The right column outflanks Haizishan
According to the deployment of the Central Revolutionary Committee, the First Red Division and the cadre regiment rushed towards Luding City.
The 1st Red Division moved up the river, and the 2nd Red Regiment, as the vanguard, arrived at the Angle Dam by the Dadu River on the afternoon of the 27th.
However, as early as three days ago, the 20th Regiment of the 5th Brigade of the 24th Army of the Sichuan Army (regiment commander Xiao Shaocheng) had arrived at the Angle Dam and built a defense line on the spot.
This is the only way to Luding City, so Xiao Tuan must be eliminated before they can move forward.
"Bang bang bang..."
"Da da da......"
Facing the Xiao regiment, which had a similar strength to his own, Commander Liu did not hesitate at all. After checking the terrain, he ordered an attack.
Since the enemy arrived three days earlier, a large number of fortifications had been built on the Angle Dam.
But this is not difficult for Captain Liu.
After crossing the Jinsha River, under the guidance of Commander Geng, he was equipped with a batch of grenade launchers provided by Yang Dingguo, and carried a large amount of ammunition without affecting the marching speed. For this reason, he also specially set up a A grenade platoon.
Now, wouldn't that come in handy.
"Let the grenades line up and take out all the enemy's firepower points!"
"yes!"
Following Commander Liu's order, the grenade began to show its power.
"Boom boom boom..."
Artillery shells fell into the Sichuan Army's position one after another, knocking them off their feet. Each firepower point was named and pulled out. The Sichuan Army had no countermeasures at all.
Immediately afterwards, the Second Red Regiment charged and took down the dipping dam.
"Run, the Red Army's firepower is too fierce, how can we win?"
"If you don't run, it will be too late. The leader will be far away."
""Son, this bitch is really a coward. When he first joined the league, the employees thought he was crazy-looking. "
"You dull guy, why are there so many criticisms? Run away!"
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Xiao Tuan was defeated and fled, finally picking up the remaining troops on Wanggangping Mountain, and then fled towards Yingjing.
The Red Army's combat effectiveness greatly exceeded Xiao Shaocheng's expectations, and he did not dare to fight against the Red Army now.
In this way, the Second Red Regiment easily occupied the dipping dam and camped here that night.
28th.
The Second Red Regiment began to march after breakfast early in the morning.
At this time, it started to rain heavily, but fortunately the road was not greatly affected. The Red Regiment took the time to brave the rain and climbed a large mountain (Zhongnan Mountain) that was thirty miles up and down.
Then we passed through Yusaping and Hongkou, repelling the attacks of the Sichuan Army and Militia Group again and again along the way, and finally reached the point of entry at dusk.
"Crash..."
It rained harder after dark, and the road became muddy due to the rainwater. When you step on it, there will be a pit. The road is slippery and difficult to walk on. The enemy is heavily guarding the pass ahead.
The enemy has been waiting for work, and now he has the right time and place to launch an attack without authorization, which will only cause a large number of casualties.
We had no choice but to camp on the spot that night.
Morning of the 29th.
The Second Red Regiment came into contact with the enemy Yang Kai at Fengzang, five miles away. The Red Army defeated the enemy and pursued them all the way to the dangerous pass of Shimenkan at the foot of Haizi Mountain.
The terrain of Shimenkan Pass is dangerous, with the turbulent Dadu River on the left and cliffs on the right. The enemy Yang Kai formed a group to defend this dangerous place.
The Red Army troops were divided into two groups. Xiao Hua led the main force of the Second Regiment to launch a fierce attack on the enemy's Wu Gangling Camp at Shimenkan in front of Haizi Mountain;
On the other hand, Deng Hua led the second battalion to attack the enemy's back and seize the highest point of Haizi Mountain.
At the same time, the Red Army on the other side provided fire support.
The enemy was attacked from three sides and suffered heavy casualties.
"Da da da......"
"Bang bang bang..."
"Boom boom boom..."
The sound of gunfire echoed through the sky, and the Sichuan Army's combat effectiveness was quite tenacious, but in general the Second Red Regiment had the upper hand.
From morning to noon, the Red Army fought fiercely with the Zeng Zipei Battalion of the Yang Regiment at the front line of Shimenkan Xiaozhaizi. The Zeng Battalion suffered heavy casualties and had to retreat around the Wu Camp position through the trail under Haizi Mountain.
Wu Gangling urgently sent people to Longbapu to ask for help from the brigade commander Yuan Guorui.
Yuan sent a pistol company to reinforce.
Don't underestimate this pistol company. Their more than 100 people are all equipped with box cannons, and their firepower is no weaker than that of a regular battalion.
At the same time, the First Division of the Third Red Regiment arrived just in time and joined the battle directly.
With the arrival of reinforcements, the soldiers' courage doubled.
Attack the enemy from the front and side.
Even with the support, the Sichuan army was still defeated by the Red Army. They were beaten and retreated, and they had to retreat to Longbabu.
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Around 16:00 in the afternoon.
After the 1st Red Division defeated the enemy defenders at Haizishan, it split into two groups near Shen Village. One group was led by Division Commander Li and launched an attack on the headquarters of the enemy's 4th Brigade in Longbapu.
Enemy brigade commander Yuan Guorui saw that he could not resist, so he led the remnants of Yang Regiment to retreat towards Yanshui River and Hualinping.
The Red Army occupied Yanyan Creek early the next morning;
The other route continued along the east bank of the Dadu River towards Luding Bridge, and arrived at Luding Bridge at 22:00 that night.
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The results for the left column on the other side were also good.
The vanguard of the left column of the Red Army was the Fourth Regiment of the Second Red Division.
In the previous battle, Commander Geng was injured and had to go to the rear to recuperate. Commander Wang is now in charge.
May 27th.
The Fourth Red Regiment traveled 40 miles north of the river and arrived at Haierwa (now Xinmin Township in Shimian County).
Due to constant shooting from the enemy on the other side, the trail along the river could not be passed, so we had to take a detour to Yeping.
At noon, the Red Army arrived at the foot of Bodhisattva Hill.
Bodhisattva Hill is a steep mountain located in the northeast of Tianwanchang, Shimian County today, with an altitude of 1,200 meters. It looks like a stone wall blocking the road to Luding.
The right side of the mountain is close to the Tianwan River and there is no way around it. The left side is connected to another high mountain. There is only a steep path like a ladder leading to the pass on the front.
Before the arrival of the Red Army, Xiao Yu, commander of the third battalion of the first regiment of the second brigade of the Chuankang Reclamation Command under Liu Wenhui, led two companies of recruits to garrison here.
Since his subordinates were all new soldiers, in order to resist the incoming Red Army, Battalion Commander Xiao asked them to stop training early and began to build bunkers day and night, hoping to stop the Red Army with a large number of fortifications.
"Da da da......"
Here, as soon as the Red Army arrived at the foot of the mountain, the machine guns in the bunkers on the mountain opened fire.
"Bang bang bang..."
Not to be outdone, the Red Army immediately launched a counterattack.
But soon, Commander Wang ordered the attack to stop and the soldiers to retreat.
With the large number of bunkers and the enemy's condescending position, a frontal attack would only cause a large number of unprovoked casualties.
For a while, the two sides formed a confrontation.
While thinking about how to break the situation, Political Commissar Yang suddenly remembered something.
He said hurriedly: "I remembered that when we were at Anshun Field, Dingguo supported us with ten 82 mortars. We have been marching for the past two days. I didn't think about it for a while, but now it comes in handy!"
Good news!
Commander Wang hurriedly ordered the soldiers to build artillery positions and prepare to bombard the enemy positions.
The Red Army also had artillery units before.
After throwing all the large-caliber artillery into the Chishui River, the artillerymen dispersed into various regiments. Therefore, it was not difficult to find some soldiers who knew how to fire artillery.
Soon, the artillery position was constructed, and the muzzles of ten 82 mortars were pointed at Bodhisattva Hill.
"fire!"
"Boom boom boom..."
Following Commander Wang's order, 10 82 mortars roared angrily, and one shell after another continued to fall into the Sichuan Army's position on Bodhisattva Hill.
Everywhere the fortifications were blown down.
There is a saying that goes, recruits are afraid of cannons, veterans are afraid of machine guns.
The soldiers of these two companies of the Sichuan Army were all new recruits, but one round of shelling destroyed them all and they fled in all directions.
The defeat was decided, and Battalion Commander Xiao didn't even bother to gather his defeated troops and ran away.
In this way, the Fourth Red Regiment easily captured Bodhisattva Hill.
Then they continued to pursue the enemy's defeated troops until evening, from Bodhisattva Hill to Shiyueping.
Then they stopped pursuing and camped where they were. They traveled eighty miles that day.
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