Rebirth of the Anti-Japanese Heroes

But he said that He Jian commanded the various ministries to kill the generals all the way, because they did not encounter a strong barrier from the Red Army, and the speed was very fast. In just three days, the various ministries "occupied" a large area of ​​​​the Soviet area, including Changning, Guiyang and other Soviet counties.Li Jiansheng asked Huang Su to lead the 2st Red Division to Linwu to ambush and monitor the Kuomintang troops; he himself led the main force of the 3nd Red Division Guo Hu and Li Qin, the 4rd Red Division Lu Keshan, Guo Zhengjun, the 5th Red Division Yan Dong, Su Sai, and the Red Army. The [-]th Division Niu Dali, Bai Kaishan, Luo Luokai, and the artillery regiment and secret service regiment affiliated to the division were secretly deployed on the front lines of Umeda and Yingchun, and pushed towards both sides of Huangsha and Jinjiang to carry out mass work and prepare for the anti-encirclement campaign .

On March 3, He Jian's three columns began to attack.Because the Red Army was fully prepared, it often moved ahead of time, and He Jian was defeated several times. In the first ten days of April, Chairman Chiang personally ordered He Yingqin to go to Changsha to sit in the "encirclement and suppression" campaign against the Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangxi, and Guangdong border Soviet areas.The Hengyang battalion, the commander-in-chief of the army, navy and air force, was also established, with He Jian as the director of the battalion; He Ting, the commander of the 10st Division, was the commander-in-chief of the front line.

Subsequently, various parts of the enemy attacked the Soviet area.Li Jiansheng, in view of the broad frontal "encirclement and suppression" deployment of the enemy and the elongated battle lines, excessive gaps, scattered troops, and the fact that none of the "encirclement and suppression" troops are direct troops of Chairman Chiang, complicated factions, and difficult to coordinate, made a speech on April 4. On the same day, the General Front Committee meeting was held again to study the combat plan against "encirclement and suppression" in detail.At the meeting, Li Jiansheng stated that in view of the fact that the immediate battlefield situation is already conducive to the Red Army's counterattack, he decided to choose the main force of the "encirclement and suppression" army close to the concentration of the Red Army as the target of annihilation. Smash the "encirclement and suppression".In order to turn to the counter-offensive without losing the opportunity, Li Jiansheng sent the 8nd Red Division to the Suyuan area to lead the enemy to attack eastward and southward, and monitored them. .

On April 4, the Kuomintang troops from all walks of life began to besiege Yizhang, the center of the Soviet area.Progress was slow due to the stalking by a small group of Red Army troops from Li Jiansheng's department.Li Jiansheng received information that the Jiangxi Independent 13nd Brigade wanted to invade fertile land alone, and decided to concentrate its forces to wipe out the lone army first, so he led his troops to march overnight and maneuver to the destination to set up an ambush.However, since the 22nd brigade has not separated from the source to consolidate its position, it was unable to annihilate the unit, so it gave up and looked for other opportunities and targets.

That night, Li Jiansheng analyzed the enemy's situation.He found that the brigade had been fighting at the forefront. According to the situation, it was likely to continue to advance, and it was very likely to attack Taipingli and Baishidu in two or three days. At the end of the day, an order was sent immediately to all the ministries to set up an ambush according to the plan, and at the same time, the Red 1st Division and the Red 2nd Division were ordered to mobile reinforcements.

4月15日，该22旅果然越过太平里进犯白石渡。李剑生大胆下令：红5师从白石渡与太平里之间穿插，切断22旅与敌前沿巩固阵地的联系，对敌22旅实行反包围，同时要负责打击来援之敌。红3师和红4师，以及军团直属各部则集中火力猛打敌22旅，务求1小时解决战斗。红1师、红2师作侧应。

On the afternoon of that day, the 22nd Independent Brigade of the Jiangxi Army entered the ambush circle of Li Jiansheng's department. First, it encountered explosions from landmines all over the mountains and plains, causing death and chaos among the troops; Intensive gunshots sounded, and then a large area fell. The 22nd Brigade Commander Yang Xiangyang finally knew that something was wrong. He probably entered the encirclement of the Red Bandits, and the whole brigade might be thrown here.However, the nearest reinforcements were the 7th Independence Division, which suffered a lot from the Red Army. Although it was advancing, it did not dare to go too far. While responding to the 22nd Brigade, it called other departments to come to support.However, the weapons of Li Jiansheng's department have already been replaced, and they are no longer what they used to be. Now the death order is issued again, just a fierce attack.Poor, a whole brigade was wiped out within an hour abruptly, and Yang Xiangyang was shot dead.More than 1200 people were captured.As for the Du 7th Division, it was blocked by a part of the Red 5th Division first, and then found the flags of the Red 1st Division and the Red 2nd Division on both sides. They were afraid that they would be stuck in it, so they dared not forcefully rescue them. swallow.However, he himself knew that it would be useless even if he tried his best to rescue him, because with the strength of his only 7th division, looking at the situation in front of him, he was indeed unable to repel the blockade of the Red 5th division.

When Li Jiansheng saw that Baishidu had achieved a great victory and wiped out the enemy's 22nd Brigade, he was very excited. He immediately sent his troops to the north and asked the division's teaching battalion and engineering battalion to guard the prisoners and clean up the battlefield.The 5th Division's strength is not strong at all, and I wanted to run away a long time ago, but I didn't expect the 7nd Brigade to disappear so soon, and it was too late to react now.Want to retreat, but now the Red Fifth Division has already touched their hands, retreating and fighting, throwing and losing, extremely annoyed; soon the Red 7 Division and Red 22 Division on both sides surrounded them and joined their front troops. When caught in the fire, he knew immediately that it was not good, so he forcibly flinched first, and then ran away.But no matter how you escape, you can't run away from the Red Army soldiers who carry out three rounds of 1 kilometers of heavy-duty cross-country every day, especially the Red Army soldiers who have won the battle right now.As a result, they were blocked by the 2th Regiment of the Red 10nd Division who arrived first.

The Du 7th Division wanted to forcefully attack and take the road, but was firmly nailed here.In just 15 minutes, the forward positions where the two armies exchanged fire changed hands three times.The 5th regiment suffered heavy losses, but gave time to the large troops.In such a short time, all the Red 2nd Divisions arrived and immediately went into battle to help the Red 5th Regiment stabilize their position.Wen Dong, the commander of the Du 7th Division, led his troops to break through to the east, but the 3rd Red Division blocked him; when he went west, the 1st Red Division blocked him; the 5th and 4th Red Divisions behind him also caught up.

The 5 divisions of the Red Army concentrated sudden artillery fire. In less than 40 minutes, the entire 7th Independence Division was wiped out and more than 1300 people were captured.All officers at all levels below the division commander Wen Dong were killed by snipers.

At that time, He Jian's remaining troops still didn't know that Li Jiansheng had wiped out two of his troops, and they still came to reinforce them.On the way, I realized that the two have been completely wiped out.All the ministries stopped together and retreated one after another, but Li Jiansheng was not satisfied. He personally led the Red 1 and Red 2 Divisions to pursue them overnight, and ambushed the two regiments of the 5th Division of Guangdong Xianghanping Division again in the outskirts of Guiyang the next morning. Ping led the rest of the troops to escape, allowing Li Jiansheng to take hundreds more prisoners.

After this battle broke out, other "encirclement and suppression" forces that had gone deep into the Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangxi, and Guangdong border Soviet areas rushed to withdraw after hearing the news, and turned to defense on the outskirts of the base area.So far, Li Jiansheng's Eighteenth Red Army Corps broke the second large-scale encirclement and suppression of the Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangxi, and Guangdong border Soviet areas by the Kuomintang troops.