Chapter 344 Fight Again Thirty-six Division Nine

After receiving Commander Wang's order, the Independent Brigade threw all its forces out, and even the manpower that could be transferred from the baggage battalion was directly engaged in battle with Zhang Jinsong's reconnaissance battalion under the leadership of He Cuihuā, so that the Independent Brigade basically exerted all its strength except for the supplementary battalion that was still in training. The full-text and ad-free novels are all biquge.info on Aishang Novel Network

Li Yong certainly had his own considerations for not letting the supplementary battalion go to the battlefield, and there were too many liberation fighters in the Northwest Field Army, so many that they exceeded 80 percent, and this caused a series of problems.

Some time ago, due to the short training time and the lack of too many personnel in the troops, some newly captured soldiers were directly added to the troops, and as soon as the prisoners who had not undergone ideological transformation entered the troops, many contradictions arose, and the new fighters did not understand the methods and tactics of the PLA, and there were also problems in communication between comrades.

Some liberation fighters said that the Eighth Route Army walked all day and night to drill ravines, not a regular army, like bandits, some disgusted that our army's clothing was not good-looking and did not like to wear it, our army's supply at that time was very difficult, the new soldiers were arriving, but the military uniforms given to them had not yet been settled, in order to distinguish between the enemy and us, each person had to be issued a gray army hat of the People's Liberation Army, as for the clothing, they had to wait until later to solve, individual new liberation fighters also had an aversion to only one military cap, and there were rumors, This is because when the PLA troops are fighting, they let the captive soldiers charge in front to distinguish between them.

The liberation fighters in the army hired strict thinking, and the common idea was that 'whoever eats food will be a soldier of whom's family, and if you have nǎi, you are a mother', greedy for life and afraid of death, violating discipline, shouting bitterness and tiredness, and slipping head battles have become a common phenomenon.

Later, there were many people who did not listen to the commands of squad leaders and platoon commanders, and there were many people who quarreled with the children of the army in the border areas, and if such troops continued to develop, they would be no different from the rabble, and later the problems were solved after ideological rectification and training, especially the 358th Brigade of the first column under the leadership of political commissar Xu Qiuli even more mō asked for some very valuable experience, and the soldiers after education are the real soldiers, and the ideological and political weapons of our army are the treasure of the strong army of the troops, and this is not wrong at all.

Therefore, before the ideological problem is solved, Li Yong will not let this part of the supplementary battalion soldiers go to the front line, the soldiers are in jīng but not in the many, and the PLA is not in the same mind, no matter how many people there are, it is useless.

After Huti Mountain was conquered by the People's Liberation Army, the positions of the 36th Division of the Kuomintang were shaken on all fronts, and the two brigades (the 123rd Brigade and the 165th Brigade) that were still struggling to hold on to the reinforcements at the foot of the mountain were panicked.

After the independent brigade descended from the mountain, it moved from the flank to the back of the butt of the 123rd Brigade of the 36th Division, and attacked the 123rd Brigade from behind.

The 123rd Brigade, a time-honored Kuomintang unit, was no better than before, it used to have nearly 10,000 people in its heyday, but after it was reorganized, there were only more than 4,000 people, and the quality of the soldiers and weapons and equipment was also much worse, and the combat effectiveness was not half of what it used before.

The officers and men of the 123rd Brigade dared to confront the PLA head-to-head because the nearest Kuomintang troops were only 25 kilometers away, and they also had the main position of Huti Mountain as their backing, and it was not easy for the PLA to take them down for a while when they thought that there was such a perfect defensive position, and once the main force of the Corps behind arrived, they would be relieved of the siege, and the distance of 25 kilometers was a matter of several tens of minutes for the Kuomintang troops with a large number of cars.

However, the battle lasted from morning to noon, and there was no shadow at all of the reinforcements that had been waiting, not only were they fiercely attacked, but the 165th Brigade and the 28th Brigade were also besieged, and the main position set up on the mountain was very fierce, and the artillery fire of the People's Liberation Army kept beckoning to the mountain, and at noon the division headquarters also lost contact.

Listening to the sound of machine guns firing, you can know that this is a very powerful large-caliber high-shè weapon, when the officers and men of the 123rd Brigade were still a little puzzled, these machine gun bullets fell on their heads like a raging storm, and at the same time as the machine guns rang out, the troops of the Independent Brigade pierced through the chā from behind the buttocks of the 123rd Brigade.

The geographical location of Huti Mountain is very good, standing on the hill to see the positions of the 123rd Brigade and the 165th Brigade set up on the left and right sides very clearly, Li Yong asked Wei Gang to carry all the machine guns of their battalion to the mountain, no matter how steep the terrain is, they must nòng up, it is really difficult to move, so they will be disassembled, and then they will be assembled on the mountain, and then the 123rd Brigade will be condescendingly covered from the mountain.

The loss of the main position posed too great a threat to the Kuomintang officers and soldiers, and Wei Gang's machine-gun battalion could not only clearly see the enemy's defensive posture on the hill, but also the steel helmets of the Kuomintang soldiers in the trenches, and the high-level machine-gun battalion could completely cover the 1st, 23rd Brigade.

The artillery battalion of the independent brigade set up an observation post on the mountain as soon as it was taken down from Huti Mountain, and the command methods of the battalion commander Gao Xiang became more and more clear, this guy did not wait for the brigade commander to give any order to prepare, but thought about things forward, did the preliminary work well, and could immediately open fire as long as the superior had an order.

To deal with the enemy behind the mountain, the best weapon is Qu Shi's 105 mm howitzer, Gao Xiang also moved his artillery command post to the mountain, the Kuomintang officers and soldiers in the telescope are clearly visible, and even the outline of the soldier's facial features can be seen clearly, Gao Xiang was excited, and he couldn't stop muttering: "What is the difference between this and the target of our artillery?" ”

Sure enough, as Gao Xiang expected, it didn't take long for the brigade commander Li Yong to call and ask how long the artillery battalion would be ready.

"Good job, you are a piece of material to be the commander of an artillery battalion, use your artillery fire to teach the commander of the 123rd Brigade of the Kuomintang who is still resisting behind the mountain a lesson, go all out, let's start." Brigade Commander Li Yong's voice made Gao Xiang very proud for a while.

The first to fire was Gao Xiang's artillery battalion, and I saw a swarm of shells over the top of the hill and fall on the position of the 123rd Brigade like crows, and fireworks, debris, and stones were steaming, and the whole earth trembled under the roar of the shells, but then there was an unexpected problem.

Brigade Commander Li Yong let Wei Gang's machine gun battalion also fire at the same time as the artillery attack, but the overwhelming artillery fire blew up the positions of the 123rd Brigade into dust, and the soldiers' vision was blurred.

Of course, Li Yong also saw the problems encountered by the machine gun battalion on the top of the mountain, but Brigade Commander Li didn't care what he could see or see, he told Sù Weigang, your battalion just needs to shoot shè, and the general position is correct, and the dust can't stop the bullets, just do it.

Since the brigade commander has an order, isn't it easy to do, the soldiers cào longitudinal high shè machine guns, and don't care about the three-seven-twenty-one, rushing at the position of the 123rd brigade is a burst of hu luànshè hits, there is nothing to say, nothing can be seen, and what jīng quasi-shè hits, the old shè hands gave most of the machine guns to the new soldiers, so that they can also enjoy themselves.

These new fighters are happy, this kind of opportunity is too difficult to find, you don't need to look at the head, you just need to be in the right position, this is not easy to do, the soldiers swept with machine guns, the guns were shaking, and the bullets were shot out in strings.

It's no wonder that the new soldiers are happy, in the past, the old Eighth Route fought and regarded a bullet as a treasure, when Hu Zongnan attacked Yan'an in March last year, the main teaching brigade of the defending force only had an average of ten bullets per soldier, relying on this ten rounds of ammunition per person, the order given by Mr. Peng was to hold on for seven days, which shows the difficulty of completing the task at that time, and the soldiers had to aim accurately for every shot, and it was simply impossible to do it like this now, in the words of the Eighth Road, it was the same as a loser. Therefore, the old Eighth Route people who are used to fighting poor battles will not give such an order, and only the brigade commander Li Yong, an alternative, will order his soldiers like this.

But it is undeniable that this is also very effective, first the artillery fire is overwhelming, and then there are dozens of large-caliber high-speed machine guns condescending shè attack, and the troops take the opportunity to launch an attack, who can stand such a formation.

There was a hidden command post not too far in front of the defensive position of the 123rd Brigade of the Kuomintang, and Brigade Commander Guo of the 5th Brigade of the 2nd Column was observing the battlefield with a telescope. ”

A commander next to Brigade Commander Guo smiled, and then said: "Knowing the brigade commander, we must learn from the comrades of the Independent Brigade, but we have to wait until the battle is over, how can we learn now?" ”

Brigade Commander Guo: "Hmph, don't emphasize any objective reasons to me, as soon as the battle is over, I will send you all to the Independent Brigade immediately, don't come back if you don't learn your skills, do you understand?" ”

While the two were talking, they saw that the shelling of the Independent Brigade had stopped at once, and from behind the 123rd Brigade came the familiar sound of the soldiers' bugles.

Brigade Commander Guo, an old commander from the Red Army, still didn't understand what was going on, Commander Wang's order had already been delivered, asking the Fifth Brigade and the Independent Brigade to encircle the Kuomintang 123rd Brigade in front together.

"Comrades, the Independent Brigade has attacked from behind the enemy, the People's Independent Brigade has already eaten the 28th Brigade of the Kuomintang on the hill and gone around behind the enemy's ass, and our brigade has not broken through the enemy's defense line after a few hours in a row from the morning to now, I blush for myself, we are an old unit, and we can't even compare with a newly formed brother unit, aren't you ashamed? I ordered, blow the trumpet, and the whole brigade attacked. ”