1932: Playing with the Japanese Communist Party with a doll

"...Commander, do you want us to go down and tell the guys to run faster? We're already fifteen miles behind the 2nd Brigade, and almost 20 miles behind the 3rd Brigade."

"Are you stupid?"

A man on horseback raised his whip and lashed the adjutant, cursing:

"Why are you rushing forward like that?! Are you so anxious to die?"

"no.."

The adjutant said aggrievedly:

"Commander, if we charge too slowly, we won't be able to catch up with the achievements!"

"What military achievements are there? I just want to be a small brigade commander, earn some money for my retirement, and go back home..."

Xie Shaoan, former commander of the 1st Brigade of the New 13th Division of the Kuomintang Army, sneered in his heart as he casually fooled his adjutant who came from the Shaanxi Army and was not a direct descendant and had no idea of ​​his background.

Mr. Sun, you think everyone is a fool who knows nothing about the outside world and can't see your plan to kill someone with a borrowed knife?

Old Guo (Commander of the 2nd Brigade Guo Zhenhai) and Old Sun (Commander of the 3rd Brigade Sun Zhiyuan) are so eager to gain a foothold in the 16th Division that they are confused and eager to make achievements. I, Old Xie, am very clear-headed!

Old Chen (Chen Guizhang) was buried alive by Sun Weiru, but those of his subordinates who were not at the division headquarters at the time, not with Chen Guizhang, and not killed on the spot, were not harmed by Sun Weiru;

Because Sun Weiru was not stupid. If he wanted to kill all the middle and senior officers of the 13th Division, it would inevitably lead to a desperate resistance from the entire 13th Division. At that time, Sun's own losses would also be great.

Even rabbits bite when they are cornered!

Therefore, instead of fighting to the death, with both sides suffering heavy losses and others taking advantage, it is better to take it slow, boil the frog in warm water, and wait for a good opportunity to strike.

Therefore, except for Jiang Yuntai's 5th Brigade, which decisively fled at that time, the officers and soldiers of other brigades were basically incorporated into the 16th Division.

(This was the norm for warlords to annex warlords at the time. They would generally take over their old subordinates intact, so surrender and then rebellion, and rebellion and then surrender again were very common. The Red Army also suffered this loss at the beginning.)

Now that the Red Army is heading north, it is an opportunity.

Looking at the arrangements for the troops that set out to "suppress bandits" this time, it's clear that Sun Weiru didn't have any good ideas:

More than 80% of them were from the former 13th Division, and they were all deployed in the front;

The 16th Division's "direct troops" were not only small in number, but also mostly lagged behind to act as "supervisory troops"!

At that time, the first ones to engage the Communist advance team will definitely be the original 13th Division!

However, were the "Communist bandits" who were able to defeat the Central Army led by Chairman Chiang Kai-shek so easy to deal with?

No matter how strong the "Northwest Army" was, it would certainly suffer heavy losses if it fought against such a force.

Would the 13th Division, which had suffered heavy losses, still be able to resist the annexation of the 16th Division? In this way, Sun achieved his goal of eliminating dissidents.

Moreover, when the KMT and the CPC were cooperating, such a horrific incident of "friendly conflict" occurred. The CPC would certainly protest. Given their current prestige, it was impossible for Chairman Chiang to fail to give an explanation.

Who would be thrown out as a scapegoat then? Of course, it would be the people from the 13th Division!

The accusations of "attacking friendly forces", "provoking border conflicts without authorization", "destroying the unity between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party", and "affecting the overall situation of the anti-Japanese war" were enough to get all the officers of the 13th Division killed.

Even if the Communists were really easy to deal with and the 13th Division won a complete victory, would that be a loss for the 16th Division?

nor.

Once the order came down, the 13th Division had to spit out everything it had swallowed up after fighting desperately, and at most take some of the Communist bandits' scrap metal as compensation.

No matter how you look at it, even if the incident became known to everyone in the country and everyone was criticizing it, the 16th Division might be punished on the surface, but Chairman Chiang must have been very happy in his heart.

After thinking through all of the above, Xie Shaoan naturally was unwilling to take his First Brigade and the First Cavalry Regiment that he had finally won over to die easily.

snort!

In this day and age, if you don't have soldiers under your command, you are like a piece of fat meat that can be slaughtered at will! Believe it or not, as soon as he loses his military power, Xie Shaoan will be "disarmed and returned to the countryside"!

Just as Brigade Commander Xie was thinking this, the sound of intense gunfire suddenly rang out from the distant mountains and forests.

Oh, what did I say?

Idiot, I told you to rush so fast, you got ambushed, didn't you?

I knew that the Communist bandits who dared to serve as the advance team deep into enemy territory were definitely not simple. Xie Shaoan gloated for less than three seconds, and the adjutant's eyes flicked over again. He cursed inwardly, had the messenger call the three regimental commanders over, and issued an order:

"...Friendly forces are under attack, and the enemy situation is unclear. Order all units to observe carefully and advance in unison!"

