The "Ye Ting Independent Regiment" was urgently ordered, went into the tiger's den alone, and victoriously fired the first shot of the Northern Expedition.

May 1, 1926.

Guangzhou.

Dressed in armbands and spears on their shoulders, well-trained pickets patrolling the streets in orderly steps. Due to the recent negotiations between the Kuomintang and the Guangxi warlord Li Zongren, the reunification of the two Guangxi provinces has been realized, the revolutionary base in the south has been expanded and consolidated, and the conditions for realizing the Northern Expedition planned by Mr. Sun Yat-sen have become more and more mature. The masses of the people, who were refracted on the faces of the revolution, beat gongs and drums, and were jubilant.

At about 9 o'clock in the morning, in a small living room outside a simple living room, two extraordinary figures had been talking for more than half an hour. This small living room is elegant and simple, with a long rattan sofa, a wooden table, a few single rattan chairs, and a hanger, giving people a clean and refreshing appearance. Sitting on the right side of the coffee table is Zhou Enlai, the person in charge of military work who has been squeezed out of the Whampoa Military Academy and the First Army by the Kuomintang but is still in charge of military work in the Guangdong District Committee of the Communist Party of China, and on the left side of the coffee table is Ye Ting, the head of the regiment who has just led the officers and soldiers of the Independent Regiment from Zhaoqing to Guangzhou.

Zhou Enlai, who is two years younger than Ye Ting, is slightly shorter and thinner. However, like men of this era, Zhou Enlai's height has become quite marked.

Zhou Enlai, who is less than 30 years old, has a pair of bright eyes under thick black eyebrows that are particularly handsome, a thin long face that looks mature after the baptism of wind and rain, and a half-foot-long beard on his chin gives people the impression of being old and not surprised.

Ye Ting, who is two years older than Zhou Enlai, is wearing a brand-new cyan officer uniform, a pair of long cowhide boots, and a delicate and chic **** on a purple armed belt, shrewd and capable, a typical dashing young officer, an outstanding general.

At this moment, although Zhou Enlai and Ye Ting are talking and laughing, and their relaxed tones are flashing with humor, but through their common micro-locked brows that are difficult to completely conceal, people feel that under the calm surface, there is a turbulent undercurrent, a kind of political thunderstorm that has been temporarily diluted, and they can't help but feel stuffy and an indescribable uneasiness.

Not long ago, Chiang Kai-shek, who was the principal of the Whampoa Military Academy and commander of the First Army, single-handedly created the appalling "Zhongshan Ship Incident" and falsely accused the Communists of plotting to riot, not only ordered the hijacking of the Zhongshan Ship, sent troops to surround the Provincial-Hong Kong Strike Committee, forcibly confiscated the guns of the workers' pickets, and unscrupulously blockaded the residence of the Soviet advisory group, but also ruthlessly expelled the Communists from the Whampoa Military Academy and the First Army, and secretly ordered He Yingqin, commander of the First Division of the First Army, to arrest the Communists in the First Army. It was this Chiang Kai-shek, who had always appeared as a "leftist of the Kuomintang" in the past, who supported Sun Yat-sen's political proposition of "uniting with Russia, uniting with the Communist Party, and supporting peasants and workers", and even raised his arms and shouted at the ceremony of the Whampoa Military Academy: "Long live the Third International and the Communist Party of China!" And beat his chest and said: "Whoever opposes President Sun Yat-sen's 'Three People's Principles' must be punished by the whole party!" Unexpectedly, such a loyal believer of Sun Yat-sen turned out to be a counter-revolutionary duplicitous, a well-disguised fake revolution.

In view of the great exposure of Chiang Kai-shek's reactionary features, many senior Communist Party leaders in Guangzhou, such as Mao **, Chen Yannian, and Zhou Enlai, strongly advocated that the counterrevolutionary offensive should be countered by revolutionary force, and that Chiang Kai-shek should be completely eliminated instead of being appeased and nurtured. This is because the strength of the Communist Party is not only very important in the Whampoa Military Academy, but also in the second, third, and sixth armies other than the First Army, the Communist Party members have great military power, especially the provincial and Hong Kong strike pickets led by the Communist Party and the Kuomintang leftists are a well-trained fighting force; Chiang Kai-shek, by contrast, only manipulated command in the First Army and a small number of troops. Therefore, countering Chiang Kai-shek's counter-revolutionary offensive with a revolutionary offensive was not an adventure, but a practical and correct decision that would lead to immediate success.

