"Dadu Bridge Cross iron cable cold" is written that during the Long March of the Central Red Army, the Red Army forcibly crossed the Dadu River, smashing Chiang Kai-shek's dream of wanting the Red Army to be a second Shi Dakai. At that time, the Red Army took two roads, one way was the Red Regiment led by Yang Dezhi, through a rapid march of more than 80 kilometers to the Anshun Field on the right bank of the Dadu River, after defeating the enemy stationed, began to cross the Dadu River successfully, but unfortunately there were too few boats to cross tens of thousands of Red Army in a short period of time.
Therefore, it was decided to fly another way to seize the Luding Bridge and walk over the bridge, so that the large troops could quickly and smoothly pass, this way was led by Yang Chengwu, the commander of the Red Fourth Regiment.
However, whether they passed by ferry or crossed the river from a bridge, Yang Chengwu and Yang Dezhi were one of the famous "Three Yangs", and as the vanguard officers of the Long March of the Central Red Army, they opened up the barrier for the Red Army with their extraordinary ability and tenacious revolutionary spirit, and really wrote a heavy stroke in the history of the Chinese revolution.
In early May 1935, the Central Red Army was preparing to cross the Dadu River, and on the evening of May 24, the Red Regiment led by Yang Dezhi rushed to Anshun Field on the right bank of the Dadu River after a rapid march of more than 80 kilometers, and the Dadu River around Anshun Field was more than 100 meters wide, with rapid water depth and high mountains. This place was garrisoned by 2 companies of the Sichuan Army, and the ferry port was defended by 1 battalion of the 7th Regiment of the Fifth Brigade of the 24th Army of the Sichuan Army, and they knew that the Red Army was going to pass through here, so they hurriedly built fortifications and defended by risk, and the situation was very unfavorable to the Red Army.
In the early morning of the 25th, the red group began to forcibly cross the Dadu River. Sun Jixian, commander of the first battalion of the Red Regiment, selected 17 warriors from the second company to form a river crossing commando team, with company commander Xiong Shanglin as the captain, and 4 local boatmen from Shuai Shigao were ferrymen. At 7 o'clock, the strong crossing began, the light and heavy weapons on the shore opened fire at the same time, covering the commando team to cross the river, and the gunner Zhao Zhangcheng hit the bunker on the opposite bank with two mortar shells.
The commando team was divided into two groups, Xiong Shanglin led the first group of 8 people to cross the river first, and Sun Jixian led the second group of 8 people to cross the river again. Eighteen warriors braved the heavy gunfire and artillery fire of the Sichuan army and advanced in the rapids. When approaching the opposite shore, the Sichuan army counterattacked the crossing, Yang Dezhi ordered two more shots, right in the middle of the Sichuan army, eighteen warriors defeated the terrifying waves, rushed through the enemy's heavy fire net, and finally landed on the opposite shore.
These warriors who crossed the river with both intelligence and completeness used the dead corners of the high and steep steps as a cover to violently charge up the steps. With the support of the fire on the right bank, the warriors repelled the counterattack of the Sichuan army, controlled the ferry, and the follow-up troops crossed the river in time for reinforcements, defeating 1 battalion of the Sichuan army in one fell swoop and consolidating the river crossing point. Subsequently, the First Division and cadre regiment of the Red First Army thus crossed the Dadu River, which was regarded as insurmountable by the Kuomintang army.
Sun Jixian, the battalion commander of the first battalion, was responsible for direct forced crossing, and he selected 17 Red Army warriors to form a brave team to cross the river and take two boats, Sun Jixian was on the second boat, and finally successfully crossed the Dadu River, quickly crushed a battalion of the enemy army serving as the river defense, and then took advantage of the situation to attack Luding County, and cooperated with the four regiments to seize the Luding Bridge to ensure the smooth crossing of the river by the central Red Army organs.
A battalion battalion commander Sun Jixian, a native of Cao County, Shandong, born in 1911, came from a poor family, cut grass for the landlords in the village since childhood, when he was a cow herder, he learned martial arts with boxers since childhood, trained a hard kung fu, the family could not even eat enough, he ran to the Jining Kuomintang 26th Route Army as a soldier, not long after, he drove from Shandong to Jiangxi with the troops, participated in the second "encirclement and suppression" of the central base area, and then he participated in the "Ningdu Uprising", from the white army to the Red Army. He was assigned to the teaching brigade of the Ruijin Independent Fourth Division and served as the leader of the district, and thus began the revolutionary cause for which he had struggled all his life.
