** While recuperating the troops, a large Red Army cadre rushed over with a group of people. ** It's not good to say in my heart, because this big man is the chief of staff of the Red Army's advance team and the chief of the security bureau*** still has a pistol in his hand.
Sure enough, ** came behind him, Tie blushed, pointed a shell gun at ** and asked loudly: "How did you do it?" How did you lose your position? Say! ”
This scene happened at the end of 1934.
In October 1934, the Red Army's fifth "anti-encirclement and suppression" was frustrated and forced to start the arduous Long March.
* and the 1st Regiment of the 2nd Division of the Red Army Corps led by Yang Chengwu as the forward to open the way for the ** column.
In late November, the Red Army broke through Xiaoshui, crossed Daozhou (present-day Daoxian), and came to the Xiangjiang River.
Here, it was the last blockade line set up by Chiang's army, and in order to intercept the Red Army, Lao Chiang deployed heavy troops here.
After careful study, the Red Army chose the place to cross the river between the boundary head and the mouth of the phoenix.
In order to cover the safe crossing of the river by the ** column, the Red Army planned to invest 4 corps, of which the Red 1st Army Corps was on the right flank, the Red 3rd Army Corps was on the left flank, and the Red 8th and Red 9th Corps were responsible for the rear of the palace.
Among them, the Red 1st Army Corps was commanded by General Lin, and his deployment was that the Red 1st Division and the 2nd Division served as the left and right forwards respectively, and won the head of the boundary and the whole state respectively.
However, the plan could not catch up with the changes, and when the war was about to start, the Red 1st Division was still on the west bank of Xiaoshui.
However, Mr. Lin decided not to wait for the 1st Red Division and let the 4th Regiment start the battle first, because for the Red Army, time is too precious and every second counts.
Lin Zong's intention was to let Geng and Yang's 4th Regiment first take down the first position on the left flank for the Red 1st Division, and then return to the direction of Jeonju on the right flank and continue to act as the vanguard of the 2nd Division.
This is tantamount to saying that the task of letting the 1st Regiment act as the pioneer of the two wings is very arduous.
*, a native of Liling, Hunan Province, born in 1909.
He was born bold, not afraid of heaven and earth, and at the age of 17 he went to the enemy's arsenal to seize a gun.
He took part in several anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaigns of the Red Army, made many meritorious contributions, and was known for daring to fight tough and vicious battles.
After accepting the task, he didn't frown and led his troops on the road.
When Geng and Yang led their troops into the Jieshou area non-stop and set foot on the Xianggui Highway, they met Jiang Jungui and the Xia Wei Department on a narrow road.
* Immediately direct troops to ambush the enemy on both sides of the road.
When the enemy arrived, the officers and soldiers of the station immediately killed the Gui army with the momentum of a tiger descending the mountain.
The Gui army is known as the wolf soldiers, extremely brave, but there is a sky outside the sky, and it has become a cowardly bag under the rush of the Red 4th Regiment, and it has been beaten to a pulp, and it cannot be defeated. Yang Geng's unit was almost unscathed, and only one platoon commander was slightly injured.
Just as the 4th Regiment occupied the Jieshou to clean up the battlefield and was about to hand over positions with the 1st Red Division, a messenger Pegasus arrived and delivered an order signed by Chen Guang, the commander of the 2nd Division, on November 28.
The order said that the 5th Regiment had not been able to occupy Quanzhou as planned, and that the city had been controlled by Liu Jianxu of the Hunan Army, and that the 1st Red Army Corps had been deployed on the Luban Bridge and the foot mountain 16 kilometers away from Quanzhou, intending to control the Xianggui Highway and block the enemy from the three regiments in Quanzhou, and asked Geng to speed up and rush to the battle.
At the end of the letter, he added that he must arrive at night.
* At that time, he picked up his rice bowl and planned to eat, but after reading the order, he immediately put down the bowl and led his troops to run north along the road next to the Xiangjiang River.
When the troops arrived at the foot hill, it was not yet dawn, he quickly mobilized, and then the command post headquarters entered the positions on both sides of the road.
Among them, Li Yinghua led the 3rd Battalion on the left, Yang Chengwu led the 2nd Battalion on the right, and the 1st Battalion was led by ** himself, ambushing on the hillside opposite the bend of the road, waiting for the enemy to arrive.
At this time, after a night's march, the warriors were exhausted, and because the enemy had not yet come, he told everyone to rest.
But he himself could not sleep, because he was sick with malaria, and he was very uncomfortable.
Moreover, as a commander, he had to immediately inspect the terrain.
The mountains near the foot mountain shop are independent of each other, and the place they stick to is called "Huaizhong Baozi Ridge", and the altitude is the highest, about 300 meters.
As long as you hold here, you will choke the enemy's throat to the Xiangjiang River, otherwise, the Hunan army will join the Gui army, and the Red Army will be eaten by the 300,000 troops of the Jiang army, so this place must not be lost.
The enemy was advancing quickly, and before the fighters could sleep, they were woken up by a shout, and Chiang's army had arrived.
The roar of planes pierced the silence of dawn, and a fierce battle began.
