The Fujiang River originates from the northern foot of Xuebaoding, the main peak of Minshan Mountain, and exits Huanglong from northwest to southeast, passing through Pingwu, Jiangyou, Santai, Shehong, Suining, and Tongnan, to Hechuan where it joins the Jialing River.
Because Mianyang was called Fu County in the Han Dynasty, it was called Fujiang. In ancient times, Bashu used the Jialing River as the dividing line. The west of the Jialing River was called Shu, and the east of the Jialing River was called Ba. Therefore, the Fujiang River was also called Neishui or Neijiang.
Along the way, the crystal clear holy water of the snow-capped mountains has nourished countless people in the past dynasties on both sides of the Fujiang River. Above Jiangyou, the mountains are high and the forests are deep, with natural resources, treasures, and rare animals; below Jiangyou, water transportation is smooth, irrigation is developed, and there is a large population and abundant resources.
Miliangchuan belongs to Bazi in western Sichuan.
On the night of January 25, 1935, when the 1st, 9th and 7th Red Army Corps were advancing toward Mianyang under the cover of darkness, Peng Dehuai commanded the 3rd and 5th Red Army Corps to cross the Fujiang River from Suining, launching the largest Fujian offensive since the founding of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.
Prelude to the Battle of Chia.
This time is the dry season of Fujiang River, and the width of the river is only more than 100 meters.
Because the Third Red Army Corps occupied Fujiang too quickly, completely beyond the Sichuan Army's expectations, the Sichuan Army was not in a hurry to destroy the ships. The Third Army Corps captured the ferries at Fujiang Ferry and all the ships in Fujiang. In addition, after Liu Yimin occupied Chengdu, Liu
Hunan was afraid that the troops would be too scattered and easily defeated by the Red Army, so he ordered the defenders from various places to concentrate on key points. Therefore, the other side of Suining was no longer heavily guarded, and there were only a few small troops responsible for monitoring the movements of the Red Army.
On the west bank of the Fujiang River, hundreds of boats were ready to go. Soldiers were sitting on the boats holding guns tightly, and machine guns were set up on the bows.
Li Tianyou, commander of the 5th Red Division, was anxiously waiting for the signal from the leading troops on the riverside. His leading company of the 13th Red Regiment had secretly rowed across the river under the cover of night.
Li Tianyou has just turned 21, but there is no trace of childishness on his young face. His eyes are shining in the dark like a tiger.
In the Red Army, Li Tianyou was famous as a tiger general. At the age of 14, he joined the Seventh Steel Army of the Guangxi Army and served as a soldier under Li Mingrui. He was soon sent to the Guangxi Nanning Teaching Corps founded by the Communists as a trainee. When he was 15 years old, Comrade Xiaoping
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Comrade Yun Yi launched the Baise Uprising and established the Seventh Red Army. Li Tianyou was appointed deputy company commander and company commander of the military special agent company. The Seventh Red Army went north to join the First Red Army behind the Capital Division. Li Tianyou participated in the third counter-encirclement and suppression campaign.
Ganzhou and other series of battles
After fighting, he was promoted to deputy commander and went to the Red Army Cadre School to study in the higher-level cadres. At the age of 20, he was appointed commander of the Fourth Red Division. During the Battle of Xiangjiang, the three regiments of the Fifth Red Division fought against the Gui Army in the two main battlefields of Xinwei and Guanghuapu, resulting in casualties.
Disastrous. Transferred to Guizhou
After that, they marched and fought all the way and replenished all the way. Especially after arriving in Sichuan, the soldiers were replenished quickly. With the weapons and ammunition transported by Liu Yimin and the Hunan Army and elite prisoners of the Central Army, the current Red Fifth Division is much stronger than before the Long March.
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After receiving the order from the Red Army headquarters to conduct the Fujia Battle, General Peng immediately ordered the 5th Red Division to be the vanguard to open a passage for the entire army. Li Tianyou quickly formulated a battle plan that combined stowaway and forced crossing, planning to break through Fujiang in one fell swoop.
