Chapter 269 6. Annihilate 2 enemy divisions in one day and one night

On the night of October 4th, the 60th Army and the 61st Army of our 13th Vertical, with the cooperation of the brother troops, suddenly surrounded the south with two regiments of the 45th Division and one regiment of the 73rd Division with more than 3,000 people. 116 The regiment detoured to the enemy's rear, cutting off the enemy's retreat. The 111th Regiment, the 109th Regiment, and the 115th Regiment approached the enemy frontier positions of Nanheiyao and Nanliao before dawn on the 5th. The enemy's 45th Division is one of the main forces of Yan's army. It has not been severely hit by our army, and now it is suddenly surrounded by us, panicking.On the morning of the same day, the enemy tried to break out of the encirclement under the cover of aircraft and artillery, but the continuous counterattacks were all repelled by us.When the enemy saw that they could not break through, they turned to resist and wait for help.

In order to prevent the enemy from escaping, our army gradually tightened the encirclement. At 5:30 p.m. on the 5th, the 115th and 109th regiments first attacked Nanpan Village. There was an open field about 30 meters long on the front of the 1st company and 1st platoon of the 115th Regiment. The enemy was hiding in the courtyard opposite, and the firepower controlled the area from three aspects. At the beginning of the assault, the 1st platoon was shot sideways by enemy fire, several soldiers fell one after another, and the platoon leader was also killed.The first assault failed. Seeing this situation, Yang Qingsheng, the leader of the 2nd row and 5th squad who was standing firmly on the ground, immediately led the whole class to rush forward for the second time.Holding the gun in his right hand, he rushed towards the courtyard occupied by the enemy at an astonishing speed. The bullets fired by the enemy roared like a gust of wind, and several soldiers fell down again.

Yang Qingsheng, who was at the front, was also grazed by the enemy's bullets on his shoulder. He continued to charge towards the enemy without any hesitation, and rushed all the way into the courtyard.The enemy was stunned by this sudden action, and before they could recover, a row of grenades had blossomed among them.The defending enemy left the dead and wounded and fled in a hurry.But at this time, the follow-up troops were suppressed by the enemy's side fire, and after a while, a battalion of the enemy counterattacked the courtyard occupied by Yang Qingsheng.Yang Qingsheng ran out of bullets and grenades, so he had to retreat and reorganize the third attack.

The battle was fierce.The enemy's firepower was too fierce, and several soldiers fell down one after another as soon as they rushed into the open ground. The third assault was again suppressed by the enemy's firepower. Yang Qingsheng looked around and saw that there were not many comrades left.In this assault, one of the remaining three comrades in the first row died. Now he had no time to think about more things, and quickly reorganized the remaining personnel.Combine the remaining fighters from Squad 9 and Squad 5 into blasting and assault groups, preparing for the fourth assault.At this moment, the 2nd company came up, and they quickly cooperated with the 2nd company to carry out the fourth assault and rushed to the side of the front yard.

Yang Qingsheng quickly set up the ladder and was the first to go up to the house.As soon as he rushed to the roof, he threw a grenade. Two enemies who were shooting on the roof were killed, and the other two were scared away.After the roof was occupied, he used the enemy's corpse as a cover, threw a row of grenades into the courtyard, and shouted loudly: "Give up your guns and don't kill!" The shouts echoed in the courtyard through the sound of guns and guns.Following his yelling, the enemies in the courtyard stopped shooting. After a while, more than 10 enemies obediently came out of the courtyard, knelt on the ground and handed in their guns to him.The soldiers rushed forward and handed over the enemy's guns.Yang Qingsheng shouted to the two courtyards in front again, and three more enemies surrendered their guns.

In this way, Yang Qingsheng captured 4 enemy courtyards in a row, captured 23 enemy people, captured 3 light and heavy machine guns, 2 small artillery pieces, and 10 rifles.At this time, after fierce fighting, the commandos from all walks of life also defeated the stubborn enemy, and quickly developed to the northwest of the village, directly attacking the enemy's division headquarters.Yang Qingsheng survived the catastrophe, even defeated the enemy's stronghold, and made great contributions to the liberation of Taiyuan. The 109th regiment, which attacked from the side, also played extremely tenaciously.During the battle, Wang Zhen, the squad leader of the No. 9 Squad of the No. 2 Company, led the whole class to the front. They climbed up to a tall one-story house and found two mountain cannons brightly placed in the gate of the enemy division headquarters on the opposite side. His eyes narrowed for joy There was a gap, and he quickly led two soldiers to the gate of the enemy division.Just then, the enemy fired a volley of bullets through the window.Two soldiers were wounded and fell to the ground.

He stopped for a while, holding the explosive package in one hand and two grenades in the other, and rushed towards the entrance of the enemy division by himself.Suddenly an enemy rushed at him with a bayonet in his hand.With quick eyes and quick hands, he immediately threw a grenade at the enemy.Then, he quickly blasted open the gate of the enemy division headquarters with explosives.Seeing that he was about to climb up to Shanpao, suddenly, two grenades exploded beside him.He was injured in many places, and the severe pain almost made him go into shock. The enemy in the window was still shooting, and the comrades behind were suppressed by the enemy's fire and could not move forward.Seeing this scene, Wang Zhen endured the severe pain and threw a grenade with all her strength. "Boom!" The enemy machine guns stopped firing.The comrades behind rushed up, and the health worker saw that Wang Zhen was seriously injured, and planned to carry him off the line of fire, but Wang Zhen refused to agree.The hygienist had no choice but to bandage him on the spot.As soon as the wound was bandaged, he grabbed the grenade untied by the health worker, and quickly ran to the position again.

In the war years, revolutionary heroism is by no means empty words.Perhaps it is because of this that there are fighting heroes like Yang Qingsheng and Wang Zhen, and our army has won all-conquering and invincible victories. While the 115th and 109th regiments surrounded and wiped out the enemies in Nanpan Village, our 116th and 111th regiments also attacked a regiment of the 72nd Division defending the enemy in Nanheiyao Village, and quickly divided and surrounded the enemy.Fighting until 7:00 am on the 6th, most of the enemy was captured, and a total of more than 1,700 people below the enemy regiment leader were captured.

By 9 o'clock on the 6th, our 60th Army annihilated the 40th Division of the enemy army in Xiaodian and a battalion of the enemy army in Gongjiabao. Our 61st Army annihilated all of the enemy's 45th Division in Nanpan Village and Nanheiyao. group. Mao Zedong immediately called Xu Xiangqian: "It is very comforting to wipe out the two enemy divisions." "You have a good opportunity to completely wipe out the enemies in the south and east. After you succeed, the enemy will shake. I hope you will take advantage of the victory and expand, wipe out the peripheral enemies one by one, and occupy All airports."

Xu Xiangqian resolutely carried out this instruction and continued to command the troops to launch attacks.After 11 days and nights of fighting, we broke through the enemy's southern defense line and advanced about 6 kilometers in depth, completely occupied the South Airfield and controlled the North Airfield with firepower, and occupied Shizuizi and Fenggeliang from the southeast and northeast, thus gaining ground in the east. Opened a gap in the enemy's defense system.