Chapter 48 Sweeping across Southeast Guizhou (1)

At the same time that the Central Guard Division held its founding meeting, after a day and night of rest, after eating enough food, getting enough sleep, and replenishing weapons and ammunition, the Central Red Army was stimulated by the battle of Xiaoshui and Xikou of the Eighteenth Red Army.

The main force was divided into five groups, like a red whirlwind, sweeping towards southeastern Guizhou.

Historically, the Red Army arrived at Liping after transferring troops. After resting for a few days in Liping, the famous Liping Conference was held to resolve the issue of whether to march north to western Hunan or west to Guizhou. At that time, the Central Red Army's strategic thinking was unclear.

The rest period in Liping was too long, leaving time for the enemy to deploy. In addition, the enemy

The pursuers gathered, and the troops were eager to run for their lives. They walked all the way, leaving behind cover and cutting off the rear troops, and the losses continued to increase. Therefore, after the Liping Conference, the first Red Army left Jianhe, and the Third Red Army attacked north. After Lao Jinping encountered the enemy's obstruction,

Turn towards Jianhe, pass by Jianhe with the Red Army to occupy Huangping, Shi Bing, and point towards Wujiang River.

Due to the emergence of Liu Yimin, the Central Red Army in Liping now is completely different from the Central Red Army that arrived in Liping in history, whether in command, morale, equipment, or supplies. This is because the Red Army has solved the problem of turning to Guizhou in the channel.

Strategic and ideological issues are no longer passively transferred. In addition, the weapons and ammunition handed over by the 18th Regiment made the Red Army troops more vulnerable in the Battle of Xiangjiang River.

The lost heavy weapons have been replenished to a certain extent, and the soldiers' guns are full of bullets and their bodies are covered with grenades. Since the 15th Army and 7th Army of the Gui Army in pursuit have retreated, the Hunan Army that was attacking from the side also retreated after being hit.

After returning, Xue Yue's Central Army was still in Suining, and the Jingxian area was hesitant to move forward. The Guizhou Army intercepting in front was not well prepared for defense. So why were the Red Army so polite?

Therefore, the First Division of the Red Army, the Fifteenth Division were on the left, the Third Army was on the right, and in the middle were the First Army, the Second Division, the Cadre Regiment, the Fifth Army, the Ninth Army, and the central column followed the Second Division. The five armies marched together towards the Jianhe River.

Press away.

Hearing that the Red Army was going to attack Wang Jialie, Hou Zhidan, You Guocai, and the people of all ethnic groups in Liping were overjoyed, and they all led the troops and picked up supplies. Each regiment of the Red Army was assigned several guides.

The Miao Mountains were winding and the jungle was like a sea. Under the guidance of the poor people in Liping, the Red Army marched through the high mountains.

At this time, Wang Jialie, chairman of Guizhou Province and commander of the 25th Army of the National Revolutionary Army, was in a dilemma.

Wang Jialie, courtesy name Shaowu, is a native of Xiaoshui Township, Xinzhan District, Tongzi County, Guizhou Province. He graduated from high school when he was 18 years old. Because his family lived in poverty, he used to carry salt from Songkan to Zunyi, and was known as Wang Daguo. He died at the age of 19

Zunyi, a private school teacher who worked in Zunyi for a short period of time. At the age of 21, he went to Guiyang to join the army. A year later, he entered the Guizhou Army Lecture Hall to study, and successively participated in the "War to Protect the Country" and the "War to Protect the Law" with the Guizhou Army.

At this time, Wang Jialie met the most important person in his life, his wife Wan Shufen.

Wan Shufen was born into a well-known family in Tongren. She liked to read military books and was quite talented in literature. When she married Wang Jialie, Wang was just a company commander. With the command and help of his wife, and Wang Jialie himself being considered an intellectual at that time, Wan Shufen

With a good foundation, Wang Jialie improved quickly. It is said that every time Wang Jialie fought, Mrs. Wan would accompany him in a sedan chair to give command.

In 1925, the Zhou Xicheng Department of the Guizhou Army grew stronger in successive years of battles, forming the Tongzi Clique with Zhou Xi as the leader and Tongzi as the backbone, and controlled the Guizhou political power. The Guangzhou National Government appointed Zhou Xi as Chairman of Guizhou Province, and the 25th Army

Army commander, Wang Jialie was also promoted to division commander.

After Chiang Kai-shek launched the "April 12" coup in April 1927, Western Zhou Dynasty occupied a few more counties to collect taxes and raise more soldiers. It was ordered by Chiang Kai-shek to go to Hunan to fight against the Communists. Unexpectedly, it had just established a foothold in Hunan.

Chiang Kai-shek is here

Instructed the 43rd Army to seize power in Guizhou. In 1929, after a battle between the 25th Army and the 43rd Army, Zhou Xicheng, the leader of the Guizhou Army, was shot and killed. Chiang Kai-shek immediately appointed Li, the commander of the 43rd Army, as the commander of Guizhou Province.

President.

This angered the Tongzi clique, and its core figures gathered in Zunyi, elected Mao Guangxiang to act as commander of the 25th Army, and expelled the 43rd Army. From then on, the warlord period of changing the King's Banner at the top of Guizhou City began again.

First, the Guizhou Army counterattacked and won, and Chiang Kai-shek appointed Mao Guangxiang as the commander of the 25th Army and provincial chairman. Before Mao Guangxiang could get angry, Chiang Kai-shek supported Wang Jialie to oust Mao Guangxiang and appointed Wang Jialie as the commander of the 25th Army and provincial chairman.

As a result, the Tongzi family elders recognized

Because of Wang Jiali's betrayal, he publicly declared war and ordered Ju Guocai, the commander of another division of the Guizhou Army, to attack Guiyang. After receiving the report that Ju Guocai had occupied Guiyang, Chiang Kai-shek immediately appointed Ju Guocai regardless of whether Wang Jiali's troops could still defeat the enemy.

Served as commander of the 25th Army and provincial governor

Xi. After Wang Jialie drove away You Guocai, Chiang Kai-shek immediately appointed Wang Jialie as commander of the 25th Army and provincial chairman. The Tongzi clique was afraid that continuing the fight would endanger their fundamental interests, so they encouraged Wang Jialie to negotiate with several other powerful factions.

, and finally formed other names

The situation of righteously obeying Wang Jialie. If others don’t say it, just look at how tired Chiang Kai-shek and the Nanjing National Government are! The announcement of the appointment of the provincial chairman was issued several times, so that most people at that time did not know who was the National Government.

Appointed Chairman of Guizhou Province.

Anyone who is familiar with Wang Jialie knows that he likes to wear a military uniform with a wide belt and a small pistol hanging on the belt.

Now, Wang Jialie, dressed in military uniform, is thinking about how to deal with the current situation.

The day before yesterday, December 13, the day the Central Red Army occupied Liping, Wang Jialie rushed to Machangping to supervise the battle. He appointed You Guocai as the commander-in-chief of Guizhou's bandit suppression, and appointed his direct descendant He Zhizhong as deputy commander-in-chief.

Deployment of the main force of the Five Armies

When he arrived at the counties in eastern Guizhou, he asked You Guocai to hand over his six regiments to his command, and asked Hou Zhidan to be in Huangping, and Shi Bing to deploy defenses along the Wujiang River. The overall defense plan was to prevent the Red Army from entering the hinterland of Guizhou. Unexpectedly, after arriving at Machangping,

Wang Jialie felt a headache.

There are three main reasons that give Wang Jialie a headache.

One is that Guizhou was not truly unified under his control. Hou Zhidan, deputy commander of the 25th Army, separatized Chishui, Renhuai, Xishui, Suiyang and other counties in northern Guizhou, while deputy commander You Guocai took control of southwestern Guizhou.

Panjiang Eighth, deputy commander Jiang Zaizhen defected to Liu Xiang, entrenched in Qijiang and Dongxi, ready to fight back to the northern Guizhou separatist regime at any time.

On the surface, these three people obey the command, but in fact they are no different from the Tu emperor. The only ones he can command are He Zhizhong and Bai Huizhang, his two direct divisions. No, let You Guocai give the six regiments to his command.

But there was no movement for a long time. It is conceivable that Hou Zhidan's Wujiang defense line probably did not use its full strength.

The second one is the Red Army. It’s hard to go anywhere, but they have to go to the border of Hunan and Guizhou, and they have also entered Guizhou. What’s so good about Guizhou? Nine mountains, half water, half land, full of unruly people and poor people, my old Wang’s army

We are supported by cigarette taxes. Don't you know that my policy is to ban prostitution and gambling but not smoking? It doesn't matter if you come here, but you will cause trouble for me, Lao Wang. Because you attracted Chiang Kai-shek and his Central Army.

The third one is Chairman Chiang. Wang Jialie himself feels that he still listens to Chairman Chiang’s greetings. Basically, he will hit whoever Chairman Chiang tells him to hit. When he met with the commissioner, the commissioner’s attitude was also very good, and again

give money

, they were given guns and cannons again. However, Wang Jialie always felt that Chairman Chiang’s eyes were like a deep pool of water, so dark that he could not see the bottom at all. Last time, as soon as Yu Guocai occupied Guiyang, Chairman Chiang

It's urgent

If the announcement of the appointment of the provincial chairman is made, isn't it obvious that it may abandon and annex itself at any time? As soon as the Red Army enters Guizhou, Chairman Chiang's Central Army will definitely follow. Is he here to fight the Red Army or himself? I'm afraid

Defeat the Red Army with three points, and hit yourself with seven points. After all, Guizhou is strategically located in the center of six southwestern provinces. I, Wang Jialie, serve as provincial chairman. How can he be more reassured by a student of Chairman Chiang Kai-shek?

Think about it, the key to these three problems is the Red Army. If the Red Army does not come, Chairman Chiang may be too embarrassed to directly occupy Guizhou. He can also spare time and troops to slowly deal with the three disobedient people.

The guy?

What are you afraid of? If you are afraid that the Red Army will enter Guizhou, the Red Army will actually enter Guizhou. The original plan was to follow the orders of Chairman Chiang Kai-shek, to block the Red Army at Jinping and Liping, and to block the Red Army from entering Guizhou. But in the end, his five regiments were not waiting for him.

When we went to Liping, the Red Army had already occupied Liping. Fortunately, we built a bunker on the line of Lao Jinping. The outside of the bunker was densely covered with bamboo sticks. We hoped that the Red Army would retreat in spite of the difficulties and continue to advance towards western Hunan.

Wait, if the Red Army does not go to western Hunan, but enters the hinterland of Guizhou, what should you do? A hard fight will not work, and your own double-gun soldiers are probably no match for the Red Army. Besides, fighting with the Red Army will only benefit Lao Chiang and that

Three disobedient guys. But then I thought, if we could borrow the help of the Red Army to control Yu Guocai,

, Hou Zhidan, Jiang Zaizhen, these three guys are dealt with. Wouldn't it be better if we join forces with the Guizhou clique to block the Central Army to the east of Guizhou? In short, in a word, everything is based on preserving strength and blocking the Red Army.

You can pursue them in eastern Guizhou or conduct a send-off pursuit, but don't let the Red Army enter central Guizhou!

Here is Wang Jialie, the king of Guizhou, thinking about it, and over there is Wang Hejian, the king of Hunan, furious.

What made He Jian furious was the telegram in his hand.

On the afternoon of the 14th, Liu Yimin wrote a letter and asked Li Qing to find someone to deliver it to the head of Shanmuqiao Township. When the head of the town saw that the letter was written to Chairman He, he did not dare to neglect, and immediately rode on his mule and rushed to Suining.

handed it over to the county magistrate,

The county magistrate felt that the matter was important, so he asked his superior for instructions. The superior informed that it would be too slow to send the letter to Changsha, so he sent the letter directly to Chief Liu Jianxu of Jing County. After receiving the letter, Liu Jianxu read it and told him to send it to Chairman He by telegram for his discretion.

No, on the morning of the 15th, He Jian received this letter via telegraph in Changsha.

The letter reads:

"Letter from Liu Yimin, Commander of the Central Guard Division of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, to He Jian, Chairman of Hunan Province of the National Government

Mr. He Jian:

You followed Chiang Kai-shek and led your troops to encircle and suppress the Red Army many times, massacring our revolutionary heroes and innocent people. You were extremely vicious and committed heinous crimes against the Chinese people.

Today, our Workers' and Peasants' Red Army marches north to resist Japan. As an Army General and Provincial Chairman, you have 100,000 troops. Instead of resisting Japan and saving the country, you instead besieged the main force of our Red Army that marched north to resist Japan in the Xiangjiang River and massacred the anti-Japanese soldiers. You are like a traitor and are harmful to the country and nation.

You have committed new crimes that are too numerous to mention. If you don't stop at the brink as soon as possible, the history books of future generations will definitely criticize you verbally and in writing, making you infamy for thousands of years and bringing shame to your descendants.

In the battle at Xiaoshui on the 12th, your entire 16th Division was wiped out; in another battle at Xikou, your 62nd and 63rd Divisions were wiped out again.

I have been entrusted by the Red Army Headquarters to discuss with you the handover of your captured officers and soldiers.

1. Eight generals including Zhang Liangji, commander of the 16th Division, Tao Guang, the commander of the 62nd Division, and six brigade commanders (including Li Bojiao, the brigade commander of the 63rd Division) who were captured by your unit, received 400,000 yuan in silver, 50 Czech light machine guns, and seven

Nine rifles, 2,000 pieces, new barge

100 shell guns, 1,000 rounds of 75-mountain artillery shells, 2,000 rounds of 60-meter mortar shells, 30,000 grenades, 100,000 rounds of heavy machine gun rounds, 200,000 rounds of light machine gun rounds, 60,000 rounds of rifle rounds, 10,000 rounds of pistol rounds, mules

200 horses.

2. Your unit has 105 captured middle and lower-level officers, 600,000 yuan in silver, 60 Czech light machine guns, 200 79 rifles, 200 new shell guns, and 1,500 75-mountain artillery shells.

3,000 rounds of 60 mortar shells, 40,000 hand grenades, 100,000 heavy machine gun rounds, 200,000 light machine gun rounds, 100,000 79 bullets, 20,000 pistol rounds, and 300 mules and horses.

3. The 1,300 lightly wounded soldiers captured by your unit will be exchanged for the Red Army soldiers and Communists imprisoned by your unit. For each of your soldiers, two Red Army soldiers will be exchanged. If one person is missing, the compensation will be 500 yuan.

If you are unwilling to comply, our department will directly confront Tao Guang, Zhang Liangji and other generals and soldiers, and inform the whole country through the radio, so that your reputation for abandoning your subordinates will spread to the world. At the same time, our department will mobilize Tao Guang, Zhang Liangji and other generals and soldiers.

Officers and lightly wounded soldiers joined the Red Army.

It is said that Tao Guang and Zhang Liangji both have high military qualities, and your soldiers are even more well-trained. The Red Army needs such talents when it marches north to fight against Japan. In the future, after the Red Army defeats the Japanese invaders, Tao Guang and Zhang Liangji will lead their troops to liberate the country.

Hunan, capture you alive in Changsha.
To be continued...