On the afternoon of January 2, 1935, the Central Army and the Sichuan Army, which had not encountered any obstacles along the way, arrived at the outskirts of Zunyi and besieged Zunyi.

The situation reported by the reconnaissance team was depressing, and Zunyi turned out to be an empty city.

Xue Yue's face was pale, and the green tendons on his forehead were jumping, like an angry lion, circling around in the temporary headquarters. The staff officers and guards were so frightened that they hid far away, for fear that if they were not careful, they would invite unwarranted disasters.

The chief of staff sat on the side, his cigarette in his hand lit up a wisp of smoke, and no one knew what the staff was thinking at this moment.

The vanguard asks for instructions, is it possible to enter Zunyi County?

Xue Yue no longer had the demeanor of a famous general at this time, his face was flushed, his eyes were so vicious that he was like eating human flesh, and the wind and discipline buckle was also torn off, and he roared at the staff officer who came to report: "Rice buckets, all fucking rice buckets, the red bandits have run out, why don't you go into the city yet?" Do you want to wait for the Sichuan army to recover Zunyi first? ”

Frightened, the little staff officer lowered his head and trotted forward, and went to deliver the order.

Xue Yue felt that the fire in his chest was about to erupt, so he tore off his military uniform and cursed hatefully: "[***], Zhu De, good! Good! Good! What a move, the golden cicada came out of its shell, and played with my Xue Boling and hundreds of thousands of troops in the palm of his hand! Despicable, shameless, cowardly, you know how to run away, there is a kind of don't go, and fight with Lao Tzu in a dignified manner! ”

The chief of staff reminded: "Commander, let's go to Zunyi, no matter what, recovering Zunyi is also a great achievement, if the Sichuan army or Tang Enbo and them take the lead, it will not be good." ”

Xue Yue woke up at this time, what is the use of just scolding? It is the right thing to hurry up and seize Zunyi and report to the commission!

Knowing that Zunyi was an empty city, several brigades of the Sichuan army, Tang Enbo and other reinforcements of the central army flocked to it, ignoring Xue Yue's order to have them stationed outside the city. Joke, who doesn't know that recovering Zunyi is a great achievement, why aren't you Xue Yue stationed outside the city? As a result, more than 200,000 troops rushed to the gate of Zunyi, all thinking of entering Zunyi first, controlling Zunyi, and asking for rewards from the commission.

Zunyi is said to be a famous city in northern Guizhou and the second largest city in Guizhou, but in fact, it is a small mountain city, where can it accommodate so many [***] soldiers? It's okay to say that the officials are a little disciplined, but the soldiers are not good. In particular, the veteran of the Sichuan Army, who had not suffered from the Central Red Army, ran a long way to fight the red bandits, hoping to catch a few red bandit captives and go back to receive a reward, and give his wife or a good piece of jewelry or something. This can work, you can't let Lao Tzu run for nothing, right? Robbing, anyway, Zunyi is Guizhou's territory, and robbing Guizhou people is not robbery, it is captured in battle. In the past, when they were fighting in Sichuan, they did this, they went to Liu Wenhui's territory to fight, and after the battle, they robbed it, and whoever grabbed more made meritorious service, and the chief also knew it. So, the Sichuan army began to ransack.

As soon as the Sichuan army made this move, the city of Zunyi was full of chickens and dogs, and the sounds of crying, scolding, and fighting came from small households, and finally spread to large households and even schools and hospitals.

