1. Flying to capture the Luding Bridge
On May 25, 1935, after the First Army forcibly crossed the Dadu River at Anshun Field, they had to use only a few small boats to transport tens of thousands of It would take a month at the earliest for the Red Army to cross the river. The Kuomintang's pursuers were in hot pursuit, and the situation was very serious. On the morning of May 26, after Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Wang Jiaxiang, Lin Biao, Nie Rongzhen, Luo Ronghuan, and Luo Ruiqing reported, they immediately made the decision to seize Luding Bridge. The deployment was for the first division of the Red Army led by Liu Bocheng and Nie Rongzhen and the cadre regiment led by Chen Geng and Song Renqiong to form the right route army. The central column and the 1st, 3rd, 5th and 9th corps would form the left route army to cross the river and attack the Luding Bridge. . The Fourth Regiment of the Second Red Division of the Left Route Army, led by Wang Kaixiang and Yang Chengwu, acted as the forward attack. On May 28, the Fourth Red Regiment received an order from the First Red Army: "Wang Kaixiang and Yang Chengwu: A call from the Military Commission has restricted the Left Route Army to capture Lu tomorrow. Dingqiao, you must use the highest marching speed and resolute maneuvering to complete this glorious mission. In this battle, you must break the previous record of capturing Daozhou and the fifth regiment's record of running 160 miles in one day. ". After receiving the order, the Fourth Red Regiment marched the 240-mile mountain road day and night. On the morning of the 29th, it unexpectedly appeared on the west bank of Luding Bridge and exchanged fire with the enemy.
At that time, the enemy had removed about 80 meters of the bridge deck of the more than 100-meter-long Luding Bridge, and used a company of machine guns and artillery to form intensive firepower on the high ground at the east end of the bridge to tightly blockade Luding Bridge. Fixed bridge deck. At noon, the Fourth Red Regiment held a cadre meeting in the Shaba Catholic Church to carry out combat mobilization and organized a 23-man bridge commando team led by company commander Liao Dazhu and instructor Wang Haiyun. At four o'clock in the afternoon, 23 warriors wore center-machine guns, sabers on their backs, and dozens of grenades on their waists. Braving a hail of bullets, they climbed on the bare iron chains and pounced toward the east bridge. Three soldiers, led by Wang Youcai, followed closely behind, carrying guns on their backs, holding wooden boards in one hand and chains in the other, laying bridge planks as they advanced. When the warriors climbed to the middle of the bridge, the enemy set a fire at the east end of the bridge in an attempt to use the fire to prevent the Red Army from seizing the bridge. Facing the sudden flames, the warriors shouted, "Comrades, this is the last moment of victory. Take courage and charge forward! Don't be afraid of fire, charge forward! The enemy is defeated, charge forward!" Liao Dazhu jumped up and stepped forward. Get on the bridge board and rush to the east bridge head. The warriors rush up soon after, draw their sabers, and start hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. At this time, political commissar Yang Chengwu led the team to rush across the east bridgehead, repelled the enemy's counterattack, occupied Luding City, and quickly extinguished the bridgehead fire. The whole battle lasted only two hours, and the Luding Bridge was captured in a thrilling and thrilling manner, shattering Chiang Kai-shek's dream of pursuing the south and north to turn the Red Army into the second Shi Dakai by relying on the natural dangers of the Dadu River. Luding Bridge therefore became an important milestone during the Long March of the Communist Party of China. It laid a solid foundation for the rendezvous of the 1st, 2nd and 4th Red Army of great historical significance, and finally went north to northern Shaanxi to end the Long March. It is in the history of the Chinese revolution. He wrote an immortal chapter and received the magnificent praise of "Thirteen iron chains split the road to the Republic of China". Seven of the ten founding marshals of New China passed through Huding Bridge during the Long March. . At that time, on the Luding Bridge after a fierce battle, Marshal Liu Bocheng once stamped his feet heavily on the bridge board three times and said with emotion, "Luding Bridge, Luding Bridge, how much energy we have spent on you, how much energy we have spent on you." With all our hard work, now we are victorious, we are victorious!" Commander-in-Chief Zhu De wrote in his memories of the Long March the poem "Thousands of miles of Yangtze River still remembers the danger of Luguan", which fully illustrates the danger and heroism of the Red Army's Long March to capture the Luding Bridge.