Section 5 Counterattack (1)
Guangdong and Guangxi sent a telegram across the country, and the Nanjing government immediately announced a forceful attack. Guangdong and Guangxi were not afraid of it. They had long gathered in Shaoguan. Dayu's Guangdong troops launched an attack on Jiangxi, while Guilin's Gui army launched an offensive to Hunan, and the vanguard troops occupied Yongzhou and Chenzhou.
However, their good luck ended here. He Jian, Hunan, who had been swaying between the two sides, began to become clear. The Central Army entered Hunan in a large scale. Chen Cheng was in charge of Changsha and commanded the two armies to seize Hengyang and cut off the northward road between Guangdong and Guangxi. The first army, the main force of the Guangdong Army, wandered on the border between Jiangxi and Guangdong and refused to act for a long time.
While doing military deployment, Nanjing also carried out large-scale public opinion propaganda and organizational deployment. Chiang Kai-shek decided to convene the Second Plenary Session of the Fifth Central Committee and ordered Guangdong and Guangxi not to act without authorization. The Central Daily News published a long article revealing that Guangdong and Guangxi had close ties with Japan, and that the Guangdong and Guangxi army were filled with a large number of Japanese instructors. The so-called anti-Japanese war was purely a sensationalist, and the purpose was to split the country and act as a pioneer in Japan's invasion of China.
The 800,000 troops from both sides confronted each other, and the whole country was attracted by the incident. The incidents in the southwest corner were quietly submerged in the news pile of news about the incident in Guangdong and Guangxi.
A winding road passes through the mountain. The dense forests on both sides are quiet. The fragrance of wild flowers is floating in the mountains. The laughter of birds comes from the depths of the woods from time to time. Quietness and tranquility fill this primitive mountain.
Since Huili was surrounded, the originally busy road at the foot of the mountain has become cold. Only the occasionally passing carriage can break the peace of the mountain. However, today, this quiet mountain is filled with a hint of mystery.
The little white dragon Fan Chunshen hid behind a rock and was motionless. He sat in a big cart covered with branches and trees, occasionally shaking the reins twice. They had more than twenty cars and about seventy or eighty people. They obviously walked a long way. Many soldiers were holding hats and fanned their guns and hung their guns on their shoulders casually. Fan Chunshen probably had no bullets loaded.
After more than a dozen cars passed, an officer appeared in Fan Chunshen's vision, "It's you." Fan Chunshen concluded at a glance that this was the commander of the army. He quietly aimed at the officer and gently pulled the trigger. A crisp gunshot pierced the tranquility of the mountains and fields. The officer in the scope was immediately carried onto the carriage.
With the gunshot, gunshots sounded in the mountains and fields. Twenty-four team members scattered within more than 100 meters fired almost at the same time, and each shot fell down a soldier of the Yunnan Army.
The soldiers of the Yunnan Army were a little confused. They lay on the ground like conditioned reflexes, but they could not see where the bullets came from. They tried to look up and observe, but were knocked down immediately. They could only lie on the ground and follow the gunshots to judge where the enemy was. But what made them feel relieved was that they did not hear the sound of machine guns.
But experienced veterans were scared. The other party was too calm and did not quit every shot. They did not believe that the people who dared to ambush them would not have machine guns. The machine gun did not fire, which only means that the other party believed that they could be eliminated by just this kind of point shot.
After two rounds of shooting, the Yunnan army below hid among the wheels and did not dare to show their heads again. The god of death from the forest did not come out again. Fan Chunshen smiled coldly. He was not worried about his team members at all. These team members were all killed from hell. The gunshots stopped and the two sides were in a stalemate. But this stalemate was a torment for the escort soldiers.
Fan Chunshen's ambush on the entire road was divided into six groups, each group was responsible for the 30-meter-long area, and the road was immediately blocked before and after the battle started.
Finally, someone couldn't help but look up at the gloomy woods around, looking for the god of killing in the forest, but no terrifying sound sounded in the forest. Gradually, more people poked their heads out, "Bang", and the gunshot fell, "Then!" A voice shouted at the place on the left, and then more than a dozen soldiers shot there. A few brave soldiers rushed to the other side immediately, but were knocked down by bullets from all directions, "under the pile of grass." The machine gun began to shoot wildly into the woods. However, without two shots, a bullet was accurately shot into his head. He just cheered up his morale and immediately declined. Everyone hid between the big carts and refused to show their heads again.
"Forget it, don't waste time with them, blast them out." Fan Chunshen sent a cold signal. The mortarist, who had been impatient, lifted up his disguise, grabbed a shell and stuffed it into the muzzle.
"Boom". "Boom", the shells fell accurately in the pile of chariots, and several figures flew into the sky. The Yunnan army below immediately fell into despair, and there were still artillery. "Room over!" "There are not many people, hurry over!" An officer leaned under the car and shouted loudly. A group of soldiers stood up and rushed towards the woods, but at this moment, the gunshots changed.
"Dadada" machine guns roared on the left and right sides, and the bullets quickly scraped down the soldiers who were rushing down. However, all the hidden firepower points of the ambushers were exposed. The soldiers of the Yunnan Army quickly judged the weak point of the gunshots, and they automatically joined together to rush toward.
