Zunyi, a famous city in northern Qianbei, is located in the Baihuizhang Mansion on the east side of the Pipa Bridge, and several Politburo members such as [***], Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Bogu, Zhang Wentian, Wang Jiaxiang, and Chen Yun gathered together.

Due to the appearance of Liu Yimin, the passage meeting was relatively successful, and [***] had become the de facto commander of the Red Army, and after the transfer of troops to Guizhou, the Red Army won a series of victories, and the call within the party and the Red Army troops to sum up the lessons and lessons of the five anti-encirclement and suppression campaigns was very high, prompting Bogu and others to have a certain understanding of the harm caused by their mistakes, and the ideological understanding that led to the fierce struggle at the Zunyi Conference in history was unified, and the contradictions were relatively relaxed. Therefore, after the Red Army occupied Zunyi, the proposal of [***], Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Zhang Wentian, Wang Jiaxiang and others to convene a central meeting was quickly responded to by everyone.

Several people discussed it and decided that in addition to the participation of the members of the Central Committee who accompanied the army, the leaders of several main army corps should be recruited to participate, Bogu made the main report on behalf of the Central Committee, and Zhou Enlai made the deputy report.

It was proposed that Comrade Liu Yimin, commander of the Central Guard Division, could attend as an observer. Mr. Zhu immediately supported it.

Bogu thought for a while and said: "This Liu Yimin is really good, what he said in the channel made me think all the way, thought-provoking!" I agree. ”

[***] ordered to inform Liu Yimin that after the end of the battle, he quickly led his troops across the Wujiang River and participated in the meeting.

Liu Bocheng reported: "Liu Yimin and the others have already practiced radio silence and cannot be contacted for the time being, and it is estimated that they have already entered combat preparations. ”

Wang Jiaxiang said worriedly: "That's the elite of the Central Army, a full eight divisions, I don't know how many people the guard division can come back after this big battle." ”

Smoking a cigarette, his eyes have looked into the distance.

Zhang Wentian said: "Lao Mao, I don't understand military affairs, but isn't it too risky to touch eight divisions with one division?" ”

Zhou En said: "Comrade Luo Fu, I believe that Liu Yimin will not fight an uncertain battle, he will not fight hard with the enemy, he must seize the opportunity to eat a bite and leave." This Liu Yimin, since joining the Red Army, has never lost a single battle. I'm sure he'll surprise us again. ”

Mr. Zhu said: "It's useless to worry, it's impossible to let it be withdrawn, since the Central Revolutionary Military Commission agrees with his battle plan, let him let him go." Although there is a huge disparity in overall strength, it should be no problem to be prepared against unprepared, and to take the lead in him. I remember that Comrade Chen Yun came back and said that the equipment of the guard division was much better than that of the main force, and each battalion had two mortars. ”

[***] threw the cigarette butt: "It's man-made, Xue Yue is not a three-headed and six-armed, if he doesn't let him suffer a little, he won't know the heroism and invincibility of the Red Army." However, the troops controlling the ferry were still ordered to be ready to respond, and the Third Army Corps approached in the direction of Wujiang Jingkou, and the Ninth Army Corps approached from Suiyang and Meitan to the direction of Wujiang Ferry, ready to cross the river at any time to fight and meet the guard division. Enlai, Mr. Zhu, Comrade Bogu, what do you see? ”

Bogu hurriedly said: "I don't understand military affairs, you decide." ”

Seeing that Zhou Enlai had no opinion, he said: "Please give an order to Mr. Zhu!" ”

At this time, in Qingxi Town, Zhenyuan, the Central Guard Division was making intense pre-war preparations.

The first company of sappers pulled up four ropes on the Wuyang River, two on the top for hand support, and two fixed pontoon bridges below. Fortunately, there are docks and boats here, so just line up the boats horizontally, connect them with ropes, and lay wooden planks. So the pontoon bridge was built quickly, and the artillery battalion and the heavy machine-gun battalion, including mules and horses carrying heavy weapons, quickly crossed the river. Before leaving, Liu Jianli specially asked Luo Yan for a few scouts, and found two guides to explore the road from the other side of the river to the other side of the river in Yangping Town.

Wu Zheng led Yang Wei, Ling Kun, Chen Zixu, Li Zongrui, and Tang Xingying cadres from the logistics department to organize a stretcher team in the town. At the beginning, the common people hid in their houses and did not dare to come out, and several people went from door to door shouting and doing work. Later, when the requisitioned boats and planks were seen, the Red Army paid according to the price, and the masses opened the door. Fortunately, there are more workers here, and it doesn't take much effort to organize a stretcher team, everyone cuts bamboo, cut it from the middle, and two bamboos can make two stretchers. The corners of Tang Xingying's mouth were full of smiles, and Chen Zixu joked that if Xue Yue's division commander saw Tang Xingying, it was estimated that there would be no need to fight this battle, and he would directly disarm and surrender.

