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Chapter 523: Three steps, one plan, five steps, one plan

Wuliping of Hefeng in western Hubei Province, is located at the northern foot of the majestic and vast mountain, the wooden buildings in the forest are full of cooking smoke, the creek is murmuring, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, and the green bamboo is covering the weather, just like a paradise in the world. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In this small town, which is 180 kilometers north of Enshi and less than 100 kilometers south of Sangzi County in Xiangxi, there was a burst of laughter and laughter, and hundreds of men in different clothes gathered around the captured hundreds of rifles and seven light machine guns, and excitedly talked about the battle process of the heavy blow to Zhang Fakui's Fourth Division yesterday evening.

A man in his thirties with a square face and a high nose and a neat mustache lay on a cool bamboo chair smoking a pipe, looking at the many soldiers who were happily fiddling with the new Czech machine guns and German-made rifles on the sundeck, he smiled from ear to ear, sat up after smoking a bucket of cigarettes and laughed, took the tea bowl handed by a young man wearing a gray cloth uniform of the revolutionary army at the same table, and poured two sips of "rumbling":

"Tiemin, where is Chief of Staff Duan, why haven't you seen anyone for a long time?"

The young man known as Tie Min, surnamed Wan Mingtao, was already the deputy secretary of the Huxi Special Committee, and he continued his beard with tea and laughed in a low voice:

"The comrades of the provincial party committee who came to Yichang at the east entrance of the town are estimated to be back soon. Commander He, do you think Zhang Fakui will take revenge soon? ”

"No, I know Zhang Xianghua's temper best, don't look at his murderous voice, he is still very shrewd, he must be afraid of being beaten this time, how dare he enter this unfamiliar mountain again? Seven days ago, the 5th Brigade of the Hubei Army, a miscellaneous army under his command, was knocked out by the Elders' Association, and a regiment commander was killed, even if he didn't feel distressed, he should be distressed if he was ambushed by us yesterday and killed half of the regiment, right? He couldn't breathe in ten days and half a month, haha! Commander He easily picked up the tea bowl and continued to drink tea.

"Look, Secretary Zhou and Chief of Staff Duan are back, and they are in a hurry, and they are estimated to have important matters...... Ji Sheng, hurry up and bring two tea bowls. Wan Tao turned to the guards and ordered loudly, and the guards quickly brought two coarse porcelain sea bowls and placed them on the table, pouring tea for Zhou Yiqun, the political minister and secretary of the special committee, and Duan Dechang, the chief of staff, who had just sat down sweaty.

Commander He's eyes were sharp, and at a glance he saw the new pistol on Duan Dechang's waist, he unceremoniously reached out his hand, pulled out the gun, looked at it carefully, and sighed lovingly: "This gun is very good!" Colt in the United States is still brand new, it seems that Lao Jiang has given Zhang Xianghua a lot of benefits, so he is so hard-working. ”

"Beard, you have to look carefully, there is no foreign inscription on it."

Zhou Yiqun put down the bowl and took off his military hat, approached Commander He, and pointed to the numbered number on the gun and the bluesky and white sun badge pattern: "See, under the blue sky and white sun star is the English letter of 'Jiangnan', this gun is an imitation of the Nanchang Arsenal, with a caliber of nine millimeters and a bullet capacity of eight rounds, look here...... There is a dragon engraved on the handle of the gun, this is a special gift gun made by Jiangnan Factory, not the school officer can't get it, but it's a pity that the school officer took advantage of the chaos to disguise himself as a soldier and escaped, Dechang is still sulking for this, and scolded the third regiment commander enough, haha! ”

Commander He smiled at Duan Dechang, who was drinking water: "Dechang, how many guns have been captured?" ”

As soon as Duan Dechang heard this, he immediately put down the bowl, quickly snatched the gun back, stuffed it into the delicate black cowhide holster on his waist, stood up and set up a stool, and was far away from He Jun: "As soon as I heard what you said, I knew that it was going to be bad, so it was safer to stay away from you." ”

Everyone laughed when they heard the amusement, and Zhou Yiqun explained after laughing: "There are more than a dozen shell guns, how many more can there be such good guns?" That's all! Unless next time we clean up Lao Jiang's Whampoa descendants, I heard that the battalion commander of Yin Jinan's 16th Division in Yichang and above are all Colt, and all the officers and soldiers of his special service battalion of several hundred people have this kind of gun, one per person, and they are rich! ”

