Chapter 74 Chaoshan seven-day red

When the rebel army was in a bitter battle with Chen Jitang's troops, Huang Shaohong, a seasoned soldier, took advantage of the opportunity and secretly ordered the troops to detour and move towards the back of the rebel army. Guard commander Zhou Yiqun and his third division were stationed in the Chaoshan area.It is said to be a division, but in fact it is mainly a teaching group. There are about a thousand people, all of whom are new students who joined the army and lacked training, including nearly one-third of the wounded and sick.They have never been aware of the enemy situation around Chaoshan, and they have been busy raising funds and fighting local tyrants for the past two days.

On the afternoon of the 29th, Zhou Yiqun in Chaozhou received an order saying that the enemy's new second and thirteenth divisions would march from Tangkeng to Liuhuang on the 28th to Chaozhou, and it would take two days at the fastest. , and sent the 1st Battalion of the 70th Regiment to defend to the death. Zhou Yiqun sighed greatly: Chaozhou has no danger to defend, and the order is so, so we have to reluctantly support it and wait for help.He also learned from the order that the main force launched an attack on the Tangkeng enemy at dawn on the 29th. It is estimated that there will be no problem in defeating Wang Junbu. As long as the large army returns to the division to help, everything will be safe.He still made some preparations and hastily gathered the troops sent to the village to suppress the bandits, preparing to defend the city.He didn't know that there were 9,000 invading enemies, and they were outflanking them at a rapid march.The enemy situation around Chaozhou City rolled in like dark clouds.There is even a Kuomintang warship Flying Eagle moored on the sea. Hundreds of enemy troops landed from the ship in small boats in an attempt to attack the rebel army.Fortunately, there were too few of them, and they retreated after only ten minutes.

At 9 o'clock in the morning on the 30th, the enemy's situation suddenly became urgent: Huang Shaohong, who had come prepared, met the third corps of the third division's teaching regiment and fought for two hours. Chaozhou's terrain was flat, easy to attack and difficult to defend. Under the fierce artillery fire of the army, the position has gradually been exhausted.Although Zhou Yiqun was a civil servant, he had been trained and fought in Huangpu after all, and there was still a way for soldiers to suppress the situation.On the one hand, he ordered the first regiment of the teaching regiment to reinforce, and the second regiment to guard the railway, and at the same time he called the sixth regiment.The rebel army on the main position is defending to the death.The enemy death squads under the cover of artillery fire were attacking in turn, and the shells rained like rain, hitting the tree poles on fire, and blood was already dripping in the low-lying areas.The transferred Third Division and Sixth Regiment was formed half a month before the Nanchang Uprising, most of them were recruits, and now they are red-eyed.After several hours of fierce fighting, the bullets ran out and they rummaged through the victims.Some even took advantage of the short intervals of the war, risking their lives and rolling into the pile of enemy corpses to retrieve guns and bullets.After fighting, they pushed stones and logs down the hillside to intercept the enemy.

At around 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Huang Shaohong inserted a regiment from behind the rebel army.Now Chaozhou City is under the enemy's back and forth, and is in a desperate situation.The soldiers had no choice but to fight to the death. Those with bayonets put on bayonets, and those with bare hands hugged the enemy by the waist, fighting desperately.The entire position became a bloodstained abattoir with dismembered bodies and corpses strewn all over the ground. The hastily dug trenches collapsed, and the faces of those who were still alive were covered in blood. The enemy quickly broke into Chaozhou City.The headquarters of the third division is also in danger of overturning the nest.Chen Zijian, the newly appointed chairman of the Chaozhou Administrative Committee, is calling a meeting of businessmen from big names in Chaozhou this afternoon to discuss fundraising issues.Before the meeting was over, gunshots rang out on the street, and they had to retreat quickly.The logistics department and Su Yu and the others had already raised a large amount of winter clothes, supplies and 600,000 silver dollars, and before they could move them away, they threw them all to the enemy.Zhou Yiqun's headquarters was surrounded, and the teaching group was dispersed. He had no choice but to rush out of the siege with dozens of entourages and retreat to the river outside the city.After walking for more than ten miles, I met some soldiers of the fourth company of the sixth regiment who had been disbanded. Just as they were about to pull out, they were discovered by the enemy again and surrounded them.

Zhou Yiqun didn't dare to fight, and hurriedly led the crowd to evacuate along the railway line towards Shantou.Zhou Yiqun had waited for a long time for the first battalion sent by the general headquarters to arrive, so he expected that the main force had already failed.Shantou is also clouded with battle clouds. After the main force of the rebel army dispersed and attacked, Shantou was left with an empty shell.Moreover, Shantou is facing the sea, and its back is unprotected, so it is in a very dangerous situation.Defending the Revolutionary Committee was a pistol team of less than 40 people led by Li Mingke; there was also a corps of the third division teaching regiment controlled by Li Lisan, which was only enough to maintain order.Moreover, there was a riot by reactionary forces two days ago, which involved some troops.

Zhou Enlai and Guo Moruo did not stay long in Jieyang, and when they rushed back to Shantou, Zhou Enlai was already seriously ill and unable to support him.Needless to say, the news brought by Zhang Tailei increased his mental burden.He had a high fever, his expression was in a daze, his eyes were blurred, and illusions often appeared in his mind, and he even shouted "Come on, go on" while lying on the bed.Guo Moruo was also extremely anxious, so he asked a doctor to come and see him. He said it was falciparum malaria and he needed to rest.After the injection, Zhou Enlai regained consciousness and asked his adjutant, Wu Dong, to order 2,000 military cotton vests for the winter, saying that the weather was getting cold.

The sound of gunfire outside was gradually approaching. He told Chen Gongpei, who was doing security work, to focus on protecting Lin Boqu, Wu Yuzhang, Zhang Guotao, Tan Pingshan and other leaders.Chen Gongpei only had a company of people, and most of them were non-combatants.Many important members of the Revolutionary Committee lived in the homes of ordinary people outside the city, so they had to send someone to notify them one by one.When Guo Liang found Jiang Xiang and his son, they were sleeping.Guo Liang did not disturb Jiang Jishang, but only brought Jiang Xiang to Zhou Enlai.When Jiang Xiang entered, she sat there for 5 minutes and no one spoke.Guo Liang brought Jiang Xiang out again and told him: "I only asked you to come out alone, because I was afraid that your parents would be sad if they found out. Now that we have lost the battle, we are going to break up the team. You should arrange to dismiss your entourage quickly. You father and son, follow Tan Pingshan closely, don't leave even one step." The cannon rang again.

Zhou Enlai said to Liu Bocheng: "Hurry up and retreat to Puning, I'm afraid I won't be able to leave the city any later." The guards helped Zhou Enlai onto the stretcher and wrapped a blanket around him.Fortunately, Zhou Enlai and the others withdrew in time.Otherwise, these leaders would be hard-pressed to fly—the enemy's warships at sea did not know what was going on, and mistakenly thought that the rebel army had already retreated.Still wanting to make a last profit, so at 3:30 pm on the 28th, under the cover of the Flying Eagle's firing, 80 gendarmes landed on two tugboats.For a while, the guns roared, and the warship also used its siren to make the sound of "fearless and fearless" to strengthen its momentum.The gendarmes who went ashore were divided into three teams. One team attacked the Public Security Bureau from the post office, one team attacked Shengping Road, and the other team left Fuping Road.

The leading organs of the rebel army are all in the Tai Po Guild Hall.When the military police saw that there were still many rebels at the gate of the office, they panicked immediately.In the evening of the sparring, the Flying Eagle blew the signal to withdraw troops, and the military police hurried back to the ship. After a small number of people, 30 people were lost.Just a period of time after the ceasefire, the leadership of the rebel army withdrew from Shantou. Huang Shaohong's troops arrived on the way to Puning. Zhang Guotao met Nie Rongzhen who had returned from the front line.

Nie Rongzhen was very dissatisfied with the battle of Tangkeng. He believed that this failure was completely misconducted.The staff group did not study and understand the enemy's situation, but only sent troops to the battlefield to fight tough battles.Comrade Ye Ting is a fierce general, and this time he is also attacking hard, recklessly attacking hard, and when his strength is exhausted, he can't even retreat.After this miserable failure, if we do it again in the future, we must remember the lesson of this time. Zhang Tailei is also in the queue.After walking for a while, he disguised himself and turned back to Shantou, taking the road back to Guangzhou.Before parting, he said to the leaders of the rebel army: "As expected by the central government, the riot finally failed. Now we can only follow the instructions of the central government."

It's hard for everyone to say anything.It was drizzling, taking advantage of the rain and fog, some people who had evacuated from Tangkeng rushed to the Hanjiang Wharf in the east of the city.The city has been captured by the enemy, and the troops on the pier are in a mess, waiting to cross the river.They want to come to Shantou to find their own troops.At midnight, they rushed to the outskirts of Chenghai, but saw clusters of searchlights flashing in the direction of Shantou.At this time they confirmed that Shantou must have been occupied by the enemy.Everyone was tired from walking, and now they all sat on the ground: silently watching the searchlights flashing in the night sky, the team was tense and silent.It seems that everyone is in the same mood, with a series of questions hanging: how is the main force?Where is the Revolutionary Committee?Where should we go? While hesitating, Zhou Bangcai, the chief of staff of the teaching group, broke the silence: "Comrades, go to Sanheba and find our 25th Division!" "Yes!" Everyone responded in a hurry.Under such circumstances, as long as someone is responsible and proposes a possible path, everyone will respond.We hurriedly made some food and took a rest.When it was about to dawn, the team assembled again, taking advantage of the twilight before dawn, along the Han River, and headed back to Raoping.