The beacon of youth

Chapter 412

Inspired by the piercing and fierce sound of bugles, all the combat troops of the Independent Brigade rushed out and countercharged the 57 Division of the 2th Army of the Kuomintang that was attacking. It was a head-on attack.

The purpose of Li Yong's doing this is not simply to destroy the enemy. The 2o3 Division is a well-known trump card in the Kuomintang army. If it is a one-on-one battle, their 2o3 Division can knock down any unit of the Communist Army. It is for this reason that Li Yong wants to take advantage of this battle to completely defeat the 2o3 Division , not only to destroy the enemy, but also to build confidence in our army and establish a heroic spirit that is invincible to me.

The first to rush out was Li Yuming's tank unit. Compared with the 2 Division of the Youth Army, the tank unit of the Independent Brigade only had eight Stuarts, which was considered a shortcoming of the Independent Brigade.

There are two reasons why Li Yong asked Gao Xiang to pull all the small-caliber infantry guns to the position before attacking. , one is to solve the urgent need for the defensive positions of the Fourth Division, and the other is to make early preparations for the dispatch of our own tank troops. First use anti-tank guns to disable the enemy's tank troops, and then use our own tanks to attack the enemy's infantry , This is also a strategy. Before the tank force of the Independent Brigade has not reached a certain scale, Li Yong will never use tanks to fight the enemy head-on.

Behind the eight tanks, there are more than [-] armored vehicles modified by the Independent Brigade, each of which has a large-caliber high-e machine gun.

Wei Gang's machine gun battalion was developed until April and May of 60. Through the continuous efforts of all the commanders and fighters of the independent brigade, it has developed from a simple infantry heavy machine gun battalion to a high-e machine gun air defense battalion with certain air defense capabilities. However, this air defense The battalion doesn't have many opportunities to fight against the air. After several experiments, Li Yong discovered that combining Wei Gang's high-e machine gun with an armored car specially modified to deal with enemy cavalry is a very good combat combination. Good results have been achieved in several battles, and this time again, more than [-] vehicles carrying high-e machine guns roared and followed the tanks, constantly charging forward.

Behind Wei Gang's machine gun battalion is the brigade of the Independent Brigade. Li Jiangguo's first battalion and Ma Quanyou's second battalion attacked from the left, Ma Changsheng's third battalion and Ning Jinshan's fourth battalion attacked from the right. In the middle area are Wang Huo's fifth battalion and Zhang Jinsong's reconnaissance battalion. Behind the attack area in the middle are the fighters of the supply battalion led by He Cuihua and the personnel of the independent brigade.

Li Yong and Wang Chengde led the engineers, repairmen, guards, and communications troops of the brigade headquarters, and rushed forward. In other words, except for a part of the baggage management personnel, the more than 9000 people of the independent brigade basically rushed up. Go up, including the brigade commander Li Yong and the political commissar Wang Chengde.

The shells of Gao Xiang's howitzer group e continued to extend forward, while the attacking troops of the independent brigade followed closely behind the bombing point and charged forward, leaving no chance for the enemy to breathe, rushing forward, taking advantage of his illness to kill him.

Here is a problem of coordinated operations of infantry, tanks and artillery. Following the bombing point of the assault, if this is not done well, it will cause unnecessary casualties to its own troops. After more than two years of continuous running-in and training, the independent brigade With the efforts of Li Yong and a group of commanders, a prototype of modern warfare has initially taken shape. Although this prototype is still very immature, compared with the People's Liberation Army that has just transformed from guerrilla warfare to regular warfare, it has already turned the world upside down. Variety.

The battle between the Second Army of the People's Liberation Army and the 57th Army of the Kuomintang lasted from midnight until almost noon the next day. The Second Army suffered heavy casualties, especially the Fourth Division, which fought hard against the enemy, with more than half of the casualties. All the personnel of the independent brigade that had been deployed were furious, so the battle was fought very fiercely, and the fighting movements were extremely fierce. Each battalion put the heavy firepower it could grasp at the forefront of the attacking troops, and when encountering resistance, they would Eliminate directly.

Each main combat battalion of the Independent Brigade is equipped with heavy machine guns and mortar units, so the firepower of the assault troops is extremely fierce. The flame-breathing Maxim heavy machine guns and dense mortar shells cover the sky like heavy rain.

The independent brigade stunned the 2o3 division with a sudden action. The Kuomintang youth army could never have imagined how the PLA, which was still trying to defend just now, suddenly had such a powerful assault force, but the youth army is the youth army. The Kuomintang troops were really different. After encountering the strong attack of the Independent Brigade, instead of being defeated immediately, they turned to a defensive state on the spot, resisting the attacking troops of the Independent Brigade without retreating.

