Almost at the same time that the 9th Red Regiment crossed the Wujiang River, the 4th Red Regiment, the leading force of the 2nd Red Division, arrived at the Jiangjiehe Ferry.
Historically, the Fourth Red Regiment rushed to the Jiangjie River ferry on December 31. When they arrived at the ferry, the Guizhou Army had burned the ferry. After conducting fire reconnaissance against the enemy, they organized two trial crossings of troops on the 1st. The second time was
During the trial crossing on bamboo rafts, eight Red Army soldiers' bamboo rafts were broken and fell into the Wujiang River. Only Mao Zhenhua, the commander of the first battalion and the third company, and six other warriors crossed the Wujiang River. On January 2, the Fourth Red Army used bamboo rafts to force the crossing on a large scale.
, at the critical moment, Mao Zhenhua and six other soldiers jumped out from hiding to attack the enemy. The artilleryman Zhao Zhangcheng commanded the artillery to knock down the enemy bunker and hit the enemy's attack formation. After the Red Army crossed the river and landed, the enemy collapsed. The Fourth Red Regiment set up
With two pontoons, the Second Division and the Central Column crossed the river.
The situation now is much better than in history. Fierce fighting is impossible. There is only one platoon of enemies guarding the ferry. They were captured in their sleep and the ferry was found.
The leader of the Fourth Red Regiment, Geng Biao, and the political commissar Yang Chengwu immediately arranged for the vanguard to quickly cross the river, immediately control key points, and cover the main force crossing the river.
Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, and Zhu De, who came after hearing the news, called Liu Bocheng, Chen Guang, and Liu Yalou together to personally deploy combat missions and asked the fourth regiment to quickly establish contact with the fifth army after crossing the river. After the main force of the second division crossed the river,
The Fourth Regiment was the vanguard, and the Second Division and the Fifth Army's 13th Division followed up. Cooperating with the 34th Division of the Fifth Army, the three-pronged army rushed to Zunyi. Liu Bocheng was responsible for commanding the former enemy. The purpose of the operation was to drive the enemies of Zunyi out of the city and annihilate them. Zunyi could not be destroyed.
Break through and destroy. Then we must arrange troops to attack Loushanguan to ensure the safety of Zunyi.
Liu Bocheng suggested that the Fourth Red Regiment be the vanguard all the way, but it was too tiring, so he suggested that the Sixth Regiment be the vanguard and attack Zunyi.
Mao Zedong laughed and said: "That is a matter for your former enemy commander to give specific instructions. We will not interfere." Then he went to rest with Zhou Enlai and Zhu De.
Liu Bocheng immediately adjusted the tasks of the troops. The fourth regiment organized to cross the river and sent the sixth regiment across first. The engineer company quickly built a pontoon bridge to ensure that the main force and the Military Commission column crossed the river.
After accepting the mission, Yang Chengwu felt that there were few ferries and the troops were slow to cross the river. On the one hand, he organized engineers to build pontoons, and on the other hand, he organized soldiers to cut down bamboo and build hundreds of bamboo rafts. Now the crossing speed was greatly accelerated, and the Sixth Regiment quickly crossed the river and crossed the Wujiang River.
After a ten-mile long hillside, we set foot on the road to Zunyi.
On the morning of the 21st, the Engineer Company of the Second Red Division finally erected two pontoon bridges on the 60-meter-wide Wujiang River. The main force of the Second Division quickly passed through the Wujiang River. After crossing the river, it merged with the 13th Division of the Fifth Army Corps coming from the direction of Jingkou and headed towards the Wujiang River.
Zunyi ran away.
Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, and Zhu De waited until the cadre regiment and the central column passed the pontoon bridge before crossing the river with the guard soldiers.
Looking at the Wujiang River at his feet, Mr. Zhu sighed: "I have thought of several ways to forcibly cross the Wujiang River, but none of them have been used."
Zhou Enlai also said: "Yes, we didn't expect that the Wujiang natural barrier would be crossed by us like this. It seems that Zunyi is in sight."
Mao Zedong said: "Let's go, guys. If you want to eat Qianbei cuisine in Zunyi City, you have to speed up your trip. If you go late, Hou Zhidan will probably rob the restaurant."
The group of people climbed up the hillside talking and laughing.
Wan Shijiong, the commander of the Guizhou Army, never dreamed that he and his troops would be the first targets of the Red Army when it entered northern Guizhou.
Wan Shijiong, named Jingzhang, is from the Miao ethnic group in Tongren, Guizhou, and is Wang Jialie's wife and nephew. His unit belongs to the He Zhichong Division of the First Division of the Guizhou Army.
In history, Wan Shijiong's troops abandoned their position and fled when the First Red Division broke through the Wujiang River from Huilongchang. They were later defeated by the Ninth Red Army in Meitan County. However, Wan Shijiong himself did have certain military qualities and was relatively lucky. The Wang family
After Lieutenant General Lieutenant General's resignation, Chiang Kai-shek reorganized the Guizhou Army and reorganized the Hezhi Heavy Division into the 103rd Division. Wan Shijiong was appointed as the commander of the 618th Regiment. In his subsequent military career, Wan Shijiong did two things for the country and the people, leaving his name in history.
Something happened: During the Anti-Japanese War, Wan Shijiong’s 618th Regiment participated in the Nanjing Defense War and was the last unit of the National Army to evacuate Nanjing. It turned out that during the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, Wan Shijiong led the 618th Regiment to fight with the Japanese at Jiangyin Fortress.
The enemy fought fiercely and suffered heavy losses. Later, they were ordered to retreat to Nanjing and join the battle to defend Nanjing. After Tang Shengzhi escaped, the 618th Regiment was still fighting. After withdrawing from Nanjing, it accommodated the defeated troops of the 103rd Division and maintained its combat effectiveness. The second was the War of Liberation.
In December 1949, Wan Shijiong, then deputy commander of the Yunnan-Guizhou-Guangxi Border Region and commander of the Anlong Command Post, led an uprising and joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
Wan Shijiong's tribe was supposed to retreat back to Guiyang with the main force, but as a direct descendant of Wang Jialie, He Zhizhong knew that if all the troops retreated, the entire northern Guizhou would become Hou Zhidan's sphere of influence, and it would be difficult to come back.
Therefore, he deliberately left Wan Shijiong's troops stationed in Meitan to contain Hou Zhidan, and returned to Guiyang with four regiments.
Wan Shijiong, who stayed behind in Meitan, felt that the situation in front of him was very strange the more he thought about it. Since the main force of the Red Bandits wanted to capture Guiyang, why did they divide their forces to occupy Huangping and Shi Bing? Could it be that the Red Bandits were just to contain the main force of our army to reinforce Guiyang?
It's better to be careful. Think again, the main force is returning to rescue Guiyang, but he is alone in northern Guizhou. If the red bandits have any plans for northern Guizhou, they can't do it by themselves. That's all, people are under the roof, they have to
Lower your head, let's contact Hou Zhidan and remind him to carry out Chairman Wang's order and strengthen the Wujiang defense line.
Unexpectedly, as soon as this was connected with Hou Zhidan, Hou Zhidan followed the current and asked Wan Shijiong to send troops to defend Jingkou and prevent the red bandits from crossing the river.
Thinking of Hou Zhidan holding chicken feathers as command arrows and daring to command himself, Wan Shijiong was so angry that he dropped the phone. After thinking about it carefully after he was angry, he decided to send a battalion to Jingkou. After all, it was the key point of Jiang Defense.
If the bandits don't come, they will also have a way out to the south bank of the Wujiang River if they need to retreat.
Meitan County is only more than 100 miles away from Jingkou, but they are all mountainous roads. Fortunately, the soldiers in Wan Shijiong's department are all Guizhou people and can adapt to it. One battalion hurriedly rushed, starting from the morning and walking until the evening.
Finally, we arrived at Aoxi Town on the evening of the 20th. Seeing that we were only more than 30 miles away from the Wujiang River, the officers and soldiers were really tired, and many brothers were addicted to cigarettes. The battalion commander had to order to camp on the spot.
As soon as they heard about the camping, the troops cheered. After all, this is the boundary of Meitan, one-third of their land, and Aoxi Town is a big town on the highway connecting Meitan and Yuqing. Where is the smoke?
Wherever there is a kiln sister, the officers and soldiers feel bright. So, those who are on guard duty are addicted to cigarettes, and three or five people who like to drink gather together to shout and drink. Those who like the kiln sister will naturally touch the light in their pockets and look up.
Head away.
That night, the soldiers of Wan Shijiongbu's battalion basically had a party all night in Aoxi Town.
At dawn, two gunshots suddenly rang out from the south of the town. The enemy battalion commander thought it was a sentry firing, so he ignored it and continued to sleep with Sister Yao in his arms.
Later, the situation went wrong. The gunfire became more and more intensive, and it had already reached the town. The enemy battalion commander was shocked, damn, are the red bandits really coming? He was so unlucky that he met the red bandits when he went out.
Bandits? Could it be that the natural danger of Wujiang River couldn't stop the red bandits, so they flew over?
Soon, the red bandits seemed to have reached the front. Hearing the sounds of people and gunshots all over the town, the enemy battalion commander did not hesitate, pushed away the frightened Sister Yao, and got dressed in three strokes.
, holding a pistol and jumped into the yard!
I looked through the crack in the door and realized, oh my god, the Red Bandits are really coming. It looked like there were thousands of them. On the road in the middle of the town, there were dead people, injured people lying down and kneeling people in front of every house.
Looking at the brothers who raised their hands to surrender. It's over. My battalion is considered finished. Let's quickly try to escape and report to the group.
The enemy battalion commander ducked into the backyard, climbed over the wall and entered the woods behind, and fled.
The 34th Division of the Fifth Red Army Corps occupied Aoxi Town.
After crossing the river, the Red 34th Division left a battalion to guard the ferry. The troops rested for a few hours and then began to search along the main road toward Zunyi. After walking more than 30 miles on the mountain road, they arrived at Aoxi Town at dawn. The original plan was
I went to the town to find a guide, and then headed west to Zunyi. I didn't expect to encounter a Guizhou Army sentry in the south of the town. The guy only had time to fire a shot and was shot dead. Han Wei, the leader of the regiment, saw it and said, "Okay."
There was an enemy here, so he immediately ordered a battalion to go around to the north end of the town to cut off the enemy's retreat, and he rushed forward with two battalions. As a result, he easily annihilated one of the enemy battalions. The only shortcoming was that he did not capture the enemy battalion commander.
By the time the main force came up, it was already clear. Captain Su Daqing of the 101st Regiment looked at Han Wei enviously and said that Han was lucky. After crossing the Xiangjiang River, he finally opened up and wiped out a battalion in one go.
Han Wei looked at Su Daqing and said, "What a joke, compared with that guy Liu Yimin's record, it's nothing to mention. This Guizhou Army is too inexperienced. When will it be fun to attack the Central Army!"
Commander Chen Shuxiang looked at Han Wei and Su Daqing and said, "Don't be nagging. The Korean regiment has just finished the battle. It is necessary to quickly clean the battlefield and keep up with the main force. The Su regiment becomes the forward of the entire division, finds a guide, and immediately advances to Zunyi."
At this time, Han Wei's face became confused. Just when he was about to argue with the teacher, he saw Su Daqing saluted the teacher, said "Thank you, teacher", and ran away happily.
Han Wei had no choice but to ask the troops to clean the battlefield and put up propaganda slogans. After finishing the work, he led the troops to chase the main force.
When we received the telegram from the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, the 1st Army Corps, 1st Division, and 15th Division had just occupied Kaiyang.
Upon seeing the Central Revolutionary Military Commission's request to immediately turn to Wujiang, Lin Biao and Nie Rongzhen immediately realized that the Wujiang defense line was open to the Red Army. The opportunity could not be missed. They did not rush to arrange for the troops to rest, and did not bother to count the seizures. They immediately ordered the Red Army to
Set off immediately, aiming for Chashanguan Ferry. The main force will take a short rest and set off immediately.
The Red Regiment has been acting as a vanguard, occupying Jianhe, attacking Huangping, entering Jiuzhou, and conquering Kaiyang. Not to mention fighting, just walking makes the troops very tired. After occupying Kaiyang, Yang Dezhi and Li Lin originally thought that they could
The troops rested for half a day, and then the order was given to seize the Wujiang Chashanguan Ferry. Fortunately, they have been winning battles recently. The soldiers are well fed and their physical strength is guaranteed. In addition, Chashanguan is not too far from Kaiyang County, more than 100 miles away.
Therefore, Yang Dezhi and Li Lin did not dare to delay at all. After the troops assembled, they immediately pulled out of Kaiyang County and marched towards Chashan Pass.
After the Third Red Army Corps occupied Fuquan, because the Guizhou Army retreated in a hurry and did not rush to destroy it, they captured a large amount, and the cadres and soldiers were all beaming with joy.
When several army chiefs were discussing how to distribute the captured supplies, a telegram from the Central Revolutionary Military Commission arrived. Peng Dehuai burst out laughing when he saw it. Several people asked the army commander why he was laughing. Mr. Peng said: "Wang Jialie, you idiot, thinks we are going."
During the attack on Guiyang, we were too busy returning to defend Guiyang and forgot about the Wujiang River. Now the front line of the Wujiang River is empty, and the Central Revolutionary Military Commission ordered us to quickly cross the Wujiang River northward."
When several people looked at the telegram, they found that it didn't say that the Wujiang River was empty? Is there another mystery?
Peng Dehuai said: "Don't be stunned. Notify the troops to set off immediately. The Fifth Division will send a regiment to take the lead, and the main force will follow. The action must be fast, and the whole army cannot be held back."
Yang Shangkun said: "What to do with the seized materials?"
Peng Dehuai said: "Soldiers are very fast. Throw away everything you can, and take with you those that are really necessary. When we get to northern Guizhou, can we seize them again?"
In this way, the three armies quickly evacuated Fuquan and headed towards Kaiyang.
Several years later, a reporter went to Fuquan for an interview. When asked about the situation of the Red Army's Long March in Fuquan, an old man said tremblingly: "I was only 16 years old at the time, and I was carrying grain packages in a grain store. I remember it very clearly.
When the Red Army came, Wang Jialie's troops had already withdrawn. As soon as the Red Army entered the city, they began to put up many red and green slogans. I don't know why, but the Red Army suddenly withdrew, and they left very quickly.
We don’t even want the captured grain. Now Fuquan is in chaos, and every household is taking their bags to Wang Jialie’s grain depot to load grain. That winter, almost no one died of starvation in Fuquan, and this is all thanks to the Red Army!”
Just as the Red Army was crossing the natural dangers of Wujiang River, Hu Laohu, commander of the cavalry battalion of the Central Guard Division, was escorting two companies from the heavy supply battalion to Huangping.
After accepting the mission at noon on the 20th, Hu Huhu and the commander of the baggage battalion Cao Shengli had a brief discussion and decided to lead the first cavalry company as the vanguard. Bowen, the cavalry battalion instructor, led the second cavalry company as the second echelon. Cao Shengli commanded the two baggage battalions.
Three companies followed, and three companies of cavalry acted as rearguards. The troops rested for an hour every 50 miles to let the horses rest and the soldiers eat some dry food, and then continued marching.
After leaving Liping, the journey was uneventful. The baggage camp has been transformed into a pack horse, and the materials do not need to be carried by people. Just take care of the mules and horses, so the marching speed is not slow. At 12 o'clock at noon on the 21st, we have already crossed the border.
Jianhe arrived at Gedong Town. After hearing from the guide found in Jianhe that it was less than 140 miles away from Huangping County, Hu Laohu ordered the troops to rest for an hour, eat something, and take a short nap.
After resting, the troops resumed their journey. After walking for about 30 miles, a group of common people, about a dozen of them, came on the road ahead. Hu Laohu didn't take a closer look and just passed by. After walking for about 10 miles, he saw them again.
I saw a few ordinary people resting on the roadside. Now Hu Laohu was interested. It was the time of war. There was no one on the road. Why did he meet two groups of people in such a short distance, and they were all strong and strong?