After the enemy plane flew away, Liu Yimin judged that the enemy plane would not come again in the short term, after all, such a big loss was unprecedented for the [***] Air Force at that time, and the psychological shock to the Air Force officers and men needed time to digest.

After discussing with Cai Zhong, Liu Yimin decided that the troops should cancel the camping, seize the time to cross the river, and arrange the camping after arriving at the north bank of the Wujiang River. The radio station was ordered to send a report to the Central Revolutionary Military Commission: "The first regiment and one battalion of our unit have arrived at the Huilongchang ferry port on the Wujiang River, and have shot down nine enemy planes, and we are determined to cross the Wujiang River with the whole division today." He also ordered Zhao Jie to lead a battalion to quickly cross the river, and after contacting the remaining troops of the Third Army Corps and the Fifth Army Corps, they sent people to guide them and arrange for the troops to camp on the issue.

The divisions of the guard division, which received the order, immediately took action and quickly rushed to the ferry.

Xue Yue, who was far away in Yuping, received a telegram from Xingying, telling him that according to the air force's reconnaissance, the Red Bandits had signs of crossing the Wujiang River to the north, and ordered him to quickly reorganize his army and continue to advance towards Guiyang. He also ordered the commanders of the 59th and 93rd Divisions to return to Nanjing to rebuild their troops, and the 90th and 13th Divisions to replenish their troops on the spot after occupying Guiyang, and the weapons and ammunition needed by Xue Yue to make up for the shortfall.

At the end of the telegram, he specially confessed that according to reliable information, it was not the main force of the Zhumao Red Bandits who fought with them in Qingxi Town and Yangping Town, but the Central Guard Division of the Red Bandits, and Liu Yimin, the leader of the bandits. The bandit was tactically flexible, insidious and cunning, and once ambushed three divisions of He Jianbu at Xiaoshui and Xikou. When they reached Wujiang, they shot down nine fighters of our air force this morning. In the future, in fighting the red bandits, we must pay special attention to the movements of the bandits, and do not repeat the mistakes of Qingxi Town and Yangping Town.

After reading the telegram, Xue Yue broke out in a cold sweat, and the commission was thousands of miles away, much more than he knew. After a long time, the Red Bandits only had the strength of one division, and they actually ate more than 30,000 of them. Shame, shame! I knew that the Red Bandit only had one division, and with his own 100,000 elites, he wouldn't have chased him all over the mountain? Shame on you!

Then Xue Yue was grateful, he didn't expect that his concealment of the annihilation of the 59th and 93rd Divisions would be known so quickly, and the commissioner did not blame him, and asked the two division commanders to go back to Nanjing to form troops, and even made arrangements for the supplementary issues of the 90th and 93rd divisions. Such a broad-minded leader is really worthy of his life!

After arranging for Han Hanying and Tang Yunshan to return to Nanjing, Xue Yue held a military meeting in Yuping City, and decided that the whole army would be inserted into Guiyang, first control the Guizhou regime, and then wave the army north to pursue the red bandits after the central army from Jiangxi entered Guizhou.

So, on the morning of December 26, the Xue Yue Division of the Pursuit Army set out from Yuping and drove to Zhenyuan along Xiangqian Avenue, preparing to advance quickly towards Guiyang after resting in Zhenyuan. However, this time Xue Yue learned well, and he sent all the cavalry out to serve as a reconnaissance and search mission. The main force gathered in a group and advanced along the main road in dense packs, with very small intervals between divisions, regiments and regiments, and battalions and battalions. Not to mention that Liu Yimin and they have already withdrawn, even if they are still here, there is no way to start.

Defending the crossing opposite Huilongchang was a battalion of the 101st Regiment of the 34th Division of the Red Fifth Army. When the enemy planes attacked just now, the fighters were scattered and hidden, and when they were worried that the pontoon bridge could not be saved, they saw that the troops of the guard division who arrived on the other side of the bank began to shoot at the air. Later, when Liu Yimin was seen standing alone on the south bank, holding a rifle and preparing to shoot in the air, many soldiers were afraid that the enemy plane would shoot Liu Yimin.

The soldiers of the battalion of the 101st Regiment basically knew Liu Yimin, and when he broke through from Xinwei, Liu Yimin led the sharp knife platoon and the sharp knife company to walk in the forefront, but after the battle of Gulingtou and the battle by the Xiangjiang River, he was with the 34th Division. What's more, there are more than 100 soldiers of the original 34th Division Sharp Knife Company in the Central Guard Division!

In fact, since Liu Yimin joined the Red Army after the crossing, the Red Army unit closest to him was the 34th Division. Although the original 18th Regiment belonged to the Third Army Corps, Liu Yimin himself was a recruit of the Third Army Corps, and he had never cooperated with the troops of the Third Army Corps.

Therefore, seeing Liu Yi's civilian rifle shoot down the enemy plane, the soldiers of the battalion of the 101st Regiment were all boiling. When the enemy planes arrived for the second time, Liu Yimin commanded the machine gunners of the 1st Battalion and the 1st Guard Company to form a machine gun array to ambush the enemy planes successfully, and the battalion commander Zhang Feng immediately ordered the operator to report to the division commander Chen Shuxiang, Liu Company Commander, no, Division Commander Liu, they have returned, and the vanguard of the guard division has arrived on the other side of the Wujiang River and shot down nine enemy planes. The soldiers could no longer take care of covering, and rushed from the top of the mountain to the river, shouting the names of Liu Yimin and Wang Dahu and other old comrades-in-arms as they ran, and soon joined the first battalion that stepped on the pontoon bridge.

Zhang Feng also ran down with the soldiers, and when he saw that most of the cadres of the first battalion of the guard division were either from the sharp knife company of the 34th division, or from the old 18th regiment saved at Gulingtou, the feelings came up all of a sudden, and he hugged and shook hands with the soldiers of the first battalion, and even if you punch me and I punch you, they are very affectionate.

When Zhao Jie and Wang Dahu approached Zhang Feng to contact the question of camping after crossing the river, Zhang Feng learned that the platoon commander of the original 100th Regiment had actually become the commander of the first battalion of the guard division. When I asked the other cadres and soldiers of the original sharp knife company, I learned that these soldiers are now at least squad leaders, and the platoon commanders and squad leaders of the sharp knife company are now all battalion and company cadres.

Zhao Jie and Wang Dahu took the soldiers to Jingkou with Zhang Feng and them, and the Longchang ferry was temporarily quiet.

At this time, Liu Yimin and Cai Zhong went to the house of a boatman who was ferrying at the ferry.

Since the crossing, Liu Yimin has been in the march and campaign, rarely communicating directly with the poor people, and his feelings about the life of the people at that time are not very deep. When I went to the boatman's house, I knew what the evil old society was.

In the thatched hut in the black hole, two people curled up on the bed against the wall, and when I asked, I realized that it was the wife and daughter of the boatman. Liu Yimin thought that he was sick and lay in bed, so he told the boatmen to wait for the Red Army doctor to treat his wife and daughter when the large army came up. The boatman was embarrassed and told Liu Yimin that his wife and daughter were not sick, and they were lying on the bed without cotton clothes to wear.

Liu Yimin couldn't imagine that the stories written in the books of later generations would be vividly displayed in front of his eyes, which felt somewhat unreal. He asked: "Fellow, I see that you can earn money every day on the ferry, why don't you buy cotton clothes for your wife and daughter?" ”

The boatman said: "The chief may not know that we can make some money by ferrying, but Hou Zhidan has put a platoon of soldiers here, and there are also tax collectors, who come to collect money every day." Sometimes they deliberately find fault and pay fines. Let them take all the money we earned, and it would be nice to buy some rations for the rest, where is the money to buy cotton clothes? ”

Liu Yimin asked again: "Hou Zhi's burden is finished, we will give you money if you cross our Red Army, why don't you buy clothes?" ”

The boatman said: "Don't mention it, the Red Army passed by here a few days ago, and it really gave us money, so I thought about going to Yuqingcheng to buy some cloth and cotton, and make cotton clothes for my wife and children." Who knew that on the way, I met a self-defense group hiding in the mountains, and not only stole the money, but also beat me up, saying that I was a gangster and wanted to shoot me. Fortunately, I knew the road well, and I ran halfway. Otherwise, I am afraid that I will die. ”

Liu Yimin really has no choice when he thinks about it, the Red Army is transferring, it is impossible to suppress bandits and establish political power here, these self-defense groups are hiding again, and there is really no way to deal with them. He asked the soldiers to leave some cotton clothes and dry food for the boatmen's families.

Holding the cotton clothes and dry food given by the soldiers, the boatman shouted "Red Army Bodhisattva" in his mouth, and knelt down for Liu Yimin with a plop, so panicked that Liu Yimin hurriedly pulled him up and patiently told him that the Red Army was a team of the poor, and it was for the poor to fight the world, and it was impossible to kneel and kowtow.

