On October 26, 1934, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission issued the "Instructions on Our Side Negotiating with Guangdong Province to Surrender the Road to the West, and if the Guangdong Army Voluntarily Withdraws, Our Army Should Not Pursue", which was circulated to the commanders of all troops, and Zhang Cheng was also informed: Now our side is negotiating with Chen Jitang to give up the road of our army's westward advance, and Chen has made some kind of promise. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Therefore, when the Cantonese army voluntarily retreats, our army should refrain from pursuing and capturing its officers and soldiers; However, this is limited to when it retreats voluntarily and must not diminish its alertness and constant readiness for combat.

After the Central Red Army began to break through, the Red Army still maintained an extremely confidential state of negotiation with the Cantonese army. Although there had been fierce fighting between the two sides during the breakthrough to the south, when the Central Red Army began to march in the direction of Hunan Province, the Cantonese army found that the Red Army really had no intention of entering Guangdong Province, and gave way to a passage.

This passage extending along the northern border of Guangdong Province may be less than 20 kilometers wide, stretching from Wuji at the junction of Guangdong Province and Jiangxi Province in the east, to Chengkou at the junction of Guangdong Province and Hunan Province in the west, and to the north of Chengkou Town is the town of Sanjiangkou in Hunan. Although the route of the passage was not long, due to the slow pace of the march, the Central Red Army had to walk for at least three days.

On 6 November, the Red Army of all roads quickly passed through Yanshou, and entered Lingxiu and Yingdong by three routes, including Shantian'ao, Chengjiang, and Shanmei, and camped at Yongli, Daxing, Changdong, Dayuan, and Yingdong's Xinju, Aoxia, Yingdongwei, and Xinlian in Yingdong, while its advance troops crossed Baizhangling and arrived at the Civilization Division at about 5 p.m. on the same day.

On November 7, the Young Communist Division, which was the general rearguard of the Red Army, crossed the city pass, entered the border of Hunan Province and marched towards the Yanshou area. According to the agreement reached between our army and the Guangdong army, the Guangdong army has already achieved the goal of sending our army out of the country, and it should stop the "gift" and return to Guangdong Province immediately.

Unexpectedly, the Cantonese army following behind the Young Communist Division was getting faster and faster, and it was almost about to catch up with the Young Communist Division, Zhang Cheng felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly asked his superiors for instructions, and the Central Revolutionary Military Commission quickly called back: If the pursuit of the Guangdong army continues, the International Division of the Young Communist Party can stop the Guangdong army in Yanshou.

After Zhang Cheng received the order, he immediately thought that Chang Kaishen in history had broken up Chen Jitang's army by bribing the generals of the Guangdong army, and Yu Hanmou of the Guangdong army was bought by Chang Kaishen to oppose Chen Touchang, according to the intelligence obtained from reconnaissance, the main force pursuing the Young Communist Division was the second division of the Guangdong army, which was Yu Hanmou's descendant troops, obviously, Chang Kaishen's hand had reached out to the interior of the Guangdong army at this time.

Thinking of this, Zhang Cheng immediately made up his mind to teach the Cantonese army a hard lesson, so that it would not dare to pursue our army again. He immediately ordered the whole division to stop advancing, and the combat troops immediately assembled, and released a reconnaissance group to reconnoiter around, and Zhang Cheng's mobilization order was very simple: our army will not cause trouble, but it will never be afraid of it.

An hour later, Li Dapeng, commander of the reconnaissance regiment, came back to report on the enemy's situation, and Zhang Cheng and Li Yunlong and several other brigade commanders gathered in a circle under the big tree to discuss.

The 2nd Independent Division and the 2nd Independent Brigade of the Guangdong Army of the KMT, as well as the 3rd Independent Division and the 1st Independent Brigade of the Kuomintang Army, set out from Chengkou in Guangdong Province and Dayu in Jiangxi Province respectively to pursue our army at the end of Yanshou. The Tao Liu Department of the Hunan Army stationed in Rucheng and Hu Fengzhang's security regiment also sent one of them to rush to Shantianao through Waishaxi to chase after them.

Now it has been pursued to the areas of Yanshou Jianjiaqiao, Zhongdong, Jiuru, and Sangping, while a large number of mules, horses, and baggage of our army's logistics troops are congested on the mountain trail to the west of Yanshou, and their march is slow.

Zhang Cheng recounted the information he had just obtained from the reconnaissance group about the pursuing troops of the Kuomintang Army, and the generals couldn't help frowning.

"Qingshi Village is the commanding heights by the Yanshou River!" Ding Wei, the commander of the Second Brigade, pointed to the map and said: "Look at this terrain, the Qingshi Village by the Yanshou River is the high ground occupied by the Third Division of the Guangdong Army, although the elevation is only more than 40 meters, but it is condescending to form a down-to-earth fire, and there is only one road from the middle to the ferry, which is an easy place to defend and difficult to attack." ”

Ding Wei has obviously grown up, although the performance of his second brigade is not as good as Li Yunlong's first brigade, but every time the battle is over, when the results are counted, the second brigade led by Ding Wei is often the unit with the smallest battle losses, which shows that Ding Wei has always been fighting with his brain, and rarely fights with blood, so every time he has a combat meeting, he is often the first to discover the key problem.

"Then we have to pull out this bluestone village first!" Zhou Weiguo, commander of the Third Brigade, said: "However, it is not easy to pull out the Qingshi Village, the terrain is not conducive to the offensive of the troops, plus this Guangdong Army has two divisions and two independent brigades, and the strength is also comparable to ours." ”

"Li Yunlong, what do you think?" Zhang Cheng asked.

"What else can I see? Of course, it's to take down the bluestone village, and this task will be handed over to my brigade! Li Yunlong said with a big grin.

"Look at you like that, use your brains more!" Zhang Cheng looked at Li Yunlong a little angrily, and then he looked at the commander of the Fourth Brigade, Chen Shiqu: "Does Brigade Commander Chen have any suggestions?" ”

"There is no good way but to lead troops to attack." Chen Shiqu thought for a while, then shook his head and said.

"Commander, just tell me how to fight, my Lao Li can't think of a good way. Others can't think of it! Li Yunlong shouted.

"Yes, yes, you can give the order, commander!" Other brigade commanders chimed in.

Seeing that everyone really didn't have any good way, Zhang Cheng pointed to the map and said: "What Ding Wei and Zhou Weiguo said just now is right, although our Young Communist International Division has strong firepower, it is still not suitable to attack with the terrain of Qingshi Village, otherwise it will definitely not be able to take it without sacrificing a few thousand people." It is never advisable to sacrifice too much for a storm, and my opinion is to outwit it. I think everyone has overlooked a key issue, the Cantonese army has never fought with our Young Communist International Division, they do not understand our combat effectiveness at all, and think that we are no different from other Red Army units, so it is easy to develop the mentality of underestimating the enemy, and this is something that we can take advantage of. ”

"Commander, you mean that we pretend to be pigs and eat tigers!" Hearing this, all the generals showed joy on their faces, knowing that the division commander already had a clever plan in his heart.

"So!" Zhang Cheng concluded: "We can use the idea of the Cantonese army to underestimate the enemy and induce the Cantonese army to be deceived, I think we can send a brigade to attack the Cantonese army first, this attack must be defeated, the Cantonese army does not know the details of our Young Communist International Division, our brigade has more than 4,000 troops, and it is the strength of a division in other Red Army units, so it is very likely that they think that this is our division has been fully engaged in battle."

When our brigade begins to retreat, the Cantonese army will think that the battle has been won, and under the stimulus of the ocean bounty, it is very likely that they will jump out of the fortifications and carry out a counter-charge against our army. In this way, we can lead them into the encirclement and catch them all. ”

"Awesome, my division commander!" Ding Wei gave a thumbs up and said, he was not convinced by anyone, but he had nothing to say to Zhang Cheng, he could only say that he was so impressed that he threw himself to the ground.

Li Yunlong laughed and said: "Hahaha, I know, this trick is called luring the snake out of the hole!" ”

The plan soon moved on to the stage of detailed assignment of tasks, such as which troops to do the bait, which troops to set up ambushes, where to ambush, and so on.

Of course, Zhang Cheng didn't need to care about these things, as a commander who commanded nearly 30,000 troops, he also knew that sometimes he should let go appropriately and cultivate the ability of his subordinates. Otherwise, he would have to plan and command everything specifically, and Zhang Cheng would likely get the same fate as Zhuge Liang and die of exhaustion.