1935, the Red Army had reached the Long March of "I am more happy with the snow in the Minshan Mountains, and the three armies will bloom after the beauty". The grassland has been difficult to pass. However, in the next battle, Chairman Mao personally ordered the telephone line to be pulled to the front line, and he would personally direct the battle.
On the phone, he said to the commander of the Second Division on the phone: "Comrade Chen Guang, please tell the commander of the army that Lazikou is the gate to Gansu. If you can't attack before dawn, the entire army will be exposed to the enemy. If the enemy reinforcements arrive, we will be in a dilemma and retreat. We can only retreat to the grassland! Tonight is a key battle after we enter Gansu. Hey, don't attack hard! Try your head!... Call me every half an hour..."
's words are undoubtedly a tense word. After receiving the instructions, the people's soldiers marched forward bravely, but were unable to capture it for a long time. In the end, it was a solution that the central command thought out, a "flying man" finally won the victory of the battle.
However, the battle that is enough for Chairman Mao to command in person is naturally not a simple battle, but this battle is the Lazikou Battle. Next, the author will introduce this thrilling battle to readers.
《Lazikou Battle Monument》
1. How can we best preserve the spark of revolution by making the central government difficult choice?
In September 1935, Mao Zedong and other important central leaders led the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army First Front Army, which had just experienced climbing snow-capped mountains, and reached the important pass to Gansu - Lazikou.
Lazikou has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times, because it is an important pass to Gansu from south to north. The overall mountain is covered with mountains, towering and steep, and the gullies and canyons are arranged vertically and horizontally. The entire pass is about 30 meters wide above and about six or seven meters wide below. One of the places that must pass is extremely narrow. A valley entrance about six or seven meters wide is a river flowing rapidly in the middle. If there are heavy troops to guard it, it can create a situation where "one man is at the pass, tens of thousands of men cannot open", which is extremely easy to defend and difficult to attack.
A small wooden bridge more than 1 meter wide is built at the pass on the river. If you want to pass through this deep valley, you must cross this river, that is, walk across the wooden bridge.
But it is not easy to just walk across a wooden bridge. The Kuomintang army had long expected that , the Red Army might pass here and arranged two defensive checkpoints. The first was at the Xiaomu Bridge and the second was at the mouth of Zhuligou. Rows of defensive fortifications were built on the east hillside, and the back was arranged in depth. The heavy troops were also arranged on the protruding mountainsides on both sides, and the heavy firepower was high and staring at important locations such as the small bridge. As the saying goes, "The yellow crane cannot fly."
At that time, the general of the Kuomintang, commander of the newly formed 14th Division of the Kuomintang Army, Lu Dachang , was ordered by Chiang Kai-shek to arrange troops here, arrange heavy troops to guard, and prepare sufficient preparations for military supplies such as food and ridges, trying to kill the Red Army, who had just experienced the Long March with scarce supplies and harsh natural environment.
Can't we bypass this natural danger? At this time, there are two other roads in front of the Red Army, but the difficulties of these two roads are indeed no less than Lazikou, which is sad.
One of them is to go deep into the land of Liao Wuyan and the vast desert Qinghai. The soldiers had just passed by to capture Luding Bridge , forcibly crossed Dadu River , climbed snow-capped mountains and crossed grasslands and other difficulties. Although their spiritual will was like steel, people were made of flesh after all. If they took this path again, the revolutionary soldiers would definitely be defeated without fighting on the next journey. Another way is to move eastward around Bailongjiang and then head north to the war of resistance. However, to the east, there was the main force of the Kuomintang general Hu Zongnan . At this time, the number of Red Army personnel and weapons and equipment did not have any advantage. The way to move eastward was only more dangerous than the Lazikou road.
After displaying this series of discussions, Chairman Mao made a quick decision: march into Lazikou and open a key channel for the Red Army to head north.
2. Fierce attack on Lazikou, the Red Army soldiers bravely moved forward without fear of strong enemies.
So on September 14, Mao Zedong gave the command "Lazou must be seized within three days" to Wang Kaixiang, the commander of the Fourth Regiment of the Second Division of the First Front Army in Cirina Village. In this way, the important task of attacking Lazou fell on the soldiers of the Red Fourth Regiment.
