In late November 1934, the Red 25th Army left Dabie Mountain and began the Long March. However, the hard-worked Eyu-Anhui Soviet District could not be easily discarded, and eventually the superiors entrusted the task of staying behind in Dabie Mountain to Gao Jingting, then secretary of the CPC Northwest Anhui Provincial Committee. Gao Jingting is a native of Guangshan, Henan, born in 1907, because his family was poor, he suffered a lot when he was a child. After joining the Red Army, he fought very bravely and won many praises from his superiors. After receiving this order, he organized the Red Army guerrillas active in the Eyu-Anhui Soviet District and established the Red 28th Army, which had the 82nd Division and a pistol regiment under its jurisdiction, with a total strength of 1100 troops.
How many enemy troops were there in Dabie Mountain at that time? 100,000 people! It was mainly composed of the 11th Route Army, the 25th Route Army, and the Northeast Army, and the commander-in-chief was Liu Zhenhua. Because of the absolute superiority in troop strength and weapons and equipment, the elder Jiang Yan ordered Liu Zhenhua to eliminate the Red 28th Army within a month. Liu Zhenhua did not pay attention to the Red Army at all, he divided the 100,000 troops into more than ten roads, each road has thousands of people, Liu Zhenhua believes that no red army can eat any road. Indeed, if you fight hard, the Red Army can't fight any way, but Gao Jingting didn't fight hard with Liu Zhenhua, he took the Red 28 Army into the mountains and caught the enemy in a trap.
Liu Zhenhua's 100,000-strong army spent half a month in the Dabie Mountains, not even seeing the shadow of the Red Army, and one by one he was exhausted and breathless, and he was miserable. Liu Zhenhua saw the situation and could only order a retreat. But it was not so easy to run, Gao Jingting concentrated his forces to attack the enemy, the Red 28th Army first set up an ambush at Zhangshuping in Wujiadian and completely annihilated the 622nd Regiment of the Enemy 194th Brigade; then at Jiguan Mountain, it completely annihilated the 613th Regiment of the Enemy's Independent Fifth Brigade; on April 9, 1935, Gao Jingting commanded the Red 28th Army to set up an ambush at Taohuashan, completely annihilating the 612th Regiment of the Fifth Independent Brigade, and killing the enemy regiment commander Zhang Yonghe.
Liu Zhenhua not only failed to eliminate the Red 28th Army, but was wiped out by the Red 28th Army in three regiments, and his elite 5th Brigade suffered a catastrophe and was almost completely annihilated. Seeing that Liu Zhenhua was so incompetent, the old Jiang dismissed him in a fit of rage, and appointed Liang Guanying, commander-in-chief of the 25th Route Army, as the commander-in-chief of the "suppression of the communists" at Dabie Mountain, and continued to attack the Red 28th Army. After Liang Guanying took office, he divided Dabie Mountain into four "Clearance and Suppression Zones" and divided them into "Clearance and Suppression Areas", and at the same time established a joint defense team among the "Clearance and Suppression Areas" to be responsible for liaison between the various defense areas.
In view of the changes in the enemy's situation, Gao Jingting formulated the principle of "three strikes and three no fights," that is, if the enemy's situation is clear, the terrain is good, and the capture is large, it will be attacked; if the enemy's situation is unclear, the terrain is not good, and the capture is not large, it will not be fought; if there are no major casualties, it will not be fought; if there are no major casualties, it will not be fought. At the same time, it also stipulates the operational principles for dealing with enemies of all strong and weak forces: dragging down the 25th Route Army, attacking the 11th Route Army and the Northeast Army with cameras, and resolutely attacking the local security regiments. Under the guidance of these policies, the Red Army not only smashed Liang Guanying's "encirclement and suppression", but also increased its own strength to more than 2,000 people. Seeing that the Red 28th Army was getting stronger and stronger the "suppression," the old Jiang scolded Liang Guanying for "waste," dismissed him from his post and investigated him, and at the same time appointed Wei Lihuang as the commander-in-chief of the "suppression of the communists" at Dabie Mountain.
After Wei Lihuang took office, he redefined the "qing and suppression" areas, and implemented the "military and government advance together" and "bunker policies," forcing the people to establish "five consecutive guarantees," one "common communist," and five families to kill. At the same time, at the same time, dense bunkers and blockade ditches were built on various communication arteries in Dabie Mountain, and after doing all this, Wei Lihuang personally led 170,000 troops to pounce on the Red 28th Army, in a vain attempt to annihilate our army in one fell swoop. In the face of a menacing enemy, Gao Jingting commanded the troops to guerrilla on the one hand, and made corresponding adjustments to the previous policy on the other.
In dealing with the local Kuomintang political power and militia groups in the base areas, the policy of "attacking the heart is the top and attacking is the bottom." Strengthen contacts with local enlightened people and establish a two-sided regime. The lives and property of local enlightened people are protected, and even some ideologically reactionary local figures of real power do not fight or kill the red army as long as they do not make enemies of the Red Army and do not harm the families of the Red Army; the Red Army protects and keeps secrets from those who provide money and food to the Red Army or cover the wounded and sick with the Red Army. The implementation of these measures has ruined Wei Lihuang's meticulously planned strategy of "advancing both military and government" and has collapsed.
Wei Lihuang tried all kinds of methods, but with little success, just when he did not know how to explain to old Chiang, the War of Resistance Against Japan broke out in an all-round way, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party began to cooperate in resisting Japan, and Wei Lihuang finally found a decent excuse to leave Dabie Mountain. Gao Jingting persisted in guerrilla warfare in Dabie Mountain for more than three years, pinning down nearly 200,000 Nationalist troops and annihilating more than 30,000 enemy troops. Old Chiang Kai-shek has successively replaced three "advance and suppression" commanders, all of whom have no way to take the Red 28 Army, and Gao Jingting's military ability is so high that it is impressive! Unfortunately, such a member of the general was mistakenly killed in 1939, at the age of 32.