At night, after learning the exact news that all the divisions of the Second Army had marched to the southern suburbs of Nanchang City, that the Second Division had captured Niuxing Station and forcibly crossed the Gan River, approaching the west of the city, An Yi's troops, under the instruction of Commander-in-Chief Chiang Kai-shek, marched to the east.
On the shore, thirty-four trucks were driven to the east in the direction of Jinxian. The first mechanized transfer of the revolutionary army into an organized organization began.
At ten o'clock in the evening, the convoy arrived safely at the front line of Quanling. Yin Jinan and Gu Laoer, who had already received the news, led two platoons of guards to wait.
Yin Jinan was overjoyed to see An Yi and Cai Zhonghuan. He was extremely envious of An Yi's ability to persuade the principal to use cars to mobilize large-scale troops. After a few greetings, he led the battalion commanders of the two battalions out to survey the terrain and ordered each battalion to
The chief officer led his troops to build a position.
However, Gu Laoer walked to the truck transporting the horses, ordered his brothers to set up the springboard, carefully pulled down An Yi's little black colt and Cai Zhonghu's bay horse, and affectionately stroked the strong and toned necks of the little black colts.
, envious endlessly.
"Boss, why are there two beautiful carbines on the little black horse's back?" Gu Laoer took the little black horse and asked loudly.
An Yi laughed: "These two Japanese Murata carbines were left behind by the eldest brother Zhang Chengzhu that day. Huzi and Jinan each had one. Unfortunately, they could not find 6.5 caliber bullets. Before departure, they finally found the second rifle stationed in Gao'an.
The senior military officer got two boxes back. I fired dozens of rounds and they felt very good.
The special carbine of Little Japan, which is only equipped with cavalry division officers, has extremely high accuracy, exquisite workmanship, and a particularly good feel. Even if you shoot with one hand, you will not feel any recoil, and the barrel will not jump much, within one hundred and fifty meters.
Hit wherever you point. Such superb manufacturing technology is so impressive that people cannot help but admire it!
Tiger Head, please pick one. The ammunition belt is in front of the saddle, and coupled with your excellent horseback riding skills, it will definitely be useful. It can just make up for the lack of range of the shell gun."
Gu Laoer excitedly took off his carbine, held it in his hand and looked at it lovingly for a moment, then suddenly pulled out a ring of gunfire, and quickly loaded the gun with a "click", which made Cai Zhonghuan and the brothers beside him stare.
After everything was settled, An Yi warmly thanked the colonel and brothers of the transport regiment and politely sent them back, leaving only the sixteen tractor trucks of the Cai Zhonghu Artillery Regiment.
Without waiting for instructions, Gu Laoer ordered his brothers to set up tents on the flat ground in the south of Quanling Mountain. The Huotou soldiers of each battalion and company were busy preparing food, and it was already four o'clock in the morning when their stomachs were full.
Firepower points and trenches built along a two-kilometer-long gentle slope have been completed, and machine guns and bullets have been delivered. After the exhausted officers and soldiers finished a rich meal, they immediately took out their raincoats and put them under their bodies.
Groups of people huddled tightly in the trenches, braving the biting north wind and cold dew, and fell asleep in a daze.
The brothers from the two platoons of the guard company who were responsible for the security duty performed their duties diligently. They were scattered in groups of two on the edge of the position with a radius of three kilometers, watching vigilantly in all directions and the Fuhe River on the left.
Cai Zhonghuang and his subordinates watched all this with great admiration. They repeatedly praised An Yi's army. What kind of supplementary regiment was it? It was simply better than the main regiment. Its strict military discipline and tenacious style were unparalleled by any in the army.
No team can compare.
Yin Jinan, who came back from the inspection, said that these two battalions were new battalions that had only been established for 20 days. Cai Zhonghu and others were so surprised that they could hardly close their mouths. They asked Yin Jinan what the first and second battalions composed of veterans looked like? Yin Jinan laughed.
Answer: If the brothers from the 1st and 2nd Battalions had gone to bed two hours ago, the trenches would have been covered with all the cold and windproof items they could find.
The sky was dark, and An Yi, who had taken a nap, handed over the position to Yin Jinan. He took Gu Laoer and a brother from the detachment and walked out of the tent to get the horses. Cai Zhonghuan, who had just fallen asleep, heard the noise and got out of his tent to listen to An Yi.
Yi said that he would rush to Jinxian County to meet with General Gao Zhihua. Cai Zhonghuang immediately asked his guards to bring the horses and asked to go with them. An Yi readily agreed.
After a while, more than 20 riders rushed out of the foot of Quanling Mountain and rushed towards the road.
Cai Zhonghuo looked around and realized that the position selection of the supplementary regiment was very unique. It was located on both sides of the east-west and north-south intersections. It was built on a low slope running east-west for several miles, and it covered the wide area to the north from a high position.
Looking back, we firmly occupy the three-kilometer area between Fuhe on the left and Gaoshan on the right. The fleeing enemy cannot even think of escaping without the support of heavy firepower.
Along the way eastward, every intersection was closely guarded by several officers and soldiers of the supplementary regiment. Both villagers and merchants were dissuaded from going south and east but not north. Cai Zhonghuan once again witnessed the strict and meticulous approach of the An Yi regiment.
The wartime control measures adopted, I secretly admired myself as a student and younger brother.
Not long after passing through Zhanggong Town, where heavy troops were stationed, the low city wall of Jinxian County was visible in the distance. The observation post on the city wall saw An Yi and his party running towards Gao Zhihua holding the agreed blue flag from a distance, and immediately reported to Gao Zhihua.
When An Yi and his party arrived at the gate of the city, Gao Zhihua, Yang Bin, Lu Mingdi, and Huzi happened to ride horses to greet them.
After the two sides met on horseback, Gao Zhihua had a good impression of An Yi, who was still hanging with only his left arm. He learned that An Yi's two battalions and Cai Zhonghu's reinforced company had blocked the only gap, Quanling.
, Gao Zhihua, who was tall, with thick eyebrows and a square face, laughed loudly and quickly introduced An Yi and his party into the county town.
Entering the quaint gate of the county government office and dismounting in the courtyard, Gao Zhihua respectfully met Cai Zhonghu, his senior from Baoding Phase 3, again. Cai Zhonghu happily held his junior brother's hand and walked into the county government office together.
In the lobby, An Yi and Gu Laoer were puzzled.
Huzi explained as he walked that Cai Zhonghuan and Gao Zhihua from Baoding No. 7 were both from Dongyang, Zhejiang, and they had already known each other, but they had not seen each other for many years and had no news from each other. Only then did An Yi know that Cai Zhonghuan asked to come together.
For this reason, he immediately ordered Huzi to order the radio team at the headquarters to send a report back, reporting that everything was ready and waiting for good news.
Huzi nodded and then strode towards the west wing.
After greeting each other and sitting down, Gao Zhihua immediately took out a map and hung it on the tall screen in the main hall after drinking a cup of hot tea. A group of generals gathered in front of the map and listened to Gao Zhihua and Yang Bin's briefings on terrain and troop deployment.
Gao Zhihua's concise and to the point, steady and practical manner won An Yi's respect. Yang Bin's precise defense layout and situation explanation also made An Yi very satisfied:
The positions of Gao Zhihua's three battalions and two companies happened to be stuck on a line 14 kilometers northwest of the county. On the left, they were separated from Yin Jinan and Xia Jian's Quanling positions by three kilometers of mountains. On the right, they were separated from the first battalion led by Hu Hu.
The three-kilometer-long blocking position carefully constructed in the west of Luoxi Town is connected. The entire position completely blocks the passage between the northwest main road of the city and the large Junshan Lake. The officers and soldiers of the second battalion of the supplementary regiment led by Lu Mingdi cooperated with each other.
Combat has played an important role in strengthening Gao Zhihua's department.
After the discussion, a group of old and new friends happily set up a big table to have a few drinks.
At one o'clock at noon, Cai Zhonghu's sixteen trucks arrived carrying his reinforced company. Before they had settled in, Captain Zhou from the radio team hurriedly came in to convey the order from the headquarters: "All the enemy defenders in Nanchang have abandoned the city and fled. The enemy chief Deng Ruzhuo's division Jiang Zhenchen
, Chen Xiujue's brigade, Xie Wenbing's brigade and other troops, totaling more than 20,000 people, fled to the southeast in the Jinxian direction at 11 o'clock in the morning. Nanchang City is only 31 kilometers away from your position. The fleeing enemy will arrive in a moment. The soldiers of the Second Division have already
Rise up in pursuit, I hope your troops will resolutely block it, and strive to capture them all from the front and back, absolutely!"
A group of generals immediately stood up, discussed briefly, and rushed to the front line 13 kilometers northwest. A reinforcement company of Cai Zhonghua had just got off the bus and had to get on again. Following a group of generals galloping on horseback, they rumbled towards
northwest direction.
Everyone dismounted in front of the Wuling front command department 500 meters behind the position. The headquarters radio team immediately set up the radio to shake the hand-cranked generator and reported to the headquarters under An Yi's dictation: The entire 12-kilometer position was ready for battle, and five thousand
Eight hundred officers and soldiers stood ready, and everything went smoothly according to the original plan.
After the whole army was ordered to prepare for war, Gao Zhihua saw An Yi's messengers ascending to the Wuling Highlands, which was more than 50 meters high, and used signal flags to send out a series of signal messages to the left and right wing positions. He was surprised and asked An Yi how his subordinates learned how to do it.
Complex semaphore?
An Yi answered sadly: My younger brother has a senior who was a captain of the National Revolutionary Army Navy. When my younger brother was studying in Huangpu, he gave me a book on the navy's special semaphore, and my younger brother gradually learned it. An Yi did not say that he
The senior student was named Li Zhilong, who was the acting director of the Naval Bureau and the captain of the Zhongshan ship at the time. However, Cai Zhonghuang, who was next to him, knew who An Yi was talking about and couldn't help but sigh.
After a while, hundreds of enemy cavalry rushed towards them. An Yi, who was in the observation post halfway up the mountain, saw an enemy colonel-looking man riding a black horse at the front of the team through his binoculars. He put down his binoculars and looked at the people behind him.
Gu Laoer whispered a few words.
Gu Laoer exited the observation post and walked ten meters diagonally downward. He whispered a few words to the sniper Lieutenant Li Fuqiang who was leaning on the edge of a boulder, and asked him to specifically select enemy officers to attack.
The expressionless Li Fuqiang nodded, once again raised the small telescope given to him by An Yi and observed intently. Then he grabbed the bright black rifle beside him and quickly went down the mountain, disappearing after a while.
"stop--"
The enemy commander, who rode his horse to about three hundred meters in front of the center position, raised his hands and shouted loudly to stop. The galloping cavalry rushed forward for tens of meters before it could stop. The cavalry tightened their reins in a noisy manner, and people shouted, "Horse, neigh."
With a burst of dust rising into the sky, the enemy commander apparently saw the waiting blockade. He raised his telescope and looked for a moment and was so frightened that he screamed out of his wits.
With a gunshot of "Pa--", the shouting enemy commander fell headlong under his horse, immediately triggering shouts of exclamation. Six heavy machine guns on the high ground on both sides opened fire in unison at this time, and two rounds of strafing were completed.
After knocking down one-third of the more than 100 cavalry troops, the rest panicked and fled backwards. The light and heavy weapons on the position also began to roar, causing the fleeing enemies to flip over and scream in agony.
"Awesome! From a distance of about 230 meters, one shot hit the head. Who can shoot so accurately?"
