In the team, there were injured artillerymen of the White Army who became bandits. Later, they joined the Red Army soldiers. They deployed their mortars and bombarded the White Army who attacked the 1st Battalion position. The rumbling sound of artillery continued into the night. The White Army
The crazy attack did not capture the 1st Battalion's position. The position was still firmly in the hands of the 1st Battalion. On the contrary, the two battalions that the White Army came to support could not attack.
Er Daozi on the mountain was dumbfounded. He immediately reported the incident to the political commissar. This level of fighting was obviously not caused by Wang Lei breaking through the enemy's defense line.
Er Muzi said: "I saw it. I saw a group of people wearing blue clothes knocking down the bamboo forest."
The political commissar asked: "What else did you see?"
Ermuzi scratched his head and said, "I just saw a group of people in blue clothes emerging from the bamboo forest. I didn't see anything else. Political Commissar, what do you think is going on?"
The political commissar was also puzzled. A company-level cadre asked: "Political commissar, could it be that dog bites dog?"
The political commissar shook his head and said: "How could such a thing happen? The enemy is in a critical period of encircling and suppressing us. It is almost impossible for such a thing to happen. No matter what happens, such a battle is very beneficial to us."
He propped up his weak body and said: "Comrades, as long as the enemy starts fighting, we may use this opportunity to break through the enemy's encirclement."
His eyes swept across the only two classes left in the cave. The trace of bitterness at the corner of his mouth quickly subsided, and his eyes were replaced by determination.
They had been fighting guerrillas in the mountains for several months and had basically run out of ammunition and food. Just last night, they took out the only ammunition they had and gave it to five strong soldiers to prepare to cross the Nu River and go to the bamboo forest to search for
With a glimmer of hope, they took advantage of the darkness to push out the hidden raft and watched the five soldiers disappear into the rolling river without a trace. They waited for a whole day without receiving any news, and they did not know the situation of the five of them.
how.
It seems that there is no way to get more information about a few people. They can only find another way out. Continuous gunshots came from the direction of the bamboo forest. I don’t know which team collided with the White Army. The political commissar also took them through.
The soldiers had fought in battles and had quick thinking, and they immediately judged that now was the best time for them to break out of the encirclement.
Er Daozi asked: "Political Commissar, from which direction should we break out?"
The political commissar's eyes moved slightly and said: "Let's go from the south!"
After a pause, he continued: "The enemy is fighting in the north, and the south is our opportunity to break through. When it gets completely dark, we will go south immediately and try to break through the enemy's blockade tonight!"
"yes!"
The sky gradually darkened, and the fighting in the north gradually subsided. After half a day of fighting, one battalion suffered huge casualties, and the enemy casualties of the two battalions were equally huge.
At the White Army headquarters, Captain Sun asked angrily: "Where did this enemy come from? Where did they come from!"
He only had three battalions under his command. In just one day, one battalion was defeated. Except for the battalion that was transferred out to perform the mission, there are only two companies currently stationed on their side.
The deputy commander under Sun Tuan thought, "Captain, this group of enemies is likely to come from Ninglin County. A few days ago, the housekeeper of the Ninglin County magistrate's family came to us and reported to us that their
An enemy appeared on the county border and needed support. The third battalion commander led his people to reinforce Ninglin County. However, after so many days, the third battalion commander did not receive any news about the mission."
Captain Sun's eyes narrowed slightly, "Go, send someone to Ninglin County immediately, I need an explanation!"
At this time, a soldier hurried in from outside, came to the door and opened his mouth and shouted: "Report to Commander Sun, Commander Qian's troops stationed south of West Hankou suffered a fierce attack from the enemy. It lasted for an hour, and the fighting has subsided.
"
Captain Sun was shocked: "What! The south is also attacked by the enemy!?"
The adjutant looked at the map and frowned: "Commander, this does not seem to be the work of the communist bandits. As far as I know, no matter how capable the communist bandits are, they cannot develop to the extent that they can deal with our army, and this enemy
The stubbornness of the resistance and the ferocity of the attack, both in terms of troop strength and weapons and equipment, are completely different from the Communist forces we encircled and suppressed."
After a pause, he added: "This enemy is definitely not the Communist Army."
Captain Sun's eyes narrowed slightly: "If it's not the Communist Army, then who is it? Who is it?"
