In 1977, before Wang Enmao went to Jilin to take office, he was asked to talk. During the conversation, ** suddenly remembered his old subordinate Liu Changyi, so he asked about his situation. Wang Enmao let out a long sigh and talked about Liu Changyi's "standing aside" in the Nanjing Military Region.
Four years ago, Liu Changyi was appointed deputy commander of the Nanjing Military Region. After receiving the new appointment, Liu Changyi was full of emotion, after the founding of New China, he was transferred to the railway public security force, and then to the navy. After the political storm began, Liu Changyi was removed from the post of commander of the North Sea Fleet, but he did not expect that now he has returned to the army.
At that time, the commander of the Nanjing Military Region was Xu Shiyou, and Liu Changyi was an old comrade-in-arms. After Liu Changyi took office, he swept away the depression during the political storm, worked with great enthusiasm, and ran at the grassroots level for more than a month. As a result, when he returned to the military region, he suddenly found that there was a different commander.
It turned out that after the political storm began, the factionalism in various localities was serious, and the troops were seriously impacted. ** In order to prevent possible turmoil, it was decided to transfer the commanders of the eight military regions. Before the adjustment, ** asked ***, who had just come back, to ask for his opinion, and the two of them had the same ideas, which made *** make up his mind.
In order to ensure that this decision can be carried out smoothly, a ten-day time limit was set for the eight commanders of military districts. So, before Xu Shiyou had time to say a word to Liu Changyi, he hurried to the Guangzhou Military Region to take up his post.
In fact, in Liu Changyi's view, whoever is the commander is the same, and the people's army still has to obey the party's command. But what Liu Changyi never expected was that as soon as he was familiar with the work of his deputy commander, he issued an appointment from above, turning him, the deputy commander, into an adviser.
During that special period, Liu Changyi's adviser did not have any actual work, and in fact he was left to dry. Many people were upset about Liu Changyi, ** After learning about the situation, he said:
"Comrade Liu Changyi is resolute, resolute, daring, and an outstanding general!”Liu Changyi was once again deprived of the opportunity to work, and his heart was full of pain and confusion. But soon he understood the reason for his "standing aside", and often exchanged views with Wang Enmao, Nie Fengzhi and others. After the ten-year political storm came to an end, Liu Changyi, Wang Enmao and others gathered together to raise a glass to celebrate this historic moment.
After listening to Wang Enmao's narration, he didn't speak, just kept smoking. For Liu Changyi, an old subordinate with a resolute personality, ** knows him very well, and he once flipped the table in front of *** back then.
It was during the Huaihai Campaign, with *** as the secretary's general signatory, it was decided to concentrate troops to encircle and annihilate Huang Wei's corps. At that time, Huang Wei's corps had a total strength of 120,000 troops, which was not only well-equipped, but also officers at all levels were all military cadets and had quite strong combat capability.
On the other hand, in the middle field, only the number of people is comparable to that of Huang Wei's corps, and the rest are obviously at a disadvantage. Therefore, the General Front Committee decided that the main force of Huaye would drag Du Yuming's corps, and a part of the forces of Nakano would consume the enemy head-on, and the main force would conceal the enemy's flank, and when the enemy entered the predetermined area, the flank and rear would encircle and annihilate the enemy.
After the battle began, Liu Changyi led the troops to quickly dispatch and encircle Huang Wei's corps in accordance with the deployment of the General Front Committee. Huang Wei failed to break through the encirclement, and gathered his troops in a number of villages, forming a circular position, relying on artillery fire and tanks to move into the position for defense.
In the first few days, due to being too impatient and a little underestimating the enemy, Liu Changyi's troops paid a relatively large amount of ** and suffered a lot of losses. After conscientiously summing up the lessons and lessons, Liu Changyi and other leaders of the column changed their tactics and carried out imminent operations day and night to tighten the encirclement.
After several days of continuous operation, Liu Changyi's troops built more than 55,000 meters of trenches and more than 3,500 bunkers, winding and stretching to the front of the enemy's position. After the General Front Committee issued the order for a general attack, although Liu Changyi's troops broke through the enemy's front line, they were unable to destroy the enemy's bunker group due to insufficient cooperation, and the force was quite large.
