Chapter 13 Raiders win

On June 21, 1931, just as our army was carrying out mass work in the vast areas of eastern Jiangxi and western Fujian, establishing a red political power, expanding the armed forces of workers and peasants, and the central Soviet area was full of joy, Chiang Kai-shek rushed to Nanchang and personally organized a peace war. Commanded the third counter-revolutionary "encirclement and suppression" campaign against our Central Soviet Area.The news spread to the army like a gust of wind, and the commanders and fighters were gearing up one by one, determined to let the enemy of the people and the leader of the reactionaries taste the iron fist of the people for themselves.

On July 1st, amidst the sound of gongs and drums celebrating the tenth anniversary of the birth of the Communist Party of China, the enemy's third counter-revolutionary "encirclement and suppression" campaign against our Central Soviet Area began.This "encirclement and suppression campaign" was much larger than the previous two. The number of troops increased to 23 divisions and 3 brigades with a total of about 300,000 people. Chiang Kai-shek himself served as the commander-in-chief, and He Yingqin served as the front-line commander, with military advisers from Britain, Japan, Germany and other countries, and assigned dozens of aircraft from five air teams.They divided into three groups and rushed towards the hinterland of our Central Soviet Area with a ferocious posture. They wanted to take advantage of our army's hard-fought opportunity without rest and adopt the strategy of "long drive straight in". They caught us off guard and pushed our army to the edge of the Gan River. Make a decisive battle.

At that time, our situation was very difficult.Facing 300,000 well-equipped enemy troops, the main force of the Red Army is only 30,000, not only at a disadvantage in terms of equipment, but also outnumbered.In particular, our army fought hard continuously in the second counter-campaign against "encirclement and suppression" that just ended successfully, and then immediately shifted to intense mass work. It took only one month to rest and reorganize, and the troops were scattered in the east of Jiangxi. , West Fujian, away from the old base areas.However, the Red Army commanders and fighters who have experienced the first and second anti-"encirclement and suppression" exercises firmly believe that no matter how dangerous and difficult the situation is, under the wise command of the General Front Committee of the Front Army and Comrade Mao Zedong, the enemy's new "encirclement and suppression" campaign will definitely It will also be crushed like the first or second time.

In order to crush the enemy's third "encirclement and suppression", the General Front Committee of the Front Army and Comrade Mao Zedong stipulated the policy of "avoiding the main force of the enemy and attacking the enemy's weakness" for our army, and decided to adopt the "grinding tactics". On the next road, break through Futian from Xingguo via Wan'an, and then sweep across from west to east, throwing the main force of the enemy in southern Jiangxi, and putting them in a useless place.In order to implement this plan, the main force of the Red Army marched in a hurry to bypass the enemy's forwards who had penetrated into the base area, and gathered in the Xingguo area of ​​​​the southern Jiangxi base area.

This is a large-scale strategic move, and it is also a arduous march.From the western part of Fujian, bypassing the entire southern part of the base area, to Ruijin and Xingguo in southern Jiangxi, the whole journey is about a thousand miles.The troops set off in separate routes, marching westward along the mountain trails in western Fujian and southern Jiangxi at a rapid marching speed.In July, it was the midsummer season. Soldiers carried all their luggage on their backs and marched under the scorching sun, sweating profusely.The stone road under my feet was scorched by the hot sun, and my feet burned painfully when I fell down; the reflection of the sun made me breathless.At this time, the early rice had not yet been harvested, and it was still in the season of green and yellow crops. The large corps moved, and food was even more difficult.Sometimes there was not enough food, and the troops had to drink some porridge to satisfy their hunger.What is especially difficult is that the number of sick people has increased. People with heatstroke, malaria, and dysentery.

However, despite all the difficulties, the heroic Red Army soldiers cannot be troubled.Everyone learned a truth from their first-hand and second-hand counter-campaigns against "encirclement and suppression": in order to win a battle, you must walk more.At that time, the so-called "victory is on your feet" and "victory on foot" slogans circulating in the army were concise explanations of this truth.In order to win, everyone consciously endured all difficulties: if the clothes are soaked in sweat, wring out the sweat; If you are sick, organize the sick patients, set off early, walk in front of the team, and support each other to move forward.In the marching ranks, the soldiers sometimes hold political discussions and sometimes conduct cultural studies.In particular, the work of marching and agitation is even more active.There are slogans and slogans everywhere on the rocks and tree trunks beside the road.Wherever it is difficult to go, the literary fighters of the Legion’s “Fireline Theater Club” or the propagandists of the division’s propaganda team will appear, and the gramophone on the side of the road will sing, and the propagandists will sing and shout slogans to encourage the soldiers we move forward.Whenever there is a break, even if it is only ten minutes, the backbone members of the soldiers committee are also doing agitation work, putting on a small performance, singing a folk song, or holding a singing competition between squads and platoons.In the valley and in the woods, singing and laughter rose everywhere, and fatigue and heat were completely forgotten.

