The enemy used planes to reconnaise, mortars, and machine guns to continuously shoot violently at the Red Army positions. The trees and stones and soil on the Red Army positions were blown up and flew everywhere. Although the Red Army commanders and soldiers lacked ammunition, they responded calmly and bravely and tenaciously. The Red 20th Division, which was not good at positional warfare, was attacked by the enemy, and the position was washed away and the commanding heights of Shimengang were occupied by the enemy. In order to regain the position, the Red 20th Division officers and soldiers waved their darts and rushed across the Mashun River, and once again engaged in fierce hand-to-hand combat with the Kuomintang army in the Shimengang area. The fierce battle continued until 5 pm.

The 19th Red Division, which was defending the southeast of Wuniguan, launched charges again and again at the Second Regiment of the Kuomintang Army. Since the main force did not reach the area north of Shimengang, which could best exert its combat effectiveness, it was deployed to the Wuniguan area south of Shimengang, and the troops could not be activated. The division commander Xun Huaizhou led the way and led his team to charge. In the afternoon, as soon as the enemy's fierce artillery fire passed, Xun Huaizhou jumped up and led his troops to rush towards the enemy. At this critical moment, the enemy's dense and violent bullets were fired, and Xun Huaizhou was unfortunately hit by several bullets in his abdomen.

Falling away. Xun Huaizhou was carried onto a stretcher. As soon as he woke up, he endured the severe pain of his wound and said, "Roar, rush forward and defeat the enemy." He showed a heroic and tenacious fighting spirit. Most of the 19th Red Division's 19th Red Army was killed, and Liu Ying, director of the Political Department of the Legion, was injured. Le Shaohua, the political commissar of the Legion, was shot into the right chest by the enemy. At that time, someone was shouting: "Political Commissar, run away, the white bandits are here!" Le Shaohua did not want to be captured, so he tapped himself with a pistol, and fainted, and was carried away by the stretcher after a while.

The Red Ten Army fought such a bad battle, so the entire army was in a dangerous situation of being completely wiped out by the Kuomintang army. This battle was the first battle when the Red Ten Army turned to the outside line. It not only exposed its strength, but also increased the ambition of the Kuomintang army to "pursuing and suppressing" the troops.

Why did Tanjiaqiao lose the battle? Fang Zhimin believes that "the main reason is tactical shortcomings: first, the choice of terrain is poor, the enemy occupies the road, and it is condescending. We charge towards the enemy, which is equivalent to attacking the enemy. Second, the clamping team and the commando team are not equipped properly. We do not concentrate the main force and fight from the right-handed low mountain to the road. Third, the 19th Division uses useful troops to use useless places, drill into the steep mountain gorge, and cannot be used." (See Fang Zhimin: "A Brief Introduction to My Engagement in Revolutionary Struggle" This paragraph is added by the blogger)

Liu Ying, director of the Legion Political Department, summarized the main reasons and lessons of Tan Jiaqiao's defeat in his memoirs as follows:

(1) The concept of underestimating the enemy was a common phenomenon in the army at that time. It was believed that the enemy's replenishment of the king's brigade was a force that was not attacked, not our enemy, and even pride himself. This was the lesson of the military strategy saying that "a arrogant soldier will be defeated." (2) Inconsistent actions, especially disobeying the orders of the army, which led to the defeat of the enemy. This proves that obeying orders is one of the main tasks of the revolutionary army to defeat the enemy. Otherwise, not only will it not be able to defeat the enemy, but it will also suffer losses and perish itself. (3) When the enemy has occupied the main position and our main force has withdrawn from the battle, with the enthusiasm of a cadre to counter the assault, this not only cannot solve the battle, but also does not deserve to lose it.

At that time, the injuries and deaths of several major cadres of the advance team suffered losses under such circumstances. (4) Political work is the lifeline of the revolutionary army, which has pointed out its importance in the Political Work Regulations of the Red Army. However, since the battle of Tanjiaqiao, although Comrade Nie Hongjun was acting director and Comrade Tu Zhennong was deputy director, the political and cultural education in the army was almost at a standstill at that time, especially the experience and lessons of the battle of Tanjiaqiao were not grasped in full explanation and persuasion work in the army, which caused the morale of the advance team to decline day by day since the battle of Tanjiaqiao, which would become a lesson in history.

Fang Zhimin, Liu Chouxi, Nie Hongjun and others held an emergency meeting to study countermeasures when the battle in Tanjiaqiao failed. The meeting decided: In order to preserve the vitality of the Red Army, they quickly withdrew from the battle, changed their itinerary, turned to Liande and Sanxi, and finally arrived at the Taiping Ke Village Soviet Area to make a concentrated rest. At this time, the enemy was also unable to pursue the battle because of "the hard battle has been long and urgently needed rectification." When the troops were transferred to Maolin in Jingxian County, Xunhuaizhou finally died heroically due to lack of medicine and excessive bleeding at the time. After the death of the Jiangxing, he was buried at the foot of the Ant Mountain. His sacrifice was a major loss for the Red Army's anti-Japanese advance team to the north. Later, Fang Zhimin recalled the young general who was only 24 years old and had been injured five times in the article "A Brief Description of My Engagement in Revolutionary Struggle". The article read:

He was a good commander of the Red Army. He commanded the Seventh Army in two years and fought many famous victories, seized more than 6,000 enemy guns, more than 300 light and heavy machine guns, and seized dozens of cannons.
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