Episode 34 Annihilation of the Eight Banners Division

Although Shi Shengli is a battalion commander, he has graduated from the tank academy for so many years, but he knows that it is more important for tank soldiers to be calm and calm on the battlefield than anything else.

"I'm an elephant, all the four companies pay attention, after driving through the trench, immediately eliminate the anti-tank men and machine guns! The back tank covers the front! Everyone, calm down, just like when you were training! …… Perform the prescribed actions immediately! ”

The fifteen tanks in the front row turned their turrets as they moved forward, turning their barrels and synchronized machine guns behind them, while the heading machine guns in front kept firing across the trench.

The battalion commander commanded the tank turret to turn back, Shi Shengli pulled the periscope in the dark turret to observe, and felt the "clanging" bullets keep strafing the armor outside, and at the same time felt a slight shock in front, and another anti-tank gun bullet hit the front armor plate.

He stared at the faint light pouring in from outside, and shouted:

"Are you alright?"

The driver's voice shouted in the headphones:

"It's okay! …… Hold it down, it's time to cross the trench! ”

At this time, the turret was also completely turned to the back, and Shi Shengli patted the gun commander beside him and pointed outside. The gun commander nodded, got down behind the synchronous machine gun, his eyes on the observation port, staring out, ready to shoot at the anti-tank and machine gunners behind the trench.

The tank under him was planted down, the engine roared harder, and then it went up together, crossing the trench.

A Qing soldier holding an anti-tank gun lay down in a shallow "anti-tank trench", closed his eyes tightly, and listened to the roar of the behemoth above his head and press over. The tracks turned, and a large amount of dirt poured on his head.

Qing Bing scolded in his heart, this is called "anti-tank trench", but in fact, it is impossible to dig an anti-tank trench in such a short time. In fact, this is a shallow trench, which can only be used by soldiers to squat inside, wait for the tank to drive over their heads, and then stand up and attack the rear of the tank, which is an "anti-tank trench".

Finally, the tank passed, and he stood up in fright, saying in his heart, "Hit the tank to upgrade two levels", picked up the anti-tank gun, and shot the back butt of the tank that had just driven past.

It's a pity that the muzzle of the gun was a little higher, and the armor-piercing shell hit the turret heavily. But the turret had already been turned around, and it was the front armor plate of the turret, the strongest of the entire tank, that was subjected to armor-piercing shells.

Shi Shengli felt that the shell was smashed by a hammer, his face subconsciously dodged back, and then immediately attached to the periscope again, and when he saw the anti-tank gunner who was loading bullets, he immediately shouted:

"Anti-tank guns! 6 o'clock! Exterminate! ”

The artillery commander also saw it, and without saying it, the machine gun fired a point, and the Qing soldier covered his face and fell in the trench.

A few meters to the right, a Maxim heavy machine gun was spitting out tongues of fire at the tank, and the bullets kept hitting the weak rear of the tank, and the exhaust pipe and water tank quickly made several holes.

But the tank's synchronous machine gun hit, and the machine gunner there cowered in the trench, and the shield in front of the machine gun did not seem to hurt him. Shi Shengli shouted:

"Machine gun crew! 4 o'clock! High-explosive shells! Exterminate! ”

"High-explosive shells, over!"

There was a shock in the tank, the shell went out, and it exploded on the edge of the trench, and the heavy machine gun was lifted to the other side of the trench, and then it was rolled over by a tank behind it, and it instantly became a discus.

Shi Shengli commanded:

"The tanks that have already passed through the trench continue to rush forward! Crush them! ”

More than a dozen tanks had already rushed through the trench one after another and continued to charge forward, machine guns spewing tongues of fire, chasing the fleeing Qing soldiers in front. From time to time, the tank guns let out angry roars, throwing the three or two Qing soldiers in front of them into the air.

Most of the Qing soldiers in the trenches had already crawled out and ran, and a few were squatting in the trenches at the risk of death, waiting for the tank to drive over, pulling away the grenade and throwing the back of the tank. It's not easy to blow up accurately, and when the force is too strong, it hits the armor and bounces off. But as soon as it hits, that tank will catch fire.

Soon, eight tanks were already on fire.

The tanks of the Ming army, it can also be said that the tanks at this time were all gasoline engines. Gasoline tanks have benefits, they are easy to start, the noise is relatively small, and they are very suitable for ambushes and sneak attacks, but the disadvantages are also very fatal, that is, they can hit at once.

Flames flickered from the back of these tanks, the roof was opened, and the tankmen came out, and suddenly changed from strong to weak. Only two of the four had submachine guns, and those two had only pistols. In the fog, you have to dodge bullets from the Qing soldiers, and be careful not to be hit by the tanks behind you as Qing soldiers.

Fortunately, near the trench at this time, the organized resistance of the Qing army had been crushed, and a small number of Qing soldiers could be dealt with with submachine guns in their hands.

Soon the infantry came up and jumped into the trenches to fight. The remnants of the Qing and Ming troops, after paying dozens of casualties, completely took this "anti-tank defense line".

However, the resistance of the armored cluster in front of it has become more and more fierce, and now it is almost advancing to the south bank of the Qinhuai River, and the fleeing Qing troops are now pressed on this line. Their will to resist began to become fierce, and many people believed that the banner man would be shot if he fell into the hands of the Ming army, and they all wanted to pull a cushion before they died.

At this time, not only the anti-tank guns, but also the anti-tank guns roared one after another in the thick fog.

Tanks and armored vehicles began to be hit constantly, and everywhere there were tanks emitting smoke from fire. The infantry kept rushing forward, trying to take down the anti-tank guns of the Qing army, but the Qing soldiers could be said to have resisted desperately, and there were machine guns everywhere, and mountain artillery and mortar shells also exploded intensively.

The area near the Qinhuai River is the place where the heavy firearms of the Qing army are most concentrated. When the Qing army first attacked, in order to suppress the Ming army on the other side of the river, they dropped all their heavy weapons. When resisting the Ming tanks just now, it was too late to transfer back, and the Ming tanks would break through so easily. But the Qing army is really a "last battle" now. In addition, now that it is dawn, the visibility is much better, which is more conducive to defense.

……

Two kilometers to the south, the armored command vehicle was parked behind a small slope. Li Gensheng stood under the car, staring at the trucks that kept coming back, staring at the wounded people carried down from above, his eyes were red.

There were more and more field tents nearby, lanterns lit inside, female military doctors were busy wildly, and there were loud howls of wounded soldiers everywhere.

Damn, didn't you say that if there is a female military doctor to treat you, the wounded soldiers will be heroes, and they won't scream if they die of pain? How can you still ......

Now that five or six hundred wounded soldiers have been sent back, it is estimated that the number of killed will not be small. Unexpectedly, under the dying struggle of the Eight Banners Division of the Qing Army, it became a hard bone to gnaw. It was supposed to be a war of annihilation, but now it seems that there is a danger of turning into a tough battle.

Li Gensheng grabbed the field phone and shook it:

"Hey, Gao Dayi, how's it going? How long does it take to get to the river? ”

Gao Dayi, the head of the Jibu regiment, shouted inside:

"Report to the chief, we are advancing every minute now, and we will definitely be able to completely annihilate the Sixth Division of the Eight Banners before seven o'clock!"

Li Gensheng looked at his watch, damn, it's only half past six now, which means that at such a distance, your armored troops will fight for half an hour? He roared:

"Make no mistake, we are armored soldiers, they are infantry! How does it take that long? ”

Gao Dayi shouted aggrievedly:

"Sir, on a short-slap front, their anti-tank guns and mountain guns add up to more than a hundred or dozens of guns, plus dozens of anti-tank guns and mortars, the firepower is too dense! I have to let the tanks and infantry work together, little by little, no way! I can take it by rushing now, but you have to be prepared to let me lose thirty tanks! Sir! ”

Li Gen was so angry that he smoked:

"Fuck you!"

Drop the microphone to the side. Thirty? I only have seventy-five cars in total, and now I have lost more than a dozen, and if you lose thirty more, I won't be able to live? Lord Xiang must kill me!

At this time, the radio in the command car sounded, and it was Xiang Xiaoqiang's voice:

"The boss calls the fox, and the boss calls the fox."

Li Gensheng rushed into the command car and quickly responded:

"The fox received, please speak."

"Fox," sighed to Xiaoqiang's voice, "you don't seem to be going well there, what's wrong?" ”

Li Gensheng seemed to see his relatives, and poured beans from a bamboo tube to tell all about the situation here.

