As we all know, from 1927 to 1937, the Eyu-Anhui Soviet Region successively produced three main Red Army units with strong combat effectiveness, namely the Red Fourth Front, the Red Twenty-fifth Army, and the Red Twenty-eighth Army. The descendants were the 12th Army, the 13th Army, the 39th Army and the 21st Army of the People's Liberation Army.
Today, I will focus on the achievements of the Red Twenty-eighth Army (later the 21st Army).
Beginning in July 1932, the Nationalist army launched the fourth encirclement and suppression of the Eyu-Anhui Soviet Region with a strength of 300,000 troops. Due to Zhang Guotao's wrong command, the Red Army failed in the anti-encirclement and suppression campaign and was forced to move.
On October 12, in addition to leaving the Red 75th Division of the Red 25th Army and the Independent Battalion of the Army Headquarters to insist on guerrilla warfare on the spot, more than 20,000 people of the main force of the Red Fourth Front withdrew from the Eyu-Anhui Soviet Region and transferred to Sichuan and Shaanxi.
On November 30, the Eyu-Anhui Provincial Party Committee rebuilt the Red 25th Army, with Wu Huan as its commander, with three divisions and more than 12,000 men. By the spring of 1933, the Red Twenty-fifth Army had restored some of its base areas.
However, from the summer of 1933 to the winter of 1934, the Nationalist army dispatched 30 divisions successively to launch the fifth and sixth encirclement and suppression of the former Eyuwan on an unprecedented scale.
The Red 25th Army fought for a year, suffering heavy losses, and the number of troops was reduced to 3,000. On November 11, 1934, the Eyuwan Provincial Party Committee decided to lead the Red 25th Army to carry out a strategic transfer according to the instructions of the superiors.
A company of the Seventy-fourth Division of the Red Twenty-fifth Army, the Third Detachment of the Pistol Regiment of the Army Headquarters, and the newly formed Eighty-second Division of the Red Twenty-Eighth Army, under the command of Gao Jingting, commander of the Red Twenty-Eighth Army, persisted in the struggle.
On December 20, 1934, Gao Jingting reorganized the troops at Shahedian and combined the remaining troops into the Red 218 Regiment, with 1 and 2 battalions under its jurisdiction and a total of 700 regiments.
At the same time, the Northeast Hubei Provincial Special Committee also established the first and second independent regiments in northeast Hubei. Fang Yongle, secretary of the Northeast Hubei Provincial CPC Committee, led an independent delegation to meet Gao Jingting. The Independent Second Regiment insisted on the base area in northeast Hubei and continued to maneuver with the enemy.
On February 3, 1935, the Red 218 Regiment and the Independent Regiment of Northeast Hubei met at the Pavilion Pass in Taihu Lake, and the two armies were merged to rebuild the Red 28 Army, with Gao Jingting as the military political commissar and unified leadership of the party, government, and army work in the Eyu-Anhui Border Region.
The rebuilt Red 28th Army had the 82nd Division and the Pistol Regiment under its command. The 82nd Division has 24 regiments (consisting of 3 battalions) and special service battalions, with about 1,000 people in the whole army.
This Red Army unit also became a seed of the 21st Army of the People's Liberation Army.
Chiang Kai-shek originally thought that as soon as the Red 25th Army left, it would be able to "cut down all the trees on the mountain and dig out the roots of the Red Army", but he knew that "the wildfires could not burn endlessly, and the spring wind blew again.", and now the banner of the Red 28th Army has been erected on Dabie Mountain. This greatly annoyed him
In order to suppress the Red Army, Chiang Kai-shek mobilized the 25th Route Army reorganized by the Northwest Army, the 57th and 67th Armies of the Northeast Army, and the 15th Army reorganized by the Zhensong Army, with a total of 13 divisions, commanded by Liang Guanying, the governor of the Eyu-Anhui Bandit Crackdown and commander of the 25th Route Army, and set out for Dabie Mountain, dreaming of annihilating our army in one fell swoop while its foothold was unstable.
The Red Twenty-eighth Army, under the command of Gao Jingting, became more and more courageous in the Vietnam War, defeating the Northeast Army and the Twenty-fifth Route Army in a row, and even eating a regiment of the Northeast Army with inferior troops.
