What is the significance of flying to capture the Luding Bridge

The capture of Luding Bridge was a battle in the Long March of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, which took place on May 29, 1935. ** The Red Army troops successfully crossed the Dadu River in the central and western parts of Sichuan Province, and went north along the left bank of the Dadu River, and the main force went north along the right bank of the Dadu River from Anshun Field, and the officers and men of the Red Fourth Regiment ran and advanced on the rugged and steep mountain road under the condition of heavy rain, and ran for 120 kilometers in a day and night, and finally arrived on the west bank of the Luding Bridge on time at about 6 o'clock in the morning of May 29.

The commander of the 2nd Company and 22 commandos stepped on the iron chain to seize the bridgehead along the iron rope covered with bullets and fire, and occupied the Luding Bridge with the troops on the left bank.

On May 25, 1935, on the one hand, after the Red Army rushed to cross the Dadu River at Anshun Field, tens of thousands of Red Army troops had to cross the river with only a few small boats, and it would take a month at the earliest. However, the Kuomintang pursuers were in hot pursuit, and the situation was very serious. In an emergency, on the morning of May 26, after the decision of ***, ***, ** and others immediately made an order to seize the Luding Bridge.

Its deployment was led by the first division of the Red First Army Corps and the cadre regiment led by Chen Geng and Song Renqiang as the right route army, and the ** column and corps were the left route army to attack the Luding Bridge. The Left Route Army, led by Wang Kaixiang and Yang Chengwu, attacked and advanced with the 4th Regiment of the 2nd Red Division as the vanguard.

On May 25, 1935, after the 1st Regiment of the 1st Division of the Red 1st Army Corps, the vanguard of the Red Army's Long March, successfully crossed the Dadu River in Anshunchang, Sichuan Province, Chiang Kai-shek urgently transferred 2 brigades of the Sichuan Army to reinforce Luding Bridge. ** In order to quickly cross the Dadu River and thwart the attempts of the Kuomintang army to flank the Red Army in front and rear, the Revolutionary Military Committee decided that the 1st Division and the cadre regiment of the 1st Red Army Corps would continue to cross the river from Anshun Field and go north along the left bank of the Dadu River.

On the morning of the 27th, the 4th Regiment of the 2nd Division of the Red 1st Army Corps, the vanguard of the right road, led by the regiment commander Wang Kaixiang and political commissar Yang Chengwu, set out from Anshun Field to break through the resistance of the Sichuan army along the way, and after 2 days and nights of 160 kilometers, it occupied the west bridgehead of Luding Bridge on the morning of the 29th. Luding Bridge chokes Chuankang main road, the total length is more than 100 meters, the width is meters, it is composed of 13 iron cables, spans the surging Dadu River, the two banks are cliffs, and the east bridgehead is connected with Luding City. Before the arrival of the Red Army, the 38th Regiment of the 4th Brigade of the Chengchuan Army (1 battalion owed) had removed the planks from the bridge, leaving only the suspended iron cables.

At 16 o'clock that day, Liao Dazhu, the commander of the 2nd Company of the Red 4th Regiment, and other 22 commandos, braved the dense fire of the Sichuan army under the cover of the fire of the whole regiment, climbed the iron cable, and rushed to the opposite bank. The follow-up troops entered the battle in time, and after fierce fighting, the Red Army occupied Luding City, and one part of the Sichuan Army was annihilated, and the rest fled to the sky. At the same time, the Red 1st Division and the cadre regiment defeated the resistance of the Sichuan army and victoriously reached Luding City, responding to the battle of the Red 4th Regiment to seize the bridge.

Then, the main force of the Red Army crossed the dangerous Dadu River from the Luding Bridge and smashed Chiang Kai-shek's attempt to annihilate the Red Army south of the Dadu River.

The significance of flying to capture the Luding Bridge was to open the passage for the Red Army to go north, and it was one of the major victories of strategic significance in the Red Army's Long March.

At that time, the Red Army, faced with the enemy's encirclement and interception, chose a difficult but great strategic retreat. This victory was won by the Red Army soldiers, who were not afraid of falling into the turbulent river and the guns and cannons in the hands of the enemy on the other side, and who were unyielding and courageously marched forward, exchanging their own blood and precious lives, and embodied the Red Army's fearless spirit of unlimited loyalty to the people's revolutionary cause.

Luding Bridge introduced

Luding Bridge is located on the Dadu River in Luding County, and is a national key cultural relics protection unit. The bridge was built in the 44th year of the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty and was completed in the 45th year of the Kangxi reign (1706). Kangxi imperial pen inscription "Luding Bridge", and set up the imperial monument at the bridgehead, the bridge is 103 meters long, 3 meters wide, 13 iron chains are fixed in the abutment on both sides of the well, 9 are used as bottom chains, 4 are divided into two sides as handrails, a total of 12,164 iron rings are interlocked.

The bridgehead on both sides of the strait is an ancient wooden structure building, with a unique style and unique style in China. On May 29, 1935, the Long March of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army passed through here and captured the Luding Bridge, which made the bridge famous at home and abroad. Luding Bridge is located in the west of Luding County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, across the Dadu River, and is an important passage from the interior of Sichuan to the Kang-Tibet Plateau.

It was founded in the 44th year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty.

The above content reference: Encyclopedia - Feiduo Luding Bridge