From to 1935 2020

And at this point in time, he had fled hundreds of miles away from Yushe, and successfully "joined forces" with the [-]th Army, Commander Sun. After receiving this telegram, he felt like "surviving after the catastrophe".

Because the Red Army underreported the "results of battle", which also caused "accidental" results.

Because of "joining forces" with Sun Yuanliang's troops, the [-]th Army saw that there were only a thousand people around Sun Yuanliang, and was shocked. The [-]th Army, which was advancing rapidly, suddenly slowed down.

The Eighteenth Army was originally Chen Cheng's direct army. After Chen Cheng was promoted, the current army commander was succeeded by Luo Zhuoying, and Liu Shaoxian served as the deputy army commander.Under the jurisdiction: the 14th Division, Huo Kuizhang as the teacher; the 67th Division, Fu Zhongfang as the teacher; the 94th Division, Zhu Huaibing as the teacher.In addition, there is an 11th division, but now it is arranged in Zhejiang, and it is carrying out the task of encircling and suppressing Suyu's Red Army. Its division commander is Huang Wei.

The Eighteenth Army that entered Shanxi, one army and three divisions, plus the auxiliary militia, had a total strength of nearly 5.It is the strongest force in the Jin Dynasty.During the fourth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, the Eighteenth Army was severely damaged by the Red Army and suffered great losses. After seeing the tragic situation of Sun Yuanliang's troops, they instinctively slowed down their marching speed.

Also affected are the two ministries of Tang Enbo and Zhu Peide who are heading south from the north.

On the [-]th, the two armies received a large number of prisoners of war from the New First Army released from Yushe during the "steady" advance, and learned about the real battle situation at that time.

While the three soldiers and horses scolded Sun Yuanliang for being useless and incompetent, they were also more cautious about the Red Army's combat effectiveness, and marched more "steadily".

The steady result is that Wei Lihuang, who is surrounded by [-] Red Army regiments and is being "blossomed in the center", does not have to count on the reinforcements from the north.

On the [-]th, Leng Xin of the [-]th Division, which was under siege, was cut into three pieces by more than [-] Red Army troops when the battle started, and they were surrounded separately. ,

The first to be wiped out was the army in Yangcheng Village, more than 2000 people, who persisted for only one morning before being overwhelmed by the Red Army coming from all directions.The troops in Wuxiang County persisted until the evening of the [-]th, and then the gunfire there also quickly subsided.

In the end, only Leng Xin was left alone, with the remnants of more than [-] people, trapped on Phoenix Mountain.

Leng Xin didn't want to go up the mountain. At first, he desperately wanted to retreat to Wuxiang County, but the Red Army who besieged him was too powerful and aggressive. Seeing that the encirclement was getting tighter and tighter, it was impossible to return to Wuxiang County. Forced to move to Phoenix Mountain nearby.

Unexpectedly, not long after going up the mountain, Leng Xin yelled bitterly.

Why?

Taiyue Mountain is located inland, and it is winter again, and there is almost no water on the mountain! ——Search all over the mountain, only to find a small spring, but the thickness of the nose is thin...

The heavy machine guns carried by Leng Xin are all water-cooled machine guns.

Guns need water, but people need drinking water!Thousands of people were actually blocked by the Red Army on the mountain, with nowhere to find water.

At this time, Leng Xin suddenly realized why the red army surrounded the net before, but why there was only a gap in this direction, it was actually a plan to "invite the king into the urn" to catch him.

How did Leng Xin know that in the battle of the Red Army crossing the river at the end of March, countless Jinsui troops were captured.After the war, with the implementation of the Red Army's three major policy of reforming captives, a large number of prisoners from Jinsui turned to the Red Army.

Li Runshi knew very well that the Red Army was a "guest army" and was not familiar with the terrain. In order to make up for this shortcoming, he paid great attention to the soldiers of the Jinsui Army who turned to the Red Army.The Shanxi-Sui soldiers who were born in the Shangdang area in the southeast of Shanxi with their preset battlefields paid special attention.

As early as two days ago, Xu Shuai, who was one step ahead, had already commanded the army and sneaked into the Taiyue Mountains, setting up an ambush.Xu Shuai was originally from Shanxi, and there were a large number of new officers and soldiers in the army.He has very rich experience in mountain combat, and he has investigated the distribution of water sources in various mountains in detail before the war.Phoenix Mountain has little vegetation and no water on the mountain, and he deliberately "leaked it to" Leng Xin.

When breaking through and interspersing, in order to prevent Leng Xin's troops from fighting trapped beasts in the mountains and flats where there is a water source, they deliberately left a gap to allow them to escape into the mountains, and then surrounded them on all sides without fighting.

