On a large hill about 2 kilometers south of Guanqiao Village, Guangchang Yiqian Town, Jiangxi, there is an ancient pavilion called "Wannian Pavilion", because it is located in the south of Jiangxi, deep in the branch of Wuyi Mountain, a remote ancient road, the clear springs on both sides of the road flow rhyme with farms, the mountains are continuous, tens of miles of momentum, majestic accumulation, high can be Moxiao, Lotus Ridge mountains, across its front such as the screen, the terrain is dangerous, the color of the blue, high leaning blue, because the shape of the mountain resembles a tiger sitting on its head, so it is called Gao Hu Brain.
Because of the dangerous terrain in this area, in the autumn of 1934, the fiercest battle of the Fifth Anti-"Encirclement and Suppression" of the Central Red Army was fought here, when the enemy launched an all-out attack on the core area of the Central Soviet Region in a vain attempt to take the entire base area in one fell swoop. Since the Red Army had no heavy weapons and weak ability to attack strong points, in order to break the enemy's military encirclement and suppression, the Red Army built "semi-permanent fortifications" in this area to fight a decisive battle with the enemy army.
After the battle began, tens of thousands of the enemy's main force stormed the Red Army positions, first bombarding them in turn with more than a dozen aircraft, then bombarding them with artillery, which lasted until more than 6 o'clock in the morning, and then the infantry attacked in a dense formation, and the enemies of the whole battalion and the whole regiment pounced on the Red Army positions like sheep, densely packed, and piece by piece , inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy.
At this time, the Red Army's garrison fulcrum was destroyed by enemy artillery fire, machine gun bullets were exhausted, reinforcements were blocked by enemy artillery fire, the goose-shaped position was lost, and the enemy's left column also took the opportunity to occupy the highlands south of Zhongsha. Subsequently, the enemy stepped up the construction of roads, mobilized heavy artillery, and prepared to launch a new round of attack here. Finally, the Red Army positions were encircled on three sides by the enemy and had to retreat to the south.
In this Battle of Wannian Pavilion, although the Red Army fought very bravely, after all, it could not fight the enemy army, which had absolute superiority in number and equipment, and fought a war of attrition, with a lot of losses. According to the memoirs of Huang Kecheng, the commander of the Fourth Division of the Red Third Army who was guarding the main position at that time and awarded to the founding general after the founding of the People's Republic of China, "My Days in the Red Third Army": In the battle of Wannian Pavilion, Chen Ajin, the political commissar of the division, was heroically sacrificed, and Zhang Yi, chief of staff of the division, defected during the retreat. A battle involved the loss of two major divisional cadres. This shows the intensity of this battle.
According to the "Chronicle of The Characters of the Red Army", Chen Ajin, the political commissar of the division who died in battle in Wannianting, and Zhang Yi, the chief of staff of the division who defected, were fellow villagers, Chen Ajin, and Xiaoxu Village, Xingou Township, Funing, Jiangsu Province, which was very close to Zhang Yi's hometown of Fenggu Village, Luoqiao Township, and the two of them joined the Red Army at about the same time, and they were in the same unit between the same townships, but after a baptism of fierce battle, the two were of similar status, but they embarked on a completely different path, one heavier than Mount Tai and the other lighter than Hong Mao. It is indeed a sigh of relief.
Chen Ajin, a martyr of the Red Army, whose original name was Chen Jianjin, was the leader of the early workers' movement, who went to the Eastern University in Moscow, the Soviet Union, to study military affairs, and after returning to China, he joined the Red Army in the central revolutionary base area, successively serving as a military instructor at the Red Army University, serving as an instructor of the student company and a political commissar of the machine artillery brigade. In his teaching, he followed the rules and temptations, taught according to the people, and completed the teaching tasks very well. Subsequently, he was transferred to the front combat unit as the political commissar of the regiment, and later promoted to the political commissar of the division, in the previous anti-encirclement and suppression operations, he calmly responded to the battle, regardless of personal safety, went deep into the front to command the battle, took the lead as a soldier, and was commended by the superior leaders.
In this fierce battle of Wannian Pavilion, political commissar Chen Ajin led his troops to take on the task of frontal defense, he commanded the troops to close to the enemy army for close combat and hand-to-hand combat, so that the enemy's artillery fire could not be strengthened, he led the troops to continuously counterattack the enemy's multiple charges, and held the position. However, unfortunately, he was hit by an enemy bomb, and his head, chest, and upper limbs were injured in many places, and he immediately fell into a pool of blood, his heartbeat and breathing had stopped, and he died heroically.
After the martyr Chen Ajin was martyred, the top level of the Red Army gave him a very high evaluation, and specially published an article in the "Red Star Newspaper", saying that he was: a hero in battle, a model among workers, an invincible Red Army, and a model of the Red Army. He was buried on a hillside near the Wannian Pavilion, the place of sacrifice.
Zhang Yi, chief of staff of the division who defected in the same battle, formerly known as Zhang Zhijun and Zi Chongqing, a native of Fenggu Village in Funing, Jiangsu Province, first studied at huaiyin normal school, then studied at the Japanese non-commissioned officer school, joined the Red Army after returning to China, was organized and sent to Guangxi to engage in military movement work, then participated in the Guangxi Baise Uprising, led his troops to participate in the operations to create the Youjiang revolutionary base area and the successive battles in the north thousands of miles, successively served as battalion commander, regiment commander, division chief of staff, and other posts, and participated in the third to fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaigns of the Central Red Army.
