Su Yu led the advancing division to the village of Jailang in Qingyuan County in late April after more than two months of fighting at the junction of Fujian and Gansu. The troops planned to take a short break here.
However, according to the reconnaissance report of the division's reconnaissance team recently, the Kuomintang "pursuit and suppression" troops have begun to advance from all directions to besiege the village of Sailang, where the division is stationed.
Among them, the new tenth and fifty-sixth divisions mobilized from Fujian are far away. Attacking from the southeast, a forward force composed of the local landlords' armed "Big Knife Society" is expected to arrive on the morning of April 28.
Li Xiubu, a group of gradual river security guards who have advanced from the northeast, is expected to reach Sailang around noon on the 28th. The Fujian security regiment that attacked Jai Lang from the southwest was later.
According to the enemy situation, su Yu led the division chief of staff Wang Yunrui on April 27, Zhu Baofen, the leader of the first detachment, Li Chongcai, the commander of the second detachment, Wang Weixin, the commander of the company directly under the division, and the reconnaissance staff officer of the division, led by local villagers, to climb to the top of the main peak, which is 1248 meters northwest of Jai lang village, and carefully observed the terrain around Jai Lang with a telescope. A place called Cattle Ranch northeast of Sairo was selected as the main battlefield for the elimination of The GradualLy Protected Regiment of Li Xiubu.
After descending the mountain from the main peak, Su Yu and his party marched continuously and rushed to the cattle ranch area. View the terrain and landforms on the ground, and assign tasks on the spot, arranging troops to hide and attack.
On the morning of April 28, Su Yu first ordered the reconnaissance staff officer to lead the division reconnaissance team to monitor the deep part of Ma Hong of the Fubao Regiment. Wang Weixin's divisional company was ordered to rush to Huangniuling, 2.5 kilometers from the cattle ranch.
The task given to su Yu to the directly subordinate company was to take advantage of the favorable terrain of Huangniuling to block the gradual defense of the group before the main force had destroyed the "Great Knife Society" that had arrived at Sai lang earlier. After the main force eliminated the "Big Knife Society", he could fight and retreat, and was responsible for luring the gradually protected group to the cattle ranch in the pre-ambush land.
At dawn on April 28, according to Su Yu's orders, the soldiers of the advancing division ate breakfast in advance and prepared dry food for the day. One and two teams laid an ambush on both sides of the road into the village of Sairo.
At six o'clock in the morning, the thick fog between the mountains had not yet dissipated, and the "divine soldiers" of the great knife society that spread all over the mountains appeared. They are draped in shawls and exposed breasts. With words in his mouth, he howled and attacked the village of Sairo.
Li Xiu's wishful thinking, the leader of the Gradually Protecting Regiment, was to let the "Big Knife Society" strike forward, first engage the Advancing Division, consume the strength of the Advancing Division, and then take advantage of the situation to launch an attack and completely annihilate the Advancing Division in one fell swoop.
Su Yu, who had fought against the elite main force of the Kuomintang for many years, had already seen through the plans of the Kuomintang army. I didn't even pay attention to the big knife.
Political commissar Liu Ying and political workers first persuaded the "Big Knife Society" to surrender, telling them not to fight for the Kuomintang and to act as cannon fodder for the Kuomintang.
However, the members of the "Great Knife Society" all believed that they already had the Divine Ability Protective Body, and the swords and guns could not enter, so they were willing to listen to the advice.
Su Yumi was unable to persuade him to surrender, and at the sound of an order, the ambush troops fired a series of guns, followed by grenade bombardment. Su Yu immediately issued another order to attack.
After this kind of battle, the "Big Knife Society" was killed and injured by a burst of gun grenades. Seeing that the officers and men of the advancing division rushed down the mountain like a fierce tiger, they were already frightened and cried out to their mothers, and they ran away without a trace in an instant.
Su Yu ordered a halt to the pursuit of the "Great Dao Society", and ordered the first and second detachments to immediately transfer troops to the cattle ranch to set up an ambush to meet the gradual protection of the regiment.
To be continued