Chapter 13: The Aftermath of the War

After two hours of fierce fighting, the Tuancun blockade finally came to an end, and Zhang Cheng's judgment based on history was completely correct; after the Kuomintang army broke and fled, the embarrassed and angry enemy really sent four planes to bomb our army, but fortunately Zhang Cheng was prepared in advance, and the troops either hid in the dense forest or burrowed into the air-raid shelter, and the enemy planes saw that they could not find the bombing target, so they hastily dropped a few aerial bombs on the Dadongshan position to deal with the situation. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In the evening, at the division headquarters of the original regimental village, the International Division of the Young Communist Party held a post-battle summary of the regimental village blockade battle, although the battle was won, but every cadre who came to the meeting had a gloomy face and no smile, and the reason for this was because the troops suffered large-scale casualties for the first time.

"Kill a thousand enemies, lose eight hundred, it seems that I also made the same mistake as the Soviet faction, this positional battle was fought too early." Zhang Cheng blamed himself in his heart.

After the war, he found out that the Young Communist Division had suffered such a large number of casualties, and even if he won such a big battle, he couldn't be happy, and just stared at the battle damage report with a black face.

Because this battle was a positional offensive and defensive battle, it led to the first large-scale casualties of the Young Communist Division, especially the 58th Regiment, which was stationed in the front-line position, which was responsible for the frontal blocking mission, killed 568 people, seriously wounded 321 people, and slightly injured 459 people, with more than one-third of the battle losses, which is equivalent to the strength of two battalions being defeated.

Other units also suffered heavy casualties, among which the 59th Regiment suffered lighter casualties, but also suffered 267 casualties, 168 seriously wounded, and 331 lightly wounded; The 60th Regiment suffered 345 killed, 244 seriously wounded, and 476 lightly wounded, while the Recruit Regiment suffered 243 killed, 155 seriously wounded, and 378 lightly wounded; The troops directly under the division suffered 65 casualties, 37 seriously wounded and 121 lightly wounded.

The division suffered a total of 1,488 casualties, 905 seriously wounded, 1,765 minor wounded, and a total of 4,158 casualties, more than a quarter of the total strength of the division.

"Fortunately, this battle defeated Chen Cheng's three main divisions and completely hurt him, otherwise our young communist division would not have time to recover!" Xiao Hua said with emotion.

"Division commander, political commissar, the casualties are already very clear, and now there are still 10,000 people left in the division, which is actually quite good. Hehe, after all, this is the war years, sacrifice is inevitable, even we, the cadres at the division and regiment level, are all committed to the revolutionary cause with a mortal heart, so don't be too sad. Feng Wenbin stood up and persuaded.

"Yes, the sad things are over, we all have to look forward, there are more fierce and brutal battles waiting for us in the future. Haha, Director Feng Shaojie, I heard that your logistics department has made a fortune again, and I will read the results of this resistance battle to my comrades, so that everyone can have fun together! Chief of Staff Zhang Fengming said with a smile.

"Yes! Comrades, although our Young Communist Division suffered heavy casualties this time, we have achieved very great results in this battle, and the enemy has been severely bitten by us, and we have successfully completed the tasks assigned to us by the Party Central Committee. Therefore, comrades should not be discouraged, but should cheer up and cheer for our brilliant victory. Let me now read about the great results we have achieved this time.

In this battle, we killed a total of more than 5,800 enemy troops, including 3,300 in the 11th Division, 1,600 in the 14th Division, and 870 in the 59th Division.

In addition to handing over four 155mm heavy guns to the Central Committee and taking away some weapons of the comrades of the Red Third Division, our division captured a total of 12 mountain artillery, 64 mortars, and more than 20,000 shells; There were 33 heavy machine guns, 252 light machine guns, 756 submachine guns, 5,458 rifles, 120 pistols, more than 800 grenades, more than 1,000 grenades, and more than 1 million rounds of ammunition. Comrades, this is an unprecedented brilliant victory for our Young Communist Division, so let's be happy! After Feng Shaojie finished speaking, he sat down.

At the end of the meeting, Zhang Cheng stood up and summed up: "Comrades, this battle is the first tough battle since the formation of our Young Communist Division, and I am very pleased to have fought like this, which shows that the large-scale training of our Young Communist Division has been effective and has produced results. What is particularly commendable is that the 58th Regiment, despite the occurrence of mass casualties, still firmly withstood the attack of the enemy's 11th Division, and its spirit is commendable. With such a large casualty, I know that everyone is very sad, but in fact, my feelings are as painful as everyone else. Most of the more than 1,000 soldiers who died were seventeen or eighteen-year-old dolls, who should still have a lot of youth, but now they have died early for the cause of our party and for the liberation of the whole of China. Therefore, for the sake of the party, for the sake of the people, and even more so that the blood of the martyrs is not shed in vain, we must cheer up all the more, because there will be more severe battles waiting for us in the future. After the meeting was adjourned, the regimental commanders immediately went back to count the strength of each unit, and the missing troops were to be replenished by the new regiments, especially the 58th regiment, which should give priority to replenishing troops. So be it, adjourn. ”

The next day, the General Headquarters of the Red Army's front, General Zhu and General Political Commissar Zhou, who were worried about the successive defeats at the front, received a telegram from the International Division of the Young Communist Party and were overjoyed.

"This regimental village blocking battle children's division is really beautiful, the children's division commander is worthy of Lao Mao's proud protégé, boss, look at it, a total of more than 6,000 enemies were annihilated, and the capture was huge, and it was also a hard bone like the 11th Division, the first-class main force of the Kuomintang Army, it was really not simple!" General Political Commissar Zhou said excitedly with a telegram in his hand.

"Show me, I remember that this children's division defeated the 26th Division and the 46th Brigade last month. Haha, the enemy army defeated this time is even stronger, almost defeating the enemy's three main divisions with the strength of one division, which is very happy! Enlai, the two battles of this children's division were fought very smartly, with many casualties, small casualties, and large captures, especially the tactical command is extremely clever, this Zhangcheng division commander can be called a tactical master, and our army has one more general! Mr. Zhu looked at the message and said in surprise.

"It's a pity that this Zhang Cheng is Lao Mao's favorite general, he has never been liked by the Soviet faction, since the formation of the Young Communist Division, he has been recruited and transferred by the central government, if the Children's Division is transferred back to the Western Front Theater, maybe it will be able to turn the tide!" General Political Commissar Zhou lamented.

"Yes!" When Mr. Zhu heard this, he immediately fell into deep thought.

Mr. Zhu proposed: "Enlai, taking advantage of the great victory of the children's division, we immediately propose to transfer the children's division to the front line of victory, and conduct a decisive battle with the main force of the Central Army of the Kuomintang, so as to defeat the main force of the Kuomintang in one fell swoop and remove the threat to our central Soviet region." ”

"Good! As the boss said, I immediately drafted a telegram and sent it to the Soviet leaders, hoping that they would agree to our proposal in the light of the overall situation of the Chinese revolution. General Political Commissar Zhou said decisively.

Unfortunately, this very good suggestion was not accepted by the leaders of the Soviet faction, but two days later, in the name of the Party Central Committee, they sent a series of telegrams to President Zhu and General Political Commissar Zhou, criticizing them for their "right-leaning" ideas and fear of war.

This kind of subjective and arbitrary practice of pressing a big hat on the head of the supreme commander at the front of the Red Army made General Manager Zhu and General Political Commissar Zhou very angry. General Political Commissar Zhou had no choice but to send another telegram to the leaders of the Soviet faction, making a clear request for his terms of reference: "In the current fierce military struggle, the General Headquarters of the Red Army at the front has the right to subordinate and transfer troops, so as not to delay the fighters. Otherwise, please also ask the Party Central Committee to send us a telegram with a camera, which is a matter of responsibility for the war situation. ”

Since this was not the first time that there had been a disagreement between General Manager Zhu and Vice Chairman Zhou, who were commanding operations at the front, and the leaders of the Soviet faction in the rear, the leaders of the Soviet faction abolished the General Headquarters of the Red Army in the front of the Red Army in the name of unified command during the war, deprived General Zhu and General Political Commissar Zhou of their actual powers, and put the Red Army units under the direct command of the leaders of the Soviet faction.