Chapter 115: The Crisis of Hongbei Mountain
Although Lin Zhaomin only arrived more than ten hours earlier than Yu Ruofei, Lin Zhaomin had been studying the battle near Hangzhou on the ship and after arriving in Shaoxing, and he had already had a preliminary idea for the future layout!
"Now the three regiments of the First Division are carrying out defensive operations in the area around Hongbei Mountain, although the time is not long, but the casualties are very large, just now I have let the regiment under Jiang Zunwei disperse and replenish the first division. And since your ministry has arrived, then tomorrow you will go to Yu County. According to the intelligence, there is only one battalion of the Zhejiang Army stationed there, and it will not be a problem to take it down in a short period of time with the combat effectiveness of your department. Moreover, Yu County is close to Hongbei Mountain, and at the same time close to the urban area of Hangzhou, which can threaten the Zhejiang army near Hongbei Mountain, and even cooperate with the 13th Regiment of the First Division to fight a joint siege battle. It can even directly attack the urban area of Hangzhou and completely cut off the logistics supply of the Zhejiang army. In this way, the Zhejiang army must counterattack Yuxian. As long as the Zhejiang army deploys troops to counterattack, the predicament of the first division will be alleviated immediately! ”
Yu Ruofei listened carefully to what Lin Zhaomin said, before he came, Chen Jingyun had specially instructed him that the operational arrangements must obey Lin Zhaomin's arrangements, and that Lin Zhaomin should not be regarded as the chief of staff and not the army commander and not obey the order, Chen Jingyun not only told Yu Ruofei, but also sent a special telegram to Yuan Fang and Ma Chengdu, asking them to obey Lin Zhaomin's combat arrangements.
After some tactical arrangements, Yu Ruofei rushed back to the station, arranged ordnance and ammunition, etc., while Lin Zhaomin was also busy with other things.
This night, after all, there were too many people who couldn't sleep.
Fuzhou Governor's Mansion, Chen Jingyun did not rest at Lin Yun's place this night, nor did he sleep in Luo Li's room, but stayed alone in the study. He has been busier than usual in the past few days, attending the preparatory meeting of the provincial council with Zheng Zuyin and others of the military and political axe in the morning, and attending the foreign affairs reception held by the military and political axe in the afternoon, inviting the consuls of various countries in Fuzhou, and Chen Jingyun also wandered around with a group of important officials with the military and political axe.
Chen Jingyun personally sent a letter to the British Consul in Fuzhou, Otto? Jones explained the war in Zhejiang, personally assuring that the war in Hangzhou would not affect the commercial interests of various countries on the Yangtze River, and that the trade routes between Zhejiang and Fujian would remain open. He also repeatedly stressed that the Nationalist Army has the ability and confidence to resolve this military conflict in a short period of time, so as to ensure the stability of Zhejiang and the entire southeastern region.
All countries did not understand and oppose the war in Hangzhou, and almost without exception condemned Zhu Rui and Chen Jingyun, saying that their war had seriously affected the interests of all countries in the Yangtze River estuary. During the Xinhai Revolution, the fighting between the Southern People's Army and Zhang Xun's troops in Nanjing, and the subsequent fighting in the direction of Xuzhou, had caused great losses to the commercial interests of various countries in China, so the countries were now extremely dissatisfied with the continuation of the war in the Jiangnan region.
After the reception, Chen Jingyun went to the General Staff Headquarters to listen to the war briefing on the Hangzhou side, and when he heard that the First Division had begun to shrink strategically, Chen Jingyun's thick eyebrows kept frowning, which made the people next to him a little worried.
Chen Jingyun has always been nervous about the war in Hangzhou, fearing that the Nationalist Army he built up is just a vain appearance, and if the first division is defeated or even eliminated, then the Nationalist Army's plans in northern Zhejiang will all fall through, and whether or not it can keep southern Zhejiang will be a huge problem.
With such worries, when Chen Jingyun returned to the Governor's Mansion and walked into the backyard, it was already close to eleven o'clock in the evening, due to the lack of enough entertainment in these years, whether it was a dignitary or an ordinary person, he slept very early, at this time, whether it was Lin Yun or Luo Li, they had already gone to bed early, Chen Jingyun didn't want to disturb them, and at the same time he also wanted a space to read to think about it.