He took part in the third and fourth anti-"encirclement and suppression" struggles in the central revolutionary base areas, and at the beginning of the Long March, he was transferred to the battalion commander of the first battalion of the first regiment (advance regiment) of the first division of the Red First Army, and led his troops to participate in the Battle of the Xiangjiang River, the four crossings of Chishui, the breakthrough of the Wujiang River, and the qiao crossing of the Jinsha River, and made outstanding achievements. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Sun Jixian participated in the battles of Changshengkou and Huangdiya, he was transferred to the second brigade commander, taught the commander of the first brigade, served as the commander of the fourth division of the Shandong Provincial Field Army (Shandong Military Region) during the Liberation War, led the troops to participate in the Battle of Laiwu, and later served as the deputy commander of the Eighth Column of the East China Field Army, the commander of the 22nd Army, and other positions, and in 1955 Sun Jixian was awarded the rank of lieutenant general.
Chen Zhengxiang, commander of the second battalion, when he forcibly crossed the Dadu River, his task was to pretend to attack downstream, contain two regiments of Yang Sen of the Sichuan Army, attack the west with a sound, and paralyze the enemy, so at that time he was not at the scene of the Strong Crossing on The Anshun Field, but he also played an important role in Qiangdu, so his credit was also great.
Chen Zhengxiang, a native of Zhenshang Town, Xinhua, Hunan, first served as a soldier in the Xiang Army's Tang Shengzhi Department, participated in the Northern Expedition, and later joined the Red Army in the Xincheng Uprising, successively serving as a company commander and battalion commander of the special service battalion of the 22nd Army, the commander of the second battalion of the first regiment of the first division of the Red Army during the Long March of the Red Army, and later the commander and commander of the division, the deputy commander and regimental commander of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army during the War of Resistance, the commander of the first detachment of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, the commander of the fourth sub-district, and other positions, and the commander of the second column of the Ji-Jin Military Region during the Liberation War, and led the troops to participate in the battles of Suiyuan, Jining, Jinbei, and Zhangjiakou. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as the deputy commander of the Railway Corps, and was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in 1955.
Yin Guochi, commander of the third battalion, led the third battalion to serve as a rear guard when the Red Regiment forcibly crossed the Dadu River, staying in place to cover the command organs, and did not think that without charging in the front, the task would be lighter, in fact, it was also very important to serve as a rear guard, because the command organs of the Red Army headquarters were here, and the safety of the chief was more important. Therefore, the red flowers must be lined with green leaves, and he also made a great contribution in the battle of the forced crossing of the Dadu River.
However, later, Yin Guochi was seriously wounded in the Battle of Zhiluo Town, and after recovering from his wounds, he was transferred to the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Independent Division as the chief of staff of the division, and during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as the commander of the Seventh Regiment of the Eighth Route Army's Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Left Guard Corps, responsible for the reorganization and training of the Jinzhong and Jin-Cha-Ji Border Regions. In May 1940, while returning to Yan'an, he died of a recurrence of his injuries.
After the comrades separated, they fought all the way, and the inconvenience of communication and transportation made Yang Dezhi want to find the commander of the three battalions at that time, Yin Guochi, for 40 years, Yang Dezhi served as the chief of the general staff, and the two battalion commanders under him became the founding lieutenant generals, but only Yin Guochi disappeared. He tried every means to pass through the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the only clue he knew was "Jiangxi Ji'an people", Yang Dezhi, with the attitude of being responsible for his comrades-in-arms, was determined to find Yin Guochi.
Through careful searching, it was learned that Yin Guochi was a native of Henglu Village, YongxinYange Township, Ji'an, Jiangxi, and that he joined the Red Army in 1929, participating in the anti-"encirclement and suppression" struggles in the Central Soviet Region and the Long March of the Central Red Army, and was the commander of the three battalions of the first division and one regiment of the Red Army. Because Yin Guochi participated in the revolution, he has been moving to various places, coupled with the fact that his hometown is located in a remote village, the traffic information is blocked, until he died, Yin Guochi has not been able to return to his hometown to see his wife, children, and children, and his family knows very little about his situation, and he still lives an ordinary life in Yongxin Village.
To this end, he immediately wrote testimonial materials for the martyr Yin Guochi, telling the heroic performance of the martyr, and the relevant departments also visited his family to express their condolences. At the same time, the implementation of the policy to the families of the martyrs was reissued with martyr certificates, and at the same time, Yin Guochi was included in the second batch of 600 famous anti-Japanese heroes and heroes released by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, although it has been more than 40 years since Yin Guochi's sacrifice, it is enough to comfort the heroic soul of this revolutionary martyr in heaven.