Where is the site of the Red Army siege battle?

it is located outside the east gate of Dongbei Street Neighborhood Committee in Songyang Town, Songming County, Kunming. The original city walls and gates have disappeared, and only the battle site where the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army captured Songming County and a single-hole stone arch bridge across the moat are left.

on April 29th, 1935, the 1st Division of the First Front Army of the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants entered Kuanglong of Songming County from Tangzi of Xundian County, and approached Songming City along Dapu, Yiban and other villages. Under the cover of machine gun fire, the Red Army quickly broke through the east gate defense line, climbed the stairs to the city wall, opened the east gate to welcome large troops into the city, and quickly occupied the commanding heights of Huanglong Mountain and destroyed the first district office. Gu Zhen, the county magistrate of Songming County, used ropes to fall into the city and escape. In less than an hour, the Red Army occupied the whole Songming county.

After the Red Army entered the city, its discipline was strict and its love and hatred were clear. It broke down the prison and released more than 3 innocent victims. Hold a mass meeting in front of the county yamen to publicize the political opinions of the party and the Red Army against Japan and Chiang Kai-shek, detain the captured local tyrants and evil gentry to the venue for public display, and distribute the confiscated property to the poor people. Through publicity, Yang Wenju and other young people signed up for the Red Army. While the First Army Corps of the Red Army conquered Songming County, the Sixth Regiment of the Second Division and the Division Reconnaissance Company rushed into Yanglin, outwitted Bailong Bridge without firing a shot, destroyed the sixth district office of Songming County, captured the district chief Ji Tianzuo alive, and continued to March into Yanglin. Yanglin is the resident of the fifth district office of Songming County, the Kuomintang government, and an important stronghold in the northeast of Kunming, where there is a military station. When the Red Army arrived in Yanglin, the officers and men of Yanglinbing Station and District Office rushed to flee for their lives, and those who had no time to escape-Chief Luo and others-became prisoners of the Red Army. After the Red Army occupied Songming County and Yanglin, except for one part that started from the county and crossed Liangwang Mountain in the north overnight and advanced to Fumin Village through the big whistle, the rest camped in the county and Yanglin and its vicinity, while publicizing and mobilizing the masses and making preparations for crossing the Jinsha River. The army corps is stationed in the county. In order to confuse the enemy and ensure the victory of the whole army to seize the Jinsha River ferry and cross the river, the Red Army made a big noise and pretended to attack Kunming. In the streets of Yaojin, slogans such as "Down with Long Yun, the warlord of Yunnan" and "Go to Kunming to capture Long Yun alive" were written and posted in many places, and the mileage, route and facilities along the way of marching into Kunming were investigated from the masses, and the vanguard troops were sent from Yanglin to Dabanqiao, which is only more than ten kilometers away from Kunming, directly threatening Kunming. Long Yun, after hearing the news, transferred troops to Kunming, and the Red Army took advantage of the situation to move westward and calmly crossed the Jinsha River. The Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants crossed Songming on the way to the Long March, which lasted for three days and two nights and passed through all the towns under the jurisdiction of Songming County, with a journey of more than 16 Li. The heroic deeds of the Red Army have written a glorious page in the history of revolutionary struggle in Song and Ming Dynasties.

In p>1978, the Revolutionary Committee of the Song and Ming Dynasties built a monument on the site of the east gate of the county (now on the side of the gate of the Songming County Public Security Bureau) to commemorate it. The monument is bluestone, with a height of 172 cm and a width of 68 cm. In the middle, it is engraved with eight official characters of "Red Army Siege Battle Site". Because the stone monument was built on the wall of the original county leather defense station, it was inconvenient to protect it. In May 21, the county government rebuilt a monument at the original siege site, and the monument was covered with white marble, which looked like a sword. On the front of the tablet, the word "Red Army Siege Battle Site" is engraved in a straight line, and the above paragraph is engraved with "On April 29, 1935, the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants conquered Songming County in one fell swoop". The next paragraph is inscribed "Songming County Committee and Songming County People's Government were re-established on January 18th, 21".

information source: Party History Research Office of Kunming Municipal Committee.