At 2:30 in the afternoon, most of the Sixth Red Division outside Xinmenzhuang had been almost wiped out. Due to the continuous air raids, the Sixth Red Division had more than 9,000 people left when it arrived at Xinmenzhuang. Only the prisoners who had surrendered now
There were four to five thousand, more than two thousand were "killed", and more than a thousand were scattered and fled in all directions. In addition, there should be more than a thousand people who retreated to Xinmengzhuang.
These more than a thousand people were obviously the elite of the division. Despite fierce air strikes and being surrounded by tanks on all sides, they remained calm and gathered together spontaneously. Not only did they retreat into Xinmengzhuang in an orderly manner, but they also pushed two
A dozen light artillery pieces and machine guns went in. They had the energy to hold on again and fight to the end with the Lan 1st Division.
When cleaning the battlefield, most of the other senior officers in the division were good, except for the division commander Huang Shuliang. It seemed that Huang Shuliang was the one who organized more than a thousand people to enter the village.
Although Rommel asked Xu Xiangde to tell the commander of the 1st Red Division that they must arrive within two hours, he knew that for a heavy infantry division, it would be impossible to cover 25 kilometers in two hours. Although they
It was semi-motorized, which meant that heavy artillery and baggage were transported by car, just to ensure that they could keep up with the infantry. The moving speed of the entire unit was the walking speed of the infantry.
A person can walk up to five or six kilometers in one hour, and up to ten kilometers in two hours. If you insist on covering 25 kilometers, you will have to run. Even if the infantry can put the extra equipment on the truck,
But the gun and ammunition must be carried on the carry. Together they weigh more than twenty kilograms. A person can run for two hours carrying a load weighing more than twenty kilograms. Even if he is a soldier, he is a Marine Corps or special forces soldier.
level. And after running, forget about fighting.
Therefore, the head of the Blue Division believed that it would take at least three to four hours for the main force of the Red Division to arrive here.
However, although they are infantry divisions, their reconnaissance units are all motorized. The Blue Division had already sent a blocking force to the west half an hour ago, with the purpose of blocking the Red Army's reconnaissance outposts and preventing them from understanding the situation.
What happened next.
Now that the two sides have begun to contact, part of the reconnaissance battalion of the 1st Red Division has exchanged fire with the blocking position of the 1st Blue Division.
The 1st Blue Division arranged simple trenches, barbed wire, machine guns, and self-propelled artillery, but did not let the tanks show up. In addition, there were continuous gunfire in the distance to the east, which gave the Red Army the feeling that the 1st Blue Division was fighting on two fronts.
.The East is attacking the 6th Red Division, while the West is on the defensive and has only established a temporary defense line.
The 1st Red Division has no aerial reconnaissance, and its judgment on the battlefield depends entirely on the ground reconnaissance troops. But now that the reconnaissance troops of the 1st Red Division are blocked here, they have concluded that the 6th Red Division is still fighting, and the 1st Blue Division is now going to
The main force of the entire division was used to attack the Sixth Red Division in the east. The First Red Division in the west was unable to defeat them and could only defend passively. This was equivalent to giving the main force of the First Red Division a shot in the arm, making them exhausted from running.
The unbearable troops continued to step up, trying not to miss the opportunity to fight, and wanted to attack the 1st Blue Division with the 6th Red Division.
Now the soldiers of the 1st Red Division were running out of breath. However, the Blue Army planes overhead would come from time to time, but not too many. There were four to six at a time. They swooped down, strafed, and dropped bombs.
Then fly away. Do it again after a while.
This keeps the Red Army in a state of running and stopping. Most people think that this saves physical energy, because after running for a while, an air raid will come, and you can lie down and rest for a while. But anyone who has received physical training knows that this is the most tiring.
Run for a while, rest for a while, run for a while, rest for a while... It would take ten minutes to run before you feel tired, but if you run for three minutes, you will feel very tired.
Sure enough, according to aerial reconnaissance, the 1st Red Division was already running desperately.
The formation on the road began to gradually become disorganized, and many soldiers had already run away. There were more soldiers parked there, supporting each other, panting and pale. But the commander in the car kept urging them. Red
Although the soldiers of the First Division were so tired that they could no longer hold on, the officers and soldiers knew in their hearts that the Blue First Division had defeated two Red Army divisions on the first day and was now defeating the third division. Such a powerful enemy,
Now there is a chance to destroy him in his own hands. It depends on how fast he can run now.
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Around 3:40 in the afternoon, the remaining fighting between the 1st Blue Division and the 6th Red Division was basically over. Except for Huang Shuliang and the more than 1,000 people who had hid in Xinmenzhuang again, the rest had been basically eliminated.
It could have been announced that the Sixth Red Division was officially eliminated, but because the division commander Huang Shuliang and more than a thousand people were still holding on, the "Red Sixth Division" designation was still there, so although the Blue Army wanted to, it could not make such an announcement. Otherwise, the Blue Army
It was such a glorious victory for the army. On the first day of the exercise, half of the Red Army troops were wiped out one after another, while their own losses were less than a quarter.
But having said that, Rommel was now in a dilemma. Should he immediately march westward and attack the 1st Red Division, or should he take this opportunity to attack Xinmenzhuang and formally eliminate the 6th Red Division?
Rommel very much hopes to announce the official elimination of the third division of the Red Army, the Sixth Red Division, today. If Xiang Xiaoqiang is the commander-in-chief of the Red Army, he must be thinking more at this moment. In addition to the outcome of the exercise, he must also consider the commander-in-chief of the Red Army.
Tang Yunsheng's face issue also needs to consider the relationship between the Ming Army and the People's Guard. He will find ways to win, but he will also find ways to make the Red Army's defeat not so miserable, so ugly, and so exaggerated.
But Rommel was a man with a strong sense of honor. If possible, he would definitely hope to wipe out all six divisions of the Red Army on the first day of the exercise. He once killed him because the Germans calculated their merits on the battlefield in World War I.
He felt that the credit that should be attributed to him was given to others, so he got so angry that he quarreled with his superiors, so much so that he later became a field marshal and was still bitter about this matter. Xiang Xiaoqiang was also very fond of this point about him.
I understand, so I don’t have much hope that I can let him “take it easy”.
However, Rommel also knew that it would not be easy to capture Xinmengzhuang. It was not even easier than before.
Because Zhuangzi is so big, there is really not much difference between defending with a thousand people and defending with 10,000 people. Moreover, 10,000 people will be too crowded and obstructive. To defend a residential area of just a few square meters, around a thousand people are most suitable. And
, just like the human principle, for such a large Zhuangzi, there is not much difference in the defensive effect between 200 artillery pieces and 20 artillery pieces. There are only a dozen or so places that can allow the erection of artillery pieces and the ambush of artillery pieces.
But if we ignore the enemies in Zhuangzi and attack directly to the west, with more than a thousand people and more than 20 artillery pieces here, the Lan 1st Division's back will never be safe. This is equivalent to a small fortress, and the enemies in the fortress
The army can come out at any time to harass its flanks or back.
Rommel thought about it and finally decided to be more practical and attack the 1st Red Division first. He would hit the 1st Red Division hard before dark. Although it could not be eliminated, it could at least be severely damaged.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, the main force of the Blue 1st Division turned around and headed west, preparing to launch a fierce attack on the Red 1st Division.