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Chapter 921: The Awe-inspiring Expansion of Righteousness (3)

Lianhu Town, located in the Wuling Mountains, is an ancient township with multi-ethnic mixed habits, 40 kilometers away from Qianjiang County in the southeast, and about 50 kilometers away from Pengshui County in the southwest. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The ancient town is surrounded by mountains, streams and rivers, and wide deep pools and bays, dotted with dots, like strings of pearls connected together, so the ancient town gets its name.

As soon as the day dawned, a young man wearing the clothes of local mountain people and a machete at his waist appeared at the mountain crossing in the west of the town, hurriedly said hello to the company commander who led the headquarters to guard the crossing, and went straight to the Wanjia Temple in the northwest of the ancient town, ran for more than two miles, and entered the ancestral hall through two layers of sentry posts.

"Division Commander, Qingsong is back!"

The deputy division commander and political commissar reported loudly.

Huang Han, who was washing his face, turned around, threw the towel into the basin, strode forward, looked the young man named Qingsong up and down, and nodded again and again: "Sit down and drink saliva, after walking all night, are you tired?" ”

"Not tired!"

The young man replied, took the enamel cup handed by the orderly, drank it dry in one gulp, stuffed the cup into the hand of the happy orderly, walked to Huang Han and the two chiefs sitting on the stone bench in a few steps, and reported excitedly:

"I arrived in Yushan Town before dinner yesterday, Uncle Yu had just returned from Pengshui, and as soon as we met, he pulled me to the backyard, and said anxiously, the sharpshooter meeting is over, more than 800 people, not a single one left! The elite soldiers of the Kuomintang Xiangxi Army and the An Jia Army touched the Lion Rock from the north and south roads a day ago, and the light and dark sentinels arranged by the Sharpshooter Society along the road were all quietly killed, and all the pedestrians on the road were all seized by these two reactionary forces, so no one knew that the Sharpshooter Society was about to come in great trouble.

"Yesterday at noon, the reactionary army that touched the Lion Rock suddenly launched an attack, and Wulong City could hear the rumbling dense cannon sound from the Lion Rock in the north, and at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, several fast horses rushed into Wulong City to report the victory, and the villagers knew that the sharpshooter would be gone, and there was no one left, all of them were killed."

Deputy division commander Du Qiliang and political commissar Liu Ziyuan gasped, glanced at each other, and both felt the seriousness of the matter - since the enemy has the ability to silently extinguish the Sharpshooter, then their own troops are not as safe as they imagined. Huang Han's thick eyebrows furrowed, and he slowly stood up:

"If my estimate is good, it must be the special elite of the An Jiajun and the 44th Army of Zhang Cunzhuang in Xiangxi, otherwise they will not do it so cleanly and beautifully. It's a pity that a few of the leaders of the Sharpshooter Society do not listen to us, have no revolutionary consciousness, and continue to pursue their feudal armed mountainism, do not pay attention to politics or engage in training, and advocate the bandit style of drinking in a big bowl and sharing money with a big scale, and their demise is inevitable. I regret that there are so many heroes with high martial arts, just gone, in the face of the An Jiajun and the Xiangxi Army, those well-trained special forces, without steel discipline and strict command, you can imagine how unjustly they died. ”

Du Qiliang stood up worriedly: "Judging from the current situation, the Anjia Army and the Xiangxi Army in southern Sichuan have formed an arc-shaped encirclement of our department, and all roads leading to Xiangxi and northwest Guizhou have been cut off, and we are only twenty-five kilometers away from a brigade of the Xiangxi Army in Yushan Town in the south. ”

"Yes, division commander, the enemy army has telegraphed the whole country this time, dispatched three main divisions in one fell swoop, quickly advanced into the ranks, quickly formed a huge threat, and now at an astonishing speed, they have eliminated the Sharpshooter Society that has been entrenched in this land for more than ten years at an astonishing speed, it seems that this time they will not give up if they do not achieve their goal. On the line from Fengdu to Shizhu, Liu Xiang's fourth division also began to press slowly, and if it was not transferred decisively, I am afraid that there would be huge attrition. ”

Political commissar Liu Ziyuan is a careful and steady old ** member, and Huang Han experience, in the Hunan Hubei Sichuan Soviet District in the anti-rebellion movement escaped death, fled back to his hometown Qianjiang countryside, every day was tormented by the burning firm faith in the heart, at the beginning of the year shocked to hear that Huang Han suddenly in the nearby Pengshui Mountain area rapid development and growth, resolutely bid farewell to his wife and children, came to look for this in the Hunan Jiangxi Soviet District on the prestige of the like-minded people, several battles after the two doubts are all gone, become a pair of the same disease and suffering, He is still a close comrade-in-arms and a brother in life and death who still insists on using his life to realize the great ideals in his heart.

