Chapter 1480 is unstoppable
The horn of the charge and the sound of the shout not only aroused the high morale of the Red Army, and inspired the Red Army to rush to the city of Ganzhou without hesitation, but also made the trembling defenders breathe a sigh of relief, and they all raised their hands in unison.
"It's horrible! It's finally time to end this nightmare! "Whether it is a soldier or an officer of the Central Army, they are frightened by these shells as dense as hail, they have never seen such fierce artillery fire in their lives, a shell goes down into a dozen square huge craters, whether it is cement or stone, how can they fight?
The Red Army's infantry and artillery coordination, which had been trained for more than 20 days, basically took shape in this battle. Although in the eyes of Chen Peng, Luo Xi and others, there were still many officers and men who were not qualified, and many troops were still fighting on their own, especially the charging infantry who were so excited that they had forgotten about the matter of cooperating with the artillery, but in the eyes of other Red Army commanders, this infantry and artillery coordination was really perfect.
It was the first time that the Central Army had seen this kind of cooperation, and it felt that the other side had come by cannonballs.
This kind of powerful shells, this intensity of bombardment, is simply not something they can fight. Waiting to raise their hands, the Red Army shouted past them, and they realized that they had escaped: their lives had been saved.
The Red Army rushed into the city like a tide along the passage opened by the shells, and the fortifications that Song Xilian expected to last ten days and a half were of no use.
The attackers met only sporadic resistance, and in a few places the bullets were actually soldiers who were stunned by the heavy artillery fire, and they looked at their guns aimlessly, shooting not only at the attacking Red Army, but also at their own companions.
Several soldiers were killed not by the attacking Reds, but by their companions.
The casualties of the Red Army in the whole battle were negligible, and the defenders broke through several lines of defense, and all the dead and wounded officers and men combined were less than thirty.
It wasn't until the Red Army rushed into the city and rushed onto the street that Song Xilian and other senior commanders came back to their senses and shouted: "Resist!" Resist! Our reinforcements are coming soon! ……”
However, everyone knew that the tide was turning, there were no soldiers guarding the streets at all, and the officers did not arrange for soldiers to engage in street fighting.
Because in the eyes of Song Xilian and other high-ranking officers, no matter how powerful the Red Army is, it will take a few days to fight, and it is not yet time for street fighting. By the time the intensity of the Red Army's artillery fire far exceeded their imagination, and they finally felt that the battle was likely to end soon, and they wanted to arrange troops for street fighting, the Red Army had already broken through the defense line outside the city, broke through the city defense and rushed in, not to mention that the officers had no time to arrange, and even if they did, there were no troops to carry it out: now it was not only the senior officers who were stupid, but the junior officers and soldiers were also stupid, and no one dared to move.
Song Xilian's guards were conscientious, but they also rarely showed a trace of blood, and they relied on the municipal axe compound, which was the headquarters of the 36th Division, to shoot stubbornly outward, trying to stop the Red Army from charging and preventing the Red Army from approaching.
But today's Red Army is no longer what it used to be, and they did not charge at all, but quickly launched the 92nd Infantry Artillery, 60 Mortars, and 81 Mortars, and bombarded the municipal axe compound.
Not only was the wall of the municipal axe destroyed in a minute, but several houses inside were in ruins, and flames were burning everywhere. Song Xilian and his chief of staff were buried by tiles and bricks in the first round of artillery fire, and they did not know whether they were alive or dead.
The deputy division commander, who had escaped death, shouted in horror to surrender, surrender, and shouted that the soldiers of the guard company would lay down their weapons and rush out with a rare white shirt.
When the deputy division commander gave the order for the whole division to surrender in accordance with the orders of the Red Army, the battle to attack the city of Ganzhou began to come to an end, and the greatest task of the Red Army was to collect the prisoners and count the captured materials......
About 10 minutes after the gunfire in Ganzhou-Zhou City stopped, the Kuomintang-Party space that had taken off from Nan-Chang finally flew over Gan-Zhou City.
The pilot in the high altitude looked at the suddenly unrecognizable Gan-Zhou city below in confusion, and couldn't imagine what was happening below, and couldn't understand what was going on in the smoky Gan-Zhou city, whether there was a rebellion or a fire in the city? How did it become like this?
No matter how clever their minds were, they could not have imagined that the city of Ganzhouzhou had already changed hands, and they must know that when they got on the plane, the city of Ganzhouzhou was still in the hands of the central army, and they came after receiving a telegram from Song Xilian asking for help, and the moment they received the telegram, they rushed to the plane, started the engine, took off, formed in the air, and flew to Ganzhou......
There was hardly any pause in between, fuel and ammunition had been prepared beforehand, and the Air Force had been ready to rush to the aid of Gan-Zhou last night.
Just as they flew over the city of Gan-Zhou and descended to check suspiciously, clusters of sparks suddenly appeared in several places below. Before the pilot could understand anything, the planes in front of him began to tumble and fall one after another, emitting fire and smoke......
A pilot was exclaiming, "My plane was shot!" ”
"I'm done!"
"The artillery fire down there is too fierce! I'll ...... home, ah-"
"I'm going to have to skydive......"
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Whether it was the common people in the city of Ganzhou or the newly captured Central Army, they all enjoyed a dazzling aerial fireworks in horror, watched the planes fall one after another, and looked at a few pilots' umbrella flowers, and they completely understood that this Red Army was really not the Red Army in their impression: the strength of the people was too strong!
This time the Red Army not only shot down six planes, but also captured two parachuted pilots. This is still to think that the pilots thought that the Ganzhou-Zhou city was still in the hands of their own troops, and did not deliberately fly the planes too low for reconnaissance, otherwise, their losses would have been even greater.
With the frantic escape of those planes flying from Nanchang, the city of Ganzhou really changed hands, and it completely fell into the hands of the Red Army and fell into the hands of Guo Zhuocheng!
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After receiving the report from the Air Force, Jiang Jiashi sat on the ground, the teacup in Gu Zhutong's hand fell to the floor and turned into pieces, Chen Cheng's face was pale and dumbfounded, and Hu Zongnan muttered to himself: "How is it possible, how is it possible?" ”
Gu Zhutong yelled at the staff officer: "Withdraw!" Remove! Remove! How far away is it for me to retreat! ……”
On the morning of January 15, the two armies took the county seat of Huichang and the city of Gan-Zhou. However, instead of continuing the march immediately, they were resting, regrouping, clearing captured goods and training soldiers in the areas they occupied. The officers discussed the problems of infantry and artillery coordination, the experience gained, the problems to be paid attention to in the future, and how to give better play to the power of artillery shells, more effectively cover the fire in front, and how to reduce accidental injuries......
Some of them were responsible for receiving the guerrillas, the separated Red Army, and the families of the Red Army.
Because both units captured a large number of prisoners, Guo Shucheng expanded the unit again, established a new teaching brigade, and upgraded the original security detachment to a security brigade.
The total number of this unit has reached more than 28,000, and the combat unit is as high as nearly 20,000, not including the engineer troops, communications units, logistics units, and other auxiliary units. As a matter of fact, many of these units were directly transferred from the combat units, and they were also equipped with the weapons of the captured Central Army or the Gui Army, and their equipment was no worse than that of the Central Army, and they were much stronger than the original Red Army.
Guo Zhuocheng personally served as the captain of the teaching brigade, and Fan Shiying, the deputy captain of the first brigade, served as the captain of the security brigade. As the name suggests, the training brigade is an institution used to train middle and low-ranking officers, while the security brigade is a force used to prepare for local security. The other brigades have been enriched with more people, and each squad has been expanded to 14 people, and the 44 system has gradually expanded upwards from platoon classes, that is, one detachment (equivalent to a company) has four platoons, and one detachment (equivalent to a battalion) has four detachments (companies).
This time, not only did they capture a lot of prisoners, but they also captured countless weapons, ammunition, food, and military supplies, including many military trucks, and many live mules and horses. Even a whole cavalry company was captured.
Because there were quite a few soldiers with technical surnames in the 36th Division of the Central Army, Guo Zhuocheng took out a lot of military trucks and jeeps from the space, and arranged for these prisoners to enter the automobile team, so the army's mobile surname was further strengthened.
In the evening, the troops held a grievance meeting, adopted the method of using old prisoners to bring new prisoners to do ideological work, and shot and killed several officers who had bullied the soldiers and their hands were stained with blood debts.
Although these newly captured captives may not have already returned to their hearts, at least they are not the initial resistance, at least on the surface, they are quite honest.
In the city of Ganzhou, Guo Zhuocheng made a lot of money this time. You must know that Ganzhoucheng has always been the advance base of the Central Army, and it is also the logistics transfer base of the Central Army's "suppression of bandits" front, and most of the logistics supplies of hundreds of thousands of troops are sent to the front line from here. Although a lot of guns and ammunition have been transported to the Gui army and the Hunan army participating in the war, in order to seduce them to cooperate more with the Central Army to fight the Red Army, there are still a lot of bullets, shells, grain and grass here.
There are also more than three million silver dollars, hundreds of catties of gold, and thousands of catties of silver. Some of these were prepared by Jiang Jiaoshi to reward the troops for their merits after the extermination of the Red Army, and some of the gold and silver were produced in the mines around the city of Ganzhou, and some were exchanged for the ore produced.
Guo Zhuocheng naturally laughed.
Moreover, Guo Zhuocheng not only laughed at the gold and silver treasures kept by the military and political axes, but also extended his clutches to the people, especially to those political axe officials, local tyrants and shoddy gentry, and big businessmen, and the harvest was naturally not small.
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