Chapter 272: The Charge of the Battle of Xifu - Independent Regiment

The sudden burst of fire from the three infantry battalions of the Independent Regiment immediately frightened the cavalry of the charging 82nd Division, and the entire battlefield was turned into a hell on earth by the fierce attack of the Independent Regiment. To read the latest chapters, please lock the biquge.info of Aishang Novels

In the command headquarters of the teaching brigade, not only those staff officers were shocked, but even Brigade Commander Chen Haihan, an old Red Army veteran and young veteran who had gone through the Long March, couldn't close his mouth open.

Brigade Commander Chen, who was holding the binoculars, muttered softly: "Good guy, it's amazing." ”

Brigade Commander Chen, who had been observing the situation on the battlefield, turned his head and shouted at Li Yong: "Commander Li, with you, the independent regiment has done a good job, is this the majesty that our PLA should have?" ”

The strength of the independent regiment surprised people who didn't know the details, but our Grand Master Li Yong and Grand Master Li had already taken this situation into account, what is this, like the 82nd Division, the garbage tactics of employing people and fighting horses to pile up are a group of big fools in Li Yong's eyes.

(In history, the 82nd Division in Qinghai did use this garbage tactic many times, and in the Lanzhou Campaign, it also changed the cavalry to infantry, which is all a later story, and we will explain it later)

Such tactics depend on who they encounter, and they can still be effective when they encounter the teaching brigade, and if they encounter an independent regiment that is all rapid-fire firepower, they are really looking for death.

The independent regiment used three infantry battalions and one howitzer battalion, and with the cooperation of the Sixth Column Teaching Brigade, it crushed the group charge of the 82nd Division of the Qingma Army in one fell swoop.

The changing battlefield situation was keenly captured by Brigade Commander Chen Haihan and Regiment Commander Li Yong, who had been observing the situation, and Brigade Commander Chen glanced at Li Yong: "Commander Li, the situation has changed, it seems that the 82nd Division of the Ma Jiajun is frightened by casualties. ”

Li Yong nodded: "Brigade Commander Chen, if the eighty-second division is cheap, you want to go up, and if you can't get cheap, you want to retreat, things in the world are not so easy to fool." ”

At this moment, the phone in the brigade headquarters suddenly rang again, and Brigade Commander Chen, who took the phone, laughed after hearing a few words: "Commander Li, he is the commander of the X division of the cavalry division, this guy can't help it, and he called to ask if they want their division to attack, and also beat the water dogs." ”

At the headquarters of the cavalry division, the commander of the X division took the phone and shouted: "I said Lao Chen, it's almost, the Ma Jiajun has been cleaned up enough by your counterattack, I can see that they want to run, let our division attack and chase it, can we get some benefits, our division is now lacking in everything whether it is a war horse or a soldier, you just give an order to let our division go out and catch him." ”

Brigadier Chen Haihan stared at Li Yong and asked, "Commander Li, what do you think?" ”

Li Yong: "Brigade Commander Chen, my idea is this, let us teach the brigade to hold the position, and our independent regiment and the Yesi cavalry division will attack and chase from both sides, which will not delay us from holding the position, but also strive for greater results, and can also increase casualties for the Ma family's army." ”

Brigade Commander Chen: "It's a bit bad to let the comrades who came to support you do any drudgery, isn't our teaching brigade too idle?" Do you want to chase after us? ”

Li Yong: "Brigade Commander Chen, a family, no one gossips, the enemy is all cavalry, the speed of withdrawal is very fast, the teaching brigade is infantry, two legs can't catch up with the horse's hooves, our regiment has a lot of cars, plus the cavalry division, it is just two troops that can compare the speed with the enemy, it is appropriate for us to chase it." ”

Brigadier Chen Haihan: "Okay, that's it." Brigade Commander Chen, who was holding the microphone, shouted loudly: "Commander of Division X, I order, the cavalry division will attack from the left and the independent regiment from the right, and attack at the same time, so that the 82nd Division will taste the taste of being chased by our PLA, and the attack will begin in ten minutes." ”

At the same time as Brigade Commander Chen announced the order, Li Yong also held a walkie-talkie and kept shouting: "All battalions and companies of the Independent Regiment have heard clearly, the artillery fire has been extended, and the whole regiment has begun to charge ten minutes later." ”

Li Yong, who had given orders to the various battalions and companies of the Independent Regiment, saluted and said goodbye to Brigade Commander Chen Haihan: "Chief, I have returned to our regiment headquarters. ”

Brigade Commander Chen held Li Yong's hand: "Commander Li, I know what you want to do, you want to attack with your regiment to chase the Ma Jiajun, it's okay to chase, but you must pay attention to safety, and we will work together again when we have the opportunity in the future." ”

Li Yong, who returned to his regimental headquarters, and political commissar Wang Chengde discussed nervously, and the two decided to leave only the health team and the cooking squad behind, and also leave some personnel in the baggage battalion, and the rest of the entire force to go out together.

Gao Xiang commanded the howitzers of their battalion to extend backwards little by little from the front line to the depth of the explosion, using platoon guns to create as many conditions as possible for the troops who were about to attack, and after ten minutes the artillery fire finally stopped firing.

