When Cai Zhong led the recruit battalion to Xikou with the prisoners and captured baggage supplies, it was already dark.

The fierce gunfire in the north just now made the villagers of Xikou fearful, although the common people of that era were used to fighting, and they all knew that this was [***] fighting with the red bandits, no matter who won or lost, it didn't matter to them, but most of them still closed their doors early, for fear of encountering military disasters.

Cai Zhonghe and the leaders of the recruit battalion directly incorporated the prisoners into the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th companies of the recruits, and each company led them to carry out education and transformation.

Then, Cai Zhong arranged for the cadres to go door-to-door, hoping that the villagers would come out to assist the troops in lighting a fire and cooking. Who knows, even if the cadres shouted in their throats, repeatedly saying that we were the Red Army, the army of the poor, and no one opened the door.

Cai Zhong had no choice but to let the soldiers climb over the wall and enter the largest courtyard on Xikou Street.

After entering, I learned that this was the house of the chief of Xikou. This security chief just rescued the grocery store proprietress from a company commander of Wang Yuying's brigade during the day, and she is a standard human spirit. Hearing the Red Army calling the door, he knew that the battle before dark was won by the Red Army, and remembering the Red Army policy propagated by [***], he was so frightened that he slipped under the bed and did not dare to come out, but he was still found by the soldiers.

Since he couldn't run, the chief naturally knew how to deal with it.

He found a few guards who were hiding at home and called people from house to house. However, his method of calling the door was different from that of the Red Army cadres, he asked the guards to take a gong, stand at the door of each house, and shout a few times: "The chief of the security department said that every family has come out to work in the army, and those who come out will be arrested by the township office once, and those who do not come out will be punished as gangsters." "Well, every house opened its door, and soon the fire began to be lit and cooked. It happened that a few pigs were killed during the day, and they were originally intended to comfort the commander of the 62nd Division, but now they can be used for the Red Army to enjoy.

When Liu Yimin passed through Xikou with the main force, Cai Zhong had already arranged everything. On both sides of the street, there were people carrying buckets and bowls containing tea or ginger soup, and the soldiers could drink as much as they wanted.

Soon, the team drove away, but the mouth of the stream could no longer be quiet, and the common people saw that the Red Army was indeed different from the [***] they had spent during the day, so they slowly approached the Red Army.

When Liu Yimin led the main force to the south of Xikou about 5 miles away, Luo Yan reported that from the top of the mountain, he could see a team rushing here with torches about 10 miles away.

Liu Yimin ordered the team to stop, and took Liu Jianli and several battalion commanders to the top of the mountain to observe. It's really fun to see, there are two teams marching here with torches in the distance. Due south from the direction of Jingwuzhou must be the enemy Wang Yuying's brigade, watching the torches move and march very fast; The torch team in the southeast Linkou direction is still far away, and it is estimated that it must be the regimental teaching team and guard platoon led by Li Yimo. Liu Yimin is really a little grateful for the dark night now, no need to study the map, no need to reconnoiter the aircraft and cavalry, the enemy situation is clear at a glance, no wonder our army has long liked night combat and close combat.

Now Liu Yimin is a bit subjective, our army likes night battles not because the enemy likes to play with torches or later installed searchlights, but this is Liu Yimin saw the enemy with torches and rushed to the way, and the mountain people in western Henan forgave him once.

Behind him, there was a sound on the hill north of Xikou, and Liu Yimin knew that it was the cavalry company setting off firecrackers, which was the same as the sound of gunfire, and it was impossible to tell whether it was gunfire or firecrackers. Looking at the terrain around him, his position is a lonely hill, bare, under the mountain, the road winds through, there are small hills not far from each other on both sides of the road, there is no big difference from the mountain where he is, between the mountains are flat farmland, this terrain is the most conducive to dividing the enemy.

After looking at the terrain, Liu Yimin directly made operational arrangements: the first and second battalions were ambushed on the east side of the road, and the fourth and fifth battalions were ambushed on the west side of the road, responsible for attacking the enemy's center; The 6th Battalion retreated 500 meters to conceal and was responsible for blocking the head; The third battalion went out 1,000 meters to conceal and was responsible for the truncation; The heavy machine gun battalion took the platoon as a unit, occupied the hills on both sides of the road, did a good job of concealment, and when the enemy arrived, concentrated firepower to strafe the enemy, and prepared more torches, all of which were lit after the battle began, and inserted on the hill to illuminate the battlefield as much as possible; Two mortar batteries immediately formed positions, divided the shelling area into squares, marked the serial number, and did a good job of fire support; At the same time, it was necessary to keep in touch with Liu Jianxu's headquarters, report the prepared battle situation, and urge the 63rd Division to speed up the march; The whole regiment launched an attack with the sound of gunfire from the three battalions, and the action should be swift and vigorous, and strive to resolve the battle in 10 minutes.

After the order was issued, the battalions moved quickly and were quickly deployed in place, waiting for Wang Yuying's brigade to come and serve the food.

Wang Dazui is a veteran, since the day he carried the gun and ate food, Wu Peifu has fought, the Red Army has fought, and the Guangxi soldiers have also fought, anyway, the commander will beat whoever he wants, and there are one or twenty people who died in his hands. I have been in the army for a long time, and I know that the commanders have a lot of things, and when I am free, I blow with the recruits He Jian, Liu Jianxu, Tao Guang, Li Jue, Zhang Liangji, Chen Guangzhong, these famous generals of the Hunan army, and often blow the recruits confused. After a long time, the recruits who listened to him blow were damned, and those who should be promoted were promoted, and he fell into the name of a big mouth.

Today, Wang Dazui was very depressed, and as soon as he got up in the morning, he began to march as a whole team, and he didn't even drink the hot soup. Finally, when they arrived near Jingwuzhou at 5 o'clock, the troops were targeted by a small group of red bandits, one shot in the east, one shot in the west, chase it, no one can be found, don't chase it, I can't tell when a bullet will fly from where, which brother is unlucky, so I go to see the king of Hades with the sound of gunfire. Finally entered Jingwuzhou Street, thinking that I could take a rest, drink hot tea, and eat hot food, who knew that the commander ordered to go back the same way, saying that he was going to rescue the division and the Zhong Brigade. What the fuck, when we passed there in the morning, we didn't even see the shadow of a red bandit, why did we encounter a red bandit when we passed by the master seat? Could it be that the red bandits knew that the division had a big official, a lot of money, and a lot of life, so they deliberately let us little soldiers go to the trouble of the division?

The more Wang Dazui thought about it, the more aggrieved he felt, what kind of fucking battle was this, he was purely measuring the way, and he was simply using Lao Tzu as a mule. Lao Tzu can't run anymore, sit down and rest, smoke a bag of cigarettes, and don't care if his mother's seat is dead or alive.

As soon as Wang Dazui sat down, he started to smoke, and now it was troublesome, and the veterans who were addicted to smoking also sat down and smoked. After coming and going, the marching formation of the vanguard company where Wang Dazui was located was chaotic, and the company commander looked at it as if it was not the law, so he asked the team to stop, and came over to urge Wang Dazui and their smokers to hurry up, and the division seat was still waiting for rescue. Who knew that Wang Dazui was an old soldier when he was old, so he didn't see the little company commanders in his eyes, and said unhurriedly: "If you are too slow, go first, and it is not too late for the old men to leave after smoking." The company commander saw that the veterans were all smoking, and knew that they could only take a break, so he ordered the whole company to rest in place for 5 minutes.

Five minutes passed quickly, Wang Dazui and those smoking veterans were also addicted to smoking, and the enemy company commander was about to assemble the team and set off, and the large troops behind followed. As soon as the brigade commander Wang Yuying saw that the vanguard company was resting, he became angry and rushed over with the guards.

As soon as he saw the brigade commander coming, the company commander hurriedly ran up to salute and report. Before he finished his report, Wang Yuying's horsewhip came up: "Wang Ba lid drop, are you a pig's braincase?" The division and the brothers are waiting for rescue, you dare to let the troops rest, you want to be shot, don't you? ”

The enemy company commander was so frightened that he didn't move, and he insisted that Wang Yuying's whip left two blood marks on his face.

Wang Yuying saw that the company commander had been taught a lesson, so he turned to the troops and shouted: "Brothers, I know that everyone is tired today, but the military situation is like fire, and the brothers of the division and the Zhong Brigade are fighting with the red bandits, and they are waiting for us to go for reinforcements. Just now the division sent a telegram, there are only a few thousand red bandits, either dolls or peasants who have just put down their hoes, and many of them don't even have guns, so they are very easy to fight! As soon as we arrived, we would attack the front and back of the division, and the red bandits would immediately flee. The division seat said, catch a prisoner and reward 5 oceans, and capture the red bandit division commander and corps commander 2,000 oceans. That's a lot of silver, you can buy a house and land to ask for guests. If we go late, we won't get anything. Look to the east! ”

The Hunan soldiers turned around and looked east, and far to the east, a torch stood out in the night sky. The soldiers of the Hunan army all knew that there was a team marching at night.

Wang Yuying shouted again: "Everyone see, it was the brothers of the 16th Division who came to reinforce us." If we don't hurry up, when the 16th Division comes up, they will have more guns and more guns, and the Red Bandit captives will be snatched up by them, then the brothers will be busy for nothing today. And they said, "Will you do it?" ”

The greedy psychology of the Hunan soldiers was completely instigated by Wang Yuying, and they roared in unison: "I don't want to!" ”

Wang Yuying shouted loudly: "All of them, target Xikou, run forward!" ”

On the night of early winter, everything was silent, and the neat and hurried footsteps of the Hunan soldiers spread far and wide.

Chen Dayong, commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 18th Red Regiment, was hiding under a small hill on the west side of the road, with his 7th Company behind him, and on the top of the hill was the battalion fire support company, with three heavy machine guns and two mortars pointed at the road. Diagonally opposite him, instructor Hu Xuerong took the 8th and 9th companies to hide under another small hill, on which were three heavy machine guns from a platoon of the heavy machine gun battalion, the muzzles of which were also pointed at the road. Chen Dayong, who used to be the main commander of the Red Fifth Army Corps, knew that as long as Wang Yuying's brigade entered the ambush circle, the firepower of the third battalion alone would make him unable to come and go, and he would have to shed his skin if he did not die, not to mention that the six well-equipped combat battalions, heavy machine gun battalions, and two mortar companies of the whole regiment would go into battle together. It is estimated that very few people in Wang Yuying's brigade can survive, and it may be another repetition of a small water battle.

Just as Chen Dayong was silently chanting in his heart, "Enemy enemy, come quickly", Wang Yuying's brigade ran into the ambush circle. Looking at the way the enemy soldiers ran out of breath, Chen Dayong also remembered the two words that the regiment commander said during the battle of Xiaoshui: "Stupid!" ”

The army is like this, and the style of a strong leader is the style of this army. The current Red Eighteenth Regiment, cadres and soldiers have long been stimulated by a series of huge victories to scream, and the regiment commander Liu Yimin, who commanded them to achieve victory, is even more respectful, Liu Yimin's words and deeds will be imitated and learned by the soldiers, including his standard military posture, elegant and inflammatory language, and even a sentence of "stupid" in the 21st century that he accidentally burst out during the battle in Xiaoshui, and now it has become a popular phrase for the cadres and soldiers of the Eighteenth Regiment to describe the white dog. In the words of several battalion commanders when they communicated in private, it means that the regiment commander has a high level and a lot of Taoism, and it is a new idea in the blink of an eye.

Seeing the soldiers of Wang Yuying's brigade running in front of him in a neat formation, Chen Dayong slowly raised the shell gun in his hand.

As soon as the last soldier ran in front of him, Chen Dayong's gun went off. Before the soldier could fall, gunfire erupted from the positions of the three battalions. Then, the roar of light and heavy machine guns was everywhere on the hills on both sides of the road, and soon the mortars also joined the chorus, and the shells exploded in the middle of Wang Yuying's traveling army, blowing up the marching ranks of Wang Yuying's brigade in a terrible and miserable manner.

