**Comment on Xiao Ke: Not honest!
In October 1934, the Red Army's Long March officially set sail. A month later, the Red Second Army led by ** and the Red Sixth Army under the command of Xiao Ke successfully joined forces in Xiangxi and jointly established the Red Army base area.
Since then, ** and Xiao Ke have joined hands to resist the siege of Xiangxi by the Kuomintang army several times, continuously expanding the scope of the base area, and attracting a large number of new recruits to join, from the initial 7,700 to 11,700 people.
What is even more worth mentioning is that the two corps have also jointly established administrative organs, hospitals, military academies, and arsenals, and the momentum is enormous. For a while, the brotherhood between the two was deeply touching.
However, everything in the world changes rapidly. In one battle, the two of them held different views, which led to the defeat of the battle, which left a rift in the friendly relationship between the two, and the opposite"Encirclement and suppression"Defeated again, the rift between them grew bigger and bigger.
So, which battle led to the estrangement and contradiction between the two of them? Let's unravel the mystery. Because the development of the Red Second and Red Sixth Army Corps in the Xiangxi region was too fast, it caused extreme dissatisfaction and anger on Chiang Kai-shek.
So, Lao Jiang angrily slapped the table and shouted: "Destroy the CCP Red Army in Xiangxi!" After careful consideration, Chiang Kai-shek ordered He Jian in Hunan and Xu Yuanquan in Hubei to launch a joint attack on the Red Army's base area in Xiangxi, in an attempt to attack from the north and south and eliminate the Red of ** and Xiao Ke.
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* and Xiao Ke did not panic when they received the news. Because they had already fought with He Jian and Xu Yuanquan before, they had an understanding of each other's tactics and command capabilities.
This battle is like a reunion of old friends. Of course, Xu Yuanquan and He Jian did not dare to take it lightly, because Chiang Kai-shek had warned them: "If you are defeated, come and see you!" ”
Therefore, they all sent their own elite troops, leaving only a small number of troops to guard their homes. It can be said that the Kuomintang troops in Hunan and Hubei gave all their strength for this campaign.
Red. Second, the total strength of the Red Sixth Army and some militias was about 10,000, while the Kuomintang Xu Yuanquan and He Jian dispatched 110,000 horses and horses ten times that of the Red Army, and this battle would be a life-and-death contest.
Before the war, red. 2. The Red Sixth Army urgently convened a military conference to discuss confrontation strategies. Unexpectedly, during the meeting, ** and Xiao Ke had a disagreement. ** Advocate detouring the outside line, thinking that it has a better chance of winning.
His strategy was that the Red Army first pretended to attack in the direction of Changde and Taoyuan, waited for work on the way, waited for the ** to chase after him, and then suddenly killed a horse pistol, so as to resolve the "encirclement and suppression".
* Insist on fighting on the outside line, annihilate through movement warfare **, try to hold the inside line. Xiao Ke, on the other hand, advocated the use of internal defense warfare and positional warfare. However, the operational directives of the Red Army were clearly opposed to purely defensive warfare, especially positional fortress warfare, and supported jumping out of the encirclement of ** and annihilating ** by mobile warfare.
It can be seen from this that the strategy of the Red Army is more in line with the proposition of the Red Army, while the tactics of Xiao Ke are very different from this, and even contrary to this.
*'s opinion was not taken up by the military council of Red 2 and Red 6, who decided to adopt an interior defense strategy to deal with the upcoming 110,000**. However, the battle did not go as smoothly as they expected.
The 62nd Division of Tao Guang of the Hunan and Hubei Kuomintang Army has been silent and red.
The Second and Sixth Army Corps could only wait anxiously. Although they had been trying to find an opportunity to annihilate the 62nd Division, it was not until March that they managed to defeat one of their regiments.
At the same time, other units of the Hunan and Hubei Kuomintang troops also took the opportunity to advance to the inner edge of the Red Army's base area in western Xiangxi, among which Li Jue's 19th Division was the most active.
* Upon receiving the news, and Shaw immediately ordered the troops to gather the elite, vowing to repel the 19th Division, otherwise there might be a threat from within the Red Army. After discussion, they decided to send a regiment to occupy the Jigongya Heights first, so as to take advantage of the advantageous terrain to destroy it when they crossed the Lishui.
The original tactic seemed to work, but in practice it ran into problems. Due to weather conditions, the decisive battle was postponed. In order to wait for a better time, ** and Xiao Ke decided to let the Red Army soldiers retreat fifteen miles and recuperate.
At the same time, they left behind a force of the Red 53rd Regiment, which was responsible for holding the Jigongya Heights. However, unexpectedly, this remaining unit left its position that night and went down the mountain to rest.
As a result, ** seized the opportunity to seize the heights of Jigongya and began to build fortifications. This affected the original tactics and deprived the Red Army of an important stronghold.
On March 21, 1941, General Li Jue ordered the 19th Division to cross Lishui and launched an attack on Houping Town. As a result, the fighting at Houping was postponed from March 20 to March 21.
At this critical moment, the Red 53rd Regiment found that the Jigongya Heights had been occupied by **, which made them both remorseful and angry, so they immediately launched an attack on **, and quickly dispatched signal troops to report the situation to ** and Xiao Ke.
However, red. Most of the troops of the 2nd and 6th Army Corps were resting fifteen miles away, and the help they brought was only a drop in the bucket, which increased the pressure on the Red 53rd Regiment.
In the fierce battle, although the Red 50th Regiment tried its best, it was never able to conquer the Jigongya Heights. Annoyed, Xiao Ke ordered the Red 51st Regiment to reinforce, but ** Li Jue saw that the Red 51st Regiment was menacing, and immediately mobilized the 19th Division to counterattack.
Seeing such a fierce offensive, ** was not to be outdone, and commanded the Red Second Army to launch a fierce attack. However, ** occupies the high ground and the firepower is strong, making the red.
Second, it was difficult for the units of the Sixth Army Corps to break through.
Although ** and Xiao Ke tried to outflank them in a roundabout way, ** was too strong, which led to red.
The 2nd and 6th Army Corps failed to achieve significant results. In the end, ** decided to adopt positional warfare, with red.
The second and sixth legions fought hard to the end.
At dusk, the battle of Houping did not stop. However, the firepower of the Red Army began to weaken due to the prolonged duration, and a part of the ** forces had also crossed the Lishui with the intention of attacking the Red.
The 2nd and 6th Army Corps were outflanked.
* And Xiao Ke gradually realized that the fighting on the rear flat was very bad for the Red Army. Faced with this situation, the Red Army could only slowly withdraw from the battlefield. ** After discovering that the gunfire and fire of the Red Army had weakened, it was mistakenly believed that the Red Army had retreated.
However, **due to his experience, he did not immediately catch up, but chose to keep the confrontation in place in case the Red Army suddenly **. This strategy happens to be red.
The Second and Sixth Army Corps provided valuable time for evacuation.
This may be a coincidence.
The battle of Houping was a very unfavorable battle for the Red Army, **500 people, while the Red Army's ** reached 800 people, and several Red Army cadres were sacrificed, which made the Red Army's base in Xiangxi shrink.
However, afterwards, Xiao Ke claimed that the battle was a draw, and ** believed that the reason for the defeat was due to the failure to follow the instructions of the **Red Army, especially the Red 53 Regiment of the Red 6th Army Corps privately abandoned the Jigongya Heights, which led to the defeat of the battle.
For this battle, ** commented that Xiao Ke's introspection was not honest enough.