In 1933, in the Sichuan-Shaanxi anti-"three-way siege" and anti-"six-way siege", the Red Fourth Front Army flexibly used a variety of tactical guidelines under the command of the Red Army, completely annihilated the ambitions of the Sichuan warlords for the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet region, and by the way, consolidated and expanded the Soviet base area.
It's just that in the early stage of the battle, the Red Army was attacked by the warlord Tian Songyao and "retreated" and lost three cities in a row, so that Tian Songyao was overjoyed, and the good news spread frequently. Tian Songyao got carried away in Chiang Kai-shek's continuous awards, and even reported the name of Yun Daiying, who had been dead for 2 years, which caused Chiang Kai-shek to be furious, slapping the table and scolding.
What kind of tactics did the Red Fourth Front Army use to make Tian Songyao step by step into the trap of the Red Army, and even make such a stupid mistake?
Yun Daiying was one of the leaders of our party who joined the party in the early days of its founding, and was mainly engaged in the propaganda of new ideas and new culture. In 1924, in the first cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Yun Daiying was responsible for the unification of the two party fronts, and worked in the Shanghai Executive Department of the Kuomintang together with Xiang Jingyu and others.
In May 1926, Yun Daiying became the political chief instructor of the fourth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, which was greatly appreciated by the principal Chiang Kai-shek and actively wooed.
After the April 12 coup, Yun Daiying quickly criticized Chiang Kai-shek's counter-revolutionary behavior, participated in the Nanchang Uprising under the instructions of **, and led the Guangzhou Uprising in December of the same year, and was the secretary general of the Guangzhou Soviet**.
Later, Yun Daiying became the secretary of *** and the secretary general of the Propaganda Department, went deep into the white area where the enemy was located, and continued to carry out propaganda work.
In May 1930, Yun Daiying was discovered and arrested by the Kuomintang in Shanghai while distributing progressive leaflets and newspapers. Yun Daiying insisted in prison that he was just an ordinary businessman with progressive ideas, called Wang Zuolin, no matter what kind of torture he suffered, he never revealed the truth.
The only evidence available to the Kuomintang authorities was that he incited an assembly and gathered a crowd**, so he was sentenced to five years in prison.
** and other special personnel have been planning to rescue Yun Daiying, butThe ** mutiny of Gu Shunzhang, head of the Special Branch Security Section, was like a thunderbolt from the blue, not only destroying the entire underground party organization in Shanghai, but also affecting the underground party members who had been arrested by the Kuomintang
Gu Shunzhang poured beans on a bamboo tube and generally told the hidden identities of all party members, and Yun Daiying, who was about to be released on bail, was also among them.
Chiang Kai-shek was very familiar with Yun Daiying's name, and for fear of long nights and dreams, he did not have time to announce it to the public and escort him to the execution ground, and hurriedly demanded that Yun Daiying be shot on the spot.
On April 29, 1931, Yun Daiying, who was inaugurated before the uprising, sang the Internationale, denounced Chiang Kai-shek, and even touched the Kuomintang police who were executed with guns behind him.
But Yun Daiying did not escape the fate of being killed after all, and was only 36 years old when he died.
Yun Daiying's sacrifice could not change Chiang Kai-shek's ambition to exterminate the Red Army, and he increased his troops again and again to carry out "encirclement and suppression" of the ** Soviet area, and was defeated again and again.
In 1932, Chiang Kai-shek again gathered a total of 300,000 troops and local warlords to launch an offensive against the Red Army in the Soviet area. The disparity between the enemy and our forces made the decision to quickly transfer the movement, and the Red Fourth Front Army led by ** marched to the northern part of Sichuan, where civil strife was most frequent, and strived to create a revolutionary base in Sichuan and Shaanxi.
Before 1933, Sichuan, where the major warlords were constantly fighting, civil strife and strife, and the external defense was also empty, was a good opportunity for the Red Army to fish in troubled waters.
Under the leadership of *** and Chen Changhao, the Red Fourth Front Army occupied the three county towns of Tongjiang, Nanjiang and Bazhong almost effortlessly, and established the headquarters of the Sichuan-Shaanxi base area in Tongjiang.
Chiang Kai-shek, who was always paying attention to the movements of the Red Army, turned pale with anger and immediately ordered the four major warlords in Sichuan to stop internal fighting, "unite with the outside world," and eliminate the Red Army.