At this time, the fighting was over in the south of Xihankou. Sporadic gunshots continued to sound in the wilderness. Under the moonlight, black figures could be seen falling to the ground with the sound of gunshots. The Red Army troops who came down from Xihankou were hiding.
In the thick grass, staring at this scene in the distance, the seriousness of the matter seemed to exceed imagination. The enemy had a battalion of troops stationed here. Only an hour after the gunfire sounded, they were overwhelmed by the unknown force.
The team that appeared from nowhere was wiped out.
The political commissar said with a confused look on his face: "It's strange. Apart from the regular army, I really can't think of any other army that can have such combat effectiveness. If it is a regular army, why would it attack the local army here?"
The political commissar regarded the team that attacked Western Hankou to encircle and suppress the Red Army's enemies as a regular army. The combat effectiveness of the regular army was much higher than that of the local army. On the one hand, the weapons and equipment of the regular army were basically purchased from abroad. On the other hand, the regular army was more powerful than the local army.
There was a lot of money, and the political commissar who annihilated an enemy battalion in one hour could only think of the enemy's regular army that he had encountered in Nanhu.
"Political commissar, the enemy is coming, at least one battalion." Er Muzi came over from the dark night in the distance and said out of breath: "This group of enemies does not look like the White Army. The clothes they are wearing
It’s very strange, something I’ve never seen before.”
Immediately afterwards, Er Miaozi brought another crucial piece of news. He said: "And, moreover, there is a five-pointed star on the brim of the enemy's hat."
The political commissar who was deep in thought was suddenly startled, raised his head and asked eagerly: "Are you sure you saw the five-pointed star!?"
Er Muzi nodded and said: "Yes, I touched the front and saw the group of people cleaning the battlefield under the fire. The clothes they wore were very similar to the group of people I saw in the bamboo forest on the other side of the river. I could clearly see
They have a five-pointed star on their hat."
"Five-pointed star, five-pointed star!" The political commissar stood up with a lingering joy on his face: "Comrades, they are our own people! They are our Red Army troops! The five-pointed star! Those are our own people.
!”
The political commissar never thought that one day he would hear the red five-pointed star here, which is the symbol of the Red Army. Although he did not know why a Red Army appeared here, the five-pointed star was one of their own.
In order to confirm his suspicion, the political commissar led them out of the grass and approached the enemy's position.
At this moment, the battlefield has been cleaned up, and the second battalion, which serves as the vanguard, is also entering West Hankou, while the third battalion is staying on the south side, sorting out equipment and repairing fortifications in order to deal with the enemy that may come next.
Among the dark grass, a dozen figures were crawling forward. They groped forward cautiously. Through the hazy night, the political commissar and the others saw the soldiers of the third battalion who were building fortifications in the distance. At this time, the flames on the position had basically been extinguished.
, the smoke left by the aftermath of the battle is filling the air, and you can vaguely hear the conversation of soldiers building fortifications in the distance.
The night was a bit hazy, so what they saw was not very clear, and they could only see shaking figures. The political commissar was worried, worried that these people were not the Red Army, so they would be killed by the other side, and he was looking forward to seeing these people.
It was the main force of the Red Army that he kept thinking about.
At this time, a title from the other party further strengthened his inner judgment.
"Comrade, are you okay? Are you injured? Don't do it yet. Leave it to me. Go and rest quickly."
This kind voice of comrade made the political commissar suddenly come back to his senses.
After capturing the south side, Xia Yuan and his men were rushing to West Hankou when they suddenly heard someone shouting from behind: "Captain, commander!"
It was the correspondent of the third battalion who stayed behind. He hurried over and said: "Commander, the Red Army, we have met the Red Army in West Hankou, and they are waiting for the commander in the third battalion."
At the temporary headquarters, Hu Xianfeng asked the soldiers to boil some hot tea for the political commissar and the others to ward off the cold. Seeing Hu Xianfeng and the others, the political commissar and the others felt extremely warm in their hearts, especially the five-pointed stars on their hats, which made them feel more cordial. Xia Yuan
He hurried back and when he entered the headquarters, he saw the political commissar he had followed.
"Xia Yuan!"
The cup in the political commissar's hand paused in the air, his face full of shock, "Why is it you!"
"Political commissar!" Xia Yuan stepped forward and said with concern: "You have suffered."
The political commissar looked puzzled and asked: "What on earth happened?"
Xia Yuan told the political commissar everything about how he returned to the village to reestablish a red base after being dispersed by the enemy. After listening to what Xia Yuan said, the political commissar and several Red Army cadres all
Face of shock.
"Farmers' Association, base area, Red Army, okay, great. I didn't expect that you would take us back from the wrong path we took before. What I didn't expect even more was that in such a short period of time, the crushing army led by you
The Pingcun base area has developed so rapidly."
The political commissar was full of sighs.
Xia Yuan asked again: "Political Commissar, what happened after we were dispersed? Why were you surrounded and suppressed by the White Army again?"
The political commissar said: "After being dispersed, we hid in the deep mountains and old forests. The White Army searched the mountains all day long. After searching for a while, they probably thought that we were all dead, so they withdrew. We crawled out of the mountains.
Come out."
After a pause, he sighed and said: "At that time, two platoons of comrades went in, but in the end only one squad of comrades came out. The red flames cannot be extinguished. After we came out, we carried the will of the soldiers with us.
We were fighting against landlords in the village and developing a team. However, the red flames that had just been ignited here were discovered by the White Army. They dispatched two regiments of troops to encircle and suppress us. We walked and retreated all the way, and were eventually surrounded by them.
Here in West Hankou."
Xia Yuandao: "Political Commissar, you have suffered a lot. Are there any of our comrades on the mountain?"
The political commissar said: "There are still some wounded. Their condition is already very bad. In order not to hinder our breakout, they insist on staying to fight guerrillas with the enemy."
Xia Yuan immediately said: "Political Commissar, I will take people to rescue them."
Under the leadership of a Red Army soldier, the soldiers of the Second Battalion came to the cave where the old Red Army lived. The scene in the cave shocked the comrades of the Second Battalion. They thought their lives were hard enough, but they did not expect that there would be such a group of people.
For an invisible hope, they fought tenaciously against the enemy in the cave. Due to lack of medicine, their wounds were rotting and exuding a foul odor.
However, these wounded Red Army soldiers could no longer see any hope. When the Second Battalion arrived, they even thought that the enemy was coming, and they braced themselves to fight the enemy desperately.
When they saw clearly that these people were their own, every soldier hugged each other and cried.
West Hankou was rescued by the Red Army surrounded by the White Army. Xia Yuan led the team to retreat quickly, away from West Hankou. The 1st Battalion, as the rear team, also successfully got rid of the enemy with the help of the 4th Battalion. After this battle, the enemy had already
No longer able to pursue the Red Army, they could only watch as the Red Army rescued the Red Army in West Hankou and then strode away, but there was nothing they could do.
Returning to the base area, without the threat of external enemies, the Red Army has completely entered a stage of rapid development. The development of the Red Army has been noticed by County Magistrate Shen, but there is nothing he can do about it. He himself has the handle to be controlled by the Red Army, and the rapid development of the Red Army has exceeded
It exceeded his imagination, especially the development of their local farmers' association, which frightened him. The Red Army had only appeared in his county for a long time, but the development of the farmers' association had spread to nearly a hundred villages, with a total of twenty members.
With tens of thousands of people, a series of measures he had prepared previously had failed, just because of the failure of the last encirclement and suppression of the Red Army base area.
The development of the peasant association was something that even Xia Yuan had not expected, but it also indirectly proved a problem, that is, after experiencing exploitation and oppression, farmers in this era urgently hope that they can be the masters of their own country and that they can also be the masters of their own country.
They can live a good life, so when the farmers' associations in other villages are developing rapidly, the villagers in these villages where the farmers' associations have not yet developed are eager to let the farmers' associations enter their local villages.
Some people even took the initiative to request that the peasant association enter their villages, but the peasant association itself was separate from the Red Army. From the establishment to the formulation of the peasant association, the person who spoke within the peasant association was not the president at all, but the farmers themselves.
The peasant association is the master of the country, and their self-organized propaganda team continues to expand, so much so that the expansion speed exceeds Xia Yuan's imagination.
In fact, it only took two years for the Nanhu Peasants' Association to grow to tens of millions of members. Its vast number and profound influence fundamentally made him see clearly that the revolution belonging to China should be
Should it be done in cities or should it be done in rural areas.