Huang Han pondered for a moment and nodded slightly: "I really have to make a decision...... Lao Du, immediately notify the commanders of all regiments to come to the meeting, and a unified opinion must be formed before noon, but it is really not possible, let's first withdraw to the front line of Tangjiajie at the junction of Hunan and Hubei, where we have a very good mass base, and more than 100 soldiers of the three regiments are all enlisted in the villages and towns near Tangjiajie. ”

"Yes!"

Du Qiliang stood up and saluted, and strode away.

Liu Ziyuan took a few steps and turned back again: "Division commander, the deputy director of the Political Department sent by Commander He is still at Uncle Man's house in Zhenbei, think about it again, do you want to sit down and talk about it again?" After all, we're ......."

"After all? What after all? Nothing to talk about! Huang Han was very annoyed and patted the table in front of him: "Lao Liu, we are all staunch members, not greedy for life and afraid of death, otherwise there would be no achievements in today's development to more than 8,700 officers and soldiers, every battle we have fought in the past six months has given the most powerful blow to the warlords of Sichuan and Hubei, and more than 50 village and town party branches have been established from scratch in this land.

"But—what did they do with us? Seeing our development and growth, he wants to pull us over, and don't talk about how to deal with our historical problems, where is there such a cheap thing in the world? Why don't you help us when we were frustrated and weak in the beginning? Until now, you and me, as well as the commander of the second regiment, the political commissar of the third regiment and more than a dozen wronged ** members have not been rehabilitated? The most hateful thing is that the deputy director of the Political Department surnamed Zhang was arrogant as soon as he met, full of revolutionary words, and he sang a fucking high note! They are so capable, how come more than 30,000 officers and soldiers have fought so far, and there are only 4,000 or 5,000 people left......"

"Huang Han! Shut up! ”

Liu Ziyuan sternly stopped Huang Han from talking, walked to the door, looked around, and then returned to Huang Han's side and warned softly:

"You must not say this again, you are the one who caused you trouble with this mouth...... In any case, we are still a revolutionary army, and we must obey ...... Okay, okay, I won't say it, don't blow your beard at me, I'm going to see off the guest, anyway, the one surnamed Zhang had rectified me at the beginning, and at the moment he was at least a little apologetic in his heart, and he didn't dare to yell at me, alas, this matter is ...... trouble"

Huang Han saw Liu Ziyuan's somewhat gloomy back, his heart softened, jumped up from the stool and came to Liu Ziyuan's side a few arrows, and patted him on the shoulder:

"Wait, Lao Liu, you might as well tell them, if you want, leave the code book, and in a few days we will see the opportunity to beat Liu Xiang's Fourth Division very hard...... If they want to get something out of it, keep in touch now. ”

Liu Ziyuan smiled, pointed at Huang Han and said: "You guy, you are actually hard-mouthed and soft-hearted, otherwise you wouldn't have let the political commissar of the Independent Regiment quietly give them so many special medicines, it is estimated that Commander He will sigh again when he sees the boxes of medicines you sent." Okay, I'm sending you off. ”

At noon, the four regiments and one teaching brigade of the Huanghan Independent Division, stationed in Lianhu and the surrounding four towns and villages, quietly retreated in an orderly manner, and the troops were divided into three routes and moved to the northeast.

At the same time, three reconnaissance detachments dispatched by the special brigade directly under the 24 th Army quietly left Wulong and marched in the direction of movement of the two brigades of Liu Xiang's Fourth Division.

……

At 1:10 p.m., Lushan Guling.

After lunch, Chiang Kai-shek, who had taken a little rest, heard the report of He Yaozu and Huang Shaohong's invitation, stood up happily, personally greeted him outside the door, greeted him cordially, and then led people into the study with the living room to sit down, and then ordered the attendants to serve tea.

He Yaozu briefly reported the successful results of his trip to southern Sichuan, then opened his briefcase, pulled out a thick cowhide dossier, and sent it to the coffee table in front of Chiang Kai-shek with both hands:

"Commission, this is the plan to suppress bandits and the summary report of the first battle that General An Yi entrusted the two of us to submit to the commission, please take a look at it."

"Oh? An Yi finally got the hang of it? ”

Chiang Kai-shek was very satisfied, and he also knew the rapid achievements of the An Jiajun and the 44th Xiangxi Army in Wulong, but he still had a rigid and serious look on his face and a little displeasure.

He Yaozu and Huang Shaohong glanced at each other, both smiled slightly, did not answer, and picked up the teacup and tasted the tea slowly.