Although the warlords nominally obeyed Chiang Kai-shek's people, they actually fought openly and covertly, and maintained a semblance of mutual non-aggression with the people.
Chiang Kai-shek actively mobilized the warlords to participate in the battle to destroy the Red Army, only to deplete their forces at the same time, so as to reap the benefits of the fishermen.
Liu Wenhui, Deng Xihou and others were not stupid, and they were unwilling to be old Chiang's pawns, only Tian Songyao wanted to take the opportunity to get some benefits from Chiang Kai-shek, and took the initiative to ask for help, and was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as the general supervisor of Sichuan's "suppression of bandits".
Tian Songyao is short in stature, but he is extremely strong in oppressing the people. Tian Songyao's troops were not strong in combat, but they were famous double-spearmen in the Sichuan army, with one rifle and one smoking gun.
While forcing the people to plant opium, he set up a supervisory committee, set up various projects, collected opium taxes, grain taxes, and commodity taxes, and collected the people's taxes for 50 years in advance, and was given the title of "Tian Dong Melon" by the local people.
Taking the initiative to apply to fight the Red Army, it was not because Tian Songyao suddenly wanted to work for Chiang Kai-shek, but because he took the opportunity to ask for military supplies.
When Chiang Kai-shek appointed Tian Songyao, the Red Army had already taken Tongjiang and Bazhong counties, and was busy granting Tian Songyao a large amount of heavy firepower**, millions of rounds of ammunition, and 200,000 silver dollars.
In order to really block the expansion of the Red Army in the Sichuan-Shaanxi region, Chiang Kai-shek also sent four planes to participate in the battle, and also put Tian Songyao on the shelf that had to fight.
On February 10, 1933, the Red Army entered Nanjiang County and possessed the base area of three counties.
Tian Songyao launched an attack on the Red Army under Chiang Kai-shek's repeated urging, and more than 60,000 people attacked from three directions, far superior to the Red Fourth Front Army in terms of equipment and numbers.
As a well-known senior commander in the Red Army, ** proposed to abandon the three county towns and base areas he had just occupied, quickly evacuate, and lure the enemy into the depths by tightening step by step.
Tian Songyao, who was originally just chasing ducks to the shelves, never thought that victory would come so easily, the Red Army only resisted briefly and then retreated quickly, and the three county towns of Bazhong, Tongjiang, and Nanjiang were occupied by Tian Songyao at once, and the sudden victory overwhelmed Tian Songyao's mind.
However, Tian Songyao and the Kuomintang army were in the same line, and he could only see the victory of recovering the city in front of him, but he could not think of the tactics that the Red Army might hide behind the scenes.
Even if Tian Songyao's military advisors or relatively smart generals saw the mystery, Tian Songyao still didn't care. Defeating the Red Army, which the ** army could not defeat, was already a capital for Tian Songyao to be able to ask for more materials from Lao Chiang, and the true intentions of the Red Army were not important.
Tian Songyao, who was poor and rich, had some ability to collect money and invite merit, and he divided the credit for occupying the three county towns of Bazhong, Nanjiang, and Tongjiang into three reports, and sent a good news to Lao Chiang every two or three days.
I have to say that Tian Songyao has touched Chiang Kai-shek's vein. In addition to returning Tian Songyao's "confidant and favorite general" and "light of the party-state" on the telegram, Tian Songyao's name often appeared in the high-level military meetings of the people, and became the material for Chiang Kai-shek to appoint other generals.
The Red Army's plan was to strengthen the quality of each line of defense, lengthen the enemy's supply lines, weaken their attack, and then strike back when the time came, delivering a thunderous blow to the lax enemy.
Tian Songyao's successive occupation of strategic points not only surprised Chiang Kai-shek, but also many senior generals of the Nationalist Army were dumbfounded, wondering what kind of shit luck Tian Songyao had taken to recapture so many important places from the unstoppable Red Army.
Before the Red Army carried out the counterattack, it was the most glorious period of time for Tian Songyao, and the commendations from Nanjing continued, and Tian Songyao heard all the good news and boasting from all directions, and the whole person was fluttering.
It's a pity that the false bubble will burst one day, and Tian Songyao's glory will disappear from the Tongjiang County battle report that he exaggerated and used to ask for credit.
