At this time, after a day and night of marching, the Red Army's artillery unit also arrived outside Xuyong County.
This also surprised Commander Chen of the Second Red Division, and he hurriedly arranged artillery units to find suitable positions.
At the beginning of the battle, the artillery unit first bombarded the enemy's defensive positions in the city from Wangchengpo, hitting Dongcheng Park, Xiaqiao light poles, the county government gate, the enemy regiment headquarters in the city, and the upper floors of She Zhaonan's house, etc.; Yan, Qifeng Temple and other places used light and heavy machine guns to block the two bridges on the river in the city, cutting off the communication between the enemy forces in the east and west cities.
Then, under the cover of firepower, each siege force organized many groups to mount ladders and storm the city.
"Boom boom boom..."
"Da da da......"
However, the enemy resisted with the help of solid city walls and fortifications. The Red Army organized charges many times and struggled to climb the city, but were suppressed by enemy firepower but failed.
The enemy's machine guns were hidden behind the battlements, so even the soldiers of the sniper company of the Red 100th Regiment could not easily suppress them.
The distance from the position to the city wall of Xuyong County was a few hundred meters, and the Red Army suffered a lot of casualties. However, even if they could rush to the city wall and set up the ladder, they would be destroyed by the enemy's grenades.
In order to ensure the stability of the ladder, Yang Dingguo can ask half of the sniper company soldiers to stare at the position where the ladder is set up, and kill enemies immediately if they appear.
In order to ensure the suppression of firepower, Yang Dingguo purchased more than a dozen heavy machine guns from the system mall and quietly set them up on his own position to fire continuously at the enemy troops at the top of the city.
The enemies at the top of Xuyong City were suppressed by the firepower of the Red Army and were unable to raise their heads, but the construction of the ladder was still not too smooth.
The enemy can see from the battlements whether there is a ladder set up at the entrance of the battlement they are responsible for. If there is one, they can quickly throw grenades to destroy it.
Offensive battles are not suitable for the Red Army.
He fought with the enemy for a whole day, but failed to win due to the strong walls and numerous defenders.
Therefore, when night was about to fall, the Red Army also stopped its attack early, preparing to take advantage of the truce at night to think about countermeasures against the enemy tomorrow.
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At night, Xuyong County became quiet, and both parties were resting.
Today, they paid huge casualties, but still failed to take down the city wall of Xuyong County.
Yang Dingguo also had a way to deal with the enemies who were stationed at the top of the city like turtles.
He plans to buy several large-caliber howitzers and launch a fierce attack on those Xuyong city walls tomorrow. The 82mm mortars can't deal with them, so I don't believe that the howitzers can't blow them up either.
I want to see that the city walls have been blown down. What are you using to defend them?
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The next morning.
As soon as the sun emerged, the Red Army units were ready to charge against the wall of Xuyong again at any time.
Before the battle begins, there must be some artillery bombardment.
When Yang Dingguo was about to take out the howitzer he bought, he found that many people suddenly stood up on the top of the city.
It turned out that the defenders in Xuyong City forced the people to stand on the top of the city to resist the Red Army's attack. They stood on the top of the city unarmed and with frightened faces.
In this situation, in order to avoid accidentally injuring the civilians in Chengtou, the Red Army had to stop the attack.
"Are these sons of bitches still human beings? They actually let the common people stand on top of the city."
"They're all from the damn village. Don't they feel any guilt at all for doing this?"
Faced with this situation, Yang Dingguo had no choice but to curse the Sichuan army for its shamelessness.
Who would have thought that the enemy would let ordinary people come to defend the city. What is the difference between this and the little devils?
With no choice, Commander Chen of the Second Red Division had no choice but to report the situation in Xuyong County to Zhongge and wait for instructions from Zhongge.
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On the other side, Pan Wenhua, the commander-in-chief of the South Bank of the Sichuan Army, learned that after the Red Army stormed Xuyong City, he ordered Chen Wanren, Fan Ziying, and Guo Xunqi to lead a total of 8 brigades and Zhou Chenghu's guard brigade to intercept Xuyong City and its surrounding areas. Among them, Liu Zhaoli, The three brigades of Zhang Ping'an and Daganfeng and Zhou Chenghu's guard brigade rushed directly to the outskirts of Xuyong City in an attempt to "intercept and suppress" the Red Army's siege troops.
On February 3, after the Central Revolutionary Army and the Fifth Guard Corps entered the Shixiangzi area of the "Three Jiming Provinces" through the Mani Line, the Central Revolutionary Army decided to revise the original plan based on the failure of the 2nd Red Division to attack Xuyong County and the changes in the deployment of the Sichuan Army. The field army moved to the Gusong, Xingwen, and Changning areas to rest through the Mani and Xuyong lines.
At 20:00 on the same day, a telegram was sent to all field armies, "In order to quickly break away from the current enemy and mobilize all efforts to take action, Shuiling, Shuiling, Shuitianzhai, and Tashi are specially set as the overall operational objectives" and continue to advance westward.
After receiving the revolutionary order, various units of the Red Army rushed westward.
The Second Red Division also received new orders. In order to ensure the transfer of the main force, it would continue to encircle Xuyong County without attacking, contain the enemy, and cover the westward march of other troops in the right column.
In Xuyong County.
Seeing that this move was very effective, the defenders in the city also breathed a sigh of relief. The Red Army's attack was really too fierce. If it continued like this for another day or two, they would definitely not be able to hold on.
The battlefield has now entered a state of ceasefire.
Hong Er is waiting for the large forces to complete their evacuation.
The defenders inside the city were waiting for their own reinforcements to arrive on the battlefield, and then attacked the Red Army outside the city from front to back.
However, the speed of the Red Army was still much faster than that of the Sichuan Army's support troops.
Before the Sichuan army's support arrived, Zhongge had already completed its evacuation. The Second Red Division had completed its mission and was ready to retreat.
In order to confuse and contain Xuyong County and the enemies who were about to arrive in Xuyong County, Yang Dingguo took the initiative to apply to lead the Red 100 Regiment to leave cover and let the troops of the Second Red Division evacuate first.
The main force withdrew its position before dawn on February 4 and headed towards the dam, leaving the Sichuan troops who came to "intercept and suppress" them in Xuyongcheng and nearby areas.
On February 4, after completing the cover mission, the 2nd Red Division troops moved safely towards Tashi, Yunnan (today's Weixin County) adjacent to Xuyong.
Yang Dingguo led the Red 100 Regiment and continued to use the old method of placing a large number of mines in all directions to confuse the enemy and prevent them from knowing the direction of the Red Army's movement.
At noon that day, Liu Zhaoli's brigade of the Sichuan Army, which was ordered to rush to Xuyong City first, rushed to the city, but found that it was empty. Even the enemy defending the city did not know when the Red Army left.
Although the Red Army had already run away, Liu Zhaoli, who had received the order, still had to lead his troops to continue the pursuit. However, because he did not know the direction of the Red Army's advance, Liu Zhaoli could only disperse his several regiments.
But he encountered minefields along the way, and he could only stop the pursuit, report to the superiors, and wait for further instructions from Commander Liu.
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In view of the fact that the enemy had strengthened the defenses along the Yangtze River and that the enemy troops were advancing on the Red Army in separate routes, the Chinese Revolutionary Army decided to postpone the implementation of the original plan to cross the Yangtze River north and instead concentrate on the Tashi (today's Weixin) area on the Sichuan and Yunnan borders.
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