【193】The Three Armies of the Galaxy Shadow Shake (21)

Hu Guangting picked up the book and read it loudly: "The highest instruction!" ”

Yang Weiyi and Zhang Erpao stood solemnly and listened to Hu Guangting read.

"Close combat and night combat must become the fine tradition of our army, and it is convenient to achieve the suddenness of the battle at night and reduce the damage caused to us by enemy firepower."

After listening to Hu Guangting's reading, Yang Weiyi lowered his head and frowned: "But now that our firepower is superior, it is only in our favor that we will fight during the day." ”

Zhang Erpao hurriedly said: "For the sake of benefit, now it's not that we want to fight at night, it's the Qing army that wants to fight at night, if we hide in the trench fortifications, then we will be passive!" Besides, there is no high ground on our side of the position to exploit. ”

Yang Weiyi was puzzled: "In night operations, observation, shooting, command, coordination, and communication are not convenient, and it is easy to get lost, so I don't think the command will agree." ”

Hu Guangting pointed to the map of the Qing army's camp that had just been drawn according to the situation reported by various reconnaissance companies, and shouted: "The Qing army's camp is connected from west to east, what is there to get lost!" Such a centralized deployment of theirs, in the words of the chairman, is a group of primitive people! Look! They don't even have trenches! ”

Zhang Erpao added approvingly: "Guangting is right! Even if we build a trench tonight, in this dry field, there is not even a high ground to rely on, and it is impossible not to be charged in by the cavalry in the darkness of the night, and if we cause casualties, it must be very heavy.

When the reconnaissance company knocked on the cavalry camp of the Qing army before, it found that the cavalry of the Qing army had three or four thousand people, and our whole division plus the cooking class, the health company, the communication company, and the transport team were only 4,000 people. The cavalry attack in the field will only take a minute or two for one kilometer, and it will take less than ten seconds for a hundred meters! ”

Hu Guangting nodded again and again: "Second Artillery, you are the same as I think, at the moment, we will either immediately withdraw to Dongguang County and rely on the city wall to strengthen the defense, or we will attack at night, we must not stay in place and wait for the Qing cavalry to attack!" ”

Yang Weiyi worriedly advised: "We can set up more lighting fires in front of the position and block them with machine guns." ”

Hu Guangting said: "We used to do this every night, I have seen this deployment many times on the spot, and I have repeatedly tried to aim with machine guns, but the effect is limited. Once you encounter cavalry, I am afraid that it is inevitable to fight with bayonets. ”

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At this moment, Yao Fan was in Dongguang's headquarters, and he was also anxious about the same thing.

"Manatee, you are a cavalry general, if the Qing cavalry robs the camp at night, can you rely on the trenches to defend it? Hu Guangting said that there is no decent high ground near their position! ”

Li Hainiu was also thinking about this question repeatedly, and immediately said when he heard this: "Chairman, I think it's better to ask Hu Guangting and them to withdraw to Dongguang County immediately!" Go out and fight again at dawn! ”

When Yao Fan heard this, he stomped his feet and exclaimed, "Not good! You don't have faith! Hu Guangting can't be asked to continue to confront the front! ”

Yao Fan was about to send a report, but Cui Guangwen rushed in and said, "Chairman, the third division is here." ”

"Read!"

"Command

Our division judged that the number of Qing troops was huge, the terrain of our army was unfavorable, and once the night battle was held, the consequences would be unpredictable, and we hoped that the command headquarters would agree that our unit would take the initiative to launch a night battle offensive, and the whole division would take the squad and platoon as the unit and the grenade as the main offensive weapon to carry out an all-round strong attack on the Qing army's camps, and carry out a large-width skirmish cutting and interspersing the enemy's position, so as to completely break up and disrupt the enemy.

Hu, Zhang, Yang. ”

Yao Fan waved his hand heavily in the air and said to the telegraph operator Cui Guangwen: "Approval!" Sue sù Hu Guangting! Attack now! The sooner the better! The Qing army wants to fight! Let's do it first! Let's see who's messing up first! ”

Li Jun said loudly: "Yes! Instead of messing around on our positions, let's rush over and mess around in their camps! ”

Li Hainiu clenched his fists and said, "I agree!" ”

Yao Fan ordered: "Sue the second master Liu Jinbao!" Change the route of the convergence with the 3rd Division, and the 2nd Division immediately intersperses in the northeast direction! Directly launch a night assault on the Qing army camp! Don't stay! Be brave and interspersed to the end! ”

Li Hainiu said: "I also have to inform the first division Xiao Chu to open them and speed up the march." Saying that, Li Hainiu looked at his watch: "It's just after seven o'clock now, and the straight-line distance is less than thirty kilometers, and the first division had better arrive before eleven o'clock!" ”

Yao Fan frowned and nodded: "Sue Xiao Chukai, you must go to Botou Town before eleven o'clock!" Hit when you arrive! ”

