The meeting at the division headquarters was short. Liu Yimin and Wang Dahu returned to the trenches to rest for a while. Wang Dahu found Liu Yimin a Red Army uniform to change into. While he was praising Liu Yimin for how powerful he looked in the Red Army uniform, the regimental commander came back.
Soon, the order to move came down, and the division headquarters ordered Liu Yimin's 101st Regiment to quickly withdraw from its position and advance quickly and covertly near Jieshou Ferry.
As soon as Liu Yimin saw it, he knew that the division commander had adopted his suggestion, abandoned the route drawn by the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, and went to rescue the 18th Red Regiment and the east bank blocking force. Liu Yimin told Wang Dahu to let the soldiers change into Gui Army uniforms. Open the way for the whole group to move forward quickly.
Wang Dahu immediately took Liu Yimin to find the regiment leader. Upon hearing this, the regiment leader agreed to their request. Considering that there were too few of them, he immediately transferred a combat squad from each of the three battalions to join in to form a vanguard platoon. Wang Dahu served as the platoon leader. , Liu Yimin was appointed deputy platoon leader. Wang Dahu directly told the regiment leader that he was willing to obey Liu Yimin's command, and Liu Yimin had many ideas. The regiment leader directly appointed Liu Yimin as the platoon leader and Wang Dahu as the deputy platoon leader. They asked them to check the ammunition and change their clothes. , set off immediately, with large troops following up behind them.
Liu Yimin gathered the team and made a simple formation. There were 41 people in the platoon, which was considered a strengthened platoon. They were divided into three combat squads, a fire support squad, and a sniper team. Each squad had 9 people, with a squad leader and 2 deputy squad leaders. , divided into three combat groups, the squad leader and deputy squad leader concurrently serve as combat group leaders. Platoon leader Liu Yimin, deputy platoon leader Wang Dahu, first squad leader Li Dashan, deputy squad leaders Zhang Guangming, Chen Hu; second squad leader Liu Shizhu, deputy squad leaders Han Qingchun, Zhang Baoshan; The third squad leader Luo Yan, deputy squad leaders Guo Chunsheng, and Cheng Fengnian; the fourth squad is the fire support squad, squad leader Zhao Runqing, deputy squad leaders Chen Yong, and Zhang Guocheng. The whole class only has one Czech light machine gun, machine gunner Long Huwa, and deputy shooter Long Hu. In addition, three Red Army soldiers with good marksmanship were selected and organized into a sniper team, led by Wang Tongsheng. After the formation of the troops, Liu Yimin briefly talked about the tasks and functions of the combat squad, fire support squad, and sniper team, and then With everyone looking confused, they led the troops towards the Gui army's position.
Due to the bombing of the artillery position of the Gui Army, the offensive was temporarily suspended, and the soldiers were busy building fortifications at the starting position for the attack.
When Liu Yimin and others touched the Gui Army's position, the Gui Army soldiers were working happily under the supervision of their superiors. The sentries were swimming back and forth over the trenches with rifles in hand.
Liu Yimin found a relatively isolated position. After looking at there were only more than 60 people, he knew that this was the position of a disabled Gui Army company. With a wave of his hand, Wang Dahu and several squads and team leaders came over. Liu Yimin He whispered: "The Gui army has been deeply poisoned by reactionary propaganda and has very strong fighting power. It is easy to refuse to surrender its guns. We pretend to be the Gui army. If the Gui army resists after going up, we will use bayonets to deal with it and try not to shoot. The first group is responsible for dealing with the sentries. and be on alert, while the others rush to me. Is the mission clear?" All four people nodded. Liu Yimin said: "Act!" and led the team towards the Gui army.
The Gui Army sentry suddenly saw a group of people walking towards the position. He immediately pulled the bolt of his gun. When he saw it was one of his own, he shouted: "Stop, command?"
Liu Yimin replied: "Suppress the Communists. Reply to the order?"
The sentry put away his gun: "Kill the bandits. Which department are you brothers from?"
Liu Yimin walked up to the sentry and said, "We are the military search force. Where is your commander? Call him over."
The Gui Army sentry led Liu Yimin to the trench, shouting as he walked: "Company commander, company commander, the chief of the military department is looking for you."
"Who is looking for me?"
"I'm looking for you."
"Which one are you?"
"I'm from the military search team. You gather the team. The commander wants me to give a message to the brothers."
The company commander of the Gui Army turned around and shouted to assemble, and soon the Gui Army troops were standing in a row in the trench. After saluting Liu Yimin and reporting, the company commander of the Gui Army asked Liu Yimin to give him a lecture.
Liu Yimin took a look and saw that all the soldiers of the Gui Army were here. The Red Army soldiers also stood in fighting positions with guns in hand. He shouted: "Brothers, I am from the Red Army. You are captured. You are not allowed to move. Whoever moves will be killed."
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Upon hearing this, the Guijun company commander knew that he had been fooled, so he reached for his pistol. Li Dashan, who was standing next to Liu Yimin, picked him up with a thrust. Several Guijun soldiers standing nearby turned around and ran away, trying to get their guns.
After hearing a few sounds of "Puch, plop", they were all stabbed to death by bayonets. Liu Yimin glanced at the Gui army coldly and said: "Whoever has had enough of the damn life just screams and runs away. A white knife goes in and a red knife comes out. Look.
Which one is faster, your legs or my bayonet!"
The soldiers of the Gui Army remained silent and became prisoners obediently. Liu Yimin asked Wang Dahu to send a signal to inform the large troops to take action. He asked the soldiers to quickly replenish weapons and ammunition and find dry food in the Gui Army positions.
After a while, Wang Dahu excitedly told Liu Yimin that six light machine guns had been seized, all of them were brand-new Czech type, the rifles were all Type 79, and there were also several submachine guns.
Liu Yimin said: "The Gui Army has just upgraded to new weapons, which happened to be used by us. All the light machine guns were concentrated in the fire support squad, and the submachine guns were distributed to the squad leaders and deputy squad leaders. If they are not enough, they will be replenished in the next battle. The soldiers each brought 100 rounds of ammunition.
8 grenades and other weapons will be handed over to the large troops and are ready to go immediately."
While talking, the regiment leader came up with the troops. Liu Yimin briefly reported the situation. The regiment leader immediately arranged for a company to change into Gui army uniforms to guard the position and cover the follow-up troops. Liu Yimin was ordered to lead the team to act according to the plan, and the troops passed quickly. Liu Yimin
The regiment leader was asked to tie up all the prisoners with ropes, gag them, and take them away. The regiment leader said that the Red Army would not kill prisoners, but confidentiality measures must be taken, so feel free to go.
In Xialiwan Village, not far from the foot of Guanyin Mountain in Xinwei, the Gui Army's supply camp is stationed here. Dozens of large trucks loaded with weapons, ammunition, food, and medicine are parked in the open space and on the roadside outside the village ancestral hall.
Since it was a baggage unit responsible for delivering supplies and located behind its main force, the commander of the Gui Army's baggage battalion thought it was very safe. After arranging a security guard, he began to interrogate the Red Army prisoners of war in the ancestral hall.
This was once a temporary field rescue center set up by the 5th Red Division during the Xinwei Interdiction War. When the 5th Red Division was ordered to support the Guanghuapu position, it was too late to take away the wounded. Later, some wounded from the 18th Red Regiment were also sent here. The 18th Red Regiment evacuated.
After that, all the wounded were captured by the Gui army. According to the original history, except for the lightly wounded who were directly massacred by the Gui army, the remaining more than 100 seriously injured were finally sunk into Jiuhai well and drowned by the Gui army. Three Red Army soldiers
The female warrior was stripped naked by the Gui army and taken into the mountains. It is not known whether she was massacred by the Gui army or devoured by wild beasts.
After the Gui Army's supply camp was taken over, the Gui Army battalion commander and his company and platoon leaders used to torture the captured and wounded Red Army soldiers as a pastime. The remaining Gui Army soldiers guarded the vehicles they escorted in squad units.
When Liu Yimin came up with the vanguard platoon, he knew at a glance that the Gui army was not alert at all. It was still the same old thing, but the slight difference was that when they broke through the Gui army position, Liu Yimin and the others said that they were the search force of the military headquarters. This time they said that they were the search force of the military headquarters.
The supervising team sent by Commander Xia Wei. When the battalion commander and company platoon commanders of the Gui Army's transport battalion gathered the team, they found that the supervising team's seven machine guns were lined up in a row and pointed at them. They obediently became prisoners. The entire battalion and company
No one resisted.
Now Liu Yimin was really happy. After counting, there were 46 carts of ammunition and dry food. For the Red 34th Division, which had not been replenished since the Long March and had almost run out of ammunition and food, what a big battle this was.
The timely rain also saved more than 200 wounded soldiers of the Red Army who were destined to be massacred. Therefore, as soon as Division Commander Chen Shuxiang and Political Commissar Cheng Cuilin met, they directly ordered Liu Yimin's vanguard platoon to be upgraded to a vanguard company, and ordered the 100 regiments to be upgraded.
Commander Han Wei and commander Lu Gongyin of the 102nd Regiment each selected a platoon, and also transferred a squad from the division's security force to join the sharp knife company. Since Liu Yimin had just joined the Red Army and was not yet a party member, political commissar Cheng Cuilin immediately designated Cai Zhong, director of the division's political office, to follow the sharp knife company.
actions, but must not interfere with Liu Yimin's military command.
Liu Yimin reorganized the troops according to the original formation of the top platoon combat squad, divided into three platoons and nine combat squads. The sniper team was upgraded to a sniper squad, and the fire support squad became a reinforced squad. The platoon has a chief and deputy platoon commander, and the squad is divided into three platoons and nine combat squads.
There is one squad leader and two deputy squad leaders. The first platoon leader Wang Dahu, the second platoon leader Shen Nantang, the third platoon leader Wang Xinyun, the whole company has 113 people, three combat platoons each have 28 people, the sniper squad has 7 people, and the fire support squad has 19 people.
1 correspondent, and 1 bugler. The whole company is equipped with brand-new 79 rifles, 9 Czech light machine guns, and 34 submachine guns. Liu Yimin, the squad leader, deputy squad leader, and platoon leader each have a shell gun on their waist and a submachine gun on their backs.
Carrying the Seventy-Nine Rifle on its shoulders. The current leading company has strong men and strong horses, and its light firepower is unique in the entire Central Red Army.
Some people may ask, where did Liu Yimin and the others get their submachine guns? They are lying. In fact, the submachine guns were all captured by the Gui Army. After the Red Army's Long March, Chiang Kai-shek had foreseen the Red Army's breakout route and laid four blockades. In order to make up for the lack of troops, he also
Taking advantage of this to weaken the strength of local warlords, Chiang Kai-shek asked the Hunan Army, Guangxi Army, and Guangdong Army to cooperate with the Central Army in encirclement. Bai Chongxi took advantage of the situation to make two demands to Chiang Kai-shek. First, the Guangxi Army had a small number of troops, and asked the 44th Division that participated in the encirclement and suppression of the Central Soviet Area to return to Jianjian.
, the second is to ask the central government to re-equip the Gui Army. In order to mobilize the Gui Army, Chiang Kai-shek agreed to both requests. Therefore, the Gui Army now uses all new 79 rifles and Czech machine guns that can use rifle bullets, and the squad and platoon leaders are all equipped with them.
Submachine guns are what Red Army soldiers often refer to as fancy weapons. Liu Yimin successively seized Gui Army equipment, so naturally the Sharp Sword Company gave priority to changing their equipment.
If a Guangxi Army reconnaissance plane passes by at this time, you will see a strange scene: on the road, in front is a company of vanguard troops wearing Gui Army uniforms running forward, and behind them are the mighty Red Army troops lined up in three columns.
Running forward, dozens of carts were pulling wounded Red Army soldiers, ammunition and other supplies. Behind the carts were prisoners without military uniforms who were also running forward under the threat of bright bayonets. Behind them was a battalion wearing Gui Army uniforms.
The troops of the Red 34th Division marched towards Jieshou Ferry in such a swaggering manner.
The soldiers of the current Red 34th Division have their guns loaded with bullets and their bodies covered with grenades. They eat dry food from the Gui Army while running. Although the number is less than 4,000, the soldiers' ammunition has been greatly replenished.
With a full stomach, the combat effectiveness of the Tieliu rearguard has been restored. Although the situation is still dangerous, the Gui army behind will soon find out that the Red 34th Division has broken through and will catch up immediately. There may be an encirclement set up by the enemy in front.
However, director Liu Yimin's two successful defeats of the enemy gave the soldiers great confidence. The political workers mobilized in the team while running: "Learn from the leading soldiers company, rescue the 18th regiment, and fight across the Xiangjiang River!" It can be said that the current Red Army has
The fighting spirit of the 34th Division was as high as ever, like a sharp sword, shooting toward the bank of the Xiangjiang River.