Episode 60 Outsmarting the Sixth Red Division (Part 2)
Episode 60: Outsmarting the Sixth Red Division (Part 2)
The only thing that gave Huang Shuliang some comfort was that the long cars and carriages parked on the road were still basically in good condition and were not tied with red ribbons.
It should be that the 1st Blue Division did not burn or blow up the ammunition and baggage in order to pursue the secret of leaving. Otherwise, the loud noise of the explosion would have been heard by the 6th Red Division in Zhuangnai, and Rommel's deception plan would have been difficult to carry out.
Of course, this is a drill, and it is impossible to really burn or explode, but at least they will wear a red ribbon to show that the baggage has been reimbursed and that their division can no longer be used.
Huang Shuliang knew that if it were him, he would definitely have people tie all the baggage with red ribbons before leaving. Taking advantage of the fact that there would be no explosions in the exercise, he would "blow up" the red baggage and leave quietly.
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But this should probably be considered a foul. That German Rommel is so stupid that he wouldn't commit such a violation, right?
Huang Shuliang himself felt that this explanation was a bit far-fetched, but he couldn't think of a more reasonable explanation at the moment. Either the other party was negligent and simply forgot to destroy the baggage. This is even more far-fetched.
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Huang Shuliang reported the morning's situation and his own losses to the Nanjing Red Army Headquarters.
Tang Yunsheng personally sent a telegram to inform Huang Shuliang that his Sixth Red Division is now the division with the least losses among the six divisions of the Red Army. Now two of the six divisions of the Red Army have been annihilated, and among the remaining four divisions,
There are three divisions that have not yet come into contact with the Blue Army, but they have already suffered heavy losses from air strikes, their morale is low, and they are in chaos. Only the Red Sixth Division is still intact and well-organized, and is in face-to-face contact with the Blue Army's main armored division.
, preserving strength and combat effectiveness.
Now Tang Yunsheng hereby sends a telegram to commend Huang Shuliang and all the officers and soldiers of the Sixth Red Division. Immediately afterwards, Xiang Xiaoqiang follows closely and sends a telegram to commend Huang Shuliang and all the officers and soldiers of the Sixth Red Division.
When Huang Shuliang faced the superior armored division of the Blue Army, he retreated into residential areas and acted like a rogue imitator of the Qing captives and held civilians hostage. He originally wanted to lure the Blue Army's First Division to attack the village and defeat them in a desperate attempt. Now that his wishful thinking has come to nothing, he is worried.
He will be dealt with. Unexpectedly, not only was he not dealt with, but he was also given a power-up award. Just because he maintained his strength and combat effectiveness.
He shook his head. From this, we can see how pessimistic the Red Army headquarters is about the situation now.
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The Red Army headquarters sent over the battle situation throughout the morning after the war began.
According to the reconnaissance information from the 4th Red Division and the 5th Red Division, the 2nd Blue Division has just finished "cleaning up" the 2nd and 3rd Red Divisions and is now resting and relocating prisoners and wounded. I don't know what the next step will be.
Now the 4th and 5th Red Divisions are marching northward with difficulty under the bombing of planes, taking the initiative to fight against the 2nd Blue Division, but they only walked less than three kilometers in the morning. If the 2nd Blue Division plans to take the initiative to fight south, then both sides will have to fight this afternoon.
Contact will occur. If the Second Blue Division is waiting for work, then just relying on the two Red Army divisions to move north will cover a distance of tens of kilometers, and the Red Army will be almost unable to move under the daytime sky attack. It would be good for the two sides to be able to contact in three days. If
After the Second Blue Division finished cleaning the battlefield, they did not intend to pay attention to the two Red Army divisions in the south. Instead, they advanced westward and followed the First Blue Division to attack Nanjing. The Fourth and Red Divisions of the Red Division would never be able to touch the Blue Army's butt.
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"Air supremacy! Air supremacy!" Huang Shuliang bit the grass stick, looked at the sky, and muttered to himself, "Air supremacy is such a good thing!"
As soon as this statement came out, the staff officers and soldiers around them all "coaxed" and loudly agreed. Now they have personally felt the power of air supremacy. If the sky is in other people's hands, you basically can't fight. Your
No matter how many soldiers there are, no matter how capable the troops are in fighting, if they don't have control of the air, it's like being tied up and being slaughtered by others.
The Red Army headquarters now lets Huang Shuliang decide on his own which direction the Sixth Red Division should attack next.
In Huang Shuliang's own opinion, there are two options before him: First, march eastward, join the Fourth Red Division and the Fifth Red Division, and fight the Second Blue Division with the strength of three divisions. Second, turn around and head west, far away
Follow the 1st Blue Division from a distance, and when the 1st Blue Division and the 1st Red Division come into contact with each other, he will attack from the back of the 1st Blue Division.
Of course, there is a third, safer option, which is to continue to stay in this village until night, and then come out after there are no more planes in the sky.
But this is a bit too negative. Moreover, in the morning after the war started, two divisions of the Red Army were brutally killed. If another afternoon passed, one or two divisions might be killed. If I did not rush to rescue, the First Red Division would
There is no doubt that they will be eaten by the First Blue Division. The Fourth and Red Divisions may be a little better, but at least they will be bruised and swollen. Huang Shuliang has no illusions about this.
Although the Second Blue Division is not an armored division, it is also a motorized infantry division. And it is a motorized infantry division reinforced by a tank battalion. They can choose whether to fight, when to fight, and where to fight. The two divisions of the Red Army can only do
Waiting, like two worms, slowly crawling on the ground. The most important thing is that the sky is in the hands of the blue army. The blue army is well aware of the red army's every move, while the red army is blind.
If we wait another afternoon and wait for the red side to lose one or two more divisions, it will be meaningless if our sixth red division cannot get out.
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Huang Shuliang made a decisive decision, taking advantage of the fact that there were no planes overhead, he quickly drove westward and followed the Blue 1st Division from a distance. When the Blue 1st Division and the Red 1st Division fought, he would attack from behind the Blue 1st Division.
.There is still hope of victory. As for the eastern battlefield, I am too far away from the 4th and 5th Red Divisions to respond to each other. It is a battlefield that I cannot control.
Huang Shuliang is used to letting him handle things that are beyond his control and not thinking too much about them. The same is true on the battlefield now.
While Huang Shuliang was clearing out the reconnaissance troops, he ordered the troops to be pulled out of Zhuangzi.
How do you push those cannons in and how do you pull them out? How do you remove those door panels? Now you have to install them for the people. There are also trenches and foxholes dug everywhere in other people's villages. Now they have to be responsible for them.
Fill it up. There are also common people's chickens, whether they are scared to death or too scared to lay eggs, they still have to pay compensation.
However, the war is now urgent and we cannot afford to delay too much. Huang Shuliang left a squad to take charge of the aftermath, and he set out with a division.
The long cars and carriages parked on the road were also quickly checked by the soldiers to make sure that they had not been tampered with.
He looked at the map and analyzed it with his staff.
The 1st Red Division is now about 25 kilometers to the west of itself, with the 1st Blue Division in the middle. Since the Blue Army used smoke bombs and aircraft noise to make the Red 6th Division unaware of the situation outside the village, until a company of the Red 6th Division rushed out and found that the 1st Blue Division had already
There was an hour and twenty minutes until the departure. It would take half an hour at the fastest for the whole Blue Division to leave. In other words, the Blue Division has been marching westwards for at most fifty minutes. And these fifty minutes are not enough for the Blue Division.
For one division, it can cover a distance of more than 20 kilometers.
In other words, the 1st Red Division will be attacked by the 1st Blue Division at any time.
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"Have all the reconnaissance troops been dispatched?"
Huang Shuliang asked.
The staff officer immediately replied:
"Master, we have just been dispatched, mainly to the front, followed by our wings and rear. Now the reconnaissance teams are estimated to have spread out two kilometers away."
"Too slow! Two kilometers is not enough," Huang Shuliang shook his head, "Let them speed up. I want to know the situation within 20 kilometers around me as soon as possible. Twenty kilometers, this is an hour's journey for the enemy. An hour's warning, this is
at the lowest limit."
"Yes, Master, I have given the order to go down."
Suddenly, the communications officer next to him took off his earphones and reported loudly:
"Teacher, the First Red Division is under attack!"
Without saying a word, Huang Shuliang immediately rushed over to grab the headphones and put them on himself:
"I am Huang Shuliang, commander of the Sixth Division! How are you doing there?"
In the earphones, there was already the roar of artillery. In addition to the roar of tank guns, the sound of machine guns, and the roar of aircraft.
The commander of the Red 1st Division shouted in a hoarse voice with extremely anxious voice:
"Where is your unit? How far is it from us?"
Huang Shuliang's heart sank. Listening to the movement on the other end, he was afraid that the 1st Red Division had been "blitzed" again. He could already clearly hear the sound of the tank gun, which was not very loud, but had a hard metallic feel. On the radio
If you can hear such a strong "texture", it means that the opponent's tank is very close, probably within a few hundred meters. Moreover, the division commander is so manic, and the division headquarters is also in chaos...
Huang Shuliang hesitated for two seconds and said as calmly as possible:
"Our unit is 25 kilometers east of you. You...you must hold on independently because...because of the command, our unit must immediately rush east for reinforcements and enter the attack on the Second Blue Division..."
There was silence on the other end of the phone for a long time, and only the sound of gunfire could be heard. Then there was a sigh:
"Brother Huang, just take care of yourself."
"Hey, hey, what is the size of the blue team? How many tanks are there? Hey, hey? Hey, hey..."
No one answered on the other end of the phone, only the commander of the 1st Red Division could be heard shouting instructions nearby.
Huang Shuliang put down the phone and ordered angrily:
"Immediately use the password to send a message to the headquarters of the 1st Red Division: I just said that I received the order to attack the 2nd Blue Division eastward. I deceived the enemy into listening. Now I am rushing to your headquarters at full speed! In addition, tell them that in the future, this kind of important information will be
Stop using the fucking radio language!"
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"Get the order, speed up!" Huang Shuliang, wearing a steel helmet, stood on a tomb, patted his thigh with his gloves, and shouted loudly, "Speed up! In addition to ammunition and artillery, other baggage is thrown here first! The troops are running forward.
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Just coming out of Zhuangzi, the soldiers who had formed a team threw their luggage, heavy machine guns, and mortars on the cars of each company. They only carried their own guns and portable ammunition, and ran forward with neat steps and light equipment.
The messengers rode motorcycles and some on war horses, shouting orders back and forth.
Dust was kicked up again on the long road.
The mules and carriages transporting grain were all abandoned. Only the cars pulling ammunition and artillery were still driving in the middle of the marching column. Every car and cannon was covered with infantry.
Most of the Ming Dynasty infantry divisions are now semi-motorized, and most of the heavy artillery and baggage are pulled by cars. In other words, although the infantry still has to use legs to walk, in the past, those heavy artillery and heavy artillery that could not keep up with the advance of the troops seriously slowed down the speed.
The ammunition baggage is heavy and can now keep up with the troops. This is much faster than a pure infantry division. Moreover, the infantry can advance lightly and can "take turns in the carriage" in this way, which saves a lot of physical strength. The distance traveled in a day and night is also faster than that of pure infantry.
There are a lot more teachers.
Huang Shuliang looked at the sky. There have been no planes for a while now. If it were like this in the morning, the marching speed that day would be great.
I don’t know how far we still have to catch up with the tail of the Second Blue Division... maybe more than ten kilometers. Fortunately, at such a forced march speed, it only takes more than two hours. As long as we can get within ten kilometers of the First Blue Division, we can
After the reconnaissance detachment and artillery observers passed by, they could bombard it with heavy artillery first. In this way, the Blue Division would fight from head to tail at the same time, and the two Red Army divisions would hope to work together to kill it.
That guy Rommel was too eager for quick success. He probably wanted to attack quickly and left without even sweeping the tail behind him. If he were to command the Blue Army, he would at least leave one unit behind to watch over the Sixth Red Division... However,
The Blue Army's troops are tight. If they keep too few, they will not be able to hold on, and they may be eaten up. If they keep too many, it will affect their ability to continue the attack... Haha, this is also a benefit brought by the Red Army's strong troops.
The First Red Division shouldn't be able to hold on for two hours.
He looked at the sky and prayed. Don't let any more planes come in this hour. If the Blue Army sends a large number of planes to kill him here, the Red 1st Division and the Red 6th Division will not be able to escape.
A devastating disaster.
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The air raid sirens rang loudly.
"Oh shit!"
Huang Shuliang cursed and immediately shouted "Lie down and take cover-", then jumped down from the grave bag and burrowed into the nearby bushes like a real weasel.
The anti-aircraft guns rang out, and three black spots appeared in the sky, followed by three more, and then three more...
In an instant, these black spots turned into dive bombers, strafing down and dropping a large series of small "bombs". The drop was so accurate...
Thick smoke rose densely on the road, and the exercise referees were busy. While dodging these small bombs, they tried their best to tie red ribbons on cars and artillery. At the same time, many soldiers were immediately declared dead.
Huang Shuliang hid in the bushes, looking at the sky through the gaps in the grass. The more he looked, the more he felt something was wrong.
There were more and more dive bombers, six, nine, twelve, sixteen, twenty-four, thirty-two...and more fighter planes, also carrying small bombs to participate in the air raid.
This is no longer harassment. Huang Shuliang can be sure that the blue team’s purpose is not just to slow down themselves, they want to eliminate them!
To this end, they dispatched almost all available aircraft!
Then, he was surprised to see a group of big guys appearing in the sky, which seemed to be twin engines!
――That’s the Swan horizontal bomber!
Huang Shuliang's eyes widened, and he watched helplessly as at least ten Swan bombers dived to low altitudes, lined up and dropped a string of small bombs on the road.
Suddenly, dense plumes of smoke rose up among the baggage artillery on the road.
It’s over…all the heavy weapons are over now…
Immediately afterwards, he felt the ground beneath him shake. Soon, an even more terrifying sound came from all directions.
Tanks! A large number of tanks! A swarm of tanks!
Huang Shuliang's mind was stunned for a long time, and he slowly understood the fact -
Lan Yishi didn't go far at all, he was lying in ambush near Zhuangzi, waiting for him to come out...
As for the attack on the 1st Red Division 25 kilometers away, it was at best a feint attack by a few tank companies, coupled with some armored vehicles and self-propelled artillery!
This scared the commander of the Red 1st Division, who had never seen the world, into confusion!
Huang Shuliang was lying in the bushes next to the grave, already thinking in a detached way about how to write a post-war report.