In the spring of 1930, the Eyu-Anhui Red Army was reorganized into the Red 1st Army, and Xu Xiangqian was made deputy commander and commander of the 1st Division. Immediately, he commanded the Red 1st Division to start the anti-"XuXiahui Suppression" operation.
Once, the Red 1st Army heard the local comrades say that they had found four or five hundred enemies near the Tiegangzi on Tiantai Mountain, so Xu Xiangqian and others decided to eat them.
However, as soon as the battle began, the enemy had two regiments. The Red Army, on the other hand, had few men and poor weapons and equipment, and was overwhelmed by enemy fire. The enemy began to counterattack the Red Army, but the frontal troops did not resist, and the troops on both flanks saw that the situation was not good, and had to withdraw from the position.
The crowd retreated to the oil press. As a result, when assembling, the division commander Xu Xiangqian was missing.
The battle was not fought well, and the leader was lost, which was terrible! The mood of the officers and men of the Red 1st Division changed suddenly, they were all waiting for dinner, no one shouted that they were hungry, and one by one they shrugged their heads and sat stunned on the camp. Political Commissar Dai Kemin and Chief of Staff Liu Ying were even more anxious. Dai Kemin called the company commander Liao Rongkun and asked him to lead a squad of soldiers to find it.
Chen Zaidao was sitting next to Liao Rongkun, and he immediately asked Chen to gather the entire class of soldiers and go with him to find Master Xu.
They left the camp and discussed as they walked, Master Xu was a northerner, had just come here, and was not familiar with life, whether he had taken the wrong road. Liao Rongkun shook his head and said, "During the last battle, Master Xu jumped off a cliff and broke one of his legs, he didn't say anything himself, he still followed us to fight, but he fell behind when he retreated." ”
It was a dark and windy night of the month. They came to the direction of Tiegangzi in the dark, and two or three miles away from Tiegangzi, a warrior suddenly heard a noise in the woods on the hillside. The crowd dispersed and walked toward the woods, hoping to find Xu Xiangqian there.
Coincidentally, Xu Qianqian, who they were looking for, was sitting in the woods.
When he saw Liao Rongkun, he did not rebuke anyone, but only said: "The reason why this battle was not fought was because the intelligence was not accurate, and our mouths were too wide open, and we wanted to swallow the enemy in one bite, and the result was the opposite of what we wanted." ”
The warriors tried to carry him back to the camp, but Xu Xiangqian insisted on leaving on his own.
He was limping and struggling to walk. The warriors saw that his leg was badly injured, and they tried to carry him on their backs. Master Xu said humorously: "Just now the enemy chased after me to 'carry' me, but I didn't promise them and ran to this forest to hide." ”
A few words, making everyone laugh.
However, Xu Xiangqian was Xu Xiangqian, this battle was not fought well, but the second battle was fought with military prestige, and soon he led the Red 1st Division to set up an ambush at Yangpingkou, this time not only accurate intelligence, but also very well prepared, as a result, after four hours of fierce fighting, completely annihilated one regiment of the enemy, captured more than 1,200 enemy people, and captured more than a thousand guns of various kinds.
This was the first time since the establishment of the Eyu-Anhui Red Army that a regular regiment of the enemy had been completely annihilated. Most of the warriors who carried the dart on their shoulders were replaced by five-shot fast guns "Hanyang-made".