In May 1935, the Red Army's Long March came to the Dadu River and fell into"There is a cliff in front of it, and there is a heavy army to intercept it in the back".in a desperate situation.
With far more courage than ordinary people, 22 Red Army warriors launched a decisive charge to the opposite bank with only 13 iron cables on the Luding Bridge.
The rain of bullets on the other side could not break the determination of the soldiers to win, and the raging fire could not stop the pace of the warriors' charge, and they exchanged their blood for the desperate survival of the Red Army.
Luding Bridge. The heroic story of the Red Army's capture of the Luding Bridge is exciting, but looking back on this history, it is inevitable that people will have such questions:Since the enemy has time to dismantle the planks of the Luding Bridge, why not just blow up the bridge?
In fact, Chiang Kai-shek had already given an order to the Sichuan warlord Liu Wenhui to blow up the bridge, but Liu Wenhui did not follow the order in the end
Liu Wenhui. 
In May 1935, under the siege of the National Army and the Sichuan Army, the Red Army was forced to march to the Anshun Field of the Dadu River. The water of the Dadu River is turbulent, and the high mountains on both sides of the river are steep, which is a very dangerous area.
Shi Dakai, the former general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was chased and besieged by the Qing soldiers, and finally ended up with the annihilation of the entire army. Chiang Kai-shek's remarks were to regard the Red Army as "Shi Dakai's second" and to annihilate the main force of the Red Army in one fell swoop in this dangerous and isolated place.
At this time, it was the flood season of the Dadu River, and the river was rolling and roaring like a dragon, and the Red Army was unable to build a bridge.
To make matters worse, the enemy pulled away the nearby boats early, and the Red Army soldiers walked around and found only three small wooden boats, which would have taken at least a few weeks to get all the troops across the river.
However, the Dadu River was not a place to stay for long, and on the night of May 25, the Red Army invited an old talent who had witnessed the fall of Shidakai.
Speaking of the events of the year, the old man talked eloquently: "Shi Dakai has been delayed here for too long, and the fighter plane has been delayed. There is a river blocking the road in front, an unclimbable cliff on the left, a surging Dadu River on the right, and a Qing army encircling it behind.
In other words, if the Red Army wants to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, it must leave this dangerous place as soon as possible.
**, Mr. Zhu deeply learned the lessons of Shi Dakai, decided to change the original plan to cross the river, and sent the 4th Regiment of the 2nd Red Division to march quickly to seize the Luding Bridge.
On May 27, the Red 4th Regiment immediately marched in the direction of Luding Bridge, but due to the steep terrain along the way and the remnants of the Sichuan Army, they only marched more than 80 miles.
On May 28, the 1st Red Army issued another urgent order:"The Left Route Army (i.e., the Red 4th Regiment) was limited to capture the Luding Bridge before the 29th. ”This meant that the Red 4th Regiment had to march for the next day and night240 miles.
Whether or not the Luding Bridge can be taken is a matter of survival for the Red Army. Wang Kaixiang and Yang Chengwu ordered the troops to speed up the march and "finish the two hundred and four and rush to the Luding Bridge", which became the only goal of the soldiers of the whole regiment.
The mountain road is winding, rugged, muddy and slippery, and the road is surrounded by the turbulent Dadu River.
The river rolled up a heavy turbid wave, crashing against the rock walls on both sides like a thunderstorm, and the sky was gloomy and terrible, and the warriors had no time to admire this stunning natural spectacle, but to march with their heads in a hurry.
On this day, it was dark very early, and it was pouring rain at night, and the rain drenched the soldiers. In the dark and rainy night, the warriors could only hear each other's heavy, rapid breathing.
When they were hungry, they hurriedly grabbed a handful of rice nuts, and when they were thirsty, they held the rain in their hands and sent it to their mouths, with only one belief in their hearts: "After walking two hundred and four, rush to Luding Bridge!."”
Suddenly, there was a flash of fire on the other side of the dark river, and then it burned into a long line, and it turned out that the enemy troops were also marching.
After seeing the ranks of the Red Army, the other party immediately blew the trumpet and asked vigilantly: "Hey, what kind of troops are you?"What for?”
Seeing this, the Red Army soldiers immediately lit torches and rushed forward desperately. The firelight on both sides of the strait illuminated the long night, like a swimming dragon towards the Luding Bridge, starting a shocking race of life and death.
In the early morning of the 29th, the Red 4th Regiment finally arrived on the west bank of the Luding Bridge, creating a miracle in the history of the march.
But the enemy who was guarding the Luding Bridge had already sucked away the planks from the bridge, leaving only 13 iron cables braving the cold light, and the raging Dadu River under it was in full view.
The defenders on the other side of the river thought they had a chance of victory, and set up their machine guns and shouted frantically: "As long as you have the ability to fly over, we will surrender our guns!"”
In order to smoothly seize the bridge and not leave the enemy a chance to reinforce, Wang Kaixiang and Yang Chengwu immediately organized a meeting of cadres. When distributing the task of seizing the bridge, the cadres of each company and platoon enthusiastically signed up, and Wang Kaixiang finally designated the second company to organize the commando.
Liao Dazhu, the commander of the second company, was overjoyed and hurriedly selected 21 Red Army warriors from the company to serve as the leader of the commando team.
The battle began at 4 p.m., and 22 commandos armed with submachine guns and more than a dozen grenades on their bodies resolutely stepped onto the Luding bridge in the midst of the trumpeters of the whole regiment.
The rope shook violently, and the slightest mistake on the part of the warriors would fall into the rapids below.
The enemy, too, noticed the movements of the Red Army at this time, and began to fire wildly at the bridge, the bullets whizzing past the ears of the soldiers, clanging on the iron cables.
The soldiers braved the rain of bullets, stepped on the shaking iron cables, gritted their teeth and charged forward. The third company followed the pace of the assault team, laying planks as they climbed forward.
Seeing the commandos rushing unstoppably, the enemy on the opposite bank was suddenly distracted and directly lit a fire on the opposite bank.
The howling wind in the high gorge fueled the fire, and the skylight reflected the whole sky red, and the iron ropes were also burned with flames.
Seeing this scene, Yang Chengwu couldn't help but stand up and shouted to the commandos who were about to rush to the bridge:"Comrades!The enemy is down!Rush!Rush!”
Liao Dazhu, the leader of the commando team, jumped up and shouted angrily: "Forward!."Then he rushed towards the sea of fire without hesitation.
The soldiers were excited, shouting: "Rush!."Forward!"One by one, they threw themselves into the fire.
The enemy in the bridgehead fortifications was frightened by the Red Army warriors and ran towards the city gate, and the Red Army successfully took the Luding Bridge.
After the bridge was laid, the soldiers of the Red 4th Regiment rushed towards the opposite bank one after another, and in just two hours wiped out most of the enemy in the city, and the remaining stragglers fled in confusion.
On the third day of the Luding Bridge, the Red Army rushed to the side of the Luding Bridge, and thousands of troops and horses crossed the Dadu River from the Luding Bridge one after another.
Chiang Kai-shek was extremely angry when he heard the news, and he had already personally ordered Liu Wenhui to blow up the Luding Bridge, but Liu Wenhui did not carry it out in the end.
Although nominally, Liu Wenhui belonged to the ** camp, but in fact he was not of the same heart as Chiang Kai-shek.
Liu Wenhui worked hard in Chuankang for more than 20 years, with more than 100,000 troops, so naturally he would not regard the Red Army that "went north by the way" as a mortal enemy, and it was Chiang Kai-shek's ** army that could really threaten his status as the "king of the southwest" at that time.
On May 3, 1935, the Red Army crossed the Jinsha River and entered Liu Wenhui's 24th Army Defense Zone. Chiang Kai-shek attached great importance to this and telegraphed Liu Wenhui.
"Hold on to the danger, block head-on and set up ambushes in the pass. ”However, Liu Wenhui had his own considerations, and had the experience of the Guizhou warlord Wang Jialie, and Liu Wenhui believed that Chiang Kai-shek wanted to take the opportunity to intervene in the Chuankang region.
Moreover, with only his own 24th Army, he could not defeat the Red Army at all, and he could only lose both sides under the hard fight, and Chiang Kai-shek would benefit from the fisherman.
Therefore, Liu Wenhui maintained a yang and yin attitude towards Chiang Kai-shek, and tried to preserve his own strength.
On May 25, Chiang Kai-shek received information that the main force of the Red Army occupied Anshun Field, and immediately sent an urgent telegram to Liu Wenhui, ordering him to supervise the strict defense of the headquarters, and wanted to besiege the main force of the Red Army here and become "Shi Dakai's second".
In order to cut off the possibility of the Red Army seizing the Luding Bridge, Chiang Kai-shek specially ordered Liu Wenhui to blow up the Luding Bridge in a vain attempt to besiege the main force of the Red Army in Anshun Field.
However, Liu Wenhui only removed the wooden planks on the bridge, believing that this would be enough to stop the Red Army's pace, and did not blow up the Luding Bridge according to Chiang Kai-shek's orders.
On the one hand, the Luding Bridge is of great historical and economic significance, and once Liu Wenhui is blown up, he will definitely become a historical sinner.
This chain bridge was built in the Kangxi period in order to open upExchanges between Sichuan and TibetAt the time of construction, the project was very huge, the process of building the bridge was extremely difficult, and the cost was even more expensive.
Since the construction of the Luding Bridge, it has played an important role in the first exchange between Sichuan and Tibet, and these huge taxes have naturally entered the pocket of Liu Wenhui, the "King of the Southwest".
Once the Luding Bridge is blown up, not only will the tax revenue shrink significantly, but the manpower and material resources required for subsequent reconstruction will also be very amazing, and Lao Jiang will obviously not pay for this huge amount of money.
On the other hand, the Red Army's combat quality far exceeded Liu Wenhui's imagination.
On May 27, he personally went to Hanyuan to supervise the battle, and sent Yuan Guorui to lead the fourth brigade to Luding Bridge to strengthen the defense, and the fourth trip to Longbapu and the 38th regiment rushed to Luding Bridge.
However, the Red Army actually passedTwo days and three nights of rapid marching, arrived before the Sichuan army and completed the task of capturing the bridge.
Of course, there is another point, most of the soldiers guarding the bridge are "two-spearmen", their combat effectiveness is extremely poor, and their will to fight is far inferior to that of the Red Army warriors who have experienced a hundred battles.
They thought that they could easily stop the Red Army to the opposite shore by relying on natural hazards and bare iron cables. But he didn't want the Red Army to be so brave, and he relied on these 13 iron cables to leap over the natural danger, and even the raging fire could not stop the Red Army's charge.
The victory of the Luding Bridge was not won by the enemy's mercy, but by the brave soldiers of the Red Army, who were quick and fearless in their sacrifice.
The iron cable bridge stands as before, the Dadu River rolls up a heavy storm, the sound of the waves is still roaring, as if singing the heroes of the bridge crossing in the past.
Salute to the heroes, the martyrs are immortal!
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