Chapter 5 The Iron Stream Guard Pioneer Company
The meeting at the division headquarters was very short, Liu Yimin and Wang Dahu returned to the trenches to rest for a short while, Wang Dahu found Liu Yimin a Red Army uniform to change into, and was praising Liu Yimin for wearing a Red Army uniform when he was very powerful, and the regiment commander returned.
Soon, the order to transfer came down, and the division headquarters ordered Liu Yimin's 101st Regiment to quickly withdraw its position and advance quickly and covertly near the Jieshou Ferry.
As soon as Liu Yimin saw it, he knew that the division commander had adopted his suggestion, abandoned the route drawn by the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, and went to rescue the Red 18th Regiment and the blocking troops on the east bank. Liu Yimin said to Wang Dahu that the soldiers should change into the clothes of the Gui army, open the way for the whole regiment, and move forward quickly.
Wang Dahu immediately pulled Liu Yimin to find the regiment commander, and when the regiment commander heard this, he agreed to their request, considering that there were too few of them, he immediately transferred a combat squad from each of the three battalions to join in and form a top platoon, with Wang Dahu as the platoon commander and Liu Yimin as the deputy platoon commander. Wang Dahu directly told the regiment commander that he was willing to obey Liu Yimin's command, and Liu Yimin had many ideas. The regiment commander directly appointed Liu Yimin as the platoon commander and Wang Dahu as the deputy platoon commander. Let them check their ammunition, change their clothes, and set off immediately, with the large army following them in echelons.
Liu Yimin gathered the team and carried out a simple grouping. The platoon has a total of 41 people, which can be regarded as a reinforced platoon, divided into three combat squads, a fire support squad, and a sniper group. There are 9 people in each squad, with one squad leader and two deputy squad leaders, divided into three combat groups, and the squad leader and deputy squad leader concurrently serve as the leaders of the combat group. platoon leader Liu Yimin, deputy platoon leader Wang Dahu, squad leader Li Dashan, deputy squad leaders Zhang Guangming and Chen Hu; Liu Shizhu, the second squad leader, Han Qingchun, Zhang Baoshan, deputy squad leaders; Luo Yan, the third squad leader, Guo Chunsheng, Cheng Fengnian, deputy squad leaders; The fourth squad is the fire support squad, the squad leader Zhao Runqing, the deputy squad leader Chen Yong, Zhang Guocheng, the whole class has only one Czech light machine gun, machine gunner Long Huwa, deputy shooter Long Huzi; In addition, three Red Army soldiers with good marksmanship were selected from among them and organized into a sniper team, led by Wang Tongsheng. After the organization of the troops, Liu Yimin briefly talked about the tasks and roles of the combat squad, fire support squad, and sniper squad, and then led the team to the position of the Gui army in the confusion of everyone.
Due to the bombing of the artillery positions, the offensive of the Gui army was temporarily stopped, and the soldiers were busy building fortifications on the starting positions of the attack.
When Liu Yimin and the others touched the position of the Gui army, the soldiers of the Gui army were doing a good job under the supervision of the commander. Sentinels swam up and down the trench with rifles.
Liu Yimin found a relatively isolated position, looked at more than 60 people, and knew that this was a disabled position of the Guijun company. Liu Yimin said in a low voice: "The Gui army is deeply poisoned by reactionary propaganda, and its combat effectiveness is very strong, so it is easy not to surrender its guns. We pretended to be the Gui army, and if the Gui army resisted after going up, we would solve it with bayonets and try not to shoot. One squad was responsible for solving the sentries and guards, and the rest rushed me. Is the mission clear? All four nodded. Liu Yimin said: "Action! "Lead the team to the Gui army.
The sentry of the Gui army suddenly saw a group of people walking towards the position, immediately pulled the bolt of the gun, and then saw that it was his own people, and hurriedly shouted: "Stop, password?" ”
Liu Yimin replied: "Suppress the Communist Party." Requirement? ”
The sentry put away his gun: "Destroy the bandits." What kind of brothers are they? ”
Liu Yimin walked up to the sentry and said, "We are the search force of the military department, what about your commander?" Call him over. ”
The sentry of the Gui army led Liu Yimin to the trench, shouting as he walked: "Company commander, company commander, the commander of the military department is looking for you." ”
"Which one is looking for Lao Tzu?"
"It's Lao Tzu looking for you."
"Which one are you?"
"Lao Tzu is from the search team of the military department, you gather the team, and the army commander wants me to call out to the brothers."
The company commander of the Gui army turned around and shouted to assemble, and soon the Gui army stood in a row in the trench. After the company commander of the Gui Army saluted Liu Yimin and reported, he asked Liu Yimin to give a lecture.
Liu Yimin glanced at it, all the soldiers of the Gui Army had arrived, and the Red Army soldiers were all standing in the battle position with guns, and shouted: "Brothers, Lao Tzu is a Red Army, you have been captured, you are not allowed to move, whoever moves will kill whom." ”
When the company commander of Guijun heard this, he knew that he had been fooled, so he reached out and took out his pistol, and Li Dashan, who was standing next to Liu Yimin, picked him with a stab. A few Gui soldiers who were standing on the side turned around and ran, trying to get their guns, but they only heard a few sounds of "plop, plop", and they were all stabbed to death with bayonets. Liu Yimin glanced at Gui Jun coldly and said, "Whoever fucking has lived enough, shout, run, all white knives go in and red knives come out." Let's see if your legs are fast or Lao Tzu's bayonets are fast! ”
The soldiers of the Gui army were silent and obediently became prisoners. Liu Yimin asked Wang Dahu to send a signal to inform the large army of action. Let the soldiers quickly replenish their weapons and ammunition and look for dry rations in the positions of the Gui army.
After a while, Wang Dahu excitedly approached Liu Yimin and said that six light machine guns had been seized, all of which were brand-new Czech models, and the rifles were all 79 types, as well as a few submachine guns.
Liu Yimin said: "The Gui army has just been equipped with new weapons, which we just use, all the light machine guns are concentrated in the fire support squad, and the submachine guns are issued to the chief and deputy squad leaders. The fighters each brought 100 rounds of ammunition, 8 grenades, and other weapons to the large army to deal with, and immediately prepared to go."
While speaking, the regiment commander came up with the troops, Liu Yimin briefly reported the situation, and the regiment commander immediately arranged for a company to change into the Guijun uniform to guard the position and cover the follow-up troops. Liu Yimin was ordered to lead the team to act as planned, and the troops passed quickly. Liu Yimin asked the regiment commander to string all the prisoners with ropes, gag them, and take them away. The regiment commander said that the Red Army would not kill prisoners, but secrecy measures should still be taken, so rest assured that they should go.
In Xialiwan Village, not far from the foot of Guanyin Mountain in Xinwei, the Gui Army's baggage battalion was stationed here, and dozens of carts loaded with weapons, ammunition, food, and medicine were parked in the open space outside the ancestral hall in the village and on the roadside.
Since it was a baggage unit responsible for sending supplies, and it was located in the rear of his main force, the commander of the Gui Army's baggage battalion thought it was very safe, and after arranging a guard, he began to interrogate the Red Army prisoners of war in the ancestral hall.
When the Red Fifth Division was ordered to support the Guanghuapu position, it was too late to take away the wounded, and later some of the wounded of the Red Eighteenth Regiment were also sent here. After the evacuation of the Red Eighteenth Regiment, all the wounded were captured by the Gui army. According to the original history, in addition to the lightly wounded who were directly slaughtered by the Gui army, the remaining more than 100 seriously wounded were finally drowned by the Gui army in Jiuhaijing, and the three female soldiers of the Red Army were stripped naked by the Gui army and taken into the mountains, I don't know whether they were slaughtered by the Gui army or devoured by wild beasts.
After the Gui Army's baggage battalion took over, the Gui army battalion commander and his company and platoon commanders took the torture of the Red Army's captured and wounded as a pastime. The rest of the Gui soldiers were in squads, guarding the vehicles they were escorting.
When Liu Yimin came up with a platoon of sharp soldiers, he knew at a glance that the Gui army was not on guard at all. It's still the same old thing, with a slight difference is that when they broke through the position of the Gui army, Liu Yimin said that they were the search force of the military department, and this time they said that they were the supervision team sent by Commander Xia Wei. When the battalion commander and the company platoon commander of the Gui Army's baggage battalion gathered the team, they found that the seven machine guns of the overseer team were lined up against them, and they were obediently taken prisoner, and there was not even a single one in the battalion who resisted.
Liu Yimin was really happy now, and counted the ammunition and dry food of the entire 46 carts, what a timely rain for the Red 34th Division, which had not been replenished since the Long March and was almost out of ammunition. And also saved more than 200 wounded members of the Red Army, who were destined to be slaughtered. Therefore, as soon as Division Commander Chen Shuxiang and Political Commissar Cheng Cuilin, who had caught up, met with each other, they directly ordered Liu Yimin's top platoon to be upgraded to a top soldier company, and ordered Han Wei, commander of the 100th Regiment, and Lu Gongyin, commander of the 102nd Regiment, to draw a platoon each, and to transfer a squad of the division headquarters guard unit to join the top soldier company. In view of the fact that Liu Yimin had just joined the Red Army and was not yet a party member, Political Commissar Cheng Cuilin immediately designated Cai Zhong, director of the division's political office, to follow the sharp knife company to act, but he was not allowed to interfere with Liu Yimin's military command.
Liu Yimin reorganized the unit according to the establishment of the combat squad of the original top soldier platoon, and divided it into three platoons and nine combat squads, the sniper group was upgraded to a sniper squad, and the fire support squad became a reinforced squad. The platoon has one principal and deputy platoon leader, one squad leader and two deputy squad leaders. The first platoon commander Wang Dahu, the second platoon commander Shen Nantang, the third platoon commander Wang Xinyun, the whole company has 113 people, three combat platoons of 28 people each, 7 sniper squads, 19 fire support squads, 1 communicator, and one division commander. The company was armed with brand-new 79 rifles, 9 Czech light machine guns, and 34 submachine guns. Liu Yimin, the principal and deputy squads, and the platoon commander each had a shell gun on their waists, submachine guns on their backs, and 79 rifles on their shoulders. At present, the company of sharp soldiers is strong in men and horses, and its light firepower is unique in the entire Central Red Army.
Some readers may ask, where did Liu Yimin get their submachine guns? Foolishness. In fact, the submachine guns were all captured by the Gui army. After the Red Army's Long March, Chiang Kai-shek had already foreseen the Red Army's breakthrough route and laid four blockade lines. In order to make up for the lack of troops and to weaken the strength of the local warlords, Chiang Kai-shek asked the Hunan army, the Gui army, and the Guangdong army to cooperate with the Central Army to encircle it. Bai Chongxi took advantage of the situation to put forward two demands to Chiang Kai-shek, one was that the Gui army had a small number of troops, and asked that the 44 th Division, which participated in the encirclement and suppression of the central Soviet region, be rebuilt, and the other was that the central government should change the clothes of the Gui army. In order to mobilize the Gui army, Chiang Kai-shek agreed to all two demands. Therefore, the current Gui Army is equipped with a new 79 rifle and a Czech machine gun that can be used with rifle bullets, and the squad and platoon leaders are all equipped with submachine guns, which is what the Red Army soldiers often call flower organs. Liu Yimin continuously captured the equipment of the Gui Army, so naturally he gave priority to the Sharp Knife Company.
At this time, if the Gui Army's reconnaissance plane passes by, you will see a strange scene: On the avenue, in front is a company of vanguard troops dressed in Gui Army uniforms running forward, behind is a large army of the Red Army lined up in three columns running and advancing, dozens of carts are pulling the Red Army's wounded and ammunition and other materials, and the prisoners without military uniforms who are following behind the carts are also running forward under the threat of bright bayonets, and behind the palace is a battalion of troops wearing Gui Army uniforms. In this way, the Red 34th Division swaggered and marched to the Jieshou Ferry.
Now the Red 34th Division, the soldiers are full of bullets in their guns, their bodies are full of grenades, and they are eating the dry food of the Gui Army while running, although the number is less than 4,000 people, but the ammunition of the soldiers has been greatly replenished, and they have also eaten their stomachs, and they have restored the combat effectiveness of the Tieliu Guard. Although the situation is still dangerous, the Gui army behind will soon find that the Red 34th Division has broken through and will catch up immediately, and there may be an encirclement laid by the enemy in front, but the two successful defeats directed by Liu Yimin gave the soldiers great confidence. The political workers mobilized in the team while running: "Learn from the top soldier company, rescue the 18th regiment, and fight across the Xiangjiang River!" "It can be said that the fighting spirit of the current Red 34th Division is unprecedentedly high, like a sharp sword, shooting towards the bank of the Xiangjiang River.
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