Chapter 30: Unexpected Joy

Although Hu Weidong's style of play, which was created around "siege of the city", has worked very well, it also has a big flaw, that is, the consumption of ammunition is large, especially the poor ghost troops who bite hard bones or run out of oil and water due to inaccurate intelligence, even if they win, they will be greatly damaged, and even from then on, they will be completely depressed (ammunition is exhausted - forced to change the style of play - the combat strength of the troops is reduced - it is more difficult to capture ammunition, and then a vicious circle, once there are 100,000 elite soldiers of the Fourth Front Army "going south" The reason why the number of people dropped to more than 30,000 without a major rout in the process was that this situation occurred. )。 But the fact that the Separate Division had its own arsenal, and that it was developing at an frightening pace, that it was not as dependent on capture as the rest of the Red Army, and that it had always been a clear intelligence superiority that made this hard-to-replicate tactic a great success.

As the saying goes, "if you win in a row, you will be proud", and those old Red Army troops under Hu Wei in the east saw that the red capital Ruijin had been surrounded on three sides by the recovered Soviet area, and they suggested marching into Ruijin to restore the holy land in everyone's hearts. Fortunately, Hu Weidong still maintained the necessary calm, he learned from the intelligence that there is now at least one army stationed in the Ruijin area, and although the current independent division is not weak, it is not easy to destroy them, and it is better to go south to seize Xunwu County, where the defenders are relatively weak. Another advantage of this is that it can cut off the telephone contact between the east and west of the Jiangxi "anti-bandit" troops of the Nationalist Army, so that they can only rely on telegrams to communicate, and Hu Weidong can get more information through the intercepted telegrams, but no one thought in advance that Hu Weidong would almost capsize in the gutter during the attack on Xunwu County

There are more than 4,000 people stationed in this county town under the command of Zhang Fu, the "old thief leader of the Central Plains," and most of the officers and soldiers were recruited by the green forest bandits, who were both brave and cunning, and all of them were experienced in a hundred battles, and they were very difficult to deal with. Hu Weidong, however, knew nothing about this, and once again boldly led the motorized infantry to deceive the enemy, and the commander who wanted to control the enemy force him to order the whole brigade to lay down his arms, but he never thought that the other party was very fierce, and he fought desperately with the assault battalion regardless of life and death

Although they were all killed in a short time, Hu Weidong and more than 1,000 others were also surrounded by more than 4,000 regiments of more than 4,000 nationalities in the city who were determined to avenge the brigade commander

Although this battle was won, the assault battalion with a strength of nearly 2,000 people lost more than 800 people, and nearly ninety percent of the commanders and fighters were wounded (but Hu Weidong himself had been providing fire support during the battle, but there were no bruises at all), these are the elite of the elite, Hu Weidong couldn't help but feel heartbroken, and the captured prisoners were less than 500 even if they were seriously wounded, which shows the tenacity of the enemy

Hu Weidong couldn't help but feel a little frustrated that he had suffered huge casualties and could not be replenished by prisoners of war, thinking that he had fought a loss-making battle, but the correspondent's report quickly made his face cloudy and clear

"It seems that my luck has not been exhausted yet." Hu Weidong looked at the rows of artillery, automobiles, and other heavy ordnance in the reservoir area with some disbelief, and when he asked, he learned that because the main force of the Red Army guerrillas in the south had been basically defeated, the various units scattered and broke out of the encirclement were only one or two thousand people at most, and they were all drilling into the deep mountains and old forests. Therefore, the national army units of the three armies all coincidentally left these heavy equipment and corresponding ammunition at the transit point Xunwu County (Xunwu County is located at the intersection of Fujian, Jiangxi and Guangdong provinces, and the transportation is very convenient. And I didn't take it away, and those cars and fuel are the same, and this cheap is really profitable. Of course, fortunately, it is Zhang Fang's green forest soldiers who are stationed in Xunwu, and the level of education is generally very low, basically no one will use these things, otherwise if it is replaced by a unit like the Tax Police Corps, Hu Weidong may be in a catastrophe this time...,

After the soldiers' inventory, the warehouse in Xunwu County stored a total of heavy weapons close to two artillery regiments (relative to the equipment of the national army during this period), including 48 75mm field guns and 18 150mm heavy mortars, and the shells are also very sufficient, with a total of more than 20,000 rounds of 75mm shells (there are many arsenals in China that can manufacture shells in large quantities, so the supply is relatively sufficient. More than 5,000 rounds of 150mm mortar shells, more than 100 cars, and tens of thousands of barrels of gasoline, Hu Weidong couldn't help but be overjoyed.

In addition to heavy equipment, there are not many materials in this warehouse, especially guns and bullets are pitiful, it is obvious that at this time, the demand for guns and ammunition in the front line of the "bandits" is far greater than that of artillery shells, but the logistics department of the national army has always been cheating, often the front line needs to be piled up in the rear warehouse rusty, but the ones that are not used are sent a lot, Hu Weidong has only seen it in books before, and he can't imagine that he has the opportunity to see it with his own eyes now

After realizing this, Hu Weidong's heart suddenly moved, "Could it be that the national army is running out of ammunition, especially guns and bullets?" Is it because I took the national army material transit warehouse twice in Xingguo and Yongfeng? In this way, Ruijin's army doesn't seem to be terrible."

Because the militias of the counties successfully cut off the telephone contact between the national armies of the east and west, Hu Weidong learned from the increasingly frequent telegrams of the national army that the national army stationed in Ruijin was the 37th Army of Mao Bingwen of the Central Army, under the jurisdiction of two well-equipped divisions, if you add the militia and other local armed forces, the total strength is more than 30,000, and the strength is stronger than any enemy before the independent division, but most of the backbone of the independent division is the old Red Army, and they are extremely eager to recover the red capital Ruijin, and they were held back by Hu Weidong for several days. In addition, Xu Kexiang, commander of the 24th Division of the 37th Army, was the initiator of the "Ma-Ri Incident" that year, and his hands were stained with the blood of the Chinese Communists and the revolutionary masses, so the fighting spirit of the whole army was unprecedentedly high, and the independent division at this time was strong and strong, with a total strength of more than 60,000 people, powerful artillery and several thousand automatic weapons of all kinds, and the military quality of the vast number of commanders and fighters has also been steadily improving, so the fighting spirit of the whole army is unprecedentedly high. In addition, Hu Weidong also learned from the deciphered telegram that Xu Kexiang's 24th Division had just left Ruijin to go to Fujian to participate in the encirclement and suppression of the Red Army guerrillas there, and now there was only one division left in Ruijin City plus the military headquarters, and the maximum would not exceed 20,000 people, and the independent division just took advantage of the situation.