From to 1935 2020

After talking about the questions, the chairman finally expressed his views.

"Clean up the interior! Consolidate the existing base areas, establish grass-roots organizations in the base areas, form a militia to protect the village, and do everything possible to wipe out the banditry in the base area, or fight for, or eliminate, and clear the Kuomintang and Ma's troops left in various places. Counter-revolutionaries, this is the key to the development of the Red Army in the first half of this year."

The chairman set his sights in the direction of Sichuan, with a look of expectation in his eyes.

"The Second Front Army, Boss He's troops, are rushing out of Guizhou, into Sichuan, and into central Sichuan. If they are fast, they will be able to reach the Songpan area by the beginning of next month..."

PS After listening to everyone's opinions, I checked the information carefully. There are two versions of mortars: wired and wireless. Maozi has made mortars with rifles, but after finding that the labor hours are not worth it, he changed back to rifled. edition.In the case of the Red Army, considering the rough manufacturing process of shells, the rifled version is more suitable for China.Let me change it here. l

-------------------- Chapter 117 Hanzhong Bad Battle --------------------

"Damn Xipi, this gang of Sichuan troops who are collaborating with bandits! When I asked them to blow up the bridge at the Luding Bridge, I knew then that they deliberately allowed the bandits to cross the border, and now they are openly allowing the bandits to go north. !"

When Chairman Li Runshi mentioned the Red Second Front Army, Chang Kaishen was also watching the battle report in his mansion in Nanjing, and angrily slapped the table.

"Except for me, who is seriously suppressing the Communist Party, the rest of the gang are now secretly cooperating with the bandits!"

This is what Chang Tuzi felt when he read the telegram of "the bandit army's marching route" sent from Sichuan.

The Red Second Front Army of this plane left the Xiangxi base more than ten days earlier than in history.And because of Huang Ke's messing around in Hunan, he got a "perfect start".The Red Second Front Army broke into Guizhou from western Hunan almost without damage. Not only did the troops not decrease in the whole process, but because of recruiting troops and fighting local tyrants along the way, their strength did not decrease but increased.

After entering Guizhou, the number of the main force has expanded to 2.Later, at the junction of Guizhou and Xiangxi, he played hide-and-seek with Gu Zhu, the "National Army idiot" who came to encircle and suppress, in the mountains for half a month. Plus a few local miscellaneous regiments, and then easily rushed into the west of Guizhou, and expanded the red in the Bijie area by another 5000 people. At this time, its main force directly expanded to 5000 people.

Historically, the Second Red Front Army planned to establish a base in the Bijie area, but it was encircled and suppressed by the Kuomintang army and forced to move again.And in this time and space, the advance of the Red Army into the Bijie area was purely a strategic delusion to cover up the purpose of the march. When a large number of central troops surrounded from all directions, they took advantage of the gaps in other fronts and directly stormed northward, easily defeating the tens of thousands of people blocking the front. The local troops of the Guizhou Army broke into Sichuan Province.

——The "Double Spearmen" Qian Jun was broken down in this way. In addition to delivering supplies to the Second Red Army, they were actually not even qualified for making soy sauce on the side.

What is very different from history is that in Sichuan Province at this time, Chang Kaishen's Central Army swallowed it and spit it out again.The current warlords in central Sichuan, after learning the lesson of another Red Army team "passing by", now all "experienced" know what to do.

After the establishment of the base areas in northern Shaanxi and southern Gansu, the Central Red Army did not just sit in place and command and issue orders from a "long-distance".

In late December, after the Red Second Front Army broke into Sichuan, the contact person sent by the Central Red Army secretly contacted Liu Xiang, telling him that the Red Army was just "passing by" and would not stay or build a base area--fighting the autumn wind or something, as long as you provide Materials, we can also "enough is enough".

With Hu Zongnan in the north and Xue Yue in the south in the past year, and a bunch of red bandits messing around in their stomachs in the middle, the local warlords of the Sichuan Army headed by Liu Xiang don't know what to do at this time.

Facing the Red Second Front Army that broke into Sichuan, the warlords of the various Sichuan Army tried to release water in various ways.Although He Long, the general of the Red Second Front Army, was from Hunan, when he served in the old army, he successively served as the commander of the Sichuan Garrison Brigade, the commander of the Mixed Brigade, the commander of the Jianguo Sichuan Army, the commander of the First Division of the Ninth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and the No.20 Army. Commander.When He Long was in the old army, the old warlords Liu Wenhui, Deng Xihou, Pan Wenhua and others in the Sichuan Army were either equal to him or even his subordinates. The friendship between the two sides was really too deep.

