This battle was the most thrilling and wonderful action of the Red Army's Long March, and it was also the stroke of a great man's life. Even if our army is in a desperate situation, it can still survive in a desperate situation, which is simply like a god and quite charming!
In 1935, the Kuomintang's 148 regiments, with about 400,000 people, surrounded and suppressed our army with heavy troops. All the important figures in the Party were under command, and the Red Army adopted a difficult policy of movement warfare, and at that time our army was only about thirty thousand people left, and it was in a desperate situation.
Thus, the decisive battle was fought!
And this battle is a classic example of our army's war history in which less wins more -- the Battle of Sidu Chishui. The Red Army galloped along the borders of Sichuan, Qiandian and Yunnan in our country to mobilize and annihilate the enemy in the most active and effective way.
This battle was also listed as a classic lesson plan by the world's major military academies, and it brought into full play the tactical command of the great man, completely smashed the arrogant plan of Lao Jiang and others, and turned passive into active, which was also the most glorious and magical chapter in the history of the Long March!
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Today we will reveal the story behind the most wonderful military operation of the Red Army's Long March - the Battle of Sidu Chishui!
Campaign background!
In October 1934, our army's fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" failed, and it could only be transferred on a large scale. Wang Ming, Li De, and others who had military command power at the beginning made the mistake of "left" leaning because they were eager to make quick gains, so that after the "Battle of the Xiangjiang River," our army was left with more than 30,000 people, with heavy losses!
In the Battle of the Xiangjiang River, the Nationalist army had 300,000 troops, while the total strength of the Red Army was only 80,000. De De ignored the enemy's strong attack and insisted on advancing towards western Hunan as originally planned. At that time, after a fierce battle of seven days and seven nights, our army broke through the heavy encirclement, but the losses were very heavy and it was in danger of collapse. Only the thirty thousand troops just mentioned remain!
The water of the Xiang River was stained red by the blood of the soldiers, and many divisions and regiments of our army were completely destroyed! The wailing, the shouting, the incessant! The soldiers will stop at nothing to fight for the sake of the Chinese nation and for the sake of the future of the Chinese nation. At that time, the people were deeply saddened and proposed that "they would not drink the water of the Xiang River for three years, and would not eat the fish of the Xiang River for ten years" to comfort the spirit of the warriors in heaven!
At the critical moment, the great man led the remaining warriors to break through the Wujiang River and escape the pursuit of the enemy troops in the rear! He was like a "god of war" descending from the sky, advancing and retreating with the Red Army and advancing towards Guizhou.
On January 7, 1935, the Red Army conquered Zunyi City in one fell swoop and held the "Zunyi Conference", ending Wang Ming's "Left" rule. It has also established the leadership position of the great man in our Party and opened up a new situation in the revolution!
Old Jiang was shocked because the Red Army broke through the Wujiang River and even occupied Zunyi City. It is planned to do everything in our power to mobilize the troops of the Concubines, as well as the troops of the four provinces of Sichuan, Qiandian and Yunnan, and the first part of the Guangxi Army, and march toward our army.
For a time, the Zunyi area was heavily surrounded by more than 150 regiments of Lao Jiang, and they were pressing forward step by step. Obviously, Old Chiang kai-shek wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue and destroy the Red Army in one fell swoop. Although we decided to do our best to join the Red 4 Front, many fighters could not even get weapons, and compared with the well-equipped national army, we had no chance of winning!
The great man decided to abandon the already occupied Zunyi and cross the Yangtze River! But if you want to cross the Yangtze River, you must cross the Chishui River in Guizhou. In this context, the "Four Crossings of Red Water" that shocked the world is about to begin!
Battle of Sidu Chishui!
The Battle of Sidu Chishui shows us the flexibility of the tactics of the great man, who took advantage of the contradictions of the enemy to confuse the enemy. Even if our army suffered heavy losses at that time, it was obviously the ratio of the power of ants and beasts compared with the national army. But the great man could command the Red Army to gallop on the battlefield, skillfully interspersed between the heavy army groups, suddenly south and north, and attack the west with sound. Tightly clamp the enemy's weaknesses, switch the initiative, and successfully get rid of the dangerous situation of being chased and intercepted by the enemy's heavy troops!
On January 19, 1935, when crossing the Chishui River, our army decided to divide the troops into three routes and concentrate on the Chishui and Tucheng areas one by one. By January 27, our army was constantly attacking and occupying many places, but the Nationalist army first occupied Chishui City, waiting for our Red Army to "enter the tiger's mouth." And we have to open the North Crossing Passage, so we can only attack them!