Facing the Kuomintang army that occupied the "one man is at the gate of the pass and ten thousand men are not open", the soldiers of the Red Fourth Regiment were not timid, but seemed eager to try. They were originally the main force of the Revolutionary Army, and even a heroic force. The formerly known as Ye Ting's Independent Regiment . When the central government entrusts such a major task to them, it is the responsibility of the family and country and their own mission that made them charge desperately. They understand their responsibilities and make indelible contributions in the subsequent battle.
At 4:00 p.m. on September 16, the Second Battalion of the Red Fourth Regiment, led by the regiment commander Wang Kaixiang and political commissar Yang Chengwu, launched a tentative attack on the enemy. But none of them worked. The formal battle began. After many tentative attacks, Commander Wang Kaixiang discovered that the place was difficult and could not be broken even if he was struggling with the attack. He had to try to find a breakthrough point over and over again. However, he was difficult to break through the wooden bridge in front of the enemy's defense line many times. Under the wooden bridge was a turbulent river, and the cunning enemy restricted the output of our army's troops through the narrow wooden bridge, making the natural danger even more dangerous, and the war was stalemate.
Under the bloody sunset at dusk, there were dilapidated houses and a devastated land. Amid the sound of artillery fire, the Second Battalion launched several charges to the pass, hoping to seize the pass and obtain the road north. The soldiers moved forward with fierce artillery fire. After repeated charges and attacks, there was no obvious result, but the troops lost a lot.
Even so, the Red Fourth Regiment changed its fighting style again and again, and still charged forward fearlessly, hoping to find the enemy's weakness and break through this natural danger. However, after repeated attacks, he still failed to cross the wooden bridge on a stream in front of the enemy's defense line in the canyon. , behind the bridge are several lines of defense set up by the enemy.
The enemy's guarding method is also very cunning. Every time the Red Fourth Regiment is not approaching, the firepower is not slow or urgent. After approaching the defense line, it uses grenades and to bomb violently, causing our army to suffer greater damage. There are more and more wounded people, and the time is delayed longer. The enemy has already been ready for a protracted war, but our army cannot afford to delay. We must obtain the key position of Lazikou in time. The more we drag the team, the more difficult it will be due to the lack of wounded and supplies. As the main force, the 6th Company of the Second Battalion of the Red Fourth Regiment was attacked again and again, but was beaten back again and again.
The sunset is fleeting. In the evening, the colors of the sunset gradually fade, but the artillery fire is still fierce. The white-capped Lazi Mountain is full of dangers. Chairman Mao and others personally came to Heiduo Village, which was only two or three kilometers away from the front line, contacted the leader of the Red Fourth Regiment on the front line, and pulled a telephone line with the front line to Heiduo Village, requiring the front line to report the battlefield situation every half hour. On the phone, he ordered Wang Kaixiang, the leader of the Red Fourth Regiment, to attack Lazikou as soon as possible, and explained to the leader Wang the importance of this battle. He wanted to personally direct this battle that was enough to determine the future of the Red Army.
3. The flying men on the cliff, clever attack of the pass,
The heavy night was pressed down heavily, and the artillery fire at the pass was still shaking between the white mountains. The central command of Heiduo Village observed the battlefield situation for several hours and kept in touch with the front line. After careful consideration, it decided to attack the enemy from the top of the side mountain where the enemy was not very strict in defense, and adopted a battle method of frontal advancement and side auxiliary exercises. The two companies led by Wang Kaixiang to cross the Lazi River and climb the cliff. However, it was so difficult to climb the cliff, and the soldiers were unable to find a suitable method. Yang Chengwu led many heroic soldiers from the Fourth Company to attack from the side and cooperated with the Sixth Company. The Sixth Company organized several charges, but failed because it did not receive the cooperation of the people who deviated from behind.
until around 11:30 pm, Nie Rongzhen and other legion leaders reported the battlefield situation to Mao Zedong, indicating that if the enemy's reinforcements arrived at dawn, they would have to retreat to the grassland and would put the entire army in a very dangerous situation.
At this time, the enemy had organized troops to attack the Red Army from the flanks, and Mao Zedong ordered Peng Dehuai to lead some troops to intercept the enemy who was attacking. Then he urged the front line to capture the pass in time again and again, but the 6th company, who served as the main attack, had no effect again and again. He could not use troops to carry out his troops at a narrow road. Each time, he could only send a small number of dozens of troops to attack the enemy's bunker. However, he fell again and again before the wooden bridge but failed to break through. The enemy occupied the advantage of the territory, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack. The river in front of the defense line was even more turbulent. After failing to cross the bridge after several attacks, I watched my comrades fall down one by one. On the front line, the soldiers who were fearless of death left tears, and they became more determined to break through the defense line, and they also avenge their comrades and bury them. The
command center is also in a heavy atmosphere. If the canyon cannot be broken through in time, the blood of the soldiers will be emptied, and the sparks of the Chinese Red Revolution may also be extinguished. Everyone is thinking about the best way to overcome the level. The cold wind blows the thatch on the roof, and the swinging branches seem to be extinguished and fall down at any time like a revolutionary fire. At this critical juncture, the command decided to temporarily stop the attack on the gate.
At this critical moment, the Red Fourth Regiment formed a suicide squad of fifteen party members and sent some people to climb to the cliff. Just as the few people under the cliff were discussing how to climb up the cliff, a young soldier named Yunguichuan stood up and said he could. He climbed up to the cliff with an iron hook, like a "flying man", threw down the rope and pulled the rest of the people up. Several people detoured to the rear of the enemy, rushing toward the rear of the enemy, striving to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop during the general attack according to the strategy of attacking forward and back. The enemy never thought that there would be "flying man" to attack from their rear.
The other two teams of soldiers attacked from the front of the bridge, and the remaining team crossed through the turbulent stream. The warriors charged forward with their beliefs. Just as another team of suicide squad rushed to the bridge to fight the enemy, the few people who climbed the cliff led by Wang Kaixiang also attacked from behind the enemy and caught him off guard. Just as the enemy was exposed at this time, the Red Fourth Regiment launched an attack again. The three signal flares rising below the mountain made the enemy even more panicked. This was the signal to launch a general attack. Suddenly, the sound of the horn of the charge, the fierce machine gun sound, and the shouts of the soldiers when they charged merged into a piece, shocking the cliffs of the canyon, the earth trembled, and the roars rushed into the sky. Lazi Mountain was covered with snow, and now bright colors were reflected in the flames of the artillery fire at night.
At this time, the Revolutionary Army received another exciting good news. This news came from the newspaper Shanxi Daily published by the Kuomintang. Through the newspaper Mao Zedong and others, they learned that there was a team of the Red Army in northern Shaanxi. They thought that after the separate operation, the other teams had long been broken up. Even if they still exist, they could not get in touch. If they could not meet, they could not form an effective and powerful team.
There is also a combat-capable team in a crisis situation. This is a hope for the Red Army, because the Red Army urgently needs a reliable revolutionary base. This is not only the hope of the Red Army, but also the hope of the whole of China.
After the Lazikou Battle, Nie Rongzhen gave a high evaluation of this battle. : "In the battle of Lazikou, the passage to the north was opened. If Lazikou cannot be opened, our army will not be able to go south and cannot go north again. Both military and politically, it will be in a situation of being in a state of advancing and retreating. Now, once Lazikou opens, the whole game will be alive." Lazikou Battle is a great battle, which is related to the life and death of the Central Red Army of . It is another highlight of the Chinese revolution.
Lazikou Battle is also a famous battle to win with less and win surprises. It is also the most critical battle for the Red Army to go north. This battle not only concerns the life and death of the Red Army, but also shatters the Kuomintang army's attempt to use scarce resources and harsh natural conditions to try to disintegrate the revolutionary army and break down the revolutionary army. This war perfectly reflects the Red Army's incomparable loyalty to revolutionary ideals and revolutionary cause, and reflects the active and powerful force in the unbuilt New China's bloodline. The ancient lion will surely awaken.
As today's barriers have been adapted, the station yards filled with smoke from the past have been covered by green waters and green mountains. In May 2006, the State Council listed the Lazikou Battle Site as a national key cultural relic protection unit, along with the Russian border and the Cirina Revolutionary Site . Although the land that was so devastated that year is no longer visible, standing on this land, we can still pay tribute to our ancestors. The Revolutionary Army has laid a peaceful time for us. This land has shed the blood of revolutionary soldiers. The green mountains have witnessed the sacrifice of soldiers and the growth of New China. People will never forget this land that has been watered with blood. Every year, Young Pioneers wear red scarves to commemorate the martyrs and offer lovely flowers to the martyrs.