Then the main force of the whole army gathered together to wipe out the two enemies of Wuxiang County and Yangcheng Village.

During this period, after searching for water on Lengxin Mountain to no avail, he was shocked and sent his troops down the mountain. It is easy to go up the mountain and it is difficult to go down the mountain. Block all water sources below the mountain.

Leng Xin organized death squads to charge several times, but was shot back by the Red Army at the foot of the mountain with machine gun fire.

What made Leng Xin even more terrified during the battle was that the various units of the Red Army that surrounded and wiped out him at this time had strong firepower and sufficient ammunition, which were far from what they could compare with the Fourth Red Army a few years ago.

"Master, that Yan Laoxi must be collaborating with the bandits. The thunderbolt thrown by the red bandit has countless fragments. It is clearly made in Taiyuan!"

"Bastard Yan Laoxi, bastard Hu Zhongnan, how many bullets did they send to the red bandits!"

When Leng Xin first went up the mountain, there was still one and a half brigades of about 6000 people. At about [-]:[-], there was another buzzing roar in the western sky.

The red bandit plane that blew him up in the morning is here again!

This time, all the incendiary bombs hung under its wings.Dozens of incendiary bombs landed on Phoenix Mountain, igniting a huge fire, roasting and burning, and roasting the water-deprived Lengxin army to parched...

To Leng Xin's despair, when the plane was bombing and machine gunning, he observed the enemy plane with binoculars, and found that the surface of the fuselage of the two planes was still painted with a very eye-catching blue sky and white sun logo.

Leng Xin, the commander of the Fourth Division, who was desperate and angry, ordered a telegram to be sent to Zhangjiakou, claiming that someone was collaborating with the bandits, and that the plane that bombed him had the "National Army" logo on it.

After noon, at four o'clock in the afternoon, the Red Army planes arrived again, dropped incendiary bombs again, and continued to straf...

What he didn't know was that only two Hawker IIs were on the scene, because they were "new planes". The active pilots of the Red Army had no piloting experience, and they were all novices. To be on the safe side, they haven't piloted them rashly yet. .

Even so, Leng Xin, who was bombed three times in one day, was about to collapse.

After that afternoon, the Red Army did not attack, but just blocked the intersection and locked down the mountain.Then Leng Xin, who was trapped on the mountain, discovered that a large number of the main force of the Red Army was moving to the southwest—it turned out that it was about to move to the 36th Division to encircle and wipe out the army headquarters.

As for the remnants of Leng Xin's Fourth Division, they were ordered by Xu Shuai to besiege them.

The reason why Xu Shuai temporarily shifted his target was because he knew that the fourth division trapped on the mountain would have no water, and they would come down after a day or two of siege.And as the new army was defeated by World War I recently, the reinforcements of the central army in the east and north were immediately incomplete, and he had enough time to encircle and wipe out Wei Lihuang's troops.

Shanxi is hilly and mountainous, similar to Songpan Baozuo terrain, Taiyue Taihang mountainous area, [-] kilometers away from the map, and if you want to cross it, there are also nine bends and eighteen bends.

Although there are more than [-] main forces of the central army coming, but Luo and Liu's troops who are fighting against them can easily block them by taking advantage of the terrain.

Leng Xin's troops were already trapped, and if they were thirsty for another day or two, the whole army would be defeated, desperate and bound to surrender.

On the evening of the [-]th, Leng Xin was in Fenghuang Mountain, and it was quiet except for the burning embers of the petrol bomb, which were still faint.Trapped in the mountains, Leng Xin's lips were chapped and her throat was on fire.The besieged Red Army at the foot of the mountain was lighting a fire and cooking. The aroma was accompanied by the smoke and the wind, and with the wind, there was the sound of persuasion from the loudspeaker.

"Mr. Leng, you are now at the end of your rope. The New First Army closest to you has been wiped out at noon today. Sun Yuanliang, who came to rescue you, has fled eastward with his belongings. It is hopeless for you to get closer to them up.

Do you want to break out?With the Red Army in all directions, how could it be possible to break through?

You must be feeling very thirsty right now?Phoenix Mountain was deliberately let you go up by the Red Army.This is a dry mountain with no spring, and because of this, you were able to rush to Phoenix Mountain so smoothly before.If you stayed where you were when you were attacked, and there were rivers and ponds nearby, it would take a lot of time for our army to wipe out your troops.But now, just block your water source, and you will be wiped out without a fight.

"As for the planes in the sky, you have already seen them! The blue sky and white sun marks on them have not been erased! That is your air force in Shimen uprising and defecting to the Red Army! Those planes used to be your planes!"

"Mr. Leng, we know that you are counting on the troops of Tang Enbo, Zhu Peide, and Luo Zhuoying to rush to Wuxiang to rescue you. But it is useless. Even if we don't stop them, it will take three days for them to arrive here in terms of distance. Yes! But your troops, can you go without water for three days?"

"You only have such a small area, less than two miles across. With so many people crowded together, we can kill a lot of you with one shell. Your wounded soldiers follow you and complain to the sky. Your soldiers and many cadres, Everyone really doesn’t want to fight anymore. As teachers, brigade commanders, and battalion commanders, you should take care of your subordinates and family members, cherish their lives, find a way out for them earlier, and stop calling them A senseless sacrifice was made."

"Mr. Leng, after fighting for so many years, you are very clear about our Red Army's captive policy! We don't kill captives, but treat captives preferentially! Wounded captives will be treated as much as possible. On this point, I believe that in the countless examples you have had in the past, You have already seen the Red Army's captive policy!"

"Stop resisting, Mr. Leng! We are all Chinese. Now China is facing the crisis of full-scale Japanese aggression. Killing each other here will only make loved ones hurt and enemies quick... "

Loud shouts lasted midnight, during which the Red Army sent a captured fourth division officer up the mountain as a special envoy to negotiate, allowing Leng Xin to send the wounded soldiers down the mountain first, and the Red Army was willing to treat them according to humanitarian principles.

Although Leng Xin understood that this was the opponent's "scheming", but there was no water on the mountain, and seeing the wounded and thirsty soldiers all over the ground, she could only agree.

That night, there was no fighting on Phoenix Mountain where Leng Xin lived.

However, in the direction of Songcun Town, where the "Guardian Seat" was trapped a few miles away, there was constant gunfire.Contacted by telegram, Leng Xin learned that almost all the Red Army troops were besieging Wei Lihuang's main force. Although the hills around Songcun Town could not be seen here, the sound of artillery fire from a distance could be faintly heard.

When Leng Xin fell into despair because he was trapped on the mountain without water, Wei Lihuang was also worried.

Why?

When the army was attacked, although he commanded the army to shrink in time, and at the same time seized the nearby hills to form a defensive position with corners, but there was a huge flaw.

This flaw is that because of the disgusting mountainous terrain of Taiyue Mountain, the artillery and luggage of his [-]th Army marched slowly, and they were all pulled far behind the main force before being attacked.

"Fire the enemy, I will kill me!"

This is what Wei Lihuang is most afraid of!

For Leng Xin's last brigade with more troops, Xu Shuai was "trapped" and did not kill them. However, when besieging Wei Lihuang's 36th Division, he went all out to fight hard from the beginning, and even wiped out Leng Xin's troops. Most of the time, a large number of main forces were dispatched to the battlefield to encircle and wipe out Wei Lihuang's army headquarters.

On the evening of the [-]th, in the direction of Songcun Township, guns rang out all night.

At dawn, more planes arrived from the west.This time, there were not ten planes in the sky, but a total of eighteen!

After a day of "familiarity", the pilots of the Red Army could barely fly the Hawk II, and then bombed the Wei Lihuang Department as a process of adapting to the new aircraft.

The line of defense controlled by Wei Lihuang, that is, several connected hills and a small town in the middle, more than 1 people crowded in an area of ​​several square kilometers, and Hawk's pilots randomly threw burning bombs at the hills they defended. Molotov cocktails and bombs will do.

Just like treating Leng Xin, after the bombs were dropped, the machine guns swept away, and the machine guns swept away the surrounding Red Army cannons, and all the processes were completed.

As soon as the cannon rang, Wei Lihuang knew he was going to die: unlike yesterday's cannon, it was the whistling sound of his own mountain cannon.

That's right, when his Fourteenth Army was attacked, the artillery unit he pulled back was also handed over to the Red Army, from cannons to shells to the Red Army.

After a night of scrambling, the Red Army finally brought the cannons over at dawn.

Then there is what he is most worried about: to support the enemy, I will kill me...

All day long on April [-], the Red Army Air Force, which took off from Pingyao Airport, bombed Wei Lihuang's troops four rounds back and forth!

Flying in the sky is the "own plane" with the logo of blue sky and white sun painted on it!

The guns on his body were shells from the artillery lost by his own army!

On the evening of April [-], the commanding heights around Songcun Town were captured by the Red Army one after another, and Wei Lihuang surrendered in despair.A few hours later, Leng Xin, who had been thirsty and hungry all day, also ordered the troops to lay down their weapons and surrender after learning that the "Guardian Zuo" had been taken prisoner.

