The "Ye Ting Independent Regiment" was born, and the mighty division swept through the Gaoyao "God Fighting Regiment".

On January 1, 1926, on New Year's Day, two official documents with identical contents from the Guangdong District Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Military Headquarters of the Fourth Army were handed to Ye Ting at the same time: the 34th Regiment of the 12th Division of the Fourth Army was renamed the Independent Regiment of the Fourth Army, and the head of the regiment was Ye Ting, and the Independent Regiment was directly under the command of the Military Department.

The news of the transformation of the 34th Regiment into an independent regiment immediately reached the ears of the officers and men of the regiment, and they cheered with joy and felt a sense of liberation from being bound by it.

Ye Ting's sense of liberation is even stronger.

It turned out that when the 34th Regiment was under the jurisdiction of Zhang Fakui, the commander of the 12th Division, he was repeatedly criticized. Zhang Fakui thinks that Ye Ting is arrogant and arrogant, so he does another set.

Indeed, after Ye Ting became the commander of the 34th Regiment of the 12th Division of the Fourth Army of the Military Armed Army, which was directly led by the Communist Party, he immediately carried out his intensive training of "hard training to produce elite soldiers" throughout the regiment.

This kind of intensive training is called "four exercises and three stresses." That is: a long-distance running training in the morning with a company as a unit; one military drill or one political and military class in the morning and one afternoon; In the evening, a group aerobics is conducted, and a queue is conducted an hour before the lights go out. The training of officers is arranged at the same time as the training of soldiers.

This kind of "four exercises and three stresses" has two more sessions than the 12 th Division and even other units of the whole army, the training time interval is short, the intensity is high, and it will not be able to persist without the idea of enduring hardships and standing hard work and the indomitable will.

"When two armies compete, the brave wins, and an army that does not have perseverance cannot win the battle!" Before implementing his "four drills and three stresses" training program, Ye Ting gathered all the cadres of the regiment, battalion, and company to arm the minds of these officers with this training guiding ideology, so that they could set an example for soldiers.

Sure enough, after the intensive training was rolled out in an all-round way, some soldiers, especially those who had been transferred from the old army and a small number of former officers, complained and complained because of excessive fatigue and a large drop in physical strength. In addition, some friendly troops watched the soldiers from the training of the independent regiment and looked tired and crawling, and the "whoa-whoa-whoa" coaxed further aggravated the dissatisfaction of these soldiers and officers. Some Communist Party members and officers were afraid that these soldiers would not be able to endure this hardship and desertion, so they asked Ye Ting whether to change the "four exercises and three stresses" to "three exercises and two stresses," otherwise it would damage the reputation of the Communist Party if they really broke away from the 34 th Regiment. Ye Ting said resolutely: "When I can't bear the hardships during training, I desert, and when I fight, I will become a deserter because I am afraid of hardship and death!" Training in peacetime for future combat is the way of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign soldiers. ”

The Communist officers who spoke were silent. They knew that regiment commander Ye Ting's policy of governing the army was right. In addition, every day he inspected one company after another, and when he found problems, he would demonstrate them to the officers and men of the company. The commander of a regiment has worked tirelessly, what is the pain of being a subordinate and a soldier?

In less than a month, the officers and men of the 34th Regiment were tanned, tired and thin, and had more to eat. In order to test the results of the "four exercises and three stresses" training, Ye Ting suddenly carried out a 20-kilometer cross-country rapid march of the whole regiment. Although it was raining lightly, the roads were muddy, and the officers and men were drenched, not a single member of the regiment was left behind after 20 kilometers, and the marching speed was increased by a full hour and 30 minutes.

"This is the result of our regiment's 'four exercises and three stresses' training! Our 34 th Regiment is a new revolutionary army, and the new revolutionary army must have the excellent work style of the new revolutionary army and the spirit of having the courage to endure great hardships. With this style and spirit, we will be invincible when we start fighting! Ye Ting stood on a high slope and looked at the officers and men of the regiment with blazing eyes, and his voice was like a bell, which was not only to praise the outstanding performance of the officers and men, but also to carry out a real and convincing encouragement to continue to persist in the training of "hard training to produce elite soldiers."