When Liu Yimin went out, the boatman asked the Red Army Bodhisattva when he would be able to kill these damn robbers?

Liu Yimin thought for a while and said, "It may take a long time, but as long as the poor people in the world unite, they will definitely be able to defeat these robbers!" ”

Coming out of the boatman's house, Liu Yimin's mood suddenly brightened. The idea that the subconscious mind that had always existed to eliminate too much [***] would not weaken the strength of the future war of resistance was swept away, and Chiang Kai-shek's reactionary regime and his reactionary army deserved to be defeated and eliminated, and the regime that made the common people live in such misery had no reason to exist at all. He just asked the soldiers to give the boatmen a little dry food and a few cotton clothes, and the boatmen called the Red Army Bodhisattva, which showed that it was not too much for the common people to call Chiang Kai-shek a damned. After figuring out this joint, Liu Yimin couldn't help but let out a long howl.

Where did Cai Zhong know what Liu Yimin was thinking, thinking that the division commander was stimulated by seeing the miserable situation of the shipwright's family. He comforted Liu Yimin and said: "Like the situation of the boatman's family, it is everywhere in China. If you can eat and clothe yourself, where is anyone willing to be a Red Army? You haven't seen people eating people yet, I guess you can faint when you see it. ”

Liu Yimin held back for a long time before he burst out with a sentence: "Fuck Jiang damn it!" ”

When the two returned to the ferry, the 1st, 2nd, and 4th regiments had already come up, and the soldiers had already begun to cross the river.

Liu Jianli reported: "He Xinghua intercepted Xue Yue's telegram, and Xue Yue's department set out from Yuping this morning to Zhenyuan, and the target was Guiyang. ”

After the report, Liu Jianli said again: "Division commander, are we looking for a place to him again?" ”

Liu Yimin shook his head: "There is no chance now, and it is not possible to ambush at any time." If my judgment is right, Xue Yue must have hugged the troops into a group this time, and we can't gnaw on it. ”

Liu Jianjian said anxiously: "Could it be that you let them go in vain?" ”

Liu Yimin looked up at the sky and said slowly: "Don't worry, what we have is time and opportunity, they can't run to the sky." Our task now is to bring the troops to Zunyi for rest and training. Xue Yue will seek revenge from us, and he will not be convinced. If he had known that we only had one division, he would have kept an eye on us. Let's talk about it when we're done with the whole training. ”

Liu Jianjian said hatefully: "Cheap these white dogs!" ”

Cai Zhong asked where the troops directly under the division were, and Liu Jianli replied that it was not far behind, the artillery regiment was a little farther away, and the baggage regiment had not yet arrived at the county seat.

Liu Yimin asked Cai Zhong to go with Liu Jianjian, Cai Zhong shook his head and said: "I won't go, I will stay and watch you, if the enemy plane comes again, I will not allow you to be reckless." Others can't stand you, I'm not at ease! ”

Liu Yimin smiled and said: "Political commissar, you can leave with confidence, the enemy plane will not come!" ”

Cai Zhong said: "You can't say anything, I won't leave." ”

Liu Jianli hurriedly asked what was going on. Cai Zhong briefly talked about Liu Yi's civilian rifle fighting planes, and Liu Jianjian's eyes were straight when he heard it, he could shoot down two enemy planes with a rifle, and the legends made up by storytellers were not so evil! Our division commander is really amazing! Hurriedly pulled Liu Yimin and asked how he did it.

Liu Yimin said: "Actually, there is nothing, when the enemy plane dives towards me, it is a straight diagonal line, and I can see the pilot's face clearly, and killing him is naturally a matter of ease." As for organizing the deployment of machine guns for air defense, the main thing is to calculate the direction and advance of the enemy planes, and this is also one of the subjects of our training, and I will explain it when the time comes. ”

Liu Jianli said: "You better tell me first, how do I feel very profound." ”

Cai Zhong saw that Liu Jianli was anxious, so he said to Liu Jianjian: "What are you anxious about, the division commander said that this is a training subject, can you still not be allowed to study as a chief of staff?" Let's go, the troops are almost finished. ”

Liu Jianli hurriedly saluted the division commander and political commissar, said see you on the north bank of the Wujiang River, and left in a hurry.

