The strength of the Wujiang River was successful, and the Red Fourth Regiment occupied the defensive points in the north of the Jiangbei. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 However, tens of thousands of Red Army troops and a large number of heavy supplies had to cross the Wujiang River in two or three days, and it would certainly not work by relying on bamboo rafts alone.

For this reason, Liu Bocheng, chief of the General Staff of the Red Army, handed over the task of erecting a pontoon bridge to the cadre regiment led by Chen Geng, asking them to erect a pontoon bridge over the Wujiang moat.

In order to make the comrades understand the great significance of this bridge-building, he specially invited Deputy Commander Zhou, who was the best at mobilization, to carry out political mobilization. Deputy Commander-in-Chief Zhou first briefed the responsible comrades at all levels who participated in the bridge building on the enemy's situation and situation, and clearly pointed out: "Only by breaking through the Wujiang River can our army smash the enemy's siege and gain the initiative in the war."

In the end, Deputy Commander Zhou said with great perseverance: "Comrades! The enemy attempted to take advantage of the natural danger of the Wujiang River to intercept and encircle our Red Army. At the time of the life and death of the Red Army, the Wujiang River bridge can only succeed, not fail! You all have the experience of building bridges over the Xiangjiang River, and you also have the glorious tradition of daring to fight and fight, and I believe that you will be able to complete this glorious task! ”

The military order is like a mountain, the military situation is like fire, Chen quickly sent people to the riverside to measure the water situation of the Wujiang River, and finally decided to build a bamboo row and build a pontoon bridge. He also specially invited technical instructors and divided the more than 200 trainees of the engineer company into operational groups such as equipment supply, bamboo platoon, erection, rescue, and preparation.

They use three layers of stacked bamboo rows to make the bridge legs, and lay two sleepers in the middle of each pair of bridge legs, connect the four bridges on the sleepers, and then lay the door plate and nail the horizontal wood to form a section of the gate bridge. Braving the bitter cold and the enemy's artillery fire on the opposite bank, the fighters sent the gate bridge to the river.

As soon as the Kemen Bridge entered the deep water, it was like a wild horse rushing downstream, and no one could control it. What to do? The enemy's pursuit was approaching, and the safety of all the Red Army officers and men was all about this, and Chen was even more anxious.

As the saying goes, "three stinkers make up one Zhuge Liang", whenever this happens, Chen Geng will convene everyone to offer ideas, work together, and discuss research together.

In the end, according to the advice of the big guys, Chen put large and small stones in a bamboo basket, inserted thick bamboo poles around them as anchor claws, and tied a thick anchor to the top of the anchor, so that the door bridge was fixed.

The problem was solved, and Chen Geng's brows relaxed.

"Come on! Comrades! ”

Chen cheered the soldiers louder, and the pontoon bridge continued to move forward.

Suddenly, the penny in the hands of the leader of the anchor group was knocked down by a shell from the oncoming enemy, and he fell headlong on the door bridge, which immediately lost control.

At this critical moment, the leader of the anchor team staggered up, jumped into the water with a thud, grabbed the edge of the gate bridge with his hands, and resisted the door bridge with his chest. The speed of the gate bridge moving down slowed down, and the danger was lifted, but the leader of the anchor team sacrificed his young life.

After thirty-six hours of intense fighting, the pontoon bridge was finally erected. The four-way army marched mightily through the pontoon bridge to the opposite bank, heading straight for Zunyi.

When the commander walked across the pontoon bridge, he praised repeatedly: "It's really amazing, our sappers used local materials to build such a pontoon bridge with bamboo rows, and there is no such pontoon bridge in the world!" ”

Although after the Monkey Field meeting, the commander devoted all his energy to how to hold the Zunyi meeting, he still remembered how to cross the Wujiang River day and night. Therefore, when he even claimed that Liu Bocheng, Chen Geng and others "made great contributions".

After that, the commander-in-chief said from the perspective of a strategist: "Comrade Luo Fu, before this, the Wujiang River was a natural danger to block the Red Army, and this pontoon bridge was a tool to turn the natural danger into a thoroughfare. ”

"Yes, yes!" Zhang Luofu only understands politics, not military affairs. Therefore, he naturally did not think that once the Wujiang River held by the enemy was broken through by the Red Army, it would then become a natural danger for the enemy who was chasing the Red Army.

Of course, he would never have imagined that this would not only bring space for the Red Army to rest, but also provide a time guarantee for the convening of the Zunyi Conference. After listening to the commander's discussion, he suddenly brightened up, and couldn't help but say happily: "Lao Mao, this is called the two sides of the same thing!" ”

"Yes, yes!" The commander-in-chief said with interest, and quickly pointed out: "The dogmatists within our Workers' and Peasants' Party are all lazy people, who only see one side of things and never think about the other, how can there be any reason not to make mistakes!" ”

Zhang Luofu was actually this kind of person before, and the commander's words made him a little embarrassed, so he had to say: "Yes, yes! ”

At this time, the Young Communist Division was pinning down and blocking the pursuit of the Central Red Army by enemy forces from all directions. Since late December, after the Young Communist Division defeated the first four divisions of the Central Army's Zhou Hunyuan Division, it has defeated the arrogance of the Central Army, solved the worries of the Central Red Army, and has a certain deterrent effect on other enemy forces.

Even after the four divisions of Zhou Hunyuan's division were replenished, they did not dare to advance separately and independently, but were stationed in the area from Huangping to Shibing, waiting for the four divisions of Wu Qiwei's division, another column of the Central Army, to meet in the north.

The three divisions of Liu Jianxu's division of the Hunan army had long been frightened by the repair of the Young Communist Division, and they did not dare to be as arrogant and active as before, so they followed the flank and rear of Wu Qiwei's department and slowly advanced.

After the Yue army and the Gui army arrived in the Rongjiang area, they simply stopped and stayed on the sidelines. Wang Jialie's Guizhou army retreated to the Fuquan and Guiding areas west of Huangping.

However, Zhang Cheng's Young Communist Division had long been on Chang Kaishen's blacklist, and the importance attached to the Young Communist Division was only under the main force of the Central Red Army. By 2 January, there had been a sudden and significant change in the hostile situation.

The four divisions of Wu Qiwei's division of the Central Army suddenly marched north day and night to reach the Huangping area, and formed an east-west flank attack with the four divisions of Zhou Hunyuan's division against the Young Communist Division.

Subsequently, the three divisions of Liu Jianxu's department also suddenly accelerated their speed and reached the front line of Taijiang and Kaili. At this time, if the Zhou and Wu armies launched an attack on the Young Communist Division at the same time, and the Young Communist Division alone resisted the frontal attack of the eight divisions of the Central Army, and Liu Jianxu was eyeing it behind, the situation of the Young Communist Division would undoubtedly be extremely dangerous.

At this time, the main force of the Red Army was rushing to cross the Wujiang River, and the columns of the Military Commission had not yet all crossed the river.

In the face of an unprecedentedly powerful enemy, even Zhang Cheng, who had always been calm, panicked for a while, and he could not guarantee to complete the blocking task assigned to him by the central government.

For the first time, Zhang Cheng asked the central authorities for guidance and help, and on the one hand, he reported the serious enemy situation to the Central Military Commission of the Revolutionary Committee, and on the other hand, he adjusted his deployment and was ready to respond to the battle at any time.

However, on January 3, the eight divisions of the Zhou and Wu divisions of the Central Army suddenly and quietly left westward for some reason. Zhang Cheng couldn't believe that Chang Kaishen had given up a great opportunity to eliminate the Young Communist Division!

But he sank down and thought: "Chang Kaishen obviously has his reasons for doing this, first of all, he knows that the combat effectiveness of the Young Communist Division is very strong, killing one thousand enemies and losing eight hundred, even if the Young Communist Division can be eliminated in the end, the eight divisions of the Central Army will probably be greatly injured and suffer heavy casualties." Then, his plan to take over Guizhou Province and enter the southwest will be in vain.

The most important thing is that Chang Kaishen has already decided that the current Central Red Army has lost its base areas, and the territory of the whole country has been occupied by the Central Army and warlords in various places, and the Red Army at this time is just a duckweed without roots, just like the rogue in history, there is no big threat.

And the warlords who are currently entrenched in the provinces are his current big trouble. Therefore, Chang Kaishen wanted to take advantage of the new defeat of Wang Jialie's Guizhou army to take over Guizhou Province and realize the dream of the great cause of unifying the whole country.

After Zhang Cheng figured these out, he sighed for Chang Kaishen's "shrewdness"! Don't you know that the Young Communist International Master he released at will will become a nightmare for his life, and whenever he thinks of this past, he looks sad and regretful.