On the morning of April 6, 1935, the spring was bright and sunny on the banks of the Wuyang River, and the flowers on the mountain were in full bloom.

The officers and men on both sides of the enemy are in love with this rare sunshine and the world of birds and flowers. The only difference was that the officers and men on the side of the Central Army were comfortable and comfortable, and in their opinion, the Red Army would definitely not go to war now, and they would certainly not be ready. Even if there was to be a war, it would be at night, because the Red Army was good at night warfare and would not stupidly launch an attack and launch a river crossing during the day, in which case they would become the target of the Central Army.

However, the Red Army was in a state of slaughter, the officers and men had entered a state of first-class combat readiness, the guns had been opened, the barrels of the artillery had been stuffed with shells, and the engineering units had already started the ...... of the automobile engines, and they all knew that the battle was about to begin, and the battle with Xue Yue's corps was about to start.

Of course, there are also people who wonder why they fight during the day and cross the river to attack during the day.

Mao Rundong, Zhou Luolai, Mr. Zhu and others also received Guo Zhuocheng's telegram, and they seemed to have felt the atmosphere before the war, and several people silently looked at the northeast and the direction of Huangping County, waiting for that exciting moment one by one.

At 9:29:59 a.m., Guo Zhuocheng in the command headquarters of the directly subordinate column nodded lightly to Mao Runtan, who was looking at him. All the officers in the command headquarters couldn't help but look stunned, and their eyes fell on Mao Runtan's face.

Mao Runtan was obviously a little excited, and his whole body could see a slight tremor, only to see him nod at Guo Zhuocheng fiercely, and then put the microphone that had been pinched by him to his mouth, and shouted loudly: "Hit!" ”

With his command. At first, only one or two of the guns of the various artillery positions were test-fired. But less than ten seconds. Hundreds of 105-caliber howitzers and an even greater number of heavy mortars of 100 mm caliber and above began to roar.

For a while, the mountains shook and the sand and rocks were scattered, and the opposite side of the Wuyang River was immediately shrouded in smoke, and countless fortifications and human bodies flew into the sky with the air waves of the explosion......

In less than three minutes, the general headquarters of Xue Yue's corps was blown into ruins by the heavy artillery that was taken care of, and the communication between the general headquarters and the divisions was completely cut off, and the fate of Xue Yue and his officers was unknown. Although it was ten kilometers away from the Wuyang River, what Xue Yue and the others didn't know was that this seemingly safe distance could not avoid the bombardment of the M-2 howitzer at all......

Immediately afterwards, the division headquarters of the divisions below Xue Yue's corps were bombarded with a rain of bullets. Because the range has become much closer. The "care" of the divisional headquarters was carried not only by 105-mm heavy artillery shelling, but also by mortar shelling of various calibers.

After less than five minutes of bombing, the headquarters of the divisions were thrown into disarray......

Ten minutes later, the panicked regimental headquarters also began to be "taken care of" by the heavy artillery fire of the Red Army. It's just that these regiment commanders and deputy regiment commanders have learned to be obedient, and after losing contact with their superiors, after seeing the red light in the sky falling straight down on the general headquarters and division headquarters, they know that it will be their turn next, and they know that they absolutely cannot stay in the headquarters anymore, which is tantamount to waiting for death, waiting for the artillery fire of the Red Army to hit the door.

Thereupon. They ignored the trembling of their legs and the sweat on their heads. One by one, they scrambled to escape from the headquarters, and one by one they fled to the places they thought were safe, but they were determined not to go to the headquarters of their battalions.

When the shells of the Red Army arrived as scheduled, enveloping the position of the regimental headquarters in a sea of fire, watching the stones weighing three or four hundred catties being swept into the air by the air wave of the shell explosion, and watching the staff officers and soldiers who did not have time to flee being torn to pieces and lowered, these regiment commanders were sweating with palpitations, covering their throbbing chests, praising their wisdom in their hearts, praising their wisdom in their hearts, praising their wisdom in making decisions on the spot and escaping, and they constantly congratulated themselves on their escape from death. But they forgot that they should command their subordinates to fight duty.

When the fire was shifted, they were even more frightened than before, and they all looked at each other, and the officers asked their colleagues, "What should I do?" What are we going to do? ”

The corps headquarters, division headquarters, and regimental command posts were so lightly destroyed by artillery fire, it cannot be said that Guo Zhuocheng was too lucky, nor can it be said that Xue Yue and other officers were too stupid: "Why don't they know how to hide, why don't they build strong fortifications?" ”

This can only be blamed on Guo Zhuocheng for cheating too much, because no one thought that he would have such a powerful and long-range artillery in his hand. Xue Yue had fought with the Red Army for so long, and ten kilometers was an absolute safe distance for firepower, and the Red Army's firepower could only reach two kilometers away.

You must know that Jiang Yaoshi heard that his headquarters was located ten kilometers away from the Wuyang River, and he still complained a lot, although he did not explicitly say that he was too timid, but he muttered that if the senior officers paid too much attention to safety, it would greatly damage the morale of the soldiers.

This is not Xue Yue's carelessness, Guo Zhuocheng's current firepower is the strongest even on the battlefield in Western countries.

Besides, it is not the Korean War period, and no one has experienced the baptism of the Battle of Shangganling, where would they think of digging deep tunnels? Where do you know that the tunnel has to be dug very deep? At most, they dug some anti-artillery holes, that is, they built some stone slabs and wood on top of the holes.

It is easy to be ridiculed if it is too strong, of course, it is more because of the lack of time, the lack of materials, and the Central Army's current lack of construction technology in this area.

Those regiment commanders and battalion commanders who escaped should indeed feel lucky, because this is Guo Zhuocheng's unwillingness to kill too much. He ordered Luo Xi to bomb strictly from top to bottom, and the time interval between the bombing of various levels of command was obviously a bit large.

According to the opinions of some artillery commanders, Luo Xi's artillery unit could completely bomb the headquarters of various divisions at the same time when bombing the headquarters of the Xue Yue Corps, and immediately bombed the regimental command post and the location of the battalion headquarters three minutes later. Because not only the artillery regiment has such a strong strength, but even the artillery of the main force can also join the chorus, and those mortars and 92 infantry guns can also carry out devastating blows to the enemy, and they also have great lethality to the enemy.

Guo Zhuocheng's purpose in opening up the net is to increase more psychological pressure on the commanders at all levels of the Central Army, to give them a sense that a great calamity is coming and cannot be stopped, so as to force more officers and soldiers to surrender: "Your superiors have been eliminated one by one, and if you don't surrender, it will be your turn immediately......

This sequential increase of pressure was more devastating than the pressure of eliminating the commander in an instant, like a blunt knife cutting flesh, bloody, painful, and prolonged......

Just when the central army lost contact with the upper and lower levels, and all the troops were leaderless, the artillery fire on the side of the Red Army was stronger, so the artillery, mortars, and even heavy machine guns and anti-aircraft aircraft of the main forces joined the chorus. Shells and bullets of various calibers and styles rained down on the fortifications and positions on the west bank of the Wuyang River.

The officers and men of the center holding on to the west bank were so frightened that many of the fortifications and the officers and men in the fortifications were turned into earth-made planes and flew into the air and exploded into pieces......

Most of the artillery of the Central Army was engulfed by a rain of shells before they could fire.

Naturally, they were the focus of the Red Army's attention, and they were treated on an equal footing with their divisional commands.

The officers and men of the Central Committee, who saw this kind of firepower for the first time, were stunned! The blow is twofold, not only for the body but also for the mind. In their hearts, no matter how strong the firepower of the Red Army is, it is impossible to be stronger than their elite Central Army, and it is impossible to be stronger than Jiang Yaoshi's descendants, but now they find that the other party's firepower is ten or a hundred times stronger than the firepower on their own side!

One by one, they only lay on the ground and trembled or hid behind the stones and wept, only a very few brave people dared to show their heads from time to time to take a look, and when they saw the huge craters left behind by the bombardment, those shells were far more terrifying than they imagined, many brave soldiers also became extremely timid.

Half an hour of fire preparation did not stop, and the soldiers of the engineer regiment of the directly subordinate column quickly rushed to the river with equipment under the command of Liu Xiangyang and began to erect the pontoon bridge in an orderly manner. Obviously, under the influence of the firepower of the artillery and the main force, these sappers were all high-spirited, and their movements were steady, fast, and accurate, and their speed of building bridges was much faster than during training.

When the pontoon bridge began to extend to the opposite bank, the resistance of the Central Army was minimal, because the Red Army sent many artillery observers to sit on rubber rafts or stand on the pontoon bridge, and constantly use walkie-talkies to inform the artillery behind to bombard the fire points on the opposite bank.

When the artillery accurately destroyed the firing point, the soldiers of the directly subordinate column also began to ride assault boats, carry mortars, and heavy machine guns and began to rush to the beach, which attracted the fire of the defenders even more......

After a period of training and actual combat tests on the outskirts of Ganzhoucheng and Hengyang, the Red Army's infantry and artillery coordination tactics have now become decent, and the infantry is almost following the shells and moving forward.

The Central Army on the opposite side simply could not cope with this tactic, which came from many years later in Germany.

In the face of the Red Army's tactics that transcended the times, and in the face of the Red Army's powerful firepower that surpassed the times, the leaderless Central Army soon collapsed.

Within an hour of the Red Army's attack, the vanguard had already established a beachhead on the opposite bank and firmly held the important passage. The fast-moving troops were even beginning to charge into the surrounding heights, advancing in depth.

If it weren't for Guo Zhuocheng's repeated emphasis before the war that they were not allowed to charge recklessly and that they were not allowed to rush desperately when the enemy's firepower was strong, those Red officers and men would have rushed over in spite of casualties.

These poor and frightened Red Army soldiers still feel that this way of fighting is too wasteful of shells, and the enemy is obviously frightened, why don't we rush? Why are you still bombing with shells?

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