Chapter 6: The Perilous Situation of the Field Army in the Battle of Xifu

The first attack wave of the Kuomintang Fifth Corps was beaten down by the soldiers of the fourth column, and an infantry squad leader who had just blown up the tank gave some tips to the soldiers in his squad about how to deal with tanks. The full-text and ad-free novels are all biquge.info on Aishang Novel Network

The squad leader is the soul of a combat squad, as long as there are one or two veterans in a squad, this squad can be a very effective collective, otherwise no matter how advanced the weapons are, it is useless, and what counterattack can you mention when you see the enemy's tanks sifting through chaff?

Of course, the defeated enemy was not willing to be defeated, and it did not take long for a new round of attacks to be launched, and it was again heavy artillery that bombarded the position indiscriminately, and after the bombardment, it was a flock of soldiers.

The soldiers of the Fourth Column, who held their positions, used the weapons they could use, machine guns, rifles, submachine guns, and grenades, to desperately counterattack the attacking troops of the Kuomintang, and held their positions without retreating.

Noji's order was for their four columns to hold their positions at any cost, to buy some respite and rest time for the troops attacking Baoji, so they had to hold on no matter how big the casualties were.

One attack was beaten down and then a second attack, the second attack was beaten and then a third time, the attack seemed to have not stopped from the morning, the troops at the forefront of the fourth column had lost count of how many attacks they had repulsed, and the nerves of the fighters seemed to be a little numb, just mechanical shooting and bombing.

The slopes were covered with the corpses of the attacking Kuomintang soldiers and the seriously wounded who had not yet had time to take them back, and the soldiers who attacked the enemy suffered heavy casualties, and the defending four columns also suffered many casualties, and the casualties of the four columns were mainly caused by the enemy's artillery fire.

The armament of the four columns in the defensive position has been improved to a certain extent compared with before, but it is still far behind the attacking Kuomintang corps, especially the artillery, which is not only much smaller in number, but also far worse than the enemy in terms of proficiency in operating artillery.

After the battles of Yulin and Yichuan, the Fourth Column also captured a batch of Kuomintang artillery, and the soldiers who had just come into contact with artillery regarded these big guys as if they were treasures, and they were pondering all day and night how to make these weapons work.

However, in front of the soldiers who had a very low range at that time, artillery was a very remarkable high-tech weapon, and most of the soldiers did not even know the words, let alone calculate the angle and direction.

The soldiers who had no choice had to pick out some of the captured Kuomintang soldiers who had served as artillerymen, and then use these soldiers as seeds to gradually expand their artillery team, but there was always a process, and powerful artillery could grow in less than a day or two.

At the beginning of the battle, the artillery fire of the small number of four columns not only failed to suppress the artillery of Pei Changhui's corps, which was supported by the enemy, but was beaten by the enemy without any resistance, which made the pressure on our soldiers on the forward position more and more intense.

The column laid out the three main brigades one after another, forming a defensive depth of more than 10 kilometers, relying on these dog-toothed trenches and tunnels to confront the Kuomintang support corps.

But in this way, the casualties of the troops were also huge, and many soldiers were buried and suffocated to death by the collapsed fortifications by artillery fire.

After a round of artillery bombardment, some fortifications were always blown down, and the soldiers buried in the soil were very dangerous, and they would be finished if they could not be dug up in a few minutes, and in the battlefield environment at that time, it was impossible to dig out all the soldiers who were buried.

After holding out for a day and a night, the Fourth Column gradually felt overwhelmed, and many positions were broken through by the enemy, and the broken positions were lost during the day and recaptured by the counterattack troops sent by our army at night.

The lost positions were recaptured, and the casualties of the Fourth Column had reached a dangerous critical point, and two days later, there were not even 10,000 men in the whole column who could hold on to the battle.

In Baoji City, at the headquarters of the Northwest Field Army, Mr. Peng, who was frowning, said to some of the commanders of the headquarters: "Pei Chang will come so soon." ”

The other chief took Mr. Peng's words and continued: "Not only is it fast, but it is also aggressive, looking like this, I want to swallow us all in one bite, and I have a great appetite." ”

Mr. Peng: "Pei Chang will not be simple, we wanted him to come when we beat Luochuan, but he didn't come, we didn't want him to come to fight Baoji, but he arrived quickly, this Fifth Corps is now under a lot of pressure on us, and it is very difficult to deal with." ”

Mr. Peng, who had walked a few laps, asked again: "How is the fourth column?" How long can it last? ”

A long man has been watching for two days, they have suffered a lot of casualties, and now there are less than 10,000 people who can hold on to the battle, and the positions have been broken through by the enemy in many places, but they have all taken advantage of the dark night to recapture, and the reserves are all used, and their commander called back and said that it is no problem to hold on for another half a day, and it is difficult to say if there are more. ”

Mr. Peng: "Call them back, let them shrink the defensive line, move closer to Baoji, and when retreating, you must pay attention to carrying the wounded down first, and one more point, is there any movement in the Ma cavalry in Longdong?" ”

"Report to General Peng, Ma Bufang's 82nd Division has been dispatched, and the cavalry is marching very quickly, less than ten kilometers away from the position of our Sixth Column Teaching Brigade, and it should be able to catch fire within half an hour."

