Xiaoshui is just a small mountain village in Shanmuqiao Township, and the reason why it became famous in Liu Yimin's original era was because the Red Sixth Army fought fierce battles with the enemy Li Jue's Hunan 19th Division here in September 1934. The 18 Red Army warriors who covered the main force to break through collectively jumped off the cliff when the ammunition was exhausted and there was no hope of breaking through, composing a heroic song.

Liu Yimin, who is familiar with military history, knows that in history, on the morning of the 13th, the enemy's 16th Hunan Division intercepted the Red Army in the direction of Linkou through the line of horses and Xiaoshui. A little water is the enemy's inevitable path.

Since, due to his arrival, the passage meeting was advanced by one day, and the main force of the Red Army was also moved to Guizhou one day earlier, the Hunan army would definitely pursue it one day earlier. Historically, the 16th and 62nd Hunan Divisions only intercepted the Red Army in the direction of the passage on the morning of the 13th, and it was because they received a report that the main force of the Red Army had disengaged with the enemy. In addition, Liu Yimin studied the battle report of the 16th Hunan Division in later generations, and when the Red Army transferred to Guizhou, the 16th Hunan Division pursued it relentlessly, causing more than 2,000 casualties among the Red Army's lagging enemy troops and stragglers in the passage area alone. Therefore, he was determined to rush to Xiaoshui before the enemy and meet the aggressive Hunan 16th Division at Xiaoshui.

On the morning of December 12, 1934, the 18th Red Regiment arrived at Xiaoshui after a night of rapid marching. Luo Yan, the commander of the reconnaissance platoon who arrived in advance, took control of Xiaoshui Village with the scouts, and the terrain had been clearly investigated, and a 20-mile reconnaissance cordon was released in the two directions of Suining and Chengbu. Seeing the arrival of the main force, Luo Yan hurriedly briefed Liu Yimin on the simple situation and terrain of Xiaoshui Village, and after Liu Yimin heard this, he explained that the regiment headquarters was set up in a courtyard, a radio station was set up and a field ambulance station was arranged, and then he took several regiment leaders, staff offices, battalions, company commanders, instructors, and instructors to see the terrain, so that the soldiers could rest in Xiaoshui Village.

In early winter, the grass on the hillside has begun to wither and yellow, but the trees are still green. Liu Yimin and his group stood on a hillside in Xiaoshui Village and looked at the opposite side, a dirt road came from the mountains in the distance, and entered the canyon near Xiaoshui Village, the canyon was very narrow, the road was built close to the west mountain wall, and the trees on the hillside were verdant, which could conceal part of the troops; The flat land on the east side of the highway is not wide, there are no obstacles, and it is about 70 meters wide; At the end of the flat land is the hillside where Liu Yimin is located, with dense forests, which are convenient for hiding troops and exerting firepower. The hill on the side of the road to the canyon is not high, but the slope is gentle, the shooting boundary is wide, and it is easy to arrange the position.

After looking at the terrain, Liu Jianli said: "If the enemy really passes on this road, they will die." As long as we block both ends, the enemy has nowhere to run but to run across the road, and then our fire can be deployed. What a great terrain for ambushes! Commander, let's fight. ”

Several battalion commanders were also eager to try, and Zhang Yicheng, chief of staff who graduated from the Red Army University, led several staff officers to directly begin to draw a sketch of the position.

Liu Yimin didn't speak, and led the cadres down the hillside, walked about 3,000 meters along the highway, repeatedly observed the terrain, and then went up to the mountain beam on the side of the highway, threw a few grenades down, of course, without pulling the strings, and then walked back with confidence.

Back at the regiment headquarters, the staff office quickly took out the combat plan, position layout, and firepower configuration map, Liu Yimin looked at it, felt that it was basically okay, and put forward two points: First, light and heavy machine guns should be used in a centralized manner, but three light machine guns should be arranged in each of the head and tail troops; Second, in order to ensure the results of the battle, the sniper platoon's concealed position should not be more than 60 meters away from the road, so as to ensure that the enemy officers were killed at the first time. After the revision of the General Staff Office, Cai Zhong, Liu Jianli, and Li Qing all thought it was feasible, and Liu Yimin immediately ordered a pre-war meeting.