Xiang Xiaoqiang's mouth bar smacked twice, then sighed and said:

"Fox, you can't do this, let's just order our belongings, how can I explain to Your Majesty when we run out. …… Don't attack hard, persuade to surrender. ”

Li Gensheng smiled bitterly:

"My lord, it's not that we don't persuade us to surrender, we all shouted 'surrender or don't kill' as you taught, but it's useless. These Eight Banners soldiers were so deeply influenced by the propaganda that they thought that we would shoot if we caught the bannermen. We have destroyed a lot of enemies now, but there are very few prisoners, and even so few prisoners still don't believe the propaganda over there. Those who believe, and now there is not a single one who has surrendered. ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang thought for a while, hesitated and said:

"Actually, you can try this......"

……

The offensive of the Ming army weakened. The infantry no longer rushed upwards, tanks and armored vehicles also retreated a few dozen meters, artillery and machine guns were on standby.

Although the Qing army did not know what was going on, they all stopped firing in order to save the few shells and bullets.

After a confrontation like this for a while, on the position of the Ming army, the armored command vehicle drove up and stopped behind several tanks.

The surrounding soldiers stared at the command vehicle in amazement, and the commander of the tank turret in front of him also turned to look.

This armored command vehicle belongs to the commander of the mobile team, how could it drive so far ahead?

In the car, Gao Dayi said to a female military doctor:

"Come, sit here, just talk into this microphone. What are you nervous about, relax, and don't want you to speak, just read according to what is written on the paper. …… Okay, let's get started. ”

The female military doctor glanced at the regiment commander nervously, coughed twice, put her mouth in front of the microphone, and said tremblingly:

"Qing Army...... Brothers of the Eight Banners and Six Divisions......"

"That's right," Gao Dayi stood behind and smiled encouragingly, "That's it, it's good." ”

……

The Qing soldiers on the opposite side suddenly pricked up their ears, and a woman's soft voice floated in the fog:

"Brothers of the Eight Banners and Six Divisions of the Qing Army...... Lay down your arms, come and surrender, and don't get along with yourself anymore...... The brothers are also working for the court, can they be guilty? Everyone, stop fighting...... What is the deep hatred that cannot be resolved? Your court propaganda said that because you are banner people, the Ming army will shoot you if they catch you...... Brethren, you are not three-year-olds anymore, think for yourself, is it possible? ……

"It's not hundreds of years ago, we are all civilized countries, civilized armies, we all have seats in the League of Nations, and we all signed conventions in Geneva, so what good is it to do such a thing as killing prisoners of war? …… Yes, you're the Bannerman, but what's wrong with the Bannerman? Qiren is also raised by his parents, everyone eats the same rice, speaks the same words, and looks the same...... How could I shoot you for such a stupid reason? You are all big men who can think, and if you think about it a little, you will know that this is a lie that your court and your emperor deceived you into being cannon fodder......

"Seriously, brethren, you won't be able to get anything out of your fighting...... A person's life is still long, and in the future you will have a family, and you will have your own sons and grandchildren...... At that time, when you think back on today, you will sigh: It is good for people to live a lifetime, if I died as cannon fodder that day, there would be no today...... Brothers, lay down your arms, we guarantee your safety, and we will heal the wounded, and if we are too late, we will end up crippled...... Our prisoner of war camp here eats better than your barracks, and every day we have white rice, Chinese cabbage and stewed pork...... Brethren, have you been hungry after a night of fighting? Put down your gun when you're hungry and come over for dinner......"

These words are too powerful, and they hit the hearts of the Qing soldiers.

The remnants of the thousands of Qing soldiers were already unable to retreat, struggling in the rain of bullets, mortar shells raining down, watching the tanks of the Ming army approaching step by step, seeing their artillery and machine guns being blown up, they already felt that they might be destroyed every minute. The only thing that supports them now is the teaching that "if you are caught, you will be shot", and the bloody nature of preferring to die in battle rather than be shot.

But now suddenly there was a gentle voice on the other side, very concerned, like a big sister, telling them that not only would they not be shot, but they would also be treated, and that there would be such a good meal to eat. These soldiers marched in a hurry overnight, fought two battles, and were already hungry, and the last sentence was "Hungry, right?" Come and eat when you're hungry" is too tempting for them.

Yes, people have a long life in this life, and now whoever wants to die, as long as they give a reason not to die, they will rush to survive. These young men of the Eight Banners Division all felt a burst of heat in their hearts, and they didn't want to die. But they still had some concerns about the Ming army's promise of "not shooting" for a while.

