Chapter 60: The decisive battle between Anhui, Zhejiang and Jiangxi
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When Zhou Tao fell asleep on the luxurious bed at the Huamao Hotel, Xun Huaizhou was leading the special operations squadron, walking through the deep mountains and forests to Kaihua County.
The special forces led by Xun Huaizhou were actually the last main force to leave Jingde.
From late 11:30 on the 28th, the Special Forces Squadron, led by Xun Huaizhou, trained and advanced along the way.
Xunhuaizhou seized the opportunity and began to torture the special forces members "inhumane" military and cultural torture.
The special forces members were all stripped off by the division commander.
Late on the night of the 30th, the special operations squadron was the first to enter the preset position. The special operations squadron in this battle was responsible for the arduous task of capturing enemy artillery units and eliminating the command post of the enemy division headquarters. Moreover, it was the troops that fired the first shot in the battle, so the task was very arduous.
Xun Huaizhou is well aware of the current powerful generals of the 11th Division.
The division commander was Huang Wei, a Confucian general who was a bit nerdy. This man became the commander of the corps in later generations and was captured by Su Yu in the Huaihai battlefield in the War of Liberation.
Hu Lian, the current commander of the 66th regiment of the 11th Division, is a powerful general. He has great military talent and performed well in the War of Resistance Against Japan and also performed well in the War of Liberation. He can be regarded as Su Yu's old opponent.
Hu Lian was born in the 29th year of Guangxu in Beihui Village, Huitongfang, Hua County, Shaanxi Province. He graduated from the fourth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy.
In early 1937, after the Battle of Songhu broke out, the 66th Regiment of the 11th Division of the 18th Army, where Chen Cheng, was located, was commanded by Hu, headed to Shanghai. The Hu regiment was ordered to guard the Luodian area north of Shanghai.
The Japanese army used Luodian as a breakthrough point and sent planes to bombard the positions of the 66th Regiment, and fired smoke bombs to cover the infantry's impact with tanks.
Hu Lian organized suicide squads, used cluster grenades to blew tanks, and organized machine gun fire networks to block the Japanese army's advance passage. Sometimes he organized troops to take the initiative to attack and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy to kill and injure the enemy.
Sometimes he defeated the enemy's attacks more than a dozen times in a day and night, and stubbornly held his position.
After the Battle of Songhu, Hu Lian was promoted to commander of the 199th Brigade of the 67th Division.
The next year, Hu Lian followed his troops to southern Jiangsu to launch guerrilla warfare, severely attacking the enemy.
Qiu Xingxiang, the leader of the 401st regiment of his troops, went straight to Yang and Yixing areas, and headed directly to Zhangzhu on the border between Jiangsu and Zhejiang, threatening the traffic of the Japanese invaders' Shanghai-Nanjing railway.
In June 1938, Hu Lian's headquarters was located in Jiuhua Mountain. He personally went to the frontier positions to learn about the situation and found that the Japanese invaders were building bunkers in various parts of the river bank and had heavy troops to guard them.
In order to cooperate with the naval special forces to lay mines on the Yangtze River, he led the enemies in the strongholds along the route away.
One day, Hu Lian commanded his troops to suddenly attack the enemy's stronghold, forcing the enemy to relax patrol along the river. Navy special forces disguised as "boatman" and "fishermen" took the opportunity to lay mines on the river.
One night, Hu Lian sent another unit to assault the enemy bunker. The Japanese invaders could not understand the reality of the Chinese army and dared not attack. The naval special forces once again laid water mines on the river.
Under the cover of Hu Lian's army and other troops, the Navy's special forces sank more than 60 Japanese ships on the surface of the Yangtze River, Anhui and Ganjiang River within one year.
In 1939, Hu Lian led his troops to Hunan to participate in the first battle of northern Hunan and was promoted to deputy commander of the 11th Division of the 18th Army.
