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The order given to the Second Army by the Commander of the Yiye Headquarters and the Corps Wang was to attack and advance to Xianyang and seize the city, and these people who came to the meeting looked at each other, and the expressions on their faces were full of jiji, don't look at the commanders at the division level, and the excitement still couldn't be suppressed.

The order of the superior is moving, although Xianyang is not big, but it is a household in Xi'an, and the field army wants to do something to Xianyang, obviously it is also very thoughtful about Xi'an, can these people not move if they have an idea about Xi'an? These old Red Army and Old Eighth Road dreamed that one day they could catch Xi'an.

What is Xi'an? It is the political, economic, cultural and communication center of China's great northwest, the core city of the northwest region, and the military and political nest of the Kuomintang in the northwest.

Looking at everyone's fiery eyes, Commander Guo also grinned, he has been dealing with the Kuomintang in the northwest for so many years, it would be nonsense to say that he has no idea about Xi'an, but in the past, he basically didn't even dare to think about such a thing, and the gap between the strength of the Northwest Field Army, which is only more than 20,000 people, and the enemy is too big, who doesn't want to go now that the opportunity comes? He, the former commander of the 359th Brigade, now the commander of the Second Army, also thinks about it.

"Comrades, I know what you think, not only do you know but also know very well, Xi'an is a good place, and I, as a military commander, also want to go, but if you want to capture Xi'an, you must attack Xianyang first, and the order given to us by the field army headquarters is also to attack and advance to Xianyang, so our army must also be down-to-earth, don't think about Xi'an first, think more about Xianyang, and eat one bite at a time."

Commander Guo's words gradually calmed down everyone's fiery mentality, yes, you can't eat a hot steamed bun in one bite, as long as you have good teeth, you are not afraid of the hard bones of the Kuomintang, Xianyang is Xianyang, so you will gnaw it first.

Two hours later, tens of thousands of troops from three divisions and one brigade of the Second Army of the People's Liberation Army set out, and under the guidance of the avant-garde troops, they advanced rapidly, and the attack arrow was directed at Xianyang City.

Xianyang City is located in the hinterland of "eight hundred miles of Qinchuan", located in the middle of the Guanzhong Plain, the north bank of the Wei River, the south of the Jiuzhi Mountain, because the south of the mountain and the north are yang, so the name Xianyang, Xianyang is the provincial capital Xi'an in the southeast, the west is the Ji boundary of Baoji City, the northeast is the Ji boundary of Weinan City, Yinchuan City, and the northwest is bordered by Gansu, which is the key point of the Central Plains of our country to the northwest.

Although Xianyang is not big, the geographical location is too important, because the distance from Xi'an is too close, so if you want to defend Xi'an, you must first defend Xianyang, and without Xianyang, you can't keep Xi'an.

Guarding Xianyang City was the 57th Army of the Kuomintang, that is, the former 57th Division, and 49 years later, the Kuomintang government also changed the previous integrated division into an army.

The 57th Army is the trump card descendant unit of the Kuomintang Central Army, and the army commander Xu Rucheng is the proud son of Chairman Chiang Kai-shek's Whampoa, and is very liked and trusted by Chiang Kai-shek, so all kinds of equipment and materials are vigorously supplied, as long as there is a need, they will be given, weapons ammunition, rice, white flour and canned cattle are what they want, so this army is an authentic all-American mechanic, and the most ordinary soldiers use American-style carbines.

The 57th Army Ox, the cow is amazing, from the bullet to the food and salary are much stronger than other troops, so from the army commander to the soldiers, everyone is a cow with their eyes facing the sky, and they don't look down on other troops at all, thinking that only they are the sons of the Kuomintang government.

But no matter how good it was, the general trend was still irreversible, and the 57th Army, like other troops, received Hu Zongnan's order to retreat to preserve its strength.

I don't want to go, I really don't want to go, I'm used to staying in Xianyang, there are many officers who have married wives locally, and they have to take root when they marry wives and have children, but they can't do if they don't want to go, and the army commander Xu Rucheng doesn't think that he can confront the large corps of the communist army with his own army, and he should withdraw and have to withdraw.

The 57th Army had too many belongings, and it didn't want to throw anything away, so it wanted to take everything away, so in accordance with the order of the army commander Xu Rucheng, a large number of civilian vehicles were collected locally to transport baggage for the troops, so that the speed of the 57th Army's retreat was far from catching up with other troops, and it was still slowly grinding when other Kuomintang troops had withdrawn, until Hu Zongnan was in a hurry, and only after giving several orders did he reluctantly withdraw.

The retreat was withdrawn, but the speed of the march was too slow, from dawn to dark, from night to midnight, and still did not reach the designated position.

Originally, the 57 th Army had a large number of automobiles and other means of transport, and if it gave up some household goods that were not necessary to take away, there would be no problem in throwing off the pursuit of the PLA in the plain areas, but the problem was that there were too many jars and jars in this army, and the peaceful days in the Xianyang area were used to living a peaceful life again, and there was a kind of underestimation and paralysis of the PLA mentality.