Commander He put on the tobacco and asked with a smile: "Dechang, isn't that Yin Jinan your little junior brother in the fourth phase of Huangpu?" You can go to Yichang and ask him if he wants a few, and lend me this gun on your waist for two days. ”

Duan Dechang replied with a "don't think", then put away his smiling face, and said very seriously: "Army commander, I was about to report to you the movements of the 16th Division in Yichang, Lao Liu of the provincial party committee came and left in a hurry, saying that Cai Shaohua's 2nd Brigade under Yin Jinan suddenly attacked Badong in the afternoon three days ago, and surrounded the old man of the Shenbing Palace in western Hubei with more than 700 people, and it only took more than half an hour to end the battle. Qi Yishan, the sworn brother of Gong Lao Liu, was shocked to hear the bad news, and in anger, he led more than 1,100 brothers in the Flying Dragon Cave to draw talismans and drink divine water overnight, carrying Daguan knives and more than a dozen Tusong cannons to rush to Padang to rob the prison, but before he arrived in Badong, he was surrounded by Cai Shaohua's two regiments in the area of Zoumagou in the west of the city, and after being killed by the sharpshooters, they all surrendered, and were escorted to the city to be locked up with Gong Lao Liu. ”

"Aren't these gods quite good at fighting? Liu Xiang, Zhang Xianghua and Fan Xiaoquan have all suffered losses from them, why are they so unbeaten? Commander He looked at Duan Dechang in great surprise, and then looked at Zhou Yiqun.

Zhou Yiqun nodded and said: "The intelligence will not go wrong, Lao Liu said that according to President Chen of the Yichang Chamber of Commerce, my very famous junior brother An Yi has already returned to Yichang from Changde, and the next day there was news that Badong was occupied by the Second Brigade of the 16th Division.

Colonel Brigade Commander Cai Shaohua I am very familiar with, and Dechang together with the Whampoa Fourth Infantry Division, in school was steady, silent, resourceful and famous, after the Northern Expedition to Nanchang entered An Yi's independent regiment lieutenant deputy battalion commander and instructor, followed An Yi to fight in the north and south, and finally promoted to colonel regiment commander, Yin Jinan was separated from the independent division to establish the Nanchang Garrison Division, Cai Shaohua was immediately promoted to colonel and brigade commander of the second brigade, and it is estimated that he will soon be promoted to major general.

It's funny to say, Yin Jinan, this guy didn't talk a fart when he was in Huangpu, I only knew An Yi and Zhang Tianyi in the second phase, and I didn't know this Yin Jinan at all, and now it seems that this guy is not a person to deal with, judging from the more than 1,000 people who quietly captured Badong and then successfully surrounded Qiyi Mountain, this guy is brave and strategic, and he is a fierce opponent! ”

"Don't say it, you really can't underestimate the people who came out of the model camp, otherwise you will suffer a big loss."

Commander He sighed, lit his pipe and took a deep breath, and then asked: "Dechang, you and An Yi, Yin Jinan, and Cai Shaohua are all from the fourth phase of Huangpu, can you tell us about their situation." ”

Duan Dechang introduced with a smile: "Needless to say, An Yi, this guy's matter can be seen in the newspaper almost every day, and there are a large number of novels and non-fiction literature circulating on the market, everyone knows it very well." This guy rose too fast, he was just a small company commander before the Northern Expedition, but now he has become Lao Jiang's henchman, and he doesn't even buy the account of the old commander He Yingqin......"

Commander He interrupted Duan Dechang's words: "We all know these things, An Yi, this kid is still kind, if Lao Tzu is so wronged, I'm afraid he will be even more angry than him...... Ha ha! And on, on! ”

Everyone burst into laughter, and it took a while to calm down.

Duan Dechang then introduced: "I am not very familiar with Yin Jinan, this kid was polite when he was in the military academy, and he would blush when he said a few more words, like a big girl."

But I heard that this guy has a unique skill, that is, he is very calculating, when the engineering section was divided into two district teams, they competed with each other for everything, but the second district team never won the first district team led by An Yi and Zhang Tianyi, the reason is that there is this Yin Jinan, who is not obvious and calculates people and things to the bones, such as the workload and schedule of fortification excavation, the weight of equipment carried by the march, the mileage of the march and the rest gap, etc., Yin Jinan will quickly and accurately pre-calculate, after swearing from Guangzhou to participate in the Northern Expedition, Yin Jinan, An Yi, and Hu Jialin have improved and summed up a complete set of advanced training methods through marching and actual combat again and again, and have become more and more sophisticated in their calculations in terms of firepower equipment and combat coordination.