The Li family at the north gate is a famous family in Zunyi, and it is in the territory of the Sichuan army after entering the city. The Sichuan army began to loot this time, and the Li family was the first to bear it. The soldiers of the Zhongchuan Army in the compound went in and out, turning the Li family upside down. The head of the family, Mrs. Li, sat on the ground in the middle of the compound, staring at the sky with empty eyes, and muttered in his mouth: "Beast, beast! Chairman Jiang, open your eyes and see, you have been suppressing bandits and bandits all day long, and you and your troops are not even as good as bandits! ”

A squad of Sichuan soldiers broke into the mansion of Bai Huizhang, the site of the Zunyi Conference, and when they entered, they saw that there was nothing but furniture, so they turned to the façade room facing the mansion and began to loot the shop. Now the boss is unwilling, grandma's, and Wang Fa doesn't, the reason why he rents Bai Huizhang's house to do business is because he likes Bai Huizhang's status and no one dares to mess with it? Even when the Red Army came, it was also bought and sold by the public, and it was peaceful, where was the gang of turtle sons like the Sichuan Army, who openly robbed them.

This boss did not entangle with the Sichuan army, ran out as soon as he slipped away, found the Qianjun who entered the city with the central army, and cried about the atrocities of the Sichuan army when they met.

Bai Huizhang's Qianjun was already the 102nd Division of the Central Army at this time, and when the slave was promoted to a master, even if it was a second-class or third-class master, he was generally psychologically complicated, and he would look down on the slave even more than the original master. As soon as the boss cried, the company commander led by the 102nd Division was unwilling, grandma's, these turtle sons, they were simply bandits, they all grabbed the head of the [***] division commander, shouted to the brothers to let me go, and led his company to run to Bai Huizhang Mansion.

When I arrived at the gate of the Bai Mansion, I bumped into the Sichuan army who was satisfied, holding the jars and jars and walking out. The company commander of the 102nd Division shouted: "Stop the fuck for Lao Tzu!" ”

The small squad leader of the Sichuan Army's Reading Brigade is a veteran, what battle has he never seen? He squinted his eyes and said, "What are you roaring, didn't you see that Lao Tzu was searching for the assets of the red bandits?" ”

The company commander of the 102nd Division was furious: "Open your dog's eyes and see clearly, this is the mansion of the commander of the 102nd Division, what a fucking red bandit asset." Put things down and get out of here! ”

The small squad leader of the Sichuan Army was also annoyed: "What the hell is the 102nd Division, isn't it Wang Jialie's turtle son's double spearmen?" What's the spirit, Lao Tzu just doesn't let go, can you bite Lao Tzu's ball? ”

When the company commander of the 102nd Division was in the Guizhou Army, although he was not used to smoking heavy cigarettes in the army, he did not feel how great it was. Only after this reorganization did I know that the Central Army looked down on them from top to bottom, and the name given to them was Double Spearmen. Therefore, the words of the small squad leader of the Sichuan army were poked into his heart with a knife, and he didn't even think about it, so he raised his hand and shot it directly, which directly hit the small squad leader in the chest.

The wine jar held by the little squad leader smashed to the ground with a clang, covered his chest with one hand, pointed at the commander of the 102nd Division who shot with the other, and shouted hoarsely: "You, you, good turtle son!" His body slowly softened.

The Sichuan soldiers who robbed together saw that the squad leader had been killed and that they didn't want anything they had robbed, so they turned around and fled back to the store.

Seeing that the Sichuan army rebels dared to fight back, the company commander of the 102nd Division immediately ordered the troops to scatter and shoot, shouting as they fought: "Brothers, aim at the point, kill these Sichuan army bandits." ”

The soldiers of the Sichuan Army, who were robbing nearby, began to hear the sound of gunshots, thinking that the law enforcement team was coming, so they were ready to slip away. Later, someone heard that it was Brother Sichuan Jun and Qianjun who did it, grandma's, this is worth it, no one can be angry with Qianjun, this is angry!

The soldiers of the Sichuan army dropped the things they had stolen in their hands and greeted each other and rushed towards the Bai Mansion. At this time, the company commander of the 102nd Division couldn't bear it anymore, and sent people back to report while desperately resisting.

When a little spark is splashed in the pan of hot oil, tragedy often begins. This small battle eventually evolved into a melee between the Sichuan and Guizhou armies. The city of Zunyi was full of gunfire, wandering rebels, and fleeing people.

When the gunshots rang out, Xue Yue was meeting with the senior officers of the Tang Enbo Department and the Sichuan Army in the Zunyi County Political Axe Courtyard. Hearing the sound of gunfire, the officers thought that the red bandits had returned, and some of them slipped directly away, some slipped under the table, and some showed bloodthirsty expressions on their faces, and they were about to rush out to command the troops, all kinds of things, and so on.

Seeing the performance of the officers, Xue Yue wanted to scold his mother angrily, but considering the image of the famous general and commander, he held back the words and ordered the staff officers to quickly find out the situation.

After knowing that it was the Sichuan Army and the Lao Qian Army that caught fire because of the robbery, Xue Yue immediately ordered the brigade commanders of the Sichuan Army, the 102nd, 103rd, and 121st Divisions, as well as Jiang Zaizhen, who had not yet been reorganized, and the brigade commanders of the Sichuan Army to immediately return to the troops to control the development of the situation, and ordered Wu Qiwei and Zhou Hunyuan to lead the army to calm down the situation.

After the intervention of the Central Army, the further development of the situation was finally stopped, and Xue Yue took the opportunity to order the Sichuan Army, the Central Army that had come up with reinforcements, several divisions reorganized by the Guizhou Army, and Zhou Hunyuan's column to withdraw from the city. Only Wu Qiwei's column was left to defend the city.

After several brigade commanders such as Guo Xunchu of the Sichuan Army returned to the troops, they took control of the troops and took the troops out of the city. After checking the losses, several brigade commanders scolded Xue Yuegui's son for pulling a bias. Fan Ziying, the commander of the second brigade of the instructor, proposed that Zunyi had also been recovered, should it be time for the troops to return to defense, now that the whereabouts of the red bandits are unknown, it is better for everyone to return to the defense as soon as possible. Helplessly, Pan Wenhua did not dare to agree to let the troops retreat, and ordered all units to temporarily be stationed near Zunyi, waiting for the next order of Xue Yue of the Central Army.

Looking at the casualties reported by the Sichuan army and the Guizhou army, Xue Yue sighed, chased and suppressed, and the shadow of the red bandits was not seen, but the Sichuan army and the Guizhou army beat their own people, with more than 2,000 casualties, and the red bandits did not laugh out of their big teeth!

Seeing that the commander was worried, the chief of staff came over: "Bad things are sometimes good things, these chaotic soldiers loot civilians, ruin the reputation of the central government, and they are innocent." We wrote a telegram to the commission, saying that we would kill more than 2,000 people of the Red Bandit Guard. ”

Tang Enbo on the side was not happy: "Chief of Staff, our army has traveled a long distance to encircle and chase and intercept, how can it be said that it only killed more than 2,000 red bandits?" Too little, right? ”

The chief of staff pushed the boat down the river: "What does Commander Yi Tang mean?" ”

Tang Enbo's eyes turned to the sky, and he didn't look at Xue Yue's chief of staff: "More than 10,000 people in the Fifth and Ninth Army Corps behind the Red Bandit Palace were defeated, 4,900 people were killed, and 3,012 people were captured. Most of the captives were recruits who were recruited by the Red Bandits to join the army along the way. ”

Xue Yue secretly thought that this Tang Enbo was not exactly a straw bag, do you see how particular he is? Defeated more than 10,000 people, since it was a defeat or a run. killed more than 4,900 people, is it possible that the commission is still in the mood to count the graves one by one? The 3,012 prisoners were all poor recruits who had been coerced by the red bandits to join the army, and they all piggybacked on the reasons for releasing these prisoners. Gao, it's not a loss to be the proud protégé of the commission, and he doesn't show a drop of water when he speaks, no wonder the commissioner trusts him so much.

