Chapter 37 July 30 afternoon

At the end of July and the beginning of August, it is the time when the big stove in Nanchang is "hot", especially at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, when there is no wind, even the willow leaves are wilted. No matter what people do, they have to shake their fans in their hands. At this moment, He Long sent an urgent notice to his troops: at 2:00 pm on the same day (30th), officers above the head of the regiment went to the military headquarters for an important meeting.The military headquarters was stationed in the Chinese Anglican Church (now Xinghuo Road Primary School) near the provincial government.The head of the regiment and the teachers all filed in with curiosity.Seeing that Commander He was waving his big cattail leaf fan and casually chatting with the people who entered the door, bursting into laughter from time to time, people became more curious.They all knew that the more important He Long's temper was, the more he talked and talked, and his laughter shook the sky. If he was idle, he would be unhappy.The duty officer reported that everyone had arrived.

"A meeting, a meeting!" He Long greeted everyone with a smile, and the officers of the division and regiment surrounded He Long and sat around a large table in front.The time is exactly 2 o'clock in the afternoon. "I called everyone here today. I have something important to talk about." He Long suppressed his smile, threw away the big fan in his hand, and stood up against the table: "Everyone knows that the Kuomintang has betrayed the revolution. dead, today we will re-establish the banner of revolution, oppose the reactionary government, and overthrow Chiang Kai-shek.”

Having said that, He Long paused for a moment, and glanced sternly at the people present.The room was quiet, the smoker had already quietly stubbed out his cigarette, and the fan player also stopped, looking intently at the commander. He Long lowered his voice and said: "We have been together for a long time. According to the order of the Communist Party, I decided to lead the troops to stage a riot! You, those who are willing to follow me, we will make revolution together, and those who do not want to follow me, you can leave force!" During the interval between He Long lighting a cigarette, there was a whisper in the venue, whispering non-stop.He Long also used this time to listen to the discussion below.

I don't know who took the lead and said: "We will do whatever the commander decides, and we will follow!" I don't know if he was too excited or had no idea, but the voice was not loud, as if a frail scholar was answering the teacher's question. But this sound stirred up a thousand waves, and the meeting hall responded immediately: "Commander, we listen to you, you can tell us how to act!" Even more intense, "If you don't want to do it, get out! If you don't want to do it, disarm him first!" He Long had the bottom line in his heart: "Okay, from now on we must obey the leadership of the Communist Party and absolutely obey the orders of the Communist Party! Now, let's study the plan of the riot."

He Long announced the uprising plan to let everyone know that in addition to the 20th Army, Ye Ting's 24th Division, Zhu De's Third Army Officer Education Corps, and the 10th Division, 20th Division, etc. participated in the uprising. Five divisions and so on.The task of the Twentieth Army is to deal with the provincial government, Zhu Peide's Third Army headquarters and a part of its subordinate troops.The strength of the rebel army had an absolute advantage in Nanchang City, but they had to be quick, and they couldn't wait for the enemy's reinforcements to arrive.The division heads listened to He Long's arrangement, and were more concerned about the tasks they were assigned, and some even wrote something down in their notebooks.

Seeing that the tasks of the first and second divisions have been assigned, and the teaching group has not been mentioned yet, the head of the group, Hou Jingru, lost his composure and was about to speak. The Ninth Regiment, the Sixth Regiment is responsible for solving the problem. How are you doing, Commander Fu?" "Okay." Fu Weiyu, who was sitting beside Hou Jingru, replied quickly. Hou Jingru thought that Fu Weiyu was so young, the Sixth Regiment was newly formed, all recruits had never been in actual combat, and the Seventy-Nineth Regiment to be fought was the enemy's main force. If not done well, it would affect the entire army. uprising plan.Thinking of this, Hou Jingru no longer cared about wearing the hat of "grabbing credit", stood up and said, "Report to the commander-in-chief, can this task be handed over to the teaching group?"

He Long admired Head Hou's enthusiasm for asking for a job, and squinted at Hou Jingru: "Are you sure?" What He Long wanted was not only courage but also confidence. "Yes!" Hou Jingru knew his teaching team too well.Some of the students in the teaching team are junior officers of the former 20th Army, and some are members of the student team brought over by Hou Jingru from the Wuhan Security Corps. These are veterans with combat experience. Most of them were students of the Central Peasant Movement Institute and the backbone of the party and league members and peasant movements who fled to Hankou from Hunan and Hubei after the "Ma-Day Incident".Of course He Long also understands these situations.

"Okay, I'll leave it to you. But you have to pay attention, you must use a sudden attack to clean them up at once." He Long glanced at Captain Fu, and then said to Hou and Fu: "The Sixth Regiment The mission has been changed to alert. Now you two regiments should switch defenses immediately." They sat down immediately and each wrote an order to the regiment: Prepare to switch defenses immediately.The order passed through the hands of the military staff and was distributed. The meeting is still going on.At the beginning, the staff of the Army Staff Office explained some detailed regulations.

