At the beginning of its founding, the Red Army can be said to have experienced countless difficulties and obstacles, and this tenacious contingent, faced with all the severe tests of enemies, hunger, cold, fatigue, pain, wind and snow, mud and swamp, blood and fire, life and death, has always shown enduring enthusiasm, consistent hope, and has experienced every tribulation, like a tree that has gone through a storm, although it has lost some branches and leaves, but has preserved the body and roots of the tree, and then it is still flourishing, and finally creating a team that cannot be dragged down, cannot be broken, and is invincible to the world.
However, in the long years of revolutionary struggle, the Red Army can be said to have been repeatedly trapped, full of dangers, thrilling twists and turns, and experienced extraordinary suffering, and even great sacrifices, of which the enemy was strong and cunning, and the huge losses suffered by the 17th Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army are the most typical examples.
Monument to the founding of the Red XVII Army
The 17th Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army was formed on the basis of the Independent Third Division of the Xiang'e-Gansu Military Region, combined with the Independent Division of Northern Gansu and the Hebei Command, and under the jurisdiction of the First, Second, and Third Divisions.
The site of the establishment of the Red Seventeenth Army
After the birth of the Red Seventeenth Army, the main force concentrated its forces to develop in southern Hubei, restored the Soviet areas of Longgang, Yanxia, Mushigang and other places, moved south to Ruichang and Wuning, occupied Nanxun Road, put forward the slogan of "fighting back to Longgang for the New Year", advanced to the southeast, fought a series of victorious battles, dealt a heavy blow to the enemy, and greatly encouraged the revolutionary fighting spirit of the people of southeast Hubei.
Shortly after the Soviet Region in southeastern Hubei and the Red Seventeenth Army smashed the enemy's fourth "encirclement and suppression," Chiang Kai-shek adopted the tactic of "building pillboxes and turning step by step into a battalion" to carry out the fifth "encirclement and suppression" of the revolutionary base areas in Xiang'e and Gansu.
After the victory in the Battle of Mushigang, the leaders of the Red Seventeenth Army developed the idea of being proud of the enemy, one-sidedly emphasizing the fact that the troops were seriously reduced in the battle and urgently needed to be replenished, neither taking advantage of the victory to annihilate the enemy nor making a strategic shift, and resting in Mushigang for a full seven days. In just a few days, Guo Rudong, commander-in-chief of the enemy's southeastern Hubei "suppression general," hastily dispatched troops and generals, gradually forming a circle of encirclement of the main force of the Red 17th Army.
On the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve of that year, Guo Rudong led his troops to carry out a sneak attack on Wang Wenyi Village, Dongyuan, which was stationed in Yangxinwangying Town, Hubei Province, because the Red Army was surrounded by layers of enemies, rushed to fight, fought for a whole day and night, under the enemy's heavy encirclement, the opportunity to go south to Ruichang and Wuning was lost, so he had to brave the cold and freeze to the north to break through, wading through the rich waters, wanting to go to Huangsha, and then trying to advance eastward. They were also pursued by the enemy along the way, so that the main Red Army in southeast Hubei was almost completely killed or wounded, and the losses were heavy, and only a hundred soldiers of the machine gun company, under the leadership of Wang Yixun, broke through the siege.
Wang Wenyi suffered heavy losses in the battle of the Red Seventeenth Army, the commander Zhang Tao was dismissed, and then defected, and the political commissar Fang Buzhou was also killed because he left work, and after he was in the face of a strong enemy, his thinking was not clear, he could not withstand the test, and he shook his revolutionary convictions, so he took the opportunity of looking at the terrain and fled alone, defected to the enemy, and Ye Jinbo, deputy political commissar and chief of staff of the army, was suspended from his post for reflection, and later, according to people's revelations, Ye Jinbo and his second brother Ye Hebo, who served in the Kuomintang army, were mistakenly killed on suspicion of "internal and external cooperation", and were not rehabilitated until the 1980s. The Red Seventeenth Army was abolished, and the remnants were merged into the Red Sixteenth Division, and the Red Seventeenth Army ceased to exist.
In this victory in the battle against the Red Seventeenth Army, Guo Rudong, commander-in-chief of the "Suppression of the Communists" in southeastern Hubei, greatly appreciated Chiang Kai-shek and promoted him to the rank of lieutenant general, which can be said to be an official hat on the head of the red hair with the blood of the officers and men of the Red Seventeenth Army.
Guo Rudong stills
Guo Rudong, born in 1889, is a native of Yinjia City, Tongliang County, Sichuan, whose ancestor Guo Wenzhi was the commander-in-chief of Luoyang, and later moved from Luoyang to Hubei, Guizhou, then to Daoning, Sichuan, and finally settled in Tongliang. Guo Rudong studied at Chongqing FuZhongxuetang, joined the "bomb team" of the Sichuan League, and after the victory of the Xinhai Revolution, he joined Liu Cunhou's department of the Sichuan Army, and became a platoon commander to a division commander.
Guo Rudong initially served in the forces of the Sichuan warlord Yang Sen, and later after Yang Sen was defeated by Liu Xiang, he became dependent on Liu Xiang. In September 1934, Guo Rudong's 20th Army was renamed the 43rd Army, and he served as the commander. In February 1935, the Kuomintang troops carried out "encirclement and suppression" of the Qiansu District of Xiang'echuan and the Red Army, and the 43rd Army, under the arrangement and deployment of Liu Xiang, attacked Dayong from Cili along the north bank of the Lishui River, and participated in the "encirclement and suppression" operation against the 2nd and 6th Armies of the Red Army, and he spared no effort to encircle and suppress the Red Army.
Of course, although Guo Rudong was promoted by "encircling and suppressing" the Red Army and inflicting heavy losses on the Red Seventeenth Army, he had a cousin whom he cultivated, that is, the famous Guo Rugui, the red man next to Chiang Kai-shek, director of the Operations Department of the Kuomintang Ministry of National Defense, and Guo Rugui, who repeatedly passed on Chiang Kai-shek's battle plan to the top leaders of the central authorities in a timely manner, and the Central Military Commission gave Guo Rugui a high evaluation, praising his life as a "thrilling and tortuous, rich and profound life", calling comrade Guo Rugui " He made great contributions to the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan and the cause of the people's liberation", known as the biggest red spy who inserted himself into the Kuomintang, and in his later years, Guo Ruzhi enjoyed the treatment of deputy corps commander, and it is said that When Guo Rugui went to the fifth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy to study, he was introduced and guaranteed by Guo Rudong.
The burial place of the martyrs of the Seventeenth Red Army
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Guo Rudong lived in Chongqing and Chengdu, and on the eve of liberation, colleagues and friends advised him to go to Hong Kong, and Guo Rudong decided to stay on the mainland. When Chengdu was liberated, he changed his name to "Guo Hao" and went into seclusion, but as a result, his property in Chongqing was checked, and he still appeared in the name of Guo Rudong.
At this time, just as the Qing bandits and anti-hegemony were vigorously unfolding throughout the country, the peasant association in his hometown sent two militiamen to the Southwest Military and Political Committee of Chongqing to demand that Guo Rudong be arrested and returned to his hometown for liquidation. At that time, Liu Shuai, the director of the Military Control Commission, knew about it, personally repaired a letter, and was not arrested and returned to his hometown, and was safe. Guo Rudong said happily: "Stay, stay right." ”
In 1952, Guo Rudong died of encephaloma disease in Chengdu at the age of 63 and was buried in his hometown.