Put the red flag on Chicken Claw Mountain
On April 1, 1935, Luo Binghui and Guo Tianmin were ordered to lead their troops to the south with the main force. Because the road was far and difficult, when they arrived at the town of Sandy Earth, they had exceeded the prescribed time limit by two hours, the pontoon bridge had been dismantled, and the troops were blocked north of the Wu River and had to act alone.
(Troop March)
At this time, the Column of zhou Hunyuan of the Kuomintang army advancing eastward from qianxi was already approaching, and the Red Ninth Army, which was fighting alone, was in a difficult situation.
After consulting with political commissar He Changgong and chief of staff Guo Tianmin, Luo Binghui quickly left the Wujiang River and turned northeast.
The next day, when they were hiding near Laomukong in Jinsha County, Guizhou, news came that the Qian army was chasing them from the north.
Luo Binghui said in a loud voice: Now that the enemy is approaching, it is difficult to get rid of it, and it is necessary to fight the enemy to the death.
(Guo Tianmin)
Guo Tianmin immediately analyzed the enemy situation in detail and boldly suggested to Luo Binghui: Take the Qianjun, the "double-gun soldier" necessary for rifles and smoking guns, as the target of the attack, and use the "suspicious military strategy" to contain Zhou Hunyuan's troops.
On the morning of April 4, 1935, Guo Tianmin commanded the Red 9th Army to set up an ambush in the area of Ji's Claw Mountain, about 5 kilometers from Laomukong in Jinsha County, Guizhou, and planted the red flags that had been produced all over the mountain, and arranged for more than 20 trumpeters to create momentum and slow down the advance of the Kuomintang Qian army.
At noon on April 4, the battle began, the Red Army less than 2,000 people, defeated nearly 10,000 Kuomintang troops, captured more than 1,800 Kuomintang troops, and captured more than 1,000 guns.
The Japanese Daisaku was carried into Gotai Castle by his subordinates in a coffin
In 1938, the Japanese army in North China divided into 25 roads to "sweep" the Wutai Mountains.
In late September, Shimizu, commander of the Japanese Independent Fourth Mixed Brigade, led his troops from the county seat of Luxian county and attacked the town of Bailan in the southeast of Wutai County to the north.
(Second from the right: Guo Tianmin)
In order to prevent the enemy from approaching the head organs of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, Nie Rongzhen, commander of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, ordered Tang Yanjie, chief of staff, and Guo Tianmin, deputy chief of staff, to lead the troops to cover the retreat of the organs and rear personnel.
As the sun was about to set, the Japanese rushed to the foot of Niudaoling Mountain. After waiting for the Japanese army to enter the encirclement, our Eighth Route Army blocked the enemy's way up the mountain, and machine guns, rifles, and grenades opened fire on the enemy at the same time, so that the enemy could not move forward.
During the battle, the positions of our Eighth Route Army were set up on the hill in front of the enemy's left, and the enemy was pressed into a dry ditch of less than 30 meters at the bottom of the mountain. The cliffs on the east and west sides are steep and unclimbable. The enemy could not retreat, so he had to shrink down the mountain, confront the Eighth Route Army on the mountain, and shoot at each other.
As the shells fell on the mountain, the stones that exploded and flew up would soon fall down the mountain, posing a threat to the enemy. So the enemy rarely fired artillery, and the battle continued until dark before both sides stopped firing. The next day, just after dawn, the gunshots rang out again, and lasted for nearly 2 hours before they completely stopped.
In the Battle of Niudaoling, the biggest achievement of our army was the killing of Qing Shui, the captain of the brigade who had threatened to occupy Wutai, and many of his subordinates.
At the beginning of this battle, Qing Shui was very arrogant and repeatedly threatened to occupy Wutai. As a result, he was killed just after arriving at Niudaoling. Ironically, this guy, who vowed to capture Wutai, was put into a coffin and carried into Wutai City by his men.
Bravely win Zhangjiakou
In August 1945, as soon as the Japanese surrender was announced, the Soviet and Mongolian forces marched south along Zhangbei Avenue, aiming directly at Zhangjiakou. At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Fu Zuoyi, commander of the Twelfth Theater, to advance eastward from the Yellow River and relying on the Pingsui Railway in an attempt to seize Zhangjiakou. At this crucial moment, Mao Zedong promptly pointed out to the whole party: "The present struggle is manifested in Chiang Kai-shek's struggle to usurp the fruits of the victory of the War of Resistance and our struggle against his usurpation," and put forward the principle of "tit-for-tat confrontation and contention for every inch of land." Therefore, Nie Rongzhen, Xiao Ke (deputy commander), and Liu Lantao (deputy political commissar), leaders of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, who were meeting in Yan'an, immediately sent a telegram to Cheng Zihua, acting commander and political commissar, and Geng Biao, deputy chief of staff, ordering the troops of the Ji-Cha-Ji Military Region to capture Zhangjiakou first.
At that time, Guo Tianmin led the troops of the southern line of the Jicha Military Region to plan to attack Beiping, and on the way, when he learned that Beiping had been preemptively occupied by the Kuomintang army and that the Kuomintang army was taking advantage of the unstable foothold of the Eighth Route Army to attack Zhangjiakou, he immediately returned to the north of the division in accordance with the intentions of the Central Committee and the Central Military Commission, and promptly commanded the troops on the northern front of the Jicha Military Region.
In this city-seizure operation, Guo Tianmin's troops killed, wounded, and captured more than 2,000 puppet military and police officers, captured a large number of strategic materials stockpiled by the Japanese army during the invasion of China, and captured Yu Pinqing, vice chairman of the puppet Mongolian government, and Han Guangsen, mayor of the puppet Zhangjiakou City, alive. On the 25th, the head of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region sent a telegram to commend the commanders and fighters of the units participating in the battle. On the same day, the Zhangjiakou Radio Station, which was taken over by the Eighth Route Army, solemnly declared to the people of the whole country that Zhangjiakou, which had been occupied by Japanese imperialism for eight years, had finally returned to the hands of the people. Zhangjiakou was the largest city captured by the Eighth Route Army at that time, and became a hub for the Eighth Route Army to send troops into the northeast and support the northeast battlefield. Afterwards, Nie Rongzhen told Guo Tianmin in person: "The central authorities are very satisfied with your liberation of Zhangjiakou, the protection of the city and the integrity of materials, and the smashing of the enemy's plot to seize Zhangjiakou. "