Author: Tiexam Jack
On September 9, 1927, various teams participating in the Autumn Harvest Uprising gathered in Wenjia Town in Liuyang , Hunan .
htmlOn September 10th, the open space in front of the Xiao Family Ancestral Hall was very lively. The war is imminent, and to wish the success of the uprising, all the cadres above the platoon in the uprising army gathered here for a dinner. Among them, there were those who were wearing Chiang army yellow cloth uniforms and wearing "box cannons" on their waists. These were some officers and soldiers who failed to catch up with the Nanchang Uprising team; there were Anyuan coal miners with dark faces and thick canvas mattresses; and the Red Guards with white towels and white cloth coats.Everyone was joking loudly. A "tall man" wearing a white cloth jacket on the top, white slender trousers on the bottom, straw sandals on the bottom, and a short top on the side, came to the middle of the crowd.
For a moment, everyone stopped talking and stared at the burly man. Everyone has a question in their hearts: Who is he?
This man in his 30s called himself "Mao Runzhi" and was a special envoy sent by the organization to be responsible for leading the uprising. People later learned that he was Chairman Mao.
After making an exciting mobilization to everyone, Chairman Mao raised the wine bowl beside him and shouted: "I toast you all! I wish you all a victory and success!" Then he drank it all, and warm applause and cheers rang out from the crowd.
According to the deployment, the commander-in-chief of the uprising was Lu Deming, the head of the guard regiment, and Chairman Mao served as secretary of the former enemy committee. The various troops participating in the Autumn Harvest Uprising were reorganized into the 1st Division of the 1st Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, with three regiments under their jurisdiction. Lu Deming's guard regiment is the 1st Regiment, and the workers and peasant self-defense troops from Anyuan, Pingxiang and other places form the 2nd Regiment, and the 3rd Regiment is composed of the peasant volunteer army from Pingjiang and Liuyang. The operation deployment of the uprising was: the 1st Regiment attacked Pingjiang, the 2nd Regiment attacked Pingxiang, Liling , and the 3rd Regiment was responsible for the direction of Liuyang. After the three rebels succeeded, they surrounded Changsha.
In the rebel army, what worried Chairman Mao the most was the 2nd Regiment. The soldiers of this regiment are mainly farmers and workers. Not only do they lack combat experience, but they also use a large number of weapons. They also use darts, , sickles, spears, etc. without a few rifles. For this reason, Chairman Mao decided to go to the 2nd Regiment to investigate and learn about it.
After dinner, Chairman Mao limped to the 2nd Regiment's headquarters. Previously, his feet were worn out by straw sandals and his wounds were inflamed. Due to the tight time, he didn't have time to rest and treat, and dragged his sick leg to the military base.
Autumn Harvest Uprising Situation Chart
2 Regiment officers and soldiers were enthusiastic when they heard Chairman Mao was coming. As early as the Anyuan strike and the establishment of the peasant association, workers and farmers had met Chairman Mao.
As soon as he sat down, Chairman Mao asked, "I will go to the battlefield tomorrow and fight a big battle. Do you have any difficulties?"
The then regiment commander Wang Xingya was straightforward and did not turn around. He spoke, "What difficulties can there be! We have been waiting for many years, just for this day!"
The Battalion Commander Liu, beside him, opened his mouth, and wanted to speak but stopped.
Seeing this, Chairman Mao smiled and said, "No! In the past, our hands were holding hoe poles and hoe handles. Now we have to fight against the enemy with real swords and guns. There will be no problem!"
When he heard Chairman Mao ask this, Battalion Commander Liu plucked up the courage and said, "If you want to say it is difficult, it is our guy who is not good at it. Our regiment has many people, but few who can really fight the enemy are all big knives, spears, and darts. What else can you do if you go to the battlefield?"
Chairman Mao He nodded and agreed: "Our weapons are indeed simple, but we cannot give up on uprising and revolution because of this! Do we have to wait until we have good weapons before we can take action? It is definitely not possible. Just waiting can't wait for good weapons. The enemy will only press against us more and more tightly, and we will not let us wait until the day we have good weapons. If we want to have good weapons, we have to take them from the enemy's hands!"
