Which team to send to block the westward advance of the Yellow Corps Zhou Wu hurriedly searched in his mind, he kept looking for a place on the map that could block the westward advance of the Yellow Corps, and suddenly a small town on the side of the canal came into his eyes, this place is just next to the Longhai Line, not far to the east is the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal across the town and heading south, if we can block the Yellow Corps in this place, then we can buy time for the follow-up troops.
Zhou Wu immediately called Commander Li and said what he meant, the commander listened to Zhou Wu's words, and said to him happily: "Comrade Zhou Wu, your judgment is very strong, our field army headquarters also thinks that it is best to ambush and surround the Yellow Corps in Nianzhuang, this place is still fifty or sixty kilometers away from Xuzhou, and the Qiu Li Corps from the south and north is still hundreds of kilometers away from here, you are responsible for blocking the Yellow Corps from advancing west into Xuzhou, and the Northern Jiangsu Column and the other two armies are going out of Suqian, Intercept the Qiu Li Corps going north, so that you will have to hold on to the Yellow Corps in the Nian Zhuang area for more than three days, and when the large forces in the Lunan area arrive, you can complete the comprehensive encirclement of the Yellow Corps, so the success of this campaign has a lot to do with your blockade, I now order you to quickly advance eastward, cut off the Longhai line, control the Pixian station, and block the Yellow Corps near Nian Zhuang."
The Xuzhou headquarters was in a hurry, the communications troops kept reporting the situation on the front line back and forth, the transmitter was ticking, as the actual commander of the battle of Xubang, Chief Du had not closed his eyes and slept well for several days, and the new eighteenth army had defected and surrendered, resulting in the immediate opening of the north of Jiawang, and the fifty-eighth army in the Jiawang area had not yet been contacted, and an ominous premonition arose in Chief Du's mind, and he was worried that if something happened in the Jiawang area, then Xuzhou would really not be able to stay, so he hurriedly sent a telegram to order the Yellow Corps, which was advancing west along the Longhai Line: "Immediately speed up the march, move closer to Xuzhou, don't camp and rest anymore, and march to Xuzhou in a hurry" At this moment, Commander Huang, who received a telegram from Chief Du, is camping in Chengzhuang, not far from Nian Zhuang, to rest, the team has been on the road for the past two days, although it is a mechanized force, but his brothers are still complaining, Commander Huang does not want to continue to rush in the dark night, so he camped here in Chengzhuang to rest, at this time he received an order from Chief Du to immediately pull out the camp and go west, not to stay, he felt that Chief Du was a little fussed, and he had sent out a lot of scout teams around, They all came back and reported that they did not find any signs, according to this calculation, the nearest to them is also more than 80 kilometers away in the Taierzhuang area, they are now here in Chengzhuang, only 50 kilometers away from Xuzhou City, with their entire mechanized team in the daytime marching speed, tomorrow early in the morning, can rush to Xuzhou City in the afternoon.
It's dark at night, and it's easy to have problems with the troops' march, so let's wait until the early hours of tomorrow morning.
In this way, Commander Huang gave up a great opportunity to escape from the encirclement of the East China Liberation Army in vain, at this moment on the roads south of Taierzhuang, Ge Sanmin under Zhou Wu with a regiment of troops, lightly armed and desperately rushed towards the Nianzhuang area, Ge Sanmin gave a death order to the team: no matter how dark and bright the vision is not clear, no matter how many commanders and fighters are killed, and if they die, they are considered martyrs, we must rush to the Nianzhuang area before the early hours of tomorrow morning, otherwise I will resign and accept the punishment of the army commander, before I die, I'm going to have to pull a few pads, so you'll have to give me the best of luck and force the march to the mill."
Ge Sanmin's management of the army has always been extremely strict, and his brothers are also accustomed to his strictness, running away is simply a commonplace, but this time it is different, more than 70 kilometers of distance to run within ten hours, that is also a big extreme challenge for Ge Sanmin's brothers who are used to running, but the military order is like a mountain, the iron willpower of the PLA soldiers, how can they bow their heads in the face of more than 70 kilometers of difficulties The commander of the reconnaissance company under Ge Sanmin first led a company of scout brothers to ride fast horses and captured trucks and jeeps to open the way to reconnoiter the enemy situation in front and provide intelligence support for the arrival of the large army behind.
When Zhou Wu heard that Ge Sanmin had run to the front of the team, he smiled and said to the old chief of staff Xu and the political commissar Niu next to him: "Ge Sanmin is holding back his strength this time, he has been compared to the fat man again and again, this time he finally seized an opportunity to confront the enemy head-on, how can he let it go, it must be the temper of the bull, the division commander quit, and personally ran to the front of the team to do the work of the reconnaissance company commander." ” When Commissar Niu and Lao Xu heard this, they hurriedly pointed at Zhou Wu and said to him: "This is to blame on you, what kind of head you have, what kind of soldiers you have, Ge Sanmin is your old subordinate, he learned all those things from you, Lao Zhou, if it weren't for the fact that you have two or three army commanders under your command now, it is estimated that you will also have itchy hands at this time, and run to the front like Ge Sanmin." ” Zhou Wu listened to the words of Lao Xu and Niu Political Commissar, and said with a smile: "Hey, I should not have been such a big official if I knew this, you see, I can only stay here now, in a daze at the map and telegram, I really miss the feeling of galloping on the battlefield with my brothers before, the good times are gone" Zhou Wu sighed, sighing that he couldn't run to the front with men and horses to fight the enemy like Ge Sanmin.