Before the Nanchang Uprising the year before last, I listened to Mr. Zhang Zhizhong and several instructors in Wuhan unintentionally talk about An Yi and Yin Jinan, saying that the independent division had been accurate to less than one pound in terms of ammunition carrying and mortar dismantling and transportation on night marches. An Yi, a freak who has a five-step scheme, Yin Jinan, who calculates everything to his bones, and a large group of ruthless people who have grown up such as Hu Jialin, a master of rivers and lakes, and Gu Changfeng, a bandit leader. ”

Seeing that everyone listened carefully to his explanation, Duan Dechang nodded happily, took a sip of water and continued: "Let's talk about the three brigade commanders of Yin Jinan's 16th Division, the first brigade commander Wu Liheng was born in a veteran ruffian, I heard that this person wanted to give them a dismount when An Yi and others went to the engineer company, but they were beaten and admitted to the hospital, and later returned to the team in Hunan. This person has rich combat experience, dares to fight, and is also very righteous and moral, has a high prestige among officers and soldiers, and only began to consciously learn literacy after becoming a company commander, it is said that he is now learning the same as Guan Yunchang, and every day when he has free time to read "Spring and Autumn", this person's first brigade has three regiments with a total of 5,300 people, each regiment has a mortar battalion, which is the best equipped and most veterans of the 16th Division, and is now stationed in Enshi under the leadership of deputy division commander Ding Zhicheng; Cai Shaohua of the Second Brigade is calm and calm, and has always been famous among his colleagues in Whampoa for leading troops in a good way and strict military discipline. The commander of the third brigade, Cheng Junhua, is a native of Huzhou, Zhejiang, and graduated from the Wutang Bu Department of the Zhejiang Army, this person was in the battle of Fengxin and the current Jiangxi Provincial Security Commander Yang Bin together with Cheng An Yi, I heard that although this guy is learning the step department, but the artillery is first-class, where to fight, the deputy brigade commander Gao Guodong is a native of Xuancheng, Zhejiang, one year older than me, and also graduated from the fourth phase of Huangpu, it is rumored that Jiang Dingwen has wanted to transfer Gao Guodong to the ninth division as the brigade commander An Yi will not let go, what can make An Yi value so much must be a talent, So Yin Jinan's 16th Division is not easy to fight! ”

Commander He touched the stubble on his chin and nodded slightly: "Judging from the current situation, An Yi and Yin Jinan have no intention of going against us, judging from the fact that Zhang Hongluan's 44th Army in Xiangxi has never blushed from doing business with us, An Yi is likely to have reached an agreement with Zhang Hongluan, who has a deep relationship, as evidenced by the 50 German-made rifles and 20,000 rounds of ammunition sold to us last month, and since the 44th Army has been stationed in Xiangxi, it has never sent troops to our base areas Sangzhi, Longshan, and Laifeng, Our traffic officers went to Qiancheng to ask for sulfonamides and quinine, and they also sold them to us very carefully, so it seems that An Yi is just as the telegram from his superiors said, unwilling to be our enemy, and it is estimated that even if he can't win it, he will not soon become an enemy. ”

"Yes, I think so, too."

Zhou Yiqun added: "An Yi's Ganzhong security forces have controlled the Nanchang area for more than two years, and have never clashed with our ** Red Army, on the contrary, they have close contacts in trade, I heard from the liaison officer of the Jiangxi Fourth Army that An Yi also quietly gave them two batches of medical equipment and medicines in short supply, and it is estimated that it is precisely in this way that the superiors regard him as a sympathetic to the revolution and can win over the object." ”

"Dechang, what do you think?" Commander He asked.

Duan Dechang pondered for a moment, shook his head and said in a low voice: "Seriously, I can't see through An Yi, he is always polite when he meets in Huangpu, he is very polite to everyone, without the slightest arrogance, and he is generous and righteous, often quietly helping the senior brothers in a bad situation, everyone likes to get along with him, but relatively speaking, he prefers to get together with the senior brothers in the first and second phases, and has a very good relationship with Dai Anlan and Shi Jue in the third phase, Zhang Lingfu, Luo Lie, and Li Mi in the fourth phase also have a good relationship with him, and Hu Zongnan in the first phase, He Jinhan, Chen Geng and others are called brothers and sisters, and they are very close, and now it is estimated that a faction has formed in his position. This person doesn't seem to care about anything, but he is superior to others everywhere, which makes people feel incredible.

