Eighteen buns of blood and tears
Chiang Kai-shek's First Army of the Eastern Road Thieves also immediately accelerated its march after learning that Chen Jiongming was about to finish, and used it to reach Zhao'an County in southwest Fujian near Guangdong in about eight days. On the morning of 10 January, Luo Yaoguo's 15th Brigade seized the watershed pass on the Fujian-Guangdong border and the Huangshi Mountain line, opening the choke point from Fujian to Guangdong.
In the past few days, Hong Baozi, who had been waiting for Sun Yat-sen to send someone to surrender, was suddenly beaten to the door of his house without preparation, and also occupied the gate, and immediately panicked, on the one hand, he hurriedly called Sanrao Town to invite Lin Hu to come to discuss, and on the other hand, he hurriedly deployed in Wusong Mountain outside Huanggang Town. Huanggang Town is not a strong city, but it is a large and prosperous commercial port, not even a county seat, there is no decent city wall, and the Wusong Mountain outside the city is the only barrier. It was very disadvantageous to meet Chiang Kai-shek here, and if he wanted to retreat to Chaozhou, he was afraid of being pursued by the enemy and directly crushed the troops.
"Boom, boom, boom" Just when Hong Baozi was worried about whether to fight or go, the faint sound of artillery reached his ears, and he knew that it was Wusong Mountain when he heard the direction. "Damn, it's so fast! The surname Jiang is still capable!" Hong Baozi scolded, so he had to hurriedly take the guards to the Wusong Mountain position to supervise the battle.
"Long live Premier Sun! Come on! This is the charging slogan prescribed by Chiang Kai-shek for the First Army of the thieves, well, not the traditional "Bite your mother!" Luo Yaoguo, who was now commanding the attack of the thief army, who had just been appointed as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, Luo Yaoguo looked at the scene of the neatly arranged thieves and soldiers under his order, shouting the slogan of long live the prime minister and launching a white-knuckle charge, and he felt as if he was Napoleon.
Now Luo Yaoguo somewhat understands why Chiang Kai-shek had the nickname of Ningbo Napoleon, uh, it turns out that the Chinese civil war in the 20s was not much different from the Napoleonic era. Today, Luo Yaoguo's command is similar to that of the great emperor. The artillery was placed in the forward position, first there was a fierce artillery bombardment, 36 field rapid-fire guns fired thousands of high-explosive shells to cover the entire Wusong Mountain on the opposite side, and then the whole regiment launched a group charge, as if in the early 19th century, the soldiers lined up in a neat phalanx, with rifles loaded with bayonets, and marched towards the enemy position in a neat pace under the leadership of the officer. A small number of snipers walked around the phalanx, looking for an opportunity to snipe the machine gunners of the opposing officers.
When Hong Baozi came to the messy Wusong Mountain Heights, the troops he stationed here had actually collapsed, because Hong Baozi did not order the troops to build fortifications on the mountain in advance, so when Luo Yaoguo ordered the artillery bombardment, Hong Baozi's entire brigade of troops was completely exposed to artillery fire, and the losses were extremely heavy.
"Brethren! Resist me! Who dares to retreat and kill without mercy! Hong Baozi knew that things were not good today, so he had to grit his teeth and stick to the end, he knew that if he loosened up a little now, his troops would collapse immediately, and he would not be able to hold on to Lin Hu's reinforcements at all.
"Ho, ho, ho, ho" like thunderous footsteps are getting closer and louder. Following the direction of the voice, Hong Baozi raised the binoculars and looked at it, and suddenly complained bitterly. The enemy actually threw four infantry regiments into the tactics of fighting the sea of people at one time! Hong Baozi now has a maximum of more than 1,000 people on the highlands, and the other party has invested 7,000 people at one time!
The crowd tactics plus group charge is basically suicide after the popularization of automatic firearms and artillery, but the current Chinese civil war is still this way of playing, the artillery is a little farther away and there is no accuracy, except for the machine gun, the range of other automatic firearms is close to death, and the bullets are not enough at all, a rifle can give a maximum of five bullets, those soldiers who lack training will definitely not hit anything, so this kind of group charge of the whole regiment and the whole battalion is really the most practical way to play. Out of humanitarian considerations, Luo Yaoguo arranged an artillery bombardment that seemed to everyone to be a pure loser before the infantry charged, and as a result, half of Hong Baozi's brigade was defeated.
All kinds of firearms on Hong Baozi's position opened fire desperately, and rows of deadly bullets tilted towards the group phalanx of the thief army.
"Don't shoot! Stop! Stop! Stop it! "Hong Baozi's nose is almost crooked! What! The soldiers opened fire, and the enemy still had two miles to go! What are you fighting? The bullets and broken guns sent by Chen Dashuai can't hit that far! This is the characteristic of the Chinese Civil War, due to the backward weaponry, the general poor quality of firearms and bullets, plus the poor level of shooting of soldiers, firing at a distance of 1,000 meters, is basically a waste of bullets.
"Get up! Get it all up! While Hong Baozi was yelling at his subordinates to stop shooting, the officer on the other end of the thief army was also shouting and scolding! It turned out that Hong Baozi's subordinates opened fire, and more than half of the four phalanxes on the side of the thief army fell, uh, not being hit, but lying down to avoid bullets!
