Chapter 148: Nameless Heights
Lu Rongting was so vicious that his subordinates would rather face the enemy's bullets than the old man's angry face.
On October 10, the battle began, and the combat effectiveness of the Gui army was perfectly reflected in the mountain operations, and the officers and men of the first division were very desperate, and every hill was repeatedly contested with the Gui army.
However, the Gui army's ability to climb and its fearlessness of death were extremely reflected in this battle for the mountain.
Although cross-fire and key strikes were set up on a large scale in accordance with the military training model, "What, lost, what's the matter with your company, a high ground was lost without even two hours of support" Cai Juxian angrily roared at the defeated company commander, and at this moment he wanted to shoot this company commander who was ineffective in combat.
"Report, regimental headquarters ordered" The herald saved the life of this poor company commander.
Cai Juxian glanced back at the herald, calmed down the anger in his chest a little, and said, "Nian." ”
The surrounding officers and soldiers breathed a sigh of relief, this Battalion Commander Cai is okay on weekdays, but every time he acts, he is very angry, and he will kill people at every turn.
"The regiment commander ordered our battalion to retreat, not to allow too many casualties, and to kill and wound the enemy as much as possible, especially wounded rather than killed." The herald was well-informed, had a very stable psychological quality, and conveyed the new order without humility or arrogance.
Cai Juxian spun around the spot twice with his hands behind his back, and came to a very important conclusion: "The head of the doll above is too bad, what is wounded rather than killed, it is obviously deliberately creating the enemy's wounded, indirectly weakening the enemy's vitality, and at the same time directly hitting the enemy's morale." This person who has read a book is bad. No wonder he was able to be the head of the regiment. ”
The 101st Regiment, which served as the first line of blockade, began a tug-of-war from hilltop to hill.
Lu Rongting pressed on the front line to supervise the battle, and the Gui army participated in the first wave of attacks with the troops of Long Jiguang and Song Anshu, and the second wave was the troops of Mo Rongxin and Lin Junting, and Lu Rongting's descendants were pressed on the Zuihou side.
If you want to say that Lu Rongting did not have the intention of conserving his strength and consuming friendly troops, it is estimated that our Lu Overseer and Lu Dashuai himself will not believe it. Although they are all Gui Jun, although the palms and backs of the hands are the same, the flesh on the backs of the palms and hands is not the same thickness after all.
Although Long Jinguang and Song Anshu seemed to have no emotion, they meticulously carried out Lu Rongting's unreasonable order, and because the Xiangxi Army consciously continued to retreat, it did not cause too many casualties, but the rift appeared.
For two days in a row, the Gui army advanced ten miles in one go, and the casualties were less than 800, and Lu Rongting was even more convinced that the Xiangxi Army had injured its vitality when it surrounded and annihilated Chen Bingkun's first division, and as long as he continued to attack hard, when Liuzhou appeared in front of him, it would be just an empty city nine times out of ten.
Wang Zhenyu was at Xu Yuanquan's division headquarters at the moment: "Brother Kecheng, I took a look at the battle report and map, the retreat speed of your first division is a bit faster than expected, what's going on?" ”
Xu Yuanquan wiped his sweat and said: "Dashuai, it's not that the brothers don't work hard, these Gui soldiers are like eating tobacco and soil, and they don't want to die as if they have to attack fiercely." Aren't our troops here to avoid casualties? So I gave up after playing for a while. ”
Wang Zhenyu threw away the report and said unhurriedly: "Brother Kecheng, this is a war, you can tell me the reason, can you give the enemy the reason?" ”
Wan Yaohuang, chief of staff of the First Division, looked at the stunned Xu Yuanquan, shook his head and interjected: "Marshal, this person who can't complain about his head doesn't work hard, and we have problems with the deployment from the beginning." ”
Wang Zhenyu glanced up at Wan Yaohuang: "Oh, let's talk about it, Brother Wuqiao, what did we do wrong?" ”
Wan Yaohuang fearlessly pointed out: "It seems that there is no problem with guarding a mountain in a company, but it also depends on who the opponent is. But if it is the Gui army, which is better at mountain warfare than us, it is a humiliation for itself with a short attack and a long blow. If the brothers persevered a little, they were likely to become alone, so under the pursuit of advantages and avoiding disadvantages, everyone's resistance turned into a harassment war with cold guns. ”
Wang Zhenyu stood up from his chair, he still took it for granted, and he formulated such a method of blocking the attack layer by layer only on the basis of the book to resist US aggression and aid Korea that he saw in later generations, and now it seems that it is indeed out of touch with reality, and it is very difficult for the people under him to implement it.
"Brother Wuqiao, then in your opinion, how should we play? Is it too late to adjust? ”
Wan Yaohuang nodded, walked to the sand table, pointed to a mountain protruding in the mountain road, and said, "Here, Dashuai, this is it." This mountain has no name, it is not high, the engineer side has calculated the altitude of about 250 meters, but this mountain is just stuck in the road, no matter where you go, you have to look down on this mountain, the surrounding mountains are mostly cliffs, as long as you put a small number of troops can effectively prevent the enemy from seizing the commanding heights of the two wings, this unique place is a key point for us, we put 101 regiments of troops here, which can definitely effectively stop the enemy's attack speed, and buy enough time for the third division's roundabout outflanking. ”
Xu Yuanquan glanced at Wan Yaohuang coldly, this person is too arrogant, everyone is from Hubei, is it necessary to be so unsparing?
