Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Pursuit of the Seventh Division

To the surprise of the platoon commanders of each company, the next combat mission really surprised everyone: The Hunan and Jiangxi Border Special Committee and the Military Commission of the Red Fourth Army decided to continue to adopt the policy of taking a defensive position against the Hunan enemy and an offensive against the Jiangxi enemy, and concentrated their forces on attacking the 14th Brigade of Zhou Hunyuan, which was the greatest threat to the base areas, and Liu Shiyi's unit of the Independent Seventh Division, which occupied Ninggang and Yongxin, and the 7th Independent Division of Liu Shiyi, which was the largest threat to the base areas, and decided to first attack the 7th Independent Division, which was advancing alone and had weak combat effectiveness, in order to obtain Suichuan and solve the urgent problem of economic difficulties!

This is exactly the same as the result of Battalion Commander Li Jiansheng's "reasoning" in front of everyone!

This made the platoon commanders of each company of the second battalion turn over the river in their hearts! The respect for the battalion commander Li Jiansheng has risen exponentially, and he is convinced from the bottom of his heart! So much so that later every time there was a big war, the second battalion had a tradition of "talking on paper" first. Many of the new comrades did not think much of this, and they were immediately knocked on the head by several veterans, and then they were reprimanded. Of course, the main content of this "lecture" is the first "talk on paper" led by Li Jiansheng! Many of the founding fathers who later went out from this unit learned the old battalion commander's method of "reasoning" and "simulating an attack" to achieve a complete understanding of the enemy they had already faced, and then synthesized the opinions of the whole group to form a unified operational line of thought, and all of them prepared more than three kinds of plans. From this time on, this unit has cultivated a large number of staff officers; And this pre-plan system has also kept the battle losses of this army at the minimum, and the results are often the best! Later, this matter somehow reached the ears of several leaders of the central government, and they all talked about it jokingly, and finally became more and more convinced that Li Jiansheng, this kid, was born to lead troops! Of course, this is all for later, so I won't mention it for the time being.

However, he said that after receiving such a task, the platoon commanders of the second battalion had a bottom in their hearts and a strong fighting spirit. On September 13, the entire 28th Regiment and the 3rd Battalion of the 31st Regiment launched an attack on the division headquarters of the 7th Independent Division of the Jiangxi enemy stationed in Suichuan. At that time, Liu Shiyi had already sent his five battalions to attack the Red Army, which had just returned to Huang'ao, and the headquarters of the 7th Division was relatively empty. Li Jiansheng knew all this, so when he attacked a battalion of Liu Shiyi's department, he had no worries and just concentrated his superior forces to attack. This is because the platoon commanders of each company have long had a bottom in their hearts, and they have resolutely carried out the idea of "containment on the periphery and decapitation in special operations" put forward by the battalion commander, that is, the main force is under the command of General Su and together with the fraternal units will attack the fourth battalion of the enemy's main battalion, while Li Jiansheng will personally lead a part of the special operations personnel to charge directly at the "division command" of this division. Because of the rapid action and the enemy's surprise, Li Jiansheng led his troops to successfully destroy the enemy's division. Liu Shiyi saw that the situation was not good, and fled with his guard squad. Li Jiansheng handed over the map and radio station of the Seventh Independent Division, and escorted those staff officers back in a hurry. On the way, the special operators joined the main attack force and stared at the enemy's four battalions with their backhands. Because Li Jiansheng was attacking both inside and outside, and had already defeated the enemy's division headquarters, the commander of the fourth battalion was killed by Yang Ning, the commander of the second company, with a single shot, and several other commanders were also deliberately killed by Li Jiansheng's snipers, and the entire team collapsed at once.

According to the original plan, the deputy battalion commander Ge Feng led a company to take prisoners, Li Jiansheng and General Su each led a company to attack back, and assisted Lin Dashuai's first battalion to besiege from three sides, annihilating the second battalion of the independent 7th Division that was attacking Lin Ying. As soon as the two divisions converged, they immediately assisted the Wuzhong Hao battalion to eat the enemy's three battalions. The 1st Battalion and the 5th Battalion of the enemy, who were attacking the Shock Battalion, saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly retreated, but they were jointly eaten by several battalions that caught up with each other and ate all of the 5th Battalion and most of the 1st Battalion! Xiao Zhiping, commander of the 1st Regiment of the 7th Independent Division, broke through with the last bit of strength of the 1st battalion.

