"In this battle, 3 regiments and a brigade headquarters of the enemy army were completely annihilated, with a total of 5,200 people, including 1,200 prisoners, and countless weapons and ammunition were captured, including 12 mortars, 5 base ammunition, 18 heavy machine guns, 5 base ammunition, nearly 100 light machine guns, rifles, and submachine guns."

Shocked again, Guan Xiangying knew that he had never had such a big capture after bringing soldiers for so long! Can you not be shocked? At this moment, the battle to encircle and annihilate the enemy's second brigade was about to begin.

It turned out that when the enemy's second brigade received the rescue telegram from the first brigade, he immediately guessed that He Long wanted to ambush his own avant-garde brigade, and he knew that he wanted to annihilate a brigade of his own army with He Long's troops, which would take a certain amount of time, thinking of this, he immediately ordered the middle echelon to run forward immediately to reinforce his avant-garde brigade, but after all, there was a road of nearly 10 miles, and when he finally finished halfway through, the battle was over, but the commander of the 15th Division could not have imagined that one of his elite brigades was completely annihilated. Ordered his troops to continue to accelerate their advance, and even forgot to send a telegram to ask.

Looking at the enemy soldiers who ran to the ambush circle out of breath, Liu Hua couldn't help but curse the modern version of "stupid", but did not forget to pull the trigger of the rifle in his hand. Immediately, all the artillery on the position began to roar, the machine guns began to spew deadly tongues of fire, watching the panting enemy troops continue to fall, there was not even time to react, and the rifles were not yet in their hands. Liu Hua felt a trace of unbearableness, and once again blew the trumpet in advance.

The enemy may have been really tired, and all the commanders were basically killed at the first time, and when they heard the Red Army's charge, it seemed that all the people breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately threw down their rifles and knelt on the ground, raising their hands. Looking at the captives, Liu Hua smiled bitterly, and now there are so many soldiers to replenish.

After leaving one battalion to clean up the battlefield, Liu Hua rushed to the front with the remaining five battalions to block the third regiment of the rear guard brigade, although the third regiment was supported by heavy machine guns, but with the support of the enemy's artillery company, there were already great casualties, and the battle had entered a white heat, but they were all fighting to hold on to the last bit of strength.

After Liu Hua arrived at the position, he immediately ordered a battalion to support the third regiment, and the remaining two battalions outflanked the enemy's two flanks, and after a reinforced battalion went up, the third regiment finally stabilized its position, and slowly rushed over in the artillery battalion, and immediately built an artillery position, covered it with several artillery fires, and finally knocked out the artillery position that posed the greatest threat to the Red Army, and began to fire at the enemy's heavy machine gun position. At this time, the three regiments finally had the upper hand. The commander of the enemy rearguard brigade was basically alive because there was no strike from the sniper company, and the commander of the enemy brigade was a very experienced general, after receiving telegrams from himself and the avant-garde brigade and division commander were interrupted. Immediately judging that the main force of the 15th Division might have been finished, coupled with the sudden increase in the firepower of the communist troops on the blocking position, he confirmed his guess even more and immediately decided to withdraw his troops.

Perhaps it was a trick of fate, but just as he was about to give the order, fierce gunfire suddenly came to mind from all sides, and mortars began to shell fiercely at the places where the personnel of the rearguard brigade were most concentrated. Listening to the constant gunfire all around, watching his troops continue to suffer casualties under the shelling, the commander of the enemy rear guard brigade finally couldn't stand it, and after learning that most of his troops had suffered casualties, the brigade commander's determination to resist was completely gone, and under the leadership of the brigade commander, soon, the remaining troops of the rear guard brigade all surrendered.

When Liu Hua heard that nearly a regiment of troops from the enemy's rear guard brigade had surrendered under the leadership of the brigade commander, listening to the cannon sound of the political commissar attacking Taoyuan, Liu Hua's eyes couldn't help but light up, and he immediately had an idea.

Under the threat of Wang Nanhu and others, the enemy telegraph operator quickly sent a telegram to the defenders of Taoyuan, the content was very simple: "Our unit was ambushed by the communist army, and only two regiments of the rear guard of the whole army broke out of the encirclement, and they were retreating towards Taoyuan, and they arrived in an hour. ”

After knowing that the telegram had been sent, Sun Xingbang and a group of soldiers who had changed their clothes began to approach Taoyuan County under the leadership of the commander of the enemy's rear guard brigade. Due to Liu Hua's order, the political commissar did not attack the west gate of Taoyuan County, and the troops quickly entered the city gate. Guarding the gates was a battalion commander, who probably knew the commander of the Guards Brigade, and opened the gates from a distance.

Seeing that the city gate was opened, Sun Xingbang was happy for a while, and immediately ordered the troops to enter the city according to the original plan, and when the battalion commander came to the city gate with a smile to greet the commander of the rear guard brigade, he was greeted by the bayonets of the soldiers of the regiment, and under the threat of the bayonets of the regiment and battalion, except for some of them who were assassinated, the rest of the people surrendered obediently. The second regiment led by Liu Hua has been following the first regiment from a distance. After learning that a regiment had quietly captured the West Gate, he immediately ordered the troops to run forward and take over the West Gate. The remaining troops of the first regiment and the second regiment were ordered to divide into several routes, like arrows inserted everywhere in Taoyuan.

The street fighting was fierce, and it was fought from noon to evening before the Hunan garrison brigade in the city was completely wiped out. Looking at the soldiers in front of him with gunpowder smoke on their faces, and the bodies of martyrs lying on the ground, Liu Hua burst into tears again, what a good soldier. Seeing the bodies of the martyrs being transported outside the city, and seeing the wounded being carried into the temporary ambulance shelter, Liu Hua silently shed tears.

