"You've read the intelligence of the reconnaissance company, what do you think?" Liu Hua asked.

"Division commander, I think we should attack one of the roads and beat him badly, preferably annihilating them all, so that the enemy should retreat. When I was in the Soviet zone, I was like this for several counter-encirclement and suppression. And it worked every time. Wang Nanhu, who had just become the head of the regiment, was the first to say.

"Division commander, I agree with Commander Wang, resolutely strike at the enemy all the way." Takahara also said.

"Since everyone agrees, and I also agree with Captain Wang's words, let's see which way to fight." Liu Hua saw that Wang Nanhu's opinion was agreed by most people, and he thought the same way, so he decided.

"Fight the 21st Division, the 21st Division has the least troops, and it is better to fight." Wang Nanhu grabbed the first place again.

Liu Hua didn't speak, but smiled. looked at the political commissar and head Sun Xingbang, who had not spoken. "Commissar, what do you think?" Liu Hua asked.

"Just now everyone said that if one of the roads is defeated, then the other troops will definitely retreat, I agree, but I think that if the 21st Division is hit, I don't know if Zhou Hunyuan's 1st and 3rd divisions will retreat." The commissar spoke his mind.

"Head Sun, what do you think?"

"Report to the division commander, I agree with the political commissar's opinion, I think we should fight Zhou Hunyuan's 1st division." Head Sun said affirmatively.

"Well, let's hear it."

"Yes, division commander, according to intelligence, Zhou Hunyuan's 1st Division will march directly to Xing'an, and then it can attack us directly. However, his 3rd Division could not, and their offensive route was along the river, obviously wanting to march from the direction of Zhuzhou. In that case, he would have to make a few more detours. This will give us enough time to attack the 1 division. Another aspect is that the terrain from Hung Yen to Chaling is very suitable for ambushes. ”

"Well, the analysis is very good. I also agree with the 1st division that fought Zhou Hunyuan, do the comrades have any other opinions. ”

Seeing that the cadres below shook their heads, Liu Hua ordered: "Okay, since everyone has no opinion, then I will decide to fight the 1st Division, the troops will leave three platoons of guards, and all the others will leave Chaling, go to Xing'an to Chaling to hide, and after reconnoitring the enemy, I will assign specific tasks, and the troops will leave the city at nine o'clock after dinner tonight." ”

"There are also reconnaissance companies all dispatched to check the suitable ambush locations from Chaling to Xing'an, and monitor the enemy forces on three routes, pay special attention to the 1st Division, and report the situation immediately."

After a night's march, the troops were nearly 80 miles away from Chaling, Liu Hua ordered the troops to rest on the spot and stand by, and he and the political commissar walked along the route of the reconnaissance company with a few guards.

"Division commander, this is too suitable for ambushes," the political commissar sighed as he looked at the terrain here.

"Commissar. This is a good place to fight an ambush, but we can't do an ambush, if the enemy sends scouts and search soldiers, we have nowhere to hide! We'll have to figure out a way. ”

"Report to the regiment commander, the reconnaissance company reported that the 1st Division has driven out of Hung Yen, divided into three echelons, with an interval of 10 miles between each echelon, and there are about 40 miles from here."

"So fast! It seems that Lao Jiang is going to fight hard. Liu Hua did not relax his frowning brows because of the political commissar's words, and quietly thought about the war examples he knew throughout the ages.

"Broken tail" Liu Hua suddenly came out with a word, which startled the political commissar.

"Yes, it's a broken tail." Liu Hua shouted happily.

Seeing the political commissar looking at him curiously, Liu Hua hurriedly told Li Qing his thoughts, and Li Qing was stunned when he heard it, and praised the division commander for being smart, this method is good.

"Immediately order the commanders of the various units to come to the meeting." Liu Hua immediately ordered the communicator

Soon everyone who should have arrived arrived.

"Due to the urgency of time, I won't say more, now arrange the combat mission: Commander Sun led a regiment back to 50 miles away from Chaling, chose favorable terrain, arranged blocking positions, must be echelon deployment, do not fight hard in one place, set up a few more defense lines, a platoon of sniper companies to move with your department, and transfer 6 heavy machine guns from the heavy fire company to strengthen you. Act now. ”

"Yes, Commander." After saying that, he walked directly out of the headquarters.

"The 2nd and 3rd regiments were hidden nearby, and as soon as the first two echelons of the enemy army passed, an ambush position was formed, and we ambushed the third echelon of the enemy, and the remaining two platoons of the sniper company were assigned to the two regiments. Remember, like the ambush of the 21st Division, we must carry forward the firepower, all the heavy firepower should be arranged in the first line, and the heavy machine guns and mortars should be concentrated in the layout, and the design angle should be measured in advance, and no dead ends should be left. It is necessary to defeat the enemy army in the first place, so that they have no chance to resist. Hear clearly. ”

"Hear me."

"Okay, immediately arrange for the troops to hide, the enemy will come soon, remember, you must wait for the first and second echelons to pass, and only after receiving the notice can you come out to build an ambush position." Looking at the cadres who came out one after another, Liu Hua's tense heart finally let go.

