"Heavy troops suppress the border and fight for the river crossing, and the murderous spirit is blood-stained", living in the era of peace, it is difficult for us to imagine such a tragic scene, countless revolutionary martyrs and patriots, with their own bodies, to build the Great Wall for us to resist the invaders, and beat them to the point that they are frightened and dare not have any undivided thoughts about China.
As we all know, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was bloody and cruel, but the People of China at that time were ultimately fighting against foreign enemies, and the subsequent civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China was the place that made the People of China most distressed.
In this long war of attrition, the most tragic battle was the Battle of the Xiangjiang River in the Long March era, which was precisely the fratricide between the two parties of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and today's descendants still lament this, you know, only 30,000 of the 86,000 Red Army left after this battle.
Civil war broke out and the Xiang River was forcibly crossed
When the civil war broke out, the Kuomintang relied on its advanced weapons, generals, and the number of soldiers to begin to blockade and encircle the Red Army, and after the Red Army had painstakingly broken the Kuomintang's third encirclement and suppression, Chiang Kai-shek seemed to be unable to sit still.
The fourth encirclement and suppression was personally carried out by him, and the anti-communist He Jian was appointed as the commander-in-chief, and the Gui and Guangdong armies were encircled and blocked, with a total strength of 1 million.
At this time, the Kuomintang unilaterally tore up the Anti-Japanese War Agreement, disregarded the lives of ordinary people who had just experienced the War of Resistance Against Japan, and also violated the people's wishes of the Chinese people who longed for a peaceful life, in an attempt to completely defeat Chinese Chinese the brothers and sisters of the former Anti-Japanese Alliance.
At that time, the Red Army was led by Bogu, Li Ming, and others as the supreme military leaders, and because of its serious left-leaning mistakes, the Ccp had already suffered heavy losses in the first three counter-encirclement and suppression campaigns, and more than 20,000 people were buried elsewhere.
In the fourth anti-encirclement and suppression operation, he still ignored the dissuasion and went his own way, and without analyzing the current situation clearly, he still copied the original way of playing.
Discontent began to spread in the army, but they had to obey the "principles and policies" of the two top leaders of the CCP, and even began to forcibly cross the river with a large amount of weight.
Under the heroic struggle of the 2nd Division of the Red 1st Army and the 10th Regiment of the 4th Division of the Red 3rd Army, they finally won the first opportunity and won the most precious time gap for the main force.
However, because the main force was carrying a heavy burden and could not march for a long time, the time difference won by the leading troops with their lives was exhausted by the last 80 kilometers, and the journey that could have been completed in one day was dragged to five days by those heavy forces.
The leading troops therefore fought alone, and it was not until the fifth day that the main force crossed the Xiang River in a mighty way.
Tenaciously hold your position
On November 27, 1934, the Red 1st Army and the 3rd Red Army arrived at the mouth of the Xiang River and decided the life and death of the Ccp, knowing that before the main force successfully crossed the river, their task was to hold the position in front of them and not expose the main force to the artillery fire of the Kuomintang army.
The day after the completion of the construction of the Red 1st Army and the Red 3rd Army, the 44th Division of the Gui Army, under the cover of artillery fire, began to attack the forward positions of the 5th Division of the Red 3rd Army.
The soldiers of the 5th Division, with their favorable terrain, calmly responded to the battle, bravely killed the enemy, and repelled the enemy army many times.
Seeing that the frontal attack was blocked, the Gui army immediately divided a part of its forces from the flanks, detoured back to the flanks of the Fifth Division and launched an attack, due to the suppression of troops, the Fifth Division was attacked by the enemy on its belly and back, and had to retreat to the second line of defense.
On the 29th, the Gui Army dispatched another independent regiment, under the cover of aircraft artillery, the 5th Division could not raise its head at all under the suppression of enemy fire, coupled with the attrition of the previous three counter-encirclement and suppression, the 5th Division was forced to engage in a white-knife battle with the enemy, and then the second line of defense was broken. At the same time, the Red 2nd Army and the Xiang Army engaged in a fierce battle.
On the 30th, the Fifth Division of the Red 3rd Army withdrew from the battle, and was defended by the 18th Regiment of the Red 6th Division, and the Red 1st Division also rushed to Jiaoshanpu on the same day, and together with the Red 2nd Division repelled the Xiang Army's repeated attacks, and temporarily held the position with the strength of seemingly grasshoppers shaking trees.
Blood sprinkles the Xiang River
In the early morning of December 1, the main force of the Red Army began to cross the river at 17:00, advancing towards the western extension area, and successfully crossed the Xiang River on December 3, at which point the remaining Red Army troops began to cover each other and withdraw.
In the process of evacuation, the Red 5th Army acted as a rear guard to cover the withdrawal of large troops, while the 34th Division of the army was intercepted on the east bank of the Xiang River for various reasons, and after several forced crossings of the river without results, under the leadership of division commander Chen Shuxiang, it insisted on guerrilla warfare and moved to the area of Guanyang and Daoxian.
At this time, the strength of the Fifth Division was also reduced from the initial 6,000 people to less than 1,000 people, and in the case of knowing that it would die, the 34th Division was still doing effective killing, but the enemy and our firepower were very different, and many soldiers fought to the end, not even a bullet.
Most of them fell on the road with bayonets or even guns, and only a small number of soldiers could rush to the enemy and fight white-knife battles.
The Red Army, which died on the storm road, layer after layer, covered the mountains and forests and the shore, but not a single soldier was shot in the back, and before the soldiers died, they also had to point their weapons and knives at the enemy.
The Red Army, which fell to the ground and could not stand up, looked at the comrades who rushed to their front with hope, and silently passed on their demands to kill the enemy to the comrades in front of them.
Chen Shuxiang, commander of the 5th Division, watched his soldiers die on the way to the charge, and there was no pain or pity in his eyes, but full of relief.
Because he understood that the Kuomintang would not allow his own army with communist beliefs to survive, even if it was one person, they would exterminate themselves, and would not allow a revolutionary seed to sprout in hope.
Therefore, Chen Shuxiang decided to lead his brothers to do everything possible to kill the enemy, only in the killing can there be a glimmer of hope, only until the enemy is afraid, can he get a chance to breathe.
Although this possibility is small, he has to spell out a future for this, for the faith in his heart, for communism!
Later, the 5th Division finally broke out of the encirclement, and although Chen Shuxiang was shot in the abdomen, he still commanded the battle, and just as the troops reached the Sima Bridge in Daoxian County, they were intercepted by the Kuomintang local security regiment.
Chen Shuxiang immediately ordered a large army to break through, while he himself took cover with the only two guards. In the end, the large army rushed out of the security regiment to surround it, but Chen Shuxiang was unfortunately captured.
On December 18, 1934, just when the enemy thought that Chen Shuxiang was seriously injured and unconscious, Chen Shuxiang took advantage of the enemy's lack of preparation and pulled out his intestines from the wound in his abdomen, causing Chen Shuxiang to tremble and almost faint in pain several times, and finally finally forcefully ripped off his intestines.
Before dying, Chen Shuxiang remembered his leader Liu Bocheng, and the pain on his face gradually turned into a smile, only 29 years old.
epilogue
To this day, there is still a saying in the Xiangjiang River that "I will not drink the water of the Xiangjiang River for three years, and I will not eat the fish of the Xiangjiang River for ten years", because people feel that this is the reincarnation of the heroic souls who died in the Battle of the Xiangjiang River.
Decades have passed since the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, but the heroic deeds of these predecessors and martyrs are still being praised in the new era, and they represent the end of an era, and we in the new era will eventually inherit their fearless spirit and grow together with New China on the road of building the motherland.
The smiles of the martyrs will also be displayed on our faces, and we will open our arms to embrace the next reincarnation.