On this day, 93 years ago, August 18, 1932 (July 17, 1932, the Soviet Area along the Hunan and Hubei border was severely damaged. On August 18, 1932, after the Kuomintang troops in the Honghu Soviet Area occupied northern Xiangyang, they adjusted their deployment and concentrated their main forces to launch an attack on the central area of the red base area south of the Xianghe River. On the 20th, Xia Xi, secretary of the Central Branch of the Western Hunan and Hubei Province, had taken control of the entire area on the north bank of the Dongjing River west of Baimiao. He refused to accept He Long and others 'proposal to concentrate the main force to move to mobile operations on the outside line and annihilate the enemy during the movement in order to break the enemy's "encirclement and suppression" proposal, decided to divide the troops into two groups: use the 8th and 9th divisions of the Second Red Army as the way to penetrate into the enemy's rear areas in northern Xiangyang; Xia Xi directly commanded the Seventh Division, Guard Division and local troops to work together, dividing troops and building fortresses in the base area, making the Red Army's anti-"encirclement and suppression" operations more passive. On the 31st, the Kuomintang troops in the Honghu Soviet Area "encirclement and suppression" broke through the Red Army positions on the front lines of Xingouzui and Zhoulaozui, and continued to attack Qujiawan and other places where the rear organs of the Soviet Area were located. The Seventh Division of the Red Army Army suffered serious losses. Its three commanders and political commissar of a regiment all died in the battle, and Lu Yi, the division political commissar, was arrested and died. At the end of the month, the Special Committee of the Communist Party of China on the Hunan-Hubei Border, the Lianxian Government and the Independent Regiment were forced to withdraw to the Honghu Soviet Area under the heavy siege of the enemy. The revolutionary base area along Hunan and Hubei fell.