Predator Reborn

Chapter 21 Siege and call for reinforcements

Political Commissar Li Qing has been standing on the city tower looking into the distance with a telescope since Liu Hua left the county with the Second Regiment. He has been guarding the city tower like this. After hearing the gunfire for about two minutes, it subsided.

I know that the political commissar is now afraid of heavy casualties. The troops are in transition. If there are serious casualties, it will definitely slow down the marching speed and flexibility of the troops.

Hearing the gunfire that ended soon, the political commissar knew that his troops had won the victory, and the only thing he was worried about now was the casualties of his troops.

Soon, a team appeared in the distance and headed towards the county seat. Seeing that the troops had no stretchers, I finally let go of my nervousness and hurried down the tower to greet the division commander.

"Political Commissar, why did you come out of the city? What's the situation in the city now?" Li Qing couldn't help but be moved when he saw the teacher caring about him as soon as he met him.

"Commander, everything is normal in the county. How was the ambush battle? Did the troops suffer heavy casualties?" He was so moved that Li Qing immediately returned to the topic and asked quickly.

"Political Commissar, don't worry. The division commander personally took action. Are you still worried? In this battle, we were at full strength. We wiped out an entire enemy battalion and captured the entire battalion's equipment. Only a few of our soldiers were tripped and slightly injured during the charge.

Not killed in action." Second regiment commander Gao Yuan saw the political commissar's anxious look and quickly replied.

"Okay, okay, comrades, you are all good. Come on, come on to the city. The cooking class has bought some fat pigs and has already prepared lunch. They are waiting for you to return after the victory? Come on, come on to the city." Li

Qing said excitedly after hearing this.

"Political Commissar, through interrogating the prisoners, Liu Jianxu of the Hunan Army seems to have noticed that something is wrong in Xing'an County and has taken precautions." I decided that we will retreat at night. Let's discuss where to attack?

"Well, I have been here for a day and a night. It is time to leave. At the same time, it is also time to let the enemy know the existence of our independent division." Li Qing said to the division commander with a smile, and by the way spread out the captured Hunan

Army map.

Their eyes fell on Jinggang Mountain at the same time.

"Xiaolong, immediately notify several regiment leaders and cadres of the directly affiliated troops to come for a meeting." After discussing with the political commissar, the two decided to fight back to Jinggangshan to attract enemy reinforcements and reduce the pressure on the Central Red Army. If they want to return to Jinggangshan, they must

First capture the enemy's heavily defended town of Chaling.

"Comrades, I just discussed with the political commissar. In order to better contain the enemy's main force and reduce the pressure on the Central Red Army, we decided to fight back to the base area, inflict heavy losses on Chiang Kai-shek, and take the opportunity to encourage the guerrillas in the base area to persist in guerrilla warfare."

After hearing the words of the regiment leader, several officers immediately became excited and wanted to fight back to the base area. This was something they had always dreamed of since the beginning of the Long March. Now their division commander wanted to lead them back to the base area. Can they not be happy? Grab them all.

He said: "Commander, we will definitely inflict heavy losses on the enemy, Commander."

Looking at the several chief officers below who were eager to try, Liu Hua also smiled.

"Okay, since everyone is so confident, I now order the first regiment to be the vanguard of the entire division, with the reconnaissance platoon as the leader, and go straight to Chaling. When they arrive at Chaling, they will first surround the enemy, and then attack after the encirclement. No force attack.

There can be no casualties, you just need to put pressure on the enemy, let them keep asking for reinforcements, and let the artillery company follow you. The guard company of the new barracks, the first and second platoons of the reconnaissance company, the firepower camp, the baggage escort and baggage escort follow me, and the second regiment is in the rear.

The distance between the first regiment and the baggage train is ten miles, and the distance between the second regiment and the central army is five miles. After dinner, rest for an hour and set off at nine o'clock to attack Chaling."

"Yes, leader." Several people shouted in unison.

In the dark night, a group of soldiers, encouraged by the political commissar and others, ran panting. The soldiers of the artillery company were not willing to lag behind, driving their horses to follow closely behind the group.

After several hours of marching, I saw that the pace of the soldiers gradually became heavier. Lao Sun asked the soldiers to stop at the right time and changed from marching to ordinary marching. Just like this, after two rounds, it was almost dawn, and

The outline of Chaling has caught the eyes of Lao Sun and others.

"Now I order the second battalion to encircle and attack from the front, and the third battalion to encircle and attack from the back. The artillery company will immediately set up a position, obey my order, and carry out artillery bombardment. The first battalion will serve as a reserve." Lao Sun ordered calmly.

As a former commander and combatant, Old Sun could guess that his division commander should not only capture Chaling this time, because with his own regiment and the artillery company, he was fully capable of capturing only one regiment of the Central Army with relatively small casualties.

Defensive Chaling. However, the regiment leader did not ask for the capture of Chaling. He only asked for pressure on the enemy to ask for reinforcements. He must want to collect the reinforcements. Thinking of this, Lao Sunlu smiled unnoticed. It seemed that

A teacher is a teacher.

"The bombardment started. Following Lao Sun's order, the 12 mortars of the artillery company that had been preparing for a long time immediately spurted out tongues of fire. The 105th Regiment of the Central Army defending Chaling was in misery. When had they ever encountered such a situation?

Fierce artillery fire. After all, it was the Central Army. After losing some troops, it immediately began to make orderly defensive preparations under the leadership of its commander.

After Lao Sun guessed the division commander's intention, he didn't plan to use too many artillery shells. He only fired five shells per door and then stopped firing. Although he had enough artillery shells now, he couldn't waste it here.

