After arranging the combat mission, Liu Hua returned to his room, thinking about Zhang Zhenhan in history. You must know that Zhang Zhenhan had helped the Red Army in history, and he was a graduate of the second artillery section of the Baoding Army Officer School. He served in the Red Army
After moving to Yan'an, he served as a military tactics instructor at the Red Army University and made great contributions to the Chinese revolution. For such a person, Liu Hua really didn't know how to treat him. He was an artillery talent!
At this time, Liu Hua thought of the mountain artillery battalion of Zhang Zhenhan's division, and finally decided to capture Zhang Zhenhan, hoping that he could be helpful to the Red Army as he had done in history.
After sharing this incident, Liu Hua lay on the bed and fell asleep quietly. Qiaoling's beautiful face appeared in his mind. Liu Hua smiled, and just like that, he fell asleep with a smile on his face.
The next day, Liu Hua got up very early. After breakfast, he took the political commissar, Li Qing and others to the headquarters of the Second Division. At this time, the troops had been assembled according to the predetermined plan and were waiting for the regiment commander.
Order. Seeing the arrival of the legion commander, Gao Yuan stepped forward to greet him.
"Regiment Commander, Political Commissar, Director Li, you are here. The troops have been assembled and are waiting for the departure order." Gao Yuan said with a smile.
"Then let's set off," Liu Hua ordered, without dismounting, and directly moved forward with the troops. The leader was the reconnaissance company of the Second Division, and the troops followed the reconnaissance company and advanced slowly. In this way, after a day and night of marching
, the troops finally bypassed Yujiaping quietly and came to hide near Taozi Creek to wait.
Seeing that the troops were in place, Sun Xingbang of the First Division also received the order from the regiment commander and began to attack Yujiaping. Following the order from Commander Sun, the 12 mortars of the artillery company made a dull sound.
In a few seconds, 12 artillery shells accurately landed on the enemy barracks that the reconnaissance company had scouted in advance. Faced with the continuous falling of 12 mortar shells in groups, the barracks exploded instantly, and the soldiers could not find their commander. Sir
Unable to find the soldiers, they all ran around desperately. The smarter ones started to run outside Yujiaping. However, as soon as they reached the city entrance, they were knocked down by the oncoming heavy machine guns and fell into a pool of blood.
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Soon, Division Commander Sun Xingbang issued the order for the first feint attack. Under the cover of artillery fire and heavy machine guns, the regiment and battalion slowly moved towards Yujiaping. As the town got closer and closer, the battalion commander issued an order.
Immediately after the attack order, all the firepower of the first battalion began to spray ammunition on the enemy's position, killing and injuring a large number of enemy troops. Soon, a single company of the Hubei army stationed outside suffered most of its casualties. The enemy company commander looked at the enemy.
The battalion's intensive firepower finally couldn't bear it anymore and took the lead in running to the rear.
As the saying goes, when the tree fell on Hu Sunsan, the company commander ran away. Naturally, the soldiers below were unwilling to die, and naturally they also collapsed. In this way, the first battalion commander occupied the outer position at the cost of several soldiers being killed.
When preparing for further attacks, they were suddenly hit by intensive firepower. Several soldiers in his unit instantly fell. Looking at the sacrificed comrades, the first battalion commander resisted the idea of charging and led his troops to stick to the enemy's front line.
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Just as the First Battalion occupied the enemy's front-line positions, several other directions in Yujiaping were also occupied by the First Division at the cost of a small number of casualties.
Guarding Yujiaping at this time was a brigade commander under Zhang Zhenhan, and he was Zhang Zhenhan's cousin. When he received the news that his troops had lost all the front-line positions and nearly a battalion of men, he immediately
I became anxious. I immediately ordered the troops to strengthen the defense of the second-line position, and issued a death order: "Whoever loses the position will be shot."
While giving the order, he ordered the telegraph operator to quickly ask for help from his cousin. Listening to the increasingly approaching explosions, he became completely anxious and sent out telegrams for help one after another. At this time, in addition to the artillery, the first division
The artillery bombardment continued. Except for the three heavy machine gun companies, which saw whether the enemy troops were showing up and fired their machine guns, the other troops were resting and waiting for the regiment commander's final order to launch a general attack.
"Commander, Commander, no, something happened." Zhang Zhenhan, who was eating breakfast, was disturbed by the adjutant's shout.
"Why are you panicking? It's not like the sky is falling. Let's see how panicked you are. Speak slowly." As expected of a graduate of Baoding Military Academy, he is really calm when things happen.
