Zhou Wu hurriedly put down the phone and said to the chief of staff Elder Xu and the political commissar Lao Niu: "The large army has launched a siege on the 12th Corps, and we are going to start acting immediately."
Lao Xu and Lao Niu nodded, the fat man's first division set off first and rushed to Cao Zhuangji, Ge Sanmin and Xiao Zheng's team followed closely, Zhou Wu and the military department followed Ge Sanmin and their team to act, Huang Shuisheng continued to guard here in Su County, as a reserve team, he had to wait for Zhou Wu's order at any time Su County is also a very important place, Huang Shuisheng is not only ready to rush up to support other brother troops at any time, but also has to stick to Su County, guarding against the Kuomintang army's counterattack on Su County.
The pressure is high.
The fat man hurriedly rushed to Caozhuang with the first division, the advance team was about to set off in advance, shouldering the task of reconnoitring the enemy's situation, and the fat man followed closely with a large army, and the troops marched more than 50 kilometers in a hurry, and finally arrived at the Caozhuang area on the side of the Hun River more than ten hours later, the brothers of the advance team had already connected with the militia team in Caozhuangji, and the militia brothers rushed to the entrance of the village to meet the fat man as soon as they heard that the PLA troops were coming.
The militia captain of Cao Zhuangji is a sturdy young man, surnamed Xie, when he saw that there were so many people in the fat man's team, he hurriedly stepped forward and recommended himself to the fat man: "Chief, our militia is familiar with the situation here, you let us fight the Jiang army with the big army, the villagers here hate those Jiang troops to death, and they are all looking forward to the People's Liberation Army to come and destroy them." ” When the fat man heard this, he hurriedly asked Xiao Xie: "What are those Jiang Jun miscellaneous doing here?"
Xiao Xie said: "That was a few years ago, when the Anti-Japanese War was just won, the local puppet army turned into the Jiang army, they colluded with the bandits here, rampant in the township, bullying men and women, killing our cadres and militia, originally we had a district squadron here, and then under the siege of the Jiang army and bandit troops, it was dispersed, most of the brothers of the district squadron were caught and killed by the Jiang army and bandits, and those of us who survived went underground, and some of the undetermined ones gradually left the team.
Now that your army is coming, we're going to turn over. ” As soon as the fat man heard Xiao Xie's story, he immediately nodded and said to him: "Those damn Jiang army miscellaneous pieces, just know how to bully the poor people, this time I have to let them know how powerful our People's Liberation Army is, okay, that's it, your militia will join our army and join the reconnaissance team." ” Xiao Xie hurriedly stood up and saluted: "Thank you, chief, just join the big army, don't talk about the reconnaissance team, even if we come to cook, we are willing."
"Xiao Xie is a militia that has gone underground to struggle, and today they can join the ranks of the People's Liberation Army, for them, it is definitely a big thing, with the support of the PLA troops, the militia brothers can finally straighten their waists.
The fat man immediately ordered the battalion commander of the advance team to put Xiao Xie and his militia brothers into his team, and immediately issued each of the militia brothers a Hanyang-made rifle, touching these Hanyang-made rifles that were not too new, Xiao Xie and the militia brothers were overjoyed, the military uniforms were still in the back of the county, and it was too late to send them down, so let's make do with it first.
Xiao Xie immediately suggested to the fat man: "The topography of our Caozhuang is very special, although it is a large piece of land, but because it is on the bank of the Hun River, there are many ditches and pits, and there is a large soil slope in the south of Zhuangzi that was piled up when digging the river before, which can block Jiang's army there. ” As soon as the fat man saw that there was a living map of Xiao Xie and others who were familiar with the local terrain, he immediately put aside the military map, carefully inquired about the terrain and landform here, and under the leadership of Xiao Xie, he walked around Cao Zhuangji, and the fat man immediately had an idea in his heart, this is definitely a good place to block the 12th Corps from breaking through to the east, in the Huaihe Plain in northern Anhui, it is really difficult to find a place like this that is blocked by both the Hun River and the ravine, and the fat man secretly admires Zhou Wu in his heart, He could immediately judge the general terrain of Caozhuangji just by looking at the map, which was really remarkable.
