In the course of the Long March, the Red Army not only had to face the dangerous natural environment, but also lacked medical treatment and medicine, cut off grain and lack of pay, and also had to break through the encirclement and suppression of the Kuomintang. In such a difficult situation, the Red Army still overcame the difficulties and finally successfully met the division. However, in the course of the Long March, there was such a team, and in the end only one person survived, he was Han Wei.
Bloody battle on the Xiang River
Han Wei, born in 1906, is a native of Huangpi County, Hubei Province. In 1924, he joined the Socialist Youth League, after which he joined the Ye Ting Independent Regiment of the National Revolutionary Army and participated in the Northern Expedition. In 1926, he joined the Communist Party and organized workers in an armed struggle in Anyuan. The following year, he participated in the Autumn Harvest Uprising, and then went up to Jinggangshan with his army to open up a revolutionary base area.
After the failure of the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, the Red Army had to make a strategic shift and embarked on the long march. At the beginning of the Long March, he was mainly responsible for carrying out rear guard tasks, serving as the commander of the 100th Regiment of the Thirty-fourth Division. The heaviest loss in the Long March of the Red Army was the Battle of the Xiangjiang River, which reduced the Red Army from 86,000 to more than 30,000 people, of which the Red 34th Division was even more miserable, and this 5,000-odd team was finally left with only Han Wei.
In 1934, after a heroic struggle, the Red Army had already broken through the three blockade lines of the Kuomintang, and old Chiang Kai-shek was very angry, and he personally appointed He Jian as the commander-in-chief of the "pursuit and suppression" army, mobilized 300,000 troops and 30 fighters, and used natural dangers and pillboxes to deploy the fourth blockade line in an attempt to encircle and annihilate the Red Army.
In November, the Battle of xiangjiang began, and the Red 34th Division, as the general rearguard, actively blocked the enemy and covered the crossing of the Xiangjiang River by the central government and its successors. In the face of many enemy troops, the Red 34th Division fought to the death, and in the end there were only more than 700 people left. Division commander Chen Shuxiang divided the troops into two parts, Chen Shuxiang and Wang Guangdao led more than 400 people to break through, and Han Xin was responsible for leading the remaining 300 people to cover.
Survived
Under the desperate cover of Han Wei's troops, Chen Shuxiang and others finally broke through the siege, but in the process of transfer, they were attacked by local vigilante groups, and finally the entire army was destroyed. On Han Wei's side, on the other hand, suffered heavy losses when covering the breakthrough of Chen Shuxiang's troops, and finally only about 30 people were left, fighting and retreating, and finally ran out of ammunition and food, and Han Wei and others, who preferred to die and were not prisoners, rolled down a mountain at the junction of Guanyang and Xing'an.
Fortunately, the regimental commander Han Wei, the political commissar of the Third Battalion, Hu Wenxuan, and the correspondent of the Fifth Company, Li Jinshan, survived and were saved by Tu Langzhong, who went up the mountain to collect medicine. Later, Han Wei and others disguised themselves as porters to find the Red Army. As a result, on the way, he encountered the vigilante group again, Li Jinshan and Hu Wenxuan were sacrificed one after another, and only Han Wei escaped the disaster and returned to the revolutionary ranks after all the hardships.
Later, due to the betrayal of traitors, he was captured by the Kuomintang. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Kuomintang and the Communists cooperated again. The Communists lodged representations with the Kuomintang, advocating "the release of political prisoners and the joint visit to the country." Since Han Wei did not reveal his identity as a Red Army cadre, he successfully returned to Yan'an from the Wuhan Kuomintang prison. In this way, he went to the front line of Jin-Cha-Ji and launched a guerrilla war with the Japanese army. After the founding of New China, Han Wei was awarded the rank of lieutenant general.
In 1992, Han Wei died of illness in Beijing at the age of 86, ending his legendary life. According to his last will and testament, his relatives buried his ashes in the Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery in western Fujian, forever with the comrades of the 34th Division of the Red Army.