After deciding on the strategy of the march, the 25th Regiment quickly set out on the march again after making simple preparations. A few days later, at the northern foot of a towering snow-capped mountain, the officers and men of the advance battalion of the 25th Regiment were resting.www.biquge.info

"Again, after entering the mountain, you are not allowed to talk, everyone must keep a certain distance from each other, you are not allowed to look at the snow in the distance for a long time, you must look at the trees and other things that are not white! Well, a company as a leading company, let's go! After Liu Fakun gave the order, he looked up at the snow-capped snow peaks in front of him, and this time they were going to intersperse them from the canyon between the snow-capped mountains to Shuodu.

The entire hundreds of miles of wind and snow have to be carried out on the already rarely visited mountain roads, with towering snow-capped mountains on one side and an abyss on the other, and danger can come at any time, and the degree of difficulty can be imagined. Not only do each person have to take care of themselves, but they also have to carry the nearly twenty kilograms of equipment that they carry with them. The person at the front of the line could be deceived by the thick snow in front of them at any moment, and he stepped on it and fell into the deep ravine.

The thick snow on the 10,000-year-old snow-capped mountain looks particularly dazzling under the sunlight. From time to time during the march officers and soldiers fell into the deep ravine, but no one exclaimed and no one screamed. Knowing that they were going to die, they clenched their teeth and disappeared silently in front of their comrades-in-arms without making any sound, without leaving the last word.

Seeing their comrades-in-arms who fell into the deep valley, the soldiers could only close their teeth and continue to hurry with tears in their eyes. Commander Liu Fakun was even more in tears, those were all his brothers, and they were his best soldiers.

More than 200 miles of interspersed marches immersed every survivor in grief. More than dozens of close comrades-in-arms left in this way, and even the corpses could not be recovered. All the officers and men who entered the advance unit knew that they would be shouldering arduous tasks and had already made up their minds to die, but when they saw the scene of their comrades-in-arms having no bones, they still couldn't accept it in their hearts.

According to the original plan, the armies that had entered Tibet in advance by the northern and southern routes would eventually converge in Qamdo. It was only because of the needs of the war that the army on the southern front had been rerouted to block the rebels' rear route. In view of this, Gu Pinzhen's department, which entered Tibet on the northern front, began to speed up the pace of the march on its own.

On 17 May, a week earlier than planned, Gu Pinzhen led all the troops under his command except for the 20th Regiment to arrive at Derge. Ignoring the tired Gu Pinzhen, according to the information provided by the intelligence officers in advance, dozens of local forces large and small involved in the rebellion were uprooted overnight. And in accordance with the order already issued by the southwestern government, the policy of abolishing serfs and dividing the land among the toasters began to be implemented. The land and property owned by all the local Tusi and temple lamas who participated in the rebellion and were executed were distributed to all the serfs who had obtained the status of commoners.

Resolved Derg's instability. Two days later, after the army had built a bridge, leaving a company of troops to wait for the administrative officers who followed, the whole army began to cross the Jinsha River and continue its advance towards Qamdo. At the same time that the officers and soldiers of the 25th Regiment were still trekking on the Daxue Mountain, the 19th Regiment of the 7th Division, led by Gu Pinzhen, had defeated the local rebels in Tongpu County after crossing the river, and officially began to enter the border of Qamdo!

After half a month of interspersed marches, the 1,200 troops of the advance battalion of the 25th Regiment finally stopped, and this was no longer between the mountains in the ice and snow. The warm sunlight in the small valley drove away the chill from the officers and soldiers. A night's and morning's rest has not yet fully recovered the physical strength of the officers and men.

"Commander, according to the guide, behind this ridge is Shuodu!" Liu Xiang, who had just returned from the investigation, gasped and reported to Liu Fakun: "According to our investigation, there are rebel baggage teams and patrols on the ancient road of Shuodu, but there are not many of them. Inside, there were about 800 rebel garrisons, only a few of them were armed with British rifles and no machine guns. The rebels were undisciplined and vigilant. What to do? Head! ”

"Fuck, it's just such a traitor, I'm still in a hurry. So many brothers on the way! As soon as Liu Fakun listened to Liu Xiang's report, his face began to turn pale, obviously he couldn't let go of the brothers he lost along the way.

"Yes! In such a critical position, the rebels only left a few hundred people, which is incredible! After on-the-spot investigation, Liu Xiang saw more content, but he still couldn't understand the rebels' behavior.

"It's just that the terrain is good, easy to defend and difficult to attack!" Liu Fakun snorted coldly.

"Regiment commander, battalion commander, I'll take a company up and guarantee that I will take Shuodu in thirty minutes." Liu Tao, the commander of the first company, opened his mouth to ask for battle. He said this with full confidence, no one has a steel helmet of his own troops, equipped with semi-automatic rifles, its firepower is not comparable to the rebels armed with a single one, even muskets, plus grenades and other sharp weapons, it can be said that they are armed to the teeth.

"I think so, so be it! Fu Cheng, this battle will be handed over to you. Liu Fakun quickly made a decision, and he cultivated Liu Xiang, a young officer, very much.

"Yes, Commander. Mission completion guaranteed! Liu Xiang, who was overjoyed, immediately opened his mouth to promise.

The sun gradually faded west, disappearing into the mountains of the snowy plateau, and the sky slowly began to darken. Liu Xiang took two companies of soldiers and slowly touched the vicinity of the rebel camp in the dark of night, and the officers and soldiers carried semi-automatic rifles in one hand and grenades in the other, quietly waiting for the order to attack.

And at this time, the rebels, who were usually not very vigilant, were giggling around the fire, waiting for the time to eat. Who doesn't know that the mountain wind after the sun goes down can blow people into popsicles? Sentry? What a joke, why send a poor brother to freeze outside! Besides, what are you doing with a sentry? Wasn't the Han army defeated and retreating, and was retreating in Qamdo, hundreds of miles away?

Time always passes unconsciously, Liu Xiang raised his wrist and glanced at the time, eight o'clock in the evening. With a wave of his hand, he finally gave the order to attack.

"It's time, flare!"

"Yes!"

The signal flares that abruptly streaked across the starry sky not only gave orders to the soldiers who were preparing to attack, but also alarmed many rebel soldiers and serfs who were on vigil. It's just that they can't figure out what this is, so they can only look at those few bright lights in a daze.

Of course, they don't need to understand. Soon, the whistling shells quickly landed on the rebel camp under the fire of more than a dozen mortars. At the same time, a group of soldiers in charge of the attack also swept forward quickly with the sound of shell explosions.

"Grenades!" Liu Tao shouted angrily and took the lead in throwing out the grenade in his hand. In an instant, dozens of black smoke grenades were thrown into the midst of the panicked rebels, and the continuous explosions and screams of the rebels were mixed with rhythmic semi-automatic rifle fire. The beaten and dizzy rebels soon lost their fighting spirit, and as the soldiers shouted "Shoot or kill" in jerky Tibetan, the first rebels to raise their hands and surrender soon began to appear. Then, as if a chain effect, except for a few die-hard loyalists, the remaining rebels also began to disarm and surrender.

Seeing the rebels walking in front of him in a long line with their hands raised, Liu Xiang, who was holding his watch, was dumbfounded, this Liu Tao said that half an hour is really half an hour! From start to finish, it was exactly half an hour. Liu Xiang, who had nothing to say, had to organize a company of the reserve team to be responsible for sheltering and guarding the prisoners.

In fact, Liu Xiang did overestimate the strength of the rebel army left behind in advance. In less than half an hour, the camp of the Shuodu rebels was almost in ruins, and the advance battalion only paid the price of less than a dozen casualties, and completely annihilated more than 700 rebels in the walled city. Of course, nothing is perfect, and when the cannon first sounded, there were still a few clever rebels who escaped on horseback, but it was no longer the overall situation.

Shuodu successfully got it in his hands, and Liu Fakun suddenly felt relieved. He had taken on a lot of pressure along the way, and he knew very well that the rebels' throat was really in his hands at this moment. The 20th Regiment of the 7th Division, which got the news, will soon be able to defeat the bandit army in Qamdo, and when it converges with the 25th Regiment of Shuodu, it will not be able to completely annihilate this rebel army under the attack from the east and west.