But how could Zhou Wu conclude that the 12th Corps that broke through would take this line of Caozhuang Collection, if they broke through from other routes, then wouldn't our First Division dig a pit here and wait in vain Soon the fat man saw the clue on the map, on this battlefield situation map, Cao Zhuangji here is a very large gap in the encirclement of the People's Liberation Army, the frontal width is more than ten kilometers, with Commander Li's meticulous and cautious, he would not have made such a mistake, if it were not for Commander Li's mistake, then this frontal width of ten kilometers of the encirclement gap was deliberately left to Commander Huang of the 12th Corps, what is the highest level of encirclement warfare, this "encirclement three missing one", Deliberately letting go of a way of life to the enemy is one of the methods, plus the rest of the PLA troops in all directions are pressing towards the 12th Corps, and when the time comes, I can't help but rush to Cao Zhuangji from the 12th Corps, where Zhou Wu's tens of thousands of horses are waiting for him to throw himself into the net Not to mention the fat man, they dug pits and built fortifications here in Caozhuangji to prepare for war, waiting for the team of the 12th Corps to come to the net, first talk about the Commander Huang of the 12th Corps in Shuangduiji, who had just issued an order to the following army teams to pursue the team near Yongcheng, and suddenly there was a thunderous shelling sound in front, and before he could figure out where the shelling sound came from, the phone call of the 14th Army in front of him reached the corps headquarters: "Chief Huang, the shelling, large-scale artillery bombardment is smashing on the head of our 14th Army, There are already a lot of people in front of us, and it looks like they are rushing towards us."
Commander Huang was taken aback, and hurriedly unfolded the map to see what the position of the 14th Army was in the northeast of Shuangduiji, in the middle of Xiao County and Yongcheng of Commander Du and them in the west According to the latest information they received, the large troops in East China were still on the front line in Taierzhuang, how could it be possible to assemble in large numbers near Yongcheng in such a short period of time, and that the air force's reconnaissance planes were reconnoitring back and forth over the Xubang area every day Commander Huang is a senior general who taught at the Military Academy, and has made many achievements in the Northern Expedition War, with considerable military experience, and during the Anti-Japanese War, he also had a good performance against the Japanese invaders, but after all, the opportunity to participate in the actual battle was not as much as Commander Li of the East China Field Army.
Commander Li was still a squad leader under Ye Ting at that time, and later participated in the Nanchang Uprising, Commander Li went from squad leader to company commander to battalion commander step by step, and did not skip a grade in the middle, and when the Red Army army went north on the Long March, together with Commander Chen, they persisted in the guerrilla war in the south for more than three years, and those who could survive in a rather sinister environment must be not simple characters, these experiences have created Commander Li's perseverance, composure and unusually correct judgment, As a commander commanding hundreds of thousands of troops, these elements are precisely crucial, and Commander Huang's career as a horse is relatively smooth sailing, almost never encountering any setbacks, and most of the 12 Corps under his command are the starting team of the powerful Kuomintang figure Chief Chen, all of them are American weapons and equipment, as well as tank armored troops, and the aircraft is also on call, which can be called the trump card of the aces in the Kuomintang army, the hardware is so powerful, and the morale and fighting spirit are also good.
In addition, under the influence of the factor of always looking down on the army, Commander Huang erroneously believed that the artillery bombardment suffered by the 14th Army was deliberately carried out by a small group of troops, and it was not worth making a fuss.
In this way, the 12th Corps wasted half a day in the analysis and study of the battle situation, and in the evening, intensive shelling was heard from all directions near Shuangduiji, and the 10th and 85th armies sent telegrams, claiming that they had all suffered large-scale artillery bombardment, and the preface position study found that a large number of people were storming At this time, Commander Huang realized that his 12th Corps might have been surrounded by a large number of troops, and his reaction was relatively fast, and he immediately ordered the 14th Corps, which was at the forefront, to immediately retreat towards Shuangduiji, where there are many terrain and ravines, forming many natural trench barriers, if they are used, they can definitely hold on for a while.
At the same time, Commander Huang ordered the remaining three armies to quickly dig pits and build fortifications along the perimeter of the double stack, send out those tanks and armored vehicles, and form a defensive line with pillboxes and ravines, he believes that the army has no weapons that can deal with American tanks, and the tanks are on the edge of the fortifications and pillboxes, which are equivalent to a steel fortress that will never be destroyed, and then configure three-dimensional fire defense in depth, anyway, the troops have a lot of heavy weapons, and the ammunition supply can be airdropped by the air force, as long as there are food, ammunition and materials, There is absolutely no problem for more than 100,000 elite soldiers of the Twelfth Corps to defend here for half a month in Shuangduiji, and the Yellow Corps of Nian Zhuang also held there for 17 days, if it were not for the slow action of Qiu Li's Corps, the Yellow Corps of Nian Zhuang would not have been wiped out by East China like this.
While his soldiers were digging pits with sapper shovels to build fortifications, Commander Huang hurriedly appealed to Chairman Chiang in Nanjing, asking the chairman to order the surrounding troops of the two Li Corps and Chief Du's troops to come and reinforce them t1706231537: