After Zheng Yi put pressure on the captured commander of the Yunnan army, he obtained a lot of unexpected and important information. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

When Wang Huchen and Li Lianshan saw Zheng Yi's solemn expression, they immediately selected more than 10 officers above the platoon commander level from among the prisoners and personally led the staff officers of the division headquarters to interrogate them separately.

After an hour of interrogation and corroboration, accurate and detailed information was placed in front of Zheng Yi:

At present, a brigade of the Yunnan Army stranded in Wan'an County is a regular unit of the Yunnan Army stationed in Zhangshu, an important town in the middle reaches of the Ganjiang River, for a long time, originating from the garrison division of the 31st Army, which is composed of the original 31st Army Guard Regiment and 2,000 recruits from Yunnan Province, and is officially called the First Independent Brigade of the Jiangxi Provincial Garrison Command, and the brigade commander is Zhang Chaozhen, who graduated from the Kunming Lecture and Martial Arts Hall.

The brigade has two infantry battalions of 1,200 officers and men, a special service company, an engineer company, an artillery company, and a baggage company, with a total number of more than 3,150 officers and men, and more than 2,500 newly issued Japanese Type 38 rifles, 250 Type 38 carbines, 45 Browning light machine guns, and six Krupp 75-mm mountain guns.

The predecessor of the 31st Army, the Ninth Army, was officially renamed the 31st Army in accordance with the order of the Military Committee of the Kuomintang a month and a half ago because it was duplicated with the Ninth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, which was formed by the troops of the Huangpu lineage, and the commander was Jin Handing, a famous general of the Yunnan Army.

A month ago, the 31st Army, together with Zhu Peide's descendant Third Army, went to Jiangbei to participate in the Second Northern Expedition.

In addition, before Zhu Peide led his troops to participate in the Northern Expedition, he carried out a large-scale enrichment and adjustment of the troops left behind in Laochao in Jiangxi Province, and the newly formed Jiangxi Provincial Garrison Command had three divisions and five brigades under its jurisdiction.

These three divisions and five brigades are the Nanchang Garrison Division and Guard Brigade stationed in Nanchang, the Northern Ganbei Garrison Division stationed in Jiujiang, the Western Ganxi Garrison Division stationed in Ji'an, the Independent First Brigade stationed in Zhangshu, the Independent Second Brigade stationed in Fuzhou, the Independent Third Brigade stationed in Yuanzhou (Yichun), and the Independent Fourth Brigade stationed in Poyang.

All of these units are composed of officers and men from Yunnan Province, with a total of more than 28,000 officers and men, and another 6,000 recruits from all over Jiangxi Province are still training in Nanchang and Jiujiang.

In view of the lack of troops in Ji'an and Taihe counties, Zheng Yi did not hesitate, immediately summoned his generals, gathered at the ferry port for urgent discussion, and ordered the guard platoon to board the damaged small steamer to supervise the shipwrights to carry out emergency repairs.

When the participating generals learned that there was only one enemy company and more than 300 local security forces in Taihe County, which was more than 20 kilometers to the north, they were overjoyed and demanded to concentrate their forces to attack Taihe.

Zheng Yi, who had already made up his mind in his heart, asked with a smile: "Since everyone agrees, let's attack Taihe next...... Next, Chief of Staff Wang will brief you on the details of the Thai and enemy forces. ”

Wang Huchen opened the notebook and glanced at it, then looked around at the general, and then talked eloquently: "Although Taihe has a long history and a gathering of humanities, because it is located on the bank of the Ganjiang River, it has been plagued by floods, and the city wall has been washed away by floods many times, and it has been rebuilt no less than ten times since it was built......

"In today's Taihe County, the city walls are not high, and the moats on the north and west sides have basically lost their defensive role due to the accumulation of sludge, but the four city gates are all built of stone, which is very strong......

"There are four to eight cast bronze cannons left over from the Qing Dynasty on the west side of the city tower, whether they can be used is not yet known, the most important south gate, about 500 meters away from the Ganjiang wharf, the terrain is open, the road is flat, and the avenue from the wharf to the city gate is full of shops, teahouses and inns on both sides."

"About two platoons of security regiments have been stationed above the dock for a long time, and their main task is to maintain order and collect commercial taxes and all kinds of exorbitant taxes."

"The local security forces in Taihe are all equipped with Hanyang rifles and shell guns imitated by several major arsenals in China, and only two old Makqin heavy machine guns are erected on the city tower."

"In the battle just now, two small civilian cargo ships quietly escaped along the shallow water area of the west bank, and our dozen or so machine-gun blocking points ignored them for a while, allowing them to slip away downstream, and it is estimated that they are about to arrive at the South Gate Wharf outside Taihe City at this time."

"The enemy of Taihe will soon be on strict alert, so everyone will discuss how to fight it."

The participating generals immediately discussed, and Zheng Yi called Gao Cheng, deputy commander of the Second Regiment, and Yang Liding, of the machine gun battalion, to his side: "How many mortar shells are left?" ”

Yang Liding replied in a low voice: "There are not many, there are only fifteen rounds left, not enough for six guns to fire three salvos." ”

Gao Cheng immediately understood Zheng Yi's thoughts: "Does the division commander want to fire a few shots at Taihe's South Gate Tower first, and then come to the city to force the defenders in the city to open the door and surrender?" ”

Zheng Yi nodded: "That's right, I want you to set up six mortars on the south bank away from the city gate, and a regiment and two battalions will land upstream at the south gate pier, and then go straight to the west city gate, putting on a strong attack posture." ”

"The heavy machine gun company, infantry company, and two companies directly under the division headquarters of your first battalion will move with me and drive the boat directly to the South Gate Wharf."

"No! Our two companies can quickly occupy the dock with the advantage of firepower, but you can't go, the dock is too close to the south gate, and it is completely within the range of light and heavy machine guns on the city, in case there is a bad one, the brothers must not skin me! Gao Cheng immediately objected.

Zheng Yi smiled, motioned for the two to come closer, and the three heads came together and whispered for a moment, Gao Cheng and Yang Liding quickly showed bright smiles.

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At 1:20 p.m., after a full meal, the instructors and soldiers gathered above the ferry, and under the eyes of hundreds of villagers with complicated expressions, escorted more than 300 prisoners of the Yunnan army and more than 200 wounded officers and men of the Yunnan army who were simply treated, and boarded three troop transport ships full of blood stains and bullet holes.

Wei Xiuquan, deputy commander of the first regiment, and Yan Pin, political commissar of the first regiment, each took a battalion to board the other three troop carriers, and the regiment commander Li Lianshan took over the small steamer with a platoon of guards.

After each of the more than 30 boatmen received ten oceans, they were full of enthusiasm and did their work beautifully without supervision.

Zheng Yi and Wang Huchen boarded the first troop transport ship behind the small steamer, and the captured Yunnan army battalion commander followed behind him with his head down, and the fleet drove five miles in the sound of "booming" motors.

"Chief Zheng, did your army release us after conquering Taihe County?"

"That's right, I don't want to keep you, according to the policy of our communist army, not only can I not hurt you, but I will also treat you preferentially."

"As you must have seen, more than 270 of your wounded comrades have been treated, we have taken out almost all the white medicine, and our health soldiers have also given six of the seriously wounded expensive Durelendine."

"Think about it, if we Communists were your prisoners, do you think we would be able to get such preferential treatment?"

While answering truthfully, Zheng Yi seized the opportunity to launch a political offensive.

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