On May 25, 1935, the Red Army troops that had successfully crossed the Dadu River continued north. In the pouring rain, the soldiers ran for 240 miles in one day, and finally arrived at Luding Bridge in the early morning of the 29th. But the sight in front of them made the warriors nervous, and now there were only 13 shaky iron cables on the surface of the water, and all the bridge plates were pulled out by the enemy. In the face of the enemy's encirclement and blockade, the warriors had no way to retreat, and finally under the leadership of 22 warriors, the troops successfully completed the feat of flying to capture the Luding Bridge. But at this time, do you have a question, why does the enemy not blow up the chain together, completely cut off the Red Army's forward route, but give the soldiers this "rare" opportunity? Next, let's go back to the Long March period and look for answers to our questions together.
At that time, chiang kai-shek sent to garrison Luding Bridge was Liu Wenhui, the troops of the Sichuan warlord. At that time, he was deeply at odds with other local warlords, and after losing the great melee, he was crushed in the Xikang generation. At that time, there was only one such bridge on the Dadu River, which was an important passage connecting Sichuan and Tibet, and in addition to the frequent use of troops, traders could only pass through here. Luding Bridge spent a lot of money when it was built, and it was very poor in the place controlled by Liu Wenhui, if it was blown up, it would cost a lot of money to rebuild it afterwards. In order for himself to gain a firm foothold in Xikang, he was really reluctant to blow up the Luding Bridge.
At that time, the Red Army for Liu Wenhui was only passing by his own territory, he could not have fought the Red Army, and the total annihilation of the Red Army was even more nonsense. In this case, Liu Wenhui was eager for the Red Army soldiers to hurry up, but it was not his style to fight hard. The Red Army is like the red-burning carbon in Liu Wenhui's hand, it is too late to throw it away immediately, do you dare to carry it into your arms? Therefore, he only dared to follow the Red Army and shoot guns, and he did not dare to think about a frontal conflict. If Liu Wenhui blew up the Luding Bridge, the Red Army might really not be able to continue north. In case these heroic fighters are forced to be in a hurry, they simply rest on the spot and fight guerrillas in the deep mountains and old forests, and dare not say that they have a 100% victory rate against the nationalist army, and beating you Liu Wenhui is not a matter of minutes. And under his hands are a group of rabble-rousers, weapons and equipment are also some inferior products, if this situation really occurs, he can't stand it.
With this Red Army contingent alone, Liu Wenhui was already helpless. If the Red Army is blocked in the mountains, doesn't this give Chiang Kai-shek an excuse to send troops to garrison? Once the Nationalist army entered the Xikang area, he did not know whether the Red Army was in danger, and his own territory would probably be surrendered completely. After the Red Army left, at most, it would lose some troops, but the Nationalist army was afraid that it would not be a family foundation when it came. No matter who wins in the end, Liu Wenhui will definitely not be able to eat and walk in the end, who can bear it. So Liu Wenhui only took the wooden planks from the bridge, because with his many years of experience as a warlord, with these 13 chains, the Red Army could not come smoothly unless they grew wings and flew from the sky. But Liu Wenhui could not have imagined that the Soldiers of the Red Army would still fight from these 13 iron chains little by little. And there was also a unit that directly circled around the rear and gave his bridge-guarding troops a front and back encirclement, in which case they could not defend even if they wanted to.
After the Red Army successfully crossed the bridge, in order to prevent most of the nationalist army from pursuing the troops, but also to facilitate repairs in the future, the broken troops only sawed off 4 bridge cables, but these four made Liu Wenhui spend tens of thousands of oceans to repair. If it had all exploded at that time, I am afraid that this repair would not have hollowed out his family foundation.
Under the joint action of many factors, Liu Wenhui could not have blown up the Luding Bridge, and because of this, he gave the Red Army the opportunity to go north, laying the foundation for the subsequent battle. At the same time, we must also remember the 22 warriors who flew to seize the Luding Bridge, if they had not heroically attacked in front of the enemy's guns, where would our peaceful life today come from?