Chapter 346 Fight again for the total annihilation of the thirty-sixth division

While the 5th Brigade and the Independent Brigade were encircling the 123rd Brigade, the 4th and 6th Brigades, two other infantry brigades of the 2nd Column, were also attacking the 165th Brigade, another brigade of the 36th Division. To read the latest chapters, please lock the biquge.info of Aishang Novels

At this time, we can see the advantages of a large troop establishment, and the key to eliminating the 36th Division is the new 28th Brigade, the main force of the Kuomintang on Huti Mountain and the mountain, as long as the 28th Brigade can be eliminated, there is basically no doubt about this battle, and victory is only a matter of time.

After the 28th Brigade was eliminated, it would not only be able to occupy the hilltop position and knock out the support points of the enemy's defense system, but also free up the troops to attack manually, and there would be no major problem for the second column with four fully equipped infantry brigades to deal with the two understaffed brigades of the Kuomintang 36th Division at the foot of the mountain, and this was also the main reason why the commander of the Noji Division handed over the task of encircling and annihilating the 36th Division to the Second Column.

At present, the situation of the Northwest Field Army on the battlefield is that in the second half of the war in the second half of the 48th year, the total strength of the PLA is still inferior to that of the Kuomintang, and it is about one-half of the strength that can be mobilized in the south of the Kuomintang Hu Zong.

Although the People's Liberation Army (PLA) developed rapidly, the total strength of the Northwest Field Army in the Northwest Battlefield was only more than 100,000. (In a year and a half, from 20,000 to more than 100,000, the degree is terrifying enough, but the foundation is too weak, and it is not as strong as the Kuomintang for the time being)

The total strength of the army is only half of that of the enemy, and the gap between the technical weapons and the enemy is even greater, (the Kuomintang troops have tanks with armored weapons on the ground and planes in the sky, although there are not many of them, they are still much stronger than the PLA) How to use these forces to confront the superior forces and weapons of the Kuomintang? This depends on the command art of Mr. Peng and the first cadre of the field army.

After Yan'an was recaptured by the People's Liberation Army, Hu Zongnan, who was scolded by Chiang Kai-shek, gathered all the forces he could mobilize to attack frantically, intending to turn the tide of the war and redeem the adverse domestic and international disadvantages.

Yan'an is not big, the resources are very few, and the PLA does not have many troops, and it is like a piece of jīrib in the decisive battlefield of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, but as a holy place for people, as long as the influence of the army on politics is huge.

In the face of the Kuomintang Hu Zong's attack in the south, Peng Lao commanded the Northwest Field Army to maneuver with the movement warfare, patiently and patiently, looking for opportunities in the movement, and after the 36th Division, which had made meritorious contributions, and decided to use most of the main forces of the Northwest Field Army (the 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 6th columns) to contain the Kuomintang's attacking corps, isolate the 36th Division, which was prominent and advancing, create an absolute advantage on the local battlefield, and use the second column with the strongest combat effectiveness and the largest number of personnel in the field army to eat the 36th Division in one fell swoop. This method of warfare is named Tiger Mouth Tooth Extraction.

The Northwest Field Army was in a disadvantageous position on the entire battlefield, but it was in an advantageous position in a small area, and this superior position was that the second column of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) faced the 36th Division of the Kuomintang.

The newly formed 36th Division has only more than 15,000 people, while the second column of the People's Liberation Army has four full-fledged brigades with 30,000 personnel, and it is still certain that the 36th Division will be eaten, but the superiority on the local battlefield is not immutable, and the advantage of the second column is the result of the efforts of the remaining columns of the field army, so the time given to the second column by Mr. Peng and the commanders of the field division is one and a half days.

If, within a day and a half, the Second Column could not take the 36th Division, the entire campaign was cancelled, and the troops should be withdrawn quickly, lest they be caught up by the enemy's large corps and cause losses.

Attacking, attacking, continuous attack, in the face of the fierce attack of the PLA, the 165th Brigade at the forefront of the troops retreated in an uproar, rolling and crawling back to shrink its forces, the old second regiment took advantage of the situation to chase fiercely, following behind the buttocks.

The second regiment is the main regiment in the brigade, the main regiment of the second column, and the old army of the People's Liberation Army.

The soldiers followed behind the retreating soldiers of the 165th Brigade, opened fire with the weapons in their hands, and chased after them, and the soldiers of the 165th Brigade were knocked to the ground one by one by the soldiers who caught up.

The soldiers of the Kuomintang were okay to fight defensive battles in the trenches, but if they ran down, they had no combat effectiveness at all, and they could still have any combat effectiveness when they exposed their buttocks, and the soldiers of the second regiment chased closer and closer, until they caught a few prisoners and interrogated them, and they knew that they were not far from the brigade headquarters of the 165th.

Commander Zhao asked the soldiers to concentrate the mortars of the whole regiment, and aimed at the direction of the 165th Brigade Headquarters is a fierce bombardment, no matter what brigade headquarters you have, what can you do with the guard troops? Don't believe Lao Tzu, a whole regiment can't get a brigade headquarters?

The soldiers who resisted mortars and shells when the troops charged were very hard, and in order to provide fire support to the troops, they had to keep up step by step, and the heavy artillery body and base sometimes grinded the shoulders of the soldiers into a bloody blur, and the blood flowed down the uniforms, but the soldiers couldn't take care of these, and had only one thought in their hearts, to keep up, to keep up, to be ready for battle at the first time the regiment commander's order was given, and to shoot out the shells in a minute.

For example, artillery, when the battle was at its most intense, some artillery units would push their artillery to the forefront and carry out direct aimed shooting.

But this does not mean that the PLA is not good at all weapons, for a long time, including the Red Army period, the main weapons of the PLA, or the heavy weapons in the army are mortars and heavy machine guns, there is no other way, and large weapons are not used to fight sports warfare and guerrilla warfare, and occasionally they are captured and destroyed, so the soldiers are very skilled in the mortars that are very suitable for the characteristics of the troops, and they are so skilled that they feel incredible, and there are records that the PLA troops can change mortars to flat fire, Mortars are the most typical curved weapons, and this guy can be changed to flat fire, which shows that the fighters of the People's Liberation Army are proficient in such weapons.

The gunners of the second regiment are all soldiers from the old Eighth Road, the small mortars are accurate and accurate, and the second regiment is also a bird gun for artillery, not only there is a mortar company in the regiment, but also a mortar platoon in the battalion, which together is dozens of mortars, and hundreds of shells were smashed in a short time.

The brigade headquarters of the 165th Brigade was set up temporarily, and although there was an engineer unit in charge, it was also too short to make it too strong, not to mention the heavy howitzers, and even the shells of the hundreds of mortars that this company had fired could not resist, and before it came into contact with the PLA, nearly half of the only combat unit in the brigade headquarters was knocked out.

Commander Zhao of the Second Regiment also rushed to the artillery position with his heels, looking at the shells flying out in groups, his heart was very beautiful, is this called a war? This is the artillery of our People's Liberation Army: "Hit, hit hard, smash him a few hundred more, I see how strong the 165th Brigade of the Kuomintang can be." ”

There is a reason why Regiment Commander Zhao is so happy, when he attacked Panlong Town in 47 years, the entire 2nd Column and 4th Brigade only had Bashan artillery shells, which was specially approved by Mr. Peng, a brigade-level combat unit, for a few artillery shells, the commander of the field army had to approve the slip, which showed how difficult the Northwest Field Army was at that time, but with such weapons and equipment, the PLA insisted on taking down the Kuomintang's logistics base set up in Panlong, and also eliminated the Kuomintang's elite 167th Brigade and captured the brigade commander Li Kungang alive.

Now seeing that the artillery shells of his own troops are smashing into hundreds, it is natural for Regiment Commander Zhao to be happy, and the dense small shells covered all the headquarters of the 165th Brigade like rain, and the explosion sound of 'tom, tom, tom' could still be heard at first, and then it was all over the sky.

Explosions, shrapnel, blood, dead people, no one has the heart to count the density of shells anymore, it would be nice to be able to save their own lives.

Regiment Commander Zhao, a shrewd commander, did not blindly let the troops rush hard, and he could not act brutally in a hurry, but used a telescope to observe the battlefield situation all the time, and saw that after a few shellings, the brigade headquarters of the 165th Brigade became a pot of porridge, which allowed the troops to attack.

Thousands of soldiers of the Second Regiment swarmed up, and it took only one charge to kill the brigade headquarters, and Commander Zhao shouted to his soldiers: "Be careful, don't let the Kuomintang officers go, arrest them all, see if there is any big one inside, where is the commander of the 165th Brigade, find out immediately, hurry up, don't patronize the gun, the gun is dead, you can't run away if you put it on the ground, just catch the person." ”

After a while, the soldiers came over with a large number of prisoners, and one of the soldiers pointed to an officer in the pile of prisoners and said, "Commander, do you see?" That is the brigade commander of the 165th Brigade, our squad leader caught it, this guy was not convinced at first, let me give a few rifle butts to be honest. ”

Commander Zhao happily walked over, looked at the officer's head and asked, "Is it the brigade commander of the 165th Brigade?" ”

The Kuomintang officer sighed, touched his heels, saluted Commander Zhao and said, "If you go back to the commander, you are the commander of the 165th Brigade." ”

At the headquarters of the Second Column of the Northwest Field Army, Commander Wang, with his military uniform open and one foot on a stool, was happily reporting the situation to the head of the field division on the phone.