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Chapter 336 Fight the Thirty-sixth Division Again

Chiang Kai-shek, who attended the memorial meeting in Xi'an, scolded Hu Zongnan and He Wending, who had just fled from Yan'an, but scolded them and had to cheer them up in the end

No matter how incompetent these two people are, they are also their own students, and they are not at ease with others, so the principal said to the students earnestly: "Don't be discouraged, the battle is still fought by you, the communist army is just a hundred thousand stubborn people, you must show confidence and courage to deal with them"

With the support of the principal, Hu Zongnan, who had been defeated repeatedly, still had 11 integrated divisions, 30 brigades, and more than 250,000 troops under his command, plus the local Kuomintang troops in Qinghai, Ningxia, and Gansu, and in the entire northwest, the Kuomintang still had more than 400,000 troops that could control it, which was several times that of the Northwest Field Army led by the ** people

In August, with the encouragement of Chairman Chiang, the supplemented southern part of Hu Zongnan vigorously counterattacked the Northwest Field Army, hoping to reverse the passive situation after Yan'an was lost

Mr. Peng led the Northwest Field Army not to go head-to-head with the enemy, which was never advocated by the PLA, but used the tactics of fighting and retreating, maintaining immediate contact with Hu Zongnan, and gradually testing Hu Zongnan's true intentions

Every day in his governor's office in Xi'an, Hu Zongnan had to listen to reports, read reports, and learn about the progress of the war before commanding the troops to launch an attack

A battle-level commander is thousands of miles away from competing with a figure like Mr. Peng, which is no different from looking for death, I don't know how his principal took a fancy to him, and handed over hundreds of thousands of troops to such a person to command

Front-line fighters are very difficult to catch, but his front-line commanders can't even mobilize a battalion without his orders, what use can such a fool do except bury his own troops? In the Kuomintang, someone once commented that Hu Zongnan was ambitious and talented, and he was a straw bag, and at best he could be the head of the regiment

Under the attack of the Kuomintang army, they successively occupied Baishui, Chengcheng, Heyang and other places, and Hu Zongnan, who received the news, was overjoyed and ordered the troops to carry out a dragnet sweep of the Guanzhong subdivision of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border region like the little devils of the past, preparing to trap the Northwest Field Army in the Huanglong Mountains

Chiang Kai-shek, who had been paying close attention to the war situation in northern Shaanxi, also constantly encouraged Hu Zongnan to speed up the end of the war in northern Shaanxi and wipe out the Northwest Field Army in one go, so that he could throw his 300,000 troops into the Central Plains battlefield and conduct a decisive battle with the People's Liberation Army in the Central Plains

The Northwest Field Army did not hold back, and did not have large-scale contact with the Kuomintang army, but looked for fighters in constant movement, looking for opportunities that could give the enemy a fatal blow

Among the Kuomintang troops' offensive units in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border region, there was one unit that was relatively unusual and special, and this unit was the 36th Division

Why is it said that it is the 36th Division, because the Kuomintang's reorganized 36th Division has been completely annihilated by the Northwest Field Army in the aforementioned Battle of Shajiadian, and in that battle, only the division commander Zhong Song and a few cronies ran away, although it is said that only the division commander and a few cronies remained, but Hu Zongnan was reluctant to give up the name of the 36th Division, and ordered Chongsong to form the 36th Division

The troops have been formed, but there are many differences from the previous 36 th Division, the previous 36 th Division was an old unit with combat experience, and its personnel had reached an unprecedented 30,000 people, and the 36 th Division was much worse, and the personnel of the three brigades under the division had shrunk a lot compared with the past, with only 4,500 people in each brigade, and only 15,000 people in the whole division combined, which also included a considerable number of non-combatants

Objectively speaking, Chong Song is still a general who is relatively good at fighting, in the first Yulin Campaign, it was precisely because of Zhong Song's support that the Northwest Field Army suffered heavy losses, and Hu Zongnan once again restarted using Zhong Song to see this point to some extent, thinking that he was still useful and could sell his life

Of course, Zhong Song also wanted to prove his ability, and worked very hard in the operation, hoping that this battle would wash away the shame of the Battle of Shajiadian and prove to Hu Zongnan and Chiang Kai-shek that he was a commander who could fight

The 36th Division worked very hard from the very beginning of the offensive operation, and the attack and deployment of troops were very fast, causing certain problems to the Northwest Field Army in several small-scale contacts

However, because this guy suffered a big loss in the battle with the Northwest Field Army, he was very cautious in every battle, for fear of being fooled again

Near the Yichuan Highway, in the Shibao area, the Northwest Field Army Temporary Headquarters, Commander Peng Dehuai is explaining the task to several senior commanders:

"This Zhong Song's 36th Division is very active in combat, and it poses a great threat to us, and after research, it has been decided that we are ready to bring the 36th Division in the next operation and create a chance to destroy it."