The Central Red Army took the initiative to throw winks, saying in private that "we are just passing by", and at the same time said openly: as long as you are willing to sell food, we will not fight the autumn wind or "less autumn wind", and there is also the old "pao brother" He Long In "pull friendship", the Sichuan Army's interception of the Second Red Army's northward movement was almost to the point of "pulling down".

The specific situation is probably like this: the Red Second Front Army easily captured a certain Sichuan town blocking the road and seized a large amount of food and grass.The surrounding Sichuan army counterattacked, "the red bandits marched northward in panic", but "leaved" a large amount of silver dollars when they left... As for the firecrackers in the iron buckets during this process, Li Zongren and the Gui family played it at the beginning. The Sichuan Army has learned a lot and played it again.

Of course, there are also some local warlords in central Sichuan, who can’t see clearly and stop the Red Army from being more active, and they get too close to Chang Kaishen. The "acquaintances" in the Sichuan Army secretly expressed to "He Huzi": This [-]-year-old boy who hugs Chang’s bald thigh Can't stay, or say: This person has a grudge against me, boss, for the sake of friendship for many years, please do me a favor...

Then when the Second Red Army passed by, they beat them up unceremoniously, annihilated them, beat the local tyrants, and then walked away with their pants up.The rest of the warlords in central Sichuan swarmed up and divided their territories.

The original plan was that Chairman Li Runshi was worried that the Second Red Army would consume too much ammunition during the transition, and specifically instructed Huang Ke to try to enter Sichuan to meet and provide assistance. However, when he sent a telegram to ask about the ammunition storage situation of his troops, the reply he received was nothing. Yes: Compared with Lixiang, there are a little more......

Without the persecution of Xue Yue's troops and the Central Army, the Red Army's journey northward after entering Sichuan went smoothly.It's not like in history, walking all the way to uninhabited mountainous areas, but "passing" by the edge of relatively densely populated cities.The road is good, the marching speed is fast, and the supplies along the way are not a problem at all.

The Red Second Front Army was in a hurry to go north and did not want to stay longer. The Sichuan Army was also afraid that the Chairman would come to Sichuan again to "passionately" help the suppression.So along the way, they were very cooperative and gave way all the way, and by the way, they used the hands of the Red Army to kill the second and fifth sons of Chang Kaishen in Chuanzhong.Expanded their territory, removed the nails left by Chang Kaishen, and everyone was happy...

Only Chang Tuzi, who was angry, saw on the map that the Second Red Army was marching northward at the speed of "marching" in the middle of Sichuan.

In the past, the Sichuan army would never have dared to release water so openly.Who is Chang Kaishen in the past few months, and his strength has been greatly damaged.Without the Hu Zongnan Group, Xue Yue was "nailed" by the Gannan Red Army in Hanzhong. Hunan, which is close to Sichuan, is in a mess. Not long ago, several companies joined forces and secretly signed the "Sichuan-Guihong Agreement" for mutual non-aggression (this is a historical fact) At the same time, they made a sound, under the political tacit understanding of "stop the civil war and unite with the outside world", so the Sichuan Army became even more ambiguous about encircling and annihilating the Second Red Army.The warlords in Central Sichuan and Boss He already had a good old relationship, and Li and Bai used to send firecrackers to the Red Army, and Zhang and Yang were in front of them. Cleverly "open the road", relying on the Red Second Front Army to go northward at high speed.

During this period, Chang Kaishen didn't just sit back and watch the Sichuan army's second and fifth thieves imitate the Guangxi and Zhang Yang's two thieves and play fake fights. Gu Zhu from Guizhou went to Sichuan to pursue the suppression, in a vain attempt to repeat the scene of the two armies joining forces to swallow Sichuan last year.

But at this time Xue Yue in Hanzhong was too sick to eat.

Since the day when the Second Red Front Army broke into southern Sichuan, the entire frontline of the confrontation between the Red Army guerrilla areas in Hanzhong and Gannan and Shannan has been very uneven.

On the surface, the [-] troops headed by Xue Yue have firmly occupied the land of Qinghua in Hanzhong, guarding the main pass, making the Red Army units who have always had ambitions for Hanzhong can only look at it with admiration, but in fact, the people who sit here Xue Yue, however, was suffering and could not tell.

The Red Army in southern Gansu and southern Shaanxi called Hanzhong "the prison of Xue Yue's [-] troops".

The reason is that the Xue Yue tribe has very poor control over the large mountainous areas in the north and northwest of Hanzhong.The Qinling Mountains in the north of Hanzhong, a large area of ​​no-man's land, few villages, and underdeveloped transportation-this place is like northern Sichuan, and because it is relatively warm and has a lot of vegetation, it is completely a paradise for "mountain guerrilla warfare".

What's even more disgusting is that the depth range here is too wide.The depth of hundreds of kilometers allows the Red Army mountain guerrillas operating here to advance and retreat at will.

Xue Yue's troops plus the Hanzhong militia, totaling [-] troops, seem to be an astonishing number, honestly guarding the Hanzhong Plain area, the Red Army really has nothing to do with it, but if they enter the mountains to suppress the Communists...

Suppressing the Communist Party in the Qinling Mountains is a more difficult problem than the Ruijin base area - a hundred thousand troops entering the mountain will eat up the supplies alone, and after a month or two, it is more likely that someone will Hair can not be caught.

In the four months since he was stationed in Hanzhong in September, what Xue Yue's troops can do is to follow the instructions of Chang Tuzi, follow the example of Wen Zhenggong, and expand steadily along the Chencang ancient road line, occupying the villages along the road, setting up Military station, garrison.I want to expand the power to Dasanguan bit by bit by means of building fortresses, forming a strong formation, and fighting a slow battle similar to the Five Antis.

During the Five Antis, Chang Kaishen used this method to squeeze the living space of the Red Army bit by bit, and succeeded in the end.

However, Chang Baldzi, who only bluntly copied the previous successful experience, did not expect that his opponent was different from last time.And Xue Yue's strength and military strength, as well as the local geographical conditions, are also different from those in Ruijin.

The Qinling mountainous area is really too wide and too deep - [-] kilometers deep and thick, Xue Yue fought hard to build a fortress. It will take until the year of the ox to build the fortress to Dasanguan, the exit of the Chencang ancient road?

Whether it is the Qinling Mountains or the "[-] mountains" in western Hunan, where the depth is too large, it is a very headache to catch such guerrillas in groups of hundreds or even dozens of people.

Even the People's Liberation Army after 1950 had great headaches when dealing with bandits in the mountains in these areas.We had to mobilize the power of the masses, cooperate with the land reform, launch political propaganda, and pursue and suppress the army. It took many years to solve the problem.Another typical case is the 20-year-long game of hide-and-seek between the Afghan Taliban and the US military.

As for the Pao Party, a reactionary army without a mass base, even if it is a [-]-strong army, if it goes to these hundreds of kilometers deep mountains to chase down thousands of people, it is nothing more than sprinkling pepper noodles in the sea, except for being dragged like a fish. If you play around and die, you will basically not gain anything.

During the Five Anti-Ruijin period, Chang Kaishen mobilized 100 million troops to encircle the Soviet area in all directions at the same time, cast a seemingly impenetrable net, and "strengthen the formation" together so as not to give the opponent strategic maneuvering space. It took a whole year before Ruijin's Red Army was slowly blocked.

But now in Hanzhong, what Xue Yue is doing is like those "frontline positions" built by the U.S. military in the Taliban-controlled areas in Afghanistan. Every military station or fortress built is a solitary army going deep into the "behind the enemy's rear", becoming surrounded and besieged The act of offering a head to someone who is being harassed.

According to Chang Kaishen's micro-management idea: along Chencang Road, build a military depot at key points along the way, stuff in hundreds of people, and stand in line.Then build another military depot every few tens of miles, and so on...

If the Red Army dares to pull out the military station, the defenders will stick to the fortress, and the nearby military stations will send troops to help...

It's beautiful when you think about it, but it's actually full of pitfalls!

First of all, there are many dense forests in the mountains, and during the construction of the military station, it is extremely vulnerable to cold attacks from the enemy.

This is what the Red Army in the Qinling guerrilla zone did.

They either hid in the nearby woods and fired cold shots at the Central Army who was building the military depot, or they walked into the half-built camp in the middle of the night and planted landmines.Small fights, endless harassment....

Although the military depot was finally completed, the various cold guns and land mine attacks during that process made people feel sick to the point of vomiting.Although only a dozen people were killed or injured in the successive attacks during the establishment of a military depot, the endless harassment made all the ministries that built the depot, from the Central Army to the participating local militias, complain to the sky.

Under Chang Kaishen's repeated urging, Xue Yue pinched his nose, suppressed his nausea, and reluctantly built seven or eight military depots on the line of Laojunyan, Duanjiawan, Sunjiagou, and Guangming Village. , just refused to push forward with anything-in fact, even if he wanted to do it, he couldn't do it, the reason was that he was constantly encountering endless sniping and landmines, as well as the harassment of a sparrow fighting like a bite and run, Almost drove the subordinates crazy, and then forced the subordinates to build a forward base, and the subordinates would all rebel.

After December, after the [-]-kilometer forward base "deep" into Chencang Road was completed, Xue Yue assigned two main regiments to cooperate with the local militia to station there.I thought that with the protection of a hard fortress and a solid position, I could be quiet for a while.Unexpectedly, in January, after the Red Army from the Dasan Pass at the exit of Chencang Ancient Road received the new equipment and supplies from the central government, this advance base began to become lively again.

Because they don't want to be Ma Su, these military depots built in the mountains are all located in the "rule" and near the water source.It is convenient to fetch water, but in fact it loses the geographical advantage.

But this is not a big problem. The Red Army doesn't have many artillery pieces. After repairing the earthworks and building walls, the mud-legged Red Army can only attack the artillery positions with human flesh like in Ruijin.

That's what Xue Yue thought at first...but the Red Army didn't fight at the pace he thought at all.

Even if he was hiding in the military depot, he was still being sniped at all day long, but the outside was full of dense forests, and he couldn't find his opponent at all. When he chased him out, he would step on landmines and even fall into ambush.

How could this be a "garrison"? It's clearly a prison sentence, and people have to play random shooting games once or several times a day.

Xue Yue didn't want to fight this kind of bad battle without a place to fight back after being beaten all the time, and he had long thought of withdrawing his troops.

The problem is that Chang Kaishen in Nanjing quit!From Chang Kaishen's point of view, you, Xue Yue, raised one hundred thousand soldiers in Hanzhong. It's not okay to just sit there every day and not work to get the army's salary and eat the imperial rations. You have to have something to do!This guy is still doing every step of the way, forming a solid formation, fighting a dull battle, using military stations one by one from Hanzhong to Dasanguan, and opening up the Spring and Autumn Dream of going north to southern Shaanxi.

Then he, who is good at micromanagement, asked Xue Yue at the frequency of sending a telegram once a week, where is your forward depot repaired now?

Xue Yue was so angry that he wanted to smash the radio station.In the past month, his troops at the garrison were bitten by the Red Army's sparrow war and landmine warfare. .When he wanted to retaliate against the chasing Red Army, he looked at the boundless mountains on both sides of Chencang Road and the dense jungle, where people disappeared as soon as they were chased. Any chasing troops would feel scalp numb when they saw it.

"Food ribs, chicken ribs, the current me is simply like Cao Cao entering Hanzhong, unable to enter, unable to abandon..."

Xue Yue was suddenly very envious of Zhu Peide's tribe who had just entered Sichuan and then immediately left Sichuan. Although he went in and out of Hanzhong like Wei Lihuang and made a wrongful return, at least they would not be trapped in this ghost place like him, trapped in the mountains. You can't get in, you can't get back, and you have to get shit all over your face every day...

In order to prevent the Red Army from attacking at night, the garrison troops at those military stations have done some work.For example, several tall watchtowers were built in the camp, and some people were on duty at night. At night, several fires were lit around the camp.

Due to the Red Army's continuous bludgeoning tactics, these soldiers who were ordered to stand on high watchtowers on duty are also terrified and frightened these days-there is no other reason, standing high, seeing far, and their goals are also big.In the past month, what the sneak attacking Red Army often did was to touch it at night, aiming a dozen guns at the same target guard on the watchtower at the same time to shoot.

They don't do much, and they run away after shooting a shot!

The guards on the watchtower, if they are lucky, will be fine, but if they are unlucky, they will have multiple holes or a few holes on their bodies.

"Almost every night I encounter cold gun attacks!"

The current state of mind of these night watch soldiers, every night when they hear that they are called to go to the watchtower to watch the night, all of them seem to be going to the execution ground.Due to the long distance, the Red Army's marksmanship is average, and the possibility of being hit by more than a dozen cold guns on duty is only [-]% to [-]%, but certainly no one is willing to bet on this [-]% to [-]%.

Later, this group of people also learned how to be good: they stacked sandbags on the watchtower, and after boarding the watchtower at night, they huddled themselves behind the sandbags and slept secretly. Just pretend there's someone standing guard over there...

Not to mention this trick, it was really effective. According to news from several military depots, no one had been killed for three or four days, which is really gratifying.

However, in the last few nights, the attacks on those military depots that went deep into Chencang Road have been upgraded from cold guns to "cold guns".

At night, in the fortress area of ​​a military station in the Laojunyan area,

A group of dark figures, taking advantage of the darkness, came to touch the camp again.

