Chapter 42 Battle Landscape (Part 1)

There was no fighting in the East Gate Barracks: The 3rd Battalion of the 72nd Regiment of the 24th Division and the Guangdong Agricultural Army were responsible for attacking the new barracks at the East Gate.The enemy garrison is the 24th Regiment of the Third Army.Due to the full reconnaissance and preparations made in advance, they camped outside, only a few tens of meters away from the enemy barracks, so when they heard the order from the general headquarters, the commander shouted: "Come on!" The troops rushed into the enemy barracks like a tide. .At first there was only the sound of footsteps like galloping horses, followed by a stern shout: "Don't move!"

After a few violent grenade explosions, people shouted everywhere: "Stop hitting!" Gradually, someone was talking, and the light of the flashlight shone around the barracks. It's time to clean up the battlefield.The battle ended prematurely.The captives were treated leniently, and public and private property were protected.The phone at the regiment headquarters kept ringing, and it was the enemy's division headquarters who came to ask about the situation.The answer here is: "The troops of the 24th Division have completed their defense here!" The officers and soldiers of the 72nd Regiment cleared out the remnants of the enemy and strengthened their vigilance, while listening to the movement in the city.From 1 o'clock in the middle of the night, the whole city of Nanchang seemed to be boiling.The outline of the city is reflected in the sky from dark blue to black.

Gunshots, gunshots, sounded in the distance from time to time, and then the fire flashed, shaking the ground. Yuan Yelie, the commander of the third battalion, stood on a high place. According to the deployment at the meeting the day before yesterday, he looked in the direction of the enemy camps such as Xiaoyingpan, Xiaohuayuan, and Niuxing Station. progress in order to facilitate reinforcements.When the dawn appeared in the east, the gunfire gradually subsided, and only intermittent gunfire from the remnant enemy came from the southwest, but it was already powerless.The dog barked, and then footsteps and voices were heard.Master Ye Ting sent someone to look for Yuan Yelie.He hurried to the command post.Yuan Yelie saw that besides Master Ye Ting, there was a medium-sized soldier in the command post. His two thick black eyebrows were very eye-catching, and his bright black eyes were shining with a warm light, staring at everyone intently. This makes it unforgettable for anyone.

Yuan Yelie suddenly remembered, isn't this Zhou Enlai, the representative of the Party Central Committee who called party members and officers above the independent regiment company to speak when the Northern Expedition started?It turned out that the Party Central Committee sent him to organize and lead the uprising.Zhou Enlai smiled peacefully, and asked about the battle situation with Ye Ting.Although he looked excited, it could be seen that he was quite tired and had probably not slept for several days and nights.When Yuan Yelie came out of the command post, the sun had already risen, and the street was covered with a layer of golden light.Soldiers in the uprising and prisoners who had surrendered their guns came and went in groups in a hurry, and political workers were posting notices from the Revolutionary Military Council everywhere.From a distance, the soldiers of the third battalion could be seen raising a big red flag on the flagpole of the playground.

The progress of the big school field was also very smooth: after 12:00, the three corps of the 20th Army Teaching Corps began to move towards the gate of the enemy camp.At this moment, the adjutant reported to Chief Hou that the enemy 79th regiment had sent someone.The person who came was a young adjutant, and he said in a panic as soon as he entered the door: "Our regiment leader wants me to ask, what are you doing here? I want to tell the regiment leader Hou that they are all from our own people, please don't misunderstand." "Where, where," Hou Jingru quickly comforted him, "We are performing a night exercise, please don't misunderstand."

While speaking, Chief Hou winked at the adjutant, asking him to hold back the "commissioner" and walk out by himself. The heat of the day has long since dissipated, and the night is clear and bright, and the sky is full of stars, which makes people feel refreshed.Hou Jingru took a few deep breaths, looked up at Ye Zai intently, and couldn't help feeling mixed emotions. A month ago, Wang Jingwei in Wuhan had flirted with Chiang Kai-shek, and white terror began to attack the revolutionary capital.It was also on such a starry night that Hou Jingru was forced to leave his position as the head of security in the three towns of Wuhan and transfer to the 20th Army.At that time, they almost became the meat on other people's chopping boards, but now, the Communists have stood up from the pool of blood and raised their knives on the counter-revolutionaries again.

