Chapter 16: Advance and retreat (three)

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Han Fuju naturally knew that Liu Zhen's army would not arrive. In front of Li Yanling, he said this to him, so he would first give him the impression of having support. At that time, the support would not arrive, and the troops would find a suitable excuse to be forced to retreat.

Han Fuju and Li Shuchun, one of them sings blushing and the other sings blushing. The purpose was to make Li Yanling, Li Wenbin and others understand through explicit or secret instructions: the occupation of Fei County was caused by Ma Hongkui's troops' arbitrarily angering the guards; the failure to suppress the bandits was caused by Liu Zhennian's troops' disobedience and failure to arrive in reinforcements. In this way, Chiang Kai-shing's Central Army suffered heavy losses and was difficult to find an excuse to attack Han Fuju.

After the others left, Han Fuju sighed to Li Shuchun: "Yinxuan, I never thought it was so powerful that I heard about how powerful the guards were. After the attacks in the past two days, I have seen the opponent's combat power. It is better to see it at first sight than to hear it. Not to mention anything else, just in terms of firepower configuration and control of fighter jets, it is not comparable to our current troops."

Li Shuchun was also surprised by the combat power of the guards, but still comforted: "These troops are not our old foundation at the moment. If Chairman Han transferred the 20th Division of the old troops, the situation would definitely be different."

"Even if the 20th Division comes, the situation may not be much better." Han Fuju knew it in his heart and shook his head and sighed, "This area is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and artillery cannot be transported. We are in a state of attacking on the back. If we change to other troops, we will not be much better."

"If we had known this, we should have Ma Hongkui lead people to attack here." Li Shuchun said with some regret, "The west side can transport artillery along the road from Fei County to Teng County."

"Don't think it's easy to fight in the west. The Guards also have artillery, and I heard that it is one of the few heavy artillery in China with a caliber. Ma Shaoyun can transport artillery, and the Guards can transport artillery." Han Fuju smiled proudly, "When we come here, we can command Chen Yaohan and Wang Jun's people nearby. Compared with the two hatchbacks, it's better to go here."

After thinking about it, Li Shuchun also smiled and nodded and replied: "That's true."

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Han and Li killed people on the eastern front, using the guards to weaken the strength of Wang Jun and Chen Yaohan's central army in Shandong. Wang and Chen and Chen learned that their troops suffered heavy losses on the front line, and listened to Li Yanling and Li Wenbin's explanation of the consequences of this battle. They all felt that although Shandong was rich, the forces here were complicated, and the battles of various masters were too deep and too muddy. They were not a good place, so they each had the intention of adjusting defenses elsewhere. Wang Jun sent someone to find the old commander Zhu Peide to clear the situation, while Chen Yaohan looked for his boss Xia Douyin and Zhu Shaoliang to clear the situation, hoping to get out of Shandong's quagmire as soon as possible.

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The battle was so difficult on the eastern and southern fronts, and Ma Hongkui's troops were not much better on the western front.

Ma Hongkui was still confident when leading his troops to advance to Fei County. When Ma Hongkui thought about attacking the Guards for a few years and building the Yimeng Xinlai defense line like an iron barrel, the troops of him and Han Fuju and others were definitely not enough, but using these forces to attack the Fei County area, which had just occupied for about 10 days, was still sure. Moreover, he brought all the artillery regiments this time, and there was no big problem with pushing them to Fei County. Although Ma Hongkui had thought about the Guards having heavy artillery, not to mention whether the Guards would be those big guys, it would not be possible to solve the problem of the Guards crossing Mengshan to Fei County. So Ma Hongkui only flashed through his mind about the heavy artillery of the Guards.

According to common sense, Ma Hongkui was not wrong, but he didn't know that the communication situation in the area controlled by the guards was no longer the same as before.

Under the leadership of Zhao Zhenzhong, the guards began large-scale construction of internal roads after occupying Mengyin and other places in 28 years. In more than three years, the guards not only built the highway between Mengyin and Yishui, Yiyuan and Xintai, as well as the secret passage to Feixian, but also built a winding mountain road on the north side of Mengshan, so that the rubber-tree vehicles could directly reach Guimengding, the highest peak of Mengshan Mountain. According to Zhao Zhenzhong's plan, Zhang Mingrui, who was responsible for the defense of Mengyin County, built strict fortifications on Mengshan Mountain, and even set up artillery positions in the Guimengding area.

It is precisely because of the convenient access of the Guards' base and the passage to Fei County. In addition, more than a thousand good horses were seized from Ma Hongkui's cavalry regiment before that Gao Fengxue and others were able to pull the artillery regiment under the Mengyin Division to the Chengguanshe area.

On this side of the Western Front was Jiang Yishan, Yu Dehai and others, with a brigade of the Special Forces Brigade, and many new recruits to fight. Considering the many new recruits here and the insufficient firepower, Gu Haichuan and others transferred 105 caliber heavy artillery from the heavy artillery brigade to 12mén, and the more than 40mén mortars temporarily distributed to each battalion were enough to cause a destructive blow to Ma Hongkui's troops.

What's even more amazing is that after Zou Degui and Han Tiezhu investigated the plan, with Gu Haichuan's approval, he actually found a way to put the 12mén155-caliber long-range cannons of the heavy artillery brigade on the artillery position on the top of Mengshan Mountain. The range of these big guys was more than 17 kilometers on the flat ground, and bombarded at a height of more than 1,000 meters above sea level. The range of the shè can reach more than 20 kilometers, which has completely brought the Feixian County and its west road to Tengxian under the artillery fire. In this era, the Feixian County, which is the area of ​​Pingyi County in later generations, is less than 20 kilometers away from Mengshan.

The last time they did not attract all the troops and horses of Ma Hongkui to annihilate, which made Gu Haichuan and others very regretful. This time they put in a lot of effort to keep Ma Hongkui's troops invading Fei County.

When Han Fuju's command headquarters launched an attack on the eastern front, Ma Hongkui and Ma Quanliang also commanded more than five regiments of troops to attack the position of the escort army in person.

Although Ma Hongkui wanted to avenge his previous revenge, he did not lose his mind. After discussing with Ma Quanliang and Ma Tengjiao, he also used a small force to test the opponent's firepower arrangement on the first day. However, there were special combat brigades here, and nearly 3,000 veterans in the teaching brigade commanded more than 10,000 new recruits. Ma Hongkui and others could not get any advantage by using the advantages of terrain, firepower, etc.

At noon the next day, Ma Hongkui saw that several consecutive charges were shot in the morning, he gritted his teeth and said to Ma Quanliang: "Let Jin Zhongren's artillery regiment fire at the opposite position!" Ma Quanliang agreed and asked someone to convey the order.

Ma Hongkui's artillery regiment consists of 6mén Shanghai-made 75-caliber mountain cannons assigned by Lao Chiang, including 8mén 75-caliber mountain cannons seized from the Jinsui Army in the war last year. This regiment has always been regarded as a treasure by Ma Hongkui, but now in order to attack the escort army, the Chief Ma has taken out his old background.

After receiving the order, Jin Zhongren did not dare to neglect and hurriedly ordered: "Li Jingxing, Ma Chi, Xu Chengming, you three asked your brothers to prepare. After the gun test and the ballistics were corrected, all the guns were fired together! Xu Chengming was responsible for this gun test."

The three subordinates quickly agreed and prepared to go.

Soon, the 14mén mountain cannon was adjusted, and Xu Chengming commanded a mountain cannon to conduct a test, and corrected the ballistic under the guidance of the dispatched artillery observer.

As soon as Ma Hongkui fired a cannon, the combatants on the escort position entered the anti-aircraft fortifications built shortly after the platoon leader of the company and platoon leader. The artillery fire that lasted fortifications fortifications lasting for more than 10 minutes did not result in greater results except for the casualties of some escort soldiers who did not evade in time.

After hearing the casualties sent back by the battalions through field phones in the Western Front Command Post, Yu Dehai breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Fortunately, this round of artillery just now only caused more than 10 casualties to us. Yishan, should we ask Tiezhu and their heavy artillery to fight back and knock down the opponent's artillery position?"

