Unlike ordinary people's thoughts, Wang Fugui, who was once very eager to be a soldier, was eager for war. Do you think, where are there so many division commanders and brigade commanders without war? Isn't Chairman Wang also a salt-carrying background? If it weren't for the melee in the early years of the Republic of China, would he be the king of Guizhou? As the old saying goes, the times create heroes, and the current situation is the best time to produce heroes! If the timing is right, if the red bandits take his vote, maybe he can capture a red bandit commander and division commander, in that case, Chairman Wang will not let himself take care of Shibing County for him? If you get it right, it's possible to even manage all the southeast of Qiandong! When the time comes, it won't just rob ordinary Miao girls, Han women, and Yao women, then you have to go directly to Nanjing to rob foreign women.

Thinking about the Qianjun who escaped from Jianhe and Shi Bing yesterday, Wang Fugui felt that they were a group of stupid people, born to be shot. A group of red bandits can scare them like that, wasting Chairman Wang's guns, ammunition and food. If you were a regiment commander or brigade commander, you would definitely beat the red bandits to the ground, where would you need to run!

The more he thought about it, the more excited Wang Fugui became, so he took the team to a mountain pass, ambushed them, and waited for the red bandits to take the bait.

I really want to come and go. As soon as Wang Fugui's team was hidden, he saw 12 soldiers walking on the road. He was wearing a gray military uniform with a red dot on his hat. This is the legendary red bandit, doesn't it look very ordinary, why do those regular soldiers of the Qianjun run so fast? Fool! Look at Lao Tzu!

Wang Fugui explained to the brothers: "The opportunity to make a fortune has come, and these 12 red bandits will pass through here in a while. ”

Seeing that the red bandits were about to approach, Wang Fugui raised his pistol, fired two shots into the sky with a "bang", and shouted loudly: "Brothers, catch the red bandits!" A group of people rushed down the hillside.

In Wang Fugui's mind, he shouted in his voice, he should have frightened the red bandits and fled, they chased after them, several people held down one, tied up and it was done. No, things weren't what he thought.

Hearing the shouts and gunshots, the 12 red bandits did not run, but quickly lay down, raised their guns and fired at the militia members who rushed down the hillside, and the most hateful thing was that the two guns of the red bandits that could fire continuously, and as soon as a dozen bullets came out, they slipped away, and in the blink of an eye, Wang Fugui's militia members were killed more than 20 people. No one rushed down anymore, so they turned around and ran back.

Wang Fugui looked at it, didn't the team run away from yesterday's Qianjun army? This can be done, Lao Tzu doesn't believe that 60 people can't beat 12 people. Raising the pistol, there were two more "bangs", killing the two guys who took the lead in escaping. Then he shouted: "Don't run, whoever runs will kill whom!" Climb down and shoot at the Red Bandits. ”

The regimental members really didn't dare to run, and crawled on the ground and shot indiscriminately at the opposite side. The red bandits' guns, which could be fired repeatedly, stopped shooting, but only fired at the regiments with rifles. However, that shot was accurate, and three or two shots could kill you.

Wang Fugui saw that the group around him was getting less and less alive, and he began to be scared in his heart, mother, will it be my turn to be shot in a while. What regiment commander and brigade commander should let others do it, Shi Bing and Qiandongnan should let others greet Chairman Wang, and I will just greet the small place of Shuangjing. Run, no matter how late it is, let alone robbing foreign beauties, not to mention robbing Miao girls, Han girls, and Yao girls, I'm afraid that my wife will become someone else's. Thinking of this, Wang Fugui rubbed the ground, jumped up from the ground, and ran and shouted: "Brothers, run!" If you run fast, you will die, if you run slowly, you will die! ”

It didn't feel right after running a few steps, why didn't you hear the brothers answer? When I turned my head and looked, where were there still living people? Look up again, damn, when are there red bandits standing on both sides of the mountain pass on the side of the highway! Where are you going?

