Fan Hanjie took the entire Eleventh Division as bait, that is because this division was reorganized by the Eighteenth Army, and it also experienced the Battle of Songhu, the battle was very fierce, and it also participated in the Stone Pai Defensive Battle, it can be said that this unit has been baptized by war and has experienced hundreds of battles.
However, the struggle between the various factions within the Kuomintang was fierce, and in order to preserve their strength, they did not support each other and did not command each other well, and the struggle between Chiang Kai-shek's concubines and the Gui, Feng, and Jin clans was particularly fierce. After eight years of the War of Resistance, many officers and men were unwilling to hope for peace in the civil war, but the Kuomintang went against the grain! Units like the Eighteenth Army can only fall victim to war.
The whole Eleventh Division
For the elite of the elite, the entire Eleventh Division inherited the American equipment of the Eighteenth Army, which can be said to be the most capable unit after the old Chiang Kai-shek's 74th Division, which made Su Yu feel a little different at this time, and in such a short period of time, the Southern Ma Fortifications were actually exceptionally complete.
The commander of this division was General Hu Lian, who had become famous after participating in the Shipai defensive battle before, this person was not simple, his wisdom was far above Zhang Lingfu, and Li Tianxia was also ashamed of himself. It is such a person that Chairman Mao has called "cunning like a fox and fierce as a tiger."
The sky is the lake that is always quiet, and the lake is the sky that is always calm! The great masters of the ancients are not the great masters of thought! "Get rid of" the ideological baggage at the critical moment and go light! The duel between the masters stops at moving, acts in thought, and destroys in accordance with it!
And Zhang Lingfu can also be regarded as the dragon and phoenix among people, but the killing of his wife is not authentic. And Hu Lian just happened to be a fellow villager, and he was a classmate of the same period in Huangpu, after the Meng Lianggu Battle Zhang Lingfu came to the end of his life, it can also be regarded as a deep lesson to Hu Lian, who was a fellow countryman and a classmate, and this Battle of Nanma made Hu Lian careless.
This time, Fan Hanjie took Nanma and Hu Lian as bait and was ready to die at any time, but Hu Lian did not want to die like this. After he occupied Nanma, he began to reorganize military affairs, overhaul the fortifications, razed all 500 meters of the forward position to the ground, and moved the nearby villagers away. Not only that, Hu Lian was really cautious this time, and even his own command post had made several false claims.
Hu Lian
In this way, in less than 15 days, the fortifications and deep trenches of the Nanma position were completed, and because Hu Lian's advance information was blocked so badly this time, Su Yu could not get specific information for a while.
Moreover, this time, Hu Lian adopted a completely different combat method from others, he adopted "large depth elastic defense", first of all, there were forward mobile units, that is, running around in front, luring Su Yu's troops, and then as soon as he came, he ran.
Do you think that's enough? No, the cunning Hu Lian also made a lot of barbed wire and deer villages near the core position, and this deer village alone had 3 layers, which seemed to want to block huaye troops from the obstacles. Therefore, the battle of Nanma was quite fierce, and it was not until 18 days later that HuaYe barely occupied most of the positions outside Nanma.
On the afternoon of July 19, 1947, Su Yu could not sit still and personally commanded Hua Ye to make the first general attack on Nanma. However, things are really not as simple as we think, and Hu Lian took out the housekeeper's mother's castle. Later, in the history of the Huaye Campaign, it was written: "All the troops of the East China Field Army who participated in the Battle of Nanma never thought that Zimu Fort would be so difficult to attack. ”
The angry Hu Lian actually took advantage of the favorable terrain to build more than 1,200 large and small bunkers around it, the larger one was called the mother fort, the small one was called the sub-fort, generally a mother fort was scattered around 20 to 30 sub-forts, and then the mother fort was connected by a traffic trench between the mother fort, which was equivalent to forming a larger fort group.
The mother fort is equipped with a squad of troops, the sub-fort is equipped with 2 or 3 soldiers, do not underestimate this group of sub-forts, as soon as Hua Ye wants to attack the mother fort, it will first be attacked by many, many sub-forts, so that Hua Ye's combat effectiveness will be weakened. And as soon as the sub-fort opened fire, the mother fort behind immediately provided strong fire support.
Then someone said, you can use the cannon, you can think of it, the cunning Hu Lian has already guessed. The reason why the sub-fort is small and scattered, so it is very unfavorable to the attack of artillery fire, the effect is very inconspicuous, and for Huaye itself, the shells are tense, so they dare not fight on a large scale.
