Chapter 32 The Fourth Red Army's first battle against the "Wudou River"

The rendezvous of the Autumn Harvest Uprising led by the Communist Party and the Nanchang Uprising in Jinggangshan, as well as the establishment of the Fourth Army of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Revolutionary Army, were things that the Kuomintang government headed by Chiang Kai-shek did not expect and did not want to see.Originally, Mao Zedong went to Jinggangshan and became more and more powerful, which was enough to cause headaches for the Kuomintang government. Now that Zhu De's troops and the Hunan Agricultural Army were added, wouldn't it be even more powerful. For a while, rumors arose in Nanchang. It was said that Zhu and Mao's army had occupied Ganzhou for a while, and it was rumored that Zhu and Mao's army had arrived in Ji'an.There is an atmosphere of "the mountain is about to come and the wind is full of the building".

Chiang Kai-shek in Nanjing couldn't sit still anymore, and urgently ordered the provincial governments of Hunan, Guangdong, and Jiangxi to "suppress the 'Zhu Mao's Red Army' in the near future". The Yang Ruxuan Division of the 27th Division of the Jiangxi Army stationed in Yongxin and Suichuan took the lead, shouting the wild words of "go straight to Jinggang, and capture Zhu and Mao alive". ".The Jiangxi army was coming very fiercely. They attacked with the 79th regiment as the main attack, and attacked Longyuankou via Yange, trying to cross Qixiling and go straight to the hinterland of Ninggang; The purpose of the Ao attack was to insert into Ciping and echo the troops in the direction of Longyuankou, so as to form a north-south attack, split into a joint attack; the 80th Regiment stayed in Yongxin City as a battle reserve team, waiting for an opportunity to enter in the direction of Longyuankou Fight and expand the achievements of the Seventy-Nine Regiment.

Yang Ruxuan was aggressive. He wanted to take advantage of the fact that Zhu De's unit was not stable and Zhu and Mao's units had not yet formed a joint force to wipe out the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army in one fell swoop. However, Yang Ruxuan underestimated the combat effectiveness of the People's Army led by the Communist Party.He wanted to grab a head start in front of Chiang Kai-shek, but he didn't know that Mao Zedong and Zhu De also wanted to take this opportunity to strengthen the army of the two armies! Although Mao Zedong was a scholar, more than half a year of armed separatist struggle practice has enabled him to explore and sum up many combat methods to deal with the enemy; Zhu De is a professional soldier from the Yunnan Lecture Hall. home hand.Today, Zhu and Mao have joined forces to organize troops to meet the enemy, which can be described as complementing each other.At the newly established Military Commission of the Fourth Army, the operational policy of avoiding the main force of the enemy, attacking the flanks, attacking the east and west, and concentrating forces to wipe out the enemy was formulated.The specific deployment is: Zhu De, Chen Yi, and Wang Erzhuo led the 28th Regiment and the 29th Regiment as the main force to face the enemy's 81st Regiment in the direction of Suichuan and capture Yongxin City; Mao Zedong, He Tingying, and Zhu Yunqing led the 3rd Regiment The 11th Regiment went to Qixi Ridge at the junction of Ningkang and Yongxin to stop the enemy 79th Regiment attacking Ningkang.

After the deployment was completed, the various ministries did not care about rest, and immediately split up to meet the enemy. Zhu De and Chen Yi led the 28th and 29th regiments to quickly advance southward through Ciping, Xiazhuang, and Xingzhou.At this time, the enemy's 81st Regiment, which was supposed to assist the attack on the flank, rushed straight to Huang'ao with a battalion of troops because of its excellent equipment and wanted to take the lead. It happened to meet the 28th Regiment led by Wang Erzhuo. encounter.The 28th Regiment is a regular army of the Nanchang Uprising, and its combat effectiveness is strong. It is not difficult to fight the enemy's battalion. The 29th regiment was ordered to meet the enemy quietly and quickly surrounded the enemy.

