260 thousand miles of detour

260 thousand miles of detour (bottom)

After a day's rush march, Lin Dong arrived at Liantang at noon the next day. The troops hid in the dense forest of Wugong Mountain near Liantang.

After a series of intense marches for a long time, Lin Dong looked a little thinner.

Li Liejun, who accompanied the army, was even more exhausted. How could he experience such a hardship? However, through this operation, he has a new understanding of the New Fourth Army. Such a hard-working army and generals who can share the hardships with the soldiers. It's strange not to win the battle! However, Li Liejun's heart is a little sad. Such a strong army is not his.

"Sir, you have never suffered like this." Lin Dong opened the kettle and threw it to Li Liejun.

Li Liejun woke up when he heard the words, smiled bitterly, took the kettle and drank a few sips of water, and then gave it back to Lin Dong.

Lin Dong took two sips, and immediately spread out the map and several generals carefully studied the surrounding terrain.

"The third road attack force has entered Liangcun, 15 kilometers north of Liantang, and the second brigade of its avant-garde 46th Division has entered near Liantang and contacted the alert troops of the 43rd Division."

Lin Dong said, "The information given to us by Wuchang shows that this is a road with weak combat effectiveness in all kinds of "ingress and suppression" forces, and it is also a northern army that is not good at mountain warfare in the south. We are here to quickly annihilate the enemy!"

"Yes!" The generals should make a promise.

Lin Dong is well aware that this is the first battle of the second anti-encirclement war. Whether it can be played well or not is of great importance to future battles. In order to win the battle with confidence, he did not rest after arriving at Liantang, so he boarded the Dawo Gorge near Liantang, opened the military map, raised his telescope, looked forward to the narrow and deep valley in the direction of 100,000 states and semi-meridian, carefully observed the enemy's movements, and learned about the terrain here in detail from the local people.

After clarifying the enemy situation and the surrounding terrain, Lin Dong held a meeting of cadres above the regiment to carry out pre-war mobilization. And he commanded the troops to hide into the position that night.

After the troops entered the position, Lin Dong also came to supervise the battle in person and engaged in a pre-war mobilization of the soldiers in the position.

Lin Dong looked very thin. Wearing a military uniform with a worn elbow, he waved his big hand and said to the commando, "Comrades, thank you for your hard work!"

The soldiers were all in high spirits and listened to the instructions of the chief with their heads held high.

"We have dodged Duan Zhigui's eyes. Duan Zhigui did not find us in the urgent march for several days, and he broke through and won the first victory. Now, in front of us is the Liantang, which is guarded by the Beiyang Army. After breaking through the lotus pond, our breakthrough has won a major victory. Tonight, our whole brigade is going to fight a battle here, in order to break through the lotus pond and break through the enemy's encirclement. Lin Dong paused and continued, "You are the backbone of the battle pulled out by the regiments. You should play an important role in tonight's battle!" The enemy issued a notice, and whoever took the lotus pond first will be rewarded with 200,000 yuan. Are you afraid?"

"Don't be afraid!" The soldiers answered very loudly.

Lin Dong smiled and said, "Yes, don't think they are screaming fiercely. They will hand over their guns at four o'clock tomorrow morning!"

Lin Dong's words were short and powerful, and the soldiers were excited.

At dawn, Lin Dong took advantage of the unprepared enemy and issued an attack order.

The new 4th Army launched a general attack on the Beiyang Army with lightning speed.

In a gust of fried bean-like machine gun roar, there were one or two intermittent dull gunshots, and several Beiyang military machine gun shooters fell down.

A grenade swirled down, and the fragments of the exploding grenade bombs made the ghosts of the Beiyang army cry and howled, and they could not find a hidden corner at all.

A long list of bullets flew over from the oblique side, and six or seven Beiyang soldiers were caught off guard and fell in the splash of blood.

The commanders of the new 4th Army quickly rushed down the hill and fought a battle with the enemy.

It only took two hours to end the battle, and the 2nd Brigade of the 46th Division on the 3rd Road and a reconnaissance battalion sent by Yuliang Village. The battle was so fast that the Beiyang Army was stunned.

A prisoner said, "Yesterday's report also said that you were surrounded by our people, but today you surrounded us here!"

Li Liejun couldn't help laughing when he heard this, but he could win such a beautiful victory in this desperate situation. It can also be said that the commander of Wuchang is good, and the soldiers here use their lives.

Then, Lin Dong commanded the New 4th Army to swing northward and take advantage of the victory to enter the good village. Li Liejun led a guard platoon to the good village. On the way, he encountered a brigade of the 54th Division of the Beiyang Army, which was reinforcements in Liantang, from Yuliang Village. According to the plan, the New 4th Army should be the first to occupy the hill by the road, but they did not arrive on time, so they were preemptively occupied by the 54th Division of the enemy.

