From to 1935 2020

Relatively speaking, the situation in Leng Xin's department is quite bad.

From the beginning of the battle, Xu Shuai, the enemy's commander in chief, took the annihilation of the 36th Division as his primary goal: during the air strikes, he was given priority in bombing him, and during the first wave of assaults, the purpose was to cut off its connection with the [-]th Division first, and then succeeded. Make it happen.

The men and horses of the Fourth Division of Leng Xin's Department were scattered and divided in three different locations in Fenghuang Mountain, Wuxiang County, and Yangcheng Village during the first surprise attack that day.

Xu Shuai is from Shanxi, and he is very familiar with the terrain of Shanxi. He was born in the Red Fourth Front Army and Wei Lihuang's Fourteenth Army is a deadly enemy.

In the summer of 1932, Chang Kaishen mobilized 30 troops and launched another large-scale attack on the Soviet area and the Red Army.In order to motivate his subordinates and boost morale, Chang Kaishen once made a promise: Whoever captures Jinjiazhai first will establish a new county after him.

In this counterattack against the "encirclement and suppression" of Chang Kaishen's party troops, the Red Army's Fourth Front Army fought hard for more than two months, and finally retreated because of the enemy's strength and our weakness and the wrong strategic guidance.Chang Kaishen's troops who first occupied Jinjiazhai were the 14rd Division of the No.83 Army under Wei Lihuang's department.

According to his promise, Chang Kaishen ordered the three provinces of Hubei, Henan and Anhui to set aside a part of the border area to establish "Lihuang County".People in the border area of ​​the three provinces heard the news and expressed their opposition one after another. The people in Lu'an even shouted: "I would rather be a dog in Lu'an than a Lihuang person!"

The scope of the new county was finally delineated by Chang Kaishen on the map, and it belongs to the Ninth Administrative Inspectorate District of Henan Province.In March of the following year, Chang Kaishen was approved by the Ministry of the Interior, and the "Bandit Suppression" General Headquarters of the three provinces of Henan, Anhui and Hubei and Anhui Province respectively wrote, and Lihuang County was transferred to the Third Administrative Supervision District of Anhui Province (Lu'an).

During the siege of the Soviet area, Wei Lihuang was actually stained with the blood of the Red Army and the people in the old areas. Of course, during the War of Resistance, his achievements, "true resistance" and his cooperative attitude towards the Eighth Route Army must also be affirmed.

But during this period, when they heard that this battle was an ambush of Wei Lihuang's troops, all the comrades from the Red Fourth Front Army became excited without mobilizing all of them.

It is better to cut off one of his fingers than to injure his ten fingers.

Leng Xin's department, which was hit by a key raid, was the first target to be eaten.

So far, throughout the three provinces of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia, the Red Army has ten main forces, plus eight independent divisions and a central guard division (34 divisions).

Lin Husan's first army is currently in Bayannaoer. The task is to open up the Yinshan base area, ensure the safety of the Outer Mongolia communication line and contain Fu Zuoyi's troops.The Second Army and Sixth Army reorganized from the Second and Sixth Army Corps that had just completed the Long March were responsible for the defense of Lanzhou, Linxia, ​​Tianshui, and Yinchuan.

Among the eight independent divisions, one is in Songpan, two are in charge of containing guerrillas in the Qinling Mountains, one is in the direction of Yulin, and the other is in the direction of Yan'an.

The remaining seven main forces, three independent divisions and the central guard division all entered Shanxi.

During this encirclement and annihilation of the Wei Lihuang Department, Chairman Li Runshi invested six main forces and two independent divisions on the battlefield between Taiyue Mountain and Taihang Mountain at one time, with a total strength of more than 10 troops.

Among them, Peng Dehuai's, Dong Zhentang's, Sun Zhiqing's, and Yu Tianyun's five armies, which had the strongest combat effectiveness, were all immediately involved in the encirclement and annihilation of Leng Xin.

Xu Shuai's combat intentions are very clear: For the time being, Song Xilian's 36th Division will only be surrounded and not fought, and the oppression will prevent him from supporting the 24th Division.As for Leng Xin's fourth division, it attacked violently with thunderous force at the first time, in order to wipe out all of them within [-] hours.

As for the reinforcements of the new first army in the direction of Yushe, and the third army that will arrive in the future, Luo Binghui's department is responsible for blocking them.

