Several principal cadres of the 18th Regiment felt that this night was simply a dream, and that they had occupied a county town without firing a single shot or casualties, and it was a rich and oily county seat. No one expected that the results of the battle would be so glorious, and the gold bars and jewels placed on the table and the baskets of silver dollars placed in the house and courtyard were dazzling.

Liu Jianli said excitedly to Liu Yimin and Cai Zhong: "Regiment leader, political commissar, bumper harvest, absolute bumper harvest, I have never seen so much money in my life." We seized a total of 3,057,260 silver dollars and 215 gold bars, including 300,000 silver dollars from the warehouse of the tax department, 600,000 silver dollars and 50 gold bars from the house of the tax director. 3,260 silver dollars were recovered from the police station, 300,000 silver dollars and 40 gold bars were found at the police chief's house; 4,000 silver dollars were found at the quartermaster department of the security regiment, 350,000 silver dollars and 60 gold bars were found at the home of the head of the security regiment; 300,000 silver dollars were found in the homes of three big tobacco dealers, strong ding dealers, and arms dealers, 150,000 silver dollars were found in the vault of the Finance Bureau, and 50,000 silver dollars were found in the home of the Finance Bureau. 500,000 silver dollars and 45 gold bars were found in the home of the president of the Chamber of Commerce; The post office found 200,000 oceans of commercial exchange funds; A total of 300,000 silver dollars and 20 gold bars were found from the homes of the county magistrate and the secretary of the county party department. There are not a lot of copper circles, only 25,600 yuan, and these guys don't seem to spend much money on weekdays, so there are very few copper plates. Jewelry cannot be valued, and it is not known how much it is worth. In addition, 1 radio station, 6 telephones and a number of telephone lines were seized. ”

Without waiting for Liu Yimin and Cai Zhong to speak, Li Qing began to calculate how many guns and bullets he could buy with so much money. Several battalion commanders and deputy battalion commanders also looked at each other, inhaling cold air in their mouths, obediently, so much money, how to spend it, it is best to buy weapons and ammunition, change military uniforms for the soldiers, especially shoes, and be sure to buy durable leather shoes, these straw shoes and cloth shoes are too easy to break. Buy some pork and rice, let the soldiers open meat every day, raise the strong ones, and fight the bayonets one by one, and see if the white dogs dare to beat us.

Looking at the appearance of the cadres with a harasser in their mouths, Cai Zhong also said happily: "It is indeed a large seizure, and it should be the largest seizure since the establishment of the Red Army." We should report this good news to the Corps and the Central Revolutionary Military Commission as soon as possible, so that the leaders can decide what to do with the funds. Commander, what do you see? ”

Liu Yimin was actually very surprised, in his impression, in 1934, Chiang Kai-shek's monetary policy was still the silver standard, abolishing the two yuan and changing the yuan, and all localities implemented silver dollar settlement, and the annual financial revenue of the national political axe was only 300 million yuan, which was not enough to maintain the annual military expenditure of 350 million yuan for the central army of his descendant. It was not until November 1935 that the Nationalist Axe abolished the silver standard and began issuing fiat currency. Unexpectedly, so many silver dollars were seized in this small mountainous county town that was still very poor for several years in later generations, which shows that the corrupt officials of the channel were able to gather wealth because it was connected to the Hunan-Guizhou-Guizhou trade route. Thinking of the fact that the Red Army had suppressed four famous local tyrants in the passage area and seized more than 10,000 silver dollars in history, Liu Yimin wanted to have a chance, so he sent troops to the surrounding countryside to fight the local tyrants and divide the fields and expand the results of the war.

Thinking of this, Liu Yimin replied to Cai Zhongdao: "I agree with the political commissar's opinion." In order to reverse the declining trend of our army after the fierce battle on the Xiangjiang River and boost the morale of the Red Army soldiers, while sending a report to the division headquarters and the corps headquarters, it can be directly reported to the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, and to Comrade *, Vice Chairman Zhou, Commander-in-Chief Zhu, Comrade Zhang Wentian, Comrade Wang Jiaxiang, Commander Lin and Nie of the First Army Corps, Commander Dong of the Fifth Army Corps, Comrade [***], and Division Commander Chen and Political Commissar Cheng of the 34th Division. ”

Li Qing hesitated for a moment, but still said: "I don't know if [***] can see our telegram." ”

The room fell silent.

Sensing the change in the atmosphere in the room, Liu Yimin smiled: "You should be able to see it!" ”

When the house came up, it was like a wisp of March wind blowing in, lively.

The reply from the Third Army Corps and the Sixth Division soon arrived, and General Peng praised the Red 18th Regiment for its quick action and great results, and ordered the 18th Regiment to temporarily defend the county town of Tongdao and strengthen its vigilance at night.

A telegram issued in the name of Commander-in-Chief Zhu ordered the 18th Regiment to hold on to the county town of Tongdao and properly keep the seized funds, and to vigorously raise foreign oil, medicine, grain, and other materials in the morning, and that the 1st Army and the 2nd Division would rush to the county seat tomorrow afternoon and that the 18th Regiment should make logistical preparations, and that the column of the Central Military Commission and the 1st Army and the 1st Division of the 1st Army and the accompanying 1st Regiment would rush to the county town of Tongdao on the morning of 11 May to join the 18th Regiment. The return call of the 1st Regiment was to learn from the 18th Regiment and resolutely destroy all enemies. The reply of the 5th Army Corps and the 34th Division was to congratulate the heroic 18 Regiment on its new contribution to the Red Army.

After reading the telegram, Liu Yimin understood that the troops could rest for two days in the county seat. After soliciting the opinions of Cai Zhong, Liu Jianjian, and Li Qing, Liu Yimin ordered each battalion to send a guard and arrange for the troops to camp.

In order to ensure the safety of the troops when they are camping, Liu Yimin specially demanded that when the troops camp in the future, in addition to the bright posts, they must also arrange mobile posts and latent posts. In addition to the bright and dark sentry posts of the company-level units, a light machine gun group has been added to the camping posts of the company-level units, a mobile sentry has been added to the camps of battalion-level units, and a heavy machine gun group has been added to the camps of the whole regiment. When units above the platoon level are camping, the principal and deputy cadres are to check the posts according to their shifts. The location of the secret posts is set by the military and political commanders of each unit in person, and no one else is allowed to intervene.

In response to the question raised by some cadres whether there are too many secret posts and whether they will affect the physical recovery of the soldiers, Liu Yimin's reply is that the Red Army is good at guerrilla attacks and sneak attacks, and our enemies will understand with a little use of their brains that if they often sneak attack others, they must prevent others from sneaking up on themselves, and that setting up secret posts is a necessary measure to ensure the safety of the troops, and the purpose is to gain early warning time for the troops, because no matter how strong the combat effectiveness of the troops is, they are the weakest when they are camped.

Later, this regulation was called the channel instruction by military historians, and became a tradition of the Red 18th Regiment and all the troops derived from it.

Considering that the 18th Regiment of the Red Army is essentially a reorganized unit, with a large number of new recruits and complex composition, it has not yet undergone the baptism of hard and vicious battles since its formation, while the western extension of the army has only completed the reorganization of the troops, and it urgently needs to be strengthened in the allocation of cadres, the setting up of troops, and ideological and political work. In particular, the situation in which there are basically no party branches in each company and no party groups in the squads must be changed. Liu Yimin and Cai Zhong discussed, and after welcoming the Central Military Commission column, he demanded that the higher authorities send more political cadres and technical cadres such as staff officers, logistics, artillery, cavalry, engineers, and telecommunications, preferably graduates of the Red Army School, to set up a staff office and a logistics office at the regiment headquarters, and to set up an engineer company in the units directly under the regiment, and to allocate cadres to the military chiefs and political chiefs at and above the company level of the combat units in accordance with the ratio of one principal and two deputies, so as to restore the glorious tradition of building the branch on the company.

Cai Zhong held that it is easy to talk about staff officers, logistical personnel, political workers, engineers, and communications cadres, but it is difficult to talk about artillery and cavalry cadres; first, we have no artillery and horses, and second, there are no artillery and cavalry in all regiments of the Red Army.

Liu Yimin replied directly, where the cannon is in the enemy, it will soon be ours, and when the cannon is captured, someone has to make it, right? As for the cavalry, let's get some Sichuan horses first, and then have the opportunity to get Xinjiang horses, Mongolian horses, and even Oriental horses in the future, the key is to find instructors for training first, so as not to capture war horses in the future and no one will be able to ride, so we have to kill and eat meat.

Seeing Liu Yimin's words and full of confidence, Cai Zhong also came to his senses, saying that your idea is very good, let's work hard.

Liu Jianli asked for instructions on how to deal with the prisoners, and Liu Yimin thought of the evil and evil deeds done by the returning regiment recorded in the history of later generations, so he told Li Qing, director of the Political Department, to organize and convene a public trial meeting tomorrow, and in addition to releasing the president of the Chamber of Commerce, the rest of the county magistrates, party secretaries, police chiefs, security chiefs, and finance bureau directors were all shot to death, and the captured post office workers and finance bureau workers who were willing to join the Red Army should be mobilized to join the Red Army as much as possible, and the other workers would be released tomorrow. As for the soldiers and policemen of the Security Corps, select those who are young and strong, have good quality, and have a clean background to join the Red Army, plus the recruits who will expand the Red Army tomorrow, will all be handed over to the recruit battalion for training, and the others will be locked up first, and we will be released by education when we retreat. Some particularly reactionary ones must be resolutely suppressed.

Li Qing suggested that the public trial should be organized by the Soviet political axe, and that our public trial might violate policy.

Liu Yimin thought for a while and said that we now do not have the conditions to set up a political axe of the Tongdao County Soviet, and these people are extremely evil, and if they are not suppressed, after the Red Army leaves, they will inevitably counterattack the masses who have helped the Red Army, and it is better to be shot in a public trial. If they felt that they were in conflict with the policies of the Red Army, they would ask the Central Revolutionary Military Commission for instructions in the name of the 18th Red Regiment.

In the end, Li Qing still ran to send a report to the Central Revolutionary Military Commission for instructions.

On this night, the passage county was lively. The common people first saw a group of [***] enter the city, and then a team wearing gray military uniforms and wearing an octagonal hat with a red five-pointed star followed into the city, and then the team blocked the exit of the county seat and the yamen of the county government axe, the tax bureau, the police station, the post office, etc., and then the team wearing a red five-pointed star octagonal hat escorted the county magistrate, party secretary, police chief, security chief, and tax director to the yamen and their homes to float wealth. Then there was a group of soldiers with octagonal hats with red five-pointed stars and began to put up slogans on the streets, saying that they were the Red Army, the army of the poor led by [***], so that the villagers should not be afraid, what to do and what to do.

Seeing the kind attitude of the Red Army, the people were not afraid, and some people began to approach the Red Army.

Under the leadership of the masses, the Red Army cadres gathered all the tailors in the county, bought all the cloth and cotton in the county, and began to make military uniforms overnight.

The news spread quickly, and when the common people in the county town and nearby villages heard that they were given a silver dollar for making a set of military uniforms, a pair of military shoes, and a piece of military clothing, they asked the Red Army cadres to receive cloth and cotton to make clothes, and the Red Army cadres asked the dye workshop to be responsible for dyeing the cloth, the tailors to be responsible for cutting, and the masses to sew at home.

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