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Text/Nan Guo Resident
Lazikou is located in the minshan pass in the northeast of Diebu County, Gannan Prefecture, Gansu Province, which is the throat of northwest Sichuan leading to Gannan, known as natural danger. In the meantime, the confrontation between the two mountains is like a knife and axe, and the bottom of the ditch is only more than 30 meters wide, which is occupied by the lazi river with deep water. "A man passes through the mouth of a tiger like a tiger." Lazikou is a transliteration of the Tibetan word, meaning "treacherous mountain path canyon." ”
At that time, the battlefield filled with gun smoke has been covered with green mountains and rivers, and today Lazikou has become one of the "List of 100 Classic Scenic Spots of Red Tourism", and has become a holy place for publicizing the heroic deeds of the Red Army and carrying out education in patriotism and revolutionary traditions. To this end, I and a few friends revisited this place, reminiscing about the past, with the heroic martyrs, can't help but compose a poem:
Yamahanako revisits the site of the Battle of Lazikou
Mountain lock heavy cloud water lock mountain. Red flag half roll between water clouds. Going north will fight for the mouth of the lazi, and the trumpet will be noisy.
The cliff wants to pour out the enemy, and the hero is not afraid to fall into the smoke. Bloodstone Pillar only dares to die, Jie Yin Lian.
After the Russian boundary conference, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, and others led the Shaanxi-Gansu detachment reorganized from the 1st and 3rd Armies of the Red Army and the columns of the Central Military Commission to continue to implement the central authorities' policy of going north and march toward the Shaanxi-Gansu region. On September 16, 1935, it reached the vicinity of Lazikou.
In order to prevent the Red Army from moving north, the Kuomintang army laid several defensive lines along the line of Lazikou and Kangduo, with a particular focus on Lazikou. Among them, the Lu Dachang Department of the newly organized 14th Division of the Kuomintang Army built pillboxes on the bridgehead and cliffs, with 1 battalion guarding the pass, 1 battalion arranged in the triangular valley behind the pass, and the main force of the division was deployed north of the pass to the area of Min County, which could be reinforced at any time.
Lin Biao and Nie Rongzhen, who had been tasked with attacking Lazikou, immediately went to the front to survey the terrain together with Zuo Quan, chief of staff of the army, Chen Guang, commander of the Second Red Division, and Xiao Hua, political commissar.
The entire pass is about 30 meters wide above and about 6 or 7 meters wide below, with cliffs on both sides. Under the cliff is the rushing Lazi River, stirring into countless whirlpools, making it difficult for people to wade in vain. At the pass on the river, a small wooden bridge more than 1 meter wide is erected, connecting the path at the foot of the mountain on both sides and becoming the only passage at the mouth of Lazi. The enemy set up two lines of defense here, the first behind the small wooden bridge, the second behind the Zhuligou pass, the east slope behind the small wooden bridge built a strong blockhouse group and a triangular blockade fortification, set up warehouses, hoarded a large number of weapons, ammunition and grain, ready to die for a long time, followed by deep fortifications. Several large bunkers were also built on the mountainside protruding from the east, and heavy fire controlled the small bridge pass condescendingly, and even small birds could not fly over.
The Central Red Army, which had just stepped out of the meadows and over the snowy mountains after all kinds of difficulties and dangers, could not turn back. Breaking through the dangerous Lazikou and opening up the passage to the north became the only choice for the Red Army.
Marshal Nie Rongzhen once recalled: "The Lazikou cannot be opened, our army will not be able to return to the south, and it will not be able to go out to the north, and it will be in a situation of losing ground in both military and political terms." ”
There are detailed records of the relevant party history materials on the course of the campaign, and I will briefly describe them here.
At this time, the Red Army was facing a situation even more severe than the Battle of Backwater, there was no way to retreat, and it was attacked on all sides, with the gansu warlords in the front, Liu Wenhui's troops chased from Sichuan in the back, and the main force in the south of Huzong around it. So on September 14, Mao Zedong gave Wang Kaixiang, commander of the Fourth Regiment of the Second Division of the First Army, and Yang Chengwu, political commissar, the order to "seize Lazikou within three days" in the village of Tszhne.
At 4 p.m. on the 16th, the vanguard battalion of the Red Fourth Regiment, under the leadership of Wang Kaixiang and Yang Chengwu, tentatively launched several attacks, but none of them were effective. In the evening, Mao Zedong and his party of more than 20 people came to the village of Heiduo, two or three kilometers away from Lazikou, to personally command the battle. He said to the commander of the Second Division on the phone: "Comrade Chen Guang, please tell the commander of the regiment that Lazikou is the gate to Gansu. If we cannot attack before dawn, we will expose the whole army to the enemy, and if the enemy's reinforcements arrive, it will put us in a dilemma, and we will have to retreat to the meadow! Tonight is a crucial battle after we enter Gansu. Hey, don't be aggressive! You're going to use your brain..."
When night fell, the Lazikou area was still in flames and the sound of gunfire was constant. Lin Biao, commander of the First Army, Nie Rongzhen, political commissar, Zuo Quan, chief of staff, and the commanders of the Second Division, immediately rushed to the forward position after receiving Mao Zedong's telephone instructions and agreed on a combat plan that combined frontal attack and flanking attack. Led by Wang Kaixiang, the commander of the regiment, two companies crossed the Lazi River, climbed the cliffs, attacked the enemy on the top of the mountain to the east and destroyed the big pillbox, and Commissar Yang Chengwu commanded 4 companies to attack from the front. The Sixth Company organized 20 warriors to launch five fierce attacks under the leadership of Yang Xinlian Commander without success.
At about 11:30 p.m., Mao Zedong, Lin Biao, and Nie Rongzhen jointly sent a telegram to the three armies behind the break that "the enemy's battalion has not retreated" at Lazikou, ordering Peng Dehuai to command the rear guard troops to resolutely intercept the enemy troops attacking the fourth regiment of Lazi lipstick on the flank and ensure that the vanguard troops at the front successfully captured Lazikou.
At 12:00 p.m., the sixth company, which was the main attacker, launched five more onslaughts, but due to the narrowness of the road, it could not cross the small bridge. At this critical moment, the Red Fourth Regiment formed a death squad of 15 party and regiment members, divided into 3 assault groups, and formulated a battle plan for two ways to approach the enemy. One way along the river cliff movement forward; the other two groups first touched the bridge, and when the first group started, they attacked on both sides to destroy the enemy on the bridge and seize the wooden bridge.
Just as the daredevils rushed to the bridge and fought with the enemy to the death, the first and second companies led by Wang Kaixiang regimental commander also detoured from the enemy rear mountain to attack, sending out white signal flares. At the same time, 3 red signal flares rose from the position of the Red Army at the bottom of the mountain, and the general offensive began. Suddenly, the Red Army's charge horns, light and heavy machine guns and shouts rang out from all directions. The Red Fourth Regiment took advantage of the momentum and fled for their lives. At about 6:00 a.m. on the 17th, the Red Army fully occupied the natural danger of Lazikou, opened the last pass of the march into Gansu, and completely smashed the Kuomintang's plot to obstruct the Red Army's northward anti-Japanese resistance.
The Battle of Lazikou is a famous battle in military history in which the weak defeated the strong and won by surprise, and it was also the most crucial battle of the Red Army's Long March into Gansu. The Battle of Lazikou broke the Kuomintang's conspiracy to "starve to death" and "trap" the Red Army with harsh natural conditions.
Although the Battle of Lazikou was a small battle and adopted the method of feint attack and sneak attack, so our casualties were very small, and it is estimated that there were only a few dozen people, but it was related to the life and death of the Central Red Army.
The footprints of the Long March covered most of China, the Red Army passed through Gannan twice, and the Diebu "Heavenly Danger Lazikou" was famous for the heroic battles of the Red Army. Today, on the cliffs of Lazikou, there are still inscriptions such as "Long live the revolutionary spirit of the Red Army" and "Closely follow Chairman Mao". Breaking through lazikou, the "gas station" Hadapu on the way to the Long March was close at hand, and the Red Army was desperate to survive...
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About the Author:
Nan Guo Jushi, real name Guo Jun, born in 67 years, worked in Wudu, Longnan City, and was born in Huixian County, Gansu. Nearly a thousand literary works have been published in various newspapers and books. Author of dozens of articles on poetry theory. He is the author of "Nan Guo Ciwen" and won the poetry nomination award of the third "China Financial Literature Award". He has co-edited poems such as "The Essence of Snow Algae Orchid Poems", "The Twelve Houses of Qing Rhyme", "Appreciation of Linping Essence Poems", "Longnan Youth Literature Annual Poetry Selection 2018-2019" and other poetry anthologies. He initiated the establishment of the Maple Leaf Literary Society and published the journal Maple Leaf. He was awarded the "First International Poetry and Wine Culture Conference" Modern Poetry Finalist Award. His works were included in the 4th China Hundred Poems and Hundred Leagues Competition. He was awarded the title of "Outstanding Poet of the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of New China" and "Pioneer of National War Poetry in 2020" by the Organizing Committee of the National Poetry Shenzhou Tour.
He is a member of the Chinese Poetry Society, the Chinese Poetry Society, the China Financial Writers Association, the Gansu Writers Association, the Poetry Journal Ziyue Poetry Society, the Siamese Chinese Culture Research Institute, the inheritor of Chinese excellent traditional culture, the executive director of the Chinese Culture Tourism Poetry Society, the director of the Wudu District Writers Association, the vice president of the District Poetry Society, the deputy secretary-general of the Longnan Poetry Society, the editor-in-chief of "Longnan Poetry", the editor-in-chief of "Yanhuang Poetry", the consultant of "Chengzhou Literature", and the editor and reviewer of Xuezao Lanxi poetry. Former editor-in-chief of the Fine Culture Forum, former deputy editor-in-chief of the Poetry Creation and Research Center of China Poetry Newspaper.