After the forced landing of the remnants of the 1st Brigade, leaving the 13th Division to clean up the battlefield, Liu Jianjian led the main force of the 12th Division and the heavy firepower of the corps to quickly go north and join the battle to annihilate Hu Zongnan's 2nd Brigade.

After the gunfire and shouting of killing in the south stopped, Hu Zongnan, Peng Qibiao, and Hu Shouqian all understood that the First Brigade, the Reading Brigade, and the Supplementary Brigade were finished, and the final time was coming.

Sure enough, the Red Army began to shout: "Listen to the brothers of the Second Brigade opposite, we are the Seventh Army Corps of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, we have eliminated your cavalry regiment, the first brigade, the reading brigade and the Northwest Supplementary Brigade, and now we order you to lay down your arms and stop resisting, so as not to cause unnecessary casualties." We guarantee your personal safety! ”

As soon as the Red Army's shouting ended, a company commander of the Second Brigade jumped out and shouted: "Listen to the red bandits on the other side, Lao Tzu is the first division in the world, there is a kind of you rushing up to try, you want Lao Tzu to surrender, no way!" Before the words fell, several heavy machine guns in the Red Army position opened fire at the same time, directly breaking the company commander into pieces. At this time, the officers and men of the Second Brigade were honest, and no one dared to stretch out their heads to answer anymore.

By the time Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan arrived at the battlefield, the Second Brigade had been completely compressed into the Cuiyun Corridor, and the officers and men were all climbing on the narrow stone pavement, relying on the cover of big trees, making the last resistance.

Look at the sky, it is estimated that it will be clear in another hour, and enemy planes are likely to fly in and bomb. Liu Yimin decided not to wait any longer, directly took a horn made of iron sheet, and shouted loudly: "[***] Commander of the First Division, Hu Zongnan, listen, I am Liu Yimin, the commander of the Red Seventh Army, and I am Liu Yimin, the one whose principal offered a reward of one million silver dollars. Our army has long declared that the Red Army will go north to resist the Red Army, and all those who encircle, suppress, and pursue the Red Army and obstruct the resistance will be regarded as Han annihilation troops and will be resolutely eliminated. You are a Whampoa soldier and have a certain revolutionary spirit, you are not willing to engrave the word Han and Jianji on the tombstone after death, right? You wouldn't want all your brothers in the Second Brigade to be buried with you in the name of Han Zhan and never be able to enter the ancestral grave, right? If you are a man, you should die on the battlefield of resistance and be a national hero who stands up to the sky! If you choose to surrender, I guarantee the safety of you and your subordinates, and I am willing to send you back to Nanjing, so that I will fight side by side with you on the battlefield in the future, and win the country. If you don't surrender, I'll annihilate your troops in half an hour. I'll give you 5 minutes to think about it, and when the time comes, our army will carry out a firepower saturation strike, leaving no grass behind. Now start the timer. ”

After listening to the shouting, Hu Zongnan wanted to dig up Liu Yimin's ancestral grave. No wonder the headmaster wants to offer a reward of one million for his head, this guy is too vicious! Let's fight a war, what kind of fight and what kind of Han annihilation is nonsense? Lao Tzu's fight against the red bandits is a Han annihilation, is it true that you red bandits are national heroes when they fight Lao Tzu? However, hatred is hate, Hu Zongnan knew that Liu Yimin's words were very lethal, and the officers and soldiers might not be afraid of death, but they were afraid that they would be regarded as Han annihilation by future generations after death, and they could not enter the ancestral grave. That's a life for nothing!

For a time, Hu Zongnan's mind was full of confusion and complexity. If he surrenders, what will he see in the future? What is the face of gaining a foothold in the military circles? If they do not surrender, the shells of the Red Bandits will immediately fall on the head like hail as they did against the Reading Brigade and the Supplementary Brigade, and the remaining brothers of their Second Brigade may not survive for fear of not being alive. Think about the fact that since I left home and went to Huangpu, I have been fighting for many years, accumulating more and more merits, and my position is getting higher and higher, when did I think that I would end up like this! What to do, to drop or not to drop?

Peng Qibiao and Hu Shouqian looked at Hu Zongnan anxiously, waiting for the master to make a decision. If you hesitate any longer, the red bandits' shells will fall, and everyone will have to finish playing together.

