Chapter 8 Chapter Seven Smash the KMT's Third "Encirclement and Suppression" of Northern Shaanxi

The former general led his troops back to rest in Yangyuanze and Tangjiachuan. In response to the enemy's offensive situation, he studied and deployed the third anti-"encirclement and suppression" struggle. In the war against "encirclement and suppression" in northern Shaanxi, our No. 1 and Third Guerrilla Columns in northern Shaanxi, according to the arrangement of the former enemy's general headquarters, developed to the inside and outside of Shenfu and the Great Wall, and actively cooperated with the main force of the Red Army in the anti-"encirclement and suppression" struggle.The first column ambushed a company of the 86th Division of the Wujiapo enemy in Houjiagao Mountain (now Zizhou County) in Hengshan County, and then attacked the Hecaomao militia, wiped out nearly 300 enemies twice, and surrendered more than 200 guns .The third column attacked the Youfangtou militia in Hengshan County at night.

The first and second regiments and cavalry regiments of the Red Twenty-sixth Army, according to the mobilization order pointed out by the Northwest Military Commission and the former general, "contain the west, attack the east, monitor the enemy's 61st division from the west, and attack the enemy's 42nd division from the east. They attacked the enemy in Yichuan, Luochuan, Ganquan, Yijun, Baishui and other areas, and opened up guerrilla zones. They controlled the Yichuan-Luochuan section of the Xianyu Highway and contained the actions of the 42nd enemy division. The guerrillas under the command of Zhang Bangying and others in the Guanzhong area severely hit the enemy on the southern front and prevented them from going north, and effectively supported the main force in northern Shaanxi in the anti-"encirclement and suppression" war.The base area centered on Nanliang on the Shaanxi-Gansu border has returned to the hands of the people.

The former general held a celebration meeting for the liberation of six counties in Tangjiachuan to study and deploy the third anti-"encirclement and suppression" struggle.Liu Zhidan, Gao Gang and others made important speeches at the conference, summarizing the great victories achieved by adhering to the people's war policy and implementing the spirit of the "mobilization order" since the establishment of the former enemy general headquarters.In their speeches, they recalled that in the past few months, the two armies have cooperated with each other, carried forward the style of bravery, tenacity and continuous fighting, fought hundreds of miles, liberated 6 counties, pulled out many enemy strongholds, and wiped out 2,000 enemy regular troops. There are more than 3,000 local armed forces, more than 3,000 handed-in guns, 300,000 rounds of bullets, more than 200 light and heavy machine guns, and dozens of guns of various types. The county established a worker-peasant democratic regime, and the guerrilla zone developed to a vast area of ​​more than 30 counties.

In July 1935, the vanguard troops of Li Shengda and Sun Chu of Shanxi Yanxishan Department had crossed the Yellow River, carried out "encirclement and suppression" against Wubao and Suide, and looked for the main force of the Red Army for a decisive battle.In response to the offensive situation of the Jin army, my former general held a meeting of cadres above the regiment level to study and decide to advance eastward, repel the Jin army, and then go south to attack the Northeast Army.According to this policy, Liu and Gao deployed the combat plan and arranged the work in the rear. They sent Huang Luobin and the main force of a regiment to go south to cooperate with the local guerrillas to contain the enemy and scout the actions of the Northeast Army. clear the situation.Before the main force of the Red Army attacked the Jin army in the east, Liu Zhidan and Gao Gang personally directed the regiments, battalions, and companies to strengthen troop training at all levels, replenish soldiers, sum up experience, carry out ideological and political education and discipline education, and train and recruit recruits to adapt to large-scale battles. Anti-"encirclement and suppression" war.

They also made specific arrangements for the work in the rear: Wang Shitai recovered from his injury and returned to the army to replace Wu Daifeng as the acting head of the third regiment. Wu Daifeng went to the rear to run a cadre school, train battalion, company, and platoon cadres; set up a rear hospital, clothing factory, firearms repair, etc. Logistics units, and send capable and knowledgeable cadres as leaders.Liu Zhidan's wife, Gui Rong, Gao Gang's wife Yang Zhifang and other family members arranged to work in the clothing factory.Gao Gang made it clear about logistics work: In a certain sense, fighting a war is fighting logistics. Whether the war can be won or not, the quality of the logistics work is a matter of fate.

Under the command of Qianzhi, the Northwest Red Army played red in Shaanxi, Gansu and northern Shaanxi.The Northwest Working Committee and the Military Commission moved into Yongping Town from Shangouli in early July, and the workers' and peasants' democratic government of northern Shaanxi Province also moved here.After the Northwest Military Commission and the former enemy general headquarters used the strategy and tactics of the people's war, adhered to the strategic policy of "concentrating forces and defeating the enemy one by one", and smashed the enemy's second "encirclement and suppression", they carefully summed up experience and studied and deployed the third counter-attack When the "encirclement and suppression" campaign began and the implementation of the anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign plan began, Zhu Lizhi, Nie Hongjun, and Liu Zafu, the temporary representatives of the Shanghai Central Committee in the north, formed a delegation to the northwest. Pingzhen, Zhu Lizhi, etc. took the Shanghai Provisional Central Bureau and the northern representative's "Left" line to "confess", and found "Guo Hongtao as an assistant and a staff officer". The anti-revolutionary movement caused crises in northern Shaanxi, the Shaanxi-Gansu base areas and the 26th Army, and made serious mistakes.

Things roughly went like this. At the beginning of 1934, Comrade Guo Hongtao came back from the Northern Bureau to evaluate the work in Shaanxi, Gansu and northern Shaanxi according to Wang Ming's "Struggle for a More Bolshevik CCP" ideological standard, and believed that Liu Zhidan and Gao Gang were implementing right opportunism.Comrade Guo Hongtao reported the situation to the representatives of the Northern Bureau. In May 1935, representatives of the Shanghai Provisional Central Bureau and the Northern Bureau formed Zhu Lizhi, Nie Hongjun (Zhu and Nie had worked in the Hebei Provincial Party Committee), and Liu Zafu (for some reason) as the delegation to the Northern Shaanxi Soviet Area.Nie Hongjun (who used to be the head of the Organization Department of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee) went to Shanghai to contact the Central Bureau. Party organization and development work), when talking with Nie, he said: "The representative of the Northern Bureau said that many Zhang Mutao rightists went to northern Shaanxi and the Shaanxi-Gansu Soviet Area to specifically provoke the confrontation between Northern Shaanxi and Shaanxi-Gansu, and to provoke the 26th Army and the Second Army. The opposition of the 17th Army; rightist activists are mainly Huang Ziwen, Cai Ziwei, etc.; problems", "reporting traitors and purging dissidents in the party." (see Nie Hongjun's recollection)

On May 30, Nie Hongjun went from Shanghai to Tianjin. Secretary Gao Wenhua of the Northern Bureau (in Tianjin) briefed Nie Hongjun on the same situation as that discussed in Shanghai.An impression was formed in Nie Hongjun's mind. He believed that the situation in Shaanxi, Gansu and northern Shaanxi was true. Nie Hongjun and Zhu Lizhi arrived in northern Shaanxi one after another. They had prejudices against the main leaders of the Northwest Military Commission, Liu Zhidan, Gao Gang, etc., and the leaders of the 26th Army. Some of the 'unidentified elements' from Taiyuan and Xi'an were sent by Zhang Mutao, and some were spies sent by the Xi'an Kuomintang, such as the fact that Li Xiping (already arrested) sabotaged activities in the Soviet area" and so on, "These people were able to come in because of Liu Zhidan , Gao Gang was brought in and was sheltered by them", Liu Zhidan was an "officer of the White Army", Zhang Xiushan was Liu Zhidan's "personal", "Gao Gang was Liu Zhidan's adviser and a 'party stick'." Nie and Zhu heard these The untruthful words further confirmed the situation explained by Shanghai and the Northern Bureau, and the two firmly believed it.Little did they know that the Shanghai Provisional Central Bureau and the Northern Bureau reported the situation precisely from Comrade Guo Hongtao's report.According to the "instructions" of Shanghai and Tianjin, Nie and Zhu "relyed on Guo Hongtao to resolve the issues of Shaanxi, Gansu and northern Shaanxi", and strengthened their determination to carry out the "elimination of counterrevolutionaries".They carried out Wang Ming's line wholeheartedly, causing a bloodbath.

Liu Zhidan and Gao Gang led the main Red Army to fight in the north and south, smashing the "encirclement and suppression" campaign launched by the enemy. Nie Hongjun, Zhu Lizhi and others planned the "suppression of counter-revolutionaries" activities in the rear.Zhu Lizhi served as the secretary of the Central Committee's delegation in northern Shaanxi, and was appointed to lead the Northwest Working Committee and the Military Commission, which seriously interfered with the work in the Northwest Soviet Area. On July 15, Zhu Lizhi and Nie Hongjun hosted an enlarged meeting of the Executive Committee of the Northwest Working Committee in Yongping Town. At the meeting, Zhu Lizhi conveyed five letters from the representatives of the Central Committee in the North.The meeting did not allow the members of the working committee who were fighting in the front to participate. Hui Zijun, the secretary of the Northwest Working Committee, was arbitrarily dismissed from his post, and he was criticized and sent to Missi County as the deputy secretary.Zhu Lizhi, as the secretary of the delegation, could directly lead the work in the Northwest and replaced the functions of the Work Committee. He also appointed Nie Hongjun as the chairman of the Northwest Military Commission with the authority of the delegation secretary. There was no vice-chairman. Zhu and Nie easily usurped the leadership of the party and the army.

The Yongping meeting lasted for a few days, and it was almost Zhu Lizhi who spoke alone. In addition to reading the above-mentioned five letters, he also mixed his "left" views and made great use of them, forming the left top plus left.In order to promote the left-leaning line, Zhu Nie and others sang together and passed the "Resolution of the Enlarged Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Northwest Working Committee" by themselves. The "resolution" centered on the need to "struggle against right opportunism" within the Northwest Party, and made an extremely wrong estimate and regulation of the situation in the Northwest and the Party's tasks. It has been sharply manifested in the Northwest", requiring "the Northwest Party to work together" to "quickly create a base area in northern Shaanxi, Shaanxi-Gansu, Southern Shaanxi, and Sichuan-Shanxi (at this time the Fourth Front Army and the 25th Army have withdrawn from the base area), and even more absurdly proposed" Open up Xinjiang and Outer Mongolia and the international route'", "The slogan of striving for the first victory in one province and several provinces has already been completed, and the Soviets have successfully developed in Jiangxi, Hunan, Fujian, and Sichuan." He also said: "China is currently There are two regimes, one is the regime of the imperialist Kuomintang that is increasingly shaken and collapsed, and the other is the regime of the emerging Soviet." The military collapse of the Kuomintang regime, financial panic, and the failure of the bunker policy, even said that "the Kuomintang area is shrinking day by day, and the armed forces Weakening", "White Army fighters are on the road to revolution"; "Soviet territory is expanding day by day, accounting for one-fourth of the country and one-sixth of the country's population", saying that "we are in front of a great class decisive battle", "and The stage of the imperialist armed conflict looms before us".They boast that this is an estimate of the "Leninist line".According to this erroneous analysis and estimation, it is said that "Shaanxi, Gansu and several provinces are the first to win, not only completed, but surpassed."For the third counter-campaign against "encirclement and suppression", they put forward wrong policies and tasks, requiring the Red Army to attack across the board, and also put forward the strange theory of "opposing the right liquidationism that worships the omnipotence of guns and does not believe in the power of the masses".

The Yongping meeting also passed a "Resolution on Opposing the Three Encirclement and Suppression" of the Imperialist KMT in Shaanxi and Gansu and the Party's Tasks, requiring the Red Army to capture Suide, Yan'an, Qingjian and Wayaobao in the third anti-"encirclement and suppression" struggle. Waiting for the "central towns" to "not allow the enemy to trample on an inch of land in the Soviet area", and unfoundedly proposed that "Shenfu and the Soviet area to the south of Suide and Wubao should be integrated into one", and that "with Malan as the center, the same government (that is, Tongchuan ), Yaoxian, and Jingyang, and resolutely implement the route of consolidating the development to the south", "consolidate the development of the Soviet area around Yichuan to Hancheng and Heshui".It is necessary to carry out work in Luochuan, where the enemy is mainly stationed, to eliminate the white areas in Ganquan, Fuxian and other places, use Luochuan as the center, develop to Ningxia, Sanbian and other places, "open up international channels" and so on.They did not make any comparative analysis of the strength of the enemy and ourselves at that time, and had no specific measures on how to deploy the main force of the Red Army. They only relied on idealism and empty talk, sitting in a safe office in the rear, and under the circumstances of the disparity in the strength of the enemy and ourselves, they fabricated and replaced mobile warfare with fortified warfare. , empty words, and made the so-called decision of the ultra-left "attack on all sides" that surpassed reality.They seem to have the magic of turning beans into soldiers, playing with words and ink, sharpening their knives at the enemy, aggressively surrounded from all sides but indifferent, living in the rear and planning to "eliminate counter-revolutionaries" within the Northwest Party and army.As Lenin once criticized the intellectuals, the clamor of the intellectuals is thousands of times stronger than their power.They use their tone of voice as their strength, wanting to overthrow everything and transform everything. They are wise and ignorant.They also pursued a left-leaning policy in terms of social policy, physically eliminating landlords, dividing rich peasants' land, and attacking middle peasants. They also proposed a six-hour system in rural areas to change the habit of "working at sunrise and resting at sunset." Liu and Gao resolutely opposed the "resolution". Liu Zhidan said, "This is a dream." Gao Gang said, "Isn't it against worshiping the omnipotence of guns? What can we use to open up international channels?" Liu and Gao believed that our troops, including the guerrillas, were less than 10,000 people. Facing the 100,000 well-equipped Kuomintang troops surrounded on all sides, we could only adopt the strategy of "concentrate all efforts and defeat each one".Zhu Lizhi thought it was "right liquidationism", saying that they "underestimated" the situation and "cancelled the revolution".Zhu Lizhi and others wanted to promote workers to the leading organs to ensure the leadership of the proletariat. Liu and Gao believed that there were not many working class in Shaanxi and Gansu, and the methods of Tianjin and Shanghai could not be copied.Zhu Lizhi believes that this is "the leadership of the party and the proletariat should be stopped, and the revolutionary arms should be disarmed." It is to serve the rule of the imperialist Kuomintang reactionaries and bring the Shaanxi-Gansu revolution to the road of failure. It is "a further exposure of the essence of counter-revolution." , is "the allied forces and echoes of the reactionary ruling factions in the party" and so on. When the former general made arrangements for the operational policy, troop deployment, and logistical support and was ready to set off, the delegation stationed in northern Shaanxi sent a letter asking the Red Army to attack Mizhi, Suide, Qingjian, Wayaobao, and Yan'an, and then open up the Shenfu. connect.After research and analysis, Liu and Gao believed that the enemy's defenses in the above-mentioned cities were tight, the fortifications were strong, and the force was large.Regarding this erroneous claim, Liu Zhidan was a little hesitant considering that it was the decision of the northern representative delegation in northern Shaanxi, but he still decided to attack Wayaobao but failed. Gao Gang had "a relatively clear understanding of the situation" at the time. The delegation's instructions were not carried out, and it was decided to advance eastward to defeat the Jin army, stabilize the rear, and fight southward. The situation at this time was that the second "encirclement and suppression" campaign in northern Shaanxi launched by the Kuomintang was completely bankrupt, and troops were lost.The Central Red Army of our party continues to move northward, and the 25th Red Army is moving to northern Shaanxi via Gansu.Faced with the Long March Red Army's imminent entry into the Shaanxi-Gansu base area and the Northwest Red Army's second victory in the struggle against "encirclement and suppression", Gao Guizi sent an urgent call to Chiang Kai-shek for help: "It is impossible to defend against a single army. If there is no increase in troops, northern Shaanxi will become the second Jiangxi." Also." Chiang Kai-shek was greatly shocked by this, and in order to prevent the Central Red Army from meeting with the Northwest Red Army and to dig out the foothold of the Long March Red Army, while mobilizing a large army to intercept the Long March Red Army, he concentrated the troops of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ning, Jinsui and other troops to the Shaanxi-Gansu Revolutionary War. The base area launched the third large-scale "encirclement and suppression", and the troops were divided into five groups. There were 5 brigades of the Jin Army along the Yellow River in the east; There is another regiment of the cavalry division, and there are three cavalry regiments of Ma Hongkui in the Ningshan border area in the northwest; and three divisions of the Northeast Army on the Luochuan line in the south, with a total strength of more than 100,000.In this "encirclement and suppression", the enemy still focused on northern Shaanxi, with the Northeast Army as the main force, and the main forces of Liu and Gao as the main targets.Strategically, we adopted a strategy of advancing from the south to the north, attacking from east to west, encircling us on all sides, in an attempt to gather and annihilate our main Red Army, completely destroy the Shaanxi-Gansu Revolutionary Base, cut off the only "remaining" revolutionary base, and destroy the foothold of the Central Red Army.In order to unify command and actions, Chiang Kai-shek decided to set up the Northwest "Bandit Suppression" General Headquarters, with Chiang Kai-shek as the commander himself, and Zhang Xueliang as the deputy commander-in-chief. The "General Suppression" agency moved from Wuhan to Xi'an, and Zhang Xueliang took the lead.When the Central Red Army was about to reach northern Shaanxi, Chiang Kai-shek sent a telegram to the Northeast Army, Ma Hongkui, Ma Hongbin and other departments: "The Red Army marched a long distance and was exhausted. They attempted to enter northern Shaanxi to join Liu Zhidan and Gao Gang. Order your cavalry to encircle and annihilate them." Chiang Kai-shek started with the purpose of harming others and ended with the result of harming himself.He attempted to use the CCP army to weaken or eliminate the Northeast Army, and the Northeast Army to weaken or eliminate the Red Army, so as to achieve the goal of killing two birds with one stone. As a result, the Northeast Army and the Red Army became friends.Liu Zhidan and Gao Gang, the former general leaders of the Northwest Red Army, carefully analyzed the enemy's situation. According to the fact that the enemy had always had their own schemes, did not coordinate with each other, and their deployment was not yet