Chapter 12: The Aftermath of War (59)

If it weren't for being in it, Mo Di really thought that this was a premeditated military exercise, because the cooperation between the two sides could be described as extremely brilliant and wonderful. In the plan of the 138th Division Headquarters, the old green battalion in the eastern city of Lujiang was surrounded but not attacked, or surrounded and fought small, the purpose was to encircle the point and send reinforcements, and eat Wang Zhanlin's reinforcements in one bite, as for the Jianguo army encircled in the old green battalion, it only needed to be surrounded for three days, isolated from the inside and outside, the food from the outside could not enter, and the people inside could not get out, so it was naturally self-defeating.

Wei Jiebo, who received the spirit of the instructions, immediately marched and set up formations to implement the spirit of the instructions from the upper peak, and the reconnaissance company had already drawn the topographical map of the old green battalion on a piece of paper, and all kinds of conditions and factors were clear at a glance. The area of the old green camp is small, more than 20 acres in a square circle, it is irregular square, there are two gates in the camp area, the other directions are high walls towering, the wall head is made of large ashlar stones, although the top can not run horses, but it can also let the two pass by, the strong daughter wall has a strong defensive effect, there is a concave type of chopping position, and there is a back type of gun hole. From the east gate to the west gate a through road, the north and south are divided into two districts, the north side of the camp is the camp area, the south end is the training area, the road on both sides is the tall deciduous trees, just after the Qingming Festival, the trees are spitting new shoots, it can be imagined, when the summer comes, this road must be green trees such as covers, green shade and quiet. Around the old green battalion is a moat with dry water, think about the era of cold weapons, the role of the moat is very huge, the attacking side is hindered by the moat, by the crossbowmen on the head of the city condescending, often in vain, the art of war, ten are encircled, five are attacked, which means that there is no five times the strength of the enemy, the attack is difficult to work. After entering the age of firearms, the role of the moat became smaller and smaller, the city wall could not block the bombardment of cannonballs, and the moat was already covered by gunshots. In the early years, the trees outside the moat were left unattended, because they were often used by the attackers, which was not good for the defenders, but over the years, with the change of combat methods, the trees gradually grew again.

Wei Jiebo, commander of the 414th Regiment of the 138th Division of the 48th Army of the 21st Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army, was hiding in the woods outside the west gate of the old green camp at this moment.

Wei Jiebo was very confident that he could take this military camp in the shortest possible time, however, the order he got was to surround it but not fight or fight a small fight, which made him feel like a fish in his throat, fighting this kind of battle is far less enjoyable than fighting a hearty battle. The first battalion blocked the east gate, the second battalion blocked the west gate, and the third battalion was scattered, arranged into a skirmish line, and guarded around the battalion.

They sneaked to the north of the old green battalion, found an ideal concealment position, calmly lined up the 27-type grenadiers in their hands, accurately calculated the shooting angle, and threw the shells into a swarm. The range of the Min-27 grenadier is 220 meters, and it can be penetrated from north to south, and the small green battalion is all under the fire of the grenadier, and if it were not for the lack of shell reserves, this small green battalion could be razed to the ground by relying on the grenadier alone.

Under the blow of the grenadiers, the founding army panicked, the officers could not find the soldiers, the soldiers could not find the officers, everyone went their own way, and the tide poured out from the east and west gates, some with empty heads and hands, no guns, and some did not even wear neat clothes.

The machine guns of the two battalions had already set up positions less than 200 meters away from the camp gate, and when they saw the founding army rushing out, they invariably pulled the Czech-style plate machine, and the fire net immediately went to the camp gate.

The fastest runner, the leading Jianguo Army thought that his reaction speed had saved him again, but when he saw a few bullet holes suddenly appear on him, he knew that if he reacted too quickly, he would die, and his unwilling eyes finally glanced at the machine gun position not far away, and dispersed in a daze.

Those who ran behind turned around and ran back to the barracks, and kept their bodies firmly under the wall, which was the safest place, where bullets would not turn and grenadiers would not fall straight down from the wall.

Seeing more than a dozen corpses lying at the entrance of the barracks, Wei Jiebo smiled, this kind of battle is too simple, next, as long as it is guarded, the people inside, lend them twice the courage, and they dare not come forward again.

