Chapter Sixty-Eight: A Break in a Small Town

In the county, all kinds of shops are still open as usual, and the sound of shouting and selling is endless. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info apparently the local masses were not misled by the propaganda of the Kuomintang reactionaries, and appeared calm about the sudden arrival of the Red Army.

Zhang Cheng deliberately visited the medicinal materials market and was very satisfied with the number of medicinal materials in the market. Later, he and the soldiers came to the puppet government building in Resource County, and compared with the houses on the street, the government building looked extremely magnificent.

Ding Wei, Wang Dabiao and others had been waiting here for a long time, and after welcoming Zhang Cheng and others in, they sat down one after another. Later, Ding Wei reported the battle situation to Zhang Cheng: In addition to more than 10 dead and wounded in the resource county security regiment, all including the regiment commander were captured alive, and our army was not killed, only a small soldier charged too hard and had cramps in his feet. The local puppet government officials were all captured alive, and because of our army's quick victory and quick action, none of them ran away, and the county government's treasury, medicine depot, and grain depot were also taken over by our army one by one.

Zhang Cheng was very happy after listening to the report. So he ordered Ding Wei to take two regiments to immediately choose a camp outside the city, bring the troops to camp outside the city, and leave one regiment in the city as a guard force to maintain law and order in the county.

Zhang Cheng then contacted the political commissar, transferred some comrades from the Political Department and the Logistics Department, and ordered the comrades of the Political Department to take a company to seize the officials of the puppet government who were angry with the people, as well as the landlords and bullies who oppressed the people in the city, and confiscate all their property.

The next day, all the officers and men of the Young Communist Division had arrived at the resource county and the surrounding areas. Zhang Cheng and the political commissar decided that the whole division would rest here for two days to fully restore the physical strength of the troops, restore the combat effectiveness of the troops, and also enable the wounded to receive a short period of time for treatment and recovery.

The capture of the resource county this time has yielded great gains, but the wealth of the small county town is shocking. In the vault alone, there were 100 kilograms of gold, more than 1.8 million yuan in the ocean, countless jewelry, nearly 400 tons of grain, especially the most eye-catching medicinal materials in Zhangcheng, which were loaded with 30 carts in mule carts alone, as well as a large number of other strategic materials.

In addition, more than 800,000 silver dollars were recovered from the homes of the county magistrates, heads of the security regiments, and tax bureau chiefs of the puppet government.

Zhang Cheng immediately decided to give each Red officer and soldier five pieces of ocean and eight pieces to female comrades in order to improve the lives of the soldiers and to purchase the necessary personal belongings.

The logistics department made use of the abundant materials in the county town to purchase on a large scale to supplement the medicines, grains, grasses, salt, cloth, and so on consumed during the Long March.

The troops also organized local women compatriots to sew military coats and uniforms, knit them and distribute them to new soldiers who had joined our army, and the missing winter clothes and shoes were all replenished, and the eyes of those prisoners of the people who were not willing to join our army for the time being were extremely hot, and after receiving the guarantee that they would receive these items as soon as they joined the Red Army, more than 1,000 prisoners of the people voluntarily joined the Red Army on the same day, and the comrades of the Political Department were so happy that they could not keep their mouths shut. The whole division was plunged into great joy and joy, and everyone was smiling.

And at the moment when the whole division was elated, Zhang Cheng maintained absolute composure, sitting quietly in the headquarters and looking at the map hanging on the wall.

After knowing every strategic point on the map, Zhang Cheng began to sort out and analyze all kinds of enemy information sent by the reconnaissance troops, and at this time he had already learned that the Gui army had sent a division of troops to hang far behind the Young Communist Division, maintaining a distance for half a day, and did not take the initiative to pursue our army, nor did he give up monitoring our army.

The Central Army of the Kuomintang did not dare to send troops into Gui Province to pursue and suppress the Red Army, because the wolf soldiers in Gui Province were notoriously "biao". Therefore, the only enemy of the Young Communist Division in Gui Province was only one Gui Army, and Bai Chongxi may have been deeply afraid of the strong combat effectiveness of the Young Communist Division, and did not directly attack our army.

However, according to the information found out by the reconnaissance battalion, in order to force our army out of Gui as soon as possible, Bai Chongxi also did everything he could, resorting to the "trick of marrying Wa" and sending many small units of the Gui Army to disguise themselves as the Red Army and plunder the local people, in an attempt to incite the people of Gui Province to hate the Red Army and force the Red Army to be unable to gain a foothold in Gui Province.

At this time, Zhang Cheng combined the current situation and historical data, and had already judged that the Central Red Army would soon enter the passage county of Hunan Province. Therefore, Zhang Cheng decided to rush to the northwest immediately after a two-day rest and recuperation, to join the main force of the Red Army, and continue to protect the Central Red Army's Long March.

After the Battle of the Xiangjiang River, Chang Kaishen, who was sitting in Nanjing, was extremely angry at the failure to completely wipe out the Red Army on both sides of the Xiangjiang River, and he did not think that the Red Army was very strong, but that it was because of problems within the Kuomintang that the Red Army was released.

At that time, even foreign consulates had already judged that the Red Army was in a desperate situation, and its destruction was imminent. However, the Red Army, which was in a desperate situation, escaped from the 500,000-strong army of the Kuomintang.

If it weren't for someone secretly "releasing water", how could such a bizarre result occur. Chang Kaishen immediately sent three telegrams to Bai Chongxi in a row, severely accusing Gui Jun of not making efforts to work, which led to the revival of the Red Army's salted fish, and asked Bai Chongxi to give him a "reasonable explanation".

Who knew that within a few days, Bai Chongxi drummed up a film documentary called "Seven Thousand Prisoners" as an explanation to Chang Kaishen. The film vigorously publicizes the achievements of the martial arts of the Gui system, and uses the "documentary" method to reveal in a matter-of-fact manner: During the period when the Red Army passed through northern Guizhou from November 25 to December 13, 1934, the so-called "red bandits in Jiangxi Province poured their nests to the west, disturbing the borders of Fu, He, Xing, Quan, Guan and other counties, claiming to be 100,000; The soldiers and civilians of Gui Province fought hard to prevent and suppress them, killing thousands of bandits, capturing more than 7,000 bandits, and capturing 5,000 or 6,000 rifles and 50 or 60 light and heavy machine guns, which was the greatest loss ever suffered by the Red bandits! ”

In the film, it vividly uses the sequences of "preventing and suppressing red bandits", "suppressing bandit trophies", "deception of red bandits", etc., and ingests: "Red bandits burned Yao Village in Huajiang East Village"; "Captured Red Bandits Sheltered in Xing'an County"; "Pan Yizhi, Chief of the Political Training Division of the Fourth Army Headquarters, gave a lecture to the captured Red Bandits"; "The captured personnel are not clothed and are given cotton clothes"; "Capture the rifles and light and heavy machine guns of the Red Bandits"; and so on a large number of demeaning content of the Red Army and exalting the Gui Army.

Finally, it was concluded with "banknotes and silver dollars issued by the Red Bandits" and "Down with the White Officer Commander who oppressed the soldiers!" "Abolish the land boundary, burn the land deed and lease contract, bring down the landlords, and bring down the capitalists!" "Only the Soviets can save China!" A series of slogans of the Red Army are used as evidence for the film.

Originally, it was just a silent documentary film, but later Bai Chongxi ordered the director of the film to add a battle scene of "Bandits flee and chase me" in order to strengthen the atmosphere of actual combat. It's really funny, Chang Kaishen couldn't cry or laugh after watching it, and he was also deeply helpless about Bai Chongxi's scoundrel, and finally had to give up his accusation against Gui Jun.

Chang Kaishen can open up to Bai Chongxi, but he will not give up on the escaped Central Red Army, he strictly ordered his staff officers to constantly calculate for him how many people are left in the Central Red Army?

In the end, it was calculated that the main force of the Red Army should be less than 40,000 men. However, it was impossible to make an accurate judgment on the casualties of the International Division of the Red Army's general guard, which inflicted great casualties on the Central Army of the Kuomintang Party, and even the whereabouts of the International Division of the Young Communist Party were not even clarified for a while. (Gui Jun was beaten several times by the Young Communist Division, so such a shameful thing will naturally not be publicized).

The International Division of the Young Communist Party was only a partial division of the Red Army, so there was nothing to worry about, and Chang Kaishen was too lazy to worry about the Young Communist Division. Therefore, he dispatched troops and set traps to target the Central Red Army.