After the units of the Central Guard Division reported on the control targets, Liu Yimin led the troops directly under the division into the urban area.

The afternoon is a good time to do business, the shops along the street in Leshan are open, the shopkeepers are busy, those who have business are busy doing business, and those who have no business are looking forward to the business coming to the door. Most of the pedestrians on the street were wearing cotton robes, with their hands in their sleeves, and they were in a hurry.

For the most part, the Red Army fighters entered the big city for the first time. Although there were orders, although they still had to maintain formation, although they still had to camouflage the security regiment and the Sichuan army, many Red Army soldiers were not enough to use their eyes. In particular, the old Red Army soldiers who came from the Central Soviet District looked at it as they walked, and muttered in their hearts as they watched: O gods, so many shops, so many goods! If they can all be captured, then wouldn't they have what they wanted?

Tang Xingying is now an old Red Army, wearing the military uniform of the Sichuan Army, carrying a small pistol in her waist, walking on the streets of Leshan, with a sassy and heroic energy. However, she is different from other old Red Army, after all, she was born in the scholarly family of Guilin, a famous city in Guangxi, and she doesn't have the novelty of ordinary soldiers in the store, but the clothes of the pedestrians on Leshan Street surprised her a little, why are men wearing dark cotton robes, is it so cold?

Turning his head and looking at the tall and straight figure in front of him, Tang Xingying felt that everything was sweet, and the long journey, suffering and suffering were nothing, it was worth it! The point is that the man's attitude is unclear, calling him stupid, and he also knows to let himself follow him and let his guard company commander take charge of his own safety. It's okay to say he's not stupid, but he didn't say anything further. It is said that women's hearts are needles, I don't think this is right at all, it should be dropped one by one, it is a man's heart needle. Besides, such an excellent man can not only be seen by himself, but there are more girls he sees, and I am afraid there will be more in the future. I don't know what he thinks, I want to ask him, and I'm afraid to be ashamed. Besides, the combat mission is so tight, and he is so busy, and there are a lot of chiefs, staff officers, and guards around him, and he has no chance to ask. In the future, the guard division will become stronger and stronger, and there will be many excellent girls joining the army, maybe there will be people who like themselves, but you have to take a good look at him, don't let other girls confuse his eyes, in that case, there is no place to cry!

In this way, Tang Xingying, a female soldier of the Red Army, looked at the pedestrians on Leshan Street for a while, and secretly looked at the division commander in front of the team for a while, with a pair of beautiful eyes dripping and turning. She was the most tired in the ranks of the Red Army.

Liu Yimin walked in front of the team, and with Yibin's experience, it was not surprising to see Leshan's tattered appearance again.

The streets are dark, the houses are dark, and even the cotton robes worn by pedestrians are dark. This is too much in contrast with the beautiful riverside city that Liu Yimin saw when he came to see the Leshan Giant Buddha before the crossing.

But on the other hand, when spring comes, the mountains are full of purple and thousands of reds, the waterfowl are flying on the river, and the ancient city with blue bricks and blue tiles is really a wonderful literati painting of fishing boats singing at night and scholars chanting. It's just that I didn't come right when I came, it was a harsh winter, and the trees were depressed, and I couldn't see the beautiful scenery of spring.

If only the Red Army could use this as a base area, with abundant products and abundant manpower, there would be no need to go to the poor places in northern Shaanxi to starve. As long as we judge the situation and adopt a more reasonable policy, a city with such conditions will soon develop and become a national model city. But after all, this is unrealistic, everyone can fancy a good place, if the Red Army takes root here, whether it is Liu Xiang or Chiang Kai-shek, it will inevitably exhaust the strength of the whole province and the whole country to fight the Red Army, after all, everyone wants to occupy the plastered land. Besides, it was too far from the future anti-Japanese front to use the Red Army for strategic purposes. It seems that he and his own guard division can only be passers-by in the city. If you want to become his master, you will have to fight for a long time.

Liu Yimin thought as he walked, the more he thought about it, the more melancholy he felt in his heart, and the more melancholy he became, the more chaotic his mind became, and he only felt that his chest was full. couldn't help but say to Li Chengyi behind him: "Go get some cigarettes, I'm panicking." ”

Li Chengyi knew that from the passage to Zhenyuan to Yibin, many cigarettes were seized, and in addition to those handed over to the central government, there were many in the logistics office, and most of them were distributed to the soldiers to smoke. The division commander never smoked, so Li Chengyi didn't stay. Seeing that the division commander wanted it, Li Chengyi ran to the back, ready to find the logistics department's points.

