Section 35 Battle in Dongguan (1)
(Speed and quality are really a contradiction. The speed has increased recently, but I found that there are many flaws left. For example, the germ of the Sun Yat-sen Society was not explained, and some explanations were unclear in military deployment. All of these must be found later.)
The Dongjiang area has rivers and hills that are undulating, which is conducive to defense. There are two roads to go to Dongjiang from Guangzhou. One is the northern line through Boluo-Heyuan-Wuhua; the other is the southern line through Jiulong-Tanshui-Pingshan-Haifeng-Shantou; these two roads are the best way to attack Dongjiang.
The three-line battles in the north, central and southern fronts formulated by the Military Commission of the Base Camp were actually two lines. The reason was that the central and southern fronts were divided into Dongguan, and the Gui army on the central front passed through Dongguan and attacked Huizhou; the Guangdong army on the southern front and the Jiao army on the southern front passed through Dongguan and attacked along the Guangjiu line until Shenzhen, and then turned around and entered Tanshui (now changed to Huiyang). On the one hand, it threatened Huizhou from the south, and on the other hand, it could enter Pingshan (now renamed Huidong), Haifeng, and Lufeng; the starting points of the central and southern fronts were in Dongguan. The capture of Dongguan was the first battle in the eastern expedition.
The deployment of Chiang Kai-shek's attack on Dongguan was to start with the Guangdong Army Zhang Mingda Division on the front line of Shilong Shitan to attract reinforcements from Chen's army in southern Dongguan. Then, taking advantage of our army's water advantages, the school army launched landing in the Humenzhai area, and implemented two-sided attacks on Dongguan from the south.
Sure enough, the main force of the Dongguan defender was attracted to the front of Zhang Damin's division. The Second Regiment took the opportunity to land near Baisha on the 30th, and then the First Regiment landed in Beizha. As the first landing force of the school army, Zhuang Jihua Company quickly seized Baisha and built a defensive position in Niutouling outside Baisha Town. The entire process was not fired. Then the various units of the Second Regiment successively entered Baisha.
On the 31st, Wang Bailing held a combat meeting with officers above the company in Baisha. The officers were very excited after meeting. The landing battle was unexpectedly successful, which suddenly increased everyone's confidence and their admiration for Chiang Kai-shek was beyond words.
Although Zhuang Jihua is the same as everyone else, he is a young man. Except for Li Anding, the fifth company of the Second Battalion, the others are all district captains in the former military academy. So they got together habitually. Li Anding kept praising the principal's wisdom. Zhuang Jihua casually "praise". In fact, when he first heard this deployment, Zhuang Jihua thought about the famous movie that he watched when he was a child, which seemed to be attacking the north and south. He had an opinion on this deployment. According to the enemy situation, there were not many enemies in Dongguan, at most one regiment. After the school army landed, it would be better to directly penetrate Liaobu and Changping, and cut off the retreat of the Dongguan defenders. Although this deployment was clever, it was too cautious to achieve the purpose of annihilation of Dongguan defenders.
Of course he would not say it. Now he thinks this deployment is good for him, because he already feels threats from Wang Bailing. Since his departure, the 7th Company has been the vanguard of the Second Regiment, the first unit to board the ship, the first unit to arrive at the assembly site Baisha, and it is very likely that the first unit to launch an attack on Dongguan.
Sure enough, Wang Bailing announced that the attack route of the Second Regiment was passed through Baihao, Wuqiao, Chiwangpu, and Fanzaitang. The attack sequence was that the Third Battalion was at the front, the Second Battalion was cover on the right wing, the regiment headquarters and the First Battalion followed, and the Seventh Company was the vanguard of the entire regiment. After that, in order to express his fairness, Wang Bailing also specifically emphasized that the training of the Seventh Company was the first in the entire regiment, putting the strongest company on the tip of the knife, hoping that the Seventh Company would set an example for the entire regiment. Zhuang Jihua naturally wanted to express his determination to live up to the expectations of the regiment commander and resolutely fight the first battle. Not only did he eliminate the enemy, but he also had to show the prestige of our school and take Dongguan. In fact, he judged in his heart that there was no tough battle on the way, and it would be zero casualties. Wang Bailing was not able to understand the strategy and could not be able to mess with people.
