In December 1932, the Red Fourth Front Army, which arrived in the Chenggu area of southern Shaanxi, received the news that the warlords in Sichuan were fighting in western Sichuan and that North Sichuan was in an empty state, and happily marched towards northern Sichuan. In less than a month, the Fourth Red Front Army entered the river through Bashan, occupying three cities: Tongjiang , Bazhong and Nanjiang . The Sichuan-Shaanxi border base was established, and the Fourth Red Front Army quickly expanded, with a total force of more than 15,000.
The Red Army's actions of entering northern Sichuan and occupying territory shocked Chairman Jiang's Central Army and various warlords from Sichuan who were fighting. After shocking, they were angry. Finally, in late January 1933, after Chairman Chiang's mediation, all forces in the Battle of Western Sichuan temporarily put aside the "internal" contradictions and united to fight against this "red wave" entering Sichuan.
graduated from Baoding Army Officer School . After being appointed as the "Bandit Suppression Supervision" on the Sichuan-Shaanxi Border by Nanjing, he immediately dispatched troops and divided into three groups, and came to the Sichuan-Shaanxi Border Base with a fierce momentum. In order to express his determination to "suppress the bandits", Chiang Kai-shek specially allocated 200,000 military expenses and 1 million bullets to Tian Songyao. There are not many things, but the intention is definitely here.
To be honest, Tian Songyao has no confidence in this "encirclement and suppression", after all, he has long heard of the Red Army's reputation. However, this battle cannot be fought without fighting. If you don’t fight now, it will be even more difficult to deal with in the future. At that time, Tian Songyao led nearly 60,000 troops to attack the Sichuan-Shaanxi border base, which had just arrived at the 15,000 troops. In this battle, our army has a chance of winning, just make good use of the terrain.
This battle has not been completed for a month. Although Tian Songyao reoccupied Bazhong and Nanjiang, the Sichuan army also paid an extremely painful price, with nearly 8,000 casualties. Afterwards, the Sichuan Army continued to attack and the Red Army retreated calmly, thus achieving the goal of "tempting the enemy into deep". Tian Songyao did not realize all this. Just as the Sichuan Army launched another full-scale attack on the Red Army, something happened that made Tian Songyao's name spread throughout the senior management of Nanjing. The division commander below
sent a telegram to Tian Songyao, and a street in Tongjiang County, , was named "Yun Daiying Street" by the Red Army. Tian Songyao actually guessed from the telegram that the senior Red Army general "Yun Daiying" was beaten to death by the Sichuan army during this military operation. Tian Songyao didn’t know who Yun Daiying was, but only knew that he was a “big figure” in the Red Army; Tian Songyao believed that it was enough to know this.
So, Tian Songyao told his subordinates what he meant. After some praises, the battle report of "killing senior Red Army general Yun Daiying" was spread to the leadership of Chairman Jiang in Nanjing. Tian Songyao wanted to give Chairman Jiang a surprise, but he didn't expect that Chairman Jiang was frightened after seeing it. Chairman Jiang was shocked when he saw the name Yun Daiying, and he rubbed his eyes and looked at it again.
After confirming again that he was right, Chairman Jiang was furious and shouted "Mom Xipi" and cursed Tian Songyao. Why did Chairman Jiang so shocked when he saw "Yun Daiying"? That's because Yun Daiying was executed by the reactionaries as early as the end of April 1931. There is no other Yun Daiying? It’s impossible to be resurrected from the dead, right? Chairman Jiang could not understand that Tian Songyao was a man who "resurrected from the dead" and came to seek credit.
Because the frontline war was urgent, Chairman Jiang just warned Tian Songyao and did not pursue it too much, but how could this account be eliminated like this? If everything goes well, it's okay, but if Tian Songyao doesn't make a good deal, it's time for Chairman Jiang to settle the accounts! The ending was that Tian Songyao's "three-way siege" failed, and the "six-way siege" he participated in also failed.
is just right, it can be settled. In 1935, Tian Songyao was dismissed from office and investigated by Nanjing and lost his military power. Tian Songyao thus became a joke and became the first warlord among the four giants of Sichuan to be eliminated.