Li Yong ordered word by word on the walkie-talkie: "The trumpet squad blows the trumpet, and the whole regiment attacks." A dozen soldiers of a trumpet squad stood up together, raised the military horn wrapped in red silk in their hands, and blew it vigorously.

At the same time as the horn of the Independent Regiment sounded, a loud sound of the military horn was also heard from the left side of the position held by the Teaching Brigade, and Li Yong and the people of the Independent Regiment knew that this was the military horn of the cavalry division, and the only cavalry division in the whole field army was about to start charging.

More than a dozen military trumpets were blown together, and the movement could be transmitted for ten miles and eight miles, and the more than 3,000 horses of the independent regiment rushed out with a roar inspired by the sound of the trumpets.

At the beginning of the charge, it was seen that the speed was different, the fastest rush was not the three infantry battalions at the forefront, and they could not catch up with the war horses with only two legs, and the first few battalions had to go back to get the car, so the time was delayed a little.

Now it is the fifth battalion that is at the forefront of the whole regiment and the fifth battalion that is guarding the second line of defense at the back, why can the fifth battalion rush to the front? It's easy to explain, the fifth battalion has a very powerful acting battalion commander.

Before the battle began, the regiment commander Li Yong sent the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd battalions to the forward positions, while the 4th and 5th battalions held the second line of defense.

He Cuihua was very aggrieved in her heart, and finally managed to get an acting battalion commander to do it, this is a serious military commander, and a battalion-level commander in charge of operations.

But after so many days, the five battalions under his command have not fought a tough battle, although I really want to go to the regiment commander to fight for some tasks for the fifth battalion, but as soon as I heard that the third battalion commander Ma Changsheng was trained by Li Yong several times, he retreated again.

He Cuihua pondered again, if she didn't hurry up and do a few battles, maybe Wang Laohu would come back that day when he was injured, and he would definitely have to go back to the deputy battalion commander of the baggage battalion as soon as he came back, although he said that the division of labor was different, and all the work was the same, but no matter what, he still felt that being the commander of the infantry battalion was enjoyable, and it was much better than what he was in charge of eating, drinking, and sleeping in the baggage battalion.

He Cuihua, who had been thinking about these things in her heart, could she still be slow when she heard the trumpet of the charge, and this girl was the first to jump out of the trench and tell them that the soldiers of the whole battalion, whether it was a big car or a small jeep, all started to move, the faster the better, and chased after them together.

In this way, the fifth battalion became the first infantry battalion to rush out, and the girl, with a submachine gun in her hand, kept urging her soldiers to rush forward.

After deciding to stop the attack first, Ma Jiyuan, commander of the 82nd Division, and Ma Quanyi, deputy commander of the 82nd Division, discussed and ordered the whole division to take turns to cover the retreat, first withdraw and reorganize the troops, and then study what methods to use to confront the communist forces in the northwest.

It's easy to say, and it's easy to give orders, but it's not so easy to execute it, cover the retreat, what to use to cover the retreat? The speed and impact of the cavalry were not related to covering the retreat, and these strengths were not used.

Since the strengths of the cavalry were not used, they had to dismount, change the cavalry into infantry, and stay in place to fight the People's Liberation Army.

In accordance with the order of the division commander Ma Jiyuan, the 82nd Division took regiments as units and took turns to retreat downward, but at this moment, a passionate military horn sound came from the direction of the PLA position.

Ma Jiyuan, who heard the trumpet, paused for a moment, how could the communist army still dare to chase down? Just as he was about to be suspicious, a brigade of cavalry and cars rushed out from both sides of the PLA position, and these PLA troops rushed over shouting and killing.

Deputy division commander Ma Quanyi rode over on horseback: "Following the reinforcements, the situation is beyond our expectations, there are two communist armies killed from both sides, it seems that these communist troops are reinforced later, equipped with a large number of horses and gas carts, the speed is very fast, we have to speed up if we want to withdraw, otherwise it will be troublesome to be stained by the communist army." ”

Ma Jiyuan: "Uncle, I am unwilling to be chased and beaten by others, our 82nd Division has never fought such a bad battle." ”

Ma Quanyi: "If you are not reconciled, you have to withdraw, there is no Changsheng general in the world, leave a regiment to hold the communist army, and the rest of the troops should withdraw quickly, you go down first, I will keep an eye on the back, as long as the seeds of our 82nd Division are still there, we will definitely be able to make a comeback." ”

The 82nd Division left one regiment of men and horses in place to block the PLA's charge, and the rest of the troops mounted their horses and quickly retreated.

really responded to that sentence, "Thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi." "Just now, the cavalry of the 82nd Division was still desperately attacking the positions of the PLA, and before the day had passed, it was their turn to defend, and the PLA attacked.

It is really a bit difficult to use cavalry to fight positional defensive battles for these remaining soldiers, although it is the main force of Qinghai Ma Bufang, but the cavalry is always cavalry, and the cavalry can't be dragged around with heavy weapons, if so, it is not called a cavalry unit.

After the previous battles, there were only more than 1,000 people left in this regiment, and when these more than 1,000 people saw that others had gotten on their horses and ran away, and let themselves stay to block the PLA, they all knew that this was the commander above who regarded his regiment as a meat bun.