In January 1932, after inflicting heavy damage on the Southern Front, the Red 4th Front decided to strike back at the Northern Front, attacking the Kuomintang troops in the northern part of the Eyu-Anhui Soviet Region, seizing Shangcheng and connecting the Eyu border and the western Anhui base area. The Kuomintang army occupied the southeastern Henan region with heavy troops, garrisoned by 3 divisions and 1 brigade. The main force of the 12th Division was located in huangchuan district, the 2nd division and the 33rd brigade were fortified on the Fuliudian , Tofudian ( present-day Du Fudian ) and Jiangjiaji line on the Shanghuang Highway southeast of The Port of North Asia ; the main force of the 58th Division was located in Shangcheng; the 45th Division was fortified in the Gushi area north of Shangcheng and west of Huangchuan, and fought with the Shang and Huang defenders.
The Nationalist army was heavily defended, and the Red Fourth Front mobilized four divisions of the 10th, 11th, 12th, and 73rd armies to attack with all their might. After some tentative attempts, the Red Army found that the Shangcheng Nationalist Army was concentrated in strength and the fortifications were strong, which was not conducive to a strong attack, so Xu Xiangqian, commander-in-chief of the Red Fourth Front, and Chen Changhao, political commissar, decided to change the deployment, changing the siege from the siege to the siege of the city to provide reinforcements, first cutting off the connection between the defenders of the two cities of Shangcheng and Huangchuan, and mainly focusing on the Huangchuan side of huangchuan, where the enemy had a large number of troops, waiting for an opportunity to provide assistance, and after the victory of the rescue, the camera captured the shangcheng.
From the 19th to the 22nd, the Red 11th Division captured the port of North Asia after fierce fighting, and the enemy 2nd Division contracted along the Shanghuang Highway to the line of Tofudian, Jiangjiaji, and Shuangchunshu in an attempt to move closer to the 58th Division stationed in Shangcheng. On the 23rd, the Red 73rd Division advanced from the east and the Red 12th Division from the west, and the enemy 2nd Division and the Independent 33rd Brigade fled back to Huangchuan. The Red 4 Front took control of the Shanghuang Highway and cut off the connection between Shangcheng and Gushi. Subsequently, the Red Army surrounded Shangcheng with the 73rd Division and the 10th Division, creating a siege momentum and attracting reinforcements from the enemy troops in Huangchuan; at the same time, 1 regiment of the Red 10th Division arrived near Huangchuan and lured them to help, and the main force was secretly assembled in the tofu shop area for standby.
On February 7, Zhang Xuan led 3 divisions and 1 brigade of the enemy to a total of 19 regiments from Huangchuan, the 13th Division and the 33rd Brigade were on the left road, going south through Huanggu Avenue; the 2nd and 76th divisions were on the right road, and the Shanghuang Road was advancing. Seeing that the Nationalist army took the bait and moved, the Red Army immediately prepared to meet the battle, and chose the battlefield for eliminating the reinforcements in the tofu shop.
Located at the junction of Shang and Huang counties, tofu shop is a small village with only a dozen families. The road here is tortuous, the ditch is undulating, the east is a tributary of the Spring River, the west is bordered by the Bailu River, the south is bordered by a forest, and the north is connected to a high hill, known as the gateway of Dabie Mountain and the fortress of the Shanghuang Highway.
According to the orders of the headquarters of the Red 4th Front, the 12th Division built a position on the high ground around Tofudian and acted as a frontal blockade, and the 73rd Division, which was besieging the city, was placed on the right side of the 12th Division, and the 10th and 11th Divisions were on the left side of the 12th Division, waiting for the opportunity to carry out a roundabout encirclement against the enemy from both flanks.
On the morning of the 8th, the enemy Right Route Army advanced from Fuliudian to the tofu shop, and the left route army also extended south to the Luojia and Fangjia lines in the northeast of the tofu shop. At 9 o'clock, the 2nd and 76th Divisions of the enemy Right Route Army exchanged fire with the Red 12th Division. Speaking of the 2nd Division of the Nationalist Army, it is a big name. He was Chiang Kai-shek's concubine, and the first division commander was Gu Zhutong, who was later known as One of the "Yellow Soups of Water and Drought" in Henan. The 2nd Division was well equipped, and the infantry all used the Japanese-made "Type 38" rifle, which was definitely a heavyweight advanced weapon in that era. However, when it comes to the commander of the 12th Division of the Red Army, it is even bigger and more famous than Tang Enbo, who is the founding general Chen Geng, who has been waiting here for a long time.
Seeing that the Red Army had already laid an ambush, the Nationalist army did not show weakness, and rushed to the Red Army position with a rifle under the cover of machine guns and cannons. Again and again, again and again to be repelled. The sound of cannons, gunshots, shouts, and screams mingled and drifted over the gloomy earth. At 17:00 p.m., the 32nd Regiment of the Red 11th Division seized the Fuliudian Ferry on the Bailu River, and the 30th Regiment of the Red 10th Division directly inserted itself into Liu Zhai and surrounded the Kuomintang command post, and Zhang Xiao, Tang Enbo, Zeng Wanzhong, commander of the 12th Division, and Chen Yaohan, commander of the 58th Division, were all trapped. At this time, the nationalist army could not eat it, gradually showed timidity, after nightfall, no longer able to take care of the reinforcement mall, their own lives are critical, riding on the cover of night to rush through the siege and flee back to Huangchuan. On the 9th, the Red 4th Front pursued to the outskirts of Huangchuan, killing, wounding, and capturing more than 4,000 enemy troops and surrendering more than 2,000 guns. On the 10th, the enemy 58th Division saw that the reinforcements were hopeless, abandoned the mall, and fled to Macheng.
In this battle, there was another Red Army division commander who could not fail to mention, that is, the founding general Wang Shusheng, who was the commander of the 11th Division of the Red Army at that time. In the fierce battle, Wang Shusheng was seriously wounded, and when the political commissar Gan Jishi found him in the pile of corpses, he was unconscious, covered in blood, holding a large knife in his right hand and a pistol with bullets in his left hand. It turned out that a bullet hit Wang Shusheng's shoulder blade and penetrated from the back waist, almost hitting the heart, fortunately, the fate was great! But his two brothers were not so lucky and were killed in the rebellion.