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After receiving the telegram, Hu Guangting slapped his thigh heavily: "The command is the same as we think!" For the benefit! Second artillery! Notify the whole division! Get ready for battle now! All the commanders listened to the instructions of the division headquarters and immediately dispersed horizontally against the Qing army camps, and all of them must be in place after an hour! Wait for the general attack order! The mortar battalion of the division immediately took position and carried out a single attack on the two cavalry battalions on the right flank of the Qing army! One shot per minute! Don't stop without my orders! so that they will not live in peace! ……”

As the orders of the headquarters of the Third Division were issued one after another, the 4,000 men of the whole division were mobilized in an instant, and the torches were scattered all over the field, as brilliant as the sparks of the prairie fire. All the soldiers who had just finished dinner, and were digging trenches, one by one, retrieved their steel helmets from the centralized place on the ground and put them on, rushed into the rows of tents on the side of the trenches, took out bullets and grenades, and helped each other to tie them to their bodies, and began to move urgently according to the deployment.

Because of his literacy, Li Lu became a platoon commander soon after joining the army, and his strong personality made him stand out quickly in training. When the order was given for an emergency assembly, he was talking to a doll named Maotou on the edge of the trench.

"Maotou, the revolutionary army really can't accept people casually, you better go back. We can't ask for this dog and dog skin, the army has a rule that if you collect things from the people in private, you will be punished. ”

"Chief, I don't want to pay, I really don't! I eat less! I just need to have a nest head one day, and I'll go with you. Mao Tou pleaded with tears in his eyes.

"Maotou, how can the army have a nest for you, it's all steamed buns."

"Chief, I brought my own food, I don't want the troops."

Li Lu sighed and couldn't go on.

He is a soft-hearted man, Maotou is the army after the army crossed the river, followed the troops after the implementation of land reform in Qinghe County, his family is from Henan along the Yellow River wandering over the landless hired farmers, and beggars are no different, poor jingle ring, the whole family only has three broken bowls, living in a grass shed on the ground that is not waist-high, to carry the work for the local landlords in Qinghe County, if there is no land reform, maybe the whole family will have to freeze to death in the winter this year. Maotou's surname is Wang, his father can't read big words, he can only do farm work, his mother died early, and there is a younger sister and a younger brother, when the troops arrived at his house, only his father was wearing a gown and pants, and the three children were naked, all bare, and the whole family had no shoes to wear, and the dirt seemed to come out of the mud.

After the land reform in Qinghe, the troops killed almost all the families of several big landlords in Qinghe County after public trial, and there were 72 rooms in the enclosure of the landlord's house, and one room was assigned to his family, as well as clothes, shoes, quilts, pots and pans, and cages.

Li Lu took advantage of the moonlight to raise his eyes to look at Maotou, and saw that he was wearing a dirty women's gown, and the pants were the one his father wore before the land reform. He tied a straw rope around his waist, on which a long string of cabbage gangs was tied to a black string, dangling by his legs, and a pair of cloth shoes that were given to him when he was fighting a local tyrant were tightly inserted into the straw rope under his chest, reluctant to wear them. Maotou was holding a skinned dead dog in his left hand, carrying a dog skin in his right hand, digging at the mud with his toes, and looking at Li Lu with tears in his eyes.

Li Lu's heart was sour, and he didn't know how to speak to this child who wanted to join the army with the army.

"Chief, I can dig a pit, you let me dig a hole for you." Maotou continued to plead with the dead dog.

"Forget it, I'll give him a bite." Li Lu sighed in her heart.

"You put the dog down, and I'll ask Lian Li when I go back to see if I can let you go to the cooking class to help."

Maotou grinned and showed a mouthful of white teeth, and knelt down after throwing the dog, wanting to kowtow to Li Lu.

Li Lu hurriedly picked him up: "Our revolutionary army is not prosperous, this is Chairman Yao's army, and it wants to fight the world for the poor, you are not allowed to kneel in the future, do you hear?" ”

"Well, chief, shall I roast you a dog's leg?"

"Nonsense! Now tell me, where did this dog come from? ”

As Li Lu was talking, the military horn of the emergency assembly sounded. Li Lu hurriedly rushed to the side, picked up the steel helmet and buckled his head, and whistled to beckon the soldiers in the platoon to gather.

The company's order was quickly issued, and Li Lu's platoon immediately advanced to the northeast and waited on the spot one kilometer away from the Qing army camp.

According to the company's arrangement, Li Lu ordered the three squads of the whole platoon to bring enough grenades, and the second squad as a blasting team to carry four bundles of 5 kilograms of TNT explosives, ready to carry out blasting operations on the wooden fence erected by the Qing army on the edge of the small river ditch.

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In the Dongguang County Headquarters, the room where the eight confiscated candles were lit was bright and transparent.

