During the period of the Republic of China, the graduates of the Whampoa Military Academy in the army can be described as the leaders in the military and the handsome and star-studded, because this Whampoa Military Academy is not only the private property on which Chiang Kai-shek started, but since he became the principal, the students he trained have become "Tianzi protégés." These Huangpu students wearing "yellow robes and horse coats" have become "central army" in the future "The foundation.
Of course, in the later war years, there were also some Huangpu first-term students who were really unlucky enough, and today, I will tell you about the two Huangpu first-term students who "encircled and suppressed" the Central Red Army in the fifth time, one was Lieutenant General Li Yutang, commander of the 3rd Division of the Nationalist Army, and the other was Xu Yongxiang, a major general of the Independent First Brigade of the 26th Division.
At the beginning of September 1934, Chiang Kai-shek's encirclement and suppression of the Red Army in the Central Soviet Region was fierce, the Red Army still failed to resist the enemy army and began to advance into the hinterland of the Soviet Region, the manpower and material resources in the Central Soviet Region were increasingly scarce, and it was difficult for the Red Army to continue to persist in internal operations. At this time, the enemy Li Yannian's column on the eastern front of the red capital Ruijin belonged to Chiang Kai-shek's concubine troops, well-equipped, very arrogant, contemptuous of the Red Army's lack of combat effectiveness, not at all satisfied with the step-by-step fortification and advance, sometimes rushing tens of miles at a time, especially after occupying Pengkou, the target was directly to Songmaoling, an important barrier at the eastern gate of the Central Soviet Region, and then took Tingzhou City in one fell swoop, and then directly took the red capital Ruijin.
Seeing this arrogant detachment, the commander of the Red Army discovered the fighter, so he gave full play to the Red Army's specialty in fighting sports warfare, and decided to take the opportunity to lure the enemy to go deeper, and the location was chosen to rush to Tingzhou (now Changting) at Pengkou to pass through Wenfang Village (now known as Wenfang) to ambush the enemy.
Wenfang is located in the southeast of Changting County, western Fujian, about 60 miles away from Changting Tufang, 20 miles to Xinquan Town, 20 miles from Pengkou, the geographical location is important, the terrain along the way is steep, the mountains on both sides are stretched, the mountains are long, it is easy to conceal, it is easy to ambush large troops, there is a mountain in the village called Yuandongzi, standing on the top of the mountain can look around for dozens of miles, easy to observe and transfer, is an excellent terrain conducive to annihilating the enemy in the movement.
In order to effectively strike at the enemy, the superior ordered the main force of the Red First Army to move west to the Caofang and Luoxi areas north of Changting, to confuse and lure the enemy, so that the enemy "did not know the position of our army," "did not know my falsehood," and "dared to leap forward.", giving the enemy the illusion that the main force of the Red Army had moved far away from the western Fujian region, so he boldly concentrated the strength of the four divisions to advance in a big stride towards the front line of Liancheng and Pengkou, immediately rushed to Changting, took Ruijin in one fell swoop, and grabbed the first merit.
What the enemy did not expect was that the Red First Army secretly and quickly returned eastward, joining the Red Ninth Army and the Independent Twenty-fourth Division, gathering covertly in the area of Tongfang and Hetian Village on the west side of Pengkou, and quickly gathering covertly in the mountains near Wenfang, in order to wait for work and give a surprise attack to the enemy troops in motion.
Subsequently, three regiments of the Eighth Brigade did indeed break into the Red Army ambush circle, and there were no follow-up troops. At 9:00 p.m., when everything was ready for the Red Army, and the telephone line from the end of the Yangfang to Wenfang had also been cut off by the Red Army scouts, the main force of the Red Army suddenly launched an attack, because the Red Army gave full play to the advantages of the night combat and close combat, first cut off its return route, and then launched a fierce attack from both wings.
After five or six hours of fierce fighting, most of the enemy was wiped out, only a few remnants of the enemy still stubbornly held the bunker near Yangbei Village and the octagonal tower south of Wenfang, and the 5th and 6th Regiments of the First Army, together with the 24th Division, eliminated the enemy who were firmly holding Yangbei Village, and by dawn the next day, the battle was all over, and Xu Yongxiang, commander of the 8th Brigade, fled in the dark of night, and the brigade was completely annihilated.
At that time, after the enemy's 8th Brigade was annihilated, it still did not understand the red army's strength, and continued to send the Ninth Division and the Third Division to Wenfang again to seek revenge.
The Red Army successively destroyed more than 4,000 people in 10 regiments of the Third Division and the Ninth Division, including more than 2,000 killed and wounded, more than 2,400 prisoners, more than 1,600 guns, more than 1,600 automatic rifles, more than 100 light and heavy machine guns, 6 mortars, and more than 440,000 rounds of ammunition. This enabled the Red Army to receive the largest replenishment in the year since it experienced the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, and it was also the best battle fought by the Red Army in the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, accumulating equipment for the next Long March of the Red Army.
When Chiang Kai-shek learned that an independent brigade had been annihilated by the Red Army and that several divisions had been defeated, he became angry and angry, and in anger ordered Xu Yongxiang, the commander of the 8th Brigade, to be shot on the spot, and Li Yutang, the commander of the 3rd Division, was demoted from lieutenant general to colonel and dismissed from his post.
Li Yutang and Xu Yongxiang are both graduates of the huangpu phase I, especially Xu Yongxiang is still a Zhejiang Zhuji person, a Zhejiang faction in the Huangpu clan, which can be said to be the concubine of Chiang Kai-shek's lineage, and Xu Yongxiang has always been known for his bravery in war, and is known as a fierce general among Huangpu students! In this encirclement and suppression of the Red Army, I thought of being the first to occupy the red capital Ruijin, I wanted to repay the victory and ask for credit, and from then on I soared into the circle of the Red Army, but I did not know that at this time he had fallen into the encirclement circle of the Red Army, and after being surrounded by the Red Army, this Huangpu I-term student, who was known as a fierce general, actually lost his troops and ran away, resulting in the annihilation of the troops, which was really a disgrace to Huangpu I! As a principal, his students actually escaped from the battlefield, and in order to vent his dissatisfaction and anger, Chiang Kai-shek personally ordered the shooting of this "fierce general" of the first phase of Huangpu!