Li Liejun didn't find this situation until he arrived at the foot of the mountain. At that time, there were only a few staff officers and a guard platoon beside him.

Li Liejun was also brave: "Prepare to fight immediately!"

An officer of the Beiyang Army quietly leaned out from behind the bunker and waved to several soldiers who were following him. A group of figures slowly squirmed in a messy battlefield under the cover of the mound bunker.

Mark Qin's machine gun - Da Da Da - spitting out the tongue of fire.

"Damn it, what kind of power test? If you have the guts, you can come."

Looking at the Beiyang officers and soldiers who were only behind the natural mound bunker, Li Liejun scolded angrily.

"The Beiyang Army must be gathering troops at this time and harassing us with sporadic artillery fire, so that we can't use this short battle gap to strengthen the fortifications." Li Liejun said angrily to the guards on one side, "Tell the brothers to be careful when repairing the fortifications and be careful of the cold guns of the Beiyang Army."

"Yes!"

"Drag them to death. When our troops come, it will be their death!" Li Liejun bent down and ran to the 8th company not far away. The gray-faced Li Liejun was commanding the troops to prepare for a new round of defensive operations.

The commander of the 8th company, who was wrapped in gauze on his head, fingered and scratched the machine gun from several bunkers.

"The Beiyang dog is quite cunning." Li Liejun took a sip of saliva.

On the position of the Beiyang army on the other side, one by one excitedly pointed at the battlefield that was fighting fiercely.

Li Liejun frowned angrily. These guys are too arrogant. Don't you understand the reason that the proud soldiers will be defeated?

"Bah, it's just bullying us that we don't have heavy guns." Li Liejun scolded, "The dog said, if there is a cannon, I will blow you up!"

-Dad-Dad-The rapid machine gun shooting sounded, followed by two explosions. Li Liejun instinctively bent down and half squatted around to check the situation.

The Beiyang officers and soldiers opposite also lay behind the mound in a mess, lying on the ground nervously one by one.

"What's going on?" Li Liejun couldn't figure it out.

"The army has arrived!"

The guard cheered for a while.

The large army arrived. After a fierce battle, after annihilating a regiment of the enemy and shooting down a brigade commander of the Beiyang Army, the remnant enemy retreated to Liangcun.

Lin Dong commanded the troops to chase to Liangcun, surrounded the 54th Division, launched a fierce attack, and annihilated the enemy.

The remnants of Beiyang had to seize the road and escape to Longgang. The battle in Liangcun took only a few hours, and the victory ended.

After the victory of the battles in Liantang and Liangcun, the fighting spirit of the commanders of the New 4th Army was even higher, but the morale of the Beiyang Army plummeted.

Li Xiang sent a secret message in Wuchang that "it is appropriate to chase the poor bandits with the remaining bravery", asking Lin Dong to carry forward the tradition of continuous combat of the National Revolutionary Army, take advantage of the victory to advance northward, and then annihilate the enemy in Longgang.

At this time, the Longgang garrison had four regiments of Zhou Hunyuan's 5th Division, two regiments of Hao Mengling's 54th Division, and about two regiments retreating from Liantang and Liangcun, a total of eight regiments.

Lin Dong ordered the 41st Division of the New 4th Army to launch a general attack on Longgang at dawn.

When the troops marched, they learned on the way that the Longgang garrison was ready and built many fortifications around the station. They also learned that Mao Bingwen's Eighth Division had just withdrawn from Junbu and Nanling areas.

Lin Dong immediately and decisively changed his original plan, not to Longgang, and unexpectedly changed to Huangpi to attack Mao Bingwen, who had an unstable foothold.

In order to fight this battle well, Lin Dong held a pre-war mobilization meeting in Junbu.

Li Liejun found that the new 4th Army should hold a mobilization meeting no matter whether it is a small battle, not to mention the effect is top.

Lin Dong also made a careful deployment: with the 43rd division to attack Longgang, contain Zhou Hunyuan division, diverted the enemy's attention, and paralyzed Huangpi's Mao Bingwen division; the main force of the new 4th Army turned eastward, suddenly attacked the yellow limbs, and caught him off guard.

Lin Dong then led the main force of the new 4th army to Huangpi.

After three days of rapid marching, he rushed to the vicinity of Huang Zhi in the early morning of the third day and set up the headquarters command post in the pine forest on Chengjiang Mountain.

"The 414th Regiment and 412th Regiment served as the main attack, attacking from the south side of Huangpi; the 423rd Regiment and 413 Regiment detoured to the east side of Huangpi, cutting off the enemy's back road and blocking the enemy reinforced in the east."

Lin Dong threw the pencil on the map and gave a powerful order.

