From Zhaiya in the southeast of Jingxian County to Luocheng in the northwest of the mouth of the channel, although there is a road, it is also a dirt road in the mountains. From the map, it looks like it's close in a straight line, but it's not so much when you walk on it.

The Hunan 63rd Division received an order to reinforce the Hunan 62nd Division at 5:40 p.m. When the order was received, the troops were divided into two parts, stationed at Zhaiya and Yanmen Pushui Boundary, and the task was to prevent the Red Army from moving north to Jingxian and then advancing to Xiangxi.

Commander Liu Jianxu, commander of the 28th Army and commander of the First Corps of the Pursuit and Suppression Army, made his order very clear: Immediately dispatch, along Zhaiya, Dalin Village, and Huangjiashui Village, directly into the highway from Shanmu Bridge to Xikou, and march along the highway to Beishan Village at the northern end of Xikou, establish contact with the 62nd Division, obey the command of Tao Guang, commander of the 62nd Division, cooperate with the 16th Division from Linkou to the north and the 62nd Division's Wang Yuying Brigade returning north from Jingwuzhou, and flank the Red Army rearguard troops blocking the headquarters of the 62nd Division and Zhong Guangren's brigade, so as to completely annihilate them.

When the troops marched to Huangjiashui Village, Chen Guangzhong, commander of the 63rd Division, felt that it was necessary to change the route of the march, because according to the route designated by the Corps Headquarters, after the 63rd Division and the 62nd Division converged, it would inevitably arouse the vigilance of the Red Bandits, and if the 16th Division did not arrive, Wang Yuying's brigade would not necessarily be able to cut off the back road of the Red Bandits, and it was very likely that the Red Bandits would escape. Besides, after merging with the 62nd Division, you have to obey Tao Guang's command, even if you eliminate the red bandits, I am afraid that the credit will be on the 63rd Division, and you can only get a name for rapid reinforcement, and most of the credit will still be given to the 62nd Division. Our grandfather is from the background of kidnapping tickets and intercepting the road, can you do this kind of thing of marrying your own daughter-in-law and others entering the cave room? Fuck it, if you want to do it, you can do it big and ruthlessly, it's better to divert the road to the south through Luocheng, insert the brush into the Xikou, and directly take the back road of the red bandits in Xikou, so that the red bandits can't escape. In that case, no one will be able to take the first credit for the 63rd Division's raid on the Red Bandits, and Chairman Chiang's and Chairman He's silver dollars, guns, and soldiers will flow to Lao Tzu's 63rd Division in a steady stream.

After thinking about it, Chen Guangzhong decisively ordered the troops to turn around and rushed along the main road towards Luocheng.

After arriving at Luocheng, Chen Guangzhong ordered his troops to rest on the spot, and then marched towards the village, followed by his most elite spy battalion.

As soon as the chief of staff saw it, he knew that the division commander's addiction had been committed again, and he smiled and was about to follow the horse, and the operator reported that the corps headquarters was in an emergency.

The chief of staff of the enemy took the telegram, looked at the flashlight in the hands of the guards, and saw that the telegram read: "100,000 urgent. The red bandits took advantage of the night to concentrate their forces to sneak attack the position of the Zhong Brigade, and now many positions have been breached, and the Zhong Brigade is holding on to Beishan Village and the main peak on the east side. The royal brigade had advanced to the mouth of the river and was blocked by the enemy. Where is Master Chen? Why is progress slow? If the battlefield changes due to the slow action of Chen Division, is the military law a fictitious one? ”

Looking at it again, the telegram was signed by Liu Jianxu, commander of the 28th Army of the National Revolutionary Army and commander of the First Corps of the Pursuit Army.

The chief of staff of the enemy knew that Liu Jianxu was born in a professional class, was good at self-cultivation, and was strict with himself, and under normal circumstances, he never pretended to his subordinates. Being able to make him so angry and sternly reprimanded shows that the headquarters of the 62nd Division and the Zhong Brigade are in danger. If it was really because of Shizuo's addiction to murder in Luocheng and the delay in time, causing Tao Guang to be defeated by the red bandits, it is estimated that the officials of Shizuo would have done it. Because the chief of staff knew in his heart that although Shizuo had killed a lot of red bandits and Diao people, in the minds of He Jian and Liu Jianxu, Tao Guang was much more important than Shizuo.

Thinking of this, the enemy's chief of staff hurriedly hit his horse and caught up with Chen Guangzhong.

