In the martyrs' cemetery in Suide, northern Shaanxi, Comrade Xie Song, commander of the First Route Column of the Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Army, who had made outstanding achievements in battle, was buried.
General Gan Weihan, who fought side by side with him at that time, recalled before his death: "Although Comrade Xie Song's life was short, it can be called a life of a horse. From his participation in the Pingjiang Rebellion in 1928 to his death in 1938, he spent time in intense and frequent battles. ”
General Gan Weihan
Yes, he has been in the field for 10 years, injured 5 times, and is a tiger player on the battlefield.
Xie Song, also known as Xie Xiaoyun, was born on February 19, 1903 in Shangcheqiao Village ,present-day Shaodong County, Fanjiashan Town, Baoqing County, Hunan Province.
Xie Song's parents had 3 boys and 2 girls, all of which depended on his father to plant a few thin fields and go out to help. Due to the difficulty of life, Xie Song's two sisters were sent to be child brides.
In 1911, Xie Song entered a private school. In 1915, his mother died, and his father was bedridden due to overwork, so Xie Song had to drop out of school and go home, waiting for his father while following his uncle to learn martial arts.
In 1919, through the introduction of Uncle Da, he went to a dyeing factory in Xinning County to learn dyeing.
Xinning is a "martial arts town" where the average young person knows martial arts. Xie Song originally had a foundation of skill, and after arriving in Xinning, he worshipped a martial arts master as a teacher, and his martial arts were even more superb. He was a man of great strength and was known as the Hercules here.
After returning from his apprenticeship in Sin Ninh, he dyed cloth in a nearby landlord's house, despite his caution at every turn. The landlord treated him with many difficulties and insults. Unable to bear it, he smashed the altar jar of the landlord's house in one breath.
In April 1924, Xie Song served as a soldier in the second company of the first battalion of the sixth regiment of the Second Division of the Xiang Army. In August 1926, the department was incorporated into the National Revolutionary Army, and he participated in the Northern Expedition under the command of battalion commander Peng Dehuai and company commander Li Can. At the beginning of 1927, Xie Song joined the "Secret Soldiers' Association" organized by our party.
In May 1928, Peng Dehuai was ordered to lead a regiment of the Independent Fifth Division to Pingjiang to "suppress the Communists", that is, to start preparations for the uprising with other comrades. On the eve of the Pingjiang Uprising, Xie Song and others followed company commander Li Can to the county government and prisons and other places on many occasions to conduct reconnaissance, find out the deployment of the reactionaries, and choose the route of attack and retreat of the troops.
On July 22, when the gunshots of the uprising sounded in Pingjiang, Xie Song, who was the squad leader, went straight to the county government and the Qingxiang team with the rebel troops, disarmed the police, captured the Qingxiang inspectors and police chief alive, opened the prison, and released the imprisoned revolutionaries and toiling people.
On July 24, the rebel forces were reorganized into the Fifth Red Army, with Peng Dehuai as the commander and Teng Daiyuan as the party representative. After that, Xie Song and his troops moved to the Border Belt of Xiang'e-Gansu, where they endured hardships and dangers and withstood severe tests. During this time, he joined the Communist Party of China. In December of the same year, Xie Song joined the Red Army in the battle to defend Jinggangshan.
In March 1930, Xie Song served as the commander of the special service brigade of the Fifth Red Army, led the troops to accompany the army and participated in the capture of Jiangxi Anfu, Fengyi, Yuanzhou (now Yichun) and other county towns.
In May, the troops encountered the Kuomintang Zhu Yaohua Brigade in Jiangxi Lukou Town, and Xie Song led the special service brigade to cooperate with the main force of the Red Army in heroic combat, crushing the Zhu Yaohua Brigade and capturing many of them.
In June of the same year, the Third Red Army was proclaimed. Xie Song led the special service brigade to participate in the battle to capture Tongshan, Yueyang and other places with the Red Third Army, and then entered the Pingjiang and Liuyang areas. On July 27, the Red Third Army attacked Changsha, Xie Song commanded the troops to attack Xiao wumen, and he won the battle at a very small cost, showing his excellent command skills.
On August 23, 1930, Xie Song's unit was incorporated into the Red Army, and immediately participated in the Second Battle of Changsha and the liberation of a vast area in southwest Jiangxi.
