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The Nanchang Uprising on August 1, 1927, fired the first shot of armed resistance to the reactionary rule of the Kuomintang and became the Battle of Zhaoji for the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
In this uprising, the main forces of our army were mainly these five branches: the Twentieth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, led by He Long, had two divisions under its jurisdiction, with division commanders Qin Guangyuan and He Jinzhai totaling 7,500 men; the 24th Division of the Guangdong Army, commanded by Ye Ting, with a total of 5,500 men; the two regiments of the 25th Division of the Guangdong Army led by Zhou Shidi, with a total of more than 3,000 men; the Jiangxi Officers' Education Regiment led by Zhu De, with hundreds of people; and the Tenth Division of the Fourth Army of the Guangdong Army led by Cai Tingkai, with a total of more than 4,000 people.
Among them, Ye Ting, Zhu De, and Zhou Shidi were all members of the Communist Party, and He Long also joined the Party immediately after the uprising, and their ranks were naturally revolutionary contingents under the leadership of the Party. Cai Tingkai's Tenth Division, the situation was different.
The predecessor of Cai Tingkai's Tenth Division, the Fourth Regiment of the First Division of the Cantonese Army, of which Deng Hao was the commander, was regimental commander Chen Mingshu. This regiment developed into the Tenth Division during the Northern Expedition and was subordinate to the Fourth Army of the Cantonese Army, where Li Jishen was the commander. Chen Mingshu, known as "A cripple", is a person with a leg disability. Although he was disabled, Chen Mingshu was disabled, and he made a great achievement in the Northern Expedition and was promoted to the commander of the Eleventh Army. The Tenth Division was replaced by Cai Tingkai, the former deputy commander of the 24th Division.
Let's look at the changes in the Tenth Division, this army, and our Party can be said to have no connection. So why did he become one of the troops of the Nanchang Uprising? Because of one person: Ye Ting. During the Northern Expedition, Cai Tingkai served as the deputy commander of the 24th Division, and it was Ye Ting who served as the commander of the 24th Division at that time.
Because of his outstanding performance in the Northern Expedition, Ye Ting's position during the Nanchang Uprising was not only the commander of the 24th Division, but also the deputy commander of the Eleventh Army. Since Chen Mingshu, commander of the Eleventh Army, was at this time serving as deputy director of the Political Department of the Revolutionary Army in Wuhan, Ye Ting, who was the de facto spokesman of the Eleventh Army, was actually the person in charge of the Eleventh Army.
In short, Cai Tingkai's Tenth Division was now under the jurisdiction of Ye Ting, and he was Ye Ting's subordinate. Therefore, during the Nanchang Uprising, Ye Ting successfully persuaded Cai Tingkai to lead the Tenth Division to join the revolution. In the process of the rebels going south, they suffered setbacks and the losses of the team were very large, and Cai Tingkai, who was not a member of the Communist Party, became pessimistic and started the idea of leaving the team.
After the Nanchang Uprising, the Nationalist government revived Chen Mingshu to take charge of the army, and At this time, Chen Mingshu re-served as the commander of the Eleventh Army and was stationed in Fujian. Knowing that the old officer had re-emerged from the mountain, Cai Tingkai also moved the idea of leaving the team for Min Di and defecting to Chen Mingshu again.
After consultation with the leaders of the uprising, Cai Tingkai led the Tenth Division to leave the army peacefully, and the two sides were also considered to be a good gathering. However, what our army could not have imagined was that this move was to let the tiger return to the mountain, and four years later, in the second anti-encirclement and suppression war, It had developed into cai Tingkai of the Nineteenth Route Army and became the most dangerous opponent of our army.
After Cai Tingkai re-voted with Chen Mingshu, he returned to Guangdong with Chen Mingshu. After Chen Mingshu repelled the Gui clan and became the "King of Guangdong", Cai Tingkai led his troops to participate in the Battle of the Central Plains and fight for the bald head. Cai Tingkai showed outstanding military ability in the Central Plains War and soared into the sky. In the Nineteenth Route Army, which was formed with Cai Tingkai and Jiang Guangnai as the team, he held the post of military commander.
In order to suppress the revolution, Chiang Kai-shek transferred the Nineteenth Route Army to Fujian to participate in the encirclement and suppression of the Central Soviet Region. After two consecutive failed encirclement and suppression attempts, in July 1931, Chiang Kai-shek mobilized 300,000 troops to attack the Central Soviet Region again. Among them, the Nineteenth Route Army led by Cai Tingkai and Jiang Guangnai is the most powerful team in combat effectiveness.
In this campaign, the nationalist troops divided into two routes and launched a large-scale attack on the revolutionary base areas. On the left wing, the Central Army led by He Yingqin had a total of seven divisions, including Chen Cheng, Luo Zhuoying, Zhou Hunyuan, Jiang Dingwen and other famous figures in the future. The commander of the right side was Cai Tingkai's old boss Chen Mingshu.
Chen Mingshu's Right Route Army had the strength of 7 divisions, including Sun Lianzhong, Han Deqin, Gao Shuxun, and Shangguan Yunxiang, but the ones that relied most on them were naturally the two divisions of the Nineteenth Route Army (Cai Tingkai's 60th Division and Dai Ji's 61st Division). Like the previous two campaigns, our army, under the command of Committee Member Mao, adopted the tactics of fighting a mobile war and annihilating the enemy on the outside line, won consecutive victories, annihilated seventeen regiments of the enemy, and once again won brilliant victories.
But when the Red Army faced the Nineteenth Route Army at Happy Wei, it ran into trouble. In this battle, under the command of General Peng, the Red Third Army, the Red Fourth Army, and the Red 35th Army divided into two routes and attacked the 60th and 61st Divisions of the Nineteenth Route Army, which echoed each other in the Gaoxingwei area.
In this battle, Cai Tingkai showed his fierce battlefield style, and when the Nationalist army was at a disadvantage, he personally went into battle to organize a charge and repeatedly competed with our army for positions. After a fierce contest, although the Red Army annihilated 3,000 enemy troops, its own casualties were also very large, and under the judgment of the situation, Mr. Peng led the army to withdraw from the battle.
The Battle of Gaoxingwei was the most arduous battle encountered by the Red Army in the first three anti-encirclement and suppression struggles, and the Nineteenth Route Army under the command of Cai Tingkai had a tenacious style and was brave and good at fighting, which was completely incomparable to the embroidered pillows commanded by He Yingqin. In the end, the two powers competed, the Red Army and the Nineteenth Route Army suffered heavy losses, and the commander of the Red Fourth Army, Zeng Shi'e, was also killed in this battle.
Zeng Shi'e was an outstanding general of our army during the agrarian revolutionary war, and his sacrifice caused our army to suffer huge losses. After Zeng Shi'e's sacrifice, Member Mao led all the soldiers to hold a mourning ceremony to commemorate this famous general who had made great achievements in battle.
This unit that our army released during the Nanchang uprising and went south eventually became the most dangerous opponent of the Red Army in the anti-encirclement and suppression war.