However, this unique training of the 34th Regiment aroused the dissatisfaction of Zhang Fakui, the commander of the 12th Division, who called Ye Ting over and said with a sad face: "Xiyi, your 'four exercises and three stresses' can arouse the opposition of several regiment commanders in the whole division, they said that if each regiment can do its own thing, then what should the division do at this level?" Obviously, Zhang Fakui was accusing Ye Ting of ignoring him as a division commander through the mouths of other regiment commanders.

"Division, our regiment uses 'four drills and three stresses' to train troops, but has it been reported to the division headquarters and the military headquarters?" Ye Ting, who had no city in his chest, said bluntly.

"I didn't expect it to become the target of public criticism! In this way, Xiyi, the 34th Regiment will not do another set from now on, right? After Zhang Fakui finished speaking, he turned around and paced in the room, telling Ye Ting that it was decided.

Who knows, Ye Ting still has a straight gut and does not bend: "Division, no matter whether our training is targeted by the public or we do something else, it has been proved that the results of this kind of training have greatly improved the physical fitness and combat ability of the officers and men, and this is the foundation of military training." Farewell! Ye Ting said, saluted Zhang Fakui, who was still pacing, and rushed away angrily.

"Pride!" Two streams of air rushed out of Zhang Fakui's nostrils, expressing his uncontrollable dissatisfaction with Ye Ting.

Not only that, Ye Ting's "dog taking a mouse" soon made Zhang Fakui angry with Ye Ting.

Ye Ting's "four exercises and three stresses" training for the 34 th Regiment was carried out at the same time as military and political training. In the course of political rectification, the soldiers reported that some company and platoon commanders had the warlord habit of beating and scolding the soldiers, some were corrupt and bent the law, embezzled the soldiers' food expenses, and some even disturbed the people and caused trouble. Ye Ting felt that if a unit did not have a high level of ideological consciousness and strict discipline, it would not be able to win the battle. Therefore, under his guidance, the whole regiment launched a struggle against the style of warlordism, corruption, and bullying and disturbance of the people, and conducted education on "the nature and tasks of the revolutionary army." In order to strictly enforce military discipline, a company commander who embezzled soldiers' food expenses and a platoon commander who had beaten and scolded soldiers and civilians were dismissed from their posts, and three military disciplines were promulgated with the content of "not embezzling, not beating and scolding soldiers, and not bullying the people."

At this time, the battalion and company cadres reported to Ye Ting that some officers and men of friendly troops went to the county town to gamble and engage in prostitution, or to extort and oppress the people, which had a great impact on the soldiers of the regiment, and if measures were not taken, some naïve soldiers of the regiment would become "black" and it would be difficult to consolidate the results of political rectification and training.

"Set up a military and police inspection team to carry out picket tasks on the streets, whether it is the officers and soldiers of the regiment or the friendly army, all violators will be punished!" Ye Ting made a decisive decision.

As a result, a military and police inspection team composed of a team directly under the regiment, carrying a short gun, wearing an armed belt around its waist, and wearing an armband printed with the big characters of the military and police inspection team on its left arm, went to the streets to perform its duties majestically.

In just a few days, the inspection team detained and punished dozens of lawbreakers who engaged in prostitutes and oppressed the people, some of whom were smugglers.

In this way, the hornet's nest was stabbed, and those implicated division commanders and regiment commanders came to Zhang Fakui one after another to complain about the evil, accusing Ye Ting of "seeing no friendly troops" and "riding on the necks of other division commanders and regiment commanders to".

"Listen, listen, how do the friendly forces react to your arbitrariness?" Zhang Fakui said to Ye Ting angrily.