Ge Sanmin and his brothers from the reconnaissance company rushed all the way to the mill village, it was good to have fast horses and cars, and the journey of dozens of kilometers would be there in a while, and when they were about to march to the Pixian station, the scouts in front came with news that a regiment of the Kuomintang army was stationed at the Pixian station, and the station was surrounded by barbed wire, and the enemy had set up roadblocks, and a large number of mines had been laid along the railway.
When Ge Sanmin heard this, he hurriedly said to the commander of the reconnaissance company: "Xiao Huo, what do you think, should we fight at Pixian Station" Ge Sanmin thought to himself that he had rushed to Pixian anyway, and it was only more than ten miles away from that milling village, and the National Legion stationed at Pixian Station was estimated to be the vanguard of the Yellow Corps Ge Sanmin hurriedly radioed his plan to Zhou Wu, who immediately called back to agree with Ge Sanmin's idea of capturing Pixian Station, and instructed him not to fall in love with war, to capture Pixian Station as quickly as possible, and to cut off the Yellow Corps' westward advance As soon as Ge Sanmin saw that Zhou Wu agreed with his plan, he discussed with Xiao Huo Company Commander, and the team was divided into two groups, led by Ge Sanmin and Xiao Huo respectively, taking advantage of the cover of night to quietly touch Pixian Station.
The officers and soldiers in the Pixian station are sleeping in it at the moment, the rapid march in the past few days can make them tired, this evening they just arrived at the station, the brothers all said that they were too tired to do it, they should rest before leaving, the regiment commander who led the team was also tired enough, thinking that since they had already arrived at the station, they would sleep first, and then say, tomorrow when the division headquarters arrived, the brothers could take the train for a while to arrive in Xuzhou.
It is estimated that they are too tired, as soon as the heads of the officers and soldiers of this regiment rested on the ground, there was a snoring sound, Ge Sanmin and Huo Company Commander led two teams of scout brothers to cut the protective barbed wire outside, bypassed the mines that the soldiers hastily and casually arranged, crossed the obstacle in front of the station, and touched the sentry who was yawning on the edge of the platform.
Before these guys could understand what was going on, Ge Sanmin's brothers cleanly eliminated all the sentries like tigers pounced on sheep, and these yawning sentries struggled for a while, and then lay on the ground and rested forever.
Ge Sanmin and Huo Lian Commander rushed into the two brightly lit houses on the side of the platform, kicked open the door, and shouted: "Don't move, we are the People's Liberation Army, surrender our guns and don't kill."
The officers and soldiers who were sleeping were in a frenzy, a few guys hurriedly jumped up and resisted by grabbing the weapons next to them, the weapons in the hands of Ge Sanmin's brothers opened fire, the crisp sound of gunfire pierced the silence of the night sky at the station, and the officers who tried to resist and escape suddenly fell in a pool of blood, and the rest of the soldiers obediently raised their hands, just like that, Ge Sanmin and they only took less than ten minutes to capture the Pixian station, and captured more than 2,000 regiments of the vanguard of the Yellow Corps, When the sleepy-eyed regiment commander saw that Ge Sanmin and their People's Liberation Army only had more than 100 horses, he regretted it to death, stomped his feet and scolded himself for being a bastard, he didn't see the true face of the People's Liberation Army, and he was disarmed and taken prisoner in a daze.
Ge Sanmin saw that the regiment commander was not convinced, and hurriedly stepped forward to say to him: "This time it is your fate, surrender and become a prisoner of our People's Liberation Army, if you really fight, I'm afraid your brother will have to lie here at this time, believe it or not." ” The regiment commander saw that the PLA officer in front of him was talking so loudly, knowing that this guy was not easy to mess with, and now that he had fallen into the hands of others, it was useless to regret it, it was better to be honest, he immediately nodded to Ge Sanmin and said: "Yes, yes, I believe, I believe" Ge Sanmin hurriedly reported the news of the capture of Pixian Station to Zhou Wu, at this moment Zhou Wu did not close his eyes, and was following Lao Xu and Lao Niu in the command to discuss the battle situation, after receiving the news that Ge Sanmin had captured Pixian Station, Zhou Wu was overjoyed, and hurriedly sent a telegram to reward Ge Sanmin, and ordered him to immediately blow up all the railways near Pixian Station, and immediately continue to move in the direction of Nianzhuang t1706231537: