Chapter 97: The Great Battle of Central China
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On the night of April 29, the 1st Brigade of the Red Eighth Division, with the cooperation of 20,000 local troops, launched a feint attack on Tongling on the Yangtze River in Anhui.
At the same time, the Second Brigade of the Red Eighth Division, with the cooperation of more than 20,000 local troops, launched a feint attack on the Anqing area of Anhui.
Su Yu personally led the three main divisions of the inner army and their direct troops. With the cooperation of the special forces members of the Second Special Forces Brigade who had already entered this area, he launched a fierce attack on the Chizhou area on the Yangtze River on the night of the 29th.
By the evening of the 30th, less than a day and one night, Chizhou City changed hands.
The inner legion of the Red Third Front Army wiped out more than 24,000 troops from the two divisions stationed in Chizhou City at a very small cost.
At the same time, the waterways of more than 80 miles along the Yangtze River in Chizhou area were controlled. Then, the troops immediately imposed martial law on this waterway.
The Red Ninth Division, which was originally inclined toward the combat training of the river defense, quickly organized ships along the coast and began to block the Yangtze River, while preparing ships for the twelve armies of the outer line.
Because the Yangtze River waterway in Chizhou area is relatively narrow, ships of all sizes can cross the river, which provides a lot of convenience for the outer legions to cross the river.
At this time, the first team of the outer legion special operations team, which had long been secretly sneaking into the north bank of the Yangtze River, also completed the control of the area within a radius of dozens of miles of the outer legion crossing the river landing ground in Chizhou.
Starting from the night of May 1st, Xun Huaizhou led 118,000 Red Third Front Army's outer legion, divided into five nights from Chizhou, Anhui Province, secretly crossed the Yangtze River, and began the legend of the Long March of the Red Third Front Army's outer legion.
While the outer legions crossed the river to fight, Su Yu commanded the 10th and 15th Red Divisions, which had completed the combat mission in Chizhou area, and rushed to advance westward.
On May 4, it captured the important Anqing town on the south bank of the Yangtze River of the Kuomintang, and once again annihilated the forces of two more divisions of the Kuomintang.
In between, the Kuomintang troops gathered from the east of Wuhu and Jiujiang, which had four more divisions, actually left the city and crawled at a speed of 20 miles a day.
Until all the outer legions of the Red Third Front Army crossed the Yangtze River, the inner legions of the Red Third Front Army successfully completed the cover combat mission. On May 8, all of them returned to the base area and threw the two captured cities to the Kuomintang army.
The enemy troops in these two directions came late and completed the rescue of Tongling and the recovery of Anqing and Chizhou.
For this reason, the Kuomintang propaganda agency was still making a fuss, saying that the battle eliminated more than 60,000 Red Army members and defeated the Red Army's conspiracy to invade the Yangtze River and control the Yangtze River waterways in one fell swoop.
Because the Red Third Front Army's outer line corps did a very good job of hiding the river crossing operation, and they were all night operations, although Chiang Kai-shek, the Kuomintang, knew that the Red Army sent some troops to cross the river, could not figure out the truth and did not know how many people crossed the river this time. Where did they go after crossing the river?
On the one hand, Chiang Kai-shek ordered major cities in Jiangbei to take strict precautions and strengthen reconnaissance. On the other hand, he ordered air force reconnaissance planes to conduct reconnaissance and patrol near the north bank of the Yangtze River in Anhui every day, hoping to find valuable information such as the scale and where the Red Army crossing the river troops were scaled and decisive.
At this time, Xun Huaizhou led the main force of the outer line of the Red Third Front Army, passing through the rugged mountain roads in the Dabie Mountains.
After the vanguard of the Red Third Front Army crossed the river, with the cooperation of the special operations squadron, the important Anhui town on the southern foot of the Dabie Mountains not far from Chizhou.
Then the large army, Tongcheng, had a simple rest and immediately went north and entered the Dabie Mountains.
As the vanguard division of the outside corps, the Red 7th Division first entered the Dabie Mountains with the cooperation of the first squadron of the Special Forces Brigade.
In the past few months, the training effect has been obvious.
With the cooperation of Zhang Dewang, the commander of the First Squadron of the Special Forces 1st Brigade, Huang Yingte, the commander of the 7th Division of the First Red Division, attacked the cities and villages along the way. He secretly crossed the river on the night of May 1st, and secretly acted in the form of hiding day and walking at night until May 13th. In just thirteen days, he marched and fought, and ran for nearly 300 kilometers long.
It successively controlled Tongcheng, Yuexi counties in Anhui and Yingshan and Luotian counties in Hubei.
These counties originally had no heavy Kuomintang troops, and at most one or two local security groups were only one or two.
With the cooperation of special forces, the vanguards of the Red Seventh Division used secret means to control these counties and towns along the route without any bloodshed. The Red Front Army troops secretly cleared the roads through the area.
