The Red 25th Army was an indispensable part of the history of the Red Army, and with its heroic tradition and tenacious will, they always stood at the forefront of the Red Army's Long March. During the Long March, the Red 25th Army faced many difficulties, they were isolated and faced with the test of life and death.
However, it was precisely with the unwavering conviction and indomitable spirit of all the soldiers that they successfully broke through the blockade line of one enemy after another and made great achievements for the Red Army's Long March.
At the most critical juncture of the Red 25th Army, the troops were in a desperate situation. At this time, they met a sheep trader who saved everyone with courage and wisdom. At this critical moment, Dushu Town became an important stronghold of the Red 25th Army, where they were going to fight a fierce battle.
On November 6, 1934, the Red 25th Army, under the leadership of Wu Huanxian, Cheng Zihua, Xu Haidong and others, began their Long March. However, the enemy soon received intelligence, and they immediately organized an absolutely superior force and laid siege to the Red 25th Army.
The commanders and fighters of the Red 25th Army faced extremely difficult circumstances, they were starving and wearing thin clothes, but they still firmly marched to Dushu Town, determined to fight their way out.
However, the enemy did not allow the Red 25 Army to pass easily. They placed heavy troops in the town of Dushu and surrounded a regiment of the Red 25th Army. In the face of this crisis, political commissar Wu Huanxian personally led his troops to attack and fought desperately with the enemy.
He led his subordinates, and with courage and wisdom, he fought his way out.
Copywriting 1: At the moment of life and death, Wu Huan first waved a big knife and stood on the highway and shouted: "You must not retreat!" His voice was loud and firm, arousing the fighting spirit of all the commanders and fighters of the Red 25th Army.
They picked up the **, and the soldiers of the logistics department also picked up the flat pole and launched a fierce white-knuckle battle with the enemy. In the end, the Red 25th Army managed to break through the enemy's encirclement and temporarily get out of danger.
Copywriting 2: The first fierce battle on the Long March of the Red 25th Army was in Dushu Town. The situation was very dangerous, but Wu Huanxian and others took the lead in the charge, and the morale of the whole army was greatly increased.
Under their heroic counterattack, the whole army successfully broke through the encirclement, and it was a life-and-death battle. Copywriting 3: After the successful breakthrough in Dushu Town, the Red 25th Army moved to the southeast of Shaanxi Province.
Unexpectedly, the enemy quickly touched up, near the Yujia River**. The Red Army was exhausted, but the fighters fell asleep with their guns in their hands and still did not let their guard down. The enemy came up from the mountain in the middle of the night and began a bloody battle.
As the shots rang out, the warriors woke up from their slumber, and their intuition told them that the enemy was attacking the mountains. Cheng Zihua, commander of the Red 25th Army, Xu Haidong, deputy commander of the Red Army, and Wu Huanxian, political commissar, responded quickly, commanded the troops to counterattack, turned passivity into initiative, and seized the commanding heights.
The enemy, with their superiority in firepower and numbers, tried to crush the Red 25th Army, but the fighters, relying on courage and wisdom, recaptured the Lingtou position from the enemy and occupied the commanding heights.
Cheng Zihua and Wu Huanxian each led the main force of a regiment, outflanked from the flank, coordinated operations on three sides, and successfully pressed the enemy down. However, the battle was not over, the enemy concentrated superior forces to counterattack, and the Red 25th Army was in danger.
At this critical moment, Xu Haidong was wounded in the head, and Cheng Zihua was also broken by the enemy's bullet and broke three fingers, bleeding profusely and was seriously injured.
At the critical moment, political commissar Wu Huan stood up first and commanded the troops to respond calmly. He ordered his troops to concentrate all their firepower on one point, hide first, and when the enemy approached, raise the flag again, and shout: "Fight!
Hit hard! Under his command, the Red 25th Army concentrated its firepower and launched a fierce attack on the enemy who rushed up, and the enemy fell one after another, did not dare to catch up again, was beaten to the point that he lost his armor and fled down the mountain in disarray.
This was a fierce battle, Xu Haidong and Cheng Zihua were injured one after another, but the Red 25th Army still repelled the invading enemy, so that the whole army turned from danger to safety, and the army got a chance to develop.
After the First Battle of Yujiahe, the enemy's 60th Division did not dare to pursue it again, giving the Red 25th Army the opportunity to open up a base area and expand the revolutionary ranks. They broke the enemy's two "encirclement and suppression" successively, and the number of troops grew from less than 2,000 to more than 3,500.
Then, they set out from Xinglong Town and headed north, and Chiang Kai-shek ordered Ma Hongbin to deploy heavy troops to block the attack, in an attempt to wipe out the Red Army in the Longdong area. However, the commanders and fighters of the Red 25th Army fought flexibly, turned passive into active, and with superb military command ability, they almost captured Ma Hongbin alive in the chaotic battle.