When Chen Guangzhong saw the chief of staff catching up, he grinned: "Your addiction is also committed?" ”

The chief of staff of the enemy hurriedly handed over the telegram and shone it with a flashlight, asking Chen Guangzhong to read the telegram.

After reading the telegram, Chen Guangzhong thought for a while and asked the chief of staff: "What do you think?" ”

The chief of staff of the enemy said: "Judging from the tone of the commander's telegram, Tao Guang's situation is not good. ”

Chen Guangzhong opened his mouth and said: "Tao Guang is not in a good situation? Okay, good, how much trouble has been saved for Lao Tzu. Chief of Staff, the troops continued to rest and set off in half an hour. After that, he beat his horse and continued his walk towards the village.

The enemy's chief of staff knows that the division seat is concerned about the position of the 28th Army's military seat, which is not a secret among the generals of the Hunan Army, and now the Hunan Army has 100,000 horses, He Jian is busy with the big plan, Liu Jianxu is the actual commander of the army, and it is no longer suitable to be the commander of the 28th Army. If Liu Jianxu is promoted, the post of commander of the 28th Army will definitely be selected from the existing division commanders, and Chairman Chiang must not be sent from the Central Army, right? In terms of qualifications, military exploits, status, and relationships, no matter which aspect, Tao Guang, commander of the 62nd Division, is in charge. If Tao Guang is defeated this time, it is best to be captured or killed by the red bandits, in that case, Chen Guangzhong may still have a chance. In fact, the chief of staff of the enemy knew in his heart that even if Tao Guang had a problem this time, no one would hand over the elite 28th Army of the Hunan Army to Chen Guangzhong, a bandit, and the biggest possibility was to make him a scapegoat. Therefore, the enemy's chief of staff hurriedly stopped Chen Guangzhong's horse head and said earnestly: "Division, there must be no delay, we must leave immediately, and we must march in a hurry." ”

Chen Guangzhong was impatient, and yelled at the chief of staff: "Get out of the way, Tao Guang is not dead?" We rested for half an hour, just in time for the time when the Red Bandits and the 62nd Division were both defeated, and then the brothers followed Lao Tzu to kill, wouldn't it be better to have one ear and three oceans? ”

The chief of staff hurriedly said: "The division seat wants to be left." If something happens to Tao Guang, we'll be finished. ”

Chen Guangzhong calmed down for a while, but still said: "You are too careful, as long as we kill the red bandits and Diao Min, none of us can bite Lao Tzu's ball." ”

The enemy's chief of staff shook his head: "This time is different, it is a division, Commander Liu can't afford to lose that person, Chairman He can't afford to lose that person, when the time comes, even if we kill all the red bandits besieging the 62nd Division, they will also find a scapegoat for Tao Guang to be martyred." Shi Zuo thinks that this scapegoat is suitable for Zhang Liangji of the 16th Division, or is it appropriate for our 63rd Division? What's more, we may not be able to kill all the red bandits, what if they run away after defeating the 62nd Division? ”

Although Chen Guangzhong was born as a bandit, his IQ is not low. He understood that if Liu Jianxu and He Jian wanted to find scapegoats, they would definitely not look for their classmate Zhang Liangji of the Baoding Military Academy, nor would they take the 16th Division of the Third Brigade and the Sixth Regiment, obviously he and his 63rd Division were more suitable. Besides, the red bandit is not so easy to kill, it is not an ordinary Diao Min, you can kill as much as you want, if you can't kill it, then wouldn't you be the scapegoat?

Chen Guangzhong turned his horse's head and shouted as he ran: "Pass my order, the whole division is lightly armed, and runs forward." ”

The sleeping villagers of Luocheng never dreamed that this is how death passed by them.

In front of Xikou Village, the soldiers of the 3rd Battalion and the 1st Heavy Machine Gun Company were building positions.

When Liu Yimin, Cai Zhong, and Liu Jianli came over, they saw a cadre of the 3rd Battalion with a big knife on his back arguing with a cadre of the 1st Heavy Machine Gun Company. Liu Yimin asked, it turned out that this cadre of the third battalion thought that the position of the heavy machine gun was wrong, and it should be further back and higher. Because the farmland on the opposite side has a curvature, the current position is too low, and the bullet can easily hit the soil.

Liu Yimin observed carefully, and what the cadre said was really right, so he asked him how he saw it, and the cadre replied that he had learned to measure and could draw maps.

