How did you cross the Jinsha River?

On April 28th, 1935, the column of the Military Commission set out from Xitun and Miandian in Qujing and passed through Toutou Village and Wangjiazhuang in Malong. The Red Army Corps and the Third Army Corps were stationed in Xundian. Because the Red Army troops from all walks of life marched into central Yunnan for several days, the main force of the Yunnan army dared not leave Kunming, and the pursuers behind could not arrive in time. This situation shows that the enemy has been unable to stop the navy from crossing the Jinsha River northward, and there is no one on both sides of the Jinsha River. The CMC seized this opportunity and decisively decided that the Red Army of all stripes would immediately advance to Jinsha River.

, ready to cross the Jinsha River.

On April 29, the Central Military Commission blew its whistle at Xundian and issued an urgent instruction, "Instructions on Our Army's Quickly Crossing the River to Establish the West Sichuan Soviet Area". It is pointed out that "due to the maneuver in the past two months, our field army has gained favorable conditions for westward advancement. Generally, chasing the enemy has always been behind our side, but the enemy has concentrated more than 70 regiments chasing me, which makes it inconvenient for me to carry out large-scale combat maneuvers in the current area; On the other hand, there is no one on both sides of the Jinsha River, and it is now possible for the central government to decide to transfer field troops to western Sichuan to establish Soviet base areas. Therefore, the Politburo decided that our field army should take advantage of the current favorable opportunity to quickly cross the Jinsha River, turn to western Sichuan, destroy the enemy, and establish the Soviet base area. "

Liu Bocheng, chief of staff, is the commander of the advance team of crossing the river, and is responsible for setting up the crossing headquarters to command the whole army to cross the river in a unified way. The Red Army soldiers were divided into four roads: the First Army Corps of the Red Army captured Yuanmou Longjiedu; Sanjuntuan captured Luquan Hong Men Ferry; The cadre regiment seized Jiaopingdu, the column of the Military Commission followed the cadre regiment, and the Fifth Army Corps followed. The ninth army crossed the river between Qiaojia and Dongchuan. The first regiment bypassed Kunming from the east and northeast and had the task of pretending to attack Kunming and covering other columns.

On the same day, the Red Army approached the Jinsha River at the speed of rapid March. A regiment set out from Malong Hongqiao and Xundian Tangzi, entered Songming County, and conquered the county. The Red Army contacted Kunming on the defensive by wired telephone and threatened to attack Kunming. The vanguard troops also arrived at Dabanqiao, which is 0/5 km away from Kunming/KLOC-,and posted slogans along the way to attack Kunming, thus threatening Kunming. The enemy troops on the defensive in Kunming were shocked by the red army's feint and dared not go out to fight.

On the same day, the Third Army Corps set out from Gaotian area and conquered Xundian County via Qixing Bridge. The column of the Military Commission entered Yaojia Village from the junction of Songming and Xundian, and the marching speed was very fast, surpassing the first and third army corps.

On April 30, the column of the Military Commission, the Fifth Army Corps and the Third Army Corps entered the Kedu area and prepared to cross the river. The first regiment moved to Xianglong Street, connecting Luquan, Wuding and Yuanmou counties along the way, attracting all the chasing enemies, making it possible for the column of the Military Commission and the Third Corps to secretly cross the river.

On May 1 day, the column of the Military Commission entered Luquan County via Chicken Street, successfully passed Pudu and Tiesuo Bridge, and arrived at Xiaocang Street that night.

On the same day, inspired by the slogan of "crossing the Jinsha River for May Day", the avantgarde 5th Company of the cadre regiment and the avantgarde reconnaissance team of the Central Committee arrived at Jiaoping Ferry in the evening, found two old boats, crossed the Jinsha River that night, wiped out the enemy on the defensive and controlled the ferry.

On May 3rd, under the command of Liu Bocheng, the Red Army troops crossing the river started to cross the river with six wooden boats found by cadres. The Fifth Army Corps built field fortifications in Shibanhe, more than 40 kilometers away from the river, to stop the enemy.

On the afternoon of May 5, the column of the Central Military Commission completed crossing the river. At this time, the first regiment was at Longjie Ferry. Because the river was wide and the water was fast, it was impossible to set up a pontoon bridge. The enemy was approaching and it was difficult to cross the river. The Third Army Corps was unable to cross the bridge because of the emergency of crossing the river in Hong Men. One boat crossing the river is too slow, only passing the 13 regiment. In this case, the Military Commission urgently ordered the 1 3 Army Corps to cross the river on June 6th and 7th. The two legions arrived at the ferry on time and crossed the river one after another.

The fifth legion, which was responsible for the cover task, fought fiercely with the enemy 13 division that arrived first for several days, forcing the enemy to retreat to unity. After completing the task, he evacuated the sniper position on the evening of May 9 and crossed the Jinsha River that night.

At the end of March, the Hong Jiu Legion, which broke away from the main force of the Red Army on the north bank of Wujiang River, passed through Qianxi, Bijie, Dading, Shuicheng, Nayong and Panxian, entered Yunnan on April 25th and occupied Xuanwei on April 27th. On May 3, the Ninth Army received an order from the Military Commission to quickly cross the river. On the 4th, the avant-garde group occupied Shu Jie Ferry in Huize County and obtained more than 40 salt boats. On the 5th, the follow-up troops arrived. On the 7th, the whole army crossed the Jinsha River in the northwest of Huize.

At this point, the Central Red Army successfully crossed the Jinsha River in the north, and the Battle of Sidu Chishui ended successfully. The Red Army got rid of the siege of hundreds of thousands of enemy troops and won a decisive victory since the strategic shift.