In their opinion, tens of thousands of horses have been concentrated in the direction of Dianqiao, and their team has just won Yancheng from the hands of stubborn resistance, so they have to enjoy it in the city for two days, plus the team under Chief Gu only accounts for a minority in Yancheng, and most of the teams are from the direction of Nanjing Taizhou in the south, they are directly under the command of the Ministry of Defense and Lao Jiang, Where will take Commander Gu's order in his eyes, so that Commander Gu's transfer order is like a stone sinking into the sea, there is no news, until the third day, the division in Yancheng under the direct command of Commander Gu was satisfied and drove out of the city slowly, and rushed to the direction of Dianqiao to help the battle, at this moment, here in Dianqiao, the battle situation has undergone subtle changes, and the situation is developing in the direction of the New Fourth Army.
I can't even mobilize the team in the direction of Yancheng, and when the commander of the Xuzhou Bandit Suppression Headquarters has a fart, he doesn't do it Lao Jiang saw that Chief Gu was going to pick a son and quit, so what should he do, the Eighteenth Division was caught in the siege of Jiangbei, and it could be eaten by Zhou Wu's team at any time, but the Eighteenth Division was smashed out by his old Jiang with a lot of oceans, known as the "benchmark" among them, once it was completely wiped out by Jiangbei, the first battle of his civil war would be lost, how could he get off the table Therefore, Lao Jiang ordered Chief Gu not to pick a pick, and at the same time strictly ordered those teams under the direct command of the Ministry of National Defense in the direction of Yancheng to unconditionally obey the command and transfer of Chief Gu There is no way to do it now, intimidated by Lao Jiang's death order, the Kuomintang troops stationed in Yancheng began to advance westward, at this moment it is the third day after Commander Gu issued the transfer order, the 18th Division rushed left and right in the encirclement of Binhu Town, lost a lot of troops, the soldiers were killed and wounded, but still could not break out of the encirclement, surrounded by the New Fourth Army team, everywhere were blocking positions, Division Commander Qian and a cadre of the division headquarters had been going back and forth in Binhu Town several times, Can't find a breakthrough to protrude, the east is endless, the vast Hongze Lake, finally Lao Qian took more than 200 soldiers around him to the lake, looking around, not to mention the boat crossing the lake, not even a piece of his mother's plank, so anxious that Lao Qian looked at the water of Hongze Lake by the lake and stomped his feet, the pursuers behind him were getting closer and closer, and the sound of guns and cannons rang out one after another, thinking that he was a commander of an army of 30,000 or 40,000 three days ago, with the most advanced tanks and armored vehicles and well-trained soldiers, originally thought that with his own strength and momentum, to deal with Zhou Wu's Jiangbei armed forces, it would be effortless, but he never thought about it, but he was confused by Zhou Wu's previous series of defeats and retreats, and followed all the way, and fell into the trap that Zhou Wu had already set up on the shore of Hongze Lake, and now there are only a few hundred subordinates left around him, and there are no boats to cross the lake, and they are surrounded by all sides, what can this do The chief of staff under Lao Qian suggested that he run quickly: "Shizuo, let's run quickly in disguise as a common person, leave the green mountains without worrying about no firewood, and I can't find a boat by the lake, it is already impossible to meet Chief Gu in the east, so let's run south in the direction of Yangzhou."
Lao Qian still wants to hold on for a while, he doesn't believe that so many teams under his command have been wiped out by Zhou Wu's at this moment, if he escapes back like this, Lao Jiang will definitely not let him go, imprisonment is the lightest, maybe he will have to be shot, instead of fleeing in a hurry, it is better to use the two hundred or so brothers left around him to fight and kill themselves Lao Qian pushed away the chief of staff who suggested that he run away disguised as a common man, took out the small Browning pistol on his waist, and shouted to the two hundred soldiers around him at the top of his voice: "Brothers, we are all elites cultivated by the party-state, and the chairman treats us well, we have to fight to the death today, and we must not flee the battlefield, otherwise we will blame me for being unkind" Senior Commander Qian said, glaring at the chief of staff beside him fiercely, the meaning is very clear, don't even think about running, otherwise he will turn his face and deny people Fortunately, most of the 200 subordinates who came with him were his cronies, and they were loyal to Lao Qian, and even the division commander took out the guy to fight hard, how can we not live and die with the division commander The division commander treats us well, holding twice the military salary of the brothers in other teams, enjoying the best treatment in the army, saying that he has to stay with the division commander to resist the surrounding for a while.
