Chapter 27 Counter Encirclement and Suppression (4)
Zhou Hunyuan is the commander of the 1st Division. He was very happy after receiving the order from the war room to temporarily cross the river and return to Bai Chongxi to command the encirclement and suppression of the remaining forces of the Communist Army on the east bank. You must know that what you will face after crossing the river is the Communist Army.
As for the main force, even if they win in the end, their 1st Division will still have to shed a layer of skin, and they may lose their lives. Now it's better, and there is no need to cross the river. It is easier to encircle and suppress the remaining bandits than to fight with the regular army.
However, thinking that a brigade of the 21st Division was completely wiped out by the communist army, the division commander was still very cautious and divided the troops into three echelons. If one area was attacked, reinforcements could be quickly sent to both areas. He also asked the avant-garde brigade to widen the search area.
To prevent a sneak attack by the Communist army, seeing how tightly he arranged it, he believed that the Communist army would not be able to cause much harm to his troops anyway.
Just as he was riding on his horse, admiring the scenery along the way, he suddenly heard violent gunfire coming from the direction of the rearguard brigade. The density of firepower and gunfire could not be caused by his own brigade. His first reaction was
The Communist army wanted to take action on its rear guard brigade, so it immediately sent a report to the rear guard brigade to inquire about the situation. While he was waiting for the telegram from the rear guard brigade, the commander of his own forward guard brigade also sent a telegram: "Our unit was blocked by the communist army, and the artillery battery
Destroyed by enemy artillery fire, requesting artillery support." Looking at this telegram and listening to the gunshots from behind, the division commander really didn't know what to do, so he sat on his horse and thought quietly.
"Report to the division commander, the connection with the rearguard brigade has been interrupted."
"What? The connection is interrupted. It's impossible. Order the rear team to change to the front team to reinforce the rear guard brigade immediately. Quickly." The commander of the 1st Division did not believe in the so-called ability to annihilate one of his own troops in such a short period of time.
An elite brigade must know that it is the Central Army, and its equipment and ammunition are not comparable to those of the Communist Army. He believes that the firepower of one of his brigade will only be stronger than that of a division of the Communist Army, not weaker.
Just as he was about to retreat, "Master, what about the artillery support of the vanguard brigade?" the chief of staff next to him reminded.
Thinking of the telegram from the avant-garde brigade, the division commander suddenly laughed and said: "Chief of Staff, I understand, this must be a plan of the Communist army. You must know that the Communist army's artillery fire is very lacking. Since they destroyed the avant-garde artillery at the beginning, then they
They must want to delay our army and prevent me from reinforcing the rearguard brigade. Now that I know it, I immediately ordered the vanguard brigade to retreat. They have no artillery support now. They must withdraw first and wait for us to rescue the rearguard brigade before advancing. You guys.
I saw through your plan, I see how you can still be so arrogant."
"The master is wise, the master is wise." The chief of staff next to him said quickly to please him.
At this time, Liu Hua was lying on the hillside two miles away from the ambush point, quietly waiting for the second echelon of the 1st Division.
"Division Commander, the enemy is still 2 miles away from entering the ambush circle."
"Division Commander, the enemy is still one mile away from entering the ambush circle."
"Division Commander, the enemy's vanguard has entered the ambush circle."
As the 1st Division continued to walk into the ambush circle, the division commander suddenly felt something was wrong. The gunfire in front had stopped for half an hour. If the radio of the rear guard brigade was damaged, he would definitely send a messenger to report the situation, but he
We had almost walked six or seven miles, but we hadn't seen the messenger yet. Suddenly we saw a reflection on the hillside opposite. As a soldier, the division commander knew that it was sunlight reflected by the telescope.
"No! Hurry..." But before he could finish his last sentence, a bullet entered his head. The person who fired the shot was the sniper company commander Luo Wenhua, and the person holding the binoculars was Liu Hua, the commander of our independent division.
, he was guiding Luo Wenhua to the target, and he suddenly discovered the commander of the 1st Division. How could Liu Hua let go of such a good opportunity? After receiving that all enemy troops entered the ambush circle, he immediately ordered Luo Wenhua to shoot and kill the 1st Division.
Teacher.
When Luo Wenhua's gunshot rang out, the remaining 60 or so men of the sniper company also fired at the targets they had chosen. Before the official start of the battle, almost all commanders above the battalion and company level of the 1st Division were killed by the sniper company.
Then, mortars, heavy machine guns, light machine guns... rang out one after another. Without the command of the commander, the Central Army was like a group of frightened lambs, running around. Liu Hua saw that the enemy troops had completely
There was no resistance and he didn't want to kill more people, so he ordered the bugler to blow the charge horn in advance.
Seeing the enemy troops below kneeling in groups and surrendering in the face of the Red Army's bayonets, the political commissar smiled. "It seems that this guy was really right when he formed a sniper company. One man and one shot almost wiped out all the enemies."
I am a brigade in the army. It seems that I will have to learn more from my division commander in the future. I don’t know how his head grows. "This is what the political commissar said at this time.
"I don't know what Lao Sun's situation is like! That's a brigade, and I don't know if he can survive." Liu Hua was not too happy because of the victory in this battle, but frowned.
Looking in the direction of the group.
Seeing the division commander silently looking in the direction of the regiment, the political commissar's relaxed heart suddenly tightened. There was an enemy brigade, and he didn't know if the regiment could hold on.
"Division commander, political commissar, good news, good news, one regiment has wiped out the enemy's vanguard brigade." The telegraph operator cheered and ran towards us.
Liu Hua finally smiled, smiling so brightly, and rode on his war horse and ran towards Chaling County. The political commissar would take care of the rest. He could finally have a good rest. He saw his division commander riding his war horse happily.
He ran towards the county seat and shook his head.
Liu Hua, who had rested for a long time, finally woke up due to the protest of his stomach. He saw that it was already very late and asked, "Xiao Wang, what time is it now?"
"Teacher, it's almost eight o'clock."
"So quickly, Xiao Liu, notify the chief officers of each unit to come to the division headquarters for a meeting, and also give or get some food, I'm starving to death."
"Okay, sir, I'll be here soon."
In the conference room, Liu Hua also smiled as he looked at the smiling faces of the military commanders.
"Company Commander Liu, please tell us about the situation of the other troops first!"
"Yes, division commander, according to the investigation, the enemy troops left Zhuzhou this morning. However, around the highlight of the afternoon, the entire army retreated to Zhuzhou and has not been moved since. The brigade of the 21st Division has not been dispatched since arriving in Anren, but it was sent
We captured a lot of scouts, and most of them were killed by the reconnaissance company and then stayed in the county seat. No enemy troops moved out from the direction of Jinggang Mountain."
"Well, it seems everyone knows that their 1st Division was wiped out by us. Haha, political commissar, please report our results today."
"Yes, division commander, our results this time can be said to be countless. Haha, let's talk about annihilating the enemy first. We wiped out 1 enemy division, with a total of more than 1,280 people, of which more than 8,500 were killed, more than 300 were seriously injured, and prisoners and
There are a total of 4,000 lightly wounded people, and all enemy cadres above the corps level have been killed. It can be said that the 1st division organization has disappeared, haha..." Seeing the cadres below, they couldn't help laughing, and Liu Hua also laughed.
stand up.
"Comrades, don't worry, what else is there? Are you happy yet to come? Now let me talk about the seizures. We seized a total of 30 mortars and shells, not to mention the number of them, too many to count.
On average, each mortar has 250 rounds, so now we don’t have to worry about running out of shells.”
"We seized 36 heavy machine guns, more than 230 light machine guns, more than 8,000 rifles, submachine guns and pistols, and countless ammunition. By the way, we also seized all the baggage of the 1st Division Baggage Battalion."
After listening to the political commissar's words, Liu Hua was also stunned. With so many weapons and ammunition, it seems that the army will be short of soldiers in the future.
"Then how many casualties will our army suffer?"
"Division Commander, the entire army suffered a total of 654 casualties in this battle, 94 were seriously wounded, and more than 400 were lightly wounded. The lightly wounded will not affect the battle. The casualties are too large mainly because one regiment has to block an enemy brigade with one regiment. The gap is
It’s caused by being too big.”
"Political Commissar, stop talking. I know all this. Those martyrs who died in the battle are all good people and heroes. We will definitely make the enemy suffer blood and avenge our martyrs."
"Yes, we will definitely avenge our martyrs." The cadres below stood up and shouted in unison.
"Okay, that's it for today's meeting. Let's have a good rest at night. We will continue the meeting at nine o'clock tomorrow morning to study our future path. The meeting is adjourned."
Looking at the cadres filing out, "Political Commissar, I don't know what's going on with the Central Committee now. By the way, Political Commissar, we should report our victory to the Central Committee and make the Central Committee happy too."
"Yeah, I forgot about it. I'm going to send the report right away." The political commissar patted his thigh and said.
Liu Hua looked at the quiet conference room and thought quietly. In future generations, he knew that today was the last day of the Zunyi Conference that was related to the future of the Communist Party of China. He did not know whether history had changed because of his arrival.
As Liu Hua thought, the Zunyi Conference at this time was undergoing summary work, and there were basically no changes. It was just because of Liu Hua's appearance that it was easier for comrades to obtain command of the Red Army.
"Good news, good news..." Joyous voices came into the conference room, and all the participants looked towards the door of the conference room.
"Comrade Chen Geng, what happened?" Vice Chairman Zhou stood up and said.
"Reporting to all commanders, the Independent Division has sent good news." Chen Geng said excitedly.
"Um, let me take a look?" Vice Chairman Zhou finally telegraphed it, glanced at it, and said with a smile: "It seems that the Independent Division has sent a congratulatory gift for the successful convening of our Zunyi Conference."
"The Central Revolutionary Military Commission, our department conducted three ambush battles against the enemy's 1st Division this morning, annihilating a total of more than 12,800 enemy troops, capturing more than 4,000 people, and seizing countless weapons and ammunition. More than 500 of our troops were killed and more than 300 were injured. In addition, our troops were
It was decided to reorganize the army in Chaling. The independent division commander Liu Hua and the political commissar Li Qing."
"Haha, that guy Liu Hua is really good. He deserves to be from our Third Army. When I see him in the future, I must have a good chat with him." Commander Peng Army was the first to stand up.
Soon, laughter kept coming from the dull conference room.