It was not until the afternoon that the baggage regiment led by Wu Zheng arrived at the ferry. By this time, the artillery regiment, the heavy machine gun regiment, the engineer regiment, the cavalry battalion, and the troops directly under the division had already crossed the river. Later, the fifth, sixth, and seventh regiments of the third echelon led by Li Qing also followed. For a time, the people at the Huilongchang ferry shouted horses, which was very lively.

Wu Zheng asked the soldiers of the baggage regiment to unload the weapons, ammunition and other materials pulled by the cart, sent the car money, and arranged for the requisitioned cart to return to Zhenyuan. Then I looked for Liu Yimin and Cai Zhong and asked what to do with so many materials?

Liu Yimin just one word: "Carry!" ”

The first to walk over, carrying two shell boxes, walked onto the pontoon.

Cai Zhong also carried a shell box and followed him onto the pontoon bridge.

As soon as Li Qing saw it, he ordered the cadres and soldiers of the fourth, fifth, and sixth regiments to carry supplies across the pontoon bridge.

After crossing the pontoon bridge, Liu Yimin saw that he couldn't finish moving it at once, so he ordered Li Qing to lead the soldiers to carry supplies up the mountain. He returned and asked Wu Zheng to organize the prisoners who had not been incorporated into the army to carry the supplies.

When the materials were transported, it was almost dark, and the third guard regiment also came up, and Liu Yimin ordered the third regiment to hurry up and cross the river.

After the three regiments were over, Liu Yimin and Cai Zhongcai led a company of guards to step onto the pontoon bridge and cross the Wujiang River.

By the time Liu Yimin climbed the steep mountain road on the bank of the Wujiang River for ten miles and reached the top of the mountain, it was already dark. In the distance, I saw several teams of torches rushing towards the torch procession of the guard division.

Cai Zhong said: "It is estimated that the leaders of the Third Army Corps and the Ninth Army Corps have arrived."

Liu Yimin said: "Let's catch up!" ”

The two rode forward.

When he came to the front, he was startled by Liu Yimin, the lineup of this greeting was too luxurious! Mr. Peng recognized it at a glance, and the thin and sturdy one next to him should be the [***] corps commander, and the stout one next to him didn't know who it was, but as soon as he saw the division commander Chen Shuxiang standing behind him, he understood that it must be the Dong corps commander of the Fifth Legion. Since several of the main army commanders are here, the one next to them is Luo Binghui, the commander of the Ninth Army.

Liu Yimin hurriedly turned over and dismounted, walked a few steps, stepped forward and saluted and reported: "Leaders, Liu Yimin, commander of the Central Guard Division of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, reports to you that our unit was ordered to go to Zunyi for rectification and training, and now all of them are crossing the Wujiang River. Please instruct! ”

After several corps commanders returned the salute, without waiting for Cai Zhong to come forward to introduce, Mr. Peng spoke: "No need to be polite, let me introduce you, this is the commander of the first corps [***]." ”

Liu Yimin hurriedly saluted: "Captain Lin is good!" ”

[***] returned the salute and said: "You are very good, you have played the prestige of the Red Army!" ”

Mr. Peng pointed at Dong Zhentang and said, "This is the commander of Dong Zhentang of the Fifth Army Corps." ”

Liu Yimin saluted again and said, "Captain Dong is good!" ”

Without waiting for Mr. Peng to continue to introduce, Luo Binghui took a step forward, held Liu Yimin's hand tightly with a pair of big hands and said: "I am Luo Binghui of the Ninth Army, good boy, you dare to arrange that I was captured by Tao Guang, let's say, how to calculate this account?" ”

Liu Yimin smiled immediately: "That's not because your reputation is too big, how can you let Liu Jianxu take the bait without borrowing your prestige?" ”

Luo Binghui laughed immediately, and said repeatedly: "Okay, good, good Liu Yimin, if you don't get drunk tonight, I'm sorry for your compliments on me!" ”

The commander of the regiment said: "The person has also received it, let's go to Jingkou, don't talk about drinking here, I'm full of drinking wind!" ”

Seeing that the unsmiling [***] became so funny, Mr. Peng said: "Let's go, I'll do Dong tonight, please have a drink." ”

The group got on their horses and rushed to Jingkou.

On the way, Liu Yimin and Chen Shuxiang marched together. Chen Shuxiang looked at Liu Yimin and said, "Amazing! I didn't read the wrong person. ”

It should be said that in this world, the first to get close to Liu Yimin, except for Wang Dahu, are Chen Shuxiang and Cheng Cuilin. Therefore, after listening to Chen Shuxiang's words, Liu Yimin's tears almost fell. You must know that although Liu Yimin was a doctoral student in a famous school before the crossing, and he had a good martial arts and a strong reading ability, he was a student who had not yet stepped out of school, and he was still a baby bump in the eyes of his parents, and he could often hear the care of his parents. After crossing, I was rolling on the line of life and death every day, and suddenly I heard the words of care from someone close to me, and I was naturally excited.

