Chapter 20: The Palace of the Fierce Battle General IV

Jiang Ding's inscription is three, and he is a native of Zhuji, Zhejiang. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info Senior General of the Democratic Party, within the Kuomintang army, he is not only known as one of the "Five Tiger Generals of Chang Kaishen", but also known as one of He Yingqin's "Four King Kongs", and he is famous as the "Flying General" in the warlord melee. In his early years, he graduated from the Zhejiang Army Lecture Hall. He participated in the crusade against Chen Jiongming, the Northern Expedition War, the Jiang Gui War, and the Jiang Fengyan War, the third and fifth "encirclement and suppression" of the CCP, and participated in the suppression of the Fujian Incident.

For this person, Zhang Cheng is extremely disgusted, it is undeniable that when he participated in the Northern Expedition, Jiang Dingwen was still a hot-blooded soldier, but when he climbed to a high position, he soon fell into corruption.

In Zhang Cheng's impression, Jiang Dingwen can be called the vanguard of the anti-work rush and the soft-footed crab in the war of resistance. During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, Jiang Dingwen and Xue Yue were the most resolute generals in the Central Army of the Kuomintang against the Red Army; But during the War of Resistance Against Japan, this person's performance was not worthy of Xue Yue's shoes, not only failed in the Japanese army one after another, but also frequently provoked friction with the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army.

The most despicable thing is that in the Battle of Central Henan in 1944, before the troops led by Jiang Dingwen encountered the Japanese army, he abandoned the troops and led his cronies to escape, resulting in the troops being leaderless, losing their command, and being easily wiped out by the Japanese army.

This war, in the context of the gradual victory of the national anti-Japanese resistance, was so conspicuous that he had always been extremely thick-skinned and resigned after the war, and since then he has withdrawn from the front-line army.

At this time, Jiang Dingwen had already come to the front-line headquarters of the General's Palace, and he was extremely aggrieved by the cold guns and cold artillery of the blocking company of the Young Communist Division, and soon learned that the 38th and 42nd Divisions not only made no progress in the two-day battle, but also lost more than 4,000 soldiers.

On the third day of the battle at the General's Palace, the enemy's 38th and 42nd divisions, which were strictly ordered by Jiang Dingwen to make meritorious contributions, were ashamed and brave, and the two division commanders also took out the usual embezzlement gains and carried out two baskets of ocean to stimulate the fighting spirit of the soldiers.

Stimulated by the ocean, all the officers and men of the enemy army made up their minds and did their best to capture the front-line positions of the Young Communist Division. Jiang Dingwen also sent all the planes to bomb indiscriminately, and violently bombarded the 155mm caliber howitzer regiment that he had only obtained in front of Chang Kaishen, and bombed the front-line position of the Young Communist Division for 30 minutes.

Subsequently, two whole divisions were used to carry out a group charge, and in an instant, more than 20,000 people spread all over the mountains and fields, but when they easily rushed to the front-line position of the Red Army, everyone was suddenly stunned, and there was not a single red bandit at all.

At this time, the enemy army seemed to swing out his fist with all his strength and punched the cotton, which can be imagined how sour the mood was. But how could the Young Communist Division let them capture their own front-line positions in vain?

When Zhang Cheng observed in the telescope a large number of enemy troops entering the front-line position, he immediately ordered the sappers to detonate the mines, and at the same time issued an order to the artillery battalion to gather all the mountain artillery and mortars of the whole division and fire fiercely at the first-line positions that the enemy had just occupied.

In the past two days, in order not to be found out by the enemy and to avoid being bombed by enemy planes and heavy artillery, the artillery battalion was not allowed to go out under the strict orders of the division commander, and it was already full of hunger and thirst. At this time, under the command of the battalion commander Sun Youdao, eighteen mountain guns and one hundred and four mortars instantly let out a frantic roar, and the shells rained down on the enemy troops in the front-line positions like a torrential rain.

The artillery battalion had already measured the distance between the guns, and the enemy, who was in a daze, was bombed by sudden and precise bombardment, and immediately panicked and scurried around, but the trenches were deep and wide under the processing of the engineer battalion of the Young Communist Division, and the enemy could not climb out for a while, and instantly became a live target for the artillery of the Young Communist Division.

The 38th and 42nd Divisions suffered heavy losses, and the two division commanders were so angry that they almost vomited blood, and scolded the red bandits for being too cunning, so they wanted to report to Jiang Dingwen and begged him to send planes to retaliate.

But when I turned my head and thought about it, the front-line position was abandoned by the red bandits, but Jiang Dingwen didn't know, if he stupidly reported the truth to Jiang Dingwen, maybe he would be shot by him.

The two division commanders are also old fritters, and they know very well that it is the old tradition of the Kuomintang to report good news but not bad news, and after a little pondering, they immediately calculated it in their hearts, said that bad things are good things, and reported the victory to Jiang Dingwen, saying that the 38th and 42nd divisions, under the supervision of Jiang Dingwen, the three armies took their lives, and after more than an hour of hard fighting, they comprehensively captured the front-line position of the Young Communist Division at 12 o'clock at noon, defeated a brigade of red bandits, and annihilated more than 3,000 enemies, and so on.

Jiang Dingwen will make plans, in fact, he also knows in his heart that there must be something greasy, but it is also an indisputable fact that the front-line positions of the red bandits are in hand, so he does not want to and is unwilling to investigate deeply, but immediately fakes the false exploits of the 38th and 42nd divisions and reports them to the whole army for commendation.

In the next few days, Jiang Dingwen also knew that his army had encountered the hard stubble of the red bandits, and as soon as he ordered the intelligence department to inquire, he immediately learned that the red bandits in front of him were the International Division of the Young Communist Party that had defeated Chen Cheng's main force head-on in the battle of Tuancun.

Jiang Dingwen knew that although the International Division of the Young Communist Party was not the main force like the Red First Army, the newborn calf was not afraid of tigers, and the Young Communist Division that overthrew Chen Cheng's main force was definitely not easy to deal with, so after the Kuomintang Army occupied the front-line position of the Red Bandits, he immediately stopped the attack and ordered the troops to strengthen the fortifications and overhaul the pillboxes.

In this way, after three consecutive days of fierce fighting, the battle between the enemy and us in the General's Hall strangely calmed down. In other areas, the situation in the Red Army was even worse.

After entering April, the situation became even more severe, and the main forces of the Central Red Army had to retreat one after another under the pressure of the absolute superiority of the Kuomintang Army and its powerful firepower.

In early April, the Guangchang Campaign, which decided the fate of the base areas in the Central Soviet Region, began, and the Kuomintang Army's North Road and East Road armies advanced to the Kangdu and Xichengqiao to Taining lines in Nanfeng County, and concentrated 11 divisions in two columns to attack Guangchang along both sides of the Xujiang River.

Under the condition that the Red Army was fighting continuously, was very tired, and suffered a great attrition, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, with the strength of the 1st, 3rd, and 9th Red Army Corps, and the 13th and 23rd Divisions of the 5th Red Army Corps, a total of nine divisions, adopted a regular war of concentration against concentration, fortress against fortress, and position against position, in order to prevent the KMT army from advancing and occupying Guangchang.

Beginning on the 10th, seven divisions and one artillery brigade of the Kuomintang Army, with the cooperation of a large number of aircraft, attacked Guangchang alternately. The Red Army fought hard and was difficult to cope. On the 14th, Ganzhu was lost. On the 19th, the positions of Daluoshan and Yanfuzhang were lost, and the Red Army's counterattack was ineffective. By the end of the month, the Red Army was forced under the city of Guangchang. On the 27th, the Kuomintang army launched a general attack on Guangchang City, and the Red Army resisted desperately and organized a counterattack, but failed to stop the continuous attack of the Kuomintang army. On the 28th, the Red Army withdrew from Guangchang.

"The Battle of Guangchang failed as expected, and the Red Army's Long March is still inevitable!"

After receiving the battle report of the Guangchang Campaign, Zhang Chengchang sighed, feeling both regretful for the defeat of the Red Army and the expectation of the early Long March and going north to resist Japan and fight devils.