The mortar shell accurately flew into the middle of two boulders, blasting the four staff officers of the 51st Brigade to bloody pulps. They lost their lives in an instant. The two wounded and two corpses who fell among them suffered another heavy rain.
Attacked by gravel and shrapnel, it was blown into a gourd of blood, and thick smoke rose more than 20 meters high after a burst of fire.
Brigadier Zhang Zuying climbed up in a depression about four meters outside the natural stone door formed by two huge rocks. The helmet had been knocked several meters away by the gravel shot, and a three-inch long gash was opened on his left cheek.
, hot blood flowed down his neck and soaked half of his shoulders, but he seemed to be completely unaware of his injuries. Amidst the exclamations of the captain of the guard, he rushed towards the smoke-filled and suffocating stone door, and threw
The deputy brigade commander, who fell under the two corpses with his face covered in blood, picked him up and sat on the ground, shaking and calling his name:
"Zida, wake up, Xida, old man, please don't scare me... Where did the health worker go? The health worker..."
"Cough, cough..." Jiao Xida, who had been silent all the time, coughed suddenly, wiped his bloody face with difficulty, and barely opened his eyes: "I can't die... Lao Zhang, take out one quickly.
The battalion came and ordered the special agent company to rush back to the south bank with them, control the high ground on both sides of the ferry, and fully support the retreat of the main group. When we get to the river, we should try to find a way to cross the river. We will survive as long as we can. If we are all gone, we will
The serial number is gone..."
Zhang Zuying nodded heavily with tears in her eyes. The radio team led by the health worker and the special agent company commander Zhu Bin ran in. When they saw the brigade commander and deputy brigade commander covered in blood, they screamed in fright.
Zhang Zuying pushed the hygienist away and asked him to check Jiao Yida's bandage first, then wiped her dark face and wiped away the tears on her cheeks.
The hygienist did not dare to disobey the order and immediately squatted down, picked up Jiao Yida and got busy. Zhu Bin stepped forward and carefully inspected the wounds on Zhang Zuying's face. He tore open the first aid kit on his waist, took out a triangle towel and bandages and quickly bandaged Zhang Zuying.
, two communication soldiers holding radios on the side were spinning around in panic amidst the sound of bullets, facing the blood and blood of corpses on the ground.
"Don't wander around in front of me, your heads are spinning... Find a cleaner place, put up the radio and get in touch with the division immediately! Damn it, I really don't know how you two grandsons can be
The special forces soldiers on board are so restless..." At this point, Zhang Zuying pushed Zhu Bin away, grabbed the bandage head, tied a knot randomly, took the helmet handed by the guard, and buckled it on his head.
Go up and shout the order:
"Zhu Bin, lead more than a hundred of your brothers to evacuate the battlefield quickly. Go to the rear and ask Commander Chi for a battalion of brothers. Before the red bandits have completed the encirclement, rush out along the ditches on both sides of the trail. You must capture the south bank.
On the high ground on both sides of the ferry, light and heavy machine guns and mortars were set up to block the Red Bandits' attack. The retreating brothers successfully retreated to the ferry. Just now there was a faint sound of gunfire from behind. It is estimated that the engineer company staying at the ferry was attacked.
Attacked, no matter how many troops the Red Bandits have, you have to capture the high ground on the only way for me to pass by and control the ferry that I rely on to escape, do you understand?"
"Understood! I will go now."
Zhu Bin glanced at the grinning Zhang Zuying worriedly, grabbed the captain of the guard and dragged him aside and whispered: "Zhu Zhu, you and the guard platoon brothers must escort the two passengers to the ferry safely, otherwise don't blame the elder brother for not giving them."
You save face!"
"Don't worry. Even if I block a bullet with my head, I will definitely ensure the safety of the hotel." Zhuzi replied through gritted teeth.
Zhu Bin punched Zhu Zhu and left quickly. Zhang Zuying's loud voice sounded again: "Get away! I'm not going anywhere. I'm just sending the report here. I don't believe that the Red Bandits' mortar shells will hit my head again."
, it’s really fucking evil..."
Halfway up the mountain to the east, the deputy commander of the Red Army put down his telescope and kicked the small tree next to him a few times in annoyance, causing the tree to shake violently and causing leaves to fall. The artillery leader Li held his head and looked at the valley below in pain.
Two boulders: "What a terrible fate for such a bastard Kuomintang officer! He won't die even if the shells hit him directly. What a bastard life!"
"Old Li, don't blame yourself. You have tried your best. Good fight, good fight!" the deputy commander calmed down, patted the gunner's shoulder gently, and consoled him in a hoarse voice.
The guard pointed at the team of more than 100 people who were rushing across the west side of the boulder in the valley below, and shouted loudly: "Commander, look, the enemy is about a company rushing north from the edge of the mortar position in front of it, look.
It looks like they are probably rushing to the ferry for rescue, what should we do?"
Upon hearing this, the deputy commander quickly raised his telescope and shouted: "No! This team is equipped with automatic weapons, at least six heavy machine guns and a dozen light machine guns. It is definitely the enemy's spy company... Chun
Mao, find a way to go down the mountain quickly and inform the regiment leader that they must be intercepted, otherwise the independent regiment attacking the ferry will have a hard time!"
"It's too late, captain, it will take at least fifteen minutes to go down to the foot of the mountain!" The guard stamped his feet anxiously.
At this time, Lao Li, who was squatting on the ground, suddenly shouted: "Lie down! The enemy is shelling——"
More than a dozen mortar shells roared from the machine gun battalion position of the 51st Brigade of the Kuomintang Army in the middle of the valley. The piercing screams drowned out the dense gunfire and echoed over the valley. Lao Li jumped up and fell
The deputy commander, astute guards and several artillerymen also quickly got down. However, several staff officers and seven or eight soldiers behind the deputy commander were stunned for a moment and did not react. Then dense explosions of artillery shells were heard, covering a radius of tens of meters.
The trees on the mountainside were broken, branches and leaves flew across, and smoke billowed into the sky after the fire.
The deputy commander, Lao Li and others shook off the debris from their bodies, got up and saw that the more than ten officers and soldiers around them had disappeared. The old mortar that had made such a great contribution was only left with a shelf hanging on the mouth of the bowl.
On a thick broken tree trunk.
Facing the mess, the deputy commander's eyes were red, he roared like a wounded tiger, and flew down the mountain road. The guards yelled in fright and chased after them hard. Lao Li and the others lost their mortars.
They also ran wildly behind the deputy commander. They wanted to go down the mountain as soon as possible to join the main force and avenge their dead comrades.
The fighting in the valley became more and more intense. When the officers and soldiers of the Fifth Red Army saw that the enemy troops were divided into battalions and covering each other, they quickly retreated to the rear. They jumped out of the fortifications and bunkers on three sides to pursue downwards. Commander Deng Ping decisively ordered all units to rush forward.
The Charge was determined to annihilate all the stubborn enemies who resisted with this powerful firepower. Bugles rang out throughout the valley, the shouts of killing were deafening, intensive gunshots and grenade explosions came one after another, and the valley was filled with smoke in a radius of four kilometers.
It filled the air and the sound shook the sky.
At the same time, on the south bank of Huangmei Ferry, on the east side of the high ground more than a hundred meters away from the river bank, bullets were flying and roars were heard. The special agent company and a battalion led by Zhu Bin encountered the Red Five who had arrived in advance and annihilated dozens of left-behind engineers.
The Independent Regiment of the Red Army fought tenaciously. Although the Independent Regiment of the Red Army was at an absolute disadvantage in terms of equipment and firepower, they occupied a favorable terrain and used grenades to attack the aggressive enemies from high above.
The enemy was driven back.
The enemy abandoned dozens of corpses and wounded people and was once again suppressed below the high ground 200 meters away. Relying on superior machine gun firepower, they started shooting wildly and detached a group to detour to the east side of the gentle slope in an attempt to attack the high ground.
The Red Army position.
The commander of the independent regiment of the Red Army saw through the enemy's trick, commanded decisively, and once again repulsed the enemies attacking from both sides. However, he also paid a heavy price in the casualties of more than a hundred officers and soldiers. What was especially terrible was that the ammunition carried by the officers and soldiers of the independent regiment consumed a huge amount, and most of the officers and soldiers
All the grenades had been thrown away. The well-equipped and well-trained enemy was like a desperado. After an hour of non-stop attacks, without waiting for a breath, they once again launched a fierce attack relying on superior firepower. Seeing this situation, the independent regiment commander had to ask
The Third Battalion and the Teaching Company, which were holding the high ground on the west side, sent out a signal and requested that a portion of their troops be sent to support the high ground on the east side.
The leader of the independent regiment did not see the two heavy machine guns set up in the grass on the side of the road 300 meters away on the lower right, and the dozen or so machine gun muzzles protruding from the grass around the machine guns. The third battalion commander led two companies
Rushing down the high ground to support the eastern position, as soon as they rushed to the open area between the two highlands, they were hit by intensive firepower from the enemy's heavy machine guns and machine guns. In the blink of an eye, more than 40 soldiers were shot and fell to the ground, and more than 200 charging soldiers fell to the ground.
The soldiers could only quickly lie down and raise their guns to fight back. However, without the advantage of the terrain and without the help of machine gun fire, more than 200 soldiers were suppressed by the hail of bullets and unable to move in the unobstructed open ground. The east highland
The Kuomintang officers and soldiers on both sides of the east and south launched another fierce attack. The leader of the independent regiment on the high ground saw this and was anxious in his heart, and finally shouted the order "fix bayonets".
However, the bigger crisis was still to come. The battle started at the south bank ferry. More than 600 officers and soldiers of the 17th Division's special agent company and directly affiliated engineering battalion on the north bank, with the help of more than 500 pack horses, quickly bypassed the north of Huangmei Village and went straight to the upper reaches.
Two kilometers away in Caojiawan. As soon as more than 600 panting officers and soldiers arrived at the village entrance, they immediately wielded machetes and sharp engineering shovels. Under the horrified gaze of more than a hundred villagers, they felled and chopped down pieces of moso bamboo as thick as a bowl.
Takeo was quickly carried to the turbulent riverside and tied up. More than thirty officers and soldiers with hurried expressions rushed into the houses of the villagers, collected all the ropes including the dirty ropes used to tie the cattle, and threw them into the ocean.
He held the rope and rushed to the river.
In less than an hour, more than 60 large bamboo rafts made of tens of thousands of moso bamboos were dragged into the water one after another. Officers and soldiers carrying long and short guns on their backs and soaked with sweat and rain jumped on the bamboo rafts, holding tightly and breaking the bamboo with their hands.
He made a simple paddle and ignored the sharp edges of the bamboo blades to draw blood grooves on his hands. He drove the bamboo raft into the rushing river and rowed to the other side for his life.
A dozen officers and soldiers who were weak and accidentally fell off the bamboo raft struggled desperately in the strong waves, rising and falling, but no one on the bamboo raft reached out to save them. As if they didn't know anything, they moved forward with all their strength towards the south bank. More than a hundred people watched.
The villagers were stunned and extremely moved.
It was the arrival of this new force that was not afraid of death that made the Red Army Independent Regiment pay an extremely heavy price, which was unaware of it beforehand. The Red Army soldiers who had just inserted the bayonet on the gun head and prepared to fight to the death were attacked from both sides.
Under the powerful firepower of the enemy, they had to retreat to the southwest with hatred. The main force of more than 1,400 people was finally safely withdrawn. Only about 500 people were left, and nearly half of them were wounded who had lost their combat effectiveness.
It was under this unexpected situation that Zhang Zuying's 51st Brigade, at all costs, broke out of the encirclement surrounded by the Red Army's superior forces. The two battalions that reached the highlands on the south bank first quickly established blocking positions with the support of the supporting troops.
, using powerful machine gun firepower, they brought in the defeated main force and launched a fierce fire block against the Red Army troops who were pursuing bravely with the encouragement of the Charge. In this way, most of the 51st Brigade of more than 4,000 people escaped, one by one.
They rushed to the shore, jumped on huge bamboo rafts, and fled down the river. At least a hundred people climbed on each bamboo raft, just like ants clinging to floating sticks in the flood. The bamboo was completely invisible in the darkness.
Amidst the fierce gunfire, the brigade commander Zhang Zuying, who was carried onto the boat, held his left arm that was broken by the bullet and shouted loudly to the officers and soldiers of the machine gun battalion who had finally withdrawn from the shore:
"Everyone listen to the order and throw all the heavy machine guns and mortars into the river! As long as you stay alive, you will have everything. Just carry out the order!"
Heavy machine guns and mortars were thrown into the torrent one after another. Two sergeants who were reluctant to part with their mortar barrels were slapped several times by the company commander. They reluctantly threw away the barrels and lay on the bamboo rafts.
, with half of his body immersed in the water, tears streaming down his face, he allowed himself and the bamboo raft to be rushed downstream by the torrent. The experienced officers and soldiers of the 51st Brigade, who had learned to choose and give up, miraculously escaped like this.
More than 3,700 people attended.
Half an hour later, more than a dozen war horses rushed to the south bank where corpses and pools of blood were scattered all over the place. Regiment Commander Peng Dehuai looked at the last few rows of bamboo rafts that had gone away, shook his head and looked up to the sky and sighed. No matter what, he could not imagine that the enemy 51
The brigade was surrounded on three sides by more than 18,000 soldiers, and most of them escaped.
Deng Ping came to Peng Dehuai's side, blushed and complained in a low voice, saying that she had overestimated herself and only sent an independent regiment to block the enemy's retreat. The enemy's reinforcements came down the river from upstream and attacked from both sides, causing the entire elaborate organization to expend a huge amount of strength.
The launched operation fell short, and the cooked duck just flew away.
Peng Dehuai did not blame Deng Ping. He knew how big the gap between the enemy and us was in weapons, equipment and training. He also knew very well that apart from the independent regiments, no more troops could be mobilized for blocking tasks. The most important point was that Peng Dehuai was worried about
What was unexpected was that the main force of the three divisions responsible for the three-sided ambush failed to hold back the enemy troops who had decisively broken through. The cunning opponent made a frantic breakout at all costs before the three divisions and three reserve regiments had completed the encirclement. This resulted in such a situation.
The underlying reason for this outcome, which Peng Dehuai could not say and was unwilling to explain in detail, was that the large-scale counter-revolutionary movement resulted in the loss of a large number of battle-hardened and experienced commanders at all levels. During the long-term anti-encirclement and suppression struggle, batches of
Veterans sacrificed their lives one after another, and the newly recruited soldiers in each division and regiment lacked necessary training and experience in large-scale combat, resulting in the failure of this well-planned and successful ambush.
The rain that had just stopped at noon was now falling again. Peng Dehuai took a deep breath and loudly issued an order: Leave one regiment and the Red Guards to clean the battlefield, while the other units rush eastward as quickly as possible to try to win the battle by nightfall.
I rushed to the Datong'an battlefield and, together with the First Red Army Corps, launched an attack on the main force of the 17th Division of the Kuomintang in the encirclement of the Eastern Front!
Night was approaching. Lu Yixuan in Dayu City received the news that most of the 51st Brigade had escaped but suffered heavy losses and all heavy weapons were lost. He felt extremely painful. He had no time to send comfort to the 51st Brigade and could not make any plans.
Ma Qian went to the military camp above the dock outside the city to visit the two injured brigade commanders. Because the Datong'an pass was firmly occupied by the three main regiments of the Red Army, his 50th and 49th brigades were fighting against Lin Biao, who was several times stronger than his own.
Struggling under siege by legions.
7:10 p.m., Williams Villa, Lushan, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's headquarters.
Many generals failed to finish the sumptuous dinner, so they were urgently summoned by Chiang Kai-shek to the spacious hall on the first floor of the villa. After Ge Jingen read out the news that the 17th Division on the right wing of Chen Cheng's column was surrounded by the Red Army, the generals in the room were surprised and seemed incredulous.
Chiang Kai-shek sat upright at the front of the center, with a pale face and said nothing. He Yingqin, the direct leader of Chen Cheng's column, sat at the lower right of Chiang Kai-shek. His eyes behind the lenses were fixed on the battle report in front of him, and he was nervously thinking about countermeasures.
Calculate the situation of other divisions under Chen Cheng.
Mr. Wei Caier, who was sitting on the left side of Ge Jingen's position, looked around and did not find the familiar An Yi. He turned to Ge Jingen and asked in a low voice: "Why isn't General An here?"
Ge Jingen lowered his voice and replied: "Maybe he went to Xingzi Pier to inspect the Poyang Lake Water Guard Division. The incident happened suddenly and we couldn't contact him for a while."
Wei Cai'er sighed secretly, glanced at Chiang Kai-shek and the generals whose expressions were changing, and shook his head slightly, thinking that what An Yi was worried about finally happened. Although only one division was surrounded by the Red Army, it did not have a great impact on the overall situation, but
The potential dangers and possible chain reactions are enough to attract the attention of all the generals.
Wei Caier knew very well that the reason why An Yi's opinions were difficult to gain the attention of the generals present was that An Yi fundamentally denied the strategic guiding ideology carefully formulated by the senior leaders of the Suppression General. Although An Yi's views and understanding of the battle situation were very unique, and even
It clearly points out the possible crisis in a very foreseeable way, but such sharp contrary opinions will definitely offend the makers and commanders of the strategic plan.
However, the crisis in front of him strongly proved An Yi's foresight and proved that his worries were not unnecessary. Wei Caier suddenly wanted to know how the supreme commander of the Chinese army in front of him would deal with this difficult problem? In the war situation where the crisis emerged,
How will the next step develop? Will it get worse as An Yi hinted?