Chapter 131: The Beginning of the Long March (2)

On the afternoon of October 22, the Red Eighteenth Army Corps under Li Jiansheng continued to advance non-stop after passing through the first blockade line. In the afternoon of the next day, the second line of enemy blockade was encountered. This blockade, together with the enemy who had retreated from the first line, had a total strength of 70,000 men. This time, Li Jiansheng could not fight as flexibly and flexibly as usual, and his main force was only the 18th Red Army Corps at hand, and the other large units of the Red Third Front Army were all in the field, so he had the intention not to fight this battle, but thinking about the difficulties of the Central Red Army and the difficulties of several great men, Li Jiansheng still stubbornly led more than 30,000 men and horses of his department into the position.

The battle was fought fiercely. With more than 30,000 people against more than 70,000 people, and the other side has a position to hold, although most of the Red Eighteenth Army of Li Jiansheng's army are veterans of a hundred battles and their weapons are also very elite, it is still very difficult to fight with these enemies. Moreover, after this battle, Li Jiansheng found that these Kuomintang troops on the opposite side were different from the past, not only did they not retreat at all when they fought, but even after his sniper troops killed the enemy's division commanders, brigade commanders, and regiment commanders one after another, the enemy fought with great succession. Li Jiansheng, who was a little annoyed and puzzled in his heart, was in a hurry, and asked Yuntian to lead the main force to attack the enemy head-on, and he personally took a special service brigade to a detour back to a position, and after forcibly occupying this position, he found that at this time, only one Kuomintang soldier was fighting his own troops with machine guns, and all the other enemies in the department were killed! When the soldier saw that the Red Army had finally rushed up, he opened his mouth and laughed miserably, and with one hand, he tore off the fuse of the large bundle of grenades that had been tied to his body and pounced on Li Jiansheng. Although Li Jiansheng admired him very much, he didn't want to suffer casualties among himself or his troops, so he snapped two shots to solve the soldier, and he and the others immediately fell to the ground. Then there was a loud "boom", and the soldiers of this Kuomintang unit were blown into smithereens!

Looking at this scene, although he occupied this position, Li Jiansheng sighed a little. He came from later generations, and he has watched too many movies, and there are many such soldiers who died with the enemy on the battlefield, but he didn't expect to see it with his own eyes today. And these people are killing their own troops, they are doing this to their own troops. It was estimated that this was the result of Chairman Chiang's "Lushan Rectification Training" before the fifth encirclement and suppression of the Central Soviet Region! -- It seems that this ideological education is really effective! glanced at the soldiers accompanying him, and saw that the soldiers did not look shocked, and his heart was a little more steady. Well, it seems that the ideological work of their own troops has also been done very well, for example, when they see the current situation, they do not have any special feelings, which not only shows that they have been in the war for a long time and can turn a blind eye to it, but also shows that in their hearts, this war has reached a critical moment, and this situation is understandable. In other words, if it were them, if they encountered such a situation, they would not hesitate to pounce on them like the enemy soldier who was blown to pieces, until they were also blown to pieces.

However, although Li Jiansheng personally led his troops to repel the enemy's attack and successfully occupied this high ground through roundabout tactics, it has to be said that this bitter battle was the only one Li Jiansheng had seen in his life. Because Li Jiansheng did not agree with this method of operation from the bottom of his heart, it was only because of the special situation at the moment that he had to fight hard like this. This battle lasted for 8 days at a time. In the process of fighting, Li Jiansheng cooperated with Yuntian and several others, constantly forming superior forces on the ground and constantly attacking the enemy's positions. Finally, on November 1, the Red Eighteenth Army Corps under Li Jiansheng successfully killed nearly 6,000 enemies and passed through the second blockade line after paying heavy casualties of more than 3,000 people. The enemy on the second blockade line retreated on all fronts.

Li Jiansheng knew that once these remnants merged with the enemy on the third blockade line, his own troops would be in some danger. Therefore, Li Jiansheng personally led the guard regiment and the special service brigade to rush forward at the speed of a rapid march, and grabbed footsteps with the enemy; Yuntian led the main force to follow. On the fourth day, Li Jiansheng's troops finally forcibly inserted between the retreating enemy and the third blockade line, blocking the enemy. And the Yuntian Department also surrounded it. It's another uphill battle, a dozen and another week. Of course, Li Jiansheng's subordinate surrounded the enemy's 60,000 people with 30,000 people, and there were indeed some of them. In the end, after another heavy casualty of more than 3,000 people, more than 8,000 enemies were annihilated, more than 10,000 enemies were captured, and the rest of the enemy was scattered. In the battle, Li Jiansheng's department learned the method of attacking the fortified position for the first time, so that the snipers could exert their might and kill all the possible backbones of the enemy, and the artillery fire did not stop, and because it was a two-end attack, this won such a big victory. This was able to capture more than 10,000 enemies. If those backbones don't die, it is estimated that they will not be able to capture so many people. After a day's rest, Li Jiansheng's subordinate replenished 4,000 men from these prisoners, and the other enemy was escorted by the engineer regiment and the baggage regiment, and the brigade was taught to keep one part, and the rest of the main force continued to move forward with him.

Fortunately, in this battle, Li Jiansheng's troops finally got rare supplies. Therefore, when hitting the enemy's third blockade line, it was passed in only two days. However, at this time, the situation of the war has changed.

It turned out that after the Central Red Army broke through the second and third blockade lines of the Kuomintang Army on November 15, the Central Red Army continued to be in a disadvantageous position because of the blind retreat of Bogu, Li De, and other leaders and their passive avoidance of battle. In view of the dangerous situation, the Central Red Army was forced to cancel the first set of plans for the division and implement the second plan in favor of the second one. That is, it no longer joined forces with Li Jiansheng's division, and the Central Red Army changed its course and decided not to go southwest, but to continue to the west to join the division with the Red Second and Sixth Army Corps. However, in the official history, after the Central Red Army broke through the first blockade line in Xinfeng, it successively broke through the enemy's second and third blockade lines in Chengkou, Guangdong and Yizhang, Hunan; At present, because of Li Jiansheng's arrival, the enemy's second and third blockade lines are not in the above two places, but in the northern part of Guangdong and the eastern part of Hunan.

After receiving the telegrams from Zhu and Zhou, Li Jiansheng finally breathed a sigh of relief. For no other reason, because this is not how this battle was fought! The elite troops under his own department, carefully cultivated, lost more than 6,000 people in just over 20 days! What kind of battle damage is this? Watching his brothers fall one after another, Yun Tian, a usually taciturn man, never smiled again. Li Jiansheng also felt uncomfortable. But there is no other way. Because to receive the Central Red Army, it was unconditional. Fortunately, now that the Central Red Army is not coming, he can be relieved. You know, there are still 6 blockades in the future! It is necessary to pass one by one, including his subordinates, including the Central Red Army, and I don't know how many people will die!