At this time, the brigade commander was really anxious, and he regretted it even more. Because the order to retreat had already been given, and the commanders at all levels had already gone down to direct the troops to retreat in "order," not to mention that he did not have the courage to give the order to block the Red Army at this time, even if he wanted to give this order, he could not find a junior officer to carry it out in the present chaotic situation.

This guy saw the opportunity quickly, and when he heard that the east gate was blocked because of the large number of people, he immediately led his guards and staff team to rush towards the south gate.

When the brigade commander fled, the other officers complained that their superiors had given the order to retreat, and they also spread their legs and ran away.

When the brigade commander and others were able to get out of the southern city gate, the Red officers and soldiers of the Second Brigade commanded by Su Daqing were killed. Those officers and soldiers of the central government, who still hadn't left the city, made dumplings like this.

The combat effectiveness of a unit without the command of a commander and in a chaotic retreat, with no ammunition but a few bullets on its body, and the fact that most of the officers and men were scrambling for their lives because they were afraid of the combat strength of the Red Army, can be imagined.

When the Einsatzgruppen rushed in with a murderous rush in with a well-groomed army and better weapons and equipment than them, these chaotic Central Army soldiers either disguised themselves as civilians and hid or raised their hands and surrendered.

Only a handful of soldiers resisted because they had fortifications to rely on in the barracks, but they were quickly wiped out by the Einsatzgruppen Force's sheer superiority and firepower.

In the end, less than three hundred men remained of the center-corps of an entire brigade and escaped.

Of the 300 men, nearly 200 were brought out by the brigade commander, and they did not stop until they were 10 kilometers away from the county seat, and only then did they dare to take a breath and rest. Looking at the sparse, dejected, and frightened subordinates in front of him, the brigade commander really wanted to cry without tears, and finally understood the important surname of the order forbidden: if he immediately ordered his subordinates to resolutely carry out the orders of his superiors at the moment he received the order, or resolutely ordered to prepare for battle, even if the situation was bad, he would not be so gloomy.

Soon he sent a telegram to Gu Zhutong: "......, on the way to retreat, I encountered a fierce blow from the communists and bandits, and the other party's equipment is well-equipped and the morale is high, which is really beyond my ability." In the face of their dense machine guns and dense artillery, our troops were powerless. It is not a lowly duty to shirk responsibility, and the collapse of our brigade is not a lowly command incompetence, but a disparity in strength between the two sides. He begged the commander to forgive him for the crime of ten thousand deaths, and the general led the remnants of the army to fight to the death with the gangsters, so as to avenge the humiliation of this battle. ……”

Obviously, this brigade commander put a lot of gold on his face, did everything he could to shirk his responsibilities, and boasted of his loyalty. Naturally, he didn't have the courage to lead these three hundred people to kill the Red Army, nor did he have the courage to go to see Gu Zhutong, for fear that the commander would shoot him in anger. So, he took them to the desert and fled into the deep mountains and old forests to become bandits.

Not only could the Red Army find no trace of him, but the Central Army could not find him, and it was not until two years later that he was exterminated by the Red Army.

Gu Zhutong was shocked when he received the telegram from this brigade commander, and immediately reported to Jiang Jiashi, and strongly insisted that Jiang Jiashi personally order Song Xilian to withdraw his troops quickly.

Jiang Yaoshi and his wife were so depressed that they really couldn't say it, they were woken up by the attendants within two hours of sleeping just now, and such a big thing happened, it was really unlucky.

Jiang Jiaoshi scolded Niang Xipi while thinking urgently for a while, and finally adopted a compromise method, which was to inform Song Xilian of the fact that a brigade in Huichang County had been wiped out by the Red Army, and let him decide for himself whether to retreat immediately.

Gu Zhutong knew that his boss had always been exquisite, and he often took a compromise approach. Today, he can not only not leave the impression that the people below will change the order, but also strictly investigate the responsibility of his subordinates if something really happens in the future.

Gu Zhutong didn't dare to slander his boss too much, so he immediately sent a telegram to Song Xilian, but the telegram was obviously late.

Before receiving this telegram, Song Xilian had already received a report of the relevant enemy situation: the Red Army had surrounded the city of Ganzhou!

Not only were several major roads connecting the outside world blocked by the Red Army, but even on both sides of the Gan River and the Gong River, the Red Army was also seizing ships, and artillery and machine guns were blocking the river.

The reason why these officers changed so quickly was that the sentinels at the front reported to them the equipment of the Red Army: those Red Army were not Red Army at all, they were more Central Army than Central Army.

At a glance, they are all dressed in brand-new grass-green uniforms, all wear sturdy steel helmets, each of their squads has machine guns, every platoon has mortars, heavy machine guns, they also have trucks, jeeps, although the number is small, but the style of the cars is much more powerful than that of the Central Army, and there are many artillery pieces in the middle of the team! The number and caliber of artillery is much more and much larger than that of the Central - Army!