At this time, Wang Xingya spoke: "Who said that our 2nd regiment does not have good weapons? Don't we still have such thick cannons!" As he said that, he gestured with his hands. The "cannon" that Captain Wang used his hand to gesture was so thick that he made everyone laugh.
Chairman Mao was surprised: "You still have such a large caliber artillery? Why have I never heard of it?"
Regiment Commander Wang said very seriously: "Let's go, I'll take you to take a look!"
The "litchi cannon" used by the Red Army, making the cannon body with wood
. In the open space next to the village, there are seven or eight wooden stakes that are thicker in one hug. Most of these wooden stakes are pine and cypress. The middle has been hollowed out and iron hoops are inlaid on both ends.
Leader Wang pointed to these wooden stakes and said, "Look, this is our 'cannon'!"
In the old society, in order to prevent bandits and bandits, rural villages often used this sturdy wooden pipe to install gunpowder and fired iron sand to strengthen their momentum and protect their homes. But it is obvious that using this kind of local weapon to attack the city is not very powerful.
Chairman Mao stroked the cannon barrel and said, "Don't underestimate these wooden pipe cannons! In the past, we had to protect the village and the courtyard, but we had to rely on it? Besides, we will go to attack the city tomorrow, as long as this big guy can be transported up, it will definitely be useful! Today, even if we don't have cannons, we will have to revolt. What's more, we have cannons of such a large caliber, so we have to revolt!" Chairman Mao's words caused everyone to laugh.
On the morning of September 16, the 2nd Regiment successfully captured Liling City and then arrived at the foot of Liuyang City. The Chiang army guarding the city believed that it was protected by the city walls, and most of them were firearms, so it was no problem to deal with the Red Army with big swords and spears. But without expectation, before the battle started, bursts of black smoke suddenly emerged from the east wall of Liuyang. When Jiang Jun, who was guarding the city, saw that there were cannons opposite him, he was so scared that he ran away in a panic. In this way, the 2nd regiment easily took Liuyang City without any effort.
The first hero to capture Liuyang City is the one who is the one who is the one who is responsible for the brunt of the wood pipe cannons.
But the subsequent situation was beyond the expectations of the rebel army: the third regiment, which was preparing to join the second regiment, was suddenly attacked by Chiang's army at the East Gate, with heavy casualties. The second regiment that captured Liuyang had no support and advanced alone. Before they could reach Changsha, they were trapped in the encirclement of Chiang's army. Although he fought to the death in the end, most of the officers and soldiers died in battle, including those wooden pipe cannons, were also destroyed.
Oil Painting: Spear and Blade defeated Jiang Jun
Lu Deming (1905-1927), a native of Zigong, Sichuan, participated in the Northern Expedition, served as commander-in-chief, and sacrificed his life to cover the troops' breakout and Chairman Mao realized the problems in combat deployment, and immediately ordered the rebel army to retreat in the direction of Pingxiang. On September 25, the rebel army was once again trapped in the ambush of the Chiang Kai-shek army Zhu Peide's troops. After a fierce battle, hundreds of officers and soldiers, including Lu Deming, died. In the end, the troops, led by Chairman Mao, broke out of the encirclement.
suffered consecutive defeats, suffered heavy casualties, and encountered a rebellion in front of a friendly army. The soldiers of the Qiuhu Uprising were either killed, injured or fled. When they retreated into Sanwan Town, the entire division had dropped from a scale of 5,000 to less than a thousand. In order to revitalize morale and summarize the lessons, Chairman Mao decided to implement the Sanwan adaptation.
At the adaptation conference, the great man generously said: "Comrade He Long, who once participated in the command of the Nanchang Uprising, also started his business with two kitchen knives. Now, he has become the commander of the army, commanding thousands of troops. Now we have more than two kitchen knives, aren't we still two battalions? You are all tough guys who have experienced the test of life and death and fought all the way from the battlefield. Each of them can block ten or a hundred. Now, if we have such a team, what are we afraid of? Without failure and setbacks, we will not have success in the future!" 's speech aroused the fighting spirit of the survivors.
[Sanwan adapted, reorganized the only 700 remaining people in the Autumn Harvest Uprising into the 1st Regiment of the 1st Division of the 1st Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. Chairman Mao led this team to Jinggangshan and started a new chapter]
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