Chapter 35 Huangmaoya blocked

Xu Xiangqian was quite dissatisfied with the results of the troop's roundabout pursuit of the enemy to the right. He wrote in "Review of History": In hindsight, turning left was right and turning right was wrong.If we turn left from the beginning, Liu Xiang's main force is likely to be wiped out by us, and the whole battle situation will be very different. Xu Xiangqian and Chen Changhao were dissatisfied with the failure to catch the big fish on the eastern front, and determined to take advantage of the favorable strategic situation and make persistent efforts to fight a battle of annihilation on the western front.

In late August, the headquarters of the Red Fourth Army held a meeting near Tongjiang and decided to counterattack the main force on the western front.Some troops were left on the eastern front, under the command of Chen Changhao. Xu Xiangqian and Wang Shusheng led the main force of the 30th Army, the Fourth Army, and the Ninth Army, as well as the 93rd Division of the 31st Army to quickly turn westward. On August 28, the main force of the Red Army crossed the Xiaotong River from Shanglaoguanmiao in the south of Tongjiang City, and began a counterattack on the western front. The breakthrough point for the counterattack on the western front was placed at the Lengshui Pass of Desheng Mountain in the south of Tongjiang City. In the middle of the night on August 28, the 265th Regiment of the famous "Night Tiger" of the 88th Division of the 30th Red Army quietly dispatched to attack Lengshuiya at night.Lengshuiya is a cliff, and the terrain is very unfavorable to the movement of troops.In the middle of the night, it was pitch black, and nothing could be seen two or three meters away.The 265th Regiment, relying on the night touch skills they usually practiced, marched with hundreds of people without making a sound. When they came to the bottom of the cliff, the troops set up ladders and hung climbing hooks, each and every one of them was silent like monkeys. Climb up the cliff and grab two enemy sentries.After understanding the situation clearly, he went straight to the enemy regiment headquarters. When the soldiers grabbed the enemy regiment leader from the bed, the guy was still in a daze.In coordination with the night attack, the 263rd and 268th regiments launched a frontal attack with powerful firepower.Since the enemy regiment headquarters had been "touched away", the enemy in Lengshuiya quickly disintegrated without organizing resistance.Taking Lengshuiya opened the door to a counterattack.

The enemy army on the western front is composed of the first, second, third, and fourth armies. These armies belong to different warlords.Knowing that the enemy army on the eastern front was defeated for thousands of miles, the enemy army on the western front suddenly became nervous, and they were all ready to flee.Chiang Kai-shek and Liu Xiang severely reprimanded them, making them dare not run if they wanted to run, and afraid of being beaten if they didn't run.The Red Army's night attack at Lengshuiya completely dispelled their wait-and-see thinking, and the already jittery enemy troops on the western front immediately retreated across the board.

At the critical moment, Zhang Guotao called again, advocating to use the main force to detour Changchi and Mumen from the east of Bazhong to the north.Xu Xiangqian thinks that this is a shallow detour, he can't catch the enemy, he can only chase the enemy and beat him.Xu Xiangqian repeatedly stated to Zhang Guotao the need for deep detours.Zhang Guotao still said the same thing: "This is my opinion, it's fine if you don't obey!" Xu Xiangqian put down the phone, sighed repeatedly, and said, "It's a pity, it's a pity! I can't eat the 'fat' in my mouth!" He rolled a cigarette, sat down and smoked it.

Li Xiannian said: "The general is out, and the king's order is not acceptable! Wherever you tell us to fight, we will fight there!" Xu Xiangqian stood up abruptly and said, "Okay! He told Qian to turn around. He was trying to catch the rabbit's tail, and he couldn't catch it. Let's act arbitrarily. This time, even if we make a mistake, we don't listen to him. We'll talk about it after the battle. It's my fault." Responsible." Xu Xiangqian ordered Wang Shusheng to lead a part of the Ninth Red Army to pursue the enemy's third army; ordered Wang Hongkun to lead a part of the Fourth Red Army to pursue the enemy's fourth army; In the middle of the battle, he implemented a large and deep detour, cutting straight into the direction of Huangmaoya and Wangcangba to cut off the enemy's retreat. He wanted to wipe out these four enemy troops.

On the evening of September 13, Xu Xiangqian led his troops to Jiulongchang.A meeting of military division-level cadres was held that night.He said: Our 31st Army is approaching Wangcangba.The two tasks before us are: follow the enemy with a regiment of troops along the Enyang River; Annihilate it.Now, the enemy is only more than forty miles away from Huangmaoya, so every second counts! Huangmaoya is located on Panlong Mountain, 120 miles northeast of Cangxi County, and is the throat of the wooden gate leading to Cangxi.Panlong Mountain is undulating, and a simple road circles on Panlong Mountain with the ups and downs of the mountain.There is a throat pass in the dangerous part of the mountain, with steep mountains on both sides. There is a huge boulder lying on the pass. The boulder is yellow in color and shaped like a cat, so it is named Huangmao Pass.To the west and south of Huangmaoya is a crescent-shaped steep valley, with cliffs on both sides of the valley.To the northeast lies a mountain ridge, on which the Huzi Temple and Wangguanzhai are only five or six miles away from Huangmaoya.

The area around Huangmaoya has undulating mountains, towering dangerous rocks, and the terrain is dangerous.The ten-mile road from Huangmaoya to Wangguanzhai almost runs through the valley, with high cliffs and verdant trees on both sides of the road, which is a natural place to set up an ambush.The task of the 263rd Regiment was to firmly block the valley entrance of Huangmaoya. As long as it was blocked, the enemy would have no other way to escape.Intelligence shows that the fleeing enemy army is less than forty miles away from Huangmaoya, and our army must rush to Huangmaoya before the enemy.

Li Xiannian, political commissar of the 30th Red Army, and Cheng Shicai, deputy commander of the Red Army, entrusted the task of seizing Huangmaoya to Xiong Houfa, the commander of the 88th Division who was only 20 years old. Xiong Houfa, a native of Xuanhuadian, Dawu, Hubei, joined the Peasant Red Guards in 1929, joined the Red Army in 1930, and joined the Communist Party of China in 1931. He served as the company commander of the 39th Regiment of the 13th Division of the Fourth Red Army. Battalion Commander of the 36th Regiment of the Division, Commander of the 263rd Regiment of the 88th Division of the 30th Red Army at the age of 19, Deputy Commander and Division Commander of the 88th Division at the age of 22, and 30th Division Commander of the 4th Front Army of the Red Army at the age of 22. The deputy commander of the army and the commander of the 88th division.

Xiong Houfa is a famous general of the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army.Like Xu Shiyou, Xiong Houfa is characterized by bravery, fierceness and speed in fighting.Ever since he was a soldier, Xiong Houfa would not die when he heard the gunshots, and rushed wherever there was danger.Due to his bravery in combat and good command, he was promoted to the post of division commander in just a few years. After receiving the death order to occupy Huangmaoya before the enemy, Xiong Houfa immediately led the 263rd Regiment as the vanguard and ran from Jiulongchang to Huangmaoya.Deputy army commander Cheng Shicai led the 268th, 264th, and 267th regiments to follow up.

On the night of September 13th, heavy rain poured down, and the sky and the earth were all shrouded in rain and fog.The starting point of the 263rd Regiment was seventy or eighty miles away from Huangmaoya, twice as far as the enemy.The enemy took the main road. In order to get ahead of the enemy, the 263rd regiment had to climb over the mountains without roads.The road is slippery and the slope is steep in rainy nights. Running fast in this environment and conditions is a challenge to the limits of the human body.Xiong Houfa rushed to the front of the regiment, and he shouted as he ran: "Everyone, hurry up, and we will never let the enemy escape from us."