First of all, more than 10 enemy planes formed four groups, roaring towards the position, taking turns dropping bombs one after another.
The bombs kicked up dust and smoke billowed from the position, which soon turned the position into a sea of fire.
As soon as the plane flew away, the enemy's artillery deployed on the opposite hill began to roar again, and one after another whistled and roared, shaking the ears and turning the Jueshan position upside down.
As soon as the shelling was over, the soldiers shook off the soil buried in their bodies and were ready to meet the enemy in high spirits.
The Hunan army invested 4 divisions, and the number of people was overwhelming, and they rushed to our army's position unscrupulously.
When the enemy is fully within range, ** also emerges from the bushes and directs the battle with a shell gun.
He shouted: "Save bullets and wait until the enemy gets close to us!" ”
100 meters, 80 meters, 70 meters...
When the enemy came about 50 meters, a word popped out from between his teeth: "Hit!" ”
Suddenly, the rifles and pistols in the hands of the warriors erupted angry tongues of fire, knocking the enemy to the ground.
The grenade was in the enemy group, and the Hunan soldiers turned over on their backs.
After three rounds of blows, the Hunan army's attack was repulsed, the corpses piled up in front of the position, and many soldiers surrendered their guns.
In the face of the major **, Liu Jianxu, a fellow villager of Liling, admitted his cowardice and decided to retreat to Quanzhou. After the defeat of the Hunan army, ** began to interrogate the prisoners, hoping to get useful information from their mouths and understand the enemy situation in more detail.
It didn't matter if he didn't ask, he was surprised when he asked, it turned out that they had been "deceived" by the division commander Chen Guang.
The prisoners said that the number of troops that Chiang's army had invested in the front of the 4th Regiment was not the three regiments originally reported by Chen Guang, but twice as many as the six regiments.
The captives also said that the follow-up troops of Chiang's army were constantly coming along the Xianggui Highway, and in addition to Liu Jianxu's troops, Chiang's descendants' Xue Yue troops were also preparing to attack the Red 4th Regiment.
* Hearing this, his expression was grim, and he immediately made an urgent report to the division headquarters and the corps headquarters.
He is not cowardly, but outnumbered, afraid that the time will delay the big thing.
It was only at this time that the division told ** that the enemy had committed 9 regiments.
But later, ** learned that the Jiang clan had invested a total of 15 regiments in the front of the Red 4th Regiment!
Of course, Chen Guang did not deliberately conceal the enemy's situation from his subordinates, but the situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly, and it was impossible for him to grasp the dynamic situation of the enemy's troop deployment in real time.
After the reinforcements arrived, Liu Jianxu came to his senses again and commanded the troops to launch an attack on the position of the Red 4th Regiment.
The soldiers of the Red 4th Regiment are gearing up and preparing to meet the enemy.
Before dawn on November 30, a good news came, the Red 1st Division led by Li Jukui arrived in a hurry and deployed on the left side of the 4th Regiment.
It turned out that seeing the urgency of the battle, Lin Nie also came to Mihua Mountain and Baoziling in his arms to command the battle.
Due to the arrival of a large number of enemies, the number of aircraft and artillery also increased, and the battle on the 30th became even more tragic, and the ** of the Red 4th Regiment also increased greatly, sacrificing 4 squad leaders and 2 platoon commanders, which made ** very sad.
At noon, Luo Youbao, the commander of the first battalion, came to ** and reported loudly: "One of my platoons is gone, how long will this battle last?" ”
At this moment, ** was directing the battle, and he didn't look back: "Where did you get so many words?" If you don't want to withdraw, I'll keep holding it until the last person! ”
Luo Youbao was stunned for a moment, stuck out his tongue and went back to command the battle.
An hour later, at about half past one o'clock, the gunfire suddenly fell on the Mihuashan position on the left flank, which made ** have an ominous premonition in his heart.
He looked at it, and the black pressure on the top of the mountain was all Jiang Army's troops, and the Mihuashan position was lost!
The 1st Red Division had to retreat to the Beauty Comb Ridge for defense.
Jiang Jun suddenly came to his strength, and with the help of the springboard of Mihua Mountain, they launched a round attack on the beautiful comb ridge occupied by the 1st Red Division.
Under the fierce attack of the enemy, the Red 1st Division had to retreat again, abandon the Beauty Comb Ridge, and converge on the Ridge of Baozi in its arms; The command post of the 1st Red Regiment was also transferred to the right of the position of the 4th Regiment.
The enemy poured in like a tidal wave, the 5th Regiment of the Red Army on the right flank was completely annihilated, the regimental commander committed suicide with a gun, and the position was occupied by the enemy.
As a result, Chiang's army was able to concentrate its overwhelming superiority and charge the main position of the 2nd Division from three directions, and the situation was even more severe for me.
Sure enough, after a fierce battle, Jianfeng Ridge was still lost.
As a result, the 4th Regiment was surrounded by the enemy on three sides and began to fight alone.
The enemy shouted, screamed, and presumptuously, charged forward from the unsheltered open area, and although the fighters fought hard to resist, to no avail, the line of defense was shrinking step by step.
