Chapter 144: Bangou Ambush (3)
Looking at the remnants of the Gui army in the distance, Huang Dehu sat on the ground, and the rifle engraved with his name was thrown on the ground. From childhood to adulthood, even being besieged by hundreds of people at the 803 Jingzhou Feishan Recruit Camp did not have such a terrifying feeling today.
The bright bayonets, the intertwined soldiers of the enemy and us, the stabbing, punching and kicking, hugging and fighting, the screams of the losers before they died, and the painful moans of the undead, all surrounded Huang Dehu's mind and could not be dispersed for a long time.
He suddenly remembered what the squad leader said to himself: "Take the gun in your hand, he is your wife and the only guarantee for your survival." ”
"Where's the squad leader?" Huang Dehu suddenly remembered the squad leader who liked to yell, and then raised his head and looked around, but he didn't see the shadow of the squad leader, he quickly got up to find this squad leader who was a fellow member.
Finally, near the hillside, he found his squad leader, a bullet hit straight between his eyebrows, the blood had stopped flowing, and the squad leader's eyes were wide open to the sky.
The squad leader died, and Huang Dehu's heart suddenly swelled with inexplicable sadness.
The clerk of the company headquarters and the platoon commander came over at this time: "What about the third squad leader?" ”
Huang Dehu closed the squad leader's eyes with his hand, turned around and replied, "Honorable." ”
The clerk sighed, today's casualties are indeed a bit large, a full 168 people were killed and more than 200 were injured. The entire 303rd Regiment was shrouded in a sad atmosphere, but the order of the regiment headquarters still had to be carried out: "From now on, you act as the squad leader of the third platoon, gather the remaining people, and continue to move forward with the regiment headquarters." ”
After saying the paperwork and the platoon commander left, Huang Dehu glanced at the squad leader Zuihou, and then looked around, the person in charge of collecting the corpses was recording the number of each deceased, and took the relics from them, bagged and sealed them back to their families. And the people of the 304th Regiment were passing through this battlefield, obviously they were shocked by the tragedy here, and they involuntarily slowed down one by one......
Here, on a certain nameless mountain, after the desperate resistance of the first division of the Gui Army, the offensive of the Xiangxi Army has stopped.
Bai Chongxi stopped the meaningless and continuous attacks of the 301st and 302nd regiments, and he ordered mortars and mountain artillery to be brought up, and all units to build improvised fortifications, so as to trap the main force of the Gui army.
And although the tragic Huang Xuchu worked hard, God seemed to give him the tragedy of his life at one time. Huang Xuchu, who finally broke out of the encirclement, actually crashed into the position of the 302nd Regiment with more than 200 people who participated in the regiment, and then he was naturally unceremoniously disarmed by the 302nd regiment. Huang Xuchu tossed for most of the day, but he was still a prisoner, he and Tao Jun glanced at each other, and honestly didn't toss.
At this time, the Bangou ambush battle could be regarded as entering the predetermined track, and Chen Bingkun completely lost the peripheral support point at this moment. Such a hill and more than a thousand guns could not last long, because his adjutant had just told him that the ammunition was running low, and that the troops transporting the baggage were now the enemy's convoys. And the ammunition carried by these people is basically exhausted, and the remaining ammunition is less than three per person, if you want to fight, it is estimated that you can only carry out white-knuckle combat, and because you were busy marching before, the soldiers did not eat lunch until six o'clock in the afternoon, and dinner was even more unsettled.
I didn't feel it when I was fighting before, but now when I stop, everyone feels hungry......
Under such circumstances, Bai Chongxi did a very unvirtuous thing, he ordered the cooking squad of each company to immediately bury the pot above the river valley to make rice, and it must stew meat, as for whether the subordinates who had just killed people ate the meat were no longer considered. His purpose is very clear, it is not a tooth sacrifice, or to disgust Gui Jun with the smell of meat.
Soon the aroma of rice and meat continued to drift towards the position of the Gui army with the breeze of the river valley, and the soldiers of the Gui army who were like tigers and wolves couldn't help but swallow their saliva, and then looked at their superiors, who turned their eyes to Chen Bingkun.
This Gui Tiger General, who was incomparably beautiful before and after the Xinhai Revolution, is now unprecedentedly bleak in his heart, and he is really too careless, and he accidentally caught the road, and heard the tongue that caught him back and said that the ambush was the third division of the Xiangxi Army, the division commander is called Li Zongren, and the chief of staff is called Bai Chongxi, all of whom are young men in Guangxi in their early twenties.
The more Chen Bingkun's thinking became narrower, but he suddenly woke up and thought: I can't fight anymore, the brothers have no morale, and the time and place are favorable, and they don't occupy the same time and place. In the current situation, if you use the analogy of playing chess, you will be a dead game, and it is impossible for you to get out. Since it is impossible to break through, it is necessary to give these men who have followed him for many years a way out.
Chen Bingkun thought about it, it was difficult, if he wanted to survive, he could only surrender, and if he surrendered, he would be sorry for Veteran Lu, how could this be good?
The adjutant who had followed him for many years was very powerful, and immediately guessed from the embarrassed expression of the division commander, he quietly stepped forward and said: "Division commander, let's change into civilian clothes and escape, this battle can't be fought, give the brothers a way out." ”
This idea came up with both of them, and Chen Bingkun couldn't help but applaud loudly in his heart. He looked around and whispered to the adjutant: "Officer, you go and tell them, let them hold on a little longer, and we can surrender after we get out......"
