He was the most mysterious division commander in the history of the Red Army, even if his name was not found in the military history and the list of Red Army generals, even if he looked up on the Internet, there were only a few words describing him, and the mystery about this mysterious division commander only existed in the memories of Lieutenant General Wang Yaowu of the Nationalist Army, who was Hu Tiantao.
We don't know much about Hu Tiantao, and there is no detailed record of where he is, what relatives and friends he has, how old he is, and not even a photo of him.
After the founding of New China, there were no relatives to receive Hu Tiantao's martyr's pension, so even if we wanted to record his great achievements, it was very difficult, but later with the arrest of Lieutenant General Wang Yaowu of the Nationalist Army, Hu Tiantao's deeds were known to everyone
Then let Xiao Gua take everyone to know this heroic division commander Hu Tiantao.
Hu Tiantao, whose original name was Hu Lianggui, was born in 1901 to an ordinary peasant family in Hubei Province's Haoshui County, and at the age of 18, he was admitted to the county's middle school, and later went to Hubei Fazheng School to study, after which the peasant movement in his hometown arose, and Hu Tiantao, who was full of excitement, took a break from school to participate in the movement.
After he joined the army in 1927, he was assigned to the 7th Army of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Army, and soon after, Hu Tiantao joined the ranks of the Communist Party of China for various reasons, and followed the troops to participate in many battles and combat experience.
In July 1934, according to the requirements of the superiors, the Tenth Army and the Seventh Army were merged into the Red Tenth Army, the commander of the regiment Liu Yuxi, the political commissar Le Shaohua, the chief of staff Su Yu, the director of the political department Liu Ying, there were three divisions under the entire corps, namely the 19th Division, the 20th Division and the 21st Division, and Hu Tiantao was the commander of the 21st Division, and in the whole legion, the 21st Division was the most powerful offensive division.
When the Red Tenth Army was formed, the Central Military Commission assigned different tasks to several divisions, ordering the 19th Division to organize its troops
He continued to take on the task of attacking and suppressing the enemy and developing the new Soviet area in the New Soviet Area on the border of Zhejiang, Anhui, and Gansu, while the 21st Division led by Hu Tiantao and the 20th Division continued to carry out activities in the Old Soviet Area to attack and encircle and suppress the enemy, as well as to undertake the task of protecting the Soviet Area.
Soon after, wang Yaowu's supplementary 1st Brigade and the Red Tenth Army, the Red Seventh Army met at Tanjiaqiao in southern Anhui Province, and a fierce battle broke out between the two sides, which was called the Battle of Tanjiaqiao.
The commander of the Red 19th Division, Xun Huaizhou, was unfortunately killed in this battle, and Hu Tiantao successfully broke through Wang Yaowu's encirclement and gathered with a large army.
In January 1935, the Red Tenth Army was in trouble in southern Anhui, the Central Military Region issued an order to let the Red Tenth Army march to the Soviet Area of Northeast Jiangxi, when Liu Yuxi led the troops forward, he was attacked by the enemy army and was forced to lead the troops to detour forward, on the 16th, the main force of the Red Tenth Army entered Huaiyu Mountain and launched several charges against the enemy, but they were unsuccessful, and soon after
Wang Yaowu led his troops to Huaiyu Mountain, surrounded them, and under the encirclement and suppression of the enemy, the Red Tenth Army failed to break through many times, so after 7 days and 7 nights of fierce fighting, many soldiers died heroically, Liu Yuxi, Hu Xiantao and many other generals were captured because of their injuries, and Su Yu, in order to get rid of the enemy, led his troops to detour around the ridge and continue south, reaching the post near the Gandasu area of Fujian and Zhejiang, and waiting, which is why Su Yu was not encircled and suppressed, but successfully escaped.
In this battle, our army suffered heavy losses, Hu Tiantao was personally interrogated by Wang Yaowu after his arrest, it was freezing cold at that time, but this division commander was wearing patches, tattered single clothes, even the grass shoes on his feet were not a pair, he was carrying a worn-out dry food bag, which contained a broken foreign porcelain bowl, if no one identified, Wang Yaowu did not dare to recognize that this was actually the red army division commander, because his dress was not as good as a soldier, when Wang Yaowu and Hu Tiantao had a face-to-face direct communication, It was also this exchange that made him understand that the Red Army division commander who had fought with him many times was far stronger than he had imagined.
At that time in the interrogation room, Hu Tiantao calmly sat at the interrogation table, he did not show a hint of panic because he was in trouble, facing death, Wang Yaowu looked at Hu Tiantao in front of him, he suddenly felt that the temperament that a soldier should have, embodied in Hu Tiantao to the fullest, and then he had an idea in his mind, that is, to persuade Hu Tiantao to take him under his command, but Hu Tiantao did not even look at him squarely, and in the face of the conditions he proposed, he responded with a sneer, Wang Yaowu was helpless, in the face of such a real soldier, he had no way, Then he had to be transferred to his superior, Yu Jishi, who asked him: As a senior member of the Red Army, you would not be unaware of the situation of the Red Tenth Army, would you?
