243 A thunder strike to Sun Lianzhong

A thunder strike to Sun Lianzhong

Sun Lianzhong's face suddenly turned ashen because of the war damage report in his hand...    .                                                                                                                 

Although he knew that such scolding could not reach the ears of the air pilot. However, after venting the anger in his heart, the division commander Sun Lianzhong stopped breathing. Yu Kong's command center frowned and walked around for a whole lot before he spoke to the chief of staff behind him.

"Chief of Staff, analyze from several bombing targets of the Ninth Group. I can be sure that the purpose of the Ninth Group Army dispatching the Air Force must be to leave us in Hengshui County. Now, their goal has been achieved: because their air bombing has delayed us in the city for an hour. Therefore, from now on, we must not drag it in the city. Otherwise, the 20,000 Northwest Army soldiers in our hands will be immediately surrounded by heavy troops of the Ninth Group Army.

He was able to serve as Sun Lianzhong's partner for a long time and was deeply trusted by Sun Lianzhong. The military command and analysis ability of the Chief of Staff were not inferior. Sun Lianzhong's small reminder directly made him react from his doubts. He firmly supported the battle report and map after only half a minute of analysis: "The teacher is wise..."

"According to the past, it is unimaginable to organize a ** artillery unit to participate in the battle of a battle of this scale. The Ninth Army in front of us not only dispatched artillery, but also dispatched the air force. If we spend so much energy to deal with us, if we just want to occupy Hengshui County, we will never bomb the city gate and prevent the troops from leaving the city... Since the Ninth Army Air Force has done this, there is only one possibility that the division seat said: block us in Hengshui County and eat us."

With the support of the Chief of Staff, Sun Lianzhong became more confident in his analysis.

After taking a deep look at the only remaining combat map of the command center, he continued to speak: "Although I don't know where the Ninth Army has arrived and how long it will take to reach Hengshui County. But one thing I can be sure of is that in order to evacuate Hengshui County for the remaining 20,000 soldiers in the division, we must immediately evacuate Hengshui County and move towards Shijiazhuang..."

Then, when he saw the report of the war damage, his face turned red with anger and turned red. He immediately became serious. He said to the Chief of Staff with a majestic order: "Chief of Staff, immediately issue the latest combat order to all brigades: the entire army, according to the scheduled retreat plan, immediately leave the city and retreat towards Shijiazhuang."

The time required by the command to truly reach various troops, Wang Guoli and others, was unknowingly, an hour passed.

After more than an hour of rapid march, Hengshui County's not-so-tall city wall finally appeared faintly within the vision of the 25th Division's Forward Battalion.

In the car compartment where Wang Guoli is located, the huge roar of the car engine covers almost all the sounds around him. However, the crisp sound of horse hooves that came to an abrupt end still clearly reached Wang Guoli's ears.

Wang Guoli, who looked anxious, just opened the car window, the figure of the cavalry correspondent appeared in front of him.

"Reporting the division seat, the Forward Battalion urgently reported: The troops have arrived at the periphery of Hengshui County..."

"Finally arrived, I ordered the vanguard battalion not to stop at any time, and quickly bypass the county town by marching in a hurry. Cooperate with the guard battalion that had arrived in the west of the city in advance, blocked Sun Lianzhong's troops in Hengshui County, and did not let go of a soldier..." The division commander Wang Guoli ordered decisively.

After receiving the order, the figure of the cavalry correspondent disappeared at the end of the road in the blink of an eye. Wang Guoli finally relaxed because he was worried that he would not be able to catch up with Sun Lianzhong. He turned around and asked Chief of Staff Xu Guangyi behind him.

"Old Xu, an hour has passed. The cavalry reconnaissance company has already traveled to the only way Sun Lianzhong has to pass west of the city. How many infantry has it carried? Can it block the breakthrough of Sun Lianzhong's troops..."

It turned out that after receiving the news that the Air Force was about to join the war, in order to gain enough time for him to surround Sun Lianzhong's troops as much as possible, and to avoid the possibility that Sun Lianzhong's troops would escape the air bombing and escape from Hengshui County by chance.

