In the Republic of China period, because of the limitations of communication conditions and the continuous war, trying to find someone in the whole country was tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack. During the Red Army period, many people died heroically, but their families did not know anything. For example, Xu Kexun, chief of staff of the Western Route Army, was killed in 1938, but many years later, when Liu Deng's army jumped thousands of miles into the Dabie Mountains and passed through his hometown, he also found a white-haired old woman holding a white cloth in her hand, on which were written several large characters: "Xu Kexun my son returned." ”
Xu Kexun's old mother is undoubtedly tragic, but the Red Army division commander introduced today, the most tragic and mysterious, went through our military history and war history, but could not find this person, his age, place of origin, and photos were not left, even a name left for the world, or from the memories of the general of the Nationalist army Wang Yaowu, he was Hu Tiantao, commander of the Red Twenty-first Division.
Wang Yaowu (first from left)
In the entire history of the Red Army, there have been two of the most tragic defeats, one for the failure of the Red Army's anti-Japanese advance team in the north, and once for the failure of the Red Army's western expedition.
The Battle of the Hexi Corridor of the Western Route Army was recorded in a large number of books, disclosed by a large number of documents, and even played by a large number of documentaries, and people were very sad about the fiasco of the Western Route Army, and even more cursed the murderous Ma Jiajun.
Comparatively speaking, the defeat of the Red Army's anti-Japanese advance team is even more tragic and tearful. This failure made people know many iron-boned men, such as Fang Zhimin, Liu Yuxi, Xun Huaizhou and so on.
In fact, today's protagonist Hu Tiantao is the most soul-shaking.
Fang Zhimin
After the failure of the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, in order to cover the Long March of the Central Red Army, Xun Huaizhou and the Seventh Army showed their fearless courage of "knowing that there were tigers in the mountains and biased towards the Tiger Mountains" and took the initiative to go north to engage the Nationalist army.
Not long after, the Red Seventh Army and the Red Tenth Army merged into the Red Tenth Army, with Liu Yuxi as the commander of the regiment and Fang Zhimin as the chairman of the military and political committee, and three divisions under its jurisdiction, the commander of the Nineteenth Division was Xun Huaizhou; the commander of the Twenty Division was Liu Yuxi; and the commander of the Twenty-first Division was Hu Tiantao.
This was a disproportionate battle, the Red Army was at an absolute disadvantage regardless of strength, physical strength, and supplies, and was defeated by Wang Yaowu, a famous general of the Nationalist Army, at Huaiyu Mountain.
In this battle, Ma Ge was wrapped in a corpse and was only twenty-two years old; the regimental commander Liu Yuxi was captured, strong and unyielding, refused the enemy's persuasion, and finally walked to the execution ground with Fang Zhimin and was killed by the enemy.
Still
What about Hu Tiantao, commander of the Twenty-first Division? He was wounded and committed suicide without being captured. In the cold and windy winter, Wang Yaowu, who was dressed in a school uniform, and Hu Tiantao, the commander of the Red Army division, who was dressed in rags, wore two different grass shoes on his feet, and only had a broken foreign porcelain bowl in a dry food bag, formed a sharp contrast, and the conversation between the two of them shocked Wang Yaowu for decades.
Wang Yaowu: Chairman Jiang has carried out leniency and reform education for you, and as long as you are enlightened, you will be reused as well.
Hu Tiantao: I think that only by revolution and resolutely overthrowing imperialism, feudalism and warlords can China have a way.
Wang Yaowu: Communism is not suitable for the national conditions, and if you insist on practicing it in China, you will inevitably fail.
Hu Tiantao: A society without exploitation and oppression is the best society, and I am willing to sacrifice for communism.
Wang Yaowu: Do you know where Fang Zhimin is now?
Hu Tiantao: I don't know.
Wang Yaowu: What instructions does Fang Zhimin have for the troops that have not broken into the blockade line?
Wang Yaowu: Where is your home, and who else is in your family? Tell us that you can protect your dependents.
Hu Tiantao: I have no home, no one, don't protect.
Later, Hu Tiantao was sent to Yu Jishi, did not say anything, only asked for a quick death, and was eventually shot.
I believe that there should be many more Leaders of the Red Army like this, and I am even more convinced that this is the backbone of the Republic's success.