At noon on 3 December, the International Division of the Young Communist Party received a telegram from the Central Military Commission of the Central Revolutionary Committee, to the effect that the column of the Central Military Commission had successfully crossed the Wujiang River, and ordered the International Division of the Young Communist Party to get rid of the pursuit of the Central Army of the Kuomintang as soon as possible and wait for an opportunity to cross the river. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After receiving the telegram order, Zhang Cheng immediately ordered the reconnaissance regiment to send a battalion to reconnoiter along the south bank of the Wujiang River to find a ferry to force the crossing of the Wujiang River. At two o'clock in the afternoon, Wen Yuanzheng, commander of the reconnaissance battalion, sent a telegram back, saying that there was a large Wujiang Huilongchang ferry near Jingkou in Yuqing County, and a pontoon bridge could be erected to facilitate the crossing of the river by artillery and baggage.

Zhang Cheng discussed with the political commissar and finally decided to cross the river from the Huilongchang ferry. Subsequently, Zhang Cheng immediately sent a telegram instructing Wen Yuanzheng to first defend the ferry port on the south bank, then send a small detachment to find the boats crossing the river, wooden planks, bamboo rafts, and other materials for erecting pontoon bridges, and finally send people to reconnoiter the situation of the enemy defending the other bank.

At about four o'clock in the afternoon, Li Yunqiang of the 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion sent a telegram to report that he had found troops of two divisions of the Guizhou Army near Weng'an that were rushing towards our division, and that their numbers should be the troops of the warlord Jiang Zaizhen of Guizhou Province.

Zhang Cheng immediately arranged for the second and third brigades to go to block the attack, and be sure to block or defeat the enemy, and then Zhang Cheng and the political commissar soldiers divided into two routes, the political commissar and the chief of staff left to command the troops to block the pursuing troops, and Zhang Cheng led the first brigade, the artillery regiment, and the engineer regiment to rush to the Dawujiang ferry first.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, Zhang Cheng led his troops to the Wujiang River, and as far as the eye could see, the high mountains and cliffs on both sides of the river, squeezed by the turbulence of the deep valley. Looking down at the Wujiang River, I saw the river rushing in the steep and narrow gaps, the vicious waves were surging, the white fog was rising, the waves were splashing all over the river valley, like a waterfall, such as a mountain torrent, hitting the jagged reef, making a loud noise, and the sound was like thunder.

Wujiang River is the largest river in Guizhou Province, known as the natural danger, there has been a record in history: "There are many rivers in Guizhou, Wujiang River is right, the water is like an arrow, the waves are frightening, the dangerous beach is like hemp, the beach is connected, and the fisherman is nowhere to be seen." The rocks and cliffs on both sides are unclimbable for apes, and the river valley is as narrow as a intestine. Looking down, people are like ant points, looking up, a narrow line of blue sky......"

After a while, the commander of the reconnaissance battalion, Wen Yuanzheng, came to report that the garrison on the other side was a regiment of the warlord Wan Shijiong of Guizhou Province, and that he had also investigated the nearby villages, and found that the Guizhou army had scavenged the surrounding boats and planks, and could not find the tools to cross the river, but there was a bamboo forest nearby, which could make bamboo rafts.

It seems that the situation is very grim, the whole division must cross the river before dawn tomorrow, the Kuomintang Central Army has already entered Guizhou Province, no one knows when they will be killed, time is life, only before the Kuomintang Central Army crosses the Wujiang River, can the enemy army be separated, and the Wujiang River can become the enemy's moat.

Zhang Cheng knew that time was running out and that the troops had to cross the river as soon as possible. Immediately, Zhang Cheng ordered the soldiers to use bamboo and some broken wooden planks to tie bamboo rafts more than one zhang wide and two zhang long to prepare to cross the river, so he chose the fish roe pond ferry as the breakthrough.

Ten soldiers who were familiar with the nature of the water were selected from the special operations brigade, and Zhang Cheng ordered them to try out the crossing first, and each special combat member was a good armed swimmer, and Zhang Cheng agreed with them that when the bamboo platoon arrived at the opposite bank, the guns would be fired as two long and one short as a communication signal.

Then they carried submachine guns, ammunition and grenades, and rowed to the opposite bank on a simple bamboo raft, the bamboo raft traveled slowly, and when it was about 30 meters away from the north bank, the raging river washed the bamboo raft downstream, and was swallowed by the whirlpool, and the first attempt failed.

Fortunately, the special combat team members were all leaders in armed swimming, and they swam to the opposite shore with solid swimming skills.

However, at this time, the Qianjun army also discovered their traces, and the opposite bank resounded with dense gunfire and grenade explosions. Listening to the voice, Zhang Cheng knew that it was a grenade from the special combat team that exploded in the enemy's position. That is, the swimmers of our army have already reached the enemy's positions.

Zhang Cheng immediately transferred 16 mortars and used powerful artillery fire to fire a salvo, and the position of the Guizhou army on the opposite bank was a white fireworks, and a large number of fortifications and pillboxes were destroyed.

Subsequently, the second batch of our army's armed swimming team had jumped into the biting river water and swam to the opposite bank with all their might, and the two bamboo platoons that had just been formed also rowed towards the opposite bank with 16 soldiers.

The remnants of the Guizhou army's artillery and machine-gun fire began to fire frantically at the boats and swimmers in the river. Sun Youdao immediately commanded our army's mortars to suppress firepower, and after a while, the artillery of the Qianjun army was sent to the west by Sun Youdao, who was personally operating the artillery.

Ten minutes later, the commandos and two bamboo platoons of the swim crossed the opposite bank smoothly and landed smoothly under the cover of the fire of the first group of special combat troops.

Zhang Cheng ordered all the light and heavy machine guns of the troops to open fire at the same time, covering the commandos to seize the position. At this time, the enemy brought in two more battalions of reserves.

Zhang Cheng, who was in a hurry, immediately ordered the artillery regiment to pull over the two mountain cannons with great effort, and then ordered all the artillery to intercept them with all their might.

This trick really worked, and the reinforcements of the Guizhou army were beaten by our artillery fire on the spot, and they hid in Tibet, and watched a large number of our troops landing, knowing that they had failed to prevent our army from crossing the river, and immediately spread their legs and fled, and even the enemy commander's supervision team could not stop it.

Subsequently, a regiment and a battalion landed first, and after quickly clearing the remnants of the enemy, they followed and pursued, occupied all the positions of the Guizhou army, and began to cover the engineering regiment to erect pontoon bridges.

The battle was soon over, and the troops, except those on alert duty, threw themselves into the work of building bridges. On the opposite bank, four large wooden boats were found that the Qianjun had snatched from the shipwrights, and the bridge building work was like a tiger with wings, and the speed was suddenly doubled.

The Engineer Regiment is a professional bridge-building team. They quickly pulled up four extremely thick ropes on both banks, and drove dozens of wooden stakes in the shallows of the river, which they fixed with the four large wooden boats they found.

The thick rope is fixed on the wooden stake and the wooden boat, and then the bamboo raft is overlapped together to become a bamboo gate bridge on the thick rope, and any stone loaded with dozens of catties with a bamboo basket sinks to the bottom of the river, so that the gate bridge can be fixed from being washed away by the water. In the end, the bamboo bridges are precisely connected one by one, and the pontoon bridges quickly extend to the opposite bank.

After the pontoon bridge was built, Zhang Cheng immediately sent a telegram to the political commissar, informing him of the location of the ferry, and asking the troops to quickly move to Dadu after completing the task of blocking the attack, and to cross the Wujiang River before dawn tomorrow.

The political commissar quickly telegraphed back and said: The combat effectiveness of the Guizhou Army is vulnerable, and the Second and Third Brigades have defeated two divisions of the Guizhou Army in only one hour, and have successfully completed the task of blocking the attack. The troops will arrive at the ferry at about nine o'clock tonight.

After reading the telegram, Zhang Cheng was finally relieved. Sure enough, at nine o'clock in the evening, the main force of the division rushed to the ferry, and Zhang Cheng led the Young Communist Division to cross the Wujiang River overnight, blew up the pontoon bridge, and galloped towards the main force of the Red Army that was attacking Zunyi.