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-------------------- Chapter 118 Xue Yue's Hell --------------------

There were 12 people in the Red Army attacking at night, six of them carried a long tube on their backs, and the other six, holding a wooden frame in their hands, quietly sneaked to the ground about 120 meters away from the outer circle of the military station After [-] meters, six of them quickly put the wooden frames in their hands on the ground. These wooden frames have a unique shape, like a foldable small bench, but there is no stool surface. Insert the long tube on the back into the X-shaped gap of the wooden frame at an extremely fast speed, and then the six people took the flints they had prepared long ago and rubbed it hard at the bottom end of the long tube, and the flames flashed .

a few seconds later...

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

Six consecutive explosions sounded, and six black objects shot out from the muzzle almost simultaneously, drawing six different trajectories in the air and flying towards the military station more than a hundred meters away.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

Explosions sounded one after another, one shell hit the wall of the barracks, and exploded after bouncing off. One shot had insufficient range and fell on the ground outside, but the remaining four shells smashed into the barracks one after another, blowing up everyone.

"Enemy attack!"

For a moment, there was chaos in the entire military depot, and the assailants were already carrying iron cylinders and X-shaped wooden frames, and retreated quietly.The entire attack process, from the setting up of the gun to the firing, took only a dozen seconds.The guards on the watchtower took a nap and didn't pay attention, but they were approached by these raiders and ran away after being touched.

Neither the so-called central army nor the militia group of the Kuomintang army had the courage to leave their garrison positions and attack proactively at night when the enemy's situation was unknown.All they could do was form a mess in the barracks, yelling for enemy attacks.Then, from the officer to the soldier, Yitang hurriedly took the gun and rushed to the trench of the wall, the muzzle of the gun was facing the outside, and he fired indiscriminately.

At dawn, the defenders checked the casualties. In the shelling last night, a total of six people were killed and more than 20 people were injured. As for the Red Army who attacked last night, none of them were hit...

The Red Army, accustomed to guerrilla warfare in the mountains, entered the Qinling Mountains, and it was like swimming a dragon into the sea. The battlefield here was really suitable for them.

They used Dasan Pass as the starting point for logistics supplies, and also established many fixed front-line supply points in the Qinling Mountains near Hanzhong.

A total of more than a dozen guerrilla troops took turns attacking on this Chencang Road and engaged in rounds of battle.According to the needs of the situation, each time an attack is launched, the platoon is usually used as a unit, with two squads in one row, one squad is responsible for the surprise attack, and the other squad is responsible for the follow-up.Carrying out the "sparrow" type of harassment operations, one operation does not seek complete annihilation, does not love to fight, bites, shoots, and runs away after firing a round of artillery, which harassed Xue Yue's garrison at Chencang Road almost crazy.

At first, the Red Army just played cold guns, but after the Red Army received a large number of seamless steel pipes aided by the Soviet Union in December and produced a large number of "golden dung cannons", the cold gun movement was upgraded to a cold gun movement that came to the door at night.

The "Golden Dung Cannon" made by Huang Ke, the weight of the cannon body plus the base, although he worked hard to reduce the weight, finally weighed [-] kilograms.Among them, the weight of the base bracket accounts for half.

In actual combat, the Red Army guerrillas who attacked from Dasanguan quickly figured out the launching method of abandoning the underframe support: one way is to carry a small With a shovel, dig an earth pit for launching at the launch site, set the angle, put the barrel on it, and ignite it by friction.

Another way is to make an easy X-shaped foldable wooden frame as a temporary launch platform for the grenade. Once it is pulled apart, the barrel is inserted and fixed. The shooter holds the gun body with his hand to manually stabilize the shooting angle. Another person directly rubs the propellant protruding from the launch port with a flint to ignite.If the movements are proficient, the whole process from setting up the gun to firing can be completed within ten seconds.

Compared with the metal chassis, this wooden bracket is light in weight and can be built by a carpenter, and it does not hurt to throw it away in an emergency.As for the adjustment of the shooting angle of the gun barrel - anyway, it only fires once and leaves, and the gun body can be fine-tuned by human flesh.This gun is not accurate, the angle is about the same.

The orphanage Huang Ke bought in Shanghai was originally a match factory. When he bought the factory, he also bought hundreds of kilograms of surplus chemical raw materials for making match heads.These materials were given to the Red Army afterwards. When the Red Army manufactured the soil detonator to detonate the propellant, they added a match head ignition device, which could be automatically ignited as long as it was rubbed.

When fighting Yinchuan, cement shells were used at that time, and the filling material was ordinary soil explosives made of ammonia nitric acid mixed with iron sand and feces.