As we all know, during the war years, everyone agreed with the saying: the muzzle of the gun should not be pointed at one's own people, but should be consistent with the outside world.
However, during the third anti-"encirclement and suppression" period of the Red Army, a very intriguing incident occurred: the three-way Kuomintang army was annihilated by the same unit, and this unit turned out to be their friendly army. This cannot but be said to be a strange story in military history.
On August 13, 1931, the 11th Division of the Kuomintang 18th Army, on the orders of division commander Luo Zhuoying, marched towards Junbu, Jiangxi, in pursuit of the Red Army.
As the unit passed through the pit, it was violently attacked by the Peasant Red Guards and a Red Army led by Xiang Ying, and the rear guard unit of the 11th Division was beaten to pieces.
When the division commander Luo Zhuoying led a main force regiment to hurry to arrive, but could not find the red army, only heard the cold gunshots of "snapping, snapping, calling, calling" everywhere on the hills on all sides, and the number of casualties in the units under the 11th Division continued to increase.
Luo Zhuo was furious and ordered the troops to counterattack, and machine guns and mortars shot indiscriminately at the surrounding hills for a while.
However, in the following days, the Red Army, the guerrillas, and the Red Guards continued to harass the 11th Division, while the main force of the Red Army did not know where to hide, and the division commander Luo Zhuoying was very annoyed.
On August 18, Luo Zhuoying led his troops to a village, found that there were shadows of people on the nearby hills, he did not ask questions, ordered the soldiers to surround several hills, and took advantage of the southeast wind to set fire to the mountains.
For a time, thick smoke billowed and flames rose in the air, and the people hiding on the mountain were unarmed civilians, but Luo Zhuoying ordered that all those who escaped from the mountain should be shot and killed, regardless of whether they were men, women or children.
A large number of innocent people died in this way, becoming the ghosts of Luo Zhuoying's men. The 18th Army left itself a criminal and shameful "record."
However, although the 18th Army failed to fight a major battle with the Red Army in this "suppression of the Communists" operation, it did not achieve nothing. At the end of this "encirclement and suppression," it took advantage of the fire and looting and recovered a large amount of unexpected "wealth."
In late September 1931, a group of disorganized and exhausted remnants of the Kuomintang army fled along the road in a panic towards Ji'an, which was the remnants of the 52nd Division, which was annihilated by the Red Army at the Battle of Fangshiling.
Suddenly, they found that not far away, an army was driving toward this side in a mighty way.
"Oh, it's not good, the communists are coming after you!" I don't know who screamed, and the birds of fright immediately messed up, some turning back and running, some kneeling and surrendering, and some burrowing into the woods and grass on the side of the road to hide.
When the army approached, the defeated soldiers finally breathed a sigh of relief -- it turned out to be their own people.
"Hey, brethren, which part of you are?" Some impatient defeated soldiers ran out from behind the roadside mounds, in the woods, and in the grass to inquire.
"We belong to the 11th Division of the 18th Army." The visitor answered with a high spirit.
Encountering the ace main force of the Nationalist army, the remnants of the defeated generals suddenly had a sense of security, and they demanded to go with the friendly troops and retreat to Ji'an, Jiangxi.
Luo Zhuoying, commander of the 11th Division, thought about it and agreed.
In the evening, as the remnants of the defeated generals devoured dinner, a group of officers and men of the 11th Division, armed with live ammunition, surrounded them.
"Brethren, don't get me wrong, what's going on?"
"Less hustle and bustle, stand up! gather! ”
The muzzle of the 11th Division's officers and men in the black hole hole was aimed at the unarmed defeated soldiers.
When the defeated soldiers were assembled, Luo Zhuoying announced: "From now on, the remnants of the 52nd Division will be incorporated into the 18th Army, and mixed with the Independent Brigade of the 11th Division and the Siege Brigade of the 14th Division to form a new 52nd Division, with General Chen Cheng personally serving as the division commander." All the original officers at all levels, except for a very small number of those retained, were all dismissed back to their places of origin, and the 18th Army reassigned cadres to serve as officers at all levels of the new 52nd Division. ”
A few hours later, the 18th Army added a new division, the 52nd Division.
A few days later, the 11th Division encountered another Nationalist force, Guo Huazong's 43rd Division.
The 43rd Division, also fearing an ambush by the Red Army on the road, asked to accompany the 11th Division and withdraw to Ji'an.
So the same scene was repeated again, and the 62nd Regiment of the 11th Division surrounded the headquarters of the 43rd Division and drove out the division commander Guo Huazong.
The 43rd Division was forcibly disarmed and reorganized, with Liu Shaoxian as the new division commander, becoming another division under the jurisdiction of the 18th Army.
A year later, Zhang Ying's 59th Division of the Sichuan Army was surrounded by the Red Army, Zhang Ying desperately called for help from other Chiang Kai-shek troops, and the 18th Army "generously helped" and sent troops to support the 59th Division, breaking the siege for Zhang Ying.
Just when Zhang Ying was grateful and grateful, Luo Zhuoying once again repeated the same trick, and the 11th and 14th main divisions suddenly surrounded Zhang Ying's division headquarters at Yongfeng and annexed the division in one fell swoop.
Zhang Yingwan did not expect that his troops were not wiped out by the Red Army, but they were "completely annihilated" by friendly forces. However, at this point, he had no choice but to leave the army in tears.
Luo Zhuoying immediately replaced the cadres at all levels of the 59th Division and sent his own close associate Chen Shiji as the commander of the division.
After some clever and heroic seizures, the 18th Army "annihilated" the three friendly forces, from two divisions and one brigade before the "encirclement and suppression" to 29 regiments under its jurisdiction in 5 divisions, becoming a "super army".
Luo Zhuoying was also promoted to deputy commander of the 18th Army because of his "military training and military training and repeated achievements", and later often exercised the authority of military commander on behalf of Chen Cheng.