There was chaos inside and outside the Hou family ancestral hall, with figures running around in despair everywhere, scoldings and curses could be heard everywhere, and the ground was covered with abandoned scraps of paper.
Jiang Jicheng, commander of the Ninth Division, saw that something was wrong and heard fierce exchanges of fire from behind. Five minutes ago, he finally issued an order to retreat across the entire line. At this time, the Second Battalion of the Guard Regiment had been sent to the small bridge to the west in an attempt to assist the victims.
The 109th Regiment attacked and firmly controlled the bridge, trying to ensure that the only retreat for the entire division was not lost.
More than 500 meters away from the small bridge, the 450 officers and soldiers of the Second Battalion of the Guard Regiment, who were hurrying slowly, were suddenly attacked. The battalion commander who was riding at the front rushed towards him. The battalion deputy had no time to grunt and fell off his horse.
Immediately afterwards, dense rain of machine gun bullets was fired from the small woods on both sides. Hundreds of officers and soldiers who lost their command were so frightened that they no longer had the courage to move forward. They abandoned dozens of corpses and turned around to escape. Unfortunately, they did not escape before they could.
In the Hou family ancestral hall, dense shells crossed the sky above their heads and landed around the ancestral hall. One of the shells happened to overturn the simple and elegant painted archway of the courtyard gate, and the heavy stone beams flew towards the ancestral hall like a rotating windmill.
, smashed the head of a sentry standing guard at the door, and the broken branches, broken wood, dust and bricks blown up by the shell were sprayed everywhere. The whole yard and the left and right hillsides were filled with smoke and a mess.
Jiang Jicheng, who was ready to go out in the ancestral hall, and more than a dozen generals rushed out of the door in a panic. At this time, another round of artillery shells roared in. Jiang Jicheng, who ran into the yard and the four guards who were hugging him, had no time to lie down.
After a burst of red light, they all flew into the sky. The chief of staff, who was slower at the back, was so frightened that he stumbled and fell on the threshold of the door. He looked at the broken limbs flying in the smoke and screamed crazily, making his whole body weak.
Within a hundred meters of the Hou family ancestral hall, flames were everywhere, smoke was shrouded, dozens of towering trees were blown down, and mutilated and ferocious corpses could be seen everywhere. Amidst wailing all over the place, another round of artillery shells flew in, tall and tall
The ancestral hall and the wing room in the backyard finally escaped disaster. Beams and bricks were flying in the sky, and walls collapsed. The raging fire caused by the violent explosion was mixed with thick smoke and could be clearly seen ten miles away.
The headquarters of the Ninth Division of the Anhui Army with more than 200 people was wiped out by the powerful artillery fire that originally belonged to them. Not even a complete body was left behind.
More than 400 officers and soldiers of the guard regiment who were scattered around the ancestral hall were constantly encountered by cold guns and artillery, resulting in extremely heavy casualties. After the ancestral hall was bombed, the remaining officers fled in all directions, but to the east was the main battlefield with the roar of artillery, and to the west was the revolutionary battlefield.
The small bridge is tightly controlled by the army. To the north is a river more than 40 meters wide, and to the south is it blocked by thousands of officers wearing the unique military uniforms of the Anyi Division.
The soldiers sealed the blockade tightly, and most of the hundreds of defeated soldiers fled into the back village and rushed to the river. As soon as the more than a hundred officers and soldiers who waded north and fled north swam halfway, they became a living target for the brothers from the special brigade of the Anyi Division on the other side.
After a burst of "crackling" gunfire, there was no living person on the river except for the blood that kept emerging and the bodies that were gradually sinking.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the remnants of the guard regiment did not want to hide in the village surrounded on three sides and wait for death. They could only grit their teeth and rush to the main battlefield to the east, where the main force was located. Although the current situation was not good, the people
The more courage you have, the stronger you will be; even if we die, we will all die together.
More than 300 defeated soldiers rushed all the way through the blazing fire, which was beyond recognition. They didn't even have the courage to take a second look, and rushed onto the main road.
At this time, nearly 3,000 brothers from the 1st Regiment of the Independent Division and the logistics units had closed the gap in the encirclement. The flag of the model battalion, which was entering the position at high speed, was particularly conspicuous. The more than 300 messy remnants saw the waving flag from a distance and were frightened.
He stopped, turned around, and ran back, not even having the courage to fight.
However, before these unlucky people who were fleeing in chaos could figure out a direction to break out, intensive machine gunfire rang out from the north, and in the blink of an eye, more than 300 panicked people were knocked down.
The brothers in the model camp to the east were shocked when they heard the sound of gunfire. Liu Qi, the 27-year-old battalion commander from Tongbai, personally led his company and rushed over. After a fierce exchange of fire, the remnants dropped more than a hundred corpses and headed westward crazily.
Escape.
Just when Liu Qi was about to give the order to pursue, he saw a swaying in the grass a hundred meters to the north. He was so frightened that he quickly took people to hide and hide. At this time, the "Flying Fox Flag" stretched out diagonally. Liu Qi shook his head and smiled when he saw this, and jumped out from behind the big tree on the roadside.
