As if to add another layer of glory to the Red Army's occupation of Huangping, at around two o'clock in the afternoon, good news came from the central column shortly after entering Huangping. He Zizhen successfully gave birth to a baby girl.
Mao Zedong heard the news and named his daughter Li Ying, which is homophonic to win, which means that the Red Army is a righteous army and should win to commemorate Huang Ping's victory.
At this time, Mao Zedong was in a good mood. Think of He Jian and Bai Chongxi who were closely watched by Liu Yimin's Central Guard Division and did not dare to come out. They had to release the Red Army prisoners of war and provide the Red Army with silver coins, weapons and ammunition;
From Liping to Jianhe, and then to today's great victory, I felt that I had never been as happy and comfortable as I am today since the Long March! I asked squad leader Hu to take out his pen and ink, and wrote down a masterpiece on a piece of rice paper bought from Huang Ping.
"Three Poems of the Sixteen-Character Order":
On the mountain, the horse was riding fast but had not yet dismounted from the saddle. Looking back in shock, it was three feet away from the sky.
Mountains, seas, and rivers are rolling in huge waves. The galloping horses are racing, and the battle of thousands of horses is still going on.
The mountain has pierced the blue sky and the eel is still intact. The sky is about to fall, so I rely on it to hold on.
After I finished writing, I felt that my writing was moving like a dragon and a snake, flowing freely and smoothly. I was very satisfied. So I wrote another small note:
Folk song: "There is Skeleton Mountain above, and Babao Mountain below, three feet and three feet from the sky. People must lower their heads when passing by, and horses must dismount their saddles when passing by."
After thinking about it, I wrote on it, "This book is a gift to Comrade Liu Yimin and Mao Zedong, after the Battle of Huangping on December 19, 1934."
After finishing writing, I told squad leader Hu to keep it safe until he joined the Central Guard Division and handed it over to Comrade Liu Yimin. Then he went to the Central Column to visit his wife and daughter.
Seeing Mao Zedong come in, He Zizhen, who had just given birth to a baby, turned away and her tears kept falling.
Mao Zedong hugged the child first, then walked to He Zizhen's bed, leaned down and called out "Zizhen, Zizhen" twice, and He Zizhen turned around.
Mao Zedong said softly in his thick Hunan accent: "Zizhen, thank you for your hard work."
He Zizhen choked and said: "Runzhi, the child came at the wrong time. But I don't want to give the child away. I don't know how Maomao is doing now and whether he is still alive."
This sentence touched Mao Zedong's heart. He thought about the sacrificed Yang Kaihui and his three sons whose whereabouts were unknown, and then thought about his younger brother Mao Zetan who stayed in Ruijin, his youngest son Maomao, and the soldiers who fell on the bank of the Xiangjiang River. He became obsessed for a moment.
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Deng Yingchao and Liu Ying, who were also in the Central Column and lived not far away, saw Mao Zedong coming and followed him in. After hearing He Zizhen's words, they were very sad. The lesbians burst into tears, and soon the room was full of crying. Liu Ying
While crying, she said that she was willing to raise the child with He Zizhen. Now that we had won several battles, the conditions were much better, and we had enough mules and horses to ride on, we firmly refused to give away the child again.
Mao Zedong was sad and upset, so he walked out of the room. When he went out, he saw Xu Teli, Xie Juezai, Lin Boqu, Dong Biwu and others standing in the yard outside the room. Mao Zedong stepped forward quickly and was about to shake hands and say hello. His teacher Xu
Teli waved his hand, and then said: "Runzhi, take it with you, so you can keep some blood! Anying, Anqing, Anlong, I don't know if Maomao can still find them. You are over 40, so bring them
Come on!"
Xie Juezai said sadly: "I don't know how many people who stayed in the Soviet area will survive. I'm really worried about Shu Heng and Qiu Bai. Take the children with you. As long as we fight well, we can find a foothold. If we can
If the child stays, the child's fate will be handed over to the enemy."
In this way, Li Ying became the smallest red devil in the Red Army's Long March team, instead of being left behind near the Jianhe River and ending up unknown as in the original history.
After receiving the news of the fall of Jianhe, Wang Jialie, who was still supervising the battle in Machangping, immediately ordered the Guizhou army on the Machangping front line to retreat and set up defense lines around Guiyang; he ordered all militia groups in Fuquan, Anshun, and Bijie areas to march toward Guiyang.
Centralize, accept the reorganization of the teaching regiment staying in Guiyang, and ensure the strength of the troops defending Guiyang; order He Zhizhong and Bai Huizhang to lead the main force to speed up their return to the west. They must go to the north bank of Wujiang River to avoid encounters with the red bandits and ensure that they return to Guiyang before the red bandits.
.Then he kept sending telegrams to Chairman Chiang, claiming that if reinforcements were not sent, he would not be responsible for ensuring that Guiyang was not lost.
Mrs. Wan also used her diplomatic skills to represent the women's and business circles of Guizhou and sent a report to Mrs. Chiang, imploring Mrs. Chiang to remind the Chairman that she must not sit back and watch Guiyang fall into the hands of the red bandits. Then she sent a report to Liu Xiang and Long respectively.
Yun, He Jian, Li Zongren, and Bai Chongxi's wife sent a report, imploring them to exert their influence and urge the rescue of Guizhou.
Under this situation, Chiang Kai-shek could not sit still and ordered Xue Yue to move quickly and enter Guizhou quickly; at the same time, he urged Liu Xiang to concentrate his main forces in southern Sichuan and reinforce northern Guizhou at any time. He was afraid that Guiyang would be missed, so he urgently ordered Yunnan to dispatch a team of troops
He arrived at two divisions and quickly reinforced Guiyang; he ordered Tang Enbo and other troops far away in Jiangxi to carry out water transportation and vehicle transportation, and quickly went south to enter Guizhou to serve as Xue Yue's reinforcements. At this time, it didn't matter whether He Jian wanted to be a coward or not.
Instead of being afraid of Li, the Bai Gui clan had ulterior motives for entering Guizhou. While ordering He Jian to guard the Hunan-Guizhou border and the Gui army to guard the Guizhou-Guizhou border to prevent the Red Bandits from turning around and returning to the south, they did not hesitate to fight with He Jian, Li, and Bai Yi brothers.
Accordingly, he ordered He Jian to let Liu Jianxu lead at least two divisions to pursue Xue Yue no matter what, and ordered the Seventh Army of the Guangxi Army to coordinate with the Guangdong Army to march north from southern Guizhou and set up defenses as far as Duyun.
For a time, from Jiangxi to Sichuan and Yunnan, on the railways, on the water, and in the mountains and valleys, the situation suddenly changed, and the atmosphere of an impending war was everywhere.
Xue Yue had already held a military meeting on the afternoon of the 19th. It had already been arranged, and the plan was to set off on the 20th. After receiving the new telegram from the Chairman, he acted immediately. Regardless of whether Liu Jianxu's Hunan Army moved, he led 8 divisions.
The Central Army entered Xinhuang and prepared to go straight to Guiyang along the Hunan-Guizhou Avenue of Yuping, Zhenyuan and Huangping.
With 100,000 troops and eight divisions acting together, the momentum was really huge. It scared the Miao people, Yao people, Dong people, and Han people along the way to flee into the mountains. The generals of the Central Army sighed that this was really a remote area.
They are so backward and ignorant that they don’t even know that the central army is here to suppress bandits and save the people. It seems that the New Life Movement initiated by the Chairman needs to be promoted nationwide as soon as possible.
On the evening of the 19th, the 1st Red Division occupied Jiuzhou without firing a shot. On the morning of the 20th, Mao Zedong and Zhu De, who had just entered Jiuzhou, received a report from the 1st Red Division. According to the report from the leading company of the 1st Red Regiment, they discovered that the front line of Machangping was
The Guizhou army has withdrawn its defenses. Mao Zedong, Zhu De, and Zhou Enlai analyzed that Guiyang must be empty, and Wang Jialie returned to defend Guiyang. In this way, the areas south of Wujiang and east of Guiyang have no defenders, and the enemy forces in the Zunyi area are bound to be weak. God will not take it.
Guilty. In addition, he learned from radio interceptions that Chiang Kai-shek was massively aiding Guizhou, so he ordered the Second Division and the Cadre Regiment of the First Red Army to capture Weng'an and point at Wujiang. The Military Commission column accompanied them; the First Army, the First Division, the Fifteenth Division and the Third Army were divided into three.
The road attack occupied Fuquan and Kaiyang, creating the illusion of intimidating Guiyang, and then turned around and headed north to forcefully cross the Wujiang River; ordered the fifth and ninth Red Army Corps to rush to the front line of Wujiang River as soon as possible and cross the river first; ordered the Central Guard Division, which had completed the task of covering and delaying the enemy, to immediately
The operation is to go north from Jingwu Prefecture, along Liping, Jianhe, Shi Bing, and Yuqing to the Wujiang River to catch up with the main force. If the main force of the enemy's Central Army arrives and blocks the Wujiang River, it will wait in hiding south of the Wujiang River and conduct mobile operations.
When he received the telegram, Liu Yimin had already led the entire division into Liping.
On the morning of the 19th, just as the 5th Red Division occupied the Huangpingjian hillside position, Zhang Yicheng, the chief of staff of the 18th regiment, was ordered to lead the reconnaissance company to set off. In the evening, Liu Yimin and Cai Zhong led the main force of the Central Guard Division that had completed its organization and training to bid farewell to Jing.
Wuzhou, marching towards Liping with torches.
After a night's march, they arrived at the front line of Majia Tuan in Liping. After arranging security, the troops dispersed and camped on the spot. At about 10 o'clock, Liu Jianshe woke up Liu Yimin and showed him the telegram from the Central Revolutionary Military Commission.
After reading the telegram, Liu Yimin began to think. Judging from the telegram, the Central Red Army was about to forcefully cross the Wujiang River, and the great Zunyi Conference was about to be held soon. But why didn't the Red Army take the opportunity to occupy Guiyang? Guiyang must be very empty now, and the Wang family
Lie's main force should still be on the way from Tongren to Guiyang. The Central Army is basically on a parallel line with itself. The Gui Army and the Hunan Army will not participate in the pursuit for the time being. Only after confirming that their troops leave the passage and move westward, it is estimated that the Gui Army will
The Sichuan Army and the Hunan Army will take action. The Sichuan Army is still in southern Sichuan, and even if the Yunnan Army is dispatched, it will not be able to reach Guiyang in a short while. Could it be that the central government intercepted the enemy's telegram and knew that the enemy's situation has changed significantly? Is this possible?
possible.
Did Wang Jialie concentrate his efforts on returning to the defense of Guiyang? It should be so. However, even if Wang Jialie returned to the defense, without his two main divisions, Guiyang's existing strength would not be able to stop the Red Army. You must know that due to his arrival,
, the main force of the Red Army lost a lot during the Battle of Xiangjiang River. It is said that after crossing the Xiangjiang River, there were still about 47,000 people. Even if there were some losses on the way to the passage, there should be more than 40,000 people. Plus the recruits I sent last time, how could
It should be said that there should be 45,000 people. In addition, from Liping to Jianhe, Huang Ping expanded his army and added prisoners, and there should be almost 50,000 people, and there is enough food and ammunition. Add in his own Central Guard Division of 9,000 people, and he won only a mere
Guiyang is a no-brainer.
Yes, Chairman Mao and other leaders of the Military Commission must have considered that if they capture Guiyang, it will trigger a siege and counterattack by enemies from all sides, making the main force of the Red Army strategically passive. By then, it will be difficult for the Red Army to control northern Guizhou and march into southern Sichuan, let alone
There is no talk of joining forces with the Fourth Front Army.
If you think about it carefully, there may be another consideration. If the attack on Guiyang fails, the troops will be trapped under the fortified city, not to mention increasing casualties. Once the main force of the enemy's central army arrives, they will lose their footing.
Besides, even if the Red Army occupied Guiyang and relied on Chairman Mao's genius military command skills and the heroic invincibility of the Red Army soldiers to defeat all enemy reinforcements one by one and establish a base in Guizhou, it would only be able to hold on to a corner. If it wanted to break through the National Government of Chiang Kai-shek,
The heavy blockade is basically impossible. How about going north to fight against Japan? You must know that only by joining forces with the national army to fight against Japan can the Red Army gain the general recognition of the people across the country and achieve rapid development.
Liu Yimin, who is familiar with military history, knows that after the Zunyi Conference, there were two main factors that affected the progress of the Long March: First, because the Red Army in northern Shaanxi was unable to get in touch with the Central Committee, the Central Red Army did not know that there was a Red Army base area in northern Shaanxi, and it could not determine the origin of the Long March.
Destination. Historically, it was not until September 9, 1935, after Lin Biao and Nie Rongzhen occupied Hadapu, Gansu Province, that they learned from the captured newspapers that there was a Red Army base in northern Shaanxi. Second, the Tucheng Battle after the Zunyi Conference was not fought well.
, the Red Army was forced to choose to cross Chishui to the west. In order to get rid of the enemy's pursuit, they began to cross Chishui four times, and then moved towards the Yunnan-Guizhou border. They covered many more miles. Although the enemy was thinned, it also lost the original losses.
The large Central Red Army dragged fewer people. It was not until they succeeded in crossing the Dadu River that they were able to get rid of the enemy's pursuit. However, what awaited the brave and capable Central Red Army was the life-limited snow mountain grassland and Zhang Guotao's bully, which really made things worse.
.In the end, only a few thousand of the 86,000-strong Central Red Army main force that set out from Yudu arrived in northern Shaanxi.
If I could find a way to tell Chairman Mao, Vice Chairman Zhou, and Commander-in-Chief Zhu that there is a base in northern Shaanxi, wouldn't that be consistent with the slogan of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission to go north to resist Japan? If I could assist the main force of the Red Army in defeating the Sichuan Army and march directly to northern Shaanxi along Sichuan,
Wouldn't it be possible to greatly shorten the process of the Long March and save the lives of many Red Army soldiers? If it can be realized, no matter what the outcome is, it will not be in vain.
But how to say it and when to say it need to be carefully controlled.
Obviously, if you fabricate it and say that you heard it before joining the Red Army, not only will your credibility not be high, but it will also easily arouse suspicion and cause unnecessary trouble. However, if the information is obtained from captured enemy documents and newspapers
, obviously there is no problem. At the end of the battles in Xiaoshui and
The senior military officers have worked hard on this. They should have documents in this regard, at least they are clear. As long as they are interrogated, everything will be fine.
Liu Jianshe never expected that in just a short period of time, Liu Yimin would have so many shocking thoughts running through his mind.
Seeing Liu Yimin deep in thought, Liu Jianshe didn't say anything. He stood aside and watched Liu Yimin in a daze. As he watched, he thought, I wonder where the teacher learned such a skill. He can scare the enemy at such a young age. Even He Jian
Such a bitter enemy of the Red Army had to obediently hold millions of silver dollars and so many weapons and ammunition in his hands. If I hadn't experienced this myself, I wouldn't have believed it even if I was beaten to death. Even if someone said it, I'd probably think it was a storyteller.
Human nonsense. Thinking of how Liu Qingchu was forced to give out all his silver coins when he was trading with the Hunan Army in Xikou, Liu Jianshe burst into laughter.
The laughter woke up Liu Yimin. He looked back and saw Liu Jianli staring at him, but his smile and eyes were separate. It was obvious that he couldn't help laughing because he thought of something ridiculous. Liu Yimin deliberately teased: "Staff
"Chang, did you think of my sister-in-law's pretty appearance and couldn't help laughing?"
Only then did Liu Jianshe realize that he had been distracted, and said hurriedly: "Sir, I am a real bachelor, and my wife does not know which mother-in-law's house she is in! Please tell me quickly, what should we do? Is the original planned combat operation against Xue Yue's Central Army
Cancel."
Liu Yimin shook his head: "No, continue to execute it. After Xue Yue is taught a lesson, we will rush to cross the Wujiang River and join the main force."
Liu Jianli asked again: "Then how do you call back to the Central Revolutionary Military Commission?"
Liu Yimin thought for a while and said: "Report to the Central Revolutionary Military Commission and Chairman Mao that our division has now entered Liping. It is planned that the troops will be divided into two groups. The two companies of the transport battalion will escort the silver coins and some ammunition obtained from He Jian and Bai Chongxi.
Travel day and night, along the Jianhe River and Huangping River, towards the Wujiang River. Please ask the First Army Corps or the Third Army Corps to leave a battalion in Jiuzhou to wait. It is best to return to Huangping to meet them. The main force of the division will advance along the Liping River and the Jianhe River towards Zhenyuan, determined to hide and wait in Zhenyuan to find the enemy.
Annihilate the first unit of the Central Army led by Xue Yue. After success, cross the Wu River and join the main force in Zunyi."
Liu Jianli raised his legs to leave after retelling, and Liu Yimin added: "Send a report to Zhang Yicheng. After the reconnaissance company enters Zhenyuan, it can conduct covert reconnaissance in separate routes. It should not be limited to the junction of Zhenyuan and Yuping. In case we arrive, Xue Yue Central
Has the army passed by? The junction of Zhenyuan and Shibing, the junction of Zhenyuan and Shiqian, and the junction of Zhenyuan and Yuqing are all the focus of reconnaissance. The most important thing is to conduct detailed reconnaissance around the Hunan-Guizhou Avenue to find suitable battlefields. Understand
Alright?"
Liu Jianshe agreed and left, and Liu Yimin went back to catch up on his sleep. There was no way, young people always lacked sleep, even if they traveled through time.
After receiving Liu Yimin's telegram, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Bo Gu, Zhang Wentian, and Wang Jiaxiang had a brief discussion and immediately sent a report, instructing the Second Division of the First Army to send two battalions quickly back to Huangping to meet the baggage. They agreed to the Central Guard Division's operational plan, but
We must seize the opportunity and act within our capabilities. If the attack is successful, we should quickly send a telegram to the Central Revolutionary Military Commission and arrange for troops to cross the river. If the attack does not go well, we should quickly break away from contact with the enemy. We must not let the troops fall into the encirclement of the main force of the enemy's Central Army.
Wait until you get rid of the enemy before crossing the river.
After receiving the reply telegram from the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, Liu Jianshe did not wake up Liu Yimin immediately. He waited until after 12 o'clock before waking Liu Yimin up. Liu Yimin read the telegram and thought for a while. He felt that the two companies in the supply camp were too weak.
As soon as an accident occurs, it will be over. If you are not afraid of ten thousand, you are afraid of the worst. Therefore, Liu Jianli was asked to arrange for the cavalry battalion to bring a radio station and escort the two companies of the baggage battalion to set off immediately. The baggage must be safely handed over to the hands of the Second Division.
After the mission was completed, the cavalry battalion drove straight into Zhenyuan along the Huangping and Shi Bingjian roads to join the main force. The two companies of the transport battalion followed the Second Division troops and returned to the army after the main force of the division arrived in Zunyi.
Liu Jianshe was busy making arrangements, and Liu Yimin couldn't sleep either. Seeing that most of the sleeping soldiers wrapped in clothes and lying on the hillside were awake and starting to eat dry food, Liu Yimin ordered the troops to assemble and set off immediately, rushing to Liping.
Eat and rest again in the county town.
The road where no one could be seen just now became lively. More than 9,000 troops from the Central Guard Division of the Red Army headed straight for Liping County along the road. There, they would rest for a while, and then continue to march towards the city in the vast darkness.