However, to the regret of the history of the Chinese revolution, Chen Duxiu, the party's leader, was still opportunistic, did not believe in the strength of the party in Guangdong, and was afraid of the split of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, so he sent Zhang Guotao, who also insisted on opportunistic compromise and concessions, to solve the Guangdong problem.

Zhou Enlai and a large number of other leading cadres of the Communist Party were expelled from the Whampoa Military Academy by Chiang Kai-shek and lost their leadership over the troops.

Then, Chiang Kai-shek climbed to the important positions of the Kuomintang Central Organization Minister and Military Minister, which held the power of life and death, thus forming a situation in which Chiang Kai-shek was able to become autocratic within the Kuomintang.

The changes in history are wonderful.

At this time, although the situation of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was complicated and tense, the Kuomintang and the military clique of Li Zongren in Guangxi shook hands and made peace, the two provinces were reunified, the revolutionary momentum was greatly boosted, and the conditions for the Northern Expedition were ripe.

It was also at this time that Wu Peifu, a warlord of the direct lineage of British, American, Japanese, and other imperialist invading forces, and Zhang Zuolin, a warlord of the Feng lineage, who, after years of fighting, under the instruction of their respective imperialist bosses, turned their hostilities into jade silk and jointly attacked Feng Yuxiang, who had split from the direct warlords and was inclined to the revolution in Guangzhou.

In order to seize the opportunity of the revolution and push the revolution northward, the Communist Party of China formulated a strategic decision to promote the Northern Expedition of the National Revolution in Guangdong, and to achieve a complete victory on a national scale on the basis of the revolutionary alliance of workers and peasants.

The Northern Expedition was imperative.

However, on the issue of sending troops out of the Northern Expedition, the people, as the commander-in-chief, hesitated, because everyone knew that the direct warlords Wu Peifu and Sun Chuanfang, who were supported by British and American imperialism, had a total of more than 400,000 troops, and Zhang Zuolin, a warlord of the Feng family who was supported by Japanese militarism, had more than 300,000 troops. They are entrenched in Hunan, Hubei, Henan, Hebei, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, as well as the northeastern provinces and the Beijing-Tianjin region. Hugh looked at them as servile to imperialism, with hypochondriasis, and did not hesitate to betray the country for glory and betray their ancestors; But internally, they implement dictatorship and autocracy, slaughtering their own compatriots, all of whom are hideous and terrible devils. In order to realize their ambition of dominating the whole country, they are gearing up and are very reactionary and arrogant.

However, in the face of the enemy's arrogant military deterrence, in the face of the severe test of the Northern Expedition, the entire six armies under the command of the National Revolution**, you look at me, I look at you; looked at each other, all of them turned into turtles with shrunken necks, none of them dared to stand up and ask for help, and none of them dared to be the vanguard, take the lead, and be the vanguard.

However, the working class and the revolutionary masses in Guangzhou took to the streets for days and days, strongly urging the National Revolutionary Army to send troops as soon as possible. Mass organizations such as the industrial, agricultural, commercial, and academic circles of Hunan Province also sent telegrams to the people of Guangzhou, calling for an immediate expedition.

"Yi Ye Ting Independent Regiment, serve as the advance team of the Northern Expedition!" At the critical juncture of history, the Guangdong District Committee of the Communist Party of China resolutely decided to take out the only armed force to open up a victorious situation for the Northern Expedition.

"It's a self-defeating trap!" The right-wing forces in the Kuomintang snickered proudly.

"This is called self-indulgence, it is to send Ye Ting to the guillotine!" Chiang Kai-shek's forces in the National Revolutionary Army secretly applauded.

"Xiyi, you should be the advance team, the risk is not small!" At this moment, Zhou Enlai's expression became heavy. Obviously, what he said was not only about the resistance of Wu Peifu's troops.

"Director Zhou" Ye Ting is commensurate with Zhou Enlai's title of director of the Political Department of the Whampoa Military Academy, "I didn't expect that Chiang Kai-shek would be a fake revolutionary, the second Chen Jiongming!" ”

"Our party will pay close attention to the rightist forces in the Kuomintang." Zhou Enlai's eyes shone sharply, "Especially for that Mr. Jiang, you must not take it lightly!" However, there are some people in our party, although they are full of poetry, they still want to be Mr. Dongguo in the fable, which is the most dangerous. ”

"Yes, the future of the revolution is related to the fate of the country; The fate of the country is also related to the honor and disgrace of millions of compatriots. The proposition that Ye Ting thinks about is very big and heavy, which reflects the responsibility and conscience of a revolutionary soldier.

"The more uncertain the future of the country is, the more we communists need to overcome obstacles and create a bright future." Zhou Enlai turned his tone high.

"Director Zhou, our independent regiment can be the advance team of the Northern Expedition, which is not only the great trust of the party, but also the expectation of the people, and the glory and pride of every officer and soldier of our regiment. Ye Ting's pride aroused by the vileness and viciousness of the rightist forces of the National Revolutionary Army is like a tide, and he will ride the wind and waves and become a generation of romance.

"Okay, then let's drink the Yangtze River, meet in Wuhan, and have a good time!" Zhou Enlai also reflected a vision of victory in front of him.

Two big masculine hands clasped tightly together.

"Xiyi, haven't you gone to see Xiuwen yet? Go back, or your wife will be displeased." Zhou Enlai said wittily, and immediately called Ye Ting back to the Ye family ancestral hall.

"Yes, as soon as I arrived in Guangzhou, I first came to receive the task of being the advance team of the Northern Expedition, and I haven't seen Xiuwen yet!" Ye Ting said goodbye to Zhou Enlai and hurried to the Ye family ancestral hall's house, boiling with an ardent desire and an indelible worry in his heart.

Originally, Ye Ting wanted to fulfill his promise to his lover Li Xiuwen before going to the Soviet Union to study, and the two got married immediately after returning to China. As soon as he arrived in Guangzhou, the Guangzhou District Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China ordered him to serve as the chief of staff of the Fourth Army, and immediately accompanied the National Revolutionary Army to crusade against Chen Jiongming, and the marriage had to be postponed. It was not until February of the following year that the "Ye Ting Independent Regiment" had been gloriously born, and on the eve of Ye Ting leading the independent regiment to annihilate the Gaoyao "Shenda Regiment", under the care of the party organization, he made a special trip to Guangzhou to take his fiancée Li Xiuwen and her parents to Zhaoqing.

In those years, Hugh wanted to talk about a dignified regiment commander, that is, a battalion commander or something, and he also talked about pomp and circumstance, and besides, large bride prices were popular in the National Revolutionary Army. However, Ye Ting only invited some close friends and robes from the district committee and friendly troops, plus officers above the independent regiment and battalion, to have a meal as a wedding.

At night, Ye Ting hugged his beloved wife Li Xiuwen and asked with a slight gasp: "Xiuwen, for such a major event in life, it is so simple to do it, I can't help you, do you blame me?" ”

Li Xiuwen, who was drunk by love, blinked her beautiful eyes: "Marriage depends on quality, not pomp." Besides, the love I have is more precious than the gold and silver. Isn't it? Well, Xiyi, do you think so? The smart Li Xiuwen instead "generalized" Ye Ting's army.

"Xiuwen-" Ye Ting wrapped his beloved wife with a blazing fire of love.

Ye Ting's marriage to Li Xiuwen was in itself a declaration of war against the old traditional concepts, a break with the corrupt atmosphere in the National Revolutionary Army, and a revolutionary action that only revolutionaries have.

After Ye Ting and Li Xiuwen got married, they had not spent a few days of "honeymoon", because the high-level "Shenda Group" was brutalizing the peasant cooperatives and the common people day by day, and the report of the Sui Committee to suppress the "Shenda Group" had been approved by the people, Ye Ting sent his beloved wife Li Xiuwen back to Guangzhou.

Ye Ting's return to Guangzhou this time is different from usual! He was ordered to lead the independent regiment as the advance team of the Northern Expedition, go deep into the tiger's den, fight in the rain of bullets, and fight at the critical point of life and death!

So, how will Ye Ting tell his beloved wife Li Xiuwen, and how will he comfort his beloved wife Li Xiuwen's heart that has not experienced such a long time of separation and is always concerned about his safety?

"Xiyi is back!" Li Xiuwen's parents saw Ye Ting walk into the house, asked with a smile, and hurriedly instructed the family to prepare some sumptuous dishes.

"Xiyi, why did you sit for so long before you came back?" When Li Xiuwen saw Ye Ting, he immediately snuggled up to his chest, and looked at him with a clear gaze of disgust.

"What, you know I've arrived in Guangzhou?" Ye Ting picked up Li Xiuwen's creamy face and kissed it affectionately.

"Didn't you look at the stage, the general hasn't appeared yet, and the soldiers have already come out with small flags? You've already told us about it. Li Xiuwen's excited cheeks flew with a touch of color.