All in all, this guy is unclear, many brothers think he is insidious and cunning, but they still like to talk and chat with him, because they laugh a lot when they are with him, hehe! ”

Commander He pondered for a while, and suggested: "Otherwise, let's find an opportunity to meet with Zhang Hongluan's quartermaster in Qiancheng and ask if they can provide us with some of their latest mountain brigade 60 mortars and Czech light machine guns, these two powerful weapons are definitely good things for mountain operations, get a few mortars and a few hundred shells back, and the Central Army will come back to encircle and suppress us, so that they can be better left." ”

"Beard, I'm afraid you don't just mean to get a few small cannons, right? Do you want to test Zhang Hongluan's clear attitude from here? Zhou Yiqun asked.

Commander He nodded: "Exactly, Zhang Hongluan is not what it used to be, not to mention the three main divisions with 15,000 people under his command, as well as two artillery regiments directly under his command, a local garrison headquarters of 18,000 people, and opened an arsenal, power plant, pharmaceutical factory, and cement factory. We just want to beat him up, we have to take into account the political implications, but the situation is getting more and more complicated. ”

"Report: Secretary Liao of the Youyang County Party Committee is here in person." The commander of the guard battalion ran to report.

"Oh? Lao Liao is here? Please, please, please! …… Forget it, let's greet it together, Lao Liao will not leave the nest easily, there must be something important. ”

Commander He stood up to tidy up his clothes, Zhou Yiqun, Duan Dechang, and Wan Tao also stood up, and they didn't take a few steps to meet Lao Liao, who had arrived in the dust.

Lao Liao didn't have time to drink water, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said breathlessly: "The situation is urgent, drink water after saying it...... On the morning of the day before yesterday, the Second Division of the 44th Army was stationed in Youyang and Daozhen, and quickly gathered the village elders and Tusi leaders of these two counties for a meeting, and made many promises, including building roads and bridges, building schools, hospitals, and inns along the way, promising to provide free guns and ammunition to arm the self-defense forces of various villages, so that all cottages and towns could form associations to protect themselves, and vigorously develop industry and commerce. As a result, the gangs and mountain people who had changed their minds under our vigorous mobilization ran to them, and our ideological and political work in the past few months has been in vain! He Huzi, Yiqun, you can help me figure out a way, I'm really in a hurry! ”

Commander He and the others looked at each other, and Duan Dechang hurriedly asked, "What about the garrison of a battalion in Youyang?" ”

"Oops! How can those two or three hundred hanging Erlang be the Sichuan soldiers who bully and dominate the market, enough for more than 10,000 Xiangxi troops to stuff their teeth? As soon as the vanguard regiment of the second division entered the city, they all obediently surrendered, and in a blink of an eye, they were escorted back to Qiancheng and said that they were going to train for three months. As soon as they entered the city, they posted notices, announcing the new tax reduction for one year, and took the initiative to clean up inside and outside the county, helping every household to clean up the tattered tile roofs, and also used horse teams to bring a large number of salt, soap, and needles and threads to poor households for free, and also promised to help open up the wasteland, provide seeds free of charge, etc., which made the villagers in the county very happy, but they were the Kuomintang! It's incompatible with us! So, what can we do with our work? Old Liao squatted down in sorrow.

Commander He took a deep breath, picked up Lao Liao and said kindly: "Don't worry, brother, since this is the case, let me find a time to meet Zhang Hongluan for a while, I want to see if he is a Kuomintang or **." ”

Duan Dechang shook his head and smiled bitterly: "See, the typical model battalion spirit, it must be An Yi behind the scenes, I heard rumors that Wei Yangxin, the commander of the second division of the 44th Army, was originally the captain of the teaching regiment of An Yi's independent division, and Deng Bin, the deputy commander of the 44th Army from Sichuan, is the deputy of An Yi's special brigade, and all the cadres above the battalion level of the second division are from the independent division or the old Nanchang non-commissioned officer base, it seems that this rumor is true!" This An Yi is really treacherous! ”