After Zhang Yi became a traitor, because he was a high-ranking general who defected on the battlefield, he was first sent to the "correctional hospital," and then wrote a letter of surrender, and at the base area at that time, he airdropped many so-called "letters to officers and men of the Red Army" signed by Zhang Yi through aircraft, said many bad things about the Red Army, and persuaded our Red Army to surrender. Although he worked very hard, he was not used by Lao Jiang at this time. It was not until after the start of the All-Out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression that Zhang Yi had studied at a Japanese non-commissioned officer school that he began to make his debut as a teacher in the Chongqing Cadre Training Regiment in the capital, and later, he was ordered to return to his hometown to fight guerrillas.
After Zhang Yi returned to his hometown, he immediately exerted the "specialty" of his pulling team and began to grow barbarically in the cracks between various forces. At the beginning, he took a blank cheque for the "commander of the Tonghai guerrilla detachment"; in those years and months, three or five people also dared to call himself commander, and the commander was everywhere, in fact, he was the commander of the single stick, but with his military knowledge and experience in the army for a long time, he relied on the people in his hometown and under the banner of anti-Japanese resistance, and quickly pulled up a team of hundreds of people. However, his team is naturally a ragtag crowd, he expands the number of people, those who come do not refuse, naturally there are bandits and bandits of all kinds.
At this stage, in order to expand his strength, Zhang Yi could be said to be unscrupulous, first going everywhere to attract a group of scattered soldiers and brave soldiers, then firing and some small bandits with weak strength, and then occupying a small area, on the one hand, collecting civilian guns in the local area, and forcing some people to join his team on the other hand. The book records that Zhang Yi "set up tax cards everywhere in the defense zone, collected taxes on merchant goods, withheld salt taxes and goods taxes from the Kuomintang financial department, colluded with township mayors to apportion fees to residents' shops, kidnapped and extorted money, and acted arbitrarily." ”
Through these improper means,
Zhang Yi
Soon a team of hundreds of people was formed,
First, it was changed to the Second Regiment of Jiangsu Security, with Zhang Yi as the regimental commander, and later, the number of people increased, and Zhang Yi's unit expanded the second brigade, and Zhang Yi was promoted to brigade commander. At this time, the name was a brigade, in fact, there were soldiers and two regiments, at this time Zhang Yi was not satisfied, he let people run a repair house that could renovate all kinds of guns and bullets, and later expanded the strength of a regiment, for a time he had thousands of people and horses.
As the saying goes, the earth is really big, the world is really small. Zhang Yi, who was once a division-level cadre of the Red Army, fought and defected in Wannian Pavilion six years ago, but six years later he pulled up a team in his hometown and supported the troops to respect themselves, but unexpectedly encountered the New Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army, which were moving east and south. And the leader of one team is his immediate boss, Huang Kecheng. Probably because he had no face to face his former comrades-in-arms, perhaps his understanding of the development of the Red Army had changed, perhaps he was scrupulous about the brave Red Army team in combat, and in any case, there were few wars with our army, even if there was occasional friction, most of them collapsed at a touch, and no decent battles occurred between the two sides.
During this period, Zhang Yi's troops were nominally under the jurisdiction of Han Deloitte, commander of the Kuomintang 89th Army and chairman of Jiangsu Province, but Zhang Yi, who had been a senior general of the Red Army, in the Third Anti-"Encirclement and Suppression" Battle of Fangshiling in the Red Army, the Fifty-second Division led by Han Deloitte was completely destroyed, and he became a prisoner, although he disguised himself as a gang man and escaped with three silver dollars, Zhang Yi looked down on Han Deqin very much, disobeyed his orders, and sometimes placed Han Zhiwenxin in the cabinet as soon as he read it, and sometimes tore it to the ground after reading it, often calling him a class of dog heads.
For such an unruly subordinate, Han Deloitte was very angry, so he sent several henchmen to infiltrate Zhang Bu and collect his so-called "incriminating evidence", but he did not expect to be recognized by Zhang Yi, and as a result, these people were completely arrested by him and tied to a mass grave and shot and buried, which made Han Deloitte even more annoyed.
In the subsequent Battle of Huangqiao, Han Deloitte was suspicious of Zhang Yi, and then set a trap in Dongtai and informed Zhang Yi to attend the meeting in the name of holding a meeting of senior officers, and actually "ambushed the knife and axe hand behind the screen". Zhang could not resign several times, and there were important people as a guarantee, so he brought a large number of guards to the meeting. Soon after Zhang arrived, he was disarmed, tied up on the spot, and zhang yi was taken to The Dai Kiln in Xinghua and shot the chaotic tyrant by the river.
Traitors have no good end, and the death of Zhang Yi, a traitor who has gone astray, can be described as self-inflicted, deserved, and not worth sighing. By the way, most of the comrades of the same level as him at that time had magnificent lives, and Huang Kecheng, the political commissar of the division, awarded the founding general, the successor division commander Zhang Zongxun as the founding general, and the brother unit Red Fifth Division commander Li Tianyou as the founding general. Zhang Yi's fellow teacher and political commissar Chen Ajin martyr was buried on the mountain, and now, more than eighty years later, people often come here to pay respects, and the green pines in front of his tomb are lush and lush, and the loyal soul stands majestically with the loyal soul, and the wind is surging, as if telling the heroic deeds of the martyr, his loyal soul will forever be buried in the blood-stained red land of the Soviet Union, and his heroic name will always be remembered in the hearts of future generations.