General Su's courage is incomparable, and when the two integrated divisions of the People's Party have been annihilated, ordinary generals will definitely accept it when they see it. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 But General Su didn't, he thought that it was completely possible to fight Huang Baitao's integrated 25th Division, the Third Rapid Column and the Second Traffic Police Corps, and it was too early to withdraw from the battle now, not only our army was full of combat strength, but also the southern Shounian Corps and Qiu Qingquan's entire 5th Division and Huang Baitao's troops would bite up tightly, especially Huang Baitao could be said to be close at hand, and letting them follow and pursue was not conducive to the transfer and reorganization of our army. Instead of bringing a bunch of small tail-like oil bottles, it is not too late to eliminate Huang Baitao.

"Unwilling to fail after reinforcing the enemy's Huang, Qiu, and districts after being blocked by our army, they allowed the east, west, and south to attack us, especially the Huang Division, and actively reinforced to reach the vicinity of Xiazhang Town, which posed a greater threat to our army's withdrawal from the western part of the battlefield, and if we did not give the enemy a strong blow, our army would carry a large number of wounded and it would be difficult to withdraw from the battle smoothly; Even if we withdraw, the enemy will chase after us, leaving our army in a passive position. Therefore, we are determined to take advantage of the fact that Huang Baitao's unit has not yet fully deployed after a long journey, and its combat effectiveness is relatively weakened, to take the lead and deal a heavy blow, and if we can annihilate it, it is best to create favorable conditions for our troops to smoothly withdraw from the battle and make corrections. ”

This is issued by General Su to the army. The original telegram of the committee shows that he had made up his mind to beat Huang Baitao at that time. Of course, General Su did not underestimate Huang Baitao's intentions, but fully understood the difficulties of this battle, and on the same day he wrote a ******letter to all the commanders and fighters of the Central China Field Army: "The current stage of the campaign is an important key to the whole campaign. As long as we can hold on, we can annihilate the enemy...... It is true that the casualties, attrition and fatigue of the comrades were great, but the casualties, consumption and fatigue of the enemy were even greater. They are surrounded on all sides and in precarious terror. We have to grit our teeth and persevere, so as not to let the delicious taste slip away. We must be ruthless to the enemy, we must have the ambition to annihilate the enemy, we must be good at fighting the water dogs, solve the enemy at one time, and do not leave trouble in the future! ”

At the same time, General Su also issued a new operational directive, using the Eighth Column to continue to block the entire 5th Division, using the 9th Column and one division of the 10th Column to block the area Shou Nian, and the 2nd Column resting on the spot and contracting with the other two divisions of the 10th Column to build a solid defensive line on the Tai'an line to block Tang Enbo. As for the sixth and seventh columns, they went to attack Huang Baitao. As for the four columns, which had just arrived on the battlefield, they were used as reserves.

Let's look back at Huang Baitao's actions. On the evening of October 23, the 40th Brigade of the 25th Division and the forward of the Fast Column captured Feicheng. The second traffic police corps advanced to the area of Yiyang Town. But at the same time, the reorganization of 65 was also completely wiped out. The entire 5th Division in the east was still fighting fiercely with the 8th Column in the Mengyin area. As for the District Shounian Corps, it has only just arrived in Qufu.

Huang Baitao didn't know that General Su had already set his sights on him, but the gunfire in the direction of Tai'an gradually fell silent, giving him an ominous premonition.

In the next day, the 40th Brigade captured Chaoquan Town, the 3rd Fast Column also captured Taiping Village, and the 2nd Traffic Police Corps was in the area of Yulong Mountain. These three troops broke through the positions of the seven columns in succession, causing considerable casualties. The most critical thing is that Huang Baitao's corps is very close to Tai'an, and the distance in a straight line is no more than five kilometers, which seriously threatens the security of the flank of the assault group of the Central China Field Army.

However, it was at this time that Huang Baitao also realized that the battle situation had changed significantly, and most of the troops he wanted to rescue were completely non-existent. Naturally, PLA will be able to free up more troops. It is impossible for these freed forces to fight soy sauce on the side, they must find something to do, and what can be done on the battlefield now? It's nothing more than beating him Huang Baitao!

