In September 1948, Xu Shiyou was ordered to command more than 100,000 Huaye to attack Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province. This battle is a famous player against a famous general, ace against ace, and it is very fierce. The two sides fought fiercely for seven days and seven nights, and by the night of the 23rd, Xu Shiyou had suffered tens of thousands of casualties, and he had not yet opened the breakthrough into the city, and enemy reinforcements were coming.
To this end, Xu Shiyou was ready to withdraw his troops to rest and attack again. However, this was blocked by his subordinate General Ai and Commander Nie Fengzhi of the Ninth Column. So, at 1:30 a.m. on the 24th, the siege troops launched a final blow.
As a result, the 2nd Squad of the 73rd Regiment of the 73rd Regiment of the Ninth Column Ace Finally attacked the city wall with a ladder in the southeast corner, and immediately engaged in a fierce battle with the enemy. Then, Xiao Xiqian, a company commander with a head injury, also ascended to the head of the city and ordered the soldiers to occupy the fortifications and deal with the enemy's counterattack.
The defenders lost their breakthroughs and frantically blocked this direction with intensive light and heavy firepower. Peng Chao, the instructor of the 7th Company, commanded the follow-up commando team to enter the city under the city. There were a lot of people crowded under the city. The ladder is like a dragon, carrying a string of people, stretching from the bottom of the city to the head of the city. Bricks that had been blasted off by enemy fire flew in the air and landed on the heads and backs of the warriors, and some of the helmets were smashed and their shoulders were smashed, but everyone clung to the ladder and struggled to climb up. At the top of the ladder, they each other were ladders, sending their comrades to the head of the city.
The ladder bears a load of thousands of pounds and is supported by 4 warriors. Peng Chao was also preparing to enter the city, just raised his legs to climb the ladder, "boom", a grenade exploded nearby, only to feel that his right leg was hot, injured, his body was crooked, almost fell down, forced to hold back the pain, quickly climbed up. Xiao Xiqian was extremely happy to see him coming to the city, and when he saw that he was injured, he said, "You bandage quickly and rest a little." ”
As soon as Xiao Xiqian looked up, he saw that a group of enemies under black pressure were huddled along the traffic ditch behind the weather station, and the enemy soldiers held short guns in one hand and large knives in the other.
This was the death squad of the enemy general Wang Yaowu.
Xiao Xiqian turned and jumped into the traffic trench, and as soon as he took a step, he was taking a look at an enemy soldier. The other party took a look at Xiao Xiqian, did not fight with him, and went straight to the breakthrough.
"Breakthrough." Fate root, which can let him go! Xiao Xiqian touched his body, the grenade was gone, there were only 4 bullets left in the pistol, looking left and right, there were no soldiers around. At this moment, the rear wall of the weather station "boomed" a large opening, and the Warrior King would suddenly appear in front of him:
"Company commander, do you want machine guns?"
"Great! Quick, aim at the enemy and slam!"
Xiao Xiqian said, raised his pistol, and shot at the enemy soldier who ran towards the breakthrough. The enemy death squad howled and rushed up, and Wang Hui's machine gun sounded. At the head of the city, the enemy and we fired fiercely at each other, and the casualties on both sides increased sharply.
Peng Chao saw that the soldiers of the 7th Company were getting fewer and fewer, and the positions were getting smaller and smaller, dragging one leg, crawling to the side of the soldiers, and loudly saying: "We must resist this battle, use bayonets without bullets, as long as there is a breath, we must hold the breakthrough!"
There were few warriors left in the 7 companies at the head of the city. More enemies are coming, and the breakthrough will be lost. The warriors began to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.
At this critical moment, the follow-up troops came to the city, and Peng Chao saw Zhang Weisan, deputy instructor of the 8th Company, and shouted: "The 8th Company has come up, and the second echelon has come up!" ”
The second echelon ascended to the head of the city, the battle was more intense, and there were more and more people on the breakthrough.
Zhang Muhan, the leader of the regiment, also climbed to the head of the city to take a look. He suddenly thought: At this time, if the enemy fires back, no matter how many people there are in the city, it will become a pile of meatloaf! The head of the city was not a place to stay for a long time, and it was necessary to go down to the city quickly, so he immediately ordered:
"The troops will immediately go down to the city and engage in street fighting!"
But how? The city wall is 14 meters high, and you must fall to your death if you jump. What about the cloth straps of the lower town? The warrior responsible for carrying the cloth belt of the city has been sacrificed, and the cloth belt has not been brought to the city, and Peng Chao shouted:
"Strive for the first place in the lower city, and capture Wang Yaowu alive as a hero!"
"Comrades, jump!" Wang Qipeng, the 2nd squad leader of the 9th Company, shouted loudly, jumped down, and was the first to jump down the city.
When the other warriors saw this, they all jumped down one after another. As a result, the warriors at the head of the city shouted the slogan of "open Jinan Province, capture Wang Yaowu alive", and one by one, they did not want to jump under the city.
Soon, the warriors who had jumped off the city rushed forward again.
Zhang Muhan saw that most of the 73rd Regiment had gone down to the city and entered the street battle, so he loudly ordered:
"Report to the column that my 73rd Regiment has burst down the city!"
Then, Zhang Muhan ordered the secret service company to use more than 500 kilograms of explosives to explode a large opening on the west side of the broken mouth. So the other regiments of the 9th Column rushed into the city like a tide from here. The city of Jinan was finally broken.
Xu Shiyou's corps command post was extremely quiet. Suddenly, a rapid telephone ringing, Xu Shiyou grabbed the phone, and Nie Fengzhi, commander of the Ninth Column, reported: "Two battalions of the 73rd Regiment of the 25th Division broke into the inner city. ”
"What time did you break through?"
"Two o'clock at 25."
Xu Shiyou was happy and a little anxious, and said, "How did you do it, you went into two battalions to report." ”
The People's Liberation Army had already rushed into the city, and the enemy general Wang Yaowu, seeing that he could no longer organize an effective defense, immediately began to flee.
At 6 p.m. on the same day, all the defenders in the city were annihilated, and Xu Shiyou finally conquered the city of Jinan at the time of the last attempt. After the war, Zhang Muhan, the leader of the 73rd Regiment, opened the breakthrough and jumped the city wall, the whole regiment fell to death 5 people and injured 17 people, and Wang Qipeng, the first to jump, created a miracle.
He jumped, not only did not fall, but after getting up, he fell into an enemy group. He seized an enemy machine gun and forced 60 enemy soldiers to surrender on the spot.