Thinking of this, Division Commander Yu hurriedly searched on the military map and asked those staff officers around him: "How many troops are stationed in Feicheng in the northwest of Tai'an and Shankou Town in the northeast?"
What he is worried about is these two key points guarding Tai'an, these two places are like two stone lions guarding the gate, one left and one right, placed on the east and west sides of Tai'an City.
As long as that side is still under control, the southern gate of Jinan can be saved, and the Zhou Wubu will not be able to form a substantial encirclement of Jinan City.
"Report to the sir, there is a regiment of troops in Feicheng and Yamaguchi Town each holding out."
Staff Officer reported "One regiment is not enough, with Zhou Wu's command ability, he may have already set his sights on those two key points, how long can the team of a regiment support" Division Commander Yu was anxious.
The more he thought about it, the more wrong it became, so he immediately called the guards, drove to the appeasement headquarters, and said to Chief Wang: "Chief Wang, I see that Tai'an City is in danger."
When Chief Wang heard this, he was taken aback, and hurriedly asked him: "Master Yu, tell me slowly, what's wrong with Tai'an?"
"It's not what's wrong with Tai'an, but I found that the troops on both sides of Feicheng and Shankou on both sides of Tai'an are too thin, once they are captured first, then Tai'an will not be guaranteed, my brigade stationed in Tai'an has been pursued, Zhou Wu is a master of luring the enemy, this time he broke and fled too abnormally, I think he has two purposes, one is to take the opportunity to outflank the back of my pursuing brigade, encircle and eliminate them, and the other is to take advantage of the Tai'an garrison out of the city to pursue, take the opportunity to capture Feicheng and the mountain pass, In this way, the actual encirclement of Tai'an was formed, so I thought that it was necessary to strengthen the defense of Feicheng and Yamaguchi now, and ordered the four brigades stationed in Tai'an, each of which had a brigade to defend Feicheng and Yamaguchi, and at the same time I ordered the brigade that was pursuing to immediately stop the pursuit, and to station on the spot, so as to attract the main force of Zhou Wu and create the necessary time for us to increase our troops to Tai'an.
"Elder Yu Shi is calculating, and at a glance, he can see the purpose of Zhou Wu's retreat this time, his vision is very vicious, and his analysis is very good.
Commander Wang is also a veteran of the battlefield, as soon as he heard this situation, he immediately nodded and said to Commander Yu: "Yes, Lao Yu, you are right, we are used to using such tactics, we have suffered a lot of losses from them, the last time the 47th Division suffered a big loss in the light enemy's rash advance, we can't repeat the mistakes of the past like this, we must immediately order the pursuing brigade to retreat, I don't think there is any need to contain the main force of Zhou Wu, directly let them retreat to the area of Feicheng, guard Feicheng, and ensure the safety of Tai'an" Division Commander Yu hurriedly sent a telegram to order the brigade that had caught up: "Brigade Commander Niu, immediately stop the pursuit, quickly retreat, and withdraw to the front line of Feicheng to stand by."
When Brigade Commander Niu received the telegram from Division Commander Yu, he and his team had already fallen into the encirclement of Zhou Wu's three divisions, Zhou Wu stopped after evacuating to a place forty kilometers south of Tai'an, and the Kuomintang tank troops who took the lead thought that they had finally caught a big fish this time, and the Zhou Wu command on the opposite side seemed to be chased by us, so they rushed to catch up with Zhou Wu and them.
At this moment, the enemy tank crews who had caught up found that a group of men and horses had suddenly inserted in front, led by a short and fat PLA commander, who saw that they quickly seized the high ground in front of them and blocked the tanks and armored vehicles on the spot.
This team is the first division of the fat man who is responsible for the feint mission, and at the moment when Zhou Wu retreats to the south, he ordered the fat man to quickly come over and block the pursuing enemy.
So, Zhou Wu's main fat man's first division and Yu Division's commander this ace brigade met on the Surabaya River south of Tai'an, the two sides fought for a while, the fat man personally fought on the front line, the brothers of the demolition team rushed forward one after another, and blew the enemy's tanks and armored vehicles into pieces, and then, Zhou Wu's artillery regiment Zhang Ercheng arrived in time, and hit those tanks and armored vehicles with a slam on the head, and now those enemy tanks couldn't bear it, and hurriedly wanted to turn around and retreat, But at this moment, they found that on the endless fields on the left and right, a large number of shouting PLA troops poured out, rushing towards them like a tide, these tank soldiers and the Niu brigade commander who followed closely behind found themselves deceived, and now they have all fallen into the encirclement carefully set up by Zhou Wu, the Niu brigade commander only used a telescope to estimate that the number of those who surrounded them was tens of thousands, and his own brigade killed five or six thousand people, Being surrounded by tens of thousands of people in such a place where there is no village in front of the village and no store in the back, in addition to being wiped out, what other results can there be Brigade Commander Niu took the telegram sent to him by Division Commander Yu, shook his head and smiled bitterly, and sent the last telegram to Division Commander Yu: "My tribe is under siege and is fighting to break through."
Although he was surrounded by Zhou Wu, this Niu brigade commander still had some blood, he ordered his subordinates to block the surrounding, and at the same time organized many commandos, scattered to break through to the north, the south is the territory, breaking out is also a dead end, only facing the west and north is the direction of the breakthrough.
