At this moment, Zhang Ercheng, who was holding on to the Mengshangu position, received a telegram from Li's regiment, and was so angry that he tore up the telegram and scolded: "It is only seven or eight miles away, and it takes them a day for a regiment to climb here, even if they climb here, they don't want to come to rescue us at all?"
The officers of the 47th Division hurriedly said to Division Commander Zhang: "Division, at present, the only thing that can save us is the entire Li Corps, immediately send a report to the commission, and let the Li Corps quickly rush here to join us, otherwise the situation will not be good."
Division Commander Zhang just wanted to speak, and several Kuomintang officers stumbled in outside, only to see their faces dusty, their heads wrapped in bandages, and they panted and reported to Division Commander Zhang: "Division, the front mountain position has been broken through, and a large number of people have poured up, and all the brothers of our regiment are gone."
As soon as Zhang Ercheng heard this officer's report, his blood surged, his body shook suddenly, he was unsteady on his feet, and he almost fell to the ground.
Zhang Ercheng angrily pointed at the wounded officer and shouted: "Since your regiment is gone, why are you, the regiment commander, still running back to do something?"
When the regiment commander saw that Division Commander Zhang was going to kill him, he was so frightened that he quickly knelt on the ground with his legs "poof" and shouted: "Division commander spare his life, the offensive is too powerful, and our regiment can't hold it."
When several other officers saw that the division commander was angry and wanted to kill someone, they also hurriedly dissuaded: "Master, now is the time to employ people, don't open the killing ring, let's give Commander Zheng a chance to atone for his crimes." ” Division Commander Zhang had no choice but to let this Regiment Commander Zheng go down first, and he turned his head and said to the staff officers and officers around him: "The situation is becoming more and more unfavorable for us, the ammunition is about to run out, and the airdrop is a drop in the bucket, to no avail, the reinforced friendly troops are staggering, is our 47th Division going to be destroyed on this Mengshan Gu I am not reconciled, I ordered the team to immediately shrink the position and support it until it was dark to break through" Division Commander Zhang made up his mind to break through the encirclement, and he made this breakthrough determination two days earlier, maybe he could still fight, Now the East China People's Liberation Army is surrounded inside and out, and even the Central Plains People's Liberation Army on the Henan side has rushed to reinforce it, and it is useless for you to have an iron wall composed of more than 100,000 People's Liberation Army composed of more than 100,000 people, not to mention that the current 47th Division has almost no ammunition at hand, and the artillery shells have also run out, even if you have the best weapons, it is useless.
Division Commander Zhang still wanted to fight, he gathered the troops under his command, except for a brigade that continued to hold on to the Mengshangu position after breaking through and covering the breakout, the rest were all gathered and broke through in the direction of the Li Corps due south, and the breakthrough time was set at seven o'clock after dark.
Zhou Wu immediately got the news of the movement of the 47th Division on Mengshangu, and he judged that the 47th Division was going to run according to the enemy's movement Zhou Wu immediately brought the fat man and Ge Sanmin to them, and said to them: "Brothers, the 47th Division is going to slip, and now we don't know which direction they are going to break through, let's talk about it, which direction the 47th Division has the highest probability of breaking through."
When the fat man heard this, he shook his head and said: "It doesn't matter where he runs from, don't we have many teams now, and it will be over if we attack in all directions" The fat man thinks that there is no need to bother to consider the question of which direction the 47th Division will break through, anyway, there are so many teams at hand now, and the number of seven to one is more than enough, even if all directions are rushing up, there is no need to tie your hands and feet.
Zhou Wu didn't think so: "Lao Liu, although the 47th Division is in a disadvantageous position on Mengshangu, it is after all an ace army under Lao Jiang, and its combat effectiveness should not be underestimated. ” Chief of Staff Elder Xu also nodded and said: "The army commander is right, although the 47th Division has been heavily damaged, its combat effectiveness is still there, and it occupies a dangerous place above Mengshangu, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, so we must not be careless."
Moreover, judging from the current trend of the 47th Division, it is estimated that the enemy will break through the encirclement, and the enemy occupies the hillside and high ground, and rushing down from above is also a threat to us, so we have to roughly estimate the direction of the 47th Division's breakthrough, otherwise it is very likely that the 47th Division will break out, and in this way, our plan of the East China People's Liberation Army to almost go out to encircle and annihilate the 47th Division may be completely ruined."
