The Red Army's Monument to the Doupu Resistance Battle is located on Pipa Mountain, 15 kilometers northwest of Langchi Town, Yingshan County, Sichuan Province. The monument is a whole granite stone, and the front is engraved with 11 gilded characters of "Monument to the Red Army Sealing Doupu Resistance Battle", which is 5 meters long, 3 meters high, 0.6 meters thick, and weighs more than 12 tons. The base is composed of 3 landscape stones, on which the inscription is engraved, the full text is as follows:
In November 1933, in order to smash the "six-way siege" of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet region by Liu Xiang, commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang's Sichuan "suppression of bandits," the Red Ninth Army decided to block the enemy at Fengdoupu and ensure the safe transfer of the main forces of the Red Army and the Soviet organs.
Feng Doupu is located in the northwest of Yingshan County 15 kilometers, known as "Yingshan lock key", is a military important place. In order to fight a good blocking battle, it is necessary to recapture the Pipa Village, which has been seized by the enemy.
On 20 November, the 1st Battalion of the 74th Regiment of the 25th Division of the Red Ninth Army attacked from the west gate of Yingshan County and approached Pipa Village. That night, the commander of the Red Ninth Army, He Weiqin, led the 73rd Regiment of the 25th Division to reinforcements. Through reconnaissance, a combat plan was drawn up, and it was decided to attack the enemy troops by night. First, the Red Army deployed most of its troops to lay an ambush at the foot of the mountain to prepare for a strong attack; second, it organized small detachments to destroy the enemy's main firepower, and found local guerrillas to lead the way, made a detour from the east gate to the south gate, took a human ladder, climbed the vines to the top of the mountain, and unexpectedly killed the enemy's machine gunners on the east gate stockade. Suddenly, the sound of guns, shouts of killing, earth-shattering, the firelight reflected the night sky red, the enemy soldiers abandoned their guns one after another, fled in a hurry, and the Red Army finally recaptured Pipa Village.
In the early morning of the 21st, the fog was thick, and the enemy organized a "death squad" of more than 60 people in an attempt to take advantage of the morning fog to sneak attack Pipa Village. The enemy had just entered the Moon Gazing Beam under the wall, the Red Army soldiers who were ambushed in the jungle on both sides suddenly killed, annihilated more than 30 enemies, repelled the enemy's sneak attack, the Red Army officers and soldiers took advantage of the victory to pursue, successively conquered the Guanyin Rock, the dog head village and other highlands, and drove the enemy to the talc slab and rotten village at the junction of the camp (mountain) and Peng (An).
In order to more effectively curb the enemy's frantic attack, the Red Army decided to seize the Pao'er Mountain between the dog head village and the rotten village. In the early morning of the 22nd, the Red Army conquered Paoer Mountain in three ways. At 12 o'clock in the evening, the main force of the Red Army took the initiative to withdraw from Fengdoupu according to the order, leaving only a reinforced company to hold the attack at Kotouzhai and cover the retreat of the large army.
At 9 o'clock on the morning of 23 July, the Red Army, which was in charge of blocking the attack at Goutou Village, completed the blocking task and withdrew from its position in batches while the dense fog had not dispersed.
The Red Army held out for three days and three nights, and played a decisive role in destroying the enemy's living forces, covering the retreat of the main forces of the Red Army and the safe transfer of Soviet power in Yingshan.
On the occasion of commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Red Army's Long March, in order to cherish the memory of the martyrs, carry forward the spirit of the Red Army, build a beautiful homeland, and take the new Long March road, a special monument was erected to commemorate the commemoration.
Yingshan County People's Government
Established in October 2016
The inscription explains the background of the Fengdoupu blockade battle, describes the battle process in detail, speaks highly of the importance of the blockade battle, and clarifies the purpose of "erecting a monument to commemorate".
After the Red Fourth Front Army marched into northern Sichuan in December 1932, after 10 months of heroic fighting, it won many victories. The Kuomintang reactionaries were frightened by the development of the Red Army in Sichuan, appointed the Sichuan warlord Liu Xiang as the commander-in-chief of the "suppression of bandits," gathered 200,000 large and small warlords in Sichuan, and launched a "six-way siege" to the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet region.
On November 16, 1933, Yang Sen, commander-in-chief of the Fourth Route of the Kuomintang, led the 20th Army to attack Yingshan and Yilong. Faced with the pressure of a strong enemy, the Red 9th Army and the guerrillas on the Zhoukou front began to make a strategic shift and retreated to the line of Fengdoupu in Yingshan, and the enemy followed into the vicinity of Fengdoupu. At the same time, Li Jiayu, commander-in-chief of the enemy's Third Road, led nine regiments of the newly formed 6th Division to cross the Jialing River from Nanchong and arrived at Fengdou Mountain from the east line, and Luo Zezhou, deputy commander-in-chief, led nine infantry regiments of the 26th Division, totaling more than 15,000 people, to smuggle across the Jialing River on the line from Peng'an Jinxi to Fulichang, and attacked the guerrillas along the river at night. In order to hold the important area and ensure the safe transfer of the county party committee and the Soviet organs, the headquarters of the Red Ninth Army made strict arrangements and decided to use Fengdou Mountain to block the enemy and seize the Pipa Village, which had been seized by the enemy and was closely connected with Pihuang Mountain.
On November 20, the 1st Battalion of the 74th Regiment of the 25th Division of the Red 9th Army attacked from the west gate of Yingshan City, passed through the Dahe, Guanyinyan and Nanxi Bridge, and went to Fengdoupu to block the attack.
That night, the commander of the Red 9th Army, He Weiqin, led the 73rd Regiment of the 25th Division to reinforce, and he came to the forward position to observe the terrain, understand the offensive situation, and through careful study, decided to attack by night. The Red Army found Tang Kejun, a guerrilla who was familiar with the local path, and other comrades, and immediately formed a night snail team, led by Tang Kejun, detoured from the east gate pass to the south gate, took a human ladder and climbed the vines to the top of the mountain, crawled forward, evaded the sentry, and quickly attacked the east gate from the top of the Pipa Village, and unexpectedly destroyed the enemy's machine gun position on the East Gate Village. At the same time, the trumpets of the Red Army on various positions sounded in unison, and the Red Army soldiers who were lying in ambush at the foot of the mountain immediately rushed to the gate of the wall. The enemy soldiers on the mountain thought that the divine soldiers had descended from heaven, and fled desperately, and on the edge of the cliff at the north gate of the West Gate, dozens of people were killed, and the rest surrendered with their guns, and a battalion collapsed in an instant. After the Red Army occupied Pipa Mountain, He Wei ordered the soldiers to rush to build fortifications overnight and prepare to hold on, while ordering the troops to ambush.
In the early morning of the 21st, the fog was thick, and the enemy organized a "death squad" from Guanyin Rock through Liangfengya and Wangyueliang, trying to take advantage of the morning fog to sneak attack Pipa Village. As soon as the enemy climbed the Moon Beam, the Red Army soldiers who were ambushed in the jungle on both sides suddenly killed, annihilated more than 30 enemies with spears, stones, and grenades, repelled the enemy's sneak attack, and the remaining remnants of the enemy crawled back to Guanyin Rock, and the Red 9th Army soldiers pursued by victory, Lianke Guanyin Rock, and at noon, the red flag of victory was planted on the Guanyin Rock Heights.
On the morning of the 22nd, the Red Army took the initiative to launch an attack on the defending enemy of Paoer Mountain, and after the failure of the first charge, the Red Army attacked from the right side, attacked from the front, and attacked skillfully from the left, and conquered Pao Er Mountain in one fell swoop. The enemy launched several counteroffensives, but the commanders and fighters of the Red Army bravely resisted, and the blood stained the hills. That night, the main force of the Red Army took the initiative to withdraw from Fengdoupu, leaving only a reinforced company to block the attack at Goutouzhai and cover the retreat of the large army. On the morning of the 23rd, the Red Army units responsible for the blocking task completed the blocking mission and withdrew from the Fengdoupu position in the fog.
The Doupu Resistance Battle played an important role in cracking down on the encirclement, pursuit, and interception of the Kuomintang reactionaries and in consolidating and expanding the revolutionary base areas in Sichuan and Shaanxi.