Huang Gongluo: Outstanding General of the Red Army

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In 2009, Huang Gongluo was elected as one of the "100 Heroic And Exemplary Figures Who Made Outstanding Contributions to the Founding of New China".

"The red corner of Ganshui is over there, and the partial division borrows Huang Gongluo." Mao Zedong's famous poem "Butterfly Love Flowers from Tingzhou to Changsha" is written by the outstanding Red Army general Huang Gongluo.

Huang Gongluo was born in 1898 to a peasant family in Xiangxiang, Hunan. In 1916, he joined the Xiang Army, and in 1926, he participated in the Northern Expedition, and made neutral achievements in the capture of Wuchang City and other battles. At the end of the same year, he entered the senior class of the Whampoa Military Academy. In 1927, he participated in the Guangzhou Uprising. He joined the Communist Party of China in the same year.

In July 1928, Huang Gongluo, together with Peng Dehuai, led the Pingjiang Uprising. In November of the same year, after the main force of the Fifth Red Army went to Jinggangshan, he led his troops to remain in the pingjiang and Liuyang areas to mobilize the masses, carry out guerrilla warfare, and create the Xiang'e-Gansu District. In September 1929, he was appointed deputy commander of the Fifth Red Army, and participated in the operational operation of commanding the Red Fifth Army to open up the southeastern Hubei region to the north and open up the connection with the Xianggan Soviet District to the south, expanding the Xiang'e-Gansu District.

In January 1930, Huang Gongluo was transferred to the commander of the Sixth Red Army, leading his troops to fight hard in the southwestern Jiangxi region, developing revolutionary armed forces, establishing Soviet power, and connecting scattered guerrilla areas into large revolutionary base areas. In July, he was appointed commander of the Third Army of the First Red Army. In August, during the surprise attack on Wenjia City in Liuyang, Hunan, he commanded the Red Third Army to fight bravely, annihilated three regiments and one battalion of the Kuomintang Army, and achieved the first major victory after the establishment of the Red First Army. Later, in the battles of Liling and Ji'an, the Red Army played a major role. At that time, Huang Gongluo, with his outstanding military talent and bold loyalty to the revolution, enjoyed high prestige among the military and people of the Soviet Union, and was called "Zhu, Mao, Peng, and Huang" together with Zhu De, Mao Zedong, and Peng Dehuai.

In the first to third anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaigns in the Central Soviet Region, Huang Gongliu resolutely implemented the strategic principle of enticing the enemy to penetrate deeply and commanded the three Red Armies to fight heroically. In the Battle of Longgang, the continuous attacks of the Nationalist Eighteenth Division were repelled, the enemy 28th Division and other units were annihilated in the Battle of Tomita, and the independent brigade of the enemy Ninth Division was annihilated in the Battle of Laoyingpan.

On September 15, 1931, Huang Gongluo led his troops to participate in the pursuit of Fangshiling. On the way to command the transfer of troops, Yu Ji'an Donggu Liudu Pass was attacked by enemy aircraft, unfortunately shot and killed, at the age of 33.

Mao Zedong personally presided over the memorial meeting for Huang Gongluo and wrote a prayer: "The Guangzhou riots did not die, the Pingjiang riots did not die, and now they are sacrificed, and they hate the catastrophe that fell from the sky; the revolutionary war has made meritorious achievements, the guerrilla warfare has made meritorious achievements, and he has been brave all his life, so as to teach future generations to succeed the king." ”

People's Daily ( 2021-05-15 04 edition)