Students against the regular army, ** out of the horse!
Foreword: When you are faced with the daunting task of leading a group of unarmed normal school students with no combat experience against a regular army of more than 3,000 battle-hardened soldiers, do you feel that you have no chance of winning and can only choose to flee and surrender?
If so, then you're probably going to be like most people and choose the easiest way to do it – to escape. But what would you do if you were ***?
Will he choose the thirty-six strategy and go for the upper plan, or will he choose to fight hard and confront the enemy? More than 100 years ago, under such circumstances, ** not only did not choose to surrender, but successfully led more than 100 students and defeated more than 3,000 enemies in a zero** manner.
This feat is extremely rare in the history of Chinese warfare, but it did happen on the land of Hunan.
Hunan, in ancient times, was regarded as the land of the Southern Barbarians, and was the territory of Chu during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Because Hunan was relatively backward in ancient times and had few political disputes, fierce military conflicts rarely broke out.
It was not until the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty that the war between the Ma Chu regime and the Central Plains regime and the war between the Kangxi Emperor and Wu Sangui's rebellion were fiercely fought in Hunan.
During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Ma Chu's territory was mainly in Hunan. In modern times, many major events have taken place in Hunan. Among them, Xiao Chaogui, the western king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was unfortunately killed during the attack on Changsha, which aroused the attention of the whole country.
Subsequently, Zeng Guofan used the local villagers in Hunan to create the Hunan Army, which became the main force in the suppression of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. At its peak, the Hunan army had more than 500,000 troops, occupied the rich southeastern provinces, and had 15 governors and 14 governors, making it the most powerful military group at that time.
Therefore, Hunan was very eye-catching at that time, and some people even said that "the country cannot live without Hunan for a day". On October 10, 1911, the Wuchang Uprising broke out, and Hunan and Hubei have always been in the same vein, so Hunan quickly responded.
On October 22, Hunan revolutionaries Jiao Dafeng, Chen Zuoxin and others led the new army to launch an uprising and established the Hunan Governor's Mansion of the Chinese Army, successfully recovering Hunan and establishing a revolutionary regime.
Hunan became the first region to respond to the Wuchang Uprising, which strongly promoted the arrival of the Xinhai Revolution. However, Jiao Dafeng and Chen Zuoxin were soon betrayed and killed, and Hunan fell into the hands of the constitutionalist leader Tan Yanhong.
Soon after Tan Yanmin of Hunan, the fruits of the victory of the Xinhai Revolution were usurped by Yuan Shikai, the leader of the Beiyang warlords. During the Second Revolution, Hunan became Yuan Shikai's territory, Tan Yanmin was forced to go into the wilderness, and Yuan Shikai's subordinate Tang Qianming was appointed as the overseer of Hunan.
In December 1915, Yuan Shikai declared restoration, and his perverse actions aroused the opposition of the people of the whole country, thus triggering the Protectorate War. Tang Qianming saw the wind and declared independence.
However, the revolutionaries Cheng Qian and Hu ** still attacked Hunan fiercely, Tang Qianming was forced to flee Hunan, and Tan Yanmin returned to supervise Hunan again. However, Yuan Shikai's restoration ended in failure, and he died of grief.
But the Beiyang warlords remain China's largest military group. In order to confront Duan Qirui, the leader of Beiyang and the Anhui warlord, Tan Yanmin made friends with Li Yuanhong, the Chinese **Da**, and Lu Rongting, the warlord of the Gui family, and held high the banner of Hunan people governing Hunan internally.
In July 1917, Duan Qirui forced Li Yuanhong**, and then waved his army south, and the first thing to attack was Hunan. However, the Hunan army was not the opponent of the Anhui system at all, so Tan Yanmin went into the field again, and Duan Qirui appointed Fu Liangzuo as the overseer of Hunan, and Hunan temporarily fell into the hands of Beiyang**.
After Duan Qirui gained power, he advocated unification by force, Sun Yat-sen and Lu Rongting were dissatisfied, the war broke out, Hunan became the main battlefield, the strength of the two sides was very different, and the army was gradually defeated and retreated.
* The war situation map reflects the contradictions and disputes within the Beiyang warlords, among which the contradictions between the direct warlord leaders Feng Guozhang and Duan Qirui are particularly prominent. Duan Qirui insisted on unification by force, while Feng Guozhang advocated peaceful reunification, while Feng Guozhang's henchmen Wang Ruxian and Fan Guozhang withdrew their troops without authorization at the critical moment of the battle, resulting in the collapse of the entire Beiyang Army.
In the end, Fu Liangzuo was forced to flee Changsha, and the coalition forces pursued the victory, and soon occupied Changsha, and the situation in Hunan began to change. However, just as Fu Liangzuo was evacuating Changsha, a peculiar battle occurred.
The protagonists of this battle were students of the Hunan Provincial First Normal College. First Normal College is an extraordinary school located in Changsha, the capital of Hunan.
As early as 1902, Changsha was designated as a treaty port by the foreign powers, and began to accept the advanced political and cultural influence of Western countries. With the impact of Western civilization, many new schools have been established in Changsha, and the level of education is very developed.
In 1903, the Chengnan Academy in Changsha was renamed Hunan Normal Hall, and later renamed Hunan Provincial Normal School, Hunan Middle Road Normal School, Hunan Provincial Junior Normal School, etc.
The first president was Tan Yanhong, who was the speaker of the Hunan Provincial Assembly at the time. In 1912, it was renamed Hunan No. 1 Public Normal School. This is the first map of the war situation, reflecting the contradictions and disputes within the Beiyang warlords, as well as the courage and wisdom shown by the students of the First Normal College during the special period.
Hunan Provincial No. 1 Normal School was formed in 1914 by the merger of Hunan Provincial No. 1 Normal School and Hunan Provincial No. 4 Normal School, with the famous educator Mr. Kong Zhaoshou as the first principal.
Hunan No. 1 Normal School is a well-known normal school, which is one of the best new schools in Hunan at that time, bringing together many famous teachers and enrolling many outstanding students.
The school is located on the bank of the Xiangjiang River, close to the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway, and the transportation is very convenient. As a result, the First Normal School was often used as a headquarters by various warlords during the warlord melee.
Due to the special cultural history, Hunan people have developed the qualities of tenacity, perseverance, self-confidence, perseverance, daring to be the first, suffering hardship, not afraid of death, domineering, and patience.
Therefore, the students of the First Normal School are all heroic. In fact, during the period of war and chaos, in order to protect the school and prevent the intrusion of the rebels, the principal Kong Zhaoshou formed the Hunan First Division Student Volunteer Army.
The Volunteer Army formed a battalion and two companies, and in their spare time, they conducted military drills. Except that there was no **, the student volunteer army of the first division was not much different from the army at that time.
Kong Zhaoshou's stills depict the rout of Fu Liangzuo, the overseer of Hunan, in November 1917, which led to Changsha becoming an ownerless and empty city, and the scene was chaotic. Faced with this situation, Kong Zhaoshou, the principal of the No. 1 Normal School, urgently ordered all teachers and students to go to Amiling in the east of the city to escape the rebellion.
However, a young student named *** found Kong Zhaoshou and advised him not to run away blindly, but to organize the teachers and students of the school to use the school's high-walled compound to resist and stabilize their positions against the rout of the army.
** is Kong Zhaoshou's proud protégé, a sergeant of the 1st Battalion and 1st Company of the First Division Student Volunteer Army. His recommendations were eventually implemented and miraculously executed.
In 1919, with the support of Principal Kong Zhaoshou of Changsha, he served as the commander of the 1st Company of the 1st Battalion of the 1st Division Student Volunteer Army. Aware of the critical situation, he immediately ordered the school to be strengthened, covering the walls around the school with bamboo tips, and sending students armed with wooden guns to guard the school gate and the main passage.
Although the student volunteers of the 1st Division had never been on the battlefield and did not have **, they understood the psychology of the rout, so they attacked boldly and successfully stopped the attack of the rout.
However, ** did not relax his vigilance because of this, he had a premonition that more than 3,000 people from the Eighth Division Wang Ruxian's division would attack Changsha from Zhuzhou and Xiangtan, so he immediately prepared to deal with it.
In the end, **'s prediction was accurate, and the Eighth Division Wang Ruxian's division successfully attacked Changsha, causing disastrous consequences.
Stills of the Student Volunteer Army of the First Division, **In the critical situation of the situation, he decisively changed his strategy and adopted a bold offensive method to defend as an offense.
He quickly gathered more than 100 student volunteers of the First Division and a few Changsha policemen, and went straight to Jinpenling near Monkey Rock, surrounding the hill where the rout was stationed from the side.
The sky was getting dark, and after reaching out and missing his five fingers, ** suddenly shouted: "Fu Liangzuo has fled, ** the army has entered the city, you have been surrounded, disarm and don't kill!" ”
Because the 8th Division didn't know what to do, they really thought that they were surrounded by the ** army, so they surrendered one after another. **With only a few real guns from the police, all the guns of the 3,000 soldiers and horses of the 8th Division were seized, and the First Division School and Changsha were successfully defended.
The 24-year-old *** staged a shocking show when he first entered the battlefield, and his record even surpassed many battle-hardened generals. This year's *** has created a miracle with its extraordinary talent and determination.
We have to admit that there are geniuses in this world.