On November 25, 1934, the Central Red Army launched the battle of the Xiangjiang River, a key battle that determined their life and death, which was also the most heroic and tragic battle in the Long March.
In order to break through the fourth blockade line set by the enemy, the Red Army decided to take the area from Fenghuangzui to jieshou as the starting point for crossing the river. The Red Third Army and the Red First Army were separated on the left and right flanks, and the Red Eighth Army and the Red Ninth Army served as the rearguards, jointly covering the central column to force the crossing of the Xiang River.
Among them, the task given by the central commander to the Fourth Regiment of the Second Division of the Red First Army was to first occupy the Jieshou Crossing River Point on the left flank and then advance in the direction of Jeonju on the right flank.
After receiving the task, Geng Biao, the leader of the Red Fourth Regiment, launched an attack on the boundary on the 28th.
Surprisingly, due to the extremely rapid action of the Red Fourth Regiment, the Gui army stationed at the head of the border was defenseless and failed to organize decent resistance.
The Red Fourth Regiment easily won a victory, which made Geng Biao overjoyed. At this moment, the messenger rushed to tell him that the division commander Chen Guang had issued an urgent order to the Red Fourth Regiment.
Originally, the Red Fifth Regiment, which was ordered to attack Jeonju, failed to succeed, making the Situation of the Red First Army very passive, and could only fight the enemy on the front line of Foot Hill Shop and Luban Bridge, which was more than 30 miles away from Jeonju. Based on this situation, Chen Guang ordered Geng Biao to immediately lead the Red Fourth Regiment to rush to Jueshan Near Jiaoshanpu and set up a position to block the enemy.
How dire was the situation? The enemy dispatched as many as 19 divisions of troops, pressing the Red Army from all directions.
Geng Biao understood that the situation was very critical, and ordered the troops to leave immediately and eat dinner at Jueshan.
At dawn, the troops finally arrived at Jueshan, and Geng Biao learned that the so-called Jueshan was just some isolated small mountain bags, and it was quite difficult to block the enemy in such a place.
As soon as the Red Fourth Regiment set up its position, the enemy had already pounced on it and launched an onslaught.
At first, Geng Biao learned from his superiors that the enemy had about three regiments of troops, but it was not until after the battle that he learned that the number of enemies was far more than three regiments.
They first dispatched aircraft to bomb and strafe, but then bombarded them with artillery, almost leveling the Red Army positions, and then sent infantry to press them on.
Geng Biao ordered the soldiers to calmly fight, and after the enemy was fully within range, he ordered everyone to fire with various weapons.
It is worth mentioning that Geng Biao was a general with superior intelligence, and he later became not only a military expert in New China, but also a politician and diplomat, and was known as a "generation of wizards".
Incredibly, Geng Biao raised the gun in his hand, and the first time he pulled the trigger, he directly knocked down a person who looked like an officer in the enemy group. The enemy lost its inspector and fell into a state of chaos, and the Red Army soldiers attacked with great determination, and even defeated the enemy and retreated.
In this way, under the command of Geng Biao, the Red Fourth Regiment repelled the enemy's charge three times in a row, and also took advantage of the gap between battles to retrieve a lot of guns and ammunition from the battlefield.
Such a situation made Liu Jianxu, the commander of the first column under the command of the enemy, jump like a thunderbolt, and he could not imagine that the Red Army was so tenacious, so he ordered his men to launch crazy attacks again and again.
However, the soldiers of the Red Fourth Regiment were too tough, although they were far inferior in terms of the number of soldiers and weapons and equipment, under the command of Geng Biao, everyone regarded this battle as a battle of life and death, so they fought extremely bravely and tenaciously, and that kind of fighting spirit really made the enemy frightened!
At the same time, Geng Biao led the commanders and fighters of the whole regiment to give full play to the advantages of fewer people moving and flexible, attacking east and west between isolated hills and packs everywhere, wandering around, and playing the enemy around, so that these guys who were accustomed to fighting position warfare could truly realize the power of the Red Army's guerrilla warfare.
In short, this fierce battle lasted until dusk, and Liu Jianxu and his officers and soldiers were still helpless against the Red Fourth Regiment, and finally had to retreat.
Some of the soldiers of the Red Fourth Regiment were slaughtered and were preparing to pursue the enemy, but Geng Biao ordered "Poor Komo to chase" and asked the troops to repair the fortifications, because he expected that the enemy would definitely return the next day.
The first battalion and the second company took several prisoners, and only during the interrogation did it become clear that the enemy who launched the onslaught during the day was not the three regiments reported by the division headquarters before the war, but a total of nine regiments!
What is this concept? The Red Fourth Regiment, with a regiment of just one regiment, actually single-handedly repelled nine regiments under Liu Jianxu!
When Geng Biao learned of this information, he couldn't help but be shocked, deeply feeling that this battle was not easy to fight, and at the same time it was enough to show that the soldiers of the Red Fourth Regiment had amazing combat effectiveness.
The next morning, the enemy did kill again, and it was another extremely fierce battle!
Under the leadership of Geng Biao, the Red Fourth Regiment still held its position despite the heroic sacrifice of one-third of the commanders and fighters of the whole regiment, which became a battle in the history of the Red Army, and also a battle of fame in General Geng Biao's military career.