complete, they used the strategy of concentrating the main force of the Red Army and destroying the enemy one by one. The vanguard of the army to consolidate the rear base. On July 21, when Liu and Gao led their troops eastward to Wangjiagou in Xiuyan County, a company of the 84th Division of the enemy attacked us.Our army was ordered to counterattack, killed and wounded more than 70 enemies, and seized more than 30 guns.Then, the Aijie 3rd Regiment of Gao Guizi's Department originally set out from Suide to reinforce Jingbian, and rushed to Xijingbian County halfway to defend the enemy. The enemy had been wiped out by the Red Army. Looting and arresting civilian husbands, wantonly harassing people.Our former General Command troops took advantage of their unpreparedness and launched an attack on the enemy. In Gaojiata and Nangoucha, 1 battalion of Ai Jiesan was wiped out, and 2 battalions were defeated. The enemy suffered heavy casualties.Ai Jiesan was wounded, abandoned his horse and fled back to Suide.Its remnants and the enemy's 499th Regiment and Zhang Tingzhi's cavalry battalion launched an attack on our army again.Our army took advantage of the victory to defeat the enemy.In this battle, a total of more than 300 enemies were wiped out, and more than 300 guns and a batch of war horses were seized, which opened the prelude to the third counter-campaign against "encirclement and suppression". Gao Guizi entered northern Shaanxi aggressively at the beginning, but in the end he did not escape the inevitable defeat of the arrogant soldiers. The two brigades had been reduced by half, and it was difficult to move an inch. The people in the base area made up songs about the battle and sang: So far, the base area has expanded to the vast area starting from the Great Wall in the north to Chunhua and Yaoxian County in the south, Huanxian County in the west, and the Yellow River in the east.The Soviet area is nearly 2,000 miles from north to south, and more than 1,000 miles from east to west.The main force of the Red Army has grown to nearly 5,000 people, and the guerrillas have more than 4,000 people.The Red Guards and the Young Pioneers sprung up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, and spread all over the vast villages of the counties.The first battle of the third anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign was successful, the Shaanxi-Gansu Revolutionary Base Area was consolidated and developed, and the territory of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region was expanded. In order to place the headquarters of the Chinese Revolution in the Northwest, it established a foothold for the Central Red Army and the Red Army of all walks of life and resisted Japan. The starting point laid the foundation. In the first battle, the third-class unit of Ai Jie of the 84th Division was defeated, and the obstacles to the eastward attack were removed. Liu Zhidan and Gao Gang led the main force of the Red Army to attack on the eastern front. On August 1, they gathered in Yuanjiagou and other areas in Qingjian County. Taking advantage of the unstable foothold of the Jin army, they preemptively defeated the enemy, rushed into Wubao County with light clothes, and waited for the opportunity to annihilate the enemy in tight concealment.Under the unified deployment of Qianzhi, the second and fifth guerrilla columns in northern Shaanxi and the local Red Guards had surrounded the enemy's stronghold Mujiayuan, and the former general decided to annihilate the enemy first.Gao Gang waited to observe at the bottom of the village, and found that the fortifications were strong, the defense was tight, and it was dangerous to attack by force, so he changed it to "siege the city and fight for aid".The wall of Mujiayuan Village is strong, with blockhouses built around it, and a company of the 206th Brigade of the Jin Army.Liu Gao believed that this stronghold, like Songjiachuan, Guojiagou and other enemy strongholds, belonged to the enemy's 412th Regiment, and besieging this point would definitely attract reinforcements from various points.They decided to order one regiment to take on the task of encircling the point attack, and the rest of the main force split to attack the reinforcement enemy. On the night of August 10th, the first regiment of the 84th Division of our 27th Army failed to launch a sneak attack on Mujiayuan Stockade, and the third regiment of the 42nd Division launched a strong attack and wiped out all the defending enemies. On the 12th, the enemies in Songjiachuan and other strongholds learned that Mujiayuan was surrounded by the Red Army. They did not know that they had been wiped out. They dispatched 1 battalion and 2 companies to come to reinforce them. They were blocked and defeated by our troops. Most of them were wiped out, and the rest fled in embarrassment. , A large number of supplies were seized in this battle. The Northwest Red Army successfully fought against the Jin army for the first time, which greatly encouraged the troops.After this battle, the enemy found that our main force was in the Wubao area, and mistakenly thought that our army was going north to Shenfu, so they hurriedly deployed troops to the north for defense.However, my former president sent his troops south to the Xinzhuang area in the southeast of Suide, preparing to settle down in Xianyan.Dingxianyan is the Suide-Songjiachuan traffic artery. A battalion of the Jin Army has been besieged by our guerrillas and Red Guards for many days. There is no food or water. Send planes to help.My former president decided to implement the tactics of "siege the city and fight for aid", and "annihilate" the vital forces of the Jin army during the movement. At this time, Zhu Lizhi of the delegation in northern Shaanxi sent Guo Hongtao to send instructions to Xinmingqian to develop northward and open up the Jia, Mi, and Shenfu bases.After research, Liu and Gao thought it was inappropriate, so