General Zhang Aiping
When is the long night dark? Huangpu XiWuqiu Classics. The Northern Expedition took the risk of war and the Pingjiang Uprising to help the flames.
The "encirclement and suppression" smashed the painstaking planning, and the Long March turned to the heavy burden of the battle. Zunyi City spilled blood, and the three armies cried strange men on the way.
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Founding General Zhang Aiping
General, chief of staff of the Third Red Army in 1935
Deng Ping
Comrade wrote the Bang Lian, when Zhang Aiping served as the political commissar of the 11th Regiment of the Third Red Army, Deng Ping took him to command the battle on the front line, but unexpectedly discovered by the enemy, Comrade Deng Ping died in the arms of General Zhang Aiping.
Born in 1908 in Fushun (now Zigong), Sichuan, he was a famous general of the Red Army, who led the Pingjiang Uprising with Peng Dehuai in 1928 and was a close comrade-in-arms of Peng Zong. In 1935, Comrade Deng Ping, who was only 27 years old, unfortunately died on the Zunyi front. Comrade Deng Ping was also a Member of the Red Army
On the way to the Long March
The only legion-level general to die.
On February 26, 1935, after crossing the Chishui River, the Red Army successfully conquered Loushan Pass, which was heavily guarded by the Qian Army, and then four regiments of the Red Third Army rushed and fought fiercely to pursue and annihilate the fleeing Wang Jialie' troops.
The Red Army pursued the Qian army
At this time, Wang Jialie understood that his troops were not opponents of the Red Army at all, so he asked the various units of the Qian army to retreat to his old home, Zunyi City, Chiang Kai-shek told Wang Jialie to hold on to Zunyi City, and Xue Yue had already asked Wu Qiwei to lead the 59th and 93rd divisions of the Central Army from Guiyang to Zunyi.
In order to quickly annihilate the Qian army in Zunyi City, before the arrival of Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army, occupy Zunyi City, Deng Ping, chief of staff of the Red Third Army, took the initiative to ask to reach the front line to command the siege, so Deng Ping came to the vanguard regiment Red 11 regiment to command the battle.
Zunyi is divided into the new city and the old city, the new city is to the north, and there is no city wall, so the battle to attack the new city is relatively smooth. Wang Jialie also did not put the main force of defense in the new city, so the battle to attack the old city was the real battle.
Let's first look at the map of the old town of Zunyi, which was surrounded by walls and mountains on three sides, and the Furong River runs through the middle, which is an excellent defensive terrain for military use.
As long as Wang Jialie could hold out in Zunyi City for a day, then Wu Qiwei's troops could arrive, which in turn might turn the tide of the war. Therefore, General Peng issued an order to the regiments to attack the city, and they must go forward on the evening of the 27th to occupy Zunyi, occupy the favorable terrain, and then meet Wu Qiwei's troops.
On 27 February, the Red Army captured Phoenix Mountain and confronted the Qian army across the river. Deng Ping led Zhang Aiping, political commissar of the 11th Regiment, and Lan Guoqing, chief of staff, under the leadership of locals, to the Phoenix Mountain northeast of the old city of Zunyi to direct the siege operation. In order to better see the battle situation, Deng Ping quietly approached the grass on the bank of the Furong River to observe the deployment of the enemy troops, and at this time the enemy troops on the other side of the river were only more than 100 meters.
Distribution map of the city wall of Zunyi Old Town
On the other side of the river is the north gate of the old city of Zunyi, where the enemy's heavy troops are stationed, the original plan was to take advantage of the night of the 27th to launch a general attack on Zunyi City, Deng Ping according to the battlefield situation, ready to first send one or two battalions to the other side of the river, when the main force of the legion launched a general attack at night, the troops who crossed the river first could quickly contain the enemy army and cover the attack of the main force.
On the afternoon of the 27th, a correspondent of the three battalions who crossed the river first came to Deng Ping's observation position and reported the situation on the other side of the river, and then quickly withdrew. However, the correspondent was still discovered by the enemy on the other side of the river, and then Deng Ping's observation point was also discovered by the enemy, followed by the dense fire of the enemy's sudden fire.
Statue of Deng Ping in the Zunyi Red Army Martyrs' Cemetery
The bullet roared past, Deng Ping did not have time to dodge, a bullet hit the head, Deng Ping fell in Zhang Aiping's right arm, Zhang Aiping rushed to support Deng Ping, and after reaching a safe position, Zhang Aiping found that Deng Ping had no breath.
When Zhang Aiping reported the bad news of Comrade Deng Ping's sacrifice to General Manager Peng, Mr. Peng on the other end of the phone was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and he couldn't help but shed tears, and it was a scolding to Zhang Aiping.
