In August 1932, the Red Third Army, which was active in the Western Soviet Region of Xiang'e, decided to take the initiative to attack the enemy in order to crush the "encirclement and suppression" of Chiang Kai-shek's army.
At that time, the Red Third Army had a pistol team, and the captain was a fierce general who could recruit good warriors, that is, He Bingyan, the founding general who was later famous.
According to the instructions of the commander of the Red Third Army, the Red Seventh Division and the Red Eighth Division attacked Shashi and Caoshi respectively. He Bingyan received the order to lead the pistol brigade to serve as a guard in the area east of Caoshi, and to respond to and support the Red Eighth Division at any time.
Although the pistol brigade is called "brigade", in fact, there are not many people, only about 100 members.
However, most of these team members are veterans who have been in the battlefield for a long time, and their combat effectiveness is not bad.
In terms of weapons, the pistol brigade had a shell gun in hand and was equipped with more than a dozen submachine guns that were scarce at the time.
It is no exaggeration to say that this small force is equivalent to the "Guards" of the Red Army.
On August 13, the fighting launched by the Red Army officially began, but the two attacking forces made very different progress.
The Red Seventh Division fought against the enemy in Shashi, and faced with the enemy's strong fortifications and sophisticated weapons, it was very difficult to open up the situation.
The Red Eighth Division, on the other hand, fought relatively well, capturing Caoshi in one fell swoop that afternoon, killing and wounding more than 500 enemy prisoners, and capturing a considerable amount of weapons and ammunition.
When they learned that the Red Eighth Division had won the battle, He Bingyan and the pistol team members were of course overjoyed, and just as they were celebrating the victory, they suddenly heard the rapid sound of gunfire coming from the direction of Caoshi.
He Fuyan couldn't help but wonder in his heart: Isn't the battle over? How did the gunshots sound again?
At this moment, I saw more than a dozen Red Army soldiers rushing from the grass market, looking a little flustered.
He Bingyan waved his hand and immediately led the pistol brigade to meet him, asking while running: "What is the panic!" What's going on ahead? How did it start fighting again? ”
Several of the warriors gasped and replied, "Not good! A large number of enemies have come from Jingzhou..."
Some people also said: "There are enemies in Jingzhou in the front and caoshi in the back, and our Red Eighth Division is now being attacked by the enemy from front to back..."
"Don't panic, come and destroy as much as you want!" He Bingyan was excited instead, and immediately gathered the team members to run to the grass market.
Half an hour ago, the Red Eighth Division had already annihilated hundreds of enemies stationed in Caoshi, so why did another enemy run out?
Originally, Caoshi was a market town with access in all directions, with lakes on the east, south and north sides, and Jingzhou City in the west.
After the Red Eighth Division launched an attack on Caoshi, it was fighting fiercely with the enemy, but it did not expect that there were two companies of enemies on the east side of the town. When they heard the gunshots, they immediately hid in a squeezing mill on the east side of the town.
The commanders and fighters of the Red Eighth Division thought that the enemies in the town had been destroyed, so they were busy cleaning up the battlefield and counting the booty, unaware of the existence of the enemy's two companies.
Not long after, the enemy in Jingzhou City rushed to reinforce Caoshi and launched a counterattack against the Red Eighth Division from the west of the town. At that time, He Bingyan's pistol brigade was on guard in the east of the town, so he did not notice.
Because the enemy came too quickly, the Red Eighth Division was caught off guard, and the situation was very passive.
What's worse was that the two company enemies hiding in the town also ran out after hearing the movement, which was equivalent to blocking the retreat of the Red Eighth Division, and the situation took a sharp turn for the worse!
Qin Su, commander of the Red Eighth Division, did not have many troops around him at that time, so he could only let the guard company intercept the enemy who pounced on zhendong, so as to open the way to the east.
Because the enemy was outnumbered, the guard company could not stop the enemy, and more than a dozen soldiers were killed or wounded.
At this time, the enemy of Jingzhou was pressing forward step by step in the west of the town, and the east was blocked by those two companies, and the Red Eighth Division was attacked by the enemy in the abdomen, and the situation was extremely critical!
At this moment, He Bingyan led the pistol brigade to arrive on horseback and rushed from behind the two companies of enemy troops.
This enemy was getting carried away, and did not expect to be counter-encircled by the Red Army, and was suddenly panicked.
Caught between the guards and the pistol brigade, the enemies of the two companies were defeated and fled.
Qin Su saw that He Bingyan had come to reinforcements, and shouted happily: "Captain He, your savior has come in time!" ”
He Bingyan pointed to the west with his hand and replied in a loud voice: "Commander Qin, the enemy over there is about to pounce, you immediately move eastward, and our pistol brigade is responsible for cover!" ”
Then, he rushed west with his men to block the enemy who had come to reinforcements from Jingzhou.
They had just run less than three hundred meters when they encountered an enemy coming from the west, and the two sides immediately engaged in a fierce battle.
Although the Jingzhou aid enemy had an absolute superiority in strength, they became more and more panicked in the face of the brave and fierce attack of the Red Army's pistol brigade.
He Bingyan led the team members to make a fierce attack on the enemy, and then intercepted the enemy with the houses on the town street, dragging them to death.
It was not until dusk that He Bingyan learned that the Red Eighth Division had been successfully transferred, so he took the pistol brigade and fired a false shot and evacuated Caoshi.
After the battle, the commander of the Red Army praised He Bingyan for his decisiveness and bravery, led a hundred or so people to rescue the whole division, was a full-fledged fierce general, and commended the pistol brigade to the whole army.