Originally, after a fierce war between our army and the enemy army, we had already dealt a heavy blow to the enemy army, but we still suffered a crazy counterattack. The fighting between the two sides continued to confront each other, and the national armies from all walks of life rushed forward, and our army was in danger.
The great man suggested withdrawing from the battle, after all, our strength at that time, there was really no way to compete with the entire level of the various national armies! With the consent of the Central Committee, our army had no choice but to break away from the war and planned to cross the Chishui River in the west and march west to the south of Gulin.
Crossing the red water, he temporarily got rid of the severe enemy situation.
After the Red Army crossed the Chishui River in the west, it had planned to take the opportunity to rush across the Jinsha River above Yibin. The enemy immediately strengthened the defense along the Yangtze River and chased and intercepted our army with superior troops, hoping to trap our army in chaos and annihilate it in one fell swoop.
On February 7, we decided to abandon our plan to move north to Sichuan and instead concentrate on the present-day Prestige region. Our legions quickly got rid of the enemy's pursuit and fought for victory!
After our army entered the Sichuan-Yunnan border, lao Chiang changed his deployment and planned to encircle and annihilate the Central Red Army in all aspects. At that time, Old Jiang was very excited and felt that his victory was just around the corner! But his plan seems to have been seen by great men, and he led the Red Army to many places and held a revision meeting in a small town in northeastern Yunnan.
The great man believed that our army should immediately change its plan and go to the enemy's weak strength to point out, otherwise it would be a dead end for itself. He suggested that we could turn back to the northern Qianbei region to cross the Chishui River twice, but the enemy would not know our movements, and we could jump out of the encirclement.
It's just that many people hear the words of the great man and are very confused, after all, it is difficult to get out of the predicament, how can they go back?
The great man said on the spot that the purpose of this was to play the enemy around and regain the initiative. So that we will not know where we are going.
They thought they would trap us with heavy troops, explain that we had torn through the encirclement, and they would be in disarray! Therefore, when the enemy planned to annihilate our army in one fell swoop, our army had already crossed the river for the second time!
Our army's actions are rapid and slow, constantly changing, and I don't know where Old Chiang Kai-shek will be, shouting that the plan is very poisonous.
The enemy army is really unable to understand our army's plan, and it is tired and slack. Our army descended from the sky, took advantage of the victory to pursue, and quickly captured the strategic area in northern Qianbei.
On February 9, the Central Red Army assembled in the Tashi area. In order to quickly break away from the enemy's encirclement, the great man decided to cross the Chishui River in the east and launch an attack.
On February 10, our army prepared to move eastward and march north of Qianbei, where the enemy was weak. After February 11, our army returned to the division and marched eastward, and launched a fierce war with the enemy army for 5 days. It even reached the edge of the Wu River and destroyed two divisions and eight regiments of the enemy army. More than 3,000 of those who fought against our army became prisoners of our army, surrendered more than 2,000 guns, and received a large number of weapons, ammunition and other materials.
This time, it was the first major victory since the Long March of our army, and morale was greatly encouraged.
In the face of the Red Army's eastward march, Old Chiang could only anxiously express his concerns and shock in his diary, "bandits sneaking eastward."Obviously, the tactics of the great man made him feel very difficult, and he deeply felt that the situation was serious and dangerous. But he decided to fly to Chongqing to see how to launch a new round of attacks on our army! After all, he felt that only he could truly wipe out our army.
At that time, he personally commanded and used bunker tactics to compress our army into a narrow strip on the north bank of the Wujiang River.
In order to establish a base in northern Qianbei, our army planned to attack the Column of Zhou Hunyuan, which was in hot pursuit.
The great man believed that our army should withdraw from Zunyi again, cross the Chishui River three times, and deplete the strength of the national army.
That night, a large number of nationalist troops were spied to set up an ambush again, which showed the forward-looking strategic vision of the great man. If it were not for him, our army would probably be in a situation of total annihilation. However, the great man still had many ideas, and he thought that since our army knew that there was an ambush, it was better to make a plan, pretend to seek a breakthrough, and take this opportunity to cross the red water when the large troops of the national army rushed to the aid. Isn't this not, sound east and west?
And the Red Army's three crossings of chishui completely made old Chiang Kai-shek dizzy, for our army to turn south? Turning north? Suddenly east and west, "scurrying around"
The practice is very painful! He was very afraid that our army would cross the Yangtze River to the north, so he tried his best to deal with us.