"These people have shit on their buttocks, and instead of smelling it, they accuse them of helping him clean and clean, isn't this revenge with virtue? Besides, if our revolutionary army is like bandits, bullies, and gangsters, how can it still win the support of the peasants and workers, and how can the revolution succeed? The upright Ye Ting spoke bluntly, showing the slightest fear of power and fearlessness.

"Well, your 34th Regiment was originally independent, I can't control your affairs, and you won't look for me as a division commander in the future!" Zhang Fakui finished speaking angrily and waved his hand to Ye Ting, "You can go." ”

Ye Ting still saluted a standard military salute and left resolutely.

Therefore, the 34th Regiment was changed to an "independent regiment", although it was mainly due to the Communist Party's efforts to better control this armed force, but there were also factors that Zhang Fakui wrote to the Fourth Army to force the 34th Regiment to break away from the 12th Division.

The independent regiment was independent of Zhang Fakui, who had a problem with the Communist Party's control of the armed forces, and for Ye Ting, who was the head of the regiment, he naturally felt that his hands and feet were loosened, and the sky was higher and the earth was wider.

Three days after the independence regiment declared independence, a reactionary armed landlords' militia "Shenda Regiment" (also known as the Dadaohui) attacked the peasant association in the Lingcun area of the second district of Gaoyao County, near Zhaoqing City, killing and wounding many members of the peasant self-defense army and the peasant association.

On the second day of the incident, the Guangdong District Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Military Headquarters of the Fourth Army respectively urgently notified Ye Ting and ordered the Independent Regiment to immediately send troops to control the situation in the Lingcun area in conjunction with the local county** to prevent the peasant cooperatives from paying a heavier price.

After Ye Ting received the notice, he immediately convened a meeting of party branch officers to study and decide how to properly implement the instructions of his superiors according to the specific situation of the troops. This "Shenda Tuan," which includes reactionary vigilante groups, bandits, and superstitious organizations, was supported and instigated by warlord Chen Jiongming and comprador Chen Lianbo, who helped the "Shenta Tuan" to purchase ammunition from the British who were entrenched in the country. Half a year ago, the 34th Regiment led by Ye Ting had supported agriculture in the Lingcun area. Not only did it provide great support to local farmers in terms of production, but it also helped to strengthen the local farmers' cooperatives by donating weapons. Although the "Divine Fighting Group" is very arrogant, they can no longer be allowed to get involved in the agricultural cooperatives! Therefore, the meeting decided to send the first battalion of Zhou Shidi, who was familiar with the local situation, to rush to Lingcun to control the situation first, then investigate the situation, and then deal with it with the camera.

The 1st Battalion immediately marched to the vicinity of Lingcun, only to see that the houses in the villages had been burned to pieces by the "Shenda Regiment" and that some of the purlins, firewood, grass, and bedding that had not been burned out were emitting a pungent smell of burning, and the smoke and dust were billowing out, blackening the sky and the earth, and even more scorching the hearts of the officers and men of the 1st Battalion of the Independent Regiment. Some members of the agricultural cooperatives were dismembered and their bodies were disfigured, some women were raped and then killed, and even some babies of the members of the agricultural cooperatives who were waiting to be fed were thrown to death. What is even more intolerable is that the "Shenda Group" in the area of Sanshenggong north of Lingcun is still rampantly shouting slogans and threatening to carry out another greater bloodbath against the agricultural cooperatives. However, the officers and men of the first battalion could not return the color to the madness of these members of the "Divine Fighting Regiment." Because the task given by the military department to the independent regiment is to "stop the conflict and wait for the ** to resolve it impartially." The county magistrate also did not allow the first battalion to "use force easily". Therefore, the officers and men of the 1st Battalion could only use force to deterrence, and in addition to killing eight members of the "Shenda Regiment" when they could no longer bear it, they ordered the leaders of the local militia to write a guarantee that they would not attack the Agricultural Cooperatives again, and in accordance with the new instructions of the military headquarters, they reluctantly withdrew to Zhaoqing.

