One evening in 1962, Nie Fengzhi, who had been transferred from the Fuzhou Military Region to the post of deputy commander of the Nanjing Military Region and commander of the Air Force of the Military Region, walked through the streets of Nanjing in civilian clothes with two guards in order to experience the people's life firsthand.
Just as he walked near the Confucius Temple, a middle-aged man walked in front of him. Since 1952, when he became the acting commander of the Sino-Korean Joint Air Force, Nie Fengzhi has not returned to Nanjing for ten years, so he does not know many people in Nanjing.
However, for some reason, Nie Fengzhi always felt that this middle-aged man was very familiar, but he couldn't remember who he was for the time being.
Nie Fengzhi recognized the middle-aged man who passed by as Wang Tiexiang, an old opponent during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, a bandit-turned-veteran traitor with a green dragon tattooed on his left arm, named "Qinglong".
Nie Fengzhi didn't hesitate, and shouted at the middle-aged man: "Wang Tiexiang, you stop for me!" The middle-aged man wanted to pretend to be calm, but when he heard Nie Fengzhi's cheers, he couldn't help but shiver.
Nie Fengzhi looked at him carefully for a few seconds, and sure enough, he saw a tattoo of a green dragon on the middle-aged man's left arm. Nie Fengzhi grabbed the middle-aged man's hand and said coldly: "That's right, you are Wang Tiexiang!"
I didn't expect it, it's been almost twenty years, and I, Nie Fengzhi, have actually met you, an enemy here, again! Seeing that his identity was revealed, the middle-aged man desperately twisted his left hand that was grabbed by Nie Fengzhi, but his hand was tightly grasped by the general's iron and could not escape.
Two guards also came to help, pushing the man to the ground while pulling out his belt and tying him up tightly.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Wang Tiexiang once expressed his resolute refusal to bow to the Japanese. Principal Nie Fengzhi interacted with Wang Tie and also noticed the green dragon tattoo on his left hand. In November 1942, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese invasion of China, Okamura Ninji, flew to Yantai and commanded 1An army of 50,000 people and more than 5,000 puppet troops carried out a brutal sweep of the Jiaodong anti-Japanese base area.
Wang Tiexiang was so frightened that he took refuge in the Japanese and became their **, personally causing a large number of ** people in Jiaodong. In the summer of 1945, Wang Tiexiang saw that the Japanese were gone, and took the initiative to send someone to contact the Eighth Route Army, expressing his willingness to repent and rehabilitate, and leading his puppet army to accept the reorganization of the Jiaodong Military Region.
The Jiaodong Military Region agreed to his request and sent five representatives to discuss the reorganization with him. But at this time, Chiang Kai-shek sent someone to win over Wang Tiexiang and promised to appoint him as the "lieutenant general commander" of Jiaodong Zhongyi.
Wang Tiexiang finally chose to defect to the Kuomintang reactionaries and continued to be the enemy of the people.
The enemy has been blinded by us, everyone rush with me! Under his leadership, the 1st Battalion of the 13th Regiment, which was responsible for the main attack, concentrated all the light and heavy machine gunners, suppressed the enemy on both sides of the city wall with firepower, and then successfully took the West Gate Gate Tower in one go.
Although Wang Tiexiang tried to organize his subordinates to resist, most of his puppet army were greedy for life and afraid of death, and they were no match for the Eighth Route Army at all. Under the powerful firepower of our army, the puppet army abandoned ** one after another and fled in all directions.
Nie Fengzhi commanded our army to successfully capture Pingdu City, but unfortunately found that after the war, Wang Tiexiang was not found by our army. The captive's testimony shows that Wang Tiexiang fled before we could storm his headquarters, changed into the clothes of ordinary people, and emerged from a dog hole in the east of the city.
In this battle, we killed all of Wang Tiexiang's subordinates, he became the commander of the light pole, knowing that he had no value, if he went to seek refuge with Lao Jiang, I am afraid there would be no good results. So he hid the gold and silver treasures he had looted for many years in the house that his son bought in Nanjing, pretended to be an ordinary person, and lurked in Nanjing.
Wang Tiexiang chose to live in Nanjing because as early as 1944, he saw that the Japanese devils were running out. One day, he inadvertently bumped into Nie Fengzhi, and his identity was revealed.
He begged the general bitterly, hoping that Nie Fengzhi would spare his life, but the general's eyes widened angrily and said, "If you are spared, who will repay the blood debt on your body?" So, the general ordered the guards to escort Wang Tiexiang back to the military region and hand him over to the security department for interrogation.
In the end, Wang Tiexiang, who was heavily in blood debt, was sentenced to death and accepted the verdict of justice. Nie Fengzhi is a native of Dawu, Hubei, who joined the Red Army in January 1929 and is a famous general of our army who grew up from the Red Fourth Front Army.
He has commanded countless wonderful battles, the most famous of which is that on the eve of the battle of crossing the river, he assigned the "advance river crossing brigade" to go deep behind enemy lines, and successfully directed a real version of the "reconnaissance of crossing the river".
This battle case also became a classic example of the Chinese household name with the movie "Crossing the River Reconnaissance" released by the Shanghai Film Studio in 1954.
In March 1949, the 27th Army of the Ninth Corps of Sanye, under the command of Nie Fengzhi, prepared to cross the river at Wuwei, Anhui. As a battle-hardened general, Nie Fengzhi knows the importance of knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent.
However, across the river, how to understand the enemy situation on the other side, so as to achieve the other side? When Nie Fengzhi was inspecting the preparations for crossing the river at the command post of the riverside Linjiangba, he found that a pot of leeks and a pot of Malan vegetables had been prepared for lunch.
Nie Fengzhi was a little puzzled by this, because in the cold season of March, the comrades found these wild vegetables from **? The comrades at the command post told him that it had turned out that the reconnaissance section had sent people across the river to reconnoiter the night before, but because they had not encountered the enemy, the plan to capture the "tongue" had failed.
However, when they returned to Jiangbei, they saw a lot of wild vegetables, so they plucked some back. Hearing this, Nie Fengzhi was inspired, and then organized scouts to cross the river many times to reconnoitre, and successfully captured more than 30 prisoners.
However, as the combat mission of crossing the river was imminent, Nie Fengzhi realized that this kind of piecemeal smuggling reconnaissance had limitations, so he decided to send a reconnaissance detachment across the river to get in touch with the underground party in Jiangnan and get a comprehensive understanding of the enemy's situation in a timely and comprehensive manner.
The armed reconnaissance operation led by Nie Fengzhi took huge risks. Because this could be used by the KMT to undermine the KMT and the CCP that are negotiating. However, after repeated considerations, Nie Fengzhi still decided to organize smuggling reconnaissance.
In the end, with the approval of the ** Military Commission, this team successfully crossed the Yangtze River on April 6, 1949. They changed into Kuomintang soldiers' costumes and, with the help of the underground party and local guerrillas, found out important information about the enemy in front of them.
Their actions provided important intelligence support for the subsequent combat operations of crossing the river. At 9 o'clock on the night of April 20, the battle of crossing the Yangtze River began, and the 27th Army successfully broke through the Yangtze River defense line.
The advance brigade also lit bonfires behind enemy lines to indicate the targets for our artillery. Although several team members were sacrificed in the operation, their bravery and determination laid the foundation for victory.
With the assistance of the advance troops crossing the river, the 27th Army successfully crossed the river in only one hour. Subsequently, Nie Fengzhi quickly said, "We have successfully set foot on the land of Jiangnan!" ”
In this regard, Nie Fengzhi once recalled: "How many words does it take to fully express the joy and pride carried by this telegram of only 12 words? ”
In the battle to liberate Shanghai, Nie Fengzhi, as a famous "wise general" of our army, led the 27th Army to Suzhou Creek. In order to divide and disintegrate the enemy army, he ordered to maintain contact with Liu Changyi, the commander of the 51st Army under Tang Enbo.
After internal contact, Nie Fengzhi directly dialed Liu Changyi's ** and said to him bluntly: "Commander Liu, there are two roads in front of you now. One of them is the bright road, which is to let go**.
This will not only ensure the safety of all your officers and men, including your wife and children, but will also gain the people's understanding of you, and you may be remembered in history for your efforts to preserve Shanghai and protect the six million citizens of Shanghai.
This is what the ** general wants me to tell you. As for the other way, I think you should be very clear. Hearing these words, Liu Changyi of course knew his status in the Communist Party, and he also knew that he was the supreme commander of East China, so after hearing that it was the "General **" who personally took care of him, he hurriedly asked: "May I ask if Your Excellency is ......."”
I am Nie Fengzhi, commander of the 27th Army of the Third Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. "Nie Fengzhi said solemnly. "I know your reputation, but we're down to business now. "
Nie Fengzhi's tone was firm. "Excuse me, **General is now**? "Liu Changyi asked cautiously. "General Chen is not far behind us, and his surrender order for you has already arrived, and it will be there soon. "
Nie Fengzhi replied without hesitation. This strategy is very effective, Liu Changyi pondered for a while and then said"I'll go over for an interview right away. "Put down**, Nie Fengzhi immediately said to his deputy chief of staff:"You draft an order on behalf of General **. "
Then he said to the head of the political department:"You find someone to pluck a radish in the field and carve a big seal. "After everything was ready, Liu Changyi came to the command post of the 27th Army.
Nie Fengzhi solemnly took out the fake order that had been drafted in advance and read it to Liu Changyi seriously. When Liu Changyi saw the **big seal on the order,** would he doubt the authenticity of the order?
It is even more impossible to know that the big seal on this order was carved with radish by Nie Fengzhi a few minutes ago. After reading out the order, Nie Fengzhi talked about the current situation and the consistent policy of our party and army from Liu Changyi's perspective.
Liu Changyi immediately said that he would withdraw the 51st Army from its position that night and concentrate in Jiangwan and Dachang to wait for handling.
Nie Fengzhi was a real "wise general", and he used only one radish to make Liu Changyi's 51st Army disarm and surrender, clearing the obstacles for the liberation of Shanghai. When Mr. Chen learned about this, not only did he not blame him, but praised him for his wit.
In addition, Nie Fengzhi once used the "empty city plan" to successfully scare off the US aircraft carrier. In August 1956, our military shot down an American electronic reconnaissance plane, and the United States gathered three aircraft carriers and more than 30 ** in an attempt to intimidate our country.
However, Nie Fengzhi, deputy commander of the Nanjing Military Region and commander of the Air Force of the Military Region, believes that the United States does not dare to launch a landing operation. He foresaw three possible scenarios and reported his views to **.
He believes that as long as we send a few warplanes to fly normally in our airspace and monitor the movements of the US military, they will definitely retreat. Nie Fengzhi's wisdom and calmness are deeply admired, and his strategy succeeded in averting a possible conflict, and also demonstrated to the world our country's military strength and determination.
In the face of Nie Fengzhi's "empty city plan", the US military was shocked by his resourcefulness. Every day, only a few warplanes of our army are seen circling in the air, and the US military has never been able to figure out the true intentions of our army and does not dare to act lightly.
After a few days of confrontation, the US military found that it could not take any advantage and had no choice but to withdraw its troops in disgrace. Afterwards, the marshal spoke highly of Nie Fengzhi's "empty city plan" and praised him as an excellent general who understood both the army and the air force, and his extraordinary courage and superb military command art were very legendary.
He directed a real "Crossing the River Reconnaissance" with practical actions.