Author: Hu Xianda
In the history of our army, the development of a force from scratch and from small to large has not been smooth sailing. Some were strangled in the cradle as soon as they started; some were prosperous for a while, but they were in a slump and lost a good situation because of the wrong route or the commander's complacency in underestimation of the enemy; some were indomitable, had a life-threatening life, went through hardships, and finally reached the day of the revolution. Major General Wang Yixun’s legendary experience vividly reflects the difficulties and ups and downs of the revolution.
Revolution is like a burning melting pot, tempering people's faith and will. Some have a strong will, are not afraid of hardship, sacrifice, failure, and move forward bravely... Some have shaken beliefs, are weak will, and cannot withstand the test of hard struggle.
During the Red Army period, there was such a unit that had won many battles in the battle with the enemy, which once made the enemy frightened. However, the commander's pride and underestimation of the enemy and his depressed will were removed.
This unit is the Red 17th Army, which was established in July 1933. At that time, the war of revolution was ignited as the Chairman's "Sparks, Can Start a Prairie" predicted, and the land of suffering in China was ignited.
In order to adapt to the new revolutionary struggle situation, the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Military Region decided to reorganize the Red 17th Army, with three divisions under its jurisdiction, with a total of more than 5,000 people. Zhang Tao served as the commander of the army and Fang Buzhou was the political commissar.
On August 1, 1933, the Red 17th Army held its founding meeting in Tongshan, Hubei. In the venue with nearly 10,000 people, there were loud drums and drums, crowds of people, and it was very lively. The meeting read out the orders of the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Military Region to appoint Zhang Tao as the commander, Fang Buzhou as the political commissar, Ye Jinbo as the chief of staff, and Zhang Xiangming as the director of the political department. The Children's Group sang exciting and inspiring revolutionary songs. The soldiers shouted revolutionary slogans that resounded throughout the world and were sonorous and powerful. The people nearby lined up in a long line to send tea, food and shoes to the soldiers of the Red 17th Army, a scene of enthusiastic revolution.
In January 1934, the Red 17th Army was ordered to advance into southern Hubei to open up a new revolutionary base. In order to extinguish the flames of the revolution, Jiang specially dispatched Guo Rudong and to lead a large army to siege and intercept it. Faced with the aggressive enemy, Zhang Tao, the commander of the Red 17th Army, decided to avoid his edge and divide his troops to lure the enemy. With a part of his troops, he took a big move and detoured through Ruichang , luring the enemy to pursue the direction of Wuning , with the purpose of covering up the main force to advance towards southern Hubei, capture Mushigang, Nanxun and other places, mobilize the masses, establish organizations, and arm the revolution.
Mushi Port is located on the main transportation route between southern Hubei and northwest Jiangxi. After being occupied by the Red 17th Army, Guo Rudong, who was trapped in Zhang Tao's plan to lure the enemy, was extremely annoyed. Like a crazy wild dog, he ordered the troops far away in Wuning to pounce on Mushi Port at the speed of a marching force, trying to eat the Red 17th Army in one battle.
Zhang Tao seized Guo Rudong's mentality of eagerness to fight and making achievements, and played hide-and-seek with him, intending to lead Guo Rudong's nose with erratic guerrilla tactics, allowing his troops to go back and forth and go back and forth, exhausted and running.
In late January 1934, Zhang Tao set up an ambush at Mushi Port. When the tired Guo Rudong led his troops into the ambush circle, the Red 17th Army, with the cooperation of local troops, attacked the entire line and won a great victory. Not only did it annihilate more than 1,000 enemies, but it also seized a large amount of military supplies. The battle of
made the Red 17th Army famous. The commander Zhang Tao, political commissar Fang Buzhou and others also grew up pride and underestimated the enemy. They believed that the Chiang Kai-shek army troops who came to "encircle and suppress" were also troops that were easily trapped and vulnerable. They neglected to take a rest in Mushi Port for 7 days to recover their physical strength and replenish supplies.
