Brief introduction of Sanheba campaign

Nanchang Uprising on August 1st was held in Nanchang, Jiangxi on August 1927, and was led by Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, He Long, Ye Ting and Liu Bocheng. The troops participating in the uprising included the Officers' Education Corps led by Comrade Zhu De, the Twentieth Army led by Comrade He Long and the Eleventh Army led by Comrade Ye Ting, with about 30,000 people. They successfully occupied Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi Province, and gave birth to the revolutionary armed forces led by the China Party. On August 5th, the rebel forces left Nanchang for the south, ready to seize Guangzhou, rebuild the revolutionary base area in Guangdong, and then hold the Northern Expedition. After leaving Nanchang, he fought a battle with the puppet troops, Kuomintang warlords and Huang's troops through Fuzhou, Ruijin and Huichang. After the war in Huichang, the rebels went to Shanghang via Changting and then to Chaoshan via Tai Po. 1In August and September of 927, when the insurgents entered Chaoshan from Changting and Shanghang, Fujian, the 25th Division led by Zhu De and Zhou Shidi stayed in Sanheba, dapu county.

One month before the rebel army came to Sanheba, underground workers were sent to Huidong and other places in Sanheba to secretly organize trade unions and peasant associations.

1At noon on August 24th, 927, 10 Red Army vanguard troops crossed the border from Sanhe Huidong Cultural Office to Huicheng, and then the troops successively walked from both sides of Tingjiang River to Sanheba. A huge army continued to descend along the Han River on 100 civilian ships. After a day and a night of urgent marching, more than 2000 people stayed in Sanheba. At that time, businessmen opened the door to set off firecrackers to welcome guests, stayed open all night, and the market was prosperous. At that time, the insurgents wore red hats, red scarves around their necks, blue clothes and sandals, regardless of officers and men. After the rebels arrived at Sanheba, they lived in temples, ancestral halls and people's homes. The next day, notices were posted everywhere to clear Comrade Zhou Shidi's name. The army has good discipline, fair shopping, gentle speech and good relations with the masses.

After a few days, the insurgents held a mass meeting in Dashaba outside the south gate of Huicheng, with more than 2,000 people attending. It is said that Comrade Zhu De was sitting on a stool and speaking. After the meeting, a demonstration was held. Participants held paper flags, shouted slogans and posted slogans. Armed with weapons, the procession shouted: "Down with Christianity", "Root out the chapel", "Down with corrupt officials, local tyrants and evil gentry" and "Land to the tiller". After the revolutionary slogan, the procession was dissolved only after entering the east gate and leaving the south gate, and then entering the west gate and leaving the north gate.

The insurgents lived in Huicheng for about ten days and learned that the enemy Qian Dajun was going to attack the insurgents by letting go. In order to choose favorable terrain, the insurgents started Yamato on a starry night and transported them to Huidong Cultural Department. All the ships near Hexi sailed to the east coast, leaving only one boat as a ferry. Our army left three hills in Guanyin Pavilion. After the rebel army arrived in Higashinofumibe, the command post was located in the Tianshi Ancestral Hall (the words "Kill the enemy to death" are still on the wall, which is said to have been written by Comrade Zhu De), and the Military Supplies Department was located in Sanxingtang Hall (the Ye Ancestral Hall in Longhukeng, which still has the words "Ding Mao's seven even three rows"), and a hill was selected 80 meters away from Huicheng to dig trenches for quarrying. At that time, the front line was very long, from the plum cave in Malianchi to the pit in the tea shade, and the mountain top reaching more than 30 miles was ambushed by our brave soldiers, ready to attack the invading enemy head-on.

Three days later, more than 10,000 troops from Qian Dajun, the Kuomintang puppet army, came, and the soldiers climbed to the top of the altar first. I looked at the enemy on the mountain and immediately retreated to the "Three Barges Bridge", fired a warning shot, and then returned to the team by boat to the east. After the puppet troops occupied Huicheng, the headquarters was located in Yuxing Hotel. After the bandits arrived, they immediately divided their troops to station marijuana in the old village and Nanmenping area, dug trenches, took the broken wall as a bunker, set up dozens of machine guns and cannons in the old village, Yuxing Hotel and Guanyin Pavilion, and formed a confrontation with our army. The situation is very tense.

In the afternoon (the eighth day of the ninth lunar month), the battle started. Suddenly, the gunfire was deafening and the bandit troops fired unilaterally at our position. Because our army came prepared, hidden in the dense pine trees, guarded like an iron wall, sometimes without firing a shot, and sometimes found that the target could hit him once or twice. The enemy didn't know the truth and dared not charge until the evening. In order to bluff and consume the enemy's ammunition, our army used old oil drums, loaded guns into the drums and ignited the explosion. It sounds like a machine gun. The enemy took the virtual as the truth, panicked and shot aimlessly, which made the enemy sleepless at night and very uneasy.

The next morning, the enemy seized more than a dozen civilian boats from the direction of Songkou, carrying soldiers to cross the river. The bandit soldiers disembarked at Huangzhouba, and under the cover of fire, they launched several charges in succession. There are seven boats for the first time, and they will sail to the middle of the river. I stood at the top of Mount Bizhi under the command of three hose machine guns and concentrated my fire on enemy ships. In an instant, the water splashed and the enemy ship became a living target of our army. The ship sank and sank, and the unsupported ship let it flow. Seeing this fiasco, Qian Dajun became angry from embarrassment, swore, dispatched ten warships to launch a second charge, and crawled towards our position like a tortoise. Our army responded with heavy artillery fire. Gunfire, gunfire and shouts were intertwined, and the bandit troops fell into the river one by one. At this time, a small leader climbed on the side of the ship with a flag and shouted: Go! Our army fired a shot and told him to be buried in the belly of a fish. The wrecked civilian ship was drifting in the water with the bodies. Two ships carrying beaten soldiers landed at Zougong Palace (now Longhukeng Wharf) and were submerged by our artillery fire. When the gunfire stopped, they dared to charge. Our army wiped out most of the enemy with a row of guns, and the rest of the enemy made a mess and turned around and ran. Enemies on both sides of the strait opened fire to cover themselves, causing them to hit themselves. The enemy suffered serious casualties, and all the remaining defeated soldiers were cleaned up by our army.

Because our soldiers fought for the liberation of China, won the strong support of the broad masses of the people, and showed the heroic spirit of killing the enemy in the battle, which lasted for three days and three nights.

On the third night, the enemy reinforced in two ways, all the way up and all the way down. At dawn on the fourth day, dense fog enveloped the earth, and the enemy sneaked in from marijuana and other places in an attempt to cut off our road and surround our army. Our army, outnumbered, adopted a comprehensive retreat strategy, withdrew its main force and maintained the effective strength of 2000 people. Some teams moved to Guangdong, Haifeng and Lufeng to join the local peasant uprising armed forces; The other part of Jiangxi, led by Comrade Zhu De, moved to northern Guangdong, then to southern Hunan, and finally to Jinggangshan, and joined the First Division of the First Army of the Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Army led by Comrade Mao Zedong, and later developed into the main force of the Red Army.

Although the rebel army did not stay in Sanheba area for a long time, its revolutionary actions have been deeply rooted in people's hearts and expanded the influence of the party in rural areas. Although the insurgents left, they sowed red seeds for the Sanhe area. Revolutionary martyrs Liao and Yang Nansheng (Huidong people) developed underground party member under the influence of this movement.