Chapter 264: The Teaching Brigade in the Bitter Battle of Xifu

The reorganized 82nd Division used a cavalry regiment to carry out a tentative attack on the position held by the 6th Column Teaching Brigade, and more than 2,000 cavalry rushed over with a roar. The full-text and ad-free novels are all biquge.info on Aishang Novel Network

The PLA commander at the forefront, because of his lack of experience in dealing with cavalry, did not order his troops to open fire until he had passed 200 meters.

This gave the charging Ma Jiajun cavalry an opportunity to shorten the distance of being attacked, and although people were constantly hit and fell off their horses, they still rushed up fiercely.

The war horse rushed over more than a hundred meters in the blink of an eye, and the cavalry at the front was less than a hundred meters away from the soldiers in the defensive position.

The distance of 100 meters is too close in the eyes of the cavalry, so close that it feels like you can reach it as soon as you stretch your arms, and it is not easy to calm down in the face of such a scene.

The soldiers fired desperately, the barrels of the light and heavy machine guns were red, the rifles were loaded and fired, and it was too late to even aim carefully, but this could not stop the cavalry charge.

The front-line troops had very few light and heavy machine guns, and most of them were equipped with rifles, and the 38-type rifles that were heavily equipped at that time did not have a semi-automatic firing function, and could only be loaded with one shot, and such a firing speed had little effect on the cavalry in the wild run.

The shooting accuracy of the Type 38 rifle is very good, but it depends on who it is for, it is very useful for the infantry, more than 100 meters, the distance of 2300 meters is no different from the target, and it is very difficult for the cavalry troops running at high speed, and the cavalry does not have time to aim well as soon as the cavalry rushes up, and the war horse arrives about 50 meters away from the trench in a few breaths.

Seeing that the saber is about to be split on the head, if you panic at this time, it will be over, if you see the cavalry rushing up and turn around and run, then it is just a grass target for the cavalry to use in training, no matter how fast the person is, the horse can not run faster, what combat effectiveness can there be if the back is handed over to the enemy?

Fortunately, most of the soldiers in the teaching brigade were veterans, and the veterans who had fought in the war had a very good psychological element, and the soldiers not only did not panic, but spontaneously threw bombs together, and a group of grenades exploded a sea of fire within a distance of several tens of meters from the front of the position.

At a distance of several tens of meters, the power of the rifle was far less fast than that of the grenade, and the soldiers who had tasted the sweetness threw the grenades incessantly, and the sky was like a rain of grenades, and the exploding shrapnel flew everywhere, and pieces of cavalry and horses fell down.

The grenades of the teaching brigade finally stopped the momentum of the attack of the 82nd Division, but in this way some of the war horses also rushed into the position, and as soon as the two armies came into contact, they saw the superiority of the cavalry.

Most of the cavalry of Ma Bufang's 82nd Division were veterans from oil, and their horsework and cavalry's proprietary chopping skills were very good, coupled with the speed and impact of the horses, the cavalry that rushed into the position immediately brought casualties to the defending troops.

The soldiers of the column used the bayonets in their hands to confront the sabers of the cavalry, and the rifles at this time were not as good as the sabers, and the soldiers were cut down to the ground one after another, and on average, they had to pay several soldiers for every cavalry they killed, and the blood stained the position red.

Looking at the soldiers who were cut down by the saber, the eyes of the commander of this avant-garde regiment were red, our teaching brigade had never suffered such a big loss, he picked up a submachine gun and was about to rush over, at this time a hand stretched out from the side and snatched the submachine gun.

It was the chief of staff of the regiment who snatched his gun, and the chief of staff said in an anxious voice: "I will bring the regimental headquarters guards over." Then he turned and ran out.

The guard company of the regiment headquarters rushed over in a few minutes, more than 100 submachine guns opened fire at the same time, and the fire on the short side swept over like a wind, and finally eliminated the group of enemies who rushed in, and then added strength to block the breakthrough.

Seeing that the cavalry of the 82nd Division could not rush into the position of the People's Liberation Army, the cavalry of the 82nd Division turned around their horses and ran back.

The first attack was finally fought, and the situation in which the enemy was rushed into the position in the first attack had never been seen in the history of the Sixth Column Teaching Brigade, although the enemy was knocked down, but it also felt very breathless, and when the enemy retreated, the casualties were checked, and everyone was surprised.

There were more than 100 people who rushed into the position, and in order to destroy the more than 100 enemies who rushed in, the soldiers on the position suffered hundreds of casualties, not counting the sacrifice of the regimental chief of staff who led the team in the counterattack just now.

The sacrificial chief of staff is very prestigious in the army, and usually protects his soldiers like an old hen, and his sacrifice makes the soldiers even more sad, but he didn't expect to suffer such a big loss in the first battle with Ma Jiajun.

