The Fujiang River originates from the north foot of the main peak of Minshan Xuebaoding, out of the Yellow Dragon, from the northwest to the southeast, through Pingwu, Jiangyou, Santai, Shehong, Suining, Tongnan, to the confluence of Hechuan and Jialing River. Because Mianyang was called Fuxian in the Han Dynasty, it was called Fujiang. In ancient times, Bashu took the Jialing River as the dividing line, the west of the Jialing River was called Shu, and the east of the Jialing River was called Ba, so the Fujiang River was also called Neishui and Neijiang.

The crystal clear snow-capped mountains and holy waters have nurtured countless people in all dynasties on both sides of the Fujiang River. Above Jiangyou, the mountains are high and the forests are deep, the natural materials and earth treasures, and the animals are rare; As soon as the river is oiled, the water transportation is smooth, the irrigation is developed, and the people are abundant. It is actually the rice grain river of the dam in western Sichuan.

On the night of January 25, 1935, when the 1st, 9th, and 7th Red Army Corps were advancing to Mianyang under the cover of night, Peng Dehuai commanded the Red 3rd and 5th Army Corps to cross the Fujiang River from Suining, opening the prelude to the largest Fujia Battle since the founding of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.

At this time, it was the dry period of the Fujiang River, and the width of the river was more than 100 meters.

Because the speed of the Red Third Army Corps when it occupied the Fujiang River, which was completely unexpected by the Sichuan army, the Sichuan army did not rush to destroy the ships, and the Third Army Corps captured the ferries at the Fujiang ferry port and all the ships on the Fujiang River. In addition, after Liu Yimin occupied Chengdu, Liu Xiang was afraid that the troops would be too scattered and easy to be broken by the Red Army, so he ordered the defenders in various places to concentrate on key points, so there were no heavy troops on the other side of Suining, and only a few small troops responsible for monitoring the movements of the Red Army.

On the west bank of the Fujiang River, hundreds of boats were ready to depart, and the soldiers sat on the boats and held their guns tightly, and machine guns were set up on the bows.

Li Tianyou, commander of the Red Fifth Division, was anxiously waiting for the signal of the vanguard by the riverside, and his vanguard company of the 13th Red Regiment had already taken advantage of the night to secretly row across the river.

Li Tianyou has just turned 21 years old, but there is no trace of childishness on his young face, and his two eyes are shining in the dark night, like a tiger.

In the ranks of the Red Army, Li Tianyou was known as a tiger general. At the age of 14, he joined the Guijun Seventh Army, served as a soldier under Li Mingrui, and was soon sent to the Guangxi Nanning Teaching Corps founded by [***] people as a student soldier, and at the age of 15, Comrade Xiaoping and Comrade Zhang Yunyi launched the Baise Uprising and established the Red Seventh Army, and Li Tianyou served as the deputy company commander and company commander of the special service company of the military department. After the Red Seventh Army went north to join the Red Army in the capital, Li Tianyou participated in a series of battles such as the third anti-encirclement and suppression and the attack on Ganzhou, and was promoted to deputy regiment commander to study in the higher-level cadres of the Red Army Cadre School. At the age of 20, he served as the commander of the Red Fourth Division, and during the Xiangjiang Campaign, the three regiments of the Red Fifth Division fought against the Gui Army in the two main battlefields of Xinwei and Guanghuapu, and suffered heavy casualties. After transferring troops to Guizhou, they marched all the way to fight and replenished all the way, especially after arriving in Sichuan, the soldiers were replenished rapidly, plus the weapons and ammunition delivered by Liu Yimin and the elite prisoners of the Hunan Army and the Central Army, the current Red Fifth Division is much stronger than before the departure of the Long March.

After receiving the order from the Red Army Headquarters to carry out the Fujia Campaign, Mr. Peng immediately ordered the Red Fifth Division to be the vanguard to open the way for the whole army. Li Tianyou quickly formulated a combat plan that combined smuggling and forcible crossing, and planned to break through the Fujiang River in one fell swoop.