As everyone knows, this has made the high-ranking "God Fighting Group" more and more arrogant. They tore up the pledges, gathered more reactionary forces, purchased bombs, practiced day and night, and declared that they would kill all the nine clans who had joined the peasant cooperatives. Although it was a cold winter, the vast number of peasants were afraid that the "divine fighting group" would re-exert their coercion, so they had no choice but to help the old and the young, call for their children and daughters, and abandon their homes and flee. Some slept in the mountains, some were far away from other places, hungry and cold, and miserable.

If the reactionary forces continue to go on in a frenzy, the peasant revolutionary movement led by the Communist Party of China in the local area will be destroyed in one fell swoop. After the Provincial Peasant Association repeatedly wrote to the Guangzhou Nationals to state the crimes of the reactionary landlords' armed "Shenda Regiment", and after the Guangdong District Committee of the Communist Party of China called on the people and public opinion to forcibly intervene, and in addition to the multi-faceted efforts of Mao ** and Lin Boqu, who held the posts of ministers in the Kuomintang Central Committee, demanded that the people should make a decision on the spot, and the Guangzhou Nationals passed a resolution to set up a committee headed by Ye Ting to deal with the high-level incident, to verify the whole story of the Lingcun tragedy, and to deal with it with full authority according to the situation.

However, when Ye Ting led the 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the Independent Regiment to the Lingcun area together with the Sui Committee, and after careful verification, the irrefutable evidence of the crimes of the "Shen Da Tuan" was promulgated, and the landlords and gentry were ordered to disband the reactionary militia and compensate the peasants for their losses, the "Shen Da Tuan" gathered by the reactionary forces in the three nearby counties arrogantly gave Ye Ting and the Sui Committee a battle table: "The matter of asking me to pay the money is not in sight!" Die in battle, die without fighting, why not die in a fight! ”

"Come and be rude!" Ye Ting held the declaration of war of the "Divine Fighting Group" in his hand, and his eyes were full of anger, perseverance and even almost harshness, and there was fire, blood, and flames in his eyes. The piles of collapsed houses that were scorched by the "Shenda Group", the new graves piled up one by one at the edge of the village, the broken spirit flags and the paper money scattered everywhere on the new graves, the people's tearful accusations against the brutal crimes of the "Shenda Group", the Sui Commission's several negotiations with the local landlords and gentry, and their denial and cunning and vicious faces, as well as their deception of the Sui Committee as a monkey again and again, and their arrogance in repeatedly provoking the troops of the Independent Regiment, had already pushed Ye Ting's indignation to the extreme. Ye Ting announced at the last Sui Committee: "Since the 'Shenda Regiment' has to eat and drink if you don't toast, I declare that the Independent Regiment will resolutely suppress their reactionary attack!" ”

At this time, the second battalion sent people to report to Ye Ting, saying that more than 1,000 people from the "Shenda Regiment" suddenly surrounded a village called Wucun Village, and asked the Sui Committee and the Xingshi of the Independent Regiment for their guilt.

"Foolish, and arrogant!" Ye Ting said indignantly, let the third battalion immediately enter the combat state according to the predetermined deployment, and let the officers and soldiers publicize to the masses that there is nothing to fear about the "God Fighting Regiment", don't look at them as arrogant, but they will not fight. They rely on drinking chicken blood, swallowing cinnabar, and shouting that they are invulnerable, which is a lie. At the same time, he told the masses that this time the independent regiment will severely punish the evil "god fighting group", and as long as they resist stubbornly, they will all be wiped out! In order to reassure the masses and at the same time teach a lesson to those "Shenda Regiments" who did not know the height of the sky, Ye Ting ordered the 3rd Battalion and the Peasant Self-Defense Army to first surround Luojian Village, an altar point of the "Shenda Regiment", and then came to Wucun with the 2nd Battalion.

When the "Shenda Regiment" of Wucun heard that Ye Ting's independent regiment was coming, and the number was only a few hundred, they began to drink chicken blood and swallow cinnabar, chant the altar, and then set up a formation of more than 1,000 people at the head of the village with open chests and arms, muttering incantations, and attacking the second battalion with great momentum.

"Warning shots!" Ye Ting ordered the outpost soldiers to fire their guns to give a final warning to the "Shenda Regiment".

"Da, da, da......" A row of fire-like warheads rushed into the sky with tracer light.

"Ye Jun didn't dare to hit us, they were afraid, rush!" The "Divine Fighting Regiment" was indifferent to the warnings of the soldiers of the second battalion and continued to pounce on the position of the second battalion.

"Hit!" Ye Ting gave an order.

Several platoons of guns of the soldiers at the forward position of "Da, Da, Da...... killed the "Shenda boys" of more than 50 "Shenda Regiments" who were rushing to the front.

Suddenly, the invulnerability trick of the "Divine Fighting Regiment" was exposed, and the ranks of the "Divine Fighting Regiment" began to become chaotic.

"A few more platoons of guns!" Ye Ting raised his hand and fell.

"Da, da, da......" Several more platoons of guns passed, and dozens of "Shenda boys" of the "Shenda Regiment" fell in front of the position of the first battalion.

This time, the "God Fighting Group" became a lost dog, scrambling to run back, stumbling, throwing away guns and knives, and being embarrassed.

"Charge!" Ye Ting looked at the fleeing "Divine Fighting Group" with disdain, and wanted to teach them another lesson.

"Rush!" The officers and men of the second battalion shot like sharp arrows at the defeated "Shenda Regiment."

More than half of the dead and wounded of the "Shenda Regiment" tasted the strength of Ye Ting's Independent Regiment, and the rest did not dare to enter Wu Village again, desperately fleeing to Luojian Village, the largest reactionary camp of the "Shenda Regiment".

"Stop the pursuit, count the battlefield, and go into the village to pacify the masses." Ye Ting gave a new order with a certain degree of certainty.

The officers and men of the 2nd Battalion immediately stopped the pursuit, and after taking stock of the battlefield, they killed more than 400 members of the "Shenda Regiment," wounded more than 100, and seized hundreds of guns and broadswords.

Then, the officers and men of the second battalion entered Wu Village. They called out the common people who were hiding at home, and distributed all the grain, wine, and meat to the masses at the altar of the "Divine Fighting Group." Finally, according to Ye Ting's order, he handed over the guns and broadswords of the captured "Shenda Regiment" to the newly organized peasant self-defense force, and taught them some special tactics for dealing with the "Shenda Regiment" by surprise, and also told the person in charge of the peasant cooperative that if they needed the help of the independent regiment in the future, as long as the conditions permitted, they would rush to the scene.

When Ye Ting led the officers and men of the 2nd Battalion to Luojian Village, where the 3rd Battalion was located, the peasant cooperatives and the common people of Wu Village were all sent to the entrance of the village, praising the independent regiment as a teacher of benevolence and righteousness.

When Ye Ting led the second battalion to the position of the third battalion outside Luojian Village, the third battalion reported that the hundreds of members of the "Shenda Regiment" who had fled from Wu Village had entered Luojian Village, and because they had not received Ye Ting's order to intercept and eliminate them in advance, they were allowed to enter.

"You're doing the right thing." Ye Ting affirmed the approach of the three battalions.

Originally, Ye Ting was reluctant to make a big move. He advocated that a propaganda offensive should be launched against the "Divine Fighting Regiment" first and a policy of disintegration should be implemented. As long as the stubborn culprits of the "Divine Fighting Group" are punished, or they can lay down their weapons, tie their hands down, bow their heads and confess their guilt, compensate the losses of the agricultural cooperatives, and ensure that they will not counterattack in the future, they do not necessarily have to be suppressed. Therefore, the fact that the Third Battalion did not use force against the hundreds of members of the "Shenda Regiment" who had fled to Luojian Village was in line with his intentions.

According to his own strategy, Ye Ting convened the Sui Committee, which was attended by the principal leading cadres of the second and third battalions, and decided to use various channels such as shouting or organizing letters from relatives and friends of the "Shen Da Zai" in the "Shen Da Tuan" to warn the "Shen Da Tuan" not to be obsessed with it anymore.

