“…… Who is the master of China's splendid country? 40,000,000 of our compatriots!

Capture the prisoners and be violent, and quickly and permanently resist to take revenge!

The home can be broken, and the country must be protected! The body can be killed, and the will is indomitable!

Unite with one heart and one strength! Kill the enemy hard and swear not to spare!

Kill the enemy hard and swear not to spare!

Who is the master of China's splendid country? 40,000,000 of our compatriots!

The cultural territory is scorched, and the public must work together to protect the country!

The blood is boiling, and the gas is proud! Revenge is not avenged, hatred is not eliminated!

Work together! Fight the head for the country!

Fight the head for the country! ”

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Between the lofty mountains and mountains in the northwest of Zhejiang Province, accompanied by a song of "Song of Resistance to the Enemy" that has been popular since the "September 18" incident, an army in rags and dust, is trekking between the bumpy and rugged mountain roads, one foot deep and one shallow. The coats they wore to protect them from the cold were not only of various styles and colors, but also full of bloodstains, scorch marks and tears, which fully showed the hardships and dust on the way.

Jiangnan at the beginning of December, although not as snowy as Northeast and North China, is already very cold. In the cold and biting mountain fog, these soldiers wearing gray military uniforms with red collar badges, gray octagonal hats, and cloth red five-pointed stars on them were all shivering from the cold, so they had to jog on the mountain road while feeling out the multigrain cake that was slightly soft by the body temperature from the inner layer of their clothes, stuffing it into their mouths and chewing it slowly.

-- This is the 19th Division of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army's northward anti-Japanese advance force, a heroic unit that "fought alone for 3,000 miles in the southeast."

The predecessor of the Red Nineteenth Division. It was the Red Seventh Army that was active in the Fujian battlefield.

Long before the main force of the Central Red Army began the Long March, the Party Central Committee and the Central Military Commission of the Central Revolution decided to send a force deep behind enemy lines after repeated deliberations. Guerrilla warfare was waged in the border areas of Zhejiang, Fujian, Anhui, and Jiangxi. Its strategic intention was to extend the anti-"encirclement and suppression" war to the hinterland ruled by the Kuomintang.

In this way, it will be possible to mobilize and contain a part of the Kuomintang troops, ease and reduce the pressure of the Kuomintang troops on the central revolutionary base areas, and create favorable conditions for the Long March of the Central Red Army...... But it is also clear that this is also an extremely dangerous task.

-- The 1st Brigade marched alone into the hinterland of Kuomintang rule, and there was no doubt that it would have to pay extremely heavy sacrifices and endure countless hardships and hardships.

Therefore. In July this year, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission decided to form the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army's northward anti-Japanese advance team (maintaining the internal corps establishment) from the Red Seventh Army Corps, under the banner of resisting Japan and saving the country. strategic transfer behind enemy lines...... In general, this is an army that throws out to ask for directions, a team that kills three birds with one stone. Whether or not this unit can achieve operational success behind enemy lines has a bearing on the long march of a large army of the Red Army, which has been brewing for a long time.

Thereupon. The Red Seventh Army on the Eastern Front. At the beginning of July 1934, he was ordered to rush back to Ruijin from Liancheng, Fujian, and prepare to go north.

At that time, the commander of the Red Seventh Army was Xun Huaizhou, the political commissar of the legion Le Shaohua, the chief of staff of the legion Su Yu, and the director of the political department of the legion Liu Ying. In general, this was an elite unit with real combat experience, but after repeated bloody battles on the Eastern Front, the corps suffered heavy losses. At that time, there were only more than 4,000 people left, and the weapons and equipment were seriously insufficient. Some of the fighters didn't even have rifles, so they had to make do with red tassel guns......

However, in spite of this, the CPC Central Committee and the Central Military Commission of the Central Revolution, which were in a difficult situation, still gave this unit a combat mission: to carry out guerrilla warfare in Fujian and Zhejiang to the greatest extent, to create guerrilla areas, and to establish new base areas in Fujian, Zhejiang, Anhui, and Jiangxi; anti-Japanese campaigns; Go deep into the enemy's far rear to destroy the enemy's single troops, destroy the railway and highway transportation lines from Hangzhou to Jiangshan, and attract a part of the enemy troops in the "encirclement and suppression" of the central Soviet region to reinforce its rear.

In order to carry out the new and arduous task, after a short rest and recuperation in Ruijin and a surprise replenishment of more than 2,000 new soldiers, the Seventh Army of the Red Army carried more than 500 loads of anti-Japanese propaganda materials and some cooking utensils to form a mighty "moving army" and marched north into the Fujian, Zhejiang, Anhui, and Jiangxi border areas -- in a certain sense, this action of the anti-Japanese advance force was also a rehearsal for the westward expedition of the main Red Army a few months later.

