December 17, 1934, northern Zhejiang, north of Tianmu Mountain, Huzhou Prefecture, Anji County

On this day of disaster, the 49th Division of the Kuomintang, which had just arrived here to "encircle and suppress the red bandits," suffered a devastating blow.

- First, a field of 107 rockets that reflected the sky red swept through their camp like a burning hurricane. Then, as soon as they crawled out of the flames, they saw several helicopter gunships spraying deadly bullets in the air...... At this time, the 49th Division of the Kuomintang, not to mention anti-aircraft guns, did not even have a single anti-aircraft machine gun -- who would have thought that when encircling and suppressing those mud-legged red bandits, it would actually have air defense!

Although for the 49th Division, which had tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, the bombardment and strafing of a few armed helicopters could not cause a large proportion of casualties, but the blow to the morale of the troops was fatal -- they originally thought that they were chasing a group of ragged little deflated threes, but they did not expect that the other party was a Tyrannosaurus rex armed to the teeth! And he can only be beaten and not fight back...... Is there anything more demoralizing in the world?

Despite this, the 49th Division, as the regular army of the party-state, managed to assemble and reorganize with astonishing perseverance, and collided head-on with the vanguard of the Red 19th Division on a dry and solid field, and then was unsurprisingly overwhelmed by an overwhelming barrage of bullets, grenades, and RPGs - the Kuomintang troops of this era were rarely equipped with submachine guns, and machine-gun fire points were the main targets of helicopter gunships.

In the first few minutes, bullets fired by the Red 19th Division. More than the stunned Kuomintang soldiers had seen in their lives.

Of course, the RPG rockets that poured out with screams and firelight were even more terrifying things that the Kuomintang soldiers had never heard of.

Many Red Army soldiers who had just received a new toy with great power. Happily picked up the Type 5 or 6 submachine gun in his hand, and fired at the opponent frantically and fiercely. Let the Kuomintang soldiers who are facing the battle with single-shot rifles on the opposite side lose something of themselves in the first place - eyes, noses, ears, legs, arms. Fingers...... Or a bullet has pierced several vents in a certain part of the body. By the time they finally realized that they should lie down and look for cover, one regiment had been beaten to the point of complete collapse, and the other was also crumbling.

But this was for the 49th Division of the Kuomintang. And that's just the beginning.

In order to stabilize their position in the midst of the defeat of the army, the artillery of the 49th Division launched the only few mountain guns and shelled the Red Army with high-explosive shells. But these brave artillerymen fired only one round and let the traversers lock on with radar. Immediately, it was completely engulfed by the sea of fire created by the 107 rocket launcher...... When the overwhelmed artillery fled from their positions. They were also followed by helicopter gunships.

Therefore, after the complete loss of long-range fire support, the officers and men of the 49th Division began to lose confidence - the enemy's weapons were more advanced, more powerful, and more powerful; The enemy has more troops and a stronger fighting spirit; The enemy firmly held the air supremacy and bombarded indiscriminately over his head all the time...... When the two troops exchanged bullets and lives with each other face to face, it was only the hapless Kuomintang soldiers who suffered.

As a matter of fact, these Kuomintang officers and men were able to withstand the cannon fire and rocket bombardment of the helicopter gunships for a long time, and they never dispersed or raised the white flag. It was enough for them to boast of their bravery in front of the Iraqi ground forces who surrendered to American planes.

Zuihou, the main force of the Red Tenth Army. The 49th Kuomintang Division, which was not equipped with a single anti-tank weapon and had not had time to dig any fortifications or bunkers, finally completely collapsed under the crushing of tank tracks -- they did not have the courage to pounce on them with explosives in their arms in the civil war in the same room.

Due to a biedong team sent by the Red Army, the county police and militia groups had been easily dispersed at this time and occupied the county seat of Anji. Therefore, part of the 49th Division had to flee to Huzhou, not far away, under the leadership of the division commander, and most of them were captured or their whereabouts unknown......

As for the three Zhejiang Security Regiments that fought in coordination with the 49th Division, they behaved even more unbearably. Just by the indiscriminate bombardment of several helicopter gunships, there were already few people left who escaped. By the time the Red Army soldiers rushed up, they simply surrendered.

