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Chapter 1055 is crooked

An Yi and Liu Qing thought too much, and also underestimated Huang Han's obedience and trust to the ** Central Committee, Huang Hanbu did not deliberately pass by He Longbu, but due to the harsh terrain and unexpected circumstances. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

On the first day of the southward journey, Huang Hanbu received three people sent by He Long, including the deputy director of the Political Department, and immediately stopped advancing at Shijiahe, and solemnly sent a report to the Central Committee using the code provided by He Long's Department, expressing absolute obedience to the orders of the Central Committee, reporting that the soldiers had strong fighting spirit and an incomparably strong revolutionary will, and were waiting for further instructions from the Central Committee.

Although Huang Han, his political commissar Liu Ziyuan, and deputy division commander Du Qiliang were extremely unwilling to succumb to He Huzi, Xiao Ke, and others, who had much fewer troops than themselves, and did not want the independent division with a distinctive style that they had brought out to lose its autonomy and flexibility in military operations, Huang Han and his two assistants were all veteran party members with strong party spirit, and they all knew that they should take the overall situation into account and unconditionally obey the organization's decisions and assignments at such a difficult moment when the situation was at a critical moment.

However, at this critical juncture, the Central Military Commission's telegram order has not yet arrived, and Chang Xiaofu, the commander of the communications company, suddenly fell down with a high fever, and Chang Sheng's two apprentices and the old correspondent Lao Chen took over the radio station, but they accidentally fell down on the way to enter the land temple at the entrance of the village with the machine on their backs, and the most advanced radio station broke down, and the other two radio stations were equipped with an independent regiment and a mountain assault regiment, and the two regiments were one in the rear and one in the front on alert, and the distance from the division headquarters was about 15 kilometers. In desperation, the backup radio station could only be activated urgently.

As soon as the radio station was set up and turned on, he received an urgent telegram from He Long, suggesting that the Huang Han troops stop going south and wait in place, and the Second Front Army would go north to join it after repelling the Guizhou army that was in hot pursuit.

After discussing with his brothers, Huang Han decided to follow the order to stop advancing and wait in place, but the deputy directors of the Political Department of the Second Front Army, who followed the troops, were anxious, because last night they were all listening to the radio news program of the South Sichuan Radio Station with Huang Han, and one of the most important news was: A total of four divisions of Wang Jialie and Mao Guangxiang in Guizhou were fighting fiercely with He Long's troops on the Yanmenling line in the east of Yanhe County, and the battle had entered a stalemate. Hou Zhidan, the former commander-in-chief of the enemy of the Guizhou Army, swore at a press conference that he would never let He Long's Red Army cross the west bank of the Wujiang River.

Several deputy directors of the Political Department know that after entering Guizhou, the Second Army did not fight for a day, the troops did not get any chance to rest, and the seven days were spent in continuous high-intensity battles, and the situation of soldier attrition and falling behind was extremely serious, and the 9,000 men and horses after the merger with the Sixth Army Corps now have less than 7,000 people left, of which nearly half of the officers and men of Xiao Ke's department are wounded, if they can't get rid of the pursuit of the Guizhou Army this time, the situation will be extremely dangerous, so several people asked Huang Han again and again, Please Huang Han to go to the rescue no matter what.

The morale of the Huang Han Department also wanted to fight, and immediately called the Second Front Army to explain the situation, and the front army headquarters quickly called back, ordering the Huang Han Department to quickly move south and take Youyang in one fell swoop, so as to respond to the He Long Department that retreated to Youyang while fighting.

After Huang Han received the order, he immediately waved his army south, and the Second Front Army completely retreated from the battlefield to the north, and the Qian army followed far behind, which made He Long annoyed, so he could only speed up and grit his teeth and hurry. The reconnaissance unit that had not gone 15 kilometers ahead of time had an unexpected encounter with a reconnaissance detachment of the 24th Army of the Anjia Army at three kilometers outside Youyang City, and the two sides exchanged a few shots and retreated. When the whole army crossed the dangerous Youyang area and entered the deep mountains to stop and rest, it was no longer possible to contact Huang Han by telegram.

The staff officers of the Second Front Army thought that as long as they went north, they would be able to meet Huang Han who was heading south, so the officers and men of the Second Front Army set off for the morning light after a short rest. What they didn't expect was that in order to gain time, the Huang Han Department directly crossed the familiar trail in the hinterland of Wuling Mountain, and the whole army was nearly twice as fast as the staff officers of the Second Front Army expected, and the two sides passed by each other when the wind and snow were mixed that night, separated by a thick mountain range, and the distance in a straight line in the air was less than seven kilometers.

By the time the two sides resumed contact, it was already the early morning of the second day, and more than 10,000 elites of the Huang Han Department occupied Youyang County with astonishing speed and courage as promised, but the exhausted He Long Department arrived at Zhongyunling, an old base area dozens of kilometers southeast of the Qianjiang River.

The two armies, which were supposed to be together, were separated by mistake, and the Huang Han Army, which had been marching for two days and one night, did not have the strength to immediately go north, and the Second Front Army that returned to the border of western Hunan could only cry out in vain.

Because the Central Red Army was in an extremely fierce breakthrough operation at this time, the reply from the Central Military Commission had not yet arrived, and He Long and Huang Han could only discuss repeatedly through telegrams, and Huang Han resolutely decided to evacuate Youyang the next morning and go north again to join the Second Front Army.

But the decision was made too late.

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, three squads of the reconnaissance company of the division's subordinate division, which had gone out to reconnoiter and alert, sent people back to the division headquarters to make an urgent report: The main force of the Anjia Army wearing "toad suits" appeared in Lujiao Town, 28 kilometers southeast of Pengshui; The main force of the Anjia Army wearing "toad suits" was found along the Wujiang River in the west of Youyang City, numbering about 5,000 people, and was slowly approaching the direction of the county seat.

Political commissar Liu Ziyuan and deputy division commander Du Qiliang were taken aback, and the three people of the Political Department of the Second Front Army, who strongly advocated going north to converge as soon as possible, were also frightened, and the combat effectiveness of the Anjia Army was well known, and the Gui Department and the Northwest Army were defeated even when they encountered them, and even the arrogant Japanese army could not please them, not to mention that the unit they were in now was still a tired division that had no logistical supplies and had suffered losses at the hands of the Anjia Army not long ago.

Huang Han, who was puzzled in his heart, was very calm, and calmly ordered the deputy division commander Du Qiliang to lead three regiments to rush to Xinqiao in the west of the city, occupy favorable positions along both sides of the road, and arrange defenses, and then ordered the staff officers to hang up the map and carry out calculations and judgments according to the intelligence fed back by the reconnaissance company.

Half an hour later, the reconnaissance company's guard group, which had been stationed 15 kilometers north of the city, again sent an urgent report: Kuomintang reactionary planes had dropped dozens of bombs over Huangyang'ao on the Qianjiang River and Gantuo Pass on the Yongshun road to Laifeng, and the originally safe road to the north was suddenly full of danger.

"Where did the plane come from? Yes? Snowy ...... There are no birds in this ghost weather, where did the plane come from? Huang Han asked loudly in annoyance.

The sweaty reconnaissance platoon commander stood at the door and pleaded innocently: "Division commander, it's true, I didn't lie to you!" The explosion and the thick smoke that I saw with my own eyes were clearly visible through the telescope about three kilometers north of our warning point. At noon, the light snow stopped, and the wind suddenly became lighter, but in the past, we had never seen an enemy plane dare to come out to show prestige in this kind of weather, who would have thought that this time the Kuomintang reactionaries would be so bold and dare to use planes to drop bombs in such bad weather? ”

"The wind and snow have stopped?"

Huang Han, who had been studying the enemy situation in the county office, didn't believe it, strode out of the lobby with his hands behind his back, jumped down the steps to the courtyard in a few steps, and took off the octagonal hat on his head to look up to the sky to watch carefully. The dark clouds in the gray sky have indeed thinned, and the light of the sun can still be faintly seen in the middle of the wide clouds, and I don't know when, the weather has cleared.

Huang Han cursed in his heart, turned his head again to look at the trees around him whose leaves had completely fallen off, and finally saw a tall pine and cypress pagoda-like spire in the northwest corner swaying slightly, and sure enough, the wind speed had been greatly weakened.

Huang Han frowned, his teeth clenched his lower lip and was silent, Liu Ziyuan beside him shook his head helplessly, and just wanted to discuss a few words with Huang Han, the roar of an airplane suddenly came from the sky.

The deputy director of the Political Department of the Second Front Army, who was in his 40s, was frightened by the bombing of planes in the past two years, and when he heard the roar of planes, he was so frightened that he shouted "all the planes are bombing and all are hidden."

As the panicked shouts of "Enemy planes bomb and hide quickly" became louder and louder, everyone rushed to the back of the big trees and low walls, and there was chaos inside and outside the originally orderly county office, only Huang Han and Liu Ziyuan were still standing in the middle of the empty courtyard, looking at the sky to the north, their faces gloomy. The four guards of the two shouted no, nor did they pull, and they could only jump anxiously for the safety of the two chiefs.

After a while, two silver-white monoplane reconnaissance planes slowly flew in, circling around the sky over Youyang County, and then three large bombers flew over the courtyard at an ultra-low altitude, and the roar shook Huang Han and Liu Ziyuan's ears. The plane flew at an incredibly slow speed, flying at a low altitude that made it clear that the aircraft machine gun sticking out of the tail of the plane.

A few minutes later, the plane did not dive and drop bombs as imagined by the Red Army soldiers who were hiding everywhere, nor did it strafe with aviation machine guns, circled in the air a few times, turned around and headed westward.

The deputy director of the Political Department of the Second Front Army, who came to Huang Han out of breath, finally completely despaired, licked his dry lips and suggested in a low voice:

"Division Commander Huang, Political Commissar Liu, it seems that we can't go back, the regular troops of the Anjia Army on the ground are slowly advancing from the west and north, and the enemy planes in the sky suddenly bombed the two passes on the way through which we must retreat north, this is not counted, they even flew to our heads to reconnoitre, flying so low, they must have seen our reality clearly, it is estimated that the enemy planes have no bombs, otherwise we will be miserable! Master Huang, it is not advisable to stay here for a long time, I suggest that an emergency meeting be convened immediately to make a quick decision, a quick decision! ”

Huang Han sighed secretly in his heart, nodded and replied, turned to the combat staff officer who ran over quickly and asked, "What news is there from Deputy Division Commander Du?" ”

The combat staff officer Li Zheng replied: "The deputy division commander ordered me to report to the division commander that after the enemy discovered our army's defensive position, he stopped advancing and quickly set up an offensive position, the enemy's strength was about four regiments, of which about three mortar battalions were arranged behind the enemy's flank positions, judging from the enemy's battle flag, it was the 46th Brigade of the 16th Division of the 24th Army of the Kuomintang Ace Army. ”

"What!? Sixteenth Division...... 46th Brigade...... Isn't it the Cai Shaohua Brigade who was awarded the 'Hero Brigade' battle flag by the Nanjing government in the North China Anti-Japanese War? Liu Ziyuan couldn't help but exclaim.

"That's right, it's him, this person graduated from the fourth phase of Huangpu, a native of Guangdong Shanshui, and Li Jishen, the vice principal of Huangpu at the time, was a distant relative, and had a good private relationship with my senior brother An Yi, when Yin Jinan established the Nanchang Garrison Division, he was transferred to serve as a colonel brigade commander. This person is notoriously stuffy, when he was in Whampoa, he didn't talk or fart, he didn't show his eyes, but he fought to the death, and even the ghosts were afraid of him, and the four regiments of his 46th Brigade were all overstaffed main regiments, with a total of 7,800 people, more than a division of the Kuomintang local army, and the equipment was first-class in the country, so it was not easy to deal with! Looks like we're entangled in him. Huang Han said with a stern expression.

The deputy director's face turned pale, and he became even more worried: "What should I do?" What to do? What if the other two divisions of the 24th Army followed behind the 16th Division......?"

Huang Han slowly turned to the deputy director: "Comrade Gao Zhifu, as a commander, you should be calm and calm in the face of danger, compared to Commander He, the difficulties they have experienced in the past two years are much more dangerous than this, what is there to panic about?" At this time, we must not be out of order, as long as we show the slightest cowardice and show the traces of cowardice and retreat, the enemy will not hesitate to launch a fierce attack on our troops, because the enemy we are facing is not the ordinary army of the Kuomintang, but the well-trained and well-equipped Lion Anjia Army, who have considerable battlefield experience and are even far more familiar with movement warfare and guerrilla warfare. This is not to praise them, but to make everyone have a clear understanding of their enemies. You and the two comrades advanced to the command, and I will come as soon as I give the order. ”

"Yes...... I'm sorry, Master Huang, we are really in a hurry, so we will go in and wait for you to organize the meeting. Gao Zhifu lowered his head in embarrassment and left.

Liu Ziyuan shook his head with disdain, and said in his heart that the psychological quality of these students who occupied high military and political positions after returning from studying in the Soviet Union was so poor? After Huang Han finished giving the order, Liu Ziyuan stepped forward gently: "What are your plans?" ”

"You can't go to the north, and you can't stay here for a long time, and if you stay for a while, it will be more dangerous." Huang Han replied in a low voice.

"To the south?"

Liu Ziyuan raised his eyebrows and stared into Huang Han's eyes.

Huang Han nodded slightly: "Yes!" Let's continue south! However, we cannot withdraw at this time, and it will be dark in more than two hours, and as soon as it gets dark, we will immediately march southward as fast as possible, and we must run 48 kilometers tonight, and as soon as the morning dawns, we will deal a severe blow to the unprepared Qianjun Hou of Yanhe County, and occupy Yanhe. ”

"Good! I support your opinion. Liu Ziyuan nodded heavily.