While Li Tianyou was waiting anxiously, gunshots and shouts rang out from the other side of the river. After a short time, the gunfire stopped. Two signal bombs flew into the sky. Li Tianyou was overjoyed and ordered the Thirteenth Red Regiment to cross the river immediately.
The Thirteenth Red Regiment, which had been waiting on the boat, immediately lit torches, urged the boat, and rowed towards the other side. The river was illuminated by the torches, and hundreds of boats were vying to cross the river, with the sound of oars.
After the Red 13th Regiment crossed the river and controlled the key points, the main force of the 5th Red Division quickly crossed the river.
Seeing the main force of the Red Army crossing the river in large numbers, how could the small Sichuan Army troops who were responsible for monitoring the Red Army at other crossings on the other side of the river dare to block and resist? I only regretted that my parents had lost two legs and scattered and escaped in the dark.
In this way, the five main divisions of the Third and Fifth Red Army Corps were divided into five groups, and they crossed the Fujiang River calmly using ferries.
Peng Dehuai, who was crossing the river, looked back at the quiet riverside town of Suining at night, and then looked at the rolling iron stream rushing forward with torches in the night. Thinking about the tragic scene of more than half of the casualties during the fierce battle on the Xiangjiang River, he couldn't help but feel heroic in his chest.
Shouted: "Liu Xiang, Tian Songyao, Deng Xihou, bastard warlords, your grandfather Peng is here!"
After shouting, Deng Ping ignored Yang Shangkun and looked at him with surprise. He spurred his horse forward and galloped deep into the night.
Deyang is less than 100 miles away from Mianyang, and it is a plain road. The First Red Army and the Ninth Red Army are making extremely rapid progress.
Just as Liu Yimin guessed, Lin Biao and Nie Rongzhen did not want to let Deng Xihou flee to Jiangyou, so they ordered the 9th Red Army to besiege Mianyang, the 1st Red Division and the 3rd Red Division to attack Jiangyou, and the 2nd Red Division to attack Zitong. Several armies were like a red wave, heading towards the Mianyang Plain.
Roll away.
Liu Yimin led the 7th Red Army Corps to march behind the 1st Army Corps. Seeing the red army troops carrying torches rushing forward in different directions in the dark night, just like the red arrows on the battlefield situation map generated by later animations, he felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart.
Well, my trip through time was not in vain. The Red Army at this time in history was still crossing Chishui! Think about it, when the heroic and capable Third Army finally reorganized the Eighth Route Army, only one
Three regiments and five regiments were completely wiped out. Thinking about the meeting of cadres above the Red Army Corps held by Mao Zedong after arriving in northern Shaanxi, and seeing how pitiful the cadres were, Liu Yimin felt that he had changed the history of the Long March. The Red Army
Not only has it not been weakened, but it has become stronger! It is eager to finish this battle as soon as possible and establish a stable base as soon as possible so that it can go to the anti-Japanese battlefield to kill the Japanese as soon as possible.
The large army marched at night, but no one spoke. Liu Yimin, who was riding on the horse, sighed in his heart. If it were placed in the peaceful times of later generations, I am afraid that no one would believe that such a large army, under the iron discipline of the Red Army,
It was so quiet. Even the marching team of the Legion Headquarters around me was silent all the way, with only the sound of footsteps and the sound of horse hooves beating on the ground.
At 4 o'clock in the morning, the troops arrived near Mianyang. The Second Red Division set up a pontoon bridge on the Fujiang River about 20 miles away from Mianyang. The soldiers walked across the pontoon bridge with torches and advanced towards Zitong.
By the time Liu Yimin walked across the floating bridge, it was almost dawn.
Feng Dafei asked if he should take a short rest before leaving. Liu Yimin simply replied: "Follow the second division and continue moving forward."
After saying that, Liu Yimin got off his horse and asked Li Chengyi to take the horse and let the tired soldiers ride in turns to speed up the march.