On May 21, 1940, after the commander of the 11th Japanese Army, Guanyuanbu and Ichiro occupied Xiangyang, they passed through Yicheng, Nanzhang and headed straight to Yichang.
The 11th Division was ordered to rush to Dangyang, Hubei from Changsha. At the end of May, the 11th Division completed the construction of fortifications in Dangyang. The division commander Fang Jing warned at the battle meeting: "Dangyang Changbanpo was where Liu Bei broke Cao Cao during the Three Kingdoms. If Dangyang was lost in this battle and Yichang was not protected, the Japanese invaders would suffocate us to the southwest. The critical moment of life and death in the country has come. Our division must be Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun, so that the Japanese invaders will never return."
Hu Lian continued: "We must think about the way Zhang Yide made a big fuss in Changbanpo, and the Japanese devils he killed were not left."
On June 9, the Japanese invaders attacked the 11th Division's position in a crazy manner. The two sides fought repeatedly in the Jiushanzi Highland northwest of Dangyang.
Hu Lian personally led the 31st Regiment to reinforce and sent another small force to capture the enemy's backbone. The enemy was afraid of being surrounded and retreated in a hurry. Fang Jing and Hu Lian fought fiercely with the Japanese invaders in Dangyang for a week, which severely damaged the enemy.
Retreat to the mouth of the Grand Gorge and fight against the Japanese invaders in the Fengdong River area.
On May 25, 1943, after the German and Japanese invaders occupied the key pass of Yuyang Pass on the Hunan-Hubei border, they crossed the Qing River to approach the Shipai Fortress; the main force of the Japanese 39th Division, led by the enemy chief Takagi Yoshino, invaded Shipai Fortress from the south along the Yangtze River.
Shipai is an important river defense fortress in the western part of the Yangtze River and Hubei. If Shipai is lost, the Japanese invaders can directly spy on Sichuan and their power is shaking the southwest. The military authorities of the Republic of China government believe that "Shipai Fortress is China's Destalingrad" and strictly ordered the troops to guard Shipai Fortress at all costs.
After receiving the mission, Hu Lian led all the soldiers of the army to worship the world, vowing to live and die with the fortress, ready to die at any time.
The Husbands' artillery and tank weapons were excellent, so they should not fight hard, but could only be taken by wisdom.
Based on the undulating mountains and terrain in the fortress area, he used favorable terrain to defeat the enemy and was not good at mountain combat, seized the opportunity and annihilated the stubborn enemy.
He hid his main force in the fortress in the southeast, Beidou Chong area, leaving only the divisional organs and some forces to defend the fortress.
On May 27, the 29th enemy, and part of the 34th Division launched an attack on Beidou. When the enemy advanced to a valley surrounded by mountains, with an order, the 11th Division troops suddenly surrounded the enemy from all directions, killing sounds shook the sky, and the enemy suffered heavy casualties.
The next day, the enemy continued to attack. When the troops approached the hill of the position, he commanded the troops to fight bayonets with the enemy. When the enemy charged and repaired and replenished, he organized troops to counterattack and regained the hill occupied by the enemy.
He used a combination of defense and offensive tactics to hold his position. On the third day, just as the battleground was in full swing, Chen Cheng, commander of the Sixth War Zone, called Hu Lian to ask "Are you sure to defend the position?" Hu Lian replied firmly: "Although you are not sure about success, Cheng Ren is indeed determined."
In the Battle of Shipai Fortress, the 11th Division annihilated more than 1,000 Japanese invaders, causing the enemy to fail to occupy Shipai Fortress, ensuring a great victory in western Hubei. In this battle, Hu Lian was awarded the Blue Sky and White Sun Medal and promoted to deputy commander of the 18th Army.
In 1944, Hu Feng was transferred to the Chongqing attendant's office to join the army, and a few months later he became the commander of the 18th Army.
In May 1945, the Japanese army concentrated about 200,000 troops from six divisions to attack the Xuefeng Mountain area in western Hunan, pointing to the Zhijiang Air Force Base in western Hunan, in an attempt to open up the Hunan-Guizhou channel and attack Guizhou.
Hu Lian led the 18th Army to participate in the Battle of Xuefeng Mountain in defending western Hunan.
On June 13, after Hu led his troops to Xipu, he learned in detail about the plan, battlefield situation of the battle; enemy numbers, numbers, characteristics and trends; and situations of various friendly forces.
In June in western Hunan, the climate is hot and the roads are rugged, and the soldiers are struggling to march. Based on the local characteristics of hot days and cool nights, he asked the troops to rest at noon, accelerated the march at night, and finally arrived at their destination in advance.
Immediately commanded the divisions and the regiments to attack the Japanese stronghold. At dusk on the 17th, the only transportation line for the Japanese invaders to attack western Hunan was cut off, and the Fourth Front Army was divided and annihilated by the besieged enemy.
Japan surrendered in August 1945, and Hu Lian's 18th Army accepted the surrender of the Japanese army in Hengyang area of Changsha.
Xun Huaizhou still respects generals like Hu Lian. No matter what, these people are heroes on the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War and are indeed worthy of respect from others.
Therefore, Xun Huaizhou still hopes to capture these people this time, rather than killing them.
He did not want to leave any regrets for the subsequent Anti-Japanese War.
After entering the preset position, Xun Huaizhou led the special operations squadron to inspect the terrain in detail on the spot, and repeated deductions with Zhou Gangshan, Hong Tianqiang and others, and then booked several ambush locations.
Among them, Zhou Gangshan led the third and fourth teams were responsible for capturing the artillery troops. Xun Huaizhou repeatedly emphasized that before the enemy artillery troops were launched, a raid should be launched immediately to capture the enemy artillery troops and seize all artillery equipment.
Because Xun Huaizhou knew that the current weapons and equipment of the 11th Division could be regarded as the most excellent in the Chinese army. He was very jealous of these weapons and equipment, especially artillery equipment.
Hong Tianqiang was responsible for leading the Second Team to ambush the enemy's logistics forces and try to capture logistics communications and health personnel.
Xun Huaizhou himself led the first team to ambush the command post of the First Division.
Now the members of the special operations squadron are wearing four-color camouflage uniforms specially made according to the standards for Xunhuaizhou. Although due to the limitations of conditions, they cannot achieve the effects of waterproof, fireproof, cold and infrared protection in later generations, but they are used on the current battlefield with obvious effects.
Now, the entire Red Third Front Army's clothing has been dyed and has the prototype of a four-color camouflage uniform. Of course, due to the limitations of conditions, it is far less exquisite and realistic than the camouflage uniforms worn by the special operations squadron members.
The Special Forces Squadron entered a lurking state from 2 a.m. on January 1, 1935.
Starting from three in the morning, other hidden troops of the Red Third Front Army have begun to arrive at the battlefield one after another and enter the ambush site.
By six o'clock in the morning, all the industrial warfare troops had already entered the preset ambush land and were ready for battle.
Xunhuaizhou lurked under a large rock on the preset ambush land and observed the outside through the observation hole.
Seeing that the soldiers in the distance could enter the ambush point without disturbing the surrounding environment, Xun Huaizhou was still quite satisfied.
The troops baptized by war are different. Xun Huaizhou thought about the casual style of the general troops he saw in later generations, and compared with the strict discipline of the troops he is now, it is really one by one.
Su Yu led the personnel from the Red Third Front Army's front command to the predetermined location at five o'clock in the morning.
Su Yu set up the front command post in a hidden cave in the mountain behind the mulberry silt between the mulberry silt and Hengkengkou. The battlefield was only more than three miles away, which was really far ahead.
As soon as he entered the battlefield, the communications soldiers quickly set up telephone calls with the positions of each regiment headquarters, and Su Yu was learning about the lurking situation of each regiment one by one.
Chapter completed!