At the beginning of 1935, after the Long March of the Red Army entered Guizhou, it fought a very beautiful battle, that is, the Battle of Zunyi, in which the Red Army won the weak victory over the strong, turning passive into active, and from then on the Central Red Army began a series of victories.
At that time, the enemy judged that the Red Army was going to cross the Yangtze River in the north and hurriedly sent troops to intercept it; who knew that the Red Army was unexpected, and waved its division to the east to attack the Wang Jialiebu of the Qianjun Army, which had the weakest combat effectiveness, to take the initiative to destroy the enemy with a movement battle, and then to cross the Red River back to Zunyi.
The time came to attack, and in an instant, the towering Loushan Pass was filled with gunfire and smoke, and the shouts of killing and military trumpets shook the earth. For many years, Deng Ping developed such a command habit in the war: he wanted to personally see how each combat plan was transformed from a Red Army soldier into a reality; he wanted to personally discover problems on the position, solve problems, and be with the soldiers who charged the battlefield at all times. Despite the persuasion of his comrades around him, he has been directing the battle in a position full of bullets. When he saw the enemy abandoning his position and fleeing in all directions, he could not help but shout loudly: "Comrades rush! Chase! Go to Zunyi and capture Wang Jialie alive! That night, the Red Third Army took Loushan Pass. In this way, the Red Third Army broke through the bamboo and seized zunyi new city and villages on the edge of the city.
Zunyi City was divided into a new city and an old city at that time. The new city is in the east, with no walls; the old city is in the west, with inner and outer walls, with a river as the dividing line. At dusk that day, Chief of Staff Deng Ping braved the enemy's gunfire and bullets to lead his troops to the forward position outside the north gate of the old city of Zunyi. After first placing the troops, they hid in the grass on a small dirt slope 50 meters away from the moat, and they had to find a route that would facilitate the forward movement of the troops, so that when night fell, they could launch a general attack and ensure the victory of the recapture of Zunyi.
What people did not expect was that when Deng Ping, chief of staff, was concentrating on observing the enemy's situation, he was discovered by the enemy, and a row of bullets swept over, and Deng Ping died heroically, only 27 years old. Deng Ping, chief of staff of the Third Red Army, became the supreme general of the Red Army who died during the Long March. The enemy troops defending the old city killed a regiment under Wang Jialie, chief of staff Deng Ping, plus some regimental members of the militia regiment.
Wang Jialie, Guizhou Tongzi people, born in the Han family, after graduating from primary school because they could not afford to pay tuition, they dropped out of school at a young age, they followed adults from Songkan to Zunyi to carry salt for a living, Guizhou is full of mountains, the road is steep, the back salt is a very hard energy work, carrying heavy salt, carrying a wooden stick to go far, the bluestone paved road is chiseled out of the pit by the coolie sticks, so after he became the king of Guizhou, people often say that Wang Jialie carries salt, and the strength is quite large!
Guizhou, since the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Tang Jiyao into Qian, Governor Qian, has always been a warlord division, self-unification, the real Shangao Emperor far away from the place, this place despite the warlords' fierce infighting, factional tilting, but compared with other provinces, still maintain relative independence.
Wang Jialie originally belonged to a small warlord who was divided at that time, and basically had no reputation, only because when the Red Army passed by his territory during the Long March, he actually fought a war with the Red Army, thus entering the annals of history and making us know this person today. From 1933, when he was in his forties, he became the director of the Guizhou Kuomintang Provincial Party Steering Committee, the chairman of Guizhou Province, and the commander of the 25th Army of the National Revolutionary Army, holding the party, government and military power in one hand, so he was known as the King of Guizhou.
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In particular, Wang Jialie's vulnerable "double-gun soldiers" have left us with deep memories, in the late Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic, Guizhou was very poor at that time, what did the local people rely on to make money? Grow big tobacco, sell tobacco soil for various taxes, and use it as a subsidy for the government or the military. At that time, the Qianjun troops were jokingly called the "two-gun army" by the common people, one was a rifle, and the other was a large smoking gun. In order to collect the tobacco tax, Wang Jialie allowed the local people, including the soldiers, to smoke opium, which was smoked by many people in the Qian army at that time. For this reason, the warlords of the Qian clan are equivalent to the weakest.
Wang Jialie's army was beaten by the Red Army, lost its armor and armor, and was defeated like a mountain; in a short period of time, the Red Army defeated and annihilated two divisions and 8 regiments of the enemy in a short period of time, and won the greatest victory since the Long March, killing and wounding more than 2,400 enemy personnel, capturing more than 3,000 enemy personnel, capturing a large number of military materials, and achieving the biggest victory since the beginning of the Long March, and greatly boosting morale. Chiang Kai-shek called the battle "a great shame and humiliation since the nationalist army pursued it."
Of course, Chiang Kai-shek was very dissatisfied with Wang Jialie, so the Red Army had just left Guizhou on the front foot, Xue Yue entered Guiyang on behalf of the Central Army, sent someone else to be the chairman of the provincial government, he became the commander of the garrison area, and at the same time weakened Wang Jialie's military power, so that he was forced to resign as the commander of the 25th Army, and the entire Qian warlord was greatly weakened, so Wang Jialie was eliminated.
Wang Jialie, who had no power and status, later lived idly in his hometown of Zunyi, playing with two horses every day, and there was a groom who was always responsible for raising horses or cooking rice. The children of the Wang family were very strange, saying that this horse did not do anything, and every day the groom led out to eat grass and then brought back. Although Wang Jialie has no power, in Zhongcaosi and Wang Wu have fields, every year there are farmers who send rice to hand over, and life is still carefree.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wang Jialie was classified as a landlord class during the land reform, and under the inspiration of the party, Wang Jialie decided to abandon the secret and throw himself into the embrace of the people's government, expressing his resolute support for the party leadership, and with practical actions, sold the private house of the "Hufeng Villa" in Guiyang and repaid the exploitation debt owed to the peasants in the old society.
Subsequently, Wang Jialie was appointed as a member of the Provincial People's Committee, vice chairman of the Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and became a deputy ministerial-level cadre, his monthly salary was 287 yuan, he was not very particular about what he wore, he wore a robe before liberation, and after liberation he made tweed clothes for a meeting in Chongqing, which was a set of cotton clothes and cotton pants. He is very frugal in life, often in a small barber shop at the mouth of Cai Jia Street not far from home, the price of haircut is triangular and two points, because his hair has been toppled, there is no need to blow a kind, it is cheaper, only two cents and two cents. Later, the barber shop increased its price to two cents and five cents, and the store had already published the price list, but after Wang Jialie's haircut, he still only gave people two cents and two cents, and people said that this deputy ministerial-level cadre was really too picky.
In his later years, Wang Jialie did not have any chance to touch his favorite military, but he became interested in literature and even became half a literati. Because of his more self-study and good memory, Wang Jialie's literary skills are good, and he has left ink treasures in Qiandongnan, Huanglong, Zhenyuan and other places, and in his later years, he also relied on his strong memory to help Guizhou literature and history recall the Tongzi family for a while. His youngest son, Wang Shouqian, said: "At that time, experts in Guizhou literature and history gathered in our house to sort out some historical materials, and my father could clearly recall which of the main figures of which unit was the main figures in the Tongzi system when Guizhou was ruled, and he could clearly remember his names." ”
Wang Jialie's descendants remember their father
In 1966, Wang Jialie fell ill at home, the left body could not move, out of the way is the younger son carrying him step by step, slowly home, a few months later, this life experienced too many people and things Wang Jialie died of illness, died at the age of 73.