Wang Guoli directly used the time that the air force bombing might have bought for himself, and with the rapid maneuverability of more than 100 war horses in the cavalry reconnaissance company, he transported troops to the only way Sun Lianzhong would evacuate from Hengshui County. Once the air force interception operation failed, these troops would have to take on the heavy responsibility of blocking Sun Lianzhong's retreat.

In order to ensure the foolproof of the entire operation, the intercepting force designated by Wang Guoli was undoubtedly the strongest combat power of the entire division and the most precious guard battalion of Wang Guoli himself.

Facing Wang Guoli's gaze, Xu Guangyi answered without thinking: "The division seat, the first and two companies of the Guard Battalion, have reached the predetermined target. The third round of transportation of the Cavalry Company has already set off. This time, the mortar company directly under the Guard Battalion is brought to the battlefield. It is estimated that in ten minutes, the mortar company directly under the Guard Battalion will reach the battlefield. At that time, the troops blocking Sun Lianzhong Road will have two infantry companies, one artillery company, with a total of more than 400 people, and all of them are elite troops of the entire division..."

Hearing this, the division commander Wang Guoli became even more direct, and he breathed a sigh of relief directly in front of Chief of Staff Xu Guangyi. A rare smile appeared on his face and said with luck: "I'm relieved. As long as the Guard Battalion can last for half an hour from now on, the Forward Battalion can arrive at the battlefield to assist in the battle. At that time, even if Sun Lianzhong has wings, he will not be able to escape the misfortune of being surrounded by my 25th Division..."

When the three infantry brigades under Sun Lianzhong's troops faced the strict order of "military law handling", they braved the bombing of bombs from time to time in the air and quickly withdrew from Hengshui County. When the 25th Division's vanguard Battalion saw the Hengshui County wall, Sun Lianzhong's follow-up troops who were still defending the city wall, they also saw the vanguard Battalion of the 25th Division who was vanguard.

So, an urgent report that the 'Ninth Army' vanguard troops were already at the city' was quickly sent to Sun Lianzhong.

"The Ninth Army is indeed an elite force who has fought against the Japanese. Just by marching urgently, I, Sun Lianzhong, cannot compare with him. In such a short time, I was at the city... Chief of Staff, how many troops have we withdrawn so far..." After reading the telegram, Sun Lianzhong, whose face changed drastically again, did not hesitate, and asked in a deep voice.

"The Second Forward Brigade has all withdrawn from Hengshui County... The First Brigade is retreating, but because the bombing of the airplanes is too fierce, the progress of the retreat is not optimistic..." After quickly scanning the telegram sent by Sun Lianzhong, the Chief of Staff's brow suddenly frowned and replied with a ugly face.

"It's too slow. If the troops don't leave the city, the main force of the Ninth Army will be about to encircle the entire county town..." After looking at the fighter planes that kept whizzing through the air, the division commander Sun Lianzhong sighed and spoke.

Listening to the violent explosions at the city gate, the Chief of Staff, who had no idea how to answer, didn't know how to answer. A telegram was quickly handed over to the Chief of Staff. After quickly scanning the content of the telegram, the Chief of Staff's already solemn expression became gloomy. He spoke to the division commander Sun Lianzhong with a slight despair tone.

"Teacher, we are not going to be surrounded, but we are now surrounded by the Ninth Army. The Second Brigade reported that our only way to retreat was blocked by the Ninth Army. With just one round of attack, the Ninth Army blocked the troops and ate an elite infantry regiment of our Second Brigade in one breath..."

"What? The Ninth Army blocked the position in front of us, and had eaten one of our regiments... How could it be? Did the officers and soldiers of the Ninth Army have all grown wings? In just a few hours, we were ahead of us..." Sun Lianzhong, shocked, asked in an incredible look on his face.

As the first army to withdraw from Hengshui County, due to two rounds of air strikes in the front and back, the brigade had more than 5,000 people, after evacuating Hengshui County, there were less than 4,500 soldiers left.