Song Xilian couldn't help but regret it for a while, he didn't dare to hand over the telegram sent by Gu Zhutong to his subordinates, but put it in his pocket and thought hard about countermeasures in the face of the map.

He regretted it, but it was not enough to say that he would immediately give up the siege of Ganzhou. He was a major general of the Central Army, and he knew the situation of the Red Army. Although the Red Army in front of him was different from what he imagined, he was sure that this was a bluff on the part of the Red Army, just like the apple seller on the street, putting the most beautiful and best apples in front of him, on top of them, and on the back and bottom of the apples, which were either shriveled down or ugly.

He was confident that with his fortifications and city walls, he could fight the Red Army for ten days and eight days, and if he wanted to break through with all his might, the Red Army would not be able to stop it. It's just that now he is far less relaxed than he thought last night, and he doesn't have the idea of making great contributions to show himself well in front of Jiang Jiashi, and now what he wants to do is how not to lose face, how to hold on here for a few more days, and think about how to let the troops take turns to fight.

"Did their weapons fall from the sky?" Song Xilian thought depressedly, "It's impossible for their equipment to surpass that of the Central Army!" He didn't know that what he had guessed was really not far from the truth.

When Song Xilian summoned his subordinates to cheer him up, Chen Peng, the commander-in-chief of the left wing column, was reporting the battle plan to Guo Zhuocheng in the temporary headquarters.

After listening to Chen Peng's report, Guo Zhuocheng said happily: "Okay, just fight like this, rolling forward with artillery fire." The first time we used the coordination of infantry artillery in actual combat, it depends on how well we have been training for more than 20 days. Luo Xi, you have to show yourself well in this battle, whether you can easily take the city of Gan-Zhou this time depends on whether your artillery can play at its best level. ”

Luo Xili reported: "No problem, I guarantee that wherever the infantry brothers shout that my shells hit, my shells will fly." ”

Wang Shitai, who was next to him, immediately stood up and said: "I guarantee that my infantry will follow the artillery fire, and our infantry will follow wherever the artillery fire sweeps, and we will never let the artillery brothers waste a single shell." ”

Guo Zhuocheng nodded and said, "Don't care too much about the shells, the distance between the infantry and the landing point must not be less than fifty meters." The artillery fire in the early stage must be fully prepared, the far, medium and near echelon artillery must be well coordinated, and when encountering the enemy's fire point, the infantry should not charge forcibly, and the infantry artillery advancing with the infantry must keep up in time! ”

Several generals stood up at the same time and said: "Yes!" ”

At eight o'clock in the morning, with Chen Peng's order on the telephone, thunderous artillery immediately sounded on the temporary artillery position outside the West City Gate.

Immediately after the first round of five guns fired, the artillery corrected the firing Zhuyuanjing, and soon thirty-six 105-mm shells from two standard artillery battalions fell like hail on the defenders' positions.

This is the standard light howitzer of the United States and its allies during World War II, with a range of 11 kilometers and a huge power, and the Central Army has no way to restrain this kind of artillery fire. Historically, the Central Army imported this artillery from the United States only after World War II, that is, in 1945. Even in Western countries, this artillery was the standard weapon of NATO after World War II, and it was not until the early eighties that it was replaced by the M-198 155-mm howitzer and the M-102 105-mm howitzer.

In this era, 105 mm caliber shells are considered standard heavy artillery even in the West, how can the city fortifications of the Central Army resist such powerful shells? They collapsed and were destroyed in the fire, and the soldiers hiding inside were either blown to pieces or shocked to death.

At the same time as the long-range artillery bombardment, the 92 infantry guns also joined the chorus as medium-range artillery fire, and the artillery of the 92 infantry guns was fired at close range, clearing one exposed fire point after another.

This artillery was accompanied by 81 mortars.

The short-range artillery was mainly 60 mortars, supplemented by 92 infantry guns.

The artillery fire of such a echelon of coordination made the defenders cry for their father and mother, and they had no power to fight back.

The echelon coordination of the artillery trained by Guo Zhuocheng in the deep mountains and old forests showed great power when it was used in actual combat for the first time. Not only did the defenders complain, but even the Red Army on the attacking side was stunned and surprised. The fifteen-minute preparation of fire was so rapid that the Red Army infantrymen involved in the attack felt that such a fight was a waste of shells, and that there was no need to blow up for so long.

Fifteen minutes later, the red flare was lit up, but the Red Army did not attack immediately, but used light and heavy machine guns to strafe areas where there was still resistance and used anti-aircraft machine guns to shoot flat at some dead ends.

It didn't take long for the Red Army to charge, and everywhere there was the sound of the blazer cry: "Tick-tock, tick-tock-"

Everywhere there are shouts:

"Rush—"

"Shoot or kill!"

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