Chapter 124: Battle of Changsha
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He Jian's hand touching the gun was trembling, the corners of his forehead were covered with cold sweat, and the hand holding the gun became extremely slippery.
The tide is over!
Since the artillery was set up on Yuelu Mountain, the rapid loss of Changsha has been inevitable. He Jian, who has too much blood debt in his hands, is not thinking about surrendering and begging for his life at all, but whether he wants to pick up a gun and hit his head, or lead the team to rush out and fight with the Red Army for a while like a man and then die in battle.
The gunfire was getting closer, but the sound of the cannon was rapidly weakening, replaced by the sound of a loud charge horn. When the cannon mount was mounted on Yuelu Mountain, the fighting spirit of the defenders everywhere was lost, and almost all of them surrendered at the touch of a button. Their general attack on Changsha took less than half a day, and He Jian, who was sitting at the garrison headquarters, could already hear the sound of "surrender your guns and not kill" coming from the wind in the distance.
He Jian touched the gun in his hand and laughed at himself.
"100,000 people, in less than three days, collapsed like this, it's worse than 100,000 pigs!"
He Jian couldn't help but think about the joke about "catching 70,000 pigs in 20 days" among domestic warlords after the fourth encirclement and suppression two years ago, and at that time he was still gloating in his heart about the tragic encounter of "Granny He", but he didn't expect that this joke would fall on his head two years later, and he also set a new record. After this battle, it is not known how other warlords in the country will organize themselves.
"Boom!" "Boom! ”
A loud explosion came from the direction of the gate of the garrison headquarters. Then there was the clattering sound of glass breaking, and the Red Army that had invaded Changsha had already dropped all the grenades into the compound of the garrison headquarters. The wind from the explosion outside the courtyard swept into the house, sending pieces of paper flying everywhere on the floor.
"It shouldn't be like this! Where did the red bandits get so many guns, so many cannons, and so much ammunition? This doesn't make sense! ”
He Jian touched the pistol, his hands and forehead were full of beads of sweat, but his mind was constantly recalling the scenes of the "bandits" for several years.
He was one of the initiators of the "Ma-Ri Incident" in 1927, and in the half month of the "Ma-Ri Incident", more than 10,000 revolutionary people in Hunan Province were slaughtered by him. And six years of "banditry" experience. The blood shed by the revolutionary masses who died at his hands was more than enough for him to swim in it. In addition, the wife of the leader of the Jiangxi Red Bandits also died tragically under his butcher's knife.
In addition to carrying countless blood debts, He Jian is the most immoral thing he has ever done. But it is to dig up people's ancestral graves.
The ancestral grave of the leader of the Red Bandits, Li Runshi. He sent someone to dig it up.
Peng Shuai's ancestral grave. He sent someone to dig it up.
The one who made a revolution with two kitchen knives, he sent people to dig his ancestral grave, and he dug it five times.
Inside the city of Changsha. If others surrender to the Red Bandits, there will be a way to live, but he, He Jian, can't surrender!
He Jian thought of the fate of Xu Kexiang, who attacked Jishui, the base of the Red Army, two years ago, and the direct commander and initiator of the Ma-Ri Incident was ambushed during the Battle of Jishui, and the whole army was wiped out and captured. After the public trial, he paraded through the streets with a sign and was finally shot on the edge of the Yangtze River.
He Jian, who had more blood debts in his hands than Xu Kexiang, couldn't help but tremble when he thought of this. Those who kill like hemp may not be really bold.
The voices of "surrender the gun and don't kill" and "capture He Jian alive" were getting closer and closer, and the guards of the garrison headquarters did not even put up a decent resistance. After a rain of grenades in the Red Army, the surviving guards shouted "Don't shoot, sir, we surrender."
When the sound of hurried footsteps sounded at the door of the command room, He Jian raised his pistol tremblingly, aimed it at the door of his head, gathered enough courage, closed his eyes, and pulled the trigger hard.
"Cluck!"
The shots did not go out, the bullet jammed, it was a stink bullet.
"What's going on?"
Committing suicide once is cowardice, and committing suicide a second time requires great courage. He Jian was about to disassemble the pistol with a trembling hand and return the bullet, but the figure of the Red Army soldier had appeared at the gate, and before he could react, the Red Army soldier who rushed into the house waved the butt of the gun, smashed the gun in his hand, and then smashed it again, smashing him to the ground, before he passed out, he heard someone shouting in his ear.
"Squad leader, I caught Butcher He!"
"Woo! What's the deal with this stench? ”
"Pee your pants! Ha! He's peeing his pants! ”
In September 1932, the Red Army wiped out the "70,000 pigs" under the command of "Granny He", which took 20 days before and after.
And two years later, in the same month, the Red Army ate 100,000 horses under He Jian, who was also surnamed He, in a total of five days, two days more than the three days he himself laughed at.
After the fall of Changsha, the defenders of Changde surrendered without a fight the next day, and the defenders of Yueyang survived one more day, mainly because the Red Army besieging there was waiting for the troops attacking Changsha to transfer their artillery to Yueyang. Then, as soon as the cannon was loaded and was about to pull the rope, the defenders in the city took the initiative to raise the flag and surrender. After an inventory of the Red Army that had entered the city and surrendered, it was learned that the commander defending the city had taken advantage of Yueyang's proximity to the river as early as last night, packed up and ran away with his wife and children on a small steamer.
From the launch of the Red Army's general offensive to the capture of Changsha, Yueyang, and Changde, it took only five days. The autumn that the Red Army had planned for a long time, had been preparing for more than half a year, and when it was really carried out, it was like lightning that pierced the sky, leaving a dazzling flash, and then it was over. And for the rest of the thunder, the Red Army swept through the remnants of the enemy throughout Hunan and received the "garbage time" of the territory. By the end of September, the entire territory of Hunan had basically fallen into the hands of the Red Army.
The erosion of the situation in Hunan had long been expected by the Nanjing Nationalist Government, but they did not expect it to be so corrosive. He Jian, who had an army of 100,000 in his hands, was defeated and captured without even holding it out for five days.
After this battle, the Red Army held the three provinces of Hunan, Jiangxi, and Fujian like a fierce tiger, and a large section of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in southern China had been surrounded in its base areas.
After this battle, the total number of Red Army troops in the three places has exceeded 500,000, and the number of troops has surpassed that of the Nanjing Nationalist Government, becoming the strongest military force in China in one fell swoop.
The Nanjing Nationalist Government was shocked.
The British were shocked.
The Americans were shocked.
Even the Japanese, who were salivating over China, were also shocked at this time.
The front page of the Sun Daily, published by the Japanese, openly reported on the incident, vigorously advocating the "danger of the red peril" and calling for the formation of a multinational intervention force to enter China to "help" the Nanjing Nationalist Government to clean up the "banditry" of the Japanese and strict zhòng. (To be continued......)