Chiang Kai-shek tore open the seal of the dossier, untied the wrapped thin cotton rope, pulled out a pile of neat materials and put it on the table, gently picked up the top envelope, carefully studied An Yi's familiar font, and suddenly felt a slight excitement in his heart.

Chiang Kai-shek shook his head, feeling a little unbelievable about his emotions, unhurriedly opened the envelope, took out the letter inside and read it carefully, with a rare smile on his face, folded it and stuffed it into the envelope, and casually put it on the file bag: "I haven't seen you for a few months, An Yi's official document level has improved a lot." ”

Huang Shaohong smiled slightly: "Commission, I don't know if General An's official document level has improved, I only know that he still upholds the dignity of the Central Committee, and he is even more concerned about your ......"

Speaking of this, Huang Shaohong's expression became serious: "During the few days when his subordinates and General Guiyan were inspecting southern Sichuan, General An always tried to find time to accompany him, and his subordinates could see that General An felt very uncomfortable...... At the opening ceremony of the western section of the Xulu Railway, General An invited us to sit with him in the first-class carriage of the Mercedes-Benz train, looked out the window at the cheering crowd, and muttered to himself, saying that he originally wanted to ask a seat to cut the ribbon, but unfortunately the mistake angered you and could not do so...... At that time, the subordinates were filled with emotion when they heard it, and understood that General An had always been thinking about the commission in his heart, and this strong teacher-student friendship was far from being broken by outsiders. ”

Seeing Chiang Kai-shek's rather surprised and thoughtful look, He Yaozu nodded hurriedly and added: "That's true, my subordinates joked at the time that the Xuzhao Railway was longer, and the construction of dozens of large and small bridges and tunnels was not easy, and the contribution to the two provinces of Sichuan and Yunnan was also greater. General An Yi smiled and said, worried that the commission was still angry with him, and he wouldn't give face when the time came, haha! ”

Chiang Kai-shek shook his head again and again, picked up a stack of enlarged photos noncommittally, looked at two, immediately sat up straight, very excited, and said while flipping through them:

"Good, good! Well played! However, most of these photos cannot be taken to the newspaper, it is too bloody...... Look at this, there are four rows of stubborn bandit corpses in the valley, and next to them are two rows of captured weapons and ammunition, and you can see at a glance that the results of the battle are huge, and you have done a good job! Who commanded on the front lines? ”

Lieutenant General Zhang Cunzhuang, commander of the 44th Army, and Liu Qing, chief of General An's intelligence department, said that the mountain brigade of the 3rd Division of the 44th Army and the mountain brigade of the 44th Division of the 24th Army were dispatched in this campaign. This battle was fought as fast as thunder and very beautifully, and it seems that the combat effectiveness of the 44th Army in Xiangxi is much stronger than our original impression. Huang Shaohong replied carefully.

At this time, the attendant adjutant came in to inform General Yang Jie that he had arrived, and Chiang Kai-shek instructed that he should put down the photo, pick up the report and read it carefully.

When Yang Jie came in, he saw that Chiang Kai-shek was concentrating on reading the report, did not speak, sat down under the warm greeting of Huang Shaohong, saw the photos on the desktop, and was immediately attracted to it.

"The combat power is amazing! Brother Ji Kuan, please see, the four defeated bandit leaders in the photo are all shot in the eyebrows, they must have been done by the special forces of the An Jiajun, clean and neat! ”

Huang Shaohong shook his head and smiled: "It's the masterpiece of the Xiangxi Mountain Brigade Special Service Battalion, Brother Geng Guang, you didn't expect this, right?" ”

At this time, Chiang Kai-shek had finished reading the report, picked up the very neatly folded map again, and opened it, and everyone stopped making a sound when they saw this, quietly waiting for Chiang Kai-shek's opinion.

A few minutes later, Chiang Kai-shek turned the map in a different direction and sent it to Yang Jie and He Yaozu: "Zhang Cunzhuang's command is very good, and you can see from his arrangement that he is an excellent person with extremely rich combat experience."

"Higher, you come and read the report, and after reading it, you will talk about it at the tactical seminar of the Officers' Training Corps in the afternoon...... An Yi and Zhang Cunzhuang fought this battle very beautifully, and it has a strong exemplary significance for all divisions of our army. ”

Yang Jie looked at the report carefully while comparing it with the map, and after thinking about it for a few minutes, he applauded. Seeing Chiang Kai-shek's eager gaze, Yang Jie hesitated slightly, but still suggested:

"Commission, my subordinates would like to invite General Ji Nan to talk about it, he is more familiar with the An Jiajun and the friendly army in Xiangxi than anyone else, and his explanations are much more subtle and detailed than those of his subordinates."

Chiang Kai-shek's eyes lit up, and he nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, this is a good idea, let Yin Jinan give a lecture, and I will go to audit later......"