"Reporting to the division commander, Brigadier Zhang was attacked by the communist army in Yujiaping. All the front-line positions have been lost. The troops have lost almost a regiment. They are holding the position. The request is for reinforcements." The adjutant who was scolded by the division commander stood at attention and said.
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"Well, do you look like a soldier? Let's go to the war room." The reason why Zhang Zhenhan is not in a hurry is because he knows his cousin too well. There should be no problem if the position is lost, but there must be casualties for a regiment.
It was watery, and there was also contempt for the Communist Army. In his eyes, how could the Communist Army's broken guns wipe out one of his regiments so quickly?
"Chief of Staff, how is the situation now?" Zhang Zhenhan asked calmly.
"Reporting to the division commander, the Yujiaping defenders are confronting the Communist troops on the second line. From the phone, we can hear that the Communist troops attacking the city have mortars, which should be He Long's main force." The chief of staff replied affirmatively.
"Well, okay, this time I finally caught He Long's main force. Haha, order: leave the first brigade and three regiments to defend Taoyuan County, the second and third brigades, and the mountain artillery battalion will leave the city immediately to follow me to reinforce the first brigade. This time we will definitely
We must eliminate He Long's main force." Zhang Zhenhan ordered confidently, with a smile on his face.
Immediately, Zhang Zhenhan's headquarters began to be busy. The entire Taoyuan County was in motion. How could such a big movement be concealed from the soldiers of the Seventh Army's reconnaissance battalion who had sneaked into Taoyuan? Soon, the information was
Quickly conveyed in front of Liu Hua.
"Report to the commander of the regiment. According to the investigation by the scouts in the city, Zhang Zhenhan's division has made unusual movements and is gathering. It should be reinforcements to Yujiaping. The number and travel sequence of the enemy's reinforcements are under investigation."
"Well, very good, let the reconnaissance battalion continue the reconnaissance, order the troops to stop resting, check the weapons and ammunition, the artillery battalion and all artillery companies, heavy machine gun companies, and heavy machine gun battalions. You can build positions now. Send a report to Commander Sun,
Let his attack be smaller and not cause too many casualties." Liu Hua gave the order in an orderly manner.
"Political Commissar, how are you? How about you command the troops to conduct an ambush later?" Liu Hua looked at Political Commissar Guan Xiangying secretly.
"Okay, legion commander, I will only use my troops to conduct ambush in a while," the political commissar agreed without thinking. "No, legion commander, I will direct the ambush, so what are you going to do?" The political commissar finally reacted and asked quickly.
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"Haha, it's nothing." He said and raised a sniper rifle that was modified by Anyan.
"No, legion commander, you are the legion commander and you cannot go to the front line. This is our army's regulation." The political commissar immediately objected.
"Political Commissar, just this time, I promise to tell you, I have set my sights on Zhang Zhenhan's mountain artillery battalion and Zhang Zhenhan, the artillery expert. I must take over them all, I promise, just this time." Before the political commissar could object, he
Set off with the guard camp.
"I said political commissar, please stop calling him. Haha, you can't control him even if you call him back. Haha, he does this all the time. He's used to it." Li Qing, who was standing next to him, hurriedly helped his old partner out.
At this time, Zhang Zhenhan's division had been assembled. A total of six regiments, plus a mountain artillery battalion with a total strength of more than 11,000 people, marched out of Taoyuan County in a mighty manner, starting with his second brigade, followed by his third brigade.
, the mountain artillery battalion was at the end. Zhang Zhenhan rode on his horse and followed the third brigade commander out of the county while chatting.
This information was immediately summarized to the political commissar. When the political commissar saw that Zhang Zhenhan had grouped his troops into a group and sent only one vanguard company, he immediately laughed. This was really a blessing for the Red Army. He immediately ordered the Second Division, the Third Division, and the Logistics Department to fight.
The regiment formed an ambush in order, waiting for Zhang Zhenhan's arrival.
At this time, Liu Huazhe gathered the sniper company and the sniper platoons of the two divisions and began to assign tasks.
"Two sniper platoons, follow me. Our mission is the enemy's mountain artillery battalion. After the battle starts, we must kill all the enemy troops approaching the cannon as soon as possible, and then the artillery shells. We must guard them for me.
"The mission of the sniper company is still to serve as the enemy's officers and heavy firepower. There is one more thing you should remember. There is an officer in the marching column wearing a lieutenant general's uniform who cannot be killed. He must be captured. Is that clear?" Liu
Hua ordered.
"Listen clearly."
"Okay, go and set up your own positions immediately." Following Liu Hua's order, all the personnel began to run towards their positions.