When the guerrilla leader heard that the commander of the PLA army was still not at ease with them, he was a little disappointed, and said to Huang Shuisheng: "Chief, don't look at the poor weapons and equipment of our guerrillas, but they are very familiar with the terrain around Guzhen, and there is absolutely no harm in you taking us to Guzhen, and we promise to obey orders and never cause trouble to the large army."
The guerrilla leader hurriedly assured Huang Shuisheng that he would try to get them to act with the PLA troops, this kind of opportunity to be able to follow the PLA forces is rare, and not only seize the opportunity at this moment, there will be no such good time in the future Huang Shuisheng thought for a while, and felt that it was okay to have guerrillas go to Guzhen with them, at least they were familiar with the terrain there, so they should be guides, and as for those battles, they could try not to let them participate in them, and let them watch from the side.
So Huang Shuisheng nodded, let the guerrilla brothers follow the big army to move together, the guerrilla leader jumped up happily, hurriedly gave Huang Shuisheng a standard military salute, and hurriedly ran out to tell his subordinates that the brothers who were stretching their necks outside and waiting for the news went, there was a burst of cheers outside, at this moment Huang Shuisheng's brothers had all boarded the train, and all the ammunition and supplies were loaded on another train, and a regiment commander under Huang Shuisheng hurriedly ran to report: "Division commander, The team has all boarded the bus, whether to set off" Huang Shuisheng nodded: "Okay, go immediately, target Guzhen Station, and the reconnaissance battalion in front of you should pay attention to the vigilance around the railway" Huang Shui was afraid that his division would be blocked by the Kuomintang army on the way to Guzhen Station, so he had already sent out a reconnaissance battalion to catch up with the troops first, and he gave the reconnaissance battalion all the things that could be used for transportation, and ordered them to occupy the commanding heights in front of Guzhen Station and other favorable terrain before the large army arrived at Guzhen, and wait for the arrival of the large army.
The two trains galloped towards the south of Guzhen with billowing white smoke, Huang Shuisheng's brothers used to be mostly brothers in the cottage on Gaoyou Lake, and they were very good at fighting water wars, but they had never taken a train, and now they were sitting on this speeding train, galloping all the way to the south, everyone felt very novel, and felt that this train was too powerful, although it was dark outside, and nothing could be seen, but from the wind blowing outside the window, the speed of this train was quite fast, so according to this, Rushing to Guzhen Station in front of you is not something that can be reached in a while The brothers of the reconnaissance battalion finally rushed to a place called Dahezhuang in the north of Guzhen out of breath and stopped, in front of which is the Huhe River that crosses Guzhen, Guzhen is built along the river, across the east and west sides, and on the other side of the river is the garrison position of the Kuomintang Army's reinforced regiment, only to see the light of the searchlights there constantly dangling, all the roads leading to Guzhen are blocked by those Kuomintang troops, to capture Guzhen, you can only seize the Huhe River bridge five miles north of Guzhen, otherwise once the fight starts, If the enemy blows up the railway bridge that crosses the Hun River, the large force of the division headquarters will not be able to pass through the railway line, but can only temporarily find boats to cross the river and storm it; in that case it will not only increase casualties, but also make it impossible to capture Guzhen before the early hours of this morning, and there are still many Kuomintang troops around Guzhen, and once the battle here lasts for a long time, it will certainly be quite unfavorable to Huang Shuisheng's division, and it must be quickly resolved.
Huang Shuisheng, who was on the train, received a telegram from the brothers of the reconnaissance battalion, ordering the reconnaissance battalion to attack the Huhe railway bridge first and control the railway bridge, so that we would have the advantage of taking the train directly to the Guzhen railway station After receiving Huang Shuisheng's order, the commander of the reconnaissance battalion immediately ordered his brothers to divide into three teams, respectively from the east, north, and west directions to the Huhe River bridge, the bridge has been completely isolated by the Kuomintang troops with barbed wire and mine warfare, the bridge is covered with machine gun fortifications made of sandbags, a patrol with wolf dogs patrols back and forth along the railway under the light of the searchlight, the reconnaissance battalion commander They are hidden in a river beach barren grassland north of the bridge, Let a team of Scout Brothers go to see where the defenses on the bridge are weakest first, and then launch a surprise attack on the bridge when the time comes Soon several groups of scout brothers returned, and reported to the commander of the reconnaissance battalion that the bridge in front was heavily guarded, surrounded by patrols of Kuomintang soldiers, and in the middle of the bridge the enemy set up and tanks were guarding there, and the troops guarding the bridge were about a battalion of the enemy, and the enemy in the center of the bridge was the most numerous, the firepower was the fiercest, and there were fewer enemies on both sides, but there were barbed wire and mines, and it was difficult to pass smoothly The commander of the reconnaissance battalion is an old subordinate who has been following Huang Shuisheng, and he is also a veteran of the independent brigade under Zhou Wu before, and he has quite rich experience in actual combat, as soon as he heard the situation reported by the scout, he immediately said to his brothers: "The first and third companies feinted to attack the enemy patrols on both sides of the Huhe Bridge, and tried to attract the enemy to both sides of the bridge, and the second company was personally led by me to attack the front of the bridge, and the enemy had a battalion of troops, and the number was almost the same as ours, but they had a geographical advantage, and their weapons were much better than ours.