The tall and burly Gao Zhihua put down his telescope and praised loudly.
An Yi smiled with satisfaction: "The shooting instructor of our regiment, whose surname is Li, is the only sharpshooter I have ever seen in my life."
Gao Zhihua laughed: "None of Brother An's men are mediocre! Haha... The regiment leader who was killed just now was Jiang Zhenchen's brave general Chen Changshuo. It is estimated that the main force of the enemy is within eight kilometers behind him. He should have been running for several hours.
We are so exhausted that it is difficult to organize a decent attack in a short period of time. I will go to the front to take a look. Brother An will stay here and command the overall situation."
"Brother Gao, be careful!"
An Yi gave instructions hurriedly. Before he finished speaking, Gu Laoer put down the telescope and said a few words to An Yi excitedly. An Yi raised the telescope to observe again and praised very happily:
"It is indeed a purebred Hequ horse! The horse is strong and strong, and it is outstanding. It will never be inferior to the little black horse... Go to Brother Gao quickly and ask him to give orders to his brothers not to misunderstand. I will let Li Fuqiang cover you. Quickly
Go and come back quickly."
Gu Laoer quickly caught up with Gao Zhihua, pointed at the majestic lone black war horse behind the hill on the left side of the position, and loudly requested something. After Gao Zhihua saw it clearly, he immediately agreed and ordered the herald to order all the brothers in the army not to shoot.
Gu Laoer was overjoyed when he heard this, and he pulled the herald and ran down the hillside quickly. Soon he and the herald arrived at the forward position. The herald raised the flag and loudly ordered not to fire, and the company commanders of each company also passed the order down to the left and right positions.
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Gu Laoer didn't wait for the messenger to signal to him that he could go out, he immediately jumped down from the position more than two meters high, bent down and rushed towards the hillock at an incredible speed, under the astonished gaze of more than 3,000 officers and soldiers.
More than 300 meters away, he lay behind a hill and moved slowly towards the north.
The big black horse on the other side of the hill realized the danger, neighed, and ran away. Gu Laoer quickly circled the front and jumped up, like a roc, he pounced on the horse with four hooves in the air, stretched forward
His hands were barely able to grasp the horse's tail, and he landed a little harder on one foot. His whole body turned somersaults high in the air like a falcon. When he fell, he happened to be riding on the leather saddle. He clamped his legs and hugged the horse tightly.
He held his neck, letting it jump wildly and stop, always clinging to the back of the violent and thundering horse amidst bursts of exclamations.
Under the intense gaze of thousands of pairs of eyes, the horse sometimes stood upright and neighed wildly, and sometimes reared up and retreated. It continued for five or six minutes without stopping. Gu Laoer who was on the horse was so angry that he raised his right hand and punched the horse's neck with an iron fist.
After three blows, the horse screamed and neighed in agony, spinning in circles like crazy for several times.
Gu Laoer struck twice again, and the furious horse was so painful that it almost rolled to the ground. Finally, it jumped high under the severe pain. After landing, it finally knelt on the ground and stopped struggling.
Gu Laoer, who was sweating profusely, then tightened the reins and dismounted. He squatted down in front of the horse's head and caressed the horse's wounds.
Thousands of officers and soldiers were stunned.
A few minutes later, Gu Lao'er gently lifted the reins, and the big black horse slowly stood up, obediently letting Gu Lao'er turn over and ride on its back, and trotted back to the position honestly, running towards the foot of Wuling Mountain in the rear.
At this time, the officers and soldiers came to their senses, gave out loud cheers, and asked one after another who was this person so heroic?
On the battlefield, the participating brothers of Cai Zhonghut Regiment proudly introduced loudly that this person was Gu Changfeng, the guard company commander of our army's model camp, nicknamed "Tiger Head", and he was brave enough to be worthy of all men!
This remark once again triggered an exclamation of exclamation, and the morale of the officers and soldiers who had already heard the name "Model Camp" was greatly boosted, and word of mouth spread the word.