Chapter 2 Pre-War Preparations
As the sun rose, the fog began to dissipate slowly. Guanghuapu in the south of the boundary head is less than 3,000 meters away from the boundary head. The 4th Division of the Red Army was in full swing to build fortifications. Liu Hua's 10th regiment also did the same thing. Liu Hua was digging a bunker while observing the position. As a graduate student of the National Defense University in later generations, he studied every battle of the Long March, and came to Guanghuapu many times to mourn the revolutionary martyrs who died.
So he knew how tragic the battle of Guanghuapu was. So he dug up the fortifications and worked hard, because he knew that good fortifications could save his life when he was in danger. But when he inspected the work of the others in his class, he couldn't help but get a little angry. Now I finally know why the battle was fought so badly at that time, and it seems that the enemy is still underestimated. Because at this time there was a long snake fortification, only a shallow trench was dug, and at the edge of the position, there were pine trees and miscellaneous trees, and the other companies were the same as those in his own squad. "Can this fortification withstand heavy artillery bombardment? What's more, the enemy still has planes," Liu Hua thought secretly in his heart.
When he saw a piece of mountain land behind the position, he suddenly thought: In history, the Gui army passed through this mountain area in the dark night and broke through the position of the Red Army in one fell swoop. Of course, now that he knows, Gui Jun can't achieve it. "If you set a fire at that time, hehe, Gui Jun will be good-looking, and then I will wait to see Gui Jun's good show." Liu Hua secretly smiled proudly.
By noon, the warriors, who had been tired for half a day, sat down one after another and began to rest. But when Liu Hua saw other people's work, his mood couldn't be calm. Liu Hua took advantage of the break to gather the rest of the class together. Said solemnly: "Comrades, your fortifications are so simple to dig, how can you stop the enemy when the time comes!" Xiaolong said while eating: "Squad leader, I estimate that the Gui army, like the Yue army, will not be so serious, otherwise the army will not be withdrawn!" Liu Hua didn't speak, turned to look at Lao Sun, who was put in the class because of the rebellion, and asked, "Lao Sun, what do you think?" "I guess the battle will definitely be fought, but it shouldn't be that intense!" Hearing this, Liu Hua interrupted Lao Sun's words and said solemnly: "You must believe me, this battle will definitely be fought very badly, so everyone must dig the fortifications, be the same as mine, start after eating, do you hear!" With that, he turned around and left.
Liu Hua walked to the company headquarters and found Wu Xin, the company commander who was working shirtless, and said that he had something important to report to the regiment commander. Company Commander Wu looked at Liu Hua's calm appearance, did not speak, turned around and took him to the regiment commander.
The regiment commander, Shen Shuqing, was thinking about his next move, when he was suddenly interrupted by a "report", raised his head, and saw Wu Xin walking in with a young soldier. The warrior felt familiar, but he couldn't remember it. Busy asked, "What's the matter?" Liu Hua saluted with a standard upright: "Report to the head of the group, I have an important matter to report to you." "Tell me," replied the regimental commander.
"Yes, regiment commander, I found that our soldiers have a serious idea of underestimating the enemy, and they have never thought about fighting a tough battle, we all know that the Gui army has the title of steel army in the country, and has never been defeated in the civil war, we can guess that in the case of common interests with Chiang Kai-shek, without affecting his own strength, he will definitely not show mercy to our Red Army, not to mention that they have planes and artillery?"
After hearing this, the head of the regiment was silent: "That's what I said! But with the bravery of our warriors and the spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice, we should be able to hold on for two days! ”
"But what a sacrifice we would have to pay for that?"
In the end, the head of the regiment agreed to Liu Hua's suggestion.
After Liu Hua walked out of the headquarters, the regiment commander said: "Liu Hua, I order you to guide each company to complete the fortifications and prepare for the enemy's attack. ”
"Yes! Commander, promise to complete the mission! After saying that, he gave a standard military salute and walked out of the command headquarters.
Throughout the afternoon, Liu Hua was busy guiding others to complete the work. He was well aware of the difference between himself and others, and in his spare time, according to the gap between the Red Army and your army, he thought of a tactic that later generations called the summary of the military god, that is, "a group of three, three groups and a team to see the formation, especially suitable for close combat, hand-to-hand combat." Thinking of this, he walked up to the company commander and put forward his own ideas. The company commander knew that Liu Hua had studied among all the squad leaders in the company, and he had a lot of ghost ideas, so he immediately agreed and asked the whole company to train together.
In this way, the whole company, under the leadership of Liu Hua, began to train on the battlefield in this limited time.
And after listening to Liu Hua's report, the regiment commander Shen Shuqing was secretly happy in his heart on the one hand, happy that he had such a good and thoughtful soldier under his command, and thought that he must train him well. On the other hand, he was worried about what Liu Hua said, because he knew that not only his own regimental friends underestimated the enemy's thoughts, but also the entire legion. Thinking of this, he hurriedly reported the situation to his division commander and corps commander. At this time, my heart relaxed, and I seized the time to think about how to meet the enemy.
At this time, the Central Red Army, which had always been remembered by Liu Hua, was slowly walking towards the Xiangjiang River. At this time, Chairman * woke up from his daze, and was greeted by the two familiar faces of Luo Fu and Jiaxiang. Jiaxiang hurriedly asked with concern: "Lao Mao, you scared us to death just now, you have to rest well, don't hold on." ”
* jokingly replied, "Jiaxiang, now you can rest assured!" By the way, how is the situation of the troops now! Hurry up and talk about it! ”
"The troops are still in Guanyang and are preparing to leave." Wang Jiaxiang hurriedly replied.
"How can you do it, it's so slow, it's going to be a big loss. It's better to get to the better as soon as possible, I see you go to Enlai to talk about it, and you have to rush to Xiangjiang as soon as possible. After speaking, Wang Jiaxiang left in a hurry.
It seems to verify the words of the great man, when the troops, under the urging of Zhou Enlai, used the speed of a snail before they could reach the five-mile road, they heard three gunshots, and then someone shouted loudly: "The enemy plane is coming, hide quickly, quickly."
In this way, Chiang Kai-shek seemed to have given a death order, and within a day, enemy planes continued to bomb, and in this way, under the bombing of enemy planes, the main force of the Red Army began to move towards the Xiangjiang River step by step.
At this time, after a day and a night of marching, the main force of the Red Army walked out for more than ten miles, and at this time, the main three divisions of Liu Jianxu's division of the Hunan Army were all stationed in Quanzhou. At the same time, the 48th Division of the Gui Army and a reinforced regiment of the Seventh Army entered and occupied Hung Yen, and the front of the troops was directed at the first boundary, while the other two divisions of the Seventh Army were directed at Guanyang, and the battle was about to break out.
The position of the 10th Red Eighth Company of Guanghuapu was under the leadership of Liu Hua to start training for the surname, and for a while, the laughter and shouting of killing were endless. At this time, the four regiments of the Gui Army had already taken care of them very closely. The big war is coming soon.