The 16th Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army was formed during the years of the Second Civil Revolutionary War, with the Xiang'e-Ganbian Independent Division and the First Column of the Fifth Red Army as the main unit, and was formed in conjunction with the Red Guards of Xiushui, Pingjiang, Tonggu and other counties, with two divisions under its jurisdiction, with The Central Committee appointing Hu Yiming as the commander, Li Chuping as the political commissar, and Kong Hepet as the deputy commander.
After the formation of the Red Sixteenth Army, the number of people in its heyday reached 17,000 and eight, and according to the orders of the superiors, the Red May Rebellion was held, that is, the concentration of armed forces, the establishment of regular legions, the active and fierce development of the Red Army, the unconditional expansion, so that the Red Army expanded to 500,000 before August 30, towards the line of communication, the capture of major cities, first to win the victory of one province or several provinces, until the seizure of national power.
At that time, the Great War of Jiang, Feng, and Yan Zhongyuan was in full swing, and the troops stationed in Changsha, Hunan Province, gathered on the border of Hunan and Guizhou, and fought with the Cantonese and Guizhou troops, and Changsha was empty for a while, so the Red Sixteenth Army immediately cooperated with the Red Fifth and Red Eighth Armies to launch a fierce attack on Changsha and won the victory in occupying Changsha.
The red army's occupation of Changsha caused the enemy to panic very much, and urgently mobilized heavy troops from all directions to retake Changsha; under the cover of the imperialist warships cruising the Xiangjiang River, the enemy troops of more than a dozen regiments launched an attack on Changsha from the north and south sides.
Soon after, the Red Army decided to attack Changsha for the second time, when the Red Sixteenth Army led by Commander Hu Yiming launched a charge against Changsha City with 110 "Fire Bull Array" combat death squads per day, but unfortunately, this "Fire Bull Array" method of combat death squad failed under the cover of enemy barbed wire and powerful firepower.
The soldiers of the Red Sixteenth Army used bloody mulberry flattens, wooden sticks, bamboo pens, guns, large knives, etc. to fight bayonets, the Red Army suffered serious losses, had to withdraw from the battle, the second attack on Changsha was fruitless, the Red Sixteenth Army commander Hu Yiming was dismissed, with deputy commander Kong Hepet as the commander, and Huang Zhiquan as the political commissar.
The Red Sixteenth Army remained in the Xiang'e-Gansu Border Region to fight alone, dividing its troops to eliminate the landlords' armed forces in Wanzai, Yifeng, Shanggao, Gao'an, Tonggu and other places, while resting and raising funds. He moved to Xiushui, Wanzai, Yangxin and other places, until nearly three years after its establishment, in June 1933, at the order of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China, Kong Hepet was removed from his post in the Red Sixteenth Army, and the Red Sixteenth Army was downsized into the Red Sixteenth Division (division commander was Gao Yongsheng, political commissar was Wen Jinhui, and chief of staff Li E), and the Red Sixteenth Division had three regiments under the jurisdiction of 46, 47 and 48.
Since then, the red sixteenth army has ceased to exist, but the people in the base area still call this red sixteenth division the sixteenth army. After the Long March of the Red Army, the main force in the Central Soviet Region, the Red Sixteenth Division was ordered to stay in the Xiang'e-Gansu District and, according to the instructions of the Xiang'e-Gansu Provincial Party Committee, turn to fight guerrilla warfare in the local mountainous areas.
However, in June 1935, General Jieshi ordered him to "pursue" and suppress the main force of the Central Red Army, and together with more than 60 regiments of the Western Route Army and more than 100,000 security regiments in Hunan, Hubei, and Jiangxi Provinces, they frantically "encircled and suppressed" the Xiang'egan base area, encircling and compressing this contingent layer by layer in a very small space, facing the danger of total annihilation. More than 400 people, including the Xiang'e-Gansu Provincial CPC Committee, the organs of the Military Region, and the remnants of the Red Sixteenth Division, waged guerrilla struggle under the leadership of Fu Qiutao and Yan Tuge, and it was not until the outbreak of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression that they were incorporated into the 1st Regiment of a detachment of the New Fourth Army.
In the five years from its founding in 1930 to June 1935, Chen Shouchang, secretary of the Xiang'egan Provincial CPC Committee and political commissar of the Military Region, Yan Tuge, commander of the Red 16th Division, Xu Yangang, Gao Yongsheng, political commissar Ming Anlou, and Director of the Political Department Huang Jiagao, the sixth chief of the Red Sixteenth Army, died heroically; and Kong Hepet, commander of the Sixteenth Army, Fang Buzhou, political commissar, and Wen Jinghui, became traitors.
Wildfires burned endlessly, the spring wind blew again, the officers and men of the Sixteenth Red Army shuttled through the strong enemy, tired brigades rushed to attack, covered with thorns and blood, and fought every day, during which they were divided several times, turned to the mountains, marched thousands of miles of dust, buried bones on the side of the road, the hardships and hardships they encountered, the heroic and heroic they did, after the founding of the country, from this contingent came out of the founding general Fu Qiutao, the founding lieutenant general Guo Peng, the founding major general Wang Keming, Liu Yutang, Wu Yongxiang, and Wang Yixun.
Although this glorious detachment of the Red Sixteenth Army suffered setbacks, it left behind hundreds of revolutionary flames, and later made new contributions on the battlefield of the War of Resistance Against Japan.
Go east to the Yangtze River gushing iron stream, yiyi look back at the top of the Ten Thousand Mountains, ten years of conquest of the battlefield blood, holding high the red flag to the national vendetta!