Author: Cadillo
Statement: Soldiers say original, plagiarism will be investigated
In January 1931, after winning the victory in the anti-encirclement and suppression of the western Anhui base area, the Eyu-Anhui Red First Army commanded by Xu Jishen returned to the base area in northeast Hubei and met with the Red Supplementary Army commanded by Zeng Zhongsheng and the victorious division of the Red Fifteenth Army commanded by Cai Shenxi and Chen Qi.
The Red Fifteenth Army, formerly the 4th and 5th Columns of the Red Eighth Army that remained in the Huangguang area before the Attack on Changsha, had to be transferred to the Eyu-Anhui region under the pressure of Chiang Kai-shek's army, which happened to help the Red Supplementary Army, which was fighting alone with Chiang Kai-shek's regular army at that time.
【Stills from the TV series "Admiral Xu Shiyou"】
After the two armies met the division, according to the previous decision of the superiors, the Red First Army and the Red Fifteenth Army were merged into the Red Fourth Army.
Among them, the 1st Division of the Red First Army and the 1st Regiment of the Red Fifteenth Army were merged into the 10th Division, the 2nd, 3rd Division and the 3rd Regiment were combined into the 11th Division, and the 7th Regiment of the 3rd Division of the Red First Army remaining in the base area of western Anhui was renamed the Instructor.
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Division commander and deputy commander Xu was formerly the chief of staff of the Red Fourth Army, and the commander was Kuang Jixun, an uprising general from the Sichuan Army.
As a high-achieving student in the first phase of Huangpu, why was he "demoted" to a division commander? It turned out that under the instruction of the "Lisan Route," the Eyu-Anhui Special Committee had ordered the Red First Army, which had only 5,000 troops, to attack Wuhan, which was heavily guarded by Chiang Kai-shek's army, which was tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg. Although Xu Jishen transferred to southern Henan according to the actual situation and made two county seats in a row, the political commissar Cao Dajun still had some opinions on him and filed a complaint in a report to his superiors.
As a result, the superiors will xu Jishen in the appointment and dismissal of personnel in the joint establishment of the two armies
Be the division commander.
Xu Jishen did not care about this appointment, the troops and generals of the 11th Division were more familiar to him, of which the 2nd Division of the former Red First Army was developed from the Shangnan Uprising troops, and the 3rd Division was developed from the Liuhuo Uprising Troops. In the spring of 1930, when Xu Jishen first arrived at Dabie Mountain, he first resolved the contradiction between the two divisions and led them to fight in western Anhui, achieving considerable results.
【Monument to Xu Jishen, Commander of the First Red Army】
On February 16, 1931, during the Lunar New Year, the Red 11th Division was stationed in the town of Popihe, 20 kilometers north of Xinji County, to guard against the enemy in the direction of Guangshan and Huangchuan. At this time, in view of the fact that Chiang Kai-shek's second "encirclement and suppression" had not yet been launched, and in order to disrupt the enemy's deployment and achieve the goal of mobilizing the enemy, the Eyu-Anhui Special Committee ordered Xu Jishen to lead the Red 11th Division to attack south of Xinyang, threaten and sabotage Chiang Kai-shek's transportation on the Pinghan Railway, and lure the enemy troops to come, so as to find the right time to annihilate him.
Xu Jishen summoned his subordinates to study it and decided to send deputy division commander And Hong
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Regiment leader Zhou Weijiong led Hong
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Zhou Weijiong, born in 1908 in Shangcheng County, Henan, led the local people to launch the Shangnan Uprising, one of the three major uprisings in Eyu and Anhui, in May 1929, and led the creation of the Red 32nd Division and the base area in southeast Henan. He was resourceful, heroic, and had great prestige in the army, and was demoted to regimental commander for his opposition to adventurous action.
[Zhou Weijiong, former commander of the Red 32nd Division, commander of the Red 33rd Regiment, and commander of the Red 11th Division]
On March 1, 1931, the weather was unusually cold, Zhou Weijiong led the Red 33rd Regiment to brave the light snow to guerrilla attack near the Lijiazhai Station of the Pinghan Railway, and learned that a military train would arrive at the station the next day, so he decided to attack the station. That night, the Red 33rd Regiment suddenly captured the unsuspecting Lijiazhai Station, took control of all the staff and equipment on the station, and demolished the railway tracks south of the station.
At 7 o'clock in the morning of the 2nd, a military train did indeed enter the station, but because the tracks were destroyed, it was forced to stop, and the two infantry battalions of the 1st Brigade of the newly organized 12th Division of the Chiang Kai-shek Army were carried on the train.
The unit had originally planned to take a train to the Honghu Su district to fight. The newly formed 12th Division, reorganized from the Henan Nationalist Army, was poorly equipped and the soldiers were not highly tactically literate, and most of them slept on the train at this time. The Red Army fighters who were ambushed on both sides of the railroad tracks suddenly opened fire en masse, catching the enemy in the car by surprise.
In the first round of shooting, the enemy
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The division commander Hou Zhenhua was killed on the spot by the Red Army
。 This led to the subsequent battle, the Jiang army on the train fell into the predicament of being leaderless and immediately tied up. It was so easy to get it, and Zhou Weijiong, who liked to take risks, simply did another vote, and he called the Wuhan Appeasement Office in the name of Hou Zhenhua, falsely claiming that the station had been attacked and needed reinforcements. In the afternoon, sure enough, a pistol battalion of Chiang Kai-shek's army rushed to the rescue in a military column, but it was destroyed by Zhou Weijiong in the same way.
【Lijiazhai Railway Station does not have passenger transport functions now】
Seeing that there was no major reaction from Wuhan and Xinyang, 3 days later, the Red 33rd Regiment attacked another Liulin station on the Pinghan Railway, and once again annihilated a battalion of the newly formed 12th Division. Hong Taichang, another brigade commander of the newly formed Twelfth Division, was also ordered to fight in the Honghu Su District, but seeing that the traffic was cut off, at the instigation of underground party members Zhan Helin and Ai Shengfu, he simply pulled his two regiments back to his hometown of Tongbai Mountain, established a local armed force known as the "Eighteen Villages of Southern Henan", and openly confronted Jiang Jun.
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Within days, a brigade commander was killed and a brigade commander mutinied, shocking the enemy.
The Wuhan Appeasement Office and the Zhengzhou Appeasement Office of Chiang Kai-shek dispatched the 6th, 31st, and 34th Divisions, the 1st Cavalry Division, and the 63rd Brigade of the 20th Route Army to attack the Red 33rd Regiment from the north and south. Seeing that the purpose of mobilizing the enemy had been achieved, Zhou Weijiong did not hurry to gather the troops and retreat, and successfully lured yue Weijun's troops of the 34th Division to the position where the main force of the army had set up an ambush in advance, creating conditions for the Eyu-Anhui Red Army to annihilate a whole division of Chiang Kai-shek's army for the first time.