That's when something even more dangerous happened.
* While directing the battle, a group of enemies suddenly appeared in his sight, and shooting them with guns could not stop them at all.
He didn't have time to think about it, so he asked the guards to bring a basket of grenades and distribute them to the regimental personnel.
Everyone raised grenades aloft and threw them at the enemy, and immediately lay down in front of the command post with corpses, and the crisis was over, ** breathed a sigh of relief.
Who knows, this group of enemies has just been killed and retreated, and another batch has come up, shouting and rushing forward.
* At first glance, the grenade is also used up, what should I do?
At this time, the guard stepped forward to protect ** with his body, and while he was shooting at the enemy with two guns, he said loudly: "Regiment commander, it's dangerous here, you go quickly!" ”
**But he pushed the guard away and yelled:Bring me my saber!
Soon, there was a sonorous crash of metal from the position in front of the command post, as well as the screams of the enemy.
*Like a god, wielding a saber left and right**.
After a while, the enemy fell in pieces, and ** also became a bloody man.
At this time, bad news came that the 2nd Battalion led by Yang Chengwu was wounded in the battle with the enemy, and was hit by shrapnel in the right knee, bleeding profusely.
* Worried, he hurriedly ordered the fighters to send the commissar to the rear.
He asked the company commanders to count it, and the whole regiment was more than thirty percent, and there was little ammunition left, and the battle became more and more difficult.
At this time, the division commander Chen Guang appeared on the ** position, and he was also in a heavy mood when he saw this situation, so he had to loudly order them to retreat in an orderly manner and move closer to the Yellow Emperor Ridge.
* Divided the troops into several groups with Li Yinghua, and they alternately covered the retreat.
When the 4th Regiment retreated to Huangdi Ridge, the position of the 1st Division was also greatly reduced, and only a part of the Baoziling in its arms remained.
Not only that, but the two Red Army divisions were also divided by the enemy.
* Encourage warriors to fight fiercely and tell them that there is a lot of responsibility.
The soldiers were encouraged and fought harder, and finally the Yellow Emperor Ridge was held.
In the evening, the 3rd Regiment received an order from the division headquarters to break through first.
Gengbu, who used to be the forward, is now in charge of the rear of the palace and must fight alone.
Despite this, the officers and men of the 4th Regiment still fought hard, successfully completed the task, withdrew from Huangdi Ridge, and came to the front line of Zhulanpu and Baisha, where they built a second line of defense.
At this time, our ** column had not yet completely crossed the river, and ** gave an order to **, asking the Red First Army to "keep the road in our hands before the automobile road goes west anyway."
At dawn on 1 December, there was a temporary silence on the battlefield.
In the cold wind like a knife, the ** who had just committed malaria held his body, and walked with difficulty on the positions of each company with a blanket, carefully inspecting the fortifications.
Before he could finish his inspection, Chiang's army began to dispatch troops, intending to launch a fierce attack at the junction of the 4th Regiment and the 1st Red Division.
* Hurry up and organize a commando team with Li Yinghua, planning to repel the enemy's attack.
At this moment, the figure of ** suddenly appeared on the position.
* When I saw it, I secretly cried out in my heart.
It turned out that in order to carry out the order to the letter, the corps had temporarily formed an "execution team" to supervise the operation.
Therefore, when ** saw *** leading the executive team towards them, I couldn't help but change my face.
At that time, the Zunyi Conference had not yet been convened, the "leftist" line was still very serious, and the Red Army learned Xi from the experience of the Soviet Union, copied the practices of the Soviet Red Army, and severely punished those who retreated from the battlefield.
The problem was that the practice at that time was more extreme, and even if anyone dropped a bullet during the battle, or bent down to tie a legging, it could be considered cowardly and subject to scrutiny, ranging from dismissal to death.
The sudden appearance of *** at this juncture is definitely not a good thing for **.
Sure enough, **came to **, pointed a gun at him and asked loudly: "Xicheng (code name of the 4th regiment), what did you do?".Why did you lose your position?Say! ”
** Once injured during the second anti-"encirclement and suppression", he left a wound on his cheek, which did not heal well, and he looked very serious with a stern expression.
* Quickly explained: "Now more than half of our regiment **, the commissar is also seriously wounded, and I have also led the soldiers to fight the enemy with bayonets." ”
The enemy's strength was more than ten times ours, and the area defended by our regiment was more than 10 li. Say!
At this moment, Li Yinghua hurriedly reported on the side: "Chief, we are organizing a commando team to try to recapture the position. ”
**'s expression softened a little, and said: "I know the 4th regiment, it's very capable of fighting, and this shouldn't happen." ”
Hearing him say this, the stone in his heart fell to the ground, and he immediately organized a commando to attack.
**And unceremoniously told**: At present, the column has just crossed halfway, and the task of blocking the troops has not been completed, and it must be blocked until after 12 o'clock. ”
* did not live up to the expectations of his superiors, led the troops to hold out until 1 p.m., and ** crossed the Xiangjiang River in its entirety.
So far, the 4th Regiment of ** has composed a magnificent song and continued to write a legend of war history.