After listening to Ding Wei's explanation, everyone finally understood that it was because of the differential treatment of the captured soldiers by the Young Communist Division, which caused the situation of the prisoners actively transforming and actively participating in our army, and they couldn't help but admire Zhang Cheng's previous decision to force the prisoners to be reformed through labor. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhang Cheng smiled and asked everyone: "How many combat troops are there in our Young Communist International Division now?" ”

Without waiting for everyone to answer, Zhang Cheng continued: "There are 33,000 people, and Zhou Hunyuan's column, based on 10,000 people in each division, has more than 40,000 people killed, and almost half of them are recruits who have never been on the battlefield at all. So my decision was - fight!

Of course, in order to reduce unnecessary losses, I think that our International Division of the Young Communist Party will continue to practice the strategy of defensive counterattacks, with defense in the front and counterattacks in the rear. Even if the enemy army learns the lesson of the last defeat and does not divide the troops to attack, I dare to guarantee that the enemy will still underestimate the strength of our army.

Since our department is still a division-level establishment, this establishment has confused many people! Even if the enemy overestimates our unit as much as possible, I think they estimate that our unit will be more than 10,000 people at most, and this is precisely the enemy's most fatal flaw.

They could never have imagined that the strength of our Young Communist International Division had reached 30,000, and that the artillery and automatic firearms far exceeded the enemy's imagination. This provided favorable conditions for our troops to break through the enemy. In addition, the Kuomintang army has always overestimated its own strength and underestimated the strength of its opponents, and did not know either itself or the enemy, and was bound to suffer defeat.

Therefore, my combat deployment is: First, with the 2nd, 3rd, and 6th Brigades as the defending troops, try to attract the enemy's main force to attack Liping County, and firmly nail the enemy to the siege battle. Secondly, with the 1st, 4th, and 5th brigades as the attacking troops, when the enemy attacked Liping, they hid their troops outside the city, concealed and stood by, and when the enemy was attacking the city, they would kill from the side, and form a flanking attack with the defending troops, and break the enemy's main force in one fell swoop.

Finally, the combat units directly under the division are the general reserves, ready to deal with emergencies at any time. ”

Zhang Cheng's detailed analysis of the enemy and the reasonable battle deployment won the unanimous approval of the people, and finally the political commissar made a concluding speech, once again emphasizing that the key to this battle is first and foremost to solve the battle quickly, and strive to resolve the battle within one day, without giving the enemy reinforcements time (it takes about six hours for the enemy reinforcements to arrive).

Second, the attacking troops should pay attention to concealment, avoid the search of the enemy's reconnaissance troops, and wait for the enemy to start a siege battle, and then the attacking troops will quickly enter the position.

Everyone thought that the pre-war arrangements made by the division commander and political commissar were excellent, and they also spoke enthusiastically and added many good suggestions. Therefore, Zhang Cheng ordered the General Staff Office to immediately draw up a detailed battle plan and distribute it to all combat units to immediately implement it in accordance with the battle plan.

After the time enters late December, winter in Guizhou Province can be regarded as officially coming, and even the daytime temperature is very low.

In the headquarters of the Hongjiatun Column, Zhou Hunyuan and Guo Siyan sat face to face in the conference room, because of the charcoal burned, the temperature in the room was higher than outside, even so, Zhou Hunyuan did not feel cool, he only felt that his palms were always a little wet.

In front of the two of them was a telegram from Chairman Chang Kaishen, which was an investigation report on the personnel establishment and weaponry of the International Division of the Young Communist Party, which was made by Dai Li, a military commander, after several painstaking investigations.

The report shows that the leader of the Red Bandit Young Communist International Division is Zhang Cheng, who is the proud disciple of Mao Runzhi, the leader of the Red Bandits, and the International Division of the Young Communist Party is an establishment of three brigades and nine regiments, with a total strength of about 20,000 people (Dai Li found out that it was the International Division of the Young Communist Party before the Long March), equipped with a large number of mountain artillery, mortars, and machine guns captured by the Red Bandits, with sufficient weapons and ammunition, and strong combat effectiveness.

A division actually had 20,000 troops, and this latest enemy situation shocked Zhou Hunyuan very much, and said to himself: "Our department was defeated unjustly last time, thinking that the International Division of the Young Communist Party was just an ordinary army of red bandits, so he stepped forward to gnaw on it, but it turned out to be a big tooth. ”

"This information should be true, if I had known this information, my 99th Division would not have been defeated so badly." Guo Siyan still feels unrelieved of the defeat last time, and there is still some resentment in his speech.

Zhou Hunyuan rejoiced: "Fortunately, we didn't divide our troops this time, otherwise we would have made the same mistake again." At present, we are advancing at the same time with the strength of four divisions, and after the battle of the Xiangjiang River, the International Division of the Young Communist Party will surely lose some troops, and the Red Bandits have no base and cannot replenish the source of troops, even if they still have 20,000 troops, the odds of victory are still on our side. ”

Guo Siyan gritted his teeth and said: "This time, we must wipe out all the International Divisions of the Young Communist Party, especially the bandit Zhang Cheng, and it will be difficult to eliminate the hatred in my heart if I don't cut him with a thousand knives." ”

"Don't let anger get carried away, from the perspective of a soldier, I have no hatred for Zhang Cheng, only admiration!" Zhou Hunyuan persuaded him: "I have carefully studied these battles fought by Zhang Cheng, and he never fought head-on, either by surprise attacks, or by setting up ambushes and encircling them, or by feints to lure the enemy. As long as Zhang Cheng makes a move, he will definitely completely defeat more than one entire division of our army.

Every time our army sent troops, it was always divided into two or three routes, and every time before the war, we thought very well, if we could do what we could, we would be able to do what the International Division of the Young Communist Party would be. And Zhang Cheng completely annihilated our army at the key points that our army had to fight, but instead put our army's situation into a situation of complete defeat. There is no doubt that Zhang Cheng is a master tactician and the number one enemy of our army, and his threat is not under Lin and Peng. ”

Guo Siyan nodded slightly, although Zhou Hunyuan's words had a rare taste of appreciating the enemy, but Guo Siyan quite agreed, because his recognition of the opponent was also his own identity.

Guo Siyan nodded and said: "What the military seat said is very reasonable, but since we have understood Zhang Cheng's tricks, with the strength of four divisions, we will join forces and advance together, without giving Zhang Cheng the slightest chance to break through, then Zhang Cheng can only fight with us head-on, with our superiority in strength and firepower, we are bound to win this battle." ”

Although Zhou Hunyuan admired Zhang Cheng's strategy, when his powerful forces pushed over, he believed that Zhang Cheng could only be captured. He nodded and said, "Even if he Zhang Cheng is a monkey, he can't fly to our Wuzhi Mountain." ”

"Commander, then let's send troops immediately, and I will take the lead." Guo Siyan said in a firm tone.

"Okay, this battle depends on the heart like a virtuous brother." Zhou Hunyuan saw that Guo Siyan's desire to fight was very strong, and he also analyzed Zhang Cheng's combat methods for him, presumably he would definitely learn the lessons of the last defeat and would not repeat the mistakes of the past.

The decision to send troops was decided, and Zhou Hunyuan's column immediately began to prepare. As the main force of the Central Army, Zhou Hunyuan's column also attached great importance to the role of the staff officers, and handed over the report on the enemy's situation and combat arrangements to the General Staff Department, and the plan to send troops was quickly completed.