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Chapter 1068: The Silent War

More than a dozen divisions of the three corps of the Central Army marched into Guizhou in a big way, occupying more than 30 cities and counties, including Guiyang, within a week, and almost half of them were stubbornly resisted and harassed by the Red Guards and the stragglers. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Chiang Kai-shek, who was in Shanghai but was watching the overall situation, deeply believed that the phased goal of occupying Guizhou had been successfully achieved, and that the Guizhou Army, which was divided and could no longer be twisted into a single rope, needed Xue Yue, Liu Jianxu, Wan Huihuang, and other troops to reorganize and standardize in order to continue to pursue and suppress the Red Army.

As a result, Chiang Kai-shek immediately issued an order to "rest in place and eliminate bandits."

The various units of the Central Army, which had been pursuing non-stop for a month, really needed to stop and take a breath, and all the units after the order were well implemented.

At this time, the main force of the Central Red Army was almost exhausted and could not continue, and it was very necessary to have time to quickly reorganize and reorganize the remnants.

The war situation in Guizhou entered a short period of peace at a time when both warring sides were in urgent need of self-improvement and needed to stop and catch their breath to speed up their recuperation and war preparations.

In this precious time, China's most important Zunyi Conference and subsequent meetings were held continuously and intensely, and the founder of the Red Army finally came out of the mountain again in the grim situation of life and death, and began to take over the military command of the Red Army.

The European and American powers were extremely hostile, and the Chiang Kai-shek army successfully exterminated the main force of the Central Red Army in Jiangxi and Fujian, and chased and expelled the remnants of the Red Army of tens of thousands of people all the way into the deep mountains and old forests of Guizhou.

Current affairs and war correspondents from European and American countries have flocked to Guiyang, Syria and other places again, hoping to visit the front line to cover and witness the final destruction of the ** army in China.

The main force of the 20th Army, which is located in the three important towns north of Zunyi and protects the smooth convening of the Zunyi Conference, is the only elite of the Central Red Army that does not need to rest, but on the third day after the Zunyi Conference was held, local adjustments were made in accordance with the spirit of the instructions of the Central Military Commission, while retaining the number of the 40th Division, the division commander Du Qiliang was promoted to the chief of staff of the army, and the four main regiments of the 40th Division and the guard regiment directly under it were each divided into a total of six main regiments, which were commanded by the Military Commission in a unified manner. Commanders at all levels have remained basically unchanged.

The 20th Red Army, which was well-equipped and had strong combat effectiveness, has since become the main force of the Red Army's main force in attacking fortifications, and in the high hopes of the new leading members of the Central Military Commission, after several days of preparation, set off ahead of schedule, and quietly attacked the Huairen area in the west by two routes, clearing out the Kuomintang local interception troops along the way.

The Red Army corps then set out one after another, and the central organs would soon withdraw from the Zunyi area, where the Kuomintang heavy troops were slowly advancing, and march westward in a big way.

In accordance with the instructions of the Central Military Commission, in order to confuse the Kuomintang army and cover the westward advance of the main force of the Central Committee, the Dong Zhentang Corps of the Red Army rushed out of Songkan Town, north of Tongzi, on the day after the 20th Army quietly marched westward, and stormed the Guanyin Bridge position on the Sichuan-Guizhou border where the 48th Brigade of the 16th Division of the 24th Army of the Anjia Army was stationed.

The commander of the 16th Division was Wang Xulun, a famous hero of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in North China, and was also an outstanding member of the younger generation of generals and colonels of the Anjia Army. However, under the constraints of An Yi's guiding ideology of "avoiding the enemy's edge, preserving strength, and as a last resort, he can lightly attack and harass him and make him retreat in the face of difficulties", he could only order all the 48th Brigade to retreat to the front line of Shimen.

Dong Zhentang saw that Luo Shixiong's brigade, which was almost equal to his own army, did not wait for his troops to rush to within 500 meters, and withdrew all the carefully built positions at a rapid speed, hesitated slightly, and issued another order to pursue. Luo Shixiong, commander of the 48th Brigade, under Wang Xulun's strict order, scolded and ordered to retreat, and more than 6,000 officers and men of the brigade withdrew from the Shimen line again, and retreated to Zhongjiawan before stopping and being stationed tightly.

