Shawo Conference ended, Zhang Guotao returned from Shawo to Zhuokeji . Xu Xiangqian told him that the troops must leave this barren land immediately. The troops ate wild vegetables and jute every day, and their mouths were swollen. In such a difficult situation, they were the first to die, but Zhang Guotao just kept his troops still.
htmlOn August 15, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China called Zhang Guotao, urging the left-wing army troops to move north quickly, with a quick and earnest tone.On the same day, Zhu De and Zhang Guotao led the vanguard of the left-road army and set off from Zhuo Keji to Aba .
On the same day, the vanguard of the Red Army on the right, led by Ye Jianying, chief of staff of the forward enemy command, also set out north from Maoergai.
However, the left-road army was not moving closer to the right-road army, but was getting further and further away from the right-road army.
At this time, Zhang Guotao was still trying to go west from Aba and enter the remote area at the junction of Gansu and Qinghai.
Zhang Guotao's shaken show seriously threatens the overall action plan of the Red Army .
The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting in Maoergai. Those who attended the meeting were Zhang Wentian, Mao Zedong, Wang Jiaxiang, Bogu , Chen Changhao, Kaifeng, and Deng Fa.
The attendees of the meeting were Xu Xiangqian, Li Fuchun, Lin Biao, Nie Rongzhen and Li Xiannian. Zhu De, Zhang Guotao, and Liu Bocheng were absent due to illness because they did not attend the meeting in the Left Army.
Ye Jianying was in the vanguard of the right army, and Peng Dehuai was not present at the meeting in the third legion of the , which served as the defender. The
meeting once again emphasized that it is inappropriate to go deep into Qinghai, Ningxia and new remote places, which are ethnic minority settlements, and are short of materials, making it difficult to ensure that the army is stationed for a long time.
The next day, on August 21, the Red Army on the right left Maoergai and entered the boundless Songpan grassland one after another.
Songpan Grassland is located in the northern part of Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan today. It stretches for about 200 kilometers from north to south and about 100 kilometers widest from east to west. It is a plateau wetland with an average altitude of 3,000 meters.
Whether it is the First Front Army of the Red Army or the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army of the , since leaving the Soviet area, it has encountered countless difficulties and obstacles since it started the Long March of the , but in terms of the natural environment, the Songpan grassland is the worst.
The Fourth Regiment once again became the advance force of the entire Red Army. The Fourth Regiment found an old Tibetan man in his 60s as a guide.
In the early morning of August 21, 1935, after passing through an unknown valley, the Fourth Regiment of the Second Division of the Red First Army entered the Songpan Prairie.
The grassland is full of weeds, the water flows intertwined, the water is scattered, the water grass is full of mist, and the world is boundless. Once a person is in it, he cannot distinguish the direction at all.
There are no trees, no stones, and there is almost no dry and hard ground, only clumps of grass several feet tall growing on the swamp.
The black water exudes a rotten smell, and there is an unpredictable mud under the grass. The feet are soft when they step on it. If you accidentally step too hard, you will sink until you are flooded.
Tibetan guide said that you should pick the densest grass roots and follow the other one. The water in the grass is poisonous, and the wound will rot as soon as it is soaked by water. You cannot drink it, and you will die if you drink it.
The day after entering the grassland, officers and soldiers of the Fourth Regiment fell down. They all fell head-on in the mud after exhausting the last little heat in their bodies.
Some people were still in heavy rain at night and stood together with their comrades to camp, but there was no trace at dawn. Only a vortex with black water was left where they stood.
Compared with the cold heavy rain, thin air and the quagmire of similar traps, the biggest threat is food shortage.
A company of the Red Third Army has nine cooks. Since entering the grassland, no one has ever been willing to eat a grain of food. All the soldiers in the cooking squad starve to death in the grassland.
Peng Dehuai, the commander of the Red Third Army, also had no food. At the beginning, he could use wild vegetables to satisfy his hunger, and soon even these things were not found.
Peng Dehuai ordered all six animals, including his mount, to be killed, and he also told him to give the good meat to the soldiers, especially the wounded and the patients, so that the cadres would divide them into some water and miscellaneous parts.
I don’t know how many Red Army lives these meats saved.
The vanguard of the Red Army's left-road army occupied Aba, and the large force was still stranded in the Zhuokeki area. On August 24, the Central Committee called the Left Route Army to explain the strategy of northward advance again and urge the Left Route Army to advance with all its strength.
In order to convince Zhang Guotao, Xu Xiangqian and Chen Changhao, who followed the right-wing army, also called on the same day, saying that the plan to advance north was already on the string and they had to advance.
believes that the Red Army will never go into a dead end Hu Zongnan . Finally, he knew that the Red Army had passed through the Songpan grassland. He immediately ordered the troops to rush to Baozou, meet with the troops stationed at Baozou, and block the Red Army.
package is located in the northeast of Songpan grassland, stuck on the only way to Gannan by North Sichuan . The mountains are high and dense forests are dense. The Kuomintang army used the Shanguan Pass Road to build a bunker to form a solid blocking position.
Chief of Staff of the Red Army Front Enemy Command Ye Jianying realized that if the Red Army could not take the seat, he would be forced to retreat to Songpan grassland .
After Xu Xiangqian and Chen Changhao listened to Ye Jianying's report, they decided that they had to take down the seat.
At this time, the Red Third Army had not yet walked out of the grassland. The Red First Army suffered too many casualties when they passed through the grassland. Xu Xiangqian and Chen Changhao decided to hand over the task of attacking the 30th and 4th Army of the Red Fourth Front Army.
This is the first battle after the Red Army stepped out of Songpan grassland, and it is also a life-and-death battle to whether they can escape from the desperate situation and enter Gannan.
Red Star Shining [Issue 36]
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