Cai Zhong saw Liu Yimin asking Li Chengyi for cigarettes, so he looked at Liu Yimin's face, okay, nothing wrong! Why do you want to smoke while walking? It must be something annoying again, it is not easy to be such a big division commander at a young age, and it is indeed not easy to take on such a heavy task, so let him smoke some if you want to.

Cai Zhong took out a bag of Hademen seized in Zhenyuan from his pocket, and took out a box of foreign fire and handed it to Liu Yimin.

Liu Yimin trembled and lit a cigarette, took a puff, choked with tears in his eyes, threw away the cigarette with his hand, and muttered in his mouth: "Grandma, so choked!" ”

There was a chuckle behind him, Liu Yimin knew that it was Tang Xingying's girl who was watching her jokes, so he stuffed the cigarette into Cai Zhong's hand and said, "Let's go, stop smoking, smoke again when you get to the place." ”

Seeing a group of security regiments and Sichuan troops marching into the city, although the people on Leshan Street were surprised, they did not panic. Instead, some children chased after the troops, shouting "It's too big an army!" "Happy as the New Year. The tea guests in the teahouse also had one more topic to discuss, and they were all speculating about what these soldiers were here for.

In the conference room of the Leshan Commissioner's Office, the Central Guard Division held an operational meeting attended by cadres at and above the company level. After each regiment briefly reported the completion of the task, Liu Yimin stood up, walked to the map of Sichuan that Zhang Yicheng had just hung, looked at the map, turned around and said: "Comrades, we started from Zunyi, successively attacked and occupied Gulin, Xuyong, Yibin, and Leshan, and went deep into the hinterland of Sichuan. Many comrades may have doubts in their hearts, where are we going? What is our goal? ”

Liu Yimin paused and looked at the cadres: "Now I want to tell you that we are going to fight Chengdu and occupy the Chengdu Plain. ”

Except for a few division-level cadres, the other cadres did not know that the troops were going to fight Chengdu, and when they heard the division commander say this, the conference room was in chaos, and the cadres' faces were full of excited expressions, and some people even asked where Chengdu was and whether it was big.

Liu Yimin waved his hand to stop the cadres' discussions, saying: "Chengdu is the economic and cultural center of Sichuan, the largest city in the six southwestern provinces, with an urban population of about 500,000. The occupation of Chengdu is of great significance to our Red Army. Politically speaking, our army's occupation of Chengdu, the largest city in southwest China, proved to the people of the whole country that the Red Army was strong, greatly boosted the people's revolutionary enthusiasm, and also shocked the enemy, declared the bankruptcy of Chiang Kai-shek's policy of settling the country at home first, and prompted the nationally respected generals and officials within the Kuomintang to reflect on their policies, so as to form a united front of the whole nation to resist the Japanese as soon as possible. From a military point of view, the occupation of Chengdu by our army, and then by occupying the entire Chengdu Plain, will open the door to the granary of the Chengdu Plain, and we will also be able to obtain a strong supply of troops, and the losses suffered by our Red Army since its retreat from the Soviet area can be greatly compensated, and the overall strength can be raised to a new level. ”

Liu Yimin paused again, and when he saw that the cadres were listening attentively and recording attentively, he said: "From a general strategic level, at present, after occupying our three eastern provinces, the devils have occupied Rehe and Chahar, and all the territories outside the Great Wall have fallen to the enemy. However, Chiang Kai-shek's reactionary regime did not think about the War of Resistance and blindly fought a civil war and pursued the Red Army, but they did not know that whether the Red Army lost or [***] losses, it was the loss of China's national defense strength. As long as our army captures the Chengdu Plain, it will get a chance to breathe. Then the Red Army, which has grown stronger and stronger, can move its troops north to meet the invaders and awaken the determination and courage of the whole nation to resist Japan with our practical actions. And then unite to drive out the devils and build our new China. ”

Cai Zhong and the cadres of the old guard division listened to the division commander's speech a lot, and it was no longer strange what Liu Yimin said and what he said, because the division commander's ideological level was far higher than theirs, and no one thought about the theoretical level that a recruit who had joined the army for a month should have. They only have one idea, that is, they can learn a lot of new knowledge by following the division commander, and they can win the battle.