At this time, a loud Liaoning accent echoed on the opposite side:

"I said, brothers, old and young masters, come here, sloppy, nothing, really! …… Oh Mom, I'm getting better here, and I'm going to eat and heal my wounds...... The female nurse was very ingenious, and the stitches did not hurt...... I've got a plaster cast on my arm now...... You also hurry over to treat, if the treatment is too late, the cripple will be left behind, you will fight a bachelor all your life, and your daughter-in-law can't say it...... Who do you say loves to marry a cripple...... The food here is also good, rice, big meat slices are fat, that's called a fragrant ...... Hey, after talking about it for a long time, you can tell who I am, right? That's right, I'm the Sa Xiaoer of the machine gun company of the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Regiment, Sa Erbai is working...... Well, hurry up and ask any of your brothers who know me......

Someone on the Qing army position shouted:

"Sa Erbai live, it's Sa Erbai life, I listen like he ......"

"This kid, it's comfortable......"

……

"Damn, let's go over too!"

Finally, someone was the first to shout out everyone's hearts.

Immediately agreed. Occasionally, one or two officers tried to suppress it, but they couldn't control it.

On the Ming army's position, the female voice echoed again:

"Brothers, if you are willing to come, throw down your gun, put your hand above your head, and walk slowly......"

So, one two, three five, ten eight, dozens......

Within a few minutes, thousands of Qing soldiers threw down their guns and raised their heads, and the crowds surrendered.

Prisoners of war lined up in long lines, walking backwards in dense packs, with guns and ammunition as high as a mountain behind them. The wounded of the Qing army, as promised, were specially concentrated in a few tents and treated like Ming soldiers.

The large army of the Ming army quickly continued to search and advance to the north, and soon arrived at the side of the Qinhuai River outside without a single shot, and signaled to the defenders on the north bank, indicating that they would join the division.

At this point, the battle in which the People's Guards encircled and completely annihilated the Sixth Division of the Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty came to a successful conclusion.

The Ming army lost more than 800 killed, more than 600 wounded, 50 missing, 11 tanks and 6 armored vehicles. More than 6,000 Qing troops were killed, 8,000 were taken prisoner, and nearly 1,000 were missing.

After Xiang Xiaoqiang received the call on the Yuhua platform, he let out a sigh of relief, slowly sat down on the chair, and felt that the muscles in his body were soft.

This was the first battle since the founding of the People's Guard. Now it seems that the prestige and morale have been played.

Not only did they successfully annihilate one of the most elite Eight Banners Division of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but their own casualties and tank losses were within an acceptable range. It's off to a good start. It's a big win.

Xiang Xiaoqiang took out a handkerchief, wiped the sweat on his forehead, picked up the tea on the table, and drank it all. Then he wiped his mouth happily and said with a smile:

"Roots, good !!"

Hearing this, Li Gensheng was also so happy that he couldn't close his mouth and said with a smile:

"It all depends on the command of adults, and the soldiers use their lives, and they dare not take credit for ......"

Just kidding, saying that he didn't dare to take credit, but such a big victory, not only Xiang Xiaoqiang, but also him Li Gensheng, as well as Gao Dashi Shengli below, these people must have a strong stroke in the military merit book.

Xiang Xiaoqiang asked again:

"Has the division commander Ha Feng'a been caught?"

"Oh, Lord Hui, you're screening from the captives."

"Gotta get him out!" Xiang Xiaoqiang's voice suddenly became extremely serious, "And his division headquarters staff officers, and the main officers of the troops directly under the division headquarters, all have to watch it, don't let it run!" …… Because I just received a report, it is in Moling Town, Zhangjia Village next to Ningyi Highway...... Found a vacant lot behind the village......"

Xiang Xiaoqiang's voice was silent for a while.

"Your Excellency?"

"In that clearing, there were more than 40 corpses of villagers, all of whom had been killed with bayonets with their arms tied behind their backs......"

"Ahh

"There are traces of a large number of troops stationed in that village. That's where the Eighth Banner and Sixth Division ambushed my 87th Motorized Infantry Division. Therefore, those people must be arrested and properly examined. ”

"Yes," Li Gensheng stood up and said loudly, "I will make a military order to the adults, and I will definitely pick out these people one by one and send them to the adults!" ”

"Thank you for your hard work."