Naturally, the rain of bullets poured down on the various hills quickly drove these Kuomintang troops down, and when the officers who were all wounded ran to the army commander to report how powerful the blocking attack in front was, the earth-shattering sound of artillery bombardment had already sounded in the direction of Mengshangu in front, the flames were soaring to the sky, and the earth was constantly trembling, and Zhou Wu, who surrounded the 47th Division of Mengshangu, had already begun to launch a general attack on the 47th Division, and the decisive battle to eliminate this Kuomintang ace army began Tens of thousands of PLA soldiers launched a fierce attack on the positions of the 47 th Division that were trying to break through from all directions, and all the artillery of the East China Field Army was roaring incessantly at this moment, and the shells were like rain, smashing on the bare stone mountain of Mengshangu, blasting into the sky, smoke rising everywhere, and rocks flying wildly, and many soldiers of the 47 th Division were lifted high by the powerful air waves, and their bodies were torn apart, turning into pieces of flesh and blood and blurred stumps and broken remains, scattered around the position, miserable and miserable.
At this moment, Division Commander Zhang, who was breaking through in the direction of the south of Mengshangu, suddenly realized that he had been surrounded by many times more than him, looking at the soldiers who were pouring over the mountains, and then looking at the brothers of the 47th Division who had swept the Devil Brigade in the first place, he couldn't help but sigh: "It's late, it's over, the 47th Division is going to be finished."
Having said that, Master Zhang was still not convinced, he still wanted to fight again, he didn't believe that his ace army was surrounded and annihilated by soil buns like this, even if he died, he had to fight and pull a few cushions, otherwise how could he be worthy of Principal Jiang, who had worked hard to cultivate and promote himself Division Commander Zhang hurriedly gathered the guards and staff officers around him, nodded his head, and there were more than a hundred people and horses, he gasped and said to them: "Brothers, we have now reached the moment of life and death, the principal is not thin on us, we can't just forget it, if we want to die, we have to die a look, Zhang has decided to kill himself and serve the party and the state, everyone is willing to follow me Zhang, stand on the left, if you don't want to follow me, stand on the right, I will not embarrass everyone." ” As soon as Division Commander Zhang's words fell, a large-caliber cannonball roared and smashed not far in front of him, and the explosion of the air wave lifted Division Commander Zhang whole, and then threw him heavily on the hard rocks, and his subordinates hurriedly stepped forward, picked him up and hurriedly hid in the cave behind Just when the PLA forces launched a general attack on the position of the 47th Division, the Li Corps, which was still there to storm the PLA blocking position, saw that the general trend had gone, so many PLA troops attacked the 47th Division in all directions, even if the 47th Division was all King Kong, it was not saved, his own corps had already stormed the position here no less than ten times, but with little success, if he did not retreat at this moment, maybe he would be the next to suffer, and the army that did not know what to do was still storming the position, so let him attack, We have to retreat, since the 47th Division can't hold it horizontally and vertically, what can we do even if it is a broken blocking position Therefore, Chief Li hurriedly ordered his subordinates to immediately turn around and retreat, taking advantage of the great opportunity to turn back now, withdraw from the Mengshangu line and move closer to the direction of Taierzhuang in Xuzhou As soon as the large army of the Li Corps left, the Kuomintang commander who dreamed of being promoted to an officer and making a fortune was not in a good situation, and he immediately turned around and ran, they could not attack the position, but they retreated and ran quite quickly, and in less than an hour, the 47th Division was still stubbornly resisting on the Mengshangu position, and at the moment of desperate struggle, the vanguard of the Li Corps had already passed through Linyi and ran on the road to Xuzhou Seeing this, everyone may have to ask, wasn't Linyi City captured by Huang Shuisheng under Zhou Wu, how could they let the Li Corps go so easily At that time, Zhou Wu's subordinates, as well as the Central Plains Field Army reinforced from Henan, were just enough to deal with the 47th Division, and for Commander Li, who had always been cautious and careful in fighting and striving to be foolproof, the absolute numerical advantage of seven to one could not absolutely guarantee that the 47th Division could completely annihilate a Kuomintang ace army, so the main purpose of letting Huang Shuisheng capture Linyi was to prevent the 47th Division from escaping, and for this Li Corps that came to reinforce, Zhou Wu and they no longer had extra troops to take care of.
Therefore, letting go of the Li Corps is actually a helpless move, if there are still three corps or so reserves under Commander Li's command now, it is absolutely impossible to let go of the Li Corps, isn't it said in the art of war, it is better to cut off one of its fingers than to hurt its ten fingers, let's ignore the Li Corps that came to reinforce now, and concentrate on killing the 47th Division There was no suspense in the general offensive battle situation, a large number of soldiers of the 47th Division had no way to escape, and they ran out of ammunition and food, so they had to raise their weapons and surrender to the PLA, more than an hour later, the battle on the Mengshangu position was basically over, but the reported battle situation made Zhou Wu very uneasy, and the commander of the 47th Division, Zhang, still has no whereabouts, if he can't catch this division commander Zhang, then this battle will not be regarded as a total annihilation, of course, this cannot be finished.