Seeing the division commander in front, none of the soldiers in the regiment wanted to be left behind, and rushed forward one by one in the night rain on the mountain road.The soldiers were drenched all over, and they fell like mud monkeys one by one. Many soldiers were even injured. Although the road was difficult and dangerous, the speed of the troops did not slow down at all. At 2:00 pm on the 14th, the 263rd Regiment arrived at Huangmaoya on time.Xiong Houfa issued an order in a hoarse voice: "Hurry up, seize the commanding heights on both sides, build fortifications, and prepare for battle." At noon, Deputy Army Commander Cheng Shicai led the 265th Regiment to Wangguanzhai, and the 268th, 264th, 267th, and 274th Regiments also rushed to the Gaotai Temple area one after another.Xu Xiangqian and Li Xiannian set up the command post in Wangguanzhai. The blocking force of the Red Army was like a pair of iron tongs, stuck at the pass of Huangmaoya. The article "The 29th Army's Participation in the "Six-Road Siege" and its Battle with the Red Army on the Jialing River" written by Tian Songyao and the chief of staff of Tian Songyao's department, introduced in detail the two regiments of Tian Songyao's department, the Qirong Brigade and Hu Kaiying's Brigade, who escaped through Huangmaoya The process of being wiped out: After Zeng Qirong received Tian Songyao's telegram to defend Bazhong, he immediately collected three regiments under his command and marched towards Bazhong.In late September, when we arrived about 20 miles away from Bazhong, we realized that Luo Zezhou Division and Tian Jun Li Weiru had already evacuated Bazhong, Enyang River and other places.Zeng Qirong didn't dare to enter Bazhong City directly, but temporarily occupied the position on Yinling Mountain, and Tian Songyao asked for instructions and then acted.Zeng Brigade got a reply from Tian and ordered him to retreat to Langzhong by choosing his own road.After waiting in Yinling Mountain for three days, after Detian's evacuation order, he decided to retreat to Wangcangba via Changchi and Mumen. On the way to retreat to Changchi, Zeng brigade met with two regiments of Hu Kaiying's brigade led by Fu Guiliang who had made a detour from Hepingchang to Huangmaoya, and they competed for the retreat on the road leading to Changchi.The troops were in disarray.Zeng Qirong and Fu Guiliang temporarily agreed that the two brigades would be unified under the command of Zeng, and the two brigades would advance alternately; whoever had the troops ahead would be responsible for clearing the road.The two brigades were intercepted by the Red Army along the way, and their progress was extremely slow. Hu brigade suffered more casualties and fled. Before reaching Huangmaoya, there were only a few remaining troops.By the time we arrived at Huangmaoya, this critical pass had already been occupied by the Red Army, blocking the way of Zeng and Hu's brigades.Zeng Brigade immediately launched an attack and took the road to escape. The Red Army strongly blocked the front of Huangmaoya and surrounded most of it. After a day and night of fierce fighting, the Red Army gradually captured several hills that Zeng Brigade was guarding A major blow... Fu Guiliang, the acting brigade commander, and Zhang Taozhai, the head of the regiment, were killed one after another. Zeng Qirong fell into the rock at dusk and hid.Zeng brigade is the newly supplemented and best-equipped elite unit of Tianbe. Each regiment has three battalions, each with six heavy machine guns, and each company has light machine guns and submachine guns and other weapons.Hu Kaiying's brigade led by Fu Guiliang was also Tianbu's well-equipped troops. Huangmaoya was wiped out by the Red Army in the first battle, which was unexpected by Tian Songyao. At noon on the 14th, Cheng Shicai, deputy commander of the 30th Red Army, led the guard company and the 265th regiment to the mountain ridge more than 20 miles away from Huangmaoya.At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Zeng Qirong's Brigade of the First Division of Tian Songyao's Division of the enemy's Second Route, the Guiliang Brigade of the Second Master's and other troops, about 17,000 people from more than ten regiments, withdrew from Changchi and Mumen and crowded in Huangmaoya In the valley of more than ten miles to Wangguanzhai, he entered the encirclement of the Red Army. Cheng Shicai ordered the guard company to open fire immediately, and the guard company guarded behind a high sill. Because of the short time, they didn't even have time to repair the fortifications.Being blocked, the enemy