Hu Zongnan looked at the anxious Peng Qibiao and Hu Shouqian, and then looked at the remnants of the defeated soldiers who were crawling underground and hiding behind trees, and cursed Liu Yimin in his heart to the core, you just rushed up and grabbed the prisoners, why do you have to surrender? Do you have to force yourself to lose the principal's face? Sighing secretly, Hu Zongnan ordered the newspaper operator to send a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek: "After the students met the principal in Huangpu, like a guiding light in the night, their hearts suddenly opened up, and they followed the principal to serve the revolution. Unexpectedly, it was besieged by the Red Bandit Liu Yimin's Seventh Army Corps, and the enemy's firepower was fierce, which was only seen by the students since they joined the army. Now the main force has been lost, there is no hope of getting out of the encirclement, the enemy's general attack is imminent, and life and death hang on the line. The students are determined to fight to the last soldier and repay the principal's love with a murderous heart. ”

After dictating the telegram, Hu Zongnan ordered Peng Qibiao and Hu Shouqian to take control of the troops, break through the encirclement by separate routes, take out their pistols himself, and rush out with the division headquarters guards.

Peng Qibiao and Hu Shouqian saw through Hu Zongnan's thoughts at a glance, and he would rather die than surrender. The two of them thought, it doesn't matter if you die, you can't involve so many people to die together! If you can break through, wouldn't you have broken through a long time ago, and can you wait until now? This red bandit is also really strange, besieged on all sides, but does not charge forward, but only uses firepower to blow and consume the opponent's strength. It seems that the next thing is to talk with artillery fire and bullets until the second brigade is completely paralyzed. It's really fucking verbose, just rush up and arrest the old men, what kind of fame? Troublesome! Anyway, rushing out is to be bulleted, hiding here is to be hit by shells, both horizontally and vertically, how good it is to save some physical strength! The division seat is also yes, what a breakthrough! Hey, it would be nice if the division surrendered!

Seeing that Hu Zongnan was about to rush out with the guard troops, Peng Qibiao and Hu Shouqian had no choice but to organize the troops to prepare for a breakthrough. Knowing that breaking through the siege is to be shot, it will be very difficult for this unit to organize. After a while, five minutes passed.

Liu Yimin saw that when the time had come, Hu Zongnan did not show any sign of surrender, and with a wave of his hand, the mortars attached to the artillery regiment and the regiments and battalions of the two divisions let out an angry roar, firing five salvos per cannon.

As soon as the general attack order was given, the 11th Division, the 12th Division, and the troops directly under the corps were overwhelming, sweeping towards the Cuiyun Corridor from the left and right flanks.

Zhang Haitao glanced at Liu Yimin, his eyes full of longing. Seeing that he was eager to fight, Liu Yimin nodded and said, "Go ahead, arrest Hu Zongnan for me." ”

Zhang Haitao cheered and shouted: "Guard battalion, give it to me!" Together with instructor Liu Lizhi, he led the whole battalion to kill the Cuiyun Corridor.

Wu Chenfeng is a native of Yangwan Village, Guangji County, Hubei Province, and graduated from Wuchang Army Middle School. His family was originally relatively wealthy, with hundreds of acres of good paddy fields. Later, the Guangji family took a fancy to his family's paddy field and had to buy it. Wu Chenfeng and his father feel that how can the ancestral business be sold? Isn't that obvious bullying? sued Na Haoqiang to the county government axe with a complaint. Unexpectedly, after the lawsuit, the land became strong, and Wu Chenfeng's parents were also killed by the police station on charges of gangsters. Wu Chenfeng saw through the national political axe at a glance, and directly went to the Red Army and became a soldier of the Red Eighteenth Regiment.

The troops have won successive battles and continued to expand, and cadres have been promoted very quickly, and people like Wu Chenfeng, who have studied in army middle schools, will naturally be promoted even faster. Now, he is already the commander of the first battalion of the 11th Regiment of the 32nd Red Division, that is, the second company of the old fourth battalion.

Before the battle began, their company was ambushed 600 meters east of the Cuiyun Corridor. As soon as the enemy entered the ambush, he quickly approached and established a position 300 meters away from Cuiyun Corridor Shu Road. According to the deployment of the 11th Division, it has always been greeted by mortars, light and heavy machine guns, and the enemy. When the enemy charges, the warriors are considered to have a good time. Seeing that the 12th Division had ended the battle and the 13th Division had also ended the battle, Wu Chenfeng had long been unable to bear it.

As soon as he heard the trumpet of the charge, Wu Chenfeng roared, and rushed up with the whole company, and the soldiers quickly rushed towards the Cuiyun Corridor in a formation of three people and three groups.

collided head-on with Hu Zongnan's guard battalion.

Hu Zongnan's guard battalion was blown up by artillery fire, and it was no longer the majestic and high-spirited elite appearance before the war. However, seeing that the Red Army was killed, in order to defend the division, the dilapidated guard battalion still mustered up the remaining courage and desperately resisted it.

Seeing that the troops were killed and wounded and the attack was frustrated, Wu Chenfeng shouted: "Lie down, drop bombs", and the second company that was charging fell to the ground in unison, and then a group of grenades were thrown at the enemy. Then the light machine guns and submachine guns opened the way, and used a dense fire net to press the enemy back to the Cuiyun Corridor.

The resistance of the guard battalion was limited, and it did not last long before it collapsed.

When Wu Chenfeng led the soldiers to rush to the surface of Cuiyun Langshu Road, other troops also rushed up, and the resistance of the Second Brigade was basically over. Many of the soldiers of the 2nd Brigade crawled on the ground and pretended to be dead, waiting to be disarmed and surrendered.

Hu Zongnan was also hit by shrenel, his body was drenched in blood, and he was lying under a big tree with his eyes closed, still meditating in his heart that maybe this was the best ending.

Peng Qibiao and Hu Shouqian surrounded Hu Zongnan with a group of dejected officers. Seeing Wu Chenfeng rushing up with the Red Army soldiers, Peng Qibiao stood up and said: "I am Peng Qibiao, the deputy commander of the First Division, and I ask your army to quickly rescue our division." ”

When Zhang Haitao led the guard battalion to rush up, Hu Zongnan had been captured by the first battalion and the second company of the 32nd regiment, which made Zhang Haitao extremely depressed, feeling that the combat regiment was still happy, and he was also in front when he charged.

The results of the Hanyang ambush were brilliant, and the first division and four brigade headquarters of the first division were completely annihilated, with a total of 32,000 people in 13 regiments, 13,253 enemies were killed, and 18,747 people under the enemy's division commander Hu Zongnan were captured. The prisoners mainly came from the enemy's Reading Brigade, Supplementary Brigade and units directly under the division, and the casualties of the enemy's 1st and 2nd Brigades exceeded 60%. There are countless weapons and ammunition, and it is not too much to describe them as piled up.

The casualties of the Red Seventh Army Corps mainly occurred in the battle of the 13th Division encircling and annihilating the 1st Brigade, and the 39th Regiment of the 13th Red Division, which was tasked with blocking the enemy, was basically disabled under the desperate attack of the enemy's 1st Brigade. The regiment commander, Zhou Yi, was seriously wounded and was undergoing surgery in the field hospital.

Liu Yimin, who read the battle report, was silent, he knew that the reason why the 39th Regiment was heavily damaged by the enemy was, firstly, because the 1st Brigade had strong combat effectiveness, and secondly, because the heavy firepower of the 13th Division was still insufficient. It seems necessary to strengthen the firepower of the regiments and battalions.

Therefore, after the troops withdrew from the battlefield, Liu Yimin immediately ordered the cavalry battalion of the regiment to be upgraded to a cavalry regiment, the guard battalion to be upgraded to a guard regiment, and the original battalion leader to be directly promoted to the regimental leader. The 11th and 12th Divisions were ordered to draw one company each, and the 13th Division was assigned two companies each from the 37th Regiment, the 38th Regiment, and the Supplementary Regiment to be incorporated into the 39th Regiment. The division was ordered to replenish mortars and heavy machine guns from the weapons captured in the southern part of Hu Zong, and the division set up a heavy fire regiment, including two artillery battalions and two heavy machine gun battalions, and the fire support battalions of each regiment and the fire support companies of each battalion were also replenished at one time. The 11th Division, the 12th Division, the Baggage Regiment, and the Engineer Regiment were each assigned a battalion to replenish the prisoners and form the First Reading Division of the Red Seventh Army Corps, with Feng Dafei as the division commander and political commissar, and served as the first-line guard of Jianmen Pass. The reconnaissance company was ordered to quickly reconnoiter to Guangyuan, and each division replenished ammunition and troops, rested for a day, and prepared to capture Guangyuan. The surplus uninjured prisoners were all dispersed and integrated into various units for education and transformation.

That night, Chiang Kai-shek had been sitting in his study. When Hu Zongnan's last telegram arrived, Chiang Kai-shek burst into tears. He knew that his beloved First Division had come to an end.

It's this damn Liu Yimin again, I really don't know what kind of material this guy is made of, last time he was obviously not dead and was seriously injured, how did he appear in Hanyang Town so quickly, and let his first division be wiped out. If this person is not removed, the country will have no peace.

As soon as the morning dawned, Chiang Kai-shek strictly ordered the air force to be dispatched to find the main force of the Red Bandit Liu Yimin's army and blow them up and kill them all.

Thinking that in order to rescue Mianyang, he actually entered the first division, and Chiang Kai-shek felt that he was the biggest loser in this battle. It must be recovered, so Chen Cheng and Xue Yue were strictly ordered to directly occupy Chengdu, quickly go north to capture Deyang and Mianyang, and encircle and annihilate the red bandits under Mianyang City. Tian Songyao's troops and the Sichuan army stationed in Guangyuan were ordered to hold on, and the red bandits were not allowed to cross the Jialing River to join Xu Qianqian. He ordered Zhang Xueliang of the Northeast Army and Yang Hucheng of Shaanxi Province to join Yang Sen, Wang Lingji and other units of the Sichuan Army under the command of Liu Xiang to attack Xu and the front, and be sure to destroy or defeat the enemy.

After receiving the good news that the Red Seventh Army had completely annihilated Hu Zongnan's First Division, [***], Zhou Enlai, Zhu De and others, who had just arrived in Mianyang, did not care about resting, and immediately ordered Peng Dehuai to command the Red Third Army and the Fifth Army to attack Tian Songyao's department and annihilate it on the west bank of the Jialing River; Order the 1st Army to immediately attack and advance to Langzhong to destroy the troops on the west bank of the Jialing River of Deng Xihou's army. The Ninth Army Corps was ordered to leave a small force to monitor Mianyang, and the main force was to rest in concealment and wait for fighters. After ordering the Seventh Army Corps to rest for a short time, it cleared the enemy on the west bank of the Jialing River in Jiange County, and quickly sent troops to capture Guangyuan.

To the surprise of Chiang Kai-shek and [***], due to the annihilation of the First Division, the situation of the battle changed dramatically.

When Chiang Kai-shek received the order to rescue the First Division, Tian Songyao, commander-in-chief of the Second Route of the Sichuan Army and commander of the 29th Army, had already received a telegram from Li Jiayu and knew that the two divisions of the Third Route had been routed by the Red Third and Fifth Army Corps, and that the main force of the Red Bandits was likely to be moving in the southern direction. Tian Songyao knew that if he hesitated, he would be destroyed, not only did he not send reinforcements in the direction of Jiange, but also did not hold on to the southern county on the west bank of the Jialing River, and even gave up the original plan to send 10 regiments to reinforce Deng Xihou, and acted overnight, collected all the ships, and crossed the Jialing River with the whole army. Tian Songyao's words were very simple: "Even Chairman Jiang's first division is finished, can I still stop the red bandits with a few broken guns from my Lao Tian?" ”

Tian Songyao was very interesting, and sent a telegram to Deng Xihou when he retreated. Deng Xihou saw that the first division of Hu Zongnan, which was most likely to be reinforced, was finished, and the defenders on the west bank of the Jialing River had become a lone army, so he urgently ordered the defenders of Jiange on the west bank of the Jialing River to quickly evacuate, cross the Jialing River overnight, concentrate on Guangyuan, and ordered the defenders of Langzhong to retreat to Cangxi immediately, echoing Guangyuan.

