Chapter 1423: The Situation Is Critical

Guo Zhuocheng said loudly to the soldiers: "Are you afraid? Are you worried about this? I tell you, this is still pediatrics, and the planes of the future will be more powerful, faster, and fly higher. "The shell of an airplane like this is made of wood, and it doesn't have many bombs, so in a fight, we only need to aim at it with a few heavy machine guns and calculate the amount of advance to shoot it down."

What is Lead Amount? I think you have all learned to shoot guns, the truth is known, the trick is just how much advance you should have, this Lao Tzu has no time to tell you now, and when it is time to fight it, I will command you to fight. When we have anti-aircraft machine guns, we have anti-aircraft guns, and we will kill all the planes. Moreover, in the future, we will also have our own planes, which will be much better than this kind of broken planes, as long as you are brave and willing to study, Lao Tzu will let you be pilots and fly better planes to bomb the enemy.

Okay, let's stop talking nonsense and get down to business. I ordered: The team was divided into two teams, the front and rear, I took the first platoon, the second platoon and the machine gun platoon to the front, and Deputy Company Commander Chen Peng led the others to follow behind me. Today, we are going to give our team a good start, a full house, so that the enemy can see our ability, do you have confidence? ”

"Yes!" Quite a few soldiers shouted loudly, and the voice was obviously a bit exaggerated. However, Guo's downplay of the plane did boost everyone's morale.

With a wave of his hand, Guo Zhuocheng left with three platoons of people equivalent to one company in peacetime, he left a radio station here with Chen Peng, while Sheng Guozhen, who was proficient in radio technology, stayed by Guo Zhuocheng's side, and his logistics platoon had been handed over to a Red Army soldier to lead and follow Chen Peng's action.

When they began to come out, especially when they met other Gui soldiers on the way, some soldiers were still worried about being recognized by the other party and a hasty battle would take place, most of the soldiers looked nervous, their hands clutched at their guns, and their fingers pressed the trigger lightly.

But Guo Zhuocheng looked relaxed, and took the initiative to greet those commanders of the troops, regardless of the size of the other party's official position, Guo Zhuocheng would take the initiative to stuff a pack of cigarettes or something, and talk and laugh with others about the battle ahead.

These cigarettes were all seized yesterday, and now they are being used by him as a tool for friendship, and they have received a lot of results. What makes the soldiers around Guo Zhuocheng strange is that every time Guo Zhuocheng asks someone else's name, number or the like, the other party does not wary of telling him, and when others ask for his information, he honestly says his name, but he smiles mysteriously at the number and task, saying that his task is special and must be kept secret, and the other party completely believes his words, and does not doubt or ask the bottom of it.

The soldiers all felt strange, they didn't know why Guo Zhuocheng was so bold, and they didn't know why others believed him lightly, but they knew that when he was still chatting with each other, he unknowingly asked for today's password and understood the general military deployment ahead.

Of course, he also told these "friendly troops" some information, especially because he seemed to know the current situation of the Red Army very well, and what he said was that the main force of the Red Army was now crossing the river, and what was defending the 18th Regiment of the Sixth Division of the Red Army in Xinwei, and so on, and all this information was known to the "friendly forces" from the enemy's briefings recently, so as to make those "friendly forces" have no doubt about Guo Zhuocheng and the troops he leads.

This is not because Guo Zhuocheng has any ability to deceive people, but because the troops led by Guo Zhuocheng are too neat, the weapons and equipment are too new and powerful, Guo Zhuocheng himself is too confident, and they are from the rear, so that those Guijun officers who pass by have no doubt at all, and they consciously or unconsciously regard him as their own person, as a high-ranking officer's cronies, and they have long been a little ashamed of themselves, and even have the urge to stammer.

And Guo Zhuocheng took the initiative to talk, take the initiative to send cigarettes or something, which naturally dispelled the little suspicion they might have in their hearts. And the front-line information revealed by Guo Zhuocheng made them feel that Guo Zhuocheng was either rich or expensive, and he must be a cronie of a high-ranking official. The information that Guo Zhuocheng knows is all in his memory, anyway, it doesn't matter whether this information is kept secret or not, it is better to exchange it for some information.

Whenever he got valuable information, Sheng Guozhen sent it to Chen Peng in the back with a telegraph, so that they could improvise.

It didn't take long before there was a muffled sound of cannon fire ahead. The further we went, the artillery became louder and denser, and many wounded soldiers retreated from the front line, and more and more troops were ordered to rush to the front. The company led by Guo Shucheng was even more inconspicuous. Seeing Guo Zhuocheng and them swaggering over, they hurriedly gave way, and while asking this strongly-equipped unit to go first with a smile on their faces, they scolded this group of guys in their hearts for being fools, wishing them to die immediately when they went up, who called them so arrogant.