Speaking of this, Mr. Peng glanced at several commanders around him: "The enemy has more troops than us, and he adopts the tactics of flattening and encircling, so it is not easy to catch the 36th Division from the enemy's pile and eat it, Ye Si is ready to use the 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 6th columns to contain and attract the enemy, and hand over the task of destroying the main force of the 36th Division to the second column, Commander Wang, do you have any opinions and opinions?" ”

Among the several commanders around Mr. Peng, there was Wang Zhen, the commander of the second column, and at this time, Commander Wang did not have the usual smiling expression, but said to Mr. Peng with a stern face: "Please rest assured, our second column will definitely complete the task and destroy the 36th Division."

Mr. Peng: "This unbeatable Zhong Xiang is handed over to you again, the task is given to you because you have four brigades in your hands, and the grasp of completing the task is larger than other columns, you are familiar with Zhong Xiang, Zhong Xiang is also familiar with you, but he is afraid of you, you are not afraid of him, although this 36th Division is a formed force, but there are more than 15,000 people, the strength is half of your column, and this guy is more difficult to deal with than the average Kuomintang general, so it will be difficult to eliminate the 36th Division. The rest of the columns must do their best to contain the enemy and ensure the safety of the flanks of your columns, and there will be no troops to reinforce you at that time, and your second column must be mentally prepared for this."

Commander Wang: "After training for so long, I just took this established 36th Division to try the knife, and if I couldn't die, I would continue to fight until I was beaten to a ròu sauce, and see if he would die."

Commander Wang, who had returned to his own column, immediately convened an operational meeting attended by cadres at and above the regimental level of the entire column to convey the operational orders issued by Ye Si, because the independent brigade did not have a regimental establishment, and only brigade commander Li Yong, political commissar Wang Chengde, and chief of staff Fang came to attend the meeting

Under the full supervision of the division commander Zhong Song, the Kuomintang reorganized the 36th Division and began to attack and advance, but Zhong Song's sense of smell or battlefield insight was still quite keen, and after noticing the abnormal behavior of the Northwest Field Army, he immediately stopped advancing and organized defense on the spot

In the defense area of the 36th Division, there is a lonely mountain stretching out to the plain, because from a distance, this mountain looks like a wine pot, so it is true that the local people call it Huti Mountain, but the so-called name of the common people is apocryphal, there is no such thing

Zhong Cheng is very optimistic about the geographical location of this lonely mountain, and uses this lonely mountain as the support position of his troops, which can be attacked when advancing and defended when retreating, and the deployment of troops is the 123rd Brigade on the left and the 165th Brigade on the right, and the division headquarters and the direct team and the 28th Brigade of the main force defend Huti Mountain, which disrupts the plan of the second column to set up an ambush and annihilate the enemy

At the operational meeting of the Second Column, Commander Wang decided to attack the enemy's 165th Brigade with the 359th Brigade of the 5th Brigade, the 123rd Brigade of the enemy with the 6th Brigade, the 4th Brigade as the reserve of the column, and the 28th Brigade of Zhongsheng's main force with Li Yong's independent brigade

This is the first battle after the formation of the independent brigade as the first battle of the brigade-level troops, it is still a hard battle, Commander Wang did not hesitate to hand over the most important task to the independent brigade, it is in response to Li Yong's previous considerations, the level of the unit has been raised, and the responsibility is greater, it is the main force to shoulder the burden of the main force, Li Yong and Wang Chengde obviously felt the heavy weight on their shoulders, and the pressure that they had not felt when they were the regiment commander before suddenly felt it

Commander Wang warned Li Yong and Wang Chengde that there was still a way: "Hutishan is the battle support point of the 36th Division of the Kuomintang, as long as Hutishan is taken down, this battle will be easy to fight, the enemy's defense system will collapse, and Zhong Cheng will have no danger to defend, and in the plain area, the 36th Division, which has only half of the strength of the second column, will not be able to confront the second column without a reliable defensive position, and the enemy's 28th Brigade has more than 4,000 people, plus the team directly under the division headquarters should have about 5,000 people. Therefore, the key node of this battle depends on whether the Independent Brigade can capture Huti Mountain and defeat the 28th Brigade."

In the end, Commander Wang sternly told the commanders of several independent brigades: "The battle is very crucial, we must quickly take the Hutishan position at any cost, and if we can't take it, we will withdraw it, and the old unit of your brigade, the Fourth Brigade, will continue to attack."

Commander Wang said this very strictly, although he didn't say how to deal with the battle if it couldn't be won, but just being withdrawn and attacked by the Fourth Brigade was a bit unbearable, just when it was attacking Yan'an, after the Fifth Brigade attack was frustrated, Brigade Commander Guo's discomfort was well known to them

Li Yong and Wang Chengde looked at each other, and it was the brigade commander Li Yong who said to the party committee of the column: "Please rest assured, commander, please rest assured that the party committee of the column will resolutely complete the task, eliminate the 28th brigade, and take Huti Mountain."

Lao Ba is forty years old, this age is when the old and the young, and there are many things at ordinary times, I hope you can understand, thank you friends for your support