Brothers, pay attention to luring the enemy, do not collide head-on, otherwise we will suffer a big loss here, as long as we hold out for more than half an hour, the division commander's large army will be able to arrive by train immediately" After speaking, the three companies of the reconnaissance battalion went up to the bridge, and the two companies on both sides of the patrol encountered the enemy, and the two sides did not say a word but a fight, and the sound of guns and cannons suddenly resounded on the fields on both sides of the north bank of the Hun River, and the battalion commander stationed on the bridge heard that he had been attacked, and hurriedly ordered the garrison to attack quickly, and he thought that it was the local guerrillas who came to attack the Huhe Bridge in Guzhen, and later found that the guerrillas could not have such combat effectiveness at all.
Only then did I realize that it was the regular troops who came to attack the Huhe Bridge, so the battalion commander hurriedly shook the phone and reported to the commander of the 12th Corps Reinforcement Regiment stationed in Guzhen City: "Tuanza, a large number of troops have been found attacking on both sides of the Huhe Bridge, and our bridge guard battalion is stubbornly resisting, the offensive is very fierce, and we ask for reinforcements."
The commander of the 12th Corps Reinforcement Regiment stationed in Guzhen is surnamed Jia, who came from the old army of Chief Chen, and has some courage and command ability, and has won the appreciation of his old superior, Chief Hu Lian, this time the 12th Corps was ordered to go west into Yongcheng to encircle and annihilate the lone team, Commander Huang is to follow the recommendation of Commander Hu Lian and leave him to stick to Guzhen here, before leaving, Commander Hu Lian told Commander Jia that Guzhen is the key enemy on the Jinpu Road, the key point on the artery of survival, must be held, once attacked, Then immediately blow up the Huhe River Bridge in the north, cut off the railway, prevent the use of the railway to directly attack in, and quickly contact the teams around Guzhen, asking them to come to the rescue quickly, but if it is really not possible, you can directly call the 12th Corps, and the 12th Corps will definitely come back to the rescue immediately.
Therefore, at this moment, when Regiment Commander Jia heard that the Huhe Bridge had suffered a large number of attacks, he immediately ordered the battalion commander stationed in the center of the bridge: "Don't fight fiercely with the communist army, immediately withdraw to the south bank of the Huhe River and blow up the Huhe Bridge."
The second company personally led by the commander of the reconnaissance battalion had already taken advantage of the moment when the enemy on the bridge was dealing with the PLA brothers on both sides, cut the barbed wire, cleared the mines, and touched the side of the bridge So, a burst of intensive gunfire suddenly sounded on the north side of the Huhe Bridge, those Kuomintang soldiers who hurriedly ran over to prepare to blow up the bridge suffered heavy casualties, and the rest of those who were not killed ran towards the center of the bridge with strange screams, the two American-made tanks parked on the bridge had already overtaken the scout brothers to open artillery bombardment, and the shells fell around the brothers who were charging towards the bridge, blowing up a cloud of fire and smoke, and the commander of the reconnaissance battalion was shocked when he saw that the bridge was full of explosives planted by the Kuomintang army in advance, These guys want to blow up the railway bridge connecting the north and south banks of Guzhen, that can't be done, once the north of the Huhe River bridge is blown up, then the division commander and his large army will not be able to take the train straight to the Guzhen in front, and the troops have to get off the train first, and then assemble to find boats to cross the river to storm the defensive positions of the Kuomintang troops on the other side of the river, so that the casualties of the troops will be heavy.
Thinking of this, the commander of the reconnaissance battalion immediately ordered his brothers to form a team to resist the enemy in the center of the bridge who were counterattacking him under the cover of tank guns and light and heavy machine gun fire, and the other brothers all went down to the bridge hole under the bridge to destroy the explosives buried in the bridge hole and prevent the enemy from blowing up the bridge Commander Jia, who was guarding Guzhen, saw that he was rushing towards the center of the bridge, knowing that these comers were not good and would definitely snatch the bridge over the Huhe River, and he must not let them succeed, so Commander Jia immediately ordered his artillery to concentrate fire on the places on the north side of the bridge where the explosives were hidden, and it was best to detonate those explosives to completely blow up the bridge.
When the chief of staff beside Regiment Commander Jia heard that he was going to bombard the bridge with artillery, he hurriedly persuaded him: "Tuanza, our team is still dealing with each other on both sides of the bridge, why don't we wait for those teams to withdraw and then blow up the bridge."
Regiment Commander Jia hurriedly shook his head and said to the chief of staff: "No, judging from the gunfire of those attacking the bridge, it must be regular troops, although the number is not very large, but their large troops must be coming from behind, if we don't blow up the bridge now, if we break in by train, what good way can we stop them on the north bank of the Hun River."
The chief of staff had nothing to say, he knew that this thing was not a good choice, and if the sacrifice of the brothers of a battalion guarding the bridge in front could be exchanged for a few days for the team to hold the fortified town, it would still be quite worth it t1706231537: