Chapter 90: The Great Victory of Shiraishi

However, it is said that He Jian commanded all the troops to kill the generals all the way, because they did not encounter the strong obstruction of the Red Army, and the speed was very fast, and in just three days, the troops "occupied" a large area of Soviet land, including Changning, Guiyang and other Soviet counties. Li Jiansheng asked Huang Su to lead the 1st Red Division to Linwu to lurk and monitor the Kuomintang troops; He led the main force of the Red 2nd Division Guo Hu and Li Qin, the Red 3rd Division Lu Keshan and Guo Zhengjun, the Red 4th Division Yan Dong and Su Sai Division, the Red 5th Division Niu Dali, Bai Kaishan, and Luo Kai, as well as the division's artillery regiment and special service regiment, secretly deployed on the front line of Meitian and Yingchun, and pressed in the direction of both sides of Huangsha and Jinjiang to carry out mass work and make preparations for counter-encirclement and suppression.

On March 10, three columns under He Jian's headquarters began to attack. Because the Red Army was well prepared, it always moved ahead of time, and let He Jianbu pounce on the air several times. In early April, Chairman Chiang personally ordered He Yingqin to go to Changsha to take charge of the "encirclement and suppression" of the Soviet region on the border areas of Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangxi, and Guangdong. The commander-in-chief of the army, navy and air force, Hengyang Xingying, was also established, and He Jian was also the director of the camp; He Ting, commander of the 91st Division, was the commander-in-chief of the front.

Subsequently, the enemy forces attacked the Soviet zone in various sections. In view of the enemy's lenient frontal "encirclement and suppression" arrangement, the elongation of the battle line, the excessive gap, the dispersion of troops, and the fact that none of the "encirclement and suppression" troops were directly affiliated with Chairman Chiang, and that the factions were complex and difficult to coordinate, Li Jiansheng convened another meeting of the General Front Committee on 8 April to carefully study the anti-"encirclement and suppression" combat plan. At the meeting, Li Jiansheng said that in view of the fact that the current battlefield situation was conducive to the Red Army's counteroffensive, it was decided to select the main force of the "encirclement and suppression" army, which was close to the concentration area of the Red Army, as the target of annihilation, concentrate forces to carry out an intermediate breakthrough, cut off the entire deployment of the "encirclement and suppression" army, and then break through each one to smash the "encirclement and suppression." In order to lose no time in turning to the counteroffensive, Li Jiansheng sent the 2nd Red Division to the Suyuan area to lead the enemy to attack to the east and south and monitor it, while the main forces were all concentrated in the Huangsha and Tiantang areas to hide and wait, and to step up political agitation and preparations for battle.

On April 13, the Kuomintang troops began to besiege Yizhang, the center of the Soviet district. Due to the entanglement of a small Red Army under Li Jiansheng's army, progress was slow. Li Jiansheng received information that the 22nd Independent Brigade of the Jiangxi enemy wanted to attack Liangtian alone, and decided to concentrate his forces to annihilate the lone army first, so he led his troops to march urgently overnight and maneuvered to the destination to set up an ambush. However, since the 22nd Brigade had not been able to break away from the source to consolidate its position, it was unable to annihilate the unit, so it gave up and looked for another opportunity and goal.

That night, Li Jiansheng analyzed the enemy situation. He found that the brigade had been at the forefront, and judging from the situation, it was likely to continue to advance, and it was very likely that it would attack Taipingli and Baishidu in two or three days.

On April 15, the 22nd Brigade did cross Taipingli and attack Baishidu. Li Jiansheng boldly ordered: The Red 5th Division should be interspersed between Baishidu and Taipingli, cut off the connection between the 22nd Brigade and the enemy's forward consolidated position, carry out counter-encirclement of the enemy's 22nd Brigade, and at the same time be responsible for striking at the enemy who came to help. The 3rd and 4th Red Divisions, as well as the units directly under the corps, concentrated their firepower on the enemy's 22nd Brigade to settle the battle in one hour. The Red 1st Division and the Red 2nd Division responded sideways.

