In many people's impressions, the beginning of ** was the Wuchang Uprising, and the beginning of the National ** was the Great Revolution and the Northern Expedition of the National Revolutionary Army. But what few people know is that the Battle of Mianhu in 1925 was called "the foundation laying ceremony of the party-state" by many high-ranking Kuomintang officials, and Chiang Kai-shek and He Yingqin also established their positions in the Kuomintang with this. What's going on here? This ghost will talk about the family.
From January 20 to 30, 1924, the First National Congress of the Chinese Kuomintang was held in Guangzhou, and the first cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party officially began. As an important project of the first KMT-CPC cooperation, the Whampoa Military Academy was opened immediately, and the National Revolutionary Army with the Whampoa Military Academy as the core was also formed. All this made Chen Jiongming, a warlord who was entrenched in the eastern part of Guangdong Province against Mr. Zhongshan, feel threatened.
In the winter of 1924, Sun Yat-sen went north. Chen Jiongming believed that the Guangzhou Revolution was "leaderless", and sent troops to attack Guangzhou on December 7. So the Soviet adviser General Gallen (Vasily Konstantinovich Blyukhel) proposed an eastward expedition to Chen Jiongming to completely eliminate the elbows and armpits of this great revolution. On February 1, 1925, the National Revolutionary Army officially sent troops to attack Chen Jiongming, and the First Eastern Crusade began.
The Eastern Expeditionary Army was divided into three routes: the left route army was the Yang Ximin division of the Yunnan army; The Middle Route Army was the Gui Army and Liu Zhenhuan's Division; The commander-in-chief of the Right Route Army is Chiang Kai-shek, the director of the Political Department is the backbone of the vanguard army, and the teaching regiment is mainly composed of teachers and students of Whampoa. However, Yang Ximin and Liu Zhenhuan are also warlords, and they have a "rabbit dead fox sorrow" relationship with Chen Jiongming. The Left Route Army and the Central Route Army quickly stood still and sat back and watched the success or failure.
Yang Ximin and Liu Zhenhuan did not move, causing the right army to go deep alone, and Chen Jiongming took the opportunity to concentrate the strength of six divisions, led by his general Lin Hu, to meet the lone army of the right army of the Eastern Expedition. On March 12, the 1st Teaching Regiment, with a total strength of about 1,000 troops, occupied Mianhu and confronted the Lin Hu Division, which had more than 10,000 men. On March 13, the 1st Regiment of the Teaching Regiment started a battle with the Lin Hu Division, and the Battle of Mianhu began.
The advantage of the Lin Hu Division is the large number of troops and the favorable terrain, and the advantage of teaching the first regiment is the combat quality and the will to fight. Lin Hu, who found that the progress was not effective, relied on the advantage of troops to shift the direction of the attack and attack the left flank of the first regiment. The regiment commander He Yingqin immediately ordered the second battalion commander Liu Zhi to lead his troops to block the attack, and Liu Zhi personally led the charge and repelled the enemy's offensive through white-knuckle combat.
At this moment, Lin Hu discovered the command of the first regiment and launched a "decapitation" operation. He Yingqin personally led the regimental headquarters to charge, and General Gallen's assistants and guards also drew their guns to participate in the battle, and the morale of the whole army was greatly boosted, but the high morale was not enough to make up for the disadvantage of the troops. At the critical moment, Chen Cheng, the commander of the artillery company, hit the enemy's charging group, but he did not expect the morale of the enemy who was shelled to retreat.
When the first regiment was taught to fight to the death with Lin Hubu, Qian Dajun, the commander of the second regiment of the nearby regiment, did not move because he did not receive an order. Liu Yaochen, the commander of the second battalion of the second regiment, couldn't stand it, so he led his troops to support. The 2nd Battalion was the main force of the 2nd Regiment, and Qian Dajun had to order the 2nd Regiment to go into battle. The second regiment was instructed to go straight to Lin Hu's command post, forcing him to go on the defensive, and the tide of the battle began to turn.
At dusk, the 7th Independent Brigade of the Guangdong Army of the Right Route Army rushed to the battlefield and immediately entered the battle. And the sharpness of the Lin Hu Department had already been consumed when he fought to the death with the first regiment of teaching, and when the second regiment arrived, he could only barely hold the position. After the 7th Independent Brigade entered the battle, Lin Hu's troops soon couldn't resist and retreated completely.
At 18 o'clock on the same day, the Battle of Cotton Lake ended with the victory of the Right Route Army. Although the First Eastern Crusade failed to eliminate Chen Jiongming due to the rebellion of Yang Ximin and Liu Zhenhuan, it basically removed Chen Jiongming's threat to Guangzhou. After the end of the First Eastern Crusade, the Guangzhou Revolution was officially changed to the Guangzhou National. Therefore, the Battle of Cotton Lake is called "the foundation laying ceremony of the party-state".