In the summer of 1933, the Red Fourth Front, faced with the large-scale siege of the Sichuan army, decided to let the troops tighten their positions and wait for a counterattack.
To relocate the troops, an important task is to resettle the wounded, and the General Hospital of the Red Fourth Front decided to transfer 300 wounded to safety.
The person assigned to the task of escorting the wounded was Zhang Qinqiu, director of the political department of the recently appointed General Hospital.
This Zhang Qinqiu is not simple, she is the only female general in the history of the Red Army identified by the Chinese Military Encyclopedia.
She has successively served as the director of the Political Department of the Red 73rd Division and the director of the General Political Department of the Red Fourth Front, and is the highest-ranking female in the history of the Red Army.
Do not underestimate the title of director of the General Political Department of the Red Fourth Front, which is equivalent to the fourth person in the Red Fourth Front, the founding general Chen Geng, the founding general Xu Shiyou, Chen Zaidao, Wang Hongkun, Wang Jian'an and others were all subordinates of Zhang Qinqiu in the Red Fourth Front.
However, Zhang Qinqiu's post was later dismissed by Zhang Guotao, and he was transferred to the General Hospital of the Red Fourth Front as the director of the political department.
Together with Zhang Qinqiu, the 300 wounded were escorted, as well as 500 cadres and fighters of the Women's Red Guard Battalion. It can be said that this is a pure "girl army".
Escorting the wounded is undoubtedly a difficult task, because the enemy is laying a major siege on the Red Army, and the wounded may be in a position to move at any time. What's more, there were some wounded people who were so badly injured that they couldn't walk at all.
For Zhang Qinqiu, responsibility is heavier than everything, and no matter how many difficulties there are, they must be overcome.
She arranged 500 female soldiers in groups: four women carrying a seriously wounded soldier, one female soldier carrying three lightly wounded soldiers, and more than two hundred other female soldiers forming three cover teams.
When this special unit came to the area of The Bitter Grass Dam in Bazhong, it stopped for a while to rest.
Unexpectedly, the enemy had already followed, hiding in the woods and suddenly shooting at the Red Army.
Zhang Qinjian was unfazed, and calmly ordered some female soldiers to take the wounded to the south of the mountain to hide, while he led three cover teams to provide cover with firepower.
Not long after, the enemy rushed down from the north of the mountain, and later learned that they were the first regiment of Liu Hanxiong's army of the Sichuan Army.
Although Zhang Qinqiu's strength is to do political work, he is not ambiguous at all in the military aspect.
She calmly commanded the cover team to occupy a hill in the South Mountain, and by virtue of the terrain advantage, she repelled the enemy's first attack.
When the commander of the enemy regiment held a telescope and saw clearly that the people shooting on the opposite side were all Female Soldiers of the Red Army wearing red cloth marks on their arms, he couldn't help but smile: "Hey hey hey, the opposite is full of mothers-in-law!" Brothers, don't shoot, catch them all alive! Whoever catches two red wives will reward him with a wife! ”
However, the soldiers heard the regimental commander say that the men on the opposite side were all female Red Army soldiers, and they felt that it was not interesting to fight with women, and it was disgraceful to win the battle, and suddenly all of them did not shoot and refused to rush forward.
Zhang Qinqiu saw that the enemy suddenly stopped firing and shrank in place, and couldn't help but wonder in his heart.
She thought about it: Yes! Instead of fighting the enemy hard, it is better to win with skill. In the end, they are all poor people, and people's hearts are all flesh, so why not ideologically disintegrate their fighting spirit?
Thinking of this, Zhang Qinqiu immediately organized the cadres and soldiers of the women's Red Guard Battalion and asked them to shout at the enemy, so that sopranos sounded one after another in the valley:
"The Japanese Kou bullied Chinese, so should the White Army brothers also bully the Chinese sisters?"
"They are all descendants of Yan Huang, why should they kill each other?"
"When a man beats a woman, the ancestors are also humiliated!"
"Welcome to the Red Army and fight against Japan and save the country together!"
The enemy regimental commander panicked and ordered the soldiers to shoot and attack. But no one listened to his orders at all, and the soldiers turned a deaf ear to the words of the commander, but carefully listened to the female Red Army's shouts.
The commander of the enemy regiment was furious and pulled out his pistol to deter: "Whoever does not shoot, Lao Tzu will kill whom!" ”
Unexpectedly, this sentence infuriated the soldiers, and several bloody men immediately stood up and asked: "What they say is reasonable, they are all Chinese, why should they kill each other?" Why not turn the gun to fight the Invading Japanese? ”
Zhang Qinqiu hit the iron while it was hot: "Brothers of the White Army, don't do those things that hurt heaven and nature, put down the gun and go home!" ”
The enemy regimental commander was so angry that he shot and killed two soldiers who had questioned him.
The scene immediately became chaotic, many soldiers were out of control, and several people who had long been unaccustomed to the enemy regimental commander shouted: "The official has such a black heart, kill him!" Go to the Red Army, the Red Army does not bully the poor! ”
Some soldiers, who had been oppressed in peacetime, responded in groups and took advantage of the chaos to surround the regimental commander and prepare to surrender to the Red Army.
Zhang Qinqiu missed such a good opportunity, and immediately ordered some female soldiers to stay behind to protect the wounded, while he himself rushed down from Nanshan with more than three hundred female soldiers, surrounded the Kuomintang army that was in a chaotic mess, and with the help of some of the on-site rebel soldiers, confiscated all the guns, and all the regiments surrendered.
In this way, five hundred female soldiers led by Zhang Qinqiu captured a regiment of the enemy, creating a legendary example in the history of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign warfare.
This amazing miracle soon spread, and the soldiers and civilians of Sichuan and Shaanxi praised Zhang Qinqiu as a "female general who commanded like a god."