Although General Duan Suquan was not very visible among the founding generals, his experience was extraordinary. In 1934, in order to cover the transfer of the main force, he led the Qiandong Independent Division to fight against the enemy, although the whole army was finally annihilated, he escaped death and returned to his hometown to recuperate.
A few years later, when he returned to the army, he learned that the organization had already held a memorial service for him.
During the Liberation War, Duan Suquan was ostracized by him because of his disagreement with **. Despite this, Duan Suquan still endured humiliation and burdens, regardless of personal gains and losses, and made great achievements.
However, in 1948, the Eighth Column led by Duan Suquan made a mistake and was criticized by ***. After knowing this, he asked him with a smile: "Do you know why the chairman wants to 'show you' to the public?" ”
So, what's going on here? Why did Duan Suquan disagree with **? What kind of mistakes did the Eighth Column led by him make? escaped death, and was held a memorial service by Ren Bishi and other leaders.
Born in 1916 in an ordinary family in Chaling, Hunan, Duan Suquan joined the Communist Youth League in 1930 and later became a member of the Communist Party. In August 1932, he led a group of outstanding young pioneers to join the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and served as the chief of the Youth Section of the Political Department of the Red Eighth Army in the Hunan and Jiangxi Soviet Districts.
In September 1933, Duan Suquan served as the head of the Propaganda Department of the Political Department of the Hunan and Jiangxi Military Region, and participated in the struggle to consolidate and develop the Hunan and Jiangxi revolutionary base areas and many anti-"encirclement and suppression" operations; In August 1934, Duan Suquan served as the head of the Propaganda Department of the Political Department of the Red Sixth Army and participated in the Western Expedition with the army.
On October 27, 1934, the Red Second Army and the Red Sixth Army successfully met in Qiandong, and then held an emergency meeting to discuss the route of the next operation. After some intense discussion, Red.
2. The leaders of the Red Sixth Army decided to set out from the southern waist boundary and march to the northwest of Hunan Province.
When the Red Second and Red Sixth Army Corps were about to leave, they made a decision, that is, to leave the Qiandong Independent Division in place and continue the fighting. The Qiandong Independent Division was created and cultivated by He Bingyan, and after the baptism of war, their strength has been fully improved and they have become the main force of the Red Second Army.
And the remaining Qiandong Independent Divisions, although temporarily formed, still shoulder important tasks. The independent division consisted of Wang Guangguang as the division commander and Duan Suquan as the political commissar, and their task was to create a revolutionary base area in eastern Qiandong, contain tens of thousands of enemy troops, cover the main force into Hunan Province, and persist in guerrilla warfare along the Sichuan-Guizhou border.
Despite the arduous task, the Qiandong Independent Division still faced some difficulties, such as the fact that many of the soldiers in the unit were from Hunan or Jiangxi, and it was difficult to hide in the local area. However, after the departure of the Red 2nd and 6th Red Legions, the Qiandong Independent Division showed excellent ability in the battle with the enemy.
They successfully disguised themselves as the main force of the Red Army, engaged in a bloody battle with tens of thousands of enemy troops, and succeeded in confusing the enemy, causing the warlords of Sichuan and Guizhou to mistakenly believe that they were the main force of the Red Army and deployed a blockade.
In this battle, the independent division had only more than 400 guns, each gun did not exceed three or five rounds, but the number was nearly 800, so many soldiers could only go into battle with machetes to kill the enemy.
Despite the difficult conditions, the Qiandong Independent Division still stuck to its post and defended the revolutionary cause with its life.
In the face of a formidable enemy, the Qiandong Independent Division did not fight hard, but chose guerrilla warfare. Relying on the cover of the mountains, they searched for food and water while attacking the enemy in all directions.
After some hard fighting, they successfully covered the tasks of the main forces and decided to take the outside line of operations. They decided to escape from the enemy's encirclement, take advantage of the danger of Fanjing Mountain in eastern Qiandong, and wait for the right time to carry out guerrilla warfare.