they did not implement this instruction, and still deployed to destroy Dingxianyan and defend the enemy. They ordered a regiment to cooperate with the guerrillas and Red Guards to continue to encircle Dingxianyan and lure the enemy to rush to help. At dawn on August 21, Ma Yanshou, commander of the third brigade of the Zhengtai Road Guard Army of the Jin Army, personally led the sixth regiment from Zaolinping to Dingxianyan for reinforcements.The enemy entered Wangjiaxindian and was blocked by the main force of our army.Liu Zhidan and Gao Gang personally commanded the regiments to attack frontally, detour behind the enemy, boldly interspersed, attacked from all sides, disrupted the enemy's organizational system, and wiped out part of its troops.The enemy then retreated, our army took advantage of the victory to pursue and annihilate, and seized several hills in a row.Our army pursued and wiped them out bravely, and after several hours of fierce encirclement and annihilation battles, they surrounded the enemy in Jinbolangou, and wiped out the enemy except for a few people such as the enemy brigade commander who fled in disguise.In this battle, more than 1,900 people (one said 1,800) under Qi Ruying, the deputy commander of the enemy captured, were killed and wounded. More than 60 light and heavy machine guns, 6 82 mortars, more than 1,900 long and short guns, and more than 80 mules and horses were seized. After this war, the main force of the Northwest Red Army officially established a machine gun company, which was the first heavy weapon company born in the Northwest Red Army.The captured artillery and heavy machine guns were all concentrated in this company, which later played a major role and became a pioneer in the development of heavy weapons by the Northwest Red Army. In the two battles of Mujiayuan and Dingxianyan, Liu Zhidan and Gao Gang judged the situation and acted accordingly. They used tactics such as "surrounding the spot to fight for aid" and roundabout blocking, and applied Comrade Mao Zedong's military thinking to exert the great power of the people's war. The two regiments of the Jin army were wiped out, and the two brigades of Yan Xishan who entered Shaanxi were severely damaged. They fled back to Shanxi in a hurry.Our army took advantage of the situation and liberated large areas in Jiaxian, Wubao, Suide and other counties.This time the battle was short, with few casualties, great results, and many captured. It created the first glorious battle in the history of the Northwest Red Army War, created a record of destroying an entire regiment and brigade, and created conditions for the concentration of troops to defeat the enemy's main force on the southern front, the Northeast Army. , provides experience. In the battle of Dingxianyan, when the enemy plane was conducting reconnaissance and assisting the battle, it was wounded by our army with a machine gun on the mountain, and one fell to the Xuejiamao area of ​​Suide County, and two pilots were captured.This is the first enemy plane captured by the Northwest Red Army since its establishment. The commanders and fighters watched happily on the spot, dispelled the "superstition" of fearing planes, and talked about the fact that planes can be defeated. Yan Xishan's troops were defeated in northern Shaanxi. In order to relieve their embarrassment, they lied about the military situation and said in the "Jinyang Daily": "Liu Zhidan in northern Shaanxi and the Gaogang red bandits occupied six counties, reddened 700,000 people, and had five regular troops. , 60,000, and more than 200,000 guerrillas, red guards, and young pioneers." "The current situation in northern Shaanxi is similar to the situation in Jiangxi in the 20th year of the Republic of China." , spying on the northwest of Shanxi, there is the possibility of crossing the Yellow River east at any time..." The KMT's Tianjin "Ta Kung Pao" also published a similar report. When the Central Red Army went to Hadapu, Gansu, it happened to see this newspaper, and saw the dawn from the bewilderment.Mao Zedong asked Jia Tuofu, then Minister of the White Area, about the situation in northern Shaanxi in time. He said happily: "Don't say there are tens of thousands of Red Army, there are 10,000." Liu Zhidan did not know whether he was dead or alive, the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee was destroyed, and he sent Gao Gang to Zhaojin to restore the 26th Army and reported to Mao Zedong.Mao Zedong said to Xie Juezai: "It seems that Liu Zhidan has opened up at least one revolutionary base area in northern Shaanxi. Let's talk about it when we arrive in northern Shaanxi." The central government held a meeting of cadres above the regiment level in a Guandi Temple in Hadapu. Chairman Mao Zedong said: "If we want to resist Japan, we must first go to northern Shaanxi, where there is Liu Zhidan's Red Army and our base area." Yang said: "Comrades, let's advance victoriously! Not far from northern Shaanxi, there is our anti-Japanese advance position." With a high degree of revolutionary spirit and sense of responsibility, Liu Zhidan and Gao Gang did not carry out Zhu Zhizhi's blind command, and led the Red Army's limited forces to go all out to fight the enemy with blood and fire, and won the second battle against "encirclement and suppression" Later, he organized the third anti-"encirclement and suppression" struggle, and won the first battle. He won the first battle, defeated the Jin army on the eastern front, and returned in triumph.After returning to the division, we went to Wen'an Station in Yanchuan County to rest.The former refers to convening a meeting to study the deployment of combat plans against the enemy on the southern front, discuss the principles of strategy and tactics, conduct tactical training for the troops, let the captured gunners repair and give lectures on the use of heavy weapons, and the soldiers learn to operate the captured machine guns and