(TV series Armageddon)
At the beginning of November 1945, the Battle of Handan ended, and like the Shangdang Campaign, Chiang Kai-shek's army also lost any advantage in this battle, and since then it has had to temporarily stop the large-scale offensive in Guannei, but the attack on the northeast and the sneak attack on the edge of the liberated areas have never been interrupted.
Because of the tense situation in the northeast, the central authorities had planned to divide the four columns into two, and Chen Geng would lead one of them to the northeast to fight, and Chen Geng had already made preparations, and even in order to prevent cold and freeze, he also went everywhere to find people in the northeast to understand the situation. However, after about half a month of being fully prepared, the central authorities changed their decision and let the four columns remain on the Tongpu Road to deal with the enemy's "devouring" sneak attack.
In late November, Yan Xishan ordered More than 40,000 of Wang Jingguo's army stationed in Linfen to invade the north, and the Yan army relied on its absolute superiority in troops to reoccupy Zhaocheng.
During this period, the Eleventh Brigade was ordered to block the enemy in the east of Zhao Cheng, and a battalion of the brigade was attacked by the enemy due to the paralysis of the light enemy and the exposure of its position while serving as a vanguard guard, and a regiment leader was also killed in a fierce battle. In an emergency, brigade commander Li Chengfang and deputy brigade commander Cai Aiqing dealt with it decisively and ordered the rest of the troops to carry out a counterattack, which was able to avert the danger, but the troops still paid a lot of losses.
After the eleventh brigade was frustrated, some troops began to become too cautious, but Chu Daming, deputy brigade commander of the tenth brigade, was obviously an exception, and to some extent, it can be said that he was born for fighting, and it was uncomfortable not to fight.
According to the provisions of the operational regulations, the cadres at the brigade and regimental level should be in the middle of the command, Chu Daming is already a deputy brigade commander, and it is said that the command post is his fixed position, but Chu Daming is absolutely unwilling to crouch quietly in the command post and stay next to the telephone, and his mantra is: "If I can't see the enemy, I won't command!" ”
Chu Daming used to be like this when he was the commander of the regiment, and when it came to a critical time, wherever the assault company was, he was there, and now he was promoted from regimental commander to deputy brigade commander, and for him, it was only two more regiments that could allow him to rush forward. On this issue, no one could convince him, not even Chen Geng and Zhou Xihan.
Chu Daming's latest plan was to personally lead thirty regiments to attack the enemy stronghold of Xiaojia Village. Xiaojia Village was a big stronghold of the enemy, a regiment stationed in the Yan army, the regimental commander Hou Quanbo was a veteran soldier, the devils came to be puppet troops, the devils surrendered and he threw himself into Yan Xishan's command and incorporated into the Yan Army's Inner Guard Second Division. The waiting regiment operated in Xiaojia Village for more than ten years, with a defensive system composed of artillery towers and Zimu Fort, which was not easy to deal with, and the Thirty Regiments were the weakest among the three regiments of the Ten Brigades, so some people suggested that Chu Daming reconsider, either changing the target of attack, or replacing the Thirty Regiment with the Twenty-eighth Regiment or the Twenty-ninth Regiment. Chu Daming insisted that the original plan remain unchanged: Although the waiting regiment was difficult to deal with, it was also full of oil and water, and there were many military materials in the stronghold; the Thirty Regiments were formed by the upgrading of the original Shimin Independent Regiment and the Gaoping Independent Battalion, and the Shimin Independent Regiment basically fought out in the Shangdang Campaign, and the Gaoping Independent Battalion, which was also a guerrilla unit before, still needed to be trained, and if it wanted to exercise, it was necessary to fight a hard battle, and it could not just pick up soft persimmons and pinch them.
To eat vegetables, we must eat vegetable hearts, we must strike hard iron, and the troops who have not fought a hard battle will not have a chance; this is chu Daming's view that has never changed, and it is also a major method of his military training.
On a snowy night in mid-December, the 30th Regiment raided the village of Xiaojia as planned, and after a night of fierce fighting, crushed the enemy in several compounds. Just as Chu Daming was about to expand the results of the battle and swallow the "fat meat" in front of him, there was a sudden fierce gunshot outside the village, followed by a row of shells smashed down.
Later, it was learned that this was reinforcements sent by Wang Jingguo, and the thirty regiments were surrounded by the enemy in Xiaojia Village!
(Excerpt from Guanhe Fifty Prefectures "Chen Geng Bingtuan")