After figuring it out, Xue Yue's face looked better, and he said to the chief of staff: "Send a report to the commission, the Ministry of Employment, the Tang Department, and the Pan Department of the Sichuan Army will attack Zunyi, and the Zhu Maohong bandits are defeated and have escaped in advance." Our army defeated more than 10,000 people of the 5th and 9th Army Corps of the rear troops of the bandits, killed 4,900 people, and captured 3,012 people. After interrogation, it was revealed that most of the captives were poor recruits who were coerced by the Red Bandits in Guizhou, and they were to be released through education to make up for the shortage of labor in Guizhou. Our army regained Zunyi at 4 p.m. today. At present, the whereabouts of the main force of the bandits are unknown, and it is planned to send a large army to search and sweep in northern Guizhou to find and destroy the enemy's main force. ”

The chief of staff went to send a report, and it was almost dark, so Xue Yue said to Tang Enbo: "Commander Tang, let's eat together, it can be regarded as a catch for your troops, and by the way, let's take a closer look and see where this red bandit has fled." ”

Towneburgh readily agreed.

At this time, Liu Yimin led the Central Guard Division into Yibin City.

On the afternoon of December 31, after the guard division occupied Xuyong, it seized the military uniform of Fan Ziying, the 21st Brigade of the Sichuan Army, which was originally stationed here. Liu Yimin immediately ordered the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd regiments to change their outfits, and under the guidance of the special operations detachment, they set foot on the Xuqian Avenue, passing through the Ancient Song Dynasty, Hongqiao, Longtou, Yuejiang, and Nanguang, all the way to Yibin. The rest of the troops, led by Cai Zhong and Feng Dafei, put away the red flag, took off their collar badges and cockades, and marched forward behind the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd regiments.

At 12 noon on the 31st, Liu Yimin led a fast column composed of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd regiments, a cavalry battalion, a mortar battalion, a heavy machine gun battalion, an engineer battalion, and a baggage battalion to Lizhuang Town, 19 kilometers away from Yibin, and joined up with the special operations detachment that had arrived ahead of schedule.

The special operations detachment has taken full control of Li Zhuang and sent people into the city to reconnoitre. The garrisons in the city were all transferred by Pan Wenhua to Chishui to suppress bandits, and there was only one security regiment and police, and the security regiment headquarters and police station were all located near the county political axe. Considering that the special operations detachment had few people, and that Yibin was a place where thousands of merchants gathered, and that it was convenient to travel by ship and not easy to control, the special operations detachment sent a telegram to the division commander asking him to come and join him as soon as possible.

The people of Lizhuang thought that it was the Sichuan army that changed their defenses, but they didn't care. In these years, there are many soldiers and bandits, and the common people are walking around when they see the soldiers, who will take the initiative to entangle with the army? Hearing that this army does not allow people to go out of the town, the people of Li Zhuang scolded [***] in their hearts that they are simply bandits, and they even take care of the affairs of the common people going out, and they still can't let people live. I thought about it, but no one came forward to negotiate with the troops. Besides, not everyone has to go out that day!

Liu Yimin sat on a second-floor building near the river in Lizhuang, listening to the reports of Li Lingfeng, Wang Tongsheng, and Wang Dahu, while his thoughts were flying, and his mind was full of information about Yibin City.

Yibin is known as the first city of the Yangtze River.

The rolling Jinsha River and the slow Minjiang River come from the snow-capped mountains and meadows, where they merge and form the Yangtze River. Starting from Yibin, this mother river, which has raised countless Chinese children, was called the "Yangtze River".

Yibin City is the city of Xingcheng and the city built by the river.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Yibin belonged to the Hou country. The servants are an ethnic minority with a relatively high level of Chinese development in southwest China, leaving behind cultural relics such as hanging coffins of the servants. During the Han Dynasty, it was under the jurisdiction of Qianwei County. Six years after Henkel, that is, in 182 BC, Yibin built the city of Yandao as the seat of Qianwei County. In the tenth year of Emperor Wu of Liang in the Southern Dynasty, Xiao Yan, that is, in 545 AD, set up Rongzhou in Yibin. In Chinese history, the name of the people outside China is Beidi, Nanman, Dongyi, Xirong, and the word Rong has the meaning of weapons and conquest, so calling Yibin Rongzhou not only means that this is the place where Xirong lives, but also implies that this is a place of conquest and suppression.

