episode 2 said: Peng Dehuai personally commanded the Third Corps of the First Front Army, in the arduous struggle with the Kuomintang troops, fully utilized its personal wisdom and command ability, and achieved victory after victory, making great contributions to the defense of the Central Soviet Area.
1931 September 18th Incident , the people of the whole country unanimously demanded that the civil war be stopped, jointly oppose Japanese imperialism, and invade in the three northeastern provinces of . At the same time, the internal conflicts of warlords became increasingly acute, and Chiang Kai-shek had to temporarily stop and encircle and suppress the central revolutionary bases of and the Red Army .
In November 1931, the First National Congress of the Chinese Soviet Union was held in Yeping, Ruijin, and the Provisional Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Republic was established. Immediately afterwards, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission of the Soviet Republic of China, referred to as the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, was established, with Zhu De as the chairman, and Wang Jiaxiang and Peng Dehuai as vice chairmen.
1933, Chiang Kai-shek insisted on the policy of first resolutely pacifying the country, and once again mobilized more than 30 divisions, a total of 160,000 troops, and launched the fourth large-scale encirclement and suppression to the Central Revolutionary Base, attempting to annihilate the Red Army in one fell swoop and destroy the Central Revolutionary Base. The fourth anti-encirclement and suppression struggle led and commanded by the central government in a timely manner and achieved victory. In this anti-encirclement and suppression battle, Peng Dehuai continued to lead the Red Third Army , and under the unified leadership of the Central Red Army of , he fought bravely with the enemy and achieved great victory.
After the fourth anti-encirclement and suppression of , the central government decided to form the Central Army with the main Red Army as the main force, and guard the northern gate of the Central Revolutionary Base. Mainly with the Red Third Army, the Eastern Army formed the Eastern Army to fight in Fujian, attempting to attack the enemy from two directions and achieve the first victory of the revolution in Jiangxi. Peng Dehuai was appointed commander of the Eastern Army, Teng Daiyuan was appointed as the political commissar, and Yuan Guoping was appointed as the director of the political department.
Under the command of Peng Dehuai, the Eastern Army defeated the difficulties of scorching heat, food shortage and fatigue, and won consecutive victories in the war into Fujian, restored some old Soviet areas, and opened up a new Soviet area that spans hundreds of miles.
Opening up a new Soviet area
In actual combat, Peng Dehuai created conditions to mobilize the enemy, siege the city and fight aid, and cleverly annihilate the enemy in the movement, showing extraordinary military talent.
After Chiang Kai-shek's fourth encirclement and suppression defeat, he actively carried out the fifth encirclement and suppression preparations for the expansion of Japanese imperialism's aggression against China. On the one hand, he borrowed a lot of money to buy aircraft and cannons from the United States and Britain, and on the other hand, he hired foreign military advisers to train military backbones to encircle and suppression. In September 1933, Chiang Kai-shek mobilized 500,000 troops to start the fifth encirclement and suppression of unprecedented scale.
At this time, the Central Soviet Area and the Red Army, under the leadership of left-leaning adventureism, abandoned the strategic policy of anti-encirclement and suppression in the previous few times, implemented the wrong policy of defending the enemy outside the national gates and not losing an inch of land, promoted adventurism in the offensive, and faced the Kuomintang army several times that of the Red Army head-on.
The fifth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign lasted for a year. The Red Army commanders and fighters fought bravely and tenaciously, fighting continuously, causing heavy damage to the Kuomintang army. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China and the Soviet government, the people of the Soviet area actively participated in the army and participated in the war and strongly supported the war. However, due to the wrong strategic policy of left-leaning adventure, this anti-encirclement and suppression campaign was seriously failed, forcing the First Red Army to withdraw from the central revolutionary base and break through the siege and implement a strategic transfer to the west.
On October 10, 1934, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Central Revolutionary Military Commission led the Central Red Army, the Central Military Commission and its direct troops at 860,000 people, with the Red 1 and Red 9 Corps as the left wing, the Red 3 and Red 8 Corps as the right wing, and the Red 5 Corps as the rear guard, covering the huge central column, withdrew from the Central Revolutionary Base and breaking south. Then, along the border areas of Jiangxi, Guangdong and Guangxi, we went west to meet with the Red Second and Sixth Corps to open up a new revolutionary base.
The Red Third Army, commanded by Peng Dehuai, embarked on the journey on October 17 and advanced westward as one of the right wing parts that covered the evacuation of the central government.The Red Third Army first broke through the first blockade line set up by the Guangdong Army between Xinfeng and Anyuan , occupied the new city, and then drove towards Xiangnan , approaching and breaking through Rucheng . Subsequently, all the commanders and soldiers of the Red Third Army marched day and night, fought bravely, breaking through the Hunan and Guangdong troops, and captured Yizhang City on the third blockade line set up by the Guangdong-Hankou Railway on the Guangdong-Hankou Railway, ensuring the smooth advance of the Central Red Army westward.
Breakthrough of the second blockade line in Rucheng
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