In December 1938, the northern winter was cold, and the wind and snow were combined. In order to consolidate the base area in North China and develop the anti-Japanese base area in Central China, ** and Guan Xiang should be sent ** to lead the 120th Division over the Taihang Mountains and deep into the Jizhong Plain.
Soon, ** led the troops on a long journey and finally arrived in Jizhong. The local people of Jizhong warmly welcomed their arrival and were ecstatic. **The division commander has a mustache, a pair of short guns pinned to his waist, and rides a red rabbit chasing wind horse that travels thousands of miles a day, tall and mighty, like a god is coming.
The group of soldiers who followed him also looked mighty. In the following year, ** led his troops to fight many battles with the Japanese army. In the First Battle of Hejian, ** won the battle and successfully consolidated the Jizhong base area.
The Japanese generals were defeated in the battle, and they were ashamed of themselves and committed suicide by swallowing gold in shame. Before committing suicide, he sighed helplessly: "God won't help you." "Then how did Heaven not help him?
What's going on in this battle?
On New Year's Day in 1939, the wind swept the Jizhong Plain with heavy snow, but the mountain city of Fuping was warm. The troops of the 120th Division led by ** were stationed here and warmly greeted them with *** and others.
Lu Zhengcao's troops also welcomed the arrival of this team and had a heated discussion. Lu Zhengcao briefly described the current situation in central Hebei: The Japanese army had half of its divisions and one elite unit in the Jizhong Plain, and its commander was Yoshida, known as the Tiger Army, who threatened to exterminate all the Eighth Route Army in the central Hebei region before the Qingsha tent was raised.
* said: "Okay, then let's have a dragon and tiger fight." Lu Zhengcao responded with a smile: "Then let the dragon leap in the plains." The two looked at each other and smiled. When night fell, the two walked out of the house, standing on a mound of dirt, looking around, only to see a very dazzling light in the east, west, north and south.
Lu Zhengcao explained: "These are all newly built artillery towers by the Japanese army, and fires to prevent the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army from sneaking up. * sighed: "I have fought in the north and south, and I have traveled through most of China, but I have never seen such a large plain as the Jizhong Plain, so vast.
How could such a good place tolerate the trampling of the Japanese army? After hearing this, Lu Zhengcao was deeply moved: "Commander He, I am an old soldier who has never engaged in the agrarian revolution and the Long March, in the future, you have to help me a lot!" ”
* After hearing this, he laughed: "When it comes to old soldiers, what are you compared to me?" I've been a brigade commander, a division commander, a military commander, and a big warlord! Ever since I followed the Communist Party, I have found the right path. ”
As the words fell, the two laughed again. The next morning, the 120th Division and the organs and teams in the central Hebei region jointly held a gathering to welcome the arrival of the 120th Division. There was a large pot of meat and vegetables and a large bowl of wine on the table, and everyone gathered together to eat and drink happily.
* Speech: "I have been fighting for many years, looking and searching, and finally found the Communist Party. It was the party organization that taught me the important magic weapon of the mass line. After the Nanchang uprising, I returned to Xiangxi, with only 17 people at first, and quickly grew up relying on the masses.
Today, we still have the old way, fighting devils, and relying on the party and the masses. The words fell, and thunderous applause rang out.
During the Anti-Japanese War in Jizhong, ** deeply felt the changes in the war, so he established a military and political committee jointly commanded by ** and Guan Xiangying. However, when the Japanese army learned of the arrival of **, they gathered thousands of troops and rushed towards Jizhong with great momentum.
* Resolutely ordered to strike at the enemy's arrogance and demonstrate the prestige of the Eighth Route Army. He personally commanded the battles of Caojiazhuang and Dacao Village, and successfully smashed the Japanese army's offensive plan.
Then, in the battle of Xingjiazhuang, he annihilated more than 100 enemy troops. However, the Japanese army did not retreat because of this, but launched an encirclement and suppression on a larger scale, attempting to flank the leading organs of the 120th Division and annihilate the Eighth Route Army.