"Huh——!" Ye Ting was stunned. It seems that Xiuwen not only knew that he came to Guangzhou from Zhaoqing, but also knew that he would lead the independent regiment to participate in the Northern Expedition, no wonder his father-in-law and mother-in-law also rushed to the Ye Clan Ancestral Hall from Changxing Street? Xiuwen knew that she would be the advance team of the Northern Expedition, and she could restrain her panic so rationally, which not only shows that she has strong self-control, but also a good woman who understands righteousness! At this moment, Ye Ting is extremely proud to get a wife like Li Xiuwen.

Happiness is found in virtue.

This is true for both men and women.

The night was quiet, except for the occasional chirping of insects outside the window, and it seemed that the whole world had fallen asleep.

Although Ye Ting and Li Xiuwen turned off the lights and slept together, he still didn't feel sleepy: "Xiuwen, I will lead the Northern Expedition in a few days, you can be prepared for all kinds of thoughts!" ”

"What does it mean to be mentally prepared!" Li Xiuwen raised her small chin from Ye Ting's arms and asked rhetorically, but she didn't wait for Ye Ting to answer, and said, "Actually, from the day I decided to fall in love with you, I have understood what a soldier is and what war is, and I have figured out the broad meaning of a soldier's dedication in war." Xiyi, I will pray for you every day, because the work you have done is great, and good people will always be safe. ”

Ye Ting originally wanted to do Li Xiuwen's ideological work carefully, and asked her not to think too romantically about his participation in the Northern Expedition, because she was only eighteen years old after all! Although she is now a married woman, she has not gone through many ups and downs and hardships in the world! Unexpectedly, she was able to lock the uneasiness in her heart in her chest, and the restraint was so incredible.

"Did your parents ask you to say that?"

"Are you underestimating people?"

"I mean, how are you so sane."

"No, reason is a statesman's strategy. Reason has nothing to do with love. I only know that I love you, so I am always full of hope and endless blessings for you. ”

"Xiuwen, that's all I want to hear from you." Ye Ting felt that he had become a volcano, spewing huge heat, and Li Xiuwen, such a mature wife who was hugged tightly by him, was like a fuel source for his volcano.

There are good wives in the family, and the husband has few troubles outside.

A few days later, in the afternoon, after a moderate rain at night, the ground was wet, but whether it was the streets or the station docks, the steaming heat wave still scorched everyone's hearts. The workers and revolutionaries in Guangzhou were empty, and people were shaking bouquets of flowers, waving small flags, holding large slogans, or beating gongs and drums, and the cheers shook the heavens and the earth, and warmly saw off the advance team of Ye Ting's Independent Regiment on the Northern Expedition.

Ye Ting accompanied Ye Ting to the railway station square, in addition to the leaders of the Guangdong District Committee of the CPC Central Committee and friendly forces, there were also his beloved wife Li Xiuwen, who had moved to his father-in-law's house, and Ye Ting's sisters Ye Xiang and Ye Zhu. After Ye Ting shook goodbye with leading comrades and relatives and friends one by one, he finally hugged and kissed goodbye to his beloved wife Li Xiuwen, kissed goodbye and hugged again.

"Woo-" When the train full of Ye Ting's independent regiment athletes, guns, ammunition and military supplies slowly started, Ye Ting stood at the entrance of the carriage and waved frequently, and Li Xiuwen, who said goodbye to him with the same waving gesture, opened his eyes wide, without letting Ye Ting see her tears flowing down the stream.

When the train had already left the station, Ye Ting was still standing at the door of the carriage, letting the howling wind blow his face, but he was motionless, his cold face and upright posture were like a fearless hero statue.

"Immediately summon the battalion commanders and company commanders to me!" When the train traveled for a while, Ye Ting turned around and returned to the carriage and immediately said to the guard.

"Yes!" It didn't take much time for the guards to call the battalion and company commanders.

"From now on, the whole regiment has entered a real combat state." Ye Ting glanced at Zhou Shidi, who had been promoted from the commander of the first battalion to the post of chief of staff of the independent regiment, "Now it is up to Chief of Staff Zhou to convey Director Zhou Enlai's six instructions to our independent regiment. ”

Zhou Shidi is a graduate of the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy and an outstanding Communist Party member selected by the party to enter the Whampoa Military Academy. After graduation, he was assigned to the "Generalissimo Ironclad Fleet" formed by the Guangdong District Committee of the Communist Party of China as the captain, and led the "Generalissimo Ironclad Motorcade" to fight bravely and well in many battles against Chen Jiongming and quelling Liu Yang's rebellion. He understands military affairs well and is resolute in handling things, and he is an excellent commander. In concise language, he conveyed Zhou Enlai's requirements for the Independent League: to strengthen the party's leadership and strengthen political work; It is necessary to pay attention to mobilizing and organizing the masses; It is necessary to pay attention to doing a good job in united front work and get along with friendly forces; Be brave, hard-working, and sacrificial; to play a pioneering role in the Northern Expedition; It is necessary to establish a firm conviction in winning battles.

