In addition, Guo Zhuocheng also talked to Mr. Lin and Mr. Peng about new weapons such as radars, rocket launchers, recoilless artillery, etc., so that they would have a simple concept in their minds so that they would not be confused when they have these things in the future. I don¡¯t know how to use them at all, let alone how to better utilize them. The sooner they have an impression and concept in their minds, the sooner they can think about how to make the troops more effective.
Just as they were hurrying towards Chongqing, the tax police regiment sent by Chiang Kai-shek had already established its headquarters in Fengjie County.
The four words "tax police headquarters" can easily confuse people. If they only look at these four words, people will definitely fall into confusion and think that this "tax police headquarters" is only one regiment after all. At most, it is more than the strengthened regiment. As for the size of more than two groups? However, it actually has six regiments, which is much larger than a division. Moreover, these six regiments are still six regiments in name. Each regiment is stronger than ordinary regiments. Each regiment actually has more than 5,000 combatants, which is far larger than the size of other army regiments.
Its regiment has a very large organization: there are fourteen soldiers in each squad, six squads are one platoon, and three platoons are one company. Each company has a total of 252 people, which is equivalent to two companies of the Class A regular army. A battalion has four companies, and a regiment has three battalions, and is also equipped with three to seven special companies.
Because this tax police group has a total strength of more than 30,000 people, which is enough to be the size of a group army. The central leadership of the Red Army plans to build three strategic armies, and their number is only planned to be around 30,000 people. It is not yet known how long it will take to complete the formation.
This is only in terms of numbers of people. This tax police corps is most powerful in two aspects: first, it has the best weapons and equipment, even for Chiang Kai-shek's guard troops. The best training regiment of the Central Army is only as equipped as the tax police corps. Second, this unit is trained by German active-duty officers. Many of its senior officers have been trained in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It can be said that they have been exposed to modern military thinking, far exceeding their domestic counterparts.
It can be said that this tax police group is definitely an existence that cannot be ignored, and it is also the best trump card in Jiang Jieshi's hand now.
For the convenience of command. In order to win over the officers and soldiers of the Tax Police Corps, Jiang Gaishi directly gave them the designations of three brigades and directly integrated the original six regiments into three brigades. These middle and senior officers were promoted one level. Those who were originally at the battalion level were naturally promoted to the regiment level, and those at the company level were promoted to the battalion level.
For a time, the morale of the tax police group was greatly boosted, but Song Ziwen, the backstage boss of this unit, was a little unhappy. It felt like the troops he had worked so hard to build would be taken away so easily by Chiang Kai-shek.
Maybe it¡¯s to give Song Ziwen face. Or maybe the officers and soldiers still have a lot of nostalgia for the Tax Police Corps. They did not change the Tax Police Corps to the division headquarters, but still called the Tax Police Corps. Its top officer was not called division commander, but still called the commander of the regiment.
After the personnel of the Tax Police Headquarters arrived in Fengjie County, head of the General Headquarters Huang Jie first confirmed that Liangshan County in front was still under the control of the Sichuan Army, so he immediately held a combat meeting to convey Chiang Kai-shek's telegram. Deployment on the one hand.
Obviously, Huang Jie did a lot of preparation work during this period with the help of the German government advisory group, so that it was not long after the meeting was held. He ordered Zhao Junmai, commander of the cavalry regiment, to lead the cavalry regiment as the vanguard of the general regiment, advance along the road along the bank of the Yangtze River, enter Liangshan County, camp and rest, waiting for the large army. He ordered the commander of the first brigade, He Shaozhou, to be the first echelon, and the commander of the second brigade, Wang Gongliang, to be the second echelon. He personally led the brigade directly under him (brigade commander Sun Liren), and the troops directly under the general regiment and the gathered Sichuan army followed suit.
A group of generals were sitting at the conference table, listening to Huang Jie, the high-spirited and energetic head of the general regiment, saying with high spirits: "Brothers, the Communist bandits shamelessly attacked Chongqing, which does not show how powerful they are. Even the Xue Yue Corps Being defeated by the Communist bandits does not mean anything. We are the tax corps, and our weapons and equipment are the best among all the Chinese corps. We are well-trained, and we should have this confidence. As long as our army moves quickly and attacks resolutely, As long as we can attack Chongqing before the reinforcements of the Communist bandits arrive, these hateful Communist bandits will inevitably collapse. By then, the prestige of our tax police headquarters will be revealed, and we will have our own territory to eat meat and drink soup."
An officer who had just been promoted from battalion commander to regiment commander immediately said loudly: "Report to the commander of the regiment, Chongqing is in danger. Fengdu County is an important stronghold for our army to march westward. I request that our regiment be the vanguard and seize Fengdu immediately." All counties and cities will cover the westward march of the army."
Huang Jie admires this kind of fierce general. Now there is an atmosphere of failure in the Central Army. Many senior officers have a fear when talking about Guo Zhuocheng. Although the leader in front of him may not really have the courage to go deep alone, his courage is commendable and can greatly improve morale, so he said: "Okay! These are the people of the tax police headquarters. We must have the mentality to despise everything in the world. But , this time again byZhao Junmai's cavalry regiment took the lead, and it was much faster if they served as the vanguard. "
Having said this, he turned to Zhao Junmai and said: "Captain Zhao, you must have the invincible spirit and the courage to take on the task of attacking and seizing the pass. Now the county seat of Liangshan County is still in the hands of our Sichuan Army, but the situation in Fengdu has changed." There is nothing to be optimistic about. The telegrams sent by the Sichuan Army there are very suspicious. I wonder if they were captured by the Communist bandits and sent fake telegrams. Therefore, after you arrive at the county seat of Liangshan County, you must conduct a careful inspection and search to confirm that there is no danger before reporting to the police. Advance to Fengdu County. Our entire division is following up. Don¡¯t panic when you encounter communist bandits. If you feel that the opponent is strong, block them on the spot and wait for our reinforcements."
Zhao Junmai, the commander of the cavalry regiment, quickly reported: "Excuse me, commander of the regiment, if we encounter harassment by communist bandits on the road, should our troops rush over and penetrate directly into Fengdu County, or should we search for the enemy and cover the main force?"
Huang Jie rolled his eyes and scolded: "Stupid! Of course we are going straight into Fengdu County. Are our tax police headquarters still afraid of being harassed by a small number of enemies? Now we are not afraid of enemy interception, but we are afraid that the enemy will know that our troops have arrived. Immediately after the news, they fled, fled into the city of Chongqing to hide, and used the city fortifications to deal with us, and we were in trouble! We must strive to eliminate them outside Chongqing! Do you understand? Do you all understand?"
"Yes! I understand the humble position!" Zhao Junmai replied loudly.
The other officers all stood up and answered: "I understand your humble position!"
Huang Jie waved his hand: "The meeting is adjourned! All units will take action immediately according to the deployment just now."
"Yes!" the officers shouted loudly.
It must be said that the morale of the tax police headquarters is high and everyone is full of confidence in winning.
You must know that it is not a trivial matter to set off an army of tens of thousands of people, especially since their army has high logistics requirements, and the Shu Road is notoriously difficult to pass. Even if they have trucks, it is difficult to pass, and they can only use or Rented or robbed horses, donkeys, etc. were used for transportation, or migrant workers were used to move the goods. Fortunately, the tax police regiment has strict military orders, is well-trained, and the morale of the soldiers is high. Therefore, soon after Huang Jie's order was issued, not only the cavalry regiment as the forward force was assembled, but other troops were also ready.
Soon, the troops began to set off, forming a long snake formation on the rugged Shu Road, winding and moving westward.
While they were moving, the main force of the First Division of the Directly Affiliated Column of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army led by Chen Peng also arrived at Longjiagou in Fengdu County to wait.
It has to be said that Huang Jie's premonition was still very accurate. He found clues from the telegram and felt that Fengdu County was not in the hands of the Sichuan Army now and might have fallen into the hands of the Red Army.
In fact, not only did Fengdu County fall into the hands of the Red Army, but the outskirts of Fengdu County were also occupied by the Red Army one by one. In Longjiagou, about ten kilometers east of the county seat, Chen Peng had long been interested in ambushing the tax police headquarters. place.
The terrain here is not dangerous, and there are no narrow mountain roads where you can ambush. Logically speaking, this is not a good place for an ambush. The reason why Chen Peng chose this place is because it has a huge trumpet and a relatively flat area, which is enough for tens of thousands of troops from the tax police corps to spread out to fight. It can give the tax police corps a fair chance to fight, and it is even more so. In order to give Mr. Lin and Mr. Peng a chance to experience infantry and artillery coordination.
In order to be fair, Chen Peng did not send troops here before, let alone build a position here in advance. It was not until this morning that he occupied Fengdu County and pulled his troops here to wait for the tax police headquarters.
Fengdu County has a very important strategic location and is the eastern gateway to Chongqing. In order to protect this eastern gateway and leave a bridgehead for the Tax Police Corps to attack and recapture Chongqing, the Sichuan Army deployed two regiments of heavy troops here and also hoarded a lot of food and ammunition
In the early morning of the 24th, Su Daqing, commander of the second regiment of the first division of the direct column, personally led his troops to the south gate of Fengdu County.
Fengdu County was shrouded in mist early in the morning. Those fishermen who had stayed up all night fishing in the Yangtze River were waiting at the door early, anxious to make the first progress so that they could catch the fish last night. Send it to the vegetable market, sell it earlier, and go home earlier to eat and sleep.
The earlier the fish is sold, the fresher the fish will be, and the price will naturally be more negotiable. Because everyone wanted to enter the city earlier, everyone inevitably crowded with each other and made noises at the city gate. Some simply opened the city gate array and told about last night's fishing and the strange things they encountered while fishing. They talked about the situation around them, especially in Chongqing, because they all knew that Chongqing was now occupied by the red bandits who cannibalize people without blinking an eye. They were all worried and wondered why the red bandits were silent. Some people were whispering that maybe the communist bandits were coming. It's better. Who knows if the official is a liar? In his opinion, there are probably very few armies that can be worse than the Sichuan Army
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