The Nanchang Uprising is the beginning of the heroic epic of Genesis, which fired the first shot of armed resistance against the Kuomintang reactionaries and is an important symbol of the birth of a new type of people's army independently led by our party.
So, where did the first shot of the Nanchang uprising be fired? Who fired the first shot?
Fast forward to july 31, 1927, when the leading members of the Nanchang Uprising's Committee of Former Enemies reached an agreement and decided that the uprising would be held at 4 a.m. on August 1.
However, as the uprising was about to take place, an accident occurred.
On the afternoon of 31 July, in accordance with the instructions of the Committee of Former Enemies, Zhu Laozong, then general counselor of the 5th Front Army of the National Revolutionary Army, head of the Officer Education Regiment of the 3rd Army, and director of the Nanchang City Public Security Bureau, hosted a banquet for Lu Mou, commander of the 23rd Regiment of the Enemy 3rd Army, Xiao Mou, commander of the 24th Regiment, and two deputy regimental commanders to create favorable conditions for the rebel army to eliminate the enemy army. After drinking and eating, Mr. Zhu played mahjong with them again.
While playing with Xingzhengnong, a deputy regimental commander of the enemy's 24th Regiment came to tell Commander Xiao in a panic that he had received a secret report from a deputy battalion commander of the 20th Army surnamed Zhao that the 20th Army was going to revolt tonight, and the command headquarters informed the regiments to take immediate measures to take strict precautions.
The deputy battalion commander of the informant was Zhao Fusheng, a native of Binchuan, Yunnan, and the deputy battalion commander of the 3rd Battalion of the First Regiment of the 1st Division of the 20th Army. At 4 p.m., when the division commander He Jinzhai announced the order for the uprising at the officers' meeting at and above the battalion level, he hurriedly ran to Zhu Peide's headquarters to inform him.
Mr. Zhu hurried to the general headquarters of the uprising at the Jiangxi Grand Hostel to report the situation to the Former Enemy Committee.
The former enemy commission immediately decided to advance the uprising two hours earlier, at 2 a.m. on August 1. He also issued an order in the name of The Acting Commander-in-Chief of the 2nd Front, General He Laozong: In order to achieve the goal of solving the enemy in Nanchang, our army decided to start attacking the enemy troops stationed inside and outside the city at 2 o'clock tomorrow and annihilate them in one fell swoop.
The first shots of the uprising were fired at the Fantai Yamen on Zhangjiang Road, more than an hour earlier than originally planned.
On the night of July 31, although Zhu Peide's general headquarters inside the Gate of the Domain was dark, the guard regiment inside was quietly prepared to deal with the uprising because it had received secret reports from traitors in advance.
The guard regiment was brought by Zhu Peide from Yunnan, and after they learned of the news that the 20th Army was about to revolt, they initially planned to escape. However, they saw that there were teams moving everywhere in Nanchang City, and the password kept shouting, so they had no choice but to sneak back quietly, ready to defend hard. At nightfall, the guard regiment set up three water machine guns at both sides of the gate.
Responsible for attacking here were the 1st and 2nd Regiments of the 20th Army, led by Ou Baichuan, deputy commander of the 1st Division. They quietly drove to a distance from the gate of the clan and were just about to continue to approach, when suddenly they found a group of enemies in the darkness running from the opposite side.
It is too late to hide; it is too late to withdraw, and it is even more too late. I had to do it!
Ou Baichuan pulled the trigger, and the deafening sound of gunfire cut through the quiet night sky.
According to Zhou Yiqun' recollection, the time of the first gunshot was 12:30.
One of the enemies running in front was knocked down, and a swarm of bees in the back turned around and ran back. The sound of gunfire poked open the yellow honeycomb. "Click, click, click," the enemy in the doorway began to shoot indiscriminately, accompanied by several screams, and the rebel soldiers who rushed ahead were knocked down several times, and the rest could only lie on the ground.
Then, the fire of the rebel army concentrated on the door hole and fired hard...
The rebel army took a lot of effort and paid a lot of casualties, but still could not get close to the door, the enemy stubbornly resisted, six water machine guns, one by one, fiercely shooting at the front...
When he learned that the attack on Zhu Peide's general headquarters was blocked, He Immediately ordered his brother He Jinzhai (commander of the 1st Division) to lead the 5th and 7th companies to reinforcements. Most of the soldiers of these two companies were veterans of He Laozong's two kitchen knives, which could be called his "Royal Forest Army". After a fierce battle, Zhu Peide's general headquarters was finally solved.
Ou Baichuan, who fired the first shot of the Nanchang Uprising, after the failure of the uprising, was captured in order to cover the escape of the division commander He Jinzhai and later served as the commander of the 82nd Division after defecting to the Kuomintang army, and made great contributions to the neutrality of the War of Resistance. After several twists and turns, after liberation, Ou Baichuan contributed to the new China, and the highest achieved the vice governor of Guizhou Province.
(References: "Revolution Advances Armed from Nanchang", "Red Exclamation Point", etc.)