other weapons. technology.The former General Assembly established heavy weapon units such as machine guns, and strengthened military, military appearance, and military discipline education.During the tense preparations for the southern front, the delegation Zhu Lizhi and others came to the station of Wen'anyi troops to interfere. On August 27, a meeting of cadres above the company level was held to convey the "Resolution" of the Yongping Conference and 5 letters from the northern representatives, and it was decided to spend two days for study and discussion.Zhu Lizhi repeated what he said at the Yongping meeting, asking cadres to discuss "how to oppose right liquidationism", which interfered with the rest and training of the troops.The comrades who participated in listening to the presentation became more and more confused, and everyone raised a lot of difficult questions during the discussion.Instead of answering and explaining, Zhu Lizhi and others said, "This is a provocative conspiracy arranged by the Right liquidationists."Subsequently, Zhu Lizhi and others published articles in the journal "Northwest Fighting": "Down with the Anti-Party Right-leaning Passivism and Struggle for the Leninist Central Line", calling for "carrying out a brutal struggle against Right-leaning Liquidationism and Right-leaning Conciliationism" , "The struggle must be deeply penetrated into all party members", and attacking Liu and Gao for not listening to their blind instructions is "abolishing the party's leadership." Zhu Lizhi believes that Gao Gang is a talent who dares to think, speak, and dare, and is a "straight man". He has high prestige in the army and great influence in local party organizations. If he is not pulled over, it will be difficult to carry out opposition to rightist liquidationism. , In an attempt to "disintegrate and disintegrate" the leadership of the former enemy general headquarters, pull one faction to fight the other.He asked Gao Gang to talk and do work, and asked Gao Gang to join them in "opposing rightist liquidationism", but Gao Gang sternly rejected him.Gao Gang said firmly: "We don't have rightist liquidationism here!" He dared to stand up to the Central Committee's delegation in northern Shaanxi with a clear banner, showing his revolutionary spirit of daring to think, daring to speak and daring to do, just like Comrade Ma Wenrui at the 1945 Northwest Senior Cadres Meeting Said: "Gao Gang has a clear view of the situation of the Chinese revolution." Liu Zhidan and Gao Gang resolutely resisted Zhu Zhizhi's set, and launched a fierce struggle at the Wen'an Post Conference.Gao Gang advocated looking for opportunities to attack the enemy's attack on the southern front, "breaking the enemy's third 'encirclement and suppression' one by one".Zhu Lizhi and others wanted to "launch the struggle against right liquidationism".The two sides faced each other tit-for-tat, and the majority of commanders and fighters unanimously supported the correct line of Liu, Gao and others, and naturally denied the wrong line of Zhu Lizhi and others. Zhu, Nie and others couldn't wait to try to take away Liu and Gao's military command. Their plan to replace them failed and they didn't give up. They returned to Yongping to prepare for a bigger "suppression" struggle.They racked their brains to accuse Liu, Gao, and Luo Zhi of unnecessary crimes, only talked to Comrade Guo Hongtao, and searched for so-called evidence, slandering Liu, Gao, and Yang Hucheng for engaging in the United Front as "collaboration with the enemy"; Bandit line"; the appointment of foreign intellectuals as leaders is "abandoning the leadership of the proletariat".He even slandered Liu and Gao's command of the war as a "conspiracy of right-leaning opportunists", and especially grasped that the problem of attacking Hengshan County was "exposing the true nature of the counter-revolution". Liquidationist hats, hit it off.If Liu Gao is not defeated, he will not give up. If he wants to punish Liu Gao, there is no reason to worry about it. After exhausting all his efforts, a more brutal struggle is yet to come. Repel the Jin army and stabilize the Eastern Front.The former pointed out that during the rest of Yanchuan County Wen'anyi and other places, when studying and preparing to go south, Cao Dong, the head of the Fourth Guerrilla Column in Northern Shaanxi, reported that Hengshan County was not strong enough to defend the enemy, and the defense was not strict. Guerrilla occupation.He asked the main force to attack Hengshan.The former refers to the elimination of the northern troubles, and believes that the Hengshan mass base is good. In the 1920s, the peasant movement and student movement were carried out. Repelling the enemies on the northern front will be beneficial to the concentrated southward operations. The volunteers of the division attacked the northern front. Hengshan County was first built in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. After the establishment of the county system in the early years of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty, it was repaired one after another. It is an ancient city facing a ditch on three sides, mountains on the east, and stone walls.It is located on the east bank of the Lu River, a tributary of the Wuding River on the south side of the Great Wall, and is easy to defend but difficult to attack.With Hengshan County as the center, along the bank of the Lu River, there are Qingping and Weiwu Forts in the south (destroyed by the peasant uprising army in the Qing Dynasty), and two ancient castles, Poluo and Xiangshui, in the north. More than 40 kilometers.It is the south gate of Yulin, and its strategic position is very important. More than 300 independent cavalry detachments of the 86th Division of Jing Yuexiu of the Kuomintang are stationed in the city, and a company of the enemy is stationed in Wulidun to the east of the city. Each of Hancha in the 50th Li is stationed in a company.The combat plan of the Red Army General Headquarters is: to deploy attacking enemy aid troops in Zhangerjiamao, Shapinggou, and Zhanzeiguan in the north of the city, 15 miles east of the city, and take advantage of the weak security of the enemy in the county town to attack and destroy it. At the beginning of September, under the leadership of Liu and Gao, our main force secretly set off from Wen'an Station to the north, gathered at Lujiahe in the southeast area of ​​Hengshan Mountain, and carried out siege deployment. On the evening of the 10th, the main force moved to Chenyangwa and other places 10 miles west of the city to strictly seal the news of Hengshan, and all pedestrians were only allowed to enter and not to go out.The former refers to holding a mobilization meeting of commanders in the village and deploying troops.Cao Dongzhi introduced the situation, and Liu Zhidan and Gao Gang mobilized for combat respectively.In the evening, a person who claimed to be a correspondent for the Red Army said that there were only twenty or thirty people living in Nandunliang, and that Chai Xingliang and Guo Dun did not have many enemies.These strongholds are places Gao Gang is familiar with.Therefore, the former pointed out that there were not many troops deployed in these places, the main targets were concentrated in the county towns, and the planned sneak attack was successful in one fell swoop.Wu Ruiwang, the company commander of the 84th Division, was young and strong and brave in battle. He led 30 soldiers to form a climbing team and was responsible for climbing the city with a ladder.It seems that the enemy has already discovered and is fully prepared.The person who claimed to be "communicating" to the Red Army disappeared at night, suspected to be an enemy spy.It was night, and the Red Army climbed the city in pitch black conditions. Did the two or three people who went up first hide or were captured silently by the enemy, and those who climbed the ladder thought they were hidden and continued to climb.The ladder is made of several bamboo poles. It rains continuously, so it is soft and short. The soldiers are eager to climb the city. Too many people go up and bend the ladder, and they all fall down.At this time, the enemy grenade was thrown down, sacrificing many people. On the 11th, the sneak attack was changed to a strong attack. The front finger issued an order to attack the enemy strongholds of Nandun, Chai Xingliang, and Guodun. As a result, a company was stationed in Nandunliang. It was later discovered that some troops were transferred from Wulongshan the afternoon before to strengthen the of this bunker.Our army sent a company to attack, and suffered heavy casualties. Almost the entire company was wiped out, and the company commander Liang Wenyu died.The enemies in other strongholds were killed and injured many people in front of the Niangniang Temple when they rushed back into the city.All the strongholds outside the city were removed, and the enemy was only guarding the isolated city, terrified, and prepared to break through and escape. Because our army did not know the situation, it rained continuously and withdrew from the siege, and the enemy managed to keep the city. The attack on Hengshan City was completely unexpected by the enemy. Although due to tactical flaws, it lost the suddenness, the failure to conquer the county town shocked Jing Yuexiu greatly and had the effect of knocking mountains and shaking tigers.The enemy's Eighty-six Division was afraid that we would fight again, fearing that the Red Army would continue to advance north, so it hastily withdrew its troops and firmly defended Yulin. The strategic defense relieved the pressure on the Shenfu Red Third Regiment.The defenders of Hengshan and Mizhi did not dare to act rashly. The vast rural areas to the east, south, and west of Hengshan were all red. In Shiyaogou, Weiwu, Qingping and other areas, district and township Soviet regimes and small guerrilla groups were generally established. Great development of the military organization.Jing and Heng are connected together, and our army's attack on the northern line has achieved the purpose of broadening and consolidating the rear, and relieved the worries of going south. The main force of the Red Army attacked twice from south to east, and from south to north, repelling the Jin army and frightening the Jingyuexiu tribe in the north, so that the enemy only guarded Suide, Mizhi, and Shenmu in northern Shaanxi except Yulin County, which was controlled by the enemy. Several isolated county towns, such as Fugu, Hengshan and Yan'an, and the vast countryside have become red areas.The army grew stronger, weapons were sufficient, logistics improved, the Red Guards, small guerrilla units, local governments, and grassroots party organizations flourished, poor peasant associations and women's associations were established, and the vast base areas were increasingly consolidated. The conditions for concentrating troops on the southern front and the Northeast Army were ripe . After the battle of Hengshan, when the Red Army returned to Wen'anyi, Yujiawan and other places to rest and reorganize, they held a meeting of cadres above the regiment and regiment to summarize the experience and lessons learned in the past few months.Liu Zhidan and Gao Gang made an important report at the cadre meeting, attacking leftist adventurism, and systematically summarized the victories in the struggle against "encirclement and suppression" since the establishment of the Northwest Military Commission and the former General Assembly. In his speech, Gao Gang pointed out that our victories are not easy to come by. They are won by the blood and lives of soldiers who are not afraid of sacrifice.He said that every gun, every bullet, and every piece of land in the liberated area has paid the price in blood.He called on everyone to cherish it and protect it so as to win greater victories.In his speech, Liu Zhidan called on the commanders and fighters to guard against arrogance and impetuosity, continue to carry forward the spirit of continuous combat, and repel the Northeast Army's offensive.会议研究了南下作战的方案。 刘志丹、高岗在指挥解放陕北6县战斗中，特别注重了经验总结和地形勘察，每次战斗开始前亲自观察地形地物；战斗开始亲临战场，指挥战斗，参加战斗；战斗结束，及时总结经验教训。开创陕甘苏区时，和高岗一块工作过的同志说高岗经常深入连队和群众打成一片，善于听取群众意见，询问火夫、马夫的意见，和大家一起讨论点滴经验并记在本子上，弥补和修正自己的看法，在大会上介绍出来，很实在。他不像刘志丹那样文雅，讲话有时很粗莽，不分上下级，不顾场合，常讲脏话，说左倾狂热病就像个鸡巴，动不动就硬起来。可是，他讲话群众爱听，语言简练、明快、易懂。陕北红军初创时期，新参军和收编民团等人员多数是为谋生而来，有的对爱国和害国的概念都弄不清。高岗给战士解释说，现在工人农民造反动派的反，国民党说是“害国”，所以爱国有“罪”，爱国者成了“害国”者，害国者反而成了“爱国”者，于是害国者镇压爱国者。战士们听了顿开茅塞。 半年来，西北红军转战陕北、陕甘地区，在西北军委、前总的正确指挥下，有时利用苏区的有利条件在内线打，有时出敌不意打其不备在外线的敌占区内打，解放了大片土地；有时打大的，围歼1个团，有时打小的，吃掉1个连，还通过政治攻势，兵临城下敦促敌人缴械投诚；有时在运动中消灭敌人，有时攻坚，夺取县城和集镇；有时打击敌人的主力，有时打击敌人的控制部队。兵法上的“声东击西”，“避实就虚”，“围城打援”和“长途奔袭”等战术都用上了。他们的战略战术和毛泽东同志的人民群众战争的军事思想相符合的。实施了集中全力，各个击破敌人，有利时就打，不利时就走的战略，始终掌握作战的主动权，周密的部署，准确的侦察，选择好战场，摸清敌人的实力，特别注意了灵活机动的战略战术。在千变万化的战场上，志丹、高岗配合融洽，冷静沉着，多谋善断，随机应变。这是不断取得胜利的主要原因，同时抵制了朱理智等执行的左倾高压政策。张邦英、张秀山等老人谈到陈家坡会议后的两年时间里，一度和上边失掉联系，“左倾”路线影响不大，刘高按陕甘实际部署工作，开展革命，创造出陕甘根据地和扩大了红军队伍，为中央红军提供了落脚地，否则，陕北的历史可能是另一番写法。 刘志丹、高岗在总结解放六座县城经验后，特别要求部队要谦虚谨慎，戒骄戒躁，克服自满思想。志丹告诫指战员，这些成绩不值得骄傲，更大的胜利还在后头，正如俗话说：“老鼠拉木掀，大头还在后头”。高岗说，我们不仅夺取陕甘，将来还要夺取西北乃至全国。广大指战员在讨论前指的总结时一致表示拥护，认为总结句句讲的是亲身干过的，最实际，又合理，高度概括，没有哗众取宠的东西。大家说老刘老高讲的越听越想听，听了心情舒畅，斗志增强，朱代表团讲的，越听越糊涂，气得人肚子疼。“他俩配合好，相得益彰，既有冷静的政治头脑，又有火热的战斗意志，他们的那套战术经验，是从过去多次失败中得来的，是用烈士鲜血换来，越来越精了。”有的说，更重要的是，他们同弟兄们共同生活，战斗在一起，得到弟兄们的信任，这给咱们很大帮助。他们还很注意政治工作，使指战员明确为什么打仗，为谁打仗，士气极高昂。 前总正在部队休整期间，研究部署南下攻打东北军的作战任务时，西北工委送来通知说徐海东、程子华率二十五军已到永坪镇附近，要刘、高率红军向永坪集结，欢迎和会师。西北红军指战员接到通知非常高兴，表示热烈欢迎。前指随即召开会议讨论拟定《欢迎二十五军的指令》，并在玉家湾召开军人大会，刘、高作了动员讲话。高岗说二十五军是久经沙场的正规军，全体指战员要虚心学习他们的建军经验和作战经验。他号召向红军老大哥学习，搞好团结，密切配合二十五军作战，在南下作战中争取更大的胜利。 9月13日，刘志丹、高岗率部队从玉家湾驻地出发，14日到达永坪西北工委驻地集结，15日同二十五军胜利会师。16日举行了3个军的团长以上干部会议，互相见面，互致问候，互相介绍了经验和情况。徐海东、刘志丹在会上讲了活，庆祝西北红军和红二十五军胜利会师。 17日，朱理智以陕北代表团书记身份，在永坪镇对面娘娘庙里主持召开西北工委和鄂豫陕省委联席会议。高岗、刘志丹、徐海东、郭洪涛、程子华、郭述申、聂鸿钧、张达志、崔田夫、杨琪、张秀山、白治民、史秀云、慕纯农、王月明、王达成、杨和亭等参加会议。会上，朱理智抓住刘、高没执行他们要打绥德、延安、米脂、清涧和佳县的指示以及奔袭横山未克，肆意把原西北工委惠子俊和军委主席、副主席、前敌总指挥部刘志丹、高岗说得一无是处。他置几个月连续解放6座县城和大片土地，使陕甘陕北根据地联成一片，土地革命运动如火如荼，蓬勃发展，是当时在中国大地上革命最活跃、地盘最大的一块根据地的事实于不顾，借着二十五军的势力，恶意攻击西北工委和前指、原军委。从远道而来的二十五军的同志，不明真相，一时又无法明辩是非，加之，当时急于打击敌人的进攻，朱理智、聂鸿钧等为达到不可告人的目的，又拉程子华(程是1934年上海临时中央局派往二十五军的代表)为代表团的成员，顶替了刘炸夫末到之缺。会议一边倒，高岗在会上对朱、聂的错误指责进行斗争，被刘志丹制止。 会议决定撤销中共西北工委，成立中共陕甘晋省委员会，朱理智担任书记，郭洪涛副书记，组织部长王达成，宣传部长郭述申。原西北工委委员一位也没保留。当时有人私下议论，省委名称加一个“晋”字，既无山西的部队，又无“晋”的地盘，只有朱是山西人。 西北军委改组，聂鸿钧追任军委主席(原已任命)，戴季英任军委参谋长，撤掉原军委参谋长朱子休、医院院长李向富的职务。原西北工委、军委部门的负责人，除原宣传部长张秀山改任供给部长外，其他均排挤在省委、军委之外。至此，朱理智等提出的“左”倾路线主张，文安驿会议上未能得逞，这次会议上占了统治地位，借二十五军的势力，党和军队权篡夺到手，为错误“肃反”提供条件。 会议还决定二十五军和二十六军、二十七军改编为十五军团。9月18日(即“九·一八”纪念日)，在永坪石油矿西北红军干校门前广场上召开军人大会，宣布了十五军团正式成立。徐海东任军团长，刘志丹任副军团长兼参谋长，高岗任政治委员(一说副政委)兼政治部主任，郭述申兼副主任。军团下辖3个师，原二十五军改编为七十五师，张绍东任师长(后叛变)、政委赵林波(后叛变)；二十六军改编为七十八师，师长杨森，政委由二十五军派的张明先担任(后脱离革命)；二十七军改编为八十一师，师长贺晋年，政委张达志。 这天，当地群众从几十里路赶来参加大会，人山人海，会场上红旗飘扬，标语满墙，气氛非常威武壮观。 几天之后，高岗的政委一职由代表团成员程子华接替，高岗成了专职政治部主任。高岗的政委职务取消后，省委、军委和军团的4个正职和部门的领导职务都被朱理智、聂鸿钧等担任，大家都想不通，向刘志丹、高岗谈看法。刘、高仍以大局为重，以革命利益为最高利益，没有表现丝毫争名位的情绪并给大家做思想工作，还主动抽出人力和物力武装补充二十五军。二十五军从鄂豫突围出来，到永坪兵员锐减到不足1200人，武器短缺，衣着破烂不堪，经费拮据。刘志丹、高岗决定拿出一笔经费、粮食给二十五军，调500多人给二十五军补充缺员，将二十六、二十七军60挺机枪和几十门炮及一部长短枪支、弹药以及被服等调给二十五军，改善了二十五军的装备。朱理智阴阳怪气地说：“他们使用不了这些重武器。” 9月19日下午召开军事会议，研究部署南线作战、打退东北军“进剿”的战略。徐海东、高岗和刘志丹等认真研究了作战方案。大家一致认为目前大军压境，打蛇先打头，首先打掉进入苏区的东北军六十七军。如果先集中兵力打垮他两个师，挫败敌人锐气，陕北战局就会发生重大变化。徐海东说：“一定要打一个漂亮仗，首先打响第一炮。”高岗以政委的身份积极支持徐海东的讲话，他坚定地说：“红十五军团成立，第一仗只能成功，给东北军一点颜色，叫张学良看看，红军就是战无不胜！” 会后，部队从永坪出发，经过3天晓宿夜行绕过延安，9月下旬到甘泉县的王家坪等地隐蔽、集结，寻机歼灭东北军。军团部召开会议，研究歼敌方案，刘、高对这一带地形熟悉，建议佯攻甘泉守敌，诱驻延安敌人增援，采取“围城打援”战略，歼敌于大小劳山。 当时，东北军王以哲六十七军的一一0师和一二九师已进驻延安地区，一0七师随王以哲军部到洛川。敌一一0师六二九团第二营长陈镇藩带5个连随一二九师参谋长张文清及两个师的军需主任，由延安到甘泉接运西安送往延安的棉服装备。他们一进甘泉县城就被红军包围。军团部徐海东、刘志丹、高岗等带团以上指挥员到咸榆公路边的甘泉以北15公里的劳山看地形。大家一致认为大小劳山打伏击战很理想，两面山岭连绵起伏，林木茂密，咸榆公路延安——甘泉段夹在一条沟间，正好是一条口袋，便于伏击。如果把敌人装进来，正如把狡猾的狐狸装进口袋，有再大的本事也难以逃脱灭亡的命运。伏击战场确定后，军团部立即部署兵力，命八十一师部分兵力和地方武装包围和佯攻甘泉城守敌一一0师的1个营和接运服装的部队，利用攻打甘泉诱延安敌人出来增援，遂命主力八十一师进到甘泉以北之白土坡及其东山正面堵击敌援兵，阻止其与甘泉守敌会合，配合主力预伏战场歼灭之，要不惜一切代价在白土坡堵住敌人，否则，延安援敌与甘泉敌人会合，我军将失去战机。……七十五师埋伏在大劳山东北后山上，七十八师隐蔽于小劳山两侧山地一带，骑兵团位于芦家村黄土沟地域，对敌人形成伏击圈子。 诱出延安增援敌人后堵击敌人与甘泉敌人会合，是劳山战役的攻坚战，高岗负责具体部署此翼。9月29日八十一师奉命急行军隐蔽在吴家沟待命。先遣1个团已经包围并开始佯攻甘泉县城。 10月1日，不出我军预料，延安敌人出动1个师按我军团部预定的时间驰援甘泉，象一群灰老鼠进入伏击“口袋”里。敌一一0师师长何立中骑在马上带着部队大摇大摆向甘泉行进，真是浩浩荡荡，有点欺人太甚，没把红军放在眼里。劳山是延安至甘泉段最高的山，一一0师原以为红军可能在沿山设伏，在山上派尖兵和少量搜索部队，大部队顺川沿公路行进，一直未见红军一兵一卒动作，顺顺利利通过几道险要的山势。当到我军伏击圈时，敌师部命尖兵和山上的部队撤下川来，将原来一路改为四路纵队，集中快速前进。一一0师师长何立中得意地加鞭催马，乐观地对参谋长说：“红军鬼计多端，我当他们在这一带打我们的伏击，现在出了龙潭虎穴，不会再中共军的口袋阵了。”何立中得意洋洋地海口刚夸完，参谋长还未来得及回话，红军的信号枪打响了。红八十一师正面发起堵击，七十八师把退路截断，公路两旁机枪、步枪和手榴弹一齐在约二华里的敌人群中开花，立刻混响成一片，震天动地，响彻山沟。分不清枪声和手榴弹声，几千敌人象戳了的马蜂窝，向两侧山上东窜西跑，何立中带师部和直属队占了路西的山头，凭借山上的村庄顽抗，被我八十一师二0一团一个冲锋，将敌压制到一个小山头。敌六二八团拼命向甘泉方向冲来，三面火力向八十一师二四一团压下来，企图打开一条血路向甘泉靠拢，战斗打得异常激烈，我军伤亡很大。在这千钧一发的关键时刻，高岗从指挥所赶来，亲自上阵指挥该团抢占了大劳山一侧，并亲自参加战斗，师长贺晋年，政委张达志率警卫连、侦察连赶来增援，很快把敌人堵在小劳山东山。敌人向师部靠拢，抱成一团，几次反攻，妄图打通甘泉的道路，高岗指挥八十一师打回去了，并发起猛烈反击，指战员不怕牺牲，前仆后继，浴血奋战，夺回来敌人占领的山头，正面堵击敌人达三小时，使敌人被迫退到小劳山村。这时太阳即将落山，我军有好几个营、连、排干部伤亡，二营教导员王学礼负伤，栾新春、谢四娃、杨玉清、李富贵等7个连级干部伤亡，有的连队只剩下十几个人。高岗顿时仇恨满胸膛，审时度势，一把脱掉外衣，一声呐喊跃出战壕带领部队冲锋，不畏生死的杀敌。杨森、贺吉祥等师团领导也跳出战壕，冒刃血战，拼命冲杀，率部队乘胜追击，攻进村子，围歼敌人。七十八师从左侧压下来，接着七十五师也投入战斗从右侧包抄过来，打的异常激烈，公路两旁地里麻叶子都打光了。有的战士受伤拉着肠子爬着战斗。到日落前将被包围的一一0师大部歼灭，师长何立中颈部中弹后丧命，参谋长范驭洲当场被击毙，活捉团长裴焕彩，团长杨德新自杀。天黑前，战斗结束。可在总结会上，把八十一师一团团长免职，要当场枪毙作战勇敢而幸存的两个营长，经高岗、李赤然等出来说话，才免于一死，实在令人费解。 这一仗是十五军团成立后打得第一个大仗、硬仗、胜仗，消灭了东北军一支劲旅，给东北军以沉重打击，重创了东北军的骄横气焰，打出了红军的军威，打下了共产党和张学良在洛川举行和谈的基础。这次战役共伤俘敌人3700余人，击毙1000余人，缴获大批武器、弹药和物资，有炮12门，轻重机枪180多挺，步枪3千多支，电台一部，战马300多匹。高岗在“这次战役中起了最大作用，为夺取这次胜利做出巨大贡献。高岗同志既当指挥员，又是战斗员，适时赤膀上阵，身先士卒。他带头发扬了不怕死的精神，极大地鼓舞战士英勇冲杀，如果拿不下对面的山头，再晚一小时，到天黑了，战斗就无法结束。敌人会趁夜逃跑的，战场也不好打扫，好多伤员抬不下来，被冷死、渴死。”(见李赤然回忆记录)后来，陕甘宁边区到处传颂“高岗赤膀战劳山”的传奇佳话，编入小学课本。劳山战役后，流行一首顺口溜： “张学良成什么样，日本来了不抵抗，来到陕北打内仗。丧家离妻也不枉，何立中劳山把命丧。联合红军把日抗，打回老家才高尚。” “左”倾路线和个人权欲一联姻，必然要产生恶胎，这在中共历史上是屡见不鲜的。朱理智等在政治路线、组织路线、思想路线和社会政策上推行“左”倾机会主义路线，自然和刘、高执行的从实际出发的正确路线格格不入。二十五军也带来了张国焘的错误肃反路线的影响，戴季英把张国焘那里的一套搬来，并大加发挥。刘、高正在前方不顾生死带领红军打敌人，粉碎敌人“围剿”的紧急关头，后方朱理智指控他们是“右派反革命”，罗织他们的所谓“罪状”。 劳山战役胜利后，瓦窑堡守敌闻讯而逃，陕甘晋省委和西北军委后方机关从永坪移到瓦窑堡。 刘志丹、高岗等在前方指挥血与火的战斗，西北战场首次取得最大胜利。而朱理智等掌握了大权，有二十五军作后盾并抽给一些干部协助他们在后方积极策划肃清“右派反革命”的部署，“没有二十五军某些人支持，