In April 1935, in order to encircle the Northwest Red Army, the 57th and 67th Armies of the Northeast Army were successively transferred to Shaanxi, and the original defense area was replaced by the 102nd and 103rd Divisions of the Qian Army.
Originally, the enemy's 6 divisions of defense were replaced by two divisions, and the Qian army was unable to cope. Gao Jingting took the opportunity to pull his troops to the plains where the enemy's defenses were relatively weak, and swept through the vigilante groups. And skillfully set up an ambush to annihilate two battalions of the Twenty-fifth Route Army.
Seeing that the war situation was unfavorable, Chiang Kai-shek removed Liang Guanying from his post as the inspector of bandits and appointed Wei Lihuang to succeed him, hoping that he would make a difference.
Speaking of Wei Lihuang, many readers may think of the honeymoon period in North China and the Eighth Route Army in the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, as well as the quarrel between Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Kai-shek during the Liaoshen Campaign over whether to abandon Shenyang. However, in the 1930s, Wei Lihuang was known for "suppressing the Communists".
As mentioned earlier, in April 1932, the Nationalist army launched an unprecedented fourth encirclement and suppression of the Eyu-Anhui Soviet Region. At this time, Wei Lihuang was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Sixth Column of the Second Route Army and led two divisions deep into the Soviet area.
Due to the rapid advance, the Sixth Column encountered the main force of the Red Fourth Front in the area of Huang'an. Wei Lihuang quickly ordered his troops to defend on the spot, huddled together, and fought a positional battle with the Red Army.
After five days of fierce fighting, the main force of the Red Army failed to annihilate the nationalist army as in the great victory of Sujiabu, but instead fought a war of attrition and was forced to retreat, so Wei Lihuang became famous in the war.
Chiang Kai-shek once promised that whoever first occupied Jinzhai, the core area of the Eyu-Anhui base area, would be named after whom and changed it to county administration.
Wei Lihuang saw that the frontal progress of the columns was not smooth, and he moved his mind, leaving a division to confuse the Red Army, leading a division to take the mountain path and taking advantage of the void to occupy Jinzhai.
Chiang Kai-shek fulfilled his promise and carved out parts of Huoshan, Shangcheng, Lu'an and other counties, with Jinzhai as the center, and established a county structure, named "Lihuang County" (present-day Jinzhai County).
After the Red Fourth Front withdrew from the Eyu-Anhui Soviet Region, Wei Lihuang took part in the fifth encirclement and suppression of the Central Soviet Region, serving as the commander-in-chief of the First Column of the Second Route Army on the North Road and the commander-in-chief of the "Suppression of Bandits" in the Fujian-Gansu-Zhejiang-Anhui Border Region.
After taking office, Wei Lihuang carefully studied the lessons and lessons of previous operations, and held that although there were large units in the past that were full-time to pursue, there were few troops in the land, the Red Army was erratic in action, and the various units were in a passive and exhausted situation.
Therefore, Wei Lihuang changed his tactical means and adopted the three major policies of "suppressing and appeasing at the same time", "advancing both military and government", and "blockade of bunkers". Divide Dabie Mountain into "key clearance and suppression areas" and "mobile pursuit and suppression areas," and adopt a method of operation that combines mobile operations with step-by-step battalions in order to get rid of the passive situation:
The 102nd and 103rd divisions of the Qian Army, which were transferred from Guizhou, were previously allowed by Liang Guanying to take over the key points of the garrison of the Northeast Army. However, when they first arrived, they were not familiar with the local conditions and people's feelings, and they were often passively beaten.
Wei Lihuang, on the other hand, gave full play to their superiority in climbing mountains and formed a mobile column to pursue and suppress mobile columns and deploy them in the "mobile pursuit and suppression zone" to fight mountain warfare with the Red Army.
Wei Lihuang also reported to Chiang Kai-shek that the 58th and 82nd Divisions and his old 14th Army were coming, with the 58th and 82nd Divisions deployed along the Pinghan Railway, responsible for clearing and suppressing the area around the garrison. The 14th Army, the 15th Army, and the 25th Route Army marched to the old base areas of the Red Army, northeast Hubei and western Anhui, to undertake key clearance and suppression tasks.
With regard to the "key clearance and suppression" areas, Wei Lihuang also carried out the practice of emigrating and merging villages, concentrating the residents of small villages in large villages, building walls and pillboxes in large villages, and organizing vigilante groups to defend. The "ten households sitting method" of killing a total of ten households was implemented, so as to sever the ties between the Red Army and the masses.
At the same time, an economic blockade was carried out, prohibiting the transport of grain, oil, salt, cloth medicine, and other materials into the blockade area in an attempt to fish in the land and trap the Red Army.
In addition, Wei Lihuang also drew on the experience of the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression of the Central Soviet Region, and built bunkers on a large scale, according to the statistics of May 1936, more than 24,700 new bunkers were built in the western Anhui region alone.
In view of this situation, Gao Jingting decided to disperse the troops, systematically transfer backbone cadres from the troops and put them in the localities, establish and develop plainclothes team organizations, and make the work of the plainclothes teams very active. By the summer of 1936, our army's plainclothes teams were spread across 22 counties in the border area.
Plainclothes units often led the masses to fight local tyrants, eliminate bullies, and distribute grain, and gradually controlled local political power, spying on the enemy for our army, sending information, collecting grain and collecting funds, providing supplies, resettling, and covering the wounded, which became an important pillar of our army's combat.
The main force of the Red 28th Army dispersed its activities in battalions and companies, so that the troops had a fairly high degree of mobility, flexibility, and certain combat capabilities. The combat area developed from mountainous areas to plains, from going around in circles around the enemy's encirclement to attacking the enemy deep behind enemy lines.
In the winter of 1936, Chiang Kai-shek mistakenly thought that the situation in Dabie Mountain was improving, took out the 14th Army and the 58th and 82nd Divisions of the Central Army, and went north to encircle and suppress the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia base area.
Gao Jingting wasted no time in gathering the main forces of the Red Army scattered outside, forming an iron fist, and seeking opportunities to annihilate the enemy in order to completely break the enemy's clearance.
On January 1, 1937, Gao Jingting led the main force of the Red Twenty-eighth Army from Shangcheng County to the south, secretly drilling into the area of Macheng and Huang'an, where the Nationalist army was heavily armed, to look for fighters.
At that time, the enemy 33rd Division was guarding the area around Macheng, and when the division commander Feng Xingxian learned that our army had entered the territory of Macheng County, he ordered Gao Yujie, commander of the 198th Regiment, to lead six companies to strictly guard against it.
On January 9, the main force of the Red Twenty-eighth Army encountered Gao Yujie's troops at two intersections, and immediately occupied the dangerous terrain to confront the enemy head-on, and repeatedly launched a charge against the enemy.
After five hours of fierce fighting, three of Gao Yujie's six companies were annihilated, and Gao Yujie himself abandoned his army and fled.
In this battle, our army killed 90 enemy soldiers, captured more than 280 people, surrendered 200 guns, and fired tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition. It won the first victory since entering the Huang and Ma Lao base areas.
When Feng Xingxian learned of the defeat, he was not alarmed, but on the contrary, he was very proud, because this encounter proved that the Red Army was in the territory of Huang'an and Macheng, and his own division fought against the Red Army of one or two thousand people, and the advantage was in me! Heavy troops were also mobilized to clear and suppress huang and ma counties in an attempt to find a decisive battle for the Red Army.
On the night of February 5, the 1st Battalion of the 198th Regiment of the enemy 33rd Division and a local security detachment discovered the traces of the Red Twenty-eighth Army and immediately followed them.
Gao Jingting immediately convened a meeting of cadres at and above the company level to analyze the enemy's situation, believing that the enemy only had one battalion of troops, no follow-up troops, our army occupied a high mountain, was condescending, and the terrain was very favorable to our army, so he was determined to annihilate the enemy in that unit.
At about 7:00 a.m. on February 6, when the enemy entered the ambush circle of our army in one direction, the soldiers of the 1st Battalion threw rows of grenades at the enemy group and fired fiercely at the enemy with machine gun fire.
The enemy was suddenly struck by me, and it was chaotic and overwhelmed. After two hours of fierce fighting, except for 18 people, including Liu Sisheng, the commander of the security detachment, and a company commander, who escaped, the rest were completely wiped out by our army.
In this battle, more than 100 enemy soldiers were killed, more than 300 officers and men below the deputy battalion commander of the enemy army were captured, and 3 machine guns, more than 200 rifles, and some materials and ammunition were captured.
By the time the follow-up troops of the 33rd Division arrived for reinforcements, the main forces of the Red Army had been shifted separately and there was no trace.
