Chapter 62 9. Liu Bocheng was locked in a small cave to direct the battle

On September 3rd and 4th, the 6th column, which was the main attacker, suffered heavy casualties and only wiped out 2 battalions of the enemy. Liu Bocheng couldn't sit still at the command post. On the evening of the 5th, Liu Bocheng took Li Da and his combat staff, and a basket of overripe Feicheng big fat peaches, to the headquarters of the sixth column, and called a meeting of the heads of each column.These peaches were given to Chief Liu Deng by the local people. Liu Bocheng asked the guards to pick 80 peaches for the heads of each column to try.When the peaches are finished, the meeting is also over.Liu Bocheng gave each column a death order: the entire 3rd division must be eaten.

When night fell, both sides in the war called out to withdraw their troops, and each stopped shooting. Guns and guns had been rumbling on the battlefield for the past few days, but suddenly it became quiet, which made people's hearts flutter. In addition to the hot weather, the air was tense and suffocating. In order to prevent enemy air strikes, Du Yide, the political commissar of the 6th column, asked the soldiers to dig an air-raid shelter under the wall of the war room, supported by a door panel, which could only accommodate one person, and he could not stand upright.Liu Bocheng stayed here to take command, and he called the commanders of each column commanding the battle ahead.

On September 6, when the defeat of the 3rd Division was decided, Li Da, the chief of staff, came to the entrance of the cave and called out, "Mr. Liu, come out and get some air." In the cave, Liu Bocheng was talking with the commanders of each column. "The enemy wants to run, pay attention to the movement, catch and kill the fleeing enemy at any time!" Li Da saw the tall Liu Bocheng in the cave, unable to straighten up at all, and could not put anything to sit down, so he had to squat in there. It is also necessary to keep answering and making calls to understand the combat situation of each column.

This is simply not a place for people to stay!Who placed the supreme commander of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army in such a small hole?Deng Xiaoping, political commissar, and Li Da, chief of staff.They said that Commander Liu kept making phone calls and often forgot to cover himself when enemy planes came, so he had to be locked up.Therefore, the soldiers were ordered to dig a temporary air-raid shelter under the wall of the war room, and moved the telephone inside, making it the underground command post of Commander Liu Bocheng.Let Liu Bocheng go down to the cave, he is not willing at all.What kind of hole is that? If you lean down sideways, you can only accommodate one person.

"Not now, the situation is urgent. The enemies of Tianye Temple are trying to break out under the cover of the plane, and the division commander Zhao Xitian is among them; the enemies in other villages also show signs of fleeing." Liu Bocheng raised his head and said to Li Da at the entrance of the cave. "Don't let the enemy run away!" Just as Li Da said this, Deng Xiaoping came. "Old Liu, your body is too tall and too big. If I get down, you don't have to squat like that." Deng Xiaoping laughed heartily as he said. "Just a moment, get out right away."

The three chiefs discussed briefly and issued the last combat order: "Attention all troops, the enemy must retreat across the board, we must resolutely develop the offensive into a pursuit, and develop the victory of the battle into the victory of the campaign!"