As a result, the various difficulties and troubles encountered by the main force of the Central Red Army during the Long March in the future, and the advance team of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army's northward anti-Japanese resistance, which was "stoned to ask for directions", were almost all experienced in advance without landing, and the actual situation was even worse and more severe!

-- Zhejiang is Chiang Kai-shek's old nest, the counter-revolutionary Shili has a strong social foundation, a large number of security regiments, a relatively strict armor protection system, and convenient transportation and communications, so the enemy can always grasp the movements of the Red Army in Zhejiang in a timely manner and mobilize troops from all sides to besiege the Red Army. However, the anti-Japanese advance team could only mechanically move slowly according to the time, place, route, and mileage stipulated by the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, and had to fight cover battles and encounter battles almost every day. Although the Red Army won many tactical victories because of the extremely poor combat effectiveness of the Zhejiang Security Regiment, the whole situation became more and more passive.

Moreover, as far as the commanders and fighters of the Red Army were concerned, because they had no base areas or guerrilla areas to rely on on on the battlefield in Zhejiang, sometimes they did not dare to fight a larger battle even if they had fighter planes -- Zhejiang Province was full of reactionary rule, and there was almost no mass base, and once a battle was fought, it was impossible to resettle the wounded on the spot. And carrying the wounded on the march to fight is very difficult. A wounded person needs to be carried by two fighters and replaced by one soldier, and the long-distance carrying down will weaken the combat effectiveness of the troops. But under no circumstances should the sick and wounded be left behind, as the revolutionary army could never allow.

Despite the very unfavorable situation, the vast number of commanders and fighters of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army's anti-Japanese advance contingent in the north, with their indomitable revolutionary will and brave and tenacious fighting spirit, overcame one difficulty and danger after another, marched and fought continuously on the battlefield in Zhejiang, constantly penetrated into the heart of the enemy, repelled the enemy's numerous volleys, pursuits, and "encirclement and suppression," fought some victorious battles, and smashed the enemy's attempts to annihilate the Red Army.

In addition, they also carried out mass work as much as possible along the way, propagating the party's anti-Japanese and salvation propositions, and brushing on cliffs, walls, and telephone poles with the words "anti-Japanese and anti-Chiang," "The Red Army is an anti-Japanese force," and "Fight local tyrants." Slogans such as "Divide the Land" and "Drive the Japanese Imperialism Out of China" and other propaganda materials such as "Letter to the Peasants of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army's Advance Team Going North to Resist Japan" were distributed, calling on the toiling masses to unite to fight the local tyrants and divide the land. overthrow the reactionary rule of the Kuomintang government...... Politically, it echoed the Long March of the Central Red Army and expanded the influence of the Party and the Red Army. Although the troops suffered a large attrition in combat and non-combat, they successively left more than 1,000 military backbones in the guerrilla areas along the way, which served as the seeds for the development of the red regime......

In this way, Xun Huaizhou and Su Yu led this small force of only a few thousand people to fight in dozens of counties and towns in Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Anhui provinces, dragging more than 100,000 Kuomintang encirclement and suppression troops around in circles. After nearly four months and a journey of more than 1,600 kilometers, Zuihou finally got rid of his pursuers. Breaking through the blockade line, victoriously arrived in the Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi Soviet districts in the northeast of Jiangxi, where they joined the local Red Army led by Comrade Fang Zhimin.

Next, given that the Red Seventh Army had already fought to just over 3,000 people. Legion formations can no longer be maintained. The Central Revolutionary Military Commission ordered the Red Seventh Army Corps to be combined with Fang Zhimin's troops to form the Tenth Army Corps of the Red Army, and the Red Seventh Army Corps was reorganized into the Red Nineteenth Division, with Xun Huaizhou as the division commander and Su Yu as the chief of staff of the corps.

At the same time, in order to cooperate with the main force of the Central Red Army to cross the Xiangjiang River to the west, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission ordered the Red Tenth Army Corps to immediately attack behind enemy lines again and destroy the enemy by means of movement warfare. Create the Anhui and Zhejiang border Soviet areas, and further mobilize the forces of the Kuomintang lineage. And he deliberately emphasized: "Act quickly." No further delay. ”

Therefore, despite the fatigue of the long journey, the 19th Red Division embarked on the journey again on 18 November, first defeating two regiments of Jiang Zhiying, deputy commander of the Kuomintang Zhejiang Security Column, on the border of Zhejiang, and defeating Jiang Zhiying and retreating to Changshan, as a result, the Red 19th Division captured a lot.

Then, the 19th Red Division used the forced march to shake off the pursuing troops, passed through the town of Shangcheng in Quxian County, crossed the Xin'an River in the north, entered the Tonglu area, and set up an ambush in Zhuanshanpu, defeating a small detachment of Wang Yaowu's division of the Kuomintang Supplementary First Brigade, but also exposed its own whereabouts...... The division commander Xun Huaizhou simply did not stop doing anything, and further waved his division to approach Changhua and Lin'an, and hit a place only 100 kilometers away from Hangzhou, which deeply shook Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province.

However, both Commander Xun Huaizhou, who actually commanded this heroic unit, and Chief of Staff Su Yu, who had just left the headquarters of the Red Tenth Army Corps and rushed to the front line to supervise the battle, all understood that their troops had reached the limit and really had no spare strength to continue advancing toward Hangzhou -- because the provincial capital of Hangzhou was threatened, the main forces of the 49th Kuomintang Division, the 1st and 2nd Columns of Zhejiang Security, and Wang Yaowu's Supplementary 1st Brigade were desperately stepping up the pursuit and encirclement of the Red 19th Division from several directions as if they had been severely whipped. Attempts were made to cut off the path of advance of the Red Army, to encircle and annihilate it.

For the weak Red Tenth Army, Hangzhou, which is more than 100 kilometers away, seems to be close at hand, but it is actually far away. If you continue to march desperately, even if you can get lucky enough to get to the city of Hangzhou, you will definitely be surrounded and annihilated by enemy troops several times your size.

On the one hand, the Party Central Committee and the Central Military Commission of the Central Revolution, which are thousands of miles away, have used tough words in their telegrams, completely ignoring the difficult situation of the Red Tenth Army Corps, and constantly issuing all kinds of hard instructions, which cannot be discounted in the slightest; On the one hand, the order changed day by day, and at a moment the idea was one - sometimes the Red Tenth Army was required to fight a big battle, march to the big cities, mobilize the enemy, and relieve the pressure on the Central Red Army; Sometimes, the Red Tenth Army was ordered to preserve its strength and try to establish a solid base in the enemy's weak spots...... The Red Tenth Army was at a loss for a while, and even what to do next.

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“…… As the saying goes, how much appetite you have, how much you eat! Our Red 19th Division claims to be a division, but in fact it is only 3,000 people, which is not even as good as Wang Yaowu's brigade! The entire legion was only 10,000 men. It is simply whimsical that the central government wants us to attack Hangzhou with this little force! ”

In the mountainous area on the outskirts of Changhua County, protruding from a large stone next to a winding mountain road, Chief of Staff Su Yu unfolded a map of Zhejiang captured from the security regiment, discussed with Commander Xun Huaizhou the next combat strategy, and at the same time vented his complaints about some unreasonable instructions from the central authorities.

“…… Now, because we are located in the mountainous area of northwest Zhejiang, where transportation is inconvenient, it is difficult for the enemy to use the road and railway movement troops, and the troop deployment is relatively slow, so we have advanced to a place not far from Hangzhou...... But this does not mean that we can jump out of the mountains at will and go to the Hangjiahu Plain to confront the Kuomintang reactionaries! No matter how bad the combat effectiveness of the Zhejiang Security Regiment is. If there are too many mosquitoes, you can bite an elephant! What's more, the encirclement and suppression troops that the Kuomintang has now sent to deal with us are not just those waste security regiments. There are also such hard bones as the 49th Division and the 1st Supplementary Brigade! ”

Speaking of this, Su Yu couldn't help but shake his head and sigh, "...... With the current total strength of the Red Tenth Legion of only more than 10,000 people, at best, it can accompany them to play hide and seek in the ravines and ravines. ”

“…… Oh, yes! Comrade Su Yu, Zhejiang is the hinterland of the Kuomintang. Chiang Kai-shek's lair, the reactionary shili was very powerful. Although there was a red wave a few years ago, the party organizations in most parts of the province have been destroyed. There are no red base areas or guerrilla areas to rely on...... However, we should not only look at the problem from a pessimistic point of view, because the toiling masses of workers and peasants in Zhejiang also have revolutionary traditions, and they were influenced by many during the Great Revolution. The topographical conditions of some regions in Zhejiang. It is also beneficial for our army to fight. And the area is relatively rich. It is relatively easy for our army to raise military rations, salaries, and kimonos. In short, it is not necessary that we will not be able to establish ourselves in Zhejiang Province......"

Xun Huaizhou expounded the particularity of the Zhejiang battlefield from another angle, "...... From the overall point of view, although the central Soviet area in Ruijin, Jiangxi Province has been lost, the main force of the Kuomintang is being attracted by our main force, the Red Army, to the Hunan region, which is the main battlefield of the whole country at present, and the enemy in Zhejiang is relatively empty. Moreover, if you have a foothold in western Zhejiang. We can cooperate with and support each other in the old Soviet areas that are stuck in the south......"