After the new 4th Army entered the position, it quickly caught fire with Mao Bingwen.

Huangpi, Mao Bingwen listened to the sound of fried bean-like gunshots from time to time in the distance, and occasionally there were one or two dull explosions. The distant sky seems to be faintly visible with bursts of fire flashing like lightning.

The New 4th Army rushed over like a wolf, and all the officers and soldiers of the Beiyang Army nestled in the trench bunker felt bursts of fear, which could not be suppressed. No one wants to be like those unlucky people who have died in the past two days. Under the fierce artillery fire and overwhelming attack of the Beiyang Army, the corpses are left in this yellow pages, or simply the bones that were blown up by direct shells.

At noon, it suddenly rained heavily. Lin Dong commanded all the new 4th Army to attack Huangpi Street.

The air is more and more full of the smell of gunpowder smoke. In the direction of Huangpi Street in the distance, there are continuous huge fire pillars gushing up, almost dyeing half of the sky red.

Mao Bingwen withdrew his eyes and looked at the map, frowning. With the passage of time, the current situation is obviously not too optimistic. If he doesn't run away, he will be in danger.

The soldiers are also treacherous. When Mao Bingwen accepted the task, he realized that Duan Zhigui had regarded his division as an abandoned son. Not to mention retreating completely, under the attack of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Army, I'm afraid that Huangpi can hold it next. The question now is how can he get more time to break through?

Mao Bingwen gritted his teeth, left one or two regiments, and then led the rest to break through to Luokou and Ningdu.

The new 4th army took advantage of the victory to chase more than 20 miles and annihilated about two regiments of the enemy.

In the afternoon of the same day, the battle ended.

This battle was fought simply and neatly. It didn't take long and captured a lot.

The next day, the Huangpi Battle News issued by the General Political Department of the Wuchang National Revolutionary Army said: "In three wars, our new 4th Army attacked the two divisions on the third way to destroy the enemy in Liangcun and Liantang. After the first victory, then defeated all the enemy's Mao Bingwen Division in Huangpi and handed over more than 3,500 rifles. More than a hundred machine guns, water and drought organs, a radio plane, and other military supplies are not counted, and more than 6,000 officers and soldiers were captured. In the Huangpi War, our army began to attack fiercely, and it only took an hour to defeat all the enemy divisions.

The New 4th Army won three consecutive victories in Liantang, Liangcun and Huangpi in five days, and annihilated more than 10,000 enemies.

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For Yuan Shikai, the Jiangxi battlefield is the second struggle between him and Li Xiang, the key to breaking the deadlock in the Central Plains battlefield! If you break the gangster in Jiangxi, you can immediately threaten Hubei, Li Xiang's heart!

Even if Li wanted to transfer troops from the Central Plains battlefield to defend south, the balance of the Central Plains battlefield was immediately broken.

It can be said that the Jiangxi battlefield is of great strategic significance to the Beiyang Army.

And for the suppression of bandits in Jiangxi, he also invested a huge amount of human and material resources to make the last blog under the great pressure of the people's alleys in the eastern suburbs to call for a truce between the north and the south. If he can't win, he will consider "negotiation".

This time, the happy pier has become a foot basin, surrounded by mountains, and various important traffic passages are guarded by Duan Zhigui. Lin Dong is difficult to fly even if he inserts his wings.

Yuan Shikai thought it was easy to eat Lin Dong in 48 hours, but after 100 hours, they were not only not eliminated, but also crossed the pocket array and killed all the way to the west, three battles and three victories.

Yuan Shikai was angry and anxious, and the telegram was too slow. He picked up the phone and went straight to Nanchang. He scolded Duan Zhigui fiercely: "Fuck mud horse, how can you fight? Hundreds of thousands of troops were handed over to you. As a result, they slipped away from under their noses... Limit you to 48 hours to cut off the road of the bandits and annihilate the enemy in the Huangpi area!"

"Yes! My subordinates don't wipe out the bandits and soldiers, and come to the president with their heads!" Duan Zhigui at the other end of the phone dared not come out, and repeatedly answered yes.

The general of the Beiyang Army was still coaxed before besieging Gannan, as if he was about to establish a world-class achievement. As a result, the situation turned sharply in a few days, and his legs trembled when he received Yuan Shikai's phone call.

Hanging up Yuan Shikai's phone, Duan Zhigui wiped the cold sweat on his face. The more he thought about it, the more he was afraid, and the more angry he became. He also picked up the phone and scolded his subordinates like Yuan Shikai.

Yuan Shikai also ordered Li Chun to find another way to allocate some troops to act with Duan Zhigui. Li Chun blocked in the front, and Duan Zhigui chased behind, one shouting to fight and the other shouting to kill.

Yuan Shikai's situation is: If you don't annihilate the forest, you will never stop!