Speaking of the Red Tenth Army, many people must be familiar with it, it was reorganized from the anti-Japanese advance team commanded by Xun Huaizhou and the Red 10 Army led by Fang Zhimin. When the unit was first established, it had three divisions under its jurisdiction, namely 19, 20, and 21, totaling more than 10,000 people, and the division commanders were Xun Huaizhou, Liu Yuxi, and Hu Tiantao. After that, under the leadership of Fang Zhimin, chairman of the Military and Political Committee, the Red Tenth Army launched an extremely arduous struggle against hundreds of thousands of pursuing troops of the Nationalist army. In the end, they were outnumbered and suffered a crushing defeat in the Huaiyushan area. So what happened to the three division commanders of the Red Tenth Army? Let's move on.
The first is the commander of the 19th Division, Xun Huaizhou, who can be described as a general who can fight a good battle. Before the Long March of the Red Army, Xun Huaizhou was ordered to lead the Red Seventh Army to form an anti-Japanese advance team and march north from the Central Soviet Region, but along the way it was surrounded and blocked by the enemy, and when it met with the Red 10th Army, the unit was only enough for one division. At this time, Xun Huaizhou was only a division commander because of his exclusion and suppression, but he did not care about personal gains and losses, and still tried to contribute to the revolution.
After the formation of the Red Tenth Army, it was planned to fight a beautiful ambush in the Tanjiaqiao area to reverse the situation of the battle. That night, Fang Zhimin's troops set up ambushes on both sides of the road from Wuniguan to Tanjiaqiao, with the 19th Division ambushed on the right side of the highway and the 20th and 21st Divisions ambushed on the left side. The next day, the supplementary 1st Brigade under Wang Yaowu's command entered the ambush area, but he was very cautious and let the vanguard troops search and advance. After the Red Tenth Army launched an attack, Wang Yaowu immediately asked the vanguard troops to retract, and the ambush battle was also fought into an encounter. During the battle, the commander of the 19th Division, Xun Huaizhou, was seriously wounded and died on the way to Jing County.
The commander of the 20th Division, Liu Yuxi, also served as the commander of the Red Tenth Army. He graduated from the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy and studied at the Frunze Military Academy in the Soviet Union, and is a famous "one-armed general" in our army. After the defeat in the Battle of Tanjiaqiao, the Red Tenth Army fell into the predicament of being passively beaten, and when the troops moved to the Huaiyushan area, they were unfortunately surrounded by heavy troops of the Nationalist army. Liu Yuxi commanded the troops to repeatedly charge and kill, and finally failed to break through because they were outnumbered. Under the pressure of the enemy, Liu Yuxi and Fang Zhimin were arrested.
When Liu Yuxi was arrested, his face was yellow and thin, and his hands and feet were frozen, and Principal Jiang did not forget this student of the huangpu phase I, and he specifically instructed Gu Zhutong to work hard to "win" Liu Yuxi over. In the face of the enemy's persuasion, Jue Lu was tempted, and Liu Yuxi was not at all moved, preferring to die. Perhaps Liu Yuxi would hesitate and be arrogant and contemptuous of the enemy in commanding the war, but his revolutionary will was undoubtedly very firm. In the end, the enemy had no choice but to kill Liu Yuxi and Fang Zhimin in Nanchang.
The commander of the 21st Division, Hu Tiantao, can be described as a mysterious Red Army division commander. I searched all the histories of the war and the list of Red Army generals, but I couldn't find him. Even the name Hu Tiantao was learned from Wang Yaowu's memories. Hu Tiantao was also arrested in the Huaiyushan area, and Wang Yaowu personally interrogated him: "At that time, the division commander was wearing tattered single clothes and pants, wearing two straw shoes of different colors on his feet, carrying a very old dry food bag containing a broken foreign porcelain bowl, and there was nothing else but nothing, no difference from a warrior." ”
In the face of Wang Yaowu's interrogation, Hu Tiantao was firm and unyielding, he refused to reveal a single bit of information, and firmly believed that the revolution would eventually succeed. Even before his death, Hu Tiantao talked to Wang Yaowu about the future of the country and the destiny of the nation, which deeply shocked Wang Yaowu. After Hu Tiantao's death, because all his information could not be found, the martyr's pension has not been received so far. All he left the world was a name.