The infantry of the 1st Brigade of the 47th Division, which was attacked, reacted quickly enough, quickly seized the favorable terrain on the road, hid behind the wreckage of the truck that was blown up by grenades and mortar shells, and fired at the hillsides on both sides with carbines and light and heavy machine guns in their hands, but because the fat men were hiding in the dark on the hillside, these Kuomintang soldiers could not find the soldiers who ambushed them for a while, so they had to use the weapons in their hands to shoot desperately at the places they thought were suspicious.
After a large number of infantry were knocked to the ground by bullets fired from the slopes on both sides, Brigade Commander Huang had no choice but to order the team to retreat and move closer to Division Commander Zhang's large army.
Zhang Ercheng in the back heard about the ambush encountered by the first brigade in front, and hurriedly ordered the team behind to follow immediately, and then saw that Brigade Commander Huang withdrew with the team, so angry that he scolded: "Rush up, you must remember that you are the trump card in the middle, how can you withdraw when you encounter a small group" Brigade Commander Huang didn't look like a word, he was also a trump card anyway, so he was ambushed by the team and withdrew, it was inevitable that he couldn't say anything, I heard the roar of Division Commander Zhang, coupled with the fire support of many artillery with the back door, Brigade Commander Huang ordered his team to rush up immediately and tore the ambush circle open for me The soldiers of the 1st Brigade of the 47th Division, supported by the ferocious artillery fire in the back, launched an attack on the ambush position of the fat man again, and the tank regiment in front of which had received the order and had rushed through the ambush circle also immediately turned around at this moment, and now the commander of the Yellow Brigade had the fire reinforcement of the artillery regiment and tank guns, and the confidence suddenly came up again, and the artillery fire continued to explode on the hillside positions on both sides of the road, and the ground shook the mountain, the earth and rocks jumped, and the brothers under the fat man suffered a large number of casualties, and many brothers were hit by shells.
The powerful shockwave tossed their bodies high, flipped in mid-air and scattered straight on the hillside, their flesh and blood blurred, scattered and miserable.
The Kuomintang soldiers who were storming the hillside saw that the position was blown up by artillery fire and smoke, and the flames were everywhere, and the soldiers who were lying in ambush were constantly blown out of the position, and their morale was greatly boosted, and they shouted and rushed towards the hillside, those tanks could not climb up, so they kept bombarding the fat man's position with tank guns on the road, and the heavy machine guns on the tank, the bullets roared and flew to the brothers on the position, so that the fat man could not raise his head, and the officers under him shouted to the fat man: "Division commander, The first battalion was gone, leaving two seriously wounded, a battalion commander and a fighter" Before the fat man could react, he heard his subordinates report the battle situation to him: "The second battalion is gone, the position is occupied by the enemy, and the enemy who is pouring into the position is coming towards the main position" Hit here, the fat man realized that his opponent was actually not simple, in less than an hour, the 47th Division that counterattacked actually knocked out the two battalions he brought, Mao more than 1,000 horses died in the ambush position, and this enemy is more and more, look down all over the mountains, like a tide surging up, this fight will definitely not work, you have to evacuate in the direction of Mengshan, otherwise the regiment you are carrying will have to be left here The fat man immediately ordered the troops on the position to withdraw to the rear, the brothers of one company served as the cover behind the break, and the rest of the brothers alternately covered and evacuated towards Mengshangu in the northwest direction, and the commander of the 47th Division, Zhang, who had succeeded in the battle, saw that the fat man had withdrawn in the direction of Mengshan, so he immediately ordered the first brigade to chase after him and annihilate all the fleeing teams The officer next to Division Commander Zhang reminded him: "Division, the number of these escapees is small, so there is no need to worry, we still need to capture Linyi City first."
"These officers advocated a steady and steady battle, not to rush to success, besides, from here to the northwest, the road is becoming more and more difficult to walk, all are rough mountain roads, tanks and armored vehicles can not be mobile at all, only trucks and infantry can enter, or capture the city of Linyi first, with Linyi as a stronghold, can deal a heavy blow to those fleeing in the northwest.
If we rush into it at this time, it is estimated that we will not be able to give full play to the advanced performance of our 47th Division's mechanized troops, but may be held back halfway by small troops, and we will not be able to achieve the original purpose of the campaign.