Huang Su, Feng Dafei, Yuan Guoping, Qian Zhuangfei, Hu Di, Fu Zhuting and the newly transferred cadres were different, they suddenly had a feeling of looking up to the mountains, it turned out that the division commander was not only able to fight, but his theoretical level was also so high, it seems that the rumors that the division commander was speechless when he was in the passage were true!

Tang Xingying brought Liu Yimin a glass of water, Liu Yimin took a sip, pointed to the map and said: "Judging from the current situation of the enemy and us, the Sichuan Army North Road Bandit Suppression Command has concentrated nearly 200,000 horses and horses to deploy defenses along the Jialing River in northern Sichuan to fight against our Red Fourth Front Army. The Sichuan Army's South Road Bandit Suppression Headquarters has concentrated about 60,000 to 70,000 troops to deploy defense in southern Sichuan, and its main force has now been lured by us into the Zunyi area in northern Guizhou. After the Xue Yue Division of the Central Army was attacked by our division in Qingxi Town and Yangping Town, its strength was lost by more than one-third, and it acted cautiously. The entire Chengdu Plain has been in southern Sichuan, and there is no enemy heavy army group, which is extremely empty, just like a ripe red persimmon, waiting for our army to pick it. ”

The cadres burst into laughter, especially Tang Xingying and Zhao Xiaoman, who were appointed by Wu Zheng and Li Qing to serve as the minutes of the meeting. Without waiting for Tang Xingying to go up and pour water, Zhao Xiaoman, who was wearing a blue floral jacket, ran up to pour water for Liu Yimin. The cadres were all listening and thinking intently, no one cared who poured water for the division commander, only Tang Xingying stared at Zhao Xiaoman.

Liu Yimin took another sip of water, his spirit was bright, and he pointed his finger on the map while drawing a line and said: "And our army, after a short rest in Zunyi, has recovered its strength, and the 80,000-strong army has entered southern Sichuan in concealment. Now, except for the 34th Division of the Fifth Army Corps to lure the enemy after the break, all the troops have arrived in Yibin, and they will soon deploy their main forces and advance to the Chengdu Plain by separate routes. It is conceivable that the fertile Chengdu Plain will soon be swept up in a red revolutionary wave, which will wipe out the muddy water left by the Sichuan warlords to the people of Chengdu. When Liu Xiang and Chiang Kai-shek came to their senses and caught up, they would be greeted by the main force of the Red Army, which had been fully repaired, had sufficient troops, and had sufficient ammunition. Think about it, how will the main forces of the Red Army, which are waiting for work, meet the exhausted Sichuan Army and the Central Army running back and forth? ”

Li Qing directly stood up and shouted: "Annihilate them!" ”

For a time, the cadres were excited.

Liu Yimin motioned for Li Qing to sit down and nodded: "I understand everyone's feelings, Chiang Kai-shek has beaten us for so long and killed so many of our comrades, so he should take revenge on them." However, we can't beat them too badly, we fight with [***], after all, the happiest person is himself. In the case of foreign aggression, we have to put aside our hatred first. Therefore, we have to try to sit down with them and negotiate with them, so that they can fight with us. When we get rid of the devils, we will settle accounts with them. When the time comes, there will be revenge and revenge. ”

The reason why Liu Yimin said this was because the guard division had grown stronger and stronger under his leadership and had become the main force in the Red Army. These cadres are the backbone of this unit, and they must first inculcate in them the idea of resistance and unify their thinking, so that they can shine on the battlefield in the future.

Seeing that the cadres are thinking deeply, Liu Yimin knows that if you want everyone to accept the new viewpoint, there must be a process, don't rush, take your time. As soon as the conversation changed, he returned to the theme of the meeting, the combat deployment: "Now, our Central Guard Division has penetrated deep into the hinterland of Sichuan, and the soldiers are pointing straight to Chengdu. Everyone has heard the story of "Journey to the West", there is a chapter in it, which says that Sun Wukong went to borrow a fan from Princess Iron Fan, and wanted to use the fan to fan the fire on the Flame Mountain and go to the west to learn scriptures. As a result, Princess Iron Fan didn't borrow it, so Sun Wukong transformed, got into Princess Iron Fan's stomach, and tossed hard in it, Princess Iron Fan was in pain, so she had to lend the fan to Sun Wukong. We are now the Monkey King who got into the belly of the Iron Fan Princess, as long as you kick and kick casually in the past two days, Chiang Kai-shek and Liu Xiang will cover their stomachs and roll on the ground, crying and calling their mothers. ”

The cadres burst into laughter.