Yu Jishi's voice just fell, Hu Tiantao directly hardened back, I don't know anything, you shot me, Yu Jishi was so angry with Hu Tiantao's attitude and response that he couldn't speak, and then he ordered him to be executed, for Hu Tiantao's words about the fate of the country rising and falling before his death, Wang Yaowu was unforgettable, and the same military courage he showed shocked Wang Yaowu for decades, not only Hu Tiantao, but even Liu Yuxi and Fang Zhimin were arrested one after another, and they were also coerced and tempted by the enemy and tortured. But they still adhered to the belief in communism and never wavered.
Finally, in the early morning of August 6, the generals were dragged by the enemy to the execution ground to execute, before dying, they also shouted long live the Communist Party of China, as the gunshots sounded, the generals fell to the ground, a generation of heroes fell, the Red Tenth Army suffered heavy losses in this battle, our party lost a number of capable generals, suffered a heavy blow, and this matter was also silently remembered by Su Yu, he firmly believed that sooner or later he would be able to capture Wang Yaowu, the comrades-in-arms would not be sacrificed in vain, the gentleman took revenge for ten years, wang Yaowu made a battle merit He was soon reused by Chiang Kai-shek and promoted to commander of the Fifty-first Division.
In 1946, Wang Yaowu was sent back to his hometown of Shandong by Chiang Kai-shek to serve as chairman of Shandong Province and commander of the Second Appeasement District, presiding over the Shandong War, while Su Yu served as deputy commander and deputy political commissar of the East China Field Army after winning the Lunan Campaign
In 1947, Su Yu and Wang Yaowu met on the battlefield in Shandong, and the East China Field Army, under the command of Chen Yi and Su Yu, launched the Battle of Laiwu against the Kuomintang army south of Linyi in Shandong Province, Su Yu pretended to abandon Linyi in this campaign, tempting Li Xianzhou's troops to fall into a trap, Wang Yaowu found that this matter was strange and might be dangerous, so he immediately ordered Li Xianzhou to lead the troops to retreat, but who knew that there were many factions within the Nationalist army, Chen Cheng sang against him, and directly ordered Li Xianzhou to carry out strict defense on Jiaoji Road. Sure enough, Li Xianzhou's troops were surrounded and severely attacked by our army, and finally ended up with a complete annihilation of the army.
In May, under the leadership of Chen Yisuyu, the East China Field Army launched the famous Battle of Menglianggu again at Yimeng Mountain, a battle in which our army won a huge victory, the total annihilation of the Nationalist Army's integrated 74th Division, the commander of the 74th Division, Zhang Lingfu, was killed in this battle, this battle gave the Kuomintang army a headache, Wang Yaowu felt that our army was growing stronger and stronger after the defeat, and his chances of victory were slim, so he immediately flew to Nanjing to ask Chiang Kai-shek to abandon Jinan and let him retreat to the second line for defense. But this suggestion was not adopted by Chiang Kai-shek, and a year later, what Wang Yaowu feared did happen.
In May 1948, Su Yu led the main force of the East China Field Army to launch the Battle of Jinan, which Su Yu attached great importance to, because his goal was not only to win the battle, but also more importantly, to capture Wang Yaowu, after eight days and eight nights of fierce fighting between the two armies. The East China Field Army annihilated more than 104,000 Kuomintang troops, and Wang Yaowu realized that his general situation had gone at the beginning of the battle, so he secretly took four of his men under the pretext of inspecting the position, but he fled halfway, and under the cover of soldiers, Wang Yaowu quickly escaped from the city.
In order not to attract attention, he changed the military uniform that he had always been proud of, put on the clothes prepared in advance, pretended to be a peasant and prepared to flee to Qingdao, after learning that Wang Yaowu took advantage of the chaos to escape, Su Yu immediately ordered his subordinates to step up the pursuit of him, Wang Yaowu in order to disguise his identity, alias Qiao Sheng, ran on the road to escape with money, for which Wang Yaowu also rented a large car, pretending to be a patient to hide his identity, and when he encountered interrogation and investigation on the road, He said that he had been injured in the war in Jinan and wanted to go to Qingdao to heal his illness, and in this way, Wang Yaowu successfully escaped from Jinan, and after escaping from Jinan, he finally felt relieved.
I thought I had escaped. But who ever wanted to build a bridge on the Mihe River in Shouguang County. Because I went to the toilet. His whereabouts were found to be somewhat suspicious by the checkpoint guarding the bridge. He was left behind for cross-examination. At first, Wang Yao was armed as a patient. Refusal to cooperate with inquiries. However, it was examined by medical personnel. His body is very healthy and there is no problem.
At last. The interrogators removed the white towel he had been wearing on the top of his head. On his head. Interrogators found deep marks left by soldiers who often wore military hats. Later, under successive cross-examinations. Wang Yaowu was finally overwhelmed. He said his identity: I am Wang Yaowu, Su Yu was overjoyed when he learned about it, and the stone pressed on his heart finally fell, and the soldiers who sacrificed in the Red Tenth Army could rest in peace.
afterward. Wang Yaowu has undergone ten years of transformation in our party. During this period. He saw the strict self-discipline of our army. Military style of the military and civilian families. Therefore, he also slowly understood why Hu Tiantao, the commander of the Red Army Division, still unswervingly chose the Communist Party and chose to firmly believe in the belief in communism in his heart when he faced death.
Time has been precipitated, history has given the answer, in the history of our army, there are many martyrs like Hu Tiantao, they are the most shining star in the long river of history, worthy of eternal memory of future generations, so we should cherish the hard-won life now, and I would like to pay tribute to all the martyrs and heroes in this article!