Hearing the news, Mr. Peng's frowning brows deepened: "Hu Zongnan has invested a lot of money, and Ma Bufang from Qinghai has also made up his mind, he wants to eat our Northwest Field Army, he thinks very well, he has a good idea, hum." ”

On the Qishan front, the headquarters of the Fifth Corps of the Kuomintang, the commander Pei Changhui was shouting hoarsely into the microphone of a walkie-talkie: "Listen to me, I have to rush forward if I say anything, I don't want to hear any casualty figures, what I want is the position of the communist army, no matter what level of officer, as long as they retreat, they will all be shot, a golden opportunity, and then you can surround Peng Dehuai with a lot of strength, the reserve will attack from both sides, strengthen the artillery fire, and go back and forth to the position of the communist army several times, the communist army is also a person, I don't believe that shells can't kill them. ”

At the same time that the Kuomintang Pei Changhui Corps was frantically attacking in the Qishan area, the PLA troops in Baoji City were repairing the fortifications, and in a small courtyard of the Second Column Headquarters, a meeting at the column brigade level was being held.

Commander Wang pointed to the map and said to the commanders: "Just as we expected when we held a meeting at the Jiangtent railway station, the large forces of the Kuomintang really came from both sides, and the offensive was very fierce, and the four columns defending suffered heavy casualties. ”

There was a discussion at the meeting, and the head of the old regiment, Zhao, said: "Pei Changhui is really very cunning, he didn't come when our five columns were together, and now when he sees that we are missing a three-column, he pounces on him when he says that he will pounce, and he is really an old fox." ”

Commander Wang: "Don't treat the enemy as a fool, your head is a head, and other people's are also heads, Li Yong, and tell me your opinion." ”

During the meeting, Li Yongyan seemed to have become a habit of Commander Wang, and other commanders were also accustomed to such things.

Before coming to the meeting, Li Yong thought for a long time, reality and history have been a little different, the four columns defending in the Qishan area did not retreat without reporting as he remembered, but fought with the enemy for two days, although these two days were not long, but also provided valuable respite and decision-making time for the main forces in the Baoji area, which was much better than before.

Li Yong, who stood up, said something shocking according to his own train of thought: Comrades, don't look at the enemy's menacing, but it has not formed an overwhelming force for us, Pei Changhui's Fifth Corps and the 82nd Division of the Ma Jiajun have about 100,000 people together, while we are less than 70,000, the enemy's advantage is only relative rather than absolute, and with these forces, they want to eat us? Hard.

The biggest deficiency of our field army is that the food problem cannot be solved, and with the grain in Baoji City, we can completely deal with the enemy for a period of time, and the most dangerous thing now is not Pei Changhui in the Qishan area, but the integrated 8th Division of the Ma Jiajun.

Don't look at the personnel of the 8th Division is less than Pei Changhui's corps, but they are all cavalry, and we are only responsible for defending a six-column teaching brigade, I don't know how many people there are in this teaching brigade, but it should be only 8,000, and 8,000 infantry is very dangerous to more than 20,000 cavalry.

When Li Yong said this, Commander Wang interjected: "The Sixth Column Teaching Brigade does not have as many people as you said, just over 6,000 people. ”

Li Yong continued: "This is even more dangerous, the ratio of enemy and mine strength is four to one, plus the teaching brigade has no experience in dealing with cavalry, this battle will be very dangerous, I personally think that it will be difficult for them to complete the task assigned by the noji, if their position breaks through and is inserted behind us by the cavalry of the Ma family's army, it will cut off the retreat of our field army back to the old liberated area, which is very unfavorable to us." ”

Commander Wang: "What are the good methods and countermeasures?" Whether it's right or wrong, say it all. ”

Li Yong: "The strength of the 8th Division is its mobility and impact power, and these are the shortcomings of the defending Sixth Column Teaching Brigade, if you want to deal with the enemy's cavalry, you must come up with a mobile force that can confront the enemy, and our field army can only take out a fast mobile force of less than 3,000 people directly under the headquarters, and then there is our independent regiment." ”

Speaking of this, Li Yong was silent for a moment, and then said to Commander Wang in a firm tone: "Commander, I would like to apply to the column and Yeji to support the teaching brigade of the Sixth Column, as long as we can withstand the attack of the 8th Division, we can win more room for maneuver for the main force." ”

First of all, to answer a question from the book friend "Novel Citizen", after the historical Northwest Field Army took Baoji, the four columns responsible for defense did not withstand the attack of the Kuomintang Corps, and the position was broken through, and the sixth column teaching brigade responsible for defending the Majia Army was also broken through by the cavalry, resulting in the field army having to destroy all the materials that had just arrived, and the materials in Baoji were destroyed by the Northwest Field Army itself, not by Hu Zongnan's planes. Hu Zongnan's air force has not yet reached the ability to blow up the place if he wants to, and the air defense of the Northwest Field Army is weak, but it is not nothing, and Lao Ba has seen the scene of antiaircraft machine gun firing at the air in an old photo. I don't know if this explanation will satisfy my friends.

And then I want to say something sorry to my friends, in May, Lao Ba has no time to update for the time being, Lao Ba has changed his new job, he has to retrain at the age of forty, and he has to prepare for the exam, there is really no time at all, and it will look at the situation in June.

Finally, I will tell you about the problem of the female characters in the book, Lao Ba did not stipulate that there are only three honey in the pig's feet, let's think about how many women have appeared in the book??? Hahaha, not much more, thank you all for your support.