When the artillery battalion set up positions on the opposite bank, it left behind 40 soldiers, led by Ding Zhuodong, deputy instructor of the artillery battalion.

Ding Zhuodong is a native of Shandong, and at the age of 17, he was promoted to platoon commander by [***] and promoted to platoon commander. After the outbreak of the Nanchang Uprising, he interrupted his studies and went to the Soviet District to join the Red Army. At the beginning of the Long March, he served as the commander of the artillery battalion of the Military Commission. When the artillery battalion of the Military Commission participated in the Xinwei Blockade Battle of the Red Fifth Division, Ding Zhuodong was injured by a shell from the Gui Army, stayed in the Xinwei Field Ambulance Station, and was rescued by Liu Yimin. Due to minor injuries, when the Xiangjiang River was reorganized, he joined the 18th regiment. This person has a melon seed face, a full forehead, small eyes, a pair of 400-degree glasses, a straight nose, slightly thick lips, and slightly sunken cheeks, which makes him look a little thin. Changing into casual clothes, many people will think that he is a teacher.

Yesterday afternoon, when the artillery battalion commanders Li Chang and Zeng Zhao were tinkering with gasoline barrels, he was present, and when he asked Li Chang, he learned that it was the division commander who asked him to develop a new weapon. Ding Zhuodong studied artillery and was very interested in improving artillery. The three of them tinkered for an afternoon, and finally finished the drumming, and pulled it outside the city to give it a try, damn, anything, it's just too close. Li Chang said Liu Yimin's confession again, and Zeng Zhao and Ding Zhuodong understood after pondering that it was because the amount of gunpowder fired was too small. Now it's easy to do, just increase the amount of gunpowder fired. I tried it twice more and was satisfied. Forty warriors were selected for experimentation, and soon the warriors mastered it. No, it's going to be pulled up today.

Ding Zhuodong led the soldiers to dig a pit in the woods 100 meters away from the road, lined up more than a dozen gasoline barrels, and installed the supports. Then they cut down trees and bamboos that blocked the shooting area, and camouflaged them with branches.

The infantry behind didn't know what they could do with these oil drums, so they wanted them to move away. Ding Zhuodong said mysteriously: "When you open it, you will know how powerful these guys are, this is a new weapon developed by the division commander asked Engineer Zeng Zhao, and we only succeeded in testing it for an afternoon." ”

In this way, the thunder cannon of our army, which shocked the enemy, made a grand debut 13 years ahead of schedule.

He Mingliang led the third company of engineers to run along the path on the mountain for more than two hours before they reached the road east of Yangping Town. The soldiers shoveled off the snow, put it aside, dug a large pit every 30 meters, tied several explosives packs together, connected the leads, separated them with small wooden boards, put stones on them, and put soil on them, and steadfastly. He Mingliang and Hu Zijun inspected pit by pit, feeling that they couldn't find it when they walked on it, so they let the soldiers cover it with snow and sweep it with branches and bamboo tips. Seeing that it was ready, He Mingliang led the soldiers to bury the wires and retreated to the woods on the hillside to wait for the enemy to arrive.

Li Lingfeng took the second and third platoons of the sniper company to the hill behind Qingxi Town. He estimated that the enemy's vanguard was two divisions, and there would definitely be at least two or more search squads, so he divided the troops into three squads, and he led two squads to ambush in the easternmost direction, that is, in the direction near where the enemy came, with Zhao Zhiyu, the commander of the second platoon, leading two squads to ambush in the middle, and Wang Laohu, the leader of the third platoon, leading two squads to ambush in the west. If the enemy's first search team has a large number of people, Zhao Zhiyu must support Wang Laohu in time. Be sure to catch the mouth alive and find out how to contact the enemy. Thinking about it, he didn't feel at ease, so he arranged for He Shan, the fourth squad leader who was good at digging traps, to lead the soldiers to set traps on the mountain peak path.

At half past eleven o'clock in the afternoon, Luo Yan reported that the front disguised reconnaissance personnel had discovered that the enemy search team was searching and advancing along the mountain peak in the direction of Qingxi Town. At 12 o'clock, Luo Yan reported that two enemy search teams had passed through Yangping Town and searched along the mountain peak to Qingxi Town.