They succeeded in breaking out of the encirclement, but in the event of heavy rains, the water level of the river rose sharply, making it very difficult to cross the river. Halfway through the crossing of the river, the enemy, with the strength of a regiment, launched a surprise attack on the 25th Regiment of the 223rd Red Army.
At this time, Wu Huanxian stood up again, he calmly commanded, with the help of terrain cover such as earthen walls and caves, successfully dragged the enemy, and then used two battalions to storm the enemy from the side, and finally repelled the enemy's attack.
In the fierce battle, Wu Huanxian personally led his troops to charge, and he shouted "Fight resolutely, fight bravely!" Rushing into the crowd with a squad of guards, his heroic actions inspired the fighters to fight bravely against the enemy.
Inspired by Wu Huanxian, the morale of the soldiers increased greatly, and they launched a thrilling fierce battle with the enemy, and the soldiers of the Red 25th Army showed their bravery and perseverance.
However, unfortunately, Wu Huanxian was shot and killed in the battle, and the bullet hit him in the fatal part and could not be recovered. Wu Huanxian's sacrifice made the soldiers heartbroken, they vowed to avenge Wu Huanxian, and even more heroically pounced on the enemy, fighting hand-to-hand combat, bayonet fighting, and an hour later, the enemy was completely annihilated, and the enemy regiment commander Ma Kaiji was killed.
In the battle of Sipo Village, the Red 25th Army completely annihilated the pursuing enemy, shocked the enemy army, and won the crucial battle. However, Wu Huanxian's sacrifice plunged all the warriors into grief because they had lost a brave and resilient soul figure, and the price was too painful.
The Red 25th Army of the Red Army was able to defeat strong enemies again and again and successfully break through, Wu Huanxian made great contributions, and he was the soul of the whole army. Wang Chenghan, a former soldier of the 25th Red Army, once said with emotion that political commissar Wu Huanxian was very concerned about the soldiers, always cared about their lives, and shared weal and woe with the soldiers.
When fighting, he always took the lead and charged ahead, and his prestige in the 25th Army was extremely high, and he was known as the soul of the army. After the Red 25th Army entered the no-man's land, the sheep traders generously helped, and the battle of Sipo Village allowed the enemy to see the heroism of the Red 25th Army, and did not dare to act rashly, fearing that it would be defeated like Ma Kaiji.
After deliberation, the Red 25th Army decided to immediately go north and join up with the Shaanxi-Gansu-Hong 26th Army and other units in order to get rid of the enemy's pursuit. The enemy's Ma Hongbin Division did not know the combat intentions of the Red 25th Army, so he did not dare to act rashly, but only passively defended.
Ma Hongbin seized this opportunity and led the Red 25th Army to gallop north, came to Banqiao Town, west of Heshui County, fought fiercely with the enemy, and at the cost of sacrificing more than 200 soldiers, successfully got rid of the pursuing soldiers and entered the Shaanxi-Gansu border.
At this point, there was a deserted area ahead, and in order to avoid the pursuers, they had to venture forward and join up with their allies. But what the soldiers of the Red 25th Army did not expect was that what awaited them ahead was a life-and-death challenge.
They traveled all the way north, through the no-man's land on the Shaanxi-Gansu border, but there was no living creature in sight, and there was a dead silence all around, the land was barren and barren, without any food or water.
In the barren desert, the Red 25th Army was in crisis. They had little food left, their horses had been killed to feed their hunger, water and bark roots could not be found, and the soldiers were running out of energy.
At this time, a sheep trader with more than 500 of his sheep suddenly appeared, bringing hope to the Red 25th Army. However, when the scouts reported that the enemy might be coming after them, the soldiers of the Red 25th Army fell into panic and despair again.
But fortunately, it turned out that the sheep dealer had come with a black flock of sheep, not the enemy, which allowed the Red 25th Army to avoid greater danger.
In the desert where no one lives, the Red 25th Army suddenly saw a flock of sheep, and they immediately sent people to negotiate with the sheep dealers, hoping to buy these sheep at a higher price than the market.
The sheep dealer originally planned to transport the sheep to a distant bazaar**, but when he learned that the Red Army was willing to buy it, he was naturally very happy and agreed to the deal.
In the course of the transaction, the sheep dealer was also very polite, not only teaching the Red Army soldiers how to roast mutton, but also giving the Red Army a few buckets of water that they put on the sheep's back, leaving only a little for themselves to drink at home.
Due to the lack of water in the local area, most of the hundreds of sheep could only be roasted and eaten, but through a few full meals, the physical strength of the soldiers of the Red 25th Army was replenished, and they successfully walked out of this barren land and joined forces with friendly troops in northern Shaanxi.
At the most dangerous time of the Red 25th Army, a sheep trader passed by with hundreds of sheep and saved all the soldiers, which was really lucky.