Last night, the 62nd Division fought fiercely with the Red Bandits at Xikou. After receiving a telegram from Tao Guang asking for help, he immediately ordered the 16th Division and the 63rd Division to provide emergency reinforcements. The result was really what he thought, a fierce battle with Tao Guang's troops.
It was the rearguard force of the Red Army. After the 16th Division and the 63rd Division arrived, they attacked from front and back with Tao Guang's troops and quickly wiped out the Red Army troops.
After receiving Tao Guang's telegram reporting victory, he immediately sent a telegram to Chairman Chiang Kai-shek and Chairman He to report victory. What a great victory! What an unprecedented victory! According to Tao Guang's report, more than 5,000 Red Army soldiers were captured, including Luo Binghui, commander of the 9th Red Army.
He also became a prisoner. It's amazing, it's really amazing. I have led my troops to encircle and suppress the Red Army for many years. When did I ever achieve such a great victory? So, after reporting the victory to Chairman Chiang and Chairman He, I went to bed happily.
Rested.
Just now, the guard rashly woke him up from his sleep, saying that there was an emergency. As soon as he put on his clothes, the chief of staff came and said that the head of Suining County called and reported that he had received a report from the head of Shanmuqiao Township.
, the national army was ambushed by red bandits at Xiaoshui and Xikou. The remains of national army soldiers were everywhere on the road and in the rice fields. The county magistrate has sent a security group and a self-defense group to inspect.
What kind of fucking joke is this? Is it possible? Tao Guang's troops were ambushed by the enemy, and hadn't they already wiped out the red bandits? Why did it suddenly become littered with the remains of national army soldiers?
When I asked the chief of staff again, this guy actually said that radio contact with the 16th Division, 62nd Division, and 63rd Division was interrupted.
The radio contact was interrupted? Why was the contact interrupted? It's impossible. Wait, is the report of Suining County Magistrate true? Could it be that the 16th Division, 62nd Division, and 63rd Division were all wiped out by the Red Army? Oh my god, those are the elite three
This division has nearly 30,000 troops. When did the Red Army have such a good appetite?
We must quickly verify the situation. Immediately order the cavalry regiment to set off, take two radios, all the way to Xiaoshui, all the way to Xikou, and we must find out the true situation on the battlefield as quickly as possible.
I'm so dizzy. Why did I forget the Air Force? It's broad daylight now. The Air Force can be dispatched immediately to conduct reconnaissance on Xiaoshui and Xikou! Wait, as soon as the Air Force is dispatched, doesn't it mean that Chairman Chiang knows everything?
?Think about it again. Forget it, if all three divisions are really wiped out, who can stop it? Let the air force be dispatched, the sooner the better.
Just when Liu Jianxu was restless, the head of Shanmuqiao Township in Suining County was pestering the county head for money.
The township chief found out about the defeat of the national army in the middle of the night yesterday.
After the Red 18th Regiment left Xiaoshui, the villagers of Xiaoshui Village began to worry. There were corpses of national soldiers everywhere on the road to the north of the village and in the fields. It could scare people to death just by looking at them. Not to mention, the Red Army left behind
The more than 500 seriously injured soldiers of the Hunan Army under their care were crying for their fathers and mothers, so that the guests did not dare to go out and the children did not dare to sleep. In desperation, the villagers discussed and recommended a few people to report to the village elder.
, and asked him to send people to bury the bodies and take away the wounded soldiers of the national army along the way. He was supposed to go to Shanmu Bridge to report before dinner, but when he heard gunfire from the direction of Xikou, the villagers did not dare to go.
The Red Army came back again. Knowing that they were going to report to the township chief, would they disobey them? It was at night that the gunfire from the direction of the Xikou stopped completely. The villagers thought that this battle was really over, and the Red Army probably wouldn't
After the meeting came back, only a few people took the courage to light torches and went to Shanmu Bridge to report.
The mayor, who was woken up from his bed by the guards, was shocked when he heard the report from the villagers of Xiaoshui. He knew about the fighting at Xikou in Xiaoshui. At that time, he was thinking that the national army was chasing the red bandits.
Weren’t the Seventh Red Army from Guangxi and the Sixth Red Army in the past half year chased away by Chairman He’s National Army? Therefore, although he heard the gunshots at Xiaoshui and Xikou, he did not send anyone to
Look, after all, bullets don’t recognize people, so it’s better not to go. After listening to the report from the villagers in Xiaoshui, he realized that it was the national army that was defeated. He still didn’t believe it, so he repeatedly asked several villagers if they were wrong.
Don't think that the corpses of the Red Army are those of the National Army. Several villagers said that they are not wrong. There are still more than 500 seriously injured soldiers of the National Army lying in the village. The village elder must quickly call for people to get them away. If it is too late, they will be killed again.
If a few people die, the people will not be able to bear the consequences.
The township head thought, if the National Army lost the battle in Xiaoshui, would the National Army also lose in Xikou? Just when he was thinking of sending people to Xikou to have a look first, people came from Beishan and Xikou.
It was also said that there were corpses of national soldiers on the road, and people had to be sent to bury them quickly. If a plague broke out, it would be troublesome. The township leader asked if there were any Red Army soldiers in the village, and the people in Xikou said that they had all left, and it was hard to leave.
The ball was clean and no one was left. The mayor asked again if he knew where the Red Army had gone. The villagers said they didn't know. During the war, they were so scared that they hid in their houses with the doors closed and didn't dare to come out. They didn't know.
Where did the Red Army go?
The township head did not dare to neglect now and asked the villagers to go back and wait. He quickly took the people, put on torches, and rode his mules to Suining to report to the county head. Only then did Liu Jianxu receive a call from the county head of Suining early in the morning.
A scene from the report.
Seeing that the county magistrate had finished reporting to Liu Jianxu, and the security group and self-defense group also set out for Xiaoshui and Xikou, the mayor of Shanmuqiao Township began to ask the county magistrate for money. What a joke, so many people died.
, there must be a coffin and someone to bury it, doesn’t this all cost money?
The county magistrate knew that the township magistrate wanted to make a fortune, and he disapproved of it, but he did not dare to offend the township magistrate in terms of face. At that time, the county magistrate was appointed by the province, but the township magistrates were all local bullies or squires.
He is a truly powerful faction. Under normal circumstances, the county magistrate cannot afford to offend the township magistrate. This is also a strange phenomenon in local politics in Hunan in the early Republic of China. Therefore, the county magistrate had no choice but to perfunctory the township magistrate and said that this matter is a matter for the army and must be dealt with.
We'll wait until Commander Liu Jianxu finds out the situation. The township head is annoyed when he hears this, and directly says that he has no choice but to wrong his brothers in the national army. If they die in battle, they will have to let wild dogs eat their bodies. Until the county head agrees to report to the peak as much as possible, and strive to obtain evidence.
After the reimbursement was completed, the head of Shanmuqiao Township took Baoding and rode a mule back to arrange for manpower.
The Air Force's reconnaissance report was sent over the radio. There were remains of the National Army around Xikou Village, and no troops were found on the ground. There were also remains of the National Army everywhere on the road at the northern end of Xiaoshui Village, and no troops were found on the ground.
activities; in the entire passage area, except for the movements of the National Army's Xia Wei Department and Liao Lei Department on the southern line, no signs of Red Army troops were found.
Looking at the Air Force's investigation report, Liu Jianxu was dumbfounded. It was clear, basically everything was clear, the 16th Division, 62nd Division, and 63rd Division were all finished, but he didn't know whether the three division commanders were dead or captured. I regretted it so much. I was in vain.
A graduate of the Baoding Military Academy who has experienced hundreds of battles, why can't he see through the Red Army's trap! The so many corpses found by Xiao Shui must be from the 16th Division. The 16th Division defeated the Red Bandit Guards, and the 16th Division advanced to
Come on, it seems that the first telegram after the departure of the 16th Division was the beginning of the whole scam. The Red Army has long been ambushing in Xiaoshui, waiting for the 16th Division to hit the gun. Who leaked the 16th Division?
The division's march route and time allowed the main force of the Red Army to set up an ambush in Xiaoshui so calmly and wipe out the 16th Division in one fell swoop! Judging from the time of Tao Guang's first telegram asking for help, it should be that the Red Army ambushed the 16th Division and seized the radio and
Password, knowing the marching route and time of the 62nd Division, then rushed to Xikou from Xiaoshui to ambush Tao Guang and Zhong Brigade, then pretended to be Tao Guang to generate electricity, ordered Wang Yuying Brigade to return for reinforcements, and after eating Wang Brigade, continued to pretend to be Tao Guang
Guang asked himself for help and was deceived. Another 63rd Division was involved. What a clever chain. One link after another, the time, route, and distance were calculated so accurately. When did the Red Army have such a clever strategy?
Ah! Think about it, the 63rd Division was the most unjust. Let’s not talk about the 16th Division and the 62nd Division. It was because of calculations and unintentional intentions. It was on the road of no return from the beginning, but the tragedy of the 63rd Division was completely avoidable.
!If you had thought about it differently after receiving Tao Guang's request for help, you would not have been fooled. Think about the circumstances that would have made Tao Guang ask for help. You should have thought more about the worst at that time.
If you think about it, Tao Guang must have been in a desperate situation when he asked for help, then there is no need to let the 63rd Division go to death! Stupid, stupid! It is in vain that Chairman He trusts himself so much and entrusts the entire army to his leadership. How can this be done to him?
Chairman He, tell me! After thinking about it, Liu Jianxu took out his pistol and pointed it at his temple.
Before he could pull the trigger, several guards swarmed up and seized the pistol.
The enemy's chief of staff advised Liu Jianxu in a tearful tone: "Commander, if you want to be more cautious, leave the green hills without fear of running out of firewood. We still have a few elite divisions. The red bandits must not have gone far and are hiding in the passage to rest. We can let Bai Chongxi
The troops moved north, and we and Xue Yue quickly moved our troops south, forming a north-south pincer attack and completely annihilating the red bandits in the passage area."
Liu Jianxu looked at the chief of staff: "It's too late. The Red Bandits won a big victory yesterday. Their morale is extremely high. They have obtained the equipment of our three divisions and have enough food and ammunition. At this time, they are eager for us to send them up? Besides, what if Bai Chongxi knows about it?
If our three divisions have been completely wiped out, I am afraid that the troops will be ordered to withdraw to Guangxi immediately. In this case, let alone us, even the chairman of the committee can't do anything about him."
The chief of staff was unwilling to accept it: "Is this how the Red Bandits are being advantaged?"
Liu Jianxu sighed: "So what if the Red Bandits are not cheap? If we lose the remaining divisions, I'm afraid Chairman Chiang will ask Chairman He to clean his study. I'm tired.
, went to rest. After the cavalry regiment figured out the situation, they asked the chief of staff to do some hard work and reported to Chairman Chiang Kai-shek and Chairman He for instructions on future strategies for suppressing bandits. All troops stopped pursuing the red bandits, stood firm on the defensive line, and waited for further orders.
." After saying that, he left the war room and went directly back to the bedroom to rest.
Liu Jianxu was worthy of being a veteran on the battlefield. He guessed the events of Xiaoshui Battle and Xikou Battle almost accurately. There were only two things he missed. First, he did not expect that it was not the main force of the Red Army that destroyed his three divisions, but the 18th Red Regiment.
Three of his divisions were wiped out; secondly, he did not expect that it was not the marching route, time, and strength of the 16th Hunan Division that was leaked, but that Liu Yimin, a time traveler from later generations, himself knew the entire situation of the 16th Hunan Division.
When the 28th Hunan Army Cavalry Regiment arrived at Xikou, it was already 9 o'clock in the morning. They were walking along the marching route of the 63rd Division. As soon as they came out of the painting brush to the mountain pass between Xikou, they saw Hunan everywhere on the farmland.
A group of eagles were circling in the sky, swooping down and pecking at the corpse of a soldier. A cavalryman couldn't help but vomited out with a "wow" sound. This vomiting didn't matter, the soldiers just vomited up.
Opened. The enemy captain raised his riding crop and pulled it away: "You look like you are worthless, don't vomit, you bastard will stop talking!"
After finishing the beating, he turned around and looked at the farmland, and he spat it out with a "wow" sound.
After vomiting, the task still had to be completed. The soldiers led the horses along the road towards the mouth of the stream. Not far from the Yangxu River Bridge, they found the bodies of the 63rd Division Commander Chen Guangzhong and the Chief of Staff. Going further,
In the farmland next to Xikou Village, we saw the corpses of soldiers piled on top of each other, so densely packed that they were almost piled up. On the Red Bandit position next to Xiaoshui Village, a large number of bullet casings and artillery shell casings were found.
, the enemy commander was so frightened that he could not speak for a long time. How many cannons and how many machine guns must be fired to produce so many bullet casings?
Seeing the arrival of the national army cavalry, the security chief of Xikou and the Suining County security group who arrived first came out to greet them. The security chief described the battle situation he saw to the commander, and then led the cavalry to Beishan Village and Xikou
I looked at the remains of the battlefield 5 miles to the south. Finally, the commander of the Hunan Army Cavalry asked if he knew where the red bandits had gone. Chief Bao said that he didn’t know the specific place, but he probably went east, west, or south.
. Because everyone in the village was afraid at that time, no one dared to come out to see. It was not until the red bandits were gone that everyone dared to come out, and then hurriedly reported to the township head.
A company commander bravely said: "Commander, should we search further south? Maybe we can catch up with the red bandits!"
The enemy commander raised his hand and whipped: "I haven't lived enough yet! Telegraph operator, send a report to the headquarters, saying that the battlefield has been surveyed. The entire 63rd Division was killed, and about 4,000 people were killed in the 62nd Division. The commander of the 63rd Division was found.
The body of Lieutenant General Chen Guangzhong was brought back with the team. The whereabouts of Commander Tao Guang of the 62nd Division is unknown. Our department has deployed security at Xikou and requested instructions on specific actions."
A press conference is being held at the headquarters of the Pursuit and Suppression Army in Yueyang, Hunan. Army General He Jian, commander-in-chief of the Pursuit and Suppression Army, chairman of the Hunan Provincial Government, is sitting on the rostrum with a spring breeze on his face. The spokesperson's tongue is like a lotus flower, and the Hunan Army's Tao Guangbu,
Zhang Liang's base and Chen Guang's middle section worked together to eliminate the 9th Red Army Corps and one division of the 1st Army Corps in Xikou. They said it was an unprecedented victory. He also said that General Liu Jianxu would escort the Red Army prisoners of war to Yueyang in the near future. Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to invite you later.
Let’s go sightseeing and share the grand scene. At the end, the spokesperson changed his words and said: “Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to invite the commander-in-chief of this battle to strategize and win the victory thousands of miles away, the commander-in-chief of the pursuit and suppression army, Army General, Chairman He
, Yun Qiaogong’s speech, everyone is welcome!”
Amidst the applause of the reporters, He Jian stood up in high spirits, signaled for the applause to stop, and began to say: "This great victory is all due to Chairman Chiang's wise leadership, correct decisions, and proper deployment. The frontline soldiers sacrificed their lives and fought with blood.
, were able to achieve such a great success. After this attack, the Red Bandits were in good shape and were almost defeated. Our army will pursue them relentlessly, and we must kill all the bandits in one fell swoop, and restore peace to our people and stability to our rivers and mountains.
.When the time comes, I invite you all to come and have a celebratory drink with our soldiers!"
There was another burst of warm applause below. He Jian nodded and was about to continue his speech to talk about Hunan's future political and economic development plans when he saw his confidential staff rushing in. He Jian was furious and yelled: "
How unbecoming it is to be in a panic!"
Regardless of He Jian's reprimand, the confidential staff officer ran straight to He Jian and handed over the telegram.
As soon as He Jian read the telegram, his face suddenly turned green and white, and his mustache began to tremble. The confidential staff member saw that the momentum was not right, and was about to step forward to help him, when he saw He Jian's mouth opened, a mouthful of blood spurted out, and his body moved towards