249 Five Battles and Five Victorys

At 9:00 p.m., it seemed that a finger rang the electric bell of the theater, and the curtain of the general attack opened.

With the thrilling plot staged one after another, the good news of the war also came one by one.

On the map of the Fengfeng Command Office where Lin Tiechang and Ji Yulin are located, the red arrows continue to extend and develop.

Under the command of Jing Bu Mu, the North Group oppressed the enemy from north to south. At the same time, it attacked and annihilated the enemies in the north and south, and successively conquered more than 20 villages and towns. Under the command of Ma Hongkui, the East Road Army has annihilated most of the 106th Regiment of the 40th Brigade, occupied Cuiqu, Nanbao and Zhaozhuang, and smashed a big gap in the enemy's defense system. Under the command of Chen Jianlian, the South Group has captured the Magnetic County Town, Licorice Camp, Gaoyu, Zhongmatou and Yanjiazhan on the banks of the Puyang River, while the Matou Town between Zhongmatou and Yanjiazhan is controlled by Feng Yuxiang, who has already revolted.

With the control of the National Revolutionary Army on both sides of the Buyang River south of Handan and north of Cixian County, the progress of the campaign has changed dramatically. Lin Tiechang and Ji Yulin estimated that the enemy would definitely retreat.

Sure enough, the sign of the enemy's retreat appeared.

Chen Jianlian of the Southern Group called the headquarters: "The enemy is building fortifications south of the core position, and some troops are being mobilized, panicking..."

Ji Yulin put down the phone and said to Lin Tiechang, "The enemy wants to run, and we have to take the initiative."

At this time, Lin Tiechang had already circled the map, and the plan to annihilate the enemy also came out: "With the main force of the first and third columns, the hidden movement began at dusk. First, the enemy moved south to the north of the Zhanghe River to cut off the enemy's retreat; with the second vertical from the bottom to the south, waiting for the enemy to leave the city-building zone, a heart-to-heart attack and fierce attack, side Strike its head, focus on its deployment system, and annihilate each; build a stronghold on the north bank of the Zhang River with the general reserve team to block the enemy's retreat, and arrange the side attack on the south bank of the Zhang River to intercept the 32nd mixed brigade of the enemy reinforcements.

"Very good." Ji Yulin made a forceful action, "One vertical movement on the east side of the enemy's retreat road, three vertical movement on the west side of the enemy's retreat road, another clamp attack!"

Chen Jianlian's phone call came again. He noticed that the 67th Regiment of the enemy's 30th Brigade had occupied Xi Yu Cao in order to cover the retreat of the main force of the Beiyang Army.

"What countermeasures do you have?" Ji Yulin asked.

Chen Jianlian replied, "I'm going to send Ma Zhongquan to lead the 8th Brigade to annihilate this enemy."

Xiyu Cao Village is located east of Ci County and north of the Zhanghe River. The enemies in the village are the 67th Regiment of the 30th Brigade and the 199th and 200th Regiments. Among them, the 199th Regiment is the old base of the guard regiment of Duan Qirui, and its equipment and tactics are first-class.

This is a strong enemy. Ma Zhongquan's 8th Brigade was newly formed, which was the first battle after its formation. The morale of the 8th brigade is full, and what they are looking forward to is to gnaw a hard bone and hit it for a good start.

That night, the 8th Brigade forced Xi Yu Cao and fought vigorously at the beginning.

In order to seize the commanding heights of the village, Ma Zhongquan was determined to attack from the west of the village with the 23rd regiment, and responded from the south of the village with the 24th regiment to disrupt the enemy's position.

Ma Zhongquan pointed to a mound in the distance and said, "Do you see that mound? In this way, you take a regiment over there and respond from the south of the village to disrupt the enemy's position.

"Oi, travel seat, I'll go now." The commander of the 24th regiment wiped the sweat on his face and nodded.

With the suspension of the shelling, the soldiers of the National Revolutionary Army who were originally covered immediately began to move forward slowly, tentatively attacked again, and the figures ran quickly one by one. The position of the Beiyang Army in the distance was silent, and there was no counterattack of the Beiyang Army.

There was silence everywhere, only the footsteps of the soldiers of the National Revolutionary Army moving, the sound of heavy breathing and the crash of weapons.

100 meters...

A piece of silence.........

Fifty meters...

It's still quiet...

Such silence aggravated the uneasiness of the soldiers of the National Revolutionary Army, and quickly used the terrain to establish an attack line.

The commander of the 24th regiment with a saber, the standard civilian military dress is full of Japanese flavor. He observed carefully and saw that the position of the Beiyang Army was still quiet.