Looking at the battalion and company commanders sitting on the ground in the courtyard, Liu Yimin was in a trance. In the original time and space, he and his classmates repeatedly deduced the examples of our army's battles, thinking about when he could really command a battle. Unexpectedly, after crossing over, the wish at that time was completely realized. Although the results of the Xinwei breakthrough were good, but at that time he only brought a platoon and a company, and the sneak attack on the passage was not a real battle, and the only gain was that the capture was abundant, so that the first army and the central column had a rest time. This ambush of the 16th Hunan Division was a real big battle, and this was a real battle in the sense of his own command. Don't be in a hurry, don't panic, and then think about what else is revealed.

Seeing that the head of the regiment was in a trance and the cadres had been waiting for a while, Cai Zhong couldn't help but remind: "Commander, let's start." ”

Liu Yimin is a spirit, damn, why did he run away again. came back to his senses and said, "Everyone has seen the terrain, do you have any opinions on setting up an ambush here?" ”

The cadres shouted in unison, no opinion.

Liu Yimin swept around with his eyes again, and saw that the cadres were all eager to fight, and began to issue combat orders:

1. Briefing on the Enemy Situation: According to analysis, after the main forces of our Red Army broke off contact with the enemy last night, the enemy troops are about to pursue us this morning. The enemy's 62nd Hunan Division will intercept our army from Le'an Bu through Xikou, Taipingtou, Guniukou, and Zhaitoubao in the direction of Jingwuzhou; The three brigades and six regiments of the enemy's 16th Hunan Division will be driven by Xiaoshui to intercept our troops at Linkou. It is estimated that the enemy's 16th Hunan Division, with 2 regiments of the 48th Brigade as the vanguard, advanced to Xiaoshui and Horse Search, followed by the 47th Brigade and the 46th Brigade behind.

Second, the combat intentions of our army: half of the 3,000 people in our regiment have no guns, but there are sufficient grenades, and there are 6 heavy machine guns, 27 light machine guns and some submachine guns, and the automatic firepower advantage is obvious. Therefore, I am determined to completely annihilate the enemy's 16th Hunan Division here. The first wave ambushed the target enemy's 48th Advance Brigade, demanding that the battle be resolved in half an hour, and that no one should slip through the net. After cleaning up the battlefield, increase the firepower. The second wave ambushed the headquarters of the enemy's 16th Hunan Division and the 47th Brigade. The third wave ambushed the target enemy 46 Brigade.

3. Operational deployment: The sniper platoon establishes a concealed sniper position, kills all enemy officers who can be found at the first time, and then kills the enemy's possible firepower points; The reconnaissance platoon continued to go out to reconnoitre, grasp the enemy's movements, and took on binoculars to set up a forward observation post 1,000 meters away from the ambush point, and contacted us by telephone. The guard squad is hidden at the west end of Xiaoshui Village, and its mission is to find the enemy's top soldiers to pass through Xiaoshui and kill them; The heavy machine gun company commanded six heavy machine guns and 21 light machine guns, arranged machine gun positions according to the plan of the staff office, required each machine gun to mark the firing boundary in advance, and ensured that the fire covered the highway road in the entire ambush circle, leaving no shooting dead ends, and the position must be hidden before firing and could not be discovered by the enemy. I led the 1st Battalion and the 2nd Battalion to be deployed on the hillside opposite the highway to undertake the task of assaulting the enemy, and one of the battalions was to send a platoon to control the main peak of the Dapo boundary to prevent the enemy from attacking us by a detour; The chief of staff and the staff office led three battalions with three light machine guns to deploy on the hillside at the entrance of the canyon, waiting for the enemy to enter the ambush circle and then set up pockets and attack the rear of the enemy; The political commissar led the 10th company of the fourth battalion and the teaching team with three machine guns to hide at the entrance of Xiaoshui Village, preparing to stop the enemy. If the enemy's avant-garde unit is far away from the brigade, it can be allowed to pass through Xiaoshui Village, and the teaching team will be responsible for the enemy's avant-garde company, and the 10 companies of the fourth battalion will be responsible for blocking the enemy's large force; The director of the Political Department led the 11th and 12th companies of the 4th Battalion, the recruit battalion, the artillery company, the baggage team, the engineer company, and the cavalry company to hide on the hillside on the side of the road, concentrate the grenades of the whole regiment, and concentrate the bombs on the enemy. In particular, in newly established units, cadres should go down to each platoon and organize a concentrated bomb drop with the platoon as a unit.