After letting the people around him retreat, Chen Jingyun locked himself in the study, sat in front of the desk, and picked up a few pieces of paper on the table, all the writing or drawings on them were written down by Chen Jingyun when he was usually fine, mostly some military things, including some strategic concepts and plans, in addition to some new weapons and tactics in his memory, such as aircraft, such as tanks, such as aircraft carriers. In addition to these things on the army, there are other messy things, such as three big characters written on a piece of paper, penicillin, and then a big '? He knows the word penicillin, but he doesn't know how to make it, and the same is true for some other things, the name is there, but most of the things Chen Jingyun doesn't know how to make it.
Putting these down, Chen Jingyun took a sip of the tea that had been cold, and then continued to flip through the documents on the desktop, it has been more than half a year since this era, and Chen Jingyun has recorded a lot of things in his spare time, in addition to the military industry and the like, he even wrote a short story that he liked before, and there are many others.
Pulling out a piece of paper casually, Chen Jingyun unfolded it and looked at it, and there were a few short lines of poetry on it:
I like that you are silent, as if you have disappeared, you listen to me from afar, but my voice cannot touch you, as if your eyes have flown away, like your kiss, close your mouth, I like that you are silent, as if you have disappeared, distant and sad.
In fact, Chen Jingyun didn't know who wrote the poem and what the original version was, he just remembered these few sentences, and the reason was simply that he remembered the poem recitation after watching a certain movie. Looking at these lines, my thoughts drifted into the distance, far, far, far, where there were those people and things from the previous life.
After a long time, he sighed, picked up the pen and wrote a sentence on the paper: I like that you are silent, as if you were dead.
It was also late at night, at the 6th Brigade of the 2nd Division outside Hangzhou, Zhu Rui and several of his generals gathered on a map, and a person next to him narrated:
"Now the 4th Brigade of our army has launched several fierce attacks on the 13th Regiment of the enemy, the casualties of both the enemy and us are very large, the 5th Brigade has taken over the offensive of the 4th Brigade at night, and continues to attack, and the 13th Regiment of the enemy has been compressed in the area of Hongbei Mountain, the 3rd Brigade has begun to send out, it is expected that it will occupy the area of Niujiao Mountain tomorrow, so as to cut off the rear road of the enemy's 13th Regiment to retreat south, and then the commander you will personally take the 6th Brigade to raid Baoge Mountain, completely cut off the contact between the 13th Regiment and the 12th Regiment of the enemy, In this way, four brigades of our army will encircle the area of the enemy's 13th regiment and the eastern part of the Red North Mountain, and under the siege of the four brigades, the enemy's destruction is imminent! ”
According to the above plan, if Zhu Rui can succeed, he will be able to completely encircle the 13th Regiment of the National Army, and then encircle and annihilate it, if he can encircle and annihilate this 13th Regiment, it will not only greatly boost the morale of the Zhejiang Army, but also completely defeat the First Division. In order to carry out this plan smoothly, Zhu Rui mobilized almost all his forces, moved the 3rd Brigade in front to the eastern sea area, and made a long detour back to the vicinity of Niujiao Mountain, that is, the southeast area behind the 13th Regiment. At the same time, a regiment was transferred from the Second Brigade to strengthen the Sixth Brigade, and the Sixth Brigade would be led by Zhu Rui himself, and with the cooperation of Ye Songbin's frontal defense line, it would quickly break through the junction of the 13th Regiment and the 12th Regiment of the National Army, and then occupy Baoge Mountain, thus forming a situation of encirclement.
