Chapter 196 Advance like a tiger and retreat like a tide
Chapter 196: Advance like a tiger and retreat like a tide
Ding Zhicheng and Shen Fengdao clung to the frosty ditch in the field and slowly crawled under the roadbed. Ding Zhicheng stretched out two fingers and shook them to the left. Shen Fengdao nodded slightly, and the two quietly walked around from behind the hut. Ahead, both of them took a step forward, waving their big hands like lightning. Three jet black steel needles and a dagger instantly sank into the temples of the three defenders outside the hay shed. The three officers and soldiers who were chatting together did not have time to grunt, and immediately stiffened and twitched, falling down. Shen Fengdao and Ding Zhicheng, who had already arrived, supported him and carefully lowered him to the ground little by little.
Ding Zhicheng pulled out the dagger that had sunk several inches into the sentinel's temple, and slid into the hay shed like a ghost. There was a rustling sound of the human body rubbing against the straw, followed by a thick smell of blood, and he pulled out the steel needle. Feng Dao stood up slowly and admired Ding Zhicheng who killed eight people in a blink of an eye without making a single groan.
Ding Zhicheng smiled slightly and made a few gestures to the field. More than thirty brothers who were lurking inside filed out and stepped onto the road. They immediately divided into four groups to carry out their tasks.
The most difficult task was given to Shen Fengdao. Ding Zhicheng was quite afraid of the vicious dogs inside the tall walls of the Chai family compound, not to mention the two guards at the entrance and backyard of the compound who needed to be dealt with. One person was too weak to handle it, so he had to It can only be performed by two or more people.
Seeing that the two groups of sixteen brothers had successfully arrived at the front and backyard gates and lurked, Shen Fengdao behind the big tree nodded to Ding Zhicheng, took the three-meter hemp rope from him, and suddenly moved forward with his feet like He stepped on the vertical courtyard wall twice as if he were stepping on stairs, and in the blink of an eye he was standing on the courtyard wall.
Ding Zhicheng was so impressed that he grabbed Shen Fengdao's hanging rope with one hand and jumped lightly. With Shen Fengdao's pull, he quickly climbed up the three-meter-high courtyard wall.
The two squatted on the wall covered by the broad canopy of trees. Ding Zhicheng gestured towards the main hall of the two-story attic in the middle courtyard. Shen Fengdao understood the idea and lightly jumped down. He flew under the eaves of the main hall after a brief pause. Shen Feng jumped out from the ground and lightly hit the guard who was leaning on the doorpost smoking with a palm on the forehead. The guard on the other side of the main gate suddenly opened his eyes when he heard the dull hitting sound. His eyes went black and he lost consciousness. Shen Feng Dao held the limp sentry with both hands and placed it on the ground. One foot was still hooked on the neck of the other sentry who had lost his breath to prevent him from falling suddenly and making a sound.
Ding Zhicheng, who was responsible for the cover mission, came over with confidence at this time. He was so impressed by Shen Fengdao's unfathomable martial arts that he finally understood why the fearless Gu Laoer was so respectful to Shen Fengdao. Ding Zhicheng even felt that if With Shen Fengdao's help, in ancient times there would have been no problem for the two of them to enter the palace and steal treasures.
The empty main hall was dimly lit, and an undressed orderly was sleeping on the table. The fire in the brazier next to him was still bright, and he had obviously just fallen asleep.
Ding Zhicheng approached quietly, knocked him out with one palm, and immediately ran to the backyard to open the door for the brothers who were lurking outside. Shen Fengdao entered the east wing of the room openly.
A few minutes later, Ding Zhicheng eliminated the guards in the backyard and led the brothers into the main hall. He saw Shen Fengdao bringing out a powerful man in his thirties and wearing a velvet nightgown from the east wing. , like grabbing a chicken, he lifted him to the big table on the east side of the main hall and gently put him into the Taishi chair. To Ding Zhicheng and his brothers' surprise, the man sat on the Taishi chair and looked at everyone in panic, but he didn't No shouting, no resistance.
