Chapter 61: The Great Victory of County Creek

Thinking that the commander of the regiment was unwilling to be woken up by others casually while he was asleep, and would rather lead his troops first and keep the elite forces such as the special service group and the guard regiment by his side, Luo Ronghuan was inexplicably moved. After asking the regiment commander from Li Zhi about the direction in which they were going, he immediately led his troops to Xianxi. At about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, when Luo Ronghuan led the team to the outskirts of the county creek, Ou Zhengping suddenly ran over in a hurry. When Luo Ronghuan saw him like that, he immediately knew that there was a happy event. Asked again, Ou Zhengping handed over a telegram, but it was a telegram signed by the corps commander Li Jiansheng. But it is good news. It turned out that just 5 minutes ago, the Battle of County Creek ended. With the strength of two whole divisions, Li Jiansheng took advantage of the telegraph to introduce the Taoguang Division of the 62nd Division of the Hunan enemy into a gorge in the north of Xianxi, and then launched a surprise attack. The division was completely annihilated, the enemy division commander Tao Guang was killed, more than 1,500 people were captured, and countless others were captured.

Yes? So fast? The enemy has another division? Luo Ronghuan was overjoyed, hurriedly told everyone the news, and immediately called back to congratulate, and then urged the troops to march. The special service group and the guard corps, which received the good news, stepped up their pace. After more than 40 minutes, he finally met the 48th Regiment of the Red 16th Division that came to greet him. Everyone followed Luo Ronghuan to see Li Jiansheng. Li Jiansheng was in the temporary headquarters at the time, and when he heard that the political commissar was coming, he quickly stood up and went out of the bunker to pick up the political commissar, with a smile on his face. Luo Ronghuan congratulated with a smile. Li Jiansheng smiled and returned to the bunker with Luo Ronghuan. Not long after the two of them sat down, Zeng Zhongsheng came in, and the smile on his face made people think that he was afraid that he had a new daughter-in-law. Seeing that the political commissar was also there, Chief of Staff Zeng laughed and said, "Political commissar, our corps commander is calculating, how long has it been?" In less than two hours, one of the enemy's reorganized divisions was gone! Our weapons, that's a lot, oops, you didn't look at the situation of the battle just now, tsk......" Zeng Zhongsheng said as he handed the latest situation to the two clan leaders. In fact, he had already made an inventory and had already informed Li Jiansheng of the general situation, which was why Li Jiansheng was able to inform Luo Ronghuan of the situation. Of course, that's just a rough statistic, and it's delicate at the moment. Looking at this list, Luo Ronghuan was stunned again:

Annihilated six regiments of one division, three brigades, killed the enemy's division commander Tao Guang, captured 1,562 soldiers of the enemy's deputy division commander Yu Zhong and below, wounded 2,781 people, and killed 6,114 enemies. 60 mortars were captured and 29 guns were captured, and another 7 guns were damaged but repaired and used. 72 heavy machine guns and 122 light machine guns were seized. More than 56,800 grenades were seized. More than 3,200 mortar shells, countless bullets. 124 horses, including 36 baggage horses. More than 70 horses were killed.

This result is no less than the "Great Victory of the Three Provinces"!

Luo Ronghuan was a little excited. glanced at Li Jiansheng with inquiring eyes, Li Jiansheng just smiled and didn't answer. Zeng Zhongsheng next to him couldn't see the appearance of the political commissar, or he wanted to find someone to share his happiness, so he sat down and introduced them to the political commissar one by one.

It turned out that early this morning, Li Jiansheng set off with his troops, and came directly to the east. It was learned through the radio station that captured Zhang Liangji's base that Tao Guangshi would rush to the area of Xianxi at noon today, so he marched directly here. Those who arrived at the target at 9 o'clock in the morning selected the ambush site and asked the various units to do a good job of ambushing. Considering that this ambush of Tao Guangbu is different from the last ambush of Zhang Liang's base, the last ambush of Zhang Liang's base was to fight the enemy brigade by brigade, and the advantage is obvious; This time it was different, with 20,000 people ambushing the enemy's 10,000 people, and the advantage was not very obvious. Therefore, the corps commander specially instructed the commanders of all divisions, regiments, and staff officers to divide the entire ambush circle into grids, and determine the grids battalion by battalion and regiment to ensure that the encirclement was one-on-one and left no dead ends.

The warriors had been in ambush and preparing for more than two hours, and the enemy finally arrived. Perhaps because he knew through the radio that the 16th Division was ahead, Tao Guangshi, like the 48th Brigade of the 16th Division, did not send scouts. As a result, it was surrounded by the Red 16th Division and the Red 19th Division.

Speaking of this, Zeng Zhongsheng glanced at Li Jiansheng and Luo Ronghuan, and said, "There is a sentence here that needs to be explained, because I feel that the corps commander hates this division very much." Before the start of the fight, it was clearly stated that there was no need to be polite to this division. So at this moment, everyone is desperately smashing into the encirclement. Fortunately, there are many seizures and enough ammunition, so there is no need to worry. Therefore, three rounds of smashing down, the enemy will be completely defeated. As a result, it was a success in less than two hours! ”

Li Jiansheng listened to Zeng Zhongsheng's words, and sighed secretly, this Zeng Zhongsheng is really condescending if he doesn't want to be a storyteller. You see, this war, when he said this, it was a vivid, undulating, and fascinating plot. Thinking about it again, this Zeng Zhongsheng is really a character, and he has seen some fame with just one sentence. You know, I really hate this Tao Guang.