On the afternoon of the same day, the 22nd Independent Brigade of the Jiangxi enemy entered the ambush circle of Li Jiansheng's department, and first encountered the explosion of mines all over the mountains, killing people and causing chaos among the troops; This was followed by a heavy bombardment of the Red Army artillery, and a large area fell; Before the troops could retract, a dense burst of gunfire rang out in all directions, and then a large number of people fell. Yang Xiangyang, the commander of the 22nd Brigade, finally knew that something was wrong at this moment, and estimated that he had entered the encirclement of the red bandits, and if he didn't know that the entire brigade would be lost here, he immediately organized a counteroffensive of the troops, and asked the newspaper station to ask for help from the surrounding troops through the radio. However, the closest reinforcement was the 7th Division, which suffered a lot from the Red Army, and although it was an advance, it did not dare to go overboard, and on the one hand, it responded to the 22nd Brigade and on the other hand, urged other departments to come to support. However, Li Jiansheng's weapons have already been replaced, and they are no longer what they used to be, and now he has given another death order, just a fierce attack. Pitiful, a whole brigade was wiped out within an hour, and Yang Xiangyang was killed. More than 1,200 people were taken prisoner. As for the 7th Division, it first encountered the resistance of the Red 5th Division, and then found the flags of the Red 1st Division and the Red 2nd Division on both sides. However, he himself knew that even if he rescued strongly, it would be useless, because with the strength of his only 7th Division, looking at the situation in front of him, it was indeed impossible to repel the resistance of the Red 5th Division.

When Li Jiansheng saw that Baishidu had achieved a great victory and completely annihilated the enemy's 22nd Brigade, he was excited, and immediately waved his division north, and let the division's teaching battalion and engineer battalion be responsible for guarding these prisoners and cleaning up the battlefield, and all the five divisions under him surrounded the 7th Division in a roundabout way. The strength of the 7th Division was not strong, and it had long wanted to run, but I didn't expect the 22nd Brigade to be gone so soon, and it was too late to react now. wanted to withdraw, but now he has already been touched by the Red Fifth Division, and he can't retreat, he can't lose it, and he can't lose it, and he is extremely annoyed; Soon the Red 1st Division and the Red 2nd Division on both sides surrounded and engaged the troops in front of them. But no matter how much they escaped, they couldn't outrun the Red Army soldiers who carried out three rounds of 10-kilometer weight-bearing cross-country three times a day, especially the Red Army soldiers who were now victorious. As a result, the head was blocked by the 2nd Regiment of the Red Division, which arrived first.

The 7th Division wanted to forcibly attack and take the road, but it was nailed here. In just 15 minutes, the forward positions where the two armies exchanged fire changed hands three times. The 5th Regiment suffered heavy losses, but gave the large forces time to meet them. At such a short time, all the Red 2nd Division arrived and immediately entered the battle, helping the Red 5th Regiment to stabilize its position. Wen Dong, the commander of the 7th Division, led his troops to break through to the east, but the Red 3rd Division blocked it; To the west, the Red 1st Division blocked; The Red 5th Division and the Red 4th Division in the back also caught up.

Five divisions of the Red Army concentrated on the sudden artillery fire. In less than 40 minutes, the 7th Independent Division was annihilated, and more than 1,300 people were captured. All the officers at all levels, from division commander Wen Dong down, were sniped and killed by snipers.

At that time, the rest of He Jian's troops still did not know that Li Jiansheng had annihilated his two departments, and all his troops still came to reinforce. On the way, I realized that the two parts had been annihilated. All the units stopped together and retreated one after another, but Li Jiansheng was not satisfied, and personally led the Red 1st and Red 2nd Divisions to pursue overnight, and ambushed the two regiments of the 5th Division of the Xianghanping Division of Guangdong again on the outskirts of Guiyang the next morning, and Xianghanping escaped with the rest of the troops, allowing Li Jiansheng to harvest hundreds of prisoners.

After the outbreak of this battle, the other "encirclement and suppression" units that had retreated from the Soviet areas on the Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangxi, and Guangdong borders rushed to withdraw and turned to the defense on the periphery of the base areas. At this point, the Red Eighteenth Army Corps under Li Jiansheng broke the second large-scale encirclement and suppression of the Kuomintang troops in the Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangdong, and Guangdong border Soviet areas.