Wang Zhenyu didn't care about Xu Yuanquan's dissatisfaction behind him, he was applauding loudly for this jihua in his heart.
"It's this nameless mountain, you two go and give orders, at least two days, you must hold on. In addition, let the 101st Regiment send a battalion to wait for an opportunity to lurk behind enemy lines, and I don't think it will be able to lurk any more. This battalion occupied this nameless hill when we began to counterattack, so that it was estimated that the great encirclement of Zuihou could be achieved without going to this place. If your first division has to have this determination, it will rely on your 15,000 men to eat 30,000 horses of the Gui army. ”
Wan Yaohuang immediately saluted and said: "The humble position must live up to the expectations of the marshal." ”
Even if Xu Yuanquan was dissatisfied with Wan Yaohuang, a fellow countryman, at this moment, in front of the handsome, he could only echo it in unison......
"Haha, I like this task, this task is my taste" Cai Juxian looked at the latest order issued by the division headquarters and daxiao happily, no need to guess, the battalion responsible for lurking and standby chose Cai Juxian's first battalion, as for Liu Xuyi's second battalion, he was ordered to carry out blocking operations in the nameless mountains with the regiment headquarters......
On October 12, the Gui army launched thirteen rounds of charges towards the main defensive position of the nameless mountain, and in the fourth charge, the very precious artillery was also used, and the Xiangxi army on the hill was a random bombardment.
Cai Juxian took a few scouts to lie on the top of the mountain less than three miles away from the nameless mountain and observed the situation on the battlefield with a telescope: "Well, this blocking position still lacks levels, these birdmen, they are very good in the military academy exam, and it is not like that when they really fight." Pay attention to this when you go back to the meeting with a few company commanders, our position must have an oblique angle and a response point, and in addition, we must dig a barrier trench to protect the main ......position on the enemy side."
It was dark all the time, and the Gui army was not able to occupy even half of the position on the nameless heights!
Lu Rongting rushed to the front line when he heard the news, it was only ten miles away from Baipeng Town, but the Gui army, which had fought smoothly before, was actually blocked by a strong attack, and actually stopped here and couldn't move.
After Lu Rongting loudly scolded Long and Song, he finally made the decision to press Mo Rongxin and Lin Junting into the second echelon.
On October 13, the next day, the Gui army launched a desperate attack on the nameless mountain from three sides, and once attacked the defensive positions of the Xiangxi army. And Tao Zhiyue was also red-eyed, and personally led the 300 or so people directly under the regiment headquarters to launch a counter-charge, and drove out the bayonets of the Gui army who had attacked the main position.
The Gui army paid heavy casualties, but still failed to take the mountain. Lu Rongting ordered the shooting of four company commanders who were ineffective in combat on the spot, and then offered a reward of 200,000 yuan, announcing that no matter which unit it was, if he took the mountain first, he would be rewarded with the 200,000 yuan.
On one side is the living Hades like Lu Dashuai, and on the other side is 200,000 white flowers and dazzling ocean money, all the soldiers of the Gui Army have made a humane choice. Anyway, it's all a death, it's better to fight, maybe there is a way to live, kill!
What is called an ant on a tree, the appearance of the Gui army's attack is the most standard. The officers and men of Gui frantically rushed up to the hilltop position like ants, and no matter how they fought, they could not be less.
The battle lasted until five o'clock in the afternoon, Wang Zhenyu and Xu Yuanquan, Wan Yaohuang and others discussed, and agreed that Tao Zhiyue led his troops to withdraw, because the battle was to this extent, even if the Gui army took the mountain, it would need to rest for half a day, so in fact, the two-day blocking task had been completed ahead of schedule. After all, after two days of fighting, the 101st Regiment had already suffered more than 30 percent battle losses, most of the heavy machine guns had been scrapped, all the mortars had run out of ammunition, and not a single grenade had been thrown away.
Wang Zhenyu personally made the decision, and the 101st Regiment immediately retreated from the nameless mountains.
At six o'clock in the afternoon, at dinnertime, Lu Rongting ordered dozens of pigs to be killed to treat everyone, and the whole position was filled with pork.
Then each department of the Gui army organized a company of death squads, and they didn't say anything, they greeted with good wine and meat, and they went to die collectively.
This is also the old rule of the Gui army, when the Sino-French War was going on, the commander Feng Zicai did just that, and the death squads greeted the French army one by one. As a veteran of the war that day, Lu Rongting did not hesitate to continue this fine tradition and carry it forward.
At about seven o'clock in the evening, 2,000 death squads poured into the top of the 250 unnamed heights from three sides, but when the leading officer rushed into the empty position, he could only sigh: "Now Lu Shuai's good wine and meat are all gone." ”