Ye Ting waited for the chief of staff of Zhou Shidi to finish conveying, and directly named Cao Yuan, who took over the position of the former commander of the first battalion of Zhou Shidi: "Battalion Commander Cao, you have been through several battles, talk about what you know about the implementation of Director Zhou Enlai's six instructions." ”

Cao Yuan is also the first graduate of the Whampoa Military Academy. Due to his academic excellence, he served as a company commander of the 1st Regiment of the Military Academy and a battalion commander of the 9th Regiment of the First Army. In the battle against Chen Jiongming, he was brave and tenacious, and made many achievements, and he was really a tiger general. He is an upright person, a strong temperament, and a tough guy who is not afraid of heaven and earth. In front of Chiang Kai-shek, he accused Chiang Kai-shek's cronies of spreading anti-Soviet remarks, which was hated by the right-wing forces of the Kuomintang. After Chiang Kai-shek's Zhongshan ship incident, Cao Yuan was squeezed out of the First Army. This time, the independent regiment served as the advance team of the Northern Expedition, and he was appointed to the post of commander of the first battalion, which shows the trust and appreciation of the leaders of the Guangzhou District Committee of the Communist Party of China.

Hugh saw that Cao Yuan fought bravely, but when it came to theory, he was not good at rhetoric and rhetoric, and he didn't expect the regiment commander to ask him to speak, so he grabbed his scalp and smiled innocently: "I think, it's quite comprehensive, everything is important, as long as we don't follow it out of shape, it will reflect the last sentence: to win the battle!" Captain, I'm done! ”

"Battalion Commander Cao, what you said is from a high position, and finally grasped the outline of the problem, that is, to win the battle!" Zhou Shidi praised Cao Yuan's speech.

"Chief of Staff Zhou must be right. Our independent regiment must establish the confidence and determination to win every battle, so that we can become the vanguard of the Northern Expedition! Ye Ting said emotionally.

"Yes, we want to be the vanguard of the Northern Expedition!" The battalion and company officers present shouted in unison, like the roar of mountain artillery, which shocked people's ears.

When the military train loaded with independent regiments and military supplies stopped at the Shaoguan Railway Station in northern Guangdong with fierce inertia, Ye Ting realized that from now on, the troops would have to trek on two feet and start a difficult journey.

"Battalion Commander Cao, after you complete the handover task in Chenzhou, immediately follow this route to meet us." Ye Ting explained to Cao Yuan, the commander of the first battalion, that when the independent regiment set off, the Guangzhou national ** gave them a task, and Wu Peifu sent the warlord Ye Kaixin to attack Tang Shengzhi, who was the acting governor of Hunan Province at the time and was appointed as the commander of the Eighth Army of the National Revolutionary Army. The Guangzhou national** allocated hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition and artillery shells to him, and asked the independent regiment to be responsible for transporting them to Chenzhou. Shaoguan is more than 300 miles away from Chenzhou, and there is no train, so it can only hire a large number of migrant workers to push the transportation. Ye Ting then entrusted this arduous task to Cao Yuan and his first battalion.

"Yes, mission guaranteed!" Cao Yuan looked at the rendezvous march route pointed out to him by Ye Ting on the military map, and replied firmly.

"Okay, let's try to meet in Anren!" After Ye Ting said goodbye to Cao Yuan, he only rested in Shaoguan for one night, and the next day he led the second battalion, the third battalion, and regimental detachments to cross the Jiufeng Mountain in the towering Wuling Mountains on the border between Huguang and Guangzhou, and plunged directly into Rucheng County.

The weather on this day seemed to be a harsh examiner, and the heat was incomparably hot to see if the Independent Regiment would be able to climb the mountain barriers that towered into the sky.