Xunhuaizhou and Wang Ruchi were the ones who spent the Yangtze River on the last night with Qiao Xinming's troops of the 11th Red Division.
Then they rushed to Tongcheng County. After a brief rest in Tongcheng County, the troops followed the road opened by the Red Seventh Division and walked through the Dabie Mountains.
This time, along with the outer legion of the Red Third Front Army, there were also a large number of working groups and guerrillas from the Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang and Fujian Anti-Japanese Democratic Government and the Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang and Fujian Military Region.
They entered the Dabie Mountains and prepared to launch guerrilla warfare and develop grassroots party organizations here.
The Dabie Mountains originally had a relatively good revolutionary tradition. This time, the Southeast Branch decided to distribute some forces to enter the Dabie Mountains to carry out work.
It is also to further implement the development goals of the Anhui-Zhejiang-Jiangxi base area formulated by Xunhuaizhou.
After the working group that advanced into the Dabie Mountains has gained a foothold and can truly establish a foothold, the inner corps of the Red Third Front Army will once again divide the troops into the Dabie Mountains and establish a consolidated revolutionary base in the Dabie Mountains.
During the days when the outer legion was traveling continuously, Xunhuaizhou finally got more time and led the members of the Long Group to conduct special training.
These days, Xun Huaizhou completely handed over the daily command of the troops to Wang Ruchi, and he himself led Chen Jie and Otan Tian to disappear among the mountains.
On that day, Xunhuaizhou met with the members of the Long Group who had been training in the Dabie Mountains for more than half a month before the outside army.
Now the members of the Dragon Group have grown to sixteen. They are from Long Yi to Long Sixteen. Everyone was very excited to see the Dragon Group where the Commander-in-Chief brought Oda Tian to.
The members of the Dragon Group, who have been training for two or three months, have now been completely reborn.
In the past two months, they had special tasks except training, and they didn't know how many enemies they had harvested with cold weapons.
Now, every member of the Dragon Group has a very cold look, and the coldness on his body will make ordinary people feel cold in their hearts on hot days.
Xun Huaizhou looked at the members of the Dragon Group in front of him and couldn't help but sigh that these people were much sharper than the members of the Special Wars Team.
With the continuous polishing and tempering these days, it has gradually taken shape.
Of course, it is far from enough to truly meet the standards of the Dragon Group. If you want to be so cold-hearted that you are all restrained and replacing the truth, you will need to be tempered for unknown reasons.
However, as these people grew up, Xun Huaizhou was still deeply relieved and had another weapon to transform China.
With the arrival of Xunhuaizhou, the most cruel week-long wild survival and raid training for the Dragon Team members began.
During this week, Xun Huaizhou led the Long Team members to travel more than 100 miles a day, and they all walked there with difficulty and ruggedness.
Cliffs passed by the soldiers climbed, and dangerous shoals passed by the soldiers swimming. Landlords and bullies died inexplicably in the late-night raid of the players, and the enemy troops in the county collapsed under the bloody cleaning of the Dragon Group team members.
Starting from the reunion of Xunhuaizhou and the Dragon Group players on May 7th, to the end of Xunhuaizhou leaving the Dragon Group players on May 14th.
During these seven days, Xunhuaizhou led the Long team members to cross mountains and ridges, travel through the Dabie Mountains, and each washed away six counties including Huoshan, Jinzhai, Henan Mall, Xinxian, Hong'an and Macheng in Hubei.
The Kuomintang security team and the military forces in these counties were slaughtered overnight, and the main evil was killed. The accomplices were frightened by the message note and immediately scattered.
This has brought great convenience to the Dabie Mountains working group and guerrillas dispatched from the Southeast Branch to carry out their work in the local area.
Of course, no one knows who did it. The signature of the message left by the members of the Dragon Group was just the Red Army going north to fight against Japan.
Even the working group of the Southeast Branch also thought it was a special combat mission carried out by the members of the mysterious special combat brigade of the Red Third Front Army to help them open up the situation.
How could I know that this was a masterpiece made by Xun Huaizhou, the commander-in-chief, who led a dozen members of the Dragon Group who had no idea existed in just seven days.
The action of the Dragon Group team members also greatly paralyzed the Kuomintang Chiang Kai-shek, confused the Kuomintang Chiang Kai-shek's audio-visual, and effectively covered the combat intentions of the main forces of the outer legion.
Now Chiang Kai-shek is anxious in Nanjing like an ant on a hot pan. The Red Army occupied Chizhou and Anqing areas this time, so it must be to divide the troops across the river.
But what was the purpose of crossing the river to Chiang Kai-shek for a moment? How many troops were there for crossing the river this time, the main direction of the attack, and the target of the attack, these problems have been tangled in Chiang Kai-shek's heart for the past few days, and have become his biggest knot.
Seeing that the Red Army did not take any major actions in the few days after crossing the river made him feel more and more uneasy. Especially the bloody cleaning of several counties in the Dabie Mountains made Chiang Kai-shek feel like he was in a fog.
Chapter completed!