Of course, if we can successfully withdraw from Hengshui County and get rid of the misfortune of being completely wiped out by the Ninth Army, even if we lose thousands of troops, it is no big deal.

More than 4,000 Northwest Army officers and soldiers, who were lucky enough to escape from danger as soon as possible and get rid of the harassment of the Ninth Army bombers in the air, completely forgot that the troops should keep at least cautious when they marched.

The second brigade, which had more than 4,500 people, was not even the most basic avant-gardes and vanguards. Along the highway, he rushed towards the direction where Shijiazhuang was.

The officers and soldiers of the 25th Division who stood in front of the Second Brigade were only more than 400. However, the identity of the guard battalion directly meant that they were more well-equipped than ordinary troops. The two infantry companies, plus the infantry platoon directly under the artillery company, were not only equipped with 23 light machine guns, but also equipped with more than fifty submachine guns.

Such a powerful automatic firepower ratio, coupled with the superb marksmanship and strong tactical qualities of the officers and soldiers of the guard battalion, it is certain that the combat effectiveness shown by these 400 people on the battlefield is definitely no worse than that of a regiment of the Northwest Army.

Of course, even so, with insufficient troops, with the force and equipment in hand, fighting with Sun Lianzhong's troops, can definitely last for half an hour until the main force arrives. However, after such a battle, the heavy casualties of the troops are absolutely indispensable.

It should be clear that the more than 600 guard battalions were selected from the more than 10,000 officers and soldiers in the entire division, and they were trained for a long time according to the training method of the special combat brigade. It can almost be called a sharp knife for the entire division, and one less hit. For such a treasure, not only battalion commander Huang Yuanbo was reluctant to give up, but also division commander Wang Guoli was reluctant to give up.

It is required to complete the blocking mission assigned by the division, and to a certain extent, reduce the casualties of the troops as much as possible. A huge idea quickly emerged in the minds of the guard battalion commander Huang Yuanbo.

Instead of blocking on the spot and fighting hard against the attacks of tens of thousands of elite troops of Sun Lianzhong's army, it is better to take the initiative and cut off one of his fingers unexpectedly. Use thunder to strike and catch the enemy off guard. Through a raid battle, the enemy was crippled and afraid, and the fight was so that he had no courage to continue to march forward in a short period of time...

The vanguard of the Second Brigade of Sun Lianzhong's troops, thousands of officers and soldiers surrounded the regiment commander and others. They ran all the way and quickly retreated towards Shijiazhuang. On both sides of the highway where they were located, more than 400 guard battalions were holding weapons and aiming the black muzzle at the enemy who was not at all alert on the highway.

"Battlehouse, an enemy battalion has entered the ambush position..."

"The battalion, the enemy vanguard regiment, have all entered the position..."

In a dense forest less than fifty meters away from the highway, Huang Yuanbo, the commander of the guard battalion, was holding a telescope and staring at the enemy's every move on the highway. After receiving the news, he put down the telescope and picked up a submachine gun next to him. After a brief aim, he shot the first bullet from the entire ambush at the only few people riding a war horse among more than a thousand officers and soldiers.

The gunshot is an order, with more than twenty light machine guns and more than fifty submachine guns. In the blink of an eye, an impenetrable bullet net was shot out on both sides of the highway, and from the outside to the inside, harvesting the enemies crowded on the highway layer by layer.

After experiencing the air strikes of the Ninth Army and successfully withdrew from Hengshui County, the ubiquitous air strikes of the Ninth Army have left a deep shadow on the officers and soldiers of Sun Lianzhong. Now, facing the dense strafing of bullets around him, when he saw his colleagues who were quickly cut to the ground by bullets. His terrified expression quickly appeared on the faces of these Northwest Army soldiers who were eager to escape.

"Ah... we are ambushed among us, the ambush of the Ninth Group. Everyone, run away quickly. Those who want to survive should run away immediately..."

"Secret, hide immediately, organize a counterattack on the spot..." The soldiers screamed in horror and the officers' screams quickly rang out on the short road.

In any case, facing such a sudden and dense firepower attack and short-term chaos were already destined for more than a thousand terrified Northwest Army soldiers.

