Chapter 82: The Long March (1)

After a night's rest and replenishment, the entire Red Seventh Army came out and reduced a lot in terms of the number of personnel, and the entire strength and combat effectiveness were only strong and not weak. After leaving enough guns and ammunition captured by the local troops, and handing over all the prisoners to the local authorities for training, the marching pressure of the Seventh Army Corps was suddenly reduced a lot. Early in the morning, the main force of more than 10,000 people, led by the reconnaissance cavalry company, began to rush to the 26th Army Corps.

Along the way, all the large county towns were bypassed, and the small towns and towns surrendered one after another under the powerful firepower and threat of the Seventh Army Corps. The morale of the soldiers of the Seven Legions has improved a lot.

After two days of marching, the 7th Army Corps led by Vulgeois finally successfully completed the division of the general headquarters and successfully joined the 26th Army Corps.

Looking at the Seventh Army of 10,000 people in front of him, President He and Ren Bishi, who came to greet him, kept sighing, "The Seventh Army is really good"

"Report to General He, serve as political commissar, the Seventh Army has successfully completed the task, and now it is rebuilt." Liu Hua jumped off the warhorse.

"Well, the commander of the Sixth Legion, I will ask the Central Committee for credit to your Seventh Legion

At this time, the Red Second Front Army successfully jumped out of the enemy's heavy encirclement, and after continuous breakthrough and cover, it gained a firm foothold in the three counties of Qianxi, Dading, and Bijie, and prepared to implement the second battle plan, marched to northern Shaanxi, and joined the Central Red Army, at this time, the Red Second Front Army was no longer the original Red Second Front Army, and the total number of the whole army was more than 25,000 people, including more than 8,000 people in the Red Second Army Corps, more than 7,000 people in the Sixth Army Corps, and the Seventh Army Corps in sulfurization had the largest number, reaching more than 9,000 people, and the whole army corps became three divisions. Each division had 3,000 men, and after a series of battles and transfers, most of all the supplies had already been consumed, and the baggage regiments and new regiments directly under the corps headquarters were abolished, and all personnel were fully enriched with combat units. Due to the disbandment of the baggage regiment, all the mules and horses of the entire logistics department were assigned to all regiments and divisions, and the current Seventh Army Corps has basically reached the mule and horse level. Although there were a lot of heavy weapons to carry, they did not affect the speed of the troops at all.

After a night of discussions, the entire Party Committee of the Second Front Army successfully discussed a marching line. At this time, the Seventh Army Corps, which was strong and strong, became the vanguard of the whole army last year, opening a passage for the troops to reach northern Shaanxi smoothly. Liu Hua and Guan Xiangying led the task back to their headquarters with a smile and began to mobilize troops.

You must know that as the vanguard of the whole army, it fully shows that the Seventh Army at this time is already the main force in the main force of the whole army, which is an affirmation of the work of itself and the political commissar, and at the same time an affirmation of the Seventh Army Corps.

As the commander-in-chief, Chen Cheng shook his head in the face of Chiang Kai-shek's training telegram, and shook his head scoundrelly, you must know that most of the troops of the Central Army at this time attacked Changde because of sulfurization, and unknowingly annihilated Li Jue's troops, and jumped out of the encirclement of [***] with lightning speed, but [***] still wanted to go to Changde, and the Communist Army was getting farther and farther away, and when [***] knew that He Long was in Qianxi, Dading, and Bijie counties, The troops of the Central Army arrived in the Changde area, which was far away from the Red Army, and they could only watch the Red Army want to flee to northern Shaanxi (no, it was not to escape, but to swagger and want to march to Yan'an).

"Send a report to the chairman of the committee, and ask the chairman to send the air force to continuously attack the communist troops, slow down the march of the communist army, and buy enough time for the [***] beating troops"

In this way, the head of the Seventh Army marched with constant bombardment of aircraft. In order to avoid heavy losses to the Red Army due to the enemy's bombardment, the entire Second Front had to rest during the day and march at night. In this way, the march was much slower. Facing the [***] troops that were slowly surrounding, everyone in the party committee of the Second Front Army frowned.

Similarly, the Seventh Army Corps, as the vanguard of the whole army, was the focus of the enemy's bombing. Finally, Liu Hua made up his mind. "Order the troops to mobilize 100 light and heavy machine guns to come to the headquarters and stand by." After listening to the order of vulcanization, the staff officer immediately smiled, and the staff officer who had gone through the Changde campaign knew that the vulcanization was going to be used against the enemy's aircraft. You know, after a few days of rest during the day and marching at night, although a large number of casualties were avoided, the losses of the wrong ones were also very serious, and several hundred demonstrators fell under the enemy's bombardment. Every soldier held his breath to avenge the sacrificed comrades-in-arms and give the arrogant enemy planes a little color. However, the Red Army units had an order forbidding the fighters to shoot at the air in order not to attract more bombing by enemy planes.

Soon, the order was transmitted to all regiments, and the machine gunners rushed to sign up, followed by the regimental commanders, and the commanders of each regiment transferred the best machine gunners of the whole regiment in order to better combat the enemy, so that in less than half an hour, hundreds of machine gunners came to the headquarters to assemble and stand by.

Due to the experience of the last fight, the hundreds of demonstrators, under the command of the operational staff officer of the regiment headquarters, were quickly divided into several combat units, thinking about their own hill season, and at the same time, a battalion that was acting as a decoy for the enemy also threw off all the heavy weapons, expelled the hidden woods, and began a rapid march on the road.

Ten minutes later, six planes flew over, and the troops acting as luring the enemy quickly turned into the woods on both sides of the road, and at the same time, all the machine gunners aimed their crosshairs at the enemy planes.

As it got closer, the plane grew bigger. The hill where Liu Hua was "hitting" suddenly opened fire, and immediately after, the hidden machine gunners on the nearby hill opened fire one after another

Only one of the six planes flew back to Changsha airport with injuries. In the face of heavy losses and the loss of five planes, Chiang Kai-shek no longer dared to send planes, and only two planes were high enough to escort the Second Front Army.

In this way, after the lack of planes that posed the greatest threat to themselves, the period of the Second Front Army suddenly increased, and they marched all the way west, and under the powerful offensive of the Seventh Army Corps, almost every day they were in a county town, and the big enemy was terrified, and the grass and trees were all soldiers. And because the Second Front Army advanced along the route that the Central Red Army had taken, it won the support of the common people everywhere it went.

In this way, after several months of marching, on April 20, 36, I felt the Shigu area on the Jinsha River. Due to the invincibility of the Red Army, the back of a monarch's hand in Shigu has long since disappeared, leaving a chain bridge on the other side of the river. Faced with such a scenario, Vulcanization could only shake his head.

With the help of the local people, with the help of chain bridges, bamboo rafts and other river-crossing tools, the whole army finally crossed the Jinsha River after several days and nights of hard work, but at this time, the [***] pursuing the Red Army was still on the other side of the river. Looking at the Red Army in the distance, the [***] division commander who was on the task of pursuing could only withdraw his troops helplessly.