In October 1930, Chiang Kai-shek gathered 120,000 heavy troops and divided them into eight columns, with Zhang Huizhan, lieutenant general of the Eighteenth Division and commander-in-chief of the Jiangxi "Suppression of Bandits, as the commander-in-chief of the front line, from the areas of Ji'an and Jianning, from north to south, "dividing up troops and attacking together", besieging the central revolutionary base areas on a large scale for the first time, in an attempt to eliminate the Red Army in the base areas in one fell swoop.
Zhang Huizhen's Eighteenth Division, a division of the first division (3 brigades and 9 regiments), xiang was known as the "Iron Army Division", he prided himself on his strength, wanted to grab the first merit, led the division into Yongfeng, ordered two brigades to advance to Longgang, and began to climb west of Xiaobie Mountain. At this time, the heavy fog that covered the sky and the ground really made Zhang Huizhan unable to distinguish the depth of Longgang and the reality of the Red Army.
To his utter surprise, his large army had stepped into the small stone bridge in Xiaobie Village, crashed into the net that the Red Army had long been waiting for, had already entered the large pocket set up by the Red Army, and had only been engaged in the Red Army for half an hour, and the two battalions of the vanguard troops were reimbursed, until this time Zhang Huizhan woke up from a big dream, knowing that the main force of the Red Army had gathered in Longgang, and he had fallen into the predicament of being heavily surrounded by soldiers, so he urgently ordered the concentration of firepower, the concentration of elite work in one direction and a gap, and the breakthrough and escape in the direction of Wangong Mountain in a way that fought and retreated.
However, the Red Army could not let the prey in hand run away, chased and fought fiercely, and the Vietnam War became more and more courageous, and soon caught up with and destroyed the headquarters of the Eighteenth Division, and the division chief of staff, Zhou Weihuang, was captured. After three hours of fierce fighting in the fog, by about 4 p.m., more than 9,000 people from the two brigades of the whole division that had burrowed into their pockets were all wiped out or captured by the Red Army.
Zhang Huizhan saw that the brave and fierce Red Army was coming from all over the sky, and the loud and piercing charge numbers rose and fell one after another, and after the division headquarters was destroyed, the overturning plate was powerless to return to the sky, so he hurriedly threw away the lieutenant general's military uniform on his body, changed into a soldier's jacket, and wore the general's uniform and pants that was too late to take off, and climbed to the top of Wangong Mountain alone. When he climbed to the middle of the mountain, he overheard the sound of gunfire on the top of the mountain, knowing that the top of the mountain had been occupied by the Red Army and could not go up, so he panicked and looked around, and found that there was a dirt pit under a large maple tree not far away, so he hurriedly climbed over and drilled into the earth pit, and covered the thatch on the side.
After a while, several soldiers of the Tenth Division of the Red Fourth Army came to this big maple tree. When they saw that the thatch on the edge of the pit had just been pulled, they went forward and picked it up with a gun, revealing the people hiding inside. In this way, he was captured alive by the soldiers of the Red Army, and this victory against "encirclement and suppression" was won for the first time, which was called the "Great Victory of Longgang" in history. In order to praise the "Great Victory of Longgang" and the heroic combat heroes of the Red Army, the senior leaders of the Red Army specially wrote the magnificent words of "Fisherman's Pride and Anti-First Great "Encirclement and Suppression":"
Wanmu Frost was red in the sky, and the Heavenly Soldier was angry. The fog was full of Longgang Thousand Ridges, and they called out in unison, and Zhang Huizhen was caught in front of them. Two hundred thousand troops re-entered Gansu, and the wind and smoke rolled in for half a day. Arouse millions of workers and peasants, work with one heart, and do not make red flags and chaos under the mountains. Zhang Huizhan's name appears famously in poetry, and after his arrest, he was executed at a mass public trial due to great public anger.
One of the eighteenth divisions of the Division, which was annihilated by the Red Army, had a brigade commander of the Fifty-fourth Brigade, who escaped because he did not enter the encirclement of the Red Army with his troops, and he was Zhu Yaohua, the nephew of Zhang Huizhan.
