In the past, because Hu Weidong lacked capable talents under his subordinates, he could only let the counties simply self-defend themselves, and at most spread some news to the independent divisions, and it was difficult to get too much substantive support. However, now that he has obtained more than a dozen middle-level cadres from the Independent Division of the Central Soviet Region and the Ruijin Special Committee, the situation is completely different, and He Huzi, who has inconvenient legs, took the initiative to stay in charge of the reconstruction of the base area, and soon united the nearly 10 Soviet districts and counties that had fought separately before, and his support for the independent division suddenly increased greatly, making it more and more like a fish in water. What surprised Hu Weidong even more was that He Huzi also took the risk of personally visiting Zhang Fang, the "old thief in the Central Plains", with extraordinary courage, and completed his united front work, only paying a few hundred Thompson submachine guns that ran out of bullets and could not be supplied (but it was very valuable to Zhang Fang, because Henan is close to Shanxi, The Taiyuan Arsenal was able to mass-produce the 11.34mm pistol cartridges used in the gun, and he could buy bullets from Yan Xishan to replenish them, while the Thompson submachine gun was expensive, and if he bought it at his own expense, he might not be able to get so many of them. He was ordered to take his troops back to his hometown in Henan, so that the independent division was reduced by two divisions of the enemy at once. And Lao Jiang was angry enough to choke after learning about this, his intention to eliminate miscellaneous cards in the name of "suppressing bandits" once again failed, but Zhang Fang as the leading brother of black and white in Shaanxi and Henan provinces, the veteran of the Xinhai Revolution, both in the party and the people's prestige is quite high, and he has been very kind to Lao Jiang, so Lao Jiang does not dare to force him, so he can only sulk with himself

Moreover, through exchanges with Mao Zetan and other Red Army generals, Hu Weidong finally began to combine his tactical knowledge beyond the times with the actual situation of this era, and gradually grew into a truly excellent general. Although Lao Jiang's side was so angry that he almost lost his mind, he still insisted on not letting Chen Cheng withdraw his troops from southwest Jiangxi, but strictly ordered Tang Enbo in Fujian to immediately accelerate his westward advance, force the "Jiangxi bandits" back to Jiangxi, and then annihilate them with Gu Zhu's troops in the north and Chen Cheng's troops in the west. If they can't be completely annihilated, it doesn't matter, the enemy has only one way out to the south, and then the Central Army will follow them into Guangdong and take the opportunity to take down the "Southern Heavenly King" Chen Jitang, just like Xue Yue did when he pursued the Red Army on the Long March

As the local work was greatly strengthened, and the central authorities instructed the underground parties in Fujian and Jiangxi provinces to give the greatest support to the independent divisions, Hu Weidong became more and more emboldened, especially when he learned that it was "Commander Tang" who had been sent to deal with him. In the records of later generations, Tang Enbo's battles have always been "retreating and turning into the wind like the wind, outflanking and detouring like a forest, endangering the people and plundering like fire, and friendly troops are as immobile as a mountain." If even he can't win, wouldn't Hu Weidong be sorry for his identity as a traverser? What's more, whether it is strength or firepower, the current independent division is even higher than Tang Enbo's 13th Army. However, Hu Weidong underestimated the impact of the quality of officers and men at the grassroots level on the combat effectiveness of the army; although Tang Enbo was unbearable, the three divisions under his command, especially the 88th Division, were the first-class elite units of the national army.

Moreover, at this time, Tang Enbo was young and vigorous, eager to make meritorious contributions and be promoted, and his fighting spirit was far from being comparable to the "Commander Tang" who only cared about money later in history, and as a result, although the independent division relied on accurate intelligence to surround Sun Yuanliang's 88th Division, it could not swallow it for a long time, and he suffered four or five thousand casualties, and at this time, Tang Enbo personally led the 89th Division to help, and the Fourth Division also quickly approached the battlefield, and the annihilation war envisioned by Hu Weidong suddenly became a melee situation

Fortunately, Hu Weidong's artillery once again made great contributions, and after receiving the telegram sent back by the scouts and learning the exact location of the artillery positions of the enemy's division, the field artillery group of the independent division preemptively killed the 12 field guns of the 88th Division, and then took advantage of the obvious advantage of the field artillery over the range of the mountain artillery and mortars equipped at the brigade and regiment level of the enemy, and began to unscrupulously bully the national troops who could not fight back. Originally, with the strength of the grassroots officers and men of the 88th Division, they were able to hold their positions under intensive artillery fire, but their division commander, who said that "although success was uncertain, he was determined to escape." In the face of the deafening artillery fire, Sun Yuanliang, the "flying general", made another mistake and left his troops and fled again, just like during the Northern Expedition. (PS: Because Sun Yuanliang's escape killed Tang Enbo, who had a more important position in Lao Jiang's mind, this "flying general" was permanently driven out of the army even if he later received a large number of Whampoa classmates' intercession.) Counting Tang Enbo's death, Hu Weidong has already made a lot of contributions to the future war of resistance in advance)...,

As the saying goes, "the courage of a soldier will be a soldier", and Sun Yuanliang has only been in the 88th Division for a month or two, and he is plain and greedy for money and lustful, and he is far from being convinced by his subordinates. Probably because Sun Yuanliang disappointed everyone, the transformation and education of these elite soldiers of the national army was far easier than Hu Weidong expected, and more than ninety percent of the grassroots officers and soldiers eventually became "liberation fighters", which made the strength of the independent division improve by leaps and bounds (although the basic training of the tax police corps was good, the actual combat experience was far inferior to that of the veterans of the 88th Division. ）。

After the collapse of the 88th Division, Hu Weidong immediately ordered artillery to concentrate on bombarding Tang Enbo's 89th Division, and under Mao Zetan's repeated requests, he sent a special task force to detour back to the flank of the 89th Division to outflank him. As a result, the artillery of the Independent Division, which has been favored by the goddess of luck during this time, once again made miraculous achievements, and Tang Enbo personally went to the front line to supervise the battle, but happened to be covered by the fire of the field artillery group of the Independent Division, and was suddenly wiped out (the people of Henan sent a congratulatory telegram)

The 89th Division was the starting unit of Tang Enbo, and Tang Enbo's death was not a big blow to them, and Mao Zetan's special service group suddenly appeared on their flank to launch a fierce attack, which made the whole division lose its fighting spirit at once, and the remaining 9,000 people all abandoned their weapons and surrendered. Hearing the news of the defeat of the two divisions, the Fourth Division of the Nationalist Army, which had not yet joined the battlefield at this time, suddenly fled, losing all the way of weapons and ammunition, but effectively hindered the pursuit of the independent division, and "lucky" escaped

Although the battle was won, the casualties of the independent division reached a new high, and the battle attrition exceeded 8,000 men, although most of the wounded soldiers in the unit were able to recover, and at least more than 10,000 "liberation fighters" could be converted into prisoners of war, but after all, it would take time. Moreover, compared with the losses, several problems exposed by this battle made Hu Weidong dare not take them lightly

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