The enemy advances and retreats, and the enemy retreats and I chase. The main force of the Red Army, which had been resting for more than half a month, was now strong and strong, its morale was strong, and it was ready to pursue and annihilate the enemy, and the retreat of the Kuomintang army was a great opportunity for the Red Army to counterattack!
On September 6, the headquarters of the Red Army repeatedly received information from local guerrillas and local people that the enemy in the Xingguo area had begun to retreat north along the Xingguo Wei Avenue, and the speed of retreat was so fast that it could be completed in two or three days. Chairman Mao and Zhu De immediately decided:
First of all, it seized the enemy part of Xingguo's retreat to the north and annihilated it, and then waited for an opportunity to expand the results of the battle, and determined that the Third Army and the Independent Fifth Division would quickly seize the old camp and cut off the enemy's retreat; the Third Army, the Fourth Army (commanding the Thirty-fifth Division), and the Thirty-fifth Army would attack the enemy in Gaoxingxu and its northern and southern areas from west to east and from north to south, respectively; and the Seventh Army would contain the enemy in Xingguo.
Luo Binghui, the "Divine Taibao", restrained the enemy, and the pursuit depended on the "Flying General" Huang Gongluo. On the same day, Huang Gongluo, commander of the Red Third Army, led the whole army to set up an ambush in the area of Laoyingpan.
At dawn on the 7th, Huang Gongluo led Chief of Staff Chen Qihan and others to climb the cliffs of the old camp to investigate the terrain. Looking at the pole, I can only see the mountains stretching continuously, standing like obstacles. Gaoming Mountain stands majestically, bordering Oxbow Ridge on the left and Wild Boar Ridge on the right, and a mountain road runs south to north, winding and turning, passing through the mountain, leading to Taihe. Seeing this, Huang Gongluo said to Chen Qihan, the chief of staff next to him: "As long as the Loess Pass is blocked, the enemy will be unable to escape by inserting his wings." ”
Huang Gongluo decided to hide the troops here, and when the enemy passed by, he unexpectedly attacked them from behind the flank.
He quickly summoned generals above the division level for combat deployment: the 9th Division led by the army and the independent 5th Division led by Xiao Ke to occupy Gaomingshan and attack head-on; Chen Bojun led the 7th Division to quietly ambush at Oxal ridge and fight on the left wing; Wang Ruyi led the 8th Division to insert into Wild Boar Ridge, hit the right flank, and block the reinforcements in the direction of Gaomingshan.
Soon, the Red Army was assembled according to its deployment, and everything returned to calm. The morning breeze gently blows the branches and bamboo shoots, and the birds fly peacefully, a peaceful and tranquil scene. Seeing this picturesque scene, who could have imagined that the men and horses of the Red Third Army were ambushing here waiting for the fighter plane?
Not long after dawn, three enemy planes came to the skies over the ridge, humming low and circling, as if looking for a safe route to withdraw. At this time, under the plane, in the dense forest, the commanders and fighters of the Red Army were already waiting in a strict position, and no one made a sound, nor did anyone reveal his figure...
The enemy's three reconnaissance planes spun around in the air for a while, apparently finding nothing, and flew away humming away again.
"Get ready for battle!" Under The order of Huang Gongluo, the generals of the whole army immediately entered a state of war. As Huang Gongluo expected, not long after the enemy plane flew away, the enemy brigade rushed in and obediently slipped into the "cloth bag" made by Chairman Mao. This was chiang kai-shek's independent brigade of chiang kai-shek's ninth division, which was fleeing north along the Loess Pass and laoying pan to Ji'an.
The Red Army and the Independent 5th Division attacked quickly, first capturing the Loess Pass, cutting off the enemy's contact with its follow-up troops, and then launching an onslaught on the enemy from the north, south, and west. Suddenly, like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, like thunder on a flat ground, full of fire, guns and cannons firing in unison, shouting killing and slogans, shaking the mountains, the Red Army sprang up from "underground" all over the mountains, and guns and grenades also poured down on the enemy like a torrential rain...
When the enemy was attacked by this sudden attack, he was first stunned and stunned, and when he woke up, he tried desperately to break through like a trapped beast in a cage and stubbornly resisted. Huang Gongluo watched closely the development of the battle situation and ordered the troops to "eat the enemy in sections." The enemy troops trapped in the old camp were immediately divided into several segments under the attack of several firepowers. The fierce battle lasted until about 2 p.m., when the Red Army completely annihilated the brigade, captured more than 2,000 enemy personnel, captured more than 2,000 long and short guns, 35 machine guns, 10 mortars, more than 600,000 rounds of various bullets, and 1 radio station.
In the Battle of Laoyingpan, Huang Gongluo led the Red Army to fight the divine power of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army! The Kuomintang was shocked, and the Red Army soldiers were even more powerful and confident.
After the battle, the Red Army and the headquarters lost contact for a while. According to Du Ping, then political commissar of the Military Medical Department of the Red Army:
That night, Commander Huang ordered his troops to assemble in the area of the watersheds south of the old camp and wait for instructions from the headquarters. At noon the next day, the commander asked me to take a reinforcement company to the headquarters, hand over a report to Commander-in-Chief Zhu and General Political Commissar Mao, and stressed that "this document is very important, you must send it!" "After meeting Commander-in-Chief Zhu and General Political Commissar Mao, I handed over Commander Huang's letter. After reading the letter, Commander-in-Chief Zhu happily told General Political Commissar Mao: "Huang Gongluo fought a victorious battle and annihilated one of Jiang Dingwen's brigades!" General Political Commissar Mao also smiled happily and said in a loud voice, "Good! Gong Strategy played well! ”
After the blows of this battle, the enemy no longer dared to retreat north through this road, and the remnants of Jiang Dingwen's 4th Army and Han Deloitte's 52nd Division were diverted to Chongxian and Donggu and retreated to Ji'an. When the Red Army detected this situation, it immediately concentrated its forces and pursued the enemy who was retreating north.
At dawn on September 15, after the main force of the remnants of the enemy's Fourth Army had passed through the Fangshiling Pass, the Red Army's pursuing troops arrived and preemptively controlled the favorable terrain: from Bird Rock through Zhugaoling, Changkeng, and Tangshan Pass, they captured the commanding heights of Anzi Mountain, suppressed the enemy at Baishi with firepower, and blocked the mountain passes leading from Zhuling and Baishi to Zhangjiabei and Donggushan.
An artillery regiment and infantry battalion of the enemy 52nd Division and the Fourth Army were surrounded south of Stone Ridge. Huang Gongluo, Together with Peng Dehuai and Luo Ronghuan, planned and directly commanded the troops.
The soldiers of the Red Third Army, the Red Fourth Army, and the Red Third Army divided into three routes, west to east, implemented a divided encirclement, and took advantage of the enemy's retreat and the confusion of the team to break the enemy's waist and violently attacked on the side. The two sides fought fiercely until 9 a.m., and the enemy was completely annihilated. The enemy division commander Han Deqin also took prisoners, but unfortunately did not recognize it at the time, he disguised himself as a gang man, mixed in the captive group and received 3 silver dollars to escape.
Due to the close coordination of the various attacking forces of the Red Army, the Battle of Fangshiling achieved a major victory. The artillery regiments of the 52nd and 9th Divisions and 1 infantry battalion of the enemy were completely annihilated, more than 5,000 enemy soldiers were captured, more than 4,500 long and short guns were captured, more than 70 machine guns, more than 1.2 million rounds of various bullets, and more than 200 mules and horses were captured. At this time, the troops of the Kuomintang Fourth Army, which had already arrived in Donggu, saw that the opportunity was not good, and hurriedly fled to Ji'an via Tomita, and other roads also retreated to Yongfeng, Yihuang, Nancheng, Nanfeng, Guangchang, Ningdu, Ganzhou and other places.
Regrettably, after the Battle of Fangshiling, Huang Gongluo, commander of the Red Third Army, was on the way to command the transfer of troops, when he was suddenly attacked by enemy aircraft at Donggu Liudu Pass, and unfortunately was shot and killed, at the age of 33!
A general star, prematurely falling...
Huang Gongluo was a highly regarded general in the Red Army, and the military and people of the Soviet region placed him in the same position as Chairman Mao, Zhu De, and Peng Dehuai, calling him "Zhu, Mao, Peng, and Huang."
In China in the late 1920s and early 1930s, especially in the Xiang'e-Gansu District, Xianggansu District, and central Soviet District, the prestige of "Zhu, Mao, Peng, and Huang" was almost well known to women and children, and domestic and foreign newspapers and radios and other news media also often used the titles of "Zhu, Mao, Peng, and Huang" to refer to the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army under their command.
In July 1930, Chairman Mao wrote in the phrase "Butterfly Love Flowers from Tingzhou to Changsha", there was a poem "The red corner of Ganshui, the partial division borrows from Huang Gongluo", which highly praised huang Gongluo and the Red Sixth Army (Red Third Army) led by Huang Gongluo for the revolutionary struggle in southwest Jiangxi, and also reflected Chairman Mao's trust and dependence on Huang Gongluo.
During the first to third anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaigns in the Central Soviet Region, Huang Gongluo resolutely implemented Chairman Mao's strategic principle of "luring the enemy to go deeper," commanded the Red Army to fight bravely, and made many achievements in battle.
In the first anti-"encirclement and suppression" battle, Huang Gongluo led the Red Three Armies to serve as a frontal attack on the Battle of Longgang, and with the number of enemies outnumbered, they bought time for friendly and neighboring troops to detour and encircle, and the Red Three Armies led by him annihilated half of the total number of enemies, and he was the most successful.
After the war, Chairman Mao excitedly wrote "Fisherman's Pride and Anti-First Great Encirclement and Suppression": "The sky of Wanmu Frost is red, and the heavenly soldiers are angry. The fog was full of Longgang Qianling, and in unison, Zhang Huizhen was caught in front of him. ”
What is described here is some scenes of Huang Gongluo and other commanders in the blockade battle; in the second anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, Huang Gongluo changed the marching route according to the secret path provided by the mountain people, and skillfully evolved the blockade battle into an ambush battle, making a contribution to the total annihilation of the Gongbing Clan Division.
Chairman Mao praised Huang Gongluo and his generals of the Red Army in "Fisherman's Pride and Anti-Second Great Encirclement and Suppression": "... Gunfired, the flying general threw himself into the air. Since then, the good name of "Flying General" Huang Gongluo has spread throughout the Soviet region.
In the third anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign of the Red Army, Huang Gongluo commanded the Red Army to cooperate with the brother troops in the first battle of Liantang, the second battle of Liangcun, the second battle of Huangpi, and the victory of three battles and three victories; in the first battle of Laoyingpan, he won the victory of annihilating the independent brigade of the enemy's 9th Division of Jiang Dingwen.
The brilliant achievements have made the Kuomintang troops feel frightened, and huang Gongluo has also become a problem in Chiang Kai-shek's heart, and he will certainly want to get rid of it quickly.
After the failure of the first "encirclement and suppression" campaign against the Central Soviet Region, Chiang Kai-shek instructed He Jian, chairman of the Hunan Provincial Government, to take Huang Gongluo's mother and wife to Changsha as hostages, and then published rumor-mongering articles in the Ta Kung Pao and hunan Republic of China Daily, saying nonsense: "Since Peng Dehuai Huang Gongluo and the Red Bandit Zhu Mao had an opinion, he sent his wife to Changsha he Jian as a hostage, expressed his sincerity, and cooperated in suppressing Zhu Mao's "Yunyun" in an attempt to use anti-plots to alienate Huang Gongluo and the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.
At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek also appointed Huang Gongluo's cousin Huang Hanxiang as an envoy to Nanchang, and sent his brother Huang Meizhuang to the Major General to consult, and let Huang Meizhuang bring Chiang Kai-shek and Huang Hanxiang's handwritten letters and 1500 yuan of silver dollars to the Soviet District to recruit Huang Gongluo.
Peng Dehuai, then commander of the Red Third Army, set up a banquet to entertain this "distinguished guest" while immediately telegraphing Chairman Mao and Zhu Dehou for instructions.
Chairman Mao replied: "This issue will be handled by the public strategy itself. ”
Huang Gongluo, who was doing mass work in Yihuang, received a telegram from the front committee and Chairman Mao, and after learning that his eldest brother had acted as a lobbyist for Chiang Kai-shek, he was furious and immediately drew up a telegram to the front committee, regardless of the fact that his mother and wife were still in the hands of the enemy:
...... Under the heavy blow of the Red Army, Chiang Kai-shek, in order to save his defeat, adopted a shameful plot to split the Red Army. I, Huang Gongluo, firmly believe that the revolution will be successful and have no illusions about Chiang Kai-shek.
I had no hesitation in breaking off Huang Meizhuang and requesting that Huang Meizhuang be sentenced to death and that Huang Meizhuang's confession be printed and distributed to all armies so as to educate the troops to be vigilant. ......
Soon after, Chairman Mao made a special mention at the oath-taking meeting of all the commanders and fighters of the Red Army in Ningdu and thousands of local people:
A few days ago, Chiang Kai-shek sent commander Huang's brother to lure him into surrender, but commander Huang did not waver, killed his counter-revolutionary brother in righteousness, and killed his counter-revolutionary brother. This fully reflects the revolutionary firmness of our Communists. Can our cause be unsuccessful if we have such comrades fighting for it?
After the Battle of Fangshiling, Huang Gongluo led his troops in the direction of Ruijin. When the team entered the Donggu Liudu Pass, it suddenly encountered Chiang Kai-shek's planes coming to reconnoiter, and Huang Gongluo quickly arranged for troops to hide from the enemy. When he learned that the Seventh Division was still driving towards this place on the other side of Luokeng, he rushed out of the hiding earthen house in spite of himself, stood at the mouth of the mountain pass and commanded the Seventh Division to hide in place, and directed the machine gunners to shoot at the air. In the blink of an eye, the enemy plane fired a burst of strafing, and three evil bullets hit Huang Gongluo, and he was suddenly bleeding profusely and fainted.
Chief of Staff Chen Qihan recalled the scene at that time: Originally, Commander Huang would not have an accident, he threw off the guards and ran below to command, and suddenly became the target of enemy aircraft. An Italian Dagfossian plane swooped down on him and the bullet hit him in the abdomen.
Until the last moment of his life, he thought of the great revolutionary cause. In a weak voice, he said to his comrades-in-arms, "Keep preparing!" Sooner or later, the enemy's fourth 'encirclement and suppression' will always come! ”
When Chairman Mao and Zhu De heard the news that Huang Gongluo had been seriously injured, they immediately brought people to the scene and ordered them to do everything possible to rescue him. However, in the end, due to serious injuries, excessive blood loss, and ineffective rescue, Huang Gong was slightly heroic and sacrificed.
Chairman Mao was extremely saddened: "Comrade Gongluo is very strong politically and militarily, and it is a pity that he died..." Zhu De said bitterly: "Our famous military commander Huang Gongluo was killed by enemy planes. Comrade Huang is a talent of wisdom and courage, and it is our greatest loss. ”
After hearing the news, Peng Dehuai lost his voice and cried bitterly, so sad that he could not eat for several days and could not sleep. On September 20, the headquarters of the Red Army held the Third Victory Celebration Meeting and The Memorial Meeting of Commander Huang Gongluo in Shuitouzhuang, Xingguo.
The meeting was held in a solemn atmosphere, and Chairman Mao, Zhu De, and other leaders spoke, expressing deep condolences and regret for Huang Gongluo's sacrifice. In order to commemorate Huang Gongluo forever, the Provisional Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Republic, which was established in Ruijin in November of that year, decided to establish Gongluo Pavilions in Ruijin Yeping and Donggu Liudu Pass respectively, named the 2nd Infantry School of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army as the Gongluo Infantry School, and set aside parts of the three counties of Ji'an, Jishui and Taihe to establish Gongluo County.
On the day of the establishment of Gongluo County, the local military and people solemnly held a memorial meeting for Commander Huang Gongluo. Chairman Mao personally wrote the link, highly praised Huang Gongluo's life's achievements, and pinned his own and the military and people of the Soviet region on Huang Gongluo's infinite mourning. Bang Lian wrote:
The Guangzhou riots did not die, the Pingjiang riots did not die, and now they are sacrificed, and they hate the catastrophe that fell from the sky;
Revolutionary wars have made meritorious contributions, guerrilla warfare has made meritorious contributions, and he has been brave all his life, so as to teach future generations to succeed the king.
Comrades-in-arms are gone, it is painful, it makes people think about it for a long time...