminated. Liu Hua simply assigned the task.
At this time, the scouts in the city immediately began to act after hearing the artillery fire outside the city, the first to start the action was the troops near the enemy's baggage camp, Liu Xiaogang took his two companies, wearing the uniforms of the Hubei army, swaggered into the garrison of the enemy's baggage battalion, the enemy sentry came over, just wanted to ask something, the bayonet of the scout next to him had stabbed him in the stomach. At this time, when the baggage battalion heard the explosion of the shells, it immediately became a mess and began to get dressed.
At this time, the soldiers of the two reconnaissance companies led by Liu Xiaogang were all in place, and with an order, each soldier threw all the grenades that were ready into the room, and with the sound of explosions. Immediately there was a burst of wailing in the ears, and in this way, the entire baggage battalion of more than 400 people was blown up to only about 40 wounded prisoners. Liu Xiaogang saw that the baggage battalion was all controlled by his own people, so he left a company of troops and led the remaining company to attack the city gate.
It is even easier for a company assembled in the ammunition depot to report directly that it is here to collect ammunition, and the guards can easily blend into the ammunition depot, and the guards of that platoon are not enough for themselves, and one company and one person will be gone. Soon, the material warehouses were also occupied.
Liu Xiaogang, who attacked all the way to the city gate, because he was wearing the uniforms of the Hubei army, could be said to be in danger, and there was no company that was fooled and assassinated by Liu Xiaogang and others along the way, and at this time, Liu Xiaogang suddenly heard a fierce burst of gunfire from the enemy army headquarters. Immediately feeling bad, I went over with reinforcements.
It turned out that just when a company of the enemy corps headquarters was preparing to attack, the enemy corps commander also decided to give up Taoyuan and break through with the troops, and the two groups of men and horses happened to collide together, you know, the training of the Hubei army is very well-trained, plus the enemy corps commander is surrounded by his own guards, and the weapons are good, the reconnaissance company was immediately suppressed by the opponent's powerful firepower, and when Liu Xiaogang arrived, the reconnaissance company had already killed several soldiers.
After listening to the report of the commander of the reconnaissance company leading the team, Liu Xiaogang immediately had an idea, and ordered a company that was holding on to it to retreat after holding out for 10 minutes, and he took a company of troops to ambush the enemy company commander on the retreat road, and tried to ambush them all. Don't think about it, all the elite of the enemy army were thrown into Liu Xiaogang's ambush circle, and even the enemy commander was headshot.
When Liu Xiaogang and the rest of the people were preparing to reinforce in the direction of the city gate, a team came from the direction of the city gate, Liu Xiaogang took a closer look, and found that his own troops had come in, so he hurriedly greeted him and sent people to take over all the warehouses and materials of the enemy army with his troops.
"Report to the corps commander, reconnaissance battalion and two reconnaissance companies successfully completed the mission." Liu Xiaogang came to Liu Hua and immediately saluted.
"Well, very good, order all the reconnaissance troops to rest, and all the battlefields will be cleaned by the follow-up troops, go down and rest!" As he spoke, he patted Liu Xiaogang on the shoulder.
Liu Hua came to Taoyuan County Zhengaxe, found the room where he lived last time, and fell asleep when he lay down. Also, for this victory, Liu Hua has not rested for two consecutive days. The commissar looked at the young corps commander in front of him, smiled, and closed the door to the room.
The next day, as soon as it was dawn, Liu Hua was woken up by a burst of cheers, and when he walked out of the room, he saw the political commissar walking towards him with a smile.
"Commander of the corps, Mr. He sent a telegram that they had won a battle in the mountains west of Yongshun, annihilated the two brigades of the Hunan Army, captured a lot, and asked about the current situation of our Seventh Army Corps." As he spoke, he handed the telegram to Liu Hua.
Liu Hua also smiled when he saw the telegram, "Political commissar, it seems that both of us have won, this time Chairman Jiang should scold his mother." What do you think? Are the results out? ”
"Look at me, hehe, forget the important things, Commander, this time we sent it again, I really didn't expect that this Zhang Zhenhan Master is really rich, I drool when I think about it. Don't be scared of me, tell me:
First, we seized a total of 800,000 catties of grain, which is nearly two months' worth of grain from Zhang Zhenhan's entire division, and it is all cheap for us, hehe.
Second, there is the enemy's baggage battalion, which mainly consists of 6 mortars, 5,000 mortar shells, 3,000 mountain artillery shells, a total of about 1 million rounds of ammunition, and about 20,000 grenades.
Thirdly, and most happily, we have captured the enemy's ammunition depot, which, according to the ammunition depot garrison, is the entire ammunition reserve that the enemy is preparing to encircle and suppress us for the winter. My mom, I went in for a while, it really scared me, it was all shells and bullets, preliminary statistics, mortar shells about 10,000 rounds, mountain artillery shells about 5,000 rounds, bullets about 5 million rounds, hehe, I really didn't expect that Chiang Kai-shek sent us such a large gift this time. ”
After listening to the words of the political commissar, Liu Hua was also shocked and was speechless for a long time. "Political commissar, have you reported these situations to Mr. He?"
"Commander, aren't you still sleeping, seeing that you slept too soundly, I didn't bother you, and I was about to wait for you to get up and sign before reporting it," the political commissar said with a smile.
"Let's go, political commissar, let's give the commander-in-chief good news." After speaking, he picked up the political commissar and walked towards the confidential room.