Since the start of the war, Zhu Rui has not planned to slowly accompany the first division of the national army to fight a war of attrition, because he knows very well that the second division of the national army is on the way to reinforcements, and there are seven divisions in Fujian, and the longer it drags on, the more unfavorable it will be to himself, so he made up his mind to concentrate all his forces to eat this first division at the beginning, even if it cannot be encircled and annihilated, at least it must be defeated and give it heavy damage. To this end, he used a series of tactics to successfully drag the two main regiments of the 1st Division of the Nationalist Army with only three regiments, and then he mobilized the main force to encircle and annihilate the 13th Regiment of the Nationalist Army in one fell swoop. As long as this regiment is eaten, the remaining 1st Division of the National Army will not be a cause for concern
Zhu Rui then said: "There are only three regiments left on Ye Songbin's side now, and the enemy didn't find anything wrong, right?" ”
"The enemy has already shown signs of moving closer to Hongbei Mountain, because they may have perceived the intensification of our army's attack on Hongbei Mountain, and it also proves that they have not noticed that our army has only three regiments left on the frontal front. If they had noticed, they would have already struck head-on. ”
Faced with such an explanation, Zhu Rui exhaled and said, "Okay! Tell the subordinates to rest well! ”
The Zhejiang army was brewing a battle aimed at encircling and annihilating the 13th Regiment, and at this time the first division Yuan Fang and others did not notice, now Yuan Fang only knew that the 13th Regiment was facing the attack of the enemy's superior forces, and it had lasted for seven or eight hours in a row, so Yuan Fang had ordered the 12th Regiment to move closer to the 13th Regiment, and then the 11th Regiment also moved the battle line eastward to prepare to take over the defense line of the 12th Regiment, and carried out a strategic contraction.
At five o'clock in the morning of the next day, the artillery of the Zhejiang army suddenly retreated to the junction of the 13th regiment and the 12th regiment for large-scale artillery bombardment, although the quantity and quality of the artillery of the Zhejiang army were inferior to the national army, but Zhu Rui concentrated a battalion of 18 artillery this time to fight was full of might, so that the national army, which has always had an artillery advantage, was a little confused, after a hurried 20 minutes of artillery preparation, Zhu Rui personally ordered the sixth brigade to assault forward, so that the Zhejiang army began to charge according to the traditional infantry ceremony.
In front of the 6th Brigade is the 1st Battalion of the 12th Regiment, but the troops of the 1st Battalion are already very scattered, there is a company on the way to reinforce the 13th Regiment, the machine gun company has already been transferred to other places, only three infantry companies remain, and they are facing the charge of the 6th Brigade of the Zhejiang Army of more than 5,000 people, the 1st Battalion will soon be a little unable to support, only half an hour later, there will be a small collapse, if it continues, the 1st Battalion will completely collapse, in order to avoid the 1st Battalion being completely annihilated, The commander of the 12th Regiment personally asked Yuan Fang for permission for the 1st Battalion to organize a retreat.
"As soon as they withdraw, there will be no more troops of our army on the line from Niujiao Mountain to Baoge Mountain, and the connection between the 12th Regiment and the 13th Regiment will be cut off, and now Niujiao Mountain will be almost lost, and the 13th Regiment will be surrounded by enemy troops at that time!" The combat staff officer calmly analyzed Yuan Fang.
Yuan Fang took a deep breath, took out a handkerchief and wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead, and then said with a gloomy face: "Give Xu Jingqing of the 13th Regiment an order, let him stick to the spot!" The division headquarters will immediately organize reinforcements to reopen the communication channel to relieve the siege, and the first regiment of the guard division on the Shaoxing side is already on the way, and it will be able to arrive within a day, and the vanguard of the second division will be able to arrive tomorrow. So as long as he guards for two days, as long as he Xu Jingqing guards these two days, I will personally ask for credit for him in front of the governor! ”
After saying these words, the combat staff officer on the side said: "What about the 1st Battalion of the 12th Regiment?" ”
"Let them withdraw first and re-establish the defensive line" Then Yuan Fang looked at the map again and said: "The remaining troops of the 12th Regiment urgently reinforce the 1st Battalion, reorganize the defensive line and wait for reinforcements, and then order the 11th Regiment to get out of the enemy's entanglement as soon as possible and move closer to the 12th Regiment as soon as possible." ”
Yuan Fang was very clear about the strength of the Nationalist Army near Hangzhou, and now there was only one reinforcement that could come, that is, the First Regiment of the Guard Division, and it was useless to ask for reinforcements, so he took a deep breath and said: "Call the army headquarters, the situation of our department is urgent, and a large number of ammunition is urgently needed, especially artillery shells!" ”