Immediately, Huang Baitao aroused vigilance and ordered the troops to stop the attack on Tai'an and move to the defense on the spot. For example, the 40th Brigade retreated to Feicheng, the Third Rapid Column withdrew to Xiaoshan and Sunjiayu, and the Second Traffic Police Corps returned to Yiyang Town by the same route.

However, General Su's movements or General Wang Bicheng's six-vertical movements were also fast, and they suddenly killed Huang Baitao's department. General Su's plan was: "We should take advantage of the unstable foothold of the Huang Department to complete the encirclement this night (24th), and then launch an attack." It is hoped that all leaders must annihilate Huang Baitao's headquarters on the evening of the day after tomorrow (26th). ”

In order to annihilate Huang Baitao as soon as possible, General Su also put the four columns into the battlefield, when the six columns attacked in the direction of Chaoquan Town, the seventh column followed the second traffic police corps to pursue, and the four columns cut off Huang Baitao's retreat from the back front.

General Su also issued a strict order: the action must be fast, not to stop, and strive to annihilate the enemy's third fast column in the vicinity of Chaoquan Town during the day, otherwise he will be guilty of indulging the enemy.

The PLA moved very quickly, and the retreating enemy was suddenly attacked, and the battle was immediately chaotic. That night, the paratrooper corps was ambushed by the troops of the Sixth Column, and the baggage convoy was completely lost, and even the marching pot was completely lost. On the morning of the next day, the Sixth Column intensified its attack, and immediately the paratrooper corps could not hold on, so it could only retreat and hold near Chaoquan Town. In this way, Huang Baitao's central door was wide open, and he originally hoped that the paratrooper corps would help him buy a little time to repair his position, but he didn't expect that this time was so little.

The performance of the second traffic police corps is not very good, with the launch of a large-scale counterattack by the seventh column, the second traffic corps is also in a hurry, once in danger, if it were not for Huang Baitao of Feicheng personally commanded the 108 brigade to come to the rescue, this traffic two corps may be immediately divided and surrounded.

As of the night of the 25th, Huang Baitao's troops were surrounded in the Feicheng area, and at this time, Huang Baitao also knew that the next step would be the biggest test for him. And his personality also determines that he is by no means Zhang Lingfu and Li Zhen, and he will never sit still. In fact, what Huang Baitao did surprised both sides of the next scratching party!

Huang Baitao believes that to defend is to sit still, and if you want to live, you must take the initiative to fight out, and only by opening up the back road of retreat can you turn the crisis into safety. To this end, he ordered the special service battalion directly under the 25th Division and the two battalions of the 108th Brigade to be put together into a regiment and launch an attack on Hutun Town, Ximen, Feicheng.

You must know that this decision requires great courage, in the face of the encirclement of three columns and nine divisions of the PLA, the defense is still weak, and it is still necessary to attack, isn't it funny? But Huang Baitao is never funny, at that time, he took off his watch and put down his pen while making combat deployments, and then put the important documents and code books on the table and handed them to Li Shijing, the chief of staff.

It turned out that Huang Baitao decided to personally lead the assault force to act, and he said: "In case I die in battle, please ask Deputy Division Commander Gu to act as the commander." ”

Naturally, Huang Baitao's desperate counterattack this time also greatly surprised the expectations of the Central China Field Army, and the Fourth Column was indeed caught off guard at first, but soon our army adjusted its deployment and intercepted the commando team led by Huang Baizhi with intensive firepower, and the mortar unit slammed the enemy with fierce and accurate firepower. At the height of the battle, the commander of the unit responsible for intercepting Huang Baitao was seriously injured, and Huang Baitao's two guards were also wounded, and the barrel handguard of the submachine gun in his hand was shattered by shrapnel.

It stands to reason that the division should take the lead in the charge, and the morale should be boosted and successful, but what disappointed Huang Baitao was that although he captured a part of the stronghold, the fourth column soon arranged an interception position again in the west, which means that Huang Baitao's retreat has not yet been opened. At this time, the Sixth Column and the Seventh Column attacked in the east, which once shook Huang Baitao's frontal position, and he had to give up continuing to break through with the tension of troops, and reluctantly began to desperately strengthen the fortifications and began to defend.

