"Put the war report here, you go and get busy. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info" Feng Chen said without raising his head.

"Chief, what's wrong with you? What's uncomfortable? Fang Xiaoman saw Feng Chen's strange appearance.

"It's nothing, it's just that my throat hurts a little, you go, there is the latest battle report and report in time." Feng Chen commanded Fang Xiaoman with a heavy face.

Fang Xiaoman looked at Feng Chen suspiciously, turned around and opened the office door.

Feng Chen continued to look at the battle report in his hand.

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The battle of the first boundary was one of the three famous blocking battlefields of the Xiangjiang Campaign.

The head of the boundary is an ancient polder, located on the west bank of the Xiangjiang River, 15 kilometers north of Xing'an County, Guangxi, and is the most important crossing point when the Central Red Army crosses the Xiangjiang River.

The forward troops built some pontoon bridges on the river to facilitate the crossing of the CMC column and follow-up troops.

On the riverside of the west bank of the Xiangjiang River at the head of the Jie, less than 100 meters away from the ferry port of the Jieshou River, there is an ancient ancestral hall called Sanguantang, and the main road of the pontoon bridge erected by the Red Army passes in front of the Sanguantang.

On the afternoon of November 27, the 2nd Division and 4th Regiment of the 1st Red Army Corps seized the top of the line.

After the Red Fourth Regiment seized the Jietou, it was ordered to reinforce the foot hill, and then handed over the defense of the Jieshou to the Third Army Corps and the Fourth Division.

On the evening of the 27th, the vanguard of the 3rd Army Corps and the 4th Division arrived at the head of the boundary and began to erect a pontoon bridge.

On the 28th, the three regiments of the Red Fourth Division all arrived at the head of the boundary and deployed on both sides of the Xiangjiang River near the head of the border, the Red 12th Regiment stayed at the mouth of the Jiangnan Canal in Hedong, the Red 11th Regiment went out to Shimen and the northwest region to deploy defenses, and the Red 10th Regiment deployed in the area of Guanghuapu south of the head of the Xiangjiang River.

Guanghuapu is a small village on the side of the Guihuang Highway between Jieshou and Xing'an, located 5 kilometers south of Jieshou Ferry, with open paddy fields to the north and rolling hills on the other three sides.

On the 29th, Shen Shu, commander of the 10th Red Regiment, ordered Zhang Zhen, commander of the 3rd Battalion, to lead his troops to deploy defenses south of Guanghuapu, with two companies to build fortifications in the direction of Xing'an County on the front, a machine gun company and another company as reserves, the main force of the regiment was deployed on the high ground near Qukoudu, and the regimental command post was set up on a small high ground near the ferry.

On the Kuomintang side, the Gui Army, which had the 128th Regiment of the 43rd Division of the 15th Army stationed in Hung Yen, found that the Jieshou Ferry was occupied by the Red Army, and hurriedly transferred a division of troops from Pingle to Hung Yen to strengthen the garrison to prevent the Red Army from capturing Hung Yen and threatening Guilin.

On the morning of the 29th, the Guijun reconnaissance plane flew over the first flight of the Critical Frontier and carried out a dive strafing attack on the Red Army.

On the afternoon of the 29th, a number of bombers of the Gui Army flew to the first ferry port and blew up all the pontoon bridges temporarily erected by the Red Army.

The Red Third Army fought for several hours and repaired the pontoon bridge again.

On the evening of the 29th, the 1st Division of the 15th Army of the Gui Department attacked and advanced to the Guanghuapu Heights held by the Red Army.

Late that night, the soldiers on duty of the third battalion deployed at the front found that there were flashlights swinging on the mountain by the Xiangjiang River, and hurriedly reported to the battalion commander Zhang Zhen, who immediately sent a force to search, but found no one with the flashlight.

Just when the searching soldiers felt that something was wrong, they found that there were dense flashlights flashing on the west bank of the Xiangjiang River, and it turned out that the first section of the Gui Army had already detoured back to the back of the position of the third battalion and went straight to the first ferry crossing.

The Gui army marched to 2.5 kilometers south of the Jieshou ferry, and came into contact with the main force of the Red Tenth Regiment, and the two sides immediately exchanged fierce fire.

The enemy and us fought in the dark, but the enemy was numerous, and the two sides formed a confrontation after a fierce battle, and in the melee, the Gui army twice attacked less than 100 meters from Sanguantang.

At dawn on the 30th, Zhang Zhen led the 3rd Battalion to join the regimental headquarters, but part of the enemy broke through the 10th regimental defense line and occupied the ferry.

At this time, the first column of the Central Military Commission was about to arrive on the east bank to prepare to cross the river, and the situation was extremely critical.

The principal leaders of the Central Committee and the command organs of the Central Red Army are in the first column of the Central Military Commission, and the first column of the Central Military Commission cannot cross the river.

Seeing that the third battalion suffered heavy casualties, the regimental commander Shen Shuqing ordered the third battalion to rest and recuperate, and personally led the first and second battalions straight to the ferry to launch a fierce attack on the Gui army, which was small in number but always threatened the Red Army's river-crossing troops.

Both the enemy and the enemy had no fortifications to rely on, and they fought back and forth by the river, and the battle was extremely cruel.

After repeated killings, the Red Tenth Regiment finally recaptured the west bank of the Jieshou Ferry, but Shen Shuqing, the commander of the Tenth Regiment, was unfortunately shot and died during the charge at the age of 26.

After the death of Commander Shen, Du Zhongmei, chief of staff of the Fourth Division, took over as the commander of the Red Tenth Regiment, and Du Zhongmei led the army to drive the remnants of the Gui Army to the south of Guanghuapu.

On the morning of the 30th, the First Column of the Central Military Commission began to cross the Xiang River from Jieshou and arrived at the Daejeon area northwest of Jieshou.

Soon, Wei Yunsong's division of the 45th Division of the Gui Army rushed to Xing'an, and the Gui Army in Xing'an County increased to four regiments.

At noon on the 30th, Guanghuapu was lost.

In order to recapture Guanghuapu, the commander of Du Zhongmei hurriedly organized a counteroffensive of the troops, and when he launched a charge to the Zhangjialing Heights, Du Zhongmei was shot and died, and the Gui army took advantage of the situation to counterattack, and Yang Yong, the political commissar of the Red Tenth Regiment, was injured by shrapnel in the leg.

In order to preserve his strength, Yang Yong withdrew his troops to the Shimen Feilong Hall in the west, to the Wanzha Ridge and Dadong Village hills in the north, and to the Xiangjiang River in the east to build a second line of defense.

In order to recapture Guanghuapu, Peng Dehuai, the commander-in-chief of the river crossing, urgently transferred two other regiments of the Red Fourth Division to reinforce the Red Tenth Regiment.

The bombers of the Gui Army bombed the pontoon bridge at the Jieshou Ferry again, but the Red Army, with the cooperation of the local masses, also erected the pontoon bridge again, ensuring that the first and second columns of the Central Military Commission all crossed the Xiangjiang River.

At the same time as the reinforcements of Guanghuapu arrived, another regiment of the Gui army had quietly crossed the Xiang River and rapidly advanced from the east bank of the Xiang River to the Jieshou Ferry.

At that time, the second column of the Central Military Commission had already arrived near Moon Mountain east of Jieshou at noon, and if the Gui Army continued to advance northward, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Seeing that the situation was urgent, Peng Dehuai, commander-in-chief of the river crossing, hurriedly ordered Huang Zhen, commander of the 13th Regiment of the Red Fifth Division, to lead his troops to quickly strike at the enemy with an unstable foothold on the east bank and prevent him from continuing to move north.

After dusk, the second central column began to cross the river.

Peng Dehuai, the commander-in-chief of the river crossing, commanded the three corps and four divisions to concentrate all their forces to launch a counteroffensive against the enemy in Guanghuapu.

At 1:30 a.m. on December 1, the Central Military Commission issued an emergency combat order:

(1) In the battle on the 30th, the enemy of Quanzhou had advanced to Zhutangpu, the enemy of Xing'an had advanced to Guanghuapu, and the enemy of Guanyang had occupied Xinwei and continued to advance in the direction of Gulingtou.

(2) There is a possibility that the enemy's vanguard force has crossed the Wenshi River. …… The deployment and tasks of each Corps No. 1 shall be as follows:

The three corps should concentrate more than two divisions of troops in the area west of the automobile road, have the task of driving the enemy of Guanghuapu to the south, and must occupy the Tangjia City and the Xishan area.

The troops of the 6th Division should stay on the east bank of the river, have the task of occupying Shiyu Village, and cover the passage of the troops cut off by our 5th and 8th Army Corps and the 6th Division through Xiangshui, with one battalion still remaining in the first cover, the battalion should send troops to Mazidu to cut contact with the 5th Army Corps, and as a last resort, the 3rd Army Corps must be trapped in the boundary head and its southwest and southeast areas.

In this order, the Central Military Commission demanded that the Red Third Army concentrate the main forces of the Fourth and Fifth Divisions on the Guihuang Highway and the area west of the Xiangjiang River, and that only one battalion should be left at the head of the border.

At that time, the two columns of the Central Military Commission had already partially crossed the river, and these two columns lacked combat effectiveness, and if the Gui army near Guanghuapu bypassed the position of the Third Army Corps and attacked the column of the Central Military Commission, the consequences would be unimaginable.

In order to prevent such a serious situation, the Red Third Army had to extend the defensive line to the west, but this also meant the extension of the battle line, and the Jieshou ferry crossing was in danger.

At dawn on December 1, the 14th and 15th regiments of the Red Fifth Division, which had been withdrawn from the Xinwei blockade, rushed to join the 13th Regiment, took over the defense of the Red 10th Regiment, and participated in the blockade.

In the early morning of December 1, the vast fog engulfed the Xiangjiang River, and it was impossible to see people's faces from more than ten meters away, but the enemy and us continued to fight fiercely in the dense fog.

The main force of the 4th Division of the 3rd Red Army Corps and the 5th Red Division withdrawn from Xinwei blocked the enemy at Guanghuapu on the west bank of the Jieshou, and the main force of the 6th Red Division reached the east bank of the Jieshou, organizing the crossing of the river on the one hand, and blocking the enemy northward in Xing'an on the other, covering the Red Eighth Army Corps and the Red Ninth Army Corps that came in the starry night to cross the Xiangjiang River from the Huangzui Ferry.

By noon on December 1, most of the main forces of the Central Red Army had crossed the Xiang River, and the other units responsible for covering had also been ordered to withdraw, but the Red Fourth Division had not received an order to retreat.

The offensive of the Gui army did not weaken, and the Red Fourth Division fought alone, and if it did not retreat in time, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Huang Kecheng, political commissar of the Red Fourth Division, sensed that the situation was not good, so he suggested to the division commander Zhang Zongxun to organize the troops to retreat and move westward.

The battle at the head of the realm is over.