After marching for more than ten consecutive days, the troops completed the task of returning to the division for thousands of miles. After passing through Shicheng and Ruijin, they arrived at the old base - Xingguo. When I arrived in Xingguo, it was completely changed to another scene.The masses warmly received us like their long-lost relatives.As soon as the troops entered the village, a large group of children's regiment members formed a "fan team" and surrounded the team. Each of them had a fan and sang folk songs while fanning the soldiers.The soldiers are always flushed with excitement, with infinite gratitude, no wonder they are embarrassed.The elderly and women brought eggs and straw sandals to condolences; parents condolences to their sons, wives condolences to their husbands, and there was a lot of excitement.Then came the laundry team, girls and daughters-in-law, each with a bamboo basket and a laundry mallet. The baskets contained large and small pieces of rags and needles and threads. It was searched out, and then it was washed and repaired and sent in a neat way.The Red Guards had already released the sentries one by one.The preparations for the battle have also been done, and the stretcher team is properly organized; if you want a guide, just walk away.The workers, peasants and soldiers who had been fighting for several months seemed to have returned to their hometowns. They ate and slept well, got rest quickly, and all of them were in high spirits. They asked for the letter of war to be handed in step by step: "Hurry up, destroy the White Army, Defend the people's summer harvest!" "Resolutely smash the enemy's third 'encirclement and suppression' to repay the people in the base area!"

The support of the people is the most important condition for the victory of the Red Army.Our army has returned to the division for thousands of miles and made great strides in strategic shifting, which not only enabled the troops to obtain such good people's conditions, but also concentrated the main force; at the same time, it also avoided the enemy's vigor.And during the transfer period, we figured out the enemy's plan and deployment, so that we can calmly deal with the enemy.However, after the enemy went deep into the base areas, they were blocked by the people in the base areas and harassed by local armed forces. They suffered a lot and their military strength was greatly weakened.

After our army arrived at Xingguo Concentration, the enemy army had also split their way and approached our army.The General Front Committee of the Front Army and Comrade Mao Zedong decided to start an attack based on the situation of the enemy and ourselves. On the evening of July 31st, Long Changhan, the regiment leader, and I led the Seventh Regiment of the Red Army to march towards Futian together with the brother troops as planned. We marched 30 miles that night and rested between Chayuangang and Shacun. On August 2, our regiment was ordered to cooperate with the brother troops to attack Xin'anxu in the northwest of Futian. However, when the troops entered the north of Shizhi, suddenly, the cavalry messenger of the division came to convey the order: turn back immediately and return to the northwest of Xingguo Happy Fair.Only after we returned to Xingxinwei did we know that our plan of action had been discovered by the enemy. The main enemy forces, the 11th Division of Luo Zhuoying's Division and the 14th Division of Chen Cheng's Division, had arrived in Futian and Gubei, and our army's combat plan had changed.

At that time, our army was facing the Ganjiang River in the west, and was surrounded by enemies in the east, south, and north. In the entire base area, only the polder of Gaoxingxu and its surrounding area of ​​tens of square miles were free of enemies.During the whole day on August 5, the main force of our Red Army, nearly 30,000 people, gathered in the mountains and forests in this area for shelter.Enemy planes are constantly bombing and strafing all day long, and the situation is very dangerous.However, because we seized the spare time to carry out in-depth education and mobilization, we did not see the slightest panic in the team. All companies were calmly and calmly preparing for the night march, because everyone had a bottom line in their hearts—the enemy If I change, I will change. The General Front Committee and Comrade Mao Zedong must have a new battle plan.

Long Changhan and I went deep into the mobilization, inspection and supervision of each company separately, requiring each company, each squad, and each commander to make preparations for the night march in strict accordance with the regulations of the superiors. Everything that can shine and reflect light They must be well concealed and camouflaged: oil barrels made of tin are blackened with smoke, and white horses are dressed in camouflage clothing; all tools that can make noise, such as shovels and spatulas, must be wrapped in batter.At the same time, strict marching discipline is required, no talking, no coughing, no blowing the horn or blowing the whistle; the front and rear communication is identified by the white wool cloth tied on the left arm; In addition to being reviewed and selected by the government, each company is required to select people from the locals to form a guide team... At dusk, the avant-garde troops began to move.I made a brief mobilization before the ready-to-go troops: "Comrades, the enemy is already approaching us. In order to smash the enemy's 'encirclement and suppression', we are about to penetrate behind the enemy and smash the enemy's back route. In this way, our rapid march will face the enemy, from the enemy's 40-mile gap Interspersed. If any comrade violates the marching discipline and exposes the target, our regiment and even the entire army will suffer heavy losses, destroy the entire combat deployment, and cause the struggle against "encirclement and suppression" to fail. Therefore, every comrade is required to We must consciously and strictly abide by the marching discipline and supervise each other." After mobilizing, I decided to observe the marching situation of the troops myself, and walked towards a protruding rock on the side of the road.Approaching the rock, Long Changhan, the head of the regiment, was already standing benevolently on the rock, watching the troops rushing eastward on the mountain path. His thin and strong body stood upright on the rock against the cool evening wind, like a The bronze statue is so majestic.I approached him, and after a long time, he said in a low voice: "Old Li, it's really worrying, if something can't be checked." He shook his head and didn't say any more. "It doesn't matter." To comfort him and myself, I said, "Soldiers are very conscious of observing discipline; besides, they have been checked several times." I completely understand his mood.This is indeed not an ordinary operation.According to reliable information, in the southeast of us are the Kuomintang's Ninth Division, Han Deqin's 52nd Division and the Independent Brigade, and to the north are the 60th Division of Cai Tingkai and the 61st Division of Dai Jiu of Jiang Guangnai's Division of the Nineteenth Route Army. , with the Ganjiang River to the west, twelve enemy divisions approaching us from the east, south, and north, and the distance between the southeast and the north is no more than forty li.According to the plan of the General Front Committee, the 30,000 troops of our army will have to put down their flags and drums, and sprint across the 40-mile gap overnight, inserting northeast into the enemy's rear, making a breakthrough in the middle, and hitting the enemy.If such a large army marches in cover, if there is a little noise or a glimmer of light that exposes the target, the battle plan will be in danger of being destroyed.In the darkness, the shadows of the soldiers flashed in front of Long Changhan and me. No one spoke, no one coughed, and they couldn't even hear rough panting, only the rustling of footsteps in a hurry and rhythmically .Seeing that a company had passed without any flaws, we both breathed a sigh of relief almost at the same time, and said softly, "Let's go!" At dawn the troops stopped marching.The ministries are scattered and shaded on the densely forested mountains. For a whole day, our Red Seventh Regiment and brother troops were hidden in the jungle.The covert order is stricter than the order of the night march: if there is exposure, take responsibility according to the rank.The order was carefully carried out.In the morning, Long Changhan and I climbed up a cliff in the shade. Looking as far as the eye could see, the morning breeze was blowing the tops of trees and bamboos, and birds were flying past peacefully.Everywhere was quiet.Looking at this picturesque scene, I can't help being proud of our Red Army soldiers' highly conscious and disciplined spirit-this is not a company or a battalion, nor is it just our regiment, but a whole 30,000 army! Not long after dawn, three enemy planes came to the sky above the mountains, buzzing low and circling, while the red fighters in the dense forest were whistling into sweet dreams.After circling several times, the enemy plane apparently found nothing, and flew away dejectedly to the north.Throughout the day, there were constant enemy planes hovering over the sky for reconnaissance.However, on this shady mountain, preparations for a major battle are proceeding in an orderly manner.Under the shade of the trees, in the bamboo groves, and in the bushes, soldiers gathered in companies and rows to clean their guns, beat sandals, hold meetings, and mobilize for battle. At noon, I had just returned from the company to the command post of the regiment, and the orderly Xiao Zhang approached me and gave me a pair of hemp sandals made of awn hemp.He probably saw that I was busy with work and didn't have time to make straw sandals, so he made this pair for me.Speaking of making straw sandals, at that time it seemed like a "side job" of the Red Army. Whenever there was free time, everyone would hurry up to make straw sandals, and keep three pairs or five pairs of them with them, and prepare to wear them on the march or give them to comrades in arms. .There are many ways to make straw sandals. Generally, four straw ropes are twisted in the middle as the "network", and then woven with straw. This kind of straw sandals made entirely of straw is not very durable, and it will be broken in a day or two.In order to be durable, some straw sandals use four or six hemp ropes as the "guide" in the middle, and some rags are added to the woven straw. This kind of straw sandals will be firmer and can be worn for a few more days.After the first battle in Changsha, the soldiers gave some money, and some bought some awns, mixed with straw and rags, or all ramie and rags. This kind of ramie sandals are firm and soft. , very comfortable to wear, one pair can be worn for more than half a month.Some young warriors love beauty, and are not satisfied with hemp straw shoes, so they knead red, green, yellow and other old wool mixed with ramie to make shoelaces, and tie a small pompon with the wool to adorn the toe of the shoe. As he walked, the little pompom looked extraordinarily handsome.I saw that Xiao Zhang was wearing ramie shoes with a pair of little red pompoms on them. They were pretty. When I praised him for his dexterity, he smiled shyly. The unbearable day passed, and in the twilight, the troops came out of the woods, rushed down the hills, and rushed towards the Liantang in the northeast like a torrent of torrents.Liantang is the only way for the enemy to advance in the middle road. The commander-in-chief of the enemy's "Third Attack Army" Shangguan Yunxiang Division 47th Division and 54th Division had just arrived there, and the General Front Committee decided to use it.Before dawn on August 6, our regiment came to the foot of a mountain southwest of Liantang according to the regiment's instructions. Suddenly, a cluster of flames rose from the top of the mountain, and the vanguard company started.Then a soldier flew over to report that our avant-garde company secretly climbed up the mountain in the dark, and the enemy didn't realize it until it was close to the top of the mountain. up the hill.Then, the main force of our regiment captured another big mountain, and Liantang Wei was in sight. Our regiment and brother troops started the general offensive after dawn.The sky was still dim, and the troops were advancing, when suddenly there was a familiar, loud and powerful voice: "Comrades, there is a sound ahead, hurry up and destroy the enemy!" The comrades looked in the direction of the sound and saw A tall and burly figure, standing on the high ground on the right side of the troops, is agitating.When everyone knew that he was Comrade Mao Zedong, our General Political Commissar, the troops were immediately excited, courageous, and confident.Immediately in the marching troops, the slogans resounded through the sky: "Go forward bravely!" "Kill the enemy bravely!" In the battle, the strong and powerful voice of General Political Commissar Mao has always inspired the troops.The soldiers are brave and witty, attack wherever the gunshots sound, and fight wherever there are enemies.Shangguan Yun Xiangshi is a northern army, not used to mountain warfare, let alone night warfare. Under the attack of our army's arrows from all directions, most of the enemies were wiped out, and some of the enemies and their headquarters were compressed on the fairground. Fighting against the houses, streets and fortifications. The soldiers braved the ground artillery fire and the bombing of enemy planes, and used the field bore at the head of the village as a cover to continue to charge towards the polder.The soldiers and propagandists yelled while beating, some chanted the slogan of encouragement: "Capture Shangguan Yunxiang alive!" "There is a reward for handing in your gun!" A fierce hand-to-hand battle started in the village.Although Shangguan Yunxiang's team was incapable of fighting in the mountains, they could hold out for a while with bayonets. When our army fought with the enemy, the swords were shining and the shouts were loud, but the enemy was still stubbornly resisting.At this moment, several enemy planes swooped down, which further fueled the enemy's arrogance, trying to take the opportunity to counterattack desperately.At this juncture that decides the outcome, you must not be intimidated by the enemy plane, and you must use this opportunity to quickly approach the enemy. I immediately shouted: "Comrades, go! If you mix with the enemy, the plane is useless!" The Red Army warriors showed a fearless revolutionary spirit in front of the enemy. They were brave and tenacious. They all stabbed the enemy with bayonets like little tigers. The enemy was frightened and turned pale. They obediently handed in their guns