Without waiting for Liu Yimin to ask again, Chief of Staff Liu Jianli asked him for details. It turned out that this cadre was a deputy platoon commander of the Third Battalion, named Liu Lizhi, a native of Xiangxiang, Hunan, who had studied at Dongshan Primary School, attended a county girls' middle school, and worked as a tailor at home. In addition to being able to draw maps, he also studied urban planning and can draw fine brushwork. When he was in school, he was influenced by his teacher and ran to join the Red Army. When he was fighting, he loved to make a mountain opening knife, and there were already more than a dozen white dogs who died under his knife.

Liu Jianli directly asked Liu Yimin for instructions and wanted to transfer Liu Lizhi to the staff office.

Liu Yimin replied that he could, and he would report to the staff office after the battle. Then, Liu Yimin asked Wei Xiufeng, the commander of the heavy machine gun battalion who had already rushed over, if there were any other fighters who could use heavy machine guns in addition to the existing shooters and deputy shooters. Wei Xiufeng reported that there is a heavy machine gun battalion that is now equipped with one heavy machine gun per squad, first, the number of heavy machine guns is insufficient, and second, the physical strength of the fighters is considered, because the machine guns need to be rotated during long-distance marches.

Since there were shooters, Liu Yimin immediately ordered that all the 12 heavy machine guns captured by Wang Yuying's brigade be reinforced with the first company of heavy machine guns, and the 12 heavy machine guns of Zhong Guangren's brigade were reinforced with the second and third companies of heavy machine guns. The 108 light machine guns of Wang Yuying's brigade and Zhong Guangren's brigade were captured, and in addition to the 48 guns taken away by the engineer battalion and the first company of the recruit battalion, according to the standard of 10 guns per battalion, were equally distributed among the fire support companies of the six combat battalions.

After looking at the positions of the third battalion and the first heavy machine gun company, Liu Yimin felt that he had made a mistake, you must know that the Hunan 63rd Division is different from other [***] troops, there is no discipline in fighting, and it is likely to rush forward like bandits entering the village, in that case, the strength of the third battalion is too thin. After all, it was 8,000 bandit-like soldiers, and if they broke through the position of the third battalion and entered Xikou Village, it would be an international joke. Think about it again, the 2nd and 4th Battalions, which are responsible for the flank attack, are also weak. So he ordered Liu Jianli to lead the 6th Battalion, which was to be left as a reserve, to immediately join the 2nd Battalion position, which was too open; ordered the engineer battalion to withdraw immediately and put it under the command of the third battalion to strengthen the frontal blocking position; ordered the regiment's communications platoon, reconnaissance platoon, political office, and staff office to mobilize, cooperate with the cadres of the recruit battalion to take care of the prisoners, and vacate 200 people from the first company of the recruit battalion under the command of Li Qing, disguised Tao Guangbu to hold on to Beishan Village and the mountain; The cavalry company was ordered to be the reserve of the whole regiment.

As soon as Liu Yimin had adjusted his troops, the observation post on the hill reported that the enemy had passed through Huabi Village and was heading towards Xikou.

After the brush village, it was not far from the mouth of the stream, and a burst of gunfire in the direction of the mouth of the stream was clearly heard. There was a section of canyon in front, although the mountain was not high, and the canyon was not long, but Chen Guangzhong still ordered the team to stop, send a company to reconnoiter and advance, and if there was no situation, a large force would follow. Then he ordered the radio station to be turned on, and contacted Tao Guang, Wang Yuying's brigade, and the 16th Division to report the location of the troops and inquire about the battle situation.

Tao Guang quickly called back, saying that he had seen the torches of the marching team of the 63rd Division on the top of the mountain, and urged the 63rd Division to quickly attack the north of Xikou and copy the back road of the red bandits.

Wang Yuying telegraphed back that the Red Bandits had surrounded the headquarters of the 62nd Division on the hill east of Beishan Village at the northern end of Xikou, and that Wang's troops were attacking the commanding heights on the side of the highway at the northern end of Xikou in an effort to open up contact with the division headquarters.

The 16th Division telegraphed back and said that the troops were taking the mountain road from Linkou to Xikou, which was difficult to walk, and more than 20 people were killed in a fall, and they were now about 6 kilometers away from Xikou and were speeding up.

The vanguard company sent people to report that they had passed through the canyon safely, and they had seen Xikou Village, and vaguely saw the battle on the hill at the northern end of Xikou in the distance.

Chen Guangzhong was completely relieved at this time, and ordered the troops to advance quickly.

