Chapter 255: The Bloody Battle of Baoji in the Battle of Xifu

Under the command of Mr. Peng, the Northwest Field Army threw all the main forces of the first and second columns into an all-front attack on Baoji, striving to take down in one fell swoop the material reserve base set up by Hu Zongnan in the great northwest, so as to solve the increasingly tight food problem of the field army. The full-text and ad-free novels are all biquge.info on Aishang Novel Network

Under the transportation conditions at that time, it was no longer realistic for more than 100,000 people to rely on Mr. He Longhe to transfer their grain from Shanxi.

The Kuomintang Party also knew that the Northwest Field Army was in difficulty with food, and used planes to carry out an air blockade on the grain transportation route without stopping, so the cost of grain transportation was too great, and every bag of grain could be exchanged for a human life.

Mr. Peng, Political Commissar Xi Jinping, and the chiefs of the field division all tried to solve the food of the field army by themselves, so as to relieve a little pressure on Mr. He.

What makes Mr. Peng and Director Ye more anxious is not only the food problem, after entering April, the weather is gradually getting warmer, and it is about to be time for the change of seasons, but the single military uniform for the soldiers to change the season has not yet been settled, can you not be in a hurry?

Baoji is good, there is everything in it, thinking of this, the hearts of the cadres and soldiers are itching, and they have to rely on grabbing to solve it, and it is really difficult for these leaders to be in charge.

The second column took the lead in attacking the old 2nd Regiment, the main regiment of the whole column, and the equipment of the second regiment was improved compared with before, and the firepower was greatly strengthened.

Although the firepower of the Second Regiment has been improved and strengthened, it has only been improved and strengthened, and there is still a lack of the most effective means of direct attack on the enemy's firing points and defensive positions, and most of the time it is necessary to rely on the soldiers to solve the problem with explosives.

There is not much direct fire in the troops, not to mention the old 2nd regiment, they don't have a baggage battalion like the independent regiment to bring more equipment, and all the ammunition of other troops has to be carried by the soldiers themselves, so that the individual load of the soldiers is increased, and the amount of ammunition they can carry is also limited.

A soldier had to carry 150 rifle bullets, wooden-handled grenades, plus food bags, water bottles, and his own rifles, and a long march on foot with a weight of 40 to 50 pounds was a great test of his body.

This is still the most basic weight carried by a rifleman, and it is even more difficult for machine gunners and mortar gunners in those units.

The Second Regiment is a hard-core unit of the People's Liberation Army with a glorious tradition, and its commanders and fighters are high-minded and have a strong sense of fighting, and they rushed forward without hesitation in the face of the enemy's firepower, and the enemy's support points were blown up one by one, and the soldiers of the Second Regiment were constantly shot and fell.

The 76th Division of the Kuomintang in Baoji had sufficient weapons and ammunition because of Hu Zongnan's logistics base set up here in the city.

Division commander Xu Bao told his subordinates again, as long as you need it, all the munitions warehouses can be opened, and the weapons in the warehouses are you can choose, although the weapons here are not from the 76th Division, but now is an extraordinary period, you can hold the city, and it is better to use it yourself than to be robbed by the Eighth Route Army, and he will explain to the commander if there is any problem.

Under Xu Bao's order, most of the Kuomintang officers and soldiers guarding Baoji were equipped with new equipment, and most of the rifles in their hands were replaced with submachine guns and machine guns, so their firepower was also greatly strengthened.

The commandos of the old 2nd Regiment kept falling in the face of the enemy's dense firepower, and the artillery fire before the attack was ready to blow up a large part of the fire points, but the artillery could not cover the world, and the final solution to the problem was still to rely on the soldiers with rifles in their hands.

The artillery strength of the first and second columns of the People's Liberation Army was very average, because the density and penetration of the shells were insufficient, and several firing points were revived after the artillery fire was extended, which caused great trouble to the commandos who rushed up, and the soldiers had to use the grenades and explosives bags they carried with them to knock out the enemy again.

The assault team is the hardest team of all units, it is a sharp knife unit that is singled out, but the number of people cannot be too large, their task is to tear a hole in the enemy's defense line, and the most taboo is to get stuck with the enemy in the attack area.

Although Li Yong, Wang Chengde and others of the Independent Regiment had no combat mission, they were all observing the progress of the battle, and seeing the casualties suffered by the soldiers of the old 2nd Regiment in the telescope, these people of the Independent Regiment were like pins and needles.

It is uncomfortable for everyone to look at the casualties of their old troops, and it is really uncomfortable to want to help but not have orders from their superiors, and they are in a hurry.

