As soon as the sky dawned on December 1, the Hunan army's offensive began, and the artillery on the position rumbled, and the sound of killing shook the sky. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The fighting intensified, and the casualties increased.

The hills occupied by the Red Army were tightened, especially at the junction of the 1st and 2nd Red Divisions. On the left flank of the junction of the 1st and 2nd Red Divisions was the 3rd Regiment of the 1st Red Division led by Huang Yongsheng, and on the right flank was the 4th Regiment of the 2nd Red Division led by Geng Biao.

The Hunan army first launched a fierce attack on the position of the Red Third Regiment of the 1st Division on the left flank, and attacked 9 times in succession, all of which were repulsed by the Red 3rd Regiment.

At this time, the Hunan army found that the Zhulanpu defended by the Red Fourth Regiment was a weak point, because Zhulanpu was about 5 kilometers long, and the Red Fourth Regiment was already less than 1,000 people, and the strength was very thin.

At that time, Yang Chengwu, the political commissar of the Red Fourth Regiment, had been wounded, and the regiment commander Geng Biao was also very weak due to malaria.

The Hunan army concentrated its forces and focused on attacking Zhulanpu, and the left flank of the Red Fourth Regiment was broken through by the Hunan army.

After the junction was broken through, a Hunan army unexpectedly rushed to the vicinity of the headquarters of the Red First Army, and several leaders of the Red First Army were almost taken prisoner.

The division leaders made a quick decision and ordered the Red Sixth Regiment defending Baisha to cover and resolutely resist the enemy, while the other two regiments withdrew from their positions and moved closer to the mountains to the west.

Near noon, the 1st Red Army, under the command of the head of the corps, alternated cover of the 1st and 2nd Divisions, fought and retreated, and moved westward.

In the first battle of Foot Mountain, two divisions of the Red First Army fought fiercely with the Hunan army for 3 days, and suffered heavy casualties.

Nie Rongzhen, political commissar of the regiment, was wounded, Yang Chengwu, political commissar of the Fourth Regiment, and Zhong Xuegao, commander of the Fifth Regiment, were wounded, and more than 1,000 people were killed by Yi Dangping, political commissar of the Fifth Regiment, and the two divisions lost nearly 4,000 people.

During the Battle of Xiangjiang, the 34th Division of the Red Fifth Army was ordered to go to the foot of the maple tree in Guanyang to block the Gui army from Guanyang to the north.

Due to the mistake of the Military Commission, the 34th Division had already lost the foot of the maple tree when it received the order, and the terrain was not familiar, the 34th Red Division fell into the lofty mountains and mountains of northern Guizhou, trekked hard in the sheep's intestine path, and failed to replace the 18th Regiment of the Red Sixth Division on time to block the Gui Army, but instead put itself in the dangerous situation of fighting alone.

At 5 o'clock and 14 o'clock in the afternoon of December 1, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission twice ordered the 34th Division to cross the road from Guanyang to Xinwei from east to west and break through to the west.

On December 3, on the way to the Fenghuangzui ferry port on the Xiangjiang River, the 34th Red Division encountered the 44th and 43rd Divisions of the Xia Wei Division of the Gui Army in Wentang Village, Anhe Township, Quanzhou County.

Fierce fighting broke out between the two sides in the Wentang area. The 34th Red Division launched a continuous charge against the Gui army, trying to open the passage to Datang, Mashi, and Fenghuangdu to the north, but it was never able to break through the Gui army's position.

In the continuous charge, the 34th Red Division suffered heavy casualties, including Cheng Cuilin, political commissar of the division, Zhang Kai, director of the Political Department, Lu Guanyin, commander of the 102nd Regiment, and Cai Zhong, political commissar of the 102nd Regiment, and a large number of soldiers spilled their blood on the battlefield.

After the attack to the north was frustrated, division commander Chen Shuxiang led his troops to retreat south, trying to find a way west from south of Hung Yen. However, it was once again blocked by the Gui army and could not open the way forward.

In order to reduce the danger, division commander Chen Shuxiang made a quick decision and led his troops to retreat eastward into the Wuyuan Mountains, and quickly occupied Goupaw Mountain and Lingjiadi Village.

At this time, the Gui army launched a fierce attack again, the Red 34th Division moved to the mountains while fighting, due to the unfamiliar terrain, the troops were cut into several units, each regiment fought separately, the political commissar of the 101st Regiment Hou Zhonghui, the commander of the 10th Regiment Su Daqing, and the political commissar of the 10th Regiment Peng Zhufeng died successively.

The Red 34th Division went up along the Bailu River, and transferred to Yaozhai Tea Peel Immersion through Dabai Road and Xiaobai Road, and there were only more than 1,000 people left in the division at this time.

The altitude of tea skin immersion is 1200 meters, and its south is Banyao Mountain, and there is only one sheep intestine trail leading to Guanyang in the north.

At this time, the 44th Division of the Gui Army rushed from Anhe along the main road through the Jiaojiang River and then from the small road through Gaowuchang to Banyao Mountain. When the Gui army reached Banyao Mountain, the Red 34th Division was advancing from the trail south of the village to Guanyang, and there was an encounter between the two sides.

Chen Shuxiang climbed to Houlongling in the village of Banyao Mountain, observed the situation with a telescope, and found that the mountain road leading to Guanyang had been cut off by the Gui army, so he ordered the troops to retreat to Chapi Dip.

Subsequently, the Red 34th Division, led by Liang Mingqing, a young man of the Yao nationality in the tea skin, followed a sheep intestine trail to Yuwan to stay, and temporarily got rid of the Gui army.

In the first battle of Wentang, the Red 34th Division suffered heavy losses, from more than 4,300 people when it entered the four passes on the Hunan and Guizhou borders to more than 800 people.

On the afternoon of December 4, when Chen Shuxiang led the rest of his troops to cross the Quanguan Highway from the south of Xinwei, Luotang and Banqiaopu near Xinwei were besieged by the Gui army, and only more than 400 people rushed out of the encirclement, and were forced to cross Guanyin Mountain again, and camped in Hongshuiqing Village, which was located halfway up the mountain, that night.

On December 5, the 34th Division was discovered by the Gui army and was again surrounded.

Division Commander Chen Shuxiang urgently convened the cadres of the division and regiment and announced two decisions:

First, find out where the enemy's forces are weak and break out of the encirclement and develop guerrilla warfare in southern Hunan.

Second, in case of failure to break through, we will swear to shed the last drop of blood for Soviet New China.

Chen Shuxiang decided to break through and return to Jinggangshan along the original route of the Long March.

In the process of breaking through, most of the Red 100 Regiment responsible for covering was sacrificed, and some were dispersed among the masses to find the party organization.

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The Eighth Army Corps of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army was a revolutionary armed force reorganized from the 21st and 23rd Divisions of the Central Revolutionary Base Area, that is, the Central Guard Division and the Workers' Division.

When the Long March departed, the statistical table of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission showed that the regiment had 10,922 people, and this regiment had many recruits and was not strong in combat.

During the Long March, the Red Eighth Army served as the right rear flank of the whole army, covering the advance of the Military Commission column.

After crossing the three blockade lines, the Red Eighth Army was transformed into the left rear flank.

After crossing Xiaoshui, the Red Eighth Army and the Red Ninth Army marched in the direction of Jianghua and Yongming, threatening Longhu Pass, Gongcheng, Fuchuan, Hexian and other places in Guangxi, forcing the main force of the Xia Wei Department of the Gui Army to transfer from Guanyang to Gongcheng.

At 5 p.m. on 25 November, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission issued an operational order entitled "Operational Arrangements for Our Field Army to Advance to the Huangshan Area in Quanzhou and Northwest of Xing'an," and resolved to cross the Xiangjiang River from the north of Guizhou to the west.

"The Eighth and Ninth Army Corps are the fourth road columns, passing through Yongming, and if they cannot occupy Yongming, they will bypass it from the north and advance to Sanfeng Mountain to Guanyang and Xing'an County Road."

According to this order, the 8th and 9th Army Corps became the southernmost columns.

The Red Eighth and Ninth Army Corps were blocked by the Gui army and militia groups at Sanfeng Mountain on the Hunan and Guizhou borders, and could not advance according to the original route.

On the afternoon of November 27, the Red Eighth and Red Ninth Army Corps received an urgent order to organize another strong attack in the evening, but they were still unable to break through the Gui Army's position.

In the early morning of the 28th, the Eighth and Ninth Army Corps received orders to divert their routes north from Leikou Pass to Gui.

At this time, five days had passed since the main force of the Xia Wei Division of the Gui Army withdrew south to Gongcheng, and two days had passed since the decision of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission to cross the Xiangjiang River to the west, and the Eighth and Ninth Army Corps were still stranded in Yongming and Jianghua in Hunan.

At this time, the Central Army of the Kuomintang occupied Daoxian, the main force of the Gui Army returned to Guanyang, and the Hunan Army Liu Jianxu entered and occupied Quanzhou, and the westward passage of the Eighth and Ninth Army Corps could be cut off by the Central Army, the Gui Army, and the Hunan Army at any time, and the Eighth and Ninth Army Corps became the most dangerous troops in the Red Army.

The first danger on the westward march of the Red Eighth and Ninth Army Corps came from Zhou Hunyuan's Central Army.

The Zhou Hunyuan Division of the Central Army of the Kuomintang occupied Daoxian on November 26, and they could advance westward at any time to occupy Leikou Pass and Yong'an Pass on the Hunan and Guizhou borders, and close the westward passage of the Red Eighth and Red Ninth Army Corps.

Fortunately, Zhou Hunyuan's actions were not active, and the Red Eighth and Red Ninth Army Corps were able to successfully pass through Dupangling and enter Guangxi.

At midnight on November 29, the Red Eighth Army rushed to the waterwheel area of Guanyang County, Guangxi, about 50 kilometers from the Xiangjiang River, where the Red Eighth Army encountered the 34th Division of the Red Fifth Army.

The 34th Red Division sent a telegram from the Military Commission, saying that in view of the tense situation of the enemy, it demanded that the Eighth Army Corps:

"Advance quickly, at any cost, and strive to pass the Xiangjiang River within 24 hours, otherwise there is a danger of being cut off by the enemy."

After daybreak, the Red Eighth Army followed the Red Ninth Army to advance from the left flank to the Xiangjiang River.

The Red 34th Division rushed to Guanyang Xinwei to pick up the 18th Regiment of the Red 6th Division to block the Gui Army.

At about 15 o'clock in the afternoon of the 30th, the first section of the Gui Army bypassed the blocking position of the Red Fifth Division from the Guanyang side, interspersed in, and advanced to the area next to the mountain next to Luyang Village, Lianghe Township, Quanzhou, cutting off the way of the Red Eighth Army, and a fierce exchange of fire broke out between the two sides.