At the beginning of November 1934, the Red 7th Army Corps arrived in Chongxi Village, Dexing County, and successfully joined forces with the Red 10th Army stationed there. The Red 7th Army Corps came to join the Red 10th Army this time, in fact, with the order of the Military Commission, to join forces with the Red 10th Army and reorganize into a brand-new Red 10th Army Corps, so as to better accomplish the task of containing the enemy troops and sharing the pressure of the Red Army's main force on the Long March.
Red 10 Corps
After the formation of the Red 10th Legion, the lineup can be called luxurious, the Red 7th Corps originally had famous generals such as Xun Huaizhou, Xiao Jinguang, Su Yu, etc., and the Red 10th Legion had Fang Zhimin in charge. After the reorganization, the Red 10th Army Corps was temporarily under the command of the Central Military Region, with Liu Chouxi as the corps commander and Le Shaohua as the political commissar.
After the Red 10th Army Corps was transferred to the outer line, the Zhejiang-Anhui Border Soviet Region was established, and the Military and Political Committee was established, with Comrade Fang Zhimin as chairman and Su Yu as chief of staff, and continued to lead the Red 10th Army Corps in combat. Judging from the command lineup of the Red 10th Army at that time, this unit has quite strong combat effectiveness, but the combat environment of the Red 10th Army is really difficult.
Comrade Fang Zhimin's words before his sacrifice are still deafening and deafening, and they have become a model for revolutionaries, and have also left deep regrets for future generations. At that time, the Red 10th Army Corps had 3 divisions under its jurisdiction, and when the Red 10th Army encountered an unprecedented predicament, what kind of performance did the division commanders of the 3 divisions have?
"The enemy can only cut off our heads, but they must not shake our faith" - Fang Zhimin
After the reorganization of the Red 10th Army was completed, it initially had two divisions, one was adapted from the original Red 7th Army and the other was adapted from the original Red 10th Army. As you can see, this kind of adaptation is actually not thorough, a bit like the Red 7th Army and the Red 10th Army getting together, but they still feel like they are fighting separately.
Soon after, because of the needs of the war situation, and in order to strengthen the cohesion of this army, the Red 10th Army was reorganized from 2 divisions to 3 divisions, namely the 19th Division, the 20th Division, and the 21st Division.
Looking for Huaizhou
Xun Huaizhou is not very old, but his achievements are extraordinary, and his revolutionary qualifications are also very profound. After studying and training in the military school system, his military talent improved rapidly, and his military talent was also highly developed, which was one of the important conditions for him to become the commander of the Red 7th Army Corps.
It is worth mentioning that Xun Huaizhou served as the commander of the Red 7th Army Corps at the age of 21, such a young and promising military commander, even if you look at the entire Red Army, it is also at the top level. Even if it is the one in the northeast, if you only compare the age when you were the commander of the legion, I am afraid it will be slightly inferior.
After the formation of the Red 10th Army, Xun Huaizhou served as the commander of the 19th Division, and in the process of the Red 10th Army's operation, he was ordered to ambush Wang Yaowu's "Supplementary First Brigade". Judging from the name of this enemy unit, it is both a "supplement" and a "brigade," and it will inevitably give people the illusion that its combat effectiveness is not strong, but the real situation is that this enemy army is not a weak brigade and has extremely strong combat effectiveness under the command of Wang Yaowu.
When the Red 10th Army was fighting this ambush at Tanjiaqiao, although it was fully prepared, it still failed to deal a fatal blow to the "Supplementary First Brigade", and because the 21st Division fired the first shot of the ambush a little earlier, the "Supplementary First Brigade" was not completely surrounded, and finally had the opportunity to escape from the encirclement.
Wang Yaowu's reaction was very fast, and after the "Supplementary First Brigade" broke out of the encirclement, he immediately organized a counter-encirclement. Originally, it was a battle of ambush for our army, and it fell into passivity in a short period of time, although Xun Huaizhou led the 19th Division to break through quickly and quickly, but it still failed to break through.
Xun Huaizhou saw that the troops were in trouble, in order to boost morale, he personally went to the front line to take the lead in the charge, and when fighting for a high ground, he personally led a platoon to attack the enemy's position, and after three successive setbacks, he still took the lead, just to bring the 19th Division out of the predicament.
Unfortunately, Xun Huaizhou was hit by an enemy stray bullet and fell to the ground when he led his troops to charge for the fourth time, although he was carried down to the front line for rescue at the first time, but the position he was in at that time was too high and the medical conditions were poor, and his life could not be saved in the end.
And when Xun Huaizhou was seriously injured, the first thing he thought about was not his own safety, and he still insisted on ordering everyone to rush up and grab the commanding heights. Even before the sacrifice, Xun Huaizhou was still in a semi-comatose state, repeatedly muttering "going north to resist the ...... of Japan", which was already the call of his inner will.
Liu Chouxi
The commander of the 20th Division is named Liu Chouxi, that is, the commander of the Red 10th Army mentioned above, and he also serves as the commander of the 20th Division. This Red Army general is also a very special general in the history of our army, he is different from most Red Army generals, not only born in the Whampoa Military Academy, but also has a double degree, is a Red Army general with both civil and military skills!
The most important thing is that Liu Chouxi, like General Zuo Quan, is also one of the one-armed generals of our army. The reason for this is that although Liu Chouxi has a high education and high status, he is also very fierce in the battle. When the warlord Chen Jiongming was defeated that year, Liu Chouxi participated in this battle, leading the First Teaching Regiment to charge forward, and it was at this time that his left arm was shot and finally amputated.
Moreover, Liu Chouxi also studied at the Frunze Military Academy in Moscow, and after returning to China, he served as a division commander in the Red First Army. It is precisely because of Liu Chouxi's ability and status that after the formation of the Red 10th Army Corps, he served as the corps commander and concurrently served as the commander of the 20th Division.
In the process of the Red 10th Army going north, it attracted a large number of Kuomintang troops to encircle and intercept, which was also an important mission of the Red 10th Army Corps, and the more Kuomintang troops were attracted, the safer the main force of the Red Army would be. Therefore, the Red 10 Corps fought almost all the way, always lacking time and opportunities to recuperate, and in the absence of supplies, the officers and men of the Red 10 Corps were exhausted to the limit.
The 20th Division was only 5 miles away from its destination at that time, and Liu Chouxi couldn't bear to let the soldiers continue to march desperately, so he informed Fang Zhimin and Su Yu in front of him that they planned to rest in place for one night before setting off. Fang Zhimin and Su Yu thought that this might be dangerous, but they also knew the situation of the troops, so Fang Zhimin and Su Yu decided to stop and take over the 20th Division.
It was at this time that the Kuomintang army surrounded it, leaving the 20th Division in a difficult situation and being surrounded in Huaiyu Mountain. Fang Zhimin and Su Yu had the opportunity to break through and leave, but Fang Zhimin let Su Yu break out first, and he led some people to rush into the encirclement to meet Liu Chouxi, and never came back.
Hu Tiantao
Compared with the commander of the 19th Division and the commander of the 20th Division, there are many fewer records about Hu Tiantao, the commander of the 21st Division. Hu Tiantao, who is also a senior general of the Red Army, is a student of the second phase of Huangpu, and it is not too late to participate in the revolution, so he is fully qualified to hold such a position. Hu Tiantao, like Liu Chouxi, also regrettably fell into the hands of the enemy in the Huaiyu Mountains, and the last experience of his life is more seen in Wang Yaowu's memoirs.
After Wang Yaowu was captured because of a piece of paper, he underwent many years of reform in the merit forest, and because of his good performance during the reform, his name appeared in the first batch of amnesty lists, and then he became a commissioner of culture and history, and began to be responsible for writing historical facts. It was during this period that Wang Yaowu mentioned in his memoirs some historical details that happened before Hu Tiantao's death.
After Hu Tiantao was captured, he was brutally interrogated by the Kuomintang, and Wang Yaowu personally interrogated Hu Tiantao. It's just that although Wang Yaowu was an interrogator, in the process of talking with Hu Tiantao, he was shocked by the beliefs and thoughts mentioned by Hu Tiantao. According to Wang Yaowu's recollection, "I was never a victor in this conversation", which shows how much Hu Tiantao's belief shocked him at that time.
In the face of the enemy's coercion and temptation, Hu Tiantao has always been loyal and unyielding, and when the enemy asked him some key questions about our army, Hu Tiantao's answer was always "I don't know". The enemy brutally persecuted Hu Tiantao, and took out high-ranking officials to attract Hu Tiantao, but all of them were rejected by Hu Tiantao, and finally the enemy was angry and brutally killed Hu Tiantao.
Fang Zhimin's heroic sacrifice is unacceptable to us so far, and the three division commanders under his command are even more iron-clad heroes than a tough one. Whether it is the indomitable spirit when accepting the mission, or the leading charge when charging into battle, or the generosity of death in the face of the enemy's coercion and temptation, people pay tribute to them!