Soon after the Russian Boundary Conference, Zhang Cheng's troops received the main attack task of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, and were ordered to take the last obstacle to the north, Lazikou. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After receiving the order, Zhang Cheng immediately led his troops to advance at full speed towards Lazikou.

Lazikou, as its name suggests, the surrounding mountains tower, the mouth of the gorge is like a knife splitting axe, the Lazikou River rushes out from the mouth of the gorge, the two cliffs and forests are dense and passing, it is really "a husband when the pass, ten thousand people do not open".

In order to prevent the Red Army from advancing into Gannan, the Kuomintang constantly set up obstacles on the road, destroyed roads and bridges, and fired cold guns at Zhangcheng's troops from time to time.

Fortunately, Zhang Cheng had already made sufficient preparations and ordered the engineer regiment and the reconnaissance regiment to serve as the leading troops, and the soldiers of the engineer regiment opened roads in the mountains and built bridges when encountering water, while the soldiers of the reconnaissance regiment escorted the engineer regiment and eliminated the Kuomintang reactionaries who had fired cold guns one by one.

After five and a half days of arduous trekking, Zhang Cheng led his troops to finally arrive at Lazikou Township.

After Zhang Cheng ordered his troops to be stationed in concealment, he took the heads of various departments and a reconnaissance battalion to Lazikou to observe the terrain. Lazikou can be described as extremely steep. During the Long March, Zhangcheng and they passed through many dangerous passes, but it was the first time they had seen such a dangerous place.

A small opening, only forty meters wide, is surrounded by cliffs on both sides, forming a tunnel nearly 100 meters long. The rapids of the Lazi River cascade down this crevice, and a narrow wooden bridge over the river is the only link between the two mountains.

The head of the bridge is fortified with strong pillboxes, the west side of the bridge is a position with a large depth, and the hillside east of the bridge is full of triangular pillboxes. There is a large warehouse behind Lazikou, which is stocked with a large amount of grain, and it is obvious that the enemy has made long-term preparations to blockade Lazikou.

The defenders of the bridgehead had two battalions of troops, and the strength of one brigade was arranged in echelons throughout Lazi Mountain. At the same time, in the city of Minzhou, the main force of Lu Dachang's 4 regiments is also stationed, which can reinforce Lazishan at any time.

Lazikou is the dangerous pass on the only passage in western Sichuan to enter Gannan, and it is rumored that it is a moat that is not opened by a husband. After Zhang Cheng observed, he secretly sighed in his heart that Lazikou was indeed no longer the name of the moat.

Since the battle in Lazikou had a bearing on the overall situation of the Red Army's march northward, on 6 July, the commander-in-chief, who arrived two days later than the Shao Zong, personally came to Lazikou Township to express his condolences to all the officers and men of the Shao Zong. The arrival of the commander-in-chief greatly boosted the morale of all the officers and men of the Shaozong, and the soldiers expressed their determination to the commander-in-chief, promising that they would definitely take Lazikou and open the main road to the north for the whole army.

Subsequently, the commander-in-chief stationed his headquarters in the Duoli Temple in Lazikou Township, and personally deployed a group of young cadres such as Zhang Cheng, Xiao Hua, Li Yunlong, Zhang Fengming, and Zhou Weiguo to fight in Lazikou.

For the battle of Lazikou, Zhang Cheng had already made a plan after inspecting the terrain.

Zhang Cheng recalled the battle of Lazikou in history and found that the enemy did not arrange troops to garrison at both ends of the cliff, and this was undoubtedly a huge flaw for Zhang Cheng, who had a special operations brigade.

In the Dori Temple, Zhang Cheng confessed his idea to the commander, and a regiment and a battalion were assigned the main task of frontal attack to attract the attention of the enemy. The special operations team climbed the cliff and then bombarded the enemy's pillbox with grenades from the top of the mountain.

The commander praised Zhang Cheng's suggestion and immediately agreed to Zhang Cheng's battle plan.

In the afternoon of the next day, Zhang Cheng led the special operations team to the foot of the mountain on the left side of Lazikou, which was a smooth stone wall, forming a straight line from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, and almost no one could climb it with bare hands.

The enemy did not garrison the top of the cliff and apparently had their own considerations, and they did not think that anyone could climb such a cliff.