Therefore, when the Red Fifth Army rushed to the southern county seat, it only saw the torch team that Tian Songyao's troops had withdrawn to the east bank of the Jialing River, and the angry Dong Zhentang scolded Tian Songyao for not planting.

In desperation, Dong Zhentang telegraphed to Peng Dehuai and the Red Army Headquarters, and on the other hand, he led the army to rush to Langzhong despite fatigue, hoping to intercept a part of the enemy in Langzhong. Who knows how far they didn't go, but they received a report: the enemy in Langzhong fled.

After dawn, the Air Force dispatched a large number of planes to repeatedly reconnoiter between Jianmen Pass and Jiange County, searching for the main force of the Red Army. It is a pity that the main force of the Red Army is gone, and the Shu Road is full of the remains of [***] soldiers. The Red Army did not find out, but found that the Sichuan army Tian Songyao's troops had withdrawn from the Jialing River, and also found the marching team of Deng Xihou's troops who had fled from Jiange to Guangyuan.

In this way, from Mianyang to Guangyuan, from Jiangyou to the Jialing River, they all became the control areas of the Red Army.

After receiving the report from the Air Force, Chiang Kai-shek was extremely furious and strictly ordered Liu Xiang to urge all Sichuan troops to stick to the defensive line, and those who retreated without authorization in violation of the order were dismissed from their posts and investigated.

The matter was not over yet, and as soon as he had sent a telegram to Liu Xiang, He Jian sent a telegram, saying that He Long and Xiao Ke's troops were active and insufficient, and asked that Liu Jianxu be transferred back to Hunan with the two divisions of Xue Yue's attack.

Before He Jian's telegram could be replied, Zhang Xueliang sent a telegram, saying that the troops had to rest and recuperate for a long time, and planned to rest and recuperate in Wanxian County for a period of time before marching to suppress.

Chiang Kai-shek was so angry that he hurried around the room. This group of bastards fell off the chain at a critical time, and when they saw that something happened to the first division, they all became shrinking turtles. Niang Xipi!

Wait, if these guys don't cooperate, won't Chen Cheng and Xue Yue become lone again? Although the army of 200,000 is strong, the red bandits are too cunning, especially that Liu Yimin, who fights like divine help, always appears in impossible places, and suffers heavy losses [***]. This is the case with Xiaoshui and Xikou, Qingxi Town and Yangping Town, and Hanyang Town is another repeat. If that bastard targets Xue Yue again, what will happen to the consequences?

Besides, Xue Yue's army has been marching, and he is a standard tired army?

It seems that he is too light on the enemy, thinking that the red bandit Xiangjiang became a lost dog after the fiasco, and he did not expect Liu Yimin to dare to eliminate He Jian's three divisions with a regiment. He should have been vigilant, but he still let that guy succeed, and Xue Yue lost more than three divisions in the first battle. Now not to mention the main force of the Vermilion Red Bandits, this Liu Yimin alone has already changed from the regiment commander to the regiment commander, and the guns are too many to run out, and the red bandits are no longer red bandits who go into battle with shuttle darts, but use [***] elite cannons and machine guns to go into battle. Thinking about Liu Yimin's idea of daring to use a regiment to fight He Jian, now that he is strong and well-armed, will he still be afraid of Chen Cheng and Xue Yue's 200,000 horses?

In case Chen Cheng and Xue Yue fail again, then their capital will be greatly reduced, and I am afraid that if they don't wait for the Zhu Maohong bandits to fight, Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi, Yan Xishan, and Chen Jitang will be the first to attack. In any case, Chen Cheng and Xue Yue cannot be allowed to repeat the mistakes of the past.

Sensing that the troops led by Chen Cheng and Xue Yue might be in danger, Chiang Kai-shek immediately sent a telegram to revise his order, asking Chen Cheng and Xue Yue to build a defensive line after occupying the Deyang line, rest and stand by, and strictly prevent the attack of the red bandits. Pay attention to contact with the Sichuan Army's Pan Wenhua Division, and the two armies will cooperate closely to not leave any space for the Red Bandits to sneak attack.

