Chapter 14: Rescue the Eighteenth Red Regiment ("")
Liu Hua quickly arrived at the riverside with more than a thousand of his commanders and soldiers. Looking at the Xiangjiang River filled with corpses and the pontoon bridge stained red with blood, everyone fell silent.
How much blood of the soldiers was needed to dye this red? It was all caused by Bogu and others recognizing the "snail" marching speed. Liu Hua thought secretly.
The soldiers walked quietly, looking at the miserable scene beside them, many of them shed tears.
Following the pontoon bridge, we came to the east bank. Looking from a distance, we saw no troops that needed to be supported, only sporadic Red Army soldiers, carrying some baggage on their backs, chasing the main force.
But he could vaguely hear the sound of gunfire coming from the direction of Xinyu and Gulingtou. Liu Hua immediately judged based on the memory of later generations that "the ones blocking the enemy in Xinyu should be Chen Shuxiang's Red 34th Division, and the ones in the direction of Gulingtou should be the 18th Red Regiment."
. You must know that in the end, these two units were basically wiped out, and Chen Shuxiang and several other leaders were basically killed in the battle.
I hope that my arrival can change something, so I will send out these heroic troops. Liu Hua thought.
"Everyone runs forward, march towards Gulingtou, rescue the trapped 18th Red Regiment, and the reconnaissance platoon moves forward 2000 meters to conduct reconnaissance." Liu Hua gave the decisive order.
Soon, Liu Xiaogang, who went out to investigate, ran back.
"Reporting to the head of the regiment, it has been clearly investigated that the 18th Red Regiment is in front of them. Listening to the gunfire, it seems that there are not many people and very little ammunition. The two regiments of the Gui Army were attacked, and the losses were also very heavy. There were nearly two more regiments.
Thousands of people are currently resting and preparing for the next attack. The report is completed."
Liu Hua stopped Liu Xiaogang's report and nodded secretly. He was able to clearly investigate the enemy's situation in such a short period of time. It seemed that the reconnaissance platoon leader he chose was very powerful. Liu Hua was secretly proud.
"Well, continue the investigation. If there is any enemy situation, please notify me immediately." Liu Hua returned.
"The entire regiment spread out in a battle formation, with all light machine guns and submachine guns in front, and moved forward covertly." After listening to Liu Xiaogang's report of the enemy's situation, Liu Hua wanted to give the Gui army another decisive order to make a surprise attack here.
Perhaps it was God's blessing, or perhaps Liu Hua was very lucky. After the troops dispersed, as soon as they reached the edge of the Gui Army's position, they heard the Gui Army blowing the assembly horn.
Perhaps the Gui army thought that the people on the mountain were at the end of their war effort, so they actually gathered everyone together. An officer gave a pre-battle lecture in front, and the wounded sat beside them chatting, unaware that danger had befallen them.
When Liu Hua saw such a good opportunity, how could he let it go? He immediately ordered the charge horn to be blown.
"Tick tick tick..." As the trumpet sounded, dozens of light machine guns and dozens of submachine guns lined up in a row and immediately sprayed out dense tongues of flame, and the dense bullets were like rain.
The intensity of the firepower was so great that before even a single magazine was finished, a barrage of grenades were thrown at him.
Because the formation of the Gui army was too dense and there was no precaution at all, as the gunshots sounded, the soldiers standing outside fell down one after another, without even getting their guns in their hands.
His disobedience fell to the guns of the Red Army.
The soldiers standing in the middle of the team just reacted and were about to fire back, but the overwhelming grenades fell again, and they also fell to the explosions with dissatisfaction.
This can be said to be a standard massacre, except that the one who took the knife was the Red Army, and the one who was killed was the Gui Army. The Gui Army soldiers were completely frightened and cleverly lay on the ground and pretended to be dead, while those running around were
Being chased and beaten by machine guns, they fell to the ground one by one.
The Eighteenth Red Regiment on the high ground was preparing to exert its last bit of strength when it suddenly heard the long-lost charge horn, followed by intensive gunshots. The regiment leader Zeng Chunjian, who had been seriously injured, roared with strength that came from unknown sources.
: "Comrades, our reinforcements are coming, rush forward."
The 300-strong Eighteenth Red Regiment rushed from the high ground towards the fleeing Gui army.
There is no doubt that this battle ended with the complete victory of the Red Army. Immediately, I saw Lao Sun coming to report the results with a smile on his face.
