The Battle of Tucheng was a vicious battle that took place during the Long March of the Red Army in late January 1935, in which 7 of the ten marshals and more than 200 generals participated, but they did not take advantage of it at all, because there was a headache in the enemy army, he was Guo Xunqi, the tiger general of the Sichuan Army.
Guo Xunqi was born in 1899 to a poor family in Huayang County, Sichuan Province, and in 1912 he was recruited into Tibet as a new recruit in Chengdu, joined the Pan Wenhua Department of the Sichuan Army, and accompanied the army to the west. Because he fought bravely and could share the hardships with the soldiers, he was deeply valued by Pan Wenhua and was promoted from clerk to regimental commander step by step. In 1921, Pan Wenhua led his troops to liu xiang, the commander-in-chief of the Sichuan Army, and Guo Xunqi was appointed as the commander of the seventh brigade. During this period, Guo Xunqi participated in the great scuffle to expel the Yunnan and Qian warlords and the Sichuan warlords, on the one hand, he served as Liu Xiang's right-hand general, was trusted and valued by Liu Xiang, and had a sense of knowledge of Liu Xiang; on the other hand, under the influence of the tide of the great revolution, he began to contact the Communists and summed up a deep friendship with Elder Chen.
After the defeat of the Great Revolution, Guo Xunqi became "anti-communist" because of the influence of Liu Xiang, and in January 1935 he was promoted to the commander of the Model Division of the Sichuan Army. The Battle of Tucheng was a battle for Guo Xunqi's fame. On January 26, 1935, the Central Column of the Red Army and the Third and Fifth Armies arrived at Tucheng in northern Qianbei. The next day, three regiments of Guo Xunqi's army and three regiments of Pan Zuo's, a total of six regiments, arrived at Tucheng. On the same day, Zhu Laozong ordered that "all the Red Third and Fifth Armies and cadre regiments surround and annihilate the enemy at dawn tomorrow."
On January 28, the Red Third and Fifth Armies and cadre regiments fought a fierce battle with the Sichuan army led by Guo Xunqi in the area of Fengcunba and Qinggangpo northeast of Tucheng. After repeated battles, the Red Army suffered about 5,000 casualties, and in view of the unfavorable situation on the battlefield for the Red Army, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission ordered it to withdraw from the battle and cross the Red River in the west. There is a saying that goes, "If you don't fight, you don't know each other", the Battle of Tucheng made our army remember this famous general of Sichuan Tiger, and in the later War of Resistance Against Japan, they fought together to block the Japanese Kou.
After the "July 7 Incident," flames were raging everywhere, the country and the nation were at an urgent juncture of peril, and the vast number of patriotic officers and men of the Sichuan Army invited them to resist Japan one after another. In September 1937, the Sichuan army divided into two roads, the east and the north, and went out of Sichuan at the same time to go to the anti-Japanese front. Guo Xunqi was then the commander of the 144th Division of the 21st Army of the Seventh Theater. In late September, Guo Xunqi led his division out of the gate and rushed to the front line to participate in the Battle of Jincun in the defense of Nanjing. At that time, Shanghai fell, the Kuomintang armed forces retreated in large numbers, and Bai Chongxi and Chen Cheng personally commanded near Yixing, and they could not contain and rectify.
In late November, Guo Xunqi's division was transferred from the north battlefield south to Jincun, north of Changxing County on the west bank of Taihu Lake, and encountered the Japanese Kou pursuing army Kurumi Division, Guo Xunqi was a pawn in the first place, and fought with the enemy for three days and nights, and finally temporarily stopped the Japanese Kou lightning pursuit and stabilized the position. On the afternoon of the 27th, Guo Xunqi went to the front line to command the battle, he rushed up the mountain with several guards, and when he was just climbing the mountain on the highway, he was hit in the left leg by the machine gun of the enemy on the airboat in Taihu Lake, and he was seriously injured, and he was covered by the guards before he was carried back to the division headquarters. In the Battle of Jincun, because Guo Xunqi's division blocked the enemy and inflicted heavy damage, the enemy's plan to cut off the passage between Shanghai and Wuhu could not be realized as scheduled, and the huge army that had collapsed from Shanghai was able to reach Wuhu for training.
In February 1938, Guo Xunqi was discharged from the hospital from his wounds, promoted to commander of the 50th Army of the 23rd Group Army, and returned to Qingyang County in southern Anhui Province. At that time, Guo Xunqi's military headquarters and the new Fourth Army were only more than 50 miles apart, and Mr. Chen visited him on foot and stayed there for three or four days. During this period, General Manager Chen talked with him about the significance of the united front, and also said that the New Fourth Army wanted to march east into the rear of the enemy and should pass through his defensive zone and ask for his assistance, and Guo Xunqi immediately agreed to it. Late one night, Zhang Yunyi, commander of the third detachment, went to Guo Xunqi's home and asked Guo Xunqi's Jiangbei Defense Reserve District to send them to Jiangbei to deal with the incident that occurred in the fourth detachment. From Zhang Yunyi's mouth, Guo Xunqi knew that the New Fourth Army's guns and ammunition were very scarce and it was difficult to replenish, so he took the initiative to give support and successively donated several batches of guns and ammunition to the New Fourth Army.
Because of the relationship between Guo Xunqi and General Manager Chen, the 50th Army had frequent contacts with the New Fourth Army, and was later tipped off by the director of the Political Department of the 50th Army, and in the late autumn of 1939, Guo Xunqi was accused of "ineffective combat", but in fact, he dismissed the commander of the 50th Army for the reason of "communism". When he heard the news on the front line, he sighed: "My heart to resist Japan and save the country was thus broken!" ”
After Guo Xunqi was dismissed from his post, he was "escorted" back to Chongqing, and the Kuomintang diehards were able to start a conspiracy to mobilize the forces of the 144th Division and the New 7th Division of the 50th Army in early January 1941, launching the "Anhui Southern Incident" that shocked China and foreign countries. This incident prompted Guo Xunqi to have a clearer understanding of Chiang Kai-shek, and in order to get rid of house arrest, he returned to Chongqing and was forced to enter the 5th special class of the Army University to study military affairs, and later lived in seclusion in Chengdu.
In 1948, in the Central Plains Military Region, Guo Xunqi was introduced by Liu Shuai and Chen Laozong, became a special party member, and was ordered to return to Sichuan to find an underground party organization and do the counter-rebellion work of the upper echelons of the military. After liberation, Guo Xunqi served as a member of the West Sichuan Bureau and director of the Department of Communications, deputy director of the Sichuan Provincial Department of Communications, and deputy director of the Water Conservancy Department, and died in Chengdu in 1959. Before he died, he told his friends that there were two major things that he regretted all his life:
The first was that after his dismissal, in order to take care of the overall situation of the national communist unity and resistance against Japan, he failed to take the troops to Jiangbei to fight against Japan with General Manager Chen.
The second case was that after he was deprived of military power, the "Anhui Southern Incident" occurred, which caused the New Fourth Army to suffer great losses.
General Guo Xunqi's loyalty to the country and the people, and his enthusiasm for the pursuit of truth, are still remembered by future generations.