In June 1933, Xie Song was appointed as the commander of the 12th Regiment of the Third Red Army. On July 9, he commanded the 12th Regiment to cooperate with the 10th Regiment and the 11th Regiment to fight in Fujian, and at Yanxiang, 30 miles above the spring, ambushed the 309th Regiment led by the enemy brigade commander Zhang Xinglong, killing more than 100 enemy troops and capturing more than 30 enemy brigade commanders, regimental commanders, and battalion commanders.
Immediately after that, he entered Songxi, which occupied the northeast of Qingliu, cut off Qingliu's connection with the enemies on the spring, and recaptured Liancheng.
In October of the same year, Xie Song led his troops back to Jiangxi to participate in the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign. Because Wang Ming pursued the "Left" line, the war situation was lost and the Red Army suffered serious losses, and Xie Song was very sad about this. In the battle, he tried to reduce his losses and achieved partial victories.
In the Battle of Gao Hu'an, Xie Song was responsible for holding the position east of Gao Hu'an and fighting against many enemies. He ordered his troops to build strong fortifications along the hill and build 7 layers of trees on the trenches. Enemy planes took turns bombing, collapsing both ends of the fortifications, and the enemy took the opportunity to occupy the Red Army positions.
At this critical juncture, Xie Song personally commanded the counterattack and severely damaged the enemy on the one hand; on the other hand, he organized the transfer of troops and preserved his living strength.
In March 1934, Xie Song was ordered to block the enemy army at Taining Dayang Ridge and cover the transfer of the main force of the Red Army. He carefully planned the battle plan according to the terrain of the ocean ridge and the enemy's strength. After the battle began, he personally went to the front line and commanded the Red Fifth Company and the Sixth Company to seize the position and block the attack of an enemy brigade.
The enemy brigade commander personally led the large knife team to supervise the battle, and used artillery to cover the infantry to attack the Red Army position desperately. Xie Song calmly commanded the troops to repulse the enemy's charge several times, and when the bullets ran out, he smashed them with stones, slashed them with large knives, and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.
Although the casualties of the troops were very large, the commanders and fighters did not flinch and wavered, resolutely resisted, and fought a bloody battle with the enemy to the end. The battle was fierce, and Xie Song decisively commanded the fifth and sixth companies to launch a fierce counterattack against the enemy, causing the enemy to flee in a panic.
In this battle, more than 400 enemy members were killed, more than 10 light and heavy machine guns, more than 200 rifles, and nearly 100,000 rounds of ammunition were captured, and the combat task was successfully completed.
The next day, the Red Third Army solemnly held a meeting to wish for victory, and Yang Shangkun, political commissar of the regiment, said: "This time the blockade battle of Dayang Ridge was fought very beautifully, and after a bloody battle for 1 day, it repelled the multiple attacks of the enemy's 3 regiments, eliminated a large number of enemies, and achieved major victories. The spirit of the Fifth Red Company, which is brave and tenacious and not afraid of bloodshed and sacrifice, is worth learning from the whole army! "
On behalf of the Red Third Army, Yang Shangkun also awarded the Red Fifth Company the pennant of "winning more with less and stubbornly defending the exemplary Red Fifth Company." Yuan Guoping, director of the Army's Political Department, also published an article in the Red Star Newspaper praising Xie Song for commanding the Red Twelfth Regiment to win the battle of Dayang.
In mid-April 1934, Xie Song commanded the 12th Regiment to hold the position around Donghua Mountain, and on the third day of the fierce battle, the enemy's right wing troops launched 4 consecutive charges against the 12th Regiment with the strength of 1 regiment, under the cover of aircraft, artillery, and smoke screens, all of which were bravely repelled by the 12th Regiment.
In particular, the Red Fifth Company, which was firmly entrenched in Ma'an Village, played even better. With the strength of 3 regiments and under the cover of 7 aircraft, the enemy launched several attacks in an unsuccessful attempt to seize the position of the Red Fifth Company. At dusk, under the command of Xie Song, he launched a counterattack against the enemy with all his might, hitting the enemy army and capturing more than 10,000 rounds of bullets, making a major contribution to the victory of the entire battle. In this fierce battle, Xie Song was shot in the left rib and fell in a pool of blood.
Due to the lack of medicine, Xie Song's wound was only coated with a little potion, wrapped in several layers of gauze, and returned to the team. The regimental commander Yang Shangkun, the division commander Hong Chao and Huang Kecheng, and the regimental political commissar Zhong Chibing were all concerned about his injuries and advised him to rest for a few more days.
He patted his chest and smiled and said, "It's all right." This injury can't move my body! He marched with astonishing perseverance with wounded men, sometimes leading fighters at night to collect guns and ammunition from enemy corpses.
On 1 August, he was awarded the Red Star Medal.
In October 1934, Xie Song began the Long March with the Central Red Army, participating in countless battles along the way. In the early morning of February 26, 1935, in the battle to return to Zunyi and attack Loushan Pass, Xie Song led the 12th Regiment to take the main offensive task. Xie Song led the whole regiment to take advantage of the hazy weather to attack in a roundabout way, and the battalions engaged the enemy's short troops, and soon annihilated the enemy who was guarding the pass. Then, with the main force, they chased the remnants of the enemy who fled back to Banqiao. After more than a dozen hours of fierce fighting. Achieved a major victory in total annihilation of the enemy's Wang Jialie Division.
In the battle of Zaike Zunyi City, the Twelfth Regiment was tasked with attacking the enemy Wu Qiwei's reinforcements. He led the whole regiment to attack the enemy's right flank, cutting off the enemy's retreat route, leaving Wu Qiwei's troops in a dilemma of being unable to retreat.
The Twelfth Regiment, a capable combat regiment, was tasked with repeatedly blocking the enemy and covering the retreat of the main force. Xie Song also grew into a more politically and militarily mature commander in the arduous and frequent battles.
Even more touching. Xie Song had been commanding the battle with pain, and had completed the twenty-five-thousand-mile long march. The wound under his ribs had not yet healed, and he opened a button-sized hole, dripping with sticky pus and blood, and had been holding on to a little potion and gauze. He endured for a long time, concealed, insisted on marching to fight, climbing snowy mountains, and crossing meadows.
In December 1935, the central government formed the Shaanxi-Gansu-Hong 29th Army, with Xiao Jinguang as the commander, Xie Song as the deputy commander, and Zhu Lizhi as the political commissar. He participated in commanding the entire army in the Crusades.
General Xiao Jinguang
From March to May 1936, Xie Song and others commanded the Red Twenty-ninth Army to fight more than 20 battles in 7 counties, including Yichuan and Hancheng, annihilating more than 600 enemy troops, establishing more than 40 anti-Japanese national united front alliances below the county level, and raising more than 50,000 yuan of anti-Japanese funds. The shock to the enemy is great.
In late May, the Kuomintang "Northwest Suppression General" mobilized 7 divisions of troops in an attempt to attack the Red Army from north to south, encircling and annihilating the Red Twenty-ninth Army in the area south of Huanglong Mountain. Xie Song led his troops to lure the enemy into the Dashao Mountains, sometimes eastward into the forest area, and sometimes appeared on the plains, so that the enemy army could not understand the actions of the Red Army, so they had to slowly follow, deeply afraid of falling into the Ambush of the Red Army.
At dawn on May 26, Xie Song gathered his troops north of Huti Mountain, occupied favorable terrain, annihilated more than 100 enemy troops, and returned to Fengyuan. The cunning enemy only advances 20 miles a day, constructs fortifications, lays mines, sets up roadblocks, and uses the method of approaching step by step in an attempt to wipe out the Red Twenty-ninth Army in the Mountains of Dashao.
For 7 consecutive days, the encirclement became smaller and smaller, and the grain was cut off. Xie Song and Gan Weihan believed that the task of containing the enemy's forces had been completed and that they must try to break through and return to the Soviet zone.
On June 1, when night fell and the heavy rain did not stop, Xie Song ordered the second and fourth companies of the 255th Regiment to launch a feint attack on the positions of the enemy's 3 battalions, firing fiercely and shouting at the other, attracting the enemy and ensuring that the main force quietly broke through along the designated route.
Two hours later, the second and fourth companies withdrew from the battle and went straight to the town of King, and the first and third companies also seized the commanding heights of the north mountain outside the town, so that the main force could safely and smoothly pass through the enemy's last blockade line.
At 3:00 a.m., all the troops arrived at the Hongquan County base area, jumped out of the enemy's encirclement in victory, and returned triumphantly.
On June 3, 1936, the Central Military Commission sent a telegram praising the Red Twenty-ninth Army and appointing Xie Song as the commander of the Twenty-ninth Army and Gan Weihan as the political commissar.
Then. The main force of the Red Army marched west to meet the Second and Fourth Fronts, and the northern Shaanxi warlord Jingyue Xiubu took the opportunity to capture Wayao Fort, the seat of the Party Central Committee, but fortunately the central organs and the Red Army school had withdrawn.