To say that the weather on this day is extremely hot not only describes the scorching sun as hot, but also refers to the heat and no wind. The white and transparent sun was like a furnace where coal burned to its optimum value, so white that it burned on the skin as painfully as if it had been stung by a scorpion, and it made people suddenly burst into goosebumps. It was hot and windless, the branches and leaves of the mountains were not moving, and the leaves were drooping their heads like a defeated rooster, indicating a kind of depression and helplessness. There is no wind and heat, and the heaven and earth are like soft and fluffy cotton quilts, and when you take a breath of air, you can feel a sense of solidity, so that people have to force the entire lung capacity to exert their entire lung capacity between swallowing and spitting.

Originally, I was sweating profusely when I walked alone on the flat road in such a strange hot weather. Not only did the regiment carry guns, ammunition, and the necessary food and water on its shoulders, but it also had to climb steep mountains, which was unbearable.

Ye Ting asked all the officers and men of the regiment not to be left behind.

This is a double test of military discipline and perseverance.

When the independent regiment crossed the second peak, many officers and men began to tremble on their legs, their bodies as if they had been washed with water, and their throats and eyes were like pulling bellows, and they were snorting; Some of the soldiers collapsed, their whole bodies were weak, shaking like a pendulum, and their mouths were foaming at the mouth.

"Call the prostrated soldier to ride my horse!" Ye Ting ordered the guards.

However, the guards also knew that Ye Ting, who rarely rode a horse, was already too tired, and if he completely gave up the horse to the sick number, he would be even more tired. He's the head of a group! If you are tired and sick, and you lie down as soon as you get out of the division, how will you fight in the future? So, he didn't move.

"This is an order, if you hear it, execute it immediately!" Ye Ting understood the guards' thoughts, but for the sake of the overall interests of the future battle, he felt that he should do so. In this way, not only did he close the relationship between officers and soldiers, but his actual actions themselves were silent orders and the most powerful propaganda and agitation.

The five ridges finally crossed over. None of the Independent Regiments were left behind.

"Regiment commander, if it weren't for the arduous tempering of the 'four exercises and three stresses,' the officers and men of the whole regiment would not only not have been able to become 'creeping tigers,' but would have become 'crouching dragons.'" Chief of Staff Zhou Shidi said to Ye Ting in a happy tone.

"This means that you can endure hardships in peacetime, and you will not be eaten by hardships in wartime." Ye Ting's tone was also full of pride.

As soon as the five ridges passed, the independent regiment had already entered Hunan alone.

At this time, the situation in Hunan was already quite tense. At the same time, four regiments of Chen Jiongming's rebel Xie Wenbing's troops and two regiments of Tang Fushan's troops of the Jiangxi army had approached Leiyang and Chenzhou, and Ye Kaixin's and Xie Wenbing's troops gradually formed a trend of pressing north and south, trying to encircle and annihilate Tang Shengzhi's fourth division, and then seize the whole of Hunan, and then approach Guangzhou.

After Ye Ting's independent regiment entered Hunan Province, it immediately entered Rucheng County before dark.

Although they knew that the independent regiment would pass through Rucheng, they predicted that it would take three or four days for the independent regiment to arrive at the earliest.

However, because the Independent Regiment resolutely carried out Zhou Enlai's demand for paying attention to mobilizing and organizing the masses, and first sent an advance group to get in touch with the local party organizations and the peasant self-defense forces in advance in each place they advanced, and they received strong support as soon as they set foot in Rucheng County. Although the officers and men were very tired after crossing the five ridges, they were refreshed one by one when they heard that they were immediately in battle, and with the command of the charge, the tracer light like a fiery snake gathered and spread, intertwined into a war cloud burning with flames, and death shrouded the enemy's position. After only one charge, the Independent Regiment won the victory of killing, wounding, and capturing more than 200 enemy troops, while the Independent Regiment suffered only more than 50 casualties.

Xie Wenbing's avant-garde troops fled in disarray.

"Regiment Commander, do you want to take advantage of the victory to pursue!" Zhou Shidi asked Ye Ting.

"The soldiers are too tired, and there will be more to fight in the future, so it is not appropriate to pursue." Ye Ting thought far.

"Rest in place!" Zhou Shidi informed the troops that he felt that Ye Ting was very proficient in the way of soldiers. "If you want to hurry, you can't reach it"!

When the independent regiment entered Yongxing County after a short rest, Ye Ting received a telegram from Tang Shengzhi from the Guangzhou national**, "The enemy army is assembled on the front line of Changling in Youxian County, trying to attack Anren, our army is weak, and I hope to go to the aid as soon as possible." ”

"Hurry up to Anren County!"

Ye Ting's command is like a rainbow.