Chapter 210: The Brave Howitzer Battalion

-- At the most critical moment of the battle, Wang Laohu, the commander of the fifth battalion of the forward position, was seriously injured and fell, and Ma Quanyou, the commander of the second battalion in the back, and several other veteran soldiers rushed forward after hearing the news.

At this time, Li Yong calmed down, and ordered He Cuihua, the deputy commander of the baggage battalion, to take over Wang Laohu's position with a walkie-talkie, and resolutely wanted the enemy to counterattack, and then asked Wei Gang's machine gun battalion to use a qiΔ“ force to defeat the enemy's madness.

He Cuihua, this girl, played a role again at a critical time, she didn't let herself be idle for a moment, shouting and running on the position, where the situation was urgent, the bullets of the shell gun had long been gone, and the submachine gun in her hand didn't know how many magazines had been changed.

She was followed by dozens of soldiers, all holding Toma-style submachine guns and Czech light machine guns, the shooters of light machine guns hung the belts of machine guns around their necks, and followed He Cuihua to shoot with a roar, rushing to wherever it was critical, these dozens of people became the forefront of mobile forces, and turned the position into safety several times, and the soldiers all felt that the acting battalion commander who took over Wang Laohu's command was really a bit magical.

After Wang Laohu was wounded, the highest position on the forward position should be the instructor of the 5th Battalion and the battalion commander of the baggage battalion, Sun Quanhou, and it stands to reason that one of the two of them should take over the command of Wang Laohu, but Li Yong considered that the instructor of the 5th Battalion was also injured, but the injury was relatively minor and did not go down for the time being, and it was too much of a burden for him to replace the battalion commander.

To say that managing money, property and food is Sun Quanhou's forte, fighting can only be regarded as average, don't look at Lao Sun is also a soldier from the Eighth Road, but if you want to say that you are fighting with the troops, you have to say that she is He Cuihua.

Don't look at it as a girl's family, commanding the battle is indeed stronger than Lao Sun, this is recognized by everyone, and Lao Sun himself knows very well that at this time, Lao Sun, like all soldiers, resisted tenaciously under the command of He Cuihua.

When he was nervously observing the enemy's situation, a hearty voice came from the walkie-talkie on the back of a soldier beside Li Yong: "Li Yong, are you here?" I'm Wang Zhen. ”

The voice of Commander Wang of the Second Column came from the walkie-talkie, and being able to call directly from the walkie-talkie showed that the main force was not too far from here.

Li Yong excitedly snatched the microphone from the soldier's hand: "Commander, I'm Li Yong, we're all here, do you have any instructions?" ”

"You boy, where are the instructions, tell you, the main force of our field army has completed the encirclement of the enemy, and the general attack is about to start, do you have any difficulties there? Can you hold on? ”

Li Yong: "Report to the commander, we can hold on, no matter how difficult it is, we can hold on, please rest assured." Commander Wang: "Okay, that's it, let's see you after the battle." ”

Li Yong, who had put down the microphone for a few minutes, suddenly heard the voice of the reconnaissance battalion commander Zhang Jinsong from the walkie-talkie: "Regiment commander, I'm Zhang Jinsong, and we've come back." ”

Hearing Zhang Jinsong's voice, Li Yong shouted happily: "How is it, where are you now?" Are there many casualties among the troops? ”

Zhang Jinsong: "Regiment commander, our current position is very hidden, I touched the enemy's command near the command center, Liu Kan, this old boy is also anxious, his command post is very forward, not too far from our position, our large army is surrounding, I am ready to wait for the general attack to start when I take our battalion to rush up directly, and take Liu Kan's command post, what do you think?" ”

Li Yong: "No, do you think Liu Kan is dough?" There are at least two guard battalions near his corps headquarters, and they are all descendants brought out by him personally, and their combat effectiveness is very strong, even if they can disrupt Liu Kan's command structure, it is estimated that there will be no one left in your battalion. ”

Li Yong, who finished shouting at the walkie-talkie, immediately remembered the heavy howitzers that had not been used, these 20 howitzers were the weapons of the ** regiment, and they would not be used until the last moment.

Hearing that Zhang Jinsong and the others had touched a place not too far from the enemy's corps command organ, they immediately thought that using artillery fire to attack the enemy's headquarters with a sudden fire could not only avoid casualties but also achieve the suddenness of the battle, and if they were lucky, it would be better to kill Liu Kan and his staff officers, and what combat effectiveness could the enemy's command structure be in chaos, and what combat effectiveness the troops could have, which would have the same effect as the beheading operations in later generations.

By the time the Kuomintang Liu Kan Corps attacked the position of the Chakou ** Regiment until about 6 p.m., it was already a little dark, and the Northwest Field Army had finally completed the encirclement of the enemy after arduous efforts, and the general offensive had begun.

Mr. Peng mobilized all the strength available to the Northwest Field Army to launch an attack from all directions, and the artillery fire shook the heavens and the earth, and the shouts of killing echoed everywhere within a radius of several tens of kilometers.