The hot-tempered Ma Changsheng came to the regiment headquarters and asked for their battalion to go up, this guy said to Li Yong quite reasonably: "Regiment commander, you can discuss with the column commander, our regiment has nine battalions, just go up to one, our battalion can follow the commando and rush up, last time in Yulin, didn't we capture some bazookas that hit tanks, I think it is appropriate to use them now, you can knock out those firepower points with these bazookas a hundred meters away, and save our second regiment from using people to send explosives up." ”

Li Yong knew that Ma Changsheng was telling the truth, and he also knew that the veteran soldiers of the Second Regiment were worried about their old troops, but this guy was somewhat selfish, and he always wanted to make his third battalion a bigger credit, and now he can't run up to the credit, no matter how fierce the enemy's firepower in Baoji is, it is just a brigade of men and horses, and after a while, the troops will break through and they will have nothing to do.

After more than two hours of fighting, Li Yong finally couldn't sit still, although the progress of the second regiment was not slow, but the casualties were too great.

Commander Wang, who was directing the battle in the column headquarters, saw Li Yong coming in and asked loudly, "What's wrong?" Isn't it in a hurry? It's useless to be in a hurry, remember, rest is also a task. ”

Li Yong: "Commander, I have an idea to transfer the artillery battalion of our regiment and assign it to the second regiment, so that their firepower will be greatly strengthened, the casualties of the soldiers will be reduced, and our attack will be accelerated." ”

Commander Wang: "It's still a way to get there, just do as you say, go quickly." ”

Ten minutes later, Gao Xiang's artillery battalion maneuvered to the firing position, and when he saw Gao Xiang, the commander of the Second Regiment, Zhao, asked very strangely: "Aren't you a reserve?" If you don't stay in your group, what are you doing here? Is it that the official is a little bit of a tail? Get back. ”

Seeing his old regiment commander, Gao Xiang spoke very casually: "Regiment commander, don't discipline me as soon as you meet, I have always been very honest, the most immodest old people in our regiment are Li Jiangguo and Zhang Jinsong, they have nothing to do with me, I didn't come by myself, it was the commander who temporarily transferred our battalion to strengthen the firepower of our regiment." ”

Regiment Commander Zhao became excited as soon as he heard this, others did not know the family background of the independent regiment, but he knew very well that there were many units called artillery battalions in the field army, but it would be good for a so-called artillery battalion to have ten guns and eight guns, and there was not a single unit with more than 40 artillery pieces called artillery battalions like the independent regiment, and if other units were to be put aside, they could be called artillery regiments.

"It's easy to do if the commander asked me to come over, don't count your pride, hurry up and study it."

Gao Xiang: "Regiment commander, when I came over, our regiment commander told me that the headquarters of the 76th Division is located on the Jintaiguan, the commanding height in the city, I think so, our battalion uses large-caliber 1o5 howitzers to carry out a sharp attack on the enemy's headquarters, and uses a little caliber 92 infantry artillery and 75 mountain artillery to attack forward, and directly use close fire to support our assault team, as long as the enemy's command structure is chaotic, we will fight this battle." ”

Gao Xiang's tone and address other people may sound a little chaotic, what is the head of the regiment and our regiment leader, but the head of Zhao is not chaotic at all, Gao Xiang's first sentence shouted the head of the regiment is his old head Zhao of the second regiment, and the head of our regiment in the second sentence refers to Li Yong, the current head of the independent regiment.

After listening to Gao Xiang's opinion, Regiment Commander Zhao nodded in his heart, Gao Xiang is out of luck, much stronger than before, more than a year ago in the old 2nd regiment was just a deputy platoon commander, although he was also very brave in the war, but his brain was not so good, he followed Li Yong for more than a year, he saw a lot, and his head was also flexible.

"Good idea, just do it, give your battalion ten minutes, and in ten minutes the artillery attack will begin."

Ten minutes passed in a blink of an eye, and Regiment Commander Zhao, who was looking at his watch, heard the sound of two toms of artillery fire from his rear position, followed by a neat artillery fire.

Battalion commander Gao Xiang held a telescope in his hand and kept shouting: "Target, Jintaiguan, two test firings, prepare for release." ”

The whole battalion fired, six guns each, ready - fired. Six rapid shots, ready - put. Five-clip insertion, prepare-put.

With the sound of Gao Xiang's order, the red flag in the hands of the commander of the firing position kept waving and falling, and the headquarters of the 76th Kuomintang Division on Jintaiguan was covered by artillery fire in an instant.

In about 10 minutes, Gao Xiang's artillery battalion dropped 1,000 or more large-caliber anti-explosive grenades on Jintaiguan, and immediately the enemy's entire position was covered by artillery fire and gunsmoke, and the sky and earth on the position were shattered, and all bunkers, machine-gun bunkers, and observation posts were blown up to the sky by artillery shells.

The divisional headquarters of the 76th Division was pierced diagonally by a grenade, and then the shell exploded in the radio room next to the headquarters Xu Baoxu.

The violent explosion blew up all the personnel and equipment in the entire radio room, and Xu Bao was also swept away by the air wave of the explosion more than ten meters away, but thanks to being swept away by the air wave, otherwise it would have been finished at that time, and when this guy got up in a daze, his command headquarters was already a mess.

Not only were more than a dozen operators in the confidential room killed, but even a few of Xu Bao's staff officers were left, and the corpses with broken arms and legs were all over the ground, crying.