Fu Qiutao fled in southern Anhui and was rescued by the Qing Gang
Click to follow, share together, feel different sense of participation, thank you for your support. On January 4, 1941, the Southern Anhui Incident broke out, and more than 9,000 officers and men of the New Fourth Army were surrounded by more than 80,000 troops and seven divisions of the Kuomintang.
On the land of China, a sad song of the Chinese cruelty to the Chinese was sung for seven days and seven nights. After the end of the war, only about 2,000 of the 9,000-strong troops managed to break through.
The commanders of the remaining two columns of the New Fourth Army were killed and captured, and only the commander of the first column, Fu Qiutao, led a team of eleven people to successfully break through. As the only senior general who broke through the encirclement, how did Fu Qiutao break out of the encirclement surrounded by more than 80,000 troops?
How many hardships and obstacles have you experienced in this process?
In 1937, the Japanese invaded, and the Kuomintang and the Communist Party began a second cooperation to jointly resist Japan. On the surface, the two sides were united, but in fact, Chiang Kai-shek had a ghost in his heart and wanted to set up a stumbling block in the process of resisting Japan and deplete the strength of our army.
In October 1940, he demanded that the New Fourth Army withdraw to Jicha and Jicha provinces, where the disaster and war were equally important. At the urging of **, Xiang Ying and others decided to cross the river and go north in early January 1941.
On the one hand, the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui was assembled, ready to go, waved goodbye to the local villagers, and prepared to embark on a new journey. On the other side, the **40th Division commanded by Shangguan Yunxiang was advancing from Sanxi Town in the direction of the New Fourth Army.
The two armies are moving against each other, one just to move safely, while the other has a bad heart, and a cruel tragedy is about to unfold. Therefore, whether it can arrive in Maolin before the early morning and get rid of the pursuit of the first has become a key factor in determining the life and death of the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui.
Due to days of rain and strong water, the soldiers arrived in the Maolin area on 5 January. The leadership of the army, not knowing that ** had already surrounded them, decided to rest here for a day.
However, this decision allowed ** to further shrink the encirclement. On the 6th, Shangguan Yunxiang ordered ** to surround Maolin from four directions, intending to surround the exhausted and powerless New Fourth Army.
Sure enough, the ** 40th Division occupied Xingtan before it was dark, and used strategic tricks to make the New Fourth Army have no way out.
Although Xiang Ying sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek, Gu Zhutong and Fang Riying, the commander of the 40th Division, with hope, imploring them to show high morale and preserve the anti-Japanese forces, what he got was a ruthless rain of bullets.
During a reconnaissance operation, the second column of the New Fourth Army suddenly encountered a fierce attack, which was their first confrontation with the ** unit that had been ambushed. The sudden attack caught the second column by surprise, and the reconnaissance squad suffered a serious **.
In the afternoon of the same day, the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui held an emergency operational meeting. Under the in-depth discussion of many generals, General Ye Ting decided to let all columns go into battle lightly, continue to advance to southern Jiangsu, and go all out to attack Xingtan.
After receiving the task, the columns immediately divided into separate actions according to the plan, the goal was to capture the three high grounds, and planned to gather all their forces before 12 o'clock to carry out a fierce attack on Xingtan.
However, in the face of the Kuomintang's 80,000-strong force, the New Fourth Army was unable to change its passive situation, although it used various tactics.
In the process of breaking through, the first column commanded by Fu Qiutao and the other two columns were subjected to heavy artillery bombardment, and the soldiers were so heavy that they were forced to retreat. In order to formulate the next step, an emergency meeting was held within the New Fourth Army, which lasted for seven hours, and not only failed to make any decisions, but only made the situation of the New Fourth Army even more critical.
At the same time, ** has formed a situation of encirclement and occupies a favorable position. While the New Fourth Army was hesitating, the direction of the new Fourth Army was very clear and it was speeding up the encirclement.
Everything seems to be pushing the New Fourth Army to the worst possible outcome.
In the early morning of the 8th, the New Fourth Army and ** fell into a stalemate battle in Gaotan, and **'s shells kept pouring down on the positions of the New Fourth Army, and several breakouts of the New Fourth Army were suppressed.
On the evening of the 11th, Ye Ting decided to lead his troops to Dongliushan, and asked the soldiers to quickly build fortifications, and ordered three fires as a code signal to indicate the occupation. However, the three fires also attracted **.