Peng Dehuai
Zhang Aiping did not say a word,
He knew that Peng was always really upset
Comrade Deng Ping is from together with Mr. Peng
Pingjiang Uprising
The old comrades who came out were born and died together and experienced various difficulties.
On the night of February 27, the main force of the Red Third Army, with the cooperation of the Red First Army, launched a general attack on the old city of Zunyi, and the soldiers shouted the slogan of avenging the chief of staff and launched a fierce attack on the enemy with full anger.
Attack Zunyi City
In the face of the powerful offensive of the Red Army, Wang Jialie's troops resisted for only three or four hours before they quickly collapsed. Wang Jialie led two regiments to flee southeast of Zunyi.
In the early morning of the 28th, our army successfully occupied Zunyi City, and seized the commanding heights of Laoya Mountain and Honghuagang in the south of the city, preparing to meet the troops of Wu Qiwei of the Central Army coming from Guiyang.
Wang Jialie's rout army was on the way to escape at a place called Zhongzhuangpu, and just happened to meet Wu Qiwei's central army, so the two discussed retaking Zunyi City together.
Wu Qiwei rushed to the battlefield
The 59th and 93rd divisions led by Wu Qiwei this time are Chiang Kai-shek's concubine Central Army and are also old rivals of our Red Army; since the beginning of the Red Army's Long March, this unit has been chasing the Red Army all the way, and it cannot be shaken off no matter how it is thrown off.
On February 28, Wu Qiwei ordered the 59th Division to take the main attack, and the 553rd and 558th Regiments and one regiment of the 93rd Division under his command attacked the main attack, and attacked Honghuagang and Laoya mountain south of Zunyi City through Taoxi Temple, and the two regiments of Wang Jialie's army launched an attack from Zhongzhuangpu to the north, in coordination with the offensive of the Central Army. The main force of the 93rd Division and a regiment of the 59th Division remained at Zhongzhuangpu as a battlefield reserve.
The Kuomintang army launched a counter-offensive
The specific arrangements of the Red Army were as follows, so that the main force of Peng Zonghong's Third Army built a defensive line at Laoyashan and Honghuagang, Chen Geng led the cadre regiment as a reserve and was ready to reinforce at any time, the 1st Division of Lin Zonghong's 1st Army detoured around at Wu Qiwei's headquarters in Zhongzhuangpu, and the Second Division of the Red 1st Army was on standby in the rear as a follow-up counter-offensive assault force.
On the afternoon of February 28, the battle began, and the 59th Division of the Central Army, with its strong firepower, immediately suppressed the Red 10th Regiment on Laoyao Mountain, because the Red 10th Regiment fought continuously, and the soldiers were difficult to support, the regimental commander
Zhong Weijian sacrificed heroically
Lao Crow Mountain was captured by the 59th Division.
Battle Crow Mountain
Lao Ya Shan must not be lost, so the Red Army immediately organized a counter-offensive, Chen Geng led the cadre regiment to take the main attack from the front, and the Red 12th and 13th Regiments launched a general offensive with the cadre regiment from both sides, and launched a fierce competition with the 59th Division, but the 59th Division also fought very tenaciously, and it was indeed much more difficult to fight than Wang Jialie's troops.
At the critical moment, the main force of the 1st Division of the Red 1st Army was interspersed in place and went straight to Wu Qiwei's headquarters in Zhongzhuangpu, and the Qianjun Wang Jialie's troops directly broke up and fled, and Wu Qiwei was also very afraid of being captured. Therefore, he abandoned his troops at a critical moment and led more than 1,000 people to flee south.
The 1st Division of the 1st Red Army was successfully interspersed
At this time, the enemy army was in a big confusion, the main force of the 93rd Division saw the commander running, naturally it was also a hurry to escape, the most tragic was the main force of the 59th Division, at this time the department was fighting fiercely with the Red Army at Lao Ya Mountain, did not expect Wu Qiwei to directly abandon them, and finally the department decided to abandon Lao Ya Mountain, chose to break through, panicked and fled on the way A large number of soldiers were captured by the Red Army, all the way they discarded the weight of weapons.
The Battle of Zunyi was the first major victory won by our army on the long march, and in six days of fighting, it continuously destroyed two divisions of Wang Jialiebu and Wu Qiwei, a total of more than 20 regiments, and captured more than 2,000 rifles in the cities of Tongzi and Zunyi, 30 light and heavy machine guns and automatic rifles, 300,000 rounds of ammunition, and killed and wounded more than 3,000 enemy troops.
This battle is also considered to be a battle to turn the tide of the war in the Long March, but unfortunately, Comrade Deng Ping, chief of staff of the Red Third Army, could not see this great victory, and he fell on the road of the revolution.