After the chaos of the first two minutes, the Founding Army in the Green Camp finally figured out their situation and was surrounded!

The commander of the first battalion of the Lujiang Garrison Regiment of the National People's Republic of China, who was hit by a grenadier shell at the door and cut his forehead by shrapnel, was very calm, and he sat in his office until the explosion of the grenadier came to an end, and the soldiers who rushed out of the two doors were beaten back before coming back to their senses, and called someone to come over to bandage themselves, fetch water to wash away the blood on their faces, and then began to arrange defense. The first is to let people go up to the wall, look out from the opening of the parapet wall, and figure out who is attacking them, how much combat power they have, judging from the amount of bombs dropped by the grenadiers before, there should be a regiment. The pseudo-battalion commander knew that in Lujiang, in addition to their regiment, there was also Wei Jiebo's 414 regiment, and in the past six months, everyone had fought a lot of times, and this time it was estimated that it was them again. Let the confidential officer send a telegram and ask the regiment commander for reinforcements.

If the usual way of fighting is followed, Wei Jiebo will definitely be angry and enter the barracks in a hurry when he sees the opponent coming out in such a hurry and retreating in such a hurry, thinking of the arrangement of the division headquarters, Wei Jiebo gave up the good opportunity, suppressed the impulse to attack, confessed, closely monitored, don't let the people inside shoot black guns, and turned away.

The battle turned down is more intriguing, the people outside the camp do not go in, the people inside the camp do not come out, the camp inside and outside the camp are dominated by black guns, from time to time a lonely gunfire sounds, sometimes hit people, most of them miss, hit, will be accompanied by the sky-high scolding. There was a wall inside the camp and trees outside the camp, and everyone had the same purpose, hoping that reinforcements would come up quickly.

Wang Zhanlin saw through Wei Jiebo's conspiracy in Lujiang at a glance, and a telegram was reported to the division headquarters of the Peaceful Founding Army in Hefei, and also to the 116th Division headquarters in Chaoxian County, the content of the telegram was very attractive, since the other party wanted to surround and pack up its own reinforcements, it was better to send more people in to see how the other party's teeth were and how many reinforcements could be eaten

Shen Xiru, the division commander who received the telegram in Hefei, shouted that the case was good, how many times, the imperial army wanted to find the Chinese army for a decisive battle, and this time, it was sent to the door, and it happened to gather and annihilate it. Shinohara Seiichiro of Chao County also nodded and smiled, this Wang Zhanlin, who dared to use himself as bait, was very sacrificial, and should be praised. Immediately ordered, the 130th Brigade of Hefei Ozaki Nobuyuki on the North Road sent an infantry brigade to cooperate with an operational brigade of the Sixth Division of the National Construction Army from north to south and pressed towards the Lujiang River. The 119th Brigade of Anqing Qingye Naozhi on the South Road sent an infantry brigade to cooperate with an operational brigade of the Seventh Division of the Founding Army to attack the Lujiang River from south to north, and at the same time, the headquarters of the 116th Division of Chaoxian County sent an infantry brigade to cooperate with the rest of Wang Zhanlin in Shengqiao to feign aid to Lujiang.

The dispatch of troops from the Japanese puppet army was transmitted from the staff headquarters of the 48th Army to the headquarters of the 138th Division at the first time, which frightened Gong Qingyuan a lot, prepared a table of meals, and came to three tables of high rollers, which made the main family a little difficult.

It can be seen from the telegram from the military headquarters that the military headquarters is also quite worried, and has ordered the 176th Division to reinforce the 138th Division when necessary, and at the same time requested the group army to keep the Seventh Army in Lu'an in an offensive posture against Hefei and try to hold back the enemy from the north. Li Benyi looked at Mo Di, who was sitting by the window and bowed his head silently, and nodded involuntarily, this previous reminder was very timely, it seems that he had expected this result early on.

"Tianzong, do you think the top priority is to retreat first?" Walking to Mo Di's side, Li Benyi asked very seriously.