During the half-day battle, Hangzhou and Nanjing once again sent 12 planes to help in the battle, and they were all shot down by the traversers with missiles...... According to Wang Qiu's estimate, the Central Air Force is probably about to be exhausted at this time. If Chiang Kai-shek did not want his air force to become the "Mongolian navy" of the future, he had to hurry up and import planes -- and of course, he would probably have to import enough pilots.

Through this devastating battle of Anji, the Red Tenth Legion, at a slight cost of less than 100 casualties of its own, not only defeated a stubborn enemy of Zuihou blocking the way ahead, but also captured more than 6,000 young and strong prisoners who had received complete military training.

After the education and transformation of the political workers of the Red Army, more than 3,000 of these prisoners joined the Red Army on the spot to "fight the Japanese devils whom Chiang Kai-shek did not dare to fight." The large amount of ordnance and ammunition seized from the Kuomintang troops was used to arm the Red Army guerrillas in Anji County, which had just been created.

On the other hand, after the battle, there was a lot of rumor throughout Zhejiang Province -- after several crushing defeats at Changhua and Anji, the Kuomintang was no longer able to move its forces in the whole province. In many places, even the security corps has been drained......

Seeing that the Red Tenth Army crossed Tianmu Mountain to the north and Huzhou City was in danger, Yu Jishi, the director of Zhejiang Security, had to send telegrams everywhere for help and urgency like ants on a hot pot, and at the same time reluctantly gathered two battalions of miscellaneous troops in Hangzhou, the provincial capital, and rushed to Huzhou for reinforcements by taking the waterway of the Grand Canal.

To add insult to injury, it was at a time when this person was panicking. The Red Army guerrillas in Changhua launched another great crusade to the foot of Lin'an County, less than 50 kilometers from Hangzhou, and blasted open the city wall with mine explosives left behind by the traversers...... Because the county's security regiment has long been wiped out in the previous battle against Changhua. After singing the half-sky city plan, the county magistrate and the police chief had to change their appearance and abandon their posts and abscond.

Immediately afterwards, these guerrilla fighters, who were not afraid of tigers, seemed to be tired of fighting enough, and actually threw money on the spot in Lin'an County, organized landlords to fight local tyrants, and mobilized the masses on a large scale. Then he pulled up tens of thousands of teams to Hangzhou and erected a red flag on the shore of the West Lake!

(At that time, the urban area of Hangzhou was confined to the east and north of West Lake.) The western shore of West Lake is still rural, forested and wilderness. ）

At this point, Yu Jishi could no longer pretend to be a turtle with a shrunken head, so he could only send a security group that he thought was the most elite out of the city to meet him...... And then it was only half a day's work. The head of the security regiment, who had high hopes, wore the greasy clothes of the man, and fled back unkempt and cried:

“…… Sir, it's not that I'm incompetent, this battle really can't be fought! What kind of guerrillas are the Red Bandits! The firepower is more powerful than that of the German mechanics and the Japanese divisions! The bullets hit like it rained! God knows how many machine guns the Soviets sent to the Red Bandits! And grenadiers and mortars are also scattered indiscriminately for money! The blood of the brethren stained the West Lake red...... It seems that the government can only borrow Japanese soldiers to suppress bandits! ”

From now on. Director Yu Jishi, who has few soldiers and few guns and ammunition. They had no choice but to defend the provincial capital, Hangzhou, and no longer dared to go into battle lightly -- Hangzhou now had no arsenal, and the railways and highways had been cut off -- and sat back and watched the Red Army guerrillas gallop across Yuhang, Lin'an, Fuyang, Tonglu, and other places, like a snowball...... Even in the spring of the following year, a part of the Red Army guerrillas crossed the Qiantang River and won many battles in the Xiaoshan and Shaoxing areas, linking up with several original Red Army guerrilla areas in southwestern Zhejiang, and "reddening" the entire province to pieces......

