"I don't want to see the scene of cannibalism and siblings, but in August 1927, such a heart-wrenching scene occurred outside Huichang, Jiangxi. "(2) The sound of gunfire in the Iron Army shook the world Ninety-four years ago in August, Nanchang City was in the scorching heat, people sat under the trees in twos and threes to enjoy the shade and chat, and some people ate watermelon under the shed.
Suddenly, a neat and well-equipped army slowly entered the city, arousing the curiosity of the people. This unit is the army of Ye Ting, the heroic and combative "Iron Army" in the Northern Expedition.
At two o'clock in the evening, more than 20,000 rebel officers and soldiers led by Ye Ting and others conquered Nanchang City in one fell swoop and fired the first shot against the Kuomintang reactionaries.
After fierce fighting, the uprising was successful, and the defending enemy was completely annihilated. However, the rebel forces were then counterattacked by the Kuomintang. This victory shocked both home and abroad, and Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Ching-wei were so shocked that they hurriedly dispatched troops to prepare to destroy the insurrectionary forces.
The Kuomintang Zhang Fakui and Zhu Peide marched to Nanchang to prepare for encirclement and suppression. Faced with such a situation, the rebel troops withdrew from Nanchang in batches according to the original plan, waved their troops south, and advanced to the Dongjiang River in Guangdong, intending to gain a firm foothold, develop their forces, and then seek an opportunity to occupy Guangzhou.
This plan and line of insurrection basically imitated the model of the Soviet Russian revolution, which first occupied the big cities and then carried out the flowering of the center. Although this model was proven in the October Revolution, it was not successful in China at that time.
During that particular period, the number of cities in China was limited, and rural areas were the main battlefield. Several large cities to the south are occupied by warlords, who keep us out with powerful armies.
If we do it head-on, our limited forces and resources will be difficult to compete with them. They will be wary of any development on our part, and they will use heavy troops to encircle and suppress us, vowing to achieve their goals.
Soon after we left Nanchang, Cai Tingkai defected, purged the Communists from the army and defected to the Kuomintang. This is an existential test, and it is also the process of the great waves of revolution, and those who are not determined are screened out, and those who are left are staunch revolutionaries.
Cai Tingkai's temporary entry was only because he was afraid of the military pressure of ** and Ye Ting's troops, and lacked firm belief in the road of revolution. However, his betrayal led to the Kuomintang's intimate knowledge of our army's strategic intentions and marching routes, which made it extremely difficult for the rebel army to move south.
This not only laid the groundwork for the later Battle of Huichang and the Battle of Sanheba, but also greatly reduced the strength of the rebel army. At the same time, the hasty evacuation of Nanchang, the scorching heat of the march, and the loss of ordnance reduced the number of the rebel army from more than 20,000 to more than 10,000.
The internal and external difficulties of the rebel army have greatly weakened their strength. On August 26, 1927, the rebels occupied the county seat of Ruijin. They learned from the captured enemy documents that Li Jishen of the Guangdong Department had mobilized about 10,000 people from three divisions and nine regiments of Qian Dajun's division to build fortifications on the front line of Huichang Mountain, hoping to stop the rebel army and destroy it in Huichang.
More than 10,000 people from the Huang Shaohong Division of the Gui Army, another unit, are also rushing in this direction, and they will soon arrive, and a big battle of brothers and swords is about to begin.
The two armies are facing each other, how can they be comrades-in-arms again? How can comrades-in-arms meet each other? This is because most of the commanders on both sides graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy. Sun Yat-sen drew on the experience of Soviet Russia, and with the help of Soviet Russia, the Whampoa Military Academy was established on June 16, 1924 on Changzhou Island, Huangpu, Guangzhou.
Sun Yat-sen hoped to train a group of military talents, and use these military talents as the backbone to create a revolutionary army loyal to the party. Sun Yat-sen once said at the opening ceremony: "We opened this school to use the students in it as the foundation to form a revolutionary army, and in the future, you will be the backbone of the revolutionary army."
Only with the creation of the Revolutionary Army can our revolution succeed. "After the establishment of the Whampoa Military Academy, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party regarded it as a treasure, and watered it with blood and sweat to cultivate many talents.
In this school, everyone trains and lives together, and although they come from all over the world, they quickly get acquainted with each other. During the subsequent National Revolution, many officers developed a deep sense of camaraderie in battle.
But the good times did not last long, Chiang Kai-shek launched a counter-revolutionary coup d'état, ** Communists. The students parted ways for political and religious reasons, but before that, a large number of students had formed a deep friendship with each other, and this friendship did not disappear immediately because of political reasons.
Now that the former classmates are going to meet each other in life and death, many people will inevitably die in this battle. Both sides are a little unbearable, even if they used to be classmates with deep feelings, and even like brothers.
However, military orders are like mountains, since you are a soldier, you take obedience to orders as your duty, whether you are a classmate or a brother, you have to shoot at the other party when you put on a military uniform and go to the battlefield.
Huang Shaohong of the Gui family is okay, most of them are Guangxi soldiers, and there are relatively few officers from Huangpu. However, many of the officers in the unit led by Qian Dajun were drawn and reorganized from the previous instructors of Huangpu, and most of the officers in it graduated from the Huangpu Military Academy.
And the force that blocked Qian Dajun was Chen Geng's battalion. Chen Geng was a student of the first phase of Whampoa and also saved Chiang Kai-shek. He is the first batch of students, and the opposite is either his classmate or his junior, not to mention that he is also Chiang Kai-shek's life-saving benefactor, which makes it a little difficult for anyone to do.
3) Saving one's life in a hurry In the face of the enemy's menacing offensive, there were more than 20,000 people, and they besieged the rebel army together. In view of the fact that another group of enemies had not yet reached Hoi Chang, the rebel army decided to attack this group of enemies in Hoi Chang first.
In accordance with the deployment of the rebel army, it was decided to send two regiments to attract the enemy and cover the 25 division, which was the main attack. However, at this time, a mistake was made, and the 25th Division was lost due to the night march.
The two regiments of the rebel army, which were feigned, could not be supported, and the feint became the main attack, and they had to face the siege of the enemy's four regiments. Before the battle, the Whampoa students in the enemy army on the opposite side were shouting the names of the Whampoa students in the rebel army, constantly persuading, and talking about what had happened when they were classmates in the past.
Some said that they were fellow villagers and began to talk about the past; Some talk about how good the Kuomintang is on its side, and the future of the Kuomintang is unknown...... thereIn short, their purpose was to hope that someone in our army would be able to surrender, and they were ashamed to say that President Chiang promised not to blame the past, but no one in our army stood up.
The classmates who had a deep relationship at the beginning are now forced to meet on the battlefield and make enemies of each other. This is indeed a little unbearable to think about, and the officers on both sides are somewhat uncomfortable, but this is a matter of position, and everyone knows it very well in their hearts.
Because the 25th Division was lost, it was no longer possible to raid the enemy, and the gap between the forces of the two sides was suddenly large. Faced with such a situation, the two regiments could not resist the enemy's attack, so they had to choose to take the initiative to transfer, and the 1st Battalion led by Chen Geng was responsible for blocking the attack.
In the face of so many enemies, although Chen Geng was brave, there was no way, and his team would be exhausted if he continued to fight, so he had to order the whole battalion to retreat. He and his adjutant Lu Dongsheng were responsible for covering the withdrawal of the troops, and the enemy rushed up.
4) Despite the victory in the Battle of Huichang in Jinggangshan, the losses of the rebel army were not small. After all, the number of rebel troops was limited, while the Kuomintang was constantly reinforced.
The rebels' dream of going south to Guangdong to establish a base had been shattered, so they were forced to retreat to Ruijin and prepare to enter Guangdong from the western Fujian region. However, the enemy's forces are too strong, and if they continue to move south, they will face the danger of being encircled and suppressed.
However, the Chinese Revolution was still following the Soviet model, emphasizing the capture of central cities in order to expand its influence. In the process of continuing to move south, the situation was serious, and many unfavorable factors hindered their progress.
We are still copying the Soviet model and have not found a development path suited to China's national conditions. In the end, the rebel army suffered constant setbacks and gradually weakened its strength as it moved south.
Although they occupied Chaozhou and Shantou for a time, they were eventually recaptured by the enemy. The remaining rebel army, under the leadership of ** and **, moved to the border of Guangdong, Jiangxi, and Hunan.
However, the Communists did not give up, they continued to explore, ** led the troops of the Autumn Harvest Uprising to Jinggangshan, and established a base in the place where the enemy's ruling forces were weak.
* Led the rebel troops to Jinggang Mountain, and the two armies converged, and their strength grew stronger day by day.
We have blazed a very different path from the Soviet Union, encircling the cities through the countryside and expanding our base areas, like a spark that quickly ignites the prairies.