Liu Yimin held back his tears and said for a long time: "How is the teacher?" How is Commissar Cheng? ”

Chen Shuxiang smiled and said, "It's all right!" Since you joined the Red Army, we have won all battles, and it is difficult to think about it in a bad mood! ”

Talking and laughing, the group arrived at Jingkou.

Liu Jianli, Zhao Jie, Wang Dahu, and Zhang Feng, who had already arrived here, had already arranged the headquarters of the division, and when they saw so many leaders coming, they were busy moving tables and stools.

After several regiment commanders sat down, they all asked the guards to take out Moutai wine. Liu Jianli saw it, and hurriedly asked the cooks to prepare the snacks, and asked Wang Dahu to go to the restaurant on Jingkou Street to order food.

Mr. Peng said: "A few of us were going to Zunyi for a meeting, but we heard the news that the guard division had withdrawn after its complete victory. I said that the Guard Division was from the Third Army Corps and was coming to greet you, and they all had to come before they saw you. I had no choice but to report to the Military Commission, but I didn't expect the Military Commission to agree. It just so happens that tomorrow you will go to Zunyi with us for a meeting. ”

[***] spoke: "Don't say anything else, let's talk about how you decided to fight the 16th Hunan Division?" ”

Liu Yimin hurriedly stood up and said, "Report to Commander Lin." ”

Before he finished a sentence, [***] said: "Sit down and talk, just these few people, don't report to report!" ”

Luo Binghui directly pulled Liu Yimin to sit down: "Commander Lin said, there is no need to report, just say it, we are all anxious to listen." ”

Liu Yimin said: "After sending away the main force, I thought that if I wanted to complete the task assigned by the Central Military Commission to block the sluggish enemy, I could only take the initiative to attack, not passively defend. Just think, among the enemies who pursued our army in several ways, the Hunan army was the craziest and the most arrogant. They must have thought that our army was powerless to fight back, and that they would not be as vigilant as usual when marching. Therefore, the target of the attack was set on the Hunan army. Considering that the Hunan army knew that after our army suddenly changed troops, they would definitely chase after it, so they set the ambush site at Xiaoshui, which was relatively far away from the passage, which was not very far from the starting point of the Hunan army, and they would definitely not be careful to watch out. When I went to Xiaoshui, I saw that it was really a good battlefield for ambushes, a highway was attached to a cliff, and this side of the highway was a mountain forest, and the distance was less than 200 meters, so it was convenient for our army to hide and carry out firepower, so I decided to fight. You all know what will happen in the future, and it is all in the war report. The leaders are all generals of the Red Army, so I will not be verbose. ”

[***] nodded: "Yes, the determination is right, the timing is good, and then the chain plan was implemented, which is really good!" It's a pity that Qingxi Town let Xue Yue run away this time, if our main forces were all there at that time, it is estimated that Xue Yue would be finished. ”

Liu Yimin said: "The key is that there is still a gap between our intelligence and reconnaissance, and we can only judge the general direction of the enemy's march, but cannot accurately grasp the time of the enemy's movements. Besides, our army is not suitable for a big war at present, and the troops urgently need to rest and recuperate, and the Central Revolutionary Military Commission will not take the risk of colliding with Xue Yue's main force. ”

Dong Zhentang said: "It's not too late for us to rest and recuperate, let the troops recover, and then clean up Xue Yue." Come, drink first! ”

After a drink, Mr. Peng spoke: "My eighteenth regiment was taken away by you, and now Zeng Chunjian, the commander of the eighteenth regiment, has recovered from his injury." I think about rebuilding the 18th Regiment, I have the backbone, and I can only rely on the support of the guard division for soldiers and weapons and equipment. ”

Without waiting for Liu Yimin to speak, [***] said: "Commander Peng, when we came, [***], Vice Chairman Zhou, and Mr. Zhu said that the four legions are divided equally, and you can't ask for more." ”

Only then did Liu Yimin know why several regiment commanders had marched so far for a day to meet him. It turned out that it was not that he had a big face, but that the prisoners and weapons and ammunition in his hands had a big face.

(To be continued)