Almost at the same time that the Red Ninth Army crossed the Wujiang River, the Red Fourth Regiment, the vanguard of the Red 2nd Division, rushed to the Jiangjie River crossing.

Historically, the Red Fourth Regiment rushed to the Jiangjie River ferry on December 31, and when they arrived at the ferry, the Guizhou army had already burned the ferry. After carrying out fire reconnaissance against the enemy, he organized two test crossings on 1 January, the second time was a trial crossing on a bamboo raft, in which eight Red Army soldiers were broken and fell into the Wujiang River, and only six brave men, including Mao Zhenhua, commander of the third company of the 1st battalion, crossed the Wujiang River. On January 2, the Red Fourth Regiment used a bamboo raft to force a large-scale crossing, and at the critical moment, Mao Zhenhua and other six soldiers jumped out of a hidden place to attack the enemy, and the sharpshooter Zhao Zhangcheng commanded the artillery to knock down the enemy's pillbox and hit the enemy's attack formation. The Red Fourth Regiment erected two pontoon bridges, and the Second Division and the Central Column crossed the river from there.

Now it was much better than it was in history, a fierce battle was impossible, the enemy guarding the crossing had only one platoon, and it was captured in its sleep, and the ferry was found.

Geng Biao, commander of the Fourth Red Regiment, and Yang Chengwu, political commissar, immediately arranged for the vanguard to quickly cross the river, immediately control the key points, and cover the main force to cross the river.

[***], Zhou Enlai, and Zhu De, who rushed to hear the news, called Liu Bocheng, Chen Guang, and Liu Yalou together, personally deployed combat missions, and asked the Fourth Regiment to quickly establish contact with the Fifth Army Corps after crossing the river. After the main force of the 2nd Division crossed the river, the 4th Regiment was the vanguard, and the 2nd Division and the 13th Division of the 5th Army Corps followed up, cooperating with the 34th Division of the 5th Army Corps, and the 3rd Route Army rushed to Zunyi. Liu Bocheng was in charge of the command of the former enemy, and the purpose of the operation was to drive the enemy of Zunyi out of the city and annihilate him, and he could not break or break Zunyi. After that, it is necessary to arrange troops to attack Loushan Pass to ensure the safety of Zunyi.

Liu Bocheng proposed that the Red Fourth Regiment fight all the way to the vanguard, but he was too tired, so he suggested that the Sixth Regiment should be the vanguard and rush to Zunyi.

[***] laughed: "That's the specific command of your former enemy, and we don't interfere." Then he went to the side with Zhou Enlai and Zhu De to rest.

Liu Bocheng immediately adjusted the tasks of the troops, and the fourth regiment organized to cross the river, and sent the sixth regiment over first. The engineer company quickly built a pontoon bridge to ensure that the main force and the column of the Military Commission crossed the river.

After accepting the task, Yang Chengwu suspected that there were few ferries and the speed of the troops crossing the river was slow, so he organized sappers to build pontoon bridges on the one hand, and organized soldiers to cut down bamboo and set up hundreds of bamboo rafts. The speed of crossing the river was greatly accelerated, and the Sixth Regiment quickly crossed the river, climbed the ten-mile-long hillside by the Wujiang River, and embarked on the highway to Zunyi.

On the morning of the 21st, the engineer company of the 2nd Red Division finally erected two pontoon bridges on the 60-meter-wide surface of the Wujiang River, and the main force of the 2nd Division quickly passed through the Wujiang River. After crossing the river, it joined up with the 13th Division of the Fifth Army Corps from the direction of Jingkou and rushed towards Zunyi.

Zhou Enlai, and Zhu De waited until the cadre regiment and the central column crossed the pontoon bridge before crossing the river with the guard soldiers.

Looking at the Wujiang River at his feet, Mr. Zhu sighed: "I imagined several ways to force the Wujiang River, but I didn't expect it to be useless. ”

Zhou Enlai also said: "Yes, I didn't expect that the Wujiang natural danger was crossed by us like this, it seems that Zunyi is in sight." ”

[***] said: "Let's go, guys, if you want to eat Qianbei flavor in Zunyi City, you have to speed up your trip." It's too late, and Hou Zhitan is afraid that he will rob the restaurant. ”

The group laughed and climbed up the hill.

Wan Shijiong, the commander of the Guizhou Army, never dreamed that he and his troops would become the first targets of the Red Army when it entered northern Qianbei.

Wan Shijiong, a native of Tongren and Miao nationality in Guizhou, is the wife and nephew of Wang Jialie. His troops belonged to the He Zhizhong Division of the First Division of the Guizhou Army.

The historical Wanshijiong Division abandoned its position and fled when the Red First Division broke through the Wujiang River from Huilongchang, and was later defeated by the Red Ninth Army in Meitan County. But Wan Shijiong himself does have a certain military literacy, and his luck is relatively good. After Wang Jialie stepped down, Chiang Kai-shek reorganized the Guizhou Army and reorganized He Zhizhong's division into the 103rd Division, with Wan Shijiong as the commander of the 618th Regiment. In his later military career, Wan Shijiong did two things for the country and the people and left a name in history: one happened during the Anti-Japanese War, Wan Shijiong's 618 Regiment participated in the defense of Nanjing, and was the last unit to evacuate Nanjing. It turned out that during the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, Wan Shijiong led the 618th Regiment to fight fiercely with Yuekou in Jiangyin Fortress, causing heavy losses to the enemy. Later, he was ordered to retreat to Nanjing and join the battle for Nanjing. After Tang Shengzhi escaped, the 618th Regiment was still fighting, and after evacuating Nanjing, it contained the rout of the 103rd Division all the way, maintaining the combat effectiveness of the troops. Second, in December 1949 during the Liberation War, Wan Shijiong, then deputy commander of the Lieutenant General of the Yunnan-Guizhou Border Region and commander of the Anlong Command Post, led his troops to revolt and joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

Wan Shijiong's troops should have retreated back to Guiyang with the main force, but He Zhizhong, who was a descendant of Wang Jialie, knew that if all the troops retreated, the entire northern Qianbei would become Hou Zhidan's sphere of influence, and it would be difficult to come back. Therefore, he deliberately left the Wanshijiong Department stationed in Meitan to contain Hou Zhi's burden, and returned to Guiyang with 4 regiments.

Wan Shijiong, who stayed in Meitan, felt that the situation in front of him was very strange the more he thought about it. Since the main force of the red bandits was going to capture Guiyang, why did they divide their troops to occupy Huangping and Shi Bing? Could it be that the red bandits are just to contain the main force of our army to reinforce Guiyang? It's better to be careful. Thinking about it again, the main force came back to rescue Guiyang, and he was alone in northern Qianbei, and if the red bandits had any plans for northern Qianbei, it would not work on their own regiment. That's it, people are under the eaves, they can't help but bow their heads, or contact Hou Zhidan and remind him to carry out Chairman Wang's order and strengthen the Wujiang defense line.

Unexpectedly, as soon as this was connected with Hou Zhidan, Hou Zhidan pushed the boat down the river and asked Wanshijiong to send troops to defend Jingkou and prevent the red bandits from crossing the river.

Thinking that Hou Zhidan was holding chicken feathers as an arrow, he dared to command himself, and he smashed the phone in a rage. After being angry, I thought about it carefully, and it was better to send a battalion to Jingkou, after all, it was the key point of Jiangfang. Even if the red bandits do not come, they will also leave a way back for themselves in case they need to retreat to the south bank of the Wujiang River.

Meitan County is more than 100 miles away from Jingkou, but they are all mountain roads, fortunately, the soldiers of the Wanshi Jiong Department are all from Guizhou, and they can also adapt, a battalion hurried and hurried, starting from the morning until the evening, and finally arrived at Aoxi Town on the evening of the 20th. Seeing that it was only more than 30 miles away from the Wujiang River, the officers and men were so tired that many brothers were addicted to cigarettes, and the battalion commander had to order them to camp on the spot.

As soon as they heard about the camp, the troops were happy. After all, this is the boundary of Meitan, it is their one-acre and three-point land, and Aoxi Town is a big town on the highway connecting Meitan and Yuqing. So, the guard took up the post, the addiction to smoking was too much, the three or five who liked to drink gathered together to make a gang and shouted five and drank six, and the one who liked Sister Yao naturally touched Guangyang in her pocket and walked away with her head held high.

On this night, the soldiers of the battalion of the Wanshi Jiongbu basically carnivaled all night in Aoxi Town.

Just as dawn came, two gunshots rang out in the south of the town. The enemy battalion commander thought that the sentry had gone off, ignored it, and continued to sleep back in his arms with Sister Yao in his arms.

Then things didn't go right, the gunfire became more and more intense, and it was already in town. The enemy battalion commander is excited, fuck, is it really the red bandits coming? I'm so unlucky, I met a red bandit when I went out? Could it be that the dangerous Wujiang River can't stop the red bandits, they flew over?

Soon, the red bandits seemed to have attacked the front, listening to the sound of people and gunfire all over the town, the enemy battalion commander did not hesitate any longer, pushed away the frightened kiln sister, got dressed after three strokes and divided by two, and jumped into the yard with a pistol!

Looking through the crack in the door, Mom, it's really a red bandit coming, and it looks like there are thousands of people. On the road in the middle of the town, in front of every house, were dead and wounded, lying down, and kneeling and surrendering with their hands raised. It's over, Lao Tzu's battalion is over, hurry up and run away to report to the regimental seat.

The enemy battalion commander dodged into the backyard, climbed over the wall into the woods behind him, and fled.

It was the 34th Division of the Red Fifth Army that occupied the town of Aoxi.

After the Red 34th Division crossed the river, a battalion was left to guard the ferry, and after resting for several hours, the troops began to search and advance along the main road in the direction of Zunyi. After walking more than 30 miles of mountain roads, I arrived at Aoxi Town at dawn. The original plan was to find a guide in the town and head west to Zunyi. Unexpectedly, he encountered the Qianjun sentry on the south side of the town, and this guy only had time to shoot before he was killed. Han Wei, the head of the leading regiment, saw that there was an enemy here, and immediately ordered a battalion to go around to the north end of the town to cut off the enemy's retreat, and he pounced with two battalions. As a result, it was very easy to annihilate an enemy battalion, and the only drawback was that the enemy battalion commander was not captured.

By the time the main force came up, the sky was already clear. The head of the 101st regiment, Su Daqing, looked at Han Wei enviously, and said that Lao Han was blessed, and after crossing the Xiangjiang River, it was finally opened, and a battalion was wiped out at once.

Han Wei looked at Su Daqing and said, "It's a small meaning, compared with Liu Yimin's kid's record, it's not worth mentioning." This Qianjun is too unbeaten, when will it be fun to engage in the Central Army! ”

Division Commander Chen Shuxiang looked at Han Wei and Su Daqing and said, "Don't be verbose, the Han regiment has just finished the battle, and it is necessary to quickly clean up the battlefield and keep up with the main force." The Su regiment became the vanguard of the whole division, found a guide, and immediately advanced towards Zunyi. ”

At this moment, Han Wei's face hung up, and just when he wanted to compete with the division commander, he saw Su Daqing salute the division commander and say "Thank you, division commander", and ran away happily.

Han Wei had no choice but to call on the troops to clean up the battlefield and post propaganda slogans. After finishing the work, he led the troops to catch up with the main force.

When the telegram was received from the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, the 1st and 15th Divisions of the 1st Army Corps had just occupied Kaiyang.

As soon as he saw that the Central Revolutionary Military Commission demanded an immediate turn to the Wujiang River, Nie Rongzhen immediately realized that the Wujiang defense line was open to the Red Army, and the opportunity could not be lost, and he was not in a hurry to arrange for the troops to rest, nor did he care about counting the captures, so he immediately ordered the Red First Regiment to set off immediately, targeting the Chashanguan ferry, and the main force to rest for a while, and set off immediately.

The 1st Red Regiment has always acted as the vanguard, occupying the Jianhe, attacking Huangping, entering Jiuzhou, and Kekaiyang, not to mention fighting, just walking makes the troops very tired. After occupying Kaiyang, Yang Dezhi and Li Lin originally wanted to let the troops rest for half a day, but the order to seize the Wujiang Chashanguan ferry came down. Fortunately, the battle has been won recently, the soldiers eat well, the physical strength is guaranteed, and Chashanguan is not too far from Kaiyang County, more than 100 miles. Therefore, Yang Dezhi and Li Lin did not dare to delay at all, and after the troops were assembled, they immediately pulled out of Kaiyang County and marched towards Chashan Pass.

After the Red Third Army occupied Fuquan, because the Guizhou army withdrew in a hurry and did not rush to destroy, it captured a large amount, and the cadres and soldiers were all beaming.

While several corps commanders were discussing how to distribute the captured supplies, a telegram from the Central Revolutionary Military Commission arrived. Peng Dehuai laughed when he saw it, and several people hurriedly asked the regiment commander what he was laughing at, and Mr. Peng said: "Wang Jialie's turtle son thought that we were going to fight Guiyang, so he didn't care about his head, and he was busy returning to Guiyang to defend Wujiang. Now that the Wujiang River is empty, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission ordered us to quickly cross the Wujiang River north. ”

A few people looked at the telegram, and it didn't say that Wujiang was empty? Is there another mystery?

Peng Dehuai said: "Don't be afraid, immediately notify the troops to set off, the Fifth Division will send a regiment to take the lead, the main force will keep up, the action must be fast, and the whole army cannot be dragged back." ”

Yang Shangkun said: "What about the seized materials? ”

Peng Dehuai said: "The soldiers are very fast, and everything that can be thrown is thrown, so it is really necessary to bring it." When you arrive in Qianbei, can you seize it again! ”

In this way, the three army corps quickly withdrew from Fuquan and advanced in the direction of Kaiyang.

A few years later, when a reporter went to Fuquan for an interview and asked about the situation of the Red Army's Long March in Fuquan, an old man said tremblingly: "I was only 16 years old at the time, and I was carrying grain bags in a grain store. I remember very well that when the Red Army came, Wang Jialie's troops had already withdrawn. As soon as the Red Army entered the city, they began to put up slogans, red, green, and green. I don't know why, the Red Army suddenly withdrew, and went in such a hurry that they didn't even want the captured food. Now Fuquan is in chaos, and every family takes their pockets to Wang Jialie's granary to load grain. That winter, there were basically no starving people in Fuquan, which was all thanks to the Red Army! ”

Just when the Red Army was flying across the Wujiang River, Hu Laohu, commander of the cavalry battalion of the Central Guard Division, was escorting two companies of the baggage battalion to Huangping.

After accepting the task at noon on the 20th, Hu Laohu and Cao Shengli, the commander of the baggage battalion, briefly discussed, and decided to lead the first cavalry company as the vanguard first, and the cavalry battalion instructor Bao Wen led the second cavalry company to make the second echelon, Cao Shengli commanded the two companies of the baggage battalion to follow up, and the third cavalry company to serve as the rearguard. Every 50 miles the troops marched for an hour to rest, let the horses rest, and the soldiers ate some dry food, and then continued the march.

Out of Liping, the journey was safe. The baggage battalion has been reduced to pack horses, and the supplies do not need to be carried by people, and it is enough to take care of the mules and horses, so the marching speed is not slow. 21 At 12 o'clock at noon, he had already crossed the Sword River to Gedong Town. Listening to the guide found in Jianhe, it was less than 140 miles away from the county seat of Huangping, and Hu Laohu ordered the troops to rest for an hour, eat something, and sleep for a while.

After the rest, the troops set off again. After walking for more than 30 miles, a group of ordinary people came on the road in front, about a dozen people, Hu Laohu did not look closely, so he hit the horse. After walking for about 10 miles, I saw a few more ordinary people resting on the side of the road. Now Hu Laohu is interested. Now is the time of war, where is there a figure on the main road, why did you meet two groups of people at such a short distance, and they are all strong men?

Looks like you have to be careful.

(To be continued)