The enemy's 33rd Division was not willing to lose, and after being hit so hard in the face, it tried to find the main force of our army for a decisive battle, and the opportunity soon came.
On March 10, the main force of the Red 28th Army re-entered the northwest of Macheng County. Division Commander Feng Xingxian felt that the opportunity for revenge had arrived, and immediately dispatched three regiments to attack our army on three sides.
After our army discovered the enemy's attempt, it quickly moved to the border of Huang'an County, and the enemy's 193rd Regiment followed our army in close pursuit.
At about 3 p.m. on March 12, our army returned to Macheng and hid in the dangerous terrain of Wangtong Village. The enemy army had been in hot pursuit for two days, and had long been exhausted by the Red 28Th Army. Gao Jingting is determined to kill the enemy here with a "back gun"
At about 4 o'clock, when the two battalions of the 193rd Regiment, which had arrived at shanshan, entered the encirclement, our army suddenly killed and wounded them with fierce fire. Machine guns, pistols, and rifles were fired at the enemy at the same time, and grenades exploded in the enemy group.
The enemy was struck by this sudden blow and hastily launched a counterattack. The Special Service Battalion of the Eighty-second Division of the Red Twenty-eighth Army took advantage of the situation to attack its left flank and cut the enemy into several pieces.
After 4 hours of fierce fighting, repeated white-knife hand-to-hand combat, the enemy's two battalions were completely annihilated by our army.
Our army killed 240 people under Qin Danyun, commander of the enemy's 193rd Regiment, and Song Baozhu, battalion commander, captured more than 550 people, and captured more than 500 guns of various kinds.
By the time the enemy's follow-up echelon battalion hurried to reinforcements, the battle was long over.
The battle of Wang Tong greatly shocked the enemy army. When Feng Xingxian, commander of the 33rd Division, heard of this, he was furious and angry, and quickly formed two pursuit columns:
One battalion of the 193rd Regiment and 6 companies of the 195th Regiment were organized into one column, with Wang Shuhou, acting regimental commander of the 193rd Regiment, as the column leader;
The 7 companies of the 198th Regiment plus the three companies of the 195th Regiment were organized into one column, and Gao Yujie, the commander of the 198th Regiment, served as the column leader.
In addition, he commanded two battalions of the 190th Regiment of the 32nd Division, the 388th Regiment of the 65th Division, the 390th Regiment, and the 102nd Division, and under the coordination of the 4th, 7th, and 8th Regiments of the pseudo-Hubei Provincial Security Forces, pursued and suppressed the Red 28th Army by separate routes.
In late March, the Red 28th Army moved from Macheng County to Huanggang County. At 8:00 a.m. on the 31st, Wang Shuhou's column and Gao Yujie's column attacked the Red 28th Army in two ways from Macheng County.
Gao Jingting decided to seek victory in danger, personally led the sentry to resist one after another, deliberately throwing away the three light machine guns and some ammunition that had just been captured, and luring the most prominent Wang Shuhou column.
Wang Shuhou, who was bent on revenge, was indeed deceived, believing that the Red Army could not be defeated, ordered the troops to pursue quickly, and was ambushed by Gao Jingting.
At 12 o'clock in the battle, our army completely annihilated Wang Shuhou's column, killing 380 enemy troops, capturing more than 900 prisoners, capturing 750 guns, 5 mortars, and two radio stations.
When the 190th Regiment of the 32nd Division, the 388th Regiment of the 65th Division, and the 390th Regiment arrived, our army had long since disappeared.
The Red 28th Army fought four enemy 33rd divisions in Macheng territory, and successively ate 4 battalions and 7 companies, at that time the 33rd Division was a C division of two brigades and four regiments, and the whole army had only twelve infantry battalions, and in less than three months it was knocked out by Gao Jingting in half. Feng Xingxian no longer dared to take the initiative to search and suppress.
Taking advantage of the spring breeze of four battles and four victories, the main force of the Red 28th Army frequently attacked in eastern Hubei, won consecutive battles, and repeatedly achieved record results, effectively dealing a blow to the arrogance of the enemy's liquidation and suppression. The seventh large-scale encirclement and suppression of the Eyu-Anhui Soviet region by the various units of the Nationalist army actually failed.
On April 27, 1937, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the abolition of the office of the director of the "suppression of bandits" in Yu'e-Anhui and changed it to the office of the governor of the Yu'e-Anhui Border Region, appointed Wei Lihuang as the superintendent, and gave him the power to remove and replace local officials who were ineffective in carrying out the plan to suppress the qing and suppression, so as to strengthen the command of the border area to clean up and suppress.
From the beginning of May, Wei Lihuang deployed the eighth large-scale encirclement and suppression of Dabie Mountain, and dispatched the 32nd, 33rd, 47th, 64th, 65th, 102nd, 103rd, and 167th Independent Brigades, a total of 8 divisions, 1 independent brigade, and a total of 38 regiments to encircle and suppress the main force of the Red Army.
At the same time, twelve regiments of the Hubei Provincial Security Force were transferred to eastern Hubei and were all under the command of Ding Bingquan, commander of the Eastern Hubei Qing Suppression Campaign, and Ruan Qi, the temporary headquarters of the Security Regiment, and used them intensively to thoroughly eliminate the plainclothes units.
In terms of the deployment and use of troops, Wei Lihuang changed the troops from being stationed in cities, market towns, and major transportation routes to entering the mountains and villages. And built bunkers on large hills and on major traffic routes.
By the beginning of June, in areas where our army and plainclothes were frequently active, the bunkers were densely packed. Every pillbox or blockhouse group is stationed with troops, stationed in danger, able to attack and defend, and easy to observe and look, and to keep abreast of the movements of our army at any time.
At the same time, Wei Lihuang ordered all units to draw up the majority of their troops, form a pursuit and suppression column, under the unified command of the Supervision Office, concentrate the enemy's main forces to go deep into the exhaustive pursuit and go head-to-head, and adopt the method of pulling up a large net to encircle our army at a long distance, in a large depth, and at multiple levels, in an attempt to enable our army to break through its first-level encirclement, but not to break through the second layer, and to fall into a situation where the whole army was destroyed.
At the beginning of the qing crackdown, the Red Twenty-eighth Army did encounter great difficulties.
The Independent Second Regiment of Northeast Hubei fought for more than half a month, encountering repeated enemy heavy encirclement and suppression, and finally only more than 30 people were left.
The special service battalion of the Eighty-second Division of the Red Twenty-eighth Army was blocked by four regiments of the Nationalist Army on the way to break through with the main force, and the troops were scattered.
The main force of the Red Twenty-eighth Army, the 244th Regiment, was detected by the enemy when passing through the blockade line, and the main forces of the enemy's 102nd and 103rd Divisions followed. Although the commanders and fighters of our army fought hard and killed and wounded more than a thousand enemy people, they also paid a huge price and had to decide to disperse and break through.
In the end, only the red twenty-eighth army pistol regiment led by Gao Jingting broke through the two blockade lines of the nationalist army.
At the end of June, the special service battalion and the remnants of the 244th Regiment met with the Red Twenty-eighth Army Pistol Regiment at Huanggang Shenxian Village, and the commanders and fighters of the three armies hugged each other tightly, mixed with sorrow and joy.
The troops secretly rested at Baiyang Mountain, incorporated the local armed Qianshan Independent Battalion into the main force, recovered their vitality, and immediately entered a new battle.
Baiyang Mountain is located 12 kilometers east of Tuanfeng Town, Huanggang County. It is connected with Shenxian Village, Yonghe Mountain, and Beacon Volcano to form a hill in a northwestern and southeastern direction, overlooking the Yangtze River in the east and the Edong Mountains in the northwest, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and is conducive to the transfer of troops.
At about 11:00 a.m. on 5 July, two battalions of the pursuing enemy's 5th Independent Brigade had entered the vicinity of the white goat. The enemy thought that our army was only a detachment of pistol regiments with less than a hundred men, so he took it lightly.
Brother Gongzi, the commander of the enemy regiment, generally sat in a sedan and commanded his troops to continue to advance towards Baiyang Mountain in 3 ways. Everyone knows that they have entered the death trap set by our army.
After resting, our army's morale was very high, and it occupied a favorable high ground on the north side of Baiyang Mountain, and the weather and place were favorable, so it was determined to give the enemy who followed the approaching head-on blow.
However, this bold enemy army has no successor troops, far away from the stronghold, and the lone army is deep, although there are some local security forces around, but the combat effectiveness is not strong, and it does not dare to rush to the rescue.
