Although Wu Ming had not yet returned to Nancheng as ordered, his prediction was not correct at all - the newly formed Fourth Regiment of the Zhejiang Army, which had not yet gained a firm foothold and was defenseless in Maopailing, was not only wiped out by the three regiments of the Red Army that suddenly appeared, but also the two commanders and deputy regiments were killed in the hastily organized resistance, and only 175 of the 1,600 officers and men of the regiment escaped, nearly half of whom were wounded.

It's just that Wu Ming didn't expect that the Red Army of the three regiments would go and return so quickly.

In Wu Ming's view, the operational thinking of the three regiments of the Red Army is admirable, and the commanders of the Red Army have used the tactics of showing the enemy weak and attacking the enemy unprepared to the extreme, and the Red Army's marching ability and continuous combat capability have also deeply shocked Wu Ming, and this is not only something that can be achieved only with willpower and firm conviction, but also shows that these three regiments are definitely the elite units in the Red Army, and they are old units with rich experience in actual combat.

In fact, not to mention that Wu Ming did not expect this result, after being reprimanded by the corps commander Lin Biao, the commander of the Red Army's ** Fourth Division, who had to lead his troops to turn back and risk their lives in a battle, they also did not expect that this battle would go so smoothly, until they finished the battle, they did not know that the regiment that was annihilated by themselves had just entered at noon, and Wu Ming's regiment, which had given them a headache before, had changed their guard and left at noon!

At the end of the battle, the troops began to clean up the battlefield, the division commander Guo Tianming and the government Xie Weijun clasped their hands tightly, and even called lucky, the battle was unexpectedly smooth, and the battle ended in less than an hour.

The 2,400 Red officers and men who had no way to retreat under the death orders of their superiors all marched 100 miles day and night with the determination that if they did not succeed, they would become benevolent, and after successfully infiltrating the village of Maopailing, they launched a direct onslaught from the south and west after resting for only half an hour.

At the beginning, almost all the attacking officers and men thought that they would be bombarded with mortars and counterattacked with dense machine-gun bullets from the enemy, and the vast majority of them were mentally prepared to die in battle.

What is even more incredible is that when the defending enemy saw the sudden appearance of the roaring Red Army, they immediately became a mess after being sluggish, and the defenders of the most important southern river bend crossing simply abandoned their positions, turned around and fled into the village with a wail, and this is the incredible victory of this battle:

More than 500 enemy troops were annihilated, more than 800 enemy prisoners were captured, and more than 1,200 brand-new rifles and pistols, eight Czech machine guns, more than 600,000 rounds of ammunition, six new-style military tents, more than 2,000 quilts and blankets, and a large number of food supplies were captured! The price paid was 80 casualties and more than 200 wounded, most of them lightly wounded.

The corps commander Lin Biao was very happy to receive the good news of the capture of Maopailing, highly praised the fighting spirit of the ** Fourth Division, and issued a new order after replying to the telegram:

"The enemy in Nancheng is determined to seize the important place of Maopailing, comrades must bravely face the battle, fight as long as they can, make as much trouble as they can, and force the main forces of the Jiang bandits in the east of Caotai Gang to take care of one thing and lose the other, do their best to drag the enemy's reinforcements, and win time for the main force of the main army to completely annihilate the main forces of the enemy's two divisions!"

After the excitement, the division commander Guo Tianming did not have time to rest for a while, and he had no time to pay attention to the high spirits of looking for special medicine for the enemy and a group of political work officers of the radio station, and led the first and second regiments to the pass east of the village to launch a fierce blow to the enemy army in Nancheng, and the political commissar Xie Weijun stayed, leading the third regiment to count the captured materials, rest and guard, and serve as a reserve.

At 6 o'clock in the morning, as soon as the sky was dark, there was a fierce sound of artillery in the direction of the pass four kilometers to the east, and Guo Tianming, who had just returned to the big tent at the entrance of Maopailing Village after arranging the blocking position, immediately stood up, went out to look at the direction of the rumbling artillery in the east, listened for more than 10 minutes, and then returned to the tent with a relaxed face, and together with Xie Weijun and two division staff officers, stared at the map spread on the four ammunition boxes and had a heated discussion.

After repeated weighing, Guo Tianming and the two staff officers came to a unanimous opinion: Even if the enemy drove a main division, it would not be able to set up an offensive formation under the eastern pass, and the 1st and 2nd regiments, which occupied a favorable terrain and were condescending, could take turns to fight and rest, and with the use of a large number of captured machine guns, ammunition, and grenades, they could repel the enemy's regimental scale attack with only a small number of troops!

The relieved political commissar Xie Weijun was finally able to light the seized "Old Knife Brand" cigarettes, took a few puffs of smoke comfortably, and pointed to the map with great interest and praised it:

"This map is really beautifully drawn, a mountain and a river within a radius of 20 kilometers are clearly marked, and even several mountain roads behind the mountains north of Maopai Ridge that we don't know about are drawn one by one and the mileage and slope are indicated, and there are still talented people in the Kuomintang army."

The experienced middle-aged staff officer on the opposite side immediately lowered his head, supported his glasses, raised the lower right corner of the map, was surprised after reading it, and handed the corner of the map to Xie Weijun and Guo Tianming: "Look, the mapping unit is the second staff group of the Fifth Regiment directly under the Zhejiang Provincial Security Command, look at this, it is covered with half an official seal......