and surrendered to our army. The enemy planes dropped bombs, some of them landed on the positions behind us, and some of them landed on the fairground.All of a sudden, the fireworks rose into the sky, and many of the enemies who were preparing to countercharge were killed, and the enemy's mules and horses were injured and startled, and they ran around.At the moment when the enemy plane was bombing, our army seized the opportunity and took advantage of the momentum to rush into the polder. After a fierce street battle, the gunfire gradually faded away. The battle was almost over, and there were shouts of "hand in the gun and don't kill" everywhere.The soldiers searched out scattered enemy soldiers from the corners of the houses, under the walls, and in the latrines. Long Changhan and I walked into the fair, only to see a large courtyard full of chaos.It turned out that the troops of our regiment got the enemy's military supply department.A load of ammunition, a bag of silver, banknotes piled up like a hill, thousands of banknotes were blown everywhere by the wind.Soldiers nervously carried ammunition, weapons, and silver; some new soldiers, because they had not received relevant knowledge education, and because they hated the enemy's ravage of the Soviet area, they stepped on and tore up the "white notes" (that is, the banknotes of the Kuomintang) when they saw them. tearing, burning and burning.Captain Long came from Wanzai leading a group of people to revolt and had served in the White Army; some veterans had seen "white tickets" when they captured cities such as Changsha and Yuanzhou, and had been educated about "white tickets" "It's still useful, stop it quickly.Commander Long ordered the banknotes to be collected and handed over to the public, and jokingly said to me: "Chiang Kai-shek's military pay is so distressing, but we have worked so hard to send it, we don't know how to cherish it!" In the battle of Liantang, thousands of prisoners were captured, two radio stations were seized, the enemy brigade commander Po Zijun was killed, and the enemy division commander Liu Chunrong and several brigade and regiment leaders were captured alive.But unfortunately, our beloved Red First Division Master Li Shixing died honorably. Immediately after the battle, we asked some captured enemy officers about the situation.A guy who looked like a staff officer was still full of emotion. He said: "Intelligence is completely unlucky because of the failure of intelligence! Once here, the common people ran away without a trace, making the team look like a blind man. Yesterday, the report said that you were arrested. Jiang Guangnai and Cai Tingkai are surrounding Gaoxingwei, but today you are here to surround us!" On the day we captured Liantang, the First Red Army Corps immediately marched eastward, and tightly surrounded Hao Mengling's Department of the 54th Division of the enemy in Liangcun. Concentrating superior forces to attack bravely, with the momentum of lightning, they seized various hilltops and highlands around Liangcun, and then unified orders, and the troops pressed down on the enemies of Liangcun from all directions. Immediately, red flags were spread all over the mountains and fields, and the sound of killing was loud. Days later, he quickly broke through the enemy's position and wrestled with the stubborn enemy.The enemies crowded in the ravine like a swarm of bees had lost their unified command and fell into chaos. Our army took the opportunity to fight and charge, and wiped out the defending enemy in just a few hours, killing the enemy's deputy division commander Wei Ewei and chief of staff Liu Jiaqi They captured more than 8,000 officers and soldiers including the brigade commander Wang Deyu, captured more than 4,000 rifles, and more than 100 machine guns and mortars. After the victory of the battle, our main force immediately continued to advance eastward. When there were only a large number of prisoners in Liangcun who were ready to be sent to the rear, the enemy planes came again.It circled a few times with a heavy buzzing sound, as if mourning the destruction of their 54th Division, and then swooped down towards the group of prisoners gathered in the polder, and even aimed at the group of prisoners. Violent bombing and strafing.The captives were blown to the ground and fell to the ground bloody and screaming, cursing Chiang Kai-shek for his inhumanity.The ambulance personnel of our army rushed to rescue the wounded prisoners despite the bombing of enemy planes.The prisoners stopped our army's ambulance personnel and were so moved that they burst into tears. They expressed that they would resolutely follow the Red Army and swear against Chiang Kai-shek. It is not far from Longgangxu. Longgangxu was the place where Zhang Huizan was captured alive during the first anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign. At that time, Zhou Hunyuan, the fifth division of the enemy, was stationed.The remnants of the enemy's 47th and 54th divisions escaped and fled to Longgang. Zhou Hunyuan was so frightened that he built fortifications on the surrounding hills overnight and called for help.However, we pretended to attack Longgang and only feigned an attack with the Third Red Army, but our First