However, due to the development of water transportation on the Yangtze River, the ethnic minorities and the Han nationality in Yibin were quickly integrated, and the Han culture took root and blossomed in Yibin very early. Tang set up Yibin County in Rongzhou, which means that the local ethnic minorities admired the Han culture and competed for the righteousness. It can also be known from Tang poems that Yibin in the Tang Dynasty accepted the Han culture from the Chengdu Plain and spread it to the southwest, while absorbing the culture of ethnic minorities from the southwest. In the Song Dynasty, because of the avoidance of Taizong Zhao Guangyi's righteous words, Yibin County under the rule of Rongzhou was renamed Yibin, and the cultural integration was further accelerated, and the poets Su Dongpo and Huang Tingjian left poems here. In particular, Huang Tingjian, who was demoted to Yibin for three years, was committed to the integration of Han Rong and left a lot of good stories. The Liubei Pond built by Huang Tingjian continues the rhyme of Wang Xizhi's "Orchid Pavilion Collection Preface", and connects the heroic literary style of Dongpo, which is still a protected cultural relic in Yibin. Huang Tingjian's "Bitter Bamboo Shoot Fu" begins with "The bitter bamboo shoots of the Yan Dao, crowning the two rivers." "I praise Yibin's bamboo culture. The most unexpected thing is that Huang Tingjian also named the new wine brewed by a wine merchant in Yibin "Yao Zixue Qu", and wrote the first wine advertising slogan in human history: "Yao Zixue Qu, the cup color increases the jade, the soup is gloomy, and the white clouds give birth to the valley." The clear surface is not thin, thick but not turbid, sweet but not stinging, pungent but not stinging. ”

Huang Tingjian's cultural integration in Yibin was fruitful, and more than ten years after he left, in the fourth year of the Song Hui Zongzheng period, that is, in 1115 AD, the imperial court changed the name of Rongzhou Mansion to Xuzhou Mansion. Therefore, Yibin is also known as Syria.

Yibin is located in the junction of Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan provinces, there is a saying that "the river leads to the Three Gorges, and the state city controls the hundred barbarians", it is the starting point of the "Silk Road" in the ancient south, worthy of the name of the water and land rush, strategic town, transportation hub, and is also the largest commodity distribution center in the junction of Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan provinces. The folk song "Zhaotong that can't be moved, and Syria that can't be filled" is not an exaggeration at all.

Yibin City is built in Sanjiangkou, the foundation is the ancient city built in the Ming Dynasty, the city wall is two zhang seven feet high, one zhang eight feet thick, in Saturday, set up six city gates, take the big view building as the central axis, Tianzi-shaped partition and street layout. On the left side of Daguanlou is Jiaotong Street, East Gate, Dongshunhe Street, and on the right side is Guanying Street, Da Nan Gate, Xiao South Gate, and Zouma Street. Linjiang has several wharves such as Tongguan, Yanguan and Hejiangmen.

Li Lingfeng finished his several reports, and Liu Yimin also finished thinking about it. Seeing the division commander's smiling and wandering appearance, Wang Dahu knew that the division commander's mistake had been committed again, and shouted loudly: "Report to the division commander, please instruct!" ”

Liu Yimin came back to his senses and said to Wang Dahu: "Please, if you speak in a lower voice in the future, it will scare people to death." ”

Seeing that Wang Dahu didn't think so, Liu Yimin ignored a few of them, got up and walked to the window, looked at the river rolling east, and then looked at the beautiful Li Zhuang built by the river, and couldn't help but feel gloomy. I wonder if Tongji University, the Department of Architecture of Tsinghua University, the Academia Sinica, and the Central Museum will move to Lizhuang in the future, whether Liang Sicheng and the beautiful and talented Lin Weiyin will complete their magnificent masterpiece "History of Chinese Architecture" in Lizhuang, and whether Lizhuang will be as famous as in history in the later Anti-Japanese War?