There really was nothing, and the troops passed the canyon safely. Chen Guangzhong stood at the mouth of the valley, and the mouth of the stream at night was dark, without a trace of light, and he couldn't see clearly. However, the fighting on the hill at the north end of the mouth of the river can be faintly seen, and the hill with torches must be the hill held by the Zhong Brigade of the 62nd Division, and the torches must be used to prevent sneak attacks; There was a torch on the road at the north end of the West Exit, and it should be the troops of Wang Yuying's brigade attacking, and it is estimated that Wang Yuying bullied the Red Army for not having artillery and could not hit him, so he blatantly used torches to illuminate the attack route for the soldiers.

Chen Guangzhong stood in front of the team on horseback and shouted proudly: "Brothers, do you see the mouth of the stream in front of you? ”

The soldiers giggled and shouted, "See." ”

Chen Guangzhong said: "Do you know what is there? I tell you, woman, the ocean. The old rule, three silver dollars for a red bandit ear. If the commander of the Red Bandit Division and the commander of the regiment are caught, 2,000 pieces of ocean, and the officer will be promoted to the third level. Those who catch female red bandits will be handed over to the division commander for disposal. ”

The soldiers giggled.

Chen Guangzhong glared, and the team immediately fell silent. I only heard his wolf-like voice drifting in the night sky: "Lao Tzu has no distinction between the main attack and the feint attack, which army defeats the red bandits first, which army is the main attack." Brothers, rush up to Lao Tzu, occupy the mouth of the stream, rush up the mountain, and kill all the red bandits! ”

The enemy's 63rd Division roared like wolves smelling the smell of blood, and rushed towards the mouth of the stream.

The momentum of the charge of several thousand people is very intimidating. In the early winter, the climate was very dry, and the troops of the 63rd Division ran by, and the dust was flying, covering the figures of the first and fifth battalions of the 18th Red Regiment coming down from the hillside. The fighters, with guns in their hands and cats on their waists, hung silently 200 meters behind the 63rd Division.

Liu Yimin climbed on the position of the third battalion at the edge of Xikou Village, and after seeing the 63rd Division crossing the Yangxu River along the main road, he scattered his troops and swarmed towards Xikou Village. Fortunately, he thought of the bandits of the 63rd Division and strengthened his firepower and strength, otherwise, the third battalion might not be able to withstand it.

Closer, closer, closer, faster. Seeing that the 63rd Division had rushed to 50 meters, Liu Yimin shouted and hit, and the submachine gun in his hand rang out.

Suddenly, 18 heavy machine guns, 76 light machine guns, and nearly 1,000 rifles and submachine guns rang out together on the front position in Xikou Village. The powerful firepower made the 63rd Division, which was dreaming of a woman and a big ocean, stunned all of a sudden. Needless to say, those who rushed to the front were naturally the first to kiss the earth. The soldiers behind couldn't react at once, and continued to rush forward with their usual surnames, and naturally continued to kiss the earth. Soon, the soldiers woke up from the excitement of the charge, and immediately understood that there was a net of fire in front of them waiting to harvest their lives, and turned and ran. Now it was lively, the first to turn around and bumped into the people who were still rushing behind, and the runners stepped on the lying down, and the shouts, shouts, swords and guns were intertwined with the gunshots of the 18th regiment, which was harsh, noisy, and unpleasant.

Before the soldiers of the 63rd Division dispersed, the artillery battalion of the 18th Regiment took action, and dozens of shells roared and smashed heavily in the middle of the 63rd Division, blowing up the infantry group of the 63rd Division in one fell swoop. At this moment, the 63rd Division was completely chaotic, and the soldiers scattered in all directions in an uproar towards the swarm of headless flies.

The machine guns and mortars of the four battalions in the north rang out, and the soldiers of the Hunan army understood that this road was impassable, and after leaving hundreds of corpses, the soldiers crowded and ran south, and they were greeted by the roar of the machine guns of the second and sixth battalions. Neither north nor south, retreat, right? The 1st and 5th Battalions had long been hanging behind the 63rd Division, and at the same time as the 3rd Battalion was launched, a skirmish blocking line was quickly formed, and mortars, heavy machine guns, light machine guns, submachine guns, and rifles were already in full array, just waiting to teach the 633rd Division a vivid lesson in cutting off the enemy's retreat!

