Chapter 457: Rising to the Challenge

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The Kuomintang officers in the encirclement thought that it was better to be caught by the communist army than to desperately break through the encirclement, and with the help of a large number of technical weapons, they might still be able to stand out; under this kind of luck mentality, the Kuomintang commanders at all levels also played with their lives, and used a large amount of artillery fire to prepare for the PLA's positions before the infantry launched an assault, and thick smoke and flames enveloped the entire Luoju Town of our army's position.

The enemy fired not only grenades but also a large number of incendiary bombs, and the weather in July was already extremely hot, and the sea of fire from the incendiary bombs made the front line of the 10th Division's position even worse.

The incendiary bomb is a very headache weapon, the scene of hitting in pieces makes people feel that even the air seems to be on fire, the soldiers in the anti-artillery hole are sweating profusely, and it is very difficult to take a breath, Gao Jinchun is a very experienced commander, he asked the soldiers to quickly block their mouths and noses with wet towels, and if they can't find water, they will pee on the towel, no matter what, they must use wet towels to prevent poisoning.

When the soldiers of the 10th Division were stiffening the enemy's bombardment in the forward position, the artillery battalion of the Independent Brigade was the first to open fire, and when the coordinates and orientation of the enemy's artillery had been figured out, what the howitzer battalion had to do was to smash a large number of shells in the fastest possible time, and paralyze their artillery positions while the enemy had not yet reacted, so as to relieve the infantry at the front and let them taste the iron fist of the PLA.

Li Yong ordered Gao Xiang's artillery battalion to suppress the enemy's artillery with the greatest efforts, and not to let them strike at our army's position without any scruples, otherwise the soldiers who were still holding on to the position would not be blown up and burned to death, and they would be suffocated if they were not burned to death, so the artillery fire of the independent brigade was very important.

The first rapid fire sent hundreds of shells over, and Gao Xiang ordered his soldiers without stopping: "The height is the same, the pitch is the same, the whole battalion is rapid-fire, six are rapid-fire, and eight are rapid-fire." ”

More than 90 artillery pieces, each of which was more than 900 rounds of 10 rounds, and under Gao Xiang's order, the soldiers could shoot out two or three thousand shells in a matter of minutes.

Thousands of shells smashed over, the sky fell apart, and the unprepared Kuomintang artillery positions were blown up in a mess, and the number of artillery of the Kuomintang army was no less than that of the independent brigade, but they could not be used as intensively as the independent brigade, so they were caught off guard by the howitzer battalion in the first round of confrontation.

The soldiers of the 10th Division hiding in the anti-artillery hole felt that something was wrong, especially those old soldiers who had been on the battlefield for a long time, these old soldiers were confused, what was going on? Listening to the explosion point of this shell, it seems that it is not our here, well, not only is it not ours here, it seems that it is the Kuomintang troops who were bombed, oops, it will not be our reinforcements have arrived??

The old soldier's mind is very alert, and his sense of the battlefield is also very keen, and he can guess something with a little reaction, and a squad leader said: "Almost, listen to our instructor, the field army headquarters has sent the independent brigade of the Second Army to support us. ”

Another said: "It should be them, if you want to say that in the troops at the division and brigade level of our field army, no one can be as good as the independent brigade of the Second Army, I watched them march once, that guy, the barrel of the cannon is like a woods smeared with carbon, there is a lot of black, what do you say people are doing?" How can there be so many cannons? ”

"No matter what you do, the more the better, hit hard, and let them know what it's like to be shelled." Division Commander Gao Jinchun muttered in the headquarters and listened to the report.

Li Yong and Wang Chengde took a few soldiers and crashed into the hidden department of Master Gao, and the two of them raised their hands together to salute Master Gao, not because of their positions, but because Master Gao Jinchun is an old-timer, and he is more than ten years older than Li Yong and Wang Chengde in terms of age, so it is appropriate to salute.

Division Commander Gao Jinchun and his fellow pulled Li Yong over and looked down a few times: "Oh, oops, Brigade Commander Li, I have admired the name for a long time, it's too good to come, as soon as you come, you will be dumb by the enemy's artillery fire, and you will fight well." ”

Division Commander Gao said that there is a reason for the long admiration of the Daimyo, they are both from a field army, but Li Yong and Division Commander Gao belong to different units, and the battles in peacetime are very frequent, and there are few opportunities to meet, this time the two of them are meeting for the first time, although it is the first time they have met, they have heard of each other, especially a few months ago, the Tenth Division and the 25th Division of the Ma Jiajun had a hard fight, and in the end, the field army sent an independent brigade to clean up the 25th Division, so Li Yong and Gao Division Commander had heard of each other for a long time, but they had never met.