Just as Li Tianyou was anxiously waiting, gunshots and shouts rang out on the other side of the river, and after a short time, the gunfire stopped. Two signal flares flew into the air, and Li Tianyou was overjoyed and ordered the Red 13th Regiment to cross the river immediately.

The Red Thirteenth Regiment, which had been waiting on the boat for a long time, immediately lit torches, urged the boat, and rowed towards the opposite shore. The surface of the river is illuminated by torches, hundreds of boats are fighting, and the sound of oars is one.

After the Red 13th Regiment crossed the river, it took control of the key points, and the main force of the Red 5th Division quickly crossed the river.

Seeing that the main force of the Red Army crossed the river in a big way, the small units of the Sichuan Army who were responsible for monitoring the Red Army at other ferries on the other side of the river, where did they dare to resist it? I only hated my father and mother for having two legs less, and escaped while they were scattered in the night.

In this way, the five main divisions of the 3rd and 5th Army Corps of the Red Army, divided into five routes, crossed the Fujiang River calmly and calmly by ferry.

Peng Dehuai, who crossed the river, looked back at the quiet riverside town of Suining at night, and then looked at the rolling iron stream rushing in with torches in the night, and thought about the tragic scene of more than half of the casualties in the vicious battle of the Xiangjiang River. ”

After shouting, he ignored the surprised eyes of Yang Shangkun and Deng Ping, whipped the horse, and galloped into the depths of the night.

Deyang is less than 100 miles away from Mianyang, and it is a plain road, and the Red First Army and the Red Ninth Army are progressing extremely rapidly.

As Liu Yimin guessed, [***] and Nie Rongzhen didn't want to let Deng Xihou flee to Jiangyou, so he ordered the Red Ninth Army to besiege Mianyang, and ordered the Red First Division and the Red Third Division to attack Jiangyou, and the Red Second Division to attack Zitong.

Liu Yimin led the Red Seventh Army to march behind the First Army, and when he saw the Red Army teams with torches marching in the dark night, just like the red arrows on the battlefield situation map generated by animation in later generations, he felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart. Okay, my trip was not in vain, the Red Army at this time in history was still crossing the Chishui! Thinking about the heroic and warlike Third Army Corps when it finally reorganized the Eighth Route Army, only one regiment was formed, and the Fifth Army Corps was wiped out, and then thinking about the scene when [***] held a meeting of cadres above the Red Army Regiment after arriving in northern Shaanxi, and couldn't help crying when he saw the pitiful appearance of the cadres, Liu Yimin felt that he had changed the history of the Long March, and the Red Army was not only not weakened, but became stronger! I am eager to finish this battle as soon as possible, establish a stable base as soon as possible, and go to the battlefield to kill devils as soon as possible.

The large army marched at night, and not a single person spoke. Liu Yimin, who was riding on a horse, sighed in his heart, if it was placed in the era of peace in the later generations, I am afraid that all people would not believe that such a large army, under the constraints of the Red Army's iron discipline, was so quiet. Even the marching team of the legion headquarters around him was silent all the way, only the sound of footsteps and horses' hooves beating the ground.

At 4 o'clock in the morning, the troops arrived near Mianyang. The 2nd Red Division erected a pontoon bridge over the Fujiang River, about 20 miles away from Mianyang, and the soldiers stepped across the pontoon bridge with torches and advanced towards Zitong.

By the time Liu Yimin walked across the pontoon bridge, the sky was already dawning.

Feng Dafei asked if he would like to take a break before leaving, and Liu Yimin replied briefly: "Follow behind the second division and continue to move forward." ”

After speaking, Liu Yimin got off the war horse and asked Li Chengyi to take the war horse away, let the tired soldiers take turns to ride, and speed up the march.