From sunrise to sunset, a shouting team composed of peasant self-defense units poured a day of high decibel land in Luo Jian Village in Cantonese all the time: "Don't beat yourself up, Beizo (give) the landlord to take advantage of it......

However, in order to immediately eliminate the fear brought by the "Shen Da Tuan" of the "Shen Da Tuan" who fled from Wucun to Luojian Village, and stabilized their position, the leader of the "Shen Da Tuan" hurriedly began to play ghosts again, and the leader of the "Shen Da Tuan" shouted loudly: "Heaven has a decree to punish Ye Jun, my life, the gods will help you, if you break the precepts, you will be struck by lightning!" The stubborn "Shen Datuan" began to drink chicken blood again, swallowing cinnabar, one by one drunk, their two eyes were red like mad dogs, sharpening their knives, and the vicious waves rushed to the sky.

The "Shenda Regiment" was indifferent to the propaganda offensive of the peasant self-defense forces.

"It can't be delayed any longer." Ye Ting deployed the third battalion and the second battalion, and according to the high walls built around Luo Jian Village, and dug a deep ditch outside the high wall, he decided to take the tactic of feint attack first and then actual attack. In the final attack, we must strictly observe the discipline of the battlefield, strive to capture the bandit leaders alive, and do not hurt the villagers.

The second and third battalions, according to Ye Ting's order, first shouted "rush-kill-" and fired at the village, without actually launching an attack.

The drunken "Shen Da Boy" of the "Shen Da Regiment" began to hide on the village wall and shoot at the troops of the second and third battalions. When they fought for a while, seeing that Ye Ting's troops still hadn't attacked, they thought that they were really invulnerable, so they stood up and shouted madly, and some shot at the sky, trying to scare the attacking troops away.

"Attack the village!" Ye Ting waved his arm.

The officers and men of the 2nd and 3rd Battalions first shot to death the "Shenda Boy" who was standing on the wall, then waded through a waist-deep ditch, climbed the bamboo ladder erected by the peasant self-defense force, and deftly climbed over the wall like apes and rushed towards the old nest of the "Shenda Regiment." A storm of bullets knocked the recalcitrant rebels of the "Divine Fighting Group" to the ground like a hurricane, and then poured into the lair of the bandit leader of the "Divine Fighting Regiment" like a storm.

The bandit leader of the "Shen Da Regiment" was still wearing "Legalism", dancing with his hands, chanting incantations loudly, and beguiling the "Shen Da Zai" to resist Ye Ting's independent group to the end.

At this moment, a soldier of the second battalion killed the "god beater" in front of the altar, jumped on the altar, and shouted at the bandit leader: "Don't move, raise your hands!" ”

"Huh——!" When the leader of the bandits saw the muzzle of a black hole glaring at him angrily and hatefully, he was so frightened that he changed his hands and trembled, and hurriedly squatted on the ground, raised his hands, and begged for mercy repeatedly.

The ferocious "Divine Fighting Regiment" was all annihilated.

The arrested bandit leaders unconditionally accepted the ruling of the Sui Commission: In addition to reducing the rent collection, they also handed over more than 40,000 yuan in compensation and more than 300 guns within a few days, and promised not to gather crowds to cause trouble in the future.

In order to prevent the resurgence of the "Shenda Regiment," the Ye Ting Independent Regiment mobilized the broad masses to enthusiastically join the peasant cooperatives and the peasant self-defense forces. In just a few days, the number of peasant self-defense units quickly grew to nearly 2,000 people, all of whom were equipped with guns, and they also received military training from independent regiments, becoming a peasant armed force with a certain combat effectiveness.

In one fell swoop, the independent regiment led by Ye Ting eliminated the invincible "Shenda Regiment" with the support of foreign imperialism and the backing of domestic warlords.

Since then, the "Ye Ting Independent Regiment" has been majestic and majestic.