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December 20, 1934. Outside Huzhou

As one of the famous cities in northern Zhejiang, Huzhou is located at the northern end of the rich Hangjiahu Plain. It is adjacent to the majestic Tianmu Mountain in the west and the vast Taihu Lake in the north, which can be called the land of first-class fish and rice. In the entire area around Taihu Lake, it is the only ancient city with the name of "lake".

As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, Huzhou was one of the important towns of Wu. In the Warring States Period, Huzhou, like Shanghai, became the fief of Chu Guochun Shenjun. And the overlord of the Qin and Han dynasties, Jiangdong Xiang Yu, also raised troops here, and since then has established the style of Wu Di's practice of war.

In the long history of thousands of years, this historical city in the land of Soochow has successively given birth to countless brave generals and heroes who have gone down in the annals of history, and also engraved the great military exploits of Jin Ge Iron Horse and battlefield competition into the blood of this ancient city.

However, at this time, the remnants of the 49th Division of the Kuomintang stationed in Huzhou and the local security regiment in Huzhou did not have the bravery and pride of the former overlord Xiang Yu, who rode a thousand horses, but just lay on the city wall in fear, trembling as they watched countless red flags waving in the wind from the barren wilderness in winter.

- Although it is very strange why I haven't seen the ironclad car today, and at the same time, I am more curious about how this group of red bandits made the cumbersome ironclad car overturn Tianmu Mountain before, but just so many cold and shining muzzles are enough to silence the defeated soldiers in the city, and they don't dare to talk nonsense at all.

In fact, when the officials and gentry in the city saw that these strong red bandits did not come to attack Huzhou, but turned from outside the city to the direction of Changxing County in the northwest, and seemed to be going straight to Nanjing along the west bank of Taihu Lake, they all breathed a sigh of relief -- huh, thank God, these red bandits seemed to look down on the small place of Huzhou, and were going to the north to attack Nanjing, the capital of the country...... Very good, very good, slow walk and don't send it!

-- Although it seems a little sorry for the cultivation of Chairman Jiang and President Wang (Executive Yuan), the idea that "friends who die do not die in the poor way" has been human nature since ancient times! We will definitely support the other party-state warriors in spirit to resist the red bandits and bravely defend Nanjing!

However, what these officials and gentry in Huzhou City did not know at this time was that although the Red Tenth Army Corps left without caring about attacking the city, the Red Army guerrillas in Anji County, armed with a large number of guns seized from the 49th Division, would still turn Huzhou upside down......

At the same time, on the west bank of Taihu Lake, Jiapu Port in Changxing County, on the border between Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces. The smoke of gunfire after a fierce battle had just slowly cleared from the sky above the reeds, and there were sporadic gunshots and explosions. It still rings from time to time on the battlefield strewn with corpses.

The broken blue sky and white sun flag burned slowly in the flames, and the Kuomintang prisoners of war who were escorted over with their hands raised formed a long line. As they watched the mighty Mobile Suit Gundam rumble past them, their eyes were filled with indescribable shock and confusion......

For the 21st Brigade of the Kuomintang, which has now become a historical term, the disaster began three hours ago.

At that time, the descendants of the Central Army were ordered to march from the capital Nanjing with two miscellaneous divisions and march south along the road on the west bank of Taihu Lake into Zhejiang Province. Reinforcement of the 49th Division to "encircle and suppress the Changhua Red Bandits" -- Unfortunately, this brigade did not encounter a single rout of the 49th Division or the Zhejiang Security Regiment before entering Zhejiang Province. Or local officials who came to report the "banditry". And the only radio station in the whole brigade that claimed to be an original import, and just after the unit was launched, it did the favorite thing of all military radio stations in this era: it went on strike.

So, when they just walked to the port of Jiapu at the junction of Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces. I'm still thinking about whether I can get to Changxing County today. When they had a good rest, terrible doom struck - they didn't have to enter Changxing County at all, and many people began to rest...... Rest forever!

After a short exchange of fire and thunderous shelling, the 21st Brigade of the Kuomintang, which had gathered in a compact formation on the narrow road, was beaten into a sea of blood by the steel balls and fragments of various new anti-personnel shells.