Su Yu was on the front line
In this way, the charge that afternoon could only rely on the tactics of the sea of people, that is, rushing up one by one and fighting dead to the forts. However, under the dense firepower of Zimu Fort, Su Yu's Huaye troops suffered heavy casualties, and such a charge had little effect. Su Yu was observing the battle situation on the front line, while asking the staff officer: "Have the tactical actions of attacking Zimu Fort been trained before?" ”
The staff officer said, "I have been trained to attack the Zimu Fort, but I have not been trained to attack such a densely packed Zimu Fort." ”
Su Yu sighed, "This is a lesson!" ”
In this way, this battle was really hard, although Hua Ye could occasionally lay a bunker through the tactics of the sea of people, but that was the price of paying more than a dozen or even hundreds of people. And Hu Lian's side also lost 2 or 3 soldiers in the sub-fort, and the failure of one squad in the mother fort at most.
Seeing this, Su Yu hurriedly changed the way of playing, in addition to a small amount of artillery fire, Su Yu ordered people to organize explosions, hoping to improve the current situation. In this way, the troops attacked much more smoothly, and the casualties were also less, but there were too many sub-forts, and when would such a bombing be?
At this time, Hu Lian also saw Su Yu's move, and immediately changed his defensive tactics. He arranged for everyone to be equipped with submachine guns and carbines. In this way, Hua Ye's side engaged in blasting, and Hu Lian's side slammed into the blasters from different directions, suddenly making the blasting impossible to complete normally.
Hu Lian's defensive tactics
In this way, the two sides fought each other for a long time, and suddenly it rained heavily. Due to the lack of moisture-proof equipment, Huaye's ammunition was wet, most of the explosive packages relied on blasting were ineffective, heavy rain also caused flash floods, the roads became muddy, heavy artillery could not pull the front line, and it was difficult to bombard the bunkers.
God is fair and will not always be biased towards either side of the battlefield. Not a drop of rain fell on the Battle of Menglianggu,
This made Hua Ye, who was not prepared with moisture-proof equipment, suffer again, and the ammunition was wet, and even the explosives that exploded could not be lit. Moreover, the rain was also too heavy, making the road impossible to walk, and Hu Lian took the opportunity to organize people to fight back.
This battle was fought on the 20th, and the battle between the two sides entered the most critical moment. Hua Ye once again attacked in an all-round way, and Hu Lian's side saw that the ammunition was about to run out, although there were airdrops, but this thing was not enough to fight for several hours.
This deeply hidden tactic of enticing the enemy, the elaborately prepared fortifications, and the ammunition are almost exhausted, how terrifying the tactics of this sea of people are! Too heavy, too merciless in the war! May the world always be at peace!
Hu Lian looked anxious, and he hurriedly snatched up all the ammunition of the non-combatants of the division headquarters and ordered them to be sent to the position. After several bitter battles, Hua Ye had advanced his troops to an area of about 10 miles, but at present he had not taken the important main position of Nanma.
Nanma Battlefield
By the morning of the 21st, Su Yu switched to a frontal feint attack and a flank attack strategy, entering from the weak point of Hu Lian's position and capturing Matougu at once. This Horse Head Gu was a barrier to the south of Hu Lian, and from here, it was possible to further attack Hu Lian, but there was not much time for Su Yu.
Because as soon as the war began in Nanma, Chiang Kai-shek let several nearby divisions all drive to Nanma, forming an inner and outer encirclement of Huaye.
This time, Chiang Kai-shek also learned the lesson of Meng Lianggu and issued a death order. Moreover, if Hu Lian's entire Eleventh Division was destroyed by HuaYe like the previous Seventy-fourth Division, then the other rescue divisions would be severely punished.
It is difficult to get a thousand gold, it is not that the wrongdoers do not gather, and the wrongdoers are easy to solve and not easy to knot! The general's mind must not only have the height of thinking about strategy, but also be able to use clever tactics to carry out the battle plan, so that he can truly fight for the general and lead the troops, and it is even more difficult to meet the talents he is satisfied with!
Huaye General Attack
In this way, the 3 divisions closer to Nanma had already rushed over, and there was a fierce exchange of fire with the reinforcements, and Su Yu planned to launch another general attack on the night of the 21st.
It is impossible to determine victory or defeat until the last moment, and many major battles often depend on the "last 5 minutes", just like the Battle of Menglianggu, which also eliminated the 74th Division after 3 general attacks and at the last moment before the arrival of enemy reinforcements.
Su Yu guessed that Hu Lian was almost out of ammunition at this moment, and Hua Ye was very hopeful that he would be playing a record of Meng Lianggu. At this moment, the war suddenly took a turn, and Hu Lian, who was "cunning as a fox and fierce as a tiger", took the lead in attacking.
Data collated on the Internet
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