In March 1933, the Battle of Caotugang in Yihuang County, Jiangxi Province, was the last battle in which the Red Seventh Army participated in the fourth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign.
In this battle, a rather peculiar scene appeared: Due to the extreme urgency of the military situation, Li Tianyou, a famous general of our army, broke with the usual practice and did not make complicated arrangements for the troops, and he only put forward one word request: fast.
Li Tianyou's concise and clear command style to the extreme, on the contrary, allowed the troops to achieve a great victory in the battle of Cao moss Gang.
The enemy to be dealt with by the Red Army was Xiao Qian's Eleventh Division, which claimed to be the main force. Xiao Qian once boasted that the Eleventh Division was the "gate" of the whole army, and that there was the Red Army in front of him, and the Red Army in the back.
According to the enemy's false report, when this division set out from Nanchang, Madame Jiang personally received them, and also gave each of them a rope, instructing them to arrest and interrogate all the Red Army alive.
At that time, the enemy's two divisions, Li Ming and Chen Shiji, who had penetrated deep into the Huangpi and Longping areas of the Red Army's base areas, had been completely annihilated by the Red Army, and the Eleventh Division showed signs of fleeing after hearing the news.
The superiors then ordered the first detachment of the main force of the Red Army to disguise themselves as Red Guards to harass the enemy, and when the enemy pursued, they dropped some rotten guns and armbands to show their weakness and stick to this enemy.
Unexpectedly, this small group of enticing enemies made a mistake, exposing the intentions of the large troops.
After pretending to have fought a half-night defeat at the request of their superiors, they could not hold back the fire and took out the automatic rifle they had surrendered in the Huangpi area to test the fire.
This attempt caused trouble, and the enemy guessed that the main force of the Red Army was about to arrive. Although the enemy had no intention of retreating, he had already informed his friendly neighbors to make a big encirclement of the grass moss hill and surround the main force of the Red Army and eat it in one bite.
At this time, the main forces of the Red Army were only twenty miles away from the grass moss hill, and there were also thirty or forty miles away, and in order to act in front of the enemy, it was necessary to select a unit that was good at climbing the mountain, good at running and attacking, and able to fight continuously, quickly inserted into the grass moss post, blossomed in the enemy's belly, and then attacked and annihilated.
In the Red Third Army, Guangxi soldiers are famous for climbing mountains and running roads, and many commanders are affectionately called "Guangxi Monkey Soldiers", and this raid mission naturally fell on the Nineteenth Division of the Red Seventh Army, and Li Tianyou,the 55th regimental commander of the Nineteenth Division (general in 1955), commanded the battle.
Since the situation was extremely urgent and the troops had to attack as soon as possible, Li Tianyou simply said to the cadres of the battalions and companies: "There is no time for specific deployment, and my request is only one word: Quick!" Each unit can run as fast as it can, and as deep as it can fight when it breaks through! It was necessary to eliminate Xiao Gan's Eleventh Division before the enemy arrived, but the companies should pay attention to the formation and not be chaotic. ”
After receiving the order, the cadres of each battalion and company all conveyed the orders of their superiors to the troops while running fast.
The five companies of the second battalion of the Fifty-fifth Regiment ran from more than four o'clock in the morning until dawn, and finally heard gunshots. At this time, the Red Army's enemy-inducing detachment was still playing hide-and-seek with the enemy.
At this time, the company commander said to the instructor Ou Fufu (major general in 1955): "Support the squad, right?" ”
Ou Fufu looked at the terrain, the place where the gun was fired was at the mountain pass, and a large group of enemies were still in the mountain nest, so he said: "This is the head, hit it and retract it, simply drill into the enemy's belly and fight!" ”
So they led the whole company to run forward in a detour, and the entire second battalion followed the detour of the fifth company.
The second battalion turned over a mountain beam again, and looked down, at the foot of the hill on the side of the house, cooking smoke everywhere, and the enemy everywhere was setting up pots and pans to cook. It seems that the enemy really did not take the Red Army raiding squad seriously.
The commanders and fighters of the second battalion took a short rest and carefully observed the terrain, and after the troops in the rear arrived, the attack on the grass moss hill began.
At exactly eight o'clock, after the second battalion and one drum beat out the enemy at the front, each company slammed into its own target, saw the mountain turn over the mountain, saw the house occupied the house, saw the fortifications and fortifications, and fought until it reached the enemy's core position.
Xiao Qian, who had no one in his eyes, couldn't figure out what was going on. After that, we fought horizontally again, and even beat the enemy to the point of turning around, shouting and misunderstanding here, but cursing the mother over there.
It was not until the follow-up troops followed in that the enemy woke up and wanted to organize a counterattack. However, the enemy had been divided into pieces by the officers and men of the Seventh Red Army, and the enemy soldiers did not have the ability to fight on their own, so they had to run all over the mountains and run for their lives.
At this time, the main force of the Red Army, which had detoured from the east and west sides, also arrived in time, blocking the enemy back into the mountain nest. At this time, Xiao Qian had no choice but to resist by taking advantage of the danger, delaying time and waiting for reinforcements.
Where the gunfire was the most intense, it was even more the target of the Red Army. No matter how dangerous the terrain on which the enemy depends, the Red Army can quickly take it. The enemy had no choice but to stand still.
Due to the timely entry of the main Red Army into battle, the attack was unstoppable, and the whole battle was completed in only three hours before it was victorious.
When the Red Army quickly withdrew from the battlefield, there were shells exploding everywhere on the grass moss hill.
The warriors looked back at the grass moss hill where the columns of smoke were rising everywhere, and laughed, "Fight, play more funeral cannons, this so-called ace division of yours is no longer there!" ”
The generals praised one after another: Commander Li Tianyou used a "fast" word to command the troops to achieve a big victory, which was simple and effective.