Episode 60 Outwitting the Red Sixth Division (Part II)

The only thing that gave Huang Shuliang some comfort was that the long cars, carriages and other ammunition and baggage of the troops parked on the highway were basically intact.

It should be that the 1st Blue Division did not burn or blow up these ammunition baggage in order to pursue the mystery. Otherwise, the loud explosion would definitely be heard by the Red Sixth Division in the village, and Rommel's deception plan would not be easy to play.

Of course, this is a drill, and it is impossible to really burn or bomb, but at least a red ribbon will be tied to show that these baggage have been reimbursed, and my own division can no longer be used.

Huang Shuliang knew that if it were himself, he would definitely have people tie all these baggage with red ribbons before leaving, taking advantage of the fact that there would be no explosion sound during the exercise, which would not only "blow up" the baggage of the red side, but also walk quietly.

But that should probably be considered a foul. Rommel, that German is dead-headed, he shouldn't have committed such a rule, right?

Huang Shuliang himself felt that this explanation was a bit far-fetched, but he couldn't think of a more reasonable explanation for a while. Either the other party was negligent and forgot to destroy the baggage at all. It's more far-fetched.

……

Huang Shuliang reported to the Nanjing Red Fang Headquarters the situation in the morning, as well as his own losses.

Tang Yunsheng personally sent a telegram informing Huang Shuliang that his Red Sixth Division was now the one with the fewest losses among the six divisions of the Red Army. Now two of the six divisions of the Red Army have been annihilated, and three of the remaining four divisions have not yet made contact with the Blues, but have suffered heavy losses, demoralization and confusion under air raids. Only the Red Sixth Division was still fully organized and orderly, and in the face-to-face contact with the main armored division of the Blue Army, it preserved its strength and combat effectiveness.

Now, Tang Yunsheng hereby telegraphed to commend Huang Shuliang and all the officers and men of the Red Sixth Division. Immediately afterwards, Xiang Xiaoqiang also followed closely behind, and sent a telegram to commend Huang Shuliang and all the officers and soldiers of the Red Sixth Division.

When Huang Shuliang faced the superior armored division of the Blue Army, he retreated into the settlement, and almost rogue imitated the Qing captives to hold civilians hostage, originally trying to lure the Blue 1st Division to attack the village and fight to the death. Now that his wishful thinking has come to naught, he is worried that he will be dealt with. Now I didn't expect that not only was it not treated, but it was also rewarded by electricity. Just because he has retained his strength and combat effectiveness.

He shook his head. It can also be seen from this how pessimistic the situation is now in the headquarters of the Red Army.

……

The headquarters of the Red Army sent all the results of the morning of the battle.

According to the reconnaissance information of the 4th and 5th Red Divisions, the 2nd Blue Division had just finished "cleaning" the 2nd and 3rd Red Divisions, and was now resting and recuperating and transporting the prisoners and wounded, and did not know what action would be taken next.

At present, the 4th and 5th Red Divisions were marching north with difficulty under the bombardment of planes, taking the initiative to meet the 2nd Blue Division, but they had only traveled less than three kilometers in the morning. If the 2nd Blue Division plans to take the initiative to fight south, then the two sides will come into contact this afternoon. If the 2nd Blue Division is in the same place, then it will be good if the two divisions of the Red Army move northward, the distance of several tens of kilometers, and the fact that the Red Army will hardly move an inch under the attack of the white sky, will be able to make contact after three days. If the 2nd Blue Division did not bother with the two Red Army divisions in the south after cleaning up the battlefield, but advanced westward and followed the 1st Blue Division to attack Nanjing, then the 4th and 5th Red Divisions would never want to touch the butt of the Blue Army.

"Air supremacy! Air supremacy! Huang Shuliang bit the grass stick, looked at the sky, and muttered to himself, "Air supremacy is really a good thing!" ”

As soon as these words came out, both the staff officers and soldiers around them "coaxed" and loudly agreed. They are now personally feeling the power of air supremacy. The sky is in someone's hands, and you basically can't fight. No matter how many soldiers you have and how many troops you can fight, if you don't have air supremacy, it will be tantamount to being tied up by others and slaughtered by others.

Now the headquarters of the Red Army asked Huang Shuliang to decide for himself what direction the Red Sixth Division should attack next.

In Huang Shuliang's own opinion, there were two choices in front of him: First, he was to march eastward, join the Red Fourth Division and the Red Fifth Division, and fight against the Blue Second Division with the strength of three divisions. Second, turn around and go west, follow the 1st Blue Division from a distance, and when the 1st Blue Division and the 1st Red Division come into contact and fight, they will attack from the back of the 1st Blue Division.

Of course, there is a third, safer option, which is to continue to shrink into this Zhuangzi, spend it until the evening, and then come out after there are no planes in the sky.

But that's a little too negative. Moreover, one morning after the start of the war, two divisions of the Red Army were brutally murdered, and if another afternoon, one or two more divisions might be eaten. If you don't rush to help, the Red First Division will definitely be eaten by the Blue First Division, there is no doubt about it. The Red Fourth Division and the Red Fifth Division may be a little better, but at least they will have a blue nose and swollen face. At this point, Huang Shuliang does not have any illusions.

Although the Blue Second Division is not an armored division, it is also a motorized infantry division. And it was a motorized infantry division reinforced by a tank battalion. They can choose whether to fight or not, when to fight, and where to fight. And the two divisions of the Red Army could only wait, like two worms, slowly crawling on the ground. The most important thing is that the sky is in the hands of the Blues, who know every move of the Red Army, and the Red Army is blinded.

If you wait another afternoon, if the Red side loses one or two more divisions, it will be meaningless if you can't get out of the Red Sixth Division.

……

Huang Shuliang decisively decided, taking advantage of the fact that there was no plane on his head at this moment, he hurriedly drove westward, followed behind the Blue First Division from a distance, and when the Blue First Division and the Red First Division fought, he would attack from behind the butt of the Blue First Division. There is still hope for victory. As for the eastern battlefield, he and the Red Fourth Division and the Red Fifth Division were too far away to echo each other. It was a battlefield that I couldn't control.

For things that he can't control, Huang Shuliang is used to letting him go, and he doesn't think about it anymore. Now the battlefield is the same.

Huang Shuliang expelled the reconnaissance troops in all directions, and at the same time ordered the troops to be pulled out of the Zhuangzi.

Those cannons, how to push them out, how to pull them out. How did those door panels be removed, and now how do they have to be installed for the people. There are also trenches and foxholes dug everywhere in the village, and now they have to be responsible for filling them in. There are also ordinary people's chickens, whether they are scared to death, or they are so scared that they don't lay eggs, they have to compensate others.

But now the war is critical, and we can't afford to rub it off too much. Huang Shuliang left a squad to be responsible for these aftermath matters, and he took a division to set off.

The long cars and carriages parked on the highway were also quickly checked by the soldiers to make sure that they had not been tampered with.

He looked at the map and analyzed it with his staff.

The 1st Red Division is now about 25 kilometers west of itself, with the 1st Blue Division in the middle. There was an hour and twenty minutes between the time when the Blue Army's smoke bombs and the noise of the planes made the Red Sixth Division unaware of what was going on outside the village, until a company of the Red Sixth Division rushed out and found that the Blue First Division had left. The entire Blue Division will leave, and it will take half an hour at the earliest. That is, now the 1st Blue Division has marched west for a maximum of fifty minutes. And these fifty minutes can drive a distance of about 20 kilometers for the 1st Blue Division.

In other words, now the Red First Division will be attacked by the Blue First Division at any time.

……

"Have all the reconnaissance troops been sent?"

Huang Shuliang asked.

The staff officer immediately replied:

"The division, just sent out, is mainly in the front, followed by our two wings and rear. It is now estimated that the reconnaissance detachments have dispersed two kilometres away. ”

"Too slow! Two kilometers is not enough," Huang Shuliang shook his head, "Let them speed up, I want to know the situation within twenty kilometers as soon as possible." Twenty kilometers, this is an hour's journey of the enemy. An hour's warning, which is the bare minimum. ”

"Yes, Master, I have already ordered it."

Suddenly, the communications staff officer next to him took off his headphones and reported loudly:

"Division, the Red First Division is under attack!"

Huang Shuliang didn't say a word, immediately rushed over and snatched the headphones, and put them on himself:

"I am Huang Shuliang, the commander of the Sixth Division! How's it going over there? ”

In the headphones, there was already the rumbling of cannons. In addition to the roar of tank guns and machine guns, there was also the sound of aircraft whistling.

The commander of the Red First Division was extremely anxious, and shouted in a hoarse voice:

"Where's your department? How far is it from us? ”

Uncle Huang's heart sank. Listening to the movement on the other side, I am afraid that the Red First Division has been "blitzked" again. I can already clearly hear the sound of the tank gun, which is not very loud, but has a hard metallic feeling. If you can hear such a strong "texture" on the radio, it means that the other party's tank is already very close, and I am afraid that it has been pasted within a few hundred meters. Moreover, the division commander is manic like this, and the division headquarters is also chaotic......

Huang Shuliang hesitated for two seconds, and said as calmly as possible:

"I'm 25 kilometers east of you, you...... You have to hold on, because ...... Because of the order of the headquarters, our unit must immediately rush to the east to help and enter the attack on the 2nd Blue Division......"

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a short time, and only the sound of gunfire could be heard. And then there was a lament:

"Brother Huang, let's do it for myself."

"Hey, what's the size of the Blue Side? How many tanks are there? Hey, hey? Hey ......"

No one answered on the other end of the phone, only the commander of the Red First Division could be heard commanding at the top of his voice nearby.

