During the Republic of China, the experience of a considerable number of senior officers was complicated, and Tao Guang, the commander of the 62nd Division, was also like this.

Tao Guang is a native of Liling, Hunan, when he was 18 years old, he went to the porcelain shop to learn to paint on porcelain, if it were not for the stormy era in the early 20th century, Tao Guang's surname Wu is likely to become a generation of craftsmen. The times still swept Tao Guang into the tide of change. He successively went to Yanjing Military Police School and Nanjing Jiangnan Lecture Hall to study, after graduation, he served as a staff officer under the command of the general Cai Yi, the general of the country, and was the regiment commander during the Northern Expedition. At that time, he was also a pawn in the revolutionary army, but unfortunately he later participated in the encirclement and suppression of the Central Red Army with He Jian, and he became the vanguard of the suppression of the Communist Party. In particular, Tao Guang has always commanded the pursuit and suppression of the Red Sixth Army, and in the minds of the Red Army soldiers, he is the standard and vicious white dog leader.

Historically, Tao Guang was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general of the 28th Army in 1935 for his meritorious service in pursuing the Red Army. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Tao Guang led his troops to participate in the Battle of Songhu, and fought to the death with the landing force of the Yue Army in Jinshanwei, and was later promoted to the deputy commander of the group army, and carried out guerrilla warfare in the Hangjiahu area of western Zhejiang, and cooperated well with the New Fourth Army. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he retired and lived in seclusion in Hangzhou. On the eve of liberation, he was arrested for participating in the anti-Chiang activities organized by Li Jishen, and was rescued from prison by Cheng Qian, and after liberation, he went to Shanghai with General Song Shilun to meet Commander Chen Yi, and died in 1951.

However, all this may change due to the arrival of Liu Yimin.

At this time, Tao Guang's heart was mixed.

Early this morning, Tao Guang received an order from Commander Liu Jianxu to ask the 62nd and 16th Divisions to intercept the Red Bandits in the passage area.

Compared with the newly promoted division commander of the 16th Division, Zhang Liangji, who blindly grabbed merit, Tao Guang's thoughts were a little more complicated. He was a veteran general of the Hunan army, and he thought more about how to eliminate the Red Army and safeguard the interests of the small group of the Hunan army. Tao Guang believed that as long as the Red Army was blocked and prevented from converging with the Helong Department to the north, it was enough, and as for whether the Red Army would go to Guizhou or somewhere else, that was a matter for Chairman Chiang and the Central Army to consider, and the task of the Hunan Army should be to quickly exterminate the Red Bandits of Helong and Xiaoke in Xiangxi. Tao Guang bluntly said this idea as early as when Chairman Chiang appointed He Jian as the commander-in-chief of the pursuit army, and He Jian also felt the same way. However, driven by the interests of completely eliminating the Red Army and building immortal achievements, the top level of the Hunan army still formed a consensus to first exterminate the Zhumao Red Army and then return to the division to exterminate the Helong Department in western Xiangxi. With one hand, he waved the main force and poured out of the nest and ran to the Xiangjiang River. As a result, in the first battle of the Xiangjiang River, the Hunan army of 100,000 horses rushed to the front line, although it paid a huge price for casualties, but it still allowed the Red Army to fight out of the encirclement.

Although the Red Army is now a tired and weak brigade, Tao Guang is not as arrogant as Zhang Liangji and the Hunan 16th Division. Therefore, after receiving the order, he divided the troops into two parts, with Wang Yuying's brigade as the vanguard and Zhong Guangren's brigade as the rear guard. Once the avant-garde encounters the main force of the Red Army, the Zhong Brigade can quickly respond; Similarly, the Zhong Brigade encountered the main force of the Red Army, and the Wang Brigade could return to the division to rescue him. Unexpectedly, the deployment he thought he had planned gave Liu Yimin an opportunity.

When Hu Laohu began to block the cavalry company of the 62nd Division just now, Tao Guang didn't care, listening to the sound of gunfire, he was forty or fifty people, and there was only one light machine gun, and his experience in fighting with the Red Army for many years told him that this must be the rear guard of the main force of the Red Army. These people have been completely red, and they are not afraid of death, and they dare to attack the 62nd Division with only a few dozen people, which is simply looking for death.

Seeing Zhong Guangren go to the front to command, Tao Guang was completely relieved. Tao Guang didn't want to say what the combat effectiveness of other [***] troops was, but the combat effectiveness of his 62nd Division, Tao Guang knew it in his heart. He believes in his troops and in the ability of Zhong Guangren, a general of love.

Soon things were wrong, Tao Guang, who was at the back of the march, first saw his mortar position destroyed, then heard the fierce machine gun fire on the hill in front of him, and then Zhong Guangren's call to retreat. Tao Guang immediately realized that he was in trouble, and he might have encountered the main force of the Red Army.

Tao Guang immediately ordered the radio to be turned on, reported to Liu Jianxu, commander of the First Corps, that he had encountered the main force of the Red Army and asked for reinforcements; Ordered Wang Yuying's brigade to immediately return to the division for rescue. Thinking about it, he was still at ease, so he ordered the radio to contact the 16th Division, asking them to immediately move closer to him and flank the Red Army.

After the war, many people in [***] criticized Tao Guang's order, thinking that it was his order, which led to the annihilation of Wang Yuying's brigade and the main force of the 63rd Division. There are also some reporters from radical newspapers and periodicals who do not think so, and one reporter with the pseudonym Sanwen wrote: As a commander, it is natural for Tao Guang to report the enemy situation to a higher commander and ask for reinforcements when he encounters the enemy's main force, and it is logical to order his own avant-garde brigade to return for reinforcements. The question is not whether Tao Guang's order is correct or not, the key is that no one can violate the iron law that murderers are always killed, since the Hunan army has the courage to drive the Red Army into the Xiangjiang River to feed the fish, it should have the consciousness of sticking out its head and being stabbed.

Just as Tao Guang was sending a telegram for help, the two regiments of Zhong Guangren's brigade attacking the front hill and the hill on the east side of the road had collapsed. The soldiers who had fled from the hillside crowded onto the road, and they were in a state of confusion and completely out of formation.

The commander of the enemy's avant-garde regiment, who was ordered to organize the troops to block the attack, jumped to his feet and scolded: "Wang Ba Gaidi, what are you panicking, haven't you ever fought?" Climb down and shoot, climb down and shoot, all fucking climb down and shoot Lao Tzu. ”

As soon as the commander of the enemy regiment finished speaking, the mortar shells of the Red Army fell on the heads of the Hunan soldiers on the road, and in such a dense crowd, as soon as the shells fell, four or five stumps flew up in the air; Dozens of shells fell together, bringing up a mist of blood.

The soldiers of the Hunan army were completely blown up, no one obeyed the commander's command at all, and it was impossible to think of lying down and shooting, and the veterans scolded the regiment commander who ordered to climb down and shoot: Joke, that's a shell, can it be safe to lie down? Do you lie down and resist to show Lao Tzu? There is basically only one word in the minds of all the soldiers: run. So, the rebels swarmed and cursed, and fled in the way they came. An officer who was blinded tried to stop the soldiers from fleeing, and just as he tried to kill the leading soldiers with a pistol, he was pushed to the ground by the crowd and trampled to a bloody blur.

This made Li Chang and his artillerymen too addicted.

Although Li Chang went to the Soviet Union to learn artillery, how could the conditions of the Red Army at that time allow him to let go of his hands and feet to carry out artillery bombardment like this! Only the 18th Red Regiment and only Liu Yimin's theory that it can be solved with artillery shells without bullets, with bullets without grenades, and with grenades can be solved with bayonets can Li Chang, who was deeply influenced by the Soviet army's artilleryism, make a big deal.

In this way, Li Chang commanded his mortar group, echoing the four mortars attached to the fourth and fifth battalions on Li Qing's side, chasing the crowd of Hunan troops.

Tao Guang and Zhong Guangren stood on the side of the road, staring blankly at the rout in front of them, as if they didn't recognize that this was their own troops.

Originally, Zhong Guangren had already ordered the brigade guard company to protect the retreat of the brigade headquarters and division headquarters, and had also ordered the rear guard battalion to turn around and seize the key points to cover the retreat of the troops. However, he did not expect that the main force of his brigade would collapse so quickly, and without waiting for the division headquarters and brigade headquarters to retreat, and without waiting for the rear guard battalion to seize the key points, the routs poured up and directly disrupted the marching formation of the guard company and the guard battalion. By the time he and Tao Guang converged, the rout had already fled along the highway with the rear guard battalion, the brigade guard company, and the troops directly under the division.

Tao Guangqi's eight-character beard shook and trembled, is this still the elite of his own training? It's a fucking bunch of bandits! No, not even bandits.

In fact, Tao Guang really scolded right. Later, after the Kuomintang was defeated and retreated to Taiwan, it learned from the pain and summed up the lessons, and a military theorist summed up the reasons for the defeat, and one of the most important ones was the bandit style. He believes that [***] can only win battles, not defeat battles. As soon as the battle is lost, the army collapses, and often the troops of tens of thousands of people will be scattered and completely dispersed in one turn. In this regard, the Central Army is more prominent than the miscellaneous army. This military theorist is absolutely right, and the high-ranking generals who have retreated to Taiwan also admit that fighting is the same as fighting bandits; when they gain the upper hand, they will rush upwards with a roar, and once they lose, they will immediately scatter. The current 62nd Division is this German surname.

Anger, shame, shamelessness, and so on. No words are enough to describe Tao Guang's mood at this time.

The Red Army's trumpet on the hill had already sounded loudly, and the Red Army that had rushed down from the front hill for a tail attack and the eastern hillside for an interception had all been killed on the road, but they all fell behind the routers, and only the shells could catch up with the pace of the rout, and the explosions kept on the heads of the routers, and each cannon shot would take away several lives.

Zhong Guangren was puzzled, where did the red bandits get so many mortars, and why the shelling was so accurate. How did he know that these guns were all from the Hunan 16th Division, and most of the gunners were well-trained gunners of the Gui Army and the Hunan Army, but they were now Red Army soldiers, and the new soldiers were eager to make meritorious contributions.

Tao Guang's heart was like a knife, it seemed that his military career was about to end here, he unwillingly glanced at the defeated soldiers who left him, and raised his pistol to his temple.

Zhong Guangren, who was standing next to him, hurriedly snatched Tao Guang's pistol, his eyes were full of tears, and he shouted to Tao Guang: "Master, stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood!" ”

Tao Guang sighed: "We're finished!" ”

Zhong Guangren saw that Tao Guang was in a gloomy mood, and as soon as he waved, the rest of the guards rushed up together, set up Tao Guang and ran, and joined the rout. As for the radio station or something, I don't care about it.

In front of Beishan Village is Beishan Village, rushing through the village, it is estimated that the red bandits will not be able to catch up. The pace of the routs is getting faster and faster.

Under the half-cut stone wall at the entrance of the village, Lei Ming, the commander of the sixth battalion of the Red 18th Regiment, led his company to look coldly at the rout of the 62nd Division. The current thunder can be said to have seen through the battlefield situation at a glance: the Hunan army has been completely defeated, the ranks have been scattered, mortars have been blown up, light and heavy machine guns have been discarded, baggage and materials have been discarded, and some soldiers have even discarded rifles and grenades because they think that weapons and ammunition affect the speed of running. Thunder's observation came to the conclusion that this is a herd of lambs waiting to be slaughtered!

Seeing that the defeated soldiers had flocked to the entrance of the village, and when they arrived at their guns, a sentence came out of Lei Ming's mouth when Liu Yimin ambushed the 16th Division in the Battle of Xiaoshui, "stupid", and raised his hand to shoot a shot. The guns rang out on the position, and the fire net of five heavy machine guns and nine light machine guns of a company covered the heads of the routers, causing them to plop down and go straight to the ground.

As soon as the rout saw that the road ahead was impassable, some of them turned their heads and ran backwards, some of them turned and climbed up the hill on the east side of the road, and some of them began to jump off the road and run on the opposite side of the flat.

Soon, the rout realized that they were dead end. Those who ran backwards collided head-on with the guns of the Red Army chasing after them, those who ran up the hillside were beaten by the Second Company of the Sixth Battalion and returned directly to the road, and those who ran to the farmland on the west side of the highway were hit by the machine guns of the Third Company of the Sixth Battalion and staggered like drunken people.

Listening to the shouts of "surrender the guns and don't kill, the Red Army will give preferential treatment to prisoners" echoing all over the mountains, and looking at the black and oppressive Red Army troops coming up all around, the defeated soldiers of the 62nd Division, who were accustomed to dealing with the Red Army, knew in their hearts that there was only one posture that could save their lives, and that was to kneel on the ground and raise their hands.

Tao Guang and Zhong Guangren were also caught between these routs. Looking at the posture and movements of his soldiers and the muzzles of the black holes of the Red Army soldiers who surrounded him, Tao Guang dripped, two tears fell from the corners of his eyes, and he muttered "Time, luck, and life", dropped the pistol, and raised his hands.