When Luo Ronghuan saw that Liu Yimin gave up his horse, he said to Li Chengyi: "The regiment commander's injury is not completely healed, you leave his war horse and take my war horse away." ”

Liu Yimin said: "My body is fine, it doesn't matter. The commissar has bad eyesight and can't keep up with the walking speed, so it's better to ride a horse. Don't fight any more, take my horse away. ”

Luo Ronghuan thought about it, too, he wore an eye, and it was even worse to see the road at this time. and no more quarrels.

Cai Zhong and Feng Dafei also let their horses out, grabbed the light machine guns of the soldiers, and followed Liu Yimin to stride forward.

The troops galloped all the way north.

That night, Chiang Kai-shek went to bed early.

Before falling asleep, Chiang Kai-shek was still thinking that Xue Yue was advancing rapidly towards Chengdu, Zhang Xueliang had also arrived in Wanxian, Hu Zongnan's elite first division had entered Guangyuan, and Yang Hucheng had also entered northern Sichuan from southern Shaanxi. In particular, Liu Xiang repeatedly sent telegrams expressing his resolute obedience to the command of the central authorities and sincerely inviting him to go to Yucheng to supervise and suppress the bandits. It seems that everything is in his own hands, and the remnants of Zhu Mao's defeated generals are inseparable this time!

After falling asleep, Chiang Kai-shek began to dream. It seems that I have returned to my hometown in Xikou, probably when I was a child, and a large water tank was placed at the door, and the water in it was covered with a thin layer of ice, which looked crystal clear. The naughty Chiang Kai-shek wanted to know how the water could turn into ice, and whether the water under the ice would become something else, so he moved a stool, climbed on the edge of the tank, and stretched out his head to look into the tank, and his little hands kept trying to break the ice. I didn't want to overexert myself, so I went headlong into it. Now the ice broke, and the water went into my stomach. It turns out that there is still water under the ice!

The dream turned, how did I get to Shanghai, it seemed that it was the time to be down, I had just come back from drinking flower wine with Chen Qimei, and when I looked up, my mother was standing at the door of the residence with my wife Mao. There seemed to be another wrinkle on the mother's thin face, and Mao lowered her head, stroking the corners of her clothes, and didn't dare to look at herself.

The dream turned again, and the son was born. His mother hugged him, a smile in every wrinkle on her face. The son is also well-behaved, with a chubby little face and a loud cry, people can't help but want to tease him. Mao, who gave birth, is still like that, nagging and persuading himself every day not to wander outside, and to go back to his hometown in Xikou with him. Why is this woman's knowledge so shallow? When will we be able to understand our revolutionary ideals?

suddenly returned to the period of the Huangpu Military Academy in Guangzhou, Chen Jie was like a white dress and a white skirt, with a graceful demeanor and a bird. I am in a bad mood, the key is that [***] is too much trouble, all divisions and regiments of the First Army have their party representatives, how can we get rid of them? It happened that Chen Zhaoying reported that Li Zhilong, director of the Navy Bureau and captain of Zhongshan, was unstable. Okay, what you want is the fuse, just take him under the knife! So he put on his military uniform and rushed to the garrison headquarters and commanded the troops to start martial law. As a result, this Li Zhilong did not confess, and insisted that he was ordered to drive a warship to Huangpu to wait for President Jiang to call him. Niang Xipi! Lao Tzu doesn't need your confession, what Lao Tzu needs is [***] members to leave my first army! Shut it up and talk about it.

Why did you get to Shanghai again? It seems that he is getting married. First, a church wedding was held in the Song Mansion, and Ziwen handed over the beautiful Meiling in full costume to his hand, exchanged rings, and read the vows. Then he went to hold a Chinese wedding, and when the guests were still excited, he quietly took Meiling to Moganshan.

Dreaming and dreaming, he woke up, and Chiang Kai-shek's mind had not fully returned from the dream, so he subconsciously touched the beautiful bride beside him.

