Chapter 18 5. Zhao Bosheng

When the 14th Army of the Fifth Red Army reorganized the First, Third, and Fifth Armys in mid-March 1932, it was classified as the Third Red Army.However, it has not actually been rebuilt. This unit has always been directly controlled by the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, and was later commanded by the Jiangxi Provincial Military Region for a period of time.During this period, the 14th Red Army, led by Zhao Bosheng, chief of staff and commander of the Fifth Army Corps, and Huang Huoqing, political commissar, cleared up the remnants in southern Jiangxi and western Fujian, wiped out enemy occupation points, and fought against consolidating and defending the Soviet area and supporting the main Red Army. made a great contribution. On June 8, 1932, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission decided to cancel the establishment of the 14th Red Army, and the department was organized into the 39th Division of the 13th Army of the Fifth Red Army. Under the jurisdiction of the thirty-seventh, thirty-eighth, and thirty-ninth divisions.

At the end of 1932, the 13th Brigade of Zhou Hunyuan's Department of the Kuomintang entered the Huangshidu area.The enemy's position is prominent, and although its strength is weak, the Soviet area will be threatened at any time due to the enemy's wedging.The Central Revolutionary Military Commission is determined to eliminate this enemy and pull out this nail. On December 31, Zhu De, Zhou Enlai, and Wang Jiaxiang issued a combat order: destroy the enemy at Huangshidu, occupy Jinxi, and attract two enemies southwest of Jinxi to fight with it. In this order, the Red Army is the first echelon of the left wing, which is responsible for the task of destroying the enemy in the Huangshidu area; the Red First Army is the second echelon of the right wing, supporting the Red Third Army; The 23rd Division and Zhou Zhirou's 14th Division cooperated with the Red Army in the Huangshidu area.

On January 4, 1933, the battle officially started.Under the command of Peng Dehuai and Teng Daiyuan, the Red Third Army Corps, Red Twenty-Second Army, and Red Thirty-first Division, which were responsible for the main combat missions, launched a fierce attack on the enemy's Thirteenth Brigade at Huangshidu.Since the enemy had already prepared and added an independent 3rd regiment, coupled with the slippery roads in rainy days, it was extremely difficult to move.The fight was a stalemate from the start, with the two sides battling it out in heavy rain and mud.By 18:00 in the evening, the attacking force had only cleared out some of the enemy's outlying strongholds.Peng Dehuai then ordered the troops to stop the attack and prepare to fight again at dawn the next day.

At 7:30 the next day, the Red Army launched a general attack on the remnants of Huangshidu, annihilating them all in one fell swoop.Only the enemy brigade commander Zhou Shida led a part of the 26th regiment to flee, trying to move closer to Nancheng.Just at this time, all the Red Fifth Army of the Left Wing arrived. Dong Zhentang, the head of the army, ordered the thirty-ninth division to attack. There are more than 400 people under the brigade commander Zhou Shida and the head of the 26th regiment.During the service, the Red Army captured more than 1,500 enemies, surrendered more than 1,500 guns and a large amount of military supplies.

In the afternoon of the same day, the 90th Division of Wu Qiwei, the 14th Division of Zhou Zhirou, the 25th Division of Li Songkun, the 24th Division of Xu Kexiang, the 8th Division of Tao Zhiyue, and the 1st Division of Zhou Hunyuan The Ninth Division and other large numbers of reinforcements rushed to Huwan.Zhou Enlai and Zhu De decided to set up a battlefield here, trying to wipe out part of the enemy in the campaign. In the early hours of January 7, the enemy Sun Lianzhong's 27th Division and Wu Qiwei's 90th Division entered the Fengshanpu and Heshupu lines; Zhou Zhirou's 14th Division also entered the Langju and Baiyuan lines.That night, Zhu De and Zhou Enlai issued an order to attack the enemy. In the early morning of the 8th, the Fourth Army of the First Red Army attacked westward along the road from Jinxi, and encountered six regiments of Sun Lianzhong and Wu Qiwei's troops at Fengshanpu. The two armies fought fiercely on both sides of the road.Relying on the favorable terrain, the enemy has planes and cannons to assist in the battle. The battle has been extremely fierce from the very beginning.Soon, Peng Dehuai led the three armies to launch a fierce attack on the right side of the enemy at Fengshanpu.The enemy began to be overwhelmed and fled in the direction of Huwan.At this critical moment, the enemy Zhou Zhiroubu attempted to reinforce Fengshanpu and was rushing towards this area.Lin Biao and Nie Rongzhen, who were in charge of the command of this battle, urgently ordered the Fifth Red Army to send a unit to stop the enemy to ensure the smooth progress of the whole battle.

After receiving the order, Dong Zhentang arranged for three regiments of the 15th Army to guard the front line of Changyuan Temple. Zhao Bosheng, the deputy commander of the army, insisted on going together. Dong Zhentang immediately dissuaded him: "Old Zhao, you can rest assured that there are Li Qingyun and his regiments." Let’s say you’re just injured, so don’t go.” Zhao Bosheng shook his head and replied, “No, old Dong, the front line of Changyuan Temple is too close to our army’s main battlefield, so I’m really worried, this blocking battle is very important , if the fight is not good, the whole army will fall into a passive position. As the general reserve of the battle, the Fifth Army Corps may be pulled up at any time, and your burden will be even heavier. As for my injury, it will be healed soon, so you don’t have to worry about it.” Dong Zhentang Knowing his temper, it would be useless to persuade him any further, so he ordered the Legion's special agent company to go with Zhao Bosheng.

Changyuan Temple is located on the left side of Huangshidu. After the blocking forces arrived here, Zhao Bosheng led the cadres to survey the terrain and choose a position. There is fierce artillery fire opening the way, we must choose the danger and defend, we must pay attention to the strengths of the veterans, and we must carry forward the strengths of our army that are good at defense. This battle is related to the overall victory or defeat, and we must complete the task entrusted to us by the Central Revolutionary Military Commission. Honorable mission..." Back at the command post, Li Qingyun, the commander of the 15th Army, issued a specific combat mission: use the 128th Regiment as the main force to defend the front, the 135th Regiment as the flank, and the 129th Regiment as the reserve team to block the aid from Nancheng. enemy.

At ten o'clock in the morning, reinforcements from the enemy came up.After being hit head-on by our army, we concentrated our artillery to bombard our army's forward positions, and then launched several consecutive attacks, all of which were repelled by the 128th regiment that I was defending frontally.The cunning enemy saw that he couldn't attack from the front, so he pointed his finger at the 135 regiment position on my right.Most of the regiment are new recruits who have just joined the army, and their combat power is weak. In addition, the terrain is not very good. After several attacks by the enemy, the situation is precarious.After Zhao Bosheng understood the situation, he immediately ordered the special agent companies around him to attack, and cooperated with the 135th regiment to restore the lost position.The special agent company is all veterans with strong bodies and well-equipped weapons. Each person has three major items: a broadsword, a pistol, and a submachine gun, and their combat effectiveness is very strong.The company rushed to the positions of the 135th regiment in time, quickly repelled the enemy and recovered many positions.

Since then, the enemy still focused on the right flank.In the afternoon, in order to break through our army's defense line and reinforce the main battlefields of Huangshidu and Huwan, the enemy mobilized two regiments to attack the 135th regiment and the spy company in two directions in a dense formation under the cover of artillery fire.Facing a powerful enemy several times their own, the soldiers fought desperately, and the ammunition was quickly exhausted, but the enemy's offensive continued unabated.Zhao Bosheng had a panoramic view of the situation on the high ground of the 128th Regiment. He called Yuan Xuezu, the commander of the 128th Regiment, and told him to replenish the fortifications in time, save ammunition, form effective fan firepower, etc., and then command the task Handed over to his staff officer, he led the last reserve team, the officer team, and resolutely rushed to the right-wing defensive position.

Under the leadership and call of Zhao Bosheng, the blocking troops used stones, bayonets and knives to beat the enemy back when the ammunition was exhausted, and firmly held the position, making it impossible for the enemy who tried to reinforce them to pass. In the afternoon of the battle, good news came from the rear: Our army's main force won a great victory in annihilating six enemy regiments in Fengshanpu. I hope your troops can hold on for another half an hour and hold the enemy back, so as to strive for greater victories.Zhao Bosheng excitedly told the news to his comrades around him.Suddenly, a shell flew over and exploded on the right side of his body.A generation of famous generals, the main leader of the Ningdu Uprising, and one of the founders of the Fifth Red Army——Zhao Bosheng, slowly fell on the red soil.

The enemy was repulsed and the position was held. The soldiers of the 15th Red Army stopped the enemies of the South Offenders at the cost of blood and lives, and prevented the enemies of Huangshidu and Jinxi from being rescued. Under the attack, the whole line retreated and fled to Fuzhou.In this campaign, our army wiped out more than 2,000 enemies and seized a lot of weapons and ammunition.The casualties of our army were not small. The most regrettable thing is that Zhao Bosheng, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Fifth Red Army, was unfortunately shot and died heroically. When the bad news came, the Red Army was deeply saddened.Holding the relics of the martyrs - a pair of deformed mirror frames, Dong Zhentang stood on the hill for a long time, heartbroken and crying without tears.Zhao Bosheng is not only his old comrade in arms for many years, but also his guide on the road of revolution.His sacrifice was a huge loss to the Fifth Red Army, and the Central Soviet Area also lost a legion-level general who was capable of recruiting and fighting.His sacrifice caused Dong Zhentang to fall into long-term self-blame and grief.The Provisional Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Republic immediately called the Fifth Red Army Corps to mourn Zhao Bosheng: "Comrade Zhao Bosheng died for the Soviet, for the liberation of China's nation and society. His sacrifice will always be honored in the history of the Soviet revolution in China. The central government expresses its infinite condolences and respect." On January 13, 1933, the Central Executive Committee of the Chinese Soviet Republic ordered that Ningdu County be changed to Bosheng County, and the remains of the martyrs were buried in the place where he led the uprising during his lifetime, and a grand memorial meeting was held.Later, Bosheng Fort was built on the square in Yeping, Ruijin, Hongdu. Commander-in-Chief Zhu inscribed "Bosheng Fort" with his own handwriting.Mao Zedong praised Comrade Zhao Bosheng as "a firm revolutionary and a model for our party."After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Marshal Ye Jianying wrote a poem in memory of his former comrade-in-arms Zhao Bosheng: