Chapter 5 1. Xunkou great victory, Bogu is excited

In September 1933, after half a year of peace in the Central Soviet Area, a magnificent and unprecedented fifth "encirclement and suppression" and anti-"encirclement and suppression" war broke out on this red territory of 50,000 square kilometers. In the summer of that year, Chiang Kai-shek was based in Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi Province, and personally served as the commander-in-chief of the "bandit suppression" army. He mobilized 66 divisions, 28 independent brigades, a total of 320 regiments, with a total strength of 600,000 troops, and painstakingly planned to fight against the bandits. The fifth "encirclement and suppression" campaign in the Central Soviet Area.

Saddened by the lessons of repeated disastrous defeats in the past, Chiang Kai-shek changed his strategy and tactics of driving straight ahead and attacking separately, and adopted a new strategy of protracted warfare and fortressism. Adopt a mobile division, explore secret fortresses far away, defend thinly and support thickly, consolidate layer by layer, advance steadily, defend when confronted, attack when there is a gap" and other principles.He also hired dozens of German and Italian military instructors, including German Marshal Feng.Sektor is the chief advisor. Chiang Kai-shek said in Lushan that in this decisive battle with the CCP, "three parts of military affairs and seven parts of politics must be successful and benevolent." If the enemy is a powerful bandit, then the country will perish immediately! We will not only have no place to live, but also no place to die!"

After brutal struggles and merciless blows, Mao Zedong's line has been completely abandoned in the Central Soviet Area and the Red Army.The temporary central route was able to be carried out unimpeded in the Soviet area and the Red Army.In the face of Chiang Kai-shek's vicious fifth "encirclement and suppression" campaign, on July 24, 1933, the Central Committee headed by Bogu issued the "Resolution on the Fifth "Encirclement and Suppression" of the Imperialist Kuomintang and Our Party's Tasks", which held that the fifth The next "encirclement and suppression" and counter-"encirclement and suppression" will be a more intense and cruel class decisive battle. It will be a decisive battle between the Soviet road and the colonial road. It will be a decisive battle between the country and the country, and the army against the army. It was a decisive battle between two regimes.The Party in the Soviet Area must smash the enemy's new "encirclement and suppression" campaign and strive for Soviet victory throughout China.

On October 18, the central government issued the "Emergency Mobilization Order to Smash the Fifth "Encirclement and Suppression"", calling on the people of the entire Soviet area to concentrate all their strength and prepare for all sacrifices to fight to smash all the victories of the fifth "encirclement and suppression" campaign. Fight for the Soviet Republic. Bogu completely abandoned Mao Zedong's strategy and tactics this time, and implemented a whole new set of strategic and tactical principles: ——"Keep the enemy out of the country" ——"Don't let the enemy trample an inch of land in the Soviet area"

- "Expand and defend the Soviet area" ——"Launch a national revolutionary war and drive imperialism out of China" ——"Two fists to hit someone" ——"Attack across the board" - "Fortress against Fortress" On September 26, Chiang Kai-shek went to the front line in southern Jiangxi to supervise the division. In the early morning of the 28th, the three divisions of the Eighth Column of Chen Cheng, the descendant of Jiang Jun, attacked Lichuan City in the Soviet Area.As soon as the prelude to the decisive battle kicked off, Chiang Kai-shek tried to "win the flag" and occupied the northern gate of the Central Soviet Area.

At this time, Peng Dehuai's Eastern Army was still besieging the cities of Jiangle and Shunchang in Fujian to attack the Ministry of Fujian warlord Liu Heding. Peng Dehuai had been besieging the city for many days, and Liu Heding, the commander of the 56th Division of the enemy, was almost out of ammunition and food. Liu Heding is an old enemy of the Red Army.During the second "encirclement and suppression campaign", Mao Zedong commanded the Red Army to sweep across 700 miles, from Jiangxi to Jianning, Fujian, making him devastated.Later, when Liu fought against the Red Army, he was defeated in a row.When Chiang Kai-shek learned that Peng Dehuai's Eastern Army was besieging General Le, he urgently telegraphed Liu Heding to order him to defend to death, and at the same time dispatched five elite troops to help.