"Division commander, the enemy is coming." The political commissar next to him reminded that Liu Hua was lying on a hillside two miles away from the highway at this time. Liu Hua raised the binoculars, and sure enough, the enemy was very cautious, and the scouts were placed one mile away from the road. The first brigade of the enemy army, with about 4,000 people, marched forward in two columns in order, and in this way, it took half an hour before disappearing from Liu Hua's field of vision.

Liu Hua saw that the enemy army had gone far away, and sat down: "Political commissar, you said that after we win this anti-encirclement and suppression, what should we do!" ”

"If we win, I think we will fight back to the Soviet area and rebuild the base area, how about it." The political commissar saw that Liu Hua's battle had not yet been fought, so he was thinking about what would happen after the victory, and replied with a smile.

After Liu Hua heard this, he didn't speak and smiled. Because he knew that in the future Anti-Japanese War, the Red Army units in the south were reorganized into the New Fourth Army, and finally under the leadership of Xiang Ying, they were almost completely annihilated by the Kuomintang Party. Liu Hua has been thinking about this problem for the past few days, it must be impossible to keep up with the main force, and finally Liu Hua thought of the 26th Army Corps that was active in Xiangxi.

The political commissar didn't know what Liu Hua was thinking, and seeing that he was thinking so intently, he didn't speak anymore, and walked towards the hidden troops, leaving Liu Hua alone to think quietly.

"Division commander, the enemy's second echelon is coming." The guard next to him pulled Liu Hua, who was in a trance.

Looking at the second echelon of the enemy army in the telescope, a smile appeared on the corner of Liu Hua's mouth. Because the enemy army in his eyes not only did not send search soldiers, but also did not even have sharp soldiers, can Liu Hua not laugh.

The political commissar who inspected the troops quietly came to Liu Hua's side at this time, saw the scene in front of him, and extended his thumb to Liu Hua. Liu Hua nodded after seeing it.

The waiting time passed really slowly, and finally the enemy troops in the second echelon left Liu Hua's sight. After hearing the signal from the scouts that it was safe, Liu Hua immediately ordered the troops to build an ambush position.

After all the troops were quietly lying on their positions, the scouts came the latest information, and the enemy had 20 minutes to enter the ambush circle. Liu Hua immediately ordered the troops to prepare for battle.

As the minutes ticked by, the enemy finally came into view. Looking at the enemy soldiers who were getting closer and closer, Liu Hua quietly loaded the rifle in his hand and aimed at the first enemy soldier who hit the head.

"The division commander, the rearguard reported that all the enemy troops entered the ambush circle." Due to several successive victories, Liu Hua's troops had already used a field phone to contact them.

"Bump" Liu Hua fired the first shot of the ambush battle, and as the gunfire rang out, the artillery position that had been prepared for a long time immediately fired the first round of 24 shells, and all the heavy machine guns and light machine guns spewed out tongues of fire that harvested human lives.

The shells landed accurately in the marching columns, and suddenly set off a rain of blood, and 24 large holes appeared in the dense marching columns, and the sound of light and heavy machine guns caused the soldiers on both sides of the line to fall in rows. The commander of the 3rd Brigade was even more unlucky, and before he could see his own enemy troops, he was torn apart by the first round of artillery fire.

Heavy machine guns constantly spewed tongues of fire, mortars continued to fire deadly shells, and seeing that there were fewer and fewer soldiers who could move below, the long-awaited charge horn sounded, and the soldiers roared and rushed out of the trenches and rushed towards the enemy.

This kind of battle had no suspense for Liu Hua's reading division, and soon, the results of the battle were counted: "A brigade and another division of the enemy army totaled more than 4,300 people, more than 800 people were captured, countless weapons and ammunition were captured, and more than 40 ammunition vehicles of the enemy's baggage battalion were captured, and more than 150 casualties were killed on their side, including 80 killed." ”

Listening to such results, Liu Hua didn't say anything, but just ordered the troops to speed up the cleaning of the battlefield, and all the prisoners were handed over to the new barracks to take care of.

"Report to the division commander, the enemy's second echelon is returning to help, and there are still 8 miles away from here."

"Well, it's just in time, I ordered to leave the three regiments and three battalions to clean up the battlefield, and all the troops moved forward two miles to ambush the second echelon of the enemy, be fast."

"Send a telegram to Regiment Commander Sun immediately, asking him to drag down the first echelon of the enemy army no matter what, and not let him reinforce the second echelon."

Hearing the order of the division commander, the political commissar was startled, "My mother! The division commander is going to completely annihilate one of the enemy's divisions. However, he did not give any opinion on the order of the division commander, because he knew that the young division commander was a man who only took advantage of the war and did not suffer losses.

Just when Liu Hua started the ambush battle, Commander Sun also saw the vanguard of the enemy, and after ordering the sniper platoon to kill the enemy's top soldiers, his own battalion entered the blocking position.

When the commander of the enemy's vanguard saw that one of his platoon's spears was instantly knocked down by a platoon of guns, he immediately ordered his troops to stop advancing and build artillery and heavy machine-gun positions. Because through the analysis of the corpses of the soldiers side by side with the swords, he knew that he must have encountered a strong enemy. However, he did not expect that when Lao Sun saw that the enemy army did not attack, but stopped to prepare for artillery bombardment, he immediately ordered the troops to withdraw from the position, leaving only a few squads, to observe, and ordered his heavy fire company to get 4 mortars aimed at the enemy artillery position, and destroy them immediately after they opened fire.