"Yes!"

Several regimental commanders knew exactly what Brigade Commander Xie was trying to do—let the 2nd and 3rd Brigades ahead of them test the quality of the Communist bandits!

If the Communists are easy to deal with, then the entire army will charge in and seize the credit; if the Communists are difficult to deal with, then they will turn around and attack from behind! Seeing several regimental commanders nodding and preparing to leave, the adjutant became anxious:

"Commander! Send us reinforcements! As long as we send a large army forward, those Communist bandits will be no match for us!"

After hearing the adjutant's urging, Xie Shaoan sneered:

"Oh? Our army is just a ragtag, weak brigade. Since you're so anxious, why not let the heroes of the 16th Division charge forward and give it a try?"

"

The adjutant fell silent immediately.

As the son of Sun Weiru's uncle, he knew very well that Sun Weiru did intend to teach the Red Army a lesson to prevent their territory from being occupied, but he would never allow the people of the 16th Division to directly clash with the Red Army.

Unlike his past reluctance to go to war with the CCP, Sun Weiru during this period had not yet been tortured to death by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, and his attitude towards the CCP's intention to enter his territory could not be described as very friendly;

Although Yang Hucheng himself wanted to cooperate well with the CCP, as mentioned above, Yang was essentially a warlord, so his subordinates were also composed of a group of warlords of all sizes. He could not fully control what those people thought;

They may not have the courage to suppress the Communists, but they certainly have the courage to eliminate dissidents in the name of suppressing the Communists, and it is very strong.

So, the 1st Brigade slowed down its pace and advanced forward leisurely, fully demonstrating its fine traditional style of "standing firm as a mountain when friendly forces are in trouble."

"boom!"

"...Help! Help!" "Retreat! Retreat!"

In fact, even if the 1st Brigade launched a crazy attack, it would be useless because the 2nd and 3rd Brigades were about to collapse at this time.

Especially the 2nd Brigade.

I thought that even if we were to fight the Communists, the first ones to be attacked would definitely be the 3rd Brigade, which was at the forefront, and the 2nd Brigade behind would be able to react anyway.

Therefore, since the 3rd Brigade had passed safely, the 2nd Brigade moved forward boldly, and everyone in the army, from the commanders to the soldiers, was very relaxed;

Who would have thought that these damned Communist bandits would actually do the opposite—let go of the 3rd Brigade in front and attack the 2nd Brigade in the back first!

Damn it!

Aren't they afraid that the 3rd Brigade in front will turn around and surround and attack them together with the 2nd Brigade?

But soon, the 2nd Brigade realized that there was no need to "worry" about this. Because, in just the first wave of artillery fire, the arrogant 2nd Brigade Commander Guo Zhenhai was blown to pieces along with his horse and guards.

Afterwards, the regimental commanders and battalion commanders who had behaved more "high-profile" during the march also quickly retreated under machine gun fire and artillery bombardment.

It can be said that within one minute after the first shot was fired, the entire 2nd Brigade of the 13th Division had lost almost all of its command system.

It was obvious that the Communist bandits had been patiently observing them for a long time and marked all important targets before they suddenly took action.

For a feudal, purely warlord army, losing its commander is no different from being like pigs or sheep tied to a chopping board and waiting to be slaughtered.

Just five minutes later, the 2nd Brigade of more than 2000 people began to collapse on a large scale, and at this time Xu Haidong's advance division had not yet planned to launch a general attack!

To be honest, the reason why the army did not start to disintegrate until 5 minutes later was because it took some time for the news of the officers' deaths to spread throughout the army.

Therefore, when the 3rd Brigade, which was at the forefront, heard the gunfire and hurried back to support, the 2nd Brigade had already been completely defeated and ran into the main force of the Red Army, which had won the first battle and was in high morale.

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On the hilltop, several men looked at each other in silence. After a long moment, Xu Haidong slowly asked:

"This... is what you call a strong army? Isn't it... a little... too weak?"

I thought that even if there wasn't a hard fight, at least both sides should fight back and forth. At the very least, the other side should at least struggle to show that they tried hard.

As a result, these idiots walked into the ambush without any preparation, were completely destroyed by a round of artillery fire without any resistance, and their command system was completely defeated without any surprise...

No...this is called "strengthening the military"?

This is even worse than the local guerrillas under our former Red Fourth Front Army!

The equipment may be better, but the combat awareness, tactical qualities and fighting will are so poor that Xu Haidong cannot understand it.

Damn it! How can we build a strong Red Army by fighting a bunch of weaklings like this?

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You guys are just too strong!!!

Liu, Xie, Xi and the other two complained crazily.

Although I knew from my observation just now that the combat effectiveness of this "advance division" was probably quite extraordinary, it was only after the actual battle with the 13th Division of the National Army that I realized that the Red Army was completely crushing it.

In order to kill the enemy commanders at all levels, they fired dozens of mortar shells in one breath, and 20 light machine guns + 10 heavy machine guns fired crazily. Such extravagant behavior really made these poor guys in Shaanxi jealous.

If I had this equipment back then, I would have led my men to attack Xi'an!

In addition, they were also very envious of the combat qualities displayed by the Red Army soldiers during the battle.

From beginning to end, no Red Army soldier did anything beyond the orders of his superiors.

If they were told to lie down there, they would absolutely lie down there silently, even breathing as little as possible. If it were Liu Zhidan's guerrillas, someone would have already scratched around.

They fired immediately when told to fire, fired as many times as they were told, fired wherever they were told, and ceased fire when they were told to. Although the soldiers were obviously very excited, not one of them launched a charge without waiting for orders.

Look, seeing that the enemy's 2nd Brigade had been completely defeated and the enemy's 3rd Brigade was also showing obvious signs of collapse, as long as Xu Haidong did not give the order, everyone stayed in their positions, as if they could not see the military merits that were within their reach.

Such execution was something the guerrillas could never achieve. "Commander Xu, is it almost time to stop?"

Liu Zhidan looked at the yellow bullet shells on the ground and felt distressed: "How much wealth can you afford to lose with the way you fight..."

"Money is not important, bullets are not important, and shells are not important. The lives of our Red Army soldiers are the most important. If I can save one soldier, I would rather spend 100 more shells."

"..."

Xu Haidong's words shocked Liu Xiexi and others.

In this era where human life is worthless and resources are more valuable than gold, how could there still be people who think this way?

Although most people would not explicitly send soldiers to die, when it comes to saving equipment and using human lives, people will tend to choose the former, including the ones who are sending the dead;

However, UMP45 and Mark from later generations are the type who "will never use human lives to solve problems that can be solved with money", so they are constantly affecting those who come into direct or indirect contact with them.

There is no such thing as poverty, just reach it directly and cover it with firepower!

"Besides, we need to quickly defeat the 16th Division right in front of us, then go scare the newly formed 14th Division and deal with the 86th Division!"

Xu Haidong chose the 16th Division of the National Army (actually the incorporated 13th Division of the National Army) as his first opponent. The reason was certainly not only "if you are going to fight, pick a strong army", but also because the opponent was close and the most prominent.

Since you're so proactive and have run into the crossfire, I'll kill you first and serve as a warning to other people with bad intentions, so they'll give up!

Although the CCP was ready for another large-scale military conflict with the KMT, the two sides had just signed a peace agreement and a ceasefire, so it was not appropriate to start fighting immediately.

In today's context where the whole country is unanimously demanding resistance against Japan, whoever provokes conflict first will inevitably be blamed by the people of the whole country and suffer greater political pressure.

Therefore, although Xu Haidong and Li Desheng behind him did not mind teaching a lesson to the Kuomintang army or local warlords who dared to provoke them, no one wanted to make the scale too big.

Unless the other party is determined to die, then we can just teach them a lesson. You can't really lead these 100,000 people to fight all the way from the south to the north, right?

The life of every Red Army soldier is priceless. There are many more important things to do and we cannot waste our time fighting meaninglessly with the Kuomintang army.

Xu Haidong issued the order:

"All-out attack! Tell the enemy! Surrender and you won't be killed!" "Beep beep beep beep beep beep!!!"

The charge was the last straw that broke the camel's back for the 3rd Brigade of the 13th Division. Under the leadership of Brigade Commander Sun Zhiyuan, the troops were completely routed.

However, when they found that the ferocious Red Army cavalry were chasing them with shining sabers and shouting "Put your hands on your heads and surrender your weapons and you won't be killed", they skillfully dropped their guns and knelt on the ground.

Just like that, in just less than half an hour, nearly 4000 people from two brigades of the National Army's 13th Division, which had once dealt a heavy blow to Liu Xie's Shaanxi-Gansu guerrillas and suffered heavy losses, were completely wiped out.

By the time the slow-moving First Brigade discovered the fleeing soldiers, the Red Army cavalry chasing them had already rushed nearby.

The leading knight, a young man under 18 years old, held a captain of the 3rd Brigade under his arm. He pulled his horse to a halt in front of the stunned 1st Brigade Commander Xie Shaoan and other officers and soldiers, threw the prisoner to the ground, and shouted:

"I am Wen Yucheng from the cavalry company of the advance division of the Red Army's northern anti-Japanese corps!" "You are surrounded by me!"

"Surrender your weapons and you will not be killed! Surrender immediately!"

336 This is a political battle!

"Thank you, Commander. Long time no see. I hope you are well..."