In order to strengthen his position, Huang Baitao cut down all trees and tall pole plants within a three-kilometer radius around him, and bulldozed all buildings that hindered the shooting. However, Huang Baizhi also knew that the field fortifications that were hurriedly repaired had limited defensive power, and it was a dream to expect one line of defense to stop PLA, so he arranged two lines of defense. On the periphery, a circular outer trench four meters deep and seven meters wide was dug, along which light and dark firing points were arranged. All bunkers are connected by communication trenches, so that the fire can support each other in all directions, and even backfire points are arranged.

After this line of defense, a second line of defense was laid through two barbed wire fences. Based on his previous experience in fighting with the Japanese army and PLA, Huang Baitao knew that PLA was good at urban assault, and once it broke through a corner of the position, it would infiltrate inward with the tactic of breaking through the wall and breaking the wall. Therefore, this time, Huang Baitao demolished all the buildings around the fire point in advance, forcing PLA to clear only one stronghold at a time.

Not only that, Huang Baitao also widely deployed scouts on the periphery, carefully observing PLA's every move, and being able to react in advance if there was any disturbance. All in all, Huang Baitao's set of defensive tactics can be regarded as a bloody investment, and compared with the loose and crumbling 74th Division, it is simply heaven and earth.

Continuing with the situation on the battlefield, at this time (on the afternoon of the 25th) the 3rd Rapid Column barely held out in Chaoquan Town for a day, because the position was getting smaller and smaller, and the firepower of the 6th Column was becoming more and more ferocious, they were compressed in the town with heavy casualties, and had to make a final breakthrough. It's just that this breakthrough has little effect, most of the elite young master paratroopers of the scraping army were either killed or captured, and the third fast column was almost completely annihilated.

After the collapse of the Third Rapid Column, Huang Baitao was most worried about the Second Traffic Police Corps in the south, and in his opinion, if the Second Traffic Police Corps continued to hang alone, he was afraid that it would be broken by each other. So he suggested that Zhang Jiwu, the commander of the Second Corps, withdraw to Feicheng.

However, Zhang Jiwu did not agree with Huang Baitao's judgment, he thought that Feicheng was too small, and it was enough to squeeze in two divisions (two integrated brigades), and if his troops went in again, the entire Feicheng would be impassable, which made the PLA's artillery advantage to the maximum. He thought that he could continue to hold on, and with him on his side to contain the enemy, the pressure on Huang Baitao's side was less.

I have to say that at this time, Zhang Jiwu's judgment was right. If it was really about the strength of an army that shrank to such a large place as Feicheng, then Su Da would be very happy, and he would just bombard it with artillery.

However, Huang Baitao is also very good at accepting correct opinions, and after listening to Zhang Jiwu's explanation, he agreed, and instructed Zhang Jiwu to strengthen the position, because Tubalu is really not what it used to be.

At the same time, General Su also issued an order for a general attack, concentrating all the heavy firepower of the three columns to shell continuously for four hours, so that the Scraping People's Party troops also learned the power of PLA artillery fire. At one point, even 105-mm howitzers were pushed to the front for close firing. As for the PLA traditional blasting tactics and trench approaching tactics, they have been brought into full play. It is relatively easy to break through Huang Baitao's first line of defense.

At this time, Huang Baitao's lone army was trapped in the stronghold and resisted stubbornly, and the fierce battle lasted until the morning of the 27th, and Huang Baitao's troops had reached the point of exhaustion. The defenders had only enough ammunition to last a day of fighting, and they were on the verge of destruction.

At this time, Du Yuming suddenly flew to Tai'an and Feicheng to understand the situation. At that time, Huang Baitao was personally supervising the maintenance of the fortifications, and suddenly a herald ran up to him and stood upright and saluted: "Report to the division commander, the chief of staff of Xuzhou Xingyuan Du wants to talk to you." ”

Huang Baitao looked up and saw that there was a plane in the sky that was constantly circling, and it was needless to say that Du Yuming was sitting inside.