Wang Mingzhang, commander of the 4th Division under Tian Songyao, was the commander-in-chief of the left column in the three-way siege and the main attacking force of the 29th Army. After entering Tongjiang County, Wang Mingzhang mentioned a phenomenon in the military newspaper, redThe army mostly renamed streets after sacrificial generals, such as the most famous "Yun Daiying Street" in Tongjiang County, which can not only publicize the deeds of the Red Army, but also boost the morale of the soldiers.
Wang Mingzhang's original intention was to let Tian Songyao learn the methods of the Red Army, and similarly win over the people's hearts and boost the morale of the army. Who would have thought that Tian Songyao did not understand Wang Mingzhang's good intentions at all, but the military advisor next to him saw Yun Daiying's name and felt that this was a senior general of the Red Army, and suggested that Tian Songyao write it into the battle report and use it to invite credit to Lao Jiang.
After the telegram was delivered, Chiang Kai-shek's first reaction was anger. Lao Jiang may not be unaware that there is a certain amount of exaggeration in Tian Songyao's successive battle reports, which has become the default unspoken rule among the **.
The Kuomintang has always been a figure that proves that it has indeed made great efforts to achieve victory as long as the results of the war do not care about the gains and losses of the soldiers, and the number of 100, 1,000 or 10,000 killed in battle, is just a number in the eyes of the top management, a figure that proves that it has indeed made great efforts to achieve victory.
However, the name Yun Daiying provoked Chiang Kai-shek's sensitive and suspicious nerves.
A man who had already died 2 years ago once again appeared in the ranks of the Red Army in the Sichuan-Shaanxi region. Chiang Kai-shek's knee-jerk reaction was that Tian Songyao exaggerated the results of the war and fooled himself with a person who died two years ago.
But suspicion is Chiang Kai-shek's gene engraved in his bones, and he quickly thought about whether Yun Daiying was really shot by himself two years ago, whether he had been dropped by the underground party, and who were involved, among whom there must be senior officers within the Kuomintang.
The more he thought about it, the more frightened Chiang Kai-shek became, immediately sent a telegram to Tian Songyao, strictly ordering him to find out all the details of the killing of Yun Daiying in the battle, and to investigate the time, place, person, Yun Daiying's body, documents and evidence.
Chiang Kai-shek's unusually serious attitude startled Tian Songyao, and he didn't know why, but he could only do it. The order was issued layer by layer until the company platoon level.
Wang Mingzhang was even more inexplicable, he just saw "Yun Daiying Street" and gave an example, and it was not clear whether Yun Daiying was *** in this battle.
The soldiers below heard that Chiang Kai-shek personally ordered the search, and also provided detailed killing locations and evidence, but no one dared to stand up and take the credit.
Tian Songyao asked up and down, and then inquired about who Yun Daiying was, only to know what a stupid mistake he had made.
After Chiang Kai-shek's second telegram of questioning came, Tian Songyao resigned himself to Chiang Kai-shek and stated the truth to Chiang Kai-shek, waiting for Chiang Kai-shek's melon.
Sure enough, Chiang Kai-shek called Tian Songyao to him, pointed at his nose and scolded, Tian Songyao only responded, and could only use merit to atone for his sins.
At this time, what was waiting for Tian Songyao in northern Sichuan was no longer the Red Army's step-by-step contraction, but a strong counterattack. The "three-way siege" not only did not achieve further results, but on the contrary, it lost cities and ground one after another under the attack of the Red Army.
The people of Bazhong, Nanjiang, and Tongjiang welcomed back the Red Army, and the nearby Cangxi, Guangyuan, and 10,000 Yuan were also recaptured by the Red Army, and the Sichuan-Shaanxi Revolutionary Base Area expanded to 30,000 square kilometers, with a population of more than 2 million people in the base area.
Although Chiang Kai-shek later launched the "Six-Way Siege" without giving up, it made the Sichuan-Shaanxi base area more stable, and Tian Songyao, a "pig teammate", continued to drag down the troops, and was finally investigated by the old Chiang after the Red Army crossed the Jialing River, and completely lost his military power.
Tian Songyao used his own scavenging to create a number of schools, and in his later years refused the Taiwan air ticket sent by Gu Zhutong, and stayed in Chengdu to support the people.