At the end of May 1935, after the Red Army's left army crossed the Dadu River , it decided to send a force to turn east and seize Feiyue Ridge in the southeast of Luding County.
Feiyue Ridge is located on the dividing line between Luding and Hanyuan counties. The terrain is extremely dangerous. The two peaks on the ridge stand side by side, forming a natural pass, known as "Feiyueguan Pass". With an altitude of 2830 meters, it is an easy-to-defend but difficult-to-attack place.
html On May 31, the Fourth Regiment of the Second Red Division was ordered by their superiors to attack Feiyueguan Pass under the leadership of regiment leader Wang Kaixiang and political commissar Yang Chengwu.The terrain of the pass was not conducive to the deployment of large forces, but the dense fog on the mountain made it difficult for the enemy to distinguish true from real. Therefore, Wang Kaixiang decided to send only a small force to carry out the task of seizing the pass to achieve a surprise victory.
accepted this task from the Sixth Company of the Second Battalion. The company commander Huang Lin also served as the deputy commander of the Second Battalion. He was a very smart grassroots commander.
Huang Lin studied the terrain and found that although there was a small trail in front of the pass, the enemy was heavily guarded and had laid many mines. The troops could only climb up the cliffs on the flanks.
But Huang Lin made up his mind: in order to complete the task of seizing the pass, he must climb up even if he risks falling off the cliff at any time and climbing like a monkey!
Under his leadership, more than 140 soldiers marched towards the target area with high spirits.
Under the cover of thick fog, they quietly crossed the jungle, crossed the mine pit, and ran forward.
Looking up the mountainside, the visibility is better, but the details of the landform are still unclear. This posed a difficult problem for Huang Lin, who was eager to observe the terrain and decide his next move. He frowned and thought hard about countermeasures.
Coincidentally, at this critical moment when the Red Army was in trouble, a strong wind suddenly blew in the air. The clouds and mist on the mountaintop drifted away, and a small piece of blue sky was revealed on the mountaintop on the right, setting off an unusually steep mountain. mountain peak.
The peak on the left is filled with towering ancient trees, numerous rocks, and steep mountains.
What's even more gratifying is that the enemy's frontal position at Feiyuan Pass is still shrouded in thick fog and confused.
Company commander Huang Lin was overjoyed after seeing this: "This strong wind is coming well, God is really helping me!"
A bold idea suddenly came to his mind: If he presses from the left mountain to the right, in a dense fog, , if the entire company fights fiercely and skillfully, one can be as good as ten, and ten can be as good as a hundred, and win in chaos!
Thinking of this, Huang Lin immediately led the entire company and quietly climbed up the mountain on the left wing, determined to launch an offensive from there.
They climbed through the dense thorns and vines, and encountered a steep rock wall blocking their way. The soldiers set up ladders and struggled to climb up.
Then, they used the protruding tree stumps on the rock wall as a support point, took off everyone's leggings to form a long and strong rope, and climbed up one after another, finally climbing to an altitude of 3,001 meters at noon. Mountain top.
The soldiers took a breath and began to check their guns and prepare for battle. Huang Lin led several platoon leaders to observe the enemy's situation and look for attack targets. They saw a thick column of smoke rising from the vast white mist.
Huang Lin concluded that there must be an enemy where the smoke column rose, so he led the soldiers, holding guns in their arms, and slid down the steep slope onto the thick branches and rotten leaves. No matter what was in front of them, he climbed up and headed towards Jump where the smoke is coming from.
As expected, the enemy was afraid of the cold, so they lit two fires and gathered around them to keep warm. There were about 100 people there. This is the warning position on the enemy's flank.
The enemy never expected that a Red Army team would fly down from the clouds, like divine soldiers from heaven, and they were immediately shocked.
Huang Lin ordered the machine gun platoon to immediately use seven light machine guns to suppress the enemy's firepower, and personally led three platoons to "tiger attack". He quickly defeated the enemy and captured more than 70 enemies. The remaining enemies fell back. flight.
The enemy lost this flank position and knew that something was wrong, so they hurriedly mobilized their troops to fight back desperately.
Under the extremely disparity in strength between the enemy and ourselves, the Sixth Company fought very tenaciously. No matter how the enemy counterattacked, the soldiers were firmly nailed to the position like nails and remained motionless.
The soldiers ran out of bullets, and grenades were quickly used up. Many of them were injured and did not even bother to bandage them; some were injured in multiple places, but they were still gritting their teeth and persisting in fighting.
When the enemy launched the final charge, Huang Lin ordered the soldiers to mount their bayonets and hold their last grenade in their hands, waiting for the enemy to approach.
Following Huang Lin's order, a row of grenades slammed in, and then the soldiers roared toward the enemy group with billowing smoke, like a flood that broke a bank. The enemy's formation was immediately disrupted, and the Sixth Company took advantage of the victory to seize the enemy's position over the Lingshan Pass.
Almost at the same time, the Red Army troops attacking from the front also captured Fulong Temple and dived towards the Sichuan Army position at Sandaoqiao on the east side of the mountain. The enemies in the ravine trampled each other and left corpses everywhere.
After fierce fighting until that night, the Second Red Division seized all the enemy's positions on the Feiyue Ridge line in one go, captured more than 200 enemy soldiers, and also seized a batch of weapons and ammunition. The enemy brigade commander and his defeated generals retreated to Hanzhen City, a hundred miles away from Sanjiaoping.
It can be said that although the scale of the Battle of Feiyuan Pass was small, its significance was extraordinary. It was precisely because the officers and men of the Sixth Company, led by Huang Lin, tactfully and bravely captured the Feiyue Ridge Pass, opening up the passage to Hanyuan, Rongjing, Tianquan, Lushan, Baoxing for the entire army, and immediately He made immortal contributions.
html More than 20 years later, Huang Lin, who was already the founding major general of the People's Republic of China, was still filled with emotion when recalling the Battle of Guanyakou: "Revolutionary soldiers pay attention to 'man can conquer nature' and emphasize changing nature through man's own strength and will. But we have to admit that, The strong wind that blew at the critical moment had a miraculous effect in helping our army, which shows that harmony and unity can be achieved between man and nature.”
