I believe that many people are definitely no strangers to the Breaking Guard Division. The Desperate Guard Division is talking about the Red 34th Division, which was formed in the spring of 1933.
In October 1934, due to the failure of the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression, the Red Army had no choice but to embark on the road of the Long March, and the Red 34th Division was the general guard of the whole army. On November 27th, the Red 34th Division took over the defense of the maple foot, in the next two consecutive days, the Red 34th Division continued to fight for two days and nights, in order to cover the Red Army to cross the Xiangjiang River, and made great contributions, but due to the crazy encirclement and interception of the Kuomintang Army, the Red 34th Division failed to get rid of the enemy's attack, and after the passage through the Xiangjiang River was cut off by the enemy, the Red 34th Division fought alone, and finally more than 6,000 people in the division were annihilated.
Division commander Chen Shuxiang was captured by the Kuomintang army due to his serious injuries, and took advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness to cut off the intestines exposed by the abdominal wound with his hands, and broke his intestines at the age of 29. Among the last survivors of the Red 34th Division, only Han Wei, the commander of the 100th Regiment, Hu Wenxuan, the political commissar of the 3rd Battalion, and Li Jinshan, the communicator of the 5th Company, escaped by jumping off a cliff and falling on a tree.
In the entire Xiangjiang Campaign, the Red 34th Division served as the task of the general rearguard, and the 100th Regiment served as the task of frontal blocking of the whole division, and later in the process of breaking through, it served as the task of flank cover for the Red 34th Division, and the whole regiment had more than 1,600 people at the time of departure, and most of them died in the end, and only the regiment commander Han Wei survived.
Han Weichu was born in Huangpi, Hubei Province in 1906, participated in the Anyuan miners' strike in 1922, joined the Communist Party of China in 1926, and served as a soldier in the Ye Ting Independent Regiment, and later was introduced to join the National Revolutionary Army Second Front Army Guard Regiment as a platoon commander, the head of the department was Lu Deming, who graduated from the first phase of Whampoa, because Chiang Kai-shek launched the April 12 counter-revolutionary coup, the Communists were determined to have their own arms, so they launched the Nanchang Uprising on August 1.
Under the leadership of Lu Deming, the guard regiment was also going to participate in the Nanchang Uprising, but after arriving in Fengxin County, it was learned that the rebel army had gone south to Guangzhou, so it could only stay in the local area to recuperate, and later participated in the Autumn Harvest Uprising, although the uprising suffered a huge failure, but Han Wei always adhered to one heart, and later followed *** to Jinggangshan, after the reorganization of Sanwan, the whole army of 700 people was reduced to a regiment, Han Wei served as the platoon commander of the first regiment of the first division of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army.
Later, Han Wei also served as the first guard platoon commander, when the whole army won the battle, defeated Liu Shiyi's two regiments, and decided to issue silver dollars for the whole army, but there were a total of 6,008 people in the whole army, and only 6,000 silver dollars, ** and others took the lead in deciding not to, and after Han Wei heard about it, he was also determined to take out his own silver dollars. ”
In fact, from the perspective of qualifications, Han Wei participated in the revolution early, but since the first battle of Xiangjiang, Han Wei's Red 34th Division was almost wiped out, although he escaped, but also lost contact with the army, no way, Han Wei can only return to his hometown and wait for the opportunity, but the opportunity did not wait, Han Wei was betrayed by a traitor and was imprisoned in the Wuhan Kuomintang prison, because of the insistence on fighting in prison, and the Kuomintang did not know the identity of Han Wei's Red Army cadres.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, under the unanimous request of our party, Han Wei was released, arrived in Yan'an after a lot of hardships, and was arranged to study at Kang University.
During the Liberation War, Han Wei successively served as the commander of the Rehe Military Region and the commander of the Rehe Column, the deputy commander of the second column of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, the commander of the 67th Army, and was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in 1955.
It's just that Han Wei always remembers that the Red 34th Division fought the tragic scene of the Xiangjiang River, because the Red 34th Division was originally adapted from the Western Fujian Guerrillas, so before his death, Han Wei left a wish to be buried with the martyrs who died in Western Fujian, and after Han Wei's death in 1992, Han Wei's son Han Jingjing made a special trip from Beijing to send the general's ashes to the Western Fujian Revolutionary Cemetery for burial.