In January 1932, after the Red 4th Front Army inflicted heavy losses on the Kuomintang army on the southern front, it decided to strike back at the northern front, attack the Kuomintang army in the northern part of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet Region, seize **, and connect the Hubei-Henan border and the western Anhui base area. The Kuomintang army occupied the southeastern part of Henan with heavy troops, and was garrisoned by 3 divisions and 1 brigade. The main force of the 12th Division was located in the urban area of Huangchuan, and the 2nd Division and the 33rd Brigade were fortified on the first line of Fuliudian, Tofudian (now Du Fudian) and Jiangjiaji on the Shanghuang Highway southeast of Beiya Port; The main forces of the 58th Division are located in **; The 45th Division was fortified in the Gushi area north of ** and west of Huangchuan, and was at the corner of the Shang and Huang defenders.
* Heavy defense, the Red Fourth Front Army mobilized a total of four divisions to attack with all their might. After some testing, the Red Army found that the first troops were concentrated, and the fortifications were strong, which was not conducive to a strong attack, so Chen Changhao, the commander-in-chief of the Red Fourth Front Army, decided to change the deployment, from the siege to the siege of the city to send reinforcements, first cut off the connection between the defenders of the two cities of ** and Huangchuan, and put the direction of reinforcement mainly on the Huangchuan side of the enemy's large number of troops, waiting for the opportunity to send reinforcements, and the camera captured ** after the victory of the reinforcements.
From the 19th to the 22nd, the Red 11th Division captured Beiya Port after fierce fighting, and the enemy's 2nd Division shrank along the Shanghuang Highway to the line of Tofudian, Jiangjiaji, and Shuangchunshu, in an attempt to move closer to the 58th Division stationed in **. On the 23rd, the Red 73rd Division advanced from the east and the Red 12th Division advanced from the west, and the enemy's 2nd Division and the 33rd Brigade fled back to Huangchuan. The Red 4th Front took control of the Shanghuang Highway and severed the connection between ** and Gushi. Subsequently, the Red Army surrounded ** with the 73rd Division and the 10th Division, creating a great siege momentum and attracting reinforcements from the enemy army in Huangchuan; At the same time, 1 regiment of the 10th Red Division arrived near Huangchuan to lure it to help, and the main force was secretly assembled in the Tofudian area to standby.
On 7 February, Zhang Fan led 3 divisions and 1 brigade to aid the enemy, with a total of 19 regiments dispatched from Huangchuan, with the 13th Division and the 33rd Brigade on the left road, and the division on the right through Huanggu Avenue to the south, and the Shanghuang Highway to advance. Seeing that ** was hooked, the Red Army immediately prepared to meet the battle, and chose the battlefield to eliminate the reinforcements in the tofu shop.
Tofu shop is located at the junction of Shang and Huang counties, and is a small village with only a dozen households. The road here is tortuous, the ditch is undulating, the tributary of the Chun River in the east, the Bailu River in the west, a forest in the south, a high post in the north, is called the gateway of Dabie Mountain, the fortress of Shanghuang Highway.
According to the order of the headquarters of the 4th Front Army of the Red Army, the 12th Division set up a position on the high ground around Tofudian and acted as a frontal blockade, and the 73rd Division, which was besieging the city, placed the 12th Division on the right side of the 12th Division and on the left side of the 12th Division, waiting for an opportunity to outflank the enemy from both flanks.
On the morning of the 8th, the enemy's right route army advanced from Fuliudian to Tofu Shop, and the Left Route Army also extended south to the Luojia and Fangjia lines in the northeast of Tofu Shop. At 9 o'clock, the enemy's right army division exchanged fire with the Red 12th Division. Speaking of the **2nd Division, it is famous. He was Chiang Kai-shek's descendant, and the first division commander was Gu Zhutong, and the division commander at this time was Tang Enbo, who was later known as one of the "water, drought and yellow soup" in Henan. The 2nd Division was well equipped, and the infantry all used Japanese-made "38-style" rifles, which were definitely heavyweight advanced ** in that era. However, if you want to talk about the commander of the 12th Division of the Red Army, it is even bigger and more famous than Tang Enbo, he is the founding general Chen Geng, who has been waiting here for a long time.
Seeing that the Red Army had already laid an ambush, ** did not show weakness, and rushed to the Red Army position non-stop with a rifle under the cover of machine guns and artillery. Again and again, again and again, they were repulsed. The sound of cannons, gunfire, shouts, and screams mingled and drifted over the gloomy earth. At 17 o'clock in the afternoon, the 32nd Regiment of the 11th Red Division seized the Fuliudian ferry on the Bailu River, and the 30th Regiment of the 10th Red Division penetrated directly into Liuzhai and surrounded the command post of the Kuomintang Army. At this time, ** couldn't bear it, gradually showed timidity, after night, he couldn't take care of reinforcements**, his life was critical, and he hurriedly broke through and fled back to Huangchuan under the cover of night. On the 9th, the Red 4th Front pursued to the outskirts of Huangchuan, killing, wounding and capturing more than 4,000 enemies and surrendering more than 2,000 guns. On the 10th, the enemy's 58th Division saw that there was no hope for reinforcements, gave up **, and fled to Macheng.
In this battle, there was another Red Army division commander who could not fail to mention, he was the founding general Wang Shusheng, who was the commander of the 11th Division of the Red Army at that time. In the fierce battle, Wang Shusheng was seriously wounded, and when the political commissar Gan Jishi found him in the pile of corpses, he was unconscious, covered in blood, holding a large knife in his right hand and a pistol with empty bullets in his left hand. It turned out that a bullet entered Wang Shusheng's shoulder blade and passed through the waist, almost hitting the heart, but fortunately, it was fateful! But his two brothers were not so lucky, and were killed in the rebellion.