Li Yong also secretly admired the actions of the 2o3 Division. It was not easy to pick out a few of the Kuomintang troops without being defeated after being hit by such a sudden and strong blow from the Independent Brigade.

It is not easy for the troops to switch from attacking to defensive. If they want to defend, they must have a position, at least some firepower points. The 2 division that hastily defended has no time to dig any fortifications. , Some soldiers and grassroots officers of the 3o2 Division had to mule up the corpses of dead soldiers as temporary defensive positions.

However, these temporary firepower points built by dead people may still be effective against ordinary light infantry. Using such fortifications to deal with tanks and armored vehicles rushing up from the independent brigade is purely a joke and courting death.

Li Yuming rushed and fought with eight tanks all the way. The Stuart was a mid-range tank during World War II. The relatively small 37mm main gun was very difficult to hit the opponent's tank, and it had no effect on the front armor of the main battle tank. What a big threat, but to hit such a temporary firepower point built by infantry is no different from a joke.

Stuart's turret on the move keeps turning, stop and kill the farther firepower point with the tank gun, and rush up and crush the nearby ones directly, let the steel track of the tank drop the firepower and take it with you. The weapons were all crushed.

The tank troops of the Independent Brigade rushed over like a sharp sword, followed by Wei Gang's machine gun battalion, with large-caliber high-e machine guns, facing groups of infantry, at close range The casualties caused by the state of e are terrifying. The interval and short point e smashed the soldiers of the 2 Division into bloody fragments all over the place.

This guy Wei Gang put aside the guards and communication soldiers, and carried a walkie-talkie on his back. While giving orders, he also held a high-end machine gun by himself, and fired at all targets in sight. For the fortifications and firepower points temporarily built by the soldiers of the 2 Division, they directly hit them at a long point, and used large-caliber machine gun bullets to break through the firepower.

The Independent Brigade used fierce firepower to wipe out all obstacles on the way forward, blowing up vegetation into ashes, blasting stones into pieces, and smashing flesh and blood to pieces.

There is a limit to people's psychological endurance. This stubborn 2o3 division was hard-pressed for more than 20 minutes under the fierce attack of the independent brigade. After a large number of casualties among officers and soldiers, it finally wavered. There was no hope of victory, no hope of victory. As a result of trying desperately to get back, some individual soldiers slipped away quietly.

This kind of behavior is like contagion. If there is the first one, there will be a second one, and if there is a second one, there will be a third one. Gradually, more and more soldiers are fleeing, and finally they collectively give up resistance and turn back with a bang. Ran.

The officers of the 2 Division were in a hurry and shouted loudly at their soldiers not to run away, but on the battlefield where the guns were loud, in battles where they might die several times or more than a dozen times every second, these officers' The cry seemed so feeble.

Shouting can't solve the problem, and even shooting a few people can't solve the problem. These officers realized that the situation is irreversible. This time, the awesome 2 division has been completely defeated, and such a defeat is likely to never move the mountain again. A chance to rise again.

Li Yong's walkie-talkie also heard the excited shouts of several front commanders: "Brigade Commander, Brigadier Commander, the enemy has been defeated, and the 2o3 Division has escaped."

The shouts in front made Li Yong's heart completely put in his stomach now. Brigadier Li Da understood very well that the defeat is like a mountain. No matter how strong the enemy is, it doesn't matter what fighting power is defeated. Victory again After being caught, the 2 Division will no longer have room to turn around. As long as the 3 Division is defeated, the 2th Army will not be far from being finished.

"The whole brigade has them, don't stop for a moment, rush over at speed, don't get entangled with the enemy's rout, target, attack the military headquarters of the 57th Army." Li Yong's roar echoed through dozens of walkie-talkies in the Independent Brigade It came out clearly.

The 2o3 Division is equipped with a large number of cars, but it is impossible to use cars when attacking the positions of the [-]th Division, so the cars are all stored in the back, and there is no time to think about cars when they are chased by the troops of the People's Liberation Army. At this time, the speed of the soldiers running on foot was incomparable with that of the Independent Brigade. The soldiers of the Independent Brigade chased and fired at them with their weapons. When they saw a figure, they swiped violently, and then smashed their heads. grenade.

At this time, the officers and soldiers of the 2o3 Division no longer had the rampant energy they used to have. Cheng Quan squatted in groups on both sides of the road waiting for containment, and brand new American weapons were thrown everywhere.

In addition to the tank unit led by Li Yuming, the independent brigade is followed by Wei Gang's machine gun battalion, and the infantry battalion following the machine gun battalion is also running crazy at this time, chasing him, chasing him fiercely, chasing him asshole, Take out the old tradition of the Eighth Route Army, catch the toad and pinch you out. ta.