The next day, all the officers and men of the International Division of the Young Communist Party immediately seized the time to make preparations before the war, digging trenches, building pillboxes, and setting up radio stations. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

As the leader of the division, Zhang Cheng and others were not idle, and the five members of the division's party committee also divided their work to supervise and inspect the work of various combat units and strictly check the pass.

Zhang Cheng came to the front-line position, Li Yunlong, commander of the first brigade, and Lin Jianjian, commander of the engineer battalion, were seizing the time to organize the soldiers to build pillboxes and trenches.

The position was full of busy figures, some soldiers were digging trenches, some were digging deep holes, some were building bunkers, the common people helped the troops transport stones, and the women compatriots cooked for the comrades of the troops, and everyone was in full swing.

Li Yunlong and Lin Jianshe saw Zhang Cheng from a distance and hurriedly rushed over, Zhang Cheng pointed to the common people who were building fortifications with the soldiers and said to the two: "The people's hearts are available!" Li Yunlong and Lin Jianjian, for the sake of these lovely and respectable people, our Young Communist Division must win this battle.

"Resolutely complete the task!" The two replied in unison.

"Very good, the two of you will accompany me to the various positions to have a look, and check together whether the fortifications built are firm and up to standard, and we will never allow the appearance of tofu scum fortifications, every fortification is related to the precious lives of the soldiers."

Zhang Cheng and the three of them talked as they walked, and before they reached each fortification, Zhang Cheng had to stop and inspect carefully; If problems are found, they should be pointed out in time, and the staff should be instructed to record them, and if individual unqualified fortifications are found, the soldiers should be immediately ordered to rework and rebuild.

Zhang Cheng also specially emphasized to Lin Jianshe of the engineer battalion: "The quality of the cat's ear hole must be strictly controlled, the top layer must ensure that the soil layer is at least three meters thick, the tunnel should be supported by iron plates as much as possible, and if there is no iron plate, more than three wooden planks should be overlapped together, and the tunnel mouth should continue to be reinforced, at least to ensure that there are more than three exits, and at the same time it is necessary to do a good job of camouflage." ”

After telling Lin to build, Li Yunlong waited for the opportunity to report to Zhang Cheng in detail the defensive layout of the entire position, as well as the layout of the firepower bunkers. For example, the position of the heavy machine gun fire point should be flexible, for example, a heavy machine gun point can build more than three heavy machine gun positions, and after the battle, the position must be quickly changed, so that the enemy cannot find the position of our division's heavy machine gun fire, so that the enemy's fixed-point attack will fail.

In late March 1934, KMT troops launched a desperate siege against the Central Soviet District. The powerful assault corps was concentrated in the east and north directions, and its Eastern Route Army consisted of 16 divisions, one brigade and two regiments, commanded by Wei Lihuang, with a total of more than 100,000 people, equipped with heavy artillery and aircraft.

The Kuomintang Army, which rushed to the front-line position of the General's Hall defended by the Young Communist Division, had a total strength of nearly 50,000 troops in six divisions, led by Jiang Dingwen, who had just led the Central Army of the Kuomintang to suppress the rebellion of the 19th Route Army, while our Young Communist Division had only more than 20,000 people, and the difference in strength was very great, and the situation facing the Young Communist Division was extremely grim.

On 23 March, Wei Lihuang of the Kuomintang East Route Army took the lead in launching a fierce attack on the positions of the Red Third Army Corps guarding the direction of the victory pass, opening the prelude to the Kuomintang army's "encirclement and suppression" of the central Soviet area.

Zhang Cheng knew that Jiang Dingwen's army, which was the enemy in front of him, was also about to launch an attack on our Young Communist Division. Faced with an enemy force twice as superior as ours, the Young Communist Division must seize the opportunity to disrupt the enemy's plans and deployments.

Therefore, Zhang Cheng ordered the special operations brigade and the reconnaissance battalion to launch raids and night raids against Jiang Dingwen's troops, and carried out cold gun and cold artillery tactics to delay the enemy's march and win more time for the main force of the Young Communist Division.

Because the enemy never expected that the Young Communist Division would dare to take the initiative to attack, two battalions of the enemy's vanguard were ambushed by the Special Operations Brigade and the reconnaissance battalion of the Young Communist Division, and our division destroyed 500 enemies and captured more than 100 enemies.

The special operations brigade immediately tortured and interrogated the captured officers, and learned that the vanguard troops sent by Jiang Ding's Ministry of Culture and Culture were the 38th Division and the 42nd Division of the People's Party Army, both of which were in the Central Army of the People's Party, with very strong combat effectiveness and excellent equipment, and the two divisions were each equipped with a heavy artillery battalion.

Jiang Dingwen's main force also had three divisions, one of which was the 9th Division of his starting force, and the other two were the 23rd and 29th Divisions.

IN ADDITION, THE CAPTIVES ALSO CONFESSED THAT IN ORDER TO QUICKLY CAPTURE THE GENERAL'S PALACE, IN ADDITION TO OBTAINING THE SUPPORT OF THE AIR FORCE, JIANG DINGWEN ALSO SECRETLY TRANSFERRED A HEAVY ARTILLERY REGIMENT WITH A CANNON CALIBER OF 155MM AND USED A CAR TO PULL THE BATTLE, WHICH CAN BE DESCRIBED AS A DESPERATE GAMBLE.

After hearing the report of the special operations brigade, Zhang Cheng immediately informed all combat units of this information and once again reminded all units to pay attention to guarding against heavy artillery and bombing.

For three nights in a row, the special operations brigade and reconnaissance battalion of the Young Communist Division continued to harass the enemy troops, making it difficult for the enemy troops to sleep and eat and suffer extreme headaches, but they had nothing to do.

In addition, during the day, the blocking company of the Young Communist Division constantly carried out cold gun and cold artillery campaigns against the enemy troops, planted mines on the enemy's marching route, and fired cold guns, which caused great interference to the march of Jiang Dingwen's main force, causing Jiang Dingwen's troops to march like a turtle crawling, and the march was less than 30 miles in one day. Finally, the enemy was forced to become angry and sent the air force to frantically retaliate against the position of the Young Communist Division.

At about 12 o'clock in the afternoon of 28 March, a huge roar was heard in the sky, and 10 enemy planes flew "buzzing" over the front-line positions of our division, and one after another aerial bombs weighing several tens of kilograms fell from the sky, the earth began to tremble, dark clouds like mushrooms sounded on the ground, and all kinds of false pillboxes and fortifications on the hillside attracted the attention of enemy planes, and all of them flew into the air or were flattened to the ground amid the explosion of aerial bombs.

Then, the enemy's 155mm guns bombarded again, and the protruding hill seemed to be ploughed again. Because the Young Communist Division had set up an observation post in advance, the soldiers at the observation post risked their lives to issue a timely warning, and most of the soldiers safely withdrew into the cat's ear hole behind the mountain, with almost no damage to their personnel and weapons.

After about ten minutes of enemy shelling, the sound of artillery began to thin out. Subsequently, the 38th Division and the 42nd Division each sent a regiment of troops, under the cover of heavy artillery fire, to rush up to the positions defended by the 1st Brigade all over the mountains, and came menacingly, in a vain attempt to break through the first-line positions of our division in one fell swoop.

Zhang Cheng and the comrades of the division's party committee all stayed at the division headquarters and did not sit in the front-line position, but they boldly handed over the safety of the entire division to the 1st Brigade, so that Li Yunlong, the commander of the 1st Brigade, could command the troops with confidence and boldness.

Zhang Cheng said to Political Commissar Xiao Hua while observing the battle situation with a telescope: "It seems that the enemy is not dead this time, and he has invested a lot of money." ”

"Hehe, this level of shelling and bombing is the only time I have seen it in my life, Jiang Dingwen really looks down on our young communist division, fortunately, we have already taken precautions, otherwise we will suffer a big loss." Xiao Hua said luckily.

"However, I am afraid that the future days will be difficult." Zhang Cheng already knew in his heart the outcome of this defensive operation in the Soviet area, and defeat was only a matter of time.

Zhang Cheng is now worried that the losses of only the troops will be too great, and he will not have the capital to fight the Japanese devils after the Long March, so all his tactical goals in the battle are to save himself as the first priority.

A few minutes later, the front line of the Young Communist Division's front-line position suddenly erupted into a dense burst of gunfire, when the enemy was only 50 meters away from the forward position of the Young Communist Division, the enemy's heavy artillery was afraid to prevent accidental injury to its own people and had stopped firing, the first brigade that had been suffering from artillery for a long time immediately began to return fire, mountain artillery, mortars, grenades, and all kinds of light and heavy machine guns roared at the enemy at the same time, thousands of enemy troops fell on the hillside in rows, and the various firing points of the first brigade and the machine guns of the bunker spewed out strings of sparks, knocking the enemy to the ground one by one.

The enemy army could no longer resist it, and the ghost cried wolf and retreated, but was driven back again and again by the Yamashita Governor's team and officers. However, with the accurate fire of our snipers, the enemy soldiers fell to the ground one by one, and the fleeing enemy troops suddenly poured down like a flood that burst the embankment, unstoppable.

Tick Tick ......

As soon as the trumpet sounded, Li Yunlong led the first brigade to take the opportunity to launch a counterattack, hitting the head with machine guns and submachine guns, and beating the enemy wolf and rushing forward.

Five minutes later, the 1st Brigade dared the enemy to go about 1,000 meters out of the city, and immediately took it as soon as it was ready, leaving only one battalion to clean up the battlefield and collect the weapons and ammunition left by the enemy, and the whole brigade withdrew to its position. By the time the enemy's retaliatory artillery fire came again, the soldiers of the 1st Brigade had already burrowed into the cat's ear.