Action time: 1 o'clock tomorrow morning (subject to change); Action signal: 3 gunshots; Recognition symbol: left arm wrapped in white hand; Password: Unification of Rivers and Mountains. Finally, it also talked about the precautions for night operations, the cooperation of various units, and so on.All actions are prescribed both clearly and in detail. "Gao Can" Liu Bocheng is an expert in this area. After the meeting, the troops began to change defenses that afternoon.The teaching team moved to the barracks at the Daxiaochang where the Sixth Regiment was originally stationed.Before entering the barracks, more than 2,000 members of the regiment were sitting in the dark on the playground of the big school, holding guns in their arms, singing songs one after another. Although they didn't quite understand what was going to happen, young soldiers didn't like peace .They hope that "big things", "dangerous things" and "shattering things" will happen, and they are in the whirlpool, so their emotions are high.

Hou Jingru herself was not calm.In order to keep the secret, he suppressed the surge in his heart, walked to the front of the team, and briefly talked about the precautions after changing defenses, emphasizing: "The higher ups attach great importance to the training of our teaching regiment, and the commander may personally Come to see us and check our training results; it may also come at night. If the army commander comes, we will gather urgently at night, I hope comrades pay attention, and don’t embarrass the whole regiment.” He divided the barracks of each regiment After a while, the first corps was stationed in a temple on the northwest wall outside the barracks. Because the first corps had a relatively strong combat effectiveness, they could directly attack the front of the enemy barracks when they came out of that temple and passed through the large school field.The other three corps all lived in barracks.

This barracks is on the north side of the 79th Regiment's barracks, separated from the 79th Regiment's barracks by a low wall about one person high. In a battle, as long as you climb over the wall, you can directly reach the enemy's quarters.These were all discussed with Commander Fu at the military conference table. The captains of each regiment accepted the task and took the troops to the barracks.Hou Jingru and Zhou Bangcai, the chief of staff of another Communist Party member, led the captains to "visit" Commander Xiao of the 79th Regiment of the enemy.This seemingly ordinary courtesy visit is an important part of the teaching regiment's entire battle plan.Commander Xiao, nicknamed Xiao Huzi, is an officer of Zhu Peide's direct line. In his 40s, he is fat and wobbly when he walks, with a long beard.He had already heard about the prestige of the 20th Army, so when he met the leader of the teaching group, he clasped his fists and praised: "Oh, you are all so young, you are really heroes!"Most of the captains of the teaching group are from the first stage of Whampoa, and two of them are party members, both in their early 20s, and they are dressed neatly: gray cloth shorts, soft leggings, and a soft hat, which are more than theirs. The old warlord is naturally energetic. However, Captain Hou was more thoughtful and complimented him on purpose: "We are juniors, how can Captain Xiao be well-informed and able to lead troops well. It is rare to have such an opportunity to be stationed in the same courtyard, so I came here to ask for advice." Ask for advice!" When Head Xiao heard this, Toad couldn't close his mouth with joy: "It's easy to talk about, just ask if you have anything!" Head Hou asked about the situation of the regiment, and asked him to take him to visit the barracks on the pretext of being familiar with the terrain and gaining knowledge. When Xiao Huzi was blown by someone, he didn't know the southeast and the north in the cloud, and he agreed with all his mouth. While leading people to visit, he blew up without any hindrance. The personnel, equipment, and firearm configuration did not matter at all, and he went all over the place. Even the number of bullets in each soldier's waist was counted to the head of the teaching group; the staff of the teaching group laughed in their hearts: Isn't this preparing a gravedigger for themselves?But no one dared to laugh. Xiao Huzi couldn't feel the pain, so he led the teaching group back and forth inside and outside the barracks to show his closeness.This is a large green brick and tile house, and the whole group lives in this house. The house is surrounded by a low wall that is as high as a person, and outside the wall is a dry ditch that is as deep as a person.The northern part of the barracks is the barracks where the teaching regiment is stationed. The doors of the two barracks are open to the large school field to the west, with only a low wall in between.At that time, as long as you cross the wall and rush into the door, the enemy will be the turtle in the urn. Walking to the edge of the wall, Hou Jingru saw that the wall had collapsed in several places, and suddenly his heart moved, and he hurriedly asked with concern: "Captain Xiao, these places are open, will the soldiers run away?" Shaking his head nonchalantly, Xiao Huzi straightened his beard and said, "It doesn't matter, there are guards at night." The leaders of the teaching group looked at each other and smiled knowingly.After about an hour, they bid farewell to Xiao Huzi.When they walked out of the gate of the enemy camp, a specific battle plan had already been secretly drawn up.