During the Long March, the Red Army experienced countless thrilling battles, each of which determined the life and death of the Red Army. But the Red Army, relying on the spirit of tenacious struggle and the courage not to be afraid of sacrifice, won one battle after another and stepped out of one death line after another. Among them, the forced crossing of the Dadu River is thrilling, and the dangers are one after another.
The forced crossing of the Dadu River was in late May 1935, when the Red Army had just friendly crossed the Daliang Mountains where the Yi people were concentrated. However, the situation was very critical, and in front of the Red Army was a roaring Dadu River, and hundreds of thousands of enemies had already crossed the Jinsha River, and they were in hot pursuit from behind, and they were about to arrive soon, and a large number of Sichuan troops were also rushing towards the Dadu River.
The Red Army was tightly pressed between the Jinsha River and the Dadu River, with no room for maneuver. The enemy clamored for the Red Army to become the second Shi Dakai, and also sent planes to drop leaflets from the air: "There is the Dadu River in front of it, and then the Jinsha River, and the Red Army will not escape by inserting its wings."
Only by crossing the Dadu River could the Red Army jump out of the enemy's encirclement.
At that time, the only place where the Red Army could cross the river was Anshun Field.
The Dadu River in Anshun Field is more than 200 meters wide and more than 10 meters deep. The river is rocky and turbulent, and at a glance, it is full of white waves.
There was no bridge in Anshun Field, and the only means of crossing the river was the boat, but the enemy had long ago snatched and destroyed the boats in Anshun Field.
The Red Army persistently advanced towards Anshun Field, and Liu Bocheng, commander of the Advance Army, led the Red 1st Regiment to the front in the heavy rain, responsible for capturing the Anshun Field Ferry, and then forcibly crossing the Dadu River.
There were two enemy companies stationed in Anshun Field, and they thought that the Red Army had not yet come out of Daliangshan, and they did not take any precautions, and several officers were rubbing mahjong vigorously after drinking and eating. Unexpectedly, the Red Army suddenly fell from the sky, and the enemy was either killed or wounded, and all the people who died were taken prisoner.
After taking control of the ferry, Yang Dezhi, the leader of the Red 1 regiment, immediately began to cross the river.
The Red Army searched around Anshun field and found only a small boat.
This small boat was the only means by which the Red Army forcibly crossed the Dadu River. On the other side, there was an enemy regiment stationed, and all the machine guns in the bunker were aimed at the river beach.
The next morning, the wind and rain stopped, the sky was a tile blue, and the cliffs that had been washed by the rain were spotless. But the Dadu River is still churning and roaring as always.
The river crossing of the Red 1 Regiment was launched on time, and Xiao Hua, director of the Organization Department of the Political Department of the Red 1 Corps, personally sounded the charge horn. 2nd Company Commander Xiong Shanglin led 8 commandos to jump on the boat, more than 10 boatmen struggled to paddle, and the boat bumped in the waves and rushed to the opposite shore.
When the enemy saw the Red Army crossing the river, he hurriedly and panickedly fired. Zhao Zhang, the Red Army's sharpshooter, disconnected his cannon and accurately blasted the enemy's bunker into the sky, and the machine guns and rifles of other soldiers also opened fire to cover the small boat in the waves.
The boat was jolted up and down by the raging waves, and the boatmen rowed desperately. With their rough hands, they race against time, fight against the evil waves, and also use their lives to fight against the reactionary rule of darkness.
The Chinese revolution was not carried out by a single person, not by a group of people, not by tens of thousands of Red Army troops, but by all Chinese who did not want to be oppressed and bullied.
Everyone's attention on the shore was focused on the small boat, and even Liu Bocheng and Nie Rongzhen ignored the persuasion and walked out of the fortifications and stared at the small boat tightly.
The boat did not disappoint everyone, facing the rain of bullets, rushing through the huge waves and bravely moving forward.
suddenly!
A shuttle of bullets swept onto the ship, and Yang Dezhi saw a soldier from the telescope covering his arm. The boat also slid down rapidly, tens of meters at a time, crashing heavily on a large rock.
The boat was hit and lost its center of gravity, spinning rapidly in the water. Several boatmen held the rock hard with their hands, but the ship did not listen to any call.
At this moment of life and death, several boatmen bravely jumped into the rapids and used their backs to hold the boat dead.
These ordinary people who have lived in the deep mountains and valleys for a long time have used their lives to withstand the lives of a boat of people, the lives of tens of thousands of Red Army, the lives of the anti-Japanese seed army in a few years, and even more the fate of the Chinese nation.
After a life-and-death battle, the boat finally got out of danger and advanced high to the opposite shore.
When there were still 5 or 6 meters away from the shore of the ship, Xiong Shanglin and 8 other commandos all stood up and rushed to the shore.
But before they could jump off the ship, a huge enemy rushed out of the other shore and rushed to the ferry.
The enemy wanted to wipe out the Red Army's commandos on the river beach.
Just as the enemy was about to reach the river beach, the Red Army's mortars roared in and accurately exploded. Then came the heavy machine guns of the Red Army, and the remaining enemy fell from side to side, and fell down again.
The commandos quickly jumped ashore, destroyed the remnants of the enemy with grenades and submachine guns, occupied the enemy's fortifications on the river beach, and firmly controlled the ferry port on the other side.
The second commando team led by Sun Jixian soon reached the opposite shore.
After the confluence, the Red Army firmly held its position on the river beach and repelled the enemy's counterattack again and again.
And the more than 10 shipwrights, despite their hard work, desperately rowed their oars and transported the Red Army ship after ship to the other shore.
More and more Red Army crossed the river, and the enemy finally could not support it, and all collapsed.
Once again, the Red Army created the myth of successfully crossing the dadu river without a bridge and with rough seas.
The Long March has experienced another thrilling battle.
The history of the struggle of New China has added a brilliant page and added more than 10 ordinary shipwrights.