Zhu Yaohua, a native of Meishupo, Kaishan Village, Ansha Town, Changsha County, Hunan Province, graduated from the baoding officer academy in the third phase, and after graduation, he has been serving in the Xiang Army and served under his uncle, successively serving as platoon commander, company commander, battalion commander, regiment commander, and chief. At that time, according to the instructions of its superiors, the Red Fifth Army braved the scorching heat to set out from the Golden Cave of Pingjiang and moved to Jinggangshan, but when the troops of the contingent marched to the Wanzai Bridge in Jiangxi, they were ambushed by Zhu Yaohua's brigade, suffering heavy casualties, and the remaining hundreds of people retreated to the Border of Ping, Xiu, and Copper to rest, and lost the first time on Jinggangshan.
After Zhu Yaohua's uncle Zhang Huizhan was executed by the Red Army, he dipped his uncle Zhang Huizhan in the light, took over the post of commander of his uncle's division from the brigade commander, promoted him to the commander of the Eighteenth Division, continued to be an enemy of the Red Army, and participated in the "encirclement and suppression" of the Red Army base areas in Xiang'e and Gansu.
After the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the 18th Division of Zhu Yaohua's department was assigned to the Combat Sequence of the Central Army to participate in the Battle of Songhu, and according to relevant historical records, on October 25, 1937 alone, the Japanese army dispatched more than 100 aircraft to indiscriminately bomb the positions of the 18th Division and the surrounding areas, dropping more than 100 tons of bombs, and the fortifications of the 18th Division's positions were destroyed. When the Japanese army entered the position of the 18th Division, Zhu Yaohua, the commander of the division, was not afraid of danger, organized death squads many times, joined hands with grenades, rushed into the enemy group, fought desperately until late at night. Later, because the enemy was outnumbered and there was no backup, the position held by the 18th Division led by Zhu Yaohua was lost.
After losing his position in this battle, Zhu Yaohua felt deeply ashamed of the "father and elder of Jiangdong", blamed himself in shame, was grief-stricken, wrote down his last words with hatred, "Sorry for the country, sorry for the people", raised his pistol and pointed it at his heart... Fortunately, just as he was firing, his guards pounced and pushed the muzzle aimed at the heart towards the right chest. Death passed him like this. Later, in the Shanghai concession, a French doctor treated Zhu Yaohua for free, and after more than forty days, Zhu Yaohua finally recovered a life, but his shoulder blade was left with a disability.
The Battle of Songhu was fought very fiercely, it was called a "meat grinder", and the Chinese soldiers died and were wounded thousands of times an hour, which shows how difficult Zhu Yaohua fought. Guo Moruo once wrote in a newspaper of that year: "If Chinese soldiers are like Zhu Yaohua, China will not fall." ”
After being wounded, Zhu Yaohua wore makeup and evacuated Shanghai, transferred to Guangdong to return to Changsha, repeatedly asked to return to the front line of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression without success, and then served as the military judicial director of the Seventh Theater of Guangdong, a senior counselor of the Military Commission, and other idle posts. After being allowed to retire, Zhu Yaohua returned to his hometown and lived in Shi Changmei Tree Slope, living in simplicity and practicing writing with his left hand.
In the later stages of the Liberation War, seeing that the General Trend of the Kuomintang army had gone, and a large number of military and political personnel had withdrawn from the mainland, Zhu Yaohua's old subordinates and old friends urged Zhu Yaohua to flee. At the beginning of the land reform at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was designated as an "enlightened gentleman", and some friends advised him to go out to work in the mountains, but he refused to be old.
After finally repenting, a mistake of one thought, a big mistake, the next situation suddenly changed, because Zhu Yaohua was turned over in the "encirclement and suppression" of the Red Army's Laodice, especially the Wanzai Bridge ambush caused huge losses to the Red Fifth Army, resulting in being suppressed in the Qing bandit anti-hegemony movement. The ending is a sigh.