Chapter Seventy-One: Shocked Ye Shuai

On the evening of the end of the passage meeting, the Central Military Commission of the Central Revolution issued an order to all army corps to march west into Guizhou Province, with the aim of quickly getting rid of the approaching Central Army, entering Guizhou Province to rest and recuperate, and then seeking further development. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

At the same time, the Central Military Commission of the Central Revolution reorganized the central organs and the Red Army units, abolished the establishment of the Eighth Army Corps of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and merged the rest of the Eighth Army Corps into the Fifth Army Corps. The commander and political commissar of the Eighth Army Corps returned to work in the Central Military Commission, Luo Rongheng, director of the Political Department of the Eighth Army Corps, was appointed director of the Political and Metallurgical Department of the Fifth Army Corps, and Liu Bocheng, chief of staff of the Fifth Army Corps, was transferred to the Central Military Commission column as commander.

At around 8 p.m., the Young Communist Division received a telegram from the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, to the effect that: "We are very pleased to hear that the officers and men of the International Division of the Young Communist Party have broken through the encirclement and successfully crossed the river, and have now returned to the embrace of the Central Committee in triumph. On behalf of the Central Committee of the Workers' and Peasants' Party, the Central Military Commission of the Central Revolution, and the General Political Department of the Red Army, we would like to pay the highest tribute to all the officers and men of the heroic International Division of the Young Communist Party! At present, the Central Military Commission of the Central Revolution has decided to march westward into Guizhou Province, and since the day of pursuit is approaching, the main force of the Red Army will set off at noon tomorrow. I hope that after you receive the call, the vanguard led by Comrade Zhang Fengming will arrive at the channel to hand over the materials as scheduled. In addition, the Central Committee decided to requisition 6,000 prisoners from your department and asked Comrade Zhang Fengming to escort the prisoners to the passage.

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After circulating to each other among the members of the party committees of several divisions of the Young Communist Division, they immediately sent a telegram back to the Central Committee: "The International Division of the Young Communist Party resolutely carries out the orders of the Central Military Commission of the Central Revolution and resolutely fulfills the tasks assigned by the Central Committee. ”

At eight o'clock the next day, Zhang Fengming, chief of staff of the Young Communist Division, led more than 4,000 officers and men of the Sixth Brigade, escorted 6,000 prisoners, and a large number of weapons, ammunition, and materials handed over to the main force of the Red Army.

Just as the county seat was in sight, Zhang Fengming ordered the troops to stop and rest for a while, tidy up their appearance and set off again, but they saw a huge team coming towards them from a distance. Zhang Fengming immediately ordered the troops to be on alert, and the reconnaissance company went to inquire about the news.

Twenty minutes later, the reconnaissance company came back to report that Ye Jianying, chief of the General Staff of the Central Red Army, and Yang Shangkun, director of the Political Department, had led the troops to meet the Young Communist Division.

Zhang Fengming hurriedly led people to greet Ye Jianying and other central leaders, and after the meeting, Zhang Fengming immediately saluted the central leaders: "Report to the leaders, Zhang Fengming, chief of staff of the International Division of the Young Communist Party and commander of the Sixth Brigade, escorted 6,000 prisoners and a batch of heavy materials to the Central Committee, please instruct!" ”

Ye Jianying laughed, grabbed Zhang Fengming's hand, and said enthusiastically: "You are the chief of staff and I am also the chief of staff, everyone is a peer, so there is no need to be polite, thank you for your hard work." ”

Director Yang stepped forward and saluted all the officers and soldiers of the Young Communist Division: "Your International Division of the Young Communist Party has made great contributions to our Red Army, and we should salute your heroic unit." ”

As soon as the words fell, all the officers and men of the Central Red Army who came to greet the Young Communist Division, including Ye Jianying, chief of the General Staff, saluted the ranks of the Young Communist Division with a solemn military salute.

Zhang Fengming and all the officers and men of the Young Communist Division were all stunned, no one could have imagined that the Central Committee would give such a great courtesy to the Young Communist Division, Zhang Fengming, who was stunned for a while, quickly reacted, and led all the officers and soldiers to give a solemn military salute to the Red Army officers and soldiers who came to greet them.

