In 2001, Yang Zhu, who was working on the party history in Shiquan County, had another chance to come into contact with a legendary team that had disappeared in a long period of time. This team was once the rear guard regiment of the Red Sixth Army, which was left behind to cover the retreat of the main force of the Red Sixth Army, and then disappeared.
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China conducted three investigations after the disappearance of the Guard Regiment, but found no result. But Yang Youzhu understood a clue: there is a place called Sleepy Cow Mountain in Longtang Town, and the local mountain village folk customs have
"It is said that the incense and paper burning under a cliff have been blackened all year round, and the purpose is to sacrifice the Red Army that jumped off the cliff that year."
Yang Zhu thought again, is this related to the former Red Army rear guard regiment? He then rushed to the local area to investigate, and finally in 2004,
After 70 years, the history of the disappearance of the Red Army Rear Guard Regiment will be restored.
The formation of the Legendary Defender Regiment
Back in July 1934, according to the instructions of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China at that time, the Red Sixth Army began to break through from the Xianggan base area to the west, the purpose of which was actually to prepare for the transfer of the main force of the central government.
When the chairman of the Red Sixth Army was Ren Bi, Xiao Ke and Wang Zhen served as the political commissars of the corps. Speaking of legions, in fact, all the people at that time added up to more than 9700 people.
The Western Expedition is a tragic history, in which the Red Army suffered heavy losses, and after the enemy knew that the Red Army had broken through, he mobilized troops from the Nationalist Government, including the Central Army, Guizhou, Xiang, Guangdong, Sichuan, and other places, to encircle and intercept them with ten times the strength of the Red Army.
When the Red Army came to the Xiang River to prepare to cross the river, it found that the Xiang Army on the other side of the river had already deployed heavy troops and sat waiting for the Red Army to cast a net. At present, the Red Sixth Army was no longer suitable for forcibly crossing the river, so the leaders held an emergency meeting and decided to return to the Yangming Mountains at the junction of Guangdong and Hunan to establish a base area.
However, the Yangming Mountains are not really mountainous areas, the area here is small, and the products are scarce, and it is difficult to support the survival of the Red Sixth Army. In desperation, the Red Army had to come to northern Guangxi again.
At that time, the Red Army was pursued by the Xiang Army in the north, the Gui Army blocked the way forward in the south, and the planes of the Kuomintang Central Army were constantly bombing, and the Red Sixth Army could be described as in a desperate situation.
In desperation, the Red Sixth Army had to fight a hard battle, fortunately, the He Pingbu of the Xiang Army was a newly formed team, and its strength was far inferior to that of the Red Sixth Army, and the Red Sixth Army successfully broke through, and the He Pingbu did not dare to rush to pursue.
The Red Sixth Army reached Guizhou with great speed, but they did not know that Guizhou was a trap set by the enemy.
The enemy troops in the three provinces of Xianggui and Guiqian mobilized more than 40,000 troops here, preparing to encircle and suppress the Red Sixth Army in Guizhou, they cut off all the supply routes of the Red Army, and then distributed false information that "the enemy in Guizhou has gone south, and the Red Third Army has successfully occupied the Yinjiang River."
The Red Sixth Army's smooth breakthrough to Guizhou has been somewhat relaxed, coupled with the spread of false information, the Red Sixth Army thinks that it is safe.
Therefore, Li Da, chief of staff of the Sixth Army, led the Red Sixth Army to a valley southwest of Shiquan, where it took a short rest, and just as the team began to rest, it found that the enemy had formed an encirclement, and by the time the Red Sixth Army found it, it was already deeply encircled.
At the critical moment, Ren Bishi and Xiao Ke knew that the Red Sixth Army would face the risk of extinction if they continued to fight, and in desperation, the Red Sixth Army had to choose to break through again, leaving the 18th Division Commander Long Yun to lead the team and 52 regiments with a total of more than 800 people to serve as the rear guard regiment to block the enemy.
The Defender Regiment transforms into a wall
The Red 18th Division is actually a very special team in the history of the Red Army, in the entire Red Army, there is only one Red 18th Division, and the division commander Long Yun is also legendary.
In 1903, Long Yun was born in Ningxiang, Hunan, formerly known as Jiang Fengwei, he had participated in the Pingjiang Uprising and the Jinggangshan Struggle, and was once appointed with outstanding ability as the commander of the 1st Regiment of the 4th Division of the Red 8th Army and the commander of the 21st Division of the Red 7th Army.
When receiving the task of breaking the post, Long Yun knew that the team was fierce and unlucky, and the original team had been reduced to varying degrees in the breakthrough because of many times as a sharp knife of the troops, and now facing tens of thousands of enemy troops, 800 people were afraid that there would be no one left in the end.
But Long Yun still mobilized for battle, saying: Our 52nd Regiment is a party contingent, a knife of the legion, and now it is even more of a wall. No matter how much difficulty we encounter, in the end, we will sacrifice to the last person, we must block the enemy and find a way for our comrades-in-arms to survive!
Encouraged by him, the warriors looked at death as if they were returning home, and at this moment, they all picked up their machine guns, turned around, and blocked the enemy at Zhujiaba.
Soon, under the cover of the rear guard regiment, the main force successfully broke through and retreated, and the rear guard regiment also had a large number of wounded.
It is better to die than to fight the common people
The rearguard regiment came to a place called "Sleepy Cow Mountain" with the direction of the main retreat, which has been heavily surrounded by enemy troops, Sleepy Cow Mountain is a local saying, the terrain here is coherent, only one valley mouth can go out of the mountain, as long as the valley mouth is not afraid of cattle lost.
When the enemy learned that the rear guard regiment had entered, he was not in a hurry to encircle and suppress them, but publicized to the common people that they were a "bandit" team, and the local people immediately believed their words, and some even turned to helping the enemy and took up guns to hit the rear guard regiment.
Seeing this, Long Yun still ordered "Don't hurt the common people", but it would be more difficult for them to block the enemy's footsteps. And the enemy saw that it was even more unscrupulous, and they ordered the common people to be in front and "block" the bullets of our army.
Seeing that the enemy's footsteps were getting closer and closer, at this time, the wounded in the team let the division commander Long Yun lead the remaining living forces to break through, leaving the wounded to block the enemy. Of course, Long Yun knew what it meant to stay, but there was no other way at the moment, and he had no choice but to hold back tears and lead more than two hundred warriors to escape along the cliff.
One of the remaining fighters, a company commander, shouted
"Comrades, never be a prisoner, jump down!" ，
subsequently
One by one, the warriors jumped off the cliffs
。 When the enemy troops approached, they were shocked, and the team on Long Yun's side was eventually caught up by the enemy, and Long Yun himself died in the penitentiary because he refused to surrender.
Defender Regiment, all destroyed!
The villagers under the cliff saw the wounded jump off the cliff with their own eyes, only to realize that they had been deceived, and these young faces would rather die than shoot at the common people. After that, every New Year's Festival,
Ordinary people will come to the place where the Red Army jumped off the cliff to burn incense and burn paper, and after a few decades the cliff has been completely blackened, and the local folk custom has also developed this strange folklore.
After the Central Military Commission lost track of the Rear Guard Corps,
Three surveys have been organized, but there is no result,
This legion was almost completely wiped out, and the only remaining member had been living in the local area and had not been able to return for various reasons.
brief summary:
It was not until Yang Youzhu came to investigate that this historical truth was finally restored. And this history also confirms that the Red Army would rather jump off a cliff than shoot at the common people, they do not want to be prisoners, and use their last lives to cover the retreat of the troops.
Yes, it is these heroes who have rescued the country from the most difficult and difficult situations, and the revolutionary heroes are immortal!