Fourth, after the battle, all units clean up the battlefield and replenish weapons and ammunition. After the concentration of enemy prisoners, they were guarded by the teaching team and the 10 companies of the four battalions. The political commissar should immediately organize education and reform of prisoners, and strive to mobilize a part of the prisoners to turn their guns on the battlefield to fight the enemy. Whoever captures the enemy's radio station and its personnel must control the prisoners at the first time, prevent the enemy's radio operators from destroying the code book, and then immediately hand them over to the regimental radio station commander; if the enemy division headquarters sends a telegram asking what is happening, the radio station must reply that a regiment that has already defeated the rear guard of the Red Bandits has begun to pursue and lure the enemy to speed up the march.

5. The second wave of ambushes: After the first wave of ambushes cleared the battlefield, the reconnaissance platoon's forward observation post moved forward another 1,000 meters; The 10th Company of the 4th Battalion immediately seized the key point west of Xiaoshui with a platoon and built a blocking position to prevent the enemy's 62nd Division from attacking in our direction; The position of the three battalions did not move, and the tail of the pocket was changed to a blockade; The positions of the 1st Battalion, the 2nd Battalion, the Sniper Platoon, and the Heavy Machine Gun Company were moved forward by 500 meters, and they were still engaged in interception and assault missions; The 11th and 12th companies of the 4th battalion led the baggage team forward 1,000 meters to take on the task of cutting off the enemy's rear road and attacking at the end of the road; The recruit battalion led the engineer company and cavalry company to move the position forward by 500 meters and took on the task of dropping bombs and preventing the enemy from seizing the commanding heights.

6. Third wave of ambushes: After the second wave of ambushes is over, if there is no major change in the enemy's situation, the tasks of each unit are the same as those of the second wave of ambushes, but the positions are pushed forward.

7. The communications platoon immediately pulled the line and set up a forward observation post and my telephone. Before the battle, the battalions were in contact with the flag, and the whole regiment launched an attack with the sound of my gun, and when the attack began, the first and second battalions attacked with us, and the other units immediately charged when they saw the charge of the first and second battalions. Remember, the 1st and 2nd Battalions were not allowed to charge the whole regiment without charge, lest they be accidentally injured by our machine-gun fire.

After the order was issued, Liu Yimin's blazing gaze swept to all the cadres again: "Do you understand the task?" ”

The cadres shouted in unison: "Understood! ”

"Any comments?"

Cai Zhong said: "Regiment commander, isn't our plan too bold, the enemy is a main division, three brigades and six regiments, more than 10,000 people, only half of our regiment has guns, and there are 800 recruits who have not been on the battlefield." The ratio of strength between us and the enemy is 6:1, and the disparity is too great, what if we can't take it. ”

The cadres are all looking at Liu Yimin.

Liu Yimin looked at Cai Zhong and said patiently: "Political commissar, the enemy doesn't know that we will dare to break ground on Tai Sui's head, and he didn't think that we would ambush them here. With mental calculations and unintentional, coupled with such a good ambush terrain, the enemy's forces cannot be deployed, with guns is equal to no guns, and with artillery is equal to no artillery, and although the enemy has three brigades and six regiments, and the strength is six times that of us, we are ambushing in sections, and only ambush one brigade and two regiments of the enemy at a time. The ratio of strength between friend and foe is 2:1, and the disparity is not very large. As long as the first ambush is over, our army will have sufficient weapons and ammunition, and at that time, our troops and equipment will be equivalent to two main regiments of the Red Army, and then we will basically fight the enemy one by one. We have won this battle. ”

Liu Yimin looked at the cadres again: "Do you have any opinions?" ”

The cadres replied in unison: "Resolutely carry out the order!" ”

Liu Yimin said: "Remember, use me in a tough battle, and you will win with me!" When you meet on a narrow road, the brave wins! Act now! ”

The cadres rushed out and quickly rushed to their troops to prepare for an ambush.