When Luo Ronghuan saw Liu Yimin giving up his horse, he said to Li Chengyi: "The legion commander's injury is not completely healed. You leave his horse and take mine."
Liu Yimin said: "My health is fine, it doesn't matter. The political commissar's eyesight is poor and he can't keep up with his walking speed. It's better to ride a horse. Stop fighting and take my horse away."
Luo Ronghuan thought about it, it was true, he was wearing a pair of glasses, and he couldn't see the road well at this time. He stopped arguing.
Cai Zhong and Feng Dafei also gave up their horses, grabbed the soldiers' light machine guns, loaded them on them, and strode forward with Liu Yimin.
The troops galloped all the way north.
That night, Chiang Kai-shek went to bed early to rest.
Before falling asleep, Chiang Kai-shek was still thinking that Xue Yue was rapidly advancing towards Chengdu, Zhang Xueliang had also arrived at Wanxian County, Hu Zongnan's elite First Division had entered Guangyuan, and Yang Hucheng had also entered northern Sichuan from southern Shaanxi. Liu Xiang, in particular, repeatedly sent telegrams to express his wishes.
He resolutely obeyed the central command and sincerely invited himself to go to Chongqing to supervise the suppression of bandits. It seems that everything is under his control. Zhu Mao's remnants and defeated generals are inseparable this time!
After falling asleep, Chiang Kai-shek began to dream. It seemed that he had returned to his hometown in Xikou, probably when he was a child. There was a large water tank at the door. The water in it was covered with a thin layer of ice and looked crystal clear. The naughty Chiang Kai-shek
I really want to know how water turns into ice, underneath the ice
I was wondering if the water in the water would turn into something else, so I moved a stool, climbed up to the edge of the tank, and stretched my head to look into the water tank. My little hands kept trying to break the ice layer. I didn’t want to use too much force and end up carrying it.
Go in. Now the ice breaks and water enters. It turns out there is still water under the ice!
The dream suddenly changed, and I arrived in Shanghai. It seemed that I was down and out. I had just returned from a brothel drinking wine with Chen Qimei. When I looked up, I saw my mother and my wife Mao standing at the door of the residence. My mother's thin face seemed to have a lot of weight.
There was a wrinkle. Mao lowered his head and was stroking the corner of his clothes, not even daring to look at himself.
The dream turned again, and the son was born. The mother held him, with a smile on every wrinkle on her face. The son was also good, with his chubby little face and loud crying, which made people want to tease him.
Mao, who had given birth, was still like that, nagging and persuading herself every day to stop working outside and go back to her hometown in Xikou to live with him. Why is this woman so ignorant? When will she understand her revolutionary ideals?
Suddenly, I returned to the time of Huangpu Military Academy in Guangzhou. Chen Jieru was wearing a white dress and a white skirt. She was graceful and charming. But she was in a bad mood. The key was that the Communist Party was making too much trouble. Each division and regiment of the First Army had their party members.
Representative, how can we get rid of them? It happened that Chen Zhaoying reported to the Navy Director that Zhongshan Captain Li Zhilong was unstable. Okay, here’s what you need
It was the fuse, let's take action on him! So he put on his military uniform and rushed to the garrison headquarters, commanding the troops to initiate martial law. As a result, Li Zhilong refused to confess, insisting that he had been ordered to sail a warship to Huangpu to wait for President Chiang's call.
Niang Xipi! I don’t need your confession. What I need is for the Communists to leave my First Army! Lock them up and then talk.
Why are you in Shanghai again? It seems that you are getting married. First, there was a church wedding at Song Zhai. Ziwen handed the beautiful Meiling in a full dress into his hands, exchanged rings, and read the vows. Then he went to hold a Chinese wedding ceremony.
During the wedding, while the guests were still excited, I quietly took Meiling to Mogan Mountain.
He woke up while dreaming. Before Chiang Kai-shek could fully recover from his dream, he subconsciously touched the beautiful bride beside him.
The sleeping lady was suddenly attacked and woke up in fright. When she saw that it was Daring coming again, she thought she was too charming, so she said "hate", then quietly opened a corner of the quilt and leaned in
Moved.
Chiang Kai-shek did not take any further action, but woke up completely. It was strange, he slept so well, but why did he have so many dreams? His mother and Jingguo stopped talking, and he often fell asleep. Why did he even dream about Mao and Chen Jieru?
Could it be that Chen Jieru is coming back?
? Or is Mao feeling unwell? This is really strange! I wonder how Jingguo was doing in the Soviet Union. This kid has been away for nine years. I don’t know what he is like now. Maybe he is treated as a human being by the Soviets.
He was pledged, and he had to find a way to get his son back.
Seeing that Chiang Kai-shek was staring and thinking, and it was not at all what he thought, his wife said angrily, "Nervous", wrapped herself tightly in the quilt, and continued to dream.
Looking at the time, it was almost 5 o'clock, and it was almost dawn. Chiang Kai-shek, who couldn't sleep anymore, simply got up, washed up, and went directly to the study.
Sitting in the study, bored, my mind couldn't help but think of the war. What will the Zhumao Red Bandits do next? They will definitely not sit back and die. So what are they going to do? Chengdu has become a target, and it is impossible to defend Chengdu.
Yes, no risk
If you don't say anything, your own army will soon form an encirclement there, and it will continue to shrink the encirclement. Not to mention senior generals, even the company commander can see this. The red bandits are huddled in Chengdu.
Maybe a bigger conspiracy is brewing.
What is this conspiracy? It is obvious that the red bandits want to cross the Jialing River and join Xu Qianqian's bandits. At first, they wanted to go to Xiangxi to join He Long and Xiao Ke, and then they dived into their own pocket formation. But now, now
There are Sichuan troops guarding the Jialing River. Do the Red Bandits not know that? Do they have the guts to touch the rocks? They don't want to repeat the story of the Xiangjiang fiasco, right?
To take a step back, even if the Sichuan army cannot hold on and they are allowed to cross the Jialing River, what will happen? It is just a matter of slipping from one pocket into another bigger pocket. Moreover, it can also consume part of the Sichuan army for itself.
After thinking about it over and over again, Mianyang suddenly came to my mind.
Mianyang has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times. With the nature of red bandits roaming everywhere, they will not miss it. If you occupy Mianyang, you can flank the Jialing River defense line to the east, threaten Chengdu at any time to the south, and flow into northwest Sichuan to the west.
Deep in the mountains and old forests, you can enter Shaanxi and Gansu to the north. You can attack when you advance, and you can defend when you retreat. It is really a good place for both advance and retreat.
No, Liu Xiang must be notified immediately, asking him to quickly strengthen Mianyang's defense line and block the route of the red bandits' northward escape.
Thinking of this, Chiang Kai-shek didn't care whether Liu Xiang got up or not, and immediately called the guard staff on duty and asked him to send electricity to Liu Xiang immediately.
After the staff went to generate electricity, Chiang Kai-shek felt uneasy after thinking about it. He felt that he had made a wrong move. He should not have ordered Hu Zongnan's 1st Division to go to Guangyuan. There were still many Sichuan troops there. Instead, he should have ordered the 1st Division to march directly into Mianyang.
Garrisoned. With this powerful force garrisoned in Mianyang, it would be a nightmare to sleep at night.
Chiang Kai-shek called in his staff again and asked him to send a report to Hu Zongnan to quickly deploy and prepare to seize Mianyang.
After dealing with these things, Chiang Kai-shek felt at ease and sleepy. He yawned and went to the bedroom to catch up on his sleep.
When he received the telegram from Chiang Kai-shek, Liu Xiang had not yet gotten up.
The situation has been tense these past few days, and Liu Xiang, who is tall and physically strong, can't stand it even though he has to stay in the war room every day.
Last night, Pan Wenhua reported that the vanguard had arrived near Ziyang and had not encountered any resistance from the Red Bandits along the way.
Liu Xiang and Fu Chang found it inconceivable that the Red Bandits abandoned Leshan and were obviously shrinking their forces and returning to defend Chengdu. Why were there no Red Bandits even near Ziyang? Could it be that the Red Bandits had given up their peripheral fulcrum and were preparing to fight in Chengdu?
field?
After asking other places, they all reported that the enemy situation had not changed. Liu Xiang, who was puzzled, had no choice but to go to bed with doubts.
It was almost seven o'clock when Fu Chang called Liu Xiang with Chiang Kai-shek's telegram. In winter, Chongqing was foggy and gloomy, and the light was still very dark. Turning on the light, Liu Xiang read the contents of the telegram and asked Fu Chang what he thought.
Fu Chang said: "Chairman Chiang's worries are justified. If Chengdu cannot be defended, the Red Bandits will definitely find another way out. However, we don't know very well what the Red Bandits' current strength is. Do they have the capabilities?"
The ability to win Mianyang needs to be looked at again."
Liu Xiang was a little unhappy: "The city wall in Chengdu is stronger than that in Mianyang. Wasn't it also taken down by the red bandits?"
Fu Chang shook his head: "That's different. First, there is no danger to defend Chengdu outside the city walls. Second, no one knew that the Red Bandits would suddenly arrive in Chengdu. The garrison had no precautions and the soldiers had not distributed ammunition yet."
Liu Xiang thought about it and said, "Send a telegram to Deng Xihou immediately. Mianyang will be under martial law immediately to prevent sneak attacks by red bandits."
Fu Chang agreed and left. Liu Xiang turned on the radio and wanted to hear what new news was coming from the Chengdu radio station.
As soon as he turned on the radio, it was playing the "Message of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army to the Citizens of Chengdu" from the Red Army Chengdu Garrison Headquarters. Liu Xiang and Fu Chang were shocked when they heard this. The Red Bandit had escaped again, and Chengdu became an empty city. Their
Where is the next target?
Liu Xiang thought for a while and then urged Fu Chang: "Hurry up and send a telegram to Mianyang, asking them to closely monitor the movements of the red bandits. Be quick and don't let the red bandits take advantage of the loophole again."
After Fu Chang left, Liu Xiang hurriedly washed up and hurried into the war room.
When he entered the war room, he saw Fu Chang sitting on a chair, his face turned pale. Liu Xiang thought Fu Chang was ill, so he hurriedly stepped forward and touched Fu Chang's forehead with his hand.
Fu Chang pushed Liu Xiang's hand away and sighed: "Fucheng, we are late again. The red bandits have already surrounded Mianyang."
At this time, Liu Xiang did not panic anymore. He took the telegram in Fu Chang's hand and looked at it. Deng Xihou said clearly: "At six o'clock in the morning, the enemy was discovered at the south gate. At 6:30, all the city gates reported that the enemy was discovered. First of all,
The red bandits have formed a siege on Mianyang and are eager for reinforcements."
Liu Xiang ordered the staff officer on duty: "Send a report to Deng Xihou and be sure to find out the numbers of the Red Bandit siege troops. The Mianyang garrison must defend the city and must not lose the city defense."
Then, Liu Xiang said to Fu Chang: "It's not a big deal. We have even lost Chengdu. Are we afraid of losing another Mianyang? Cheer up and drink tea. We have to plan how to rescue Mianyang."
Fu Chang took a sip of tea, calmed down, and said: "Since Chengdu is already an empty city, there is no need to garrison too many troops. Let Pan Wenhua send a brigade into Chengdu, and the rest of the troops will go north from Ziyang and penetrate into Mianyang to threaten the red bandits.
Back. However, Pan Wenhua's troops alone are a little weak and can easily be taken advantage of by the red bandits. Should we contact Xue Yue and ask him to speed up and advance in parallel with Pan Wenhua, so as to ensure that nothing goes wrong."
Liu Xiang said: "The water far away cannot quench the thirst nearby. Xue Yue is still a few days away from Chengdu. By the time they arrive, Deng Xihou will have already become a prisoner."
Fu Chang said: "The only way is to mobilize the troops in northern Sichuan. He ordered Tian Songyao's main force to attack Mianyang and cooperated with Pan Wenhua. He ordered the troops in Jiangyou and Zitong to rush to the aid of Mianyang. At the same time, he ordered them to be careful along the way. They would rather go slowly than let them go.
Red bandit ambush.”
Liu Xiang nodded: "That's all we can do for the time being. Tell Pan Wenhua that he is the main rescue force and must be extremely careful. It is better to walk slowly than to send the troops into the pocket formation of the red bandits."
Fu Chang went to ask the staff to report, and the war room became quiet for a while.
Liu Xiang moved a chair and sat in front of the battle map, and began to think quietly by himself.
When he received Liu Xiang's telegram, Tian Songyao, commander of the 29th Army of the Sichuan Army, did not know that the 3rd and 5th Red Army Corps were already attacking him.
Historically, when the Fourth Red Front Army launched the Battle of Jialing River, after Tian Songyao's Jiang defense was breached, his subordinates were afraid of punishment and did not tell him for three days. By the time he learned of the situation, the entire army had collapsed.
It was like this again this time. Not only did the small unit that stayed on the east bank of the Fujiang River and was responsible for monitoring the Red Army's movements not report, but no one in the towns and villages where the Red Army passed reported. Therefore, knowing that the main force of the Red Bandits was besieging Mianyang, Tian Songyao felt a sense of relief.
The Red Bandits are human beings too, and they also run on two legs. Now that they have gone to Mianyang, where can they return to their own defense line?
Tian Songyao was a native of Longquanyi, Jianyang County, Sichuan. He participated in the Tongmenghui in his early years and went to the first batch of Baoding Military Academy to study. He later entered the Sichuan Army and was awarded a general by the Beiyang Government. He is currently the commander of the 29th Army and the commander-in-chief of the Second Bandit Suppression Route.
Tian Songyao usually liked to live in Chengdu. When the Red Army occupied Chengdu, he happened to go to Langzhong to inspect the defense and escaped disaster.
Tian Songyao, nicknamed "Tian Donggua", knew that the Red Army was difficult to deal with. In the Battle of Wanyuan, the Fourth Red Army had already taught them, the Sichuan generals, a solid lesson in tie-tie. Therefore, after Tian Songyao learned that the Red Army occupied Chengdu, he did not wait for
Liu Xiang had already begun to shrink his troops after giving the order.
Now, Tian Songyao's 38 regiments are huddled in the south, on both sides of the Jialing River in Yilong, ready to cooperate with the Central Army and the Northeast Army to attack the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army at any time.
As soon as Liu Xiang's order arrived, Deng Xihou's telegram for help arrived. He said it was very pitiful that our brothers had been surrounded by red bandits. If they were not rescued, they might only see each other again in the next life, etc.
Tian Songyao thought to himself, you Deng Monkey, there will be a day when you ask me for help! But then again, Deng Xihou must be rescued. If he is not rescued, he will really be wiped out by the red bandits. The situation in Sichuan will be terrible in the future.
It would be unbalanced. When the time comes, I will definitely not be Liu Xiang's opponent, and I will definitely be eaten up by him.
After careful consideration, Tian Songyao decided to mobilize 10 regiments to form reinforcements to rescue Mianyang.
When issuing the order, Tian Songyao was more thoughtful and sent a telegram to Liu Xiang, which meant that a disaster was approaching and the brothers should join hands to overcome the difficulties. Otherwise, today's Deng Xihou may be tomorrow's Tian Songyao, and no one will have a hard time.
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In fact, Tian Songyao didn't know that he was in a more dangerous situation than Deng Xihou and would collapse faster!