and Third Army Corps and the Seventh Red Army put down the prepared enemies and continued to advance eastward.The First Army suddenly surrounded the enemies of Huangpi in Ningdu County. Guarding Huangpi is the Mao Bingwen Department of the Eighth Division of the enemy.They were condescending, guarding the favorable terrain, and repaired the fortifications, thinking that they lost ten thousand yuan.According to this situation, the Red First Army adopted a new style of play, and came to several concentrations at once-concentration of troops, concentration of artillery fire, and concentration of bugles.Our Red Army Corps went from Zhongzhou via Egong Section, Shangxiayinkeng, and detoured from the right wing to the east of Huangpi, forming a large outflank on the left and right wings with the First Army Corps. At twelve noon on August 12, the general attack began.The concentrated artillery fire of our army suddenly hit the enemy's forward fortifications, and dozens of horse horns blew the order to charge at the same time. Can't get up.The assault force I had prepared for a long time took advantage of the situation and broke into the polder. As soon as we enter the fair, the world is ours.The enemy soldiers were beaten rolling and crawling, all in chaos.There was a cavalry company, the horses were all saddled, and they were all taken prisoner before they could escape.The Huangpi battle took just over an hour, and more than four regiments of the enemy army were wiped out, and more than 4,000 officers and soldiers including the commanders of the enemy regiment Chen Qihuang and Yang Maocai were captured, and more than 1,000 enemies were killed and wounded. These few battles once again proved the great power of our army's captive policy.After many battles, especially the first and second battles against "encirclement and suppression", the Red Army's policy of lenient treatment of prisoners had a great influence on the enemy.As soon as many enemy soldiers were surrounded by our army, under military and political attack, they held up their guns and shouted: "Stop fighting, hand in your guns, hand in your guns!" A prisoner said to our soldiers: "This is the third time I have handed over my guns!" The guns were fired, and I received six ocean tolls for the first two trips!" Some insisted on staying in the Red Army, and immediately tore off the cap badges of the Kuomintang Army, turned their guns, and participated in the battle.In the first two or three years of the Red Army's initial period, due to the weakness of the Red Army and the environment of guerrilla warfare, captives were usually paid with travel expenses and sent back.As the Red Army grew stronger, its ranks were consolidated and its backbone strength strengthened. After the victory of the first counter-campaign against "encirclement and suppression", some soldiers and junior officers among the captives who insisted on joining the Red Army were recruited into the army individually after preliminary examination.After the victory of the third counter-campaign against "encirclement and suppression", due to the better revolutionary situation, a relatively large number of captives who volunteered to join the Red Army and junior officers were recruited, making the Red Army grow faster.Facts have proved that most of the soldiers and junior officers in the Kuomintang army were born among the working people. After political education and improved class consciousness, most of them can be transformed into Red Army soldiers; some of them can quickly grow into Red Army soldiers after education and training The backbone of the Communist Party of China, and contribute its own strength to the revolutionary cause.This is a victory for the political work of the Red Army. Within five days, our army achieved great victories in three consecutive battles and three victories.The vast number of commanders and fighters were happily cleaning the Huangpi battlefield. When they collected the spoils, they suddenly received an order to hand over the finishing work of cleaning the battlefield to the local armed forces, and the main force immediately shifted. The troops walked out for dozens of miles overnight, entered the area near Junbu and gathered in the shade, preparing to jump out of the enemy's encirclement again.Because after defeating Liantang and Liangcun, the enemy discovered the whereabouts of our army, so the main enemy force, who had been looking for our army to the southwest, approached our army in a dense and large encirclement posture. For a week, our army marched and fought continuously without even taking a breath. Now that the huge and dense enemy turned to the east again, the situation became very tense for a while.The General Front Committee decided that, except for the 12th Red Army (less than the 35th Division) who pretended to be the main force and moved in the direction of Dajinzhu in the northeast to contain and lure the enemy to pursue, the whole army would march westward to highlight the enemy's encirclement with a concealed march. Breakthrough is certain, but the direction of the breakout is surprising.Moving westward means interspersing with the oncoming enemy.The enemy Jiang (Guangnai), Cai (Tingcuo), Han (Deloitte) columns and Chen (Cheng) and