The regimental commander waved his hand, and the soldiers of the National Revolutionary Army slowly got up and moved carefully 20 meters away.

Suddenly, it was like an exploding volcano. In the position of the Beiyang Army, orange fire snakes cut open the battlefield with gunpowder smoke, and more than a dozen soldiers of the National Revolutionary Army fell to the ground and howled to death.

Countless grenades were thrown over one after another. In the eyes of the soldiers of the National Revolutionary Army, that moment was as suffocating as time freezing in an instant. After a short and seemingly long silence, the dense and violent explosion suddenly sounded. The whole position suddenly seemed to be rolled down by a powerful force. The fireballs suddenly burst one after another. The red and black flames rolled out, and the whole battlefield suddenly became a burning sea.

In the sound of martyrdom after another, the forward position of the whole National Revolutionary Army's offensive formation was blown into a sea of fire, and the violent explosions were endless. Several National Revolutionary Army soldiers who were on fire all over screamed and jumped up and rolled crazily. He hissed and shouted until he finally didn't move in the firelight.

The position of the whole Beiyang Army is like an explosive volcano. The metal flow of steel is vented from every corner of the position. The soldiers of the National Revolutionary Army on the front line suddenly became the target of public criticism. Although the covering machine gunfire can beat the position of the Beiyang Army, no one can guarantee that these organs can be suppressed. Live in the firepower of the Beiyang Army.

With a dull gunshot echoing in the air, half of the head of a National Revolutionary Army officer under command became a red and white rotten gourd. The 7.92mm rifle shot the ground lifted the protection of the helmet, and the sharp metal warhead smashed the officer's skull to the ground. The high rotational kinetic energy brought by the bullet twisted the broken head into a pile of rotten paste, and the corpse that lost its head collapsed softly, and the splashed blood and brain plasma gushed on the iron bridge.

Under the fierce fire of the Beiyang Army, the National Revolutionary Army infantry who lost their cover had almost nothing to hide. The soldiers faced the constantly roaring bullets on the opposite side. They didn't know where to hide, so they had to keep shooting randomly at the opposite side. In the dense rain, there is almost no hiding matter that can provide a little pitiful shelter. People keep shouting and fall to the ground. The dying struggle makes the living almost despair, falling shell casings. The dripping blood, the dead body, and the heartbreaking scream of the injured person made a wolf like a nose hell.

Several mortar shells fired by the Beiyang Army fell down. Under the flying shrapnel, more soldiers screamed and fell to the ground.

The furious commander of the 24th regiment had to order the artillery fire to bombard again. As the Type92 infantry guns began to bombard again, the rolling fireballs, scattered fragments, the rising smoke columns and the huge explosions kept rising and ringing on the position of the Beiyang Army, and death once again shrouded the narrow defense. Royal line.

The long artillery bombardment convinced the soldiers of the National Revolutionary Army that their enemies had been completely buried between the dead by the shells that had been knocked down. So the officers pulled out the saber and suddenly pointed forward.

"Forward..."

I don't know who shouted the first one with hiss. All the National Revolutionary Army hissed fiercely with the weapons in their hands and charged towards the victory within a short distance.

The 24th regiment broke through the frontier and developed into the village. In the dark, the enemy rushed east and west and made a mess.

Zhang Qinghe, the commander of the 1st Battalion of the 22nd Regiment, attacked the sand dunes in the west of the village with a rapid movement with two commandos and controlled the wall.

In this way, the 8th Brigade completely annihilated the enemy after a bloody battle day and night.

Li Da hung a newly drawn battle situation map on the wall of Fengfeng Command. The flat map shows a three-dimensional picture of war. The enemy has become a strong crossbow, and is adopting the tactics of village-by-village cover, breaking away from the position of building the city and breaking out to the south.

In order to break the enemy's south escape plan, all forces of the National Revolutionary Army are weaving a big net.

Jing Bu Mu commanded the first column from the east, Chen Jianlian commanded the third column and other troops from the west, divided into multiple columns to fan the enemy fleeing to the south; Ma Hongkui commanded the troops of the second column military region, tracking and chasing from north to south; Zhao Tingfa commanded the troops of the Taixing Military Region, and went out to the north of Zhang Henan to attack.

The enemy in the encirclement is completely trapped in the fire of the people's war. The 20,000 people led by Ma Fawu, the deputy commander of the enemy's 11th war zone, were first followed and chased by our National Revolutionary Army, then intercepted on both sides, and then blocked head-to-head. For a moment, they messed up their positions and rushed to the front and back flagpoles, Xinzhuang and Ma Ying in a panic, and called for help. The 32nd Brigade of the enemy's follow-up force, which was blocked on the south bank of the Zhang River, launched a fierce attack on the south bank of the Zhang River with its main force.

