At two o'clock in the morning of April 19, 50 commandos, who had been preparing for a long time, stood straight by the Min River. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The river water in April is still very cold, coupled with the cold wind howling in the middle of the night, the waves are rolling, only standing on the shore, there will be a sense of daunting of the Minjiang River.

However, these fifty commandos are not ordinary people.

As early as when he was in the Soviet region of Jiangxi Province, Zhang Cheng led them to undergo the most rigorous special warfare training, and once dived at the bottom of the frozen river.

Therefore, the small wind and waves of Minjiang are completely ignored by them.

At this time, they held their heads high, as tall as mountains.

Each of them carried two automatic firearms and three grenades, and jumped into the cold river after waiting for the chief's order.

However, the commander who still came to inspect the siege of the city in the middle of the night did not know that the special combat personnel had undergone such severe training.

After he saw the siege deployment sent by Zhang Cheng, he thought that these fifty commandos would die if they went.

Therefore, the commander specially came to see off the fifty warriors before the commandos set off, and poured a bowl of Moutai wine for each commando, and the team members drank it all immediately after taking the wine.

After drinking, the commander lit up the bottom of the bowl, signaling that he had dried the bowl of wine, and then the commander smashed the big bowl on the ground and said earnestly to the fifty commandos: "I wish the comrades a victory, and I will come back alive!" ”

Subsequently, Zhang Sanhe led the team members to smash the bowl together, and then shouted: "Resolutely complete the task!" ”。

The last fifty commandos jumped into the raging Min River one by one.

The icy river covered the bodies of the commandos, but the commandos didn't care about it, they just silently followed Zhang Sanhe to the intended target.

About forty minutes later, the assault team quietly landed at the predetermined location, and then changed into black night clothes and checked their weapons and equipment, and then quickly rushed towards the eastern gate of Leshan.

With the skills of the special operators, they quickly and successfully evaded the enemy patrols.

At 4:30 a.m., they reached the edge of the tower, and in only twenty minutes, they unknowingly killed dozens of enemy guards.

Then, they divided into two lines, and one team immediately opened the gates of the city and signaled to the large force of the first division that was attacking; The first team is on guard to prevent accidents.

After the city gate was successfully opened, a large army of the first division, which had been waiting outside the city for a long time, rushed into the city gate like a tiger from the mountain, and went straight to the military target in Leshan City.

In fact, by this time, the battle had lost its suspense.

Shaozong opened the way with powerful automatic firearms, carried more than a dozen mortars, and at this time the enemy was still mostly asleep, and was disarmed by the Red Army without much resistance.

By about 7 o'clock in the morning, the remnants of the enemy in Leshan City had been basically wiped out, a large number of Kuomintang bureaucrats were captured by our army, and the officers and men of the garrison of the Sichuan army became prisoners before they woke up.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, order in the city had basically returned to normal, and the comrades of the Political Department posted notices in the streets of Leshan one after another, announcing that Leshan had been brought under the jurisdiction of the Red Army.

After clearing all the remnants of the enemy, the commander and the central leadership entered the city at two o'clock in the afternoon.

When the commander was amazed to see fifty intact commandos at the gate of the city, Zhang Sanhe told him that it was nothing, and that Zhang Cheng had been diving at the bottom of the frozen river for half an hour when he trained them.

The commander commended the commandos on the spot, and at the same time he became more interested in the special operation method that Zhang Cheng had come up with.

At the same time, the First Army and the Ninth Army Corps, under the command of Lin Nie, also successfully captured the two cities of Meishan and Renshou, and continued to attack and advance in the direction of the Pujiang River.

The Third Army Corps laid Jianwei and Shawan to the south, completely blocking the enemy's passage to attack northward; The Fifth Army Corps captured Mount Emei.

At this point, the surrounding districts and counties of Leshan have been firmly controlled by our army.

On the second day after the capture of Leshan, Zhang Cheng again received an order from the Central Military Commission: he asked Shaozong to go all the way to the west, expand the strategic depth of the Red Army, and capture nearly 10 counties and districts, including Hongya, Ya'an, Lushan, and Tianquan.

Zhang Cheng immediately ordered the troops to divide into three routes, and the first division captured Lushan, Tianquan, Ya'an and other areas; The second division attacked Mingshan County; The third division was responsible for capturing Jiajiang, Hongya, and Rongjing.

After the task was issued, the troops rushed westward without stopping.

However, when Zhang Cheng led his troops to the Jiajiang and Hongya areas, he found that the Sichuan army had already fled, and our army was welcomed into the city gate by the local people to welcome the arrival of our army.

Zhang Cheng sent a telegram to the other ministries and found that they were in the same situation.

After interrogating the prisoners, it was found that the original local troops were almost all drawn by Liu Xiang to rush to Shudu to defend, when the remaining garrison troops knew that the Central Red Army captured Leshan, they knew that they were by no means the opponent of the Red Army, so in order to save their lives, the garrisons of the Sichuan Army absconded one after another.

With more than a dozen cities won so easily, Zhang Cheng naturally couldn't ask for it.

By April 20, Zhangcheng's young column troops had completed the tasks assigned by the Military Commission, and other major army corps also reported good news, and the cities around Leshan were also controlled by our army one by one.

So far, the Central Red Army has captured more than 20 counties, districts, and three cities in southwestern Sichuan in just a few days, liberated more than 3 million people, and seized materials and grain piled up.

After laying down such a large base area, our army once again offered the magic weapon of fighting local tyrants and dividing the land, and quickly won the sincere support of the broad masses of the people, and the local people enthusiastically joined the army during the expansion of popularity, and the combat troops of the Red Army have gradually approached 100,000.

With such a large base area laid down by our army, many comrades who had been adrift for a long time pleaded with the Central Committee to establish a Soviet government in southwestern Sichuan, and thus took root.

In view of this new situation, the commander-in-chief and the party Central Committee decided to convene a joint enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and the Central Military Commission of the Central Revolution on 24 April to discuss the issue of the foothold of our army.

The meeting was held in the auditorium of a middle school in Leshan, and was attended by more than 30 members of the Standing Committee, members, and alternate members of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, members of the Central Military Commission, and heads and political commissars of various army corps.

Zhang Cheng and Xiao Hua participated in the meeting for the first time as the main leaders of the corps, and this was the first time that the two of them participated in such a major meeting, and they had mixed feelings for a while, as if they had witnessed history.

However, both of them made up their minds that they would only listen with their ears and keep silent.

On the other hand, the commander-in-chief, deputy commander-in-chief Zhou, Mr. Zhu, and Zhang Luofu on the rostrum, all of them all look confident, calm, and calm as a mountain, and people have to admire these people as if they were born to be leaders, and they have a leadership style in their gestures. (To be continued.) )