“…… But this requires us to disperse our ranks to fight guerrillas and turn the regular Red Army back into guerrillas! Su Yu irritably took off his military hat and slammed it on the military map," ...... Without such understanding and determination, we cannot make a decisive change and consciously turn the regular army into guerrilla forces and the regular war into guerrilla warfare, and it will be impossible for us to take root in Zhejiang and fulfill the tasks assigned by the party! ”

That being said, neither of them seems to be able to make up their minds - if they do this, they will easily be put on the platform and become "politically wrong"!

Of course, in view of the serious hostile situation facing the present day, the Red Army, which appeared to be victorious and intimidating, was in fact in a critical situation. In order to avoid the catastrophe of the annihilation of the whole army, they had already decided to ignore the repeated orders of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, give up the military adventure of continuing to advance into Shanghai, Nanjing, and Hangzhou, and turn around and return to the mountainous areas of southern Anhui...... At least that's what they thought when the news of the "Changhua riots" came and Wang Yaowu's pursuing force disappeared from behind.

Therefore, even after receiving vague information about the "Changhua Riots" and discovering that Wang Yaowu's unit of the Supplementary First Brigade had been led away and temporarily out of danger, Su Yu and Xun Huaizhou, who knew that they were alone and could not afford to fight a war of attrition, did not recklessly rush over with the Red 19th Division to meet the "comrades of Changhua County", but rested and watched in the area of Yaoshan Township, more than 30 kilometers southwest of the county seat.

-- With the meager strength of the 19th Red Division, there was no way to leave the shelter of the lofty mountains and mountains and force Wang Yaowu's supplementary brigade head-on on flat land.

Therefore, for the "rioters" in Changhua County who were about to be killed by Wang Yaowu, Su Yu and Xun Huaizhou, who were now in the same danger, in addition to sympathizing with them, could only send a small number of sentries to inquire about the news and see if they could save some people.

“…… Speaking of which, how did the comrades who engaged in the riot in Changhua get it? How did you make the momentum so exaggerated? ”

Speaking of this, the corners of Xun Huaizhou's mouth couldn't help but reveal a hint of a smile, "...... False rumors have reached our ears, and it has turned out that the Soviets have sent ironclad convoys and planes to China to make a revolution! I don't even dare to report such a ridiculous thing to the central government, lest I be criticized! ”

“…… Who knows? Country rumors are not always very credible. Su Yu shrugged helplessly, "...... I heard that when Zhang Xun was restored, some people in the countryside said that 'Zhang Dashuai sent 100,000 heavenly soldiers and generals to help the emperor sit in the dragon court', and some people were even so frightened that they re-braided their hair...... Not to mention how many times have the leaders of our Soviet districts been 'killed' in the newspapers of the Kuomintang reactionaries? Hair. The chairman also joked that if he had been 'killed' in the newspaper every time he had been 'killed' in the newspaper, he would have become a monopoly just by collecting white envelopes! ”

“…… Hehehe, Comrade Su Yu, your mouth is really ...... Anyone dares to make a joke! I'm afraid I'm going to suffer from this in the future! ”

Xun Huaizhou smiled and shook his head, "...... Let's wait for the scouts to come back! Let's go to dinner first! Today there is soup made with mushrooms, bamboo shoots and pickles, and fragrant rice pipes are enough! If only the cooks could buy a few pigs back, we would have a good tooth sacrifice!" ”

“…… Really? That's great! Hey, the hostile situation here in Zhejiang is indeed severe, but after all, it is relatively easy to eat a full meal......"

-- During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, the Red Army was in a difficult situation, but the officers and men shared weal and woe in terms of treatment. From the army commander to the men, in addition to food, each person has only 5 cents a day for oil, salt, vegetables, and firewood, and party and government personnel also eat big pot rice with the troops. But even so, due to the perennial encirclement and suppression, the food supply in the central Soviet area was still very difficult. The Red Army often had to change from three meals a day to two meals a day, and had to go up the mountains to dig bamboo shoots, go down to the fields to catch loaches, and go into the rivers to touch snails. Sometimes they can't even eat rice, so they can only satisfy their hunger with pumpkin and wild vegetables without oil and salt.

As for the allowance of the Red Army, it was not possible until the local tyrants were beaten and funds were raised. If we raise a lot of money, we can sometimes give a little pocket money to the officers and men, and at most, each person can receive four or five yuan at a time, so that everyone can shave their heads, buy toothbrushes, buy soap, and find an opportunity to eat a good meal and improve their lives...... But more often than not, there are months without payment.

Therefore, even if it is only for the article that "the local area is relatively rich", the Red Tenth Army really hopes to be able to hold on in Jiangsu and Zhejiang...... You must know that the pain of eating sweet potatoes and pumpkins for ten months a year without seeing a grain of rice is not something that modern people can imagine...... (To be continued......)