Liu Hua didn't rush to let the soldiers count the results of the battle and clean up the battlefield, but just ordered the logistics to come up with the best things and let the soldiers rest well, because they were too tired.

The next day, all the cadres came to the temporary division headquarters for a meeting, some with depressed faces, some with smiles on their faces.

"Chief of Staff, read the results and losses!"

"Yes, Commander!" Guan Xiangying stood up and gave a military salute to all the cadres.

"Comrades, in this battle, we completely annihilated the 15th Division of the Central Army and a garrison brigade in Taoyuan County of the Hunan Army, with a total of 19,000 people, of which about 6,500 were captured (including the lightly wounded) and 800 were seriously wounded. One brigade commander and two regiment commanders of the 15th Division of the Central Army were captured. ”

Looking at the smiling cadres below, the chief of staff continued

"Countless ammunition materials were captured, including 50 mortars, 66 heavy machine guns, nearly 200 light machine guns, more than 10,000 rifle pistols and submachine guns, countless ammunition, and even happier, the capture of all the logistics materials stored by the 15th Division in Taoyuan can be described as a great result."

Liu Hua didn't speak after hearing this, and sat there quietly, "Chief of Staff, read the casualty data." ”

"Yes, division commander, in this battle, our army lost more than 1,500 people, more than 300 seriously wounded, and more than 1,000 people were lightly wounded, of which 400 people were killed in the first regiment, 350 people were killed in the second regiment, the third regiment was the most, 600 people were killed, and about 150 people were killed in the new regiment. The casualties of the 1st and 2nd regiments were mainly caused in the street battles with the Hunan army, and the 3rd regiment was mainly caused by enemy artillery fire during the blocking battle with the low-poly guard brigade. ”

After listening to the casualty report, everyone was silent, you must know that at this time, the largest casualty of the Reading Force since its formation, can you not be sad? Watching the familiar comrades-in-arms come under the guns of the enemy, so many comrades-in-arms, after a battle, can no longer be seen.

"Comrades, I know that this division has suffered the largest casualty since its formation, and I know that everyone is very heartbroken, but we are the highest commander of the unit, and we still have so many cadres and soldiers under our command, if you all collapse, then what will they do? Raise your head for me? Liu Hua finally couldn't help it and yelled loudly.

"Very good, now I order, the three main battalions of each regiment are all replenished by their respective recruit battalions, we must ensure the combat effectiveness of the three main battalions, the new battalions of each regiment will be expanded to 800 people in all five companies, the artillery company will reach 12 mortars, and the heavy machine gun companies of each battalion will be equipped with 12 heavy machine guns,, both of them had to carry rifles, and there were two submachine gunners, eight riflemen, and all the main regiments were equipped with weapons of this standard, and those who could not buy enough to find commissars. ”

"The second order is that Li Xiaowu will no longer concurrently serve as the director of the logistics department, and the director of the logistics department will be served by political commissar Li Qing, and Li Xiaowu will serve as the head of the combat regiment of the logistics department, with 1,000 people under his jurisdiction, which will be expanded from the original combat battalion, and the logistics department will have a combat regiment of 1,000 people and two baggage battalions of 1,000 people, a total of 3,000 people, and the missing personnel will be selected from the prisoners, and 20 people will be selected from the cadres brought by the chief of staff to serve as the backbone."

"Fourth, the artillery battalion and the heavy machine gun battalion each have only three battalions, and all the excess equipment is handed over to the logistics department, and the other two battalions each have a baggage company."

"Fourth, there will be one radio station for each regiment, two for the division headquarters and two for the logistics office, and the remaining seven stations will all be handed over to the logistics office for safekeeping. Okay, that's all, Chief of Staff, you see, how many people there are in the whole division, and report it. Liu Hua looked at the chief of staff who was sitting next to him with notes.

"Comrades, according to the division commander's plan, our reading division has a total of 16,000 people, hehe, I can't believe it, we are still a division." The chief of staff laughed and joked.

In this way, the reading division began a new round of rest and training, but the time is very short, only 3 days is enough, in the words of a regiment commander, "three days is enough, there are so many veterans, the combat effectiveness of the reading division must be improved rapidly." ”

Looking at the hot training of troops everywhere in Taoyuan County, the chief of staff felt like he was in a dream. Thinking of the current hard life of the 26th Army Corps, lacking guns and ammunition, Guan Xiangying's brows furrowed again.

"Chief of Staff, look at your bad face, are you worried about the 26th Army Corps!" Seeing the chief of staff's constantly frowning brows, Liu Hua asked. The chief of staff did not speak, but nodded. Liu Hua handed over a piece of paper.

"15,000 sets of quilts, 200,000 catties of food, 36 mortars, 3,600 shells, 36 heavy machine guns, and 36,000 rounds of ammunition. 200 light machine guns, 50,000 rounds of ammunition, 10,000 rifles, 500,000 rounds of ammunition" Looking at the data above, Guan Xiangying looked at the smiling division commander with a puzzled expression.

"Chief of Staff, what are you looking at me like this, am I a beauty. Hehe, these are greeting gifts for the 26th Army Corps, where did I get it from the political commissar just now, you see, if you agree, we can give them to them when we meet Commander-in-Chief He in a few days. What do you think? ”

"Division, so many? Oh my God? Tell me, I don't know how many good things are still in the reader? Xiao Ke showed a look of surprise and Xingxi hurriedly asked.

"Hehe, Chief of Staff, you're looking for the wrong person. You should ask Commissar Li, he knows better than I do. Liu Hua looked at the chief of staff with a rogue expression.