During the agrarian revolution, there was a folk proverb circulating in the Western Soviet District of Xiang'e: "If there is congratulations, there is no victory." ”
As everyone knows, the Xiang'e Western Soviet District is a revolutionary base area founded by He Laozong, Zhou Yiqun, and others, and it is located in the border areas of Hunan and Hubei Provinces, including Honghu Lake, Xiang'ebian, Xiangzaoyi, Baxinggui, and other revolutionary base areas. In this folk proverb, "If there is a greeting, it is very easy to understand, Elder He is always a banner in the Western Soviet Region of Xiang'e, as long as he is in the army, no matter what kind of blows he suffers, no matter what kind of difficulties and dangers he faces, the troops can be defeated without collapse, and they will be defeated and repeatedly frustrated.
So, who does the "paragraph" in the last sentence of the folk proverb "no paragraph is invincible" refer to?
This "Duan" refers to Duan Dechang.
For the name duan dechang, readers now will feel a little strange, but in the Xiang'e Western Soviet District at that time, his name was like thunder, encouraging the revolutionaries and alarming the reactionaries.
Duan Dechang, a native of Nanxian County, Hunan Province, was born in 1904 in Xiangmendi, and during middle school, he participated in a Marxist study group and was influenced by progressive ideas. After joining the party in 1925, he was admitted to the fourth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, and after graduation, he participated in the Northern Expedition and successively served as the secretary of the political department of the 5th Division of the 8th Army of the National Revolutionary Army and the secretary general of the political department of the 2nd Division. Later, he entered the Central Political Workshop to study and formed a strong friendship with the chairman.
In August 1927, Duan Dechang participated in the Nanchang Uprising with Mr. He, and was instructed by Zhou Gong to go to the countryside of western Hubei to lead and carry out armed struggle, igniting the revolutionary fire on both sides of the Jingjiang River and opening up the Honghu base area. In the spring of 1928, the central government sent He Long and Zhou Yiqun to xiang'exi, and Duan Dechang and them established the western Xiang'e base area centered on the Honghu base area. He successively served as chief of staff of the Western Hubei Guerrilla Corps, commander of the Independent Division, political commissar and commander of the Red 6th Army of the Red Second Army, and commander of the 9th Division of the Red 3rd Army.
Duan Dechang showed extremely high military talent during this period, and was almost invincible in the battles he commanded, and was praised as "The General of Constant Victory".
For example, in the Battle of Dragon King Set in January 1932, Duan Dechang led the Red 9th Division to completely annihilate the 12th Mixed Brigade of the enemy's 4th Division in just over an hour, capturing the commander of the brigade, Zhang Lianhua, and annihilating more than 4,000 enemy troops. The loot captured in this battle was piled up, including more than 3,000 rifles, more than 20 mortars, more than 100 light and heavy machine guns, and the captured horses were equipped with cavalry regiments.
For example, in the Battle of Wenjiadun in March 1932, Duan Dechang led the Red 9th Division to brave the torrential rain and after a night of rapid marching, rushed to Wenjiadun at dawn on March 4 and launched a surprise attack on the 144th Brigade of the enemy 48th Division. The officers and men of the Rok brigade were sleeping with their heads covered, and the grenades on the periphery sounded in a row, thinking that they were thundering. It was not until the Red Army rushed into the tent that it was in a hurry to fight. Soon, more than 4,000 people in the whole brigade were annihilated, and the brigade commander Han Changjun was captured.
In the course of the third anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, Duan Dechang led the Red 9th Division to victories in the battles of Dragon King Ji, Wenjiadun, and Xingouzui, annihilating more than 10,000 enemy soldiers and surrendering more than 10,000 guns.
Therefore, there is the second half of the sentence of "invincible".
Don't think that Duan Dechang, who is a military commander, is a martial artist, and his literary skills are also very good.
Once, Duan Dechang led his troops to capture Yan Dingcheng, the leader of the local "White Pole Society" bandits, at Honghu Lake, who thought that he had a good literary foundation and looked down on our workers' and peasants' Red Army. When Commander Duan interrogated him, he ignored him, but inexplicably uttered a sentence: Ride a qi horse, Zhang Longbow, Qinse Pipa Eight Princes, Wang Wang, and fight alone. Commander Duan Jun, without hesitation, held his head high and said to the lower link: "Attack the dragon clothes, be a cha person, charm the four ghosts, ghosts and ghosts live on the side, and take them with their hands!" As soon as the next link came out, the bandit leader was stunned and stunned, and looked at Duan Dechang with surprise and had to kowtow and confess his guilt.
Such a talented and outstanding generation of Red Army generals suffered misfortune, and his superiors and comrades-in-arms all sighed for his untimely death.
In 1933, due to the expansion of the "purge" within the Soviet Union, Duan Dechang was wrongfully killed on May 1 of that year, at the age of 29.
There is a way that "justice is never absent".
In 1945, Duan Dechang was posthumously recognized as a revolutionary martyr; in 1994, he was listed as one of the 36 military figures in the history of the Republic; and in 2009, he was named one of the 100 heroes and model figures who made outstanding contributions to the founding of New China.
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