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Text: According to the snow under the jade pass
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During the revolutionary period, many heroic figures emerged in our party and army who regarded death as their home.
There is such a martyr, who was once just an ordinary vegetable farmer, and after participating in the revolution, he became the division commander of the Red Army. In the Battle of Xiangjiang, he commanded his troops to snipe the enemy for 4 days and 5 nights, creating valuable time for the transfer of the main Red Army. He and his troops were surrounded by the enemy.
When he was captured, he was unwilling to be a prisoner, so he pulled out his intestines with his own hands and forcibly tore them off......
He is the first division commander who died in the Long March - Chen Shuxiang.
From vegetable farmer to general
In August 1921, at the age of 28, Mao Zedong returned to Hunan after attending the First National Congress, at this time he was already the director of the Hunan branch of the Secretariat of the Chinese Labor Union, shouldering the important task of establishing the Hunan branch of the Communist Party.
After returning to Hunan, Mao Zedong and his wife Yang Kaihui lived in a two-room, three-bay brick and wood house at No. 22 Qingshuitang, outside Xiaowumen, Changsha, which was also the birthplace of the CCP's first provincial party organization.
At No. 22 Qingshuitang, Mao Zedong and his wife Yang Kaihui spent the most unforgettable and warm time in their lives, and his eldest son Mao Anying was born during this time. There are old and young, the work is going well, and there is a good wife to accompany him, what more can a husband ask for.
Of course, to make a revolution is also to eat.
At that time, there was a poor family surnamed Chen in Chenjialong, outside Xiaowumen, and because of the drought in his hometown 7 years ago, the crops were not harvested, so he fled to Chenjialong, relying on planting vegetables and slaughtering. The cooks struggle to get by.
The child of this family is called Chen Shuxiang, born in 1905, because he often goes to Qingshui Pond to fetch water and deliver vegetables, he is familiar with Mao Zedong, He Shuheng and others. It was under their influence that he gradually turned to revolution and joined the Communist Party in 1925.
During the Northern Expedition, he also organized and established a dislocated armed force of peasants to support the revolution.
In 1927, after Chairman Mao launched the Autumn Harvest Uprising in Hunan and Jiangxi, Chen Shuxiang's Wuhan Nationalist Government Guard Regiment was reorganized into the 1st Regiment of the 1st Division of the First Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, and followed Chairman Mao to Jinggang Mountain.
After Chen Shuxiang, who was originally just a platoon commander, arrived in Jinggangshan, he was promoted to the commander of the 54th Division of the Red 19th Army in just six years because of his outstanding performance.
As a result, during the fourth anti-"encirclement and suppression" in 1933, in order to streamline the troops, the Red 19th Army was reduced to the Red 34th Division, and Chen Shuxiang, the division commander, was correspondingly reduced to the commander of the 101st Field Regiment.
Although the division commander became the regiment commander, Chen Shuxiang did not complain, he was still as conscientious as when he was the division commander before, and whenever there was a vicious battle, he would always charge ahead, and annihilated two enemy regiments in the anti-"encirclement and suppression" operation, so within a year, he was promoted and appointed as the commander of the Red 34th Division.
Bloody battle on the Xiangjiang River
In 1934, with the defeat of the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression", the Central Red Army had to choose to leave the Soviet area that had been operating for many years and was forced to start the Long March.
In mid-November, the Central Red Army broke through the three Kuomintang blockade lines in succession. Chairman Mao suggested that we should take advantage of the fact that the Kuomintang's "pursuit" army was still mobilizing and failed to complete the encirclement, and concentrate superior forces to annihilate one or one chasing army, so as to get rid of the current passive situation.
However, even though the Red Army was forced to leave the Soviet area, Bogu, Li De, and others still did not learn their lesson and did not listen to Mao Zedong's opinions, but instead became afraid of the Kuomintang and turned their minds to advance.
This gave Chiang Kai-shek the opportunity to calmly set up a fourth blockade line on both sides of the Xiang River, nearly 150 kilometers between Hung Yen and Quanzhou.
In the north, along the Huangsha River to Dongyangdu and the Lingling area are Liu Jianxu and Xue Yue.
To the south, Daoxian, Ningyuan, and Jiahe are Zhou Hunyuan's department and Li Yunjie's department. Linwu, Lanshan, Jianghua, and Yongming are Li Yunxing's department.
In the west, Quanzhou, Xing'an, Guanyang, Pingle and Gongcheng are the Xia Wei Department and Liao Lei Department of the Gui Army.
To the east of Pingshi and Jiufeng is the Yue Army's Yu Han Conspiracy Department and Li Han Soul Division.
The Kuomintang blocked the front and pursued the rear, and the north and south flanked the attack, forcing the Red Army to fight a decisive battle with his 400,000-strong army on the east bank of the Xiangjiang River.
Fortunately, the Kuomintang army was not in harmony and had their own thoughts. Chiang Kai-shek made He Jian, instead of Xue Yue, the commander-in-chief of the "pursuit" army, in order to better coordinate the relationship between the warlords, but did not tell Xue Yue this intention, which made Xue Yue very dissatisfied and disobeyed He Jian's orders.
The Gui army and the Yue army were typical "work without contribution", and "fear of Chiang" was more than "fear of red". After all, the Red Army was just passing by, and when it left, who knows if Chiang Kai-shek would take this opportunity to take Liangguang?
Therefore, the Gui army specially gave up a corridor for the Red Army to go to Hunan, Guizhou, and the Cantonese army just "sent" the Red Army to Yizhang and did not move.
On November 25, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission began to deploy the task of rushing to cross the Xiangjiang River, and Chen Shuxiang's Red 34th Division undertook the task of general rearguard.
So, on the 27th, Chen Shuxiang deployed troops on the front line from the waterwheel to Wenshi in Guanyang, Guangxi, to block the chasing Zhou Hunyuan Division, Li Yunjie Division, and Guijun's Xia Wei Division.
On the 28th, the battle officially began, Chen Shuxiang's troops were only more than 6,000 people, and in the face of the crazy attack of tens of thousands of enemy troops, they were stunned to block 4 days and 5 also, allowing the main force of the Red Army to pass through the Xiangjiang River safely, while the Red 34th Division only had less than 1,000 people left.
At this time, all ferries along the Xiangjiang River had been completely blocked by the Kuomintang army, and the Red 34th Division failed to cross the river several times and was cut off on the east bank of the Xiangjiang River.
Now it is obvious that it can no longer catch up with the main force, so the Central Revolutionary Military Commission issued an instruction to ask the Red 34th Division to retreat to southern Hunan, where the mass base is better.
After receiving the order, Chen Shuxiang convened an emergency meeting and announced two things:
"First, find the weak place of the enemy and break through to Shonan to carry out guerrilla warfare.
Second, if you fail to break through, you will swear to shed the last drop of blood for the Soviet Republic!"
Shed the last drop of blood
On December 9, after many battles, the Red 34th Division came to a village called Kongshuyan Village in Dadu Pangling Dao County. At this time, there were only more than 200 troops left, and almost everyone was wounded.
The soldiers had just rested for the night, and early the next morning, a large number of Guangxi militia groups pushed over from the direction of Guanyang.
After defeating the enemy, Chen Shuxiang understood that it was not safe here, and commanded the troops to continue to move to the border of Jianghua, Jiangyong, and Daoxian.
Two days later, the troops successfully arrived at a ferry port near the Jianghua Qiaotoupu.
At that time, there was fog on the Guzi River, and there was silence. Chen Shuxiang realized that it was easy to be ambushed, and ordered the soldiers to prepare for battle and rush to cross the Guzi River.
Sure enough, when the boat arrived at the center of the river, there was a "crackling" gunfire around him, Chen Shuxiang was shot in the abdomen, and the blood flowed nonstop, but he still held on and commanded the soldiers to fight back, and did not fall down until after crossing the river, and the soldiers carried the guide line on a stretcher to transfer.
On the 14th, the Red 34th Division, which had only more than 100 people left, came to the Sima Bridge in Daoxian County, and was once again ambushed by the Kuomintang security regiment.
Chen Shuxiang, who was originally unconscious, walked over and stopped the soldiers and desperate demands: "The enemy's purpose is to destroy us, and he can't wait for us to fight with them, how can we jump into the trap set by the enemy?"
At this time, the political commissar of the 34th Division had already died, so Chen Shuxiang called the chief of staff Wang Guangdao, held the other party's hand tightly, and said that he would hand over this unit to him and let Wang Guangdao take the soldiers out.
As for Chen Shuxiang himself, he had already made up his mind to stay and cover for the soldiers.
The troops fought and retreated, and came to the Hongdu Temple in Yinkeng Village, where the rest of the 34th Division officially broke through, while Chen Shuxiang held a machine gun and covered with three soldiers.
I don't know how long the battle lasted, the troops successfully broke through, and Chen Shuxiang himself fell.
When Chen Shuxiang woke up, he found that he had become a prisoner of the Daoxian Security Corps.
These people knew that they had captured the "big official" of the Red Army and wanted to extract information from Chen Shuxiang's mouth, but in the end it was useless at all. After thinking about it, he decided to send Chen Shuxiang to the county for a reward.
Chen Shuxiang always remembered the oath he made before breaking through, when he was carried to Jiangjuntang near Shimashen Village, Qiba Town, Dao County, on December 28, seeing that the enemy's attention was not on his body, he put his hand into the wound in his abdomen, gritted his teeth and pulled out his intestines, and violently strangled it.
Only a loud shout was heard, and Division Commander Chen Shuxiang died heroically at the age of 29, fulfilling his oath of "shedding the last drop of blood for the Soviet Republic".
The troops that broke out of the encirclement held out in the southern Shonan region for a year, and at one time developed into a team of more than 200 people, but unfortunately they were eventually outnumbered and annihilated.
According to the statistics of the relevant departments, only 10 survivors of the Red 34th Division are known to have left their names, and 41 survivors have not left their names.
Among them, Han Wei, the head of the 100th regiment, jumped off a cliff when he broke through and was hung on a tree, and then "one person on the Long March" chased the large army, but was recognized by a traitor on the way and was arrested in the Kuomintang prison until he returned to Yan'an in 1937, and was awarded the rank of lieutenant general after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Chen Shuxiang has no relatives and did not leave a photo, and the photo circulating on the Internet now is a photo of General Xiao Jinguang when he was young.
After Chen Shuxiang's death, the enemy did not even leave him a whole body, cut off Chen Shuxiang's head, and sent it to exchange for a bounty, and the body was buried by the local people a few days later.
With Chen Shuxiang's qualifications and contributions, if he had not sacrificed and continued to contribute in the revolutionary years, he could at least be awarded the rank of general. It is said that Chairman Mao even said personally: "I have a fellow countryman named Chen Shuxiang, if he hadn't sacrificed, he would have been a general now." ”
It's a pity that we don't even know what this martyr looks like......