Chapter 36 The Battle of Dayu Township II
Ruijin, the red capital, is located in a compound in Yeping, where several central leaders, including Chairman Mao, Vice Chairman Zhou, President Zhu, Bo Gu, Zhang Luofu, and Wang Jiaxiang, gathered together. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Due to the successive defeats of the main forces of the Red Army, the Central Soviet Region was compressed by the Kuomintang Army in a very small area, and there was no room for maneuver and no strategic value.
However, the Long March was a major event, and it was also an extremely important and difficult decision to completely abandon the red capital of Ruijin, so it was only natural that a meeting of the last Central Committee held in Ruijin should be held before the Central Red Army left.
After reaching a consensus, Bo Gu, who was in charge of the central government, made a report on behalf of the Central Committee, and General Political Commissar Zhou also made some supplementary suggestions.
After the meeting, everyone sat together and chatted, talking about the International Division of the Young Communist Party who served as the task of blocking Shicheng, and they couldn't help but sigh.
"This time we went north on the Long March, and the International Division of the Young Communist Party, as the general rearguard of the whole army, was encircled and suppressed by the joint efforts of the eight divisions of the Kuomintang Army, and the hope of breaking out of the encirclement was extremely slim. Vice Chairman Zhou suggested.
Although Bo Gu was opposed to Chairman Mao on the line, his personality was unquestionable, he thought about it and said: "The International Division of the Young Communist Party is very good, especially this Zhang Cheng, who is a good hand in the war, and has the courage to take responsibility, I was also present when the organization gave him the task of breaking off, and he accepted it without any bargaining, and he deserved to be a selfless Chinese Workers and Peasants." Moreover, under his leadership, the International Division of the Young Communist Party is extremely strong in combat, and this is a unit with excellent military quality, and it really should not be allowed to disappear into the long river of history, I agree. ”
"What is the situation of the International Division of the Young Communist Party now?" Zhang Luofu asked.
Mr. Zhu said in a deep voice: "Zhangcheng, they have already implemented radio silence, and the central government cannot contact them for the time being, and it is estimated that they have entered a fierce battle at this time." ”
Wang Jiaxiang said worriedly: "That's the elite of the Central Army of the People's Party, the entire eight divisions are nearly 80,000 horses, I don't know how many people in the International Division of the Young Communist Party can survive this war." ”
Chairman Mao smoked a cigarette and didn't say a word, but his eyes had looked in the direction of Shicheng, no one was more worried about Zhang Cheng's nephew than him, Zhang Cheng was an orphan, without parents, Chairman Mao had always treated him as a son.
Zhang Luofu asked: "Lao Mao, you are good at military affairs, what will be the consequences of the International Division of the Young Communist Party blocking the eight divisions of the Kuomintang with one division?" ”
Chairman Mao did not speak, Vice Chairman Zhou said: "Comrade Luo Fu, I believe in Zhang Cheng's military quality and command ability, looking at the battles he commanded after serving as the commander of the Young Communist Division, we can find that he never fought unprepared battles, so I estimate that he will never fight hard with the enemy, and will definitely seize the opportunity to bite the enemy and leave." This Zhang Cheng has never let us down, and I believe this time will be no exception. ”
Mr. Zhu said: "There is a huge disparity in the overall strength of the two sides, but the International Division of the Young Communist Party is not easy to provoke, not only has 20,000 horses, light machine guns and submachine guns have been popularized to the squad platoon, if we can give full play to the advantages of automatic firepower, there is still a great hope for breaking through, let's wait and see what happens." ”
Not to mention how the central leadership worried about Zhang Cheng and his Young Communist Division, the Dayou Township Resistance Battle at this time had reached the most intense moment. The mountain artillery and mortars of the Young Communist Division constantly fired whistling shells, and the heavy machine guns constantly spat out strings of flames.
The sudden attack of the Young Communist Division was too violent, the distance between the two sides was less than thirty meters, and the ambush positions were on both sides of the avenue, so close to each other, without the slightest precaution or concern, the Young Communist Division appeared in front of the 38th Division.
The 256th Brigade of the 38th Division, as the vanguard of the whole division, was at the forefront, but in less than a minute, more than 1,000 people in the entire regiment were swallowed up by the powerful firepower of the Young Communist Division in an instant.
The brigade commander Wang Bogao lay on the ground, his eyes looked around, hissed, he gasped, the division headquarters behind him was full ......of fire, the cannon rumbled, and the division seat was estimated to be more auspicious.
The soldiers around him were all in disarray, they had never experienced such a heavy artillery bombardment, except for a few clever points that lay on the ground like him, almost all of them were jumping around, like headless flies.
Wang Bogao sighed, these soldiers are all live targets of the red bandits. Oh, my God! Isn't the Young Communist Division a division of the Red Bandits? How can their firepower be stronger than my dignified Central Army! Damn the reconnaissance battalion, which only knows how to bury its head in pursuit of the remnants of the Young Communist Division, why didn't it send a search team, and now it has taken the team to the ditch.
Wang Bogao's judgment was completely correct, the soldiers who were jumping around could be said to have provided a good opportunity for the soldiers of the Young Communist Division to shoot moving targets, whoever was fast and fierce, the faster they died, and finally those who were not dead also learned well, knowing that they could not run around, and they all fell to the ground like Wang Bogao.
The division commander is gone, and I should stand up. Wang Bogao thought so, and he immediately bent his waist and loudly ordered the troops not to move, and all of them lay down, and urgently built artillery positions and heavy machine gun positions to quickly launch a counterattack against the red bandits.
The military quality of the Central Army was still some, and after hearing that someone had organized them to counterattack, the enemy, who was scurrying around, quickly took Wang Bogao as the center, occupied a section of the road with a lot of mountains, picked up machine guns and rifles, and fired at the position of the Young Communist Division.
As soon as the 38th Division launched a counterattack, the advantages of the soldiers of the Central Army who were well-trained, well-armed, and fiercely firepower were quickly manifested, and the soldiers responsible for encircling and suppressing the 38th Division immediately felt the pressure.
After seeing through the telescope that the enemy had the ability to launch a counterattack and had successfully built a mortar position, Ding Wei immediately ordered all the mortars of his heavy fire company to aim at the enemy's artillery position, and after firing the artillery, immediately measure the coordinates and immediately strike and destroy it.
The military quality of the artillery of the Central Army is still very good, and under Wang Bogao's order, the artillery position was quickly completed, waiting for his order to fire the artillery.
"Boom!"
With a sound of explosion, more than a dozen shells accurately fell on the ambush position of the second brigade, looking at the position covered by artillery fire, Ding Wei not only sighed: "It was still the division commander who had the foresight to let the engineer battalion arrange a few more positions, and also required the position ladder to be distinct, before I thought that the division commander was doing this too much, but now it seems that the division commander is still standing tall and seeing far!" ”
"Order the artillery company to immediately equip Zhuyuan, return fire, and completely destroy the enemy's artillery position." Ding Wei only sighed for a while, did not forget his duty, saw that the enemy's artillery fire had exposed its position, and decisively ordered the artillery to counterattack.
"Boom Boom Boom Boom ......"
With Ding Wei's order, mortar shells that were several times more fierce than the 38th Division continued to fall on the artillery position that Wang Bogao had built with great difficulty, and those artillerymen saw the corpses of their comrades who were torn to pieces by the artillery fire, and they no longer had the courage to stand on the artillery position.
Hearing the sound of artillery, Wang Bogao knew that his artillery position was over, and the 38th Division was also finished. He knew that he was powerless to return to the sky, so he immediately asked the staff officer to inform Li Yannian, the commander of the 9th Division, to quickly come to reinforcements, flank the red bandits, and avenge the brothers of the 38th Division.