Du Yuming didn't waste time as soon as he came up, and asked straight to the point: "The principal ordered me to go all out to break the siege, I want to know the current battle situation." ”

However, what is unexpected is that Du Yuming was direct, but Huang Baitao got up: "Report to the Chief of Staff, when we were training in the Luzhou Officer Corps in the 21st year of the Republic of China, we were bunk beds. At that time, my name was Huang Xinzi Huanran, and Senior Du took a lot of care of me at that time. Huang Baitao continued: "Since the suppression of bandits, I have never called my boss for help, but today's situation is urgent, and it affects the whole body, so I can't help but report it to avoid the overall situation." ”

Huang Baitao's verbosity made Du Yuming can't help it, he hurriedly said: "Now let's talk about the most important thing, what matters." Do you have any suggestions? ”

Huang Baitao replied: He will swear to live and die with the position, but the ammunition is out of ammunition, and at most it can last for a day. It is hoped that the Shounian Corps and Qiu Qingquan will speed up, and that the Air Force will give full support. In particular, I hope that the air force will throw flares around the position tonight, and as long as it can survive the night, when reinforcements arrive, it will turn things around.

Regarding Huang Baitao's request, Du Yuming promised to make every effort to realize it, and he flew away after speaking. And with Du Yuming's encouragement, Huang Baitao felt that there was hope again, and immediately ordered the whole army to immediately strengthen the fortifications and fight to the end.

On the other side, Du Yuming did not break his promise, that night, the air force of the scraping army really threw flares around Feicheng all night, and Huang Baitao's department was even more on extreme alert, ready to deal with the most ferocious attack wave. But to Huang Baitao's surprise, this night was exceptionally quiet. What's going on?

We have to start with Qiu Qingquan's Fifth Division, before Zhang Lingfu and Li Zhen were surrounded and eliminated one after another, which made the Nanjing Ministry of Defense a mess, Jiang was even more angry, scolding Tang Enbo, Qiu Qingquan and Ou Shounian for their ineffective rescue. On the night of the 23rd, the enraged Jiang flew over Qiu Qingquan's troops in a plane and threw down an extremely sternly worded letter:

"Brother Yu: Dawenkou Town and Tai'an have been lost one after another, if Comrades Zhang Lingfu and Li Zhener had not been killed, they would have been captured, and the battle situation in Shandong was very serious. In the past two days, he ordered his brother to go west with all his strength to reinforce him, but his brother violated the order and delayed, and did not help his allies in danger, resulting in the greatest loss. Retribution, five miserable, I don't know what to do! Therefore, now Tefei Mengyin, I hope to talk to my brother in the air to save the danger of the friendly army in Feicheng. At this time, only the younger army's rapid advance, on the one hand, rescued the 65th Division, and on the other hand, converged with the 25th Division advancing eastward, could the momentum be reversed, and thus the younger army was protected from being annihilated alone. ”

After Huang Baitao was also surrounded in Feicheng, Jiang flew over Qiu Qingquan again the next morning and dropped another warrant:

“…… Looking forward to the future, it is a deep sigh! The younger army is the main force in Shandong, and they get along with friendly troops, and they don't break the siege and don't save each other, which is very hateful! It is now limited to gallop east to help Huang Baitao within three days, and if the task is completed, you can atone for your crimes! ”

For Qiu Qingquan, these two letters were even more terrifying than two nuclear bombs falling from the sky. Jiang said that he was not able to reinforce enough, preserve his strength, and sit back and watch the friendly forces annihilated, which was really wronged him. In fact, when Qiu Qingquan learned that Zhang Lingfu had been destroyed and the 65th Division was surrounded, he immediately accelerated his speed and rushed westward.

However, General Su never forgot this terrible Fifth Division, so he specially sent the Eighth Column to "close protection" it, and the Eighth Column relied on the high ditch and deep fortress in the Yimeng Mountains to stubbornly resist it, and at that time, General Su gave the Eighth Column a death order, and the Fifth Division must be blocked and reorganized for at least three days, not even a second.

In this case, it would be hellish if Qiu Qingquan's actions could be fast. And just when Jiang gave him the second airdrop message, the Fifth Division was fighting fiercely with the Eighth Column, and the casualties were very heavy.

Grievances are grievances, Qiu Qingquan still did his best to carry out the order, and under his crazy attack, the Eighth Column finally couldn't stand it, so after overfulfilling General Su's task, the Eighth Column moved to rest. In this way, the mechanized integrated 5th Division naturally drove straight in, and General Su also found that Qiu Qingquan was not good, and at the same time, Tang Enbo in the north with two integrated divisions to join Li Tianxia's integrated 83rd Division also began to move south, which caused great pressure on the blocking troops. Therefore, General Su took the initiative to lead the troops to the west in the early morning of the 26th and broke away from the battle. (To be continued.) )