However, after Li Chengzhang of the Guizhou army led his troops and the militia to rendezvous, he launched an attack on the Qiandong Independent Division. After a day of fierce fighting, the Qiandong Independent Division annihilated hundreds of enemies, but it also suffered heavy losses and was in the stage of running out of food and water.
Although they were always looking for an opportunity to break through, this opportunity came sooner than they expected. In one night, the Qiandong Independent Division, under the leadership of Duan Suquan, successfully broke through to the north, intending to go to Xiangxi to find Hong.
2. Red Sixth Army Corps.
They arrived at Yimei Town in Xiushan County, Qiandong, and after some fighting, successfully occupied Yimei Town. However, with the enemy's frantic "encirclement and suppression", the situation of the Qiandong Independent Division became more and more difficult.
Almost all of their soldiers were killed, and even the division commander Wang Guangguang was captured by the enemy. Despite this, they managed to support Red.
2. The Red Sixth Army successfully marched eastward into Xiangxi, making important contributions to the response organs and the Red Army's Long March.
Duan Suquan escaped death and disguised himself as a beggar all the way back to his hometown Chaling, where he struggled to survive. Three years later, after learning the news of the smooth outbreak of the "Xi'an Incident" and the Red Army's eastward crossing of the Yellow River to resist Japan, he packed his luggage to say goodbye to his family and looked for a large army.
In Taiyuan, he unexpectedly met his old superior, Ren Bi. Facing Duan Suquan, who "came back from the dead", Ren Bishi was very shocked, he was stunned at first, then stepped forward and touched Duan Suquan's face, and said in disbelief: "Duan Suquan, it's really you!"
We thought you had died, a memorial service had already been held for you at the front army congress, and it was great that you were still alive! Duan Suquan came to study at the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, and graduated in the spring of the following year, staying at the school as a political teacher.
After that, he served as the director of the Political Department of the Pingbei Military Subdivision of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region and the secretary of the Pingbei Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China, leading the establishment, consolidation and development of the Pingbei Anti-Japanese Base Area. He participated in the establishment of the Pingbei Revolutionary Base Area, recovered Zhangjiakou and other important cities, destroyed the puppet Mongolian Xinjiang autonomy, and made indelible contributions to the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan.
**Criticize 8 verticals,** said to Duan Suquan: Do you know why you were shown to the public? At the beginning of December 1947, Duan Suquan suddenly received a notice that he would replace Huang Yongsheng and become the commander of the Eighth Column of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army.
He didn't have time to think about it, so he hurriedly came to Chaoyang and learned the news.
Duan Suquan was very surprised to take over the post of commander of the Eighth Column, after all, Huang Yongsheng was the best confidant and favorite general, how could he agree to let him replace Huang Yongsheng?
Later, he learned that this was a helpless move. Although Huang Yongsheng can fight, he has a fatal flaw, that is, he is greedy and lustful. The Jichareliao Sub-Bureau and the Military Region sent telegrams to the ** and the Northeast Army several times, reflecting to them not only the problem of Huang Yongsheng's life style, but also the problem of his "disobedience to orders and disobedience to the orders of his superiors."
For example, in December 1945, a military conference was held. Before the meeting began, ** received an order from the Military Commission: "* It is necessary to cooperate with the operation in the Rehe area. ”
But everyone knows that ** will never fight for others, so he said at the meeting: "My policy has been set, and it will not change." If you want to cooperate with the Rehe operation, let Li Yunchang cooperate! ”
After the meeting, ** brought the main force to the West Manchurian area, and Li Yunchang had no choice but to order the newly established Huang Yongsheng column to block the enemy near Chaoyang. However, to Li Yunchang's surprise, Huang Yongsheng did not carry out his order, but ran to the Chifeng area with his men, which also caused great difficulties for our army's subsequent operations.