The result of the battle between a **scarce engineering company and a well-equipped ** was self-evident - the entire company, including the company commander and instructors, was killed.
On the small Dongliu Mountain, corpses were everywhere and blood flowed. Faced with such a tragic situation, Ye Ting held a final meeting on January 13 and decided to adopt a strategy of dispersing and breaking through.
Faced with the impregnable defense line of the Kuomintang, the New Fourth Army was unable to allow most of its troops to successfully break through. In order to ensure the safety of the soldiers, General Ye Ting bravely went to the enemy camp and negotiated with the enemy's division headquarters, and the result was **.
In addition, senior generals, including Deputy Army Commander Xiang Ying and Chief of Staff Zhou Zikun, all died bravely.
The Battle of Huangqiao laid the groundwork for the Southern Anhui Incident: the New Fourth Army vs. **.
In the face of complex and changeable domestic and international situations, Han Deqin had 15,000 troops, but he coveted the New Fourth Army. In the face of this information, Deputy Commander-in-Chief Su Yu put forward the strategy of "luring the enemy into depth, gathering and annihilating him," that is, three-quarters of the troops were used for attack and one-quarter of the troops were used for defense.
As a result, the New Fourth Army successfully implemented this strategy under the "green gauze tent" on the North Jiangsu Plain, winning more with less and fighting a classic battle.
After the Battle of Huangqiao, the ** Han Deqin Department suffered heavy losses and suffered heavy losses, including two officers with the rank of lieutenant general and above, Li Shouwei and Weng Da. Faced with defeat, Han Deqin sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek asking for peace, but Chiang replied with an elusive sentence: "Calm and stubborn, do not challenge."
However, behind this telegram that seemed to be a request for peace, there was a conspiracy of Chiang Kai-shek. He used the Battle of Huangqiao as an excuse to put forward a policy of regional resistance to the enemy, forcing the New Fourth Army to withdraw to the two provinces of Jicha, where the disaster and the war situation were equally important.
Faced with the threat of the Kuomintang Tang Enbo's 200,000 troops, the transfer of the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui to the north bank of the Yangtze River became the key to the negotiations. However, when the New Fourth Army was preparing to move north, it encountered a new battle - the Battle of Caodian.
This battle led to an attack by the New Fourth Army on Han Deqin's troops, which made Chiang Kai-shek furious, and ordered the New Fourth Army to withdraw from southern Anhui by December 31 for three consecutive days.
Life and death are at stake, and it is not easy for the New Fourth Army to move north. In the face of the steep terrain of Jing County in southern Anhui and the complex situation of the surrounding army, the New Fourth Army is faced with a difficult choice of how to go and when to go, which is not only related to the life and death of the New Fourth Army, but also involves the game between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.
Before the Battle of Caodian, due to the fact that the Kuomintang spread the news of the transfer of the New Fourth Army, which led to the rampant Japanese army on the Eastern Front, the New Fourth Army decided to change its route and shift from the Eastern Front to the Northern Front.
However, after Commander Ye Ting sent Zhang Yuanshou to lead a team across the river to reconnoitre, they found that the northern line was significantly superior to the eastern front in terms of mass base and distance, so they finally chose the northern line as the diversion route.
After careful consideration, the generals of the New Fourth Army decided to take it"The sound hits the west, and the darkness is Chencang", send a non-main team through the southern Jiangsu route to lure ** to distract attention.
The main force secretly crossed north at the time of negligence, and finally successfully realized the transfer. However, after the Battle of Caodian, Chiang Kai-shek realized that the New Fourth Army might attack Han Deqin's troops on its way north, so he ordered that the New Fourth Army be forbidden to move north and south through the Soviet Union.
At the same time, the army of Li Pinxian of the Gui family was also constantly flexing its force in the northern line of the Yangtze River in an attempt to confuse the New Fourth Army.
Due to the obstruction of the eastern front, the complicated situation of the northern route, and the long distance of the western route, the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui finally chose the southern route plan. However, they did not foresee the enemy's trap, and the Kuomintang had already laid a net on this line, and the troops of the ** general Shangguan Yunxiang were ambushed here, waiting for their arrival.