At about 12 o'clock on the same day, when the enemy entered the ambush circle of our army, our army fired fiercely at the enemy with machine gun fire, and soon disrupted the enemy's combat formation, and immediately launched a rapid attack with one force, and one force inserted into the enemy's side, blocking the enemy's retreat and launching a fierce attack from behind his flank.
At about 3:00 p.m., two battalions of the Independent Fifth Brigade were all annihilated under the attack of our army before and after, and our army killed and wounded more than 600 enemy soldiers and surrendered more than 400 guns, dealing a heavy blow to the enemy's Independent 5th Brigade.
Not willing to fail, the 5th Independent Brigade caught up with it again. Our army is blocking the attack on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is advancing rapidly, and when the enemy is tired, it will choose favorable terrain and beat it fiercely.
On July 8, the 5th Independent Brigade pursued the General Mountain in Xinzhou, the easternmost point in the Wuhan area, known as the "First Mountain in Wuhan". The mountains are steep and densely forested, and it is advantageous to ambush and annihilate the enemy here.
Gao Jingting decided to kill a Hui horse gun here, defeat the 5th Brigade, and then teach the brigade commander Zheng Tingzhen a lesson, so he ordered the pistol regiment and the main force to ambush behind a horizontal mountain beam in the south of General Mountain, with a battalion as a frontal blockade.
It was July and the weather was unusually hot. Most of the officers and men of the 5th Independent Brigade are northerners, and they are not satisfied with the soil and water. The 613 regiment, which took the lead, carried heavy weapons and chased all the way, hungry, thirsty, and exhausted, and more than 100 people died of heat and exhaustion on the way.
Just after arriving at the foot of the southern mountain of General Mountain, the soldiers of our 1st Battalion opened fierce fire on the enemy, and the enemy hurriedly attacked our position in the vanguard battalion. At this time, the 1st Detachment and the main force of the Pistol Regiment, which were ambushed behind the small mountain beam, immediately launched a charge, and bravely rushed towards the enemy group with the pressure of Mount Tai.
The enemy could not support it and retreated down the hill, and our army followed and pursued, crushing the enemy dead in the river beach at the foot of the mountain and annihilating most of it. Our pistol regiment and 1 battalion broke the enemy regiment's direct subordinates.
In this battle, our army killed more than 340 people under Cao Xingwen, commander of the enemy's 615th Regiment, and Liu Changrong, chief of staff, and more than 700 prisoners, and captured a large number of guns, ammunition, and radios, giving the 5th Independent Brigade another heavy blow.
It was nearly dusk, and our army withdrew from the battle and turned its troops north. Zheng Tingzhen, commander of the 5th Independent Brigade, sent troops to reconnoiter everywhere, and it was not until 3 days later that he realized that our army had reached the area of Luotian Tengjiabao in Hubei Province.
On July 13, this Zheng Tingzhen, who did not admit defeat, caught up with the defeated generals who had been defeated twice by our army. At this time, Gao Jingting chose the Qinghe Chong Battle Ground in Haoshui County and decided to fight three battles and 5 brigades.
Qinghe Chong is located in the belly of Dabie Mountain, with overlapping mountains and ancient trees. Our army entered the ambush position the night before to wait for work.
Early this morning, Zheng Tingzhen, who was embarrassed and angry, led the remnants of the 5th Independent Brigade and broke into the ambush circle of our army. Our army shouted on all sides to kill and rushed into the enemy group, so that the 5th Brigade, which had suffered defeat, quickly collapsed into an army. Zheng Tingzhen saw that the situation was not good, like a dog that lost his family, and fled with some remnants of the army.
From July 5 to 13, the 5th Brigade of the Enemy Independence Brigade was dragged and beaten by our company, and was defeated in three battles and three battles, and the three regiments to which it belonged were not formed. Wei Lihuang was furious about this, and in a fit of rage, he revoked the brigade's name and merged it into the 94th Brigade.
On July 15, Gao Jingting sent a letter to Wei Lihuang, hoping to carry out armistice negotiations with the Nationalist army and unanimously resist Japan, and Wei Lihuang replied to the letter agreeing.
During the negotiations, Wei Lihuang said to He Yaobang, a representative of the Red Army: "Your leader Gao Jingting is like a god when he fights, I want to see him, I want to know that he is fighting with the Nationalist army, why can he always win more with less?" ”