Hu Zongnan, whose name is Shoushan, formerly known as Hu Qinzhai, is a native of Zhenhai, Zhejiang Province, the commander of the First Division of the Revolutionary Army of the People's Party, known as the first protégé of the Son of Heaven, and is Chang Kaishen's most trusted and favorite important general. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

About Hu Zongnan, the most famous is that he cried in public after being rejected for the Whampoa Military Academy, because his howl attracted the attention of Li Jishen, then director of the coaching department of the Whampoa Military Academy, he gave him a chance to apply, Hu Zongnan seized the opportunity to be admitted to the Whampoa Military Academy in one fell swoop, and then he hugged the thigh of Chang Kaishen, a fellow villager in Zhejiang Province, and followed Chang Chang to the east to conquer Chen Jiongming and the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, all the way to the top.

On May 28, Hu Zongnan set out from Qingchuan, led his troops all the way to Songpan, and swooped in the southwest direction. However, as soon as he left Wenxian County and entered the Songpan area, he received a call for help from the Ding Delong Brigade, the leading force on the left in front.

Hu Zongnan was taken aback, weren't the red bandits chased by Xue Yue, Zhou Hunyuan and Liu Xiang so that they had no way to enter the sky and no way to enter the earth, how could they dare to make a move against their first division?

It's just a bear's heart and leopard gall!

Hu Zongnan certainly had reason to be proud of his troops. You must know that whether it is the Eastern Expedition to Chen Jiongming or the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, the First Division is invincible and has no way to resist, and it can be said that half of the prestige of Chang Kaishen's Central Army was won by this army.

Since Hu Zongnan took over this prestigious unit, he has vigorously expanded the strength of the First Division, which is said to be a division-level establishment, but in fact the strength of the troops has reached 30,000, which is even larger than that of ordinary army-level troops.

Moreover, the first division is Chang Kaishen's starting unit, whether it is the supply of troops or weapons and equipment, the first division is ranked at the top, the grassroots officers are all Whampoa students, weapons and equipment are also mainly German and Soviet equipment, with the largest number of artillery in the country, the strongest automatic weapons.

With such a powerful force, not to mention compared with the domestic troops, even compared with the extremely vicious Japanese army, Hu Zongnan is confident that he will wrestle with them. But the red bandit dared to break ground on Tai Sui's head, in Hu Zongnan's opinion, it was undoubtedly to light the lamp in the toilet and look for death!

Undoubtedly, the strength of the First Division was beyond doubt, but in fact, Hu Zongnan also made the same mistake as his predecessors Jiang Dingwen and Chen Cheng, underestimating the strength of the Red Army and overestimating his own strength.

Historically, Chang Kaishen's starting army made the same mistake as Lao Chang, that is, he was an expert in the civil war and an outsider in the foreign war. When the First Division dealt with the warlord forces in the country, it was naturally invincible and invincible. But once they encountered the Red Army and the Japanese army, they were often beaten to the ground with no armor and no armor.

Needless to say, the southern part of Hu Zong was hidden by Chang Kaishenxue and used as a trump card to compete with the Workers' and Peasants' Party for the world in the future, but only a few times they participated in the War of Resistance against Japan, often ended in a fiasco.

After the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Second Civil War of the Kuomintang (Kuomintang) and Workers (Workers' and Peasants' Party) broke out. This ace army, which was pinned on by Chang Kaishen, was torn off the mask of the pseudo-tiger by the old and spicy Mr. Peng.

Due to the long-term garrison on the Loess Plateau and the lack of actual combat experience, it was defeated by Mr. Peng's troops in one fell swoop at the beginning of the civil war, and then gradually went to a low ebb until the entire army was wiped out.

This is a later story, so I won't mention it for the time being.

After Hu Zongnan received Ding Delong's call for help, he immediately realized that the red bandits were not as simple as they seemed. Tindelon's independent brigade is also the main force of the first division, a brigade has more than 6,000 troops, and the weapon configuration is also very sophisticated.

However, Hu Zongnan still had great confidence in the combat effectiveness of the First Division, and he only ordered the Li Wen Second Brigade, which followed closely behind the Independent Brigade, to quickly reinforce Ding Delong's Division, while his main force still advanced towards Songpan in an orderly manner. He believed that with the combat effectiveness of the 2nd Brigade and the Independent Brigade, the Red Bandits in Songpan would soon be eliminated and the Songpan area would be seized in one fell swoop.

However, what Hu Zongnan never expected was that only two hours after he issued Li Wenwen's order to reinforce Ding Delong's brigade, Li Wen also sent him a telegram asking for help.

Although Hu Zongnan was promoted to the official position by rocket, after all, he also grew up from a second lieutenant platoon commander after graduating from the Whampoa Military Academy. The call for help sent by Li Wenwen made him immediately realize that the matter was serious, and there were signs of getting out of his control.

After all, Hu Zongnan was a veteran of the battlefield, and after receiving Li Wenwen's telegram asking for help, Hu Zongnan immediately ordered the cavalry regiment and the reconnaissance unit to speed up their advance and carry out reconnaissance in the direction of Songpan to find out the battle situation ahead and open the way for the whole division.

As for the main force of the division, Hu Zongnan did not let them act rashly for the time being, and he asked the reconnaissance troops in front to make a reconnaissance report before deciding on the next step.

At the same time, Hu Zongnan also ordered the Li Tiejun headquarters of the 1st Brigade stationed in Pingwu to quickly move closer to the division headquarters in case of accidents.

At this time, Zhang Cheng was waiting for Hu Zongnan's drive in the Songpan Temporary Headquarters, he calculated the time, thinking that Hu Zongnan should be almost there, but a few hours passed, and the enemy was still nowhere to be seen, which made Zhang Cheng feel a little uneasy in his heart, as if he had missed some important information.

The political commissar saw that Zhang Cheng had been pacing in the command room, looking very irritable, so he reminded on the side: "Commander, I found that your deployment is all around the valley road of Luochong, but what if the enemy soldiers advance in several ways?" And let's not forget that the enemy also has a cavalry regiment with strong mobility, and if Hu Zongnan sends a cavalry regiment to take the lead, our camouflage tricks will be easily seen through by the enemy. ”

"Oops! It's a cavalry regiment! Under the reminder of the political commissar, Zhang Cheng finally realized that what he had missed was Hu Zongnan's cavalry regiment.

When Li Jue was ambushed by the passage, it was because the mountains around the passage were dense and the roads were winding, even if the distance was very close, it was easy to block the line of sight, and the Hunan army was too arrogant after the Battle of the Xiangjiang River, which gave his troops the opportunity to ambush.

However, the independent brigade and its second brigade that had previously ambushed Hu Zongnan were not replicable, because the enemy did not expect that our army had advanced to Songpan, so there was no defense of our army at all, so our army was able to easily destroy the troops of the two brigades in one fell swoop.

However, after the Independent Brigade and the Second Brigade sent telegrams for help, Hu Zongnan's main force must have realized that his troops had encountered an unprecedented strong resistance at Songpan, and they would certainly raise their vigilance to a height of 120,000 points.

In addition, the officers of the First Division, from the probationary platoon commander to Hu Zongnan himself, were all students of Whampoa, and they were deeply taught by the regular military academy, and they certainly had a set of extremely professional guiding ideology for any matters related to marching in the troops.

When marching, there are very strict regulations on how the troops should arrange reconnaissance and search, cover each other, advance in echelons, and echo the front and rear.

It is obviously unrealistic for our army to try to succeed as easily as the previous ambush of the Ding Delong Brigade and Li Wenlv, and it is undoubtedly to forcibly lower the enemy's IQ.

Thinking of this, Zhang Cheng couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat all over his body, he found that he had underestimated this world's first division too much, and almost made an unforgivable low-level mistake. Fortunately, there is a reminder from the political commissar that it is still too late to adjust the deployment.