The heroic deeds of the five heroes of Wolf's Tooth Mountain must be familiar to everyone, and they will come with their mouths open. However, what is not known to people is that seven years before the heroic deeds of the five heroes of Wolf's Tooth Mountain, a hundred Red Army soldiers, in front of the fierce and vicious Kuomintang troops, chose to jump off the cliff en masse, preferring to die rather than be captured.
The story takes place in October 1934, when the Sixth Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, as the advance team of the Long March, entered the territory of Shiyan County, Tongren City, in the northeast of Guizhou Province, and was surrounded by the Kuomintang Xiang Army, The Gui Army, and the Qian Army. On October 16, in order to cover the transfer of the main force of the legion, the 52nd Regiment of the Eighteenth Division of the Red Sixth Army took the initiative to take on the task of blocking the enemy and directing the enemy's heavy army group to the Trapped Cow Mountain. Because the enemy was outnumbered and out of bullets, they were improperly captured, and finally the remaining more than 100 Red Army fighters flew down the cliff more than 70 meters high and died on the spot.
In April 1934, the Kuomintang reactionaries gathered 500,000 troops to carry out the fifth "encirclement and suppression" of the Central Soviet Region. Due to the erroneous command of the "Left", in the early stage of the anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, the Central Red Army lost one battle after another and lost a large number of base areas. In July of that year, the Party Central Committee sent the Red Seventh Army led by Xun Huaizhou and Su Yu as the anti-Japanese advance team to the north and moved first. Subsequently, the Party Central Committee sent the Red Sixth Army to break through westward from the Xianggan and Xiang'egan base areas and go to the eastern part of Guizhou Province, with the final destination being the Red Third Army led by Xia Xi, He Long, and Guan Xiangying and the Qiandong Revolutionary Base Area they created.
Led by Regiment Commander Xiao Ke, Political Commissar Wang Zhen, Chief of Staff Li Da, and Central Representative Ren Bishi, the Red Sixth Army had jurisdiction over the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Divisions, with a total of six regiments and more than 9,700 people.
On October 4, the Red Sixth Army successfully broke through to the monkey farm in Wong'an, Guizhou Province, and suddenly received orders from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to change the marching route and move eastward, targeting the direction of Shiquan and Jiangkou.
At this time, the heavy troops led by the Kuomintang clique Xiang Army Li Jue, the Gui Army Liao Lei, and the Qian Army Wang Tianxi had already been stationed in Zhenyuan, Huangping, Shibing, and Shiquan counties, with a strength of 24 regiments, and they pursued the Red Sixth Army all the way, chasing and blocking the Red Sixth Army, in a vain attempt to squeeze the Red Sixth Army into a narrow strip south of the Wujiang River and annihilate it.
Since ancient times, the Wujiang River has been famous for its rapids, beaches and narrow valleys, known as "natural danger". The Kuomintang was guarded by four regiments on the other side of the Wu River, and it was almost impossible for thousands of Red Army troops to cross the Wu River north.
At that time, due to poor communication, the Red Sixth Army did not know much about the enemy's situation, and still advanced to the east unguarded, waiting for an opportunity to forcibly cross the Wu River. When the vanguard of the Seventeenth Division advanced to the vicinity of Ganxi in Shiquan County, and was preparing to camp, it was suddenly attacked by Liao Lei's troops of the Gui Army. The Seventeenth Division was unprepared and hastily engaged in battle, and was soon cut off by the enemy and surrounded by divisions.
The Seventeenth Division chose to move to the north to break through, but due to the unfamiliarity of life, coupled with the complex terrain here, the steep slopes of the mountains, the deep cliffs of the ditches, the breakthrough battle was extremely tragic, after losing more than 1,000 people, the Seventeenth Division finally broke through successfully and found a large force. Subsequently, the Red Sixth Army moved into the vast mountains.
However, bad luck awaited the Red Sixth Army.
As a result of the hasty breakout, the troops lost most of their food, and the guns and ammunition were exhausted.
Coupled with the fact that the soldiers were dissatisfied with the soil and water and ate tung oil by mistake, the non-combat attrition was very serious.
Regiment Commander Xiao Ke, Political Commissar Wang Zhen, and Chief of Staff Li Da led their troops to rush left and right in the mountains, but they could not shake off the enemy's encirclement and blockade. In the north, there is the Wujiang River, the west is guarded by the Qian army, the south is blocked by the Gui army, and the East is intercepted by the Xiang army.
Under very critical circumstances, After careful consideration, Xiao Ke, Wang Zhen, and Li Da decided to return to Ganxi again and break through in the direction of the Gui army in the south, which was relatively weak in combat effectiveness.
In order to get rid of the pursuing troops and cover the success of the breakthrough of the large troops, it was necessary to have an obstruction of the enemy troops, and the regimental commander, Shawke, handed over this burden to the Fifty-second Regiment of the Red Eighteenth Division.