Huang Yongsheng has problems in his work and life style, so the Jicha Reliao Branch and the Military Region strongly requested that Huang Yongsheng be replaced. It is precisely because of this that Duan Suquan replaced the position of commander of Huang Yongsheng's eighth column, which also led to a gap between ** and Duan Suquan.
On September 12, 1948, the Liaoshen Campaign officially began, and Duan Suquan was ordered to lead his troops south to the Beining Line, preparing to encircle and suppress the enemy on the periphery of Jinzhou. On the evening of the day Duan Suquan arrived in Beizhen, he received an order from the Northeast Field Army Headquarters (hereinafter commonly known as Dongzong): "Immediately go south, cut off the contact between the two enemy forces in Yixian and Jinzhou, and encircle and annihilate the enemy troops near Gewenbei." ”
After receiving the task, Duan Suquan immediately commanded more than 50,000 soldiers, and according to the strategy of "encircling first and then fighting", he successfully annihilated the two regiments of the 22nd Division of the enemy's 93rd Army, and occupied Gewenbei, further blocking the communication between Jinzhou and Yixian.
At 3 o'clock in the morning of September 26, the 8th Column again received an order from the East General Headquarters, asking them to quickly occupy the outer airfields of Jinzhou in order to prevent the Kuomintang from sending reinforcements to Jinzhou. However, since the telegram was pressed at the staff office of the column for a full 4 hours, Duan Suquan did not receive this task until 7 o'clock in the morning.
After receiving the task, Duan Suquan immediately began to deploy and found that the instructions in the telegram were not clear. Because there are two airports on the periphery of Jinzhou, one abandoned airport is close to the 8th longitudinal, and the other usable west airport is close to the 9th longitudinal.
After discussing the orders of the headquarters, some commanders and fighters believed that the abandoned airfield should be occupied, because if they were allowed to occupy the west airfield, the 9th Column would be closer to them and would be able to complete the task more quickly.
In addition, the occupation of the West Airfield is not very reasonable for the 8th Column......
Liu Yalou asked the 8th column whether he had occupied the airport outside Jinzhou, but the staff who received ** did not know which airport it was, Liu Yalou was very angry about this, he thought that it was meaningless to occupy the abandoned airport, and the airport that was in use should be occupied.
Duan Suquan immediately deployed the operation and ordered the 23rd Division to seize the West Airfield before dusk, but after learning that the East General had handed over the task to the 9th Column, he decided to stop the operation. When reporting the situation to the Military Commission, the General Manager accused the 8th and 9th Columns of delaying the implementation of their tasks, which led to the enemy transporting the troops of two divisions of the 49th Army to Jinzhou.
** Dissatisfied with this, he believed that the military orders should be strictly implemented in the operation of the army, and criticized the blockade of the airfield by the 8th and 9th columns for two days.
The seizure of the airport caused dissatisfaction and criticism from the United States, and it was reported to the entire Northeast Field Army, which surprised Duan Suquan. As a soldier who has always been based on the principles of rigor and self-reflection, such a blow has had a great impact on his self-confidence.
On the issue of seizing the airport, ** once said to Liu Yalou and others: "There is only one airport available in Jinzhou, but they still have to ask for instructions, which is indeed a problem."
But if we had given the order more explicit and clearly indicated that the western airfield was to be occupied, would these mistakes have been avoided? After the battle, Duan Suquan took the initiative to go to the war room of ** to ask him for his guilt.
* glanced at Duan Suquan, didn't speak, just ate fried soybeans while looking at the map on the wall. After a long time, ** said to Duan Suquan: "Do you know why *** wants to show you to the public? ”
Duan Suquan nodded and replied: "We didn't fight well, delayed the fighter, and deserve to be criticized by the chairman." * said, "Not exactly, you don't seem to fully understand what I mean." ”
Seeing Duan Suquan's puzzled face, ** said: "I will report your mistake to **, not to warn you, but to warn them, and not to put you in the spotlight, but to let everyone see those eleven columns!"