In this way, the 63rd Hunan Division was in the farmland in front of Xikou Village, in the impermeable fire net woven by the Red 18th Regiment, like a boar that had fallen into a hunter's trap, rushing left and right, attacking and retreating, howling, struggling, moaning, and slowly consuming its own essence and blood.

On the farmland 60 meters away from the north side of the small bridge of the Yangsu River, there is a small inconspicuous straw pile. No one could have imagined that there was a pit under the straw pile that could accommodate two people. At this moment, a sniper group of the sniper platoon of the Red 18th Regiment was lying in ambush here.

Wang Shangwu is a native of Changde, Hunan, 21 years old this year, born as a hunter, and is a disciple of a Shaolin layman. When Liu Yimin formed the sharp knife platoon of the Red 34th Division in Xinwei, he was one of the members of the sniper team. After Liu Yimin's guidance and several battles in Gulingtou, Xiaoshui, and Xikou in the passage, Wang Shangwu initially possessed the quality of a sniper. Now he and his assistant Liu Bin are crawling in the sniper pit they dug, looking for sniper targets on the battlefield.

Wang Shangwu likes his assistant very much, because Liu Bin's cultural level is high, and some questions that Wang Shangwu can't figure out will tell Liu Bin soon, and soon Liu Bin will be able to tell him one, two, and three. In fact, Liu Bin's cultural level is high, he is a native of Changzhou, Jiangsu, born in a scholarly family, 1.75 meters tall, white and pure, due to the contradictions in some family properties, he ran to become a Red Army after reading some Marxist-Leninist books. During the battle of Xiaoshui, the battalion commander found that his shooting level was very high, so he recommended him to join the sniper platoon.

The 63rd Division on the battlefield soon collapsed, and the soldiers were completely disorganized, constantly fleeing from east to west, constantly being wiped out by bullets and artillery fire. At this moment, Liu Bin shouted: "1 o'clock direction!" ”

Wang Shangwu looked at it, and at 1 o'clock, a group of Hunan soldiers surrounded several officers, who seemed to have been frightened and fainted, and they didn't even know that they were lying down.

Wang Shangwu said to Liu Bin: "It looks like a big fish, I will shoot you on the left and you on the right." With that, he stretched out the barrel of the gun.

Chen Guangzhong was really stunned at this time. He didn't expect that the mouth of the stream at night turned out to be a fire net that had been woven a long time ago, and his 63rd Division's net was tightly guarded, leaving no gaps. The red bandit is so fucking cunning, he was careful and careful, and he still fell into his pocket. What the fuck Tao Guang's telegram, what the fuck Wang Yuying's telegram, what the fuck the telegram of the 16th Division, all of them are Hades' urging stickers. It seems that in the fight against the red bandits, it is not enough to have one more heart eye, and it is not enough to have two or three heart eyes, at least more than 10 heart eyes. Liu Jianxu, a guy who thinks he is smart, can be regarded as sending himself and the 63rd Division into the ghost gate. This red bandit unit is also really fucking weird, it doesn't say a word, it is purely greeted by machine gun mortars, and it doesn't even give a chance to fight bayonets, after the machine gun mortar, it is squeezed to the center, and each time it is about 100 meters away, so that you have nowhere to use your strength, don't you need money for fucking shells and bullets? When did the red bandit become more arrogant than Lao Tzu!

It's over, it's all over! Unexpectedly, he started by killing the red bandits, and finally ended up in defeat at the hands of the red bandits. There is nowhere to run, and there is no shadow of a red bandit in sight, and there are bullets shooting from all sides. Damn, Lao Tzu is a long insight, and the battle is still fought like this!

Just when Chen Guangzhong was dizzy and cranky, Wang Shangwu and Liu Bin pulled the trigger almost at the same time. Chen Guangzhong's guards were looking around, and suddenly felt that his face was hot, and he wiped it with his hand, where did the blood come from. Looking back, his division seat and chief of staff had fallen limply to the ground, with a large hole in his head, gurgling out of blood.

The guards jumped to their feet in fright and shouted, "The division seat is dead!" The division is dead! ”

The surviving soldiers heard the shouts and, as if they had pulled out the tires of the valve core, suddenly deflated.

The battlefield was quiet, and the soldiers of the 63rd Division, who were lucky enough to be alive, knelt on the ground with their hands raised, waiting to be contained.

The torches around were lit, illuminating the night sky bright and red, and the soldiers of the Red 18th Regiment poured in from all sides with guns in the middle of the fields. The flowing water of the Yosu River, accompanied by the footsteps of the warriors, spread far and wide in the empty night.