After the defeat of Mushigang, Guo Rudong was severely scolded by Jiang, but given his hard work, he did not remove him from his post, but strengthened him some troops to besiege the Red 17th Army.
This time, while the Red 17th Army was resting in Mushi Port, Guo Rudong quietly mobilized the troops of six brigades and surrounded the Red 17th Army from all sides. Among them, there was a direct rushing towards Wang Wenyi Village, the headquarters of the Red 17th Army.When Zhang Tao received the enemy situation report from various troops and found that the entire army was surrounded by the enemy, he was panicked and confused, and ordered all parts to break through without any primary and secondary protection. Due to the unknown situation of the enemy, the main force of the Red 17th Army accidentally entered Guo Rudong's heavy troops in the Nijiayuan area. As a result, except for a few people breaking through, most of them were scattered and sacrificed.
In February 1934, more than 600 soldiers broke out by the Red 17th Army reduced to the 7th Regiment of the Red 3rd Division, and followed the Red 16th Division led by Xiao Ke to the Southeast Hubei Soviet Area. In order to facilitate unified command, the 7th Red Regiment was included in the combat sequence of the 16th Red Division, and the 17th Red Army in Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi were subsequently cancelled.
After this battle, the team of thousands of people disappeared in an instant, and the commander Zhang Tao was also suspended by his superior to reflect on . Fearing to be severely punished by superiors, Zhang Tao, on the one hand, did not talk about his pride and underestimate the enemy, but only emphasized factors such as the enemy's strength. On the other hand, he took advantage of the opportunity to go to the hospital for treatment and quietly left the team, left without saying goodbye, and became a deserter.
Zhang Tao did not want to live a life of hiding from Tibet and being displaced, so he simply fled back to his hometown, became a farmer, and worked as a farmer until his death. The villagers sighed at Zhang Tao's life, saying that if he had stayed in the Red Army and had not sacrificed his life, he might have become a founding general and let their village benefit. After the Red 17th Army was cancelled, the military political commissar Fang Buzhou was also held accountable for investigation. Like Zhang Tao, Fang Buzhou also overemphasized objective reasons such as the enemy's strength and invincibility, and was resentful of the superior's relegation and was extremely dissatisfied. Faced with his wife being captured by the enemy and being demoted again, the Red Army may face a more sinister situation, Fang Buzhou shook his faith and took the opportunity to become a deserter. What's even more hateful is that Fang Buzhou was greedy for the temptation of Jiang's high-ranking officials and generous salaries, and rebeled and surrendered to the enemy. After Fang Buzhou rebelled, he sold the situation of the local Red Army and the next action plan to the enemy in a simplified manner. Relying on the information he provided, the enemy followed the map and carried out a cruel "encirclement and suppression" of the Red Army in the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Soviet Area. Fang Buzhou dyed himself the "official hat" red with the blood of his former comrades.
After breaking through Wang Wenyi Village, deputy platoon leader Wang Yixun led his troops to the fragmented Yangxin Soviet Area to fight guerrilla warfare. Without the protection of the Red 17th Army, the people of Yangxin Soviet Area were brutally retaliated by the Chiang Kai-shek army and the returning group . A large number of revolutionary masses and Red Army families were brutally killed, and the Red Army guerrillas were also forced to move into the mountains and forests to deal with the enemy.
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1937, the Red Army guerrillas led by Wang Yixun walked out of the mountains and forests and accepted unified reorganization. After being incorporated into the New Fourth Army, he served as deputy battalion commander, instructor, regiment political commissar, deputy political commissar and political commissar. During the Liberation War, Wang Yixun served as the political commissar and the political commissar of the Central China Field Army, and led his troops to participate in Laiwu, Menglianggu, Shanghai, Fuzhou and other battles. In 1955, Wang Yixun was awarded the rank of major general.
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