Battalion Commander Wang Jun was afraid that Zhuang Jihua would be in a mood, so he kept giving Zhuang Jihua peace of mind with Zheng Dongguo on the way back. However, Zhuang Jihua said to Wang Jun indifferently that I was very happy to be able to play the striker. Please rest assured that the battalion commander, I promise to bring you a series of good news. Back to the company, the attack sequence arranged by Zhuang Jihua was the first to Hu Zongnan platoon, followed by Song Xilian and ended with Du Yuming. The company team followed Song Xilian platoon.
As expected, we still kept shooting. Our troops occupied Baihao; no enemy troops were found; an hour later, our troops occupied the Five Bridges, but no enemy troops were found; Zhuang Jihua's company's good news was passed to the battalion headquarters one by one, and to the regiment headquarters. Battalion Commander Wang Jun then understood why Zhuang Jihua said that he would guarantee a series of good news came, and it turned out that there were no enemies along the way. However, Zhuang Jihua's speed was too fast, and Wang Jun couldn't help but urge the eighth company that followed him to speed up the marching speed.
Outside Longwangbu, the 7th Company encountered the blocking position of Chen Jun for the first time. After hearing Hu Zongnan's report, Zhuang Jihua quickly ran to the front from behind. Hu Zongnan's platoon had already scattered and hidden behind a small mound. Zhuang Jihua lay on the mound and looked at the opposite side. There were sixty or seventy people on the hill opposite. It seemed that the other party had discovered them. Zhuang Jihua observed for a while, then called the three platoon leaders over and told his arrangements. Hu Zongnan's platoon attacked from the front, Song Xilian's platoon launched an attack from the left, Du Yuming's platoon was on standby, and the machine guns followed Hu Zongnan's platoon. Du Yuming's boss was unhappy, but he was a scheming person, but he didn't show his face.
(I have to add the equipment of each company of the teaching regiment. The teaching regiment is equipped with light and heavy machine guns, four machine gun companies and an artillery company with three mortars. There is a machine gun inside the company. This machine gun is a treasure. Under the command of the company commander, the company commander and the officers below the company are equipped with a shell gun, which is twenty sounds to supplement the insufficient firepower. In addition, each company is equipped with several flower machinery produced by the Ishii Arsenal. In Zhuang Jihua's view, this flower machinery is a later submachine gun or his prototype. However, he was not a military fan in his previous life, and he did not know it. However, the range of this flower machinery is very short, only 300-400 meters, which is far less than the 1,000 meters of a rifle, but melee combat is a good thing.)
After the troops were in place, Zhuang Jihua fired a shot into the sky, Du Xiaoshan blew the charge, Cao Yuan stood up, waved his shell gun and shouted: "Comrades, rush!" Then he rushed out, and Hu Zongnan shouted: "Brothers, come with me."
Driven by the two, the soldiers charged forward one after another, but Zhuang Jihua did not move, but just stood there to observe the situation of the team's charge. At this time, there was a shout from the left, and Song Xilian also took the lead in launching the charge.
"Guangting, look, do you find any problems?" Zhuang Jihua asked Du Yuming next to him.
Du Yuming looked carefully and said, "It seems different from the attack formation during training, and it is a bit messy."
"Damn it, it's not just a bit messy, it's just a mess. Can you tell the attack formation?" Zhuang Jihua said a little annoyed: "There is also Hu Zongnan who is brave enough to be brave, but what about the machine gun he sent to him? Where is it used? Song Xilian is the same. If the firepower is not organized well, you will know to rush up."
"Also, our offense is too far away and should be closer."
"How about I bring people up." Du Yuming suggested immediately.
"Hand itchy?" Zhuang Jihua glanced at him: "I don't know what you think, let's see what mistakes they made first. You can summarize them carefully. When you send you on, you will rush up like this in a mess, and you can become a soldier."
A row of guns sounded from the opposite side, Zhuang Jihua's heart tightened, and he looked at Cao Yuan and Hu Zongnan rushing in front of him and immediately lay down, and then there was a crackling sound of gunfire. Song Xilian's side was the same, and the attack was blocked.
Zhuang Jihua looked at it for a while and pulled Du Yuming over and said, "I'll go up, listen, organize the firepower, go up from the paddy field on the right, and their troops are attracted to the front and left. Remember that they are baits, and you are the killer."
After saying that, Zhuang Jihua ran forward, rolled a few times before reaching the machine gunner's side, and shouted to him: "Come with me."
