At ten o'clock in the evening, Ganxian County, the instructor department. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhang Yao, deputy chief of staff, sent the telegram from the central government to political commissar Li Zhao: "I have not received a call from the central government for a month and a half, and suddenly an urgent telegram came ordering our division to report on the battle situation in Ganzhou, and clearly instructed our division to abandon Ganzhou immediately, turn around and go north, rush to the Hunan and Jiangxi border areas to join other departments, and then join forces to attack Changsha. ”

Li Zhao was taken aback, took the message and walked to the candlestick, read it carefully, and finally sat down slowly, shaking his head again and again:

"Now that He Jian's 35th Army has recovered southern Hunan, the vigorous southern Hunan rebellion ended in failure, and all the teams were forced to retreat into Jinggangshan, how could it be possible to attack Changsha together at this time?"

"Doesn't the central government and the Hunan Provincial Party Committee know that one of Bai Chongxi's troops has been sitting in Changsha for a long time? Even the Liling and Pingliu regions are under the control of the enemy, how can they attack Changsha without conquering the Liling and Pingliu regions first? ”

"Before, the division commander said that those members of the Central Committee and the border regions did not understand the actual situation and were accustomed to patting their chests and playing the piano indiscriminately, and I also seriously criticized the division commander, but now it seems that what the division commander said is not wrong."

Li Zhao's remarks were grounded, and the uprising in southern Hunan was huge, and the counties successively set up soviets and formed the ranks of the workers' and peasants' revolutionary army, but this also caused great panic among the Nationalist Government and the Hunan and Guizhou armies.

At the beginning of March, the commanders of the Hunan army, He Jian and Ye Qi, lost their sincerity to the Gui army of the westward expedition, and then more than 200,000 Hunan troops, except for half of the soldiers and horses who participated in the Northern Expedition, the rest flocked to the land of southern Hunan.

At the same time, Xu Kexiang, Fan Shisheng and other troops also joined the joint suppression army.

By mid-April, Yongxing, Rucheng, Anren, Zixing and other counties in southern Hunan had fallen one after another. Under this unfavorable situation, General Zhu Yujie led his troops to the Jinggangshan area to join Commissar Mao.

"What are we going to do? You can't call back to refuse, right? ”

Zhang Yao sat on the other side of the square table, took out a cigarette and slowly lit the fire.

Li Zhao thought about it repeatedly, and finally decisively decided: "This matter can no longer be worried about the division commander, he just called us to inform us of the situation at the front, and he can't disrupt his overall plan at this time!" ”

"Call back to the central government directly, informing me that the first division of our division is confronting the enemy defending Ganzhou, and the rest of the divisions are encircling Yudu and attacking Ruijin, and it will be impossible to withdraw from the battlefield in a short time!"

Zhang Yao showed a knowing smile: "Okay, I'll do it immediately after smoking a cigarette." ”

Li Zhao suddenly remembered something: "Didn't the Hong Kong intelligence station get in touch with Shangguan Yong's Putian intelligence station?" Send another telegram to Hong Kong, telling them to buy as many medicines as possible, our medicines are all used up, and if we don't replenish them in time, we will die, alas......."

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Under the rising sun, the Chongguang Pagoda on the north bank of the mercury water is covered with a layer of golden soft light, and under the background of the clear water and green trees, it looks particularly vicissitudes of life.

Two kilometers east of the pagoda is the west gate of the capital.

After continuous harassment and repeated attacks by the companies of the Fifth Regiment of the Instructor, the defenders of Yudu abandoned the fortifications built outside the West Gate, and more than a dozen families outside the city had already fled into the city to escape the war.

The 800-meter-long highlands from the Chongguang Pagoda to the north of the green hills are all occupied by the five regiments of the instructors.

On the small wharf more than 200 meters southwest of the pagoda, cooking smoke curls up, and all the cooking personnel of the division headquarters and the fifth regiment are concentrated here, and the two rows of earthen stoves built along the river bank are blazing, and more than 30 cauldrons on the earthen stoves are steaming.

The pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks purchased from more than a dozen villages and towns in the rear are all slaughtered semi-finished products, which are quickly sent into the cauldron under the decomposition of dozens of kitchen knives, and are added with bamboo shoots, dried chilies, ginger and onions and other accessories to make pots of large pot dishes.

The officers and men of the Fifth Regiment, the Special Service Company, and the Guard Company took turns to enjoy a hearty breakfast, without worrying about the defenders in the city going out of the city to start a battle.

Han Zixu, Kevin and Luo Dongyuan, who were in suits and leather shoes, came to the shore with tired faces, and sat at a temporary long table with Zheng Yi, facing two pots of steaming fried pork with dried bamboo shoots and chili peppers and braised chicken on the table.

"Taste it, it doesn't look good, it tastes delicious, it's rare to have such a rich food during the war, if you don't eat it, I'm afraid you'll be hungry until five o'clock in the afternoon." Zheng Yi persuaded while eating.

Kevin reluctantly picked up the simple chopsticks made of bamboo and whispered to Zheng Yi in English: "I couldn't sleep all night...... The sound of insects crawling constantly sounded outside the grass hut where we were resting, and no one knew if a poisonous snake would suddenly emerge. ”

"Every half an hour or so, there is a battle of gunfire and grenade explosions in the distance, and the blanket on my body is very damp, and even the air is heavily moist, and God forbids me that I haven't been sick until now."

Zheng Yi couldn't help but smile: "Okay, it won't be long before the earth will become dry in the sun, if you want, you can choose a piece of grass at random behind the position, spread a blanket to sunbathe, and sleep well by the way." ”

"If you don't feel safe, just go up to the pagoda in front of you, which is an important point for us to watch, and it may be more comfortable to sleep in the pagoda."

"No, no! I will never sleep in that tower, which is only two kilometers from the eastern wall, and which could collapse at any moment from the city's shells. Kevin shook his head.

Zheng Yi shook his head and smiled dumbly: "If the defenders in the city had artillery, they would have shelled our army yesterday, oh...... I almost forgot that there were indeed eight cannons in front of the tower on the west gate, but those cannons were all cast iron cannons made in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the iron balls fired with black powder had a maximum range of only 500 meters! ”

"Last night, when one of our companies harassed and fired at the west gate, the defenders at the head of the city fired five rounds in a row, and the cannon rumbled very loudly, which sounded terrifying, but no one knew where the shells flew."

Han Zixu couldn't help laughing: "Those artillery pieces on the city are too backward to play almost any role in modern warfare, and a machine gun has a greater role than it." ”

Zheng Yi nodded in agreement: "That's right! Yesterday evening, the soldiers of one of our companies launched harassing fire at a distance of 800 meters from the city wall, and according to the report of the company commander who led the company, two Czech light machine guns completely suppressed the enemy firing the artillery after firing two magazines, that is, forty rounds. ”

"About seven or eight of the enemy were hit by machine-gun bullets, and the defenders at the head of the city immediately extinguished the bonfires, set up two light machine guns and returned fire fiercely, and our soldiers withdrew."

"That's how you kept disturbing the defenders of the city last night?" Han Zixu asked.

Zheng Yi nodded: "We also have two platoons of soldiers taking turns to attack, and the soldiers of these two platoons are excellent shooters who have been repeatedly selected, and each of them can hit the wine bottle within two hundred meters......

"These soldiers took turns to attack last night, and hit at least fifty defenders on the city, so in the second half of the night, dozens of bonfires and dozens of lanterns lit on the city were all extinguished, and our soldiers no longer had a chance to find targets to shoot calmly, so greater casualties were avoided."

Han Zixu was speechless, he had never heard of such siege warfare, even in the history of warfare in Southeast Asia for decades, there was no such way of fighting.

Luo Dongyuan, who had been listening attentively, suddenly asked: "General, is the second regiment of your army deployed at the mouth of the Sanjiang River in the east also harassing the defenders in the city all night like the fifth regiment we are in?" ”

Zheng Yi admired his old subordinate very much, took out the binoculars and handed it to him: "You're right, the second regiment is even better than the fifth regiment!" ”

"In last night's harassment and attack, they burned hundreds of large and small ships of all sizes where the enemy troops were concentrated on the pier on the north shore, killed and wounded at least 100 enemies, captured more than 70 boatmen and four ferries, and killed none of the 500 officers and men who attacked!"

"Here, face the river, and then observe the direction at ten o'clock, which is about three and eight kilometers away."

Luo Dongyuan took the telescope and accurately found the observation target with a slight adjustment: "I saw that behind the south bank of the capital, four red battle flags were flying on the two hills...... General, is that a soldier of the 2nd Regiment? ”

Before Zheng Yi could answer, Han Zixu and Kevin had already run to Luo Dongyuan's side, grabbed the binoculars and took turns to watch.

Zheng Yi thought about it and continued to eat, and let Han Zixu and the three of them stand on the embankment to observe and discuss enthusiastically.

For the next day, the defenders of the city did not move, but the soldiers of the 5th Regiment of the instructor in the west of the city kept cutting down trees and building fortifications.

After Zheng Yi and Huang Guoxing discussed, they simply moved the headquarters to the Chongguang Pagoda, and the radio team also carried the radio station to the top floor and set up antennas.

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