Division Commander Gao Jinchun looked at Li Yong and Wang Chengde back and forth: "I said, Brigade Commander Li, Political Commissar Wang, you independent brigade cattle, look at this guy, it's amazing to equip cattle." ”

Li Yong and Wang Chengde and a few other people are quite eye-catching in the division headquarters of the Tenth Division, except for Li Yong and Wang Chengde, these people are all steel helmets and American-style submachine guns plus shell guns, one long and one short double guys, which looks enviable, but these are not the main ones, the main thing is that there is Li Jia, the commander of the guard company.

The eyes of the soldiers of the 10th Division were about to straighten, and they wondered, the independent brigade is coming, why is there still a female soldier behind the ass of the brigade commander and political commissar? What is the reason for this?

No wonder the soldiers guessed, at that time, there were very few female soldiers in the combat units, or there were no female soldiers at all, and it was of course strange that the cold independent brigade made a female soldier wander back and forth with the chief.

Strange is strange, Division Commander Gao Jinchun didn't have time to think about this: "Brigade Commander Li, you have to be more careful with your artillery position, the enemy not only has artillery and tanks, but also planes, once it is discovered by the enemy's planes, it will be too late for our artillery to run, so we must prepare early." ”

Li Yong: "Thank you for the reminder from Division Commander Gao, I will set up a joint command center for our two troops, so that we can command in a unified manner, and our independent brigade will listen to Division Commander Gao's orders, what do you think?" ”

The order given by the field army headquarters to the independent brigade was to quickly reinforce the 10 th division and hold the position, and the order did not say that the two units were bigger and which was small, but whether it was qualifications or ability, it was absolutely correct for division commander Gao to command the battle, and he had fought non-stop on the battlefield for more than 20 years, and division commander Gao's command experience was stronger than that of these people in the independent brigade, and Li Yong and Wang Chengde also agreed with this.

After thinking about it for a while, Senior Commander said briskly: "Brigade Commander Li, Political Commissar Wang, the military situation is urgent, since you say so, I am not hypocritical, joint operations are more beneficial than our two families fighting each other, as soon as the completion of the task is the most important, my big brother will temporarily be the leader for you, and I will now introduce to you our situation." ”

Division Commander Gao pointed to the position and said: "The total strength of our 10th Division before the war exceeded 10,000, and there are more than 5,000 people who can still hold on to the battle at present. ”

When he said this, Division Commander Gao looked at his watch, and then continued: "More than two hours have passed, that is to say, from now on, we will have to hold on for another eight hours to complete the task, these eight hours are very difficult, our division's ammunition is basically exhausted, and the ammunition for the field army's logistical supply has not yet arrived, so if you don't come, you will have to fight with the enemy with bayonets." ”

Wang Chengde and Li Yong took a look, Wang Chengde turned around and told Li Jia, the commander of the guard company: "Inform Sun Quanhou and He Cuihua that Ma will send people to supply the 10th Division, and the brother troops will give whatever they lack, take ammunition and food at will, and do not fight ambushes." ”

Li Yong and Wang Chengde did this on the basis of full confidence in their troops, and the large baggage battalion of more than 2,000 people was all motorized, and the ammunition and food they brought were much older, so there was no problem in supplying the 10th Division, and the speed of supply was much faster than that of the field army's mule and horse transport teams.

Division Commander Gao Jinchun laughed: "A trench battle, thank you or something, we can hold out, as long as the ammunition is enough, we can hold on, the enemy's infantry is not difficult to deal with, what I hate is the enemy's technical weapons, all heavy equipment, tanks, artillery and aircraft, we don't have a guy to take advantage of, we can't just run away with a few shots like a guerrilla fight, hey, it's a big loss." ”

At the headquarters of the Kuomintang Front Corps, an officer was holding a phone and kept shouting: "Hey, give me the artillery position, what's going on with you?" Why did the artillery fire stop? ”

The officer, who had made the call, turned around and reported: "Report to the sir, our artillery positions have been attacked by superior artillery fire of the communist army and have suffered heavy losses. ”

The front-line commander of the Kuomintang kept pondering: "What's wrong, the situation is not right, the communist army on the opposite side has no artillery fire, and the few poor artillery has no way to confront the **, how can there be any superior artillery suddenly?" ”

An officer beside him reminded: "Commander, is it the communist army's reinforcements arrived, according to the communist army's newly increased artillery fire density, the communist army's artillery is at least two regiments, and it is based on 105 howitzers as the main force. ”

From the artillery fire of the People's Liberation Army, it can be seen that what the officer just said is right, it must be the reinforcements of the communist army, otherwise there can be no such powerful artillery fire, but the reinforcements are not necessarily not the large forces of the communist army, and the reason is also very simple, if it is really the main force of the communist army, then this battle will not start, and the PLA on the opposite side will not give him any more chance, and will definitely launch a general attack, But so far, the communist army has only used artillery to confront **, and the infantry has not made any major moves, which shows that the main force of the communist army has not yet arrived.

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