ebookland Chapter 524: Annihilation of the New 5th Army (5)
Chapter 524: Annihilation of the New 5th Army (5)
We rested in this village for half an hour, had lunch, and then imprisoned all the prisoners in two rooms!
Tang Yantian ordered Hao Yong to lead his men to continue scouting southward.
After all, we are now in the enemy's rear, so we should look for some valuable combat targets!
Hao Yong led the two armored vehicles of the armored reconnaissance company and ran southward. After running only 4-5 miles, he saw three villages not far from each other.
He hurriedly took a telescope and started to scout carefully. What he saw was really shocking. There were a large number of Kuomintang soldiers in the three villages, and even some tanks and artillery!
Hao Yong quickly grabbed the walkie-talkie and started calling.
"Reporting to Deputy Commander Tang, the main force of the enemy has been discovered. It is about 10 miles away from Paoziyan Village. There are large numbers of enemy troops in all three villages!"
"Pay attention to monitor the enemy, I'll be there soon!" Tang Yantian's excited voice came from the microphone!
Gongzhutun Town,
The enemy collapsed after the 6th Column launched just one attack. When the commander of the 43rd Division, Xie Daizheng, saw the 1st Assault Group brazenly encircling his rear, he immediately lost confidence in resistance!
The officers and soldiers under him also began to raise the white flag in an organized manner, which made the officers and soldiers of the 6th Column who had outflanked them very dissatisfied. The enemy surrendered before they had even started fighting!
On Hao Yong's side, his two tanks were parked two kilometers away from the enemy village, so as to ensure the safety of the tanks!
At this time, a village on the right suddenly began to panic. Hao Yong didn't know that at this time, the enemy learned that the 43rd Division had been completely wiped out!
Soon, a group of enemy troops drove three horse-drawn sleighs out of the village and rushed towards the village in the middle!
Hao Yong immediately ordered to open fire.
One of his two armored vehicles is equipped with a 20mm machine gun with a maximum range of 4500 meters!
Amid the roar of cannons,
One shell after another exploded among the enemy troops, instantly bursting into fireballs, accompanied by thick black smoke and flying debris.
A huge gap was instantly torn in the enemy's convoy. The horses fell down neighing, and the soldiers were thrown to the ground by the powerful impact, their limbs broken, and blood dyed the entire snow red.
All three sleds stopped. The wounded lay on the ground screaming miserably, while the uninjured lay in the snow and fired randomly in the direction of the armored vehicles!
Hao Yong remained unmoved and continued to monitor the three villages. After all, the distance was far and there would be no harm to the armored vehicles!
Through his telescope, he suddenly saw several tanks coming out of the village in the middle and running towards the armored vehicles. He was so scared that he quickly ordered a retreat!
At this time, a rumbling sound came from behind, and Tang Yantian's tank group also rushed over.
Hao Yong saw that the enemy tanks actually began to slowly reverse and retreat!
Seeing the enemy troops in the village becoming more and more panicked, Tang Yantian put down the telescope, picked up the microphone and ordered,
"Cars 2 to 8, target village, two o'clock direction, three rounds of rapid fire!"
Amid the booming sound of artillery fire, the Kuomintang soldiers in the village ran into the houses and simply hid!
According to the confessions of the prisoners captured in Paoziyan, Tang Yantian has learned that the three villages in front of him, from left to right, are Gaojiawobao, Anfutun, and Zhoujiatun!
The headquarters of the New Fifth Army is located in these three villages!
At this moment, Army Commander Chen Linda was in tears. After learning that the 43rd Division was destroyed, he was planning to lead his troops to Wenjiatai and wait for an opportunity to return to Xinmin. However, he encountered Tang Yantian's armored forces, and the troops did not dare to rush out of the village at all!
Tang Yantian now has only one word in mind: wait!
Because tanks are not suitable for rushing into villages and fighting street battles, their strong point is to annihilate the enemy in the wild!
Therefore, Tang Yantian ordered the tanks and artillery to be concentrated to bombard the three villages from a distance.
Ever since he learned of his brother-in-law's secret, he has been squandering supplies to an unscrupulous level. This time, he brought thirty carts of tank shells alone!
At this time, mountain artillery shells were fired from Gaojiawobao on the left and Anfutun in the middle. Due to the long distance and the thick armor protection of the tanks, the occasional shells did not cause any damage!
The two sides were in a standoff, only firing artillery shells at each other from time to time. The enemy troops in the three villages did not dare to move, not only because there were Communist troops active in the north and south, but also because they were in the wild. The commander of the New Fifth Army, Chen Linda, was even more afraid of being overwhelmed by the armored forces!
At around three o'clock in the afternoon, the 2nd Column surrounded the three villages from the northwest, the 6th Column from the north, and the 7th Column from the west, and officially launched the attack!
Xiyanjiatun in the south,
After the reinforcements arrived, Tang Yantian led his troops here to rest. The main combat mission of the armored unit itself is to attack the enemy in the field, and it is not suitable to participate in this large-scale siege!
In a room, Tang Yantian arranged for someone to heat the kang (a bed that is heated up regularly) and then he lay on the bed, thinking about going back to see his newborn baby after the battle!
He felt very guilty when he thought of his child. He felt that he was incompetent. He was busy training and fighting every day and rarely accompanied her.
There was a sudden knock on the door.
With a creaking sound, Tang Yantian looked up and saw that it was Yuan Canhai who ran in. He asked in surprise,
"Old Yuan, why are you here?"
Yuan Canhai said somewhat unhappily,
"Don't mention it. We were encircling the rear of the New Fifth Army in the south. We waited for a long time but didn't see them. Later we heard that the New Fifth Army had been surrounded. Our commander quickly arranged to go north. I can't make this trip in vain. I have to taste this feast at the end!"
"Haha, several columns have arrived and have surrounded the New Fifth Army Headquarters and part of the 195th Division in three villages!"
"That's what I was saying. I just happened to see your flag when I passed by, so I came to see you!"
On the table, there was a pot of freshly brewed milk. Yuan Canhai picked it up, smelled it, frowned, and put it down.
"Did you bring any wine?"
"Whatever you want, we have it!"
Tang Yantian shouted and asked the guard to fetch a bottle of liquor from the car.
Yuan Canhai picked up the white wine, took two big gulps, and praised with a smile,
"Not bad! Tasty!"
Then, he picked up the water bottle on his body and poured all the remaining wine into it!
Tang Yantian asked with concern,
"Is it enough?"
"Enough, our commander told me that we will launch a night attack tonight, and our regiment will be the spearhead regiment. With this pot of wine, we will definitely win!" Yuan Canhai laughed!
"Night attack? Too bad I can't help! The front command didn't assign us any mission!"
"Yan Tian, please lend me a few of your chariots! With the protection of the chariots, fewer people can be sacrificed!" Yuan Canhai said bluntly!
Tang Yantian thought for a moment.
"Well, I'll let the armored infantry company go with you!"
"What a good friend! You come from the same cave as expected! Haha!"
This sentence has almost become a catchphrase among cave friends!