When the team came to a fork in the road, Sun Xingguo didn't know how to go, so he asked Guo Shucheng with his eyes. Guo Zhuocheng thought about it, and pouted in the direction where the cannon sounded, and Sun Xingguo immediately walked towards a mountain road on the right.

There was a steady stream of artillery shells on the road.

After walking about a kilometer of the mountain road, they saw a mountain artillery position arranged in the mountain col in front of them, more than a dozen mountain guns were being laid out in a row, and the artillery was firing in full swing, and one by one the shells were moved out of the magazines, fuses were installed, and then forcefully stuffed into the chambers.

At the front of the artillery position, there was a cover position, where about a company of infantry was held.

Sun Xingguo asked in sign language: "Kill them?" ”

Guo Zhuocheng nodded, and while walking, he observed and exchanged observations with Sun Xingguo. Sun Xingguo said: "There is an artillery battalion here, and the infantry guarding is about a company. At a distance of 500 meters there is also a battalion that is preparing to go to the front line for battle. Shall we wait for them to leave? ”

Guo Zhuocheng shook his head and said: "If you want to do it, make the movement bigger, and deal with that battalion after destroying this place, and attract more Gui troops to come over, so that the Red Army on the opposite side will know that there is a big mess here." Otherwise, there is no point. ”

Sun Xingguo said with a little suspicion: "This army has not been run-in, I don't know how their combat effectiveness is, I am worried that if there are more enemies, they will collapse." ”

Guo Zhuocheng said disapprenorovingly: "It doesn't matter, it's the army that has to be exercised, and we are always not at ease if we don't fight a few battles, just fight, and we will be relieved next time." We can lead them to more treacherous battles. It's going to break down, and we can start all over again. ”

Sun Xingguo hummed and didn't say anything more.

Just as Guo Zhuocheng was preparing to take out the enemy's artillery position, the Central Red Army encountered unprecedented danger, and it can be said that the whole army was on the verge of collapse. In order to protect the central column from crossing the river, fierce battles broke out on all sides of the Xiangjiang crossing, and the fighting everywhere was very critical, and many positions had been lost.

At 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, the Red 18th Regiment of the 6th Red Division broke through the enemy's blockade and finally arrived at Xinwei to take over the position of the 5th Red Division, which had lost almost not many hills.

The Gui army bypassed the Red Eighteenth Regiment and pursued it northward, while the other remained in Nanmushan Village to besiege the Red Eighteenth Regiment. At dawn today, the Gui army launched a fierce attack on the Nanmushan position of the Red Eighteenth Regiment, and the Red Eighteenth Regiment suffered heavy casualties and was forced to retreat, moving closer to the battalion that was deployed on Chen's back. The Gui army clung to the 18th Regiment, quickly occupied Nanmu Mountain after the retreat of the Red 18th Regiment, and followed the pursuit all the way.

At present, the 1st Red 18th Regiment was divided and surrounded in Chenjiabei, and the 1st was surrounded again after breaking through and retreating to the Xiangjiang River under the leadership of the regiment commander.

It can be said that the Xinwei position is about to be lost. This is still the most tragic, the most tragic thing is that the Red 34th Division is rushing to reinforce the Red 18th Regiment, so they don't know that they are jumping into the tiger's mouth......

The second blocking site was Guanghuapu, which was the southern barrier to the east of the main Red Army crossing, and if the enemy broke through, the Red Army crossing the Xiang River would also suffer a catastrophe. Because of the ferocity of the Gui army's attack, the position changed hands many times, and some of the enemy even broke through the position and hit near the ferry, once the enemy army was allowed to gain a firm foothold here, the fate of the entire Red Army might really be over, because the first column of the Central Military Commission was about to arrive on the east bank to prepare to cross the river, and the main leaders of the Central Committee and the command organs of the Central Red Army were in the first column of the Central Military Commission.

The commander of the 10th Red Regiment was unfortunately shot and died during the charge, and the chief of staff of the 4th Division, who succeeded the commander of the 10th Regiment, was also shot and died, and the political commissar of the regiment was also seriously wounded, which shows the tragedy of the battle.

For this reason, although the two regiments of the Red Fifth Division retreating from the Xinwei battlefield were basically disabled, under the order of Peng Zong, the commander of the Red Third Army, they all entered the battle, and after a night of hard fighting with the Red Fourth Division, although they did not recapture the lost Guanghuapu position, another blocking line was finally established between Guanghuapu and the ferry.

The Gui army was obviously aware of the importance of this position, and mobilized a large number of troops overnight to storm it. The Red Army's ferry position was precarious.

The third blocking position was Jiaoshanpu, which was the northern barrier of the Red Army's transfer channel and also guarded the northern security of the Xiangjiang crossing. It was also the battlefield where both sides invested the most troops in the Battle of Xiangjiang. The attacking side was the Hunan army of the Kuomintang Liu Jianxu, with a total strength of more than 60,000 troops, and the defender was Lin Zong's First Army Corps, which also had more than 10,000 people.

(To be continued)