The sleeping lady was suddenly attacked and woke up in fright. Seeing that Darling was coming again, he thought that he was too charming, and said "I hate it", so he quietly pulled a corner of the quilt and moved his body inside.

Chiang Kai-shek did not make any further moves, but completely woke up. Strange, sleeping well, how do you dream so much? Mother and Jingguo don't talk about it, and often fall into dreams. Why did Mao and Chen Jieru dream of it? Could it be that Chen Jieru is coming back? Or is Mao unwell? It's weird! I don't know how Jingguo is doing in the Soviet Union, this kid has been gone for nine years, and I don't know what it looks like now. It's not good, it's been pledged by the Soviets, and I have to find a way to get my son back.

Seeing that Chiang Kai-shek was staring and thinking about his thoughts, which was not at all what he thought, his wife said "nerves" angrily, wrapped the quilt tightly, and continued to dream.

Look at the time, it's almost 5 o'clock, and the sky is almost clear. Chiang Kai-shek, who couldn't sleep anymore, got up, washed up, and went directly to the study.

Sitting in the study, bored, my mind involuntarily thought of the war again. What will the Vermilion Red Bandit do next? They're not going to sit still. So what are they going to do? Chengdu has become a target, it is impossible to defend it in Chengdu, there is no danger to defend, not to mention, his army will soon form an encirclement there, and the encirclement will continue to shrink. This point, not to mention a senior general, even a company commander can see it. The red bandits retreated in Chengdu and did not move, perhaps they were brewing a bigger conspiracy.

What exactly is this conspiracy? It is obvious that the red bandits want to cross the Jialing River and join Xu Qianqian's bandits. At the beginning, they just wanted to go to Xiangxi to meet He Long and Xiao Ke, so they got into their pocket formation. However, now that there is a large army of the Sichuan army guarding the Jialing River, the red bandits will not know, do they have the courage to touch the stones? They don't want to repeat the story of the Xiangjiang fiasco, right?

Taking a step back, even if the Sichuan army can't hold it and let them cross the Jialing River, what can it do? It's just going from one pocket to another, bigger one. Moreover, he can also consume a part of the Sichuan army for himself.

After thinking about it, my brain jumped, and I suddenly thought of Mianyang.

This Mianyang has been a battleground for soldiers since ancient times, and with the surname of the red bandits flowing around, they will not want to go there. Occupying Mianyang, to the east can flank the defense line of the Jialing River, to the south can threaten Chengdu at any time, to the west can flow into the deep mountains and old forests in the northwest of Sichuan, and to the north can enter Shaanxi and Gansu. Advance can be attacked, retreat can be defended, it is really a good place to advance and retreat.

No, Liu Xiang must be notified immediately, and he must quickly strengthen the Mianyang defense line and block the road of the red bandits.

Thinking of this, Chiang Kai-shek didn't care whether Liu Xiang got up or not, and immediately called the staff officer of the guard on duty and asked him to send a telegram to Liu Xiang immediately.

After the staff officer went to power the station, Chiang Kai-shek was still not at ease when he thought about it, and felt that he had made a wrong move, and he should not have ordered Hu Zongnan's first division to go to Guangyuan, where there were still many Sichuan troops, but should have let the first division directly enter Mianyang to garrison. With this strong team stationed in Mianyang, where will I sleep at night and dream.

Chiang Kai-shek called a staff officer again and asked him to send a telegram to Hu Zongnan, and quickly deploy to prepare to seize Mianyang.

After dealing with these things, Chiang Kai-shek felt that his heart was steady, and his sleepiness also came up. I yawned and went back to the bedroom to catch up on sleep.

When he received Chiang Kai-shek's telegram, Liu Xiang really hadn't gotten up yet.

The situation has been tight these days, and he has been staying in the war room every day, and Liu Xiang, who is tall and strong, can't stand it.

Last night, Pan Wenhua reported that the striker had reached the vicinity of Ziyang and had not encountered any red bandits along the way.