By the time the two sides came to an end, the entire headquarters of the 21st Brigade had already been sent to Jizo King Bodhisattva, so there was almost no effective resistance before it was easily annihilated by the Red Tenth Legion, which was "shotgun-for-cannon" - many people saw rumbling light tanks and behemoths of Mobile Suit Gundams appear on the horizon. When I ran over the dehydrated winter rice paddies and killed them head-on, I was paralyzed by this terrible weapon beyond my comprehension. There is no longer anything to think about except surrender.

And seeing that the "old man's" descendants were defeated in one face, the miscellaneous troops following behind were naturally frightened. During the outbreak of the battle at Jiapu Harbor, these miscellaneous armies from chaotic origins simply carried forward their fine traditions and gave full play to the "wind" and "mountains" in the four-character mantra of "wind, forest and volcano" -- of course, we all know that it was "the war is unfavorable and turns like the wind" and "friendly troops are as immobile as mountains when they are in difficulty" -- there is no way, where can the "Hanyang-made" and "old sleeves" in their hands beat the "flower organs" in the hands of the Red Army?

What's more, these two miscellaneous divisions, who were originally from the Northwest Army and were bought off by Chiang Kai-shek during the Central Plains War, had no intention of working hard for Chairman Chiang Kai-shek from the very beginning -- during the Central Plains War, which lasted for seven months, Chiang Kai-shek, who had been defeated repeatedly and formidably in battle, extensively adopted the silver bullet offensive and used huge sums of money ranging from 100,000 yuan to hundreds of thousands of yuan to buy off those poor and fearful high-ranking generals of the Northwest Army, and he simply used money to buy the victory that the Central Army could not win on the battlefield. But since then, it has also buried a huge hidden danger for his camp.

-- Chiang Kai-shek himself was born in Shanghai's financial circles, and he was not from a traditional military background, so he had no mental obstacles to playing such a private trick, and he was most handy in using this trick. But as everyone knows, bribing the enemy with money on the battlefield is the most despisable thing for soldiers...... As a result, none of Feng Yuxiang, Li Zongren, and Yan Xishan, even after the defeat of Chiang Kai-shek, were convinced by Chiang Kai-shek, and they all hid in the shadows to step up their activities and plot to oppose Chiang again. After the bribed generals returned to Chiang Kai-shek, it was difficult to be reused because they were not descendants, and they were soon generally full of resentment.

In the minds of these rebel generals, Chiang Kai-shek, the commander-in-chief, is a gangster who can't fight at all, and if he hadn't defected in time, how could this bare-brained person climb to the throne of the leader of the country? However, the treatment he has received now is simply a heaven and an earth compared with the rhetoric he heard when he took refuge in Chiang Kai-shek, which shows Chiang's ingratitude. And although the old master didn't have so much money, he was sincere......

Therefore, the vast majority of the miscellaneous troops, under the command of Chiang Kai-shek, are accustomed to not contributing to the work, and their work attitude is the same as that of the green battalion soldiers in the late Qing Dynasty: "Hearing the enemy and fleeing is brave, seeing the enemy and fleeing is brave, and engaging in battle and crushing is brave...... "At present, it is considered a discipline to not stab the 21st Brigade!"

By dusk, the battle at Jiapu Harbor was almost over, and the Red Army soldiers, who were still unsatisfied, were ordered to disperse and recuperate. Because the grinding cooks had not yet prepared their dinner, they gathered in twos and threes, and while continuing to maintain their vigilance against their surroundings, they drank water or sports drinks, and ate a few pieces of chocolate, a luxurious dessert that was currently distributed only by the Red Tenth Army in the Chinese army.

Well, if you can have another pot of warm rice wine, as well as fish and shrimp caught from the Taihu Lake around you, it will be even more enjoyable.

Looking at the current overwhelming and invincible scene of the Red Tenth Army, Major General Wang Yaowu, who was a prisoner, stood on the shore of Taihu Lake, wearing a military coat with his rank torn off, and munching on the "energy bar" flavored with bean paste, while thinking wildly with infinite complexity. (To be continued......)

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