Guo Tianming immediately took the map, and after seeing it clearly, he was also surprised: "Could it be that the fifth regiment of the enemy army that was guarding here before came from Zhejiang?" ”

"I'll go and interrogate the prisoners at once!" Xie Weijun, who reacted, threw down his sentence and turned around and left, rushing to the ancestral hall next door where the prisoners were held.

In less than ten minutes, Xie Weijun ran in in a hurry, lowered his face and ordered the two staff officers to avoid, and whispered to Guo Tianming, who was full of doubts:

"The political officers are still interrogating, and as soon as I went, I saw the previous confessions, do you guess who is the head of the regiment surnamed Wu that we met before?"

"Who?"

Guo Tianming immediately felt extraordinary.

"Wu Ming, the teaching captain of the Zhejiang Army, the former head of the Fifth Regiment of the West Zhejiang Security Command, and the current lieutenant colonel of the Fifth Regiment directly under the Zhejiang Army, who was once greatly publicized by the Kuomintang newspapers!" Xie Weijun said it almost word for word.

Guo Tianming was taken aback: "Is it the legendary Wu Ming, the head of the security regiment in western Zhejiang who sold guns, bullets and drugs to our Tenth Army, and in order to repay the life-saving grace in Shangrao Prison that year, he did not hesitate to carry the suspicion of colluding with the Communist Party and rescued Comrade Zhang Fenglan, who was unfortunately betrayed by a traitor?" ”

Xie Weijun nodded heavily: "Comrade Zhang Fenglan returned to the Central Soviet Region and immediately took the initiative to report the incident, but he is still isolated and examined. ”

Guo Tianming was silent, raised his head for a long time, and looked at the old guy he respected calmly: "Old Xie, we can't manage this matter if we want to, we can only do the things in front of us first...... It is estimated that the siege and annihilation battle of the two main armies will end soon, and we will withdraw at the latest by midnight tonight, so make all preparations first. ”

Xie Weijun nodded: "Lao Guo, what kind of person do you say this Wu Ming is?" ”

Guo Tianming was very embarrassed, thought about it and smiled: "What do you say? It's a man with affection and righteousness, but it's also like a businessman who has to compare his money. ”

Xie Weijun grinned: "Interesting! However, this person is very good at leading troops, and after the three regiments cleaned up the battlefield, their regimental commander and staff officer told me that he had never seen such a cleverly selected site and built such a strange civil fortification, and also said that several machine gun forts were covered in an unprecedented way, all of them were built with soil layers and logs, even if the seven or five shells hit directly, they may not be destroyed, and there are communication trenches behind the fortress, and they were repaired in just one day, right? ”

Guo Tianming, who had repeatedly seen the fortress in the south of the village, was still surprised: "Only one day? Impossible! ”

"I've asked the villagers, just one day, you have seen the wooden bridge in the south that can walk with carriages, and a company of engineers has built it in less than two days, more than 30 meters long and more than 3 meters wide!"

Xie Weijun knew that Lu Dao should not praise the enemy, but he couldn't help but admire it.

Guo Tianming was stunned for a long time, and suddenly burst out with a foul language: "Oh, talent!" It can be seen from this that the five regiments led by Wu Ming before are really not simple, only 1,000 people, but everything is ahead of us, making more than 2,000 of us dare not touch him, that taste, it is really fucking uncomfortable! ”

Xie Weijun approached Guo Tianming: "Grapevine, since this Wu Ming served as the head of the Zhejiang-Jiangxi border security regiment, Lao Fang, Lao Zhou, and their tenth army can no longer go to western Zhejiang to take advantage, and can only do business with others in a proper manner." ”

Guo Tianming pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "I believe it!" After these few contacts, you and I should know something about this Wu Ming, this guy is really capable, but he is also fucking insidious! Who would have thought that planting mines is not even scary to erect a sign? Looking at the whole country, who used the German big wolfdog to patrol and scout in the field? Not only did this guy fuck it all, but it worked, it's fucking wicked! When I encounter such an opponent, how do you let me fight? ”

Xie Weijun was extremely helpless, shook his head and sighed, and patted Guo Tianming's arm: "Don't think about it, it is estimated that after the main army destroys the central army of the two divisions in the south, this battle will end, let's discuss it slowly after we go back, and see if there is any way to break this guy's turtle shell?" Otherwise, you will be in trouble in the future. ”

"Will you encounter it again in the future? He is a local unit of the Zhejiang army, although he doesn't know how Lu Dao came to this place, but sooner or later he has to go back to defend his nest, right? I hope it will be indefinite! ”

Guo Tianming smiled bitterly after speaking, followed the thoughtful Xie Weijun out of the tent, and went to the ancestral hall next door to see if he could recruit some soldiers from the captives to replenish the losses of the headquarters.

By noon, the eastern pass of Maopai Ling, which had endured four shellings, was still firmly under the control of the two regiments of the Red Army, and the three regiments of Yu Jishi's division, which had launched six attacks, suffered more than 400 casualties, and had no choice but to stop the senseless attacks and withdraw to the rear to rest and replenish in an open area to review the gains and losses.