In the autumn of 1928, chairman Mao, after learning of the victory in the defense of the Huangyang Boundary, gladly took up his pen and wrote down the popular "Xijiang Yue. Jinggangshan》
The flag is in sight at the bottom of the mountain, and the drums and horns at the top of the mountain are heard. The enemy was besieged for thousands of times, and I stood still. Barriers have long been tightened, and more united in will. The cannons on the Huangyang Boundary roared, reporting that the enemy was at night.
It is enough to see that the Defense Of the Yellow Ocean Boundary occupies an important position in Chairman Mao's heart.
This battle of winning more with less and defeating the strong with the weak not only defended the Revolutionary Base Area of Jinggangshan, but also created conditions for the main force of the Red Army to return to Jinggangshan and break the enemy's encirclement and suppression.
The enemy was besieged for thousands of times, and I stood still
In July 1928, in order to break the enemy's encirclement and suppression, Zhu De led the main force of the Red Fourth Army to Shonan, and Mao Zedong led a large army to meet the main force.
At this time, only thirty-one regiments and one battalion remained at Jinggangshan, with only about 700 troops.
After learning this news, the Kuomintang believed that this was the opportunity to destroy the Jinggangshan base area, so it dispatched the strength of 4 regiments of the Xiang Army and the Gan Army to prepare to attack Jinggangshan.
Zhu Yunqing, commander of the Thirty-first Regiment who remained at Jinggangshan, He Tingying, a party representative, and Chen Yi'an, commander of the first battalion, immediately convened a meeting to discuss countermeasures after receiving the information.
According to Mao Zedong's previous instructions, the Red Army would use the Huangyang Boundary, known as a natural danger, to meet the enemy.
Huangyang boundary is located in the north of the main peak of Jinggang Mountain, for the mountain dangerous road, is one of the five major sentinels of Jinggang Mountain, the road in front of the post is rugged and steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, Mao Zedong once said that "after the Huangyang boundary, the danger does not need to be seen."
On 29 August, the Yellow Ocean Boundary outpost, which was in the main direction of attack, was guarded by only 2 companies of Red Army guards, and the average person had less than 5 rounds of ammunition.
In the face of an enemy several times larger than themselves, under the urgency of 100,000 fires, the masses of the Huangyang Boundary, the Red Guards, and the soldiers of the Red Army joined hands to build five fortifications: bamboo nail arrays, fence barriers, roller stones, trenches, and shooting bunkers.
Liu Zhi, an old Red Army soldier, once recalled: "At that time, in the Huangyang Boundary, in addition to the regular Red Army troops in combat, the Red Guards were armed with all kinds of rudimentary weapons to cooperate in combat, the women were also organized into logistics teams to support the front, and the Young Pioneers and children's regiment members were under the leadership of the Defense Committee, holding red guns and standing guard to check the road and strictly prevent the enemy from going deep. As the saying goes, "The enemy is besieged by thousands of people, and I stand still."
Barriers have long been tightened, and more united in will
On August 30, 1928, the Defense War of the Huangyang Boundary began.
The First Division of the Eighth Army of the Xiang Enemy, under the strategy of the Gansu Enemy's first unit, swarmed toward Jinggang Mountain.
One battalion of the Thirty-first Regiment guarded the main fortifications on both sides of the post with one company to block the enemy; one platoon guarded the fortifications on the north side of the post to defend against the incoming enemy; and two platoons were arranged at the hilltop lookout post as a reserve to cover the two fortifications in front.
At the same time, the Red Guards and the masses hid in various hills to help cooperate with the Red Army in combat.
Our army is fully prepared and waits in strict formation.
In the early morning of the 30th, the enemy attacked along the steep mountain road towards the Huangyang Boundary.
Enemy bullets whizzed over the heads of The Red Army soldiers, and Zhu Yunqing ordered his troops to calmly fight.
Due to the narrow mountain road, left and right, the enemy can only fish through, one by one to climb up, the enemy climbing the mountain first tasted the pain of the bamboo nail array, the attacking enemy only cares to look at the mountain, the result of a little inattention will be stabbed by bamboo nails, from time to time there is a scream.
The enemy managed to cross the bamboo nail array, and then heard a rumbling sound, and the trunk, which was thicker than the bucket, fell down, and the enemy who had no time to escape was crushed under the trunk.
The enemy in the back just wanted to take a detour and flee, and a burst of gunfire rang out from the left and right, and the enemies who were shot fell down.
The Red Army, with the help of the masses and the Red Guards, with the help of terrain and fortifications, allowed the enemy to lose time and again, and despite the enemy's repeated attacks, it was never able to approach the post.
As a Jinggangshan mountain song sang: "The Xiang enemy is fiercely attacking Jinggang, and the Huangyang boundary is swinging on the battlefield; the bamboo nails are laid down in the heavenly array, and the enemy obediently comes to deliver guns." ”
The cannons on the Huangyang Boundary roared, reporting that the enemy was at night
The battle lasted until 4 p.m., the enemy launched a new round of attack, seeing that the Red Army was running out of ammunition, the enemy approached the post step by step, and at the moment of emergency, someone told Chen Yi'an that there was the only mortar left in Jinggangshan, so the soldiers carried it to the Huangyang Boundary.
However, this mortar had only three shells, and due to the humid climate of Jinggangshan, the first two rounds could not be fired, becoming a squib.
Seeing that there was only the last one left, Chen Yi'an pondered for a moment, personally stepped forward to operate the cannon, and after his precise calculation and aiming, the third shell flew towards the enemy and landed in an earthen house under the mountain, which was the enemy's headquarters.
With a loud noise, a cheer sounded in the Huangyang realm, the crowd and the soldiers waved their flags and shouted, and the soldiers put the firecrackers they had prepared in the iron pass and lit them, creating the illusion of gunfire.
The enemy thought that the main force of the Red Army had returned, and fled in a panic, and in addition, the Gansu enemy who was waiting for an opportunity to move out in Ninggang and Xincheng also quickly retreated when they heard that the Xiang enemy had been defeated and retreated.
In this way, with the support of the masses of the people and the Red Guards, the strength of less than one battalion left at Jinggangshan defeated the strength of one division of the Xiang enemy and successfully defended the Revolutionary Base Camp of Jinggangshan.
On the way back to Jinggangshan with the Red Fourth Army, Mao Zedong heard a good news from Huang Yangjie, and immediately recited the first famous poem of the Jinggangshan struggle period, "Xijiang Yue. Jinggangshan".
epilogue
In 1965, Chairman Mao returned to JinggangShan, stopped at the Huangyang Boundary, and said to the workers around him: "This is the Huangyang Boundary!" ”
Subsequently, Chairman Mao walked to the Monument to the Victory of the Battle of Huangyangjie and looked at the inscription on the stele of the "Xijiang Yue. Jinggangshan was full of emotions, and he said affectionately: "That battle was not easy back then. ”
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