"Political commissar, we just learned from the investigation that Xue Yue is preparing to retreat and return to help Changde." Gao Yuan ran over.
"Commander Gao, order the troops to set up a pocket at the gate of the city. After the enemy comes out with a regiment, I will destroy that regiment. Remember, don't fight to the death. If you can't win, retreat. I will lead four regiments behind you. 5
Set up a position at the kilometer mark. After you pull it off, continue to look for favorable terrain behind me. We will block it step by step to buy enough time for the regiment commander," political commissar Guan Xiangying said after thinking for a while.
"Yes, political commissar, resolutely complete the task."
Gao Yuan took the remaining fifth and sixth regiments and the artillery company and quickly used the terrain to build a pocket formation, waiting for Xue Yue to come. "Division commander, the enemy is out." Political Commissar Chen Dazhong reminded.
After receiving the order to immediately return to support Changde County, the enemy's leading brigade arranged the formation of its three regiments hungry, rode on their horses, ate the snacks they had just snatched, and swaggered out of Changde County.
"Bang..." With the sound of gunfire, the brigade commander was so frightened that he rolled to the ground. At this time, the sound of artillery and machine guns rang together. He raised his head and saw that his vanguard regiment had been disrupted by the enemy.
"Retreat, quickly, retreat to the city." The brigade commander shouted loudly.
Upon hearing the brigade commander's order to retreat, the vanguard brigade immediately went into chaos, running into the city one by one desperately, regardless of the formation, and some even lost their guns. Gao Yuan saw that the enemy was so careless,
A charge was immediately launched, and the troops followed closely the retreating enemy army. Seeing that the defeated army was approaching the city wall, Gao Yuan immediately ordered the troops to retreat with the captured supplies.
Guan Xiangying saw the plateau where he had returned victoriously. After asking why, he immediately burst out laughing. You must know that this was all caused by Xue Yue being too cautious. It turned out that Xue Yue had given orders to the troops before the attack.
When the Communists ambush, they must shrink their troops and merge with the main force to prevent the Communists from defeating them one by one. This way, Gao Yuan captured a lot of ammunition in vain.
The enemy avant-garde brigade commander who retreated into the city was not punished by Xue Yue, because due to the timely retreat, he only lost some weapons and did not suffer too many casualties. He was ordered to continue to lead the replenished avant-garde brigade in front.
After the battle just now, the brigade commander was particularly cautious at this time and sent out a lot of scouts. They walked ten miles and never found the Communist army again. Just when he was about to breathe a sigh of relief, he suddenly heard a fierce roar.
Gunfire rang out. "Go to the front and see what happened." The brigade commander ordered to the chief of staff next to him.
"Brigadier Commander, we were blocked by the Communist Army in front, and we lost a company." The chief of staff ran over panting on his horse.
"Send a report to the commander-in-chief and order the troops to prepare for the attack. The artillery company will set up artillery positions and wait for the commander-in-chief's order." The brigade commander thought for a while and ordered.
"Commander-in-Chief, the vanguard brigade sent a telegram and was blocked by the Communist army."
"Well, it seems that He Long is really preparing to capture Changde this time. Haha, I just don't know if he has the ability. He ordered the 11th Division to reinforce the avant-garde brigade and be sure to kill the Communist army." Xue Yue ordered fiercely.
The political commissar was lying on the hillside. He had repelled the enemy's first wave of attacks and wiped out a company. But 20 minutes had passed and the enemy had only built artillery positions. Why didn't they attack? "Political commissar, we found enemy troops on both wings.
." Upon hearing this, Political Commissar Guan's frown widened. You Xue Yue, if you want to eat me, there is no way.
"Order the artillery company to destroy the enemy's artillery positions and then retreat to the second blocking position. The Fourth Regiment will follow me to find the next blocking position." Guan Xiangying gave the order after thinking for a while.
"Boom, boom, boom..." Suddenly a burst of explosions reached the ears of the avant-garde brigade commander. "Brigade commander, it's not good, our General Peng's position was destroyed by the Communist army." The chief of staff ran over and said.
"What, so fast?" What kind of battle was this? They stopped for half an hour without attacking, and they lost two companies of men. The brigade commander cursed secretly.
"The commander-in-chief ordered the attack." The radio operator ran over.
"Order one regiment to attack frontally, and two brigades of the 11th Division to outflank each other in detours." Finally the wait came.
"Da da da da da da da da da..." With the sound of heavy machine guns, the troops on three sides began to charge towards the position built by the political commissar. After 500 meters, there was no movement. After 300 meters, there was still no movement. After 200 meters, there was still no movement.
The leader of the team looked at the silent position and felt frightened in his heart.
"You, take a platoon to touch it and have a look." The regiment leader pulled out a platoon leader from beside him and ordered.
Seeing that the platoon leader and his men were approaching the position step by step but there was still no movement, the regiment leader was even more surprised. Could it be that he had retreated? The regiment leader thought for a moment in disbelief.
"Captain, you ran away." The platoon leader ran over and said as if he had done something good.
"Order the troops to charge forward." the regiment leader ordered.
"Brothers, rush, run away..." The enemy soldiers lying on the ground rushed upward in a swarm.
"What's going on?" the brigade commander asked in confusion when he saw the group rushing up. He looked at the regiment commander whose face was filled with gunpowder smoke.
"Report to the brigade commander and run away. They placed a lot of grenades on the position. Many of our brothers fell into the trap." A regimental commander said almost crying.
"How many people were lost?" the brigade commander asked quietly.
"More than 100 people were killed and more than 200 were injured." A regimental commander said in a low voice.
"Send a report to the commander-in-chief, saying that the vanguard brigade captured the Communist position and lost one battalion and another artillery company." The brigade commander said quietly.
The chief of staff glanced at his brigade commander, knew the reason for writing this, and walked towards the telegraph operator.
All that was left was for the troops to assemble and replenish themselves again. It took nearly half an hour to get back on the road to rescue Changde.
At this time, the political commissar Guan Xiangying who was marching in the team smiled and listened to the report of the investigators who arrived. "This battle was really enjoyable. Not one of me was killed. There was also an artillery company that destroyed the enemy.
There were nearly a battalion of troops in total. It seemed that the method of making booby traps would be used more often in the future. Liu Hua was so smart now that he even came up with such an idea. The political commissar was secretly happy.
It turned out that Liu Hua was afraid that the political commissar would bring a division of troops and not be able to buy enough time for him to attack Changde and transport supplies, so he told the political commissar how to set up booby traps, hoping to delay the enemy's march. Unexpectedly, the political commissar actually used
In the retreat trenches.
"Political Commissar, we have arrived at Master Gao's blocking position."
"Well, let the mortar company stay. We will continue to retreat and find suitable terrain to build a position." Guan Xiangying ordered calmly. After the battle just now, the political commissar is now more and more confident in blocking Xue Yue.
"Commander-in-chief, this is the loss report of the vanguard brigade." The chief of staff came to Xue Yue's side.
"Order the troops to continue on their way and speed up the march." Xue Yue saw the damage report, looked at the one-hour delay, and ordered with a frown.