Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Complete Annihilation of the Huiji Detachment
It is not said that Li Jiansheng's troops are reorganizing the army, but it is said that Xue Yue's troops are so slowly searching and marching in eastern Guizhou, and they are afraid that they will fall for Li Jiansheng's tricks again and abandon their generals. This makes it much slower. Although Xue Yue was extremely annoyed and a little heartbroken about his loss of soldiers, he wanted to kill him more often, take revenge first, and then explain to the chairman of the committee. Therefore, while launching an attack with his own troops, he urged the Hunan army and the Gui army behind to catch up. It was another two days, and the first detachment of Xue Yue's Huiji finally reported: The 62nd Division and the 63rd Division of the Hunan Army's headquarters had caught up, but the Gui Army was still slow. When Xue Yue first heard it, he was a little strange, because he still knew about the 63rd Division of the Hunan Army, but it was Chen Guangzhong's troops; But the 62nd Division seems to have been completely annihilated by the Red Bandits, and it doesn't know where it came from. After thinking about it again, he immediately remembered one more thing: some time ago, he learned through his own channels that He Jian secretly exchanged money and materials for some officers from the Red Bandits and reorganized the 62nd Division. Thinking of this, I realized in my heart that some of the doubts I had just had disappeared all of a sudden. just let the Hunan army follow.
For the Hunan army, Xue Yue still understands! That combat effectiveness, except for Li Jue's 19th Division, is not in the eyes of him, the head of the Central Army. In particular, this time I knew that it was the new 62nd Division and the old 63rd Division that were keeping up, so I didn't care more and more!
Zhang Liangji, the original of the 62nd Division, was more or less a professional soldier, and he had some military careers, and he was also a good hand at fighting, although he was taken advantage of by the red bandits, but he was more or less a rare general, and he still attached great importance to him. It's just that at the moment, his 62nd Division is newly formed, and his combat effectiveness is definitely not good!
But Chen Guangzhong of the 63rd Division, in the eyes of Xue Yue, was not a soldier at all, at most a bandit, which was worse than the red bandits!
Chen Guangzhong, a native of Shuangquanpu in Shaoyang, was born in 1897 and began to mix in the triad in Changsha at the age of 21. He once served as a soldier in the first division of the Hunan Army for a few days, and soon became a deserter and ran back to his hometown in Shaoyang to become a bandit.
In the early days of the Republic of China, it was a period of great social change in China, and all kinds of characters appeared under the banner of revolution, performing tragicomedy scenes that made people sigh. And for people like Chen Guangzhong, the opportunity has come.
Tang Shengzhi, then the commander of the Fourth Division of the Hunan Army, was at odds with the provincial governor Zhao Hengti, and expelled Zhao from Changsha to assume the post of governor. At this time, Zhao Hengti's subordinates quit, they asked Wu Peifu who was entrenched in Hubei for help, united with Wu Peifu, and defeated Tang Shengzhi. Tang Shengzhi was desperate, so he had no choice but to set his sights on the Nationalist Government in Guangzhou, and agreed to reorganize the headquarters into the Eighth Army of the National Revolutionary Army to participate in the Northern Expedition. After Tang Shengzhi reached an agreement with the Nationalist Government in Guangzhou, he began to clean up the various garrisons in Hunan that were pro-Zhao Hengti. And the most difficult thing to deal with these garrisons is Zhao Hengti's hardcore subordinates, Liu Chongwei, who is stationed in Shaoyang. Liu Chongwei is also a native of Shaoyang, at the age of 11, he was sponsored by the clan to enter the Xuncheng School, and was later admitted to the cavalry department of the Baoding Military Academy. At this time, he had already served as the commander of the independent mixed brigade of the Hunan Army, and was tasked with clearing out bandits in western Hunan Province. According to the records of Shaoyang local chronicles, Liu Chongwei did a lot of good things for Shaoyang, such as running electricity, repairing bridges, repairing railways, repairing schools, and setting up scholarships, which had a certain influence in the army and Shaoyang, and Shaoyang's introduction of electric lighting was the result of Liu Chongwei's efforts.
