Chapter 61: The decisive battle in Anhui, Zhejiang and Jiangxi
Su Yu knew the burden on him well, so Xuncheng commander handed over the burden of the command of the front enemy to himself. On the one hand, he trusted and valued himself, and on the other hand, he really had more important things to do, so he had to put such a burden on himself.
Su Yu knew that he was still quite immature when using troops on such a large scale. However, Xun Chief was so young, but he seemed to be at ease in combat command of such a large corps.
Just like this combat plan, although it was drafted by me, the chief of staff, most of the details from the idea came from the mouth of the commander-in-chief, and I just improved and sorted it out.
And I can clearly feel that the Commander-in-Chief Xun is deliberately explaining the details in detail, with the purpose of carefully guiding myself so that I can get the opportunity to learn and exercise.
It is really a blessing to be able to partner with the Commander-in-Chief.
Even if this time, if the battle goals can be successfully achieved, then there will be too many things I have learned.
While thinking in his heart, Su Yu walked out of the command post, took two guards and entered the front line and began to inspect the preparations before the war.
Seeing that the soldiers were doing well in preparation, Su Yu felt very pleased. The reorganization method of finding the Commander-in-Chief is really good. These surrendered soldiers are increasingly showing higher military qualities.
At least the previous Red Army troops could not do such a standard for position construction. Now with the joining of these surrendered soldiers, the troops learned and helped each other and learned from each other, and the original old Red Army soldiers could immediately learn the basic requirements of these military exercises and do it in a solid manner.
It is really delightful to see the troops' tactical literacy continue to improve.
When Su Yu finished checking the position and returned to the command post, it was already past ten o'clock in the morning.
According to the latest information from the scouts, the enemy's vanguard was less than thirty miles away from the ambush circle.
Su Yu estimated that the enemy would spend lunch in Kaihua County and enter the ambush position around 3:00 p.m.
Only then will the battle begin, and the real test of the Red Third Front Army will come. I really hope that the battle will go smoothly.
In this way, the Third Red Army will become more and more prosperous and the road will become wider and wider, instead of leaving the Central Soviet Area like the original Red Seventh Army, walking for a few months, the road will become narrower and narrower and deader.
Shortly after Su Yu returned to the command post, he specially arranged to inspect the artillery positions. These artillery soldiers were treasures in the eyes of the commander-in-chief.
Looking at these more than twenty mountain cannons and dozens of 80 mm large-caliber mortars, Su Yu felt excited again.
This time, because we needed to move quickly, we did not bring several 105mm howitzers in the land seized, otherwise the firepower would be stronger.
When did our army have such powerful artillery firepower? With such powerful artillery firepower, what an advantage should it have in combat?
When Su Yu inspected the artillery position and returned to the division headquarters, it was already 1:00 pm, and the atmosphere in the command post became more and more tense.
The excellent combat staff members drawn from the 19th Division and the 20th Division, and the few outstanding staff members selected from the surrendered soldiers after careful investigation and screening, formed the current staff team of the Red Third Front Army. This was specially established based on the command of the general commander of the general.
Originally, our army did not pay special attention to the role of staff officers in combat. Even the former Red Seventh Army was probably because the commander of Xun Legion did not have much opportunity to play his talents at that time, so he did not have the opportunity to play the important role of staff officers in combat.
It’s different now. Before every battle, Xuncheng Commander-in-Chief has to lead the combat staff to repeatedly deduce.
In addition, the staff always have to come up with multiple plans, so in battle, they can often reduce the number of things that can be fooled by their freedom.
Now the combat staff of the command post are busy in front of the military map, marking the latest information sent back by the reconnaissance team on the map from time to time, so that decisions can make appropriate adjustments to the battle by keeping abreast of the overall situation of the battlefield at any time.
This method has been thought of by Commander Xun recently. I really don’t know what material is made of the short-sized young head of Commander Xun, who can actually come up with so many clever and practical methods and tricks.
The curtain of the Anhui-Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign was not opened first at Hengkengkou.
At around 2 p.m. on January 1, the 57th Division of the enemy had arrived at the west of Jingde County. As the Red Third Front Army supplementary regiment led by Zhou Zhidao fired the first blocking shot fifteen miles west of Jingde City, the curtain of the decisive battle of Anhui, Zhejiang and Jiangxi officially opened.
Although the Red Third Front Supplementary Regiment is mainly composed of local guerrilla armed forces and new soldiers, it has been supplemented by a large number of guns and ammunition, and the encouragement of the soldiers due to the continuous victory of the Red Army in southern Anhui, the morale of the entire regiment is now high.
Especially the regiment commander Zhou Zhidao, who, since he was captured and asked to join the Red Army, even he himself did not expect that he would be reused in such a short time.
He was also appointed as the commander of the first regiment. Although the supplementary regiment was a second-line unit, he was not vague in assembly and organization.
Xunhuaizhou used Zhou Zhidao as the leader of the supplementary regiment to make full use of his learning and mastering the regular military training methods when he was in the Kuomintang army, and combined with the training characteristics of the Red Army, to train these new soldiers as soon as possible.
At the same time, Xun Huaizhou also specially talked to Zhou Zhidao, hoping that he could find a set of experience in quickly training the army and would be promoted throughout the army in the future.
For this reason, Xun Huaizhou also specially exchanged many military training experiences and concepts with Zhou Zhidao in later generations. Zhou Zhidao felt that it was really profitable, and he was full of confidence in his ability to train a strong soldier.
Zhou Zhidao thought that although the above requested that he would only block the battle in this battle, and if he could not defeat it, he would run away.
However, the entire Red Third Front Army's supplementary regiment was determined to fight a beautiful battle and let the comrades from the main group see that our supplementary regiments are not vegetarians.
Even if you want to retreat, you have to bite a bite of meat from the enemy before you can leave.
With this idea in mind, the soldiers of the Red Third Front Army Supplementary Regiment fought very resolutely and bravely in the blocking battle west of Jingde City.
The powerful 57th Division, from 2:00 p.m. to dark, failed to break through the defense line of the Red Third Front Army's supplementary regiment.
Because he was afraid that the Red Army would form an encirclement on it at night, the 57th Division had to start building a defensive position on the spot in the evening and prepare to start the attack again tomorrow.
Just one hour after the fierce battle between the supplementary regiment of the Red Third Front Army in the West of Jingde City and the 57th Division, the Hengkengli Annihilation Battle officially started.
At around 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the 66th Regiment of the 11th Division of the enemy first entered the ambush. Although the entire operation of the 66th Regiment was very conservative, search teams were sent to search on both sides of the road. The conventional search team usually only searched for targets within 500 meters on both sides of the road.
Hu Lian, the commander of the 66th Regiment, was a very good man who was very good at leading troops and was known for his cautious use of troops. Therefore, he arranged for a search team to search within a range of 700 meters on both sides of the road.
However, based on later experience, Xunhuaizhou had long known the combat characteristics and style characteristics of the enemy's 11th Division, so he had long expected their search radius. Therefore, the ambush circle of the Red Third Front Army was completely placed on the mountainside 900 meters away.
It was not until the Sixty-Sixth Regiment searched for the road ahead and successfully passed that the troops moved from the new movement to the frontier position 300 meters away from the roadside.
The two regiments behind the 11th Division, because the Sixty-sixth regiments were clearing the way in front, were no longer prepared and almost swaggered into the ambush circle of the Red Third Front Army.
By the time the enemy's last guard battalions all entered the ambush circle, the 66th Regiment of the Forward was less than 500 meters away from the blocking point of the independent regiment of the Red Third Front Army of Lisangyu, and the search team had already passed the blocking point and entered the position of the Red Seventh Brigade's supplementary regiment.
The first shot of the battle was fired by the special forces team led by Xun Huaizhou. When the enemy division headquarters entered their ambush range, Xun Huaizhou commanded the special forces without hesitation, like a tiger pounced on food, and rushed straight at a speed of less than 200 meters away from his lurking point, without any defense. He was swinging his way.
Before the enemy could react at all, Xun Huaizhou led the special forces members to defeat an enemy guard company and successfully controlled the enemy division headquarters. Xun Huaizhou also used acupoints to capture many famous division commanders, Huang Wei and other regiment-level senior officials alive.
As the special forces members fired the first shot, more than a dozen mountain cannons and dozens of large-caliber mortars from the Artillery Battalion of the Red Third Front Army made waves of roar.
The overwhelming artillery shells suddenly fooled the officers and soldiers of the enemy's 11th Division. Such powerful artillery fire made them think that the artillery regiment of their brothers was practicing nearby.
It was not until the first shell hit their heads that they realized that this was not an exercise by the brothers, but a shell from the Red Army that was hit.
The troops immediately became chaotic. At this time, because the division headquarters had been destroyed, the entire 19th Division had lost its unified command and had to fall into a situation of fighting on their own in panic.
The 11th Division is also the most elite unit of the well-trained national army. In such a chaotic situation, the regiments can react more quickly. The regiments began to unfold on the spot, preparing to seize the commanding heights on both sides of the road.
However, when they realized that everything was too late, the Independent Regiment first quickly entered the position and sealed the bottom of the pocket. The search team, more than 200 people, were surrounded by the soldiers of the guard battalion of the Red Third Front Army and the chemical defense battalion who were the second position, and were soon wiped out or disarmed.
Chapter completed!