In January 1929, the Kuomintang troops of Xianggan and Gansu provinces launched the third "meeting suppression" against the Jinggangshan revolutionary base area. According to the Kuomintang army's "hui suppression" plan: "Liu Shiyi and Yang Chisheng's two brigades marched from Suichuan to Wujing; the second brigades of Wei Jie and Zhou Zeyuan (Hun Yuan) advanced from Ninggang to Jinggangshan; the two regiments of He Jianbu advanced from Guidong to Jiangxi's big and small Wujing; Wu Shang's third regiment, from Cha and You, marched to Jinggangshan, Jiangxi; and one regiment of the second army advanced from Liling to Youxian county as a reserve of Wushang brigade." ”
The Red Army is still a single dress of straw shoes, winter clothes are not solved, there is no salt to eat, and it is difficult to solve the three-point meal a day, and only by leaving Jinggangshan to fight local tycoons in the white area can it be solved. Therefore, it was decided to adopt the tactic of "encircling Wei and saving Zhao", with the Red Fourth Army attacking Gannan and detouring behind the enemy to attack the enemy, on the one hand, to obtain more supplies, while leaving the Red Fifth Army with a team of 2,000 people to hold Jinggangshan.
However, at that time, the enemy offered a reward of 200 pieces of ocean, bribed a local nomadic hunter to lead the way, and circled from the ravine on the side of the Yellow Ocean to the back of the Red Army position. Taking advantage of the dark fog in the sky, the Kuomintang army attacked on both sides, captured the Huangyang Boundary post, and then captured the eight-sided mountain outpost, and the Red Army was attacked on all sides in the fierce battle, and in the severe battle situation, it had to carry out a breakthrough.
At that time, there were only about 500 combatants in the Red Army, and Wang Zhancheng, chief of staff of the 28th Regiment of the Fourth Red Army, was hospitalized for two injuries in the battles of Wudoujiang, Qixiling and Longyuankou, and remained in the Red Fifth Army teaching team as a military instructor because of his wounds.
At this time, most of the roads leading to the outside of Jinggangshan were blocked, and at this time, it was a harsh winter, dripping water into ice, and the troops could only find a way out in the deep mountains and old forests, climbing from the cliffs in the hinterland of the main peak of Jinggangshan, on the trails crawled by hunters and wild beasts, for a day and a night, which was the first layer of encirclement to highlight the enemy. In addition, "it was a severe cold, the sky was snowing heavily, and the snow in the mountains was a few feet, and the difficult and dangerous situation could be imagined."
The route of the breakthrough is from Xiazhuangtian Caiping to the mouth of the river, then through Hexilong, climbing to the old Jinggangshan Village, and then to the fire-burning post of Jingzhu Mountain, where he spent the night. In the early morning of the twentieth day, we continued to walk forward and over the back of the big pass to reach Shangyan and Changping Villages, passed through Zhangkeng, and came to Zhukeng from the foot of Shimenling mountain to the bamboo pit in the dark.
The next morning, when we advanced in the direction of Liangshan, when we came to Changgangping, Dafen Township, Suichuan County, we were ambushed by the enemy on three sides, and the team of only more than three hundred people was surrounded and attacked by the strength of several divisions, and after the breakthrough, it was ambushed, at this time the troops were scattered, and Wang Zhancheng unfortunately scattered and broke away from the troops. At this time, Wang Zhancheng was wounded, and in order to avoid the enemy's pursuit, he hid for a day and a night in a nearby overgrown ditch.
Subsequently, the sound of fighting gradually faded away, he braved the wind and cold, against the heavy snow, in order to avoid the enemy's search, specially took a cold and remote mountain road, after six days and six nights of hunger and cold, the arduous road, reached a mountain in Suichuan Daijiapu Village.
At this time, Wang Zhancheng's already weak side station could not stand steadily. He decided to go to the village to find some food, who knew that just halfway up the mountain at the mouth of the village, he encountered the local reactionary armed "door-to-door group", was hit by gangsters with bird hammers, and unfortunately died heroically. This battle was called by posterity as the most dangerous breakthrough during the Jinggangshan Struggle.
Wang Zhancheng was born in an ordinary peasant family in Chujiang Town, Shimen County, Hunan Province, and in his youth, he studied with his brother at the Changsha Law and Politics School. After graduation, his brother went to work as a lawyer, and Wang Zhancheng resolutely embarked on another path - joining the army, with a patriotic heart with infinite enthusiasm for the revolution, came to Guangzhou to join the party, was admitted to the Whampoa Military Academy, and successfully graduated in the fourth phase with excellent results.
After graduation, Wang Zhancheng followed the team to participate in the Nanchang Uprising and the Shonan Uprising, and in the Shonan Rebellion that shocked the whole country, he understood the enemy's deployment situation, deployed the siege plan, selected dozens of people from the main attacking troops disguised as peasants who went into the city to do business, entered the city from the north gate to get in touch with the local underground party organization, and quickly solved the enemy who was guarding the gate. At the same time, thousands of Red Army and peasant troops who were ambushed outside the city immediately rushed to the city and killed Wang Zengkui, director of the Provisional Maintenance Association of Leiyang County, and the enemy army fled in a hurry. After a beautiful victory, Wang Zhancheng's military talent was also fully displayed in this battle.
Subsequently, Wang Zhancheng and other troops left Leiyang and traveled for more than 20 days to reach the town of Pudu in Yongxing, Anren, and Chaling. In the victorious meeting with the autumn harvest uprising troops, it was decided to establish the Fourth Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, a total of 4 regiments of the Red Fourth Army, the whole regiment of the Red Twenty-eighth Regiment, nearly 2,000 people, with more than 1,100 guns, the strongest combat effectiveness, is the famous "steel regiment" in the Red Army, Wang Zhancheng is the chief of staff of the regiment.
After Wang Zhancheng was sacrificed in this breakthrough, the local people buried him on this small hillside, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the ashes were placed in the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery.
Today, on the north hill of Ciping, Jinggangshan, there is a solemn "Monument to the Revolutionary Martyrs of Jinggangshan" built by green pines and cypresses on all sides, standing at the bottom of the mountain and looking at it from a distance, the monument is like a beating spark of stars; up close, it is like a gun of revolution. In the distance, a sea of clouds reveals a few peaks. The mountain wind blows, and the Jinggang Cuizhu makes a burst of waves, which seems to tell us about the heroic deeds that happened here more than eighty years ago, and the statue of the martyr Wang Zhancheng is placed between the pines and cypresses, radiating the light of the glory.
At the same time, a monument was erected on the mountainside of Daijiapu Village in Suichuan, where the martyr Wang Zhancheng was killed, and every year during the Qingming Dynasty, groups of people would come here to pay respects to commemorate the great achievements of the older generation of proletarian revolutionaries in creating the Jinggangshan revolutionary base area.