After hearing the news, Dong Zhentang, who went to the front line to lookout, was stunned, and he really couldn't understand the retreat of the 48th Brigade, and after carefully observing it with a telescope, he turned around and asked Chen Bojun, the chief of staff next to him: "Is it the An Jiajun or the Qianjun Army on the other side of us?" ”

Chen Bojun shook his head and smiled helplessly: "Old Dong, are you knowingly asking." ”

"Then how can they blindly avoid the war and retreat again and again? This is the well-known An Jiajun throughout the country? What a famous ...... on dog days"

Dong Zhentang was so angry that he scolded, and the division commanders and staff officers on the side were all too frightened to speak out.

Dong Zhentang finished scolding, his anger disappeared a lot, this fierce general who graduated from the Baoding Military Academy and served as the commander of Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army, experienced the Central Plains War that made him unbearable, he knew very well the courage and good fighting and cunning of the Anjia Army, and he knew more that after several years of development, all units of the Anjia Army have made rapid progress in all aspects such as weaponry and combat thinking, and it is difficult for other armies in the country to match it.

This time, Dong Zhentang led the two divisions of the Eighth Army Corps to resolutely go north and attack the Sichuan-Guizhou front, knowing that he could not defeat the main force of the Anjia Army, which was armed to the teeth, and that his name was a corps, but in fact it was just comparable to the strength of a brigade of the Anjia Army, as long as he engaged, he would never get any benefits.

The purpose of the courageous attack despite knowing that the enemy was invincible was to create a tremendous momentum for the main force of the Red Army to move northward, so that the Kuomintang from top to bottom would miscalculate, believing that the Central Red Army was still trying to go north to the Sichuan-Hunan border, join forces with the Second Front Army, and open up the revolutionary base areas in Hunan, Hubei and Sichuan, so as to effectively mobilize the forces of the Kuomintang units to advance and suppress them, and then smoothly achieve the strategic goal.

For this reason, Dong Zhentang and the officers and men of the Red Fifth Army have made up their minds to fight to the death for the overall situation of the revolution, and they clearly know that they must move forward bravely and never retreat even if they hit a stone with an egg. But now, just like the fist that was finally clenched and hit the air with all its might, Dong Zhentang and his soldiers were extremely uncomfortable, and at the same time, they were deeply puzzled, but they were also secretly vigilant.

Dong Zhentang has been in the army for 15 years, has fought thousands of miles, and experienced countless bloody storms, but he can only feel a kind of helplessness that he has never felt in today's battle.

In any respect, it is impossible for the enemy to retreat again and again when he has superior forces and occupies superior terrain, and if it is said that the enemy wants to "lure the enemy into depth," it seems that there is no need to show weakness again and again with the favorable terrain, sophisticated equipment, and powerful strike firepower occupied by the enemy.

So, what is the reason for this situation? And what is the purpose of the enemy?

The red sun rose overhead, Dong Zhentang was still standing on the high ground, holding a telescope to look at the enemy formation, the enemy's position was hunting with battle flags, each line of defense was arranged tightly and reasonably, in the telescope, several condescending firepower of the enemy formation were lit with black machine guns and bullet chains, shining in the sun, containing terrible killing intentions. At the same time, puffs of smoke rose from behind the enemy's positions, as if it was time for lunch.

Chief of Staff Chen Bojun put down the binoculars and worried: "Lao Dong, it seems that the enemy may not retreat again, judging from the highland on the north bank of the river bay currently occupied by the other side, even if we don't want to launch a decisive charge, we can't rush through the cold river in front of us...... You see, on the road in front of the enemy's position, there is almost an open river beach, and the wooden bridge on the river can be blown up with only two shells. ”

Li Zhuoran, the political commissar of the legion, nodded frequently: "The chief of staff is right!" This stubborn enemy is really a headache, and I wonder, how can the enemy seem to know in advance that we are going to fight him? Let's look at the strong fortifications they built, it can't be built in a hurry, and then think about the Guanyin Bridge and the Shimen position that the enemy in front of them abandoned in succession, they were also built to a very standard level, but the enemy said that they didn't want it, so it was some major conspiracy? ”

Dong Zhentang put down the binoculars, turned his head and said: "Political commissar, I still know something about An Jiajun, the commander who created this army, An Yi, himself was born as an engineer, and now the professional textbooks of the engineering department of the Huangpu Military Academy are all the advanced knowledge of the foreign ** team compiled by him or translated by the organization.

"It is said that once a state of war is entered, no matter how hard and tiring the march is, An Yi's troops must first build fortifications in the place where they are stationed, and there must be no ambiguity. Therefore, as long as they passed through, they would leave behind exemplary fortifications, which had a great impact on the Kuomintang troops.

"The 48th Brigade we are facing now belongs to the 16th Division, the old foundation of the Anjia Army in the early stage of the expansion, the first division commander Yin Jinan is from Hebei like me, his fortifications are more solid, and the troops he brought out are the most solid military skills in the Central Army. We can't disagree with this. ”

The generals sighed silently, and finally knew how big the gap between themselves and An Jiajun was, and looked at the strong fortifications in front of them, and they were full of thoughts for a while, but they could see that the soldiers of An Jiajun were actually having a collective lunch in the fortifications, making noise from time to time, and feeling extremely angry. The two armies were less than 800 meters apart, and the enemy didn't care about it, and it was obvious that he ate so unscrupulously to the officers and men of the Fifth Army.

After a while, the division commanders, regiment commanders, and staff officers around Dong Zhentang were all annoyed and angry, and they all came over one by one and asked for battle.

"Shut up!"

Dong Zhentang scolded, and everyone immediately quieted down.

Dong Zhentang slowed down his tone, pointed to the position of the Anjia army in front, and asked loudly: "Don't you know that this is the enemy deliberately provoking us?" Can't you see that we're in an extremely inferior offensive position? In this place now, it is difficult to defend, how can we attack? If you are not afraid of death, you must also die meaningfully, do you really think that the dense machine guns on the enemy's position are decorations? Do you really think that the enemy we are facing is a fragile and invincible Qianjun army? No brains! ”

"That'...... What should we do? ”

"yes, Commander, we can't keep it going......"

"Enemy aircraft - enemy aircraft air strikes - "

When the generals heard the sound and looked at the sky in the northwest direction, more than a dozen enemy planes flashed silver and quickly killed them, and for a while, the sound of "lying down", "concealing", and "setting up machine guns" on the position was endless, and the high ground where Dong Zhentang and a dozen generals were standing was empty in the blink of an eye, and only a burst of dust was still spreading everywhere.

Enemy planes rushed into the airspace in the middle of the confrontation positions between the two armies in formation, and one of the huge bombers dropped a string of aerial bombs, and the bombs that were round and in the middle of winter let out a screaming sound and fell rapidly, and bursts of earth-shaking explosions occurred one after another, causing Dong Zhentang and others, who were prostrate under the hill, to roar in their ears and their blood churning.

After the explosion stopped and the smoke gradually dissipated, the clear river surface and the grass and trees on both sides of the river, which were hundreds of meters long and more than 30 meters wide, had been blown up to the fog and flames, and the original two-meter-wide wooden bridge could not even be seen. The enemy planes in the sky "buzzed" and shouted, circled a few times over the heads of the Red Army, and after performing a few tumbling stunts, they flew away amid the cheers of the enemy on the opposite position.

Dong Zhentang stood up, looked at the location of the disappearing wooden bridge with deep meaning, patted his dusty hat, and ordered in a deep voice:

"Order all units to retreat immediately, and the thirty-seventh regiment will be cut off and covered."

"Wait, Lao Dong, just leave?" Political Commissar Li Zhuoran was very surprised, and hurriedly took Dong Zhentang's hand and asked.

Dong Zhentang made a tiger face, shook off Li Zhuoran's hand, and strode away without saying a word, Chief of Staff Chen Bojun grabbed Li Zhuoran, who was angry, and said in a low voice:

"Commissar, can't you see it? An Jiajun is saving face for us, otherwise how could a dozen planes just now be like this? Also, the 48th Brigade on the opposite side obviously has a mortar battalion, according to their way of fighting, it should have been fired at us a long time ago, where is the need to retreat and retreat? It's clear that they don't want to beat us, so let's retreat, understand? ”

"Alas, this .......!"

On the evening of the same day, the South Sichuan Radio Station broadcast a battle report: The officers and men of our heroic 16th Division repelled the frantic attack of the Red Army's Dong Zhentang Division on the Sichuan-Guizhou line north of Tongzi, and the Red Army fled in the desert under the courageous blows of the officers and men of our 16th Division, and the officers and men of the 48th Brigade of the 16th Division, under the leadership of the brigade commander, Colonel Luo Shixiong, bravely pursued for more than 40 miles......