army was in a mess first, and soon organized a countercharge.Under the cover of dozens of machine guns, a battalion of death squads pounced on the guard company.The guard company had only a hundred people, a few machine guns, and a dozen submachine guns. Facing the overwhelming crowd, all weapons fired at the same time. In just over an hour, they repelled five or six charges of the enemy.After all, they were outnumbered, and just when the guard company was struggling to support them, the 265th Regiment rushed to join the battle. The 263rd Regiment arrived at Huangmaoya an hour earlier than the enemy, and the fortifications of the troops had not been repaired. The soldiers ran the mountain road all night, sleepy and hungry, and before they had time to rest and eat, the battle began. The fleeing enemies were frightened, hungry and thirsty, and extremely exhausted. Many fell to the ground and fell asleep, but now they were suddenly hit by a headache, blowing up their nests.In order to break through a way out, under the cover of dozens of machine guns, the enemy launched a group charge, first one or two platoons, and then developed into a company, and then the whole camp charged forward.Facing the flood of enemies, all the officers and soldiers of the 88th Division fought hard. Xiong Houfa was fighting vigorously, firing machine guns at the front of the position, and two soldiers kept supplying him with magazines.Seeing the division commander fighting at the front of the position, the soldiers of the 88th Division cheered up and blocked the enemy tightly in front of the position.Day after day of fierce fighting, artillery fire on the battlefield, gunpowder smoke covered the sun, the dead lay, the wounded wailed, the heaven and the earth wept, and ghosts and gods trembled. The 263rd Regiment repelled several enemy attacks.When Li Geng, director of the political department of the regiment, was fighting the enemy with a bayonet, a half-foot-long gash was opened in his abdomen by the enemy's bayonet, and his intestines protruded.Li Geng gritted his teeth, stretched out his hand and stuffed his intestines in, tore off his shirt to block the wound, and the blood soaked the military uniform.Due to the pain, he was trembling all over, his face was pale, and his breathing was short of breath, but he still held his shell gun and leaned against the rock to prepare for battle.His comrades persuaded him to rest in a safe place. He stared hard and said, "Where... is a safe place? Only when...the enemy is eliminated can there be...safety." As the battle progressed until evening, the enemies in the encirclement knew that only by rushing out could they survive.The enemy was desperate to fight, and mortar shells exploded in our army's position like raindrops. Under the cover of artillery fire, hundreds of enemies rushed upward desperately.However, Huangmaoya and its surrounding terrain are difficult to defend and difficult to attack. Relying on the condescending terrain, the 263rd and 265th regiments fought tenaciously.The bullets from dozens of machine guns were like splashing water, and the enemy's corpses were piled up in a thick layer in front of the position.Several times, the tide of the enemy rushed to our army's position by the explosion of shells, and once, they even approached Cheng Shicai's command post.Seeing the enemies approaching, Cheng Shicai fired two shots, knocking down the two enemies who were rushing forward, then picked up the rifle with the bayonet attached, leaped towards the enemies, and knocked down several enemies in a row.Seeing the commander of the army attacking with his gun, the whole army gave a shout, like a tiger descending the mountain, and pounced on the enemy. Xiong Hou began to fight with three enemy soldiers alone with a bayonet, and suddenly another guy stabbed him with a gun from behind.A soldier found a dangerous situation, regardless of the enemy who was fighting with him, he swung his big knife and slashed at the enemy who was sneaking up. He only heard a "click", and the blood spattered three feet. This enemy was decapitated, and the other The soldier was stabbed by the enemy on the opposite side. Blood gushed out of his chest, but he held the enemy's gun tightly with both hands and brought the enemy down together.Seeing this scene, the three enemy soldiers who were fighting with Xiong Houfa were terrified, their legs and feet were weak, Xiong Houfa stabbed twice in a row, knocked down two, and the remaining enemy threw away his gun and collapsed to the ground with a plop. shivering. On the battlefield, the two armies fought with one breath, and one was timid, and it immediately affected a large area like an infectious disease.The enemy rushing towards the Red Army's position couldn't stand such a fierce fight, turned around and ran away, Xiong Houfa immediately commanded a counterattack.The battle lasted until dawn on the 15th, when Xu Xiangqian and Li Xiannian led a large force to arrive.At this moment, the entire battlefield is like a pot, the sound of guns is shaking the sky, the enemy and us are fighting together, the enemy's whole regiment and brigade are attacking, and the battle is extremely fierce.Xu Xiangqian said to Li Xiannian: "We fought this battle against Chairman Zhang's intention. We must fight it well. If we don't fight it well, we will hardly be able to pay our dues. If the army can't stand it and let the enemy go, I will dismantle it." You Thirty Army!" It was the first time for Li Xiannian to hear Xu Xiangqian say such important words. Without saying a word, he took off his shirt, turned around with his gun in hand, and rushed straight to the front with the guard company.After the war, a staff officer told Li Xiannian that when Xu Xiangqian saw him leave, he was afraid that he would go up and fight and regret it. The brutal blocking battle lasted for two days. More than 10,000 enemy troops rushed out from various openings. The 264th, 267th, 268th, and 274th regiments of the Red Army arrived one after another. The 93rd Division of the 31st Army The entire army also pressed from behind the enemy's buttocks, blocking the front and chasing after it, and the enemy's army was in a mess.Seeing that the time had come, Xu Xiangqian gave the order to attack across the board.On the battlefield more than 30 miles wide, the sound of bugles resounded through the sky, and the Red Army soldiers rushed out of their positions to divide and annihilate the enemy. The hillsides, ravines, and field ridges were full of fighting battlefields. It is the cry of Red Army soldiers "hand in your guns and don't kill".As if ordered, the enemy soldiers threw down their guns and raised their hands to surrender.Looking at the battlefield, the enemy's corpses are everywhere.In addition to those who died on the battlefield, there are countless people who fell to the cliff, fell into the water and drowned, and abandoned their guns to escape. During the war until the morning of the 15th, the Red Army killed more than 4,000 officers and soldiers below the enemy's brigade commander Fu Guiliang, captured more than 10,000 officers and soldiers below the enemy's brigade commander, surrendered more than 7,000 guns, more than 40 mortars, and more than 80 telephones. , seven radio stations, and hundreds of thousands of bullets.The Huangmaoya blockade was an important battle that wiped out the largest number of enemies and the most concentrated since the Red Army countered the "six-way siege". Under the attack of the Red Ninth Army and the Red Fourth Army, the enemy's third and fourth army fled.Yang Sen hurriedly withdrew from Tongjiang City. On September 11, Luo Zezhou withdrew from Bazhong, and the Red Army's pursuit troops won two cities without a fight.Wang Shusheng didn't stop for a moment, and led his troops to continue chasing the enemy.The Fourth Red Army occupied Lancaodu and pursued Yang Sen's Fourth Route in the direction of Yingshan; the Ninth Red Army pursued Li Jiayu and Luo Zezhou Third Route, went straight to Yilong, and wiped out Li Jiayu's four regiments near Youyakou. On September 16, Luo Zezhou abandoned Yilong and retreated to Peng'an, and the Ninth Red Army recovered Yilong City.The enemy didn't have the slightest fighting spirit, so they ran five or six hundred miles in seven days, and fled to the west bank of Jialing River.The Thirty Red Army marched southward, captured Cangxi City on the 22nd, and fought all the way to Langzhong City.A part of the Fourth Red Army followed the enemy's fourth route to the southwest of Lancaodu. There is also a legendary story about the Red Ninth Army's elimination of the four regiments of Li Jiayu's department.After the Red Army launched a counter-offensive, the two main regiments of the Ninth Red Army used night attacks to occupy an important position controlled by the enemy, Tiejiashan, and took advantage of the momentum to attack the Changchi and Mumen areas behind the enemy.When the telephone operator of a certain department was setting up the telephone line for the troops, he connected the telephone line to the line left by the enemy, and just heard the enemy talking on the phone. He heard that it was Li Jiayu's division asking whether to retreat.The telephone soldier immediately reported this important situation to Chen Changhao who was advancing with the Ninth Red Army.Knowing this important situation, Chen Changhao immediately picked up the phone, and in the tone of an order from the enemy's superiors, he asked Li Jiayu's division to "stick to the position and not lose it", in order to prevent the enemy from abandoning the position and running away.This important "superior instruction" stabilized the enemy and created conditions for the Ninth Red Army to wipe out Li Jiayu's troops. Those enemy troops who were not intercepted by the Red Army and escaped by chance also suffered heavy losses in the process of fleeing.Deng Xihou's troops on the first route were the fastest. After learning of the fiasco of the fifth and sixth routes, Deng Xihou immediately ordered the frontline troops to move their positions.The first step is to retreat to the front line of the Bahe River, consolidate the Nanjiang River, and then retreat as the situation changes, and agree with the Second Route Army to start operations on September 4.I wanted to retreat in a planned way, but unexpectedly, the defeat of the various armies was like an infectious disease, and the morale of the troops in the front had already been shaken; in addition, some brigade and regimental commanders were not in the front, the command system was chaotic, and orders could not be carried out.Those who got the order first went first, and those who were the covering troops slipped away before the time was up.It coincided with the counterattack of the Red Army in person, and the retreat of Deng Xihou's troops immediately turned into a "panic escape".The officers and soldiers of various ministries refused to obey each other's orders and chose their own paths. The farthest one even detoured for more than a thousand miles and fled back to Guangyuan from southern Shaanxi.In more than ten days, they fled from Xiaotongjiang River and Nanjiang River to Guangyuan. The losses in weapons, ammunition and materials were much greater than the total losses in all periods of the offensive.Due to repeated powerful pursuit by the Red Army during the retreat, some officers and soldiers suffered from phobia syndrome. As long as they heard "The Red Army is coming", no matter when and where, whether they were eating, sleeping or even going to the toilet, they would jump He got up, didn't ask the direction, ran wildly, and only asked "Where is the Red Army?" when he was exhausted. Morale was low, and it was conceivable that the troops had completely lost their combat effectiveness. When Deng Xihou went to Guangyuan to collect the defeated soldiers and rectify the troops, he asked his officers and soldiers a few typical words: "It took you a few months to attack Xiaotongjiang River, and you ran back in a few days. You ran for seven days in one trip. Baiduoli, you really run fast. I don't blame the soldiers, I want to ask what you commanders are doing?" In March 1935, the "National News Weekly" published a long report titled "Impressions of Suppressing the Red Army in Northeast Sichuan", which described in detail the embarrassment of the enemy when the front line collapsed and fled: At this time, our position was in chaos, and the bandits saw through this weakness and boldly used the strategy of deep pursuit.Divide the troops into two groups, pursue the third division all the way, and attack the fourth division all the way.On the 20th day, those who pursued the third division had already attacked the area of ​​Luowenba and Fo'eryan, which was only a hundred miles away from Xuanhan City. The road that was rushing towards the fourth division, after defeating Chen Shi and Meng Lu, then rushed forward. Go to Land Fort to fight Liao Kaixiao's brigade.Liao Lu didn't dare to fight, and hurriedly retreated to Maduguan, the first pass in Suiding.Meng Lu also retreated there.Zhou Shaoxuan and Fan Nanxuan's two brigades, who were still guarding the Mashichang, Tongguanshan, and Xishentan lines of Tongjiang, were in a situation of being attacked from both sides.The bandits in front of them were attacking every day, and the morale of the army was a little shaken.In addition, the troops commanded by the Fourth Division had been cut into two sections by the bandits at that time, and the response was not effective.It is difficult to describe the scramble of the senior commander at that time.It is conceivable how dangerous the situation is and how tense the army is. The Zhou and Fan brigades barely held on to the original line for four days before being transferred to Liu Xiang's order to stick