After the large troops broke through to the south, the Fifty-second Regiment of the Red Eighteenth Division, led by division commander Long Yun and regimental commander Tian Haiqing, first blocked the pursuit near Banqiao. After repelling several enemy attacks, the Fifty-second Regiment also retreated south, catching up with the main force of the legion.
When the Fifty-second Regiment stopped fighting and retreated to the vicinity of Longtang, it was found that the road to the south had been cut off by the enemy, and there were already heavy troops waiting for them in front. In desperation, division commander Long Yun and regimental commander Tian Haiqing had no choice but to decisively order the troops to change their plans, temporarily head west, turn the road to Chuanyan Dam, and then go north to Trap Niu Mountain, throw off the pursuing troops, and then detour to the south to catch up with the main force of the legion.
However, the Xiang, Gui, and Qian armies had already occupied Chuanyan Dam and all the commanding heights and villages nearby, and built strong fortifications to spare them. Wherever the Red Army went, it was stubbornly blocked.
Fifty-two regiments stumbled through the mountains for several days and came to The Sleepy Cow Mountain.
As its name suggests, Sleepy Cow Mountain is shaped like a tired and lying old cow, the ridge is gentle, the stinging is more than 10 miles, the southeast direction is the famous Twelve Mile Mountain Beam, the northwest direction is Laojun Mountain, the southwest direction is Tanjiawan Mountain, the north is the abyss, and the abyss is the choppy Black Beach River.
After several days of bloody battles, the fifty-second regiment of more than 800 people had been damaged by more than half, and most of the remaining fighters were slightly poisoned due to accidental eating of tung oil, constantly diarrhea, weak and weak, and the combat effectiveness could be imagined.
On October 16, the Fifty-second Regiment encountered a sneak attack by the enemy at Twelve Mile Mountain Liang. The fierce fighting lasted for nearly 10 hours, and the enemy was outnumbered, and the fifty-second regiment was defeated and continued to retreat.
The Trapped Niu Mountain is high and densely forested, and the rocks are rugged, which is not conducive to the breakthrough of the large army group. Therefore, division commander Long Yun and regimental commander Tian Haiqing decided to divide the troops into two routes, and each of them led a part of the people and broke through separately.
Unfortunately, during the retreat, Tian Haiqing, the commander of the Fifty-second Regiment, was shot several times in the body and died heroically.
When this part of the soldiers led by the regimental commander Tian Haiqing retreated to Daping, the commanding height at the end of the Trapped Niu Mountain, there were only more than 100 people left, and behind them, there was a cliff more than 70 meters high.
As the enemy got closer and closer, he could already clearly hear the enemy's shouts. At this time, these more than a hundred Red Army soldiers were already running out of ammunition.
In front of it is the abyss, behind it is the fierce and vicious pursuing soldiers, what to do?
Everyone decided to fight with the enemy with bayonets and fight to the death, but suddenly found that there were many bare-handed ordinary people in the enemy troops on the opposite side who were surrounded by the enemy, and the warriors put down their bayonets in their hands.
The warriors were embarrassed, they didn't want to hurt the innocent people, but they didn't want to be prisoners.
The enemy was approaching step by step, shouting in his mouth, "Catch alive, catch alive, grab them back and receive the reward..."
Warriors, you look at me, I look at you, there is no trace of fear and flinching in each other's eyes, but more like death, killing to become a benevolent.
At this time, I don't know who shouted: "Jump off the cliff, you must not be a prisoner..."
In response, the warriors shouted in unison: "Jump off the cliff, you must not be a prisoner..." After saying that, they all aimed the spears in their hands at the big stones around them, smashed them hard, smashed them to pieces, and then resolutely jumped down the abyss behind them...
Seeing more than a hundred Red Army "flying" and jumping off the cliff, all the enemies were shocked, opened their mouths for a long time and could not speak, and no one dared to detour under the cliff to search for the Red Army soldiers who "flew" off the cliff, and withdrew to Chuanyan Dam on the same day.
The Red Army soldiers on the other side were much luckier, and more than 200 soldiers, under the leadership of division commander Long Yun and under the cover of dense grass, successfully descended the path to the bottom of the ditch, and then climbed up the Opposite Mongolian Bend, crossed Laojun Mountain, and successfully withdrew from the battle.
However, despite the successful breakthrough, Long Yun and the soldiers were still unable to catch up with the main force of the legion in time, and in one battle, Long Yun was wounded and captured, and later killed by the Kuomintang in Changsha.
At the Battle of Sleepy Niu Mountain, the Red Fifty-second Regiment, after paying a huge price, successfully held back most of the Kuomintang troops, winning precious time for the victorious transfer of the main force of the Red Sixth Army. More than a hundred Red Army soldiers preferred to die rather than be prisoners, preferred to die than to injure the people by mistake, and finally collectively flew down a cliff more than 70 meters high, and sacrificed heroically, leaving behind a heroic feat that is unparalleled and earth-shattering in the history of the Red Army!
[Adhere to the original, do not forget the original heart, remember the history, taste life, welcome attention, common progress】