Chen Shuxiang
The Red Army began the Long March, Chiang Kai-shek built four blockade lines, the Red Army broke through three, and the fourth blockade line was in front of the Xiang River. The Red First Army and the Red Third Army each defended one wing, like open iron tongs, to prop up the passage for the Red Army to cross the Xiang River. It was late November 1934. The enemy planes, on the other hand, either bombed, strafed, or reconnaissance on the spot, had a clear picture of the Red Army's intentions. Chiang Kai-shek dispatched his troops in a hurry to seal the breakthrough point of the Red Army, and 300,000 Central Army, Gui Army, and Xiang Army wanted to eliminate 86,000 Red Army here.
"We are not winners, we are losers!" Zhou Enlai and Zhu De sent telegrams to the front line to write such a message.
A battle of life and death!
The Red 5Th Army served as the general defender of the Red Army, behind the palace. I am at ease with the fact that the passage behind me is smooth, so that the central authorities and the main force of the Red Army can cross the Xiang River in the west. Looking down from the eyes of the heavens, thousands of heavy pursuits on the ground, roaring and grenades from enemy planes in the air, and the Red Army fell into death and survived!
Battle of the Xiang River
On November 26, 1934, the Red Army began to rush to cross the Xiang River and forcibly cross the Xiang River.
Even if the enemy planes were about to throw bombs and strafe at the head, the pace of crossing the river did not stop for half a second.
The Xiang River floated with the remains of the soldiers of the Red Army, and the water of the river was like a red flag spreading out!
The whole Xiangjiang River was shouting, "Forward! ”
The heavens were shouting, "Go ahead! ”
In the north, there were the central army of Xue Yue and Zhou Hunyuan, in the east there were Li Yunjie's troops pursued from Hunan, and in the south there were the Xia Wei troops of the Gui army, totaling nearly 190,000 pursuing troops. Under the command of division commander Chen Shuxiang, the 34th Division of the Red 5th Army faced an enemy army more than ten times larger than itself, from day to night, from night to day, fiercely fighting for four days and five nights, until the last unit crossed the Xiang River. Chen Shuxiang was known in the Red Army for his proficiency in fighting and blocking battles, and good steel was used on the blade.
There were more than 6,000 officers and men in the whole division, and only less than a thousand people remained.
Looking far away from the main force of the Red Army, Chen Shuxiang smiled: If he can survive with a broken arm, he and all the officers and men of the division have made preparations for death!
Chen Shuxiang ordered the river to be crossed.
However, just as the enemy plane was crossing the river, it threw bombs and strafed in a hurry, and Cheng Cuilin, political commissar of the division, and Cai Zhong, director of the political department, were killed, and the pontoon bridge was completely destroyed. Chen Shuxiang and his remnants remained on the east bank of the Xiang River.
If you cannot cross the river to catch up with the main Red Army, then fight a guerrilla war with the enemy.
Chen Shuxiang led hundreds of people to the mountains on the east bank of the Xiang River, full of enemies and constant encounters. During the encounter, Chen Shuxiang was shot in the abdomen and could no longer walk, so the soldiers carried him on his back, carried him on a stretcher, and transferred and transferred.
He avoided the Kuomintang army, but failed to avoid the local security regiment. Whenever the revolution is at a low ebb, it is when the reactionary local armed forces are at their most arrogant. They are most familiar with the local geography, and when the weak forces encounter them, they show extremely ferocious fangs.
Chen Shuxiang and others encountered the security regiment, and Chen Shuxiang, who was lying on a stretcher, ordered the soldiers to break through, and he stood up in pain to block the attack. In severe pain he passed out.
He had woken up and had fallen into enemy hands.
The commander of the security regiment leaned over and said, "You are the commander of the Red Army division, you will be given preferential treatment, and we will heal your wounds." Of course, it depends on your performance. ”
The security team carried Chen Shuxiang as if carrying the ocean with joy. Catching a Red Army division commander in their hands would not be the same as having a full chest of oceans.
In the joyful footsteps of the enemy, the stretcher trembled slowly.
Chen Shuxiang could see his own fate ahead: he would be photographed, and the photograph of the captured Red Army division commander would be published in the newspaper. The enemy will do everything possible to persuade him to surrender, and if the news of the surrender of the Red Army division commander can be published in the newspaper, it will definitely be a victory for the enemy. But you are Chen Shuxiang, you are the best person in the Red Army to fight obstruction warfare, can you make the enemy's plot succeed? Chen Shuxiang, this is your last blockade battle!
His hand reached inside the white gauze that bandaged the wound.
The enemy marched forward cheerfully, even singing a small song that ran away from the tune to eight hundred miles.
His fingers dug into the wound, and with a sharp pain thick blood gushed out. He reached in and grabbed the intestine firmly grasped the intestine and pulled it out violently, the blood spots splashed on his face, he saw his own white flowered intestines, and he struggled to spread the hand that was clutching the intestine.
The enemy carrying the stretcher dropped the stretcher in horror.
The enemy's joy disappeared in an instant, and he looked in horror.
Chen Shuxiang left the contemptuous ridicule to the enemy.
He alone fought the final blocking battle and he was the victor!
The day was: December 18, 1935.
Chen Shuxiang was 29 years old.
Twenty-five thousand miles of lu clouds and moons, Chen Shuxiang's heroism is eternal!