"Dead to the ball"! As soon as this thought popped up, Wang Fugui's pistol fired at the red bandit, and before he could fire a second shot, several bullets hit him at the same time, and the villain-like militia district captain fell straight to the ground.

It is not to blame Wang Fugui's militia for its poor combat effectiveness, the key is that the stubble he encountered is wrong. He was fighting against the reconnaissance squad of the vanguard company of the 1st Red Army, 1st Division, 1st Regiment, not to mention his 60-man militia group, what could a platoon or company of the Central Army do? Who have you been afraid of since the day the Red First Regiment was established?

The battle between Wang Fugui and the vanguard company of the Red First Regiment was just a small episode, and in the history of the Red First Regiment, not even a word was recorded. However, the local Miao people have been circulating the story of the Red Army removing the scourge of the king for them.

On December 18, the Red First Army Corps, the Red Third Army Corps, the Red Fifth Army Corps, the Red Ninth Army Corps, and the Military Commission columns entered the Shibing and Huangping areas through Jianhe and Taiqian. The Central Revolutionary Military Commission adjusted its deployment, and the First and Third Army Corps rushed to Huangping City, accompanied by the Military Commission column; The Fifth Army Corps attacked and occupied Shibing City, and the Ninth Army Corps attacked and occupied Zhenyuan.

At this time, Xue Yue, who was far away in Hunan, was thinking about how to march into Guizhou to pursue the suppression, and Xue Yue, who had just received a telegram from the chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, was thinking about how to march into Guizhou.

Xue Yue, the word Boling, the Hakka family in Shaoguan, Guangdong, his father was named Xue Yangyue because of his admiration for Yue Fei, and later changed his name to Xue Yue. When Chen Jiongming launched a rebellion, Xue Yue served as the battalion commander of the National Revolutionary Army and protected Song Qingling from danger. Later, he served as the division commander, followed Zhang Fakui against Chiang, and was recommended by Chen Cheng to join Chiang Kai-shek's camp. From the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression to the Long March, Xue Yue commanded the Central Army to chase and fight fiercely, all the way from Jiangxi to the border of Hunan and Guizhou. Xue Yue in history became a famous general because of his resistance, and he didn't think about it as a second person in the [***] sequence.

Now the situation is very clear: the main force of the Red Army has turned to Guizhou, and Wang Jialie's main force is in the Tongren area on the border with western Hunan, and the Guizhou army on the south bank of the Wujiang River and east of Guiyang alone cannot stop the Red Army's attack. In terms of his own pursuit and suppression army, He Jiangang suffered a big loss, and now he refuses to send troops on the grounds that the banditry situation in Xiangxi is serious; Bai Chongxi didn't know what he was afraid of, so he let the Gui army all retreat back to Guibei. He didn't move, and Chen Jitang didn't move. After all, the pursuit army only has its own 100,000 central army. In this way, it is also good to save the Gui army and the Hunan army from influencing their actions to seize power in Guizhou in the future.

Think about it, or stand tall and see far. The order is very clear, straight into Guiyang. As for the Red Army, let Wang Jialie and the Sichuan army that is about to be dispatched fight with them, it is best to die barely, so as not to affect the plan of the unified government and military orders of the commission.

Calculate the distance and time, if you set off tomorrow, when you arrive at Shi Bing and Huang Ping, it is estimated that the red bandits should have already crossed the Wujiang River. His own army of 100,000 can take Guiyang directly along the south bank of the Wujiang River. waited for Guiyang to be occupied, forced Wang Jialie to comply, and then calmly arranged the suppression of bandits. Anyway, the red bandits are now at the end of their rope, and they are not afraid of running to the sky. It is better for the red bandits to run in front and chase after them themselves. The red bandits opened the way, and the central army gained territory. When the red bandits went to Sichuan, they followed and occupied Sichuan. When the red bandits went to Yunnan, they followed and occupied Yunnan. If Guangxi, Guangdong, Qinghai, Ningxia, Gansu, and Xinjiang provinces can be occupied, what a great feat it would be!

Thinking of the smugness, Xue Yue couldn't help but be high-spirited, and ordered loudly: "Pass my order, immediately convene a combat meeting, and notify all division commanders to participate!" ”

Huangping is a famous historical and cultural city in the southeast of Guizhou, with beautiful mountains and rivers, deep forests and quiet valleys. The ancient city of Jiuzhou in the west of the county is the capital of the "Helan Kingdom" with the same name as the ancient "Yelang" in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the meaning of Jiuzhou in Miao language is the imperial city. Shi Kefa, the anti-gold hero of the Ming Dynasty, studied in Huangping when he was a teenager, and Mr. Guo Moruo's mother was born here. According to the chronicles, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, there were 29 Jinshi and 251 lifters here, which can be called the place of the above collection.

Huangping is also a transportation hub and a strategic location. The land route leads to Guiyang in the west and Zunyi in the north, and the waterway can go directly to Hunan and Jiangxi. During the Anti-Japanese War, General Chennault's Flying Tigers took off from Huangping Jiuzhou Airport to meet the Japanese fighters.

Historically, during the Red Army's Long March, on December 26, that is, the day when [***] was born at the age of 41, in a fierce battle between Huang Ping and Du Zhaohua of the Second Division of the Guizhou Army Bai Huizhang for a day of fierce fighting, the Red Army suffered several casualties, and the defending Guizhou Army suffered more than 200 casualties. Later, the enemy found that he was surrounded and fled in the direction of the Chong'an River.

Due to the arrival of Liu Yimin, the enemy's pursuit and suppression troops shrank their heads and guarded their nests, so that the main force of the Red Army had no worries about the future and could confidently and boldly sweep southeast Guizhou. As the main force of Wang Jialie's lineage, Bai Huizhang's second division was still on the way back from Tongren to the west, and the battle of Huangping, which was 7 days earlier than in history, was not as fierce as before.

In the early morning of December 19, the main forces of the Red First Army and the Red Third Army arrived at Huangpiao east of Huangping, and then the troops rushed to Huangping in four directions. The 3rd Red Army Corps seized the Jianshan slope 3 kilometers east of the county seat, the 15th Division and cadres of the 15th Red Army Corps took the east gate of the city along the Hunan and Guizhou Highway, the 2nd Division detoured to Zhoujiashan, Lijiayuan, and Gaobangtian, and directly took the back street of the county seat, and the 1st Division bypassed the Jianshan slope and occupied the hills in the Maoli Garden and Banhe area southeast of Huangping.

The thick fog of the early morning shrouded Huang Ping, and it was impossible to see the figure of a person 10 meters away. The Red Army units, under the cover of dense fog, rapidly advanced towards the intended target.

Garrisoned in Huangping was the 7th Regiment and 8th Regiment of Zhou Fangren's Division of the Fourth Brigade of the Guizhou Army, who fled all the way down from Liping and Jianhe, entered Huangping City, and received a strict order from Wang Jialie: Hold Huangping, if Huangping fails, military law will deal with it.

There was no way, Zhou Fangren had no choice but to set up defenses. Originally, he only had two regiments in one brigade, and his troops were insufficient, and more than 700 people were captured by the Red First Regiment at Wuli Bridge in the Jianhe River, so the strength was even weaker. In desperation, Zhou Fangren ordered the remnants of the 7th Regiment to guard the Jianshan slope and the 8th Regiment to guard Huangping City. Fortunately, for hundreds of years, Huang Ping has not been breached, and Zhou Fangren has a trace of luck in his heart, maybe the Red Army will also return.

When the Red Fifth Division touched the slopes of Jianshan, the soldiers of the 7th Regiment were still having breakfast in the trenches. A sharp-eyed soldier suddenly noticed that there seemed to be a figure in the morning mist, and after a closer look, it turned out to be a red bandit. The guy threw the bowl and shouted, "The Red Bandit is here!" He turned around and touched the gun.

