Chapter 44 The Battle of Zhongbao (1)
On June 8, yi935, the Hongsan Company escorted 30,000 kilograms of grain. He left Guitang Town with reluctance to send him away ten miles away. At about 4 pm, he arrived at the headquarters of Hongsan and Sixth Corps.
On the 9th, the 49th Regiment of the 17th Division of the Red Second Army held a celebration meeting for the Red Third Company. Company commander Zhang Guozhi was promoted to battalion commander, Li Guowei was the company commander of the 3rd Company of Yiba, and Zhang Qingshan was the commander of the 3rd Company. Interestingly, Huang Debao was originally going to transfer the commando to the battalion headquarters, but was begged by Xiang Jiafu and Li Guowei for a long time before he was left in the company. The number of the commando team also changed from ten to twenty. Moreover, Huang Debao had the words first. When necessary, the commando team had to obey the arrangements of the battalion headquarters, and they could not bear to let go. By the way, it was precisely because Zhou Baoyu was clever and young, and was able to wear makeup and mix in behind the enemy for reconnaissance without attracting too much attention from the enemy. Zhang Qingshan specifically asked to transfer to the commando team and become a correspondent. Of course, from a private perspective, you can also think that this is a way to protect his calf.
Xiang Jiafu served as the instructor of the third company: Originally, at his level, he would either be the chief of staff or deputy regiment commander, but he said that he had finally had the opportunity to go to the grassroots to train and firmly demanded to be a company instructor. Therefore, he had a deputy regiment-level cadre to be a high-level instructor. For this reason, the regiment also specifically promoted his spirit of training at the grassroots level. Although he obeyed the organizational arrangements, as a soldier, he had the opportunity to lead troops to fight in the main force of the Yi Line, and everyone wanted to fight, especially for civilian soldiers, this was their small goal.
Joy is always short-lived, peace ends, and the next is a great war: in order to crush the heavy siege of the Kuomintang reactionaries, the legion decided to jump out of the encirclement and go to the periphery to attack the enemy fiercely.
On the 2nd day, the main force of the Red 2nd and 6th legions jumped out of the enemy's shrinking defense line and arrived at the periphery of Xuan'en City. After a short rest, at around 5 a.m. on the 2nd, he left Xuan'en City and the area south of Yiio and traveled 65 kilometers in an hour.
At 3 pm, Li Da, chief of staff of the Red Second Army, led the 4th Division, the 4th Division, to the northeast of Zhongbao. At this time, the 286th and 288th Regiments of Huang Xing, Huang Botao, the 48th Division, most of the enemy's right side, the 2nd Regiment of the 3rd Brigade of Jiang Zuojun, and the 5th Regiment of the Security Guard, were driven from Lijiahe through Randahe and Sanyetai, and entered Zhongbao. The 3rd Regiment of the 4th Division in the middle of the enemy, passed through the pass and the 2nd Infantry Company of Zhongbao, which had just passed the Laoya Pass, and only a few miles from Zhongbao.
The famous battle of Zhongbao started immediately!
In order not to let the enemy get closer, our 4th Division immediately attacked the enemy's right marching column and destroyed its rear guard unit. By defeating the enemy's left vanguard battalion near the east of Zhongbao, Zhang Zhenhan's 4th Division's direct team and 22th Brigade were pressed in Shankouli in Gopiling, and used some of its troops to occupy the favorable position of Gaoshengtang between Zhongbao and Gopiling, building fortifications, and detoured to the enemy's flanks of Gopiling, occupying the highland on the east side of Laoyaguan, cutting off the enemy's left and middle ties and reinforcements.
That night, the main force of the 7th Division of the Torrent Legion arrived. According to the orders of He Long and Ren Bishi, the 5yi regiment occupied the northern mountain of Zhongbao, monitored the enemy of Zhongbao, and warned him towards Xianfeng.
"Old Li, what do we do when our commander is doing? Others are drinking and eating meat in front, but all the brothers of our 7th Division are staring at each other. What's this? "Xiang Jiafugao was able to hold back when he was in Guitang Town after being matched with the third company, but when he came to the battlefield, he was like a chicken blood, and everyone knew about his desire to fight. So, he lay on the ground with his comrades and listened to the gunshots coming from front, and he was anxious and couldn't help but feel in pain. He dared to arrange the commander.
He is a deputy senior team member, and he is qualified to compete with the teacher. He tells him privately, even if the teacher knows, he will only roll his eyelids. Li Guowei was also very depressed about this, but he didn't have the qualifications. He had to turn his eyes blank in anger: "Give him a cigarette."
Xiang Jiafu took out a box of cigarettes and handed them to him, and asked, "You are talking. Otherwise, just listening to the lively fighting in front of us, we will be suffocating to death."
"I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry!" Li Guowei took out a cigarette, lit it, took a sip, and smiled and said, "Don't worry, we must have meat to eat when we hear the intensity of the guns and cannons."
"Tell me." Xiang Jiafuyi, who was about to receive the cigarette, heard this, held the cigarette and stopped lighting it. He said excitedly: "You know. I used to be a propaganda, and I didn't lead my troops to the front line. I was not familiar with the tricks inside, so I just gave me some advice."
"Old Xiang, as planned, the 4th Division has already made dumplings from the enemy in Gopiling, and should be annihilated as soon as possible to lay the foundation for the next large encirclement. But look, it has been more than half an hour, and the sound of gunfire has not only stopped, but has become more intense. This kind of accident can only be two possibilities: they either fail to destroy the enemy, or they are difficult to eat the enemy at yi, or the deployment of the military headquarters has undergone major changes. But from my personal experience, most of the former are probably. If this is true, then in order to eliminate the enemy in Gopiling as soon as possible, the military headquarters will inevitably invest its troops as soon as possible. Think about it, on the periphery, the Gopiling is closest to our yi7th Division, and our 49th Regiment is just aiming at the direction of Gopiling. If we want to dispatch troops to reinforce, our 49th Regiment will arrive in about half an hour. So I said, this battle is absolutely indispensable."
