"The Red Army troops set up camp on the spot. They should eat and sleep. Let's rest for three days and three nights first." This is the third "anti-encirclement and suppression" campaign of the Red Army . Chairman Mao faced the orders issued by the Kuomintang's 300,000 troops with 300,000 Red Army.
In July 1931, the Kuomintang assembled 300,000 troops against our Party’s Red Front Army and launched the third " encirclement and suppression of " . In fact, it has only been more than 30 days since the Kuomintang’s second “encirclement and suppression” of . However, the failure of the first two "encirclement and suppression" has made the Kuomintang realize the strength of our army. Therefore, this time, "encirclement and suppression" Chiang Kai-shek proclaimed himself "encirclement and suppression" commander-in-chief , and personally took charge of the command, intending to take down our army in one fell swoop.
Chiang Kai-shek
But facing the fierce enemy, Chairman Mao ordered our soldiers to stay still and sleep! So, why did Chairman Mao issue such an order? What kind of story happened afterwards?
The second anti-encirclement and suppression
In April 1931, Chiang Kai-shek appointed He Yingqin as the "Commander-in-Chief of Encirclement and Suppression of the enemy", mobilized 200,000 troops to launch an attack on our party's revolutionary base, kicking off the second "anti-encirclement and suppression" campaign.
He Yingqin, who led the army this time, was full of confidence. He believed that the Red Army had only more than 30,000 people, and its equipment was all "broken copper and iron" . There was no reason for failure. It was simply coming to to "get credit" . However, the development of things was not as good as He Yingqin imagined. After the battle began, the 200,000 Kuomintang troops were progressing very slowly, which made He Yingqin, who was eager to take credit, very annoyed.
He Yingqin
So, on May 11, He Yingqin called Gong Bingfan and told him in a tough tone: " No matter what you think of, you must capture the enemy's Donggu base within the expected time. If the mission cannot be completed and the opportunity to fight is delayed, you can wait to be removed from office and investigate. Even the number of your troops will be cancelled at that time."
After being severely supervised by He Yingqin, Gong Bingfan had to give up his "Steply and erode step by step" strategy, and sent troops from Gupiwei the next day to cooperate with the 47th Division of Shangguan Yunxiang starting from Futian to attack Donggu.
What He Yingqin could not have imagined was that the main force of the Red Army had been hidden in the Donggu area for more than 20 days, and this was the opportunity that he was waiting for. After the enemy arrived at the predetermined location, our army divided the invading Kuomintang troops into three sections and defeated them in accordance with the "head blocking, tail blocking, and shaving" tactics deployed by Chairman Mao and Marshal Zhu De.
Chairman Mao and Zhu De
The Kuomintang troops at that time did not expect that they would encounter the main force of the Red Army ambushing and be defeated. At that time, some of the Kuomintang soldiers were directly blinded and hugged their heads and exclaimed: "Oh my god, it's amazing. The Red Army flew down from the sky, run away!" Then, under the coordinated attack of various departments of our army, a brigade of the 28th Division and the 47th Division of the Kuomintang were almost wiped out.
However, this was just the beginning. In the subsequent battle, our army chased each other step by step, winning consecutive battles, and finally captured Jianning, known as "Hometown of Fish and Rice" , connecting the Northeastern Jiangxi Soviet Area and the northern Fujian Soviet Area created by Fang Zhimin and others, paving the way for the development of the Central Soviet Area.
In this battle, our army swept 700 miles from west to east with extraordinary momentum in just 15 days, with five battles and five victories, completely breaking the "encirclement and suppression" of the Kuomintang's 200,000 troops and achieving unprecedented victory.
Scenario Simulation
After learning that his subordinates had been defeated repeatedly, resulting in the second "encirclement and suppression" of , Chiang Kai-shek was so angry that he ran to Nanchang in person, scolding his subordinates in person: "In less than a month, he lost more than 30,000 troops, and made the territory of the Communist Army grow bigger and bigger. This is what you promised me to eliminate the Communist Army in three months? It's so incompetent."
millsplate tactics
Two consecutive failures of "encirclement and suppression" aroused Chiang Kai-shek's vigilance. He began to seriously reflect on the previous battles, and convened a large number of military experts from the United States, Germany and other countries to gather in Nanchang, and decided to take command in person, and once again carry out "encirclement and suppression" .
In July 1931, Chiang Kai-shek assembled 300,000 troops against the First Red Army of the United States and launched the third "encirclement and suppression" . In order to better boost morale and strengthen the fighting will of all units under his command, Chiang Kai-shek also made a public promise to the three armies: Anyone who has made contributions to the "encirclement and suppression of the Zhumao Red Army", regardless of the official position, All can be promoted to one level. Those who have greater contributions can also be awarded the title of officials.
Chiang Kai-shek
After the battle began, the 300,000 Kuomintang army was divided into three routes and came to our party's base area with great momentum. In order to better grasp the trends of our army, Chiang Kai-shek also sent an air force. It can be said that the third "encirclement and suppression" , whether in terms of force scale or weapons and equipment, was not comparable to the previous two "encirclement and suppression" .
At that time, less than a month after the second encirclement and suppression ended, our entire army did not have time to rest and replenish, plus the main force of our army Only about 30,000, only one-tenth of the enemy, the situation is very serious.
But the reason why Chairman Mao could completely crush Chiang Kai-shek in military guidance is because of Chairman Mao’s overall view of the situation: does not care about the gains and losses of a city and a place, fight if you can beat it, and retreat strategically if you can’t beat it, pay attention to changes in tense, and coordinate the overall situation.
Under the command of Chairman Mao, the 30,000 Red Army began to retreat strategically and sent some troops to cooperate with the guerrillas to attack the west, trying to delay the enemy’s advancement speed as much as possible.
Chairman Mao
, who was confused by the current situation, thought our army was scared, and was full of ambition. The local dispatched troops to take over the Ningdu , Ruijin and other places that our army gave in, but they didn't know that this was Chairman Mao's plan.
looked at the surface to confuse the enemy on the retreat, but in fact, they used our army's advantages to restrain the enemy, attracted the enemy's main deployment through movement tactics, and then seized the opportunity to use our army's advantages to launch a fatal blow to the enemy. This is one of the commonly used combat methods Chairman Mao.
Although, at the beginning of the third "encirclement and suppression" , Chiang Kai-shek almost surrounded our army several times with his advantage in numbers. But our soldiers were not afraid at all, because everyone firmly believed that in terms of war, ten Chiang Kai-sheks tied up, they were not Chairman Mao's opponents!
In fact, in the face of the enemy's 300,000 troops, Chairman Mao had already thought of countermeasures and formulated "grinding tactics" based on the current situation.
Chairman Mao
The so-called "milling tactic" means that after putting the enemy in, using the familiar mountains and forest terrain of the Red Army, from the inside out, cleverly interspersed and transferred from the place where the enemy was not closed, and detoured the enemy's rear to conduct raids.
In this case, even if the enemy's troops are 10 times that of ours, we can calmly intersperse between the enemies, let the "mill plate" turn, constantly destroy the enemy's vitality, and finally find the opportunity to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop.
On that night, the Red Army soldiers besieged by Chiang Kai-shek's troops took advantage of the hazy night and used favorable terrain to retreat from a closed gap in the Kuomintang like lightning and successfully penetrated into the Liantang area.
After a simple rest, our army raided Shangguan Yunxiang's troops on the third day after arriving in Liantang area. Faced with the sudden attack from our soldiers, the enemy was unprepared and was soon defeated.
Scenario Simulation
KMT soldiers fled and shouted: "Aren't the main force of the Communist Army besieged? Where did these people come from? Can they really fly?" However, no matter how the enemy shouted, it would not change the end of their defeat. As the saying goes, "Accidentally, attack it unpredictably" . After the victory of the first battle, our army did not retreat, but instead launched an attack on Hao Mengling's troops and successfully annihilated it.
Two consecutive victories have attracted the attention of the enemy, so Chairman Mao decisively ordered to move to other areas. After three days of emergency marching, our soldiers finally successfully arrived at Huangpi .
At this time, the Kuomintang general Mao Bingwen who was staying in Huangpi was looking at the Red Army soldiers who were rushing towards him with a blank look on his face. He could not understand, "Why did the main force of the Red Army appear here?" Passively responded, Mao Bingwen's troops were also beaten to run away with their heads in their arms.
Mao Bingwen
In just one week, Chairman Mao flexibly used "milling tactics" , surrounded by the Kuomintang's 300,000 troops, interspersed and detoured everywhere, won three battles and three victories, and successfully jumped out of the enemy's encirclement.
Sleeping in place for three days
After learning the news, Chiang Kai-shek, who was secretly happy about the Red Army being surrounded a few days ago, suddenly felt a little at a loss and said very annoyed: "I really didn't expect that the Communist army would dare to attack our rear. It's so cunning. However, everyone doesn't have to be depressed. The Communist army has been marching continuously. Now it must be scarce. The main force in Huangpi will not evacuate so timely. We must concentrate all our troops to encircle Huangpi and wipe them out!"
At this time, our army really needs a rest urgently, but our reconnaissance personnel and radio station secret sentries have all discovered signs of large-scale mobilization of the enemy, and they all came straight to Huangpi. The situation is very dangerous.
You should know that our army has only 30,000 people at this time. If it is really surrounded by enemies with 10 times the strength of the troops, the consequences will be unimaginable and it is likely that the entire army will be wiped out.
Scenario Simulation
But at this extremely critical moment, Chairman Mao actually issued a strange order: The Red Army troops set up camp on the spot, eat and sleep, and rest for three days and three nights first.
The soldiers of the entire army were very confused and could not understand the intention of Chairman Mao’s order. At this time, the enemy's 300,000 troops were surging from all directions. Shouldn't we retreat quickly?
Although everyone found it very incredible, the soldiers finally chose to obey because everyone believed that Chairman Mao would definitely lead everyone through the difficulties.
So, at this critical moment, a strange scene appeared: The 300,000 Kuomintang troops rushed to Huangpi from all directions, while the 30,000 Red Army soldiers seemed to be fine, eating, sleeping, and rested peacefully for three days and three nights.
Stills
However, something even more incredible happened, and the Kuomintang army did not arrive within 3 days. You should know that if the Kuomintang army really arrived early, the Red Army, which was resting, would suffer a catastrophe. Could Chairman Mao really be able to calculate and be the reincarnation of a god?
In fact, it was mainly Chairman Mao who guessed Chiang Kai-shek's thoughts. Because our army adopted the movement tactics of "fight if you can beat it, and retreat if you can't win it." Chiang Kai-shek lost all his face, so this time Chiang Kai-shek determined that our army would definitely retreat with all its might.
In order to completely block our army's retreat route, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the troops to be vigilant at all times and explore and move forward step by step without leaving any gaps. Under such circumstances, it was undoubtedly an almost impossible task for Chiang Kai-shek to arrive in the Huangpi area in three days.
Chiang Kai-shek
However, Chairman Mao did not completely bet on Chiang Kai-shek. He had long investigated the terrain of Huangpi. Even if the enemy army arrived early, our army could still hide in the dense jungle and mountains. That's why Chairman Mao asked the soldiers to sleep peacefully in Huangpi for three days and have a good rest.
Three days later, our soldiers were all energetic, while the enemy was already exhausted. Therefore, our army once again took advantage of the night and favorable terrain to cross several mountains and successfully jumped out of the enemy's encirclement. In order to completely get rid of the enemy's encirclement, Chairman Mao thought of a plan to lure the tiger out of the mountain.
He sent Tan Zhenlin and Luo Binghui to lead the Red 12th Army to confuse the enemy and lead them to the opposite direction from the main force of the Red Army.The main force of the Red Army took the opportunity to break out of the enemy's encirclement and look for new fighter opportunities.
Stills
In order to confuse the enemy, Luo Binghui created the more momentum he could make along the way. He never hides when marching, and directly advances on the vast road with a flag. In order to make the performance more realistic, Luo Binghui also personally taught the soldiers, "Comrades, this drama, not only should the flag be beaten well, but the momentum should not be bad. Without dust, it would be like a large army crossing the border." Even in order to completely fool Chiang Kai-shek, Luo Binghui deliberately led the Red 12th Army to stop and stop, waiting for Chiang Kai-shek to send people to investigate.
Finally, in front of the "evidence" of on multiple sides, Chiang Kai-shek was already blinded by failure and anger. Without thinking about it, he chased the troops led by Luo Binghui as the main force of the Red Army.
Learning that the Kuomintang army was chasing behind him, Luo Bingwen couldn't close his mouth and shouted loudly: "Comrades, the fish have been taken to the bait. Now it depends on whether we can put the net in. Come, let the enemies behind us see our specialty. Let us go wherever the hill is steep and let them go."
Scenario simulation
When Chiang Kai-shek found out that he was fooled, it was too late. Their large troops were exhausted by our soldiers and lost their ability to fight further. At this time, our main force had already been raising our strength for many days. Under the leadership of Chairman Mao, he launched an attack directly from the enemy, winning five battles and killing more than 30,000 enemy troops in one fell swoop.
Finally, Chiang Kai-shek was beaten and lost patience, leading the remnants of troops to retreat, marking the successful end of the third "anti-encirclement and suppression" campaign with our army.
In this battle, Chairman Mao planned and defeated 300,000 Red Army and fled in panic, creating a miracle of war with fewer victory and more, and showing the enemy the courage and fearlessness of our army. Today, we have long entered a peaceful era, but we must remember history, always remember the hard-won peace now, and strive to contribute our own strength to the prosperity and development of the motherland.