Liu Changyi's eyes were blood-red and he decided to personally go to the front line to reconnoitre. After studying the terrain and the enemy's defense situation, Liu Changyi decisively changed the offensive route, divided and attacked Huang Wei's corps, and finally annihilated Huang Wei's corps and captured Huang Wei alive.
After the war, due to the heavy weight of the troops, Liu Changyi falsely reported that the number of soldiers had a good meal and asked for 500 catties of meat.
After the Huaihai Campaign, the head of Nakano and the commanders of each column had a dinner to celebrate. During the banquet, ** said to Liu Changyi: "The battle was good, but I ate an extra 500 catties of meat." Liu Changyi thought that *** was criticizing and laughing at himself, and his face suddenly changed greatly, and he overturned the table, didn't eat the meal, and walked away.
Just when everyone was stunned, ** laughed out loud and motioned for everyone to continue eating and drinking. After a while, Liu Changyi ran back and apologized to *** in person, hoping that *** would forgive him for not understanding the joke. ** smiled and didn't blame Liu Changyi.
If it weren't for Liu Changyi's uprightness, he might not have "stepped aside" in the political storm. After learning about Liu Changyi's recent situation from Wang Enmao's mouth, ** said thoughtfully: "Liu Changyi is a general, who fights and conquers everything, and defends everything. ”
may be related to this conversation, when the war broke out in southern Xinjiang, Liu Changyi was able to accept the order and return to the battlefield.
At the end of 1978, ** issued an order for self-defense and counterattack combat readiness on the border with Vietnam, appointed Xu Shiyou as the commander-in-chief, and personally ordered the general to let Liu Changyi assist Xu Shiyou in commanding the operation. When the leaders of the Central Military Commission found Liu Changyi, although Liu Changyi felt a little sudden, he still accepted the task without hesitation.
In this way, Liu Changyi was appointed deputy commander of the Guangzhou Military Region. When the order reached the Nanjing Military Region, many people were very surprised, but Liu Changyi knew very well that the military situation was urgent, so it only took one week to arrange everything and quickly take a plane to Guangzhou.
As soon as he arrived in Guangzhou, Liu Changyi immediately rushed to Nanning to report for duty. The two old comrades-in-arms reunited after a long absence, and they were able to fight side by side to defend the motherland in their later years, which was even happier than the New Year. This year, Liu Changyi was 64 years old and Xu Shiyou was 73 years old.
After the end of the self-defense counterattack, Liu Changyi did not leave the border, but took the initiative to take on the heavy responsibility of fortifying for thousands of miles. After more than 50 days of continuous campaigning, Liu Changyi finally successfully completed the fortification task, and fully affirmed Liu Changyi's fortification work.
In the days when Liu Changyi was running around, he had to report to Xu Shiyoutong almost every day. And Xu Shiyou, who has been guarding Nanning, looks forward to Liu Changyi's triumph as soon as possible.
On a scorching summer day, Liu Changyi finally returned to Nanning. Xu Shiyou was extremely excited and ordered a banquet to be held for Liu Changyi to wash the dust. At the beginning of the banquet, everyone toasted and congratulated Liu Changyi, and Liu Changyi was also arrogant and did not refuse to come.
But Xu Shiyou felt that it was not enjoyable, and asked everyone to toast Liu Changyi three more glasses of wine. Liu Changyi and Xu Shiyou have been dating for half a century, and they must fight at the wine table, for fear that the other party will drink less. So Liu Changyi heard Xu Shiyou's words, and immediately said to Xu Shiyou:
"No matter how many cups others toast, as long as you dare to drink, I dare to drink!”After drinking this wine, no one remembers how many glasses of wine they toasted, only that Xu Shiyou and Liu Changyi toasted again and again.
After the banquet, Liu Changyi considered that there would be a meeting in the afternoon, so he was ready to squint on the sofa for a while before leaving. After Xu Shiyou washed his face, he saw Liu Changyi sitting on the sofa and didn't leave, thinking that he had drunk too much, so he happily went over to "laugh" at him.
Liu Changyi slapped the sofa suddenly, saying that he just wanted to sit and rest for a while. Xu Shiyou was even happier when he heard it, and said with a smile, "You rest, rest!."”
Later, Xu Shiyou told others that Liu Changyi was drunk that day. After Liu Changyi heard these words, he laughed loudly: "Commander Xu was almost drunk that day, in fact, I was still early!."”