On March [-]th, Chang Kaishen woke up and just had two bites of breakfast when he received the bad news that Shimen Airport was attacked, ten fighter jets were lost, and the rest of the planes were all damaged and unable to take off.

Chang Tuzi was so angry that he threw the table over on the spot, and just as he was about to yell at the relevant dereliction of duty personnel, the news that Wei Lihuang's department was raided by a large Red Army force also came.

Chang Kaishen took out the map and looked at it. He was shocked, scared, happy and panicked on the spot.

The first thing he asked was not what happened to Wei Lihuang's Fourteenth Army.but...

"Northeast Army, 57th Army and 67th Army, where are they now?"

He pointed to the map.

"Near Yuci County!"

"Why is it so far away?"——The distance from Yuci to Wuxiang is [-] kilometers on the later expressway, which is the distance of the expressway.

He Yingqin on the side muttered in his heart, this is not what you mean, you have been urging the two armies to rush to the city of Taiyuan quickly.

"Northeast Army..."

Chang Kaishen looked at the map and scratched his head frantically, feeling extremely conflicted in his heart.

"Why the contradiction?"

His current mood is a mix of surprise, panic, joy, and fear.

He calculated too precisely: according to his vision, it was after the rendezvous of the six armies, to be precise, after the rendezvous of the nine armies (plus two miscellaneous armies from the north and south), and the ten troops who had just left Shimen and marched westward. Eighth Army.Using seven main forces to "escort" him, he forced the Northeast Army to fight the Red Army under the city of Taiyuan first, but he did not expect to encounter an ambush in the area of ​​Wuxiang, which disrupted his wishful thinking all at once.

He was shocked here.

In this extraordinary period, Chang Kaishen suddenly became flustered again—worried that the two northeastern troops who had been hit by his silver coin bombs would turn their backs and turn back. This is not impossible, and Shi Yousan is the best example.

That's why he was flustered.

As for Hi......

Wei Lihuang's Department is one of the most capable troops in the Central Army.

The two divisions have a total of 3 people (Chang Kaishen forgot that Wei Lihuang had divided up the front), 3 people, how could the Red Army have enough to eat in a short time.

Reported from the front, the 36th division of Wei Lihuang's department has stabilized the line of defense and defended according to the mountain.The Red Army can't eat him in a short time.

Also because of this, in Chang Kaishen's view, this is a godsend opportunity!

"Blooming in the center, surrounded on all sides, we can gather and annihilate the main force of Li Runshi's Red Army in the Shangdang area!"

Fear is because the situation of Wei Lihuang's department seems to be not very good, the main force has been divided into two, and the other main force, the fourth division, seems to be in a very bad situation now.

However, what made him feel a little relieved was that Sun Yuanliang's First Army was located less than twenty kilometers away from Wuxiang.What made Chang Kaishen even more happy was that just the day before yesterday, Zhu Peide's Third Army and Tang Enbo's troops had joined forces.The main force of the two armies is now only [-] kilometers away from Wuxiang.

And in Changzhi in the south, Guan Linzheng's 25th Division had also crossed the river into Jin and entered Tunliu County of Shangdang. The main force was only tens of kilometers away from Wuxiang.Although Guan Linzheng's 25th division is called a division, it is actually an army force-he was one of the first central armies reorganized according to the standards of a German weapon division.When resting in Henan for the past six months, it has been continuously expanding its army.Before entering the Jin Dynasty, there are now nearly 3 people in the whole division—similar to the former First Division, this is an overstaffed division.

From Chang Kaishen's point of view, although Wei Lihuang's troops were surrounded by the Red Army in all directions, as long as he persisted for three days, reinforcements would arrive from all directions to encircle and annihilate the communist forces surrounding him.

"Where is the New First Army? They are the closest to Wu Township. Contact Sun Yuanliang immediately and tell the New First Army to go south immediately, and all troops will march to Wu Township! Immediately, immediately!"

When Chang Kaishen patted the table and issued one military order after another, the telegraph operator muttered softly.

"The report commissioner, the new division of the new army, has been out of contact for more than half an hour..."

Chang Kaishen "..."

-------------------- Chapter 151 The Situation Changes Suddenly -------------------

When encircling and annihilating Wei Lihuang's troops, the Seventh Army and an independent division under the command of Liu Shuai and Luo Binghui (political commissars) were responsible for the blocking mission. The two troops combined had only 5000 people.

Chang Kaishen's reinforcements from the Central Army were at different distances, and they approached Wuxiang every time.

In the face of this situation, mediocre generals will only dig trenches desperately to fight dull battles, while famous generals will take the initiative to attack and use offense as defense with "elastic defense".

The two men in charge of fighting and blocking had made up their minds from the very beginning, before the main forces of Tang Enbo, Chen Cheng, and Zhu Peide came up, they would take down Yushe first, pull out the teeth of the new army stationed there, and eat them first.

As old opponents, Luo Binghui and Liu Shuai knew exactly what kind of character the new army had and how powerful it was.In the past few months, the two of them knew very clearly what happened to the officers and soldiers of the New First Army through Pan Hannian's intelligence network.

"Chang Kaishen incorporated the demoralized New Army into the Central Army and sent it to Shanxi. He was simply seeking his own death!"

At the same time that Leng Xin was hit by a bomb on his head, the Luo and Liu Hongjun who took the initiative to attack also launched a full-scale attack on the new army at the same time.

The 5000-strong blocking force of the Red Army is the real deal, 5000 people without any moisture.

The New First Army, which claims to have 2 people, has only more than 3000 people. After entering Jin Dynasty, according to Chang Kaishen's instructions in the early stage, it divided troops to occupy various places along the way, and its strength decreased. When it was beaten, only [-] remained [-] people.

And among these 3000 people, there are thousands of "elite men" who can fight the most. As the guard of the chief Sun Yuanliang, they are pulled far away in the "rear" [-] kilometers away from Yushe.

"The new first division and the new second division are all local chickens and dogs with no morale and fighting power! We can easily defeat them with a single violent assault, wipe out all of them in half a day, and capture Sun Yuanliang alive."

This was the plan of Luo and Liu before the war, with great ambitions and good ideas, but the ending was a bit unexpected.

The two divisions of the New First Army stationed around Yushe, the distance between the two divisions is only a few miles.At that time, the combat plan formulated by Luo Binghui and Liu Shuai was that independent divisions with less than 3000 troops would fight interspersedly to prevent the new Second Division from coming to help, and the Seventh Army would attack the new First Division with all its strength.

As a result, as soon as the cannon fired and the war started, the New First Division collapsed completely.It was easily beaten by the Seventh Army, and white flags were raised everywhere, and it was pulled down to the point where it could not be added.

What made the Red Army of the independent division performing the blocking mission even more dumbfounded was that the New Second Division stationed outside Yushe County saw the New First Division besieged by a large number of Red Army, and there was a Red Army interspersed in front of them (in order to block the connection between the two divisions). Instead of collapsing, turn back directly, and then quickly retreat to "turn in".

The next scene is: The Independent Division of the Red Army with less than 3000 people, chasing the New Second Division with 6000 people on the mountain road in Shanxi. After chasing for a whole morning, only more than 3000 prisoners were caught, and the rest of them let them escape successfully. .

Why?

Without him, in order to run fast, most of these people threw away all their guns and ammunition along the way and traveled lightly, but the chasing Red Army was dragged down by their guns and ammunition...

Those who couldn't run, couldn't run fast, and didn't want to run, stayed where they were early, laughing and surrendering to the overtaking Red Army.Those with better physical fitness, without the burden of guns and heavy loads, had wind on their feet and ran away...

After the war, the Red Army members of the Independent Division became "two-gun soldiers", some even "three-gun soldiers", and then escorted a large number of white army prisoners who were not afraid at all, and asked them to carry ammunition boxes and captured Give credit to Luo Binghui and Liu Shuai.

And the two who had just wiped out the new division saw a large number of familiar faces among the prisoners.

When the captured sergeants saw the two of them, they said loudly together: "We know the policy of the Red Army, so we didn't resist and surrendered directly. You must treat the prisoners preferentially!"

As for the captives of the new division that were escorted up, a few "familiar faces" who looked like officers, when they saw Luo Binghui and Liu Shuai, they hurriedly said: "Mr. Luo, Mr. Liu, my subordinates can testify that at that time All of us fired guns into the air, and there was really no resistance!"

Two divisions, with more than 1 people, collapsed in less than an hour. Instead, it took more time to capture prisoners and clean up the battlefield.

Afterwards, Luo Binghui asked the captured officers of the Second Division why they fled without fighting.

