Chapter 68 Sunset in Bozhou

Since then, the Battle of Huaibei has been going on for two months and eighteen days. In the course of two and a half months, the Imperial Army offended all the people that Ren Di expected to offend in Huaibei, and the Red Republican Army organized all the people who were united. Gather all the forces that can be mobilized in Fuyang.

When the unprecedented huge force in the red area of Dabie Mountain gathered in Aifuyang City, Sun Ze, who was far away in Huainan, contracted his strength and licked the wounds caused by a series of battles of the Red Republican Army many times in the past month.

In the early days of the Huaibei Campaign, Sun Ze's entire army pursued an active combat strategy of finding the enemy and forcing the enemy to fight a decisive battle with his own. As a result, after going around outside for a month, he couldn't catch Ren Di's Red Republican Army, but only punished a large number of Diao people who didn't report the banditry along the way. A large-scale cavalry exchange ensued, and after being swept to death by a storm of bullets, the entire Third Reich Army, which had been scratched, was furious. One sought revenge, only to have a regiment caught by the Red Republican Army's mud-legged troops. Annihilate with several times the force.

However, this seems to be only the beginning of the tragedy, when the conspiratorial Imperial army broke through the blockade and rushed to the battlefield, leaving only the corpses behind. and badly wounded robes. With nowhere to vent, the angry Imperial Army began to investigate the surrounding villages, only to find that most of the children and some of the people in the surrounding villages had been evacuated. The Imperial Army, which had suffered defeat, hugged that it was indeed the case: "You Diao people really have the mentality of colluding with rebellion. "Wartime punishment was imposed on the local population.

Thinking about it, Sun Ze regrets it very much now, because a few days later, when Sun Ze got the information, when his army passed by there again, the people evacuated like a plague. The masses were not fools, and when the Imperial Army demonstrated the evil of the Red Army's propaganda-like reactionaries, the Red Army became more efficient in organizing the transfer of the population. Under the strong organization, the grain of one village after another was transferred, the chickens and ducks were transferred, and each household began a special message tree for sentry. The Imperial Army relied on planes to scout in the sky, and the Red Republican Army connected the information system to the people who had lived in the place for generations.

Only three days later, the second battle of annihilation, eighty kilometers east of the battlefield of the first battle of annihilation, the same tactic, an imperial army looking for the enemy, was bitten by several times the enemy, two battalions of a thousand men were annihilated.

Then it was out of control, and the appetite on the opposite side seemed to be getting bigger and bigger, from carefully annihilating a regiment at the beginning, to ten days of hard confrontation outside the city of Bozhou controlled by the Imperial Army and surrounding 2,000 Imperial troops, and at the same time blocking 3,000 Imperial troops supporting from Bozhou. Eat 2,000 people by force. Except for the first battle, which was fully participated and guided by Ren Di, the subsequent battles were all carried out by young people in the staff department.

Sun Ze was overwhelmed by this kind of sports war. So far, the general battle that Sun Ze wants has not been fought, but this time the piecemeal small battles have made nearly 10,000 of his own people withdraw from the battle sequence. His own strength is now just over 20,000. With such casualties, Sun Ze didn't dare to say to the rear at all, and the strong pressure pressed on Sun Ze.

Sun Ze had the advantage of aircraft and could detect the enemy's movement position, but the rebel's movement was too fast. However, aircraft reconnaissance has limitations, and cameras cannot be moved to the aircraft. It is often relied on the pilot's dictation of the enemy's position, and the planes are slow, so after flying back, the second time they try to find the unit, they have to spend a lot of effort searching. It's not that the imperial soldiers can't fight, it's that the red bandits are too cunning.

Sun Ze's operation changed from an active offensive to an active offensive relying on the city. Until now, it has become an opportunity to rely on the city to actively defend and wait for the decisive battle of the main force.

However, today, the reconnaissance planes of the Imperial Army got the news that the suspected main force on the opposite side was finally dispatched. However, Sun Ze almost vomited blood at the price of this news, a plane crashed and was beaten down by the red bandits, so that he could not die, this plane was actually piloted by Her Royal Highness the eldest princess. Sun Ze stood up unconsciously, but his eyes were dark, and he sat down again.

Sun Ze had doubts about the number of enemy troops described by the pilots of the two little girls. The number of enemy troops described by the two pilots turned out to be thirty or forty thousand. This number is too huge, because the main force of the Red Republican Army is hanging around Huaibei, and there are 30,000 or 40,000 people here, which is too exaggerated in Sun Ze's impression.

However, this is not a matter of entangled in the number of enemy troops, Her Royal Highness the eldest princess is now unknown in life and death, and Sun Ze must fight this battle quickly. So Sun Ze quickly generated electricity to various cities in Huaibei. A quick assembly is required.

The 5,000 Imperial Army in Huainan quickly assembled and marched towards the north. At the same time, Zhang Youhe and He Wang, who were on the hills, received a telegram. He Wang took a look at it and said, "The chairman's actions in Fuyang have already hoisted out the old turtle in Huainan. ”

Zhang Youhe took the telegram and looked at it: "Good girl, more than 5,000 people, we can't eat this." Then two more telegrams came. He Wang said: "It's all out." As soon as the old turtle shouted, the disciples and grandchildren all crawled out of their shells. ”

Zhang Youhe said: "Let the boss gnaw the bones, let's eat the meat first." He Wang said: "Which piece to eat first?" Zhang Youhe said: "The one on the north side, the tooth mark I left last time is still on it." ”

When the Imperial Army moved, the field army in the Red Area of Dabie Mountain also moved, directly to the north, targeting that part of the Imperial Army in Haozhou City.

