The commander's temper is getting bigger and bigger, and the closer he gets to the Xiangjiang River, the more difficult it is for him to calm down. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 As the leading strategist of our Party and our army, Commander Info naturally understands what a heavy price he has to pay to protect the Central Military Commission's column across the river since the Autumn Harvest Uprising.

When he saw the team pulling a large number of pots and jars, he really wanted to give a death order immediately: "Throw away all the pots and jars, and all the teams will move forward lightly!" ”

But when he thought about his identity, he was no longer a core member of the Central Committee, and he no longer had the right to give orders to the troops, so he had to sigh helplessly.

Late at night on November 30, 1934, Lin Husan and Nie Rongzhen, who led the Red First Army to cover the forced crossing of the Xiangjiang River by the Central Column, encountered the most brutal battle since the Red Army's Long March. At the critical juncture, they sent an urgent telegram to the Central Revolutionary Military Commission overnight: "Commander-in-Chief Zhu: The Central Military Commission must cross the river by all armies east of the Xiangjiang River. The 1st and 2nd Divisions will continue to resist the enemy tomorrow."

This telegram brought great shock to the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, and at 1:30 a.m. on December 1, Zhu De issued an urgent combat order to all armies. The second telegram was signed by Deputy Commander-in-Chief Zhou. At 3:30 a.m. on the same day, Deputy Commander-in-Chief Zhou drafted a telegram to the whole army in the name of the Central Bureau, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, and the General Political Department: "We are not the victors, we are the vanquished. Victory or defeat is a matter of the overall situation, and we hope to hold high the red flag and go to the line of fire."

That is, on the night when Deputy Commander Zhou signed the order of "not for the victor, but for the vanquished", the commander's heart was like being poured with lead water, and it was extremely heavy. As a strategist, the commander knows better than anyone else: the 1st and 3rd Army Corps are the sides, and the 5th Army Corps is hard blocking in the rear, covering the main force crossing the river has reached the limit.

December 1 was the most tragic day in the history of the Red Army! As soon as the day dawned, the enemy, with an absolute superiority of troops, pressed on the positions of our 1st and 3rd Red Army Corps from the left and right flanks, and in an instant, the guns and cannons of fierce battles rang out on both sides of the Xiangjiang River.

In a few moments, the enemy's planes flew in groups, some of which scattered leaflets like snowflakes in the air, and they fluttered down towards our positions; Some swooped and strafed along the Xiang River, striking a series of water columns on the Xiang River, which was rolling north.

Deputy Commander Zhou stayed awake all night, continuing to guard the bridge head of the improvised pontoon bridge, directing the chaotic team crossing the bridge. Whenever he saw a comrade who had been squeezed off the pontoon and washed away with the water, he shouted loudly: "Speed up the pace and pay attention to safety!" ”

He didn't close his eyes for three days and three nights, and his always elegant face looked so haggard at the moment, as if he had lost a whole circle! However, when he heard the sound of gunfire in the fierce battle and the sound of airplane motors circling back and forth, he, the highest person in charge of the Red Army, hurriedly directed the Red Army to cross the Xiang River.

From the urgent telegram of Lin Nie of the First Army to the order of Deputy Commander Zhou that "if you are not a victor, you are a loser", Zhang Cheng really felt the critical degree of the Red Army at that time, and the sacrifice had reached the last moment, and life and death were at stake!

However, Zhang Cheng could not do anything about it, at this moment he felt the insignificance of his personal strength, he urgently needed to strengthen his strength, and he felt the weight of his responsibility.

At 1 p.m. on 1 December, Zhang Cheng received a telegram from Li Yunqiang, battalion commander of the reconnaissance company, which read: "In the area of Shuanghe Village, about 20 miles south of the boundary head, there are several ferries where you can trek on foot, and the deepest part of the water is only up to the waist navel, and you can also set up a pontoon bridge to cross it. In addition, the county seat of Xing'an is only 15 miles away from the crossing of the river, there are about 3,000 Gui troops, and there is a Gui army in Wentang near the head of the Jie, where the Xia Wei division is fighting fiercely with the 34th Division of the Fifth Army Corps. ”

Zhang Cheng was exactly as expected, the garrison of the Gui army in Xing'an County was not a big problem, and with the current strong strength of the Young Communist Division, a brigade could be dispatched to stare it to death, and the situation that Xia Wei's 15th Army was fighting fiercely with the 34th Division attracted Zhang Cheng's attention.

Zhang Cheng knew that he would meet Guijun Xia Wei on December 3 in history, but because of Zhang Cheng's butterfly wings, the time for the two armies to meet was two days earlier.

The 34th Division in the original time and space was also severely damaged because of the Battle of Wentang, the troops were sharply reduced from more than 4,000 to 800 people, and then the Gui Army followed all the way to pursue the 34th Division, and the 34th Division was finally annihilated in the encirclement and interception of the Gui Army, and a large number of Red Army generals such as division commander Chen Shuxiang and political commissar Cheng Cuilin died heroically, and only more than 90 soldiers in the division escaped.

Thinking of this, Zhang Cheng couldn't sit still, such a heroic unit Zhang Cheng naturally couldn't sit back and watch it be wiped out by the Gui army, he had to rescue the 34th Division.

Zhang Cheng immediately convened a meeting of the members of the division's party committee and the brigade commanders, there was no superfluous nonsense, he got straight to the point: "The reconnaissance battalion learned that the 34th Division was besieged by the Gui army in Wentang at this time, and life and death were at stake, so I decided to rescue the 34th Division, the engineer battalion went to Shuanghe Village to build a pontoon bridge, and the rest of the troops remained the same, and continued to prepare for crossing the river, and I personally led a brigade to Wentang to rescue the 34th Division." ”

Everyone agreed to rescue the 34th Division, and then Zhang Cheng led 5,000 people to Wentang lightly.

As Zhang Cheng expected, at this moment, the Red 34th Division was undergoing a cruel test of ice and fire.

The 34th Division of the Red Fifth Army Corps was ordered to go to the foot of the maple tree in Guanyang to block the Xia Wei troops of the Gui Army who were heading north from Guanyang. Due to the unfamiliar terrain, the 34th Red Division fell into the lofty mountains and mountains of northern Guizhou, and trudged through the sheep's intestine trail, which put itself in the dangerous situation of fighting alone.

At 5 o'clock and 2 o'clock in the afternoon of 29 November, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission ordered the 34th Division to cross the Guanyang-Xinwei highway from east to west and break through to the west. The 34th Division, in accordance with the order, crossed the road from the Banqiaopu area and broke through to the west, but once again fell into the lofty mountains.

At noon on December 1, on the way to the Fenghuangzui ferry port on the Xiangjiang River, the 34th Division of the Red Army met with the 43rd and 44th Divisions of the Xia Wei Division of the Gui Army on a narrow road, and the location was in Wentang Village, Anhe Township, Quanzhou County.

Although Gui Jun was beaten by Zhang Cheng and his nose was blue and his face was swollen, which made Bai Chongxi deeply jealous of him, the Red 34th Division was by no means on his list of fears.

Moreover, Bai Chongxi has always been a person who refuses to suffer, and seeing that his 15th Army has caught the tail of the Red Army, he can finally avenge the defeat of the Young Communist Division.

Under his strict orders, almost the entire 15th Army of the Gui Army was dispatched, and even its only heavy artillery unit was sent out to bombard the positions of the Red Army indiscriminately, intending to completely annihilate the 34th Red Division.

The two sides fought fiercely, and the Red 34th Division launched a continuous charge against the Gui army, trying to open the passage to Datang, Mashi, and Fenghuangdu to the north, but it was never able to break through the Gui army's position.

A large number of soldiers spilled their blood on the battlefield. After the attack to the north was frustrated, the Red 34th Division, which was originally full of more than 4,000 people, had already suffered more than 1,500 casualties in just half a day's attack, and this casualty was still increasing.

The Red Thirty-fourth Division, in danger.