Chapter 45: Attack on Yujiaping
"Legion commander, political commissar, come and take a look, hehe, the seizures are rich!" Li Qing saw the two of them walk into the command headquarters and said with a smile, and the political commissar picked up the list of battle results.
"A total of more than 11,000 enemy people were annihilated, more than 5,000 people below the division commander of the enemy lieutenant general were captured, and 36 mortars, 3,600 shells, 18 mountain guns, and 1,800 shells were captured," according to a company commander of the captured enemy artillery company, Taoyuan County also had 5,000 mortar shells and 6 reserve mortars and 3,000 mountain artillery shells stored in Zhang Zhenhan's heavy battalion. "30 heavy machine guns, more than 36,000 rounds of ammunition, nearly 200 light machine guns, 6,000 rifles, pistols and submachine guns, and others were damaged by shells, a total of about 1 million rounds of ammunition and 40,000 grenades were collected. Our army lost 421 people killed and more than 1,100 wounded, basically all of them were slightly wounded. ”
After listening to the statistics of the battle results, Liu Hua suddenly felt that he had not suffered a loss, and immediately ordered the troops to clean up the battlefield quickly, and sent all the reconnaissance troops to find a way to sneak into Taoyuan County tonight, and after his siege battle began, he must protect the enemy's ammunition depot and baggage, and find a way to finish off the enemy's headquarters. At the same time, a telegram was sent asking the 1st Division to launch a general attack and take Yujiaping.
Division Commander Sun Xingbang was discussing with his political commissar Zhao Dahe how to take Yujiaping at this time, and the corps commander's telegram came, "Haha, Lao Zhao, the corps commander's order is here, how about we start attacking at one o'clock in the afternoon," Sun Xingbang said with a smile while holding the telegram,
"Well, just one point, you take one regiment to attack from the front, I will take the second regiment from the rear, the third regiment will feint from both flanks, and the artillery company will provide artillery support at any time." Political commissar Zhao Dahe said.
In this way, the 1st Division began to move in an orderly manner, and soon all the troops were in place. With Sun Xingbang's order, 12 mortars began to carry out intensive artillery bombardment, and immediately the enemy's second-line position was chaotic, under the mortar bombardment, the enemy immediately exploded the nest, regardless of the yelling of his commander, began to run desperately to the rear, and at this time the running enemy happened to become the target of the heavy machine gun companies of each regiment, with the continuous sound of heavy machine guns, those enemy troops were swept away one by one.
The trumpet sounded, all the automatic weapons on the position of the second regiment spewed out tongues of fire to the enemy position, and all the enemy's firepower was instantly suppressed under the powerful firepower, and all were dumb, at this time, the commando team of the second regiment, under the leadership of the commander of the second battalion, swooped towards the enemy's position, and after a burst of grenades, there was no movement on the enemy's position, and in this way, after paying the price of several soldiers' casualties, the second regiment occupied the enemy's second-line position.
The same thing happened in the positions of the 1st regiment, and in this way, under the heavy artillery fire and intensive fire of the 1st division, the remaining strength of about two battalions of the enemy was trapped in several courtyards of the brigade headquarters. The enemy brigade commander was constantly encouraging his men. "Brothers, the division seat will lead the reinforcements to come over immediately, we have to hold on, if we surrender to the communist army, when the reinforcements from the division seat come together, a burst of artillery fire, we will also die,."
"Brothers, it's all death anyway, we fight, and we swear not to surrender."
With the encouragement of the enemy brigade commander, the morale of the remaining enemy troops was immediately high, and the firepower of the blocking fire suddenly became fierce, and Sun Xingbang organized several charges in a row were repulsed, and the corpses of more than a dozen soldiers were also dropped.
"Division commander, no, if you continue to fight like this, the casualties will be too great." Zhao Dahe, the political commissar next to him, reminded.
"Damn, this group of enemy troops really doesn't want to fucking die, political commissar, notify the mortar company to come over, damn it, bombard this place for Lao Tzu." The division commander said with a red face.
Soon, all 12 mortars were aimed at the courtyard where the enemy was trapped. "Open the cannon and flatten these courtyards for me." The division commander ordered the artillery company commander with red eyes.
"Boom Boom Boom" As the shells continued to sound, there were bursts of howls in the yard, and after 5 rounds of shells, the yard returned to calm, and all that remained was to clean up the battlefield. The soldiers carried their guns and walked into the courtyard, and what greeted them was a sentence of mutilated enemy corpses and severed hands and feet all over the ground, and soon, the remaining courtyards were cleared, and the enemy brigade commander and two regiment commanders were all killed in the process of shelling.
"Division commander, the results of the battle are counted at this time." Political commissar Zhao Dahe excitedly handed a list of counted to his partner.
"Two regiments of the enemy were completely annihilated, a total of 3,800 people, a total of 800 prisoners, all the others were killed, 56 of our troops were killed, 21 were seriously wounded, about 300 were lightly wounded, the mortar shells were almost exhausted, and the capture was as follows:
There were 12 heavy machine guns, more than 30,000 rounds of ammunition for heavy machine guns, 50 light machine guns, and all the others were blown up by shells, and there were more than 2,000 rifles, pistols, and submachine guns, and the ammunition is being counted.
In addition, a small ammunition depot was captured by the enemy, which contained 100,000 rounds of heavy machine gun ammunition, 500,000 rounds of rifle and light machine gun ammunition, and 20,000 grenades.
A warehouse of enemy supplies was captured, with a total of 100,000 catties of grain and a number of other materials. ”:
"Well, yes, I didn't expect the enemy's two regiments to have so many material reserves, worthy of being the ace troops of the Hubei army, hehe, send a report to the corps commander, just say that the first division successfully completed the task, annihilated the Yujiaping defenders, and captured countless people." After reading the results, Sun Xingbang smiled and ordered the communicator next to him.
"Commander of the corps, Commander Sun has sent a telegram, they have completely annihilated the defenders of Yujiaping and captured countless people." Listening to the telegram from the political commissar, Liu Hua smiled, of course, if one of his divisions can't even wipe out two regiments, then what's the point.
"Okay, order Division Commander Sun to rest in Yujiaping tonight, and the specific task will be notified tomorrow, tell him that he must do a good job of taking prisoners, so that the troops can reach full strength, and it will not affect the next battle, that's all, political commissar, do you have anything to add?" After speaking, Liu Hua looked at the political commissar.
"Well, there is one more point, let Senior Commander Sun detain all the officers captured by the enemy to prevent those officers from making trouble." Political Commissar Guan Xiangying thought about it and replied.
"Well, just send a report according to the political commissar's wishes." Liu Hua summed up the order.
"Okay, comrades, now that the first division has captured Yujiaping, hehe, it's our turn to capture Taoyuan! The troops were ordered to seize the time to rest and recuperate, and at 12 o'clock in the evening they began to march to Taoyuan County. ”
"Also, Chen Guangrong, you pick a few honest ones from the captured enemy artillery battalions, answer the mountain artillery, and immediately let some of the soldiers learn to fight mountain artillery, be fast, and it must be completed before 12 o'clock. May I? Liu Hua looked at Chen Guanrong next to him.
"Yes, Legion Commander, I promise to complete the mission."