Zhou Wu immediately ordered, all the commanders and fighters participating in the battle searched the mountains to find the whereabouts of Division Commander Zhang, and the fat man led a company of troops to search carefully along the slopes south of Mengshangu, Zhou Wu's order was very clear: Division Commander Zhang must be found, and he must see people alive and corpses when he dies Just when the fat man searched carefully several times in the south of Mengshangu, found nothing abnormal, and was about to return, a sharp-eyed soldier suddenly noticed that there was a strange movement on the hillside in front of him, and he pointed there and shouted to the fat man: "Division commander, there is a situation over there" As soon as the words fell, a bullet came from the opposite hillside, which happened to shoot into the soldier's chest, and when the fat man saw it, he was so angry that his mustache stood up, and he hurriedly ordered the mortars that followed: "Bomb me that way" There was a chaotic sound, and the mortar shells whistled and flew to the hillside over there, exploding into flames, flying earth and rocks, and filling the air with gunsmoke Before the smoke cleared, a white flag made of white shirts stretched out from the hole on the hillside, shaking it at the fat man's side, and shouting: "Brothers, stop fighting, we surrender" As soon as the fat man waved his hand, three or four PLA brothers immediately crawled to catch up, and the brothers behind scattered and rushed to the entrance of the cave with an attack team.
The fat man and his brothers dragged the soldiers of the 47th Division who surrendered out of the cave one by one, counted the number of people, and asked the prisoners in a loud voice: "What part are you, where is your division commander?"
One of the soldiers pointed to the pile of corpses at the entrance of the cave with trembling fingers and said to the fat man: "Chief, sir, our division commander is here, just now we haven't hid in the hole, a commander is anxious, and he opened fire on you, and immediately attracted a shell, crackling and exploding, blowing us up, the hole is blown up, there are our brothers in the depths of the cave, our division commander is in this pile of people" When the fat man heard this, his eyes lit up, and he thought that his luck was not bad, although he didn't catch the commander of the 47th Division alive, but he was able to find the dead, it was a great achievement.
"Quick, open the pile of corpses, find the commander of the 47th Division" The fat man gave an order, and many of his subordinates immediately stepped forward to look for it, and soon, under the pile of corpses, the commander of the 47th Division, Zhang Division, was found, wearing a lieutenant general's uniform, and two gold stars were shining on his shoulders, but the person had been killed by the shells, and the corpse above him was pressed with a layer, even if the division commander Zhang was killed by the shells and was not killed by the shells, it was estimated that he would have to suffocate to death.
Looking at the corpse of the lieutenant general division commander of this Kuomintang ace army, the fat man respected him very much, and immediately ordered his subordinates to carry out the body of Division Commander Zhang and carry it down on a stretcher, although he was an enemy chieftain, but after all, he fought hard with the little devil during the War of Resistance, and he was also a good man, our PLA is a benevolent and righteous division, and we have to respect such an opponent, besides, everyone is Chinese, they are all compatriots, and the civil war is also a matter of each master.
After Zhou Wu received the fat man's report, he immediately hurried over with Commander Li, and saw the body of Division Commander Zhang on the stretcher, Commander Chen shook his head and sighed: "Hey, I think that back then, in Wanjialing, Jiangxi, this Division Commander Zhang was also a good man, and one of the brigades of the devils almost wiped out the whole army, but I didn't expect that today I died on the battlefield of the civil war, it is really unfortunate, the reason why the Japanese devils and foreign devils were able to bully and invade us before was not to see us Chinese ourselves not united, this is not so much the misfortune of Commander Zhang, It is even more unfortunate that Jiang someone, for his own selfishness, brazenly launched a civil war, the common people did not live a few days of peace and suffered greatly from the war, I hope that the day of peace will come as soon as possible, and we Chinese will no longer kill each other" Commander Li listened to Commander Chen's words, and also nodded: "Yes, Division Commander Zhang is also a general, but he misheard Lao Jiang's blind command, which led to such a tragic end, pass on my order, and bury Division Commander Zhang and the officers of the 47th Division who died Although they are our enemies, they deserve our respect."
On the third day, the heavy rain was like a note, the prisoners of the 47th Division came to Mengshangu together, a row of Zhou Wu's subordinate PLA soldiers were burying Division Commander Zhang here, in a sound of orders, Division Commander Zhang's coffin was buried on the Mengshangu position, and then three volleys of guns rang out all around, and the prisoners of the 47th Division immediately said that they had followed the wrong team, and now they asked to join the People's Liberation Army, and together with the PLA brothers, they overthrew the rule of Lao Jiang and played a new China t1706231537: