Chapter 82 Gulin (III)

Xue Yue was in a good mood these days. The troops that suffered losses in the battle in Yangping Town, such as the 90th Division, were supplemented very smoothly, and at least the number of people was supplemented. At the same time, Wang Jialie was driven away, and the training of the Guizhou Army was also progressing smoothly. After the Bai Huizhang Division was reorganized into the 102nd Division of the 2nd Brigade and the He Zhizhong Division was reorganized into the 103rd Division of the 3rd Regiment, the Youguocai Department also accepted the adaptation and was incorporated into the 121st Division of the 3rd Regiment. Jiang Zaizhen's Third Division of the Guizhou Army had also agreed to the reorganization. Xue Yue was preparing to meet Jiang Zaizhen in Zunyi and issued an order to reorganize it into the new 8th Division of the Three Regiment. In this way, in addition to the teaching of Hou Zhidan, the remaining four divisions of the Guizhou Army were completely wiped out, and the remaining four divisions of the Guizhou Army were organized into four new independent divisions and accepted unified command of the central government. From then on, the Guizhou Army, one of the local warlord forces, became a historical term.

On the morning of the 30th, Xue Yue ordered the 102nd Division, the 103rd Division, and the 121st Division to be commanded by Wu Qiwei Column, and the Sun Du Division of the Yunnan Army to be commanded by Zhou Hunyuan Column. He advanced along the north bank of the Wujiang River to Zunyi, and cooperated with the 100,000 Central Army on the south bank of the Wujiang River and the Sichuan Army entering northern Guizhou to prepare to take down Zunyi in one go and encircle and annihilate the main force of the Red Bandits.

Xue Yue himself led the 90th Division to follow the two columns and serve as the general reserve team. This time, Xue Yue felt that he was commanding with a good wish and waving the wind and rain from all directions to Zunyi.

Although there are roads from Guiyang to Zunyi, the road conditions are really bad. After walking for two days, the troops arrived at the boundary of Zunyi County. Considering the lessons learned from Yangping Town and Qingxi Town last time, Xue Yue ordered the troops to camp, turn on the radio, and contact the Central Army Tang Enbo and other units on the south bank of the Wujiang River, as well as the Sichuan Army.

Xue Yue felt something was wrong with this connection. The Sichuan Army reported that on the 30th, the Red Bandits captured Zheng'an and Tongzi, then abandoned but did not defend, and then led their troops to attack Xishui, occupied Tucheng, and shelled a brigade of the Fifth Division of the Sichuan Army that marched from south Sichuan to Tucheng in Tucheng. Then they retreated after a little blocking in Tucheng. When the three brigades of the Sichuan Army rushed to pursue, they were ambushed by the Red Bandits, causing Pan Zuo's brigade to lose its combat effectiveness. The Red Bandits immediately retreated to Xishui. However, when the six brigades of the Sichuan Army cooperated with the 3rd Division of the Guizhou Army and the Wanshijiong regiment of the 103rd Division of the 103rd Division, no trace of the Red Bandits was found.

Unlike Liu Xiang and Pan Wenhua, the Sichuan Army who had not fought with the Central Red Army, Xue Yue could see at a glance that the ambushing the Sichuan Army was definitely not the main force of the Red Bandits, nor was it the last time that the Red Bandits Central Guard Division ambushed his last Red Bandits in Qingxi Town. If it were the guard division led by Liu Yimin, it would probably be that the three brigades of the Sichuan Army were not enough to get him into his teeth!

The question is what is the purpose of this partial master sent by the Red Bandits wandering around this circle.

According to common sense, if the Red Bandits were gathering in Zunyi at this time, they would send partial troops to sweep the surrounding areas, and even send troops to occupy Zheng'an, Tongzi, Xishui and Chishui, which would be normal, making it easier to establish a defense line and eliminate the potential forces of the enemy.

If the Red Bandits did not intend to separatist in northern Guizhou, but were afraid of being annihilated and continued to flee, the role of this partial division was likely to be as the Commissioner judged: to explore the way. After all, there were 100,000 central troops from the south bank of the Wujiang River, and He Jian's troops from the Hunan-Guizhou border. His main force was also advancing from west to east. The only direction for the Red Bandits to choose was to go north to south Sichuan.

Could it be that the Red Bandits have realized that the armies of various groups are about to attack Zunyi and are ready to escape?

You can't run away. The 11 main brigades of the Guizhou Army have already been pressing towards Zunyi, and the northern road is blocked.

After thinking about the map for a long time, Xue Yue found that there was a vacant gap in the defense line of the Sichuan Army, that is Gulin. Since there were large troops blocking it from Qijiang and Chishui, would the Red Bandits turn from Renhuai to Gulin to enter southern Sichuan? Judging from the situation reported by the Sichuan Army, a brigade stationed in Xuyong has turned to capture Tucheng and joined the Zunyi attack group. Then wouldn’t Gulin go to Xuyong be useless? If the Red Bandits enter Sichuan from this, they will simply enter the unmanned realm!

The passage from Zunyi to Renhuai must be blocked!

Xue Yue immediately asked Zhou Hunyuan to call him and ordered him to command his troops tomorrow morning to capture Renhuai, attack from Renhuai to Zunyi, and bring the encirclement garden to Zunyi.

It should be said that Xue Yue's strategic vision is indeed extraordinary. He could see the hidden dangers of Gulin at a glance, but unfortunately, he saw it too late.

After making the phone call, Xue Yue sat down to write a marching diary, but for some reason, his mind could not calm down and always felt something was wrong.

Wait, will the Red Bandit's partial division be a smoke screen released by the Red Bandit's main force be covered?

If the Red Bandits take any major strategic actions, they will usually send a side division to divert the attention of the national army, which is fully demonstrated by the Red Bandits' breakthrough from Jiangxi.

Now, the way for the Red Bandits to escape has been basically blocked. Is there no third way for the Red Bandits to take except for the two ways of defending and escaping in Zunyi?

Looking to the west, suddenly going to the east? This sentence suddenly jumped into Xue Yue's mind. Thinking about the three divisions of the Hunan Army and his own defeat in Yangping Town and Qingxi Town, a cold air appeared on Xue Yue's backbone. The Red Bandits would not have used cunning tricks and used a partial division to entangle with the Sichuan Army. The main force was hidden somewhere, waiting for him and the main force of the Central Army who came to reinforce to come to him and take a bite!

If this idea was placed in Qingxi Town and before the battle in Yangping Town, Xue Yue would not believe that the Red Bandits would have such a big appetite. But now it is different. Xue Yue knew how many guns, ammunition and well-trained soldiers he had lost. He knew that the strength of the Red Army was different now, and it was entirely possible to give him another Qingxi Town, which was a crushing defeat like Yangping Town.

Xue Yue finally understood the reason why he was unstable, and immediately ordered the Zhou Hunyuan Column and Wu Qiwei Column to advance together. No unit should be alone to advance. He should crush forward like a rolling iron barrel, without leaving any ambush or attack opportunities for the Red Bandits.

After arranging his own troops, Xue Yue thought about it and sent a telegram to the reinforcements of the Central Army and the Sichuan Army, hoping that they would concentrate their troops and advance towards Zunyi in the form of a large army and a dense cluster of troops, so as not to give the Red Bandits an opportunity to take advantage of it.

After the telegram was sent, Xue Yue had nothing to do and went to bed to rest. That night, Xue Yue slept very well and returned to his hometown in Jiufeng Mountain in his dream. It seemed that the loquats in the yard were ripe again. His father was pulling his little hand and picking loquats for himself. It was so fragrant and sweet.

Unlike Xue Yue's sweet sleep, on the night of the 31st, when 1935 was approaching, all the Red Army units marched under the cover of night. The Central Guard Division went out of Xuyong to advance towards Yibin, the first legion and the first legion and the ninth legion advanced towards Xuyong from two directions, the first legion, the third legion, the third legion, and the fifth legion crossed the Chishui River to advance towards Gulin.

The ferry at the Little River Estuary of Renhuai. The pontoon bridge left by the first legion and the 1st division of the first legion was still intact, and the engineers built three pontoon bridges nearby. The 2nd legion of the first legion and the 3rd legion of the third legion of the second legion of the second legion of the second legion of the second legion of the second legion of the second legion of the second legion of the second legion of the second legion of the second legion of the second legion of the second legion of the second legion of the second legion of the second legion of the second legion of the second legion of the second legion of the second legion of the second legion of the second legion of the second legion of the second legion of the second legion of the second legion of the second legion of the second legion of the second legion of the second legion of the second legion of the second legion of the second legion of the second legion of the second legion of

The X-ray machine of the Red Army Hospital was too heavy and could not accommodate too many people on the pontoon bridge. Five or six soldiers could not carry it, so they had to move one step on the pontoon bridge, and they were very slow.

Seeing that the main force had already crossed the river and the central column was still slowly crossing the river, Mao Zedong made a fuss and ordered all the heavy things to be thrown into the Chishui River, and the troops advanced lightly.

The soldiers of the cadre regiment immediately went up to push the X-ray machine. Fu Lian-hyun, the director of the Red Army Hospital, was anxious at a glance and came to ask Mao Zedong personally, saying that without the X-ray machine, there would be no difficult surgery and he had to bring it with him anyway.

Mao Zedong was a little annoyed and shouted to Fu Lianxin: "Have you forgotten the tragedy of Xiangjiang? You have an operation to save a person. If the marching speed cannot be increased, and the enemy will catch up at dawn, then there will be no one or two, ten or eight, but thousands of people. Execute the order, throw away all the heavy luggage, and move forward lightly. Whatever you want when you arrive in Sichuan, what are you afraid of?"

Fu Lianqing left in a bad mood and watched the X-ray machine being pushed into the Chishui River.

Since Chairman Mao ordered the throwing of bulky things, what else could the Red Army cadres and soldiers hesitate? The people carried the horses and pulled the coin minting equipment, gun repair equipment, heavy book boxes, etc., all of them were thrown into the Rolling Chishui River. The troops were lightly installed and quickly passed the floating bridge.

After crossing the river, the cadre regiment destroyed the floating bridge, and the central column rushed forward along the road that the main force walked.

On the morning of January 1, 1935, all the Central Red Army entered southern Sichuan to camp.

Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Zhang Wentian, Chen Yun, Wang Jiaxiang and Liu Bocheng entered Gulin County.

After a night of march, the Red Army soldiers soon entered their dreams.

At 10 a.m., the staff on duty woke up Chief of Staff Liu Bocheng and reported that Pan Wenhua, commander-in-chief of Sichuan Bandit Suppression South Road, called to find the county magistrate and the security team leader and ask for instructions on what to do.

Liu Bocheng knew that the staff members did not speak Sichuan dialect and were afraid of being exposed. So he quickly got up and ran to the county magistrate's office to answer the phone.

After picking up the phone, Liu Bocheng shouted at the receiver: "Which turtle son is it?"

A majestic Sichuan accent came from the phone: "I am Pan Wenhua."

Liu Bocheng hurriedly pretended to be frightened, accused him repeatedly, and asked Commander Pan what was wrong.

Pan Wenhua asked if he had discovered the enemy situation. Liu Bocheng replied: "Report to Commander Pan: There is no enemy situation. Yesterday, he sent a battalion of the security team to guard the Chishui River Ferry. It was quiet and there was no ghost shadow."

Pan Wenhua told him to be vigilant and defend closely. Finally, he told Liu Bocheng that Zhou Hucheng's guard brigade had been sent south from Chishui last night and was expected to arrive in Gulin at noon to strengthen Gulin's defense and strictly prevent the Red Bandits from disturbing Gulin. All the security groups in Gulin and militia were unified to obey the command of the guard brigade.

Liu Bocheng hurriedly said that Commander Pan was wise and ensured that he obeyed Captain Zhou, the Gulin Brigade, and ensured that Gulin was safe.

After putting down the phone, Liu Bocheng's sleepiness was completely dispelled. He immediately ordered the troops to leave the road from Chishui to Gulin to avoid disturbing the Sichuan Gulin Guard Brigade and preparing to put the guard brigade into Gulin City to catch turtles in a jar.

It turned out that after receiving the telegram from Xue Yue, Pan Wenhua thought about the map repeatedly and found that Xuyong and Gulin were really empty. If the Red Bandits escaped from the net, Gulin could not stand it. Just a security group of Gulin could not stand it. Thinking about it, Xue Yue was smart, and the loopholes in his defense line made him see it all at once. He hurriedly ordered the Zhou Hucheng Guard Brigade, who was under his command, to go south at night and strengthen Gulin's defense. This guard brigade is Liu Xiang's personal guard brigade, but in fact it is a strengthening regiment, the elite of the Sichuan Army's elite. With them guarding Gulin, it is estimated that the Red Bandits would not have been able to escape Gulin.

Fortunately, the Sichuan Army Guard Brigade received an order at night to come from Chishui. If it were earlier, it would be possible that the Ninth Army was advancing from Tucheng to Xuyong. Of course, if the two armies met, the unlucky one would definitely be the Sichuan Army Guard Brigade with few troops. However, in that case, the intention of the Red Ninth Army would be exposed in advance.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the Sichuan Army Gulin County finally arrived at Gulin County. The soldiers of the security regiment at the gate were about to interrogate, but a company commander of the leading guard brigade stepped forward and kicked: "Son of Turtle, open your eyes and see clearly. I am Chairman Liu's personal guard brigade. Check it out? If you talk a little longer, be careful that I will break you. Take me to rest. I'm so tired after running all night and all morning."

The soldiers of the security regiment at the city gate divided a part of them and led the guard brigade to camp at the security regiment stations in the battalions as units.

After the soldiers of the guard brigade who were almost unable to open their eyes entered the security regiment camp, they found that there were already people waiting for them with guns inside.

Zhou Hucheng, the captain of the guard brigade, and the deputy captain were taken to the county yard by the security regiment soldiers. Zhou Hucheng was about to ask why he didn't see the county magistrate and security regiment leader? When Liu Bocheng saw Liu wearing a Red Army uniform, he walked out of the house. Zhou Hucheng thought he was dazzled, so he rubbed his eyes and looked carefully. What the hell is not the Red Army, so he hurriedly went to pull out the gun. The security regiment next to him poked the gun and pointed the gun directly at his forehead: "Don't move, you'll kill you if you move!"

Zhou Hucheng was honest. He didn't expect that the deputy captain had been practicing martial arts since he was a child. He was extremely fierce. He lowered his head, avoided the gun, stomped his foot, and rushed towards Liu Bocheng, and actually wanted to stage a trick to capture the thief and the king.

A man turned from behind Liu Bocheng, and two shots were blown, and the deputy captain of the Sichuan Guard Brigade who was rushing forward made a brain splash. When Liu Bocheng saw that it was Zhu De's guard squad leader, a famous double-gun hero at the Red Army headquarters, he smiled and said, "Is this guy quite brave?"

Liu Bocheng was about to instruct the soldiers to interrogate Zhou Hucheng, but before he could speak, Zhou Hucheng said, "Let me sleep for a while first, it's too sleepy."

In this way, Pan Wenhua gave Liu Xiang's most elite guard brigade to his Sichuan fellow villager Liu Bocheng.

The gunshot woke up all Mao Zedong and others who were resting. When they got up to ask, they realized that when they were resting, Liu Bocheng used his clever tricks to clean up the strength of Liu Xiang's elite guard brigade. Mao Zedong was overjoyed and praised Liu Bocheng for his wisdom. Mr. Zhu said: "Bocheng's beautiful move made Pan Wenhua completely relieved. I guess he would not ask about Xuyong and Gulin anymore. We can move forward to Yibin with confidence and boldness."

Zhou Enlai thought for a while and said, "Are we leaving behind a regiment to pretend to be Zhou Hu and become a guard brigade and hold on in Gulin for two days, maybe there will be unexpected gains."

Both Mao Zedong and Zhu De agreed, and Liu Bocheng suggested that he stayed with the Five Legions and stayed in Gulin for three days, be responsible for answering the phone, transforming prisoners, and then chasing the main force.

Mao Zedong wandered for a long time and said, "A regiment is too small, and it is easy to fall into danger when encountering an enemy. He ordered Chen Shuxiang to lead the 34th Division to stay. When the Sichuan Army chased him, he could escape even if he faced an enemy brigade. Tell Chen Shuxiang that he should learn from Liu Yimin's method. If he could disguise himself, he would disguise himself. If he could attack, he would attack him. Never fight to the point of defending him."

Seeing that Liu Bocheng was about to leave, Mr. Zhu explained: "The prisoners of the guard brigade were particularly reactionary in accordance with Liu Yimin's prisoner handling method. They had blood debts to suppress others, and the others were assigned to various troops."

Liu Bocheng smiled and said, "Commander-in-Chief, you may have been sent too late to this order. The guard division left behind about 1,000 prisoners of Gulin Security Group, which had been digested by the first legion and the first division. The guard brigade has more than 1,800 people. When I arranged the battle, I said it was very clear that the guard brigade is an elite Sichuan army, and whoever captures it will be the one who is captured. Therefore, although the scale of the battle just now, I used the first, third and fifth legions. There was no way. When I heard that it was Liu Xiang's personal guard brigade, the three legions commanders had to complete the task alone. It was impossible to let anyone participate, so I had to divide the tasks equally and whoever captured the prisoners. It is estimated that these prisoners have a master now."

Zhang Wentian, who did not participate in military command and listened silently, said: "It was all caused by Liu Yimin."

This made several people laugh.

After Mao Zedong had a good rest and was in good spirits, he proposed to go to Gulin Street to see this famous county in southern Sichuan.

Several people took the guards out of the county government and walked to Gulin Street. They knew at a glance that this was indeed a small mountain town.

The county town is built against the mountains. Most of the houses on both sides of the street are built with stone walls, the roofs are basically covered with tiles and wooden boards. They all look old and dilapidated. There are few more elaborate buildings like some county towns in Hunan and Jiangxi.

The county town is also very small, and it will be transferred in a short while. Zhang Wentian was a little discouraged and asked Mao Zedong: "Old Mao, do you know the origin of Gulin's name?"

Mao Zedong said: "The word Lin in Gulin is a kind of grass name, which is lin grass, commonly known as lin grass. In the past, the locals used lin grass to weave straw mats. After a few times, the reputation of lin grass went out, and lin became the synonym for this place. During the Yuanhe period of the Tang Dynasty, Linzhou was set up here, which means a place to control ethnic minorities. Later generations changed their name to Yongning, which is another meaning of the word Lin, hoping for eternal peace. In fact, under reactionary rule, how can there be peace? When this place was changed to a county town a few years ago, they took the meaning of Gulinzhou and called it Gulin."

Zhou En said: "There are many Miao compatriots here. The ancestors of Miao are Chiyou who fought with Huangdi. Legend has it that Chiyou was killed by Huangdi after being defeated. The general Kuafo led the Miao people to move south. During the war, Kuafo was shot and killed by arrows. Miao people buried Chiyou and Kuafo. At the funeral, people blew horns and beat war drums, with the purpose of driving away jackals, tigers and leopards, so that the souls of the deceased can rest. They didn't want to alarm Kuafo's war horses, and thought they were going to go out again, so they broke the reins and ran over. Seeing Kuafo's body, the war horses neighed a few times and fell to the ground, and died without eating or drinking. Later, the Miao people felt the loyalty of the war horses, and killed oxen and buried them on behalf of the horses after death, and asked the cows to lead the master's soul to the ancestors to reunite."

Mao Zedong sighed: "Many ethnic minorities have a long-standing culture, mainly because most feudal dynasties discriminate against and oppress ethnic minorities, so that ethnic minorities cannot develop. By the way, have you heard of the Miao people's custom of stealing relatives?"

Several people shook their heads.

Since the Red Army has won the battle since the Red Army turned to Guizhou, everyone was in a happy mood, and Mao Zedong was even more so. He glanced at everyone, lit a cigarette, took a sip, and said with a smile as he walked: "The young Miao men and women dating happily, that is, the man went to the woman's house to talk to the girl. After they fell in love, if the woman's parents objected, the two young people made an appointment to steal a kiss. The girl hid the things she needed to bring in advance to the road outside the village. That night, the young man still went to the woman's side.

When the girl was sitting in the house, when she said goodbye, the young woman pretended to send her guests, walked out of the village with the young man, took out the hidden things, and went to the man's house together. The next day, the woman's parents knew that they had been stolen from their daughter when they didn't see her daughter back. On the third day, the man found a prestigious elder and took three gifts of chicken, duck and egg to the woman's house to apologize. If the woman's parents had a gift, they would have the same wedding and could have the formal wedding. If they did not agree, there would be no need to hold the wedding."

Zhang Wentian said: "Isn't this the same as the free love we advocate?"

Zhou Enlai joked: "Yes, I think our Comrade Luo Fu also needs to secretly kiss him."

Mao Zedong smiled and said, "No, no, I think Comrade Luofu doesn't need to steal, the partner will come to the door on his own initiative."

Zhou En said: "Isn't it the same thing that the person you are talking about is taking the initiative to come to the door and steal a kinship? However, we are revolutionaries and the organization agreed. Comrade Luo Fu, you should be bold and secretly kissed. Don't forget to invite us to have a good meal at that time."

Several people returned to the county government and talked and laughed.

Seeing that several leaders came back, Liu Bocheng reported that the 34th Division had been arranged to stay and the enemy radio station had just been intercepted. Today, the two columns of Xue Yue's army advanced together. Zhou Hunyuan Column entered Huairen's territory and was preparing to attack from Huairen to Zunyi. Wu Qiwei's column was less than 50 miles away from Zunyi. Tang Enbo and other troops of the Central Army also crossed the Wujiang River and rushed towards Zunyi. The heavy army group of the 11 brigades of the Sichuan Army had occupied Loushan Pass and advanced towards Zunyi. However, the enemy was very cautious in their actions, and the heavy army group was advancing together, and the speed was not fast. It is estimated that they would meet together to attack Zunyi tomorrow.

Zhou En said: "Xue Yue has learned a lot and no longer tries his troops to advance rashly. It seems that he is still afraid of the attack."

Mao Zedong said: "The road is facing the sky, and each side goes halfway. He goes to attack his Zunyi, and we go to occupy our Yibin. Enlai, the boss and Bo Cheng ordered the troops to prepare. When it dark, they would make great strides towards Xuyong. The first legion, the first division and the ninth legion should be fast, and try to keep up with the pace of the guard division. The task is to take over Yibin."
Chapter completed!