Wang Yuying rolled off the saddle and climbed on the ground at the moment of the gunshot, and when he looked up, he saw that there were torches on more than a dozen small hills on both sides of the road, illuminating the night sky. His troops have become a living and bright target, countless light and heavy machine guns are spraying bullets on their brothers, as if there are more than 30 mortars shelling, the shells cross the curve of the night sky, just like the fireworks and firecrackers set off on the first night of Changsha City, decorating the night sky with incomparably brilliant decoration. God, what kind of troops did I encounter, the number of mortars and machine guns was much more than the entire division of his 62nd Division, it seems that the division and the Zhong Brigade have long been taken prisoner, and the telegrams urging reinforcements one after another and the torches of the 16th Division in the southeast behind him are probably the masterpieces of the opponent, and the purpose is to lure me into the urn. Good calculation, good means, lose to such an opponent without loss. Surrender, a little later, I don't know how many more brothers will die under the guns of the other side.

Thinking of this, Wang Yuying stood up, raised his hands, and was still yelling in his mouth: "Don't fucking fight, Lao Tzu surrenders!" ”

Seeing that the brigade commander had surrendered, the soldiers who had managed to escape the bullets slowly raised their hands, and the gunfire and artillery on the positions of the Red Army also stopped.

One of the Red Army stood up and ordered loudly: "Hands up, off the road, all 20 steps to my side!" ”

Wang Yuying took the lead and led the soldiers down the road and walked 20 steps forward.

Red Army soldiers surrounded him with guns. Wang Yuying said to a Red Army cadre: "I am Wang Yuying, and I want to meet your commander." ”

Liu Yimin himself did not expect that the battle would end so quickly, and it ended with the surrender of the Hunan army. You must know that since Chiang Kai-shek opened the officer training regiment, there have been almost no cases of surrender to the Red Army, especially the Hunan army after the Battle of Xiangjiang, this kind of thing is unthinkable. Therefore, when Liu Jianli reported that the enemy brigade commander Wang Yuying asked to see him, Liu Yimin readily agreed, and he also wanted to know what this guy thought.

Wang Yuying soon met Liu Yimin, the supreme commander of the Red Army unit that made him a prisoner. Tall, with a delicate face, he is only about 23 years old, and if he wears glasses, he is simply a foreign student. Only the occasional glimmer of light from the corner of his eye can make one realize that this is a heroic soldier full of spirit. That's it, that's it, I can't imagine that I have been fighting for half my life, and in the end I will be planted in the hands of such a white-faced scholar. [***] really dare to use people, I heard that the commander of the Red First Legion* was only 24 years old when he became the commander of the legion, I don't know if * is the same as this person, and he is also bookish.

Seeing Liu Yimin immobile like a mountain, Wang Yuying held back for a long time and burst out of a sentence: "May I ask your army commander, have our Tao Division Commander and the 16th Division Commander Zhang also become your prisoners?" ”

Liu Yimin smiled slightly: "You are the smartest Hunan army commander I have ever seen." ”

Wang Yuying sighed: "The chief said that he was joking, you must want to ask me why I took the initiative to surrender, right?" You have such a powerful firepower, and our department is exposed on the road, without any cover, what is the difference between it and the target? If you look at that moment, my brigade of 3,500 people will only have more than 1,000 people left in front of me. Defeat is defeat, what is the difference between surrendering early and surrendering late? Why do you want so many brothers to die? After speaking, without waiting for Liu Yimin to answer, he walked towards the captive team.

When Liu Yimin heard this, this is really a smart person, it would be a pity if he sank from now on, it seems that if he has time, he still has to have a good talk with these captured generals of the Hunan army.

Liu Jianli reported that a total of 1,900 enemies were killed, 1,600 under the enemy brigade commander Wang Yuying were captured, and a radio station, 12 mortars, 12 heavy machine guns, 54 light machine guns, and 3,200 rifles, submachine guns, and pistols were captured. Since Wang Yuying's brigade was an avant-garde brigade, no other materials were seized except for weapons and ammunition.

After Liu Yimin explained that Liu Jianli led the three battalions to be responsible for escorting the prisoners, he rushed to Xikou with other troops with torches.