After sending the telegram, Chiang Kai-shek decided to go to Yucheng to convene a military conference, with Zhang Xueliang, Liu Xiang, Chen Cheng, and Xue Yue all attending, and earnestly study the operational arrangements so as not to suffer another defeat.

After receiving the reports from Peng Dehuai and Dong Zhentang, [***] immediately ordered the First Army Corps to rest on the spot, and there was no need to advance to the Jialing River. The 3rd Army Corps and the 5th Army Corps moved to rest and recuperate in the south and Langzhong to closely monitor the enemy's movements on the other side. The mission of the Seven Legions remains the same.

Immediately, [***] drafted the "Declaration of the Central Committee and the Red Army General on the Present Current Situation":

People of all ethnic groups in the country:

After invading and occupying China's three northeastern provinces, Kou is now ready to make a move, repeatedly provoking the 29 th Army Defense Region stationed in North China, dispatching aircraft and artillery to destroy our villages and towns and injure our civilians. It fully shows that the ambition of the aggressors is to encroach on the whole of China and cause the Chinese nation, which has a history of thousands of years, to be destroyed and extinct. North China Crisis! China crisis!

At this critical juncture, the people of all nationalities throughout the country should unite to resist foreign aggression, defeat the aggressors, and recover the ground. China [***] and the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army call on all forces in the country to stop the civil war, unite as one, resist and save the country, and drive the invaders out of China!

However, instead of uniting and leading the people of all nationalities throughout the country to rise up to resist the war, the Nanjing Nationalist Nationalist Axe headed by Chiang Kai-shek instead carried out the reactionary policy of settling the country before securing the interior, sat idly by and ignored the aggression of the country, concentrated forces on suppressing various local forces in the country, and encircled and suppressed the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, which was the vanguard of our resistance to the north.

In the early hours of this morning, more than 30,000 people from the southern part of Hu Zong, the main force of Chiang Kai-shek's main force, attempted to sneak attack our army, but were completely annihilated by the heroic Red Army officers and men in Jiange County, Sichuan, and captured the enemy's division commander Hu Zongnan. This is another major victory of our army after the elimination of the three divisions of He Jian in Xiaoshui and Xikou in Hunan, the elimination of three and a half divisions of Xue Yue in Zhenyuan in Guizhou, the elimination of the instructor of the Guizhou army in Zunyi, and the elimination of two and a half brigades of the Sichuan army along Leshan and Chengdu in Sichuan!

Our Workers' and Peasants' Red Army now has hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers, and it is fully capable of destroying all enemies who dare to obstruct our army's northward advance. If Chiang Kai-shek dares to pursue our army again, he will annihilate as many of our troops, including which reactionary warlords who followed Chiang Kai-shek in the civil war. Chiang Kai-shek is welcome to send weapons, ammunition and soldiers to our army.

For the common interests of the Chinese nation, the Central Committee and the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army are willing to give up their past grievances and unite all kinds of forces throughout the country to jointly rejuvenate the great cause of resisting and saving the country. On the basis of satisfying the following conditions, it is willing to launch joint anti-Japanese negotiations with Chiang Kai-shek's Nanjing Nationalist Axe:

1. Change the reactionary policy of suppressing and purging the Communist Party.

2. Reorganize the Nanjing National Political Axe, abolish the one-party reading of talents, and establish a Mingzhuo joint political axe with the participation of all political parties.

3. Mobilize the forces of the whole country, organize and train troops, and actively prepare for all-out resistance to the Japanese invasion.

4. Demarcate a rear base area for the Red Army to ensure the supply of materials for the Red Army's anti-Japanese soldiers.

5. China and the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army are willing to fight in unity together with the people of the whole country, and are willing to send the main force of the Red Army to the north to assist all units of our army in North China to resist the invasion of the Chinese army. Resolutely expelling the Kou from China will not give up until the goal is achieved.

Compatriots of the whole country: China has a history of 5,000 years of civilization, a vast territory, a large strategic space, and 40,000,000 people. China and the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army are willing to be the vanguard of resistance, lead the people of the whole country to defeat the aggressors, and work together to build a clear, fair and prosperous country!

Chairman of the Central Committee of the People's Republic of China: Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army: Zhu De said on January 27, 1935

(To be continued)