to Sui and Xuan, and began to retreat across the Changtan River on the evening of the 21st.With the strength of five days and five nights, we retreated to Sanhuichang, which was a full 400 miles away from the original position... As the old saying goes: "The one who advances sharply retreats faster", but the four hundred miles that the left wing retreated and The more than 300 miles of retreat of the right wing was recaptured at a great price of blood and flesh, and it took ten months to regain it, but it was lightly ruined in just ten days! Because of the retreat of the Fourth Division, Peng Chengfu on the left also had to retreat; Yang Sen's department guarding Tongjiang City on the farther left, and Li, Luo, Tian, ​​and Deng's departments guarding the northwest area of ​​Tongjiang County were even more unwilling to defend.So the whole line always retreated, and they retreated without much resistance.As of September 26, Bazhong, Nanjiang, Yilong, and Yingshan have all given up one after another!Langzhong, Guang'an, and Cangxi are in danger, although they don't want to resist, they are as merciless as the red bandits!Therefore, the Li, Luo, and Yang tribes were defeated by bandits one by one, and the casualties were very heavy.Retreating like this, I don't know where I will retreat before I don't retreat... Enemies from all walks of life rushed and fled, and various units of the Red Army desperately pursued them, performing wonderful and vivid dramas one after another. Vice Admiral Zhou Xihan, a veteran of the Red Fourth Front Army, recorded an interesting story in that pursuit battle in the article "The Trumpet in the Night": I led the team directly under the army to set off behind the 25th Division, and the 27th Division was at the end, and together they pursued in the direction of Luowenba.Although there are five or six hundred people directly under the army, there is only one communication team in the combat-capable troops.The others, except the bugle company, are all government cadres and handymen, and when they act, they have a lot of burdens.We headed south along the highway leading directly to Xuanhan and Daxian.After crossing a river and not far away, the messenger suddenly rushed to report: "There is a fork in the road ahead, and there are many wounded soldiers of the enemy lying at the intersection." We rushed to the front, and sure enough there were seven or eight wounded enemy soldiers lying on the side of the road.Comrade Han Dongshan, the commander of the 25th Division, questioned them one by one, and they all answered the same: the enemy turned east from here.However, the wounded soldiers belonged to the enemy after all, so they should not be easily believed.We followed the eastward path and inspected carefully with a flashlight: from time to time we found empty cigarette boxes, rotten straw sandals, torn military uniforms and some scattered silver coins left by the enemy on the road. Abandoned wounded soldiers moaned beside the grass nest; the road going south from the fork was clean without any trace.All these signs show that the wounded soldier is not lying.Therefore, the 25th Division changed to pursue the enemy by this small road facing east.I led the troops directly under the army to continue southward along the road according to the original route, and the scheduled assembly point was Luowenba. We walked five or six miles south, and suddenly, bang!A gunshot sounded, and the mountains and valleys responded, and the sound was very close.I guessed that the enemy on this front line might set up an ambush, so I jumped off my horse and led the signal team and bugle company to the front of the team.At this time, the sky was getting darker, and I tried my best to identify everything in front of me, and found that there was a faint whitish thing on the hillside in front of me.We were in doubt, when another shot was fired.Taking advantage of the firelight from the gun, it was clear that it was a small temple.Obviously, this is the enemy using the mountains on both sides to block us.The situation is not good, the 25th Division is gone, the 27th Division has not yet caught up, and only the communication team has the combat effectiveness of our five or six hundred people, what should we do?Xie Jiaqing, the communication team leader, and I studied it, and decided to use one platoon to attack the small temple, and two platoons to ambush on both sides of the road.In order to confuse the enemy, the trumpeters were spread out, and a trumpeter stood every ten meters, and when the grenade sounded in the direction of Xiaomiao, they all blew the charge. After the arrangement was completed, I led a group of people and quietly approached the small temple.I am assured of the combat effectiveness of the communication team: in terms of combat experience, they are very rich; in terms of weapons, they are all dual-portable submachine guns in their hands, and shell guns in their waists.After we went around the side of the small temple, we climbed up a steep cliff.Fortunately, the cliff is not high, and the cliff is covered with net-shaped kudzu vines. After we climb up quietly holding kudzu vines, we will see a sloping hillside.We occupied the small hill, condescending, and threw a row of grenades at the small temple.In such a silent night, the explosion of the platoon grenade was more shocking than the small cannon. The enemies in Xiaomiao suddenly panicked, and they couldn't figure out where we were, so they fired randomly.At this time, suddenly more than a hundred military horns sounded together, and the majestic sound of the trumpets seemed to coax the top of the mountain up.We took advantage of this momentum, shouted, and rushed to the small temple together, and suddenly appeared behind the enemy.The enemy was frightened and looked at us blankly, forgetting to shoot or run away.When the guns of the soldiers were close to their chests, they yelled: "Give up your guns and don't kill!" They woke up startled, and screamed in horror: "Ah, the Red Army is coming!" Put the gun down and plop down on your knees.We interrogated the prisoners, only to know that this was an enemy sentry, and there was an enemy regiment on the road to the south.A regiment!The situation is quite serious.However, we must not be scared back by the enemy. In the dark night, the enemy is routing, and our bugle company is a division!What are you afraid of? The majestic charging horn shook the valley, and I rushed southward with the communication team. The momentum was like a landslide and an earth crack.After a while, I heard messy gunshots from the front, mixed with people shouting and neighing.As we rushed, we organized short bursts of submachine gun fire.We wiped out a few machine gun points with grenades, and the enemy's resistance was not strong. In addition, we blew our horns and bluffed.At this time, the officers of the army directly at the back also rushed to the front, brandishing poles and kitchen knives, and captured prisoners in the wild.The sound of the trumpet and the cry of "hand in the gun and don't kill" merged into a loud noise.Within half an hour, the battle was over.Soldiers, staff officers, translators, and cooks each carried a lot of guns and escorted a bunch of prisoners to the road. Like Zhou Xihan, Wang Jinshan, head of the 28th Regiment of the 10th Division of the Fourth Red Army, also performed miracles in the pursuit.The Tenth Division of the Fourth Red Army attacked from the Siluoba and Huangzhongbao areas east of Zhuyuguan, breaking through the enemy's defense line in one fell swoop, and penetrating the enemy's depth.Wang Jinshan's 28th Regiment went all the way through, defeated several enemy positions, and rushed to the forefront of the army at the fastest speed.In order to catch the fleeing enemy, army commander Wang Hongkun ordered Wang Jinshan to command the four regiments of the tenth division to fight in front.Regardless of the muddy road, Wang Jinshan led his troops across the mountains and ridges, directly to the north of Da County, and copied to the front of the enemy's rout.In the evening, Wang Jinshan led the 28th regiment of the vanguard to a village. After setting up the guard, Wang Jinshan, who was tired and hungry, was just about to rest when he suddenly received a report that a large enemy army was coming. It seemed that there were thousands of people. .Upon hearing the enemy's situation, Wang Jinshan regained his energy all of a sudden, and he immediately ordered to prepare for battle.Some people are worried that there are thousands of enemies, and we have only one regiment here, and we have been marching in a hurry for days.Wang Jinshan stared: "What food do you eat when there are enemies fighting? Eat after defeating these enemies." Wang Jinshan quickly commanded the troops to launch a fierce attack on the incoming enemy.The defeated enemy was suddenly hit head-on, and suddenly became a mess.In just one hour, Wang Jinshan ate up this group of enemies.It was later discovered that this enemy was a reorganized brigade of Yang Sen's department. With the courage to destroy this imperial army, Wang Jinshan created a brilliant example of an entire regiment wiped out a brigade in an encounter battle.