But at this moment, Division Commander Zhang did not think so, he thought that at this time the 47th Division should take advantage of the victory to pursue, besides, according to reliable information, the location of the general headquarters in East China is very likely to be in the Mengshan area northwest of Linyi The quality of one of the ace troops is not comparable to that of ordinary teams, so if it can succeed, who will chirp crookedly in front of the principal and say that our 47th Division has twice the salary and silver than them, and the equipment is also full of American-style weapons, and we have diamond diamonds, so we are not afraid of porcelain work Therefore, this confident Zhang Ercheng did not listen to the dissuasion of his officers, nor did he send a telegram to President Jiang in Nanjing, so he immediately decided that the whole army of the 47th Division would turn around, turn northwest from Caomu Mountain, and pursue in the direction of Mengshan In this way, more than 20,000 men of the 47th Division turned in Caomu Mountain, with trucks as the lead, infantry and artillery followed up in turn, and embarked on the mountain road to Mengshan, and the key battle of the East China People's Liberation Army to smash the Kuomintang army beganAs long as the 47th Division can advance into Mengshan and find the general headquarters of East China, it will allow them to hold on to their position for more than three days, then many teams around the 47th Division can quickly surround themselves, and when the time comes, the 47th Division will blossom in the center of it.
The large troops outside are attacking from all sides, seeing where to run With the acquiescence of President Jiang, Division Commander Zhang became more and more bold, and he personally led the leading team to rush to Mengshan Mountain, while the 47th Division behind marched on the mountain road to Yimeng Mountain, stretching for several miles, looking from afar, it was spectacular.
Zhou Wu was overjoyed when he got that the 47th Division had all entered Yimeng Mountain, and hurriedly ordered Ge Sanmin, Xiao Zheng and the main force of the Fat Man's First Division to spread out around Mengshangu, and at the same time, in order to prevent the 47th Division from fleeing south from Linyi, Zhou Wu ordered Huang Shuisheng's division to capture Linyi and cut off the enemy's retreat.
Zhou Wu felt that such a troop arrangement was still not enough, to deal with a trump card force like the 47th Division, the numerical advantage of three to one was obviously not enough, and only by achieving a five-to-one, or even seven-to-one advantage, could there be a chance of victory, otherwise once these fierce enemies broke through and joined up with the surrounding Kuomintang troops, then the entire Shandong and even the entire East China Liberation Army would fall into a catastrophe, and from the perspective of the direction of action of the 47th Division and the surrounding Kuomintang troops, The enemy's aim is to firmly contain our main force with the 47th Division, and to surround our main force with those Kuomintang troops of hundreds of thousands on the periphery, it seems that in order to completely destroy this ace army of the Kuomintang army in a short period of time, it is necessary to deploy two more armies or columns to Mengshangu to achieve a five-to-one advantage in numbers, and Huang Shuisheng's division will capture Linyi as soon as possible and firmly hold Linyi, so that we can change the battlefield situation and gain the initiative in the campaign.
Otherwise, we will die without a place to bury, and we will be in danger of being wiped out by the whole army.
Therefore, Zhou Wu sent a telegram to Commander Li again, and the commander immediately ordered the two armies of the East China Liberation Army and Chen Guofu's column to immediately rush to Mengshangu to reinforce Zhou Wu, these troops were more than 100 kilometers away from this Mengshangu, and the vanguard of the 47th Division, the ace of the Kuomintang army, was about to rush to Mengshangu In order to be able to arrive at Mengshangu in time, Lao Chen first organized a small detachment of about 100 people, and selected those brothers with fast legs and feet to go first, except for the weapons and ammunition they brought with them, the rest were not brought, and the task of this advance detachment was to reconnoiter along the way, and once the enemy situation was found, it was immediately reported with the accompanying radio station.
Brigade Commander Huang of the 47th Division and the First Brigade were the first to rush to Mengshangu, where the East China General Headquarters was located, but what caught their eyes was not a village, but a large bare stone mountain, this stone mountain is not so high, and it is even relatively flat on it, which is very suitable for the development of the team.
When Zhang Ercheng heard this, he became angry, and hurriedly ordered Brigade Commander Huang to immediately search in the northwest direction again until he found any traces. t1706231537: