Author: Xiang Wangyu Jianghu
When it comes to Northern Expedition generals, many people will think of independent group and Ye Ting at the first time.
The Ye Ting Independent Regiment is composed of Zhou Shidi's armored convoy as the core, and it also absorbs young workers, farmers and some of the Huangpu student army who pursue progress. Most of the cadres of this independent regiment are party members, including the regiment commander Ye Ting, the party representative Wu Jiyan, battalion commander Cao Yuan , Xu Jishen, Yang Ning and 6 of the 9 company commanders, as well as the machine gun company commander, surveillance captain, stretcher captain and detective captain.
The battle of fame of Ye Ting’s independent regiment was the famous battle of Tingsi Bridge and Hesheng Bridge. However, in these two battles, a regiment commander and his regiment were even more effective than Ye Ting and the Independent Regiment. This regiment is the 36th Regiment of the 12th Division of the 4th Army, and this person is the 36th Regiment commander Huang Qixiang .
However, as both outstanding commanders of the 4th Army during the Northern Expedition, Ye Ting and Huang Qixiang's endings were very different.
Ye Ting and the Independent Regiment have left their name in history. As the first commander of this heroic force, Ye Ting was also selected as one of the 36 military strategists. However, Huang Qixiang, who was more glorious than Ye Ting during the Northern Expedition and the War of Resistance Against Japan, never reached Ye Ting's height. What's the position?
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ye Ting and Huang Qixiang are both from Guangdong. Ye Ting was born in huiyangHuang Qixiang is Meixian.
Ye Ting was born in 1896 and the same age as Marshal Ye; and Huang Qixiang is 2 years younger than Ye Ting and the same age as Mr. Peng.
Ye Ting and Huang Qixiang were admitted to Guangdong Army Primary School in the same year, and then entered Baoding Army School one after another. After graduation, Ye Ting returned to the Guangdong Army as the platoon leader, while Huang Qixiang, who graduated the second year, served as the platoon leader in Beiyang Army, and then worked in Baoding Military Academy for two years before returning to the Guangdong Army.
Ye Ting and Huang Qixiang's military career starting point were very similar. Around 1922, Ye Ting served as the deputy battalion commander of the Engineering Battalion (Battery Commander Li Zhangda) and the battalion commander of the Presidential Office Guard Regiment; Huang Qixiang served as the deputy battalion commander of the logistics battalion (Battery Commander Zhang Fakui), and the battalion commander of the 1st Division of the Guangdong Army.
When the commander-in-chief of the Guangdong Army, Chen Jiongming, rebelled, Ye Ting protected Mrs. Sun , Soong Ching Ling to escape from danger, and was then sent to , Moscow Oriental University, and the Chinese class of the Red Army School, so he did not participate in the two Eastern Expeditions. The first Eastern Expedition to , Huang Qixiang was promoted to the commander of the 2nd Regiment of Independent Brigade (Brig Commander Zhang Fakui), and soon changed to the commander of the 36th Regiment of the expanded 12th Division (Team Commander Chen Keyu ), and arrived at Qiongya on the second Eastern Expedition.
In September 1925, Ye Ting returned to Guangzhou from the Soviet Union and became the leader of the newly formed 34th Regiment two months later.
Ye Ting joined the organization during his stay in the Soviet Union, and since then he has opened up a gap with Huang Qixiang, a fellow villager and alumnus of Baoding Military Academy. At the beginning of the Northern Expedition, Huang Qixiang's 36th Regiment was following Zhang Fakui's 12th Division to handle some affairs in Qiongya, and the independent regiment stationed at Zhaoqing was designated as the 4th Army's vanguard regiment.
Xue Yue, Yu Hanmou and Zhang Fakui
The main targets of the Northern Expedition are the three major warlords Wu Peifu , Sun Chuanfang , and Zhang Zuolin .
According to the idea of Jiang, commander-in-chief of the Northern Expedition Army, 100,000 Northern Expedition Army attacked Wu Peifu in the two lakes and the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces of Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangsu, Anhui and Jiangxi provinces. However, the Soviet advisory group headed by Galen proposed the suggestion of "first Wu and then Sun, defeating each one."
I have to say that this is exactly the same as the strategy of "beating Chen Youliang first, then destroying Zhang Shicheng " back then.
Because Tang Shengzhi of the 4th Division of the Hunan Army turned against him, the Northern Expedition Army was invincible and soon ended the Hunan war.
The real battle between the two armies started from the southern gate of Hubei Xianning , and the key to guarding Xianning is Tingsi Bridge. This is a thousand-year-old ancient town with a long history. It has been a must-fight for military strategists since ancient times. It is famous for its "Tingsi Bridge" built in before in the Tang Dynasty.
Wu Peifu built many fortifications on the mountain around Tingsi Bridge, and was stationed by Song Dapei 20,000 people.
In the early morning of August 26, 1926, the 4th Army divided into three groups to launch a strong attack on Tingsi Bridge:
The first route was Chen Mingshu's 10th Division, and the other two routes were Zhang Fakui's 12th Division 35th Regiment and 36th Regiment.Ye Ting's Independent Regiment was retained as a reserve team. Because Wu Peifu's military blocked the bridge with machine guns, and the surge in the Tingsi River water has added many unexpected difficulties to the attack.
from 10:30 am until the sun sets, and the two sides are in a stalemate across the Tingsi River.
Eyes to see Wuchang Wu Peifu personally led reinforcements to come, and Acting Commander Chen Keyu was very anxious.
Wu Peifu
At the critical moment, Huang Qixiang, the commander of the 36th Regiment of the 12th Division of the 4th Army, proposed "Attack between North and South". The idea of
made the Soviet adviser applaud. Acting commander Chen Keyu and division commander Zhang Fakui adopted Huang Qixiang's plan and ordered the 36th Regiment of the 12th Division and the 29th Regiment of the 10th Division to attack the south bank, and the 28th Regiment of the 10th Division and the Independent Regiment of the 10th Division to attack the north bank, leaving the Tingsiqiao defenders to be attacked by the enemy from both sides and unable to take care of each other from the front and tail.
From 1 a.m. to 3 a.m., the 35th regiment and the Independent Regiment were frustrated to cross the river, and Ye Ting's idea of "winning unexpectedly" was praised by Chen Keyu.
In the early morning of the next day, Ye Ting led the 2nd and 3rd battalions of the Independent Regiment, led by local farmers, crossed mountains and ridges along rugged mountain roads, and finally arrived in the northeast of Tingsi Bridge before dawn. Huang Qixiang's 36th and 29th Regiments broke through the frontier positions, and the Independent Regiment's sudden attack accelerated the defenders' defeat and retreated across the line.
After dawn, the 35th Regiment of the 12th Division and the 1st Battalion of the Independent Regiment made a concerted effort and rushed across Tingsi Bridge. In the battle of Tingsi Bridge, Huang Qixiang's 36th Regiment performed the best, while Ye Ting's Independent Regiment took advantage of the victory to occupy the thousand-year-old ancient city of Xianning, forcing Wu Peifu and reinforcements to retreat to Hesheng Bridge 20 kilometers north of Xianning.
The next day, Li Zongren commanded the 4th and 7th Army of the Northern Expedition Army to launch an attack on He Shengqiao.
This time, the independent regiment "turned into a regular position" and took the lead in the main attack. He fell into a siege during the battle and suffered heavy losses. The battalion commander of the 2nd Battalion Xu Jishen was injured. In a critical moment, the 28th Regiment of the 10th Division and the 36th Regiment of the 12th Division of Huang Qixiang arrived in time. In the end, with the cooperation of the 7th Army, the 4th Army conquered Hesheng Bridge, and Wu Peifu fled north in a hurry.
In August 1937, Zhang Qun, Ye Jianying, Guo Xiuyi, Huang Qixiang, Zhou Gong, Zhu De
Northern Expedition Army Tingsiqiao and He Shengqiao won consecutive victories, and soon the troops came to the Wuhan Three Towns city.
Wuchang is the birthplace of Xinhai Revolution , and the famous Wuchang First Yi happened here. Wuchang is the rolling waves of Yangtze River , and only the south and east are land. The city is high and the ditch is deep, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Under the command of Li Zongren, the "Iron 4th Army" and the "Steel 7th Army" surrounded Wuchang.
Commander of the 7th Army Li Zongren, when he saw that Wuchang City has a high groove, is easy to defend and difficult to attack, he wanted to siege for a long time, waiting for the defenders to lose their fighting spirit and defeat themselves without attacking. However, the commander-in-chief of the Northern Expedition Army, Chiang Kai-shek, was eager to make contributions and was impatient to wait, and forced the organization of a suicide squad to break the city within a 48-hour deadline.
The first level of official crushed people to death, and Li Zongren had no choice but to do so. This made the siege soldiers suffer.
In the fierce battle, the independent regiment, which served as the main attacker at Binyang Gate, suffered heavy losses, and the suicide squad that climbed the city and seized the pass were even more dead. The commander of the suicide squad of Ye Ting's Independent Regiment, Cao Yuan, the battalion commander of the 1st Battalion, Mo Qibiao, the commander of the 3rd Company Gao Chao, and Li Haitao, the commander of the 8th Company Li Haitao, and others died one after another.
However, Wu Peifu, who was still fighting in a trap, had no way out for the army, and he bets and fought stubbornly.
Ye Ting's Independent Regiment, the 10th Division of the 4th Army, and the 12th Division followed one after another, with countless casualties, but Wuchang is still as solid as a god.
Fortunately, after 40 consecutive days of attacks by the Northern Expedition Army, there were finally cowards in the defenders who could not support them: Li Junqing, a division commander of Wu Peifu Army who was defending the Security Gate, was frightened and took the initiative to open the city to surrender, which gave the Northern Expedition Army an opportunity to take advantage of it and took the lead in Wuchang in one fell swoop.
Wuchang battle, Ye Ting's Independent Regiment sacrificed more than 310 people, and after the war, the bodies of 191 martyrs were buried.
It should be said that Huang Qixiang's 36th Regiment and Ye Ting's Independent Regiment are the two major contributors to the 4th Army winning the title of "Iron Army".
Ye Ting and Huang Qixiang performed outstandingly, and were the only regiment commanders who were promoted to major generals, and therefore became "famous generals of the Northern Expedition". During the second Northern Expedition, Ye Ting was promoted to commander of the 25th Division of the 4th Army, 11th deputy commander and commander of the 24th Division. Huang Qixiang was promoted faster and became the commander of the 4th Army.
During the full-scale war of resistance, Ye Ting served as the commander of the new 4th Army and became a famous general in the war of resistance behind enemy lines in Jiangnan.
Huang Qixiang shines on the front battlefield and serves as the deputy commander-in-chief and commander-in-chief of the Ninth Army, and the deputy minister of the Political Department of the Military Commission (Minister Chen Cheng). Commander-in-chief of the 26th Army, Commander-in-chief of the 11th Army, and Deputy Commander-in-chief of the Sixth War Zone. In the late period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he also served as deputy commander-in-chief of (Commander Chen Cheng), participated in command of the counterattack in western Yunnan, and opened up the China-India Highway .
1938, Zhou Gong and Huang Qixiang
Huang Qixiang were awarded the " Victory Medal of Anti-Japanese War ", "Blue Sky and White Sun Medal" and the United States " Presidential Medal of Freedom " for their military achievements, and were also awarded the second-level general. During the War of Liberation, Huang Qixiang did not take the initiative to join our army to contribute his talents, but chose to stay away from the battlefield.
Because of this, Huang Qixiang, who has better conditions and greater achievements in the Northern Expedition and the War of Resistance Against Japan, has never reached Ye Ting's height.
Perhaps, this is another typical case that people often say "choice is greater than effort".
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