At ten o'clock in the evening of February 20, when the Suide defenders left the county seat to go to Jia County for reinforcements, Zhang Cheng led a division that was ready to go to board hundreds of ships that had been prepared, and quickly rowed to the east bank. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At two o'clock in the morning of the next day, the first division crossed the Yellow River and launched a surprise attack on the empty county town of Suide under the cover of night.

How could such combat strength resist my heroic young columns and soldiers, the special operations brigade quickly climbed the city gate tower, and after quietly killing more than a dozen defenders, opened the city gate, and the main force suddenly poured in, and Suide changed hands in an instant.

At the same time, after the political commissar led the three divisions to cross the Yellow River eastward, they besieged Jia County without attacking, and implemented the tactics of besieging the city and sending reinforcements, and the Jin army around Jia County went to Jia County to reinforce, but was ambushed by the three divisions one by one on the way, including the Suide garrison brigade, all of which were defeated by the three divisions.

Seeing that there was no hope for rescue, the defenders of Jiaxian County surrendered to our army at 8 o'clock in the morning of the 21st under the pressure of the strong front of the 3rd Division. So far, in just one night, Shaozong has broken through the Yellow River moat in one fell swoop and connected the two cities.

At 12 o'clock in the afternoon, our army's artillery unit and baggage troops successfully passed through the pontoon bridge built by our army overnight, and after Zhang Cheng left a regiment to stay in Suide, he immediately advanced to the southeast without stopping, and went straight to Yimu, the location of the Jin army's river defense headquarters.

Yimu Town is the location of the Jin Army's River Defense Headquarters, and Sun Chu, the commander of the River Defense, learned that Suide was lost, and there was a Red Army that was like a bamboo, and rushed towards his headquarters.

Since the Red Army was divided into several routes from north to south and crossed the Yellow River eastward at the same time, the defenders of the Volunteer Command had already been evacuated to various places for reinforcements, and at this time the defenders in the city only had one guard battalion, how could they resist the wolf-like Red Army?

Sun Chu, in view of Yan Laoxi's kindness to his promotion, still wanted to save it again, and stubbornly waited for help, but unfortunately his subordinates made a decision for him with their feet, and before the Red Army arrived at Yimu, the officers and soldiers of the guard battalion fled, leaving only Sun Chu and dozens of his guards to defend the lonely city alone.

Sun Chu saw that the guard battalion had run out, wouldn't he still stay here and wait for death? Although Yan Laoxi has the grace to promote himself, it has not reached the point of dying for him, so if you don't say anything, I will run away.

As a result, before our army could reach Yimu, the defenders who feared our army like tigers fled without a single left, and our army easily occupied Yimu like an armed procession.

Li Yunlong rushed to Yimu, but he didn't even see a single enemy, how could he give up after leaving a battalion to garrison Yimu, Li Yunlong led the main force of the division to attack Shilou County.

Liang Jiantang, the brigade commander of the Jin army, learned the bad news that Yimu had lost and the stone tower was besieged, and immediately panicked, and hurried to the stone tower to reinforce him, but he didn't know that Li Yunlong's face was careless and careful, the siege was fake, and the reinforcements were real.

When the Jin army brigade arrived halfway, it was ambushed by the main force of Li Yunlong's first brigade, and was annihilated by most of the first brigade, leaving only more than 500 people to escape from the encirclement.

Seeing that there was no hope of defending the city, and the reinforcements were routed by the Red Army, the defenders of Shilou abandoned the city and fled, and our army went to the next city. After taking the stone tower, Li Yunlong was still not satisfied, and led the main force of the first division to continue to pounce on Zhongyang and Jiaokou counties.

Yan Laoxi was terrified when he learned the bad news that the stone tower was lost and Zhongyang was in danger, and he sent an order one after another, and urgently dispatched Zhou Yuanjian's independent second brigade stationed in Fenyang and filial piety to rush to Zhongyang and recover the stone tower.

One trick is fresh, eat all over the world. Li Yunlong once again repeated his old tricks and implemented the tactics of besieging the city and sending reinforcements.

On 23 February, when Zhou Yuanjian's 2nd Independent Brigade entered Guanshang Village and Liujiaping in Zhongyang County, it fell into an ambush circle of the main force of the 1st Division, and after a night of fierce fighting, more than 3,000 people of the 2nd Independent Brigade, known as "flying all over the sky", were all annihilated by the 1st Division, and more than 30 officers under the brigade commander Zhou Yuanjian were captured.

At the same time, the Red Army's right-flank army won great victories at Guanshang and Pengmen, and the Red First Army defeated the "middle obstacle zone" set up by the Jin army in the Luliang Mountains, and obtained a strategic position that could be attacked, retreated, and defended.

On March 1, the Red Army's left and right armies triumphantly joined forces in the Damai suburb of Jiaokou County. Zhang Cheng and the political commissar led their troops to welcome the commander-in-chief, Mr. Peng, Commander Lin and other leaders of the Red Army into the city gate.

The commander-in-chief then decided that it was advisable to chase after the poor and prepare to command the main force of the Red Army, march east to Jiuyu, cross Tongpu Road, and go to the anti-Japanese front in Ji Province.

In order to curb the momentum of the Red Army's rapid advance, he urgently transferred more than 40,000 troops from two columns and eight brigades to gather in the Fenyang, Jiaokou, and Xixian areas to prepare for a decisive battle with the main force of the Red Army in the Dujiuyu area west of Jiaokou.

At the same time, Yan Laoxi strictly ordered the Jin army along the Tongpu Road to strengthen the defense, patrolling day and night, in an attempt to encircle the Red Army of the Eastern Expedition in the Luliang Mountains west of the Tongpu Road, and gather and annihilate them.

Yan Laoxi opened up the formation, and the commander was not to be outdone.

From 6 to 8 March, the commander-in-chief convened an enlarged meeting of the Politburo for two consecutive days, at which he analyzed and summed up the situation since the Red Army's eastward crossing and adjusted its operational arrangements.

The meeting decided: the first phase to operate Jin Province as the basic strategic policy; Our army must resolutely implement the principle of seeking consolidation through development. At present, it is the general destruction of the reactionary bases, the general mobilization of the masses, the violent expansion of the Red Army, and the destruction of the enemy individually.

Finally, the meeting also discussed in detail the deployment of the battle of Dujiuyu, and decided to concentrate the superior forces of our army, inflict heavy losses on the Jin army in the area of Duijiuyu, and clear the way to advance eastward to resist Japan.

After receiving the order from the central government, Zhang Cheng led his troops to cooperate closely with the Red 1st and 15th Army Corps, and arranged a pocket array of ambushes on three sides in the Jiuyu Valley, waiting for the Jin army to throw themselves into the net.

On March 9, the second column of Yang Xiaoou's division on the left wing of the Jin army first advanced to the suburbs of Damai and Yangquanqu west of Duijiuyu. The 3rd Column of Li Shengda, the right wing of the Jin Army, moved in concert and advanced to the area of Xiabao and Xingye through Sanquan Town, and its vanguard 201 Brigade occupied the hilltop positions in the area of Yuanzhuang and Luobagou overnight, preparing to launch a surprise attack at dawn in cooperation with Yang Xiaoou's department.

At 5 o'clock in the morning of March 10, when the Jin army was burying the pot and cooking, our army's three-way army suddenly came out and attacked the enemy on three sides at the same time, and at the same time, Zhang Cheng quickly sent a cavalry regiment to quickly outflank the two wings, trying to cut off the connection between the two divisions of the Jin army Li and Yang, and the Jin army was divided and outflanked, and each was annihilated.

The various departments of the Jin army hurriedly responded to the battle, and resisted stubbornly, but they were beaten by our army, and Yang Xiaoou saw that the general situation was not good, and repeatedly sent telegrams to Yan Laoxi, asking for reinforcements from the air force.

At 12 o'clock at noon, more than 10 bombers of the Jin army flew over Duijiuyu and bombed our army indiscriminately.

Furious, Zhang Cheng hurriedly dispatched an air defense company to attack, and shot down three enemy planes that were extremely arrogant, so that the rest of the enemy planes were terrified and no longer dared to wantonly bomb our troops.

Due to the fierce offensive of the Red Army, the Jin army gradually fell out, and it was about to be defeated in Jiuyu.

However, at this time, the commander received the news from the rear of Yan'an that the Central Army and the Ma Jiajun were about to attack our army's base area, and Yan Laoxi also desperately sent troops to reinforce Duijiuyu, and the commander immediately made a decision and ordered the troops to withdraw from the battle.

In order to preserve his strength, Yan Laoxi did not pursue the Red Army, and also ordered the troops to withdraw from the Dujiuyu area that night, gave up the plan of capturing the main force of the Red Army for a decisive battle, and assembled the main force of the Jin Army in the areas of Fenyang, Xiaoyi, and Lingshi, and fortified it closely along the Tongpu Road and the Fenhe fortress line to prevent the Red Army from advancing eastward to the north, waiting for the arrival of Chang Kaishen's reinforcements.