The machine gunner put away his gun and moved the position to a ridge on the right side, then set up the gun and fired it. Zhuang Jihua was commanding. He aimed at this shooting position from behind, the key was that he could cover Du Yuming's actions. The machine gun sounded again, and the enemy's firepower was suppressed.
At this time, Du Yuming led his troops to attack from the right side and found that he was attacked from three sides. A panic occurred in the enemy's position. Cao Yuan could see clearly in front and shouted: "Grout."
Then, a dozen grenades were thrown out in a row. Taking advantage of the smoke from the grenades, Cao Yuan jumped up again and shouted: "Roar!"
A dozen soldiers followed and rushed upwards. When Zhuang Jihua saw that the others were still lying there, he couldn't help but get anxious. He kicked up and said, "Get up, rush!" and then shouted at the soldiers lying there, "Brothers, follow me, rush!" Du Xiaoshan also blew the charge.
Seeing the company commander taking the lead in charge, more soldiers got up from the ground to charge, and then all the soldiers began to charge. The chaos on the enemy's positions became even greater. A few people began to run backwards, and then more enemies ran backwards.
When Zhuang Jihua rushed to the enemy's position, Du Yuming also came from the side. The retreating enemy was hit by his flank and collapsed faster. After rushing to the enemy's position, Zhuang Jihua stopped, Cao Yuan and Hu Zongnan led their men to continue chasing the enemy, and Song Xilian on the left did not stop either.
Zhuang Jihua observed for a while and saw the enemy retreating to the village. When the defeated soldiers were about to enter the village, more than a dozen enemies came out of the village and stopped the defeated soldiers. One of the people who looked like an officer commanded the enemies retreating to the entrance of the village to defend.
Zhuang Jihua felt a little confused. Why did he run out to command at this time? Isn’t it too late? Then he looked around and didn’t see the enemy ambush, so he ordered Du Xiaoshan to blow the trumpet and order the troops to continue attacking.
The efforts of the enemy officers quickly collapsed under the continuous attacks of Zhuang Jihua Company. Song Xilian was so angry that he chased the other party for four or five miles, and then he escorted seven or eight prisoners who could not run back.
After checking the results of the battle, the enemy left seven or eight corpses on the position, four or five along the way, five or six in the village, killing 18 enemies and capturing twenty-one. Zhuang Jihua calculated in his heart and wiped out half of the enemy. The results were pretty good. However, he was very dissatisfied with the enemy's fighting spirit. Only seven or eight people died on the position, and the position collapsed. This was too bad. It was not until this time that he realized that he was not afraid at all. He calmed down and felt a little disgusted when he saw the corpses and blood on the ground. So he quickly left.
After counting the results, he checked the casualties of his troops. One person was killed in the first row, one injured, and three injured in the second row. No casualties were killed in the third row. Zhuang Jihua went to see the injured soldiers. Fortunately, three of the four injured were slightly injured. Wu Ziniu told him that this injury would be cured for a few days, but the serious injury needed to be sent back to the rear for cultivation.
Zhuang Jihua now doesn't understand. Legend has it that Chen Jiongming's Guangdong army is not very good at fighting? Why are some people not as famous as they meet?
With questions, Zhuang Jihua interrogated several prisoners. It turned out that the troops here were going to withdraw, but because Zhuang Jihua's company advanced too quickly, there was no time. The village commander was their battalion commander, and the battalion commander was a local. Before retreating, he sent something home. Zhuang Jihua was so angry, Damn, he wanted to withdraw early, and he had to wait until I came before leaving. In anger, he left, leaving Cao Yuan alone to carry out prisoner education.
When the subsequent troops arrived, Zhuang Jihua had already taken his company to rest in the village, and the company was placed in the battalion commander's house. He and several platoon leaders made a summary here. Forget the achievements, it was mainly to summarize the shortcomings. Several platoon leaders began to recall their arrangements when the attack was launched. What else could Du Yuming say? Hu Zongnan and Song Xilian found that they did nothing. The only thing they did was to attack forward, and the others... Zhuang Jihua didn't blame them, but just asked them to learn from their lessons. Of course, he was also learning from his lessons. He should not do anything like taking the lead in charge in the future. It was too dangerous.
At this time, Cao Yuan came back and told him a situation, which was the situation that eventually changed the course of the Eastern Expedition.
Chapter completed!