Military history: The Red Army Arsenal once assembled airplanes.

Military history: The Red Army Arsenal once assembled airplanes.

In the impression of many people, the conditions of people's ordnance during the Red Army period were extremely simple. At most, they can make some broadswords, earth cannons, earth grenades and reload bullets. However, during the Second Revolutionary Civil War, a Red Army Arsenal once assembled 1 plane. It was the arsenal of the Central Military Commission of Hubei-Henan Border Region that created this miracle.

The weapon industry in the Soviet area of Hubei, Henan and Anhui started very early. 1September, 928, the East Hubei Special Committee established Xiongjiazui Arsenal with 30 employees. Mainly manufacturing knives and guns, repairing firearms. 1928, in the process of opening up Chaishanbao (now Chendian Township, Xinxian County) base area, the party organization sent party member, blacksmith, coppersmith and silversmith to form Chaishanbao mechanical repair team to repair guns for the Red Army and manufacture broadswords, spears and pursed pistols. /kloc-in the spring of 0/929, the machine repair group was expanded into a machine repair shop.

1930 65438+ 10, the Hubei-Henan Border Region Special Committee moved several mechanical repair workshops such as "Ma Bu" in Guojiahe Township and Chen Chong in Doushanhe Township to Baofosi Temple in Chaishan, and established the Hubei-Henan Border Region Military Commission Arsenal. * * * There are more than 60 employees including the factory director Xiong Mingzhuo and the party branch secretary Ruan Decheng. The factory is located in Foer Temple and Gaowan Village, Chendian Township, Xinxian County. It used to be a brick-and-wood temple, facing south, surrounded by mountains, with an open field and towering old trees in front. There are 15 houses in the temple, which are divided into two rows with five houses in each row, and form a four-in-one courtyard with the east and west wings, covering an area of 1050 square meters.

1931March 16, Kuomintang air force pilot Long flew from Hankou to Kaifeng, Henan Province to perform communication tasks. On the way back, I got lost in the fog and ran out of fuel. I landed in Chenjiahe, Xuanhuadian, luoshan county, Henan Province (now Dawu County, Hubei Province) and was captured by the Red Army.

Led by Long, Chen Jiahe's Red Guards and Red Army commanders unloaded six planes. Wu Hanggan, Chairman of the Third Township Workers and Peasants Democratic Government in Ziyun District, Huang An County, with the help of more than 4,000 people organized by the workers and peasants democratic government along the way, selected 150 able-bodied men to form a carrying team, which lasted for half a month. The backbone of the arsenal of the Central Military Commission of the Hubei-Henan Border Region was immediately ordered to rush to Xinji. Under the guidance of Long Wenguang, the dismantled plane was reassembled. This plane was named "Lenin" and Chen Changhao used it to bomb Huang An County, which was the first time in the history of the People's Army.

1931In early April, Kuomintang troops launched the second "encirclement and suppression" campaign against the revolutionary base areas in Hubei, Henan and Anhui. The arsenal of the Central Military Commission of Hubei-Henan Border Region was forced to move from Henan to Xiongjiazui, Ziyun District, Huang An County, Hubei Province. The Red Army Gun-making Bureau in Huanggufan, Xinxian County, Henan Province and the Red Army Mechanical Repair Shop in Xijiagang, Huang An County have also moved here. At this time, they merged with Xiongjiazui Arsenal to form the Hubei-Henan Border Region Military Commission Arsenal, and established the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Military Commission Arsenal. The factory has a general factory and four branch factories, and * * * has more than 300 employees.

Under the harsh production conditions of tight blockade by the enemy and lack of technical equipment and raw materials, the workers overcame all kinds of difficulties and forgot their work. The raw materials needed for production include scrap iron donated by the local people, railway tracks demolished when the Red Army attacked the railway and broken weapon parts collected on the battlefield, and some were secretly purchased by buyers who risked their lives in enemy war zones.

With the development of the war, pistols can no longer meet the needs of the Red Army. The arsenal of the Hubei, Henan and Anhui Military Commission began to imitate Hanyang, and finally succeeded after several efforts.

According to historical records, the Arsenal of Hubei, Henan and Anhui Military Commission was the first red ordnance enterprise to implement quality contract system and quality management system, and it has the embryonic form of modern enterprise management system. In the production process, the production tasks are subcontracted at different levels and finally implemented to everyone. The quality management in the production process is also very strict, forming an effective quality control system, which ensures the qualified rate of military products produced under limited conditions.

1932 In April, 300,000 Kuomintang troops launched the fourth "encirclement and suppression" campaign against the Soviet area in Hubei, Henan and Anhui. The Arsenal of Hubei, Henan and Anhui Military Commission moved back to Foer Temple in Wangwan Village, Xinxian County, Henan Province from Xiongjiazui, Huang An County, Hubei Province. In July of the same year, the Kuomintang army was pressing hard and the situation was very serious. The arsenal of the Hubei, Henan and Anhui Military Commission was forced to disband, heavy equipment was buried on the spot, young workers followed the main force to the west, and other personnel dispersed to join the guerrillas.

If we start with the establishment of the Hubei-Henan Border Region Military Commission Arsenal, the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Military Commission Arsenal only existed for two and a half years. During this period, the factory * * * produced more than 4,000 pistols, more than 800 rifles made in Hanyang, and 1 1,000 hemp-tailed grenades for the front line. At the same time, 2 1 0,000 rounds of ammunition were reloaded, 1. 1 0,000 guns and mortars were repaired, and 1 aircraft was assembled. Its contribution to the China Revolution will go down in history forever!