Ding Zhicheng looked at his watch and nodded to Shen Fengdao: "All the guards in the courtyard have been eliminated, and the second group of brothers have gone to clean up the sentries outside the courtyard gate. It was almost time, and there was an explosion on the stone bridge in the east. Tiger Head, Lao Wu and others will launch an attack, and the main force in front of the position will also move accordingly, and we can withdraw."
Shen Fengdao said in a low voice: "Brigadier Situ seems willing to cooperate with us. Once the battle starts, maybe it would be better for him to order his subordinates to put down their weapons and stop resisting through the phone. It would be too unfair for him to take Brigadier Situ through those winding mountain roads." Well, if there is something wrong, how can we explain it to Mr. Situ Hao?"
Ding Zhicheng looked at Shen Fengdao, and then at the panicked and angry Situ Wei, and suddenly became happy: "Okay, this is better. Although each has his own master, we are all brothers with no grievances and no grudges. If we fight to the end, we will die." There are so few people, haha..."
"boom--"
There was a loud explosion, and the debris flying from 300 meters away made the glazed tiles on the roof of the main hall crackle. Twelve brothers from Chu Xianzhi's team, who were responsible for the blasting task, rushed into the yard quickly. The three groups of brothers who served as cover carried light machine guns and blocked the courtyard gate and the four high walls.
Immediately afterwards, loud explosions of grenades and shouts of death came from the enemy's position 1.3 kilometers to the west, and booming explosions came from the position 2.5 kilometers to the west. The entire battle only took eight hours of preparation. It started on time.
At the north entrance of Dongfeng Mountain, where the Zhejiang Army's position is deep, 380 brothers led by Gu Changfeng and Xia Jian shouted in unison after dropping two rounds of bombs and rushed to the artillery position in the east, passing every tent and house. They all threw in two grenades first, then rushed in and opened fire violently. More than 3,800 sleeping enemy soldiers were awakened by the loud explosions and gunfire. Many of them were bombarded by grenades before they could even pick up their weapons. The explosion made ghosts cry and wolf howl, the fog-shrouded position was filled with the light of exploding grenades, and bursts of bullets roared in, knocking to the ground the enemy soldiers who were running around like headless flies.
The 380-man commando hardly encountered any obstruction and smoothly attacked the artillery position from the center of the enemy's position. They quickly annihilated a company of defenders who had scrambled to their feet before they had time to organize a response. They immediately occupied the machine guns in front of the formation. position, and launched a violent strafing attack on the fleeing enemy troops.
In front of the position, a large number of defenders were frightened by the explosions and intensive gunfire coming from behind them. Before they woke up, they were bombarded by rounds of mortar shells. The shouts of killing were earth-shattering and the mountains echoed. It seemed that there were figures of the revolutionary army everywhere, and the sky was full of flaming mortar shells and raining bullets. Wails sounded sharply after the two rounds of bombings. Fierce firefights were also heard from the south bank. The road was cut off, and the panic of being trapped in a tight siege instantly led to the collapse of morale. The defenders on the entire front finally turned from sporadic escapes into an uncontrollable overall rout.
The brothers of the Third Battalion led by Chen Zhibiao, supported by the extended fire of 24 mortars, rushed into the enemy's right-wing position, immediately opened up their formation, and launched a pursuit of the fleeing enemy.
Deeply encouraged, the brothers from the three battalions of the Fifth Regiment occupied the abandoned positions one after another, and then shouted and pursued them. The entire defensive enemy line collapsed at the first touch, and there was no strong resistance as expected. The main forces were able to follow the established offensive line in an orderly manner. Advance step by step, calmly suppressing thousands of running and wailing enemies into a narrow space.
The sky was getting brighter and the fog slowly dissipated. However, there was a different scene in the headquarters of Situ Wei's Chai Family Courtyard. The battalion commanders who rushed into the compound to call the police or ask for help were panicked one by one by the special operations team members who had been waiting for a long time. They were captured, all bundled up and carried into the main hall and thrown on the cold floor.