Hundreds of officers and soldiers from the guard battalion knew a truth: 'Take your life while you are sick'. With the help of the chaotic scene in front of you, the densest bullets were used to continuously kill and attack the ambush circle, and fewer and fewer enemies were already in danger.

Rifles, submachine guns, and light machine guns, when they poured ammunition into the battlefield at their fastest rate of fire. The 9 82mm caliber mortars in the mortar company were not idle...

A round of nine mortar shells, like a fee, continued to land at the junction between the vanguard regiment and the follow-up troops with their fast firing rate. The shells were used to blow out a fire belt of more than 20 meters on the road, completely blocking the road for the follow-up troops of the Second Brigade to reinforce the vanguard regiment.

Although the vanguard regiment of Sun Lianzhong's troops had more than 1,000 people, after more than 1,000 people were dispersed evenly among the 400 guard battalion officers and soldiers, each of them was responsible for the task of annihilation of two to three enemies.

Annihilation of two to three enemies on the battlefield is easy for the officers and soldiers of the guard battalion who are invincible in shooting skills.

The automatic firepower of the guard battalion was equipped with a large amount of automatic firepower. With the suddenness and fierceness of its firepower, it achieved great results in killing at least one-third of the officers and soldiers of the vanguard regiment within just five seconds before the war. Ordinary infantry, with their superb shooting skills, shot one by one and one first round, hit more than two hundred officers and soldiers in the middle of the enemy's ranks again.

The battle losses one after another directly mean that more than 1,000 vanguard teams under Sun Lianzhong's troops had lost more than half of them before they could react from the panic of being attacked.

The enemy lost more than half of the enemy, and the subsequent reinforcements were unable to break through the defense line for reinforcements in a short period of time under the fire interception of the artillery company. As time went by, the victory balance of the entire ambush gradually began to shift significantly towards the direction where the guard battalion was located.

Without exception, those who can enter the division guard battalion are veterans who have experienced many bloody battles. With rich combat experience, with years of accumulation, these officers and soldiers have already developed the keen battlefield observation ability. As the victory balance begins to deflect to one side, everyone's morale has become increasingly higher and higher.

Accurate rifle bullets, dense submachine guns, light machine gun bullets... directly became the last straw that overwhelmed the remnants of the vanguard regiment and continued to resist stubbornly.

Seeing more and more comrades around him, the enemy's precise shooting skills on both sides of the road were directly shot. Because of the continuous attacks from the air force and the ground, the remnants of the vanguard regiment who had already lost their will to resist were thrown away their weapons and surrendered on their knees.

After reading the content of the emergency telegram of the Second Brigade, a complex expression of shock and despair quickly appeared on Sun Lianzhong's face. He asked incredibly: "In just five minutes, just five minutes, an elite infantry regiment of my Northwest Army was eaten. How did Li Guosheng's Ninth Army do it? How could he be so fast..."

After being shocked, at such a critical moment, Sun Lianzhong did not forget his dangerous situation. He ordered the Chief of Staff with a murderous order: "The loss of an infantry regiment, the Second Brigade has two infantry regiments. Tell the brigade commander of the Second Brigade to continue the attack with the remaining troops and immediately break through the defense line of the Ninth Army... If anyone is afraid, don't blame me for Sun Lianzhong for conducting military law."

Faced with this order, the Chief of Staff did not leave immediately, but quickly frowned. He reminded Sun Lianzhong, who seemed a little confused by the casualties in front of him.

"The teacher's seat calms down and I think we have lost the best time to break through the defense line of the Ninth Army..."

"Tell me your reasons..." Sun Lianzhong has always had great trust in his old partner Chief of Staff. He asked with a serious expression to the Chief of Staff.

"A main force was wiped out within five minutes, and the continuous harassment of the Ninth Army aircraft in the air. Our morale has been reduced to an unprecedented trough. Letting the Second Brigade continue its attack now is like a sheep entering the tiger's mouth. Not only can it not achieve any results, but it will waste its limited troops in a series of attacks without any meaning."
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