"Time is tight. We should quickly open up the situation. We must not let the enemy 32nd Brigade add it!" After analyzing the war situation, Ji Yulin said, "Now the battle has entered a decisive stage. Our first task is not to let Ma Fawu run away!"

"The man shoots the horse first, and the thief captures the king first!" Lin Tiechang immediately said, "You can't press fleas with five fingers. You have to concentrate on the first and second columns and solve the chief department of Ma Fawu first!"

The reconnaissance information was sent quickly. Ma Fawu's governor's office is located in the former flagpole.

Lin Tiechang and Ji Yulin immediately decided to attack the front flagpole from the east and the north.

Under the general attack order, the well was quickly deployed: the main forces of the 1st Brigade and the 2nd Brigade were divided into the southeast and northeast of the Ma Ying to attack the Ma Ying, and the 3rd Brigade and the 2nd Long 19th Regiment attacked the flagpole.

At 4:00 p.m., the battle was launched. The 3rd Battalion of the 7th Regiment, which was the main attack, first broke into the horse camp.

The enemy in the desperate situation resisted desperately, and the battle was extremely fierce and arduous.

With the loud noise, the explosion suddenly raised a piece of broken earth fireworks.

The Beiyang military machine gun shot down a soldier of the National Revolutionary Army who tried to make a leap forward.

"The revolutionary army rushed up again!" There was a panic alarm from the mound.

A team of National Revolutionary Army soldiers, under the cover of the fierce firepower of the National Revolutionary Army, continuously carried out the impact, climbed up on the river bank of the flank, and thus opened the breakthrough. Two cover positions were dropped in a row, and then there were fierce shots with the two companies on the other side, and the bullets were dancing wildly in the hot air. Sling around.

Obviously, the National Revolutionary Army, which has an advantage in numbers, weapons and equipment, occupies a greater initiative. After continuous suppression of firepower, they gradually pressed the defenders of the Beiyang Army on the flank to the front. If the Beiyang Army on the front could not rise in time, I'm afraid that the middle position on the river bank would be lost. There is a frantic scuffle everywhere.

The explosion of fire rose to the sky, rendering the extremely red sunset glow in the sky.

Quietly, the night is gradually falling, and the stars all over the sky are also bleak under the reflection of the burning battlefield with flames on the ground. When the last ray of gold afterglow of the sunset disappeared at the end of the horizon, the fierce battle entered the peak, and the swarming of National Revolutionary Army aircraft bombarded Wangting Town, which had already been a piece of rubble.

A 75mm grenade fell directly and made a loud bang. The explosion lit up the darkness everywhere, and a column of red and black smoke rose in the sky. Wisps of dust shook down from the reinforced top of the cover.

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Jing Bumu brushed the dust off the map with his hand and carefully stared at the map in front of him with a dim light.

Xu Santai, the instructor of the 8th company, and the communication monitor of the battalion headquarters, etc., were surrounded by the enemy in a cotton house in an independent courtyard. They were injured and were caught and buried alive by the enemy. The assault troops of the 20th Regiment attacked the eastern part of the former flagpole, with heavy casualties in the fierce battle, and the commander of the regiment, Wang Dashun, died heroically. The 16th Regiment broke into the front flagpole from the southeast and the 19th Regiment from the southwest, but was stubbornly blocked by several times the enemy in the village. After fierce fighting, only part of the courtyard near the breakthrough was captured, and Liu, the chief of staff of the 16th Regiment, turned over and died heroically. The 2nd echelon of the 19th Regiment then reinforced, but it was blocked by the enemy's intensive firepower and oppressed outside the breakthrough.

At this time, Jing Bumu has no soldiers to adjust. After several assaults, he has lost a lot. Now his own strength seems to be a little constrained, not to mention that the front of the attack is very wide. There is no reserve team in Jing Bumu's hand. And from the beginning, there was no intention to leave a reserve team.

Looking at the map in front of him, there was a bitterness in Jing Bumu's heart. The battle had been fought all day. The Beiyang army was firmly nailed to this battlefield and every inch of land. The biggest problem facing Jing Bumu now is that the limited number of troops in his hand seems to be a little thin.

The wounded were put together for easy treatment, and those who were not injured or were only slightly injured had to continue to shoot at the risk of being hit by the rain of bullets and the fierce crossfire of the Beiyang Army.

The ground is full of yellow shells and messy magazines, as well as firearms and ammunition collected from the wounded or dead. There is little ammunition left.

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The break-in troops had to withdraw from the battle at dawn, while the 16th Regiment, which was the first to attack the former flagpole, was surrounded by the enemy in the village and lost contact with the first column headquarters...