Chapter 35 The Battle of Dayu Township I
Dayou Township is located in the southwest of Shicheng County, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, 30 kilometers away from Shicheng County. The pen "fun" pavilion www.biquge.info Dayou Township is located in the mountainous area, the highest point of the township is the Lotus Mountain in the southwest, the main peak is 698.7 meters above sea level, the lowest point (also the lowest point of the county) is the northwest Dayou Village Tail Group, the altitude is 190 meters, and the average altitude of the township is 415 meters. The terrain is high in the southwest and low in the northeast. The Qinjiang River flows through the four villages of Dayou Township and enters Ningdu County at Longtoutan of the Xiabu Village Group.
At this time, the main force of the Young Communist Division was in an unnamed valley three miles away from Dayou Township. This nameless valley is exactly the ambush battlefield chosen by Zhang Cheng.
Because Dayou Township borders the red capital Ruijin, the mass foundation here is excellent, and the masses of the people do not have the slightest resistance to the Young Communist Division to settle here, and when the engineer battalion digs trenches and hidden fortifications, the people spontaneously form a team of strong laborers to assist in the excavation, which makes the progress of the Young Communist Division's construction of fortifications a few points faster.
"! These Red Army soldiers are really rabbits, how can they run so fast? Commander-in-Chief Jiang Dingwen in the back knew that he told us to chase after us, and he didn't let us take a breath. Send a telegram to Commander-in-Chief Jiang Dingwen to ask where they are now, and we should not chase them too hard and break away from the main army. ”
The officers and men of the 38th Division of the Kuomintang Army, who had followed the 3rd Brigade into the Dayuxiang area, felt that they had not finished their breath and were urged to continue the pursuit by telegrams from behind.
Sun Weimin, the commander of the 38th Division, who originally thought that he could take a breath after capturing Shicheng, was also very annoyed in the face of Jiang Dingwen's successive urging telegrams, but after all, he also knew that the peerless achievement of encircling and suppressing the Central Red Army and arresting the leaders of the Red Army was close at hand, and he couldn't help but be unenthusiastic.
If it is on this matter that is related to the great achievement of the whole army, who dares to drop the chain and pull thin, the consequences will be extremely serious!
However, Sun Weimin was an experienced professional soldier after all, and he was also worried that the pursuit would be too rapid and he might encounter an ambush by the red bandits, so he cautiously asked the communication soldiers how far away the 9th and 42nd Divisions that followed behind and participated in the pursuit of them now.
"Report to the division commander, the 9th Division is ten miles away from us, and the 42nd Division is still fifteen miles, which is not far from our division." The correspondent replied.
Knowing that the 9th Division and the 42nd Division following them were only less than two hours away from them, Sun Weimin breathed a sigh of relief, and finally did not break away from the large army.
"Send a telegram to Senior Commander Li in the back, and ask them to speed up and keep up with us. If we go through the Soviet area where we have to pass through are all red bandits, they are very popular here, and they have a deep mass base, and when we enter here, no one will give us a tip-off, just like a blind man, if the red bandits do not set up an ambush for us, I am afraid that we will suffer a big loss. ”
In the nameless valley, Zhang Cheng looked at the telegram sent by the Third Brigade and said with a smile: "Political commissar, it seems that the enemy's heart will not die!" This Jiang Dingwen is really chasing hard. It's just that they must be extremely tired after chasing them all the way, right? ”
Xiao Hua also laughed and said: "If it is more than walking on the march, our Red Army can throw off the Kuomintang Army for a few more streets, don't they call our Red Army mud legs?" We're used to this kind of mountain trail with mud legs. These young masters and soldiers of the Kuomintang have never walked such a mountain road, they are afraid that they will not be able to eat and walk around this time! However, this is also their own doing, and they are killing themselves! ”
In Xiao Hua's opinion, he was really worried before, whether Jiang Dingwen would stop after taking Shicheng, but everything was still as Zhang Cheng expected, in the face of the monstrous achievements that were about to arrive, Jiang Dingwen couldn't help it, and continued to pursue them Shaogongshi.
Not only did the whole army launch a pursuit, but Jiang Dingwen also seemed very worried that the Young Communist Division had slipped away. Even if it has been chased to the mountainous area, the whole army is very hard, but it still strictly orders the troops to bite the Young Communist Division and prevent the Young Communist Division from running away.
Even though the enemy was already in the bag, Zhang Cheng still didn't have any sense of pride, he said cautiously: "Order all troops, enter the ambush position, and wait for orders at any time." This time, I will at least completely annihilate two entire divisions of the enemy, completely deter the Kuomintang army, and make them dare not easily provoke our young communist division. ”
Jiang Dingwen rode a tall horse and fell behind the Ninth Division, he followed Chang Kaishen, a fellow villager in Zhejiang Province, to fight in the south and north over the years, participated in countless battles, and when he was in Guangdong Province, he followed Chang Kaishen to the east to conquer Chen Jiongming, and was bravely wounded, and was deeply valued by Chang Kaishen.
After the outbreak of the Central Plains War, Jiang Dingwen's Ministry of Culture ran in the Longhai, Jinpu and their middle areas, the action was swift and erratic, known as the "flying general", was praised by Chang Kaishen, as a commander at the level of army and division commander, Jiang Dingwen was good at mobile warfare compared with others in the same period, proficient in the movement and grouping of troops in front of the enemy, and had rich experience in attack operations, which was quite outstanding.
At this time, only four years have passed since the Central Plains War, although Jiang Dingwen, who has climbed to a high position, has become corrupt and degenerate very quickly in recent years, but after all, the intuition of fighting is still there, I don't know why, he always feels that there seems to be a cannibal beast staring at him in a valley in the distance, which makes him extremely comfortable, and it seems to be a warning sign.
Although Jiang Dingwen's ability to fight has lost a lot, his ability to escape has become more and more profound, and his intuition tells him that he has fallen for the red bandit and is about to enter the trap of the Young Communist Division, but he did not make a noise, but called his cronies and adjutants and guards, took more than a dozen sets of ordinary soldiers' clothes and quietly absconded.
Yes, that's right, Jiang Dingwen just left his troops and secretly absconded because he felt that he was going to enter the trap of the Young Communist Division, and he didn't notify the troops at all of the idea of stopping their advance, but watched the troops enter the death trap.
In his opinion, his own life is the most important, nothing is more precious than his own life, as for notifying the troops and leading the troops to break through, it is simply a joke, if the troops do not enter the trap and fight with the Young Communist Division, how can he Jiang Dingwen have a chance to escape.
The absconding of Jiang Dingwen, who originally took place in May 1944 in the Battle of Central Henan, was ten years ahead of schedule and occurred in October 1934 at the moment before the Dayou Township Blockade.
As time passed, the Kuomintang army finally appeared in the field of vision of the Young Communist Division.
"Division commander, the enemy has entered the encirclement." The political commissar next to him reminded Zhang Chengdao that at this time, the two were lying on a hill three miles away from the main road.
Zhang Cheng put away his binoculars and looked at the enemy troops who were getting closer and closer, he grabbed a rifle, quietly loaded the bullet, and aimed at the first enemy officer who hit the head.
"Bang!"
Zhang Cheng fired the first shot of this ambush battle, and with the first gunshot, the artillery battalion position, which had long been hungry for battle, immediately fired the first round of hundreds of shells under the command of the battalion commander Sun Youdao, and all the heavy machine guns and light machine guns spewed out flickering tongues of fire.
The cannonballs accurately landed in the marching columns, and suddenly set off a rain of blood, stumps and broken arms flew wildly, and countless large holes and craters appeared in the dense marching columns in an instant, and countless tongues of fire from light and heavy machine guns on both sides of the road spewed out, causing the soldiers of the Kuomintang Army lined up in the marching column to fall one after another.
Sun Weimin, the commander of the 38th Division, was naturally even more unlucky as the key target of the Young Communist Division, and before he could see the other side, he was torn apart by the first round of artillery fire.