Political Commissar Lao Niu listened to Lao Xu's analysis, and interjected with a serious expression: "Lao Zhou and Lao Xu are reasonable, we must not have the slightest paralysis and carelessness when dealing with the enemy, especially an enemy like the 47th Division, and we must be vigilant." ” Zhou Wu continued: "Brothers, judging from the current concentration of troops of the 47th Division, it is very likely that they will break through from the south, and the reason why do we say this is that seven or eight miles south of Mengshangu, the Li Corps of the Kuomintang army is storming our blocking position, and they think that as long as they meet with the Li Corps, they can tear our encirclement and it is possible to carry out a counter-encirclement against us, so we must not take it lightly until we completely destroy the 47th Division. ” Ge Sanmin nodded in agreement: "I also think that it is very likely that the 47th Division will break through from the south, because as long as they can meet with the Li Corps outside, they will be able to turn over, and the 100,000 troops under the Li Corps, once they unite with the 47th Division that escaped death, it will be a catastrophe for us." ” Zhou Wu seemed to have made up his mind, and hurriedly deployed his subordinates: "In this way, since we have judged the general direction of the enemy's breakthrough, then we should make arrangements as soon as possible, the three armies sent by the Central Plains Field Army have rushed to the northwest of Mengshangu, Na Ge Sanmin and Xiao Zheng immediately withdrew from the northwest direction and rushed to the south of Mengshangu, Huang Shuisheng's division also moved closer here, Lao Chen's column flanked the Li Corps, forcing the Li Corps to withdraw to the south, and immediately reported to the headquarters, asking for the general attack time to advance, It's better to be able to launch a general attack early until midnight tonight."
"Okay, that's it, let's contact Commander Li immediately" Commissar Niu and Lao Xu nodded and agreed to Zhou Wu's general offensive deployment, now it has reached the moment when the arrow is ready to be sent and has to be sent, seizing the fighter and attacking decisively is the key to victory.
In the telegram, the old Chiang strictly ordered the Li Corps to immediately launch a fierce attack and open up contact with the 47th Division at Mengshangu, which was already running out of ammunition and food, and if it did not rush to reinforce and respond, the 47th Division might encounter the same situation as the 18th Division being completely wiped out, and Lao Chiang was really reluctant to let this 47th Division be destroyed in Mengshangu, so he once again sternly ordered the Li Corps to make sure to make every effort to attack and block the attack, and open up the contact with the 47th Division.
Chief Li is in a hurry now, it seems that if he doesn't get through the contact with the 47th Division of Mengshangu this time, he will definitely not be able to eat good fruits, the 47th Division is Lao Jiang's ace, naturally it is his heart, this time there is no way, he can only cut his head and rush to the blocking position So, after a short rest, the Li Corps on the periphery of Mengshangu launched a frantic attack on the blocking position of the East China Field Army, this time they were playing ruthlessly, there was the Kuomintang Air Force bombers circling back and forth in the sky to support the fire, and there was a large number of artillery fire support on the ground, for a while, the shells fell on the blocking position of the East China Field Army like rain, the explosion shook the ground, the smoke billowed out, and the Li Corps immediately launched an attack on the position after the shelling.
I thought that after such a fierce and powerful artillery bombardment, there was nothing to survive on the opposite position, but I didn't think that when they rushed to a few hundred meters away from the position, they were suddenly hit by a dense rain of bullets from the opposite position, and then, rows of shells roared and smashed into the middle of the charging team, blowing up these Kuomintang soldiers who thought they could break through the position and get promoted to make a fortune, all of them turned on their backs, and they were killed and wounded, in the shouts of some junior officers, The onslaught of the Li Corps was still severely beaten down by the PLA brothers who were sticking to their positions Zhou Wu received a reply from the headquarters of the East China Field Army at this moment, and Commander Li agreed to advance the time of the general attack, and ordered the reinforcements of the three corps that had just arrived at Mengshangu to immediately enter the attack position, and the time of the general attack was set at 11 o'clock in the night, and from various signs of the enemy, the 47th Division was likely to break through and escape, so it was necessary to launch a general attack in advance.
If the 47th Division is allowed to slip out of the encirclement and join up with the Li Corps that has come to reinforce and respond outside, then the situation of the East China Field Army will be dangerous, not only will it not be able to destroy the 47th Division, but it may also have to be counter-surrounded by the enemy on the periphery Division Commander Zhang of the 47th Division on the Mengshangu position heard that the Li Corps had launched a fierce attack on the blocking position at this moment, and Lao Jiang personally called him and asked him to immediately break through to the south of Mengshangu with the cooperation of the air force planes and the Li Corps Division Commander Zhang, who received a call from Lao Jiang, decided to make a desperate attempt to break out, but his subordinates reported to him that the troops were still desperately blocking the onslaught on the position, and the breakthrough troops and tasks had not been deployed and arranged, so they could not launch a breakthrough now, but Division Commander Zhang was bent on breaking out of the siege immediately, and even vetoed the opinions of his officers, and forced the troops to withdraw from the battle immediately, and changed the concentration to break through to disperse to the south of Mengshangu Originally, with the combat effectiveness of the 47th Division, on Mengshangu, relying on the steep terrain, it was completely able to support until dark, and concentrated the forces at hand to storm a certain point of the Zhou Wu team, and the possibility of breaking through the encirclement was still very large, and now after this toss by Division Commander Zhang, the last hope of the 47th Division was shattered t1706231537: