Just as the so-called "gold is not enough, no one is perfect", everyone is not perfect, nor will they make mistakes in their lifetime, and the development of a country needs to find the right system and formulate appropriate policies in many explorations. It is necessary to move forward and improve in the midst of many mistakes, and a country is like this, and it is the same for every ordinary person.
In the years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in modern times, China has produced many heroes of the War of Resistance, who galloped on the battlefield and bowed to the best of their ability, not only to lead soldiers to victory in the war, but also to always be vigilant against whether there are enemies in the army who are hidden by the enemy. When these enemies are discovered, they must be dealt with immediately to prevent greater harm to the army.
But in the process of finding these enemies, it is inevitable that there will be mistakes. For example, after the Fourth Anti-Encirclement and Suppression Campaign, when some of the troops were holding the Eyu-Anhui base area, after winning the battle, the commander believed that the enemy was internal and shot and killed the deputy commander, division commander, and regiment commander continuously.
The numbers were confused and reorganized
In May 1932, the Kuomintang army was preparing to begin the fourth encirclement and suppression of the Communists, and they planned to first concentrate their forces on conquering the bases in Eyuwan and Xiang'e, and then turn to the central base areas of the Red Army.
In October, the Red Army's Eyu-Anhui base area was defeated in encirclement and suppression, and was forced to move westward. When they learned that the Red Army wanted to escape to the west, the Nationalist army immediately sent four divisions to pursue. It also left 88 regiments of regular troops in the Eyu-Anhui base area to clear out the remaining Red Army soldiers.
At that time, faced with this dangerous encirclement and suppression situation, the Red Army did not completely abandon the Eyu-Anhui base area, and left three regiments in the Eyu-Anhui base area to hold on to this place, and there were soldiers who were injured in the encirclement and suppression, because it was inconvenient to transfer, they also held on to the Eyu-Anhui base area.
In the face of the liquidation of the 88 regiments left by the Kuomintang army, the Red Army and wounded soldiers totaling 20,000 people in the three regiments left were obviously unable to cope with it, and these 20,000 people were not conducive to commanding the operation due to their different numbers.
In order to solve the key problem of commanding operations, the members of the Eyu-Anhui Provincial Party Committee held a military conference at Tanshugang, northeast of the town of Qiliping in Huang'an County, and newly reorganized the 20,000 troops, dividing them into two divisions of the 74th And 75th Division, five infantry regiments and a special service battalion. Wu Huanxian served as the commander, Wang Pingzhang as the political commissar, and Xu Haidong and Yao Jiafang as the commanders of the 74th and 75th Divisions respectively.
Taking advantage of the enemy's slackening, it was successfully annihilated
The Nationalists left the 35th Division in Eyuwan to defend Xinji County, and sent the Nationalist 89th Division west to pursue the Communist Red Army.
At that time, the Kuomintang 35th Division, which remained in the Eyu-Anhui base area, was weak in strength, because it was composed of the remaining old, weak, sick, disabled, and weak soldiers selected by Ma Hongkui before he became the chairman of Ningxia Province.
Its combat ability was far inferior to that of other miscellaneous armies stationed in the Eyu-Anhui Soviet Region. At that time, the Red Army was only able to control two small areas in the Eyu-Anhui Soviet District, Guangshan South District and Huang'an Ziyun District, and the rest had been occupied by the Kuomintang, and the Red Army could not interfere.
The 35th Division, appointed by the Kuomintang, sent two regiments of troops to Guojiahe in southern Guanghua to clear the Red Army there, where only four regiments and one battalion of the Red 25th Army remained, and the remaining strength of the Red Army was not a big problem for the 35th Division.
Later, the Red Army found out that the Nationalist army had sent other miscellaneous troops near the Guojia River to reinforce the 35th Division. But the miscellaneous troops near the Guojiahe river who wanted to reinforce the 35th Division would need at least a day's journey to reach Guojia Village.
Therefore, the Red Army at Guojiahe must eliminate the 35th Division before the arrival of enemy reinforcements, so that it can not be in an extremely inferior position in the battle a day later.
Therefore, the commander Wu Huanxian and the political commissar Wang Pingzhang discussed the first action, appointed Xu Haidong to command the Red 74Th Army and the special service battalion of the military department as the attacking task, and sent the red 75th Army and a regiment of troops to guard the commanding heights of Moyun Mountain, guarding the new reinforcements, leaving a regiment as a support regiment in the later stage.
The 220th Regiment of the Red 74th Division and the Special Agent Battalion of the Red 74th Division were also sent to stay behind on the northeast road from Guojiahe Township to the outside world to prevent the 35th Division from escaping from here. Cheng Qibo, commander of the 222nd Regiment of the Red 74th Division, led the 222nd Regiment to guard the town south of the Guojia River, and when the Red 222nd Regiment arrived at Yangrenyan, it was found that the battalion of the 35th Division was actually assembling to do morning exercises with bare hands.
If they had only one regiment in normal times, they would not have dared to act hastily, but at this time they did not have weapons at hand while doing morning exercises. Therefore, taking advantage of this opportunity, Cheng Qibo sent a battalion of troops to attack.
Some of the soldiers of the 35th Division were killed, and most of them fled to the northeast road of Hejiawan in an attempt to escape, but the Red Army had already placed the 220th Regiment of the 74th Division and the special service battalion on the northeast road, so the 35th Division that fled in the northeast was basically annihilated, and a small number of them escaped in other directions.
Because the 35th Division was suddenly attacked at that time, or the 35th Division did not have the assistance of guns, and the comprehensive strength of the 35th Division was not strong, so after only an hour of resistance, the 35th Division was taken down, and only a few people escaped. A large amount of military materiel was also captured.
At that time, only 7 Red Army soldiers were sacrificed, but more than 2,000 prisoners were taken by the 35th Division, and some of these prisoners voluntarily joined the Red Army after their release, and some of them left directly with their bare hands.
Victory in the war, the manslaughter of the general
This victory at Guojiahe was the first war of the Red 25th Army since its establishment. After the arrival of reinforcements from the Kuomintang army, a fierce offensive was launched against the Red Army, and after winning the victory at Guojiahe, the Red 25th Army also responded with a surge in morale and actively fought, and under the command of Xu Haidong, successively won the battles of Panjiahe and Yangsizhai.
Victories in many wars also made Wu Huanxian once have the idea of a light enemy, believing that the Red 25th Army could completely resist the increase in troops of the new Kuomintang faction. He also believed that the form of war in the future would become better and better, so he decided to pay close attention to the work of suppressing the enemy while confronting the enemy army and eliminating the hidden enemy in the army.
Because Wang Pingzhang, the military political commissar of the Red 25Th Army, died heroically in the war, Wu Huanxian believed that Liao Rongkun, the former commander of the Red 28th Army and the current deputy commander of the Red 25th Army, had a heavy responsibility, so when the Red Twenty-Eighth Army came to join him later, Wu Huanxian immediately ordered the arrest of the military commander Liao Rongkun, who was to be punished by shooting, and personally supervised during the punishment.
Yao Jiafang, commander of the Red 75th Division, was once punished in the work of purging, and in this purging work, Yao Jiafang, commander of the Red 75th Division, was mistakenly killed, and Cheng Qibo, commander of the Red 222 Regiment.
Only because of these victories, the commander thought that it was time to carry out internal counter-repression work, and thought that the deputy commanders, division commanders, and regimental commanders were enemies within the army, so he shot them one after another.
However, judging from the situation of successive defeats of the Red 20 Army, Wu Huanxian made a wrong decision. Regardless of whether the three people were really at fault at that time, punishing the three senior generals during the critical period of the War of Resistance was undoubtedly unfavorable to the War of Resistance.
brief summary:
After Wu Huan won the battle, as a military commander, he shot and killed the deputy commanders, division commanders, and regimental commanders who he believed to be enemies within the army, which was later considered a wrong decision. Later, Wu Huanxian also realized his mistake and had a deep sense of self-blame.
However, Wu Huanxian also carried out the purge work in order to get rid of what he thought was an enemy in the army, in short, this was a mistake made under good intentions, not an unforgivable crime committed deliberately. No one is perfect, and mistakes in decision-making are forgivable. It is mainly necessary to learn from the experience of this mistake and not let such a major mistake happen again.
Judging from historical facts, Wu Huanxian really did not let such mistakes happen again, and he was also one of the few high-ranking officers among the many officers in our country, and he also commanded many victories in wars and made many achievements.
Therefore, we should comment on Wu Huanxian from an objective point of view, his dedication to the country over the years, which is beyond doubt, but the mistake of killing three senior generals by mistake is also a real mistake, so we cannot blindly criticize a mistake he made, but also to see his achievements.