Tao Guang is different from Zhang Liangji. Zhang Liangji is a famous general of the Anti-Japanese War, while Tao Guang is a pure bandit. In the past, he was born as a mountain bandit, but he was later recruited by He Jian and named a brigade commander. This guy can't do anything else, he still has a way of winning people over. pulled the banner of the brigade commander and moved around to recruit bandits. In the end, the surrounding bandits all arrived at his brigade, which at that time became the size of a division. Later, when fighting the Red Army, this kid was at the forefront. Killed a lot of Red Army soldiers and was promoted to division. What's even more cruel is that in order to repay the merits, when he passed through a village on the way back to the army, he forced to slaughter all the more than 300 innocent villagers in this village, including children. As for the women, they were all victimized, first insulted, and then beheaded. After Li Jiansheng, who studied history, learned that he was targeting this army, he made up his mind to destroy this army. That's why the order was given.

For the three divisions under Liu Jianxu's 28th Army, Li Jiansheng had studied them before. Three divisions were not good guys for the Red Army. Historically, because of the report that the main force of the Red Army had disengaged from the headquarters, the 16th and 62nd Hunan Divisions intercepted the Red Army in the direction of the passage on the morning of December 13, 1934. Later, when the Red Army transferred to Guizhou, the 16th Hunan Division pursued it relentlessly, causing more than 2,000 casualties among the Red Army's lagging enemy troops and stragglers in the passage area alone. The 62nd Division also inflicted heavy casualties on the Red Army on the periphery of the passage. In Xianxi, the 11 female Red Army soldiers who were caught were raped first and then killed, and they were cut off, beheaded, and heart-to-heart! Li Jue's division of the 19th Division caused heavy casualties to the Red Sixth Army in Xiaoshui, and even forced 8 Red Army soldiers to jump off the cliff! But relatively speaking, what Li Jiansheng hates most is this 62nd Division, not only because of his banditry against the female soldiers of the Red Army, but also because he killed the common people indiscriminately and made Li Jiansheng gnash his teeth! Fortunately, this time because of Li Jiansheng's arrival, the female soldiers of the Red Army did not have any encounters in history, but many ordinary people still suffered. This is the reason why Li Jiansheng made up his mind. In fact, Li Jiansheng had a deal with Tao Guangbu. At the beginning on the edge of the Xiang River, when Li Jiansheng's unit rescued the International Division of the Young Communist Party, he fought a division of the Hunan Army, and that division was the 62nd Division. It's just that Li Jiansheng didn't understand what the name of this division was at that time, and because he was anxious to save the International Division of the Young Communist Party, he was able to escape part of this division. It is precisely because they were born bandits that this Tao Guang's troops are the most slippery, fighting hard if they win, and running away if they can't win. In the past, the Tao Guang Department of the 62nd Division was on the edge of the Xiangjiang River, and it was killed by Li Jiansheng's department, and only more than 3,000 people remained. At that time, they were besieging the International Division of the Young Communist Party, but they were unexpectedly defeated by Li Jiansheng's troops from behind. Tao Guang, who was born as a bandit, saw the opportunity quickly at that time, and led his troops to escape. After the war, it was supplemented by the use of local security regiments. As a result, these newly replenished security guards, who were not very harmful, suffered and were mistaken by Li Jiansheng for the original bandit soldiers, but they did not know that most of the original bandit soldiers had already been wiped out by Li Jiansheng's troops. Fortunately, it is precisely because they are recruits supplemented by security guards, and their combat effectiveness is not too high, so after being surrounded by Li Jiansheng's two divisions, they all broke down when they saw the explosions all over the sky, and under the persecution of more than 3,000 officers and veterans born of hardcore bandits, they stubbornly resisted for nearly two hours, and finally declared ashes!

Luo Ronghuan didn't know what Li Jiansheng was thinking, but he heard Zeng Zhongsheng say it was thrilling, and he smiled at the moment: "The commander of the regiment has won another big victory, it's amazing!" I see, we must hurry up and report to the Central Committee, so that the head of the Central Committee will also be happy! Li Jiansheng nodded, and Zeng Zhongsheng hurriedly went out to make arrangements. Luo Ronghuan thought about it, but found another question: "Commander, how did you deal with the prisoners of the 16th Hunan Division?" I didn't notice them! ”

When Li Jiansheng heard this, he laughed, took a sip of tea and said, "After Zhao Boping's efforts last night, these soldiers have transformed very quickly. By the time this morning, most of them had asked to join the Red Army. I think, it's just right, our two divisions only have more than 9,000 people in each division, and if we incorporate these more than 3,000 people, it will be a 10,000-person division, so I will make them all in. Well, those wounded prisoners, listening to Zhao Boping, were very moved because they were treated, and they all expressed their desire to join the Red Army. I pondered that these prisoners, plus those lightly wounded, numbered about 4,000 men, and that a new regiment should be formed. Therefore, I took one battalion from each of the 46th, 47th, and 48th regiments of the 16th Division, broke them up, and organized them into four battalions and several directly subordinate company platoons to form the skeleton of the 58th Regiment. More than 900 new recruits were added to complete the full strength of the four battalions and several direct companies and platoons. The newly formed 58th Regiment was temporarily subordinate to the 16th Division. The regiment commander Wang Huixian, Li Qing served as the political commissar of the regiment, and the regiment chief of staff Mu Kou. I was going to discuss the appointment of these people, but then I saw that you were asleep, and I didn't wake you up, and I was in a hurry to fight, so I did it first! Now that the battle is over, listen to your opinion! ”

When Luo Ronghuan heard this, he thought about it and said, "You are familiar with these people, so let's use them first." It's just that why do these people sound familiar? I remembered, but I couldn't remember where I had heard the names of these people. Even if you did, it seemed like years ago! ”