Chapter 36: The Victorious General

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Since Mao Zetan's work has been completed, the trading activities in Dapu County have begun to operate on their own driven by commercial interests, and Hu Weidong has become short of people available after Tan Zhenlin and others went north, so he quickly summoned Mao Zetan, who had made great contributions, and promoted him to the chief of staff of the army, and still the head of the special service group. In one fell swoop, he saved the Red 15th Army, which was almost in a critical situation, and also made Hu Weidong understand a truth -- "The level of a person's talent is important, but whether he is put in the right position is even more important"

The deal in Tai Po relieved the urgent need of the Red 15th Army, but Hu Weidong was not happy for long before he heard a bad news, "What? The Second Independent Division was defeated by Liu Zhi's rice bucket? What does he Tan Zhenlin eat? ”

Mao Zetan couldn't listen to it anymore, and immediately said unfairly, "Commander, don't say that, although Liu Zhi is reactionary, he is also a victorious general, and the Four Front Army suffered his big losses back then, if you don't scold him, he will become a rice bucket, and the enemy's strength is as many as 100,000, and there are only more than 30,000 people in Commander Tan's place, and it would be very good to be able to keep most of the people retreating south."

"Victorious general?" , Hu Weidong realized that the Anti-Japanese War has not yet begun, Liu Zhi is indeed an out-and-out "winning general", hundreds of battles in more than ten years, never lost once, and his reputation is louder than Wei Lihuang, but who else will know that Liu Zhi has completely changed since the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, and since then, whether it is with the Japanese or with the People's Liberation Army, he has never won once, and the "victorious general" instantly became a "often defeated general", and Zuihou even completely lost his courage and became the first to flee at every turn" "Long-legged general", it can really be said that it is a creation to make people

"Hmph, 'It's hard to live up to your fame.' , Liu Zhi has two fatal weaknesses, he was just lucky not to be discovered before, you just see how I avenge Lao Tan. Hu Weidong sneered.

Although commanders at all levels, including Mao Zetan, had misgivings, they were full of confidence in Hu Weidong because of their invincibility since the army was raised, so they all resolutely carried out Hu Weidong's orders.

In his opinion, the most terrible thing about the Red Army is that they are too capable of running, and fighting offensive and defensive battles face to face, even the Red Fourth Front Army, which is known for its bravery, is not the opponent of the national army at all, not to mention that the national army now has an advantage in strength, and he is the commander of the "winning general", Liu Zhi feels that he is sure to win. With this great achievement, he may be promoted to another rank as a newly promoted second-class general, becoming the third first-class general in the history of the National Revolutionary Army.

"It seems that it is not without reason to become a 'victorious general'", seeing the shocking casualty figures, Hu Weidong couldn't help frowning slightly, the strength of the Red 15th Army was only slightly less than the enemy, and Liu Zhi's troops did not have the 88th Division, the Tax Police Corps and other first-class domestic troops, but on the first day of the battle between the two sides, the Red 15th Army actually suffered more than 7,000 casualties, nearly twice as much as the defending national army, it can be seen that Liu Zhi is at least very good in the frontal offensive and defensive battle, if Hu Weidong's analysis of Liu Zhi is wrong, Then the Red 15th Army will inevitably pay an unprecedented and huge price in this battle. But the matter has come to this point, it is too late to regret it, Hu Weidong is still determined to gamble, if he can defeat the strongest Liu Zhi corps in the three national armies, the other two roads will be cold, the Red 15th Army can win the time to repair after the war, and if it fights with the other two national armies first, it is basically impossible to take advantage of it, even if it wins, it will be a miserable victory, when Liu Zhi's 100,000 troops are crushed from the north, the Red 15th Army will even be in danger of annihilation...,

The next day, Hu Weidong concentrated almost all the artillery of the Red 15th Army, and violently bombarded the left flank position of Liu Zhi's corps, killing and wounding a lot of enemy troops, Mao Zetan took advantage of the situation to personally lead the special service group to break in, and the national army that had performed very well before seemed to be unable to fight all of a sudden, almost instantaneously collapsed, and the special service group easily seized the position of the left flank of Liu Zhi's corps, and the situation on the battlefield was reversed, and Hu Weidong's heart that had been holding on finally relaxed, "Liu Zhi's first weakness is that he can only defend in a first-line manner, and has no concept of depth and protection at all, As long as one point is breached, the whole line will collapse. However, he liked to pile up his elite troops in the middle, but the two wings were all old, weak, sick and disabled, and there was no problem in dealing with the tactically dull warlord troops and the Red Fourth Front Army influenced by left-leaning ideas. This problem was widespread in the national army in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, and generals who could learn lessons and correct themselves would stand out in the Anti-Japanese War, and those who could not change it like Liu Zhi could only be eliminated by history."

Originally, although the national army fell into passivity at this time, if Liu Zhi had timely dispatched elite troops from the frontal position to counterattack the lost flank position, then at least it could hold out for a while, but Liu Zhi panicked and left his troops and fled north for hundreds of miles, and the 100,000 national troops who were still fighting fiercely with the Red 15th Army were suddenly dumbfounded

"Liu Zhi's second weakness is that his adaptability and psychological quality are extremely poor, once he encounters a change that he has not thought of, he will immediately fall into a panic, and the panicked emotions will amplify the fear, making him do stupid things that are impossible to do in ordinary times", Hu Weidong sighed lightly, and then ordered all the troops of the whole army to immediately attack on all fronts, and the 100,000 national army, which was originally very tenacious, suddenly collapsed, and they left their weapons and equipment and fled in all directions, and those who could not escape directly dropped their weapons and surrendered. On this day alone, the Red 15th Army captured tens of thousands of prisoners, and captured countless weapons and ammunition

Just when Hu Weidong was about to take advantage of the victory to pursue and further expand the results of the battle, he received a report that the 18th Army of the National Army was less than 50 miles away from the battlefield, and he couldn't help frowning slightly, and ordered the whole army to temporarily let go of Liu Zhi's remnants and concentrate his forces to deal with the ace of the National Army first-the 18th Army. It was the first time that the People's Liberation Army (PLA) had been eliminated, so Hu Weidong did not dare to be careless at all

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