Before the cadres stopped laughing, Liu Yimin turned his face to the end and said: "In order to complete the task entrusted by the central authorities to seize Chengdu, I order: 1. The captured 5,000 people of the 4th Brigade of the 2nd Division of the Sichuan Army and 1,200 people of the Security Regiment, eliminate the reactionary officers and diehards, and disperse them into the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th regiments, as well as the artillery regiment, heavy machine gun regiment, engineer regiment, and baggage regiment, with 550 people in each regiment. During the period of rest and recuperation in Leshan, the troops stepped up their mobilization and enlisted that these new soldiers could lead the way and take the lead. 2. The reconnaissance company mobilized soldiers who were familiar with the situation in Chengdu among the prisoners, advanced to Chengdu for reconnaissance, and tried to blend into the city, and according to the situation explained by the Fourth Brigade of the Sichuan Army, find out the exact location of the garrison, draw a sketch, and meet the main force of our army at the gate of the city. 3. The whole division rested in Leshan for three hours, and after three hours, all the troops who had not changed their uniforms changed into the uniforms of the Sichuan army and marched to Chengdu along the Jiajiang, Meishan, Pengshan, and Shuangliu. All the way non-stop, forced to march 300 miles, to Shuangliu after a little rest, to attack and advance to Chengdu. 3. The attack column was formed by the special operations detachment, the 1st Regiment, the 2nd Regiment, the 3rd Regiment, and the 75th Mortar Battalion, the 1st Heavy Machine Gun Battalion, the 1st Engineer Battalion, and the 1st Baggage Battalion of the Artillery Regiment. The 4th Regiment, 5th Regiment, 7th Regiment, 60 Mortar Battalion of the Artillery Regiment, 2nd and 3rd Heavy Machine Gun Battalions, and 2nd Engineer Battalion formed a support column, led by Political Commissar Cai Zhong, Deputy Division Commander Feng Dafei, and Director Li Qing, and followed the attack column closely. The 6th Regiment served as the rear guard of the whole division. Fourth, the Leshan Garrison Command was established, with Fu Zhuting as the commander, and the garrison was composed of the 21st Battalion of the Seventh Regiment, the Third Engineer Battalion, and the Third Company of the Guard Battalion. When the cavalry battalion and the second and third battalions of the baggage battalion arrived, they were ordered to pursue the main force. Fifth, after returning home, all units should convey to the cadres and fighters the great significance of the occupation of Chengdu, and fully mobilize it, so that our Red Army soldiers can carry forward the spirit of not fearing hardship and death, overcome fatigue, and win awards for meritorious service in Chengdu. Are the tasks of the various units clear? ”

The cadres replied in unison: "Clear! ”

Liu Yimin looked at Cai Zhong, who stood up and said, "Comrades, the division commander has arranged all the tasks and steps of this operation. I would only emphasize one point: This is the first time that our army has captured a large city in six southwestern provinces, and we must strictly enforce the three major disciplines and eight points of attention, and display our army's mighty and majestic image of strict discipline in front of the people of Chengdu. Which unit went wrong, the regiment commander and political commissar wrote the inspection, the battalion commander and instructor were confined, and the company commander and instructor were dismissed. Is it clear to everyone? ”

After the cadres answered clearly, Liu Yimin ordered the implementation to be carried out separately.

After the cadres left, Cai Zhong looked at Tang Xingying and Zhao Xiaoman, who were cleaning up the venue, and said to Liu Yimin: "I know what the trouble is that Political Commissar Huang said. ”

Liu Yimin said: "Don't listen to Huang Su's nonsense, he is too sensitive. ”

Cai Zhong smiled and whispered: "You didn't look at the posture of fighting to pour water for you just now, the two girls are competing." You have to be careful, don't affect the unity of the female warriors! ”

Liu Yimin looked at the backs of the two girls, took out the cigarette and fire from Cai Zhong's pocket, lit it and took a puff, and said slowly: "When you take the first puff of this cigarette, the second puff is fragrant." Political commissar, hurry up and send a report to the headquarters, I'm afraid that the leaders are in a hurry. In addition, they sent a report to ask Hu Laohu where they had arrived and urged them. If we can't catch up with the attack on Chengdu, Hu Laohu will scold us. ”

Cai Zhong complained: "Always ask me to draft telegrams, don't you know how many chiefs like the telegram drafts you write the most?" After that, I went to send the report.

At this time, the main force of the Central Red Army had already entered Yibin, and the headquarters of the Red Army was stationed in Yibin County.

After receiving the telegram from the guard division, Liu Bocheng couldn't suppress his ecstasy, and directly shouted [***], Zhou Enlai, and Zhu De, who had been traveling for a day and a night.

After reading the telegram, several people were silent. Liu Bocheng said anxiously: "The Chengdu Plain has opened its arms to our army, and we have to act quickly." ”

Mr. Zhu said: "Bo Cheng, don't be in a hurry, you see that we have just arrived, and the troops have to sleep all night, no matter what they say." ”

Zhou En said: "The 1st Division and the 9th Army can go, they have already rested for a day. ”

[***] took the telegram and read it again, climbed onto the map and examined it for a long time, and said: "The guard division is going by boat, and the speed is much faster than we expected, in this case, at most, three days, Chengdu will be ours." Enlai, boss, Bocheng, you see, the guard division is along Leshan, Jiajiang, Meishan, Pengshan, Shuangliu straight to Chengdu. In this case, Liu Wenhui, who was entrenched in several counties near Ya'an, might be ready to make a move and threaten the rear of the guard division as soon as he learned that our army was advancing into Chengdu. If the Guard Division's attack in Chengdu goes smoothly and gains a firm foothold, Liu Wenhui will not pose any threat, how can he be the opponent of our Guard Division? However, if the attack of the guard division does not go well, Liu Wenhui's department may copy the rear road of the guard division. I saw this, and ordered [***] not to rest, and asked him to lead the 1st Division and the 9th Army Corps to set off immediately, and to meet with Fuzhuting of the Guard Division in Leshan, and the troops were deployed in Leshan and Meishan to deter Liu Wenhui's troops and pass through the southwest of Chengdu. After the second and third divisions rested tonight, Ming said that they would be led by Nie Rongzhen and chase after the first division. After resting today, our Third Army Corps and Fifth Army Corps will march to Zigong and aim directly at Ziyang. It passes through the southeastern plain of Chengdu. The 1st and 9th Army Corps of the West Road were under the command of [***] and Nie Rongzhen, and the 3rd and 5th Army Corps of the East Road were under the command of Peng Dehuai and Yang Shangkun. In this way, our three-way army galloped across the Chengdu Plain, coordinated with each other, quickly wiped out the reactionary forces in the counties of the Chengdu Plain, expanded the troops, and collected grain and grass. When the main force of the Sichuan army rushes back, concentrate forces to meet the enemy. What do you think? ”

Zhou Enlai smiled and said: "Chairman, you want to make a three-way army fight in Chengdu!" ”

Mr. Zhu said: "The 1st and 9th Army Corps and the 3rd and 5th Divisions occupy the Chengdu Plain, which we have already discussed in Zunyi, and we don't need to study it anymore, so we will issue orders according to this plan." ”

[***] said happily: "The guard division has opened the passage for us, and the Chengdu Plain has beckoned to us." Thanks to Liu Yimin, this little guy, if he were replaced by someone else, I am afraid that he would not be able to occupy Yibin and Leshan so smoothly after a few vicious battles. Let's get some sleep, tomorrow morning, we will set off for Chengdu. ”

Mr. Zhu said: "Wait a minute, after we leave tomorrow, Yibin will have to stay in the army." Otherwise, if we walk on the front foot, someone will report to the Sichuan army in the back, and it is too convenient to take a boat to Yucheng here. ”

[***] said: "The enemy will know sooner or later, but if we know one day later, we will take the initiative to leave one battalion in the three army corps, and cooperate with the new regiment of the guard division and the comrades of the Yibin special branch to stay and hold on, and then retreat in the direction of Chengdu when the enemy attacks." ”

Liu Bocheng went to deliver the order, and peace quickly returned to the headquarters of the Red Army. After all, the rapid march of a day and a night made these leaders and soldiers of the Red Army extremely tired.

(To be continued)