In the second half of the night, the starry sky emitted a kind of cold light, and the retreating Kuomintang 57th Army and the rapidly advancing Second Army of the People's Liberation Army collided head-on, and the reconnaissance troops in the front of the two units immediately burst into fire, and the gunfire was loud in the night.

The marching sequence of the Second Army of the People's Liberation Army was that the 4th Division was at the front, and the 5th and 6th Divisions were on the left and right flanks, while the Independent Brigade was still the same as before, following behind the military headquarters as the reserve of the whole army.

According to the information fed back by a large number of reconnaissance troops, the 57th Army of the Kuomintang guarding Xianyang had just withdrawn from the Xianyang area, and there was only such a Kuomintang army nearby.

Commander Guo, Political Commissar Wang Enmao, Deputy Commander Chen and other commanders discussed nervously, what to do? To fight or not to fight?

Judging from the information we have, the 57th Army of the Kuomintang is not weak in combat effectiveness, and it is a descendant unit of the Kuomintang Central Army, although its number is less than that of the Second Army of the People's Liberation Army, which has three divisions and one brigade, its weapons and equipment are much stronger than those of the Second Army, and it is a hard stubble that is very difficult to deal with.

In the end, Commander Guo, Political Commissar Wang, and Deputy Army Commander Chen decided that since Ye Si gave us the order of the Second Army was to seize Xianyang, this was the time to take Xianyang, and as soon as the 57th Army withdrew, Xianyang would be an empty city, and it didn't matter whether to seize it or not, as long as the Kuomintang 57th Army could be killed, Xianyang would naturally be occupied by us.

If the 57th Army fails to hold out in Xianyang, it will be very difficult for the Second Army to complete its tasks, and if there is no absolute superiority in troops, how can we destroy the enemy defending the city?

In the end, the party committee of the Second Army of the People's Liberation Army unanimously decided that the seizure of the city was still secondary, and the main thing was to destroy the enemy's living forces.

Commander Guo, who had made up his mind, immediately ordered the 4th Avant-garde Division (formerly the old 4th Brigade) to build fortifications on the spot to block the retreating enemy, and the 5th and 6th Divisions made a detour to the enemy's flanks and back, striving to eat the 57th Kuomintang Army in the plain field battle.

It can be seen from Commander Guo's decision that the PLA's appetite is much greater than before; more than two years ago, in order to eat a Kuomintang brigade of several thousand people, it was necessary to mobilize the strength of the entire field army (this was the case in the Qinghuatou and Yangmahe battles), but now one army against another dares to make up its mind to eat the opponent, which shows that the strength of the PLA has been unprecedentedly enhanced.

At the temporary headquarters of the 57th Army of the Kuomintang Central Army, an officer rushed in and reported to the frowning lieutenant general Xu Rucheng: "Military seat, the avant-garde troops of our army have encountered the communist army, and they are now in the middle of a battle. ”

Xu Rucheng, the lieutenant general of the Kuomintang, did not have his previous elegant demeanor at this time, and asked the officer who ran in: "The communist army is really a cat, and it smells a little fishy, do you understand?" Which unit of the communist army blocked our way? ”

"When I returned to the military seat, I found out that it was the Second Army of the Communist Army, and his avant-garde troops were building fortifications in place, and they used two troops to make a detour to our sides, which meant that they wanted to surround us."

Xu Rucheng: "The Second Army, that is, the second column of the former Communist Army, is Wang Zhen's army with Wang Zhen's beard, and it is a force that can fight, are there any other troops of the Communist Army nearby?" ”

"Report to the military seat, there is only such a unit as the communist army nearby, judging from the reflection of the communist army, they did not expect to meet us, judging from the humble analysis, we and the communist army This is an accidental encounter."

Xu Rucheng: "Hmph, an accidental encounter, dare to block our way when we encounter each other by chance?" Just dare to detour back to my sides?? A second army also wants to surround us? The courage of the communist army is a little too great. ”

Officer: "Throne, what do you mean????? ”

Xu Rucheng: "The communist army's consistent tactics are to concentrate superior forces to fight a war of annihilation, and in each battle they must concentrate several times the strength of our army, surround the troops first, and then eat them in one bite. What a joke, our 57th Army is not one of those wretched, today we will make an appearance for the communist army to see, order the avant-garde division, concentrate firepower to break through the communist army's defensive line, and order the troops on both sides to stop the communist army's roundabout troops, I want to see how capable this communist army's second army is, dare to pull out the head of our 57th army

After the initial panic, the Kuomintang 57th Army stabilized its position, and the avant-garde troops, under the strict orders of the army commander Xu Rucheng, swooped down on the position of the Fourth Division of the People's Liberation Army, and the battle broke out suddenly, f@!!

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