"Are you sure of such a cliff?" Zhang Cheng asked Zhang Shanhe, the captain of the special brigade around him (Zhang Shanhe's original name was Zhang Sanhe, he disliked that his name was not domineering, and specially asked Zhang Cheng to change his name, and Zhang Cheng changed it to Zhang Shanhe according to the homonym. ）

Zhang Shanhe shook his head and said, "Commander, this mountain is a little too high, and I am not too sure." ”

"Commander, captain, I can climb up." Mao Sui, a special combat team member from the Miao ethnic group, recommended himself.

Zhang Cheng quickly learned the origin of this special combat member, whose name was Mao Zigang, nicknamed "Lynx", whose biggest characteristic was that he was good at climbing, and he was the first expert in freehand rock climbing in the special combat brigade.

"Oh, you can try it." Zhang Cheng said to him expectantly.

The "lynx" was not ambiguous, he used a long pole with an iron hook to hook the rock crevice, and then climbed the steep and towering cliff like a monkey, and then lowered the rope from above, and the members of the special operations team quickly climbed up along the rope.

After climbing to the top of the mountain, the special operations team did not immediately attack the defending enemy, but waited in concealment.

Zhang Cheng did not waste any time, and immediately after the special operations team climbed the cliff, he immediately ordered the first battalion to launch a frontal assault, and the battle officially began at dusk.

The artillery company of the 1st Brigade opened fire with 8 mountain guns and 16 mortars at the same time, and in an instant, the enemy's defensive positions and fortifications on Lazikou burst into flames of explosions, and the smoke of gunpowder filled the air.

The artillery company carried out non-stop rapid artillery shelling for ten minutes, and after ten minutes, most of the enemy's fortifications were destroyed by artillery fire, and the first battalion quickly launched a brave charge against the defenders.

At the same time, Zhang Cheng ordered Li Dahai to launch a signal flare, signaling the special operations team to launch a surprise attack on the top of the mountain.

As Li Dahai pulled the trigger, a colorful signal flare suddenly rose over Lazikou, and suddenly, the pass of Lazikou boiled, and the sound of grenades and machine guns exploded on the top of the mountain from time to time.

The special operations brigade condescendingly threw grenades and grenades at the enemy's pillboxes and fortifications below, until the enemy was crying wolf and there was nowhere to hide.

Taking advantage of this great opportunity, the first battalion rushed into the pass of Lazikou, most of the defending enemy had already been killed or wounded, the light and heavy machine guns of the enemy's pillboxes on the cliff had long been muted, and the soldiers of the first battalion rushed to the pass like a tide, killing the defending enemy and telling them to spare again and again, and soon surrendered to our army.

Zhang Cheng observed with a telescope that the battle was going extremely smoothly, and immediately ordered the entire division to go into pursuit, not giving the enemy a chance to react, striking while the iron was hot, using Lazikou as the forward base, and destroying the enemy's defense system set up at Lazishan in one fell swoop.

Li Yunlong personally commanded the main force of the 1st Division to charge ahead, and then the 1st Brigade and the 6th Brigade divided into two routes and advanced along both banks of the Lazi River to attack the enemy in depth.

After a fierce battle, the first regiment took the lead in breaking through the defense system of the middle road of Lazi Mountain, destroying a large number of enemy pillboxes, seizing the enemy's defensive positions and a large number of warehouses set up by the defending enemy, and seizing a large number of weapons, ammunition and a large number of food supplies.

After the enemy retreated to a dangerous position in the rear section of the Lazishan Gorge, the commander of the defending regiment began to gather the remnants of the army, intending to gather troops to stand in a position and try in vain to hold on and wait for reinforcements. However, the officers and men of the heroic regiment did not give the enemy a chance to survive at all, and Li Yunqiang commanded a battalion to launch repeated charges under the cover of artillery company mortars.

The defending enemy resisted stubbornly, and the two armies could not hold each other. At the critical moment, more than 100 members of the special operations brigade also swooped down from the cliff all the way, and the unstable defending enemy was killed and wounded, and soon dispersed in a hurry.

Zhang Cheng was overjoyed when he heard the news, and the last dangerous hurdle on the Long March was finally pulled out by Shao Zong.

Zhang Cheng reported the news of the victory to the commander-in-chief and the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, and on the other hand, ordered the entire army of the Shaozong to catch up until the new 14th Division of Lu Dachang was eliminated.

After Li Yunlong's first division and Zhou Weiguo's third division received the order, they pursued all the way to Minxian County, and wiped out most of Lu Dachang's new 14th division as if they were in a no-man's land.

So far, the Battle of Lazikou ended with a complete victory for Shaozong.