Xie Song and Gan Weihan received urgent orders: they should set off on the same day, arrive at the designated place on time to participate in the battle, and retake the Wa Yao Fort with cameras. They led their troops, braving the enemy's artillery blockade, and overnight passed through the mountain beam trail west of The Wattau Fort to reach the area three or four miles from the city and engaged in fierce fighting.
On June 24, on its way back from Wayao Fort, the Red Twenty-ninth Army encountered Tang Enbo's corps, which had crossed the Yellow River from Yanshui Pass in search of the main force of the Red Army. Xie Song commanded the troops to adopt mobile defenses, lure the enemy deeper, and disperse the enemy's forces, dragging the arrogant Tang Enbo troops to exhaustion, and setting up an ambush at Liu Jia in Yanchuan County, annihilating one battalion of the enemy, destroying two regiments and two battalions, and forcing the enemy to withdraw 30 miles. This battle shattered the enemy's encirclement and suppression and opened up a large area of soviet areas.
In late July, Gan Weihan was injured, and the heavy burden was all on Xie Song alone. He worked day and night, and his body gradually lost weight, but he still maintained a strong revolutionary fighting spirit.
On October 22, Xie Song and Gan Weihan led their troops from Anse to the west to cooperate with the main Red Army of the Western Expedition. On the 25th, the road passed through Zhidan County, the seat of the Party Central Committee, and was cordially received by Mao Zedong, chairman of the Central Military Commission, and Zhou Enlai, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission.
Chairman Mao tightly held Xie Song's hand and said, "Comrade Xie Song, you have worked hard! Xie Song modestly replied: "Our task is not completed well, please criticize the instructions of the chairman!" "Your mission is well done!" Vice Chairman Zhou happily announced to everyone: "The three main forces of the Red Army have been meeting for 3 days! The troops left Zhidan City amid cheers and marched towards Dingbian.
In early November, after Xie Song and Gan Weihan led their troops to Dingbian City, they took the initiative to work with local party and government organs and the masses of the people to rectify Dingbian and carry out united front work. They lived in peace and friendship with the friendly security forces of the Dingbian Tenth Brigade, the Inner Mongolia Otok Banner, and the Five-Star Banner, resolutely cracked down on the Gansu warlord Ma Hongkui's invasion of Yanchi, refused to be a hundred miles west of Yanchi, and annihilated the cavalry battalion of the bandit Fan Yushan, causing great harm to the people.
In order to prevent the invasion of Southern Huzong, Xie Song also ordered his troops to go all out and build strong fortifications around Dingbian and Yanchi.
In early December, the southern huzong invaded the area of Hongliugou 40 miles southwest of Yanchi, and enemy aircraft bombed frequently. One night, Xie Song led the main force of the 255th Regiment to attack the enemy, chased to Niumaojing in Yanchi County, and took advantage of the dark night to give the enemy a surprise attack, breaking up two of the enemy's cavalry companies and leading back a few horses. The enemy could not figure out how many men and horses the Red Army had, and did not dare to attack.
Immediately afterward, Xie Song conveyed to the troops the news that the southern part of Huzong was going to launch an attack on the three sides, asking the troops to make all preparations for battle, wait in a strict position, and turn the three sides (Dingbian, Jingbian, and Anbian) into graves where hu troops were buried.
The whole army's companies were quickly politically mobilized, their weapons were wiped down, their ammunition was reissued, their inspections on duty and sentry posts were stepped up, and the troops were put on high alert.
On the morning of the 13th, the situation suddenly changed, and Xie Song called a meeting of cadres at and above the company level to convey the news of the "Xi'an Incident," chiang kai-shek was captured alive, and Hu Zongnan fled by plane alone. Suddenly, the whole army was full of jubilation. After the Xi'an Incident, the situation further improved, and the "three-sided" reunification of Dingbian, Anbian, and Jingbian centered on Dingbian was realized--。
In January 1937, Xie Song, together with Hu Yaobang, Kang Keqing, He Changgong, Yang Dezhi and other comrades, entered the Yan'an Anti-Japanese Military and Political University to study. After graduating, he was appointed as the director of the Shanxi Mobilization Department. In December, he was also transferred to the commander of the First Column of the Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Brigade of the Field Mobilization Association.
Unfortunately, after the Japanese army invaded Taiyuan, Xie Song led his troops from Taiyuan to Hongdong County, and when passing through Linfen, he was seriously injured in a car accident and sent to northern Shaanxi for treatment.
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