In the face of the huge disparity in the strength of the enemy and us, ** adopted flexible tactics and took advantage of the opportunity of mobile warfare to successfully eliminate the enemy army, making the enemy's flanking plan a complete failure.
Since then, the 120th Division of the first division has been famous in all directions, and the enemy has been terrified. However, ** was not satisfied with the victory in front of him, and he had a premonition that the Japanese army would start a larger-scale decisive battle.
In the face of the enemy's strong strength, he thought about it for a long time, and finally decided to implement the people's thoughts, mobilize the masses to dig holes and ditches on the plain, transform the topography of the plain, and then gather all kinds of armed forces and expand the ranks, so as to fight with the Japanese army and win by surprise.
* He knew that the current anti-Japanese forces in Hebei were complex, including bandits, militias, elders, etc., while the Communist Party was very weak, and he had to find a suitable way to integrate these forces in order to achieve victory on the battlefield.
* Take a deep puff of cigarette and look out at the vast plains with a determined smile on your face.
* With the broad mind of the Communist Party, the comrades accepted everyone and reorganized all the anti-Japanese forces. He paid special attention to uniting and mobilizing the landlords' armed forces and winning them to stand on the side of the anti-Japanese national united front.
There was a landlord's armed leader, Gao Shiyi, who was numerous and had a lot of guns. ** He personally found the party cadres of his army to learn more about the details.
After that, he personally talked to Gao Shiyi to help solve his difficulties, and sent his family members to Luxi, only to get Gao Shiyi's approval and join the 120th Division.
As for those stubborn and defective elements, they will be dealt with mercilessly. Finally, after some preparations, the 100,000 anti-Japanese armed forces in the central Hebei region were successfully concentrated and unified, igniting the raging anger of the masses to resist Japan.
When the Japanese general Okamura Ninji who was stationed here heard this, he screamed like crazy and ordered to kill **. In order to achieve this goal, he specially transferred the team known as the Tiger Army in the Japanese army to deal with **.
* The general showed outstanding military talent during the Long March, especially during the Red Army's eastward crossing of the Yellow River, he led his soldiers to many battle victories, and finally succeeded in opening up the anti-Japanese base area in the northwest of Shanxi.
So, when General ** meets with the Japanese general Yoshida, who will emerge victorious? In the Jizhong Plain in April, the breath of spring fills the air, and the colorful scene is beautiful.
However, on this day, General Yoshida led more than 800 Japanese soldiers and dozens of puppet soldiers to Hejian County by car, declaring that he would fight to the death with General **, and he would never die.
A few days later, General Yoshida led his troops to split up in Hejian County, in an attempt to annihilate the ** troops in one fell swoop. However, he did not expect that ** had already learned of his plan and deployed his troops in the riverine area in advance, preparing to meet the battle.
* The general made a quick decision, he decided to first carry out a feint attack on the village of Qihui with the soldiers of the third battalion, known as the "Iron Army", to confuse the enemy, and then concentrate the forces of seven regiments near Qihui and prepare to attack.
At the pre-war mobilization meeting, General ** said to the soldiers: "The Japanese army set out from Hejian and came to Thirty Lipu, and may come to Qihui tomorrow." This Yoshida team was the Tiger Army in the Japanese army, and each soldier had Chinese blood on his hands.
We must resolutely destroy them and take revenge. After listening to the speech of **, the soldiers were full of anger and determination in their hearts, and prepared to fight a battle to the death with the Japanese army.
At the beginning of the battle, General Yoshida led his soldiers from Sanshilipu, crossed the Guyang River, and began shelling the village of Qihui. Located northeast of the river, the village is surrounded by dense trees, graveyards and mounds, and the terrain is very complex.
To the east of the village is a flat land with a wide view and dense and sturdy houses. The remaining soldiers of the 3rd Battalion decided to stay here to engage the Japanese in a battle and successfully repelled several enemy attacks.
However, the ** general did not let his guard down because of this. He knew very well that only by completely destroying the enemy could the security of the northwestern Shanxi region be truly guaranteed. Therefore, he ordered the fighters to continue to hold their positions and resolutely fight the Japanese until the final victory was achieved.
