In the main hall of the Dasheng Temple in the south of Xingguo City, the small meeting between several main leaders of the instructor is still continuing. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Zhao briefed Zheng Yi and Wang Huchen on the situation in Ningdu: "The work of the local government in Ningdu is on the right track, and with the efforts of the leaders of the county, party committee and county government, the seven surrounding townships and towns have set up their own peasant associations, women's associations, and Red Guards, and the land reform movement is also going smoothly. ”

"At present, the number of the Ningdu Red Guards has increased to more than 2,500 people, but there is a great shortage of weapons and equipment, and training is being carried out with the assistance of the second guard company."

"This time I came to participate in the battle is the first brigade of the Red Guards, the three hundred Red Guards are basically equipped with rifles and shell guns, at least for half a month, the safety of Ningdu will not be a problem."

Zheng Yi finally put his mind at ease: "The situation here in Xingguo is a little better than in Ningdu, and the 500 officers and soldiers of the Red Guard Brigade who have received two months of basic training will leave for the old camp in the north at eight o'clock tomorrow morning to take over the first regiment and one battalion to guard the northern barrier." ”

"Is Wan'an's 1st Independent Brigade of the Enemy Army still there?" Li Zhao asked.

Wang Huchen replied: "I left three days ago, one of the regiments marched along the west bank of the Ganjiang River, and the rest of the troops went north by boat, echoing by land and water, moving forward slowly, walking very carefully, leaving no chance for us to sneak attack. ”

Li Zhao laughed: "How is the situation of Ji'an defending the enemy?" ”

Zheng Yi replied with emotion: "The garrison division of the Yunnan Army in Ji'an was replenished very quickly, and it was restored in only one month, and a batch of weapons and equipment was obtained from Nanchang to replenish it. ”

"It's a pity that our intelligence was obtained a little late, otherwise we would have been able to intercept this batch of weapons and equipment that was quietly sent to Ji'an."

"But despite this, Ji'an is far easier to fight than Ganzhou, it seems that the checkpoints are heavily guarded, but in fact, there are loopholes everywhere, and the most important thing is that our intelligence officers have successfully broken into the Ji'an Security Corps."

"If our army attacks Ji'an, it will be able to achieve greater results under the cooperation of the inside and the outside, but the central government and the special committee of the Hunan and Jiangxi border areas do not agree with us to fight Ji'an, but repeatedly ask us to immediately capture Ganzhou, without considering the combat effectiveness of our instructors and whether they can capture Ganzhou."

Li Zhao was silent, he knew very well what the current strength of the instructor was, before the teaching regiment and the fourth and fifth regiments had completed their basic training, the instructor had no ability to attack Ganzhou at all, but the orders of the higher authorities had to be carried out, so he was also deeply confused.

Wang Huchen was also full of complaints: "If the division commander hadn't formulated a plan to attack Ganxian and coerce Ganzhou, I would never approve of attacking Ganzhou at this time." ”

Li Zhao nodded: "After defeating Ganxian County, will Ganzhou be encircled or withdrawn?" ”

"You can't withdraw it, otherwise it will be difficult to explain it to your superiors."

Zheng Yi already had a countermeasure: "After taking Ganxian County, I plan to let the Second Regiment occupy several commanding heights two kilometers south of Ganzhou City, and harass the enemy in the city day and night across the Ganjiang River, so that the First Regiment and the Third Regiment will move to Yangmeidu, two kilometers north of Ganzhou City, and force the enemy in the city to come out and fight with a north-south flank attack, and hold on for at least five days before withdrawing." ”

"If we can attract Fan Xiaoquan's troops stationed in northern Guangdong or the Cantonese army stationed in Nanxiong, we can take the opportunity to find fighters and use movement warfare and assault warfare to destroy the enemy, thus causing a huge political impact...... In this way, you will be able to explain to your superiors. ”

Li Zhao smiled bitterly: "Is the existing ammunition enough?" ”

"It is because of the lack that we have to attack Gan County, currently stationed in Gan County is the third regiment of Yang Chisheng's department, and the 1,200 regiments of the Jingwei Regiment of Gan County, this battle can at least temporarily alleviate the shortage of ammunition, but after all, it is not a long-term solution, unless Ganzhou City or Ji'an City is taken." Wang Huchen explained in detail.

Zheng Yi said helplessly: "It turns out that I plan to attack Ruijin, as long as Ruijin is defeated, Tingzhou in the east and Huichang in the south are under the front of our army, these two counties are rich places that are easy to attack and difficult to defend, and it is not difficult to defeat them, but they are ...... My superiors did not agree with my battle plan, so I could only give it a go and attack Ganzhou. ”

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Jiangkou Town, which is 18 kilometers east of Ganxian County, is the hub of Yudu in the east and Xingguo in the north, with convenient water and land transportation, known as the reputation of the land of fish and rice, and the trade and handicraft industry are also very developed.

More than a month earlier, the communist army had quickly withdrawn after defeating Yang Chisheng's troops in the town, and had not been seen within a 30-mile radius of Jiangkou since then.

The officers and men of a battalion of the Third Regiment of Yang Chisheng's Division, who had returned to the town to garrison, repeatedly requisitioned local people, built a large number of fortifications in the north and east of the town by means of forced salaries and increased taxes, and transferred a company of security forces from Ganxian County to coordinate the defense, and repeatedly sent reconnaissance teams to quietly go north in an attempt to investigate and harass the communist troops in Xingguo County.

However, except for the reconnaissance team sent for the first time, which successfully reached the outskirts of Longkou Town, 32 kilometers north of the town, and retreated in the encounter, there was no chance to get close to the 10-kilometer defense of Longkou Town.

A regiment of the communist army occupying Longkou town also frequently sent small units south to conduct reconnaissance, and there were a total of six skirmishes between the two sides.

On the last night of the end of March, the instructor's reconnaissance unit infiltrated Jibu Town, eight kilometers north of Jiangkou Town, and unwittingly killed more than 30 members of the security forces in charge of the guard, plundered all the weapons and ammunition and the three war horses used to deliver the news, and then quietly retreated and never reappeared.

This move had a huge deterrent effect on the Jiangkou garrison, causing panic among the people within a radius of dozens of miles, and the grass and trees were all soldiers.

The frightened Yang Chisheng no longer dared to send troops to the town of Jibu, and the communist troops to the north did not continue to appear in the town of Jibu and the surrounding areas, so the town of Jibu became the default buffer between the two armies, and there was no more clash in April.

After the Qingming Festival, the southern Gannan region gradually warmed up, rainy and foggy, such a season is easy to make people sleepy, and the light rain and muddy roads that fall from time to time make people reluctant to go out.

The Jiangkou garrison, which had been quiet for a long time, had a loose work style and lax military discipline, and there were many officers and men who smoked opium, and in addition to setting up cards to collect taxes every day, they were eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, and naturally they lost their due vigilance.

So, in the middle of the night on April 12, the three outposts set up in the north and west of Jiangkou Town were all taken by ghostly instructor scouts, and none of the six sentries were spared.

The number of officers and men had increased to more than 1,500 men, and the 2nd Regiment of Instructors quietly moved south in three routes, encircling the unsuspecting defenders of a battalion in one fell swoop.

The three assault detachments of the special service company directly under them suddenly appeared in the garrison barracks like fierce ghosts emerging from the ground, and more than 10 defending officers who were gathering to gamble surrendered obediently under the guns of more than 30 machine guns and Colt pistols, without the slightest chance of resistance.

With the cooperation of the elite of the special service company, the officers and men of the 2nd Regiment disarmed the defenders very smoothly and controlled all the intersections, docks and ships outside Jiangkou Town.

The first and third regiments of the instructors entered the town one after another, and Zheng Yi's headquarters was directly set up in the tax collection and inspection office on the wharf south of the town.

All the teahouses and restaurants in and out of the town were knocked on the doors, and as many as 500 cooks and shopkeepers got up in horror to cook for more than 4,500 soldiers and soldiers who were temporarily resting, killing chickens and slaughtering sheep.

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ps: The small fire and high fever do not go away, I went to the hospital in the morning to get a hanging injection, and I wrote this chapter when I came back from the hospital, and the update was late, please understand!

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