One of them was a telegraph operator. He replied: "Shortly before the Red Army's attack, we received a call from Commander Sun asking us to retreat immediately, so the division commander Cheng Kaichun rode away immediately."

Luo Binghui was shocked: "Sun Yuanliang, that idiot, can see through our army's strategy in advance?"

Liu Shuai, who knew more from Huang Ke, laughed loudly and said: "Where is it, Sun Yuanliang has no other skills, but the ability to run away after hearing the wind is first-rate! People can get wrong names, but nicknames can't be wrong." , why do you think Xiao Huang called him General Long-Legs, Supreme Protector?"

Luo Binghui questioned the prisoners again, and only then did he learn that when the army was moving, Sun Yuanliang was hiding twenty kilometers behind the main army.Luo Binghui thought that this time he took the initiative to attack, like Hu Zongnan was captured alive last time, Sun Yuanliang was captured alive, the "First Division" was wiped out twice, and its highest officer was captured alive for a "double kill". A beautiful jade has flaws" victory method.

After counting the results of the battle, the number of prisoners was as high as nearly [-].The casualties of the Red Army were only two hundred, and the casualties of the opponent were only two hundred. If the prisoners were not counted, the two sides had a one-to-one casualty ratio......

After the war, Luo Binghui reported the results of the battle to the chairman. The chairman who received the battle report smiled and said to the comrades around him: "Fight well, put well, and run well. The more enemies like Sun Yuanliang, the better!"

Everyone who knew Sun Yuanliang's virtue from Huang Ke nodded in agreement.

Afterwards, the chairman issued an instruction: "When announcing the results of the battle, don't say it was a complete annihilation, but a serious injury, no, it was a rout. Also, those captured soldiers who are unwilling to go with the Red Army should be released immediately and let them Return to the building as soon as possible, so that Fei's leg may be punished less severely, such friendly troops are too precious!"

Everyone was amazed.

Not only that, there were many incidents in which the Red Army had not yet charged, and the White Army soldiers on the opposite position took the initiative to raise the flag to "battlefield uprising", and the Red Army also treated this group of people as "uprising officers and soldiers".I asked afterward, but learned that after the prisoner exchange a few months ago, the gendarmerie confiscated all the hard-earned wages these captured officers and soldiers earned from working in Tianshui, as well as the travel expenses issued by the Red Army... .

With such an officer and such treatment, how much combat power can the entire New First Army have?

Because they are all "old acquaintances", the next "education" work and the work of arranging prisoners have become extremely simple.

First, Liu Shuai came forward and shouted loudly at the soldiers of "ten mu of land" and the officers of "one sub-district of land" with a loudspeaker.

"Those who are willing to go with the Red Army go out to the left, those who don't want to fight and want to go home stand on the right, and those who want to help the Red Army work, and those who are temporary porters and lead soldiers stay where they are."

After a few minutes of chaos, tens of thousands of people were quickly divided into three groups. There were more than 2000 people standing on the left side, and 2000 people standing still. For the rest, Liu Shuai ordered dinner without saying a word.After eating, the captives standing on the right were each given two silver dollars and released on the spot.

To Liu Shuai's surprise, there were more than a hundred of these released people, who came back one after another and asked if the Red Army still accepted people?After asking, they found out that "the last meal for the prisoners before" was too good. They felt that the Red Army was the army that treated soldiers as adults, and decided to follow the Red Army in the future.

As for the captured officers of the New First Army, they were basically "Huangpu students, old acquaintances" not long ago. Luo and Liu did not embarrass them, telling them to be prisoners "for a few more days" and wait for the Shanxi campaign to be fought. When it's done, they'll all be released.

As for the captured First Division Commander Wang Zhen, looking at the more than 2000 subordinates who volunteered to vote for the red, and the same number of subordinates who volunteered to "be the cook and porter", he looked depressed.

He was the one with the most resolute will to resist in the whole division, but he never thought that he would take over such an army that had no fighting spirit, and was even full of surrender.

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"Damn Xipi, my first teacher, is this the end of it again?"

That afternoon, I got the battle report from Yushe, and the news of the defeat of the New First Army.An angry Chang Kaishen still regarded this unit as the "First Division".

That night, the Red Army on the opposite side energized and announced: "The Battle of Yushe wiped out more than [-] people from the main force of the New First Army, and captured the division commander Wang Zhen alive. Sun Yuanliang led the New Second Division to escape in embarrassment.