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Author: Cadillo
In the history of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, the main forces of the Red Army have successively existed in three Red 9 Divisions, namely the 9th Division of the Red 16th Army, the 9th Division of the 3rd Red Army in Ganxi Province, and the 9th Division of the Honghu Red 3rd Army.
In April 1931, the Honghu Independent Regiment was reorganized into the 9th Division of the 3rd Red Army by order of its superiors, with division commander Duan Dechang and political commissar Chen Peiyin. The Red 9th Division administered the 25th and 26th regiments, of which the independent regiment under the personal command of Duan Dechang was reorganized into the 26th regiment of the Red 9th Division, with chen Huashan, the regimental commander, and the independent regiment commanded by Duan Yulin as the 25th regiment of the Red 9th Division, with Duan Yulin as the regimental commander.
Division commander Duan Dechang, zi Yuhou, born in 1904 in Nan County, Hunan, in 1925 into the Huangpu Military Academy Phase IV study, participated in the Northern Expedition War and the Nanchang Uprising, and was sent by his superiors to carry out guerrilla warfare in the Honghu area, together with Zhou Yiqun founded the Honghu Revolutionary Base Area, once served as the commander of the Independent 1st Division, the political commissar of the Red 6 Army, and the commander of the New Red 6 Army. Political commissar Chen Peiyin, date of birth unknown, a native of Hunan, who participated in the autumn harvest uprising, was later sent to Honghu Su District to engage in political work.
The Honghu Independent Regiment, formerly known as the Red 12th Regiment and some wounded who were lost with the main force in the Battle of Yanglin Temple, totaled more than 1,000 people. Duan Dechang reorganized this unit into the New Red 6th Army, and after three months of bitter fighting, finally recovered most of the Soviet areas that had fallen since the Southern Expedition of the Red 2nd Army. In the summer of 1931, there was a rare flood in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and Jiang Jun took the opportunity to blow up the river embankment, making Jianli, Qiuyang, Hanchuan, Jiangling and other places a zealous country. As many as 700,000 people fled the disaster inside and outside the Soviet union, causing great difficulties in countering encirclement and suppression and production work.
Statue of Duan Dechang, the first commander of the Red 9th Division
Xia Xi, the newly appointed secretary of Xiang'exi, ordered Duan Dechang to lead the main force of the Red 9th Division to attack Xiangbei and look for the main force of the Red 3rd Army. In August 1931, Duan Dechang and his troops arrived in the area of Shayang Town, Jingmen, and launched a surprise attack on the newly organized 3rd Brigade of the Chiang Army stationed here. In this battle, the Red 9th Division annihilated more than 2,000 enemy troops and killed the brigade commander Xu Dezuo, creating the first record of annihilating an enemy brigade and killing the brigade commander since the establishment of the Honghu Su District.
After the victory at the Battle of Shayang, Duan Dechang used his captured weapons and some of his captives to form a new 27th Regiment, headed by Zhu Haizhou. At this time, the main force of the Red 3rd Army, under the order of its superiors, also left the Su District of Fangxian County and met the Red 9th Division at Liu Monkey To victory. He Long and Duan Dechang, commanders of the Red 3rd Army, the founders of the Red Army in western Hunan and Hubei, finally met again after a full year of each other! At this time, the Red 3rd Army had a total of more than 15,000 people in three divisions, which had basically recovered to the strength before the Southern Expedition.
After the Red 3rd Army returned to the Honghu Su District, Xia Xi once cancelled the division headquarters of 3 divisions and reorganized the troops into 5 large regiments. It was not until the end of December 1931, at the request of his superiors, that Xia Xi agreed to restore the headquarters of the Red 7th and 9th Divisions. At this time, the commander of the Red 9th Division was still Duan Dechang, the political commissar was Sun Zili, and the three regimental commanders were Xu Guangda, Cheng Guangming, and Zhu Haizhou.
Political commissar Sun Zi, formerly known as Sun Bingquan, was born in 1903 in Yueyang, Hunan, participated in the Autumn Harvest Uprising of the Two Lakes, served as the head of the organization of the Jiangnan Soviet District, and was one of the four major literary heroes in western Xiang'e.
General Xu Guangda was the commander of the 25th Regiment of the Red 9th Division
After completing the reorganization, Duan Dechang immediately led the Red 9th Division across the Xiang river and once again went north to guerrilla warfare. On January 20, 1932, the Red 9th Division captured the town of Soap on the Hanyi Highway and besieged the enemy at the two strongholds of Chenjiahe and Longwangji. The 12th Brigade of the 4th Division of Chiang Kai-shek's Army, stationed in Yingcheng, rushed to the rescue, which was a concubine of Chiang Kai-shek's army, equipped with many automatic weapons from Germany, France, and the Czech Republic, and its regiments, battalions, and even officers were all Huangpusheng.
However, Zhang Lianhua, commander of the 12th Brigade of the Jiang Army, was a big straw bag, and although he graduated from the Baoding Military Academy, he did not have any actual combat experience, but only became a major general brigade commander because of his relationship with the division commander Xu Tingyao, who was a classmate. Lured by Red Army scouts disguised as guides, Chiang Kai-shek's 12th Brigade entered the ambush circle of the Red 9th Division in three columns along the Hanyi Highway. At Duan Dechang's order, the Red Army soldiers who were ambushed on both sides of the highway were killed in one fell swoop.