At that time, he was anxious to mobilize his troops to the west of the Chishui River to concentrate, and even ordered the construction of bunkers to besiege the Red Army west of the Chishui River and fight a decisive battle with our army!
As I said just now, the purpose of our army's three crossings of Chishui is only to mobilize them to the west bank of the Chishui River and then take advantage of the opportunity to advance eastward. Most of the israelis have only stayed here for five days, and when the enemy troops are flocking to it, they have already issued the order to cross the Chishui River four times!
On the night of the 21st, our army suddenly crossed the Chishui River at the speed of thunder and lightning, and threw the nationalist army that was rushing to build a bunker and wanted to fight a decisive battle with our army in the west of the Chishui River.
After our army crossed the Chishui River four times, it decided to cross the Wu River in the south. The Red Ninth Army disguised itself as the main force to attract the Nationalist army to the north. The Zhou Hunyuan column was confused and followed by the Red 9 Army. At this time, the real main force was "taking advantage of the void" and rushing south to cross the Wu River. When they reached the Edge of the Wu River, there was only one battalion of the defending enemies on the south bank, which showed that they were already in the confusion of our army!
In their confused eyes, they could not finally see that our army was crossing the Wujiang River on a bamboo raft when the wind and rain were roaring. The next day, the army set up pontoon bridges in three places to cross the Wujiang River and threw the Nationalist army to the unknown "heaven and south and north"! The Red 9 Corps, which confused the enemy, also got rid of the enemy after completing the mission.
Crossing the Red River on the fourth day, the great man's "moving the tiger away from the mountain" and "attacking the west with sound" "tricked" the enemy army around, forcing the old Chiang Kai-shek to transfer the troops blocking the Red Army to other places, and our army unexpectedly advanced at a speed of 120 miles a day toward the enemy's empty strength!
Many people say that the four crossings of the red water are simply a miracle. The great man is worthy of the legendary, walking soldier book. As we all know, the greatness and hardships of the Red Army's Long March are unimaginable to us, and the Long March has also had many classic battles.
The Four Crossings of Chishui is one of the most classic battles, and it is also a proud work with the personal guidance of great men.
On a British field marshal's first visit to China, in fact, the British field marshal came to China in order to meet the leader of our country and talk to him!
The British Field Marshal, who saw the great man, said with great excitement that he had read many of the great man's military works. He was particularly interested in the three major battles, which he considered to be the divine strokes of great men. How do you know that the great man smiled and said triumphantly that his proud work was to cross the red water in four directions.
Perhaps after three months on the border of Guizhou, Sichuan and Yunnan, and traveling through more than a hundred towns, it is also unforgettable for a lifetime of great people!
Perhaps we think that the Chishui River is not a magical place, but for the Red Army, it is the road to victory, the road to their miracle. It must have been the wave that had the privilege of witnessing the miracle, and at that time the wave inherited the glorious and magical light.
There have been many battles in history, some large and some small. Sometimes victory does not belong only to well-equipped elite troops, but also to win with advanced tactics and bring them back to life! And the four crossings of chishui are the best illustration!
On the surface, victory belongs to the external factors of more powerful troops, more sophisticated weapons, and so on. The victory of the Red Army in crossing chishui in four directions was a model of successful command and heroic fighting by the officers and men of the Red Army, and it was also an example of successfully exploiting the contradictions between Chiang Kai-shek and the local warlords, which won enough respite for the Red Army, and repeatedly escaped from the encirclement of the Kuomintang reactionaries and ascended to heaven, laying the foundation for the victory of the future Long March, and even more preserving the seeds of fire for China's revolutionary cause.
The great man's lofty vision, the great man's precautions, and the flexible use of various tactics are all vividly embodied in this war. Of course, the spirit of the soldiers of the Red Army who are brave and good at fighting, who are not afraid of hardship, who are only for the people and only for the masses, is worthy of our present day!
Our army skillfully maneuvered with the enemy, crossed the red water in all directions, and after all kinds of difficulties and dangers, finally escaped from the clutches of the enemy. It's extremely dangerous, but the pride of the younger generations is extreme! Salisbury said that the Long March is unparalleled, the Long March is unique, and the four crossings of the Red River are "the most glorious and magical chapters in the history of the Long March."
As Chinese, our ancestors exchanged their blood and lives for today's happy life, in exchange for the new China, and we must adhere to this land we love! The future of China lies in the body of every Chinese, the fine style of arduous struggle of the proletariat of the older generation, and the composure and self-confidence at the critical juncture of life and death, which is our invincible force!
A generation of god of war to win more with less is his necessary leadership ability and our pride!
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