"Which way?" Mo Di raised his head and glanced at Li Benyi, and said, "For now, we can't retreat any way!" ”

Li Benyi lowered his head, but no, the 414th Regiment besieged Lujiang, the 412th Regiment was stationed in Shucheng, and all he could use in his hands was only the 413th Regiment, and if it was foreign aid, there was only one battalion of the 412th Regiment in Sanhe and one battalion of the 528th Regiment. With these people, it is not easy to win any way in the northeast and south, and he still wanted to break it up before, but it seems that it is not as clear as Mo Enemy.

"What then?" Li Benyi was a little dazed.

"Within half a day, take Lujiang and free the 414th regiment. The field supplement regiment quickly rushed to Lujiang and became a reserve to defend Lujiang, or it could also fight. Mo Di has thought a lot about it before, and he said it one by one in a very orderly manner: "The enemy of Anqing is far away, and he will definitely not be able to reach Lujiang, even if he arrives at Lujiang, it is an afterthought of the strong crossbow, so there is no need to worry." The enemy from the north wants to pass through the Sanhe ferry guarded by the 412th Regiment, and it will take at least two days, and these two days are enough for us to take the East Road Wang Zhanlin Department. It's just that it is no longer a passive waiting for the rabbit, but an active attack, gathering the strength of the 412th and 413th regiments to take down the strong enemy in one fell swoop. If we can take Wang Zhanlin before the Chaoxian reinforcements arrive, we will be able to fully restore the initiative. ”

Li Benyi shook his head and exclaimed: "Tianzong, I finally know the reason why you are invincible, you deploy troops to fight, there is no fixed pattern at all, everything is changing in change, no wonder you can always grasp the opportunity." ”

Gong Qingyuan also shook his head and said: "Tianzong's combat thinking needs a strong force with the ability to change as the foundation, which can attack, defend, disrupt and pursue. I believe that your field reinforcement regiment can meet your operational needs, but other units may not be able to meet your requirements. From your observation of the troops of the 138th Division in the past few days, can Tianzong adapt to your combat deployment? ”

Mo Di thought about it, shook his head slightly, and said, "I don't know." ”

It's not that I don't know, but I can't reach it, and it's hard to say. Gong Qingyuan understands, and Li Benyi also understands, but at present, there are only these troops, and they can only be used. In any case, Mo Enemy's idea is right, take Lujiang first, at least he will not let one of his main forces be wasted there. I want to order Wei Jiebo to attack immediately.

Just called the confidential staff officer, ready to give an attack order, but was stopped by Mo Di, Mo Di knew that Li Benyi's order continued, Wei Jiebo would definitely spare no effort to attack wildly, and it was certain that the old green battalion was defeated, but after the old green battalion was defeated, there were still a few people left in the 414th regiment, and Wei Jiebo did not consider it. Wei Jiebo didn't think about it, and Li Benyi didn't think about it, in their opinion, as long as the strategic goal is achieved, sacrifice is necessary. But there is one thing they didn't think of, how much will a disabled 414 regiment be of great help to the next battle?

beckoned Liang Yisheng over and asked, "Yisheng, if you give you all the hand cannons of the 413th Regiment and the 414th Regiment, can you take the Lujiang Old Green Battalion in half a day?" ”

Liang Yisheng nodded: "Yes." ”

"What are the requirements?" Mo Di asked again.

"It will take us almost two hours to get to Lujiang from here, and you ask Commander Wei's sappers to make me a tall tower that can be moved, at least ten meters high, and there is an observation post at the top that cannot be penetrated by machine guns." Liang Yisheng said: "Judging from the previous battle situation, there is no artillery in Lujiang Laoluzhili, and it will not pose a threat to this observation post, so arrange one or two people to be on it to guide the situation in the shelling area and correct the landing point of the shells, and at most half an hour, all the people inside can be blown out." Of course, you can't block the door with a machine gun, you have to accept the surrender of the other party, and don't make the other party a trapped beast. ”

Mo Di smiled and didn't speak, because there were also Li Benyi and Gong Qingyuan who listened to Liang Yisheng at the same time as him, and it was up to them to decide whether they could use it or not. Mo Di personally thinks it's good, although Liang Yisheng has grown a lot of oil, his head has not been greasy, and although the trick he made is not too new, it is also effective.

Li Benyi looked at Mo Di, then at Gong Qingyuan, nodded violently, and just did it!