Chapter Thirty-Three: Gathering of Heroes
The report of the Nationalist Party's Xijing Daily finally made it clear to everyone where the main force of the 25th Red Army was going! Northward! Consolidate the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border region, march north to welcome the Party Central Committee - a great and glorious task! However, everyone felt somewhat regretful about this. Although this task is very important and significant, after all, they had just abandoned the newly established Eyu-Shaan border region, which left everyone sighing in dismay.
Especially those who have experienced the grandeur of the past, when they see the cat in the corner, quietly disassembling and cleaning its well-preserved revolver, they are at a loss for words. Should they offer comfort? Consolation? The endless sighs and melancholy make the 228 squad's meeting gloomy and stifling. The smoke created by the old smokers lingers in the air above the roof, reluctant to disperse, with a hint of helplessness and nostalgia...
It wasn't until several days later that the guard of the long-lost political commissar of the Third Route Guerrilla Regiment appeared before everyone, stumbling along, with a dark and dusty face, and tattered clothes. It was then that they received the long-awaited letter left behind by the 25th Army Military Commission and Provincial Committee! After more than a month had passed, people finally understood what the Military Commission and Provincial Committee meant: the two Special Committees were merged into the Hubei-Henan-Shaanxi Special Committee, and all the guerrilla troops gathered together to form the 74th Regiment! Strengthening the main force of the Red Army!
As for the captain of the special agent team that killed the political commissar of the Third Route Guerrilla Regiment and betrayed the revolution, people naturally had boundless hatred! But more was their sighs about recent events! If they could have received the letter from the Provincial Committee and Military Commission a little earlier, things wouldn't have been so tortuous! And there wouldn't have been so many good comrades sacrificed!
After several months of guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare, the Soviet area has recovered a lot in the mountainous areas of Shanyang County! Many local Soviet governments have started working again with the help and support of armed work teams led by Gao Guanzhong. This armed work team was established by Gao Guanzhong based on the model of the Wugong Team during the Anti-Japanese War, supplemented by a large number of landmines made of black gunpowder, as well as the construction of turtle caves, small tunnels and storage tunnels in each village.
Known as the "Three Treasures" of the Red Base Area, the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, landmines, and tunnels were established under the auspices of Gao Quan. However, this effect is really not bad. In the past, every time the enemy's armed forces came to suppress us, those masses and Soviet district cadres all had to be transferred. Not to mention the many losses in terms of pots and pans, but the impact on the people's livelihood was significant. If the enemy's siege lasted for a month or two, then everyone couldn't even plant their land! Many times they couldn't even eat rice!
The ordinary people who can't live a stable life will naturally have complaints and their support for the Red Army won't be as enthusiastic as before. However, at least now when facing the enemy's attacks with hundreds of soldiers, it doesn't affect the ordinary people's lives at all. The roads that were dug up, the trenches everywhere, the landmines buried all over the place, plus some broken iron pieces misleading them. Although it only slows down the enemy's actions a bit when facing the Nationalist Party's engineering troops; but it's still better than letting the enemy's small troops make the Soviet area chaotic like before.
Especially the small troops of hundreds of people, the enemy's nemesis, secretly infiltrated the Soviet area and were immediately annihilated. The enemy was also afraid to advance and eliminate the Soviet area. Therefore, the 228th Regiment only needed to worry when facing an enemy force at the regimental level, jumping to the outside line to threaten the enemy's county town and other important targets, attracting the enemy to return and reinforce. And when facing forces below this level, they were either completely eliminated or driven back to the mountains!
Looking at the increasingly prosperous Soviet area, and the increasingly stable life of the common people, facing a Soviet area that can still hold on for a short time without the main force troops. After arranging various harassment troops, salt and oil smuggling troops, and confidential matters related to the Soviet area, he led the main force troops out of the mountainous area, heading west to find the Henan-Shaanxi Special Committee.
Actually, putting down the newly stabilized Soviet area, Gaoquan's heart was also very reluctant. However, the task of restoring the Soviet area and developing the Soviet area has already reached a bottleneck stage! The barren land in the mountainous area made it difficult to support nearly 20,000 people, a main force army of over 1,000 people who had completely abandoned production, as well as a large number of semi-abandoned workers' and peasants' Red Guards. It was hard to make great progress without leaving. In Gaoquan's plan, the mountainous area would be a temporary refuge and most solid rear in the future, a peaceful home. But it was on the plains that the troops could develop!
Moreover, the development and growth of the Soviet area is now facing the heavy siege of the Kuomintang. One regiment, two regiments can still barely resist, fight guerrilla warfare, attack the enemy's rear, mobilize the enemy to return to reinforce, but if the enemy gathers one division, two divisions to press on all fronts in the future, this will be a devastating blow like Mount Tai crushing!
So the troops must develop and expand! The Yu-Shaan Special Committee and its subordinate guerrilla forces are one of the seeds for the development and expansion of the main force in the Soviet area! Moreover, it is also necessary to find a larger and better Soviet area to provide long-term supplies for the troops!
Looking at those who were reluctant to leave, with a strong peasant consciousness, they couldn't bear to put down the small Soviet area established in the mountainous area. Gao Quan was so angry and happy that he cried and laughed: "Are you going to come back in a few days? Will this land, this Soviet area disappear? Are we a team that can't fight without an inner line? Have we forgotten that we were once a large group of guerrillas who wandered around without a base, without even a place to fall? Can't we forget our roots like this?! Besides, we're not not coming back!..." Gao Quan finally managed to persuade the bunch of hooligans to leave the small Soviet area near Shanyang County.
While under the enemy's heavy siege, with less than 400 people left in the Yu-Shaan Provincial Committee, at a time of life and death crisis, they also thought about going east to find the E-Shaan Special Committee! The Kuomintang's heavy siege, the dense enemy troops in the mountainous area, daily and nightly battles, lack of supplies, lack of ammunition, and even many times without a stable source of intelligence, often the enemy was on the mountain while the Yu-Shaan Special Committee led the troops at the foot of the mountain; A crisis that is both critical and helpless, testing the special committee secretary's tense nerves time and again!
However, recently according to news from the newspaper, the 28th Regiment's successive victories, the wanted poster of Gao Quan's head, and the Red Army's mighty momentum have inspired countless soldiers' hearts. Advance eastward! Everyone has a common aspiration: to find the E-Yu Special Committee and its troops as soon as possible, to find the renowned Gao Quan, to find the kind-hearted Wei Lao, and to find a Soviet base area where one can sleep soundly!
The two troops unexpectedly met, and everyone was overjoyed and hot-blooded! After driving away the small enemy forces, the comrades of Yu-Shaan Special Committee, after eating the sumptuous meal specially arranged by Gao Quan, fell asleep peacefully, having a long-awaited good dream. Outside were their fellow comrades who shared life and death with them, keeping watch!
A force of over 1,400 men, more than 1,400 soldiers who had just transformed from guerrilla troops to regular forces, a group of tattered and poorly equipped vagabond troops, a group composed of young people and young leaders. Two bronze cannons, one heavy machine gun with not many bullets, twelve Czech-made rifles that were very particular about bullets, and a large pile of miscellaneous, disorganized, and different models of rifles with incompatible bullets! Most soldiers lacked good combat skills and willpower, and there was also the encirclement and suppression by the enemy's seven county militia and four regiments of regular army. This is the difficulty that Gao Quan and others are currently facing.
He, already the commander of the 74th Division, had to face these difficulties personally, as well as those sitting next to him: Wei Lao, secretary of the E Yu Shan Special Committee, Li Zheng, political commissar of the division, Chen, deputy commander, and Fang, chief of staff. There was no grand hall, no supreme authority, just a group of young men with hot blood discussing the difficult prospects for the troops in the future.
Chapter one, let's see if I can make up for yesterday's chapter tomorrow.
There's also an exam this week
It should be worth everyone's expectation
