Chapter Seven: Four Crossings of Chishui (2)
Who knows, the praying mantis catches cicadas and the yellow finch is behind? The Red Eighth and Red Fifth Regiments, which had quietly crossed the Chishui, followed one on the left and one on the right, and suddenly launched a fierce attack on the back and flanks of the Panzo Brigade. And the Red Ninth Army Corps, which originally exposed its back to the Pan Brigade, also had a backhand and divided its troops, one to help the First and Third Army Corps attack the Guo Brigade, and the other to cooperate with the Fifth and Eighth Army Corps to fight the Pan Brigade. Pitiful, the Pan Brigade, which was only thinking of attacking the Red Army at a loss, was suddenly attacked from four sides, first of all, it could not stand it, and was almost completely annihilated, only the brigade commander Pan Zuo broke out with less than a battalion of guard troops. The situation of the Guo Brigade was even worse, because they encountered the Red 1st and 3rd Red Legions. As a result, less than 10 minutes after the Pan brigade was defeated, the whole brigade also collapsed. Guo Xunqi took advantage of the familiar geographical advantage, dressed up as a small soldier, and took a few elites to sneak away. At this point, the first crossing of Chishui commanded by Mao Weiren ended with the total annihilation of two brigades.
When the news came, the five corps of the Central Red Army were greatly boosted. Several chiefs in the center were intent on continuing the advance in one go, completely running out of the enemy's encirclement. However, the reconnaissance troops in front of them received timely information: the four brigades of the follow-up troops of the Sichuan Army were rapidly reinforced, and a confrontation situation had been formed with the Red Army.
Mao Weiren is the most skillful person and does not want to entangle with the enemy. Think about it carefully, try to overcome public opinion, take the initiative to lead the division back, and cross the Chishui for the second time!
Extremely similar to historical facts, the Red Army defeated two brigades of the Sichuan Army in one fell swoop this time, allowing the enemy to judge that the Red Army would cross the Yangtze River north. Therefore, Chairman Chiang immediately issued an order: In addition to increasing troops at the main ferries in the Yibin section, he also transferred the Yunnan Army and the Pan Wenhua Division of the Sichuan Army to approach the Tashi area in an attempt to attack the Red Army separately and jointly. However, the Dian army is still a little better, and Pan Wenhua's department is a little miserable! For no other reason, because the Red Army he encountered was the toughest!
To the south of Pan Wenhua's headquarters was Li Jianfei's headquarters, that is, the Red Seventh Army Corps, which was reorganized from the former Red Third Front Army, and was the first-class combat unit in the Red Army. Prior to this, Li Jiansheng's department had a total of 5 main divisions, including the Red 16, Red 17, Red 18, Red 19, and Red 20, including the troops directly under the corps, with a total strength of 7 divisions, and each division was a super-large-scale 8-regiment system. After entering Sichuan, Li Jiansheng vigorously recruited Sichuan soldiers, and one move was nearly 20,000 people. At present, he has drawn seven regiments from the above-mentioned five main divisions and the units directly under him to form the Red 15th Division. In addition, the newly recruited soldiers were organized into six regiments and assigned to the six main divisions, so that the six main divisions were all oversized eight regiments. As for the remaining recruits, they are all integrated into the units directly under them. Therefore, although Li Jiansheng's current department has only one corps name, its strength is really higher than that of any front army in the Red Army at present! As for the weapons and equipment, because Li Jiansheng's unit has won many battles, it is well equipped, and it is now the best among all the units of the Red Army!
To the north of Pan Wenhua's ministry was the Red Fourth Front Army led by Zhang Guotao, Xu Xiangqian, Chen Changhao and others! Moreover, at present, Zhang Guotao and Xu Xiangqian are leading a part of the main force of the Red Fourth Front Army, which is attacking in the direction of Nanchuan, Jiangjin, and Banan!
Who is Xu Xiangqian? That's a highly decorated marshal for later generations! One of the most warlike high-ranking generals in the Red Army! Historically, when he was developing in Shanxi, he wiped out 100,000 Yan Xishan in a month with less than 60,000 troops, and the regular army alone destroyed eight of his entire brigades, so that the originally unsightly situation in Shanxi was fundamentally turned into a situation favorable to the Red Army. For this reason, the strategist Mao Wei praised him and specifically asked him how the Jinzhong Battle was fought. What's more, after the open and secret attacks of Li Jiansheng's subordinates, half of his direct troops were wiped out alive, so he was powerless to give Chairman Jiang's orders! You must know that with the first-class strength of these two Red Army units and these two first-class military commanders in the Red Army, how could Pan Wenhua's life be better? How did this allow him to draw troops? But despite this, Pan Wenhua, who did not dare to disobey the military order and did not know Xu and Li very well, was still a little lucky, thinking that by taking advantage of the mountainous terrain of Chongqing, he could hope to stop the two red bandits, so he still sent a brigade to support Taxi.
This force is still on the way, and the situation in Tashi has changed dramatically!
It turned out that Mao Weiren's strategic vision was shown at this time!
He judged that most of the enemy's main force had been attracted to the Sichuan-Yunnan border by the Red Army at this time, and the troops in northern Guizhou were empty, and the Red Army could defeat the enemy in one fell swoop! Therefore, once the main five corps crossed the Chishui, they could divide their forces and advance. Therefore, he directly issued a combat order, allowing the Red First Army to attack Tongzi directly, the Red Third and Fifth Army Corps to attack Loushan Pass, and the Red Eighth Army and Ninth Army to attack Zunyi. Are the defenders of these important towns the opponents of these main forces of the Red Army? On the first day, Tongzi fell into the hands of the Red Army in the morning, Loushan Pass fell into the hands of the Red Army in the evening, and on the third day, the Red Eighth and Red Ninth Army Corps were blocked by a brigade of the enemy. The Eight Legions attacked the enemy, attracting enemy fire; The Ninth Army marched rapidly overnight and attacked Zunyi City again that night. When the first, third, and fifth corps arrived, the five main forces joined forces and annihilated the two divisions of Wu Qiwei's column that rushed to the aid of Zunyi in one fell swoop. As for the brigade of Pan Wenhua's department, of course, there was no return, and it was made dumplings by Comrade Peng's Red Third Army! As a result, the operation in the Zunyi area, which lasted three days, defeated and annihilated two divisions, one brigade, and eight regiments of the enemy, and captured more than 4,000 enemies.
Pan Wenhua learned the news of the annihilation of his entire brigade of reinforcements through the radio on the way to escape!
It turned out that after the army he sent left, Li Jiansheng's troops took the lead and attacked from the south to the north; And the troops led by Xu Xiangqian attacked from the north to the south. As soon as the two sides attacked, Pan Wenhua's headquarters was completely defeated in just 5 days, and almost the entire army was wiped out. Seeing that the situation was not good, Pan Wenhua fled with only a very small number of troops. I received this news on the way, and my chest was sweet at the moment. Having never eaten such a big failure, he spat out a mouthful of blood and fainted!
Li Jiansheng, who was surrounded by the guard troops, received two pieces of news, one good and one bad: one was that when the Red Fourth Front Army was attacking Pan Wenhua's headquarters, because he saw that the overall situation had been decided, Zhang Guotao, chairman of the Northwest Military Commission, personally went to the front line to inspect the battlefield situation, but was hit in the head by a wounded soldier of the Sichuan army, seriously injured, and his death is unknown; One piece of news is that after the north-south attack of the two armies, the Red Fourth Front Army and the Red Seventh Army have occupied the eastern part of Sichuan, and the entire territory of Chongqing in the future! The front units of the two armies have already met!