The phone on the table in front of Situ Wei kept ringing. Situ Wei, who was wearing a thin nightgown, was shaking all over and sweating profusely. He looked at the subordinates who were tied up one after another and thrown to the ground in the hall, and finally became frustrated. He turned to Ding Zhicheng, who was leisurely trimming his nails under the light of a horse lantern: "We surrender, please inform your troops to stop firing."
After Situ Wei finished speaking, he stretched out his trembling hand, grabbed the phone, and issued orders to his subordinates who were in distress one after another to stop resisting, lay down their weapons, and surrender.
Ding Zhicheng nodded with satisfaction, put away his dagger and whispered a few words to his subordinates. The subordinates immediately rushed out of the door, pulled out their flare guns, and fired three red flares into the foggy western sky.
Shen Fengdao brought Situ Wei a military uniform, belt, shoes, hats and cloak, and waited patiently for him to put it on. He accompanied him out of the gate like an old friend, while the seven battalion commanders on the ground were tied into a string and escorted to follow.
On the artillery position, Gu Changfeng, who received the urgent report from the surveillance team, climbed to a high place and shouted orders. Forced by the dark muzzles of the revolutionary officers and soldiers, more than 300 enemy artillerymen could only quickly turn their guns and aim at them. At the broken bridge at 3.8 kilometers, shooting correction and loading preparations were completed under Xia Jian's orders. As Xia Jian's roar of "fire" came out, sixteen brand-new French mountain guns roared in unison, charging towards the bridge. The enemy reinforcements that arrived on the east bank of the broken bridge were beaten to the point of defeat and they retreated wildly.
After eight consecutive rounds of volleys, Yang Bin led the brothers of the third battalion engineer company to rush over. He immediately pulled out the fat draft horses from the stable and ordered the unarmed enemy artillery to pull all the artillery pieces westward. On the side, the brothers of the engineer company happily took out the pack horses, loaded the boxes of artillery shells onto their horses and tied them in place. In just over 20 minutes, they all drove back to their own position in the west.
On the south bank, in the independent regiment command post in the Zhan family ancestral hall in the north of Longyou City, Liu Zhi, Xu Tingyao and others were sitting at the main table drinking fragrant tea, listening to the battle report from An Yi and the communications staff, and facing each shocking progress. Liu Zhi, Xu Tingyao and others had mixed feelings about the easily achieved results one after another.
Seeing An Yi's quick markings on the large map based on the battle reports, Liu Zhi and Xu Tingyao felt a little unbelievable, but the constant explosions and shouts told them again that all this was true, especially It was An Yi's bold and funny strategy used in the south bank position that made Liu Zhi and Xu Tingyao laugh and admire it repeatedly - until it was daybreak, the battle on the north bank had ended for more than ten minutes, and the enemy positions on the south bank were still attacking continuously. The West fired fiercely and carried out shellings again and again. Dozens of firecrackers and scrap iron barrels bought by Dayang were set off for a long time, coupled with sporadic shooting from time to time by a few machine guns and a few mortars. The two regiments of Yang Shijun's brigade and Zhou Qian's division put up fierce resistance and fired continuously against the heavy fog for one hour and twenty minutes.
At eight o'clock in the morning, the phone rang again. An Yi picked up the phone and listened to Yang Bin's victory report from the north bank position and congratulated him loudly. He then ordered Yang Bin to set up artillery and send a reconnaissance team to expand the surveillance area to guard against the enemy's retaliatory attack.
An Yi put down the phone and immediately reported loudly to Liu Zhi and Xu Tingyao, who were waiting with bated breath for the battle report:
"The results of the battle have been roughly calculated. In this battle, more than 830 enemy troops were wiped out and more than 2,600 enemy troops were captured, including 27 officers including Situ Wei, commander of the 3rd Mixed Brigade of the Zhejiang Army.
Sixteen new legal 75 mountain guns, more than 2,400 artillery shells, 215 light and heavy machine guns, and more than 3,200 long and short guns were seized. Our army's five regiments and independent regiments suffered only 260 casualties.
More than ten people died, most of them caused by accidental discharge of fire by new recruits.
