In the initial stage of 1937, the Western Route Army fought hard in the Hexi Corridor, and then there were only a few thousand people left, but it was surrounded and attacked by more than 70,000 ferocious Majia troops, and the number gap was so large that it was impossible to break through, and had to retreat to the Ni family camp to wait for support and help.
Nijiaying is made up of a Zhuangzi and dozens of bunkers. The leader of the army was stationed in Zhuangzili, and the bunkers around it were guarded by Red Army soldiers.
A total of 135 officers and men of the 3rd Battalion and 9th Company of the 263rd Regiment of the Red Army defended Wangjiadun, which was the commanding height near the Nijia Camp and one of the main targets of the Majia Army.
In February 1937, more than 6,000 soldiers of the Majia Army launched a fierce offensive against Wang Jiadun under the cover of artillery fire. The soldiers fought bloody battles with the horse bandits for a whole day and night, and in the end only 9 Red Army soldiers survived.
Among these nine people, Zhou Chunlin was the one who commanded the campaign, and he personally witnessed the tragic deaths of more than 100 Red Army comrades-in-arms, and he was full of grief and indignation. However, the outnumbered Western Route Army was ultimately defeated, and he also had a deep hatred for ma Jiajun, who was at odds with the Western Route Army.
After the defeat, about 400 soldiers of the Western Route Army, including Zhou Chunlin, broke through to Xinjiang. After arriving in Xinjiang, he was appointed by the organization to infiltrate Sheng Shicai's army and took a pseudonym for secrecy. Because he had long been familiar with the bravery and cruelty of Ma Jiajun,
He trained assiduously in cavalry skills and fighting skills. Because of his outstanding performance, he was promoted to cavalry company commander, which also laid a solid foundation for his future revenge.
In 1941, after the Anhui Incident, the 32nd Regiment of the Fourth Division of the New Fourth Army suffered heavy damage from the enemy, and the nearly defeated piece of armor was left behind. As the old foundation of the Red Army, the Thirty-second Regiment was originally a brave and good fighting army. The casualties in this war were extremely heavy, and the opponent was the 8th Division of the Majia Army, which our army resented, and the 8th Division was a cavalry unit and brave and fierce.
The revenge of the Western Route Army's defeat in the last battle had not yet been repaid, and Ma Jiajun gave the New Fourth Army a heavy wound. The two defeats aroused the desire to work harder for revenge in the hearts of the soldiers.
At that time, the general Peng Xuefeng, the commander of the New Fourth Army Division, created a cavalry team on his own, and he admired and favored Zhou Chunlin, so he let Zhou Chunlin serve as the regimental commander. Zhou Chunlin also did not live up to Peng Xuefeng's expectations, after the establishment of the cavalry regiment, Zhou Chunlin's serious and orderly training team,
Under his leadership, the strength of the team grew rapidly, the warriors were heroic, and they also opened their minds and invented a combat knife, which is said to be more conducive to assassinating the enemy in combat.
The strength of the cavalry regiment was vividly displayed in the future War of Resistance Against Japan, they were heroic in battle, and combined with their own design of the combat knife, it added to the might, the Japanese army heard the power of the cavalry regiment and fled, in just a few years, the cavalry regiment has been an excellent iron-blooded division.
In 1944, the Nationalist army launched the second anti-communist campaign, and Ma Jiajun, an old enemy of the New Fourth Army, led the Eighth Division to attack the New Fourth Army in depth and contain the New Fourth Army against Japan. The leader immediately ordered the cavalry regiment of the New Fourth Army to carry out a long-distance attack on the Eighth Division of the Majia Army, causing as much damage as possible to it.
When the soldiers heard this news, they were all excited, thinking that they finally had the opportunity to hate, and everyone was full of confidence and determined to win.
Zhou Chunlin's heart was surging and he galloped all the way, full of thoughts about a vigorous battle with the Ma family army as soon as possible to avenge the past. After galloping for 240 miles, he finally chased after his old rival Ma Jiajun like a hungry wolf finding food.
At this time, a good opportunity was also ushered in, and the 8th Division of the Majia Army was preparing to cross the river and officially start a good time. Zhou Chunlin decisively seized the opportunity and ordered a fire attack to attack the enemy.
As a result, gunfire rang out, and the unprepared Eighth Division was in disarray. The horses were frightened and fled in all directions, and the combat effectiveness of the cavalry that had lost their horses was greatly reduced. Some of them were fighting for horses, some were fleeing from the water, and the soldiers were in chaos. Under the fierce offensive of our army, the situation of the enemy army has been greatly chaotic.
Zhou Chunlin took advantage of the heat to strike iron, ordered the soldiers to kill the enemy heroically, and then ordered the entire regiment to rush forward to kill. Suddenly, the warriors were highly motivated and emotional, shouting and rushing towards the enemy army, with a fierce momentum.
In this battle, the soldiers also fought very happily and happily.
The Majia army, which was already in disarray, weakened by half in momentum, while the soldiers of our army were full of fighting spirit, fought bravely, and with their self-created combat knives, they beat the Majia army to the point of falling flowers and water, cutting off the heads of the enemy army as if cutting wheat, and our army finally won a complete victory.
And this group of indignant, cruel and violent Ma Jiajun is now being quickly slaughtered by the soldiers of our New Fourth Army, which is really amazing!
After about 4 hours of fighting, the Ma family army was almost completely destroyed, only a very few luckily escaped, and everywhere you looked, you could see the corpses of the Ma family army, full of corpses in the mountains, with more than 2,000 corpses.
The New Fourth Army became famous in the first world war, and painfully repaid the revenge of the past, and since then its prestige has been greatly shaken.
In September 1955, Zhou Chunlin was awarded the rank of major general. He was awarded the Order of August 1, Second Class, the Order of Independence and Freedom, Second Class, and the Liberation Medal, First Class.