In December 1940, Chiang Kai-shek ordered General Gu Zhutong and Shangguan Yunxiang, the general staff of the Third Theater, to mobilize about 80,000 troops from seven divisions, including the 40th Division and the 7th Division, to plan to encircle the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui.
On the road of moving toward the New Fourth Army, they made clear their objectives and strived to wipe out the New Fourth Army in one fell swoop. At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek in Chongqing invited *** to talk, which on the surface seemed to be a reunion of old friends, but in fact he was putting pressure on the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui to urge them to go north as soon as possible.
Chiang Kai-shek could not wait to lead the New Fourth Army into a trap of his own elaborate design. In the end, after careful consideration, the leaders of the New Fourth Army decided to set off from Maolin and Ningguo on the night of January 4, 1941, and cross the river to the north through southern Jiangsu.
The danger ahead should not be underestimated, and an elaborate trap awaits. In the end, of the more than 9,000 people of the New Fourth Army, only more than 2,000 successfully broke through, and Fu Qiutao's first column was among them, and they were also the column with the largest number of high-ranking cadres who broke through.
And this miracle happened because of an accident. On the first night of the first column led by Fu Qiutao to move north, it encountered an unprecedented crisis, and in the battle with **, the radio station was damaged by bullets, resulting in the loss of contact with the headquarters.
Despite the damage to the radio station, Fu Qiutao took action during the "seven-hour meeting" and made full use of the opportunity to break through. However, at the time of the decisive battle, Fu Qiutao's deputy Zhao Lingbo betrayed and defected to the enemy.
Prior to this, Zhao Lingbo had repeatedly blocked Fu Qiutao's breakthrough plan, so that the first column was surrounded by the Kuomintang army.
At the moment of internal and external difficulties, Fu Qiutao was not afraid of danger, organized and convened the "Zikeng Conference", and decisively formulated a complete plan to break through to the southern Jiangsu region. He first sent the experienced Zhang Gongxiu to lead the fighters of the new regiment to break through to the northwest, and then used his guerrilla warfare tactics to let some of the fighters blend into the crowd, so that ** could not track their whereabouts.
After many hardships, the group successfully avoided the pursuit of the enemy. General Fu Qiutao wittily split the 1,000-strong army into small detachments of 10 people, each of which broke through separately and safely hid the women and children accompanying the army in the homes of local people.
Fu Qiutao's daughter was also settled in the villager's home, and was not reunited until the end of the Liberation War. After more than a month of arduous trekking, Fu Qiutao's squad finally reunited with the large forces of the New Fourth Army after breaking through the siege.
In his later years, Fu Qiutao recalled a special experience, saying that during the month he was on the run, he had received help from two strangers. When he and his companions took refuge in a ravine in Xuancheng, two faces that he had a slight impression of suddenly appeared.
After talking, he learned that these two were disciples of Chen Yugeng, the boss of the local Qinghong Gang. It turned out that as early as June 1938, the old regiment had gone to the Jiangnan area to conduct reconnaissance and successfully eliminated a bandit.
Fu Qiutao caught Chen Yugeng's younger brother during the operation, but due to the principle of unity against Japan and the fact that Chen Yugeng's younger brother had no evil deeds, Fu Qiutao decided to release him.
Fu Qiutao's acquaintance with Chen Yugeng and the resources provided by Chen Yugeng for the old regiment helped Fu Qiutao and his entourage find a path under the noses of the **52nd Division with the help of two gang members, and successfully arrived in southern Jiangsu to join the large army.
The new regiment led by Zhang Gongxiu was first sent by Fu Qiutao, and 200 people successfully broke through. This friendship and the provision of resources are the key to their success.
Fu Qiutao's breakthrough plan saved the lives of many cadres, and these heroic revolutionary fighters played a vital role in the revival and growth of the New Fourth Army. The darkness before dawn and the tragedy of the Southern Anhui Incident did not make the Chinese Communists retreat, but allowed the New Fourth Army to be reborn in suffering.
Countless warriors like Fu Qiutao stood tall in the war, looking as usual in the face of the bullets of the Japanese army and **, holding high the red flag in blood and tears.
On the long road of the development of New China, it is precisely the countless soldiers who are not afraid of danger and the countless ancestors who are not afraid of hardships and dangers and strong enemies that have enabled our party to win the victory of the revolution and allowed China to usher in the dawn of the people.
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