At present, all the prisoners and captured guns and artillery have been escorted by the first and second battalions of the Sixth Regiment and the teaching team of our regiment to Gaojia Town in the rear, which is only across the river from Anren Town where the division headquarters is located. Soon they will be able to
We were escorted to the division headquarters camp via the Anren Bridge, with the enemy chieftain Situ Wei among them."
"Well done! They advanced like tigers and retreated like tides. Thousands of new recruits fought so well under your command. It was unexpected! An Yi, I want to ask the commander-in-chief for credit for you!" Liu Zhi was excited.
He stood up and walked back and forth excitedly.
An Yi quickly suggested: "It's a fluke, haha! Sir, if you want to take credit, we'll talk about it later. My subordinates suggest that the teacher and the chief of staff should return to the division headquarters immediately and telegraph the success report to the principal. At the same time, he will report to Vice President Bai that the principal is now
We are under great pressure and anxious, and we very much need a big victory to boost our morale and enhance the prestige of our Revolutionary Army Headquarters. My subordinates believe that after receiving the good news, the principal will be deeply gratified for the victory of our second division."
Xu Tingyao nodded heavily: "You have thought it through very carefully and without delay, we will rush back right now. An Yi, you have made outstanding achievements in this battle. We will report the truth to the principal and ask the principal to give you the reward or even promotion you deserve!"
"No no! Master and Chief of Staff, please listen to what I have to say. It is not my subordinates who need merit and rewards most now, but our entire Second Division. This battle is indeed a victory achieved by the concerted efforts of all the units of our Second Division.
Although the proposal was put forward collectively by the independent group under the subordinates, all the details of the entire plan were considered and reviewed by the division commander and the chief of staff. This great victory was achieved with the strong support of the division commander and the chief of staff. Therefore, this credit should be given to
It's collective. If the commander and chief of staff really want to reward their subordinates, please allow them to select a thousand people from the prisoners to supplement the combat effectiveness of our regiment. I will be extremely grateful!" An Yi proposed sincerely and generously.
ask.
Liu Zhi and Xu Tingyao looked at each other, nodded to each other moved, said nothing, and at the same time stepped forward to pat An Yi on the shoulder and left.
The sound of horse hooves gradually faded away, and Huzi and Yin Jinan returned happily after completing their mission. An Yi didn't have time to say hello to the two of them, so he immediately pressed the phone and shook it violently to connect Yang Bin on the north bank.
"Lao Yang, did we leave anything good?" An Yi asked anxiously.
"I have kept all sixteen artillery pieces, but I don't know how long I can keep them. This thing makes people jealous! Even the artillery regiment directly under the military headquarters only has six such guns. I will stay for now. What will happen then?
Besides, after Old Shen and Old Ding handed over to Hutou and Xia Jian, they led their detachment brothers back to the front line again without knowing what they wanted to do.
Hutou and Xia Jian led more than 300 of their brothers and more than 120 war horses, and quietly took boats from the Tingtang Bridge Ferry behind the position to cross the south bank in batches. It was estimated that they would arrive at the regiment headquarters in an hour.
Nothing else... By the way, brother, I got two palm-sized gold-plated Browning pistols, they are so damn beautiful, I have to keep them and take them back to my wife, haha!"
Yang Bin's voice revealed joy and excitement that could not be hidden.
An Yi became anxious now: "What's going on? Why are Gu Laoer and Xia Jian so stupid? Why did they just capture some horses? Why didn't they confiscate Situ Wei's brigade?"
"Xiao Yi, don't worry. Just ask them when you see them. Xia Jian, a wild wolf-like guy, has been following you for so long. Doesn't he still know what to do? Don't worry, haha! It's okay. I'll die.
I have to go down the mountain to comfort the brothers in the third camp." Yang Bin hung up the phone after saying that.
An Yi put down the phone and turned from anger to joy. He rubbed his hands together excitedly and muttered: "Lao Yang, the grandson, dares to make fun of me, no! I have to further establish my authority. Otherwise, if this continues, you grandsons will still be able to make fun of me."
Why don't you sell me out! Haha..."
Huzi and Yin Jinan looked at each other, then burst out laughing in unison.