Tang Sheng knew that he couldn't take it hard, so he discussed with He Jian: outwitted, and determined to trap him. It was winter, He Jian came forward to call Liu Chongwei, only saying that he was really not doing well in front of Tang Shengzhi, and he also wanted to defect to Zhao Hengti, but there was no way. Liu Chongwei and He Jian were colleagues at the time, and they were also very familiar, and they also knew that He Jian had military power, and when he heard about the great joy, he patted his chest and recommended himself in front of Zhao Hengti, He Jian saw that Liu Chongwei took the bait, so he suggested that Liu Chongwei go to his office to discuss, Liu Chongwei did not doubt him, and only took a few guards directly into He Jian's office, and was ambushed by Tang Shengzhi and others who had already been there, arrested, and shot on the third day. After Tang Shengzhi booby-trapped Liu Chongwei, some of Liu's subordinates not only did not accept Tang Shengzhi's adaptation, but defected to the bandit Chen Guangzhong. This greatly increased Chen Guangzhong's strength. Zhou Pan, commander of the Second Division of the Hunan Army, saw that Chen Guangzhong was strong and strong, and hurriedly recruited him and appointed him as the battalion commander. After Xu Kexiang launched the "Ma-Ri Incident" in Changsha, Chen Guangzhong buzzed and pounced like a fly smelling blood. He led his troops to break away from the Second Division of Zhou Panxiang's Army and attacked workers' pickets and peasant self-defense troops everywhere. When Chairman Jiang saw that this guy's means of killing ** were even more ruthless than his own, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly appointed him as the "Commander of the Xiangdong Suppression of the Communist Party". At this time, Chen Guangzhong changed from a voluntary suppression of the Communist Party to an authorized suppression of the Communist Party, and his waist was much stiffer. In July 1928, when Peng Dehuai launched the Pingjiang Uprising, Chen Guangzhong was unable to measure himself and led his troops to intercept the rebel troops, but the result was naturally defeated. Annoyed and angry, Chen Guangzhong bloodied Pingjiang Changshou Street and Dongnan Township, killing 1,800 innocent people and taking credit. This massacre made Chen Guangzhong addicted to murder, and he has been out of control ever since. Every time the Red Army attacked the villages and towns, thousands of innocent people died at the hands of him and his subordinates, from the tens of years old to the swaddling baby, and only in Liuyang Tiezhi Mountain, Hengshan, Foling and other places, there was no one within 10 kilometers. The ferocity is unparalleled!
Such an act naturally made real soldiers like Xue Yue look down on him, but Chairman Jiang and He Jian, chairman of the Hunan Provincial Government, not only did not kill him to thank the countrymen, but promoted him to the commander of the independent brigade. Later, He Jian merged the native Chen Zigong Department of Xiangxi with Chen Guangzhong to form the 63rd Division, and appointed Chen Guangzhong as the commander of the lieutenant general.
Knowing that it was the 62nd Division and the 63rd Division that were following up, Xue Yue sneered, just asked Huiji to take proper care of it, and then ordered the three division-level units under his own command to line up and advance at the same time: Ou Zhen's 90th Division in the north, Liang Huasheng's 92nd Division in the middle, Huiji's first detachment in the south, and the Hunan 62nd Division and 63rd Division followed behind the 92nd Division and the first detachment. However, in the afternoon of the same day, the 92nd Division called, saying that the Hunan 62nd Division was very fast and had gone hand in hand with them. Xue Yue nodded secretly, feeling that this chapter Liangji was not bad. I originally planned to send a telegram to the past, but when I thought about it later, there was a sneer in my heart, and I didn't bother to have more contacts with these Hunan troops, so I didn't bother to send a telegram, but just urged the army to advance. But he didn't know that God gave him a chance again, but because of Comrade Boling's arrogance, he missed it again!
