Feng Chen locked himself in his office all morning, carefully studying the Battle of Xiangjiang, which was about the fate of the Red Army. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Yang Xunzhen made excuses during the period, came to Feng Chen's office, saw Feng Chen's serious face, and asked with concern: "Unit Chief, is it a matter of the Quanzhou Campaign?" Shut yourself in your office all morning. ”

"Oh? You know it all? Feng Chen raised his head and looked at Yang Xunzhen.

"After Xiaoman sent and received, I watched it all, and I felt very uncomfortable!" Yang Xunzhen said with red eyes.

"To find the truth, you have to learn to control your emotions and know who is around us." Feng Chen reminded Yang Xunzhen.

"Well, I will, and you shouldn't be too upset." Yang Xunzhen wiped his eyes, looked at Feng Chen strongly, and said.

After Yang Xunzhen left, Feng Chen continued to look at the stack of unfinished battle reports in his hand.

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The Foot Mountain Shop Resistance Battle is one of the three famous blocking battles in the Xiangjiang Campaign, and it is a battle in which both sides have invested the most troops in the Xiangjiang Campaign.

On the Kuomintang side, it was the Hunan army troops commanded by Liu Jianxu, the commander of the 1st Road Pursuit, including the 16th and 62nd divisions, followed by the Hunan army, and Xue Yue's 5 divisions, which had also advanced to the Huangsha River.

At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek's flying brigade stationed in Hengyang could fly at any time to help in the war and cooperate with the ground offensive of the Hunan army.

At that time, the establishment of the Hunan army was 10,000 to 12,000 people in each division, and the total number of troops in Liu Jianxu's department of the Hunan army reached more than 70,000 people.

On the side of the Red Army, it was the Red First Army commanded by Lin Biao.

There were three divisions of the Red First Army, namely the Red First Division, the Red Second Division, and the Red 15th Division (the International Division of the Young Communist Party), and the Red First Army had a total of 19,880 people at the time of the Long March. However, after the continuous attrition of the first three blockade lines, the number of the Red First Army was no longer so large at the time of the Xiangjiang Campaign.

On the first day of the battle at Foot Hill, the 1st Red Army Corps committed a regiment of the 2nd Red Division and the 1st Red Division, a total of four regiments. The next day, all six regiments of the 1st and 2nd Red Divisions were invested.

On November 27, Liu Jianxu's troops of the Hunan army entered Quanzhou and set up a cordon outside the city.

The 2nd Division and 5th Regiment of the 1st Red Army Corps, after crossing the Xiangjiang River from Pingshan in Wangtang Township, Quanzhou County, was ordered to seize the county seat of Quanzhou, but it arrived six hours later than the Hunan Army, so it had to occupy the Lubanqiao and Jiaoshanpu line, which were located 16 kilometers south of Quanzhou, to build fortifications.

The 4th Regiment of the 2nd Red Division occupied the head of the boundary, and then handed over the position to the 4th Division of the 3rd Army Corps, and rushed to the foot of the mountain to reinforce it. The 2nd Regiment of the 1st Red Division crossed the Xiangjiang River from the Daping Ferry in Fenghuang Township, Quanzhou.

When the battle broke out on the 29th, the three regiments of the 2nd Red Division and the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Red Division, a total of four regiments, had all entered the blocking position of Jiaoshanpu.

Jiaoshanpu is a small village with only more than 20 households, located on the side of the Guihuang Highway, 16 kilometers away from Quanzhou in the north and about 30 kilometers away from the Jieshou ferry port where the military commission column crossed the river in the south.

There are several hills around the village, which are divided into east and west sides by the north-south Guihuang Highway, which intersects with the Guihuang Highway in a cross shape.

These mountains from east to west are: Yellow Emperor Ridge, Jianfeng Ridge, Cupola Phoenix Ridge, Beauty Comb Ridge, Rice Flower Mountain, and Huaizhong Baozi Mountain.

Huangdi Ridge and Jianfeng Ridge are on the east side of the highway, and the Phoenix Ridge, the Beauty Comb Ridge, the Rice Flower Mountain, and the Huaizhong Baozi Mountain are on the west side of the highway. Among them, the Yellow Emperor Ridge and the Baozi Mountain in the arms are the highest, all of them are at the southern end, the whole terrain is high in the south and low in the north, the enemy from the north is in the form of attacking from the back, and the Red Army is condescending.

According to this topography, the 1st Red Army decided to build two blocking lines on the foot mountain, with a column of mountains on the north side as the first line of resistance and a column of mountains on the south side as the second line of resistance.

The headquarters of the corps was located on a hill not far from the foot of the mountain.

The Red Sixth Regiment held the Beauty Comb Ridge on the west side of the highway, the Red Fifth Regiment held the Pioneer Ridge on the east side of the highway, the Red Fourth Regiment held the front of the highway and both sides of the highway, and the Red Second Regiment served as a reserve.

In order to prevent the Hunan army from making a detour, Lin Biao urgently ordered the Red First Division to reinforce Foot Mountain, preparing to wait for the First Division to arrive and deploy all of them in the area of Meinu Comb Ridge on the west side of the highway.

On the morning of the 29th, the Hunan Army, with the 16th and 19th Divisions as the vanguard and the 62nd and 63rd Divisions as the reserves, pressed towards the foothill position of the Red First Army.

At the very beginning, the Kuomintang army dispatched more than a dozen planes, in groups of three, to strafe and bomb the positions of the 2nd Red Division, and then shelled them with intensive artillery fire. As soon as the shelling stopped, the Hunan infantry launched a charge in a dense formation.

On the 29th, the Hunan army organized several attacks, but failed to capture a hill of the Red Army.

The attacking enemy, fearing a night attack by the Red Army, withdrew to the north of the Luban Bridge.

On the morning of the 30th, Li Jukui, commander of the 1st Red Division, and Lai Chuanzhu, political commissar of the 1st Red Division, led the other two regiments of the division from the Hunan and Guizhou borders to Jiaoshan, and Lin Biao deployed the 1st and 3rd regiments brought by Li Jukui on the line of Mihuashan on the left flank on the west side of the road, of which Yang Dezhi's 1st Regiment was the reserve, and the 3rd Regiment and the 2nd Regiment that arrived first were engaged in a forward attack.

When the 1st Red Division arrived at Jueshan, the Hunan army in the north also made further adjustments, and invested more than one division on the basis of the original attacking force to break through the defense line of Jiaoshan and block the Xiangjiang River crossing in the south.

As soon as dawn came, the Hunan offensive began, with more people than on the first day, and more intense fire than on the first day, the Red Army's fortifications were destroyed by artillery fire, and the command posts of the regiments were forced to move constantly, but the troops still held on to the danger and counterattacked.

After several charges, the Hunan army judged that the Red Army was insufficient, so it changed its tactics, and on the one hand, continued to attack the Red Army's frontal positions in turn, and on the other hand, used large forces to detour to the flanks of the Red Army's positions, stretching the Red Army's battle line in order to find weak links and break through.

This move of the Hunan army quickly worked, and several small hills in the forward positions of the Red Army were lost one after another, becoming the bridgehead for the Hunan army to attack several main peaks.

In the afternoon, the Mihuashan position of the 1st Red Division on the left flank was lost.

After the Hunan army occupied Mihua Mountain, it put more follow-up troops into battle, using Mihua Mountain as a springboard to launch continuous attacks on the mountains east of Meinu Comb Ridge.

In order to avoid being surrounded and reduce losses, the 1st Red Division abandoned the Beauty Comb Ridge and moved closer to the 2nd Division's Bosom Baozi Ridge. Lin Biao and Nie Rongzhen transferred the corps headquarters to the Emperor's Ridge in the position of the 2nd Red Division on the right.

After the loss of Mihuashan and Meinu Combling Ridge, the Hunan army concentrated its forces to attack Jianfengling, the right-wing position defended by the Fifth Regiment of the Red Second Division.

Jianfeng Ridge was a prominent position of the Red Fifth Regiment, on which only the regimental political commissar Yi Dangping led two companies of soldiers to defend.

Under the repeated attacks of the superior forces of the Hunan army, two companies of the Red Fifth Regiment suffered casualties, and Yi Dangping, the political commissar of the regiment, was seriously wounded and shot himself because he did not want to be a prisoner.

Only a small number of personnel of the Red Fifth Regiment broke through.

After the fall of Jianfengling, the Hunan army immediately stormed the isolated positions of the Red Fourth Regiment.

At that time, the Red Fourth Regiment was ordered to deploy on both sides of the Guihuang Highway, with the third battalion on the left, under the command of Chief of Staff Li Yinghua; The second battalion was on the right, led by political commissar Yang Chengwu; The first battalion, led by the regiment commander Geng Biao, was placed on the oncoming hillside at the bend of the central road in Jueshanpu, forming a concave defensive position.

Yang Chengwu, the political commissar of the Fourth Regiment, who was directing operations on the right side, saw that the first battalion was gradually running out, so he organized the second battalion to rush to support, and while crossing the road, he was shot and wounded in the right leg.

Around the time Yang Chengwu was wounded, Chen Guang, commander of the 2nd Red Division, personally rushed to the forward position and instructed Geng Biao to abandon the position at the foot of the mountain and move closer to the Yellow Emperor Ridge.

Geng Biao divided the whole regiment into three groups to cover alternately, fought and retreated, and retreated to the Yellow Emperor Ridge, which was located south of the Jianfeng Mountains. The Red Fifth and Sixth Regiments also retreated to the Yellow Emperor Ridge at this time.

At this point, the 1st and 2nd Red Divisions retreated to the Baoziling and Huangdi Ridge in their arms respectively, and it was already dusk on the 30th.

After nightfall, the position gradually quieted down, the left flank of the bosom of the Baoziling was still in the hands of the Red First Division, and the right flank of the Yellow Emperor Ridge was still in the hands of the Red Second Division.

However, the Hunan army had already occupied the road, separating the two divisions of the 1st Red Army.

That night, under the cover of night, the Hunan army made a detour to the Red First Division, which was holding on to Baoziling in its arms.

In order to avoid being surrounded and annihilated by the Hunan army, Li Jukui, commander of the 1st Red Division, commanded the troops to retreat to the area of Shuitou and Xiabitian in the southwest.

After the withdrawal of the 1st Red Division, the 2nd Red Division appeared isolated and helpless, and the division commander Chen Guang retreated the 2nd Red Division to the Zhulanpu and Baisha areas on the right side of the 1st Red Division, and together with Shuitou and Xiabitian defended by the 1st Red Division, they formed the second blocking line.

The second line of resistance was 10 kilometers long, the battle line was too long, and it was a low hill, low in the south and high in the north, and the attacking Hunan army was condescending, and the situation of the 1st Red Army was very disadvantageous.