Lead the brothers to get up and return to the main battlefield in the east.
An Jin, the captain of the special brigade, ordered the flag to be put away and led his thirty-six brothers to the enemy's corpse.
"How did you treat our injured brothers in the Independent Division back then? I never thought you would be here today!" An Jin's eyes spit fire, he smiled coldly, and ordered the enemy soldiers who were still moaning and struggling to be stabbed to death one by one, and checked to see if there were any.
After surviving, the brothers were ordered to leave the road and spread out, forming a skirmishing search formation and slowly pressing westward.
An Jin clearly knew that the remaining enemies had no way out under the powerful machine gun fire at the bridge. No matter where they fled, there was only a dead end. As long as the remaining enemies on the east of the bridge were eliminated, he could lead his brothers to the main battlefield to join the battle.
.Just now he killed the major general commander of the enemy's artillery regiment across the river.
Still feeling unsatisfied, he wanted to kill a few higher-ranking officials to feel comfortable. Who knew that the enemy's two highest-ranking lieutenant generals and five major generals were all lying dead in the blazing ancestral hall area.
After more than ten rounds of artillery fire, not even a whole body was left.
At 1:40 noon, 2.8 kilometers northwest of Feng County, Luzhuang.
The independent division headquarters set up in a residential building on the north side of Shanbao was ringing. More than 30 staff officers took charge of their responsibilities nervously and orderly. Chief of Staff Li Guang received a call from Huang Yingwu, the party representative who participated in the joint command of the 72nd Division.
, very resolutely declined the request of the 72nd Division to launch an assault, and ordered Huang Yingwu and Pan Shanzhai in the name of An Yi, deputy commander of the 3rd Army Corps and acting commander of the 33rd Army, to hold on to the southern front position and not allow a single enemy to cross the river and escape.
A great achievement.
After Lu Guang finished speaking, regardless of the pleading on the phone, he put down the phone and walked out of the door. He quickly climbed up the hill in front of him and came to An Yi and Hu Jialin who were standing on the top to observe the enemy's situation. He took the telescope handed by the adjutant and looked at it quietly.
battlefield.
The fierce exchange of fire has stopped for ten minutes. Under the scorching sun, the main battlefield, which is five kilometers wide from north to south and four kilometers long from east to west, is littered with corpses. Smoke is billowing, dense craters are steaming with heat, and the strong smell of blood is spreading everywhere in the turbulent airflow.
As the river wind blows in your face, the green that originally filled your eyes has turned into black and yellow scorched earth, and the bushes and weeds that have been dried by the hot air are still burning.
One point seven kilometers to the southwest, two majestic towering trees were like blazing torches. The "cracking" burning sound was endless. Looking around, the entire battlefield was completely devoid of life and was completely silent.
Thick smoke was still rising from the saddle-shaped hill to the west of the center of the battlefield. More than 6,000 enemy officers and soldiers in ragged clothes and with no morale were huddled around the mountain. From the moment they entered the battlefield, God had doomed their fate.
, after launching five charges and losing more than 3,000 people, they still failed to break out of the battlefield. Everyone was finally completely desperate. At this moment, they had no choice but to rush out of the battlefield.
Flags, no trench fortifications, no food and no bullets. The scorching sun and scalding ground have already dried up any low-lying pool of water. Drinking water to moisten your throat has become a huge luxury. Apart from fear and despair, there is nothing but constant danger on all sides.
With the influx of hatred and murderous intent, they had nothing left, and they followed the arrangements of the God of Death as if they were staying in purgatory.
At this time, all the remaining officers and soldiers already knew that what was surrounding them was the An Yi Division that they had beaten and almost wiped out nine months ago. At that time, the First Brigade and the Second Regiment massacred more than 600 independent soldiers who had lost the ability to resist at Plowshares Mouth.
The division's wounded soldiers, the First Regiment of the Second Brigade took the lead in landing on Baguazhou, and the killings deepened. The then commander of the first regiment, now the deputy brigade commander, personally chopped off the head of the last wounded soldier in front of An Yi, who was escaping by boat. This
The hatred cannot be resolved and can only end in the complete destruction of one party.
"Pah——"
A faint sound of gunfire was heard. Lu Guang raised his telescope to observe for a moment and whispered: "The sound of the Browning pistol probably means that one of the officers could not bear the pressure and committed suicide."
"coward!"
An Yi cursed, then put down the telescope and turned around and asked: "Cheng Guang, how is the progress of the group to the west?"
"The first regiment has pressed up one kilometer and is currently about 1.5 kilometers away from the enemy's central area. After Li Yuanjiang led the brothers of the infantry battalion of the artillery regiment to clean the battlefield, he left a company in Zhaozhuang to guard the enemy's ammunition and supplies. This battle
The captured 24 artillery pieces, 12 mortars and more than 300 horses have been pulled 800 meters behind the group. Lao Li's special forces guard the west, and three of them are clearing several woods.
