Chapter 246: Deterrence of the Battle of Xifu

Qishan is also known as the Phoenix City, the place is not big, but it is very historical, there is the Phoenix falling on the Qishan Mountain, it is the auspicious place of Zhou culture, the hometown of Emperor Yan, our famous ancient philosophical and medical classics in China, "The Emperor's Neijing" and "Zhou Yi" are auspicious here.

Qishan County in the smoke looks very calm from a distance, and the soldiers of the security regiment guarding the city are in the morning when they are handed over, and the sleepy-eyed sentry said to the soldiers who came to change shifts: "The chicken doesn't bite, the dog doesn't bark, there is no, and after staring at the eyes all night, Lao Tzu is going back to sleep." ”

Just as he was about to be laid off and walk back, the replacement soldier pointed to the distance and shouted: "Hey, brother, look at it, what is that?" ”

The sentry looked in the direction of the soldier's finger, and saw that there were many tubular things standing in the dark as far as the eye could see outside the city, and these tubular things were lined up one after the other, and they were discharged far away.

The soldier standing guard blinked his eyes and looked at it carefully, and was a little dumbfounded at the time: "Mine, isn't this a cannon?" When did so many cannons be placed outside the city? ”

The sentry was a little trembling when he spoke: "What are you still doing, what's the use of looking at me?" Go and call the company commander. The soldier who took over crawled to the ground to find the company commander.

The company commander still has a telescope hanging on his chest, and the company commander who is holding the telescope to observe can't help but look at it, and the soldier next to him asks a little anxiously: "Company commander, what are you looking at?" Is it a cannon? Which of the troops arrived? We haven't heard any news yet, have we? ”

Company commander: "Pick up the news of your mother's egg, the cannon is true, and there are too many to count, but the artillerymen next to you are wearing gray uniforms, you are not a troop?" ”

These two soldiers heard the company commander say that the soldiers on the opposite side were wearing gray military uniforms, and they were a little stupid immediately, haven't they eaten fat pork and haven't seen fat pigs run, who doesn't know that it is the Eighth Road that wears gray military uniforms?

"With so many cannons, isn't that the arrival of the Eighth Route Army? What can I do? ”

Company Commander: "Can I know what to do?" I can know that there is no company commander, so go and call the regiment commander and let the regiment decide what to do. ”

The head of the Qishan Security Regiment was having breakfast, the food was good, there was wine and meat, and he was still thinking in his heart while eating, who is not good? I just feel that this place is not bad, eating and drinking spicy like a local emperor, if the head of my security regiment in a big place can be considered bullshit? Needless to say, in Xi'an, even in Baoji and Xianyang, I am nothing, it seems that we are still in this place.

At this time, the bell rang, and I heard that the signal soldier said that there was an emergency call from the city defense troops, and I couldn't eat this meal anymore, so I took off my chopsticks and ran out, shouting as I ran: "Prepare a car for me, go to the city gate." ”

The jeep was very fast, and it was not far away, and the city gate was reached in a blink of an eye, and the regimental commander took three steps and two steps, ran all the way to the city gate, and took the telescope from the company commander and kept observing.

A minute passed, and the commander of the regiment was the same as the company commander, and he couldn't stop sifting through the chaff while watching, and he didn't know if he was tired from going to the city wall, or if he was scared of what he saw, and he kept saying: "It's broken, it's broken, this is really the arrival of the Eighth Route Army, what are the communist troops doing here?" I don't have anything in this Qishan that the communist army can look up to. ”

At this moment, only the shouting of a loudspeaker was heard from the position outside the city: "Listen to the Kuomintang officers and men on the opposite side, we are the Chinese People's Liberation Army, the Northwest Field Army, order you to immediately lay down your weapons and surrender, see the artillery of our People's Liberation Army, if you refuse to surrender, we will bombard your Qishan City, give you half time to consider, and our People's Liberation Army will attack in half an hour." ”

The company commander guarding the city gate nervously asked the commander of the security regiment: "Tuanza, the People's Liberation Army is going to flatten our Qishan, what should we do?" ”

The regiment commander glared at the company commander: "What's the panic, soldiers take obedience to orders as their duty, soldiers come to be generals, water comes to cover the earth, is there anything great about the Eighth Route Army?" Will he attack us and defend it, hold on, you must guard the city gate, you are not allowed to retreat without my order, I will go back to the regiment headquarters first. ”

After giving the order, the regiment commander turned around and left, and the company commander who asked the question slapped his thigh with regret: "Don't I owe, why am I asking this?" He ordered me to run or not. ”

I don't blame this company commander for regretting, the regimental lord gave him an order to hold on, if he didn't keep it, he would run, his future would be gone, and after so many years in the army, he finally got a company commander to be a company, although the company commander is not big, but he is also a big figure in this place, isn't there that sentence, called: company commander, company commander, when the cannon goes off, there are ten thousand taels of gold.

But if you want to die for the future and the Eighth Route Army, what is the difference between looking for death, the cannon of the Eighth Route Army is as dense as a firewood stick, let alone guarding, it would be good to be alive after a cannon hit.

This company commander was thinking about it before and after, and tried his best to find a way to achieve both, how to keep the position of the company commander and not be killed.

In the end, he really came up with a bad idea, the regiment asked me to defend the city, he himself might not have run there, Lao Tzu is also a company commander, and there are more than a dozen squad platoon commanders under him? Can Lao Tzu also order them.

Thinking of this, the company commander called all the squad and platoon commanders under his command: "The Eighth Route Army is coming, and the regiment commander ordered us to hold on, so we must live and die with the position and resolutely hold Qishan. ”

The company commander guarding the city gate also left after giving orders to more than a dozen squad and platoon commanders, these soldiers of the security regiment don't look at the war very well, but they are very sophisticated about people, and they all know it when they see what the company commander says, don't talk nonsense, and discuss the battle plan with the regiment commander, what can the regiment commander discuss with you? Maybe the head of the regiment has already run away, and wants Lao Tzu to be substitutes for the dead ghosts, go ahead.

Several soldiers discussed together, and one asked, "The commander has run away, what should we do?" The other said, "Lao Tzu's head is like a mess, I can't think of what to do?" ”

I have to say that there are many people who are easy to do, there are many heads, and there are many ways, and after ten minutes, we finally discussed a way, and after a while, the Eighth Route Army will run away as soon as the city is attacked, and those who want to continue to be soldiers will follow the regiment commander to run out of the back door, and Qishan will not be able to stay in other places to mix, and it is easy to do it if you don't want to be a soldier.

In the end, the majority of those who still want to run with the regiment commander are used to being soldiers over the years, and they often bully the common people in ordinary times, and this time they must not be used to living this hard life if they want to be the common people.

When the Eighth Route is to think about it, the Eighth Route Army doesn't look at the battle, but the discipline is too strict, no drinking, no finding women, no smoking, and training all day, such a unit really can't stay.

In the midst of these soldiers' discussions, the time stipulated by the independent regiment had arrived, and with Gao Xiang's command, the cannon of the benchmark gun test shot was discharged.

Two 1o5 mm caliber shells exploded not too far from these soldiers with a "boom", and the bricks and tiles that exploded collapsed these guys.

After the test firing, the artillery battalion of the Independent Regiment began to carry out artillery raids on the city walls and fortifications of Qishan, firing several rapid shots in succession, shrouding the entire Qishan in the smoke of artillery fire.

At the same time, Li Yong still followed the old method, and Zhang Jinsong's reconnaissance battalion attacked Qishan under the cover of Wei Gang's armored vehicles.

The 1o5 howitzer hit the depth, the caliber mortar dealt with the fire point, and the 92 infantry gun and the 75 wild mountain artillery were directly pushed to the front by the soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion, pushing closer and closer, and then they were only more than 100 meters away from the city wall, aiming at the city wall and the city gate.

The direct fire of the artillery at close range is very shocking, the cannon is discharged and hits the target directly, the power is very great, one can blow the city gate open, but it is also very dangerous, the shrapnel of the shell explosion roars over the heads of the soldiers, and some shrapnel and the collapsed stones hit the bulletproof plate of the artillery "dangdang".

In the words of the soldiers, this is called putting bayonets on artillery, and our People's Liberation Army has bayonets on their rifles, and cannons also have bayonets, that is, our People's Liberation Army dares to do this, and the Kuomintang troops dare not think of it according to the US army's army drills.

From the beginning of the attack to the reconnaissance battalion's climb to the city wall of Qishan, the whole process was useless, and when he heard Li Jiangguo say that the enemy had run out and had fallen into their pockets, Li Yong ordered the artillery fire to stop firing, and the troops entered the city, or Wei Gang's armored car advanced quickly, following behind the fleeing enemy**, to prevent the enemy from returning backwards.

The Kuomintang security regiment that escaped from the city was still wiped out by the three battalions ambushed by the independent regiment in advance without any suspense, the difference is that there were a few prisoners in this battle, which was deliberately left, and then killed all of them Li Jiangguo was afraid that the political commissar Wang Chengde would make trouble for him, so this guy restrained a lot.

Just when the soldiers were all over the street to draw trophies, Li Yong asked Li Jia, commander of the communications platoon, to report to Commander Wang: Our unit has conquered Qishan County this morning, annihilated more than 1,000 members of the enemy's security regiment, and the weapons, ammunition, and various seizures are being counted.

Li Yong and Wang Chengde of the Second Vertical Independent Regiment