Liu Yimin and Director Cai Zhong immediately led the Elite Company and the Red Eighteenth Regiment to marshall.

In addition to the seriously wounded, the 18th Regiment had a total of 521 people, including the lightly wounded. Since encountering the 34th Red Division, it has been in a state of protection, the wounded have also received initial treatment, and the soldiers have eaten dry food while marching, and their spirit and morale have recovered to a certain extent. Liu Yimin knows that these are all incomparably loyal elite soldiers in a hundred battles, and they are the seeds of the development of the troops in the future, and as long as he successfully leads them out of the Long March, they will all be the backbone and heroes on the battlefields of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the War of Liberation, and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. Liu Yimin is determined to organize the group according to the model of training officers from now on.

After counting the number of people, plus the Pioneer Company and Director Cai Zhong, the whole regiment has a total of 634 people, and the battalion-level establishment has been temporarily abolished and organized into five combat companies, with the regiment headquarters directly under the jurisdiction of the fire support platoon, reconnaissance platoon, blocking platoon, guard squad, communications squad, and cooking squad.

There are 36 people in the fire support platoon, one platoon commander and two deputy platoon commanders. Since the captured mortars belonged to the 34th Red Division, the fire support platoon was temporarily equipped with 6 heavy machine guns, and set up three fire squads, each with 11 people, one squad leader, two deputy squad leaders, equipped with two heavy machine guns, and two heavy machine gun groups, with the deputy squad leader concurrently serving as the team leader. Due to the small number of people, the task of carrying ammunition for heavy machine guns was carried out with the help of combat companies.

The guard squad, communications squad, and combat squad are set up the same, and the reconnaissance squad and the blocking platoon are all required for marksmanship, physical fitness, and education because Liu Yimin is preparing to train them according to special forces, so it is difficult to select, and the reconnaissance platoon has only 13 people, and the sniper platoon has 22 people. The least is the cooking class, with only 3 people, because for the time being, there are not so many fighters willing to do it.

Each combat company has 108 personnel, including one company commander, two deputy company commanders, one instructor, two deputy instructors, one clerk, and one communicator, and consists of three combat platoons and one fire support squad. The fire support squad consists of 10 people, one squad leader and one deputy squad leader, equipped with four Czech light machine guns, each with a shooter and a deputy shooter; There are 30 people in each platoon, one platoon leader and two deputy platoon leaders, and the platoon has three combat squads, 9 people per squad, one squad leader and two deputy squad leaders. There are three combat groups in each squad, and the team leader is a squad leader and a deputy squad leader.

The appointment of company, platoon, and squad cadres adopts the method of selecting soldiers, with soldiers selecting squad leaders and deputy squad leaders, squad leaders and deputy squad leaders selecting platoon leaders and deputy platoon leaders, and platoon-level cadres selecting company-level cadres.

This is said for a long time, but in fact it is very fast, the soldiers are all straight, and the blood sea corpse mountain crawls out, and everyone knows who has combat experience, command ability, and rescue comrades, so it only took half an hour to complete the grouping.

The first company is mainly composed of the original top soldier company, the company commander Wang Dahu, the instructor Wang Xinyun, the deputy company commanders Shen Nantang and Li Yunlai, the deputy instructors Chen Dongsheng and Zhang Shan, and the original squad leaders Li Dashan, Liu Shizhu, and Luo Yan have all been promoted to platoon commander and deputy platoon leader; Second Company Commander Zhao Dahe, Instructor Sun Manxi, Deputy Company Commanders Tian Taiping and Yao Mingjun, Deputy Instructors Liu Run, Li Letian; Xu Hui, the commander of the third company, Luo Chenggang, the instructor, Peng Hu, the deputy company commander, the Southern Red Army, and the deputy instructors Cheng Guangrong and Shi Tugen; Fourth Company Commander Zhang Minsheng, Instructor He Ke, Deputy Company Commander, Yang Yan, Hou Sanxi, Deputy Instructors Ding Jiesheng and Yu Qingshan; Fifth Company Commander Shen Yong, Instructor Liu Kun, Deputy Company Commander Sang Yida, Cheng Baocheng, Deputy Instructor Chen Xi, Guo Decheng. fire support platoon leader Zhao Runqing, deputy platoon commanders Chen Yong and Zhang Guocheng; Luo Yan, the leader of the reconnaissance platoon, Wang Tongsheng, the leader of the sniper platoon, Li Chengyi, the leader of the guard squad, and Hu Haishan, the leader of the communications squad.

Director Cai Zhong quietly asked Liu Yimin: "Is this okay, our Red Army cadres are all appointed by superiors, is it against the party's policy to let the soldiers elect?" ”

Liu Yimin smiled and said to him: "No problem, I have read the mimeographed newspapers of the Red Army, this is not our initiative, when the Red Army began to go to Jinggangshan, Comrade * was in favor of doing so." To tell the truth, if this is done, the combat effectiveness and cohesion of the troops are high. ”

Director Cai Zhong asked again: "Do you also know [***]?" ”

Liu Yimin said: "Of course, many people in the country know that he is the founder of the Red Army and the great savior of the Chinese people. ”

Later, I don't know how this sentence spread, and the people of northern Shaanxi also wrote this sentence into "Dongfang Hong", which became popular throughout China.

Half an hour later, Liu Yimin rushed to the ferry with the reorganized Red Eighteenth Regiment and waited to cross the river.

At this time, it was completely dark, and it was impossible for enemy planes to appear, and the soldiers of the 101st Regiment of the 34th Red Division had already waded across the Xiangjiang River, and the soldiers of the 102nd Regiment also pulled up two ropes with leggings in accordance with Liu Yimin's idea, and the soldiers were wading across the river with torches and ropes.

Political Commissar Cheng Cuilin also made proper arrangements for the wounded to cross the river, and the troops directly under the division were setting up improvised stretchers and preparing to carry the wounded across the river. A cadre of the division's political department with more than a dozen fighters was gathering together the Red Army soldiers who had been scattered at the ferry, but it seemed that the results were not great, and a pile in the east and a pile in the west had not yet formed a queue.

In the distance, I could already faintly see a team with torches approaching the ferry, and there was no need to think that it must be the enemy army chasing after me. Time waited for no one, and Liu Yimin ordered Wang Dahu to immediately lead a company to gather the Red Army stragglers. The team was assembled, and when I asked about the situation, I learned that most of them were from the Red Eighth Army, with more than 2,400 people, and they were pursued by Zhou Hunyuan's Department of the Central Army, and when the International Division of the Young Communist Party crossed the river, the whole team ran across the river, who knew that after the Red Eighth Army retreated, they swarmed across the river and blocked more than 400 people of the International Division of the Young Communist Party, but the pontoon bridge was blown up, and the Hunan Army pursued the troops, and more than 400 people of the International Division of the Young Communist Party rose up to block it, sacrificing a part, and now there are only more than 300 people. If it weren't for these red imps, the more than 2,000 stragglers of the Eighth Army might have been captured by the Hunan army long ago. There were also some sporadic fighters of the Red Sixth Division and other units.

Liu Yimin knew that the Red Eighth Army Corps, like the Red Ninth Army Corps, was a new unit formed by the Central Revolutionary Military Commission before the Long March by adopting the policy of expanding the Red Army. The main force of the Red Eighth Army was the Central Guard Division, which was originally mainly responsible for the security work of the central organs, and was a baby bump in the eyes of Bogu, Li De and others. However, in fact, the Central Guard Division seldom experienced battle formations, and its combat effectiveness was not very strong, and after the expansion, the number of recruits was too large, and many of the new soldiers were peasants in the Soviet areas who had just laid down their hoes, and they basically had no training, so they could not talk about any combat effectiveness at all. In addition, at the beginning of the Long March, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission blindly blocked the news, and the Red Army soldiers did not know where the troops were going and where they would reach home. Many of the new fighters were reluctant to leave the Soviet zone, and some were pessimistic and disappointed about the future, leading to desertions when the first three blockades were breached. During the Battle of Xiangjiang, many new soldiers fled. Historically, the Gui Army claimed to have captured 7,000 Red Army soldiers, some of whom were wounded, some of whom were captured after running out of ammunition and food, but most of them were new soldiers who escaped from the battle.

When the four blockade lines were broken through in the early days of the Long March, perhaps the Central Revolutionary Military Commission knew that the combat effectiveness of the Red Eighth Army was not strong, so it arranged the Red Eighth Army in the middle of the marching sequence. On the right flank of the forward was the Red 1st Army, followed by the Red 9th Army; On the left flank was the Red Third Army, which followed the advance; In the middle is the central column; The defender was the Red Fifth Army. This formation was vividly compared to the formation of a sedan chair by Mr. Peng.

During the Xiangjiang Campaign in history, more than 10,000 people of the Red Eighth Army were assaulted by two regiments of the Central Army, and the troops were scattered. After Luo Ronghuan, director of the political department of the regiment, crossed the river, there was only one soldier carrying a mimeograph machine by his side; After the regiment commander Zhou Kun crossed the river, there were only 3 soldiers around him. Only about 1,000 people crossed the Xiangjiang River in the entire Eighth Army Corps, and more than 200 combatants, most of whom were logistics personnel. In the end, it was abolished and incorporated into the Red Fifth Army.

In fact, the main reason why the Red Army suffered such heavy losses in the Xiangjiang Campaign was that Li De and Bogu had erroneous strategic thinking and that the central column was slow to move. But at the same time, it is also related to the poor combat effectiveness of the newly formed troops. Among several legions, the Red Eighth Army suffered the greatest losses, almost completely annihilated. Unlike the Red 1st, 3rd, and 5th Army Corps, which suffered huge losses, the soldiers of the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Army Corps fell at the enemy's gunpoint, which was tragic, tragic, and extremely glorious; However, the losses of the newly formed troops mainly came from the fact that their combat effectiveness was not strong and they were scattered in the face of the enemy.

In the past, propaganda mainly publicized the invincible combat examples of our army, and basically gave little publicity to the defeated battles. In particular, our army also has the problem of desertion, which can be said to be a secret. For example, the Battle of Xiangjiang, the fiasco of the Western Route Army, and the Battle of Kinmen were gradually understood by ordinary people after the 80s. As for the problem of desertion of our army, it has been rarely mentioned in the history books. In fact, the reason why our army has become a lion in a hundred battles is that it has been tempered by countless wars, and there is no need to hide the problem of desertion.

Thinking about the heroic spirit of the Red Army's pioneers, the Red First Army Corps and the Red Third Army Corps, who fought indomitably over all enemies, thinking about the tragic feat of the 34th Division of the Red Army's Tieliu Rear Guard Red Fifth Army Corps in real history, and then looking at the remnants of the Red Eighth Army Corps' defeated generals, Liu Yimin's heart was gloomy for a while: Such a unit can no longer talk about combat effectiveness, morale is sluggish, and only by reorganizing the establishment and relying on the leadership of powerful cadres can the combat effectiveness be restored. I remember that I once read the novel "The Long March of the Legend of Iron and Blood" written by a brave sheep on the Internet, and there is a plot of the reorganization of troops on the bank of the Xiangjiang River, which can be borrowed.

Thinking of this, Liu Yimin stood in front of the team and shouted: "Now I, as the acting head of the 18th Regiment of the Red Sixth Division, am ordered by the head of the 34th Red Division to reorganize you, who is not convinced?" ”

The team was silent, Liu Yimin swept his eyes, saw the effect, and shouted: "I declare the battlefield discipline: those who do not listen to orders, kill!" Escapees, kill! Panic one, kill! Fire support platoon commander Wang Runqing! ”

Wang Runqing stepped out and shouted loudly, "Here!" ”

Liu Yimin ordered: "I order you to serve as the captain of the law enforcement team, and all those who violate the battlefield discipline will be shot!" ”

Wang Runqing snapped a salute and shouted, "Resolutely carry out the order!" Turning around, he shouted: "All the fire support platoon is there, machine guns ready!" ”

Looking at the muzzles of the six heavy machine guns in the black hole in front of them, the team suddenly fell silent.