You must know that the 62nd and 63rd Hunan Divisions that came over are the new 62nd Division and the 63rd Division of Chen Guangzhong, and the 16th and 17th Divisions of Li Jiansheng's department!
It turned out that Li Jiansheng had been thinking about how to achieve victory again, and later accidentally remembered that when He Jian exchanged with his own troops, he had exchanged 5,000 sets of Hunan army uniforms as compensation for military expenses. These uniforms, together with the various military uniforms of the Hunan Army that were originally captured, soon equipped with more than one whole division, and then they took thousands of sets of captured military uniforms and equipment of the Gui Army and the Central Army, and made up two whole divisions and another special service regiment, a total of about 22,000 people, led by Ji Zhentong, went around a big circle, first ran behind the Central Army, and then reported to Comrade Xue Boling in the name of the Hunan 62nd Division and the 63rd Division, and then used the Red 17th Division to cover the bottom of the Huiji Detachment, and the Red 16th Division and the Special Service Regiment cut off the connection between the Huiji Detachment and Liang Huasheng's 92nd Division. The Red 18th Division attacked from the south, and the Red 19th Division returned from the west.
Pitiful, the Huiji detachment of more than 11,000 people was surrounded by more than 50,000 Li Jiansheng's troops without realizing it. In less than an hour, a division-level detachment was wiped out, more than 4,000 officers and below, including Huiji, were captured, and a large amount of weapons and equipment were captured. Liang Huasheng's 92nd Division reacted quite quickly, but despite this, it also suffered huge losses when attacking with Li Jiansheng's special service group. Because at the first time, his artillery battalion was lost, and as a result, his troops suffered heavy losses, and a division was beaten by Li Jiansheng's powerful firepower from the front, leaving only one brigade, which was regarded as a major lesson for him. If it weren't for Xue Yue's quick response, Qian Zhen's 90th Division and the next two divisions were in a hurry, and if Li Jiansheng's unit could encircle the 93rd Division in time after the total annihilation of the Huiji Detachment, then this division would definitely be completely annihilated. Later, in northern Shaanxi, when the Kuomintang and the Communist Party were negotiating, Xue Yue was one of the participants. At the negotiation table, he said to Zhou Enlai with some annoyance: "You Red Army, can you stop doing this kind of shameless sneak attack?" How many battles will you fight with us openly? Zhou Weiren just happily talked about the confrontation between Li Jiansheng's department and Liang Shenghua's department, which made General Xue dumbfounded. Of course, this is a later story, so I won't say much about it for the time being.
But he said that at this moment, none of Xue Yue's subordinates paid attention, so he was made up by Li Jiansheng's subordinates and killed a division, which was very annoying. Fortunately, he only knew that He Jian's department was using money and weapons to exchange prisoners with Li Jiansheng's department, and if he knew that the makeup red bandit troops who had attacked the department were wearing the Hunan army uniforms sent by He Jian, he might not immediately settle accounts with He Jian. Li Jiansheng's department disguised as a Hunan army to sneak attack on the Central Army later reached He Jian's ears, and He Jian, who figured out this section, immediately broke out in a cold sweat, and then resolutely stopped his subordinates from telling the details, and insisted that it was exchanged for money, so he gave up.
Xue Yue, whose strength was greatly damaged, wanted to fight again, but he couldn't. Therefore, the original 6 divisions and one division-level detachment of the original division have been annihilated by Li Jiansheng's division by two divisions, and now another division-level detachment has been annihilated and one division has been disabled, that is to say, only three of his 7 division-level units are now in a state of full strength, and the other division, that is, Liang Shenghua's department, is not in a state of full strength. This kind of force is against Li Jiansheng's department, even if it is a hard fight, there is no chance of winning, because Li Jiansheng's department itself has four divisions on the opposite side, and now that it has been captured like this, the firepower is only afraid to far exceed that of the department. As for the Gui army and the Xiang army, you can know the current situation, which is unreliable at all. Thinking of this, although Comrade Xue Boling was 10,000 reluctant, he had to face the reality, comprehensively compress the march, and take a step back to rest for the time being!