Among these young officers, one officer is the most prominent, because he became the regimental commander when he was very young, not only that, but also our beloved General Su once served as his chief of staff when he was serving as the commander of the division, and General Xiao Jinguang was also his political commissar. This man is Xun Huaizhou.
Xun Huaizhou, a native of Liuyang Shegang, Hunan Province, set his ambition to "do some great things with the country in the future" when he was a high school student at the age of 13, and actively participated in organizations such as children's leagues, student federations and peasant associations in the vigorous first domestic revolutionary war, participated in anti-imperialist and anti-feudal activities, and became a local student leader. He had already joined the Communist Youth League in 1927, and because of his bravery and good fighting, he repeatedly built up his miraculous feats, and he gloriously joined the party at the age of 16, and later participated in five anti-"encirclement and suppression" battles and two operations into Fujian.
He was brave and good at war, had outstanding military merits, and was a well-known general among the officers of our army.
After Xun Huaizhou joined the Red Army, he had already become the commander of the Seventh Army of the Red Army when he was 21 years old, and lin Shuai, He Laozong, and Peng Laozong, who were very familiar with him at the same level, were all Grand Marshals, and they were all older than him when they became regimental commanders, and they were all about thirty years old at that time.
He was also the commander of the 5th Division of the Third Army of the Red Army, and the person who made him the political commissar at that time was the great general Xiao Jinguang, and our beloved Su Zong was still his chief of staff, such a resume can be said to be very invincible, it is really a supreme glory, but it is very regrettable that such a young and promising young man died early, otherwise he would definitely have a place among our ten marshals.
Before he joined the party, he just caught up with the Xiangganbian Autumn Harvest Uprising, when he was only 15 years old, and the uprising naturally required the recruitment of a large number of soldiers, so he enlisted in the army and came to the Jinggangshan revolutionary base area with our army.
Although he was very young and a stinking hairy boy, his courage was directly proportional to his age. At that time, our army was very short of weapons and equipment, so he had a clever move, and he set his sights on the vigilante groups and some rich gentry landlords who were opposed to our army, in an attempt to get some weapons and equipment back from them. After that, he set his sights on a gentry, but the strength of the troops in his hands was really not strong enough, because he only had a platoon of troops, and at that time there was a Kuomintang army stationed next to the gentry's house, and in order not to attract the attention of the army, he went alone and secretly took back ten guns.
The chairman was very happy to learn of this, and he was even more important, so that he soon became the commander of the 35th Division of the First Army of the Red Army, when he was only 18 years old.
After the fourth victory in the encirclement and suppression campaign, our army needed more personnel to strengthen the ranks, so he was reappointed as the commander of the 5th Division of the Third Army of the Red Army, and he was accompanied by General Su and General Xiao, whom we mentioned earlier.
After that, the Seventh Army of the Red Army was successfully established, and he was reappointed as the head of the regiment, at this time he was just in his early 20s, very young, the political commissar was still unchanged, or Xiao Jinguang, just when they all thought he would have a better future, Xun Huaizhou unfortunately died heroically, when he was only 22 years old, it was really regrettable.
In the 23rd year of the Republic of China, when the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" was lost, Xun Huaizhou received the task of covering the transfer of the main force, the former commander of the Seventh Army Corps, Xun Huaizhou, was the commander of the 19th Division of the Tenth Army in the anti-Japanese advance team led by Fang Zhimin and Su Zong, the reason why the Red Tenth Army failed in battle, the red tenth army commander Liu Yuxi had a relatively large responsibility, after the establishment of the Red Tenth Army, the first battle was the Battle of Tanjiaqiao, and at Tanjiaqiao was ready to fight the strength of a supplementary brigade of the enemy, and the brigade commander was Wang Yaowu. At that time, Liu Yuxi planned to make an ambush at Tanjiaqiao, but in the choice of terrain and the use of combat effectiveness, he made some mistakes. The choice of area to start the war at that time was not an optimal area for ambush, coupled with the inaccurate use of troops. He assigned important ambush operations to the 20th and 21st Divisions under his command, but it would be better to fight the main force if the 19th Division in Xunhuaizhou was allowed to fight, and the main 19th Division was not placed in the main offensive position. Tactical strength leads to defeat.
The king's vanguard regiment was attacked, the rear guard immediately replenished, and quickly seized the important geographical position on both sides, and then pressed on the side of our army, from the enemy's point of view, his command action was very fast, this time we suffered a great loss, in this attack to seize the commanding heights of both sides, especially a place called Wuniguan became the key to the success or failure of the whole battle. At that time, the 19th Division was the main force, but the 19th Division was too late to move, and finally it could not resist, and finally the 19th Division was withdrawn, and the 19th Division marched again, and then supplemented the attack area, when the 19th Division launched the attack, it was too late, and Xun Huaizhou, as the commander of the 19th Division, took the lead in charging into the battle.
He struggled to command, led his men to carry out a fierce attack, and quickly recaptured the commanding heights, but unfortunately he was shot in the stomach, bleeding profusely, and was sent to the hospital for treatment. However, due to his serious injuries, he died on the 16th at the age of 22. There were 3 divisions in the Red Tenth Army, and the division commanders Xun Huaizhou and Liu Yuxi were killed and righteous respectively, and one Hu Tiantao was also captured.
Wang Yaowu, a Kuomintang officer who defeated the Red Tenth Army, once lamented that he could not see The glory of Xun Huaizhou after hearing the news of Xun Huaizhou's death in battle.
In May 1938, when Chen Shuai, commander of the 1st Detachment of the New Fourth Army, led his troops to open up the anti-Japanese base area behind enemy lines through Maolin, Jing County, he specially went to Ant Mountain, where the remains of the martyrs were buried, to visit the tombs of the martyrs in Search of Huaizhou. He said excitedly, "Aoyama has the honor of burying loyal bones."
Comrade Xun Huaizhou was a young general of the Red Army, known for his guerrilla battles, and spent his life fighting heroically and gloriously sacrificing for the interests of the revolution and the nation. We will fulfill its legacy, to win a victory on the eastern front, to expel the Japanese army, to answer the martyrs, and to be almost worthy...".
The heroic souls of the martyrs of Huaizhou will live on forever.