"Rhetoric, what's the distance?" In the middle of several phalanxes, there are still a few mortar squads that did not exist in the Napoleonic era, and now the one who is busy arranging these mortars is the artillery officer who commanded the artillery bombardment just now, and Luo Yaoguo has no way to train enough qualified mortar gunners in a short period of time, so he had to let the artillery officers make a temporary cameo, these people will follow the infantry group with mortars after firing 75 fast guns, and their task is to kill the enemy's machine gun fire points.
Due to the nervousness of the soldiers of the Hong Baozi Division, the early fire was opened, exposing almost all the points of machine gun fire, and at a distance of about 1000 meters, dozens of mortars were specifically responsible for knocking out these machine guns, hehe, the consequences of this can be imagined.
"Boom, boom, boom" After a burst of mortar bombardment, there was not much machine gun left on the Wusong Mountain position, and the officers and soldiers of Hong Baozi's department, who knew that the battle had been lost, now had no struggle at all.
"Wow! Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! "The terrifying sound of footsteps came again, and it got louder and louder! The costly shot just now held them back for less than 5 minutes.
"Smack! Syllable! Syllable! "Most of the machine guns were gone, and the remaining machine guns were no longer able to fire to expose the target, so now the dense sound of rifles became the best choice for courage. In this regard, Hong Baozi did not stop speaking, because he knew that this battle was lost, and he lost from the beginning, and the enemy's so-called negotiations were just afraid that he would escape, and looking at the artillery and accurate mortars just now, the enemy's combat effectiveness was more than one step higher than his own troops! And this amount
"Long live the Prime Minister! Comrades! Rush with me! Kill! "After entering the enemy's position at a distance of two or three hundred meters, the phalanx of the four regiments launched the final charge one after another, and under the leadership of the commanders of each regiment and the supervision of the deputy commanders of each brigade, 7,000 officers and men armed with bayonets, spears, or Mauser submachine pistols rushed up with a strange scream!
"Rush up! Report your success to the commander! "Seeing the Kuomintang's blue sky and white flags planted on the hills of the black pine forest, Luo Yaoguo knew that there was no suspense in this battle." Order Chief of Staff He to lead the four regiments of the reserve to assault Huanggang Town!. Luo Yaoguo gave the last order in the Battle of Wusonglin. For Luo Yaoguo, the first big victory of his military career was easily obtained.
Hong Baozi is now facing the end of his military career, or even the end of his life, and his army is about to collapse! In less than half an hour, one of their elite brigades was gone, and there were still two brigades in Huanggang Town, so they would definitely not be able to run, and they would not have the fighting spirit to fight, because their top commander had now fled. In the face of the enemy troops coming from all over the mountains, Hong Baozi had no chance to return to Huanggang Town to organize resistance, so he had to be carried away aimlessly by the rout of his own troops.
"Commander-in-chief, go in and hide!" This was the voice of the battalion commander of the guard, and now only this loyal guy was still guarding the commander. "Commander-in-chief, there are enemies everywhere, we can't run away, why don't you hide in the temple first and pretend to be a monk?"
This is a very good suggestion, Hong Baozi is bald, and he can really be confused when he wears a monk's robe. So the master and servant bribed the abbot with a gold bar, changed into the costume of a monk, and hid in a temple near Shibi Mountain. It wasn't until six days later that he was betrayed by a monk who coveted a heavy reward, and a company of thieves surrounded the temple, captured Hong Baozi and sent it to Luo Yaoguo's brigade headquarters in Chaozhou, and finally handed over a million life money and was released back to Hunan, and since then he has faded out of the military circle. This time, Luo Yaoguo did a good thing, in the history of the earth, Hong Baozi was assassinated by the Kuomintang assassins after the defeat.
After confessing to Hong Baozi, it was time to tell Lin Hu, whose army of about 7,000 was deployed in Sanrao Town, 25 kilometers away from Huanggang Town. After receiving Hong Baozi's distress call, Lin Hu did not dare to slack off, and immediately summoned troops to rescue Huanggang. It took an hour for the whole army to assemble the whole group, and then it took half a day to march 25 kilometers in a hurry, and at about 8 o'clock in the evening of 10 January, they encountered the first section of the East Road Thief Army, and then they were in a scuffle. The military headquarters of the First Army of the Eastern Road Thief Army, which discovered the situation not long ago, immediately mobilized all its forces and threw them into the melee, and soon formed an absolute numerical superiority.
With the power of a great victory, and the thief army who was waiting for work, it took a few hours to defeat Lin Hu, who was at an absolute disadvantage in numbers.
"God will not be me!" Lin Hu saw that there was no way to recover the situation, so he had to sigh, pulled out his gun and pretended to commit suicide, but the loyal guards immediately rushed up, grabbed Lin Hu's gun, and carried Lin Hu to break through to the north at night, and finally fled to Jiangxi, relying on Fang Benren.
In the history of China, which is a replica of the Earth, the two battles of the Battle of Wusong Mountain, captured more than 12,000 Cantonese officers and soldiers of Chen Jiongming's line, and captured more than 5,000 long and short guns, 80 water-cooled machine guns, and 12 cannons. Through this campaign, the East Road Thief Army also successfully captured the entire Chaoshan area.