At this time, Liu Xiang deeply felt the torment that Wang Jialie in Guizhou Province had felt. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

When the Red Fourth Front Army launched the Jialing River Campaign, the "Sichuan Provincial Bandit Suppression Army" under his commander-in-chief defended the Jialing River defense line with the strength of 53 regiments of the First and Second Route Armies.

However, to his surprise, such a huge army of Jiangfang was broken through by the Red Fourth Front Army in one fell swoop, Tian Songyao's 29th Army was defeated, and Deng Xihou's 28th Army was cut into two sections, and there was a danger of being broken by the Red Fourth Front Army.

Hearing the news, Liu Xiang hurriedly ordered Deng Xihou to transfer 14 regiments of troops in an attempt to restore the defense line of the Jialing River, but he was once again defeated by the Red Army, and lost Langzhong, Cangxi, Jiange and other important towns.

In the face of such a major crisis, it happened that Chang Kaishen was staged by the Red Army in Guiyang to stage a new "empty city plan", and the Central Army had no time to take care of the battle on the Jialing River for the time being, so it had to order the troops to retreat to the west bank of the Fujiang River, in an attempt to shrink the force to cover Shudu.

However, to his surprise, the Red Fourth Front Army crossed the Fujiang River on 10 April and surrounded Jiangyoucheng.

Liu Xiang hurriedly ordered Deng Xihou to personally lead 11 regiments of troops to reinforce Jiangyou, in an attempt to relieve the danger of Jiangyou and restore the defense line of Fujiang.

At this time, the Red Fourth Front Army continued to besiege Jiangyou with the strength of one division, implemented the tactics of besieging the city and sending reinforcements, and concentrated the strength of four divisions to attack Deng Xihou, who came to help.

After two days of fierce fighting, the Fourth Front Army defeated the entire army of Deng.

At the same time, the Red Fourth Front Army connected the three cities of Qingchuan, Pingwu and Beichuan on the northern front.

At this point, the Jialing River Campaign was completely over, which not only effectively cooperated with the Central Red Army in crossing the Yangtze River to the north, but also created favorable conditions for the Red Fourth Front Army to develop into northern Sichuan and Gannan.

Liu Xiang completely felt that Sichuan Province was caught between the Central Red Army and the Red Fourth Front Army in the north and south.

When he thought that once these two Red Army forces successfully joined forces in western Sichuan and other places, not only would it be difficult for the forces in Sichuan to "exterminate" the Red Army, but I was afraid that his reign in Sichuan Province would also come to an end!

For this reason, he had to drink doves to quench his thirst, telegraphed Chongqing, and implored Chang Kaishen to dispatch the central army into Sichuan as soon as possible to completely eliminate the two major Red Army that had entered Sichuan Province!

After Chang Kaishen received a telegram from Liu Xiang from Shudu, he laughed three times and said to his henchmen: "This is God helping me!" Niang Xipi, you Liu Xiang also have today's ......"

Yes, it's really feng shui in turn!

Beginning in October last year, Chang Kaishen telegraphed Liu Xiang to rush to Nanjing to discuss the so-called "suppression of bandits." At that time, the chairman of the NPC Standing Committee asked Liu Xiang for help in suppressing bandits.

But how did Liu Xiang respond to him, he deliberately used this matter to pretend to be stupid, but in fact, he extorted money from Chang Kaishen from the political and military aspects.

Moreover, Liu Xiang was a clear person, and he resolutely refused Chang Kaishen to send the Central Army to Sichuan Province. Under Liu Xiang's stern refusal, Chang Kaishen had no choice but to give up the plan to send troops into Sichuan.

But now, Liu Xiang, the emperor of Sichuan Province, has been caught in the middle of the Red Army's north and south, and the days of being the emperor of Sichuan Province are coming to an end, so he has to call Chang Kaishen to quickly dispatch the Central Army into Sichuan, hoping to help him exterminate the Red Army on the territory of Sichuan Province as soon as possible.

However, in Chang Kaishen's view, this was his real goal in pursuing and suppressing the Central Red Army -- to achieve the goal of killing two birds with one stone, and the most important Sichuan province in the southwest finally opened its door to him.

"Speaking of which, I really want to thank the Red Bandits!" Chang Kaishen said secretly in his heart.

Chang Kaishen received a telegram from Liu Xiang asking for help, but he did not respond to Liu Xiang immediately.

In Chang Kaishen's view, in order to "pursue" the Red Fourth Front Army in northern Sichuan, Hu Zongnan's nearly 100,000 horses have begun to follow up Sichuan Province. At the same time, the more than 100,000 Central Army under Xue Yue's command would soon pursue the Central Red Army across the Yangtze River into southern Sichuan.

In short, there are already more than 200,000 central troops on the north-south border of Sichuan Province!

Chang Kaishen knew very well in his heart that his two-pronged strategy of taking advantage of the opportunity to pursue and block the Red Army and completely grasp the southwest was close to being realized in Sichuan Province!

At present, what he wants to do now is: to take the opportunity of "attacking and suppressing" the two major Red Army, to weaken the strength of the Sichuan Army while destroying the Red Army, and to truly make Liu Xiang, the local snake in Sichuan, bow down to him and be a subordinate, completely control the southwest, and completely "centralize" the southwest!

Therefore, Chang Kaishen left Wu Qiwei's column to temporarily assist Xue Yue in governing Guizhou Province, transferred four divisions of Zhou Hunyuan's column and two divisions of Shangguan Yunxiang to cross the Yangtze River immediately, and transferred four divisions of Tang Enbo's division into Sichuan, under the unified command of Chen Cheng, and ordered him to wait for an opportunity to control Sichuan Province and exterminate the Red Bandits.

Just after Chang Kaishen thought that he had completed the deployment of "encircling and suppressing" the Red Army in southern and northern Sichuan, the Central Red Army entered Leshan City at 10 a.m. on 18 April after four consecutive days of rapid marching.

Leshan, known as Jiazhou in ancient times, is located in the southwest of the basin of Sichuan Province, located at the confluence of the three rivers of Minjiang, Qingyi and Dadu River, bordering Meishan in the north, Zigong and Yibin in the east, Liangshan in the south, and Ya'an in the west, and is the central city in the southwest of Sichuan Province.

Leshan historically belongs to the ancient Shu country and has the reputation of "Begonia Fragrance Country".

The reason why Leshan is called "Begonia Fragrance Country" is because of Leshan's ancient specialty "Jiazhou Fragrant Begonia".

It is recorded in "Youyang Miscellaneous": "Jiazhou Begonia, color and fragrance win". In the Tang Dynasty, Xue Neng wrote: "There should be no Shu begonias in the four seas, and a city of incense will open for a while."

The Northern Song Dynasty poet Wang Shipeng called it "Jiaxiang Begonia", and wrote the word "Dian Jiang Humiliation" with this inscription: "The silk is drooping, and the smile is new makeup." Before and after the brocade pavilion, when the swallows came. Whoever hates no fragrance, try to smell the flower branches. The wind is slightly transparent, and the fine brocade sleeves are not only in Jiazhou. ”

Of course, Leshan is most famous for the Leshan Giant Buddha.

Leshan Giant Buddha, also known as Lingyun Giant Buddha, was excavated in the first year of the Tang Dynasty (713) and completed in the 19th year of Zhenyuan (803), which lasted about 90 years. The Big Buddha is a sitting statue of Maitreya Buddha, 71 meters high, and is the largest cliff stone carving statue in China.

At this time, the defenders of Leshan had only one brigade of troops, numbering only more than 5,000 people.

Therefore, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission soon issued an order: The International Column of the Young Communist Party must capture Leshan City before dawn tomorrow.

After receiving the order, Zhang Cheng sent a reconnaissance unit to Leshan City to conduct reconnaissance on the one hand, and made combat arrangements on the other hand: the first division assumed the main attack mission of Leshan City, and the second division attacked Jingyan County to block the east gate of Leshan City; The third division attacked Qingshen County and blocked the northern gate of Leshan City.

At seven o'clock in the evening, the 2nd and 3rd Divisions successively reported the good news of taking the two major county towns of Jingyan and Qingshen, blocking the Kuomintang army from the northeast.

At the same time, the reconnaissance troops also brought back the topographical information of Leshan City, and they found that Leshan was located at the confluence of the two major rivers, the Luojiang River and the Dadu River, and the terrain was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it was extremely unfavorable to forcibly attack the city.

After careful analysis, Zhang Cheng, the political commissar, the chief of staff, and Li Yunlong finally decided to implement the tactics of sneak attack, and selected 50 fighters from the special operations brigade who were particularly good at water to form an assault team, which was personally led by Zhang Sanhe, the leader of the brigade, and quietly entered the water from the upper reaches of the Luojiang River at 2 o'clock in the morning under the cover of night, swam down, sneaked into the city, and then sneaked into the city with a sneak attack on the east gate tower, opened the city gate, and received the large army of the 1st Division into the city.

As soon as the task was reached, the special operations team led by Zhang Sanhe immediately began to prepare, and immediately selected 50 members with particularly good water skills to enter the assault team, only waiting for the arrival of two o'clock in the morning. (To be continued.) )