Liu Xiang and Fu Chang felt incredible, this Red Bandit First Army gave up Leshan, obviously shrinking its forces and returning to Chengdu to defend it, why are there no Red Bandits near Ziyang? Could it be that the red bandits have given up the peripheral fulcrum and are ready to fight in Chengdu?

I asked about other places, and all of them reported that the enemy situation had not changed. Liu Xiang, who was puzzled, had no choice but to go to bed with questions.

When Fu Chang took Chiang Kai-shek's telegram to call Liu Xiang, it was almost seven o'clock. In winter, Yucheng is foggy and gloomy, and the light is still very dark. Turning on the light, Liu Xiang read the contents of the telegram, and then asked Fu Chang what he thought.

Fu Chang said: "Chairman Chiang's worries are justified, Chengdu cannot be defended, and the red bandits will definitely find another way out." However, we don't know what the current strength of the red bandits is. Whether they have the strength to win Mianyang needs to be seen. ”

Liu Xiang was a little displeased: "The city wall of Chengdu is stronger than that of Mianyang, isn't it the same as that taken down by the red bandits?" ”

Fu Chang shook his head: "That's different, one is that Chengdu is out of the city wall and there is no danger to defend, and the other is that no one knew that the red bandits would suddenly arrive in Chengdu at that time, the garrison did not have any precautions, and the soldiers had not yet distributed ammunition." ”

Liu Xiang thought about it for a moment and said: "Send a telegram to Deng Xihou immediately, and Mianyang will immediately be under martial law to prevent a sneak attack by red bandits." ”

Fu Chang promised to leave, Liu Xiang turned on the radio with his hand, and wanted to hear what new movements were made on the radio station in Chengdu.

As soon as I turned on the radio, the "Letter of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army to the Citizens of Chengdu" from the Chengdu Garrison Headquarters of the Red Army was playing. Liu Xiang and Fu Chang were shocked when they heard it, this red bandit slipped away again, Chengdu became an empty city, where is their next target?

Liu Xiang thought for a while, and urged Fu Chang repeatedly: "Hurry up and send a telegram to Mianyang, asking them to closely monitor the movements of the red bandits, be fast, don't let the red bandits take advantage of the loophole again." ”

After Fu Chang left, Liu Xiang hurriedly washed up and hurriedly walked into the war room.

When he entered the war room, Fu Chang was sitting on a chair, his face pale. Liu Xiang thought that Fu Chang was sick, so he hurriedly stepped forward and touched Fu Chang's forehead with his hand.

Fu Chang pushed Liu Xiang's hand away and sighed: "Fu Cheng, we are late again, and the red bandits have already surrounded Mianyang." ”

At this time, Liu Xiang was not panicked, took the telegram in Fu Chang's hand and looked at it, Deng Xihou said very clearly: "At six o'clock in the morning, the enemy was found at the south gate, and at half past six, all city gates reported that the enemy had been found. The first red bandits have formed a siege of Mianyang and are eager for reinforcements. ”

Liu Xiang ordered the staff officer on duty: "Send a report to Deng Xihou, be sure to find out the number of the Red Bandit Siege Force." The Mianyang garrison must be defended to the death and must not lose the city defense. ”

Then, Liu Xiang said to Fu Chang again: "It's not a big deal, we even lost Chengdu, are you afraid of losing another Mianyang?" Cheer up, take a sip of tea, we have to plan how to rescue Mianyang. ”

Fu Chang took a sip of tea, calmed down, and said: "Since Chengdu is already an empty city, there is no need to garrison too many troops, let Pan Wenhua send a brigade into Chengdu, and the rest of the troops will go north from Ziyang, go straight to Mianyang, and threaten the back of the red bandits." However, Pan Wenhua alone has a slightly thin army and is easy to be taken advantage of by red bandits. Do you want to contact Xue Yue and ask him to speed up and go hand in hand with Pan Wenhua, so as to ensure that nothing goes wrong. ”