Luo (Zhuoying) columns, a total of 200,000 people, are approaching us in two directions, and the two armies are not far apart. Twenty miles.Thirty thousand of us want to pass through this narrow gap, can we not be noticed by the enemy?We were all sweating secretly. On the evening of August 16, it was another magical night march.In the mountains of Jianling Naoda, the troops meandered westward along a small river ditch, walking up the mountainside for a while, and bending down to the bottom of the valley for a while.At the beginning there was still a path, but as we walked, the path disappeared, and we got into the desolate jungle and grass.Freshly cut tree stumps and shrub roots can be seen by starlight.The troops climbed on the vines and marched on this newly opened mountain road. On the top of the mountain not far away, "cuckoo, coccoo", the enemy's heavy machine guns were firing blindly with bluff.The flash of the flashlight flickered eeriely.In our advancing ranks came the silent orders.It turned out that we had already reached the gap between the two armies of the enemy, and the two wings of our army were less than ten Huali away from the enemy army. While walking, the front suddenly stopped, and the team leaned against the side of the road to rest.After a while, a small group of people returned from the vanguard direction and walked past us.Behind several scouts, we saw a burly figure walking briskly, occasionally stopping to ask the soldiers something.We can see clearly that it is Comrade Mao Zedong, the General Political Commissar.At this time, the ranks immediately became active. The cadres and veterans recognized who it was, and whispered: "Did you see it? It's the Political Commissar of Chairman Mao!" I can jump out safely!" It turned out that the front could not be passed, and General Political Commissar Mao led him to find another route.Later I heard that the whole night, General Political Commissar Mao, Commander-in-Chief Zhu, and Chief of Staff Ye Jianying walked in front of the team with a compass, overcame obstacles, opened up roads, and led the troops forward.Seeing General Political Commissar Mao and Commander-in-Chief Zhu personally lead the troops forward, the troops moved faster, and the wounded and sick also gritted their teeth and insisted on keeping up with the troops. At dawn, the mountains were covered with white clouds and mist, the sun was covered, and the plane became blind, doing nothing. Our army took the opportunity to rush forward.Looking back, the main peak of Jianling Brain has been left far behind.Breaking out of the encirclement, our army came to Fengbian and Baishi in Xingguo to gather in the shade and stand by. The Red Army was ordered to enter Juncun and the mountainous area near the tea garden to rest.There is no trace of invincibility here, and the people who hid in the mountains and forests because of the strong walls and clear fields have already returned.As soon as they saw the Red Army returning from victory, they sang a welcome folk song: "Oh, the folk songs become more and more cheerful, and the songs come from the east mountain to the west mountain. Oh, heroes and heroes become the Red Army, comrades, the red flag rolls over the mountains!" Hearing the folk songs of the fellow villagers, our fatigue and sleepiness disappeared instantly, and many soldiers happily sang duets with the fellow villagers.At the same time as we broke through the encirclement, the 12th Red Army went against us and marched northeastward.According to the instructions of the General Front Committee, they bluffed a lot and tried every means to confuse the enemy.Along the way, the distance is widened, the red flag is waving, people shouting; stop and go, never leave, hold the enemy's nose tightly.During the march, at every fork in the road, the road signs of each army were written; each unit set up the front station, numbered the house, and accommodated the laggards, and deliberately wrote various messages and numbers.Sure enough, the stupid enemy mistakenly thought that they had captured the main force of our army, so they were desperate and tried to encircle them, but they were always in vain.By the time they realized they had been fooled and turned back westward, the main force of our army had been resting in the Xingguo area for more than half a month. During this period of time, the enemy army was led by our army to move around and around the base area, and suffered a lot.The people in the base area have already "hardened" everything they eat and use, even pots and pans, pestles and spring mortars for rice, are completely "hardened".The enemy couldn't find people, couldn't get rice grain, and couldn't grind rice into rice after cutting the green grass, so they had to rub bricks on the stone slabs; they couldn't cook rice, so they had to stuff raw rice into their mouths.The red guards cleared away the purchases as soon as they went out, and they couldn't eat oily and salty vegetables.The Twelfth Red Army climbed there wherever the mountains were high, and took that road wherever the road was dangerous. This was a disaster for the large enemy army with a lot of mules, horses and luggage, and they were not good at mountain operations.Our local armed forces and the Red