I know the contribution of the 8th column well, although you were a little negligent in the Little Bauhinia Mountain, but you showed your heroic nature in the Great Bauhinia Mountain. ”
* The conversation with Duan Suquan was full of power. Before the start of the Battle of Jinzhou, it was hoped that Duan Suquan would be able to regain his strength and lead the 8th Column to attack from the east of the city to the west.
He knew that only the 8th Column could complete this task independently"Liaoxi captures the tiger"。Duan Suquan replied firmly that he would thank Mr. Lin for his trust and complete the task.
Amid the fierce gunfire inside and outside the city of Jinzhou, the columns began"Ants move", and the task of the 8th column is to move to the road of Gewen Monument and Songlin Fort. ** Again ordered to destroy the fortifications of Jinzhou, and blow up cement, steel bars, etc. with explosives.
The 8 column was given the task of destroying the enemy fortifications in the original offensive area. Chiang Kai-shek flew to Shenyang again and ordered Wei Lihuang to transfer all the 52nd Army and 6th Army to Liao Yaoxiang's command and launch an attack on Jinzhou.
At the same time, ** ordered the troops attacking Jinzhou to start rushing supplies day and night. After the news of the peaceful liberation of Changchun came, ** decided to concentrate forces to deal with Liao Yaoxiang's corps first, and then clean up the enemy in Jinxi and Huludao.
At this time, Liao Yaoxiang also received an order from Chiang Kai-shek, who decided to abandon the decision to recover Jinzhou and approve the plan to attack Yingkou and other places. However, the dialogue between ** and Duan Suquan has not changed.
They know that they can only do it if they give it their all"Liaoxi captures the tiger"tasks.
At noon on October 21, the 10th Column received an important task, to choose a position between Montenegro and Dahushan, resolutely resist, wait for the arrival of the main force, and destroy the enemy.
The 8th Column, as the vanguard, was to advance to Dahushan east of Jinzhou after dusk, followed by the 1st Column, the 3rd Column moved to Beizhen, the 17th Division moved to Montenegro, and the other columns rested in place and then set off on the evening of the 22nd.
At noon on October 23, ** issued an order to all columns to "intercept the vanguard, drag the rear tail, and storm the middle", and the task of "intercepting the vanguard" fell on the 8th column.
Just after dawn that day, the Kuomintang 52nd Army set out from Anshan and arrived at Yingkou at dusk on the 24th. When ** learned of this news, he immediately ordered the 8th Column to block the road, and at this time both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party set their eyes on Tai'an between the Liao River and the Huanyang River.
In the winter offensive at the beginning of this year, the soldiers of the 8th Column had joined forces with the 7th Column to encircle the enemy's 18th Division stationed in Tai'an.
Therefore, there is a reason why ** chose to hand over this arduous task to the 8th Column. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon of this day, the 8th Column and the 22nd Division were ordered to march to Sitaizi, Wutaizi and other places, and at this time, Duan Suquan received a letter from the commander of the 10th Column and 30th Division, they were worried that the enemy would outflank them from the south side of Dahu Mountain, hoping that the 8th Column could ensure the safety of their right flank.
According to the requirements of the higher authorities and the 30th Division, the 8th Vertical and 22nd Divisions came to Sitaizi, Wutaizi and other places, the 66th Regiment ambushed near Waist Wantunzi, and the 65th Regiment built a position near Sheshanzi.
Immediately afterwards, the enemy attacked our troops under heavy artillery fire, and they attacked from morning to dusk, but they were all repulsed by our troops.
On October 25, ** felt that the situation was becoming increasingly serious and he could no longer grasp the situation, so he ordered the 8th Column: "Make every effort to launch an attack on Xihaizi in the northeast of Tai'an, and if the 23rd Division is slow, it will be punished!" ”
After fierce battles, our troops were victorious and captured a large number of enemy troops. After interrogation and reviewing the documents, we found that it was the strategic avant-garde of Liao Yaoxiang's corps that we defeated, and this news made the heart of ** immediately relaxed.
