Chapter 80 6. Fight against powerful enemies alone

The two reorganized divisions of the Subei attacking enemy have a total of 6 and a half brigades. If these two divisions cannot be quickly divided, it will be difficult for our army to annihilate each of them with superior strength.Therefore, our army can only win the entire battle by boldly implementing in-depth interspersed and detours and dividing the connection between the entire 11th division and the entire 69th division.The task of the enemy's depth is undertaken by the 1st column. On the evening of the 15th, several flares shot into the night sky. Commander Ye Fei of the 1st column immediately ordered the troops to quickly penetrate the enemy's longitudinal direction.From Fengshan to the southernmost point, they divided into three routes and interspersed.The 1st Brigade quickly seized Jingertou, the 2nd Brigade attacked Xiaodianzi, and the 3rd Brigade went straight to Caojiaji.

Shortly after the attack was launched.The 1st Brigade soon reached the line of Jing'ertou and Xuzhuang, the 2nd Brigade's attack on Xiaodianzi was blocked, and the 3rd Brigade, with the 9th Regiment as the vanguard, crossed the Luoma Lake depression and entered the area west of Caojiaji.At this time, Commander Ye judged that the enemy had discovered our army's attempt to shrink its troops and was readjusting its deployment, so he decided to withdraw the troops to the original assembly position first. After dawn, both our 1st and 2nd brigades withdrew to the designated area, while the 3rd brigade had already entered the enemy's depths. Due to the communication on foot, we could not withdraw when we received the order.The two regiments of the 3rd Brigade (8th and 9th Regiments) encountered the headquarters of the enemy's reorganized 11th Division, which was moving towards Suqian, on the way to advance deep into the enemy.According to Commander Ye's recollection, when he received the report, he felt covered in cold sweat. The two solitary regiments got into the depths of the enemy's army, and they might have to "make dumplings".Really mad!However, the brave and witty 8th and 9th regiments captured several enemy telephone linemen. After finding out the enemy's situation, they thought that the opportunity was rare, so they launched an attack. Zhuang, blocking the enemy from the northeast.Yu Mugeng, chief of staff of the 9th Regiment, led his troops to attack Caojiaji and broke into the enemy division headquarters.

The fighting was fierce. Mao Xingbiao of the 6th Company of the 9th Regiment led an assault platoon and circled Caojiaji, from the gap between the enemy's strongholds to a small village next to Caojiaji.One of the enemy's battalions was stationed in the village, and our assault platoon was separated from the company, so we couldn't get in touch for a while.Mao Xingbiao asked the brother troops to cooperate, and at the same time asked a squad to shoot violently in the west of the village, only shooting and not attacking.In the dark night, the enemy panicked and rushed towards the west of the village in large numbers.Mao Xingbiao led two squads, took advantage of the gap from the east of the village, and launched a fierce attack. With the cooperation of the brothers, the battle ended in half an hour, killing and wounding 10 enemies, capturing 65 enemies, and capturing 3 machine guns.

In this battle, my assault platoon suffered seven or eight casualties, equivalent to a squad.When they received an order from their superiors to quickly seize the small tomb near Caojiaji, block enemy reinforcements, and cover the brother troops attacking Caojiaji, they immediately changed four squads into three and occupied the small tomb.At this time, they have completely lost contact with the company and are in an isolated and helpless situation.When the reinforcements passed through the graves, they were fiercely blocked by them.The enemy went crazy and used several times their power to attack the small tomb bag.In the 3 squads of my assault platoon, one person lay on a grave bag, and repelled the enemy's 3 charges in a row.

The enemy began to bombard the small grave with howitzers, and the shrapnel flew back and forth like hail.More than half of the assault platoon suffered casualties, all 3 machine guns were blown up, ammunition was almost exhausted, 2/3 of the graves were flattened, and shallow coffin boards were blown all over the ground.But when the enemy's bombardment stopped, Mao Xingbiao immediately ordered the wounded to stand firm, and the rest climbed onto the enemy's dead body to touch the grenade.The enemy's fourth attack came from three sides. The soldiers of the assault platoon squatted in the bomb crater, lying behind the grave, one grenade after another hit the enemy group, and repelled the enemy's fourth attack. .

At this time, the 9th regiment had been ordered to withdraw from the battle. The 6th company fought fiercely with the enemy three times at the bridgehead position. There were only more than 30 people left in the whole company, and they finally broke a bloody path and withdrew.However, the assault platoon still did not receive the retreat order because the communicator who informed the assault platoon died on the way.They persisted in Xiaofenbao for 6 hours, and there were only 11 people left in the platoon.At this time, there will be white belly in the east, and the sky is about to dawn.Although he didn't receive orders from his superiors, Mao Xingbiao listened to the sparse gunfire, judged in silence for a while, and said decisively: "The large troops have withdrawn, and we will withdraw too!"

However, the enemy had already surrounded Xiaofen Bao, and they broke through the encirclement twice in a row, but failed to get out. Squad leader No. 3 was shot twice and was seriously injured. He looked at Mao Xingbiao and said, "Leave me, let me die here, and cover everyone to get out." Mao Xingbiao didn't look at him, but stared at the dead body of the enemy and said: "We live and die together, we can't leave a wounded person behind!" At this time, the east was already bright, and the enemy surrounded but did not attack, obviously wanting to wipe them all out in one fell swoop after dawn.At this critical moment, Mao Xingbiao suddenly called the remaining 11 commandos to the center of the cemetery. After whispering a few words, everyone crawled out separately, dragged back a dozen corpses of the enemy, and stripped off the enemy's clothes , Put your own clothes on the enemy, and then lay the enemy's corpses in a horizontal position, one by one with their guns on the grave bag, revealing their heads, with a few grenades next to their heads, in a desperate posture.The 11 of them put on the enemy's clothes, crawled into the densest group of enemy corpses on the left, and lay motionless in the blood of the enemy.

Sure enough, at daybreak, the enemy launched another counterattack, rushing from their side to Xiaofenbao.As soon as a large group of enemies flashed by, Mao Xingbiao picked up the squad leader of No. 3 on his back, and led everyone to withdraw towards the small woods outside the cemetery. The enemy rushed to nothing, and all 11 heroes got into the grove... In this battle, the 9th regiment wiped out most of the enemy's engineering battalion and cavalry battalion, captured more than 600 enemies, and defeated the enemy's artillery regiment.It was only two or three hundred meters away from the command post of the enemy's 11th division, which caught the enemy by surprise.After dawn, the enemy found that our army attacking the area was not strong, and the solitary army went deep, and hurriedly dispatched its 18th brigade to counterattack with all its strength, thinking of a counter-encirclement.But I have controlled the way back.At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, my 8th and 9th regiments all withdrew from the battle.