Liu Yimin immediately ordered the whole regiment to hide and ordered Li Lingfeng to prepare for battle.

At 12:10, Luo Yan reported that the enemy's vanguard company passed through Yangping Town, and at 12:30, Luo Yan reported that the main forces of the enemy's first two divisions had arrived in Yangping Town.

Zhao Yonggang is a new soldier who joined the army in the passage. At that time, he was locked up in a cell due to the failed assassination of the magistrate of the passage county. After the Red Army rescued him, out of gratitude, he signed up for the Red Army. Li Qingyi, who was in charge of expanding the popularity, asked, knowing that this Zhao Yonggang was a man with a complicated background and had a flying knife stunt, so he recommended him to the sniper company. When Liu Yimin went to the sniper company to inspect the training situation, he found that he was not only good at throwing knives, but also had a high level of shooting with short guns, and was particularly good at hand-to-hand combat. instructed him a few times in martial arts, which opened Zhao Yonggang's eyes. Now, he and platoon commander Wang Laohu are lying in ambush on the hill behind Qingxi Town, staring at the direction where the enemy search force at the east end of the mountain peak may come without blinking.

Zhao Yonggang and his comrades-in-arms were very skillful in ambushing, they took advantage of the very dense trees and bamboos to sweep away the snow in their lurking positions, and then covered them with branches and bamboo tips.

The enemy finally appeared, about 30 people, led by an officer. It seems that the enemy is very cunning, and he has to stop for a while, raise his binoculars and observe the movements around the hill and on the road below the mountain, and in the town. Seeing that the enemy finally walked 10 meters away in front of him, and further forward was the trap arranged by He Shan, Zhao Yonggang quietly took out the flying knife.

Zhang Hu, the captain of the search team of the 59th Division, was born as a scout, and the habit he had developed after a long period of combat made him very cautious every time he went on a mission. When he set out from Yuping County at 8 o'clock this morning, the division commander personally called him and repeatedly told him to be careful and careful, not to let go of any clues, and to send a signal again if he found that there was no problem, and he must not make the same mistake as the Hunan army. So along the way, he was very serious, preferring to walk slowly rather than let go of any suspicious points.

Seeing that he had arrived in Qingxi Town, he stood on the top of the hill and carefully observed for a while, the town was very normal, the telescope showed that the shops were open, and the chimney of the steel plant was still smoking, so Zhang Hu stopped and sent a signal to inform the search team of the 93rd Division behind and the vanguard company of his division to move forward.

As soon as he gave the signal and was about to continue with the brothers, one of the brothers next to him fell into a trap. Zhang Hu stepped forward to take a look, damn, it's really unlucky, it turned out to be a trap arranged by a hunter, probably to hunt big animals such as black blind people, and all the bamboo poles inserted in it were sharpened, which stabbed the unlucky guy to the heart.

Zhang Hu said: "Brothers, keep your eyes open, watch the road carefully, and don't let yourself fall off again." ”

The brothers gathered around to take a look, and they all took a breath of cold air, and one of the brothers boldly said, "Captain, there is no situation with any balls, let's go down the mountain and take the main road." Didn't you say that the red bandits were in Zunyi? We can't scare ourselves. If I continue like this, I am afraid that I will not see the shadow of the red bandits, and I will send the brothers into the ghost gate and close them. ”

Zhang Hu's eyes glared: "Let your mother's fart, and then talk nonsense to shake the army's heart, be careful that Lao Tzu kills you!" There is an order from the master, after the completion of this mission, you will be rewarded for meritorious deeds, you have a grudge against the ocean? ”

The brother who spoke was silent, and the other brothers said no more.

Zhang Hu thought for a while, and then said, "Brothers, when I arrive at Zhenyuan County, I have a treat. It's a famous flower world on the border of Hunan and Guizhou, the wine tube is enough to drink, the meat is easy to eat, women, hehe, the brothers have to pay for it themselves! ”

The brethren's emotions came up, and they began to talk about meat.

As soon as Zhang Hu saw that his words were working, he immediately turned his face blank: "Shut up, don't speak." Let's go! ”

As soon as he took two steps, he felt a white light in front of him and hurriedly lowered his head. It was still too late, and the throwing knife was stuck precisely in his throat. Zhang Hu didn't even have time to say "ah" before he slipped to the ground.

The soldiers who were about to set off saw the captain fall to the ground and thought that they had encountered a mechanism planted by the hunter again, so they hurriedly gathered around to check it. As soon as a few alert people saw the flying knife still stuck in the captain's neck, they immediately shouted: "Enemy attack, disperse quickly!" ”

It's a pity that it's still late, Wang Laohu led two squads of soldiers to pounce like a whirlwind, these are all masters, no one uses guns, basically daggers and bayonets, just listen to a pop and pop, and half of the thirty or so enemies will fall.