Two hours later, more than 1,300 people from the remaining 1st Division of the Gui Army raised the white flag to the Xiangxi Army and surrendered, and the Bangou ambush ended with a complete victory for the 3rd Division of the Xiangxi Army.
As for Chen Bingkun, I'm sorry, his plan to get out didn't get him out in the end, and the agents of the Military Intelligence Department recognized him, a popular figure in Guilin, and he could only be a prisoner obediently......
In just over four hours, the 5,000 elite troops of the 1st Division of the Gui Army were wiped out, of which more than 1,100 were killed, 3,000 were captured, and a number were missing.
Due to the stubborn resistance of the Gui army, the losses of the 3rd Division of the Xiangxi Garrison Tiger were not small, of which the 301, 302, and 303 regiments suffered the most. The casualties of the 301st and 302nd regiments were about 200, and the casualties of the 303rd regiment were more than 300. Such a huge casualty made Li Zongren, who was the division commander, unconsciously frown after hearing this: "What's the matter? So many casualties? ”
Chief of Staff Bai Chongxi smiled indifferently and said: "How can there be immortals in a war, Brother Delin doesn't have to mind too much, the most important thing is that we won, aren't we?" ”
Li Zongren nodded and said: "But it is difficult to replenish this source of soldiers, and a batch of soldiers will only be sent out after half a year of recruit training." ”
Bai Chongxi actually had an opinion on the unified recruitment and training of new recruits, because this method stifled the possibility of the commander leading the army to expand the army privately. This is also a huge obstacle for himself, who has always been ambitious, but now it is obviously an opportunity to break the shackles: "Brother Delin, according to my meaning, didn't we capture so many prisoners?" Just add it directly to the team, anyway, their combat effectiveness is not weak, and our treatment is high. As for the officers, they were all gone, either shot or dismissed. ”
Li Zongren thought about it: "Yes, but you still have to follow the regulations and make a register, otherwise the General Staff Office and the Armaments Department will not pay the salary, what will you do?" ”
Bai Chongxi patted his head, how could he forget this one. The salaries of the Xiangxi garrison do not need to go through officers at all levels, and all servicemen have a bank discount, which belongs to the Xiangxi Development Bank, and every month the personnel office of the General Staff Office makes accounts, and the financial office of the Armaments Department will pay the money to the bank's discount. And this excerpt was handled when he was a recruit, so it was impossible for officers at all levels to pay empty salaries, and it was even more impossible for Bai Chongxi to recruit more people.
"Okay, it's up to you, big brother." Bai Chongxi felt bad in his heart, Wang Dashuai at the top was indeed a chess master, and he counted everything, and he admired it tightly. How did he know that Wang Zhenyu's trick was obtained by combining the experience of military organization in later generations, and it came easily and the effect was remarkable, after all, it had been tested in practice.
While thinking about it here, the adjutant over there came to report: "Division commander, the chief of staff is not good, Commander Liao, they are starting to fight with the prisoners of war." ”
Li Zongren was shocked: "This Liao Lei, what kind of fame, let's go, go and see!" ”
Bai Chongxi gritted his teeth: "Inform the guard company, bring all your weapons, and let me go." ”
In a bad mood, Bai Chongxi is going to kill someone......
Wang Zhenyu in Liuzhou City didn't know these little things, he was in a very good mood now, although the final data of the Bangou ambush had not yet been reported, but the results of the battle were reported at the first time.
The total annihilation of the first division of the Gui Army of 5,000 people, a complete victory, this is a very important victory, you must know that the regular army of the entire Guangxi is only 10,000 people, and this battle annihilated half of them, not to mention the initiative on the battlefield, this deterrent effect alone is enough to calm the entire territory of Guangxi.
Xu Yuanquan, who was holding the battle report, naturally did not forget to congratulate Wang Zhenyu: "Commander, our battle can be said to have laid the whole situation, and no matter how we fight next, we will not suffer." Do you want to release the news and deter Lu Rongting and them. ”
Wang Zhenyu smiled, waved his hand and said: "Don't miss the news, one of them wants to defraud Guilin, and there are still 2,000 men and horses that the first division of the Gui Army has not dispatched." Second, Lu Rongting, who wants to fight us to the end, had better kill them cleanly, lest they can't stand the fright, and retreat into the 100,000 mountains, which will be a troublesome thing to exterminate in the future. ”
Xu Yuanquan nodded: "What the marshal said is very true, I will rush back to the first division and have another ambush battle." ”
Wang Zhenyu shook his head: "No, if the first division wants to show weakness, it must let the Gui army enter the guests, and when the time comes, I will send the third division to quietly cross the Youjiang River and cut off their way back, so that there is no fear that someone will slip away, and Guangxi will become our solid rear." Hehe, it's funny, I didn't plan to have the whole of Guangxi, but this Lu Rongting forced me to kill him. Since this kind of request is made, I can't be satisfied with it. You say yes, Brother Kecheng? ”
It's rare for Wang Zhenyu, who likes to get angry recently, to make a joke, but even an old qualification like Xu Yuanquan doesn't dare to accept it. Xu Yuanquan saluted and went out, which made Wang Zhenyu embarrassed for a while.
"Old Five, go and see, is there any news about Stationmaster Gong over there in Nanning?" Wang Zhenyu confessed and lay down on the sofa to rest, and the victory of the Bangou ambush finally made himself temporarily relieved.