The Red War God of Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 028 Accumulating Strength 1

The capture of a town or even a county by the "red bandits" was nothing in the era of Zhu and Mao's Red Army, because after all they had tens of thousands of people.However, after Zhu and Mao's Red Army fled westward in embarrassment, the border between Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan and Guangdong has long been dominated by the national army. The small Red Army guerrillas have long been driven into deep mountains and old forests by the national army and local militia forces In the past month or so, when have you heard that the "red bandits" have counterattacked towns?

Therefore, after the Teng family in Ganzhou received Teng Han's letter from Feige, they quickly transmitted the information that the Red Army captured the ancient town to Xiong Shihui, chairman of the Jiangxi Province of the Kuomintang, by telephone.At this time, because of the strategic shift of the Red Army, Xue Yue's 8 divisions of the Central Army had already chased to Hunan, and the maintenance of order on the ground in Jiangxi was mostly based on local troops. Xiong Shihui, as the chairman of Jiangxi Province of the Kuomintang, was the highest official of the Nationalist Government in Jiangxi.

After receiving the call, Xiong Shihui did not dare to neglect, and ordered Lu Youquan, head of the 2nd Regiment of the Jiangxi Security 2nd Brigade stationed in Ruijin, to quickly send someone to verify the situation, and at the same time report the information to the Ministry of National Defense.

Shortly after the Ministry of National Defense received Xiong Shihui's report, Wang Bingzhao, head of the 52nd Brigade and 2st Regiment of the 1nd Division of the National Army stationed in Longyan, also received information that the ancient town was captured by the Red Army.

"Red bandits, are they resurgent again?" Almost all the Kuomintang military and political figures who knew about it became worried.

Longyan.Wang Bingzhao, head of the 52st Regiment of the 2nd Brigade of the 1nd Division of the National Army, presided over an emergency military meeting.

"Everyone, I just received a telegram from Yu Shusheng, the commander of the 3rd Battalion in Changting. After midnight today, a small group of red bandits attacked the ancient town. A company of the ancient city garrison and its militia, a total of 260 people, were wiped out. By morning Around 7 o'clock, the red bandits swept hundreds of young men, soldiers of our army and a lot of money and fled to the mountains!"

"Ah! In this way, isn't Zhang Binxian's 2nd Battalion gone?" A staff officer with a good relationship with Zhang Binxian exclaimed.

The others fell silent after listening.Maybe, they are thinking about the gains and losses, maybe, they are thinking about why the red gangsters have such great strength!

"Tuan Zuo! How many people were dispatched by the Red Bandits to attack the ancient town?" A staff officer seemed to understand the truth better.

"It is reported that there are only about 80 Red Bandits." Wang Bingzhao presided over the meeting, and this is the key point.If it is a large army of red bandits, thousands of them, it is understandable to lose the battle, but the opponent's strength is obviously only two platoons, but they have wiped out two companies of their own side. In this case, how dare you directly Report it?

"What? 80 people dared to attack the ancient town, and it succeeded?" Shi Zhongying, the deputy of the regiment, was a die-hard "anti-communist" element. Simply vulnerable.

"Yes. Moreover, according to the information, the Red Bandits first occupied Qinglong Pass, then occupied ### Pass, and finally divided their forces to deal with our army in the town." Wang Bingzhao said, handing the telegram to the participants.

Everyone watched and commented, "How did the red bandits capture Qinglong Pass? Could it be that they would fly over the wall?" Most of the officers sitting here have been to Changting and the ancient city, especially Qinglong Pass in the ancient city. Very deep.In order to strengthen the defense of the ancient city, the head of the regiment sent 4 of the light machine guns that were originally small in the regiment.However, the red bandit attacked at night and lost everything.

"Everyone, how should we report this matter?" Wang Bingzhao finally expressed his thoughts.

"Captain, since the ancient city has been lost, and there must be many people who know about it, we have to report the truth." Shi Zhongqu said.

"The loss must be reported truthfully, but how should the number of red bandits be reported? If we also truthfully report the number of red bandits, will the summit think that we are falsifying?" Wang Bingzhao's words clearly revealed a kind of worry.

"This..." Shi Zhongying fell silent.Because, not to mention Shangfeng, even he himself didn't believe it!

At this moment, the communications staff officer pushed the door open and entered, "Regimental seat, urgent call from division headquarters!"

"Read!" Wang Bingzhao was a little uneasy: maybe the teacher knew the news that the ancient city was attacked.

"I heard that the ancient city was taken over by a small group of red bandits. Your department hastened to Changting, and the red bandits will be wiped out within half a month!" The telegram has neither a leader nor a signature, only the "secret number" indicating that this telegram was sent by the division headquarters here.Everyone felt that although the divisional telegram was peaceful between the lines, there would be a storm behind the calm!

"Call back: Our department is formulating countermeasures. We plan to move the whole regiment into Changting to wipe out the red bandits! Wang and Yu of the 2nd Brigade and 1st Regiment." Wang Bingzhao held this meeting. Apart from the meaning of how to report, his original intention was to let the Shangfeng sent other troops into Changting, and he withdrew the two battalions trapped in Changting (almost one battalion was knocked out), but the telegram from the division headquarters made his idea come to naught.

However, just as Wang Bingzhao returned the telegram, planning to send the regiment headquarters and its first battalion to Changting tomorrow to deal with the red bandits, another telegram came from the division headquarters: "The Ministry of National Defense has formed a joint cleanup command on the Fujian-Jiangxi border yesterday. Headquarters, the commander-in-chief of the headquarters is Zhang Liansan, the commander of the 4th Brigade. Your department has been incorporated into the Qing Suppression Headquarters, and Zhang Liansan is temporarily under the command."

"Call back: the staff understands." Wang Bingzhao sat down weakly.As a regiment-level military chief, he is already qualified to know some things about the upper echelons.This Lian San is also one of the powerful factions in Fujian. He and the 52nd Division have always been at odds with each other, and they both want to be the first brother of Fujian.Obviously, the defeat of Wang Bingzhao's regiment in Changting made Zhang Liansan seize the opportunity.Moreover, Wang Bingzhao had a hunch that next, Zhang Liansan would definitely let his 1st regiment act as a forward to rush towards the mountainous areas of the red bandits.

It is normal for Wang Bingzhao to be aggrieved as a party to the failure of the ancient town, but for Huang Ji, commander of the 52nd Brigade of the 2nd Division, it was even more depressing.The senior officials of the Ministry of National Defense, without even saying hello, turned their 1st regiment into Zhang Liansan's subordinates, so they wouldn't take them with them if they bullied others!Therefore, he sent three consecutive telegrams to his teacher, Lu Xingbang, but Lu Xingbang only replied with one word; "Forbearance."

Can you bear this matter? Except for a small number of directly subordinate troops, a brigade originally only had two regiments. Now that one regiment has disappeared like this, is he still a brigade commander?

If you can't bear it, you have to bear it!Huang Ji had no choice but to knock down his teeth and swallow it in his stomach.However, he still sent a comprehensible telegram to Wang Bingzhao: "Play by ear!"

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Due to too many seizures, Wu Aihua and his party of 600 did not return to the Rongshuping base until 1 p.m.When seeing the piles of supplies, the Red Army soldiers staying at the base were as excited as a festival.

After a simple lunch, Wu Aihua immediately presided over a military meeting.

Sitting in the simple conference room, the squad leaders of the Red Army still looked excited, and some of them were discussing that they would fight Changting, Ruijin, and Longyan next time.

Wu Aihua said at the beginning of the article, "The surprise attack on the ancient town this time is due to the surprise and the enemy's unpreparedness. Next time, we may not have such a good opportunity. Our independent detachment must gain a firm foothold and develop greatly, and cannot rely on the national army. The negligence, the only way to go is to continuously strengthen your own strength!"

As soon as Wu Aihua's words came out, the venue was suddenly silent.

Seeing that everyone was stunned by himself, Wu Aihua continued to analyze, "The enthusiasm of comrades is very high, which is a good thing! However, we must fully estimate that the enemy is much stronger than us at this time, and the entire revolutionary situation is still at a low ebb! We The main task at present is to train troops! In Longyan, the enemy has a regiment, and in Ruijin, the enemy also has a regiment. In these two places alone, the enemy has more than 3000 troops! The reason why the enemy is still standing still is that They still don't know our strength, and the second is that we occupy the mountainous area, and if we really want to pull it into the town and fight against the enemy with real knives and guns, our troops of dozens or hundreds of people are definitely not their opponents!"

"Commander, you are right! We are too reckless!" The party representative Zhong Shoufu was the first to stand up to support Wu Aihua.Just now, he was also one of the excited people.As a veteran of the Red Army, he has participated in countless battles. In the past, when the Red Army fought for a town defended by two companies, the Red Army had to send out at least five times the enemy's strength, that is, at least 1000 people, but this time Wu Aihua did Only 78 people went out, which made him feel like the national army was nothing more than that.

"Next, let's discuss how to train and expand." Wu Aihua saw that those who were very excited just now calmed down, so he changed the subject.

In later generations, Wu Aihua once seriously studied the combat effectiveness of the Red Army: the fighting spirit and fighting will of the Red Army are more tenacious than that of the national army; the tactics of the Red Army are generally better than that of the national army; It has great advantages; the Red Army also has many disadvantages: first, the equipment of the Red Army is several grades worse than that of the national army; second, the tactical level of the Red Army fighters is also lower than that of the national army; third, the red army’s red expansion work is not effective Fourth, most of the Red Army's siege battles ended in failure.

Comparing the advantages and disadvantages of the two sides, Wu Aihua came to the conclusion: the Red Army cannot leave the mountainous terrain, as soon as it leaves, it will suffer defeat; the Red Army lacks the ability to attack the front.Therefore, it is a normal result that the Red Army lost to the national army.

Why did Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang Central Army fail to eliminate the Red Army in the end? Putting aside the problems of the Kuomintang’s internal and local forces, as far as the Red Army is concerned, there are still two advantages that the National Army will never be able to match. This is why the Red Army is called The grounds for being an excellent army are firstly that the Red Army’s ideology is very unified, even with the influence of the “Left”, but compared with the Kuomintang army, the Red Army’s military orders and government orders are always accessible; Making the Red Army feel like a fish in water is also the source of the Red Army's vitality and combat effectiveness.

Wu Aihua also has a basis for saying that the tactical level of the Red Army is lower than that of the national army.In history, even if the Red Army won the victory, the number of casualties was still very large; due to the lack of ammunition and the lack of training for the soldiers, how could the Red Army improve its tactics?

(ps: This book is starting to work. There are two updates every day, the first update is at 5:[-] every day; the second update is at [-]:[-] pm every day! Brothers, come and support! Another: The king found a few minor mistakes, which have been revised .)