"Report to the commander of the regiment that in this battle, two enemy regiments were completely wiped out, 120 people were captured, 12 mortars, 12 heavy machine guns, and countless ammunition were seized."
Liu Hua also became happy after listening to Lao Sun's report. The happiest person was Chen Guangrong. You must know that this is the equipment of an artillery company and a heavy machine gun company.
Liu Hua quickly ordered the formation of a heavy firepower battalion. Of course, Chen Guangrong got his wish and became the battalion commander. But he frowned again.
"Captain, there is so much equipment but no one! Come up with something for me!" He looked at his regiment leader Liu Hua with expectation.
"Why are you so stupid? Aren't there still prisoners? Don't let any of them go, let them all carry ammunition, and then find some people from the whole group who can shoot artillery and heavy machine guns. Go and execute it quickly." Liu Hua smiled.
said to him.
"Yes, I will definitely complete the mission." Chen Guangrong ran away with a smile.
At this time, he saw a few people carrying a stretcher coming this way. Liu Hua guessed that it must be the leader of the 18th Regiment and hurriedly greeted him.
Next to him, Lao Sun saw the wounded on the stretcher and said in Liu Hua's ear: "He is the regiment leader Zeng Chunjian."
After hearing this, Liu Hua hurriedly stepped forward, held his hand and said, "Captain Zeng, I am Liu Hua, the leader of the Red Tenth Regiment. We arrived late, which caused the Red Eighth Regiment to fight like this."
After listening to Liu Hua's words, Zeng Chunjian said forcefully: "Captain Liu, it's not... not too late... I guess... I... won't... be able to... You... you have to help me... lead... lead... the Eighteenth Regiment."
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After resting for a while, he said again: "From now on... the 18th... the 18th regiment... will listen to the... command... of... Commander Liu..."
After saying that, he quietly closed his eyes.
"Captain Zeng, Commander Zeng..." With the shouts, all the soldiers of the 18th Regiment knew that their commander had died, and they all sobbed softly.
"All eighteen regiments gather." Liu Hua looked at the sad soldiers and shouted loudly.
Soon, nearly three hundred people gathered in front of Liu Hua.
"Comrades, your regiment leader has died. I know you feel very sad, and so do I. But is it okay for us to feel this way? Will the enemy give us time to feel sad? No, they just want us to kill them all.
, many of our comrades have fallen on this land, under the guns of the enemy, can we just give up? Answer me." After saying that, he looked at the soldiers below.
"No", the soldiers replied in unison.
"Okay! No, then tell me what we should do."
"Revenge! Revenge..." The soldiers of the 18th regiment shouted angrily, and even the soldiers in his own regiment also shouted. Liu Hua saw that the morale of the soldiers had been restored, waved his hands and said.
"I order that the 18th Red Regiment will now follow our troops and be organized into a battalion and three companies. The soldiers will choose squad leaders, the squad leaders will choose platoon leaders, the platoon leaders will choose company commanders, and the company commanders will choose battalion commanders. They will be replenished immediately from the captured weapons.
Ammunition, everyone must bring enough ammunition and set off in half an hour.
Soon, another elite infantry battalion appeared in front of Liu Hua. Zhao Dahe was appointed as the battalion commander, and Sun Manxi was the instructor.
Now Liu Hua has sufficient ammunition and personnel. The firepower of the whole regiment is first-class in the entire Red Army, even compared with the Central Army, it is not inferior.
Liu Hua looked at the three infantry battalions and one firepower battalion under his command, and he felt like he was in a dream, not to mention Lao Sun, Chen Guoge, Zhao Dahe and others.
Liu Hua came to his senses and ordered loudly: "Our Red 34th Division is currently fighting a fierce battle with the enemy, so we cannot stand idly by, because we are the Red Army, and the Red Army will never give up on its comrades, so we have to go to the rescue, comrade
Do you have the confidence to work with me to rescue the Red 34th Division?"
"Yes" the soldiers roared in unison.
"Okay, comrades are all good and real men, I give my order."
"Liu Xiaogang led the reconnaissance platoon in the front to conduct reconnaissance, Lao Sun led the first battalion as the first echelon, the guard platoon held the prisoners, carried the captured materials and Zhao Dahe's third battalion, the firepower battalion was in the middle, and Chen Gengwen led the second battalion in the rear
, Let’s set off immediately and advance towards Xinyu.” Following Liu Hua’s order, the troops advanced towards Xinyu in an orderly manner.