Forget it, since you are determined to change the history of the Red Army's Long March, you can't think so much, how to win the battle is the most important thing you should consider. The comrades-in-arms are waiting for their own decision!

Liu Yimin was determined to take Hejiangmen first, and enter Yibin from Hejiangmen. The advantage of this is that it can control the largest terminal in Yibin and prevent merchant ships from leaking out the news.

Determined to be certain, Liu Yimin ordered the artillery battalion and the heavy machine gun battalion to make a detour to Zhenwu Mountain to establish a position, and the special operations detachment and the first regiment collected passing ships at the Lizhuang wharf and marched to the Hejiangmen wharf by boat. The cavalry battalion occupied the Old State Dam. The 2nd and 3rd regiments entered through several other gates, and after entering the city, they each sent a battalion to control the other docks. The engineer battalion and the baggage battalion were in reserve, and they followed him into the city.

At four o'clock in the afternoon of January 2, Hejiangmen Wharf was busy, with the shouts of southern Sichuan accents everywhere for loading, unloading, docking, and sailing. No one paid attention at all, and from downstream a flotilla full of [***] came over.

The flotilla docked, and after jumping off the boat, [***] quickly walked towards Hejiangmen.

The tax police at Hejiang Gate saw that there were so many [***], thinking that [***] who had driven away a few days ago was back, and he didn't ask, opened the door and let him go, and watched [***] walk in the direction of Daguanlou.

After Gao Yuan and Zhao Jie got off the boat, they found that there were still two iron boats parked on the pier, and they didn't have to think about it to know that they must be gunboats of the Sichuan Army's river defense troops. The third battalion was immediately ordered to take control of the gunboats.

There were not many people on either gunboat, only a few soldiers left behind. The soldiers of the third battalion were not polite, and they went up and arrested a few of them, saying that Commander-in-Chief Pan had arrived and asked them for questioning.

When the soldiers brought the soldiers on the gunboat, Gao Yuan asked, and learned that they were Liu Xiang's public security river defense brigade, which had just come from Leshan today, and the commander took people to rest in a house on the dock.

Gao Yuan knew that he had found a treasure this time, and immediately ordered the soldiers to take the prisoners to capture the rest of the Jiangfang Brigade and quickly control the docks and boats. He took the second battalion and chased after the special operations detachment.

Yibin this place, there has been no war for some years, people have long been accustomed to a comfortable life, when there is nothing to do, a bit of identity officials, businessmen, and robe leaders all gather in Daguanlou to drink tea and listen to the play.

Daguan Lou was built in the Ming Dynasty, is the tower of Yibin City, located in the center of Yibin City, a total of four floors high, rectangular, the bottom floor is made of stones, there is a cross-shaped passage in the middle, you can pass the carriage and horses. In the west of the building, there are two stone stairs of 29 steps each, which lead directly to the hall. The upper three floors, the whole series of bucket arch wooden structure, spacious and bright.

On the afternoon of January 2, there were famous actors from Chengdu performing, and people with heads and faces in Yibin City, such as the county magistrate, the police chief, the tax commissioner, the finance director, the security chief, etc., all brought their wives and aunts to listen to the play. On the stage is a Sichuan opera, and off the stage are complacent bigwigs from all walks of life and women with heavy makeup and glamorous makeup. The scene was extremely harmonious.

Seeing that the performance was about to end and it was time to end, the police chief squeezed his eyebrows and said to the county magistrate that he was going to make an appointment with the head of the security regiment, the director of the tax bureau, and the director of the finance bureau to go to the largest green building in the city to go to Bashi Bashi. When the county magistrate heard this, his eyes narrowed when he smiled, and he even said that he wanted it and wanted it.

While they were discussing how to send the tigress who had followed, they saw a group of [***] soldiers push the door and block several gates, with the muzzle of the black hole facing them.

(To be continued)