The words were divided into two ends, Xu Shuai and Chen Changhao led the Fourth Army and the Thirty Army of the Right Route Army to turn south and return to the Songpan Prairie, and Ding Wei's Second Division of the Young Column was in charge of the rear of the palace. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At this time, the climate of the prairie was more unpredictable, and the officers and soldiers of the four sides who went south were obviously not prepared for crossing the grassland, which made the sacrifice much more serious than when they crossed the grassland for the first time.

The officers and men of the 2nd Division, who had made full preparations for crossing the meadow, walked all the way, but encountered countless corpses of Red officers and soldiers who could not be buried. Faced with this situation, the officers and men of the Second Division wanted to cry without tears, so they had to hastily cremate these corpses, so as not to be desecrated by the beasts who ate carrion.

After going through all the hardships and dangers out of the grassland, the Fourth Army, the 30th Army, the Second Division of the Young Column, and the main force of the Fourth Front Army finally converged, and in the sound of the slogan of "Fight to Shudu and eat rice", the officers and men of the Fourth Front Army seemed to have eaten a good antiquator, and their morale was greatly boosted, and they soon swept away the embarrassed state of the dead and wounded when they passed through the grassland, and restored their original heroic and good fighting nature.

Because the Red Fourth Front Army suddenly turned south at the beginning, which was completely unexpected by the Sichuan Army, coupled with the fact that the Sichuan Army has always been weak in the area north of Jiajin Mountain, so under the sudden blow of the Red Fourth Front Army, the Sichuan Army defenders quickly collapsed, scattered and fled, and annihilated more than 3,000 Sichuan Army in the first battle, winning a big victory.

On July 12, the 30th Army of the Red Army and the 27th Division of the Ninth Army set out from Maogong, Aba Prefecture, defeated the remnants of Yang Sen with rapid momentum, crossed the Jiajin Mountain, which was covered with snow all year round, and launched an attack on Baoxing, Tianquan, and Lushan counties.

On July 17, the middle column of the Fourth Front Army captured Baoxing in one fell swoop, took advantage of the victory to occupy Lingguan Town, and then successively defeated the resistance of a brigade and a regiment of the enemy's instructor Liu Xiangjiao, and approached the city of Lushan.

After the right column conquered the town of Jintang in Xikang, it followed Zishiguan and Dagangshan to the west of Tianquan, defeated a brigade of Liu Xiang's model division, occupied the whole city, and then made a detour to the east, and cooperated with the middle column to surround Lushan, and conquered Lushan on the 22nd.

Within 10 days, the Red Army occupied a vast area west of Qionglai Mountain, east of the Dadu River, north of the Tsing Yi River, and south of Maogong, killing and capturing more than 10,000 enemy troops and shooting down one enemy plane.

After the victory, the Red Fourth Front Army decided to attack Mingshan and Qionglai, and took advantage of the victory to go east to the western Sichuan Plain.

With the successive losses of Tianquan, Lushan, Mingshan, Ya'an and other places, the gate of the Shudu Plain was opened, which seriously touched the bottom line of Liu Xiang and other Sichuan warlords.

As a result, the warlords of the Sichuan army united unprecedentedly, and the warlords immediately gathered all their forces with the same hatred of the enemy. All of a sudden, the entire land of Sichuan Province was full of wolf smoke and a large army gathered.

After that, the warlords of Sichuan Province gathered 80 regiments of the Sichuan army and more than 200,000 troops, and launched a decisive battle with the four front armies in the area of Baizhang Pass. Baizhang Pass is the only place for Ya'an to lead to Shudu, and since ancient times, there is a saying that "those who get Baizhang Pass will undoubtedly get Shudu".

On July 27, all the troops of the middle column of the Red Fourth Front Army and the Fourth Army of the right column concentrated 15 regiments to attack the enemy at Zhujiachang and Taihechang from Wujiakou, and occupied the place on the 28th, defeating two regiments of the enemy's provisional Second Division.

On the 30th, the town of Baizhang was captured and the counterattack of the enemy's 6 brigades was repulsed. Then the attack advanced along the Baizhang Tong Qionglai Road, and by 4 o'clock in the afternoon, they successively occupied Heizhu, Zhi'anchang, and Wangdianzi, but the offensive was soon thwarted by the enemy's superior forces.

At dawn on 2 August, more than 10 enemy brigades, under the cover of aircraft and artillery, counterattacked from the north, east, and south at the Red Army's 10-mile-long arc position protruding from the Baizhang area.

The vast numbers of commanders and fighters of the Red Army endured fatigue and cold and waged bloody and bitter battles against superior enemies in valleys, rotten fields, and pine forests. When you run out of bullets, you engage in repeated white-knuckle fights with your enemies. Some of the fighters broke their arms, and they used their teeth to bite the fuse to pull the grenade off, and they died with the enemy who rushed to their side.

The battle on the second day was even more tragic, in order to compete for the strategic point of Baizhang Pass, the red and white armies were killed in the sky and the earth, the two sides fought for each other, the positions changed hands several times, and the corpses of soldiers on both sides inside and outside the pass were piled up on top of each other, and their condition was unbearable.

At the same time, when the main force of the Fourth Front Army and the 200,000 troops of the Sichuan Army were fiercely fighting at Baizhang Pass, Xue Yue took the opportunity to lead more than 100,000 people of the Central Army to rush straight to the defense line of the Fourth Front Army.

Due to an error in judgment, the troops of the Fourth Front Army guarding the border passes were too small, and only one regiment of troops was placed. As a result, the enemy was outnumbered, and the border pass was quickly broken by the Central Army.

As soon as the pass was lost, the defense line of the four front armies suddenly opened its arms to the central army, Xue Yue relied on the advantage of troops, strode forward, the four front armies were defeated and retreated, and the situation had reached the point of danger.

At this time of the battle, the main force of the Four Front Army had been firmly blocked in the mountainous area of western Sichuan, and under the encirclement and interception of the Sichuan Army and the Central Army, the whole Sichuan had become a flower in the water, and even the safe transfer of the moon had become a great question, and the situation was extremely dangerous.

In the end, after seven consecutive days and nights of fierce fighting, although the four front armies annihilated more than 15,000 Sichuan troops, the Red Army itself suffered nearly 10,000 casualties, the main force was frustrated, the main position was lost, and it was forced to withdraw from Baizhang Pass on the 21st.

The battle lasted 18 days and nights, and the battle became bigger and bigger, and it was the most violent battle since the Red Fourth Front Army moved south. After the Battle of Baizhangguan, the Fourth Front Army withdrew to Tianquan, Lushan, and Baoxing counties for rest and recuperation in that month.

After entering September, the Fourth Front Army was forced to retreat under strong pressure from the enemy and moved to the Daofu, Luhuo, and Ganzi areas.

Historically, the Fourth Front Army suffered very heavy losses in its southward march, and the Red Army in the south was sharply reduced from nearly 100,000 to more than 40,000 or 50,000 troops, and its southward movement was defeated.

Fortunately, Zhang Cheng had expected this, and sent Ding Wei's second division to the southbound troops, and after the crushing defeat at Baizhang Pass, some people with ulterior motives could no longer suppress Ding Wei and let the second division watch from the sidelines.

With the support of Mr. Zhu, the Second Division was ordered to quickly defeat the troops surrounded and intercepted by the Sichuan Army one by one, escorting the Fourth Front Army all the way, which finally allowed the Fourth Front Army to take a breath, and the losses were reduced from 50,000 to 20,000 in history. But even so, the Fourth Front Army can also be said to have suffered heavy losses.

In December 1935, winter came, with heavy snow and a plummeting temperature.

This really made matters worse for the officers and men of the four quarters, who were already short of food and clothing. Every day in the army, soldiers die of starvation, and the soldiers complain, even the cadres who have always supported Nanxiachuan Province have great mood swings.

The rare heavy snowfall at the end of 1935 temporarily eased the war between the enemy and us, but it also caused the Fourth Front Army, which was short of food and clothing, to enter a harsh winter and was on the verge of being wiped out at any time.

At the same time, under the words and deeds of Mr. Zhu and the comrades of the First Front Army, the officers and men of the Fourth Front Army gradually changed their mentality, and the call for supporting the northward march to follow in the footsteps of the central authorities became increasingly loud.

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