Heroes of the Resistance Reborn

When Huang Hui and others heard this, they immediately organized their own troops.

However, Li Jiansheng lamented: Historically, when this remnant army arrived in Youzhaping to assemble, and suddenly appeared in front of Peng Shaohui and Xiao Hua, the two leaders once called it "miraculous"; but they were able to survive and march quickly to find the main force, and they themselves also It really makes people wonder and admire, but judging from the current situation, it is because our Red Army of the Third Front arrived in time to save them that this heroic unit was saved. However, there is no official history of the appearance. Comrade Li Jiansheng, a member of the Third Red Front Army and therefore from a later generation, really doesn’t know what this history is all about.

After sighing, after thinking about it, Li Jiansheng issued an order again, asking the 5th Red Division to immediately organize a unit to build bridges, and there would be four bridges in one to prepare for large forces to cross the river. As for the remaining units, they would go to the hills on both sides. Looking for good terrain to establish a solid blocking position to ensure that the main force crosses the river, Niu Dali and Bai Kaishan immediately took the lead and took action, building bridges and setting up positions.

The arrangements were just finished here, and Huang Hui and others led their troops over again. Li Jiansheng carefully inspected this young team. He felt that although these people's faces were full of dust and they had gone through such a bloody battle, they had only been slightly replenished and were in good condition. But it's still very good. This is the real steel warrior, the real elite soldier who has fought in hundreds of battles.

After thinking about it, Li Jiansheng solemnly paid a military salute to everyone, greeted them again, then let them rest, and asked the cooking team of the 5th Red Division to cook food for everyone. After that, Li Jiansheng came to the Xiangjiang River. , watching his troops building bridges, and while walking, he looked at the battlefield conditions left behind when the 5th Red Division rescued the International Division of the Communist Party of China, saw the enemy's casualties, and listened to the detailed introduction by the Chief of Staff of the 5th Red Division. Li Jiansheng smiled slightly. Some nodded: It seems that Niu Dali and Bai Kaishan are both good. The battle just now was obviously good. It can reflect the combat effectiveness of the iron-liu defender of the Red 5th Division, an elite soldier in hundreds of battles. Well, how should I put it, it can be regarded as a good fight. Just destroy the majesty of the Eighteenth Red Army.

When they arrived at the riverside, they saw a unit of the 5th Red Division building bridges. The prototypes of three bridges were already in place, and another one was setting up cables. Each of the four bridges was a few kilometers apart. They were separated from the original ones left by the Central Red Army. The blown-up bridge contrasts with each other. Niu Dali's troops are restoring the bridge. By then, Li Jiansheng will have 5 pontoon bridges on hand. The troops of the 15th Red Division are escorting the prisoners and supporting the sick and wounded at the ferry. Rest on one side, wait, and look far away. As far as the eye can see, there are gray corpses of the Red Army floating everywhere on the Xiangjiang River. The pontoon bridge originally left by the Central Red Army has been blown up. The bridge deck is full of corpses of the Red Army. Groups of people were killed. The dispersed Red Army stood in the cold wind, not knowing what to do.

Seeing this, Li Jiansheng felt an inexplicable move in his heart. He was hurrying in a hurry to prevent the tragedy of the Battle of Xiangjiang from happening, but despite his efforts, he didn't sleep well, didn't eat well, and was extremely tired. He came directly from Gannan. He rushed to Northeast Guangxi, but still couldn't make it in time. This tragedy still happened. After thinking about it, Li Jiansheng immediately found Huang Hui and others and put forward his own opinion: let him gather the troops immediately, and he would fight against the Red 15th Division and other units. Carry out reorganization.

Without saying a word, Huang Hui and the others immediately organized their troops to stand in front of Li Jiansheng again. Li Jiansheng's guard company moved around to gather the scattered groups of Red Army soldiers who were standing in the cold wind. However, Li Jiansheng was a little confused. Frowning, unlike the orderly soldiers of the 15th Red Division, these scattered Red Army soldiers were in chaos. No one even listened carefully to what Li Jiansheng wanted to say.

Li Jiansheng and others finally assembled the team. After asking about the situation, they found out that most of these skirmishers were from the Eighth Red Army, with more than 2,800 people. They were pursued by Zhou Hunyuan Department of the Central Army and the International Division of the Shao Communist Party across the river. At that time, the whole team was running across the river. Who knew that the Eighth Red Army Corps retreated and swarmed across the river, blocking more than 1,800 people from the Shao Communist International Division. As a result, the pontoon bridge was blown up, and the Hunan Army's pursuit troops arrived, and the Shao Communist International Division More than 1,800 people rose up to block the attack and some of them sacrificed their lives. Now there are only more than 1,500 people left, and most of them were injured. If it weren't for these little red devils, the nearly 3,000 stragglers of the Eighth Red Army might have been captured by the Hunan Army. As for There are also sporadic Red Army troops from a wide range of sources. Most are from the Sixth Red Division, some are from the Fourth Red Division, and some are from other units. There are not many of these soldiers, but there are many numbers reported, eight in total. There were as many as nine, including the 1st, 3rd, 5th and 9th legions of the Central Red Army. Li Jiansheng smiled bitterly. He knew what was going on and didn't want to say anything. He just thought about how to deal with these remaining Red Army troops. Skirmishers.

Li Jiansheng knew that the Eighth Red Army Corps, like the Ninth Red Army Corps, was a new force formed by the Central Revolutionary Military Commission's red expansion policy before the Long March. Among them, the Eighth Red Army Corps was basically established on the basis of the Western Army. At that time, in order to crush the Kuomintang During the authorities’ fifth “encirclement and suppression” campaign against the Central Soviet Area, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission decided to open four battlefields in the east, south, west, and north. At that time, the Western Army had only one central guard division that had just been formed and had not yet participated in the battle, with a strength of less than 5,000. people, plus the five independent regiments of the Jiangxi Military Region, a total of about 7,000 people.

Later, in order to support the operations on the Western Front battlefield, the people in Xingguo, the "model county", actively responded to the Soviet district government's call to expand the Red Army, borrowed grain, donated military shoes, etc. By October 1934, the Xingguo supplementary division had supplemented the Red Army with 11 troops. There are more than 20,000 soldiers in this batch.

On September 21, 1934, in order to facilitate independent operations and breakout transfers, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission ordered the Red 21st Division and the Red 23rd Division under the Western Army to form the Eighth Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. Most of the more than 10,000 people were soldiers of Xing nationality. , However, due to frequent fighting, the Eighth Red Army did not have time to gather and hold an founding meeting. That's fine. In the early days of the Long March, several leaders of the Army, including Army Commander Zhou Kun, Political Commissar Huang Su and others, were dealing with affairs. Continuous mistakes made, which directly led to the low combat effectiveness of the troops: First of all, during the long march of the troops, the corps leaders did not even send out a single scout in advance. The troops had to search and advance, stop and go, stop and go, like an old soldier. The oxen pulled the cart to pieces. Next, due to the lack of organization and leadership, the troops were extremely tired. During the march, the soldiers fell down on the roadside and fell asleep. No matter how much they shouted, they fell asleep. Unable to wake up from shouting, facing a long list of "sleeping soldiers" arrayed like firewood, Huang Su, the usually irritable political commissar of the legion, was so anxious that his eyes were smoldering, and he whipped the lying soldiers with a horse whip. But this had little effect. One man woke up, and the other lay down again. This situation made the impatient legion commander Zhou Kun unable to hold back his panic. He snatched a light machine gun from a soldier in the machine gun squad. After slamming a shuttle into the air, these soldiers woke up. However, this kind of "crying wolf" practice too many times obviously made the soldiers think that the army leaders were deceiving them. As a result, they really encountered a war. , if it is a mess, as Luo Ronghuan, director of the Political Department of the Eighth Red Army Corps, imagined,