Chapter 21: The Great Victory of Pingshi
Li Jiansheng cried bitterly. After respectfully kowtowing to his body, he took off the flying knife that Li Fei was carrying, and then left. Li Fei's body was buried by the free local peasant association! When he came back, he was directly appointed by the commander of the first company, Luo Dun, as the commander of the third platoon. two deputy platoon leaders, one is a veteran Miao Gui, the former squad leader; The other is Yang Ning, the former third squad leader. Miao Gui led one class, Yang Ning led the second class, and Li Jiansheng brought three classes. Chen Zhisheng, the former deputy squad leader of the second squad and a veteran member of the squad led by Li Fei, was promoted to the third squad leader. This Chen Zhi is familiar with everyone, and he is also a Yizhang person, and he quickly integrated into the team.
Not to mention that the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army has perfected its organizational structure, it is said that Xu Kexiang led his troops to finally arrive at Changgangling, and although they got rid of the encirclement and pursuit of Zhu Chen's royal troops, they were still not out of danger. Xu Kexiang reorganized the remnants of the army a little and ordered to build fortifications at Changgangling to resist against all odds. He also ordered more sentry posts to be set up at night, and waited until dawn the next day, and mobilized artillery to let Zhu Chen's royal troops taste the power of mountain artillery. When Zhu, Chen, and Wang saw that Xu Bu had seized the top of Changgangling, they knew that they intended to be condescending and prevent their troops from attacking Germany, so they encouraged the officers and men of the whole army to carry forward the spirit of fighting and rushing during the day to completely eliminate Xu Kexiang's bandit army. On the one hand, the troops were ordered to divide into two routes, and the main army crossed the river by Wuyang Division and attacked head-on by the main road; The Peasant Red Guards crossed the river from Niujingping on the left, bypassed the enemy's line of sight, and attacked from the flank. At this time, he learned that the rear defense battalion led by Wang Guangyou, who had rushed to reinforce him, had already occupied the commanding heights of Changgangling, and had a plan in mind, so he ordered Wang Guangyou not to act for the time being, and launched a general attack after the main force arrived, so as to deal a fatal blow to the enemy.
At about 9 o'clock in the morning of the next day, Zhu, Chen, and Wang led the main force to attack head-on. The two armies were held between the valleys. At this time, the Yizhang peasant army led by Chen Dongri and Hu Shaohai crossed the mountains and launched an attack on the enemy from the flank. The enemy is hit in the abdomen and back. At the critical moment, Wang Guangyou's rear battalion also played a role. The three-way men and horses attacked Xu Kexiang's troops, putting the enemy in a passive situation. Xu Kexiang saw that Changgangling was in no danger to defend, and urgently ordered the troops to break through. The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army attacked, and Xu Kexiang's two main regiments suffered a devastating blow, and the remnants retreated to the direction of Pingshi.
Pingshi is an important town located in the mountainous area of northern Guangdong, with more than 300 households, and is the thoroughfare between the south and the north. This place has convenient transportation and prosperous economy, and has always been an important place for soldiers to hoard materials. Xu Kexiang placed the teaching regiment and the supplementary regiment behind Pingshi, and the two regiments have not been able to get in touch with the front line. Under the influence of the division commander, the officers and men were full of arrogance and enjoyed themselves all day long, and were unprepared for battle. They completely forgot that this was a battlefield, and regarded Pingshi Town as a love field for looking for flowers and willows. Xu Kexiang was defeated from the frontline battlefield, and when he saw that the officers and soldiers of the two regiments were unprepared, he was so angry that he scolded the two regiment commanders to the point of blood. The two regiment commanders were scolded and did not dare to disobey the order of the division commander, so they hurriedly mobilized their troops to prepare to deal with the pursuit of Zhu Chen's troops. But before the two regiments could be concentrated, a dense burst of gunfire rang out in the town. But it was Zhu and Chen who rushed like lightning.