At this moment, the North Gate of the Central Soviet Area was in a hurry.In order to "keep the enemy out of the country", Bogu ordered Peng Dehuai to quickly return to aid Jiangxi, "eliminate the enemies approaching Lichuan, and then join forces west of Fuhe River, and fight the enemy at Fuhe River with all our strength." On September 28, the Eastern Army began to move northward.Peng Dehuai and Teng Daiyuan led the right column of the Eastern Army (under the jurisdiction of the Fourth and Fifth Divisions of the Third Red Army and the Nineteenth Division of the Seventh Red Army), via Dagan, Qiaotou, and Zefang, and concentrated in Thailand on October 3 and 4. Xinqiao area of ​​Ning County.Dong Zhentang, head of the Fifth Red Army Corps, and Zhu Rui, political commissar, led the left column of the Eastern Army (under the jurisdiction of the 13th Division of the Fifth Red Army Corps and the Sixth Division of the Third Red Army Corps), passing through Gaotan and Jishan in Jiangle County, and on October 3 and 4. The two days were concentrated in the Datian area of ​​Taining County.

On this day, Li Chuan fell, and Hongdu was shocked.Peng Dehuai answered the urgent call again: traveling day and night, quickly marching towards Lichuan. On October 4, the right column of the Eastern Army of Peng Dehuai and Teng Daiyuan and the left column of the Eastern Army of Dong Zhentang and Zhu Rui arrived at Taining, Fujian at the border of Fujian and Jiangxi at the same time, and assembled.The next day, headed for saltpeter north of Lichuan, Jiangxi. Just the day before the Eastern Army assembled in Taining, Zhou Hunyuan, the commander of the Eighth Column of Chen Cheng's Department, learned that there were more than a thousand Red Army soldiers in the Xunkou area, and he judged that they were not the main force of the Red Army. The brigade commander Ge Zhongshan led the 31st Regiment of the 17th Brigade, the 34th Regiment of the 18th Brigade, the 27th Regiment of the 5th Division and a part of the Lichuan Defense Regiment to Xunkou for guerrilla reconnaissance.

At midnight on the 4th, the enemy set out from Lichuan with light clothes. On the morning of the 5th, after the 34th Regiment of the vanguard arrived at Xunkou, it went on alert in the direction of Hufang Feiyuan and dispatched a reconnaissance unit.Subsequently, the 27th and 31st regiments of the enemy also successively arrived in the Xunkou and Shizheng areas. On the morning of the 6th, Ge Zhongshan discovered that Feiyuan had Red Army activities, and immediately ordered the 31st and 34th regiments to attack Feiyuan, and the 27th regiment was a reserve team and placed in Xunkou on standby.

The Fourth Division of the Red Army Corps was the forward of the right column. On the way to Nitpeter, as soon as it arrived at Feiyuan, it encountered the enemy's 31st Regiment.At this time, it was 13:00 noon. The headquarters of Zhang Xilong and Peng Xuefeng launched a fierce attack on the enemy.After receiving the fire, the enemy's thirty-fourth regiment also came to join the battle.After four hours of fierce fighting, the enemy was out of support, retreated to Xunkou, organized defense on the spot, and tried to stick to it and wait for help. The Eastern Army took advantage of the momentum to besiege the enemy at Xunkou in Wuji.Commander-in-chief Peng Dehuai immediately issued a combat deployment to his subordinate units by radio: Zhang Xilong and Peng Xuefeng's Fourth Division attacked from east to west with flying kites.

The 20th Division of Su Yu's Department took Feiyuan to Hengting and attacked from north to south. The Thirteenth Division of Chen Bojun, Song Renqiong, and the Third Division of Zhou Kun moved from Baogaojinghufang to Hailing and Baisha to occupy positions, cut off the passage from Xunkou to Lichuan, and flanked the enemy who came for reinforcements from Lichuan. Hong Chao and Chen Ajin's Sixth Division, Zhou Jianping and Lu Zhenqiu's Nineteenth Division were placed in Wang Qiuku and Feiyuan respectively as the reserve team. At dawn on the 7th, various departments of the Eastern Army launched a general offensive against the enemy defending Xunkou.At 10 o'clock in the fierce battle, the three regiments of the Ge brigade were wiped out except for a battalion of the 34th regiment who defended the hilltop village and resisted stubbornly. Just as the Eastern Army encircled and wiped out Ge's Brigade, two regiments of the 96th Division of the enemy stationed in Lichuan were ordered to rush to Xunkou for reinforcements at night. At 9 o'clock on the 7th, when the aid enemy advanced to Maanling and Efengling north of Baisha, it was stubbornly blocked by the 15th Regiment of Xunhuaizhou and Le Shaohua Division of the Fifth Division of the Eastern Army and failed to pass. After the Eastern Army wiped out the Ge brigade, except for a part of the troops that continued to besiege the remnant enemies on the top of Xunkou Mountain, the main force turned to the direction of Baisha to besiege and aid the enemy.The enemy fled to Lichuan in a hurry. In the Battle of Xunkou, the Red Army wiped out three enemy regiments, captured more than 1,100 people under the enemy's brigade commander Ge Zhongshan, seized 29 machine guns, two mortars, 1,084 long and short guns, radio Taiwan one.The Eastern Army suffered more than 700 casualties. After Chiang Kai-shek was hit by this, he ordered the troops to strictly guard against the Red Army's attack on saltpeter and other places. "Red China", the official newspaper of the Soviet Central Government published on November 11, 1933, used one-third of the second edition to report the victory in the Xunkou encounter in this way: The good news of the victory in the first battle reached Ruijin, and the red capital was immediately elated.Bogu was very excited, and excitedly said to Luo Fu, the head of the Central Propaganda Department: "This victory fully shows that the party's offensive line is completely correct. We must use this victory to vigorously publicize and inspire the people in the Soviet area, and we must use a hundredfold confidence to crush the enemy. Attack and win the final victory." Victory went to people's heads. On the front line, in Ruijin, people held many victory celebrations to celebrate the great victory in the first battle.Various red newspapers and periodicals made extensive reports on the celebration. On December 12, 1933, "Red China" published a feature-length feature article by Xu Mengqiu, a "big pen" in the Soviet area and director of the Political Department of the Red Army University, in a prominent position: "Warm Congratulations".The close-up said: "This victory... is the beginning of victory in smashing the enemy's five 'encirclement and suppression'!" This victory ceremony was grand, warm and brilliant. Scene 1: "The battalion commander is not qualified to wear a high hat" - after the news of Xunkou's victory spread to the rear, the soldiers of the whole direct subordinate team and the workers and peasants of the whole red ×× city were excited, so they frantically prepared for the victory celebration, but More than a thousand captive soldiers have been sent to the rear, and the brigade commander Ge Zhongshan and the first battalion commander also arrived in ×× Scarlet City, which further fueled the enthusiasm of the meeting. Before the meeting, the brigade and battalion commanders were paraded through the streets in order to allow every member of the public to have a close look at these live victories.The little comrades in the Security Bureau really thought, they said that the brigade commander should wear a beautiful tall hat, but the battalion commander is not qualified to wear a tall hat, so make him a colorful vest!So the tall man with a tall hat was in front, and the short man in a vest with colorful slogans was behind him. This made the whole city even more sensational, and there were huge crowds of people watching! Scene 2: "Dead tortoise and live lackeys" - Comrades in the Security Bureau would really think that they pierced a big tortoise with a big book on the shell, Chiang Kai-shek, and hit it with a stick, and all the claws retracted into the shell of the tortoise , which symbolizes that the enemy will be wiped out as soon as it appears, and we can only stay in the tortoise shell (in the fortress) and dare not show up.He also led a white dog, wore colorful clothes specially made by Yi, and wrote a letter to the Kuomintang, pretending to be an imperialist and leading him.These two living and novel specimens even mobilized the audience in the venue. Scene 3: "Self-confession of living victories!" - The meeting was held amidst thunderous applause. After several short but encouraging speeches by several revolutionary leaders, the masses wanted Ge Zhongshan to report the crimes of the Kuomintang warlords betraying the country and massacring workers and peasants, so they hated him The general stood upright at the entrance of the much-anticipated stage, telling how the Kuomintang made a secret agreement with Japan, betrayed North China, how it oppressed and massacred the soldiers who actively resisted the Japanese in Shanghai, how they suppressed and deceived the anti-Japanese and anti-imperialist sentiments of workers and peasants, and how they went to the Soviet area to rob and kill revolutionary workers and peasants. fact.After hearing these self-confessions of the little lackeys, the masses shouted: "Down with the imperialist lackeys, the Kuomintang!" "Smash the enemy's five 'encirclement and suppression'!"The fighting mood suddenly became tense and high. Scene 4: "Aftershine of the Iron Fist Drama Club" - the directly affiliated team, the Iron Fist Theater Club, just made preparations, and then made its first public performance at this heroic and combative celebration ceremony. The title of the play is "Only Struggle".With the enemy's occupation of Red Lichuan as the background, the white army's robbery and rape and the active and brave struggle of the workers and peasants are performed. "Recover the Red Lichuan! Don't let a single enemy flee back! Destroy all the evil beasts that invaded the Soviet area—the White Army!..." The thunderous slogan, so the meeting was held in the winter dusk when the sun had already disappeared into the Western Mountains and the wind was getting stronger. The meeting broke up with cheers. The entire Soviet area was in a carnival.However, Bogu never imagined that the word "victory" would almost never be associated with him again.