Chapter 52: Each Shows His Powers
At this time, the commander of the Shimen Bridge Garrison Regiment was secretly happy? Because his reinforcements are coming soon, as long as the reinforcements arrive, they can hold the county seat, and it will be a great achievement at that time. Just when he is happy.
"Regiment commander, the reinforcements brought by Brigade Commander Wang are here, you can go and take a look!" The deputy head of the regiment ran over.
"Well, so fast, let's go, let's see." As he spoke, he walked out of the headquarters. From a distance, he saw a group of people walking towards him, and the person at the head was the brigade commander Wang Bing. The head of the regiment hurriedly greeted him with a smile.
"Brigade Commander Wang, thank you brother for saving your life this time, I will definitely not forget my brother's great kindness in the future, the regiment commander began to shout from afar.
Looking at Brigade Commander Wang walking in front of him, the regiment commander suddenly felt that something was wrong, the smile on Brigade Commander Wang's face at this time seemed so stiff, but it was too late, I only felt that my waist was suddenly pressed by a hard thing, no need to think about it, the regiment knew that it was a pistol, and then looked at the deputy regiment commander and others next to him, everyone was stunned on the spot,
"Brigade Commander Wang, what are you?" the regiment commander asked unrelentingly. Without waiting for Wang Bing to speak, I saw Sun Xingbang, the commander of the first division next to Wang Bing, and then he said: "Tell you, we are the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and you have been captured." Several captives immediately broke out in a cold sweat, they were really unlucky, they were beaten before they were beaten
"Hehe, Head Zhou, please help us with your subordinates, I don't know if it's okay! Master Sun Xingbang asked with a smile.
The regiment commander thought about the pistol on his waist, and he didn't dare to agree, so he nodded quickly. Seeing that the regiment commander had already agreed, the deputy regiment commander and chief of staff in the back agreed even more. Soon, the three regiments of the 1st Division quickly divided into three routes, and rushed to the defending positions of their three battalions under the leadership of the regiment commander, deputy regiment commander and others.
Needless to say, under the order of the military uniform and the enemy commander, the three battalions of the enemy army obediently took prisoners, and the gunfire of Shimen Bridge finally slowly thinned out. Looking at the results in front of him, although Liu Hua felt that the casualties of his troops were too large, it was still worth it, because there were enough captives to replenish it.
"More than 1,100 enemy troops were captured, of which nearly 300 were artillery and other technical services, 4 mountain artillery pieces were captured, all the others were damaged, 6 mortars, and countless ammunition, of which the most replenished were mountain artillery shells and mortar shells."
Although Liu Hua was happy, he was not overjoyed, although he was tired to see the fighters. However, Liu Hua still ordered the soldiers to escort the captured materials and ammunition, and the prisoners withdrew from Shimen Bridge, as for those injured prisoners, Liu Hua had to stay at Shimen Bridge and hand them over to the Guoming Party that came later, because although Liu Hua's other materials were not very scarce, the medicine could not be wasted on the injuries and illnesses of these Guoming Party.
At this time, the second division led by political commissar Guan Xiangying was also cleaning up the battlefield. It turns out that north of Xiangxi is the territory of Hubei, and not far from the Yangtze River. Facing the Yangtze River, which is more than 1,000 meters wide, Chen Cheng seems to be very confident, but he has only deployed a brigade in each county town along the defense line along the river, and as for those towns and villages, they are only some local militia groups that symbolize their surnames, and they do not pose a major threat to the well-equipped Second Division at all.
But opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared, and Chen Cheng wants to complete the task given to him by Chairman Chiang. Immediately, the experience of the Central Committee in the fifth encirclement and suppression of the Red Army sounded. Immediately ordered each county to send a certain number of troops to assist the militia groups in each town to assist in the defense, build pillboxes, and advance step by step. In this way, one battalion, two battalions of troops of different sizes began to drive out of the county. And Guan Xiangying and Gao Yuan and others saw this.
The troops of the 2nd Division immediately attacked in all directions as regiments, ambushing small units of troops out of the county town, and in this way the performance was superior. At this time, Guan Xiangying's political commissar had just ambushed a battalion that had been driven out of Chongxian County, and because of the experience of the last Taozixi ambush, this time the political commissar Guan did not want to carry out his firepower, did not knock the enemy down, and resolutely did not charge, and in this way, under the blow of a regiment's dense firepower, the enemy of a battalion had only a few dozen wounded and sick prisoners.
Although there were no prisoners, there were so many prisoners in the Seventh Army Corps that the political commissar didn't care at all, what he cared about was the equipment and ammunition of this battalion, you must know that these troops were going to defend the town, so the ammunition was specially strengthened, and each person brought a full 150 rounds of ammunition.
However, the fighting style of Li Qing, the head of the logistics department, was completely different from that of the first and second divisions, and after Li Qing received the order, his eyes were aimed at Anhua, because Anhua's own troops had occupied it and the terrain was familiar. In addition, Anhua is located in central Hunan Province, surrounded by mountains, and the nearest county town is also 100 miles away from Anhua, and it will take at least 10 hours for enemy reinforcements. In the eyes of Li Qing and Wang Nanhu, it was still easy for one division to strengthen two artillery companies and capture Anhua with two regiments of the garrison.
After two days of preparation, Li Qing and Wang Nanhu secretly sent the troops of the two battalions into the county seat, and two days later, they attacked the county seat in only two hours by attacking from inside and outside, coupled with the fierce bombardment of 24 mortars from two artillery companies. The reason why it was so simple was only known after Li Qing interrogated the prisoners afterwards. It turned out that since the Anhua garrison was completely annihilated, in order to hide from Chiang Kai-shek, He Jian reorganized the security regiments in several towns and made them into two regiments of garrisons, which had no combat effectiveness at all except for better weapons.
After entering the city, Li Qing ordered his troops to step up the cleaning of the battlefield, after the arrival of enemy reinforcements. Li Qing had already withdrawn from Anhua County with his troops with prisoners and booty.
At this time, the scheduled week had arrived, and the three troops went straight to Taoyuan County in the night, ready to discuss the next step of the operation.