The commander of the 2nd Company of the 1st Battalion and the 2nd Company of the 28th Regiment led the 2nd Company to occupy the commanding heights on the left side first, and the commander of the 3rd Company of the 1st Battalion, Xiong Fulin, led the 3rd Company to occupy the commanding heights on the right first. Because the first company was a sharp knife company, the commander of the company Luo Dun led the entire third company directly to the middle of the town. Followed by the head of the old 28th Regiment and the current chief of staff of the division, Wang Erzhuo, led the 2nd Battalion and other units.
Li Jiansheng led a battalion, a company, and three platoons to be the first to break into Bangshi Town. First, because their team has always been a teamwork, especially the third class, the whole is specialized in street warfare and jungle warfare, the first class is a veteran, and the strength of the second class is brought out by Li Fei himself, the former has enough experience, and he has to play his own momentum; The latter was well trained, and he was bent on avenging the old leader Li Fei, so he didn't let it go, and followed Li Jiansheng very tightly. Three teams alternately cover the advance. It's not like other troops rushing straight to the front, and every time they are controlled by stray guns, the charge is blocked!
Xu Kexiang's two regiments were not prepared for battle, so how could they withstand the attack of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army's troops? In a hurry, I was caught off guard. The bold ones had already fled, and the timid resentful father and mother gave him two legs, and he was either killed or surrendered at the moment. Xu Kexiang knew that the general trend was gone, and hurriedly grabbed the road and fled for his life. The topography of Pingshi is not complicated, it is in the form of a canyon with no crossing roads. Xu Bu retreated along the canyon. Zhu and Chen led the troops to chase and fight all the way. The enemy only has the ability to parry, not the power to fight back. Xu Kexiang fled with his life in panic and arrived at Wushui Ferry. Abandoned the sedan chair, changed into civilian clothes, and rowed a small boat to escape for his life. Li Jiansheng hated this executioner to the core, not only because he made five? 21 Changsha Mari Incident, and because his troops directly let their coach and brother Li Fei pass away, there was a fire in his heart, and he was bent on catching Xu Kexiang's words, so he led the team to rush forward. However, he chased until he reached the Lechang River, picked up the military uniform Xu Kexiang was wearing, and knew that he had fled and could not be caught, so he stopped the pursuit and returned triumphantly.
On that day, Pingshi won a great victory. Li Jiansheng, who came from a later generation and majored in history, certainly knew that the significance of this battle was extraordinary. Because this battle was a devastating blow to the enemy, it was the first big victory after the rebel army entered Shonan, and it was different from the ordinary big victory!
Pingshi's victory captured more than 1,000 officers and soldiers of the Xu Division. The three-mile-long streets of Pingshi were littered with captured rifles, machine guns, mortars, ammunition, military equipment, cooking pots, and more. Among them, there were more than 1,000 rifles, more than 30 mortars, 13 horses, and countless bullets. According to Mr. Zhu's instructions, the captured weapons and ammunition were first replenished and equipped with the main force, and at the same time, a part of the equipment was taken out to equip Wang Guangyou's rear battalion and the independent battalion led by Li Guangzong, and the rest were all transported back to Yizhang City to form the Third Regiment of the First Division of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army.
Everyone was very happy, but Li Jiansheng was really not happy. Because in the process of pursuing the enemy, his platoon still suffered few casualties, except for two veterans who did not listen to his command, Zhang Kejia and Li Zhi, who were slightly injured, the rest were not wounded, but his other leaders, the commander of the first company, Luo Dun, were seriously injured and could not command the battle for a short time; The two deputy company commanders, Xu Haonian and Zuo Chunhai, were slightly injured in the former and sacrificed in the latter. After Li Jiansheng visited Luo Dun once, he drove to Guantang with the troops and held a meeting to congratulate Jie.
Li Jiansheng also attended the conference. He knew that according to the trajectory of history, after the meeting, General Manager Zhu judged the situation and put forward the opinion that the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army should immediately move north, occupy Chenzhou and Leiyang, and instigate the general headquarters of southern Hunan, and presided over the convening of a joint military-political conference.