Speaking of the course of the Chinese revolution, we have to mention the Long March of the Red Army. In this epic journey, the most remembered is undoubtedly the Battle of the XiangJiang River.
"I haven't drunk Xiangjiang water for three years, and I haven't eaten Xiangjiang fish for ten years." In the Battle of Xiangjiang, the Red Army lost more than 30,000 people, countless veteran marshals who had made great achievements in battle, and soldiers who had experienced hundreds of battles shed tears of sorrow here.
Look back at history and don't forget the road ahead.
87 years later, riding a heavy ride on the Long March of the Red Army, I went to the Phoenix Mouth Ferry, one of the four major ferries of the "Battle of the Xiangjiang River".
Fenghuangzui Ferry is located in Fenghuangzui Town, Quanzhou County, Guilin City, Guangxi, cycling to the town, there is a village archway "Peace Village" on the side of the national highway, from here about 1 km, you will come to the place to go today, the ferry port of the Xiangjiang Campaign - Fenghuangzui Ferry.
Fenghuangzui Ferry is also an ancient ferry port on the Xiang River, and it is also the ferry port where the Red Army sacrificed the most in the Battle of the Xiang River in the Long March of the Red Army.
On December 1, 1934, the main Red Army had crossed the Xiang River in most part, leaving only the Red Fifth, Red Eighth, and Red Ninth Armies stranded east of the Xiang River, but at this time, the ferries of Pingshan, Daping, and Jieshou were lost one after another, leaving only the Fenghuangzui ferry in the hands of the Red Army.
As a result, it became the only crossing point for the Red Army stranded east of the Xiang River.
When the remaining Red Army arrived here, the pontoon bridge had been blown up by the enemy, and the Red Army fighters had to wade across the river from the mouth of the Phoenix and Dongjiayan a few hundred meters upstream in order to seize time.
At that time, the water in this area was waist-deep, and the warriors carried their burdens and constantly jumped down the cold and bone-chilling Xiang River.
In the face of the enemy's near-frenzied bombardment and low-flying strafing, on the Xiang River around the Phoenix Mouth Ferry and the Dongjiayan River crossing point, the corpses of Red Army soldiers floated on the river, and the entire Xiang River was stained red by the blood of the soldiers.
As the last Tokusatsu To cross the Xiang River, the Red Eighth Army suffered a heavy blow when it rushed to cross the Xiang River in the Phoenix Mouth area, basically lost its combat effectiveness, and had to be abolished.
The Red Eighth Army was formed in September 1934 by a combination of the Red 21st Division and the Workers' Division, with about 10,900 legions.
At the beginning of the Long March, the Red Eighth Army followed the Red Third Army and moved on the right rear flank. When the first three blockade lines of the Kuomintang were broken, the Red Eighth Army had been seriously reduced, and the Central Revolutionary Military Commission decided to reorganize the Red Eighth Army into a division.
However, the reorganization of the Red Eighth Army had not yet been carried out, and the Battle of xiangjiang was launched.
On November 30, 1934, when the Red Eighth Army was only forty or fifty kilometers away from the Xiang River, they suddenly received orders to return to look for the Sixth Division of the Red Third Army.
However, no one knew that due to the tense war and the interruption of communication, the Sixth Division of the Red Third Army was actually in front of the Red Eighth Army, and as a result, the Red Eighth Army was delayed for half a day in vain and increased the itinerary, which led to the Red Eighth Army becoming the last unit of the whole army.
By the time the Red Eighth Army reached the Xiang River, the other Red Army had basically crossed the Xiang River.
In the face of the pontoon bridge being blown up, and there is no troop to contain the enemy, and the red eighth army officers who still have to wade across the river, in the face of the bombardment of enemy shells and the strafing of aircraft, they have almost no ability to fight back, just like live targets.
The entire Xiang River was bloody, and there were constantly sacrificed warriors sinking, and there were constantly soldiers whose corpses floated up, and soldiers who were lucky enough to cross the Xiang River. Looking at the surface of the river, looking at the comrades-in-arms who are still struggling in the river water, although they are desperate to break their livers, they are helpless and helpless.
By the time the troops were taken in and sorted out at night, there were only more than 600 combatants in the entire Red Eighth Army, plus only more than 1,000 porters and logisticians.
In this battle alone, the Red Eighth Army suffered from the abolition of the organization and the number of titles.
Standing on the edge of the Xiang River, looking at this winding Xiang River, not far from the Phoenix Mouth Ferry is a newly built "Phoenix Mouth Bridge".
At that time, the Xiang River, which was less than waist-deep and not more than a hundred meters wide, blocked how many Red Army soldiers stayed on the east bank forever.
Time flies, and the smoke of war dissipates.
Coming here today, facing the Xiangjiang River, we deeply remember and remember the martyrs of the Red Army who sacrificed their lives in the entire Xiangjiang Campaign, and let them feel that we have not forgotten them and that the motherland has not forgotten them.
The stories of their heroism, which we always remember, are their immortal spirit that we have always passed on.
Spend 2 yuan to cross the Xiang River in a bamboo row with people and bicycles at the Phoenix Mouth Ferry.
Take the road traveled by 30,000 soldiers, cross the river where 60,000 soldiers are desperate to cross, and go to the next stop, "Jieshou Ferry"!