A large number of assault troops, under the cover of artillery and tank fire, began to break through in the northwest direction, but they were all beaten back by Zhou Wu's brothers, and Brigade Commander Niu's men attacked in the northwest direction three times in a row, killing and wounding many soldiers each time, but none of them stood out.
From the morning until dark, Brigade Commander Niu's brigade has lost most of its troops, but it is still constantly impacting Zhou Wu's encirclement, the fat man's first division bears the brunt, the position is full of corpses of soldiers on both sides, several highland slopes were occupied by the Kuomintang soldiers who broke through, but they were soon recaptured by the fat man, and the Yu division commander who received the telegram from the Niu brigade commander felt that the problem was serious, and hurriedly and urgently mobilized the Kuomintang air force planes at Jinan Airport to carry out carpet bombing on both sides of the Surabaya River, Blocking the siege of Brigade Commander Niu, covering Brigade Commander Niu's withdrawal to Feicheng in the northwest direction, he ordered the Kuomintang troops stationed in Feicheng and Tai'an to immediately dispatch to meet Brigade Commander Niu's retreat The enemy in the direction of Feicheng had just been ordered to move, and they were surrounded by a team of Zhou Wu who was ambushed there outside Feicheng City, where Zhou Wu arranged a division of Lao Chen, and the two brigades in Tai'an City also suffered the doom of encirclement, and as soon as they left Tai'an City, they were surrounded by Lao Chen's other two divisions and could not move.
When the news reached Jinan, Commander Yu couldn't sit still, one of his brigades was about to be eaten by Zhou Wu, and the brigades he sent out to rescue were also surrounded, he was anxious, and suggested to Commander Wang: "Quickly send the 96th Army guarding the airport to guard the first line of Shankou Town and Feicheng respectively, and our reorganized 11th Division will immediately all be dispatched and rush to Tai'an." ” Commander Wang hesitated at this time, he did not agree with this suggestion of Division Commander Yu, thinking that the situation was not as bad as Commander Yu imagined, with the combat effectiveness of Brigade Commander Niu, there was no problem in supporting Zhou Wu's encirclement for two or three days, the 96th Army was defending the airport, the position was quite important, and it should not be easily mobilized, and the 11th Division should be reorganized to guard the outer positions of Jinan, if they all rushed to Tai'an to defend the city, then who would defend Jinan here Division Commander Yu knows how capable the Niu Brigade Commander under his command is, Zhou Wu is not an ordinary master, of course Master Yu knows how powerful Zhou Wu is, thinking that when he was in Luodian, Shanghai, Zhou Wu was able to lead a team to break into the encirclement of devils and fish himself out, and now he can also eat all the brigades under his command.
So he repeatedly begged Commander Wang to make up his mind quickly and send troops to rescue Brigade Commander Niu.
Unable to withstand Commander Yu's request, Commander Wang reluctantly agreed to Commander Yu to take the reorganized 11th Division to Surabaya to rescue Brigade Commander Niu, but asked Division Commander Yu to leave at least one brigade to defend the outer positions of Jinan, Division Commander Yu had no choice but to comply, after all, he was the commander of appeasement, although he was the trump card, but he had to rely on him to provide support.
Zhou Wu was also very nervous here, the front line kept coming to the news of the Kuomintang army breaking through, some positions were lost and regained, and the competition was quite fierce, at this time, Zhou Wu received information from Jinan, saying that Yu Shiming's three main brigades of the 11th Division had set off and rushed in the direction of Tai'an Zhou Wu received this information and hurriedly sent a telegram to Commander Li of the field army headquarters: "The reorganized 11th Division has been dispatched, and there are no more troops at hand that can be used to stop the 11th Division, so I request support." ” Commander Li immediately called back: "I have ordered more than four columns, six columns, and eight verticals to advance along the Feicheng Pass, and I hope that your department can completely solve the Niu Brigade before the early morning of tomorrow." ” Zhou Wu was immediately relieved when he saw that the commander had sent out three columns one after another to intercept the 11th Division, the strength of the three columns had reached nearly 80,000 horses, and the three brigades of the 11th Division had been reorganized, and more than 10,000 had died, with a numerical advantage of six to one Zhou Wu gave his fat man and Ge Sanmin, Xiao Zheng, and Huang Shuisheng a death order, and they must all solve the Niu Brigade before four o'clock in the morning.
After Ge Sanmin received Zhou Wu's order, he was also anxious, this time they encountered a hard bone, and they almost broke their big teeth when they bit it down, Ge Sanmin quickly adjusted the combat deployment according to the battlefield situation, and discussed it with the fat man, Xiao Zheng, and Huang Shuisheng, and decided that the four divisions besieging the Niu Brigade would launch a general attack on the enemy at the same time The plan was reported to Zhou Wu, Zhou Wu looked at the time, it was already ten o'clock in the evening, since his subordinates thought that it was suspicious to launch a general attack in advance, then start the general attack, Zhou Wu directly ordered the artillery regiment Zhang Ercheng, asking him to use all the artillery fire of the artillery regiment to bombard the Niu Brigade for more than 20 minutes before the general attack began, covering the large army to launch a general attack on the enemy t1706231537: