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In addition to regularly going to Varsha West Restaurant to accept tasks from Cai Shuhou, Feng Chen basically focused all his energy on news interviews and making friends with well-known figures in the literary and artistic circles.

As a cadre intelligence unit, the Nationalist Army's war reports on the pursuit of the Central Red Army would be transmitted from the Nanjing Special Agent Headquarters of the Central Investigation Section of the Kuomintang Party on a regular basis.

Feng Chen could easily grasp the movements of the Central Red Army.

This morning, Feng Chen was in the office, carefully looking at the latest battle report that Fang Xiaoman had just sent: "The communist army suffered heavy losses in the Quanzhou Campaign!" (Battle of Xiangjiang)

The battle report was detailed.

Feng Chen lowered his head and slowly looked at the battle report, worried about the Central Red Army in the transfer.

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Quanzhou County, choking the passage of Hunan and Guizhou, has been a battleground for soldiers since ancient times.

After the Central Red Army began to move from Ruijin on October 10, it successively broke through the three blockade lines of the Nationalist Army, continued westward, and advanced to the Hunan and Guizhou borders, reaching the upper reaches of the Xiang River on November 27.

Chiang Kai-shek urgently planned to set up a fourth blockade line in an attempt to wipe out the Central Red Army east of the Xiang River.

Chiang Kai-shek ordered the first column of Liu Jianxu of the Hunan Army to go to Quanzhou in the northeast of Guangxi, to make contact with the 15th Army in Guangxi and form a frontal line of defense to intercept the Red Army.

The second column of Wu Qiwei of the Central Army, commanded by Xue Yue, carried out flank attacks along the line of Qiyang, Lingling, and Huangsha River on the Xianggui Highway, maintained mobility, and prevented the Central Red Army from moving north to join the Red Second and Sixth Army Corps.

The third column of Zhou Hunyuan of the Central Army, the fourth column of Li Yunjie of the Hunan Army, and the fifth column of Li Yunheng of the Hunan Army pressed the Central Red Army to the Xiangjiang defense line from the east.

On November 27, the Hunan army entered the city of Quanzhou, in the afternoon, the Red First Army seized all the Xiangjiang crossings south of Quanzhou and north of Jieshou, and in the early morning of the 28th, the Gui army launched an attack on the Red Third Army in Xinwei, and the Xiangjiang Battle officially began.

Xinwei is located in the northwest of Guanyang County, Guangxi, 15 kilometers away from the county seat in the south, and 5 kilometers away from Gulingtou, Daqiao Village, the nearest point of the Red Army's westward route in the north.

Gulingtou was the only way for the Red Army to go to the ferry.

At about 16 o'clock in the afternoon of November 27, the Fifth Division of the Red Third Army rushed to Xinwei in front of the Gui Army, occupied the hills on both sides of the Xinwei to Guanyang road, and sent troops along the road to advance to the Madu Bridge in the south.

In the afternoon of the same day, the vanguard of the Red Fifth Division encountered the Gui Army reconnaissance company, and the Red Army took the initiative to attack, repelled the Gui Army reconnaissance company, and pursued south along the highway to the vicinity of the foot of the maple tree.

On the afternoon of November 27, the Gui army preempted the Red Army to occupy the Madu Bridge south of Maple Foot, but because the Red Army had established a blocking position near Maple Foot, the Gui Army was unable to continue to advance after occupying the Madu Bridge.

At dawn on the 28th, the 44th Division of the Gui Army launched an attack on the forward positions of the Red Fifth Division under the cover of machine guns, heavy artillery, and mortars.

The Gui Army's frontal attack was blocked, so at 16 o'clock in the afternoon, a force was dispatched to attack the area of Zhongshan and Shuikou Mountain along several hills such as Slender Maqi on the left side of the Red Army.

The Red Army suffered heavy losses from the enemy, and only one soldier was left in a platoon on the hill in the forward position, and the Red Fifth Division was forced to retreat to the second line of defense.

That night, the Red Army retreated to the hills on both sides of Yangliujing, the line of Pingtouling and Jianbeiling, and rushed to build fortifications overnight.

Pingtou Ridge and Jianbei Ridge are the highest peaks on both sides of the road, the Red 15th Regiment defends the Pingtou Ridge on the left side of the road, and the Red 14th Regiment defends the Jianbei Ridge on the right side of the highway, and the two positions are horns of each other.

On the 29th, the 24th Division and the 134th Regiment of the 45th Division of the Gui Army entered the battle, and the battle became more intense.

The Gui army first bombed and strafed at a low altitude with six planes of the air force, then bombarded it with artillery, and then attacked it with infantry in turn, and by noon, the Gui army's combined attack on the front and the flanks and rear had forced the Red Army to a desperate situation.

The Red Army and the Gui Army launched a white-knuckle battle, repeatedly fighting for the top of the mountain, but in the end, due to the disparity in strength, the Red Fifth Division suffered heavy casualties, several small hills on the front line were lost one after another, and the second line of defense was about to be broken through.

The commander of the 5th Red Division ordered the chief of staff of the division to go to the front line to command the 15th Red Regiment, and ordered the 14th Red Regiment to shrink the defensive line and transfer the regimental command post to the position of the division headquarters.

At this time, the machine guns and artillery fire of the Gui army had already hit the side of the division headquarters, and the division headquarters was preparing to transfer, but as a result, before the division headquarters could be transferred, the division commander received the news of the sacrifice of the division chief of staff.

The Jianbei Ridge defended by the Red 14th Regiment and the Pingtou Ridge defended by the Red 15th Army Corps were lost one after another, and the Red Army alternately covered, fought and retreated, and built several layers of fortifications on the Tiger Mountain near Banqiaopu, and concentrated its forces to defend it.

In the early morning of the 30th, the Red Fifth Division received an order to urgently rush to the Guanghuapu position of the Red Fourth Division, and the Xinwei position was handed over to the 18th Regiment of the Red 6th Division to take over the defense.

After a bloody battle until noon, the Gui army saw that it could not take the Tiger Mountain, so it took a detour to the left high mountain with heavy troops and pressed the Red Army, and at the same time dispatched a number of planes to bomb the Tiger Mountain indiscriminately.

After desperately resisting for a while, the Red Army was forced to withdraw from its positions and retreat to the line of Nanmu Mountain and Paolou Mountain near Xinwei.

At 15 o'clock on the afternoon of the 30th, the Red 18th Regiment rushed to Xinwei, and the Red Fifth Division handed over the defense at 16 o'clock, and quickly rushed to the mouth of the canal southeast of Jieshou, joined up with the Red 13th Regiment, and crossed the river from Jieshou.

Because of the heavy losses, after crossing the river, the Red Fifth Division was reduced to a regiment.

After the Red Eighteenth Regiment took over the defense of Xinwei, it hastily deployed in the area of Baolou Mountain near Nanmushan Village in the south of Xinwei, of which two battalions were held at Paolou Mountain near Nanmushan Village, and one battalion was deployed on Chenjiabei.

The Gui army bypassed the Red Eighteenth Regiment and pursued it northward, while the other remained in Nanmushan Village to besiege the Red Eighteenth Regiment.

At dawn on December 1, the Gui army launched a fierce attack on the Nanmu Mountain position of the Red 18th Regiment, and the Red 18th Regiment suffered heavy casualties. In order to prevent the troops from being eaten by the Gui army, the defending troops of the Red Eighteenth Regiment were forced to retreat and move closer to the battalion that was deployed on Chen's back.

The Gui army clung to the 18th Regiment, quickly occupied the Paolou Hill after the retreat of the 18th Regiment, and followed the pursuit all the way, and the two battalions of the Red 18th Regiment had just withdrawn to Chenjiabei, and the Gui army chased over.

At noon, the 18th Red Regiment was divided and surrounded in Chenjiabei, and the 1st was led by the regiment commander Zeng Chunjian and political commissar Wu Zixiong to break through, retreat while fighting, and move to the bank of the Xiangjiang River, and finally was divided and surrounded by the Gui army in the area of Gulingtou in Quanzhou.

Most of the 2,000 soldiers of the 18th Red Regiment died heroically, and only a few soldiers broke through the encirclement, but they were brutally killed in the encirclement and suppression of the local militias, and only a few soldiers went incognito and lived among the people.

The 16th and 17th regiments of the Red Sixth Division also suffered relatively large losses, and the whole division was basically not organized, and was later reduced to an independent regiment.

At 15 o'clock in the afternoon of November 29, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission ordered the Red 34th Division to take over from the Red 6th Division in the morning of the 30th to block the Gui Army at the foot of the maple tree, but in fact, when the 34th Division received the order, the position at the foot of the maple tree in Xinwei had already been lost.

The order of the Military Commission caused the 34th Division to go deep alone, and finally the whole army was annihilated.

From November 30, there were Gui troops bypassing the Red Army positions to the north, and from December 1, they were swarming north, of which the 44th Division of the Gui Army passed through Shitangwei in the northwest direction of Xinwei and pursued in the direction of Mazidu and Jieshou on the Xiangjiang River, the 24th Division pursued north from the west side of Wenshi, and the 134th Regiment remained in Guanyang County.

On the morning of December 1, the 24th Division of the Gui Army arrived near Wenshi, northeast of Xinwei, disarmed about a company of the Zhou Hunyuan column of the Central Army of the People's Party, forced the Central Army to stop its eastward advance, and then turned around to pursue the Red Army westward.

A large number of troops of the Central Red Army that had no time to cross the river were cut off and scattered by the 44th and 24th divisions of the Gui Army, and suffered heavy losses.

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Feng Chen looked at the battle report word for word, as if he was there, the battle was so tragic that he, a literati, couldn't help but burst into tears, it turned out that the frontal battlefield was more cruel than the struggle in the white area!

We must find a way to give effective support to the Red Army in frontal combat in intelligence work!

Before reading the battle report, Feng Chen's heart had turned over and over, the underground organization in Shanghai had almost been wiped out, the main force of the Red Army had suffered heavy losses, and the fate of the party and the Red Army was worried.

Feng Chen took out his handkerchief, wiped the tears on his face, got up and poured a cup of tea, ready to finish reading the battle report.

"Tuk, tuk, tuk!"

Three knocks sounded on the door, Feng Chen straightened up, calmed down and said, "Please come in!" ”

The door was pushed open, and Fang Xiaoman walked in with a stack of materials in his hand, handed it to Feng Chen, and said, "Unit Chief, another battle report, the Communist Red Army was almost wiped out in Xiangjiang. ”