Huang Shuliang put down the phone and ordered angrily:

"Immediately use the password to send a telegram to the headquarters of the 1st Red Division: I just said that I received an order to attack the 2nd Blue Division to the east, and I deceived the enemy to listen to it, and now I am rushing to your headquarters at full speed! And tell them that in the future, don't use radio plaintones for this kind of important information! ”

……

"Pass the order, speed up!" Huang Shuliang wore a steel helmet, stood on a grave bag, patted his thigh with his gloves, and shouted loudly, "Speed up!" In addition to ammunition and artillery, the rest of the baggage is thrown here first! Troop Run Forward! ”

The soldiers who had just come out of Zhuangzi and formed a formation threw their bags, heavy machine guns, and mortars on the cars of each company, and ran forward with neat steps and light armor with only their guns and ammunition on their backs. The heralds rode motorcycles, some on warhorses, shouting back and forth to deliver orders.

Dust was kicked up again on the long road.

The mule and horse-drawn carts carrying the grain were left in their place. Only cars with ammunition and artillery were still driving in the middle of the marching columns. Every car and cannon was full of infantry.

At present, most of the Ming infantry divisions have been semi-motorized, and the heavy artillery and baggage parts are pulled by cars. In other words, although the infantry still had to walk on their legs, the heavy artillery and ammunition baggage that could not keep up with the advance of the troops and seriously slowed down the speed in the past can now keep up with the troops. This is much faster than a pure infantry division. Moreover, the infantry was able to advance lightly, and they were able to "take turns to ride" in this way, which saved a lot of physical strength, and the distance traveled in a day and night was much longer than that of a pure infantry division.

Huang Shuliang looked at the sky. Now there are no planes for a while. If this had been the case in the morning, the pace of the march that day would have been beautiful.

I don't know how far I can catch up with the tail of the second blue division. …… More than a dozen kilometers. Fortunately, at such a forced marching speed, it is a matter of more than two hours. As long as they can enter within 10 kilometers of the 1st Blue Division, their own reconnaissance detachment and artillery observers can go over, and they can first bombard with heavy artillery. In that way, the first blue division will fight at the same time, and the two divisions of the Red Army will have the hope of working together to kill it.

Rommel, that guy was too eager for quick success. Probably blindly wanted to attack quickly, and left without even sweeping the tail behind him. If you command the Blue Army yourself, you must at least leave a unit to watch over the Red Sixth Division. …… However, the Blues are nervous, and if they stay less, they will not be able to see it, and they may be devoured, and if they stay too much, it will affect the continuation of the attack...... Hehe, this is also the benefit of the strong forces of the red side.

The Red First Division should not be unable to hold out for two hours.

He looked at the sky and prayed. Don't come back to the plane for an hour. If the Blues sent a large number of planes to nail themselves here, the Red 1st Division, the 6th Red Division, and both divisions would not be able to escape the catastrophe.

……

The air raid sirens sounded bitterly.

"!"

Huang Shuliang cursed, immediately shouted "Lie down and hide-", and then jumped down from the grave bag and burrowed into the bushes next to him like a real weasel.

The anti-aircraft guns "ping-pong" sounded, and three black dots appeared in the sky, followed by three, and immediately three more......

In an instant, these black dots turned into dive bombers, strafing and swooping down, and a large string of small "bombs" were dropped. Vote for that called a quasi-......

Smoke rose densely on the road, and the exercise judges were busy, dodging the small bombs while desperately tying red ribbons to cars and artillery. At the same time, many soldiers were summarily declared dead.

Huang Shuliang burrowed in the bushes, looking at the sky through the gap in the blades of grass, and the more he looked, the more he felt that something was wrong.

There were more and more dive bombers, six, nine, twelve, sixteen, twenty-four, thirty-two...... There were many more fighters, also with small bomblets to participate in the air strikes.

It's not a harassment anymore. Huang Shuliang can be sure that the purpose of the blue side is not just to slow down themselves, they want to destroy themselves!

To do this, they dispatched almost every plane they could!

Immediately after, he was surprised to see a team of big guys appear in the sky, as if they were twin-engined!

- That's a Swan horizontal bomber!

Huang Shuliang's eyes widened as he watched at least ten Swan bombers swoop into the low altitude and line up to drop strings of small bombs on the road.

Suddenly, in the middle of the baggage artillery on the road, a dense column of smoke rose.

Finished...... Now all the heavy weapons are gone......

Immediately after, he felt the ground shake beneath him. Soon, an even more terrifying voice came from all directions.

Tank! A large number of tanks! Tank clusters!

Uncle Huang was in his mind for a long time, and slowly understood such a fact-

Lan Yishi didn't go far at all, so he ambushed near Zhuangzi and waited for himself to come out......

As for the attack on the 1st Red Division 25 kilometers away, it was at most a feint attack by a few tank companies, with some armored vehicles and self-propelled guns!

This scared the commander of the Red First Division, who had never seen the world, so much that he couldn't find the north!

Huang Shuliang was lying in the bushes next to the grave, already thinking very detachedly about how to write a post-war report.