On April 12, Chang Kaishen, who woke up like a dream, hurriedly summoned Chen Cheng, Chen Bui and other think tanks to reformulate the pursuit plan. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

At the same time, Chang Kaishen hurriedly telegraphed Liu Xiang, the commander-in-chief of the Sichuan army to suppress bandits, asking him to immediately strengthen the defense of the north bank of the Yangtze River in the Luzhou area.

For the sake of Liu Xiang's own interests, he never wanted the Red Army to cross the Yangtze River north and enter the territory of Sichuan Province.

Therefore, he immediately sent three additional brigades to strengthen the defense of the ferry on the north bank of the Yangtze River in the Luzhou area.

Chang Kaishen then strictly ordered the 300,000 chasing troops gathered around Guiyang to quickly move north, and immediately rushed to southern Sichuan to continue the pursuit of the Central Red Army.

These Kuomintang troops traveled day and night for a week, and finally arrived in Guiyang.

As a result, he didn't have time to catch his breath, and was transferred by Chang Kaishen to southern Sichuan hundreds of miles away.

They were already extremely tired, so they naturally complained, and they didn't work hard, so they slowly went north.

The two brigades of the Sichuan Army stationed in Xuyong and Gulin were the reserve troops that Pan Wenhua deliberately left in the two places to meet the main force.

After receiving Chang Kaishen's telegram at noon on 12 April, Pan Wenhua immediately sent them to Luzhou as the vanguard to bite the tail of the Red Army as much as possible.

Unexpectedly, as soon as they left Xuyong and Gulin, they were ambushed by the Red First and Third Army Corps respectively, and were almost completely annihilated, leaving only the remnants to flee back to the station.

At this time, all units of the Red Army, which had already received orders from the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, were advancing at full speed toward Luzhou at a speed of 120 li a day; due to the rainy spring, the Kuomintang did not dare to send planes to bomb it, and the troops marched much faster than in the past.

The farthest from the Luzhou ferry was Luo Binghui's Red Ninth Army, which was not able to get rid of the Dian army pursuing it until the 12th, because its troops had been on the task of luring the enemy.

In order to catch up with the large army, the Red Ninth Army threw away all unnecessary supplies and traveled 100 kilometers day and night, leaving the Dian army, which had always been good at marching, far behind.

At about 12 o'clock in the afternoon of the 13th, Zhangcheng's young column crossed the north bank of the Yangtze River, except for the first division and one brigade that had to meet the large forces of the Red Army.

At the same time, Chang Kaishen, who flew to Chongqing to command the encirclement and suppression of the Red Army, received news that the International Column of the Young Communist Party, which had inflicted a large number of casualties on the Central Army of the Kuomintang, had indeed occupied the Luzhou Ferry.

Chang Kaishen was suddenly furious and extremely angry.

He made a lot of calculations, but he missed an international column of the Young Communist Party, which led to the encirclement and interception of his 300,000-strong army, and spent countless money and food, and finally forced the red bandits who were greatly injured into the poor mountains and bad waters of Guizhou Province.

But it was such a small omission that led to all the efforts being wasted, so how willing I was.

hated that his subordinates were too uncompetitive, and the Huangpu students had not yet grown up, resulting in no one to use, which made the red bandits repeatedly escape from control, which was really hateful.

However, Chang Kaishen once again remembered Yang Yongtai's words in Nanjing, and then thought: "Let the red bandits cross the river may not be able to turn bad things into good things." After the Red Bandits enter Sichuan, the extremely xenophobic warlords of Sichuan Province will definitely join forces to fight to the death with the Red Bandits.

When they are both defeated, I will dispatch the Central Army into Sichuan and clean up the two major troubles, which will surely kill two birds with one stone. ”

Therefore, Chang Kaishen, who had figured it out, actively urged the Sichuan provincial warlords Liu Xiang, Deng Xihou, Sun Zhen, Yang Sen, Liu Wenhui and other troops to mobilize troops and join forces to encircle, suppress and intercept the red bandits who crossed the river into Sichuan.

On the evening of 13 April, the Central Column and the 1st Red Army were the first to arrive at the Luzhou Ferry, at which time the Young Column had already prepared its boats, and as soon as the Central Column arrived at the ferry, it could immediately board the boat and cross the river.

From 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. on April 14, the 3rd Army Corps and the Red 5th and 9th Army Corps, which arrived one after another, crossed the Yangtze River under the protection of the Shao Column.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the 1st Brigade of the Young Column, which had been on guard duty on the south bank, also crossed the Yangtze River.

At this point, the entire army of the Red Army successfully crossed the Yangtze River.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the hundreds of thousands of Kuomintang troops who hurried to the ferry could only watch the disappearing Red Army and sigh with rejoice!

All the Red officers and men who crossed the Yangtze River let out a long sigh as if they had unloaded a thousand pounds of heavy burden.

Since the beginning of the Fifth Anti-Encirclement and Suppression War, our army has fallen into Chang Kaishen's calculations step by step, Guangchang was defeated, the Soviet area was abandoned, and Xiangjiang was defeated...... There seems to be no end to this suffering.

To this day, the 300,000-strong Kuomintang army was thrown south of the Yangtze River, and the Red Army soldiers felt that they could take a break.

The Central Revolutionary Military Commission also complied with the will of the people, and immediately decided to rest the whole army in Beicheng in Luzhou for a day to recover from the fatigue brought about by the forced march in the past few days.

The Red officers and men who received the order to rest and recuperate were extremely happy, and their mood was really relaxed, and many of them fell asleep on their heads, not even caring about sleeping on the cold ground.

The Red Ninth Regiment, which set a record for the speed of our army's march, slept for a whole day and a night, which made the central leaders who came to visit them feel emotional, distressed and pitiful, and some sensual female soldiers unconsciously shed tears.

The Ninth Army Corps of the Red Army has always been separated from the main force of the Red Army to take on the task of luring the enemy, constantly circling around the 300,000-strong army of the Kuomintang.

Later, after receiving the task of rushing to Luzhou to cross the river, he marched day and night for nearly 400 miles, and then arrived at the Luzhou ferry in time.

In fact, their physical strength has already been overdrawn, and the reason why they were able to rush to Luzhou Ferry was completely because of their strong will.

After a long night's sleep, the exhausted Red Army soldiers recovered the next day.

At this time, the Political Department of the Red Army announced that all the officers and men of the Red Army would be given three pieces of ocean each, which immediately made the soldiers cheer, and after receiving the ocean from the Supply Department, the soldiers went shopping in groups of three or five, and the soldiers were full of laughter and laughter along the way.

All the officers and men felt very tired from the continuous marching and fighting of the Shaozhu, especially in the battle on the north bank of Luzhou, where there were heavy casualties of more than 2,000 people, and they also urgently needed to rest and replenish.

In this battle to seize Luzhou, Shaozong annihilated nearly 15,000 Sichuan troops, including 8,000 prisoners, and seized a large number of weapons, ammunition and strategic materials in stock.

In addition, because Huzhou is the economic center on the border of Sichuan and Guizhou provinces, and it is also the distribution port of Sichuan salt, most of the dignitaries and nobles here, local tyrants and inferior gentry are very "trenched".

Shaozong confiscated some of the bureaucrats, gentry and bullies who were very angry with the people, so the harvest of this occupation of Luzhou was very rich.

Zhang Cheng ordered the comrades of the logistics department to use some of the seized silver dollars to buy salt, medicine, cotton, grain, and other materials in Luzhou City on a large scale, so that the troops were replenished in large quantities.

At the same time, the political commissar also mobilized more than 2,000 people from the prisoners to join the Young Column through the heart-to-heart grievance campaign, replenishing the casualties in the battle and maintaining the full strength of the troops.

As for the replenishment of the grassroots cadres who had suffered a large number of casualties, Director Feng of the Political Department specially presided over a commendation meeting for this purpose, and after the meeting, a group of comrades who had received awards for meritorious service were promoted to supplement them.

In this way, the combat effectiveness of the troops will soon be restored as long as they are slightly run-in. (To be continued.) )