It was safe to rush into the woods. The front fell down, and the back avoided their bodies to continue rushing. Finally, seven or eight soldiers rushed into the woods, but instead of searching for the ambushers, they fled desperately into the woods.
"Ma Labazi!" Fan Chunshen punched the ground. He knew that it was not his team members. They had tried their best to shoot. They had already suggested changing weapons. The fire rate of the Centre was too slow and they should be equipped with submachine guns. Only this weapon can be slow. Special operations need, but for some reason, they asked to report it. Zhuang Jihua just refused to approve it. Instead, he got a batch of Japanese 38 guns for them to train. This kind of gun was not as lethal as the Centre, and it was extremely unpopular in the special forces.
"How many people ambush you?" Sun Du's cold eyes shot coldly at the captain of the escort team he had been asked for.
"No..., I don't know," the captain avoided Sun Dudi's gaze, and then felt something was wrong, and immediately added: "I judge that they have a regiment, they have machine guns and mortars."
"Nonsense, if there is a group, you can come back! Go down." Sun Du waved his hand impatiently to drive him away.
A transport team of seventy-eight people, less than thirty people came back, and all the weapons and ammunition escorted were destroyed. Zhuang Jihua began to reach out to his back, which was a dangerous signal.
"Commander, please retreat according to the Chairman's order."
"Can you retreat? How to go?" Sun Du was very angry. After Long Yun's retreat order came, he immediately ordered the adjustment of the deployment, so that the model brigade would be cut off and other troops would retreat in an order.
Before Sun Du's adjustment was carried out, the escort team on Baolin Mountain launched a counterattack. The seven or eight days of battle allowed the escort commander to understand the strength of the Yunnan army. Fan Hanjie and Li Anding felt ridiculous about them earlier but also felt that such attack power could be carried by only one brigade of the escort team but outside Huili City.
After gaining confidence, the group of people in the escort began to plan a counterattack. The initial target of the counterattack was An Enpu at the foot of Baolin Mountain. Fan Hanjie believed that this was the main force of the Yunnan Army. As long as the brigade was defeated, Sun Du would retreat. But when he reported their plan to Zhuang Jihua, Zhuang Jihua called them to hold Sun Du tightly and make sure not to let them escape back to Yunnan easily. At the same time, he told them that a vanguard led by Du Yuming had arrived in Xichang and could feel Dechang within three days at most. A detachment guard (regiment) of Dechang was rushing to Huili. In addition, the little white dragon Fan Chunshen had led the special forces to the south of Huili to cut off Sun Du's transportation line. Finally, Zhuang Jihua told him murderously that his goal was to keep all the main force of the Yunnan Army in the north of the Jinsha River.
With this order, Fan Hanjie began to do something big. He re-developed a combat plan. This was very risky. He attacked An Enpu with two regiments of troops, and was necessary to defeat An Enpu, forcing Sun Du to draw troops from the besieged troops to support him, and then launched a counterattack from the south gate with the inner city team, occupied the Zhashuping highland, and turned left, and chopped Sun Du's troops in half.
After the attack began, the generals of the Yunnan Army, including Sun Du, realized that the combat effectiveness of the guards was beyond their imagination. The fierce artillery fire during the attack was unprecedented. The soldiers' tactics were extremely reasonable and could fully utilize their firepower advantages. Moreover, their generals were extremely bold. A regiment dared to launch a frontal attack on the Model Brigade.
An Enpu failed to block the attack of the guards, and the model brigade retreated step by step. An Enpu led the brigade guard company to rush forward to counterattack, and then suppressed Wang Guobin's counterattack and stabilized his position.
But he still underestimated Wang Guobin's courage. Wang Guobin did not rest and immediately launched a second wave of attacks. The three battalions lined up and pushed forward. The Su Zhe (official officer from the 19th Route Army) regiment, which was affiliated with him, was divided into two routes, penetrated through the gaps in An Enpu's defense line between the three battalions, and then launched an attack on An Enpu from behind. This move caught An Enpu off guard. He had never seen such a way of playing. An Enpu was defeated and Sun Du was forced to send Liu Zhengfu's short-lived journey to pick him up.
After receiving the report of the Yunnan Army's reinforcement of An Enpu, Fan Hanjie in the city personally directed the city's internal team to launch a counterattack. With the escort regiment as the vanguard, Liu Yuantang Brigade followed up and shot out of the south gate. He defeated the Yang Hongguang Brigade's position in front of him and conquered Zashuping.
Sun Du was forced to put the reserve team into the battle, which stopped Fan Hanjie's counterattack, but in this way, Sun Du knew that he could not leave.
The roaring Jinsha River is behind him. The troops are now in a stalemate. Once they retreat, they will inevitably be chased and killed. The troops are in danger of collapse. Only by fighting Fan Hanjie back first can they retreat safely.
The battle situation on the front line changed drastically, and Sun Du was entangled. Zhuang Jihua felt a little relieved. Du Yuming led the guards and Song Yunfei to Dechang in the evening. Another person who came with him was Yang Yongtai, the director of the Chongqing camp.
If Zhuang Jihua had not yet taken Yunnan before, then Yang Yongtai's arrival completely reversed the direction of the war in the Battle of Huili, and eventually led to Yunnan's change of hands.
Chapter completed!