At this moment, although the soldiers on both sides are not familiar with each other, the hearts of both sides have been connected. When the generals of both sides were discussing how to deal with the 6,000 prisoners and a large amount of supplies, in addition to some necessary vigilance troops, the soldiers of the Young Communist Division hugged each other with the Red Army soldiers who came to greet them, cheering and shouting, which made people deeply feel the deep comradeship of the Red Army soldiers, and the 6,000 captives on the side were both envious and jealous, and thought to themselves: If only I were one of them, would I also join the Red Army next time? Anyway, now even if he is released, he will not be able to return to his hometown, so it is better to simply join the Red Army.

Their wish was soon granted, and after the handover of supplies, the six thousand captives were immediately divided into two groups, one group was taken by the men of the first legion, and the other group was divided into the third legion.

After counting the number of prisoners, supplies, and handing over weapons and ammunition, several central leaders looked at the soldiers of the Young Communist Division who were wearing neat military uniforms and carrying a large number of machine guns and submachine guns, and were greatly shocked.

Looking behind, the mules of the baggage troops were armed with eight mountain guns, sixteen mortars, and thirty-two heavy machine guns. Looking ahead, the lowest weapon configuration of the soldiers of the Young Communist Division was automatic rifles, one machine gun for every ten people, one-third of the submachine guns, and five grenades and two grenades were hung on their belts. Such a unit, even if it is the Central Army of the People's Party, does not have such a luxurious configuration.

Looking back at his own troops, he saw that there was not a single company of machine guns, only one or two heavy machine guns were available to troops above the battalion level, and only units at and above the regimental level had mortars, and there were no mountain artillery at all. Looking at the individual configuration of the soldiers, only half of the soldiers have guns, and almost all of them are domestically made in Hanyang, old sleeves, and the ammunition has to be used in limited quantities, which cannot be compared with the automatic rifles of the Young Communist Division; The other half of the soldiers are still using cold weapons such as ghost head knives and red tassel guns, which are really more dead than people, and they should be thrown away!

At the time of parting, Chief of Staff Ye Jianying pretended not to care and asked: "Comrade Zhang Fengming, although you respect us comrades of the Central Committee very much, you don't have to deliberately bring the best equipment of the whole division to show you!" ”

Zhang Fengming looked confused, a little didn't understand what Ye Jianying meant, and it took a long time to react, and quickly explained: "We didn't come here with the best equipment of the whole division, the six combat brigades of our International Division of the Young Communist Party are basically the same equipment, and our Sixth Brigade is the latest unit of the International Division of the Young Communist Party, and it has won the least battles, and its family foundation is far worse than the old Third Brigade." ”

Director Yang was puzzled: "Then how can I see that the lowest individual configuration of your brigade is an automatic rifle, such a configuration, even the Central Army of the Kuomintang does not have such good equipment, right?" ”

Zhang Fengming said proudly: "Our weapons and equipment are all captured from the Liberal Democratic Party troops, since the establishment of our Young Communist International Division, the first division and one brigade of the Kuomintang were wiped out in the first battle of Nakou, the 11th division of Chen Chengyan's department was severely beaten in Tuancun, the three main divisions of Jiang Dingwen were annihilated in the first battle of Shicheng, the two divisions and two brigades of the Guangdong army were defeated in the Yanshou battle, and the two divisions of Zhou Hunyuan's column were eliminated by pulling teeth from the tiger's mouth of the waterwheel. Almost every battle we fought was a war of annihilation, and a large number of weapons and ammunition of the Kuomintang army were captured, including Krupp 150mm heavy guns from Germany, but they were inconvenient to carry and could only be secretly buried in the Soviet area. ”

Ye Jianying was completely stunned by Zhang Fengming's words, if it weren't for Zhang Fengming's calm face to report the achievements of the Young Communist Division, even Ye Jianying, the deputy chief of general staff who is usually responsible for picking up and sending telegrams from the Red Army headquarters, didn't know that the Young Communist Division had won so many battles, and it was the most rare battle of annihilation.

Director Yang rolled his eyes, looking incredulous, and after a long time, he was shocked again and again: "The future is terrifying, it is really terrifying!" ”

After the shock, the head of the Central Committee quickly took his leave and left, they really didn't want to stay longer, because they were afraid that if they stayed longer, they would not be able to help but pull down the drooling weapons and equipment of the Young Communist Division.

Zhang Fengming looked at the back of the head of the Central Committee who left in a hurry, and was puzzled for a while, why was there such a big difference in the attitude of the head of the Central Committee after he finished reporting the achievements of the Young Communist Division?

I couldn't figure it out, so Zhang Fengming had no choice but to lead the troops to follow the footsteps of the Central Red Army into Tongdao County to fight for the main force of the division.