If this war is shown on the military map, then it is a large area representing red, and the militia troops commanded by Ren Di surrounded Fuyang, which was occupied by the blue imperial army, and then the blue arrows of the imperial army in the entire Huaibei city began to come out of the city, and the red republican army field troops in the center of Huaibei quickly turned into several red arrows, quickly marched north, and quickly surrounded one when all the blue arrows had not gathered. This one is the three dissatisfied regiments that came out of Bozhou, about 4,000 imperial troops. That is, the one unit that had been beaten just ten days ago.

The momentum of war is very important, and the winning side tends to become more and more courageous, and the losing side tends to become more and more sluggish. After receiving the order for operation, the main force of the republican army in the field quickly began to move. After ten hours of rapid marching and crossing 70 kilometers of road, it collided with the imperial army of Bozhou that was ordered to assemble south. Ten days ago, he swaggered and destroyed two thousand robes in front of him. Its swiftness and bravery left a deep impression on the Imperial Army. Between the consideration of fighting resolutely again, or fighting and retreating to defend Bozhou City. The encirclement was formed.

An hour and a half, the battle to annihilate the imperial army on the Bozhou side began. The firepower of the Republican Army on the north side of the encirclement, facing the direction of Bozhou City, weakened, and it seemed that the desperate and helpless generals of the Imperial Army saw the hope of breaking through the siege and organized an attack. As a result, in this offensive, his own 4,000 troops were interspersed and cut.

"Bell, bell" A series of sonorous mortars, the sound of shells coming out of the bubble chamber filled the position. The rapid, short firing of light machine guns mixed together. Curved explosives, long with 80 mortars, short with grenadiers placed by squatting soldiers. The shortest has a long-handled grenade # bullet thrown directly by the soldier. Falling from the sky and smashing on the position, the defending Imperial soldiers could not raise their heads, and the Imperial soldiers who occasionally raised their heads were greeted by a rapid burst of machine-gun bullets.

The bravery boasted in the tavern, the glory boasted in the military academy, did not have the slightest effect on the battlefield of fire. What is bravery, to be able to remain calm in the flame shrapnel and complete the combat action is bravery. The Red Republican Army, which scattered the charge in a three-three group, advanced rapidly under the fire sweep. The direction of the charge was exactly in the direction of the enemy's artillery fire. Heavy machine guns were blown up by mortars. The soldiers who gathered to resist were swept away by hand # grenades, and occasionally encountered imperial officers who couldn't think of it rushing up with swords, and the charging team quickly gathered, three or three back to back, just like Nezha. Let the Imperial soldiers who have been refined on the battlefield be poked to death.

Half an hour after the battle, the enemy army was divided into two parts, and an hour later, the entire Imperial army position became five. In two hours, the position became fourteen parts, large and small. Then the cleaning of the sections began, section by section.

If the shouts of "Listen to the other side, surrender your guns and don't kill, we will treat the prisoners preferentially" had entered the ears of the Imperial Army two months ago, I am afraid that all the Imperial troops of the Third Army would laugh at it. However, now, they have no temper when they are beaten by advanced tactics and tactics, and the hearts of the soldiers in the encirclement are fluctuating.

Some fanatical officers of the Imperial Army immediately shouted: "Brothers, rebellion is rebellion, and your family will be worshiped at the incense of the Martyrs' Shrine after you die in battle because of your glory." There was a loud "boom", interrupting the mobilization of the officers of the Imperial Army. A grenadier fired a warhead, in the direction in which the sound came from. Smash it down.

The Red Republican Army soldier, who shouted, continued: "Shoot not kill, this is our policy. Give you five minutes to think about it. ”

Five minutes later, He Wang and Zhang Youhe did not wait for the answer of the encirclement, the attack began, and today's sunset was bloody. The soldiers of the Imperial Army chose to fight to the death. He Wang and Jang Woo-hyuk didn't understand the reason and didn't want to. Because Zhang Youhe and He Wang can now fight to the death themselves. The courage to dedicate oneself to the liberation of the world throughout the country. They do not understand the thoughts of the Imperial Army. If it was Ren Di, a coward, Ren Di would understand the reason.

The soldiers of the Imperial Army enjoyed a good social status because of their participation in the army, and their families were under the control of the Ming Dynasty. They did not dare to surrender. In addition, there is the spiritual sustenance provided by the Ming Empire. The Imperial Army chose to fight to the death. The Third Army numbered only 30,000, which was the essence of the Ming Dynasty's military strength. It is an armed force cultivated by the Ming Empire at great cost and at great expense.

When the artillery fire ended, the battle that had eaten three regiments of the Imperial Army ended. With a thousand prisoners and more than two thousand wounded, the Red 1st Field Group began to withdraw westward. This meal is full. The ammunition carried was also depleted.

Ten hours later, he found that an army from the north had reached Sun Ze, and the middle-aged man had not slept that night, and his hair had turned gray overnight.