Sometimes, a smart person always dies faster, and it doesn't matter if he doesn't shout or touch the gun, because when he shouts and touches the gun, the deadly bullet comes. At a distance of about 10 meters, even a rookie can hit it, let alone the elite soldiers of the Red Fifth Division?

The soldiers of the Red Fifth Division rushed into the trenches, and those who surrendered were caught, and those who tried to resist were killed. The guy who is a little farther away and a little smarter turns around and runs away will have a bullet chasing behind him. In this way, the remnants of the 7th Regiment of the Guizhou Army were cleaned up. Historically, the Red Third Army attacked the Jianshanpo position for a day and sacrificed several soldiers, so it fell into the hands of the Red Army very easily.

After occupying the Jianshan slope, the Red Third Army immediately occupied the long slope and the Liangpo slope on the east side of the Jianshan slope, and completely controlled the commanding heights southeast of Huangping. Then the troops divided into two routes, advanced to the county seat, and cooperated with a corps to besiege the county seat.

Hearing the sound of gunfire coming from the direction of Jianshanpo, Zhou Fangren immediately ordered the 8th Regiment to enter the position and draw out a battalion as a reserve, ready to reinforce Jianshanpo at any time. Of course, I am also prepared to be my own guard when I escape.

However, the gunfire in the direction of Jianshan soon stopped, and Zhou Fangren secretly rejoiced in his heart that it must be the small force of the red bandits that was repulsed. You must know that the highest point of Jianshan slope is 1102 meters above sea level, not to mention fighting, even if you climb it, you have to climb it for a while. But thinking about the 7th Regiment retreating all the way from Liping, I feel a little uneasy, and I am ready to wait a little longer, if it is indeed the 7th Regiment that holds the Jianshan slope, I will stick to Huangping; If the hill is lost, be prepared to run. You must know that without the Jianshan slope as a barrier, Huang Ping can't hold it.

Just as Zhou Fangren was thinking about it, the chief of staff reported that Jianshanpo's phone could not be reached. Zhou Fangren thought to himself, it's over, the Seventh Regiment is really capable, so he just fired a few shots and ran away. Zhou Fangren hurriedly ordered the chief of staff to go to the position to supervise the battle, while he took off his officer's uniform, changed into the guard's soldier's uniform, and directly led the reserve team to the west gate, preparing to escape by seizing the road.

The 1st Army had already moved in place, and the mortars began to shell the enemy's defending troops, and the 15th Division and the Teaching Regiment quickly captured the Jade Emperor Pavilion at the east gate of the city under the cover of artillery fire and began to advance into the city. The Red Second Division, which had made a roundabout, organized its soldiers to climb over the city wall more than ten meters high and entered the back streets of the county seat, forming a pincer offensive with the 15th Division and the teaching regiment.

When the mortar shells fell on the city wall, the officers and men of the 8th Regiment knew that it was the main force of the Red Army that came, and they did not know how to die. I heard that someone saw the brigade commander leading a battalion out of the West Gate, where is there anyone willing to resist? Withdraw, run away, now it's better to compare with the Red Army's foot strength. So, the troops withdrew from their positions, first the whole company and the whole battalion ran and still maintained their formation, and soon, under the gunfire of the 2nd and 15th divisions and the teaching regiment, the troops were grazing sheep and swarming towards the west gate.

The 1st Red Division, which occupied the hills around Maoliyuan and Banhe, had already moved to the vicinity of the west gate of Huangping, preparing to cooperate with other troops to besiege the county seat, except for leaving some troops to deploy defenses. As soon as the Qianjun came out of the west gate, they collided head-on with the Red First Division. There is nothing to say, machine guns, rifles, submachine guns, grenades are all beckoned to see who has the harder fist.

What surprised Li Jukui, the commander of the First Division, was that the fist of the Qianjun Army was not a question of whether it was hard or not, but it was too brittle, and the bones would break if it was touched slightly. Poor Zhou Fangren's Eighth Regiment ran from Jianhe to Huangping, but it still did not escape the palm of the Red First Division.

After hurriedly cleaning up the battlefield and handing over the captured guns to the Second Division, the Red First Division did not even enter Huangping City, and went directly to the old city of Jiuzhou.

The Central Revolutionary Military Commission and the Central Column entered Huangping.

The joy of victory hung on everyone's face. You must know that in addition to the victories of the 18th Red Regiment and the 34th Division at Gulingtou, Xiaoshui, and Xikou, this is the biggest victory achieved by the main force of the Central Red Army since the Long March. It was a very beautiful battle to run a long distance, annihilate a brigade of the enemy, and occupy Huangping, which has developed commerce and convenient transportation. Not to mention the ordinary Red Army soldiers, even in Bogu's view, the decision to transfer troops through the passage was also correct. Lao Mao is really a chess master.

After the central leaders such as Vice Chairman Zhou and Commander-in-Chief Zhu were stationed in Huangping County, they immediately ordered to contact the Fifth Army Corps and the Ninth Army Corps to inquire about the progress. When it was learned that the Fifth Army Corps occupied Shibing and the Ninth Army occupied Zhenyuan County, and that they had not encountered decent resistance, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission immediately ordered the Fifth Army Corps and the Ninth Army Corps to advance to the banks of the Wujiang River, preparing to find a ferry and force the crossing of the Wujiang River.

Due to the developed commerce and abundant material reserves in Huangping, the logistics department of the Red Army purchased a large number of materials urgently needed by the Red Army in Huangping. It is said that all the cloth in Huangping City was bought out.

Li Chengren is the owner of Huang Pingren's Yi cloth shop. Yesterday afternoon, he felt that something was wrong, and the Qianjun troops who had withdrawn from the direction of the Jianhe River poured into Huangping City, and then under the leadership of the Self-Defense Regiment Tuan Ding, a group of soldiers took the county magistrate's proclamation and began to arrest Ding everywhere, saying that they wanted to repair fortifications to prevent the red bandits from Jiangxi from attacking the city. Fucking eggs, it's clear that they are Red Army, so they have to say that they are red bandits. I don't think any bad red bandits can compare to these Qianjun. No, the second child of the Huang family next door didn't want to repair the fortifications, so after a few words, he was beaten by the soldiers and vomited blood, and finally had to give 30 silver dollars and two taels of tobacco to the soldiers.

It looks like it's really going to be a war, why not lock the door, put away the cloth, and then take your wife and children to take a boat downstream to hide? After discussing it with my wife, my wife agreed. The two got up early in the morning to clean up. Who knew that as soon as it was cleaned up, before the door could be locked, the Qianjun army began to flee, and the Red Army entered the city. I can't run, so let's hide!

When the family put the door on the top and was hiding in the house to pray for the blessings of the Jade Emperor, the Buddha of the Western Heavens, the Queen Mother, and Guanyin Bodhisattva, the Red Army came to knock on the door. Let's go, after all, it is rumored that the Red Army kills people without blinking; If you don't open it, if you annoy the Red Army, will they just slam the door in, and then grab things and kill people? Thinking about it, the horizontal and vertical is a death, or open the door.

This opening is really the right one. Later, many years later, Li Chengren had already become a white-haired old man, and when he saw people, he still liked to talk about his experience that day: "You don't know, the Red Army is really a benevolent and righteous army, speaking kindly, and buying and selling fairly." That day, the best day of business since I opened the cloth shop, all the stock was sold out. After paying so much money, the head of the Red Army still took my hand and said thank you, praising me as a patriotic businessman! ”

Unlike the wealth of Huangping City, after the Red Fifth Army captured Shibing County, the Red Army soldiers were generally disappointed. This Shibing county is simply not like the county seat, the houses are all thatched, tattered, and very poor. In the words of a memoir written by a cadre of the Fifth Army Corps after the founding of the People's Republic of China, it is "the poorest county town I have ever seen." ”

Therefore, after receiving the telegram order from the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, the Fifth Army Corps quickly turned to the Dawujiang River by the Wujiang River.

(To be continued)