When it comes to the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, relatives must think of those shocking battles -- the five anti-encirclement and suppression, the Long March, the 18 warriors of the Dadu River, the skillful crossing of the Jinsha River, and the surprise attack on Zunyi and other famous events, but they often only belong to the ** Red Army, that is, the Red First Army. However, for another important branch of the Red Army, the Red Fourth Front, there seems to have been some negligence in propaganda, so that many people are not familiar with the relevant heroic deeds.
The Red Fourth Front Army originated from the Jute Rebellion and was formally established on November 7, 1931 in Qiliping, Huang'an, Hubei, and had two armies at the beginning of its establishment, including the Red 4th Army and the Red 25th Army. Its core leadership members include the commander-in-chief *** political commissar Chen Changhao and others, and the army has a total of six divisions, with a total of 450,000 valiant soldiers. In the five anti-encirclement and suppression campaigns of the Red Army, except for the controversial fifth encirclement and suppression, the remaining four defeated the enemy by a great margin, which shows the strength of the Red Army. During this period, the Red Fourth Front Army also performed well, and the struggle against encirclement and suppression was even more thrilling!
In 1931, the Red Army in the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet Region ushered in the first large-scale resistance to encirclement and suppression. In this battle, the warriors of the Red Fourth Front Army successfully annihilated four entire regiments and four battalions of the Kuomintang army after bloody battles, and even frightened off four regiments and one battalion of the opposing side. This battle once again demonstrated the determination and self-confidence of the Red Army in the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet Region to win more with less and to defeat the strong with the weak. Soon after, the second anti-encirclement and suppression war in the Hubei-Anhui Soviet region began, and this time the Red Army won a great victory, destroying three enemy regiments and crushing one enemy brigade. In just two months, ** led the main force of the Red 4th Army from the south of Henan to launch an active attack, annihilating a total of seven regiments of the Kuomintang army, this battle fully demonstrated that the Red Army can not only defend, but also has a strong offensive capability.
After the establishment of the Red Fourth Front Army, the Kuomintang army implemented a more rigorous siege and capture plan against it. However, the commander-in-chief of the Red Fourth Front Army found that the deployment of the Kuomintang army had not yet been fully established, so he decisively decided to take the initiative to attack it while the iron bucket formation of encirclement and suppression had not yet taken shape. Under the guidance of the most brilliant and insightful people, the Red Fourth Front Army successively launched the Huang'an Campaign, the Shanghuang Campaign, the Sujiabu Campaign and the Huangguang Campaign. After an arduous struggle, the Red Fourth Front Army annihilated more than 60,000 Kuomintang troops. In the third anti-encirclement and suppression campaign of the Red Fourth Front, its unprecedented and fierce victory was a good story, and the enemy suffered a devastating blow from the Red Army before it could form an offensive, and suffered heavy losses, so that the Kuomintang's third anti-encirclement and suppression campaign against the Red Fourth Front Army was declared a failure before it was launched. What is particularly commendable is that the tactics and methods adopted in the third anti-encirclement campaign have deeply shocked countless officers and men of the Red Fourth Front Army, such as first weak and then strong, that is, first attacking the relatively weak enemy phalanx, and then taking advantage of the victory to strike at the stronger hostile forces; There are also carpet encirclement and big detour strategies, etc., these tactics played an extremely key role in the future liberation war, but in the era of the Red Army, ** has been widely used in actual combat.
Although the Red Fourth Front Army failed to defeat the Kuomintang army in its fourth anti-encirclement campaign, the main forces of the whole army still managed to break through the Kuomintang 30