As the bombardment was completed, the charge horn sounded, and the 23rd Battalion immediately launched a charge. However, as soon as they came into contact with the enemy and suffered casualties, they stopped. At this time, the mortar sounded again. After this bombardment, one zero

The commander of the fifth regiment couldn't stand it anymore, because he had lost a battalion of men and horses after the two shellings just now, so he immediately sent a telegram to his superior for help.

"Reporting to the division seat, the 105th Regiment sent an urgent message: About one regiment of the Communist Army is attacking Chaling with mortars. One battalion of troops has been lost. Requesting reinforcements."

"What? A regiment of the Communist Army. Where did these people come from? Didn't it mean that all the Communist troops on the east coast were wiped out? How did they come? Immediately send a message to the commander-in-chief to ask." 21 of the Central Army who were left in the Central Soviet Area

The division commander shouted.

"Sir Bai, it's bad. The commander of the 21st Division called us. A regiment of the Communist Army is attacking Chaling and asked if our regiment is the remnant of the Communist Army on the east coast."

"Isn't it just a regiment of the Communist Army? There are more than 10,000 people in the 21st Division. They are still afraid of the more than 1,000 people, so they immediately ordered the 21st Division to send a brigade of reinforcements to destroy this group."

At this time, Bai Chongxi didn't know what Liu Hua was thinking about plotting against him. It turned out that Liu Hua, as a later generation, knew that since the Central Soviet Area was occupied by the enemy, the enemy had only left four divisions of Bai Chongxi's department.

If you want to do anything, you must give these four divisions a blow to make the enemy afraid of you, so that you can develop better when you return to the base area in the future. And only Li Qing knows this plan.

"Report to the division commander, according to reconnaissance, the enemy has sent out a brigade from Anren, equipped with a mortar company and two heavy machine gun companies, with a total of about 3,500 people, and is heading towards Chaling. There are still about seven hours to enter Chaling.

"

"Well, political commissar, it seems that the enemy is coming, and we have something to do again, map." Liu Hua said to the political commissar with a smile.

At this time, Liu Huazheng, with nearly 3,000 troops from the new barracks and the Second Regiment, was parked five miles away from Chaling, waiting for the fighter plane to appear. At this time, the fighter plane finally arrived.

Looking at the road from Anren to Chaling on the map, their eyes fell on Mafujiang at the same time.

"Order the troops to march quickly, rush to Mafujiang, and build an ambush position, quickly." Liu Hua immediately ordered.

Mafujiang is about 10 miles away from Chaling. It took the independent division about an hour to get here. Seeing the terrain here, Liu Hua couldn't help but said: "God is really helping me."

The reason why this place is called Mafujiang is because the road here is located in a low valley. From a height, it looks like a river lying here. Looking at the nearly two kilometers long valley, Liu Hua was very happy.

"Convene a combat meeting immediately!"

"Comrades, you should all have seen my intention for this battle! It's not as simple as taking Chaling. I think there are still about four enemy divisions in the Soviet area. If we want to do anything in the future,

We must inflict heavy losses on the enemy, and today the opportunity has come. An enemy brigade is about to arrive. I decided to ambush the enemy here. I will use 3,000 troops directly under the second regiment and division to ambush and completely wipe out the enemy's brigade. Comrade

Do we have confidence?"

Liu Hua asked, looking at the eager battalion company commander below.

"Yes!" the cadres replied in unison.

"Okay, now I will arrange the combat mission. The guard company will be responsible for docking the tail and blocking the enemy's retreat after the battle begins. No one will be allowed to escape."

"Yes, resolutely complete the task." Bruce Lee stood up and saluted.

"Captain Gao, now I want you to organize the entire regiment's sharpshooters. Just one platoon will form a sniper company. Luo Wenhua will be the company commander. They will ambush on both sides of the position to specifically snipe the ground commanders and heavy firemen. Ask the enemy to use heavy machine guns to force them to attack.

Cannon fire cannot be fired."

"Yes, resolutely complete the mission," the deputy commander of the security company said with a salute.

"I will order the ambush sequence, which is the first battalion, the second battalion, and the third battalion. All the new battalions will be inserted into the three battalions. No one will distribute 5 grenades. After a round of machine gun fire, the bombs will be dropped collectively, and the bombs must be dropped as quickly as possible.

After the attack, all automatic firepower is deployed on the front line. It must inflict maximum damage on the enemy in the first time. Two companies of heavy machine guns are deployed together. Chen Guangrong, the shooting range must be clearly defined in advance. No blind spots can be left. Don't save bullets for me.

, as long as the enemy brigade is annihilated and there is plenty of ammunition, no charge is allowed without an order to avoid accidental damage, and it will be executed immediately."

"Yes" everyone roared in unison.

At this time, Liu Hua suddenly thought of something: "The first battalion commander will stay for a while."

"Captain Gao, I will give you the 3rd Platoon of the Reconnaissance Company. You must block the lead and defend the position to prevent the enemy from risking their lives to break through to Chaling. I will give you 3 machine guns from the supply camp to strengthen the blocking force.

Firepower, is there any problem?”

"Report to the division commander and resolutely complete the task."

Seeing Liu Hua organizing the tasks in such a short period of time, he sighed again, "Sir, everyone has a task, what are the two of us doing?" the political commissar said with a smile.

"Let's, haha, I'll go sniper, you and I don't know, haha, let's go." After saying that, he smiled and walked out regardless of the surprised look in the political commissar's eyes.