The twenty-ninth regiment formed by the rioting peasant army in southern Hunan, although the weapons were not good, many soldiers still held spears and broadswords, but they had a drive, and it was the first battle after going up the mountain, so they all fought bravely to be the first.Taking advantage of the opportunity of the enemy cooking, Xiao Ke led the battalion of spears, rushed into Huang'ao first, and caught the enemy by surprise.After a fierce battle, the enemy began to flee. Wang Erzhuo immediately led the 28th regiment to advance rapidly.According to Su Yu, who was in the 28th regiment at the time, recalled: "At that time we set out from Huang'ao and moved towards Suichuan. As soon as we came into contact, the enemy fled. At this time, Comrade Zhu De was with us, and he led us to run. On the one hand, they kept urging: 'Hurry up, hurry up!' We chased for 35 kilometers in one go." In the afternoon, the 28th regiment arrived at Wudoujiang.

The twenty-eighth regiment took over but did not fight, and it was indeed Zhu De's wonderful move to let the twenty-ninth regiment participate in the battle.Although the enemy's 81st regiment suffered a defeat in Huang'ao, its head Zhou Tiren didn't care about it after receiving the report. It was just some "red bandits" with spears and swords, and it was really not a problem.He ordered the whole regiment to march quickly and continue to advance towards Wudoujiang. Under the command of Wang Erzhuo, the 28th Regiment, which arrived at Wudoujiang before the enemy, had already occupied favorable terrain and was ready for battle.After the enemy entered the ambush circle, the 28th Regiment took advantage of the heavy fog after the heavy rain to quickly approach the enemy.With an order, the whole regiment launched an attack at the same time. The fierce firepower blindfolded the enemy at once. Only then did the enemy regiment leader know that he had encountered Zhu De's main force.The battle lasted only an hour, and the enemy collapsed.The Revolutionary Army of Workers and Peasants killed and wounded a number of enemies and seized hundreds of guns.

The battle of Wudoujiang disrupted Yang Ruxuan's position. He urgently ordered the remnants of the 81st Regiment to stop the Red Army in the area of ​​Beiling, and reluctantly transferred the 80th Regiment from Yongxin.However, the morale of the workers' and peasants' revolutionary army who had won the battle was high. Under the leadership of Zhu De, they went all out to pursue the enemy.After the 28th Regiment easily defeated the remnants of the enemy's 81st Regiment in Beiling, they approached Yongxin City.Under the fierce offensive of the revolutionary army, the defending enemy abandoned the city and fled.The 28th Regiment took advantage of the victory and broke into Yongxin City Pass. This was the first time that the Revolutionary Army of Workers and Peasants occupied Yongxin City.

The 79th Regiment of the enemy who invaded Qixiling also retreated to Ji'an in a hurry after learning that the 81st Regiment was defeated in Wudoujiang and Yongxin City was lost.Under the leadership of Mao Zedong and others, the 31st Regiment of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, which was fortifying at Qixiling, took advantage of the situation to follow and pursue it, and also came to Yongxin City.So far, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army has won a complete victory against the second "suppression". This was the first great victory achieved by the two armies after Zhu Mao joined forces.It not only completely shattered the second "suppression" of Jiangxi's enemy against the Jinggangshan revolutionary base, but also made the newly established Fourth Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army powerful, and the Jinggangshan base was further consolidated.

On May 2, Mao Zedong, who was in Yongxin City, wrote to the Central Committee. He happily wrote: "Yang Ruxuan, who pursued the Maoists, was driven to the border of Jiangxi by the Maoists. His 81st regiment was defeated at Wudoujiang in Suichuan , the 79th Regiment was disarmed by Mao, and the 3rd Battalion was also defeated by Zhubu in Yongxin. Now the 31st Regiment of Maobu also came from Ninggang, and the defeated enemy army in Yongxin, Ji'an, disarmed 300 troops this time. branch." After the Revolutionary Army of Workers and Peasants occupied Yongxin, they held a victory celebration meeting and announced the establishment of the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers Government of Yongxin County.After the meeting, Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Chen Yi, Wang Erzhuo, etc. decided to take advantage of this great opportunity to "adopt an in-depth strategy both internally and externally, and launch riots in nearby counties with Yongxin as the center. ), the army raised money to make clothes; it helped the localities launch workers’ and peasants’ uprisings, and established a workers’ and peasants’ regime to distribute land.” Thus, the 28th Regiment rested on the spot, and the 29th and 31st Regiments divided their troops into Yongxin The masses, assist the local workers', peasants' and soldiers' governments to set up farmers' associations, organize red guards and riot teams, and fight against local tyrants to divide the land.

Yongxin has since become another important area of ​​the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Base.