Chapter 81: Shangjing Battle Urgent II
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In early February, the Third Red Army officially launched the Battle of Shangjing, which was attacked by Jingdezhen in the west and attacked Shangrao City in the south.
Jingdezhen is in northeastern Jiangxi and is a medium-sized city controlled by the Kuomintang as close as the southern Anhui base.
On February 2, Su Yu led the main force of the Red Third Front Army and the local security forces, which had just completed the training work, to a total of more than 20,000 people, and the troops were led by Qimen County to move westward.
On the evening of February 3, he launched an attack on Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, which was on the New Year's Eve of 1935.
The combat plan for the Shangjing Campaign of the Red Third Front Army is:
The Qiao Xinming unit of the 11th Brigade of the Red 10th Division, the 3rd Front Army supplemented the brigade Zhouzhidao headquarters, the Zhang Hanyang unit of the Independent Regiment of the Red 10th Division, and the five local security regiments of the Southern Anhui Military Region, with a total force of more than 25,000 people, launched a feint attack on Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province.
The combat goal of the troops attacking Jingdezhen is not to occupy, but to restrain.
When the main force in Jiangxi was attracted to the direction of Jingdezhen, and the enemy troops such as Shangrao and Nanchang were mobilized by our army in Jingdezhen.
Xun Huaizhou led the main force of the Red Ten Front Army, which secretly went south at the same time, to launch a sudden attack on Shangrao City, Jiangxi, and took Shangrao City in one fell swoop.
At the same time, the main force of the Red Third Front Army will be concentrated in the northeastern Jiangxi to find an opportunity to annihilate one or more of the enemy's troops to reinforce Jingdezhen.
The focus of this battle is how to successfully capture Shangrao City.
Xun Huaizhou learned from later memories that Shangrao, as the location of the Kuomintang’s command center for the Anhui-Zhejiang-Jiangxi Border Region, established a huge arsenal.
It stores a huge amount of guns and weapons, as well as a large number of strategic reserve materials such as generators, steel, gasoline, gunpowder, and grain.
These are the things that Xun Huaizhou is most jealous. Xun Huaizhou knows that it is impossible to realize its own tunnel construction plan in southern Anhui now without a large amount of gunpowder, ** and other military supplies.
Other military supplies are important resources he is preparing to play a role in the future anti-Japanese battlefield. Of course, Xunhuaizhou cannot miss such an opportunity.
Moreover, the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway is now being built, and a large amount of road construction materials have also been stockpiled in Shangrao.
Xunhuaizhou thought that the War of Resistance Against Japan would break out in two years. Now the construction of these railways will be cheaper in the end, making it easier for the Japanese to quickly mobilize troops in Southeast China, which will bring great pressure to the Southeast in the future.
Therefore, he decided to make a big move in Shangrao and transport all the railway materials and equipment into Huizhou, which could be used in the southern Anhui tunnel he designed.
Shangrao City now has only two divisions of the Kuomintang army stationed in the Kuomintang. They are the newly formed 49th Division, which was expanded through supplementary brigades after being eliminated by the Red Army, and the 67th Division of the Central Army, who had just been hurriedly transferred from the battlefield of southwestern Jiangxi to suppress the Communist Party.
Xunhuaizhou's combat goal this time was to seize a large amount of strategic materials, and on the other hand, to completely wipe out these two divisions of the Kuomintang.
This will also be an important battle to test the training results of the Red Third Front Army. Through this battle, the enemy will be completely attracted to the Red Third Front Army and reduce pressure on the Central Red Army and other base troops.
As for how many Kuomintang troops would attract around the Red Third Front Army, the idea of finding Huaizhou was to come more and better. This was because the Kuomintang Chiang Kai-shek gave him people, food and weapons.
Of course, Xunhuaizhou will not refuse anyone and accept it as the order.
Xunhuaizhou led more than 40,000 Red Third Front Army troops to secretly move south from February 1st.
While Xun Huaizhou led his troops south,
Su Yu also led his army to secretly advance westward from Qimen County.
Qiao Xinming, the commander of the 11th Brigade of the Red Tenth Division, was an old Red Army soldier. He followed Fang Zhimin to command and fight for many years. He was a famous and intelligent general in the former Red Tenth Army.
Su Yu gave him a very difficult task in this battle, which was to lead the troops directly north of Jingdezhen, and use a brigade troops to resolutely block Chiang Kai-shek's newly mobilized to the direction of Jiujiang. As long as the battle in Jingdezhen started, he would immediately go south to reinforce the forces of the three Kuomintang divisions.
The Red Eleventh Brigade must ensure that it must not be put into the Jingdezhen battlefield until the end of the Jingdezhen Battle.
This is a very arduous task and the key to whether the entire Shangjing Campaign can be successfully completed.
Before Qiao Xinming led the Red Eleventh Brigade to the north, Su Yu specially contacted Qiao Xinming for more than two hours.
Su Yu and Qiao Xinming repeatedly analyzed the key points and difficulties of the northbound blocking operation. They discussed multiple plans, so that Qiao Xinming was already confident when he left the large army and headed north.
The Battle of Shangjing was officially launched on the evening of February 3. Su Yu led the 11th Brigade of the Red Tenth Division. The Independent Regiment of the Red Tenth Division is the main force of the Red Third Front Army and has very strong combat power.
Although the Red Third Front Army supplementary brigade has a large number of new recruits, most of these new recruits have been upgraded from their original local troops, so they also have certain military literacy.
Moreover, after the previous stage of the battle to restrain the 57th Division of the enemy, and this month's training, the soldiers are now very enthusiastic and have a certain combat effectiveness. In addition, the brigade commander Zhou Zhidao and deputy brigade commander and commander of the first regiment Hu Lian were originally capable of training and leading troops. Therefore, in this battle, both of them were ambitious and prepared to establish military achievements and prove their abilities.
Because Su Yu only commanded the troops to feint attack Jingdezhen, he adopted the method of surrounding three quarts and one.
The south gate of Jingdezhen was used as the main attack direction, and the east gate and the north gate were used as the secondary attack direction. However, the west gate only sent a small number of soldiers to monitor it, but did not attack.
Although it was a siege, Su Yu placed more than 8,000 troops from the 11th Brigade of the Red Tenth Division, which was the strongest force of the Westward Advance Corps, to prevent reinforcements.
In fact, there were only more than 15,000 troops participating in the siege.
Su Yu arranged for the Independent Regiment to attack the South Gate. The East Gate and North Gate arranged for the two regiments of the Supplementary Brigade to serve as the main attackers, while the local security regiments were arranged to serve as guards beside the main attackers.
Although Su Yu tried his best to control the rhythm and prevent the troops from attacking too hard to avoid excessive sacrifice, these tiger and wolf troops who had just been trained and were highly motivated could suppress the offensive.
The attack was launched at 10 pm on the third day, and the battle lasted overnight, until 8 pm the next morning.
The outer positions of the three gates of Jingdezhen have been occupied, and the three armies have been attacking the city.
Zhang Hanyang, the commander of the Independent Regiment of the 10th Red Division, was a great man from Northeast China. He was an old Red Army who participated in the Nanchang Uprising and has always been known for his bravery and tenacious combat.
And he is a rare brave general who is both wise and brave in fighting with his brains.
Xun Huaizhou and Su Yu transferred him to the commander of the Independent Regiment of the 10th Division to use his brain and tenacious style. He hoped that he could lead the Independent Regiment of the Red Tenth Division into a powerful force in the battle of the city.
This time, they were arranged to follow Su Yu to Jingdezhen to test the training results of their independent group over the past month.
The next day, the siege of Jingdezhen continued fiercely.
The defenders of Jingdezhen never expected that all their outer positions would be lost overnight.
During the day, the Red Army's offensive remained unabated, completely suppressing the firepower of the enemy's troops in Jingdezhen. Seeing that the Red Army was stepping up the engineering operations, it was estimated that tonight would be the time for the general attack. Whether the city gate could be defended is really worrying.
Thinking that these Red Army soldiers actually killed the main forces of the three most elite divisions of the National Army in one battle, the enemy guarding the city felt very upset.
Liu Kan, the 80th Division Commander and the commander of the Jingdezhen garrison, who had just been urgently assigned by Chiang Kai-shek to guard Jingdezhen, sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek once an hour since last night.
Chiang Kai-shek, who was also the commander-in-chief of the Anhui-Zhejiang-Jiangxi, was furious by Liu Kan.
The 67th Division stationed in Shangrao overnight, the 4th Division stationed in Nanchang and the newly formed 11th Division stationed in Jiang Jieshi and Chen Cheng used a supplementary brigade to reinforce Jingdezhen at night.
At the same time, the three divisions that had just been urgently transferred to Jiujiang by shipping were ordered to immediately reorganize their troops and rush to Jingdezhen to assist, and local security groups followed.
Chiang Kai-shek judged that the Red Army's attack on Jingdezhen was to break the increasingly formed encirclement of southern Anhui by his army and seek a way to break westward.
According to Liu Kan, the 80th Division, the Red Army's offensive was strong and its firepower was strong, so it must be the main force of the Red Army that was unintentional.
As long as Liu Kan's troops in Jingdezhen can hold on to Jingdezhen for more than three days, they can mobilize more than six divisions around Jingdezhen to form a counter-encirclement of Jingdezhen Red Army. At the same time, there are also strategic reserves of six divisions around, which can be put into the battlefield at any time.
If we can form a decisive battle with the Southern Anhui Red Army in Jingdezhen, we will have the opportunity to annihilate the Southern Anhui Red Army in one fell swoop, so that we can truly solve Chiang Kai-shek's major concerns.
While Chiang Kai-shek was dispatching troops and preparing to encircle the Red Army attacking Jingdezhen.
Xun Huaizhou led the special operations brigade to enter the suburbs of Shangrao City.
Xunhuaizhou arranged for Peng Ganchen, director of the Political Department of the Red Third Front Army to lead the troops directly under the headquarters of the Red Third Front Army.
Wang Ruchi, chief of staff of the Red Seventh Division, led the Red Seventh Division.
Nie Hongjun, the political commissar of the Red Tenth Division, led a unit of the Red Tenth Division.
They went south to Shangrao secretly.
Xun Huaizhou personally led the special operations brigade and began the southern expedition to Shangrao City.
At the north of Shangrao City, the main mountain pass on the southern foot of Huaiyu Mountain, the Kuomintang army set up multiple blockade lines here and established a large number of bunker groups.
Here is a regular division of the Kuomintang and several security regiments guarding the troops.
This is also one of the reasons why Chiang Kai-shek was fearless against Shangrao City.
Xun Huaizhou led the new and old team members of the special operations brigade to follow the old rules and train and march along the way.
Starting from Tunxi on the night of February 1st, after a secret marching day and night, on the evening of February 2nd, we arrived at the group of land bunkers on the southern foot of Huaiyu Mountain.
Under Xun Huaizhou's personal leadership, the members of the Special Forces Brigade performed extremely well. They took a night without firing a single shot and shot to kill hundreds of bunker groups of enemies about twenty miles long and wide on the southern foot of Huaiyu Mountain, but did not alarm the surrounding garrisoned enemies at all.
Chapter completed!