At this time, Tang Enbo and Zhu Peide's troops, who had been "climbing" on the mountain roads in Shanxi for a day without the Red Army's obstruction, were still ten miles away from Yushe.And Luo Zhuoying's Eighteenth Army, even the fastest forward troops, was seven miles away from Yushe.

If they were blocked by Luo Binghui's troops during their march during the day, the distance between them and Yushe would be even further...

On the evening of the [-]th, after learning that the entire army of Wei Lihuang's army had been wiped out, the three main central armies who had been marching procrastinatingly, as if they had understood something, suddenly sped up their actions and arrived at Yushe almost at the same time before dark. In the area, more than [-] people joined forces successfully.

At this time, the three armies in a group don't have to worry about being divided and eaten by the Red Army.

The real thing to worry about is No. 20, who was trying to rush to Wuxiang during the day, and after receiving the news that Wei Lihuang's army was wiped out, he turned around immediately and fled southward along the same road as he had come. The fifth master Guan Linzheng.

When Guan Linzheng was the brigade commander in history, he fought against the Brick Buddhist Temple with his classmates Xu Xiangqian and Cai Shenxi in the first period. Cai Shenxi, the chief of the general staff, died heroically.

This person is also Xu Xiangqian's old opponent. After hearing that Wei Lihuang's army was wiped out, he immediately realized that the situation was not good. He stopped advancing immediately and retreated.

As expected, after wiping out Wei Lihuang's troops, Xu Shuai only left some troops to clean up the battlefield.Part of the troops crossed the Taihang Mountains and marched towards Hebei.And a partial division, disguised as the main force, rushed towards the 25th Division with great fanfare under the cover of the plane.

The two armies launched a long mountain race in the Taiyue and Taihang mountain ranges of Shangdang.

As Xu Shuai's old opponent, Guan Linzheng is also a veteran of hundreds of battles. After realizing that something was wrong, he first ordered the troops to drop their heavy equipment and retreat lightly. This order was very timely.Then the entire 25th Division marched almost day and night in the next three days, retreating south frantically, crossed the Yellow River on the 21st, and withdrew to the border of Henan.Although the Red Army planes in Pingyao attacked his troops for several rounds and caused considerable losses, they were unable to catch this army that was bent on retreating south.

But in the process, the 25th Division that fled across the Yellow River, and its [-] troops that entered Jin, lost thousands of people in the process. After returning to Henan, there were only a little over [-] troops left.The heavy equipment that was brought into the Jin Dynasty was almost lost in the process.

The entire Shangdang area, the "spine" of the world, has completely fallen into the hands of the Red Army with the complete retreat of the 25th Division.

And April [-] is a critical node.

On the [-]th, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, who had been standing still on the west bank of the Yellow River for nearly a month, announced at the same time that the army was moving eastward.

Yang Hucheng's Northwest Army went directly out of Tongguan and entered Henan.

Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army set out from Fengling Ferry, crossed the Yellow River east, and entered Shanxi.

At this time, the "two thieves Zhang and Yang" had already withdrawn and tore off the mask of obeying the command of the central government in the past, showing a political and military posture of standing with the Red Army.

The slogan when the two sent troops was: stop the civil war and unite in the war of resistance.The explanation for his behavior is: This is forcing "chang" to resist the war.

No matter whether Chang Kaishen believed it or not, Zhang Yang and Zhang Yang believed it themselves.

Wei Lihuang's troops left in Yuncheng, Shanxi, did not dare to resist in front of the 10,000+ Northeast Army whose eyes were so hungry that their eyes turned green. A large part of the territory under the previous staking enclosure fell into the hands of the Northeast Army.

And Yang Hucheng, who came out of Tongguan in the east, was also racing to enclose land in the Henan area at this time, echoing Zhang Xueliang in the north of the Yellow River.

When the Northeast Army and the Northwest Army cooperated with the Red Army to start their operations, Tang Enbo, Zhu Peide, and Luo Zhuoying's three-way army, which was still wandering around the Taiyue Taihang Mountains, and the Central Army with more than [-] troops, were panicked at this time.

The reason is that they thought they were chasing and annihilating the main force of the Red Army, and when they saw that their intention of encircling and annihilating it failed, they immediately turned to change the direction of the assault.

At this time, they no longer acted in the Taihang Mountains, but went directly eastward. The main force passed through the newly acquired Shangdang area, and went directly eastward into the defenseless Xingtai area of ​​Hebei.