The soldiers of the Red 9th Division had long heard that the French Haqikais light machine gun bought by Jiang Jun was very powerful, and they retracted their eyes one after another to see what was going on. I don't know who shouted: "Haha, Jiang Guang's head was dangled by the French, what a tattered cargo machine gun he bought, everyone went up and handed it over!" As soon as the news spread, the soldiers of the Red 9th Division rushed forward and disarmed all of Jiang's army.
Rifles and light machine guns used by the Red Army in western Hunan and Hubei
The battle lasted for four hours, and the Red 9th Division annihilated more than 4,000 people of Chiang Kai-shek's 12th Brigade, with only more than 300 casualties. The brigade commander of Chiang Kai-shek's army, Zhang Lianhua (who was later killed for attempting to escape), the battalion commander Zeng Qian (phase IV), and the company commander Liu Chi (phase VII), were all taken prisoner, and only the regimental commander Liu Jin (phase I), the battalion commander Wan Zhaoren (phase VI), and a few others escaped.
After the Chenjiahe Dragon King's great victory, Duan Dechang again adopted the tactic of encircling points to provide reinforcements, and with the cooperation of the Red 7th Division, he won a great victory at Wenjiadun, annihilated the 144th Brigade of the 48th Division of chiang kai-shek's army, and captured more than 2,000 people under the enemy brigade commander Han Changjun. For half a year, Duan Dechang independently commanded the Red 9th Division in three battles and three victories, annihilated three enemy brigades, and captured three brigade commanders, showing his outstanding military ability. It is worth mentioning that in the five-year struggle in the Honghu Su District from 1928 to 1932, only these three brigade-level annihilation wars were won.
Duan Dechang won consecutive battles, but Xia Xi was triumphant, thinking that the Red 3rd Army was invincible, but he did not fundamentally see what the Red Army relied on to win. In April 1932, jiang's army invaded the Honghu Su district, xia Xi ordered Duan Dechang to overhaul the fortifications and fight a position war with the enemy, Duan Dechang saw that the opposition was invalid, and had to sneer while repairing. After three major battles of Wamiaoji, Zhangjiachang, and Xingou Tsui, although the Red Army temporarily repelled Chiang Kai-shek's army and consumed all kinds of ammunition captured over the years, completely outweighing the losses, Xia Xi still boasted that he had achieved a "great victory."
Song Panming, the third political commissar of the Red 9 Division in the TV series "One-Armed General"
In July 1932, Chiang Kai-shek launched the fourth encirclement and suppression of the Honghu Su District, and He Long, Guan Xiangying, and Duan Dechang led the Red 8th and 9th Divisions to the outside line, but failed to mobilize the enemy, and the Soviet area was eventually occupied by Chiang Kai-shek's army. Xia Xi led the Red 7th Division to withdraw from the Soviet zone, and after meeting with He Long and Duan Dechang, he once planned to go to Henan to look for the Red Fourth Front, which also withdrew from the base area, but did not find it. In the end, the Red 3rd Army turned to fight for 7,000 miles and turned back to the Xiang'e Border Guerrilla Zone.
Duan Dechang did not want to throw the Honghu Su District, which had been in operation for five years, to Jiang Jun, and wanted to take the Red 9Th Division back, after all, the Red 9Th division was a native of the Honghu Su District. When Xia Xi heard the news, he was furious and ordered Duan Dechang and song Panming, the political commissar of the division, to be tied up, and announced that they were going to "lead the troops to defect", and the next day, Duan Dechang was unfortunately killed, and Song Panming was killed at the end of 1933. Afterwards, Tang Fulin, then 28 years old, succeeded him as the commander of the Red 9th Division, a native of Sangzhi, Hunan, who had been the leader of the Jingdang Independent Regiment.
After that, He Long once led the Red 9th Division to operate alone on the outside line, but due to the great decline in the combat effectiveness of the troops, he was defeated in successive battles with the Hubei warlord Xu Yuanquan and the Xiangxi warlord Chen Quzhen. At the end of 1933, after meeting with the Red 7th Division, the Red 9th Division continued to retreat, and retreated until Qiandong to gain a firm foothold. Under the struggle of He Long, Lu Dongsheng and others, Xia Xicai partially realized his mistake and agreed to restore the political work system that had been abolished for more than a year, liao Hansheng was appointed as the political commissar of the Red 9th Division, and Zhong Bingran took over as the commander of the division.
In November 1934, after the victorious meeting with the Red 6th Army, the 9th Division of the Red 3rd Army was reorganized into the 6th Division of the Red 2nd Army, and this Honghu Iron Army would finally usher in the opportunity to shine on the battlefield again.
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The 9th Division of the 3rd Red Army served as a division commander
Duan Dechang (1931.04-1933.05, mistakenly killed in 1933)
Tang Fulin (1933.05-1934.07, died in 1936)
Zhong Bingran (1934.07-1934.11, left the team)
The 9th Division of the 3rd Red Army served as political commissar
Chen Peiyin (1931.04-1931.10, wrongfully killed in 1932)
Sun Zili (1931.12-1932.01, wrongfully killed in 1932)
Song Panming (1932.01-1933.05, wrongfully killed)
Liao Hansheng (1934.07-1934.11, 1955 Lieutenant General)
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