Just as he was thinking, someone from the third regiment came to report: there was movement in the enemy barracks.Hou Jingru hurried to the base of the wall and listened, and sure enough, the enemy seemed to be getting up.Looking at the watch, it was very close to the scheduled time. At the same time, he heard fierce gunshots in the city. Without further ado, he immediately issued an order to the various corps: start attacking! Bang - da da da!A crisp gunshot followed by a burst of machine guns rang out in front of the enemy camp.One team started.Then, with the sound of hurried footsteps, the Third Corps also rushed into the enemy's yard.Soldiers from the Second Corps had already jumped onto the bench, climbed over the low wall, and rushed into the enemy's yard.All of a sudden, gunshots and grenade explosions rang out, and the enemy camp screamed loudly.After a while, the captive enemy came out with his hands raised.Hou Jing asked the messenger to pull out the enemy's two horses.These two horses were met when he "visited" with Xiao Huzi.

The battle went exactly as planned.Some of the enemy soldiers who got up were quickly dealt with, and most of the rest were caught under the covers.The prisoners were driven to the playground in batches, and the guns were piled up in the middle of the playground to form a hill.The unarmed comrades of the Fourth Corps gathered around the pile of guns, happily choosing guns and weapons.While confiscating the enemy's guns, from time to time someone in the enemy group called out in a low voice: "Comrade, comrade!" Asking the soldiers to bring the person in charge to talk.Hou Jingjia hurriedly met with a few of them and asked them what was the matter.Their answers were similar: "I am a party member, let me join your team." In order to prove their own words, some even talked about some relationships within the party.It was too late to check carefully, so the regiment leader Hou ordered them to be gathered immediately, and together with some officers and students of the teaching regiment, they formed a supplementary battalion.The battle ended quickly, and after more than an hour, the gunfire in the barracks of the entire Daxiaochang stopped.Hou Jingru sent someone to send a report to the military headquarters: the mission was completed and the enemy's 79th regiment was completely wiped out.

There was a fierce battle in the Catholic Church: the headquarters of the 71st Regiment of the 24th Division and the 3rd Battalion were stationed in a girls' vocational school before the uprising.The school is not far from Songbai Lane, there is a Catholic Church next to it, and other battalions are also stationed nearby.The fifty-seventh regiment of Cheng Qian's Sixth Army, which had just arrived in Nanchang, was stationed in the Catholic Church.The task of the nearby rebels is to deal with the enemies of the Catholic Church.The main attack task was handed over to the third battalion.The third battalion had four companies at that time, and Huang Xuzhou was the battalion commander.That is, one battalion of them will fight one regiment of the enemy. On the 31st, the head of the regiment sent Huang Xuzhou to the enemy camp for reconnaissance.Because the enemy's clothes were the same as those of the rebels, Huang Xuzhou pretended to be their cook to fetch water for them.When the enemy army just arrived, it was still chaotic.Huang Xuzhou picked from one camp to another, and after carrying out the water, it was getting dark.While carrying water, he asked: How many battalions are you in?Where is the regiment headquarters?In this way, after he came out, he reported to the head of the group and drew a picture for the head of the group.The head of the group frowned: No, you still have to go in.Huang Xu Zhou was taken aback.The head of the regiment explained: "Let me ask you, do you know how many guns there are in total?" So Huang Xuzhou had no choice but to sneak into the enemy camp again, sitting on the ground with a company and chatting.

After talking like this, we gradually figured out the number of guns, and found that the guns were all new, probably a newly formed regiment.After he came out to report, the head of the regiment was still dissatisfied, and asked Huang Xuzhou to go in to find out how they were on guard.In this way, Huang Xuzhou sneaked in for the third time, and learned that the enemy's house was close to the city wall.When he came out, sandbags were piled up at the gate, and the guards did not allow him to leave.Fortunately, they had a lot of soldiers in Hunan, and Huang Xuzhou was from Hubei with a similar accent, so he got mixed up after many twists and turns.

When studying the combat plan, the regiment leader decided that one company would go out of the city gate and climb the wall from a playground, while the other companies would attack the gate.As soon as the battle started, the enemy blocked the alley in front of the main gate of the Catholic Church. Because the alley was too narrow and could not be hidden, the rebel army killed or injured more than 20 soldiers as soon as the battle started.Huang Xuzhou had no choice but to pull the troops back, did some agitation, organized more than 20 people to charge, and forced the gate open.At this time, the company that climbed the city wall also came in, and the two insurgents shouted to surrender their guns and not to kill.The enemy has disarmed, mount the gun.At this time, the sky is also bright. Not far from the school where the third battalion was stationed, there was a large mansion in which a company of the enemy was stationed.When they saw a fight outside, they quickly closed the door.Huang Xuzhou took another squad to fight, and when they fought, they shouted "Hand up your guns, hand over your guns", opened the door, and set up the guns in the middle of the yard.This time I found that there are quite a lot of things inside. There are 3 large boxes of paper money alone, including gold leaves, gold watches, gold watch chains, and small pistols.Some things really opened the eyes of the rebels, they couldn't recognize them, and they couldn't name them.They brought them back one by one to show the head of the group.The head of the regiment was well-informed and knew that these were valuable things, so he told Huang Xuzhou and the others to hand them over to the military supply department as soon as possible. Li Tongsen, who was working in the kitchen of the Catholic Church at the time, later recalled: On the night of July 31, the weather was very hot, and my colleagues and I slept in the yard in the male hall, and some reactionary soldiers also slept outside.After 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, a colleague suddenly called out: "Shooting outside!" Before he finished speaking, two more shots were fired.At this time, everyone woke up with a start. As soon as they sat up, the sound of "cracking, crackling" gunshots rang out one after another, and the shots became more and more intense, so everyone hurriedly moved into the house.At this time, the reactionary soldiers got up in fright, and they hurriedly sent a few guards to the entrance of Songbai Lane to watch, but before the guards reached the entrance of the alley, they were attacked by the guards stationed in the second middle school (now the first middle school). The ambush of the rebel army retreated, and then the rebel army hit the gate of the Catholic Church and killed a sentry outside the gate.Seeing that they could not hold back, the reactionaries retreated into the cathedral, and the rebel army chased inside the church. When they reached the entrance of the chapel and crossed the courtyard, the rebel army knocked down several reactionaries.The reactionary soldiers panicked. Seeing that the situation was not right, they had to retreat to the western-style house behind them, and hid in the western-style building, trying to resist on the western-style building.Seeing that the reactionaries hadn't surrendered, the rebel army continued to pursue and surrounded the Western-style buildings.After a full hour or so of fierce fighting, the reactionaries felt that they couldn't stand it anymore and saw that there was no way to escape, so they had to blow the surrender signal and all surrendered. After the rebel army occupied the Catholic Church, it immediately attacked the reactionary army stationed in Kuanglu Middle School.When the rebels set up their machine guns upstairs and entered the battle, they even came to the kitchen and told us not to be afraid.After the battle started, I could only hear the machine guns shouting happily upstairs. The reactionaries in Kuanglu Middle School also put up some resistance, but they couldn't beat the rebels, and they couldn't escape if they wanted to.Many reactionary soldiers were killed.After another hour or so of fighting, the reactionaries all surrendered before dawn. The morning after the battle it was as if nothing had happened and none of us were afraid.Although several people in the yard were injured, they were carried away by the Red Cross at dawn.Comrades in the rebel army were very kind to us, disciplined very well, did not move things, even treated the captives kindly, and many captives were released afterward.The comrades of the rebel army also posted a note for captives at the gate, which means that as long as you hand in your guns, you will not be killed. If you are willing to serve as a soldier, you can also voluntarily sign up. There is still 20 yuan.The second battalion was to attack the enemy of Kuanglu Middle School.After the battle started, the school's enemies tried to escape over the wall, but were blocked by the soldiers ambushing under the wall and retreated in defeat. The Second Battalion also deployed troops on the surrounding commanding heights, and the regiment headquarters sent a machine gun platoon to support them. The enemy failed to break through, so they had to gather on the playground and let the rebels disarm.Xiao Ke, the instructor of the Eighth Company, spoke to the prisoners on behalf of the Second Battalion. He found it strange that one of the prisoners was always staring at him.After the speech, the man approached and called Xiao Ke. Xiao Ke took a closer look: "Aren't you Li Shaojiu? Why are you here?" In Xiao Ke's impression, Li Shaojiu was a Communist.He asked, "What are you going to do?" Li Shaojiu thought for a while: "I know Lin Boqu, he understands my situation, let me go to him." "Okay." Xiao Ke told him where Lin Boqu was, and Li Shaojiu went there.Later, Li Shaojiu also joined the uprising army and went south together.