Commander Qian and they immediately chose a dirt slope by the lake as a blocking position, arranged two fire defenses, rushed to the front was a battalion of the second division led by Zhou Wu's subordinate Ge Sanmin, this battalion commander saw that a team by the lake was stubbornly resisting with improvised fortifications, and the large army was still in the middle of the way to catch up, and there was a Kuomintang officer in the opposite position with two shining gold stars on his epaulettes, knowing that it was a big official, and thinking that this could be regarded as catching the enemy's head, Immediately ordered his brothers in the first battalion to attack immediately, and strive to destroy this enemy before the arrival of the large army behind But what happened next made the battalion commander who wanted to make a head start could not be controlled, and he launched three attacks in a row on the enemy position by the lake, but to his surprise, the resistance of those Kuomintang soldiers on the opposite position was extremely tenacious, coupled with the advanced weapons at hand and sufficient ammunition, the brothers under the battalion commander were killed and wounded, and many brothers were damaged, but they were still unable to take a step forward to the front position.
The battalion commander hurriedly reported the situation to Ge Sanmin, who caught up behind, and when Ge Sanmin heard this, he was on fire, and he saw that he was about to annihilate the 18th Division, and he actually ran into a big nail on the edge of Hongze Lake, and the enemy on that position was only 200 enemies, and a battalion of 400 brothers rushed three times, and they couldn't capture it, so Ge Sanmin hurriedly took a regiment of brothers and rushed to the lakeside position, scolded the battalion commander, ordered someone to unload his gun, and locked him up The battalion commander was not convinced, and shouted to Ge Sanmin: "Division commander, give me a chance to atone for my crimes, I promise to take down the enemy position this time, if you can't take it this time, you don't have to shut me up, just shoot me with one shot, I don't have a word of complaint, otherwise I won't be blind."
Ge Sanmin listened to the words of the battalion commander, thought for a while, and then said to him: "Okay, I'll give you another battalion, if you still can't take that position this time, you can do it yourself."
The battalion commander immediately stood up: "Yes, division commander, I promise to complete the task" In fact, those brothers under Lao Qian are also at the end of the crossbow at this moment, after holding back their strength to repel the three onslaughts of Ge Sanmin's brothers in a row, there are not many soldiers on the position who can fight with guns, the painful wails and moans of the wounded soldiers resounded through the lakeside position, the corpses all over the ground could not be cleaned up and buried, more than half of the officers were killed and wounded, and the morale of the soldiers was slowly declining.
Division Commander Qian could naturally see this situation, and he said to the officers and soldiers on those positions: "Brothers, you have all done your best, you have not failed the party-state, you have not failed me, the large army has come up, you should give up resistance, and each of you will find a way to survive, leave me alone, everyone take care of yourself, and do it well."
Division Commander Qian shouted, except for a few brothers who were defending the position who must stay and advance and retreat with the division, the rest of the officers and soldiers surrendered to Ge Sanmin on the opposite side, and Lao Qian saw that the general trend had gone, so he stomped his feet and scolded the officers and soldiers who left: "Why are you so confused, the fiasco of the 18th Division today, the blame lies with me, I can't complain about you, run away quickly, and I will still bear the responsibility."
The officers and soldiers who stayed behind, including the chief of staff who persuaded him to put on makeup and escape, were still here, and hurriedly said to him: "Master, you still listen to us, victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, stay in the green mountains without worrying about running out of firewood, and it is not too late to make plans when you run out, and the chairman will definitely remember that you are loyal to the party and the state, and will not do anything to you, the time is too late, the surroundings are about to rush up, run quickly."
Master Qian looked at the hard persuasion of his subordinates, shook his head and said to them: "Don't persuade me, I have made up my mind, the chairman is my principal, how can I not know the chairman's thoughts, our eighteenth division is the trump card in the hands of the chairman, and it is the guarantee for him to eliminate the big trouble, and now he has been beaten up here like this, he will definitely not let me go, maybe I died on the battlefield today, and I can get some good treatment for my family, colleagues, I can still stay with me at this time, brother, I am grateful for being polite, You'd better all go, let me keep a good name."
The chief of staff of the 18th Division saw that Lao Qian had made up his mind and would not persuade him to come, so he took his officers and soldiers to salute him, turned his head and ran outside, these guys naturally could not escape from Ge Sanmin's palm, and they were quickly caught, all of them were taken prisoner, when Ge Sanmin's men rushed into the enemy's position, they found that a lieutenant general Kuomintang officer had committed suicide by drinking bullets, and his flesh and blood were lying on his back in the trench.
In the vanguard, the 18th Division, the ace division in the middle, was completely annihilated, and none of them escaped from the encirclement set up by Zhou Wu on the shore of Hongze Lake. t1706231537: