Several main cadres of the 18th Regiment felt that this night was simply a dream. Without a single shot and without a single casualty, they actually occupied a county town, and it was a rich and well-oiled county town. No one expected that the result of the battle was so brilliant. On the table
The gold bars, jewelry and baskets of white silver coins placed in the house and yard were dazzling.
Liu Jianli excitedly said to Liu Yimin and Cai Zhong: "Captain, political commissar, it's a great harvest, an absolute harvest. I have never seen so much money in my whole life. We seized a total of 3,057,260 silver dollars and 215 gold bars.
Among them, 300,000 silver dollars were seized from the warehouse of the tax bureau, and 600,000 silver dollars and 50 gold bars were found at the home of the tax director; 3,260 silver dollars were seized from the police station, and 300,000 silver dollars and 40 gold bars were found at the police chief's house; the security team
4,000 silver dollars were found in the munitions department, 350,000 silver dollars and 60 gold bars were found in the home of the security team leader; 300,000 silver dollars were found in the homes of three cigarette dealers, a young man dealer, and an arms dealer, and 150,000 silver dollars were found in the Treasury of the Finance Bureau.
50,000 yuan of silver dollars were found in the house of the Finance Director. Maybe this guy worked for too short a time and did not plunder a lot; 500,000 yuan of silver dollars and 45 gold bars were found in the house of the president of the Chamber of Commerce; 20,000 yuan of commercial remittance funds were found in the post office.
Wan Dayang; A total of 300,000 silver dollars and 20 gold bars were found from the homes of the county magistrate and the county party secretary. There were not many copper coins, only 25,600 yuan. These guys don't seem to need to spend much money, so there are very few copper coins. Jewelry cannot
I don’t know how much it’s worth. In addition, one radio station, six telephones, and many telephone lines were seized.”
Before Liu Yimin and Cai Zhong could talk, Li Qing began to calculate how many guns and bullets he could buy with so much money. By the way, now that he has money, he has to ask the regiment leader to buy cannons, and preferably some planes, so that Bai Gouzi can attack again.
It's a shame. Several battalion commanders and deputy battalion commanders also looked at each other, sucking in air-conditioning from their mouths. "Hey, darling, how do you spend so much money? It's better to buy weapons, ammunition, and replace the uniforms of the soldiers, especially
For shoes, be sure to buy durable leather shoes. Straw sandals and cloth shoes are too easy to break. Buy some pork and rice, and let the soldiers eat meat every day to raise them strong. When fighting with bayonets, one can hold up three of them. See if the white dog still survives.
We dare not hit you.
Seeing the cadres' mouths dripping with laughter, Cai Zhong also said cheerfully: "The seizure is indeed huge. It should be the largest seizure since the establishment of the Red Army. We should report this good news to the Army Corps and the Central Revolutionary Military Commission as soon as possible
, let the leaders decide how to deal with this fund. Leader, what do you think?"
Liu Yimin was actually very surprised. In his impression, in 1934, the monetary policy of the Chiang Kai-shek government was still the silver standard. It abolished the two-yuan system and replaced it with the yuan. Silver dollar settlement was implemented everywhere, and the National Government's annual fiscal revenue was only 300 million yuan.
, it was not enough to maintain the annual military expenditure of 350 million yuan required by his direct line Central Army. It was not until November 1935 that the National Government abolished the silver standard and began to issue legal currency. Unexpectedly, this small mountainous county would still be very poor for many years.
With so many silver coins seized, it can be seen that the corrupt officials in Tongdao were able to accumulate wealth because it was connected to the Hunan-Guangxi-Guizhou trade route. Reminiscent of the fact that in history, the Red Army suppressed four famous local tycoons in the Tongao area and seized more than 10,000 silver coins.
In fact, if Liu Yimin had an opportunity, he would send troops to the surrounding countryside to attack the local tyrants and divide their fields to expand the results of the war. Anyway, the local tyrants and evil gentry in this era are basically masters who do all kinds of evil. Killing one can save many poor people.
Thinking of this, Liu Yimin replied to Cai Zhongdao: "I agree with the political commissar's opinion. In order to reverse the decline of our army after the fierce battle on the Xiangjiang River and boost the morale of the Red Army soldiers, while sending reports to the division headquarters and corps headquarters, they can directly report to the Central Revolutionary Military Commission and report
Comrade Mao Zedong, Vice Chairman Zhou, Commander-in-Chief Zhu, Comrade Zhang Wentian, Comrade Wang Jiaxiang and Commanders Lin and Nie of the First Army Corps, Commander Dong of the Fifth Army Corps, Comrade Liu Shaoqi and Commander Chen and Political Commissar Cheng of the 34th Division."
Li Qing hesitated for a moment, then said: "I wonder if Chairman Mao can see our telegram."
The room suddenly became silent.
Feeling the change in the atmosphere in the room, Liu Yimin smiled and said, "You should be able to see it!"
The room suddenly felt as if a gust of March wind had blown in, making it lively and lively.
The callbacks from the Third Army Corps and the Sixth Division arrived soon. General Peng praised the 18th Red Regiment for its quick action and great results. He ordered the 18th Regiment to temporarily defend the county town and strengthen the alert at night. As for the operation tomorrow, we are waiting for further instructions.
The reply from the Central Revolutionary Military Commission arrived shortly afterwards. The telegram issued in the name of Commander-in-Chief Zhu ordered the 18th Regiment to hold fast to the county town, properly keep the seized funds, and vigorously raise foreign oil, medicine, food and other supplies tomorrow morning. The First Army and the Second Division would rush there tomorrow afternoon.
To get to the county seat, it takes 18 groups to do it
With good logistics preparations, the Military Commission column and the accompanying First Army and First Division rushed to Tongdong County to join the 18th Regiment on the morning of the 11th. The first Army's call back was to learn from the 18th Regiment and resolutely eliminate all enemies. The fifth Army and the 34th Division's return calls were to congratulate the heroes.
The 18th Regiment made new contributions to the Red Army.
After reading the telegram, Liu Yimin understood that the troops could rest for two days in Tongtong County. After seeking the opinions of Cai Zhong, Liu Jianli, and Li Qing, Liu Yimin ordered each battalion to send out vigilance and arrange for the troops to camp.
In order to ensure the safety of the troops when they camp, Liu Yimin specifically requested that when the troops camp in the future, in addition to the open posts, mobile posts and latent posts must be arranged. For platoon-level units, one sentry post is lighted and two are dark, and for company-level units, there is only one clear sentry post.
In addition to the two darks, add one
Light machine gun group hidden posts, battalion-level units will be provided with mobile sentries when camping, and heavy machine gun group hidden posts will be added when the whole regiment is camping. When units above the platoon are camping, the principal and deputy cadres will check the sentries on a shift basis. The location of the hidden sentries is personally set by the military chief and political officer of each unit.
It is decided that no one else can interfere.
Regarding the question raised by a cadre about whether there are too many hidden sentries and whether it will affect the physical recovery of soldiers, Liu Yimin's reply is that the Red Army is good at guerrillas and sneak attacks. Our enemies will understand with a little thought that if they often sneak attack others, they must prevent others from sneak attacks on themselves.
Setting up hidden sentries is a necessary measure to ensure the safety of the troops. The purpose is to buy early warning time for the troops, because no matter how powerful the troops are, they are at their weakest when camping.
Later, this provision was called the Passage Instruction by military historians, and became a tradition of the Eighteenth Red Regiment and all the units derived from it. In the battle journey to establish New China, whether it was the Chiang Kai-shek Army,
The Japanese army, and even the Japanese special forces, have no successful sneak attacks on the Red 18th Regiment and its derivatives.
Considering that the Red 18th Regiment is essentially a reorganized force with many new recruits and complex composition, it has not experienced the baptism of hard battles and vicious battles after its formation. However, during the reorganization of the Xiyan Army, it only completed the formation of troops.
There is an urgent need to strengthen political work. In particular, the situation that there are basically no party branches in each company and no party groups in the squad must be changed. Liu Yimin discussed with Cai Zhong and welcomed
After receiving the column from the Central Military Commission, the superiors are required to send more political cadres and staff, logistics, artillery, cavalry, engineers, communications and other technical cadres, preferably graduates from Red Army schools. The regiment headquarters will add a staff office and a logistics office, and the directly affiliated troops will add an engineering company.
, the military chiefs and political chiefs above the company level of the combat forces are all equipped with cadres in the proportion of one chief and two deputies, restoring the glorious tradition of building branches in companies.
Cai Zhong believed that staff, logistics, political workers, engineers, and communications cadres were all easy to talk about, but artillery and cavalry cadres were hard to talk about. First, we did not have artillery and horses, and second, none of the Red Army regiments had artillery or cavalry.
Liu Yimin directly replied that the cannons are where the enemy is, and they will soon be ours. When the cannons are captured, someone must be able to use them, right? As for the cavalry, we will get some Sichuan horses first, and then we will get Xinjiang horses, and even Mongolian horses when we have the opportunity in the future.
For Japanese horses, the key is to find an instructor to train them first, lest no one knows how to ride the horses if they are captured in the future, so they have to kill them for meat.
Seeing Liu Yimin's words, he was full of confidence, and Cai Zhong was also excited, saying that your idea is very good, let's work hard for it.
Liu Jianli asked for instructions on how to deal with the prisoners. Liu Yimin thought of the evil done by the returning group and the crimes recorded in later history, so he asked Li Qing, director of the Political Department, to organize a public trial tomorrow. In addition to releasing the president of the Chamber of Commerce, the rest of the counties
The chief, party secretary, police chief, security chief, and finance director will all be shot. The captured post office employees and finance bureau employees who are willing to join the Red Army will be mobilized to join the Red Army as much as possible. The other employees will be released tomorrow. As for the security regiment soldiers and policemen,
We will select those who are young, strong, of good quality, and have a clean background to join the Red Army. In addition to the new recruits who will be enlarged tomorrow, they will all be handed over to the new barracks for training. The others will be detained first and will be educated and released when we retreat. Some of the particularly reactionary ones will be released.
We must resolutely suppress it.
Li Qing suggested that the Soviet government should organize a public trial. Our public trial may violate policy.
Liu Yimin thought for a while and said that we currently do not have the conditions to establish a Soviet government in Tongtong County. These people have committed heinous crimes. If they are not suppressed, after the Red Army leaves, they will definitely counterattack the people who helped the Red Army. It is better to put them to trial and execute them. If they feel that they are inconsistent with the Red Army's policies,
If there is any conflict, they will seek instructions from the Central Revolutionary Military Commission in the name of the 18th Red Regiment.
In the end, Li Qing ran to report to the Central Revolutionary Military Commission for instructions.
This night, Tongtong County was bustling. The common people first saw a group of national troops entering the city, and then a team wearing gray military uniforms and octagonal hats with red five-pointed stars followed them into the city, and then the team blocked the exit of the county town.
and the county government, tax bureau, police station, post office and other yamen, and then a team wearing octagonal hats with red five-pointed stars escorted the county magistrate, party secretary, police chief, security chief, and tax chief to the yamen and their
The family became rich, and then a group of soldiers wearing octagonal hats with red five-pointed stars began to post slogans in the dark on the streets. Everyone told them that they were the Red Army, a team of poor people led by the Communist Party, and told the villagers not to be afraid.
Do whatever you want.
Seeing that the Red Army had a friendly attitude and refused to send money, the people were no longer afraid, and some people began to get closer to the Red Army.
Under the leadership of the masses, the Red Army cadres gathered all the tailors in the county, bought up all the cloth and cotton in the county, and began to make military uniforms overnight.
The news spread quickly. When the people in the county and nearby villages heard that a set of military uniforms, a pair of military shoes, and a silver dollar were given to each soldier, they approached the Red Army cadres one after another and asked for fabrics and cotton to make clothes. The Red Army cadres asked dye workshops to
Responsible for dyeing cloth, tailors for cutting, and people sewing at home. The whole county was lit up all night long, and every household was processing military uniforms for the Red Army.