Liu Xiang said: "Far water does not quench the thirst of the near, Xue Yue is still a few days away from Chengdu, and when they arrive, Deng Xihou has already been taken prisoner." ”

Fu Chang said: "Then there is only the mobilization of troops in northern Sichuan, ordering Tian Songyao's main force to attack and advance to Mianyang, and cooperate with Pan Wenhua, and order the troops of Zhujiangyou and Zitong to rush to Mianyang." At the same time, the telegram ordered them to be careful all the way, and would rather walk slowly than let the red bandits ambush them. ”

Liu Xiang nodded: "For the time being, it can only be like this." Tell Pan Wenhua that he is the main force of the rescue, and he must be extremely careful, and would rather go slower than send the troops into the pocket formation of the red bandits. ”

Fu Chang went to ask the staff officer to send a report, and the war room was quiet for a while.

Liu Xiang moved a chair and sat in front of the combat map, and began to think quietly.

When he received Liu Xiang's telegram, Tian Songyao, commander of the 29th Army of the Sichuan Army, did not know that the Red Third and Fifth Army Corps had already killed him.

Historically, when the Red Fourth Front Army launched the Battle of Jialing River, after Tian Songyao's river defense was broken through, his subordinates were afraid of punishment and did not tell him for three days. By the time he knew the situation, the troops had collapsed on all fronts.

This time this was the case again, not only did the small units that remained on the east bank of the Fujiang River and take charge of monitoring the movements of the Red Army not report it, but no one reported it in the towns and villages where the Red Army passed. Therefore, knowing that the main force of the red bandits was besieging Mianyang, Tian Songyao felt a sense of relief. The red bandits are also people, and they also run on two legs, since they have gone to Mianyang, where can they come to their own defense again!

Tian Songyao is a native of Longquanyi, Jianyang County, Sichuan, who participated in the League in his early years and studied in the first phase of the Baoding Military Academy. Later, he entered the Sichuan Army, was a general awarded by the Beiyang Political Axe, and is currently the commander of the 29th Army and the commander-in-chief of the second road to suppress bandits.

Tian Songyao usually likes to live in Chengdu. When the Red Army occupied Chengdu, he happened to go to Langzhong to inspect the defense and escaped disaster.

Tian Songyao, nicknamed "Tian Donggua", knew that the Red Army was difficult to deal with. In the Battle of Wanyuan, the Red Fourth Front Army had already taught these Sichuan army generals a solid lesson. Therefore, after Tian Songyao learned that the Red Army had occupied Chengdu, he began to shrink his forces without waiting for Liu Xiang's order.

At present, the 38 regiments of Tian Songyao's division are huddled on both sides of the Jialing River in the south and Yilong, ready to cooperate with the Central Army and the Northeast Army to attack the Red Fourth Front Army at any time.

As soon as Liu Xiang's order arrived, Deng Xihou's telegram for help arrived, saying that it was very pitiful, what brothers had been besieged by the red bandits, if they didn't rescue, they might only have to see each other in the next life, and so on.

Tian Songyao thought to himself, you are a Deng monkey, and you also have a day to ask Lao Tzu for help! But then again, this Deng Xihou must still be saved, if he is not saved, he will really be eliminated by the red bandits, and the situation in Sichuan will be unbalanced in the future.

After thinking about it, Tian Songyao decided to transfer 10 regiments to form reinforcements to rescue Mianyang.

When the order was given, Tian Songyao had an extra heart and sent a telegram to Liu Xiang, which meant that the big disaster was coming, and the brothers and sons should join hands to tide over the difficulties together. Otherwise, Deng Xihou may be Tian Songyao in the Ming Dynasty, and no one will have a good time.

In fact, Tian Songyao didn't know that he was in a more dangerous situation than Deng Xihou, and he collapsed faster!

(To be continued)