"Ask Xiao Chukai again! Where are they! Do they have to fight in the first division! And is there any consciousness of the military! Yao Fan anxiously scolded Cui Guangwen.

Li Hainiu said with a calm face: "Chairman, let's not wait, it's almost ten o'clock, the moonlight is very bright, and the Qing army horse team may go out of the village at any time to attack at night." The 3rd Division has been in combat position for an hour, and all of them are in position. ”

Yao Fan decisively ordered: "Sue Hu Guangting, launch a general attack in three minutes!" In addition, continue to send me a message to urge Xiao Chukai! ”

"Yes!"

"Inform Liu Jinbao's 2nd Division Headquarters to immediately implement the battle plan, the first regiment will storm the Qing cavalry camp on the right flank, and the second regiment will outflank the rear of the Qing army!"

"Yes!"

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After receiving the order from the headquarters, Hu Guangting immediately ordered the whole division to start a night attack.

"Di Di Di Di ~ Di ~~~~~~~~~~~ Di ~ Di ~~~~~~~~~~~" The sharp charge pierced the silence of the night and reverberated murderously on the ground.

For a while, shouts of killing sounded all over the field, and it sounded as if thousands of troops were attacking.

Liu Mingchuan heard the charge of the People's Liberation Army in the camp and exclaimed: "The rubber thieves want to attack at night?!" Damn it! Lao Tzu hasn't attacked at night yet! Instead, they're going to attack at night? ”

"My lord! What to do? Is it to immediately dispatch a horse team and attack the rear of the rubber thieves at night. ”

Liu Mingchuan waved his hand heavily and said, "Don't panic! Let's take a look at the situation first!

Pass the order! All departments strictly guard the camp! Rely on the wooden village and shoot the glue thief!

General Galu, all the Mongolian cavalry are on standby! Listen to my orders at any time, prepare to open the door of the back village, and go out of the village to kill thieves! ”

At this time, Kalu sent a fast horse to report to Liu Mingchuan: "The rubber thief artillery has continuously bombarded the eastern cavalry camp Dazhai, and now the cavalry battalion in the east has suffered heavy casualties, and General Kalu has asked to go to war now." ”

"Bastard! Tell him to keep waiting! No one is allowed to leave the village without my order! Liu Mingchuan shouted angrily.

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Li Lu finally heard the charge horn, he blew a long whistle violently, and shouted: "The whole platoon assaults!" Disperse! Disperse! Demolition crews keep up! Kill~~~~~!!! ”

The soldiers of the whole platoon immediately jumped out from behind their respective hidden bushes and ridges, and rushed forward bravely in the bright moonlight, accompanied by the earth-shattering shouts of killing, the 27 mortars of the mortar battalion of the third division began to fire frantically in succession, and carried out a roll-call bombardment of all the camps of the Qing army.

In the roar of artillery fire, Li Lu picked up a Bayi light machine gun assigned to each platoon and fired at the soldiers who fired behind the wooden fence of the Qing army camp by the river.

"Give me the demolition team! Blow up that wooden wall! The whole platoon spread out for me, and I blew it up with a grenade when I touched it! ”

So the soldiers of the three squads rushed forward quickly, and began to throw grenades wildly after 50 meters, only to see a rain of grenades falling in the Qing army camp, and in the screams of ghosts and wolves, the sound of the Qing army's indiscriminate shooting across the camp was greatly reduced.

"All on the line! Occupy the wooden fence and shoot stealthily through the cracks in the wood! The demolition team followed up and blasted the wooden village! ”

As the demolition team crossed the creek and placed the explosives packets, the soldiers of the platoon threw a wave of grenades into the camp through the thick log fence more than two meters high. Immediately after, the blasting team lit the fuse, and after the deafening explosion, the Qing army camp in front of Li Lu was completely blown up, and the broken wood chips were splashed one after another, and the wooden pillars were crooked.

"Kill!" Li Lu shouted wildly, and rushed forward with a light machine gun in his arms. A skinny black shadow followed closely behind his ass, with a bunch of cabbage gangs hanging from his waist.

Under the moonlight, the battlefield more than ten miles wide was full of explosions and charges, and the 56 semi-automatic and Type 81 light machine guns attacked the Qing army at close range, spitting fire furiously and harvesting lives.

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"My lord! Zhong Bangwu's camp was blown up by rubber thieves! ”

"My lord! Li Kuilu's camp was taken down by rubber thieves! ”

"My lord! Zheng Jixiu's camp was blown up! ”

"My lord! Wei Lianxia's camp was invaded by rubber thieves! ”

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Liu Mingchuan's face was distorted under the torch, and he finally ordered: "Order all the cavalry battalions of Galu to attack!" Kill all the glue thieves who rushed into the company camp! Order the two cavalry battalions of the Sheng army to attack! Give me a glue thief! ”