The teaching brigade of the sixth column is the most capable unit in the entire column, why is it called the teaching brigade? The cadres and fighters in this brigade are all selected from other units and are the combat backbone of the whole column, and many of them are squad and platoon leaders; to make it clear, the teaching brigade is to train grassroots commanders for the troops (the predecessor of the Sixth Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army was the Sixth Column of the Northwest Field Army, and the predecessor of the Sixth Column was this teaching brigade).

Therefore, most of the people in this unit are veterans, and they have a strong sense of fighting, which is difficult to see in other troops, but as soon as such a unit comes into contact with the 82nd Division, it will suffer hundreds of casualties.

Brigade Commander Chen Haihan, who had been observing the situation with a telescope in the back, couldn't hold back any longer, and brought several guards from the brigade headquarters to the regimental command post at the forefront, pointed at the regiment commander's nose and shouted:

"See, there were hundreds of casualties as soon as I made contact, how will we fight in the future? A tentative attack was rushed into the position, and the chief of staff was sacrificed, how do you want me to explain to the commander? ”

The regiment commander and political commissar who were trained did not dare to squeak, and the regiment commander said a few words after a while: "Brigade commander, I will bear the responsibility, we are not familiar with the method of fighting with the cavalry, and this time we have suffered a big loss." ”

"It's good to know that it's good to suffer, remember more, fight with the cavalry, fire when you get into range, and try to destroy the enemy before they can rush to you, understand? Hurry up the reorganization of the troops, rush to repair the fortifications, and estimate that the next enemy offensive will not be long before it begins. ”

The cavalry who ran back returned to the vicinity of the main force of the 82nd Division, and the young officer who led the charge also came to the division commander Ma Jiyuan, the officer wiped the sweat on his face and reported with a little annoyance: "Division commander, the soldiers of the communist army are very desperate, and the brothers did not rush in, and I did not fight this battle well." ”

Ma Jiyuan laughed: "Don't blame you, the battle is very good, we are trying to attack, it is already very good to be able to do it to this level, go down and rest for us." ”

Another officer said: "Division commander, they all say that the communist army is difficult to deal with, I don't think it's very good, we only used one regiment, and we almost rushed into it with one charge, let's work harder, and I can see that we can break through with more troops." ”

Ma Jiyuan: "Don't underestimate the enemy, be careful that the arrogant soldiers will be defeated, the communist army suffered a little loss just now, that's because we don't know about cavalry yet, and we won't be so easy next time." ”

After the first attack, which had not taken more than an hour, the second attack began, this time with heavy machine guns placed on either side of the cavalry charge to cover the attack.

Although the 82nd Division was not the Central Army of the Kuomintang, its equipment was still very good, and Ma Bufang also valued his old troops, and gave this division some weapons and equipment that he had managed to get.

In this second attack, Ma Jiyuan used the strength of three regiments, under the cover of more than a dozen or 20 heavy machine guns, with one regiment in the middle to contain the fire of the defending troops, and the other two regiments to detour to the flank and rear of the teaching brigade, hoping to use the rapid speed of cavalry maneuvering to go around behind the defending troops to shake the determination of the PLA.

It stands to reason that Ma Jiyuan's method is good, with a combination of frontal attack and flank and rear detour, just give full play to the advantages of the cavalry troops, if the enemy is rounded to the back, this will be a great test for the defending troops.

However, the Sixth Column Teaching Brigade faced by Ma Jiyuan was an old PLA unit, and the brigade commander Chen Haihan was a very powerful commander, so he had already considered such tactics, so he arranged heavy firepower in the area of the joint between regiments that might be broken through by the enemy to prevent the enemy's impact.

Once again, the battle broke out, and three cavalry regiments of the 82nd Division, under the cover of heavy machine-gun fire, rushed in swarming.

In the previous battles, the Sixth Column also captured some artillery of the Kuomintang troops, but the only bit of heavy artillery was still in Baoji City with the main force of the column (the direct troops and the main two brigades of the Sixth Column Headquarters were left by General Peng as the reserve of the Yesi, and there was only one teaching brigade in the front line against the Kuomintang 82nd Division)

The so-called heavy weapons in the hands of brigade commander Chen Haihan were only some heavy machine guns and mortars, and most of these heavy machine guns and mortars were used in the area of the junction between regiments, and there was not much machine gun fire for frontal confrontation.

As soon as the charging cavalry entered an effective range of about 500 meters, the various firepower of the teaching brigade opened fire, and this time the enemy launched an all-out attack on the defensive positions of the teaching brigade with the strength of three regiments, so the three main regiments of the teaching brigade also entered the battle together.

The cavalry of the 82nd Division all lay their bodies on horseback, and it was difficult to be beaten accurately when they ran, but the soldiers who put a few shots also had experience, the goal of the man was small, but the target of the horse was large, and if we couldn't hit the people, we would shoot at the horse.