In the history of our army, there are many outstanding military generals who have made outstanding achievements for New China and won many victorious battles. Among these people, there is such a general, who is the founding general of our country. The team with 8 guns once fought against the eight regular troops of the Nationalist army, and the final result was amazing.
So, who is this general? What did it look like in the first place?
His name was Zhang Dingcheng and he was an outstanding general in the Red Army. During the period of the agrarian revolution, the Nationalist army still encircled and suppressed our army, and after the defeat of the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression battle in the Soviet region of the CPC, the relevant responsible persons of the Fujian Provincial CPC Committee did not learn from the experience of defeat, but continued to put forward some unrealistic slogans, and Zhang Dingcheng was also dismissed because of disagreement with them.
In desperation, Zhang Dingcheng could only choose to lead some troops to the Yongding area to create a revolutionary base area, but they only gave Zhang Dingcheng a gun and a bullet, Zhang Dingcheng was very angry but had no way, he could only find eight guns and some grenades on his own, and left with a few of his old subordinates.
However, at that time, Chiang Kai-shek unexpectedly sent eight regular troops, a total of more than 100,000 troops, to encircle and suppress the Soviet zone, while the main force of the Red Army had already retreated, and there was no unified command in some places, and Chiang Kai-shek's opponent was only Zhang Dingcheng's unit with only eight guns.
However, under the leadership of Zhang Dingcheng, his army was not annihilated by Chiang Kai-shek. Moreover, in 1935, the Red 8th Regiment and the Red 9th Regiment met in Yongding County, chiang kai-shek launched another attack, and Zhang Dingcheng also led his troops to defeat the strength of a regiment of the enemy army. In April of the same year, Tan Zhenlin and others also came to Yongding County, and also set up a military and political committee in southwest Fujian, so that some local armed forces in southwest Fujian also had unified leadership and the revolutionary forces were even stronger. Moreover, Zhang Dingcheng was also elected as the chairman, and they continued to lead the troops to fight against the Nationalist army.
At this time, the enemy army once again launched an encirclement and suppression operation, and Zhang Dingcheng lost contact with the central leaders, so Zhang Dingcheng led the troops to proceed from reality and sent some party members who had not been discovered by the enemy army to serve as the kuomintang's security chiefs to provide them with information and collect grain, providing a good living guarantee and safety guarantee for the Red Army soldiers.
Moreover, they also sent some soldiers to lurk inside the enemy and carry out counter-offensive activities against the officers and men of the Kuomintang, causing heavy losses to the enemy, while Zhang Dingcheng's guerrilla zone was getting wider and wider. It made an important contribution to the victory of the Long March of the Red Army.