The remaining enemies here." Cheng Guang replied.
An Yi's eyes shone with a crazy light, and he nodded coldly: "Order, in ten minutes, with the saddle-shaped mountain as the center, launch a ten-minute non-stop artillery bombardment, then conduct another covering shot, and then start encirclement and clearing."
"yes!"
Lu Guang turned around and ran down the hillside.
At the main artillery position in the south of the city, the brothers of the artillery regiment commander Liao Minlin all took off their shirts. Their strong bodies and faces were full of gunpowder smoke. Boxes of shrapnel shells with fuses installed were moved to the loading position, and the golden shells were fired one after another.
After being stuffed into the gun barrel, with the whistle of deputy commander Shi Junren, the thirty artillery pieces roared in unison again, and smoke filled the artillery position with a radius of 800 meters.
At the observation post on the south bank of the Baiyi River, Pan Shanzhai, commander of the 72nd Division, and seven or eight generals around him heard the sound of artillery fire again. They immediately rushed to the observation post, picked up their binoculars and carefully observed the center of the battlefield where mud and rocks were splashing and bursts of fire.
See countless
The stumps and broken arms rose into the air. The saddle-shaped mountain with a radius of more than 100 meters and a height of more than 10 meters became shorter and shorter in the flames. All the sounds were covered by the rumbling sound of the cannons, shaking the earth, and the dust fell from the observation post.
The supporting logs at the top kept falling through the gaps.
Five minutes after the bombardment, the entire battlefield was shrouded in gunpowder smoke, and the firelight of the shell explosion became like the light of fireflies amid the thick dust mist and billowing smoke.
Pan Shanzhai shook his head involuntarily, with emotions surging in his heart. The two days of fighting left an unforgettable impression on him, especially the brutal massacre after the independent division successfully lured the enemy today, which deeply shocked Pan Shanzhai and his soldiers.
We, they have never seen any army with such a powerful
The combat effectiveness and cohesion of the army, I have never seen any unit with such unanimous deep-seated hatred, and its revenge is so bloody and cruel, regardless of everything, I think of the joy on the corner of Huang Yingwu, the representative of the independent division party, when he saw the enemy troops falling in rows.
Pan Shanzhai's smile gave him a creepy feeling.
"Listen, the artillery has stopped, and the enemy's destruction is just a snap away! However, the battle has come to an end now, and the grudges between us and the 72nd Division have finally come to an end...Brother Pan, your dear
Give me a record of the casualties and casualties of our troops. You fought this battle for our independent division, so the pensions should be paid by our independent division."
After Huang Yingwu finished speaking, he put down the telescope with a spring breeze on his face, walked to the guard post, picked up the dusty tea, blew the dust off the cup, and drank it without caring.
Pan Shanzhai observed for a while and found that there was no sound of artillery. He turned around and said with a smile: "This battle was easy. Fighting off the enemies rushing up across the river was as comfortable as target practice. The whole division
The casualties are estimated to be less than 250."
"No matter how much it is, the money will be paid by our independent division. The injured brothers will be sent back to Xuzhou City North Camp. Our health team has set up a field hospital there. The conditions are very good. Several foreign doctors from the old Nanchang Hospital volunteered to take care of it.
With more than a hundred of our trainees coming here, we are guaranteed to have a more comfortable stay than at the headquarters hospital.
For the brothers who died in the battle, each soldier found 300 yuan, a lieutenant 500 yuan, and a school officer 1,000 yuan. Brother Pan just asked the brothers below to finish the calculation and give it to me. The pension will be delivered on time within two days." Huang Yingwu reported in detail.
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Hearing this, Pan Shanzhai and the generals around him all looked at Huang Yingwu in surprise. The dozen or so staff officers around him also stopped what they were doing and looked over. They couldn't believe that the independent division's pension was set so high.
"No wonder so many people are willing to join your independent division. I'm so envious! The independent division is not only rich, but the top and bottom members are absolutely loyal. It is our honor to fight side by side with the independent division! From Liuquan to Fengxian, and then to today's fight
This battle, as long as we follow the footsteps of the independent division, we can win the battle, and it is easy to fight, without much effort, and comfortable!" Deputy Division Commander Lu Quanzhong said with emotion.
"Look, there's a fight, it's a total massacre..."
The combat staff officer in charge of the observation exclaimed.
As soon as everyone heard this, they rushed to the observation port and picked up their telescopes to observe carefully. The scene on the battlefield was shocking: thousands of brothers from the Independent Division, fully armed and wearing helmets, lined up in neat formations, from west, north, and east.
Slowly press towards the center of the battlefield from three directions, aiming at anyone in front.
He Hui's moving objects started shooting freely, and more than twenty enemy officers and soldiers who fled towards this side were shot down in the blink of an eye. In the increasingly smaller encirclement, thousands of remaining enemies were kneeling or lying down, each one incomparable.
In despair, no one can resist in the face of the ruthless killing of the officers and soldiers of the Independent Division...