"Since Ma Hongkui plays cannons with us, then we will play a big game with them." Jiang Yishan thought about it, shook his head and said, "After a while, when the opponent launches another attack and we repel it, we will use the cannons. We not only need to knock out the opponent's artillery position with heavy cannons, but also extend the artillery fire to attack it in depth. At the same time, we concentrate dozens of mén mortars in our hands and attack it from both sides of the enemy."

"The order is to use the special combat brigade and the teaching brigade as the backbone, and with the help of many new recruits, to carry out a comprehensive counterattack to the enemy's positions along the passage plowed by artillery fire! We must make Ma Hongkui hurt his muscles and lie on his back for a year and a half!"

"Are you going to advance the barrage that Mr. Shi said?" Yu Dehai's eyes lit up, and then he grinned, "The people from the Special Forces Brigade have practiced this subject, but the teaching brigade and most recruits may not be able to complete such combat operations for a while. Besides, if you use so much artillery fire, aren't you afraid that "Shopkeeper Zou" will say you are losing your family?"

"It is to let the 1,400-person brigade of the Special Forces Brigade be the pioneer, the teaching brigade and the recruits follow up, and further polish the various units through actual combat." Jiang Yishan's purpose is clear, "As for using these artillery fire, as long as it can knock down Ma Hongkui's troops, it is impossible for 'Shopkeeper Zou to praise me for being worth the deal."

Yu Dehai was happy: "Okay, I'll make arrangements!"

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Ma Hongkui on the opposite side was overjoyed when he saw that there was no movement on the guard position after the shelling, and hurriedly said to Ma Quanliang: "I guess the casualties of the bastards on the opposite side will not be small this time. I ordered all the troops to take this opportunity to make every effort to advance!"

Ma Quanliang then conveyed Ma Hongkui's order to various departments.

So, except for artillery, the remaining infantry and cavalry of Ma Hongkui's army began to rush towards the guard positions. Just as Ma Hongkui observed through a telescope that his vanguard troops had approached within a hundred meters of the opponent's position. He thought the overall situation was scheduled, but more than 30 heavy machine gun fire points suddenly appeared on the opposite position, forming a firepower network at the forefront of his position.

Seeing his subordinates lying on the way to charge, Ma Hongkui seemed to be punched hard in his heart. In shock and anger, his eyes turned red and he shouted desperately: "Architecture! You want architecture! Let Jin Zhongren shoot all the shells out!"

Ma Quanliang hesitated and said, "Commander-in-chief, these brothers have not yet withdrawn."

"Then let Jin Zhongren prepare first!" Ma Hongkui said angrily.

"Yes! I'll make arrangements!" Ma Quanliang didn't want to touch Ma Hongkui's bad intentions now, so he quickly agreed.

However, before Ma Quanliang could pass the order to the artillery regiment, the 12mén105-caliber heavy artillery commanded by Han Tiezhu began to pour out anger on Jin Zhongren's artillery position.

The 75-caliber mountain cannon of Ma Hongkui's unit has a range of only about 6 kilometers and the shell weight is about 6 kilograms; while the maximum range of the 105-caliber Krupp howitzer shell of the Guard's 105-caliber Krupp howitzer shell is 11 kilometers away, and the shell weight is about 16 kilograms. In other words, Ma Hongkui's artillery regiment is completely at a disadvantage and is not the same order of magnitude as the artillery fire of the Guard's army.

When Ma Hongkui heard the whistling of shells that were different from his 75 mountain cannons, he was stunned at first. When he realized that he had already come, his position was already shaking. Listening to the roar of heavy artillery outside and the unique roars of many mortar shells mixed in, Ma Hongkui only felt his mind blank.

"Commander-in-chief, retreat quickly! It will be too late!" Ma Quanliang saw that Ma Hongkui was lost, so he came to him and shouted loudly.

"What did you say?" Ma Hongkui came to his senses and asked hoarsely.

"Jin Zhongren just reported that the 14mén artillery of the artillery regiment had been blown up; the other party extended the heavy artillery fire to us; there were also many mortars attacking on both sides; the enemy on the opposite side had already advanced towards us with the shells. If it didn't retreat, it would be too late!" Ma Quanliang finished the situation anxiously, and then regardless of whether Ma Hongkui was angry or not, he pulled him up with the guards and ran out.

After a group of people rode on their horses, they rode along the road leading to Teng County.
Chapter completed!