Historically, the Red Army launched a sudden and fierce offensive against 5 battalions of the 7th Independent Division. One of the enemy troops was annihilated, and most of them fled back to Ganzhou. But now, because of Li Jiansheng's arrival, more than 4 of the enemy's 5 battalions have been eaten, and only a small part has retreated! The Red Army then entered Suichuan. On the 24th, it was learned that the 27th Regiment of Zhou Hunyuan's 14th Brigade of the Jiangxi enemy stationed in Taihe cooperated with the remnants of the defeated Independent Seventh Division to counterattack Suichuan.

On October 1, the 28th Regiment and the 31st Regiment set up an ambush in the area of Aotoulong near Xincheng, and one battalion of the enemy's 27th Regiment out of the city was immediately wrapped in dumplings. Before the battalion commander could react, he was shot in the head by Li Jiansheng, who had already been ambushed here. With four battalions against one battalion, and the main battalion of the Red Army, which was repaired and supplemented with weapons, against an unsuspecting enemy battalion, and the leader and heavy weapons of this battalion were all sniped, the process was too simple! In only a few dozen minutes, the battalion was completely annihilated. Mao and Zhu immediately commanded the troops to attack Xincheng. The main force of the enemy's 27th Regiment knew that it was invincible, so it had to abandon the city and flee to Yongxin, but it was ambushed by Li Jiansheng's battalion, which had already been secretly rushed over and ambushed on the side of the road, and lost nearly another battalion. The 32nd Regiment of the 21st Brigade that had just entered Suichuan received the 27th Regiment of Zhou Hunyuan's Brigade for help, and was immediately ordered to go out of the city for reinforcements.

Li Jiansheng knew history for a long time, and at this time he was even more on the front line, knowing that the enemy was coming like this, and only the remnants of the independent Seventh Division, which had weak combat effectiveness and far less strength, were left in Suichuan, and immediately reported the situation to the chief, and put forward his own suggestions: The main force of the Red Army took the initiative to abandon Xincheng and attack Suichuan!

This news made Mao and Zhu Du happy, and the two of them deduced again, and felt that Li Jiansheng's method was good, so they immediately issued an order: the Red Fourth Army took the initiative to abandon Xincheng, waved its army south, and launched an attack on Suichuan on the 13th. Li Jiansheng knew that the enemy's independent 7th Division in history did not dare to engage when he saw the Red Army attacking, and hurriedly retreated to Ganzhou, fearing that this time would be the case again, so he took the initiative to ask for the main attack. The two leaders, Mao and Zhu, also nodded in agreement, after all, he took the idea. Li Jiansheng didn't say a word, and organized an attack overnight. However, he underestimated the ability of the Independent Seventh Division to escape. As in history, as soon as they heard the gunshots, they knew that the Red Army had already entered the city, and regardless of the fact that the vanguard of the Red Army entering the city was actually more than 100 members of the special operations company led by Li Jiansheng, they just couldn't resist and fled overnight. As a result, when Li Jiansheng's troops opened the city gate to welcome the large army, they only saw the shadow of the Seventh Independent Division, and they chased after it for a long time before they ate two companies of the enemy. This once made Li Jiansheng very depressed. However, he was depressed here, and several chiefs were excited. Because in this battle, the Red Army suffered zero losses and captured countless battles. This is a bit different from history. Historically, the Seventh Independent Division also fled, but those who fled during the day took away a lot of weapons, food and grass; And this time, because of Li Jiansheng's arrival, night special operations, originally planned to catch Liu Shiyi, but unexpectedly, a Red Army soldier was encountering the enemy who came out to relieve him, although he did this unlucky enemy at the moment, but it still alarmed the entire independent Seventh Division, which allowed Liu Shiyi and others to escape. But in any case, because the enemy did not have time to take away the weapons and food, a lot of them were captured.