Guards were also elusive, attacking the enemy along the way, sometimes with a few rows of guns, sometimes with red flags all over the mountain, and the sound of killing was loud.The enemy couldn't figure out whether our side was the main force or the guerrillas, so they deployed their troops angrily, and when they rushed to the mountain to search, they didn't see me alone.In this way, several times a day, exhausted and exhausted, the so-called "long drive straight in" turned into "turtle crawling".When the enemy was stationed in the camp, they were harassed by our local troops. A few of us in a small group, a few rounds of cold shots, and a few grenades made the enemy restless and frightened.In short, the enemy is in our base area, not eating well, not sleeping well, fighting without intelligence, marching without guides, completely immersed in the vast ocean of our people's war, and always worried about being wiped out.Therefore, the enemy soldiers were exhausted, hungry and depressed.From the seized documents, we can see that even the enemy's senior generals had to admit that "the fat ones are thinned, and the thin ones are dragged to death" and "suppressing bandits is a life sentence."When they repeatedly missed the opportunity and were ordered to turn their heads westward again, they complained even more, and finally had to make up their minds to retreat. Contrary to the enemy, when the enemy was still circling in our base area, our army had already rested and reorganized to be strong and strong, and gathered in the Xingguo, Wan'an, and Taihe triangle areas to wait.In order to expand the victory and deal a greater blow to the enemy, our army launched a pursuit of the retreating enemy across the board as planned. On September 7, our army launched an attack on the enemy fleeing north from Xingguo in three routes.The Red Army on the left broke out in the old camp, and completely wiped out a brigade of the enemy's Ninth Division Jiang Dingwen.On the right is our Red Army Corps, inserting to the west of Gaoxingwei, and attacking the Mao Weishou brigade of Cai Tingkai's department; the Red First Army on the middle road also attacked Jiang Guangnai and Cai Tingkai's troops north of Gaoxingxu. The Xingxingxu attack was the most intense battle our Red Seventh Regiment experienced during the third counter-campaign against "encirclement and suppression".Our regiment is an avant-garde, and was ordered to attack a hill west of Gaoxingxu.The enemy's equipment is very good, with strong artillery fire, especially automatic firearms (the light machine guns are all of the German Browning type, and there are twenty-gun shell guns), and they have occupied a favorable position.We rushed up the mountain from the west, and as soon as we reached the edge of a pine forest, the enemy's light and heavy machine guns shot down like splashing water.We attacked from dawn and captured the high mountain position, but because the enemy's firepower was fully deployed and formed a dense fire net, and the terrain was not conducive to me, a confrontation broke out.Although the political commissar of the legion Daiyuan personally brought up the follow-up troops for reinforcements, and the commander of Peng Dehuai's army came to the front line commanding only 30 to 40 meters away from the enemy's position, inflicting great damage on the enemy, but it was difficult to wipe out the enemy after all.Later, according to Comrade Mao Zedong's instruction of "Eat it if you can eat it, let him go if you can't eat it", after several days and nights of fierce fighting, he let the enemy escape.But this group of enemies was afraid of being hit again, and they didn't dare to follow the original route, so they withdrew to Xingguo, changed their way to Chongxian, and fled in panic. In the bloody battle against Gao Xingxu, our army wiped out more than 2,000 enemies, but it also paid a high price.During the battle, Teng Daiyuan's political commissar was wounded, and Zou Ping, acting commander of the Fourth Red Division, died honorably.Our Red Seventh Regiment had seven or eight hundred people, and when we withdrew from the battle, there were only three or four hundred left. The regiment leader Long Changhan was wounded, and nearly half of the troops were lost.The next day, three or four hundred of us were supplemented from the original Red Eighth Army, and we were full again, and continued to fight in pursuit of the enemy. 退敌的先头部队让它逃掉，退敌的尾巴却被斩断了。乘敌退却之际，我红三军团及红七军、红一军团红三军分路猛追，十五日凌晨，追到东固山的方石岭附近，赶上了敌五十二师韩德勤部和第九师蒋鼎文的残部，突然向敌发起攻击。从鸟石下经竹高岭、长坑、塘山凹攻占了安子山制高点，用火力压制白石之敌，并封锁了珠岭、白石通往张家背、东固山的山隘口。在我攻击部队密切配合下，到中午十二时，仅几个小时的工夫，即全歼了敌五十二师韩德勤部以及第九师蒋鼎文部的一个炮兵团和一个步员营，俘敌五千余人。敌五十二师师长韩德勤也当了俘虏。遗憾的是我们不认识他，又被他化装成伙夫逃脱了。 历时两个多月的第三次反“围剿”战役胜利结束了。我军在总前委和毛泽东同志亲自领导和指挥下，在根据地人民的全力支援下，以神奇的行动，矫捷地穿行于十倍于我的强敌中间，英勇顽强、灵活机动地打击敌人，五次寻战，五战皆捷，奇兵制胜，共俘敌旅长以下二万余人，毙伤敌一万余名，缴获轻机枪、步枪两万余支（挺），弹药二百五十余万发。蒋介石亲自指挥的对中央苏区的第三次反革命“围剿”被彻底粉碎了，后来听说，蒋介石在南昌对其部下训话时曾哀叹说：“我们十个人不能当一个人用，我们三十万兵，打不过他们三万兵。”其沮丧、凄凉的情绪可见一斑。 通过第一、二、三次反“围剿”斗争，使我们幼小的红军经受了锻炼，积累了经验，提高了作战能力，在战斗中成长壮大。毛泽东、朱德等我党我军伟大的无产阶级军事家在不断总结这些丰富经验的基础上，逐步形成了人民战争的战略战术的基本原则，正如毛泽东同志在《中国革命战争的战略问题》一书中指出的，游击战争基本原则的十六字诀是一九二八年提出的；“到了江西根据地第一次反'围剿'时，'诱敌深入'的方针提出来了，而且应用成功了。等到战胜敌人的第三次'围剿'，于是全部红军作战的原则就形成了。”（《毛泽东选集》第一卷第188页）这些人民战争战略战术的基本原则，经过战争实践的检验，逐渐深入军心民心，在广大指战员和革命群众的思想上扎了根，成为我军克敌制胜的法宝。