251 Five Battles and Five Victorys

251 Five Battles and Five Victory (Part 2)

In the early morning, more than a dozen horses galloped on the dusty Handan Road, running from north to south, and the yellow dust raised by the horses' hoofs permeated like a thick fog.

Running at the front is a chestnut-colored tall horse with four hoofs of wind, with a strong figure sitting on the back of the horse. He suddenly grabbed the reins of the horse and waited for the jujube red horse behind him. The one sitting on the horse is Commander Lin Tie, and the one riding the jujube red horse is Ji Yulin, the political commissar.

Following the two field army leaders, there are Deputy Commander Jing Bumu, Deputy Commander Ma Hongkui, Chief of Staff Li Da and entourage. They rode from Handan, the capital of the Jin-Hebei-Luyu Liberation Zone, to Matou Town, Ci County, Hebei Province. Participated in the Mobilization Conference of the Pledge of the Central Plains War of the Third and Sixth Column Liberation War held there.

The dust on the road covered the green gauze tent on the side of the road. The morning glow appeared, and the ground seemed to be green.

Lin Tiechang and Ji Yulin grabbed the reps. The marching speed of the team gradually slowed down, the dust gradually dissipated, and the scenery beside the roadside was clearly visible. The waste roadbed of Pinghan Road from Xinxiang to Handan is like a broken and dry sand river embankment, which is washed across all the ditches by the flood. The railway station has been demolished, and the tracks have long disappeared. In the past, whale ridge-like roadbeds can be seen from afar, but now they have been dug into deep ditches, the water tower is dilapidated, and the locomotive has become a pile of scrap iron. On the carriages facing the sky, the "five-color flag" pattern painted by Beiyang military paint is faintly distinguishable. The slogan written by white lacquer is still vivid in my mind: "Only by fighting chaos can the country be founded, and the Central Plains must be recovered", "Destroy the Kuomintang in three months", "Bring the Pinghan Line and transporting troops to the northwest", "Stepping Taihang, capture the forest and Ji alive"...

When Commander Lin saw this, he smiled first and said, "There is no need to step on Taihang. We are on the plain!"

Commander Lin took the reins and said to Ji Yulin with a smile, "He really dares to brag!" Destroy the Kuomintang in 3 months! The toad yawned, and his tone was not small! He thought we were the "Nationalist Party" who was eliminated by him in less than two months after the Hukou Uprising.

Ji Yulin said with a smile, "Yuan Shikai has not been familiar with Huang sorghum on this Handan Road!"

Everyone laughed.

More than a dozen horses ran on the ancient road in Handan for a while. I only saw the morning smoke amiable, the green trees, and the horse head town is in sight...

When Lin Tiechang and Ji Yulin came to the village of Matou Town, Chen Jianlian, the head of the third and sixth columns and brigades, had stood outside Matou Town Village and waited for a long time.

Lin Tiechang and Ji Yulin came straight to the venue. It was a sunny day, the warm south wind blew all over the earth, and the fields were quiet...

The steel warriors are holding their breath and waiting for the arrival of the chief. Accompanied by Chen Jianlian and others, Lin Tiechang and Ji Yulin, when they just turned around the entrance of the village, they were seen by the soldiers waiting in the square, and immediately sounded stormy applause and sea-like slogans...

The oath meeting chose to build a high reading platform with wooden boards on the open land in the west of Matou Town Village. From here, through rows of weeping willows and green poplars, you can see the Congtai built by King Zhao Wuling during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The magnificent Congtai is hidden between the ancient cypress pines and tells an ancient story to people: at the beginning of the succession of King Wuling, the State of Zhao declined and was often threatened by Qin, Qi and other countries and invaded by foreigners such as Xiongnu and Hu people. The State of Zhao was unable to resist and often suffered defeat. In the war of resistance, King Zhao Wuling found that the clothes worn by the Hu people were short, and it was very convenient to ride horses and shoot arrows, and his soldiers and soldiers were all in wide robes, riding heavy chariots, and their movements were extremely slow. Therefore, King Wuling of Zhao was determined to seek benefits and avoid harm. He reformed the clothes of the army, asked the army to leave the chariot and learn to ride horses and shoot arrows. But his claim was immediately opposed by the prince and minister. King Zhao Wuling knew that it would be difficult to defeat the enemy without reform, so he took the lead and took the lead in wearing a beard and riding a horse and shooting arrows. From then on, the State of Zhao became strong, and the army won many battles. In order to watch the performance and celebrate the victory, King Zhao Wuling built a large-scale platform here.

Lin Tiechang and Ji Yulin stood on the stage and reviewed their troops. The soldiers sat in the square and looked in rows. The bayonet on their shoulders emitted a dazzling light. The troops sat there neatly like cutting knives, and rows of light and heavy machine guns were neatly placed on the ground. The mortars were on the horse, pointing to the fighters raising their arms and shouting slogans...

Lin Tiechang said on the stage: "...Why did we join the National Revolutionary Army? Because the Beiyang government does not give us a way to live! Instead of dying under the rule of the Beiyang government, it's better to revolutionize! So we went to the revolutionary road and joined the National Revolutionary Army! ......”

Lin Tiechang's expression was excited and his voice was like a bell. He told the army the serious situation on the current battlefield and carried out combat mobilization in a resolute tone: "It is not easy to overthrow the rule of the autocratic government of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. The people have won, and China has gone to gong peace. Everyone hopes to turn the cannon into a plow and convert the tank into a tractor to plough the field. But this is just our wish. Yuan Shikai still ruled the country with authoritarian and cruel means. The people are still living in deep trouble. They still don't have enough to eat, still starve to death on the streets, and still don't get democratic freedom. Our lives are as poor as grass under the guns of the Beiyang Army. The dignity of our Chinese nation is still betrayed by the Beiyang government. Discard it, we can only carry out the revolution to the end!"

"Kone the revolution to the end!"

A tsunami broke out all of a sudden!

At 1:00 p.m., a meeting of cadres above the column company was held in the coal bunker of Matou Station, and was mobilized by political commissar Ji Yulin.

After introducing in detail the deployment of Yuan Shikai's comprehensive attack on the liberated areas, Ji Yulin said, "Don't see that there is no big movement now. In fact, Yuan Shikai's feet buried in the water are very busy like ducks floating on the water!"

Speaking of this, Ji Yulin's face was grim, and he told everyone briefly about the current situation of the enemy. He said, "Yuan Shikai suffered two losses in Handan. This time, he made up his mind to 'suppress the bandits'. He was determined to eat the weight and didn't cry when he didn't see the coffin. He had to put us to death... Yuan Shikai has now come to the door, and the general asked to attack first!

Commander Lin received the order and didn't sleep for a few days. Do we dare to fight? How to fight? Are you sure? No one can explain what the result is now.

I just said that the marshal asked us to take the initiative, because he had already made a judgment and estimate of the situation. In a word, this war must be fought.

The situation is grim, and there are only three futures in front of us: first, defeat Yuan Shikai to liberate all of China; second, both sides lose and can't stand each other; third, we lose and go back to Taihang Mountain to fight guerrilla. What kind of future we want to strive for depends on ourselves!"

The words are in the heart of everyone. Many finger fighters who came out of the Taihang base knew the taste of fighting guerrillas in Taihang Mountain with small bags on their backs in the past.

When leaving the venue, no one spoke. However, when the companies discussed after the meeting, everyone spoke enthusiastically and expressed their determination to strive for the first future and avoid the second future, and never be allowed to embark on the third future.

After the swearing-in conference, Lin Tiechang and Ji Yulin led the main force to leave the north of Henan and advanced to the southwest of Shandong at a speed of wind and lightning.

At the beginning of the war, the situation was very serious. The Beiyang Army has a great advantage in military and economic power. The old foundation of Beiyang is there, and it has received great military and financial assistance from the British government.

In contrast, the National Revolutionary Army is a newly built army with a thin foundation. Although the population of Hubei District is 100 million, many areas have just begun land reform, and the southwest rear is not very consolidated.

In this sinister situation, the Beiyang reactionaries attempted to first eliminate the Central Plains National Revolutionary Army, then capture southern Jiangxi, and then attack Hubei, hoping to solve the Guannei problem in 3 months, at most 6 months, and then solve the northwest problem, and finally eliminate the Kuomintang revolutionary army and destroy the Hubei region.

The enemy implemented the above strategic plan by relying on several major arteries on Jinpu Road, Longhai Road and Jinghan Road.

Lin Tiechang and Ji Yulin are anxious. Li Xiang gave them a rather heavy task. In order to force the Beiyang Army, which besieged and chased the troops of the Central Plains Military Region, he planned to focus the battle of the Jin-Hebei Luyu Field Army on Xuzhou and Kaifeng section of Longhai Road in the east of Henan, and strategically mobilize and annihilate the enemy.

In Li Xiang's words, "Our hammer must first hit the large artery of Yuan Shikai to launch a comprehensive counterattack - the Longhai Line! Disturb the deployment and timetable of the enemy's counterattack!"

The Longhai Line is the lifeline of the Beiyang Army from the Army Department to Central China, the Central Plains and the southeast. The troops are transported by it, and the supplies depend on its turnover. In order to protect this lifeline, the enemy was equipped with heavy soldiers in a depth of 60 or 70 miles, with strongholds, ditches and walls everywhere, and sent many troops to patrol. There are also armored cars and pressure cars on the railway line, and the defense is very tight.

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In the hot summer in eastern Henan, Lin Tiechang and Ji Yulin led three columns. They crossed the old road of the Yellow River with magical movements and suddenly attacked the enemy on the front of Kaifeng to Xuzhou on Longhai Road. In just two days, it took Lanfeng, Sanyijia, Luo Wang, Li Zhuangji, Yangzhuang, Liu Diquan, Liuheji, Liba, Pheasant Gang and other station strongholds in Kaifeng and Xuzhou sections, annihilated more than 5,000 enemies, and controlled and destroyed more than 150 kilometers of railways.

On the enemy's main artery, Lin and Ji's army controlled 150 kilometers of railway, which greatly shocked the enemy's army.

A brigade of the 5th Division of the Beiyang Army sent troops to the west; the 6th Division was assisted by Kaifeng East; in addition, Yuan Shikai was transferred back to the 3rd Division, 11th Division and 17th Division from the team chasing the breakthrough troops of the Central Plains Military Region, and rushed to Kaifeng.

Lin Tiechang and Ji Yulin took advantage of the enemy's reinforcements. On the one hand, they restrained the enemy, on the other hand, they conquered the two cities of Qixian and Tongxu. The camera captured Chen Liu, and then took Yucheng, Dangshan and other places, which caught the enemy off guard and was worried.

At this time, the enemy in the west arrived at Kaifeng and Xinxiang, and the enemy in the east reached Dangshan and Xiayi, trying to attack Lin Tiechang and Ji Yulin's army from east to west. In this case, Lin Tiechang and Ji Yulin commanded their troops to retreat to the north of Longhai Road in time.

Longhai battle, five battles and five victories, victory is over.