1On May 29th, 935, the First Army of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army marched here. The enemy troops on the defensive demolished most of the bridge deck and built fortifications at the east bridge head to block the bridge deck. The vanguard of the Left Army, the Red Fourth Army, organized a storm. Twenty-two Red Army soldiers braved the bullets and crawled along the iron chain to seize the Luding Bridge, enabling the whole army to cross the Dadu River smoothly. 196 1 year, People's Republic of China (PRC) * * * and the State Council were declared as national key cultural relics protection units.
Luding Bridge is an iron cable suspension bridge, which consists of stone east and west abutments and 13 iron cables, of which 9 are bottom cables, with upper deck, and the other 4 are handrails on both sides. The bridge is101.67m long and 3m wide. Low water level at Dongqiaotou Station14.7m high. There is a sinkhole in the east and west abutment respectively, in which iron earthworm piles (7 in the east and 8 in the west) parallel to the bridge body are buried, and a cast iron Wolong pile is placed horizontally below. The iron cable passes through the east-west abutment and is fixed on the Wolong pile with a gong and a pot trip. There are 1 wooden bridge pavilions on the east and west abutments. In the east of the bridge stands the Royal Luding Bridge Monument of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty, which describes the beginning and end of bridge construction. Luding Bridge is mainly composed of iron pieces, and 13 iron cables are connected by 12 164 iron buckles, weighing about 2 1 ton. Luding Bridge has been seriously damaged several times since its completion. Every time it is damaged, it is quickly repaired. 1976 ~ 1979 completely repaired the Luding bridge. Now there are Luding Bridge Cultural Relics Management Office and Revolutionary Cultural Relics Exhibition Hall.
1May 25, 935, on the one hand, after the army forcibly crossed the Dadu River in Anshunchang, it took tens of thousands of Red Army to cross the river with only a few boats, at least one month. The Kuomintang's pursuers are in hot pursuit, and the situation is very serious. On the morning of May 26th, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Wang Jiaxiang, Lin Biao, Nie, Luo Ronghuan and Luo Ruiqing immediately decided to seize the Luding Bridge. Its deployment is that the First Division of the Red Army led by Liu Bocheng and Nie and the cadre regiments led by Chen Geng and Song Renqiong are on the right, and the central column and 1, 3, 5 and 9 armies are on the left to capture Luding Bridge. The left-wing army led by Wang Kaixiang and Yang Chengwu was attacked by the Fourth Regiment of the Red Second Division. On May 28th, the Fourth Regiment of the Red Army received an order from the Red Army: "Wang Kaixiang, Yang Chengwu and the Military Commission called to limit the left-wing army to seize the Luding Bridge tomorrow. You should use the highest marching speed and resolute mobile means to complete this glorious task. In this battle, you have to break the record of Daozhou running 160 miles a day and the Yaxi Fifth Regiment. " After receiving the order, the Red Fourth Regiment made a journey of 240 Hualishan Road day and night, and unexpectedly appeared on the west bank of Luding Bridge on the morning of the 29th to exchange fire with the enemy.
At that time, the Luding Bridge, which was more than 0/00 meters long, had been demolished by the enemy for about 80 meters, and the bridge deck of Luding Bridge was tightly blocked by intensive fire composed of machine guns and artillery. At noon, the Red Fourth Corps held a cadre meeting in Shaba Catholic Church to mobilize the battle, and organized 23 commandos to seize the bridge under the leadership of company commander Liao Dazhu and instructor Wang Haiyun. At four o'clock in the afternoon, 23 soldiers, armed with guns, sabres on their backs and more than a dozen grenades hanging around their waists, braved the bullets, climbed up the bare chain and rushed to the East Bridge. Three soldiers led by Wang Youcai followed closely behind, carrying guns, holding boards in one hand and chains in the other, laying the bridge deck while advancing. When the soldiers climbed to the middle of the bridge, the enemy set fire to the east bridge head in an attempt to stop the Red Army from attacking the bridge with fire. Faced with this sudden flame, the soldiers shouted: "Comrades, this is the last moment of victory. Summon up your courage and rush over! Don't be afraid of fire, go! The enemy has collapsed, go! " Liao Dazhu jumped up and set foot on the bridge deck and rushed to the east bridge. The soldiers also rushed up, pulled out their sabres and started hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. At this time, political commissar Yang Chengwu led a team across the East Bridge, repelled the enemy's counterattack, occupied Luding City, and quickly put out the bridge fire. The whole battle took only two hours, and then the Luding Bridge was captured in an amazing way, crushing Chiang Kai-shek's dream of turning the Dadu River Natural Danger Red Army into a second Shi Dakai. Luding Bridge has thus become an important milestone in the long March of China's * * * production party, laying a solid foundation for the realization of the historic Red Army, the Second Army and the Fourth Army, and finally ending the Long March in northern Shaanxi. With the magnificent praise of "13 iron chains splitting the road between * * * and the country", the top ten founding marshals of new China, seven of whom crossed Luding Bridge in the Long March. At that time, on the Luding Bridge after the fierce battle, Marshal Liu Bocheng stamped his feet heavily on the bridge deck and said with emotion, "Luding Bridge, Luding Bridge, how much energy and hard work we have paid for you, and now we have won, we have won!" ! The poem written by Commander-in-Chief Zhu De with the inscription "The Yangtze River still remembers the danger of Lu Guan" in the memory of the Long March fully illustrates the dangers and heroism of the Red Army's long March to capture Luding Bridge.