At this time, Liao Yaoxiang did not know that he had been defeated, and he was seriously organizing an attack on Black Mountain and Dahu Mountain. In the early morning of 26 October, three battalions came to the command post and three military headquarters of Liao Yaoxiang's corps by mistake.
On this night, Liao Yaoxiang finally faced the reality, gave up the plan to evacuate to Yingkou, and decided to retreat from Dahushan to Shenyang according to Wei Lihuang's order. On the evening of October 27, the 8th Column received a telegram from the East Headquarters: "The enemy has broken through in the direction of the second mirror, you should immediately advance to intercept this enemy force, and other units are also on the way to support." ”
After Duan Suquan received the order, he immediately deployed his troops, and he divided the whole vertical into three echelons and marched north from Hengdong, Shuangmiaozi and other places. Soon after, the vanguard of the 24th Division, under the leadership of the deputy division commander, came to the vicinity of Jiangangzi to join the 7th Column, and then marched to Ciyugang, capturing more than 200 enemy troops on the way.
When the 2nd Battalion of the 71st Regiment of the 24th Division arrived in the Huanghuagangzi area, it was suddenly attacked by the main force of the enemy's new 22nd Division, and they tried to tear through the gap here.
The warriors of the 2nd Battalion and 3rd Company persevered in their resistance, and with the support of the 70th and 71st Regiments of the 24th Division, the enemy army was completely annihilated by the blows of our troops.
At the same time, a battalion of the 69th Regiment and the 68th Regiment of the 23rd Division, which attacked Huanghuagangzi from another road, immediately seized the eastern half of Kangtun after hearing the gunfire and engaged in a fierce battle with the enemy.
In order to open the road to Shenyang, the enemy launched a fierce attack on our troops under the cover of more than 80 artillery pieces and 2 fighters. However, no matter how the enemy attacked, our army remained steadfast and did not retreat a single step.
In the end, the enemy found that the onslaught was unsuccessful, and turned to attack in the front and rear of Huanggangzi, but was suppressed by the fire of the 3rd battalion of our 69th regiment, and was captured by our army 1,000 people. The battle for Kontun began early in the morning and lasted until 10 p.m.
In this battle, our army successfully annihilated more than 3,000 people below the commander of the 22nd Regiment of the 64th Division of the New Division, known as the "Northeast Flagpole", and routed most of the troops of the 65th and 66th Regiments.
On November 2, the Liaoshen Campaign, which lasted 52 days, officially ended, and our army annihilated a total of 38 enemy divisions, totaling more than 470,000 people, and liberated the entire northeast region.
According to statistics, the 8th Column successfully annihilated most of the New 22nd Division in the Battle of Western Liaoning, and with the cooperation of friendly forces, it severely damaged or defeated the 207th and 169th Divisions of the New 6th Army and the 14th Division of the New Third Army, killing and wounding a total of 3,280 enemy troops and capturing 8,199 enemy troops, successfully completing the task of "capturing tigers in Western Liaoning."
On December 8, Duan Suquan received an order from the ** Military Commission to the Dongzong that he would leave the 8th Column and go to the Northeast Military Region to serve as the chief of the Operations Division. The 8th Column led by Duan Suquan made remarkable achievements in the Liaoshen Campaign.
Surprisingly, despite his outstanding military exploits, Duan Suquan was only awarded the rank of major general in 1955, much to the displeasure of many of his old comrades-in-arms.
However, Duan Suquan said that he completely obeyed the organization's decision, and no matter what rank the organization gave him, he would accept it without complaint. In 1962, under the personal name of ***, Duan Suquan sent an envoy to Laos and provided great help to their anti-US national salvation movement and the construction of base areas.
On September 28, 1993, Duan Suquan died of illness at the age of 78. Duan Suquan's life was full of firmness in his beliefs, and his heroic deeds fully embodied the noble qualities and honor of the proletarian revolutionary fighters.