In order to reduce the pressure on Li Yong's ** regiment as much as possible, Commander Wang Zhen led the second column of his headquarters to put all three main brigades into battle from the beginning of the attack, and each main brigade used two regiments to fight the forward.

Liu Kan's rearguard 42nd Division desperately resisted, but it was defeated in less than an hour in the face of the overwhelming attack of the Northwest Field Army, and the chaotic troops ran everywhere, and these unorganized routs drilled like headless flies in the entire theater, so that the panic was quickly transmitted to other troops.

Two hours after the start of the general offensive, Liu Kan's entire corps showed signs of wavering, Liu Kan, a first-term student of Whampoa, was not given for nothing, he had fought the War of Resistance, fought the Northern Expedition, killed little devils, was a very experienced commander, ordered his subordinates to do their best to block the attack of the communist army, stabilize their positions, and it was not so easy to eat the main force of my corps, but the bad news came one after another.

A large number of commanders, including Zhou Youzhi, commander of the 31st Brigade, Li Da, commander of the 47th Brigade, and Han Zhizhen, commander of the 53rd Brigade, were killed one after another, and the situation on the battlefield gradually developed into uncontrollable aspects.

It's been four days, the soldiers of the ** regiment heavy artillery position are anxiously scratching their ears and cheeks, what is the name of the war there, purely to see the excitement, and then I heard that the main force arrived a day in advance, and has completed the encirclement of the enemy, some people are a little depressed, it's over, it's over, it's really bad, it seems that this battle is going to be over, a big battle is going to be over, and the whole thing is nothing to do with us.

At this time, the voice of regiment commander Li Yong suddenly came from the walkie-talkie of the instructor who led the team: "Is there an artillery battalion?" Order the troops, get ready for battle, get ready for five minutes. ”

The soldiers couldn't believe that it was their own regiment commander's voice coming from the walkie-talkie, a little dumbfounded, and the anxious instructor shouted: "What are you looking at, are you stupid?" The whole battalion removed its camouflage and prepared for battle. ”

For the first time in several days, the 20 or so howitzers of the regiment removed their camouflage, and the battalion instructor shouted nervously on the walkie-talkie: "Regiment commander, let Zhang Jinsong of the reconnaissance battalion show us the target, we are ready for battle." ”

Li Yong ordered Zhang Jinsong to indicate the target to the artillery and be a good observation post for the artillery. He has been blowing us up for several days, and this time he will also give them a taste of shells, and attack them with artillery fire, without them having to scout the battalion.

Gao Xiang, the battalion commander of the artillery battalion, was excited, and after the shells from their mortars were fired, he had been watching the excitement behind the regiment commander and political commissar for more than a day.

Gao Xiang and Li Yong were together, using walkie-talkies on the top of the mountain to direct the artillery positions in the back mountain, and the whole battalion paid attention:

Target No. 002, parallel direction, infantry, grenade, charge No. 2, instantaneous fuse, ruler 365

Left 009

High and low plus 2

4 platoons, 1 gun, one round of live ammunition loading

Ready-to-go!

With the sound of Gao Xiang's command, the muzzle of a 105 howitzer flashed, and a shell shot out.

At this time, Zhang Jinsong was lying in a grass with a few soldiers, nervously observing the explosion point of the cannonball with a telescope, only to see a flash of fire, a grenade exploded in the crowd, Zhang Jinsong carefully observed, and then told the number to Gao Xiang on the top of the mountain, commanding the artillery to shoot, this is also one of the basic skills of the scout, don't look at Zhang Jinsong's usual giggling, at this time the look on his face is very serious.

Gao Xiang on the top of the mountain corrected the ballistic shooting according to Zhang Jinsong's number jΓΉ commanded the artillery on the back mountain:

Ruler-2

002 to the right

High-low -1

Attention of the whole battalion: 6 rounds of rapid fire, (live ammunition loading, battalion-wide salvo, 6 rounds per gun)

Ready-to-go!

As soon as the red flag in the hands of the commander on the position fell, more than 20 howitzers let out a neat tom, the guns were ejected, the bolt of the cannon door was opened, the shells were withdrawn and reloaded, and they were fired again with a neat tom, and in less than a minute, a six-round rapid fire was completed.

More than 120 rounds of large-caliber anti-personnel grenades accurately hit Liu Kan's command post, and suddenly this area was filled with landslides and flames, broken arms and legs everywhere, and the officers and men of the Kuomintang were dazed by this sudden artillery fire. Aren't the communist troops on Chakou Mountain equipped with some mortars, how can there be such powerful howitzers?

Zhang Jinsongle's mouth couldn't close after a sudden artillery attack, and he kept shouting on the walkie-talkie: "Oh, Gao Xiang, you kid is so good." Another month has passed, and although the results are very average, Lao Ba still wants to thank everyone, and the support of the brothers Lao Ba is in his eyes. v