A soldier picked up his gun and pulled the bolt, he was fast, the knife was faster, and before he could pull the bolt, the knife was stuck in his chest. He glanced at the throwing knife, and as soon as he let go of his hand, the gun fell to the ground, and the man immediately lay down.

The other soldiers looked at the fierce look of the group and obediently raised their hands.

Twenty minutes later, the same scene was staged again at Li Lingfeng's place. The only difference is that there are a little more enemies who surrender.

After receiving the signal from the search team, the enemy vanguard company had no scruples and soon arrived at Qingxi Town along the main road.

Everything is normal in town. Seeing [***] enter, the residents scattered and fled. The commander of the enemy company thought to himself, what is the remote area, [***] is coming, and he doesn't know that the organization welcomes it. Never mind! Don't worry about the people like this. When he turned around, he ordered the service soldiers: "Send a report to the division headquarters that my vanguard company has entered and occupied Qingxi Town, and everything is normal." ”

After speaking, regardless of whether the newspaper operator finished sending it or not, he led a group of soldiers to a restaurant and sat down, and opened his mouth to shout: "Shopkeeper, come to a pot of hot tea, grandma's, walked all the way, but Lao Tzu was tired to death." ”

The shopkeeper agreed, and went to make tea. The enemy company commander looked up, ah, ho, this small shop is not bad, the boss's girl is very beautiful. He looked sixteen or seventeen years old, tall, with crooked eyebrows, and eyes as pure as spring water. It's a pity that Lao Tzu has a task, otherwise he would have to pick this flower. If you can't do it, it's always okay to have a verbal addiction and a hand addiction, right?

The enemy company commander walked in front of the little girl in three steps and two steps, and said, "Whose daughter is so handsome, is there a mother-in-law, let me see, and Ming'er will find you a big official to be your aunt's wife, eat fragrant and drink spicy", and stretched out his hand and went directly to touch the girl's face.

Before the hand could be put into practice, the enemy company commander glared at him, raised his hand, and stepped back step by step, because the little girl who was standing there with her eyebrows down just now suddenly had a small pistol in her hand, and the muzzle of the gun was aimed at the head of the enemy company commander.

The commander of the enemy company thought while retreating, it's over, I met the red bandits, I said why this small restaurant has such a beautiful little girl, it turns out that the red bandits set up a bureau to earn themselves. I didn't see the brothers behind him, and I guess they were the same as myself. Damn, I just sent a peace telegram to the division commander, and this is the case here. This work is still the first to be done, and it was so simple to be cleaned up by the red bandits, and I am not convinced! It is estimated that the guys in the search team will end up like themselves, who should let them send a signal that everything is normal, and let themselves and the brothers be fooled!

In fact, the enemy company commander did not lose at all, it was Wu Zheng, chief of staff Zhang Yicheng, and Zhang Hongtao, commander of the Second Guard Regiment, who designed this plan, and it was Tang Xingying who pretended to be a little girl. Who are these people? Therefore, a few years later, when this company commander bragged with people, he always said what are you, I think Lao Tzu was captured by Wu Zheng, Zhang Yicheng, Zhang Hongtao, and Tang Xingying, that guy, do ordinary people have that kind of blessing? It's still Lao Tzu Niu!

In fact, at this time, in every shop in Qingxi Town, the boss was a cadre and soldier of the Second Regiment, and the enemy company commander was not allowed to enter the small restaurant, but he would be captured when he went to other shops. It's just that he can't see Tang Xingying, the most beautiful female soldier of the Central Guard Division of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.

After the enemy's vanguard company was resolved, the 4th Battalion of the 2nd Regiment quickly set up a blocking position at the entrance of Qingxi Town, relying on the terrain, and the two mortars and heavy machine guns of the fire support company to which the 4th Battalion belonged were also deployed in place, and the 5th and 6th Battalions and their subordinate units were all deployed on the hillside of the road at the entrance of Zhenxi. Everything is ready, Zhang Hongtao, crawling behind a stone wall at the entrance of the town, while holding a telescope to observe the road, while muttering in his mouth Come on, come on, come on, the Central Army come and serve food!

Finally, the marching procession of the enemy's main force appeared in the telescope, and Zhang Hongtao immediately turned around and ordered the communicator: "Inform me, if Lao Tzu does not shoot, no one is allowed to shoot!" ”

(To be continued)