Xiang Jiafu lit the smoke excitedly and said with a smile: "It makes sense, Lao Li, I can't tell that you are really good at fighting. You were really buried as a talent in the past."
Xiang Jiafu was about to speak, but he saw Xiang Jiafu looking behind him in a daze. He also turned his head and looked behind him. However, he saw the correspondent from the camp department running. The two stood up happily. Xiang Jiafu even asked loudly: "Xiao Wu, have we sent us to reinforce?"
The correspondent nodded and conveyed the order.
Li Guowei's analysis was correct, and an accident occurred in Gopiling: According to pre-war intelligence, the two regiments of the enemy's left yi2yi Brigade were originally in the front, Zhang Zhenhan led the 4yi Division's direct team and two infantry companies to the middle, and the third regiment of the yi2yi Brigade was the tail wing. The 4th Division's plan was to divide it into three routes, hit the snake and hit seven inches, and first eat the weakest central and central central troops. The command of the left army was the weakest, so naturally we had to kill him first.
But no one expected that Zhang Zhenhan felt that the power around him was a little less, so he changed his deployment temporarily, combined three into two, and directly transferred the third regiment to protect him. No one would have thought of such temporary changes in treating marching as a joke. Therefore, the Red 4th Division still fought according to the information obtained in advance. After segmenting and encircling it, although he successfully forced the enemy command to huddle in the mountain depression of Gopiling, he did not expect that there would be more regiments in the enemy command. More importantly, the Third Regiment had a heavy machine gun company with strong firepower. At that time, it was normal that the Red 4th Division could not chew off this hard bone.
After fighting for a while, the 4th Division keenly realized something was wrong. After asking the prisoners, they understood the reason. However, most of the troops in their hands were deployed and they could not be re-scheduled in a short period of time. They had no choice but to report to the military headquarters and request support. Li Guowei's analysis was correct. The Red 49th Regiment went to support: penetrated south between Zhongbao and Gopiling, and urgently supported the most fierce fighting Nanshan of Gopiling, and worked with the Red 4th Division to annihilate Zhang Zhenhan's command center.
As elite troops, the commando is their place of courage.
After receiving the order, Zhang Qingshan immediately took nineteen team members out and marched quickly. After about half an hour, they arrived at the periphery of Gopiling in just twenty minutes.
After passing through two periphery warning levels, led by a warrior who was temporarily sent as a guide, he climbed the small hillside west of Gopiling. The whole part was clear: surrounded by mountains on all sides, and the terrain at the foot of the mountain was like a big gourd, with the east and the west. The besieged enemies obviously did not lose their fighting spirit. They built two temporary defense lines on three sides, relying on powerful firepower to block our army's attack to the death, but in the south, they were in an offensive situation. Overall, our army was feinted attacks on the east and west sides of the enemy, mainly attacking the enemy's defensive positions in the north. Therefore, from the overall perspective, it felt that we were driving the enemy south. But in fact, it was only from the enemy's use of a few heavy machine guns specifically on the South Mountain that the Red 4th Division did not suppress the enemy enough, and the enemy did not intend to collapse.
Zhang Qingshan was not easy to ask about, but he couldn't help but feel confused and angry in his heart and asked the temporary guide: "Comrade, ask what you shouldn't ask. You seem to have not done your best, right?"
"Which eye did you see that we didn't do our best?" The soldier said angrily: "You don't think about it. Our Red 4th Division suffered a lot of losses and had less time to rest. Even if we received some replenishment from the soldiers, they were all new recruits. In this way, the number of people was relatively small among several divisions."
As he spoke, the soldier's eyes turned red and his voice felt a little sad and angry: "This time, we not only want to annihilate the enemy's command center, but also have to divide the yi part to eliminate the enemy's main force with the Red 6th Division. If this number is enough, it will be a ghost."
"If our entire division had not divided the troops, the enemy here would have been eliminated long ago." He turned his head and looked at the battlefield and said dissatisfied: "What's more, the situation on the battlefield has changed a lot. Zhang Zhenhan was so afraid of death that he turned the guards into escorts, and all of them were concentrated here. The remaining people of our 4th Division could surround the enemy here and prevent them from breaking through. He definitely did his best. The comrades fought fiercely and sacrificed many good comrades, but you still said that to us."
Zhang Qingshan didn't know that on the way to the marching, the battlefield situation changed again: I originally thought that Zhang Zhenhan's command was desperately breaking south because our defense was the weakest in the south. But from the newly deciphered enemy telegram, he knew that he was going to join his subordinates. Because at this moment, although the enemy's second regiment was blocked by our Red 6th Division on the periphery, the enemy's regiment was detouring towards the Nanshan south of Gopiling.
But because the commando was moving forward and running too fast, the correspondents could not catch up and the news did not reach it, so he asked this question.
Seeing the other party talking, they started to wipe their tears. Zhang Qingshan looked at the situation on the battlefield and blamed him for not knowing the specific situation. He quickly apologized: "Comrade, I'm sorry, I'm talking too much if I don't understand the specific situation. It's because I'm wrong. I apologized to you."
"It's okay!" The soldier wanted to smile at Zhang Qingshan and expressed his forgiveness, but it was ridiculous and ugly: "It's me that's wrong. You are here to support us, but I complain to you and are still angry with you. I have a bad attitude. Please forgive us and leave quickly. The fight there is so tight."
Near the Nanshan Mountain, look, it is not a tight place, it should be said that it is so cruel that it is in danger.
Chapter completed!