Yoshida saw that he had not been able to capture Qihui Village for a long time, so he decided to set fire to the village in an attempt to force the soldiers of the third battalion to surrender. However, although the soldiers of the 3rd Battalion were in the midst of the fire, they were undaunted and held their positions and did not allow the Japanese to move forward.
After several attacks, the Japanese were still unable to take the village, much to Yoshida's anger. In a fit of rage, Yoshida openly ordered the release of poison gas in defiance of the constraints of international law, in an attempt to endanger the lives of the soldiers of the Third Battalion.
Fortunately, the soldiers of the third battalion were experienced and prepared, and they covered their faces with garlic and wet towels and continued to fight. In this case, the battle reached a stalemate, and it was difficult for both sides to distinguish between the winners and losers.
However, at the critical moment, ** ordered the soldiers of the 1st and 2nd Battalions and the 7th Company to quietly move behind enemy lines, occupy the commanding heights, and cooperate with the soldiers of the 3rd Battalion to attack the enemy. In this way, the Japanese army surrounded the three battalions of soldiers, while the rest of our soldiers surrounded the Japanese army, forming a kind of intertwined power strife.
At such a critical juncture, the soldiers of the 7th Company, who were surrounded outside, suddenly broke out into a brave movement, launched an attack on the Japanese army, successfully repelled the Japanese army, and successfully joined the soldiers of the 3rd Battalion.
Seeing this, Yoshida went crazy and ordered the opening of the seventh company to be sealed, cut off the contact between Qihui Village and the outside world, and continued to release poison gas bombs and carry out artillery bombardment.
In the face of such a situation, the soldiers of the 3rd Battalion and the 7th Company resolutely held their positions, and with the cooperation of the soldiers of the 1st Battalion, they successfully contained the enemy's movements. At the same time, enemy forces in other places also encountered different battles.
For example, Ren Qiu's enemy originally wanted to reinforce Qihui Village, but on the way, he met friendly troops and was sniped by friendly forces, becoming a turtle in an urn. The enemy at Lügongbao was pinned down by the members of the Jizhong guerrillas and did not dare to move.
As a result, Yoshida, who was attacking Qihui, was in a desperate situation of being isolated and helpless. When the intelligence came, ** judged that the enemy army would definitely break through and flee after dark, so he immediately deployed three battalions of troops to set up an ambush on the route where the enemy might escape to block the enemy.
* Poisoned and fell to the ground during the battle, guards and hygienists rushed to the rescue. At this time, the battle was fierce, and it was impossible to carry out thorough treatment, and heavy rain fell to clear the poisonous gas. ** Immediately after awakening, give the order to continue fighting.
At dusk, knowing that the enemy wanted to escape, ** decisively launched a general attack to flank the enemy. The battle lasted until the early hours of the morning, and the enemy army was trapped, waiting for reinforcements, but ** had already arranged an ambush, and the reinforcements could not get close.
As night fell, ** again issued an order to launch a full-scale offensive. At this time, after several days of fierce fighting, the soldiers of Yoshida's troops were already exhausted and hungry, and their combat effectiveness was almost lost.
Victory in the battle seemed to be in sight, when suddenly a strong wind blew and dust fell, and Yoshida's troops took the opportunity to flee from the river. Although he narrowly escaped, the battle ended in defeat.
Yoshida, an arrogant and arrogant general, also lost face because of this, could not face his superiors, and committed suicide by swallowing gold in shame. Before committing suicide, he said: "* Sure enough, it was a living dragon, and I had people gassing him, and it rained heavily to help him." ”
It seems that the heavens do not help, but in fact, according to the situation at the time, if the sky does not rain heavily, the situation is indeed not optimistic. At the critical moment, he was poisoned, fainted to the ground, and the situation was very critical, and he had to sigh What a coincidence, God actually provided assistance.
After the end of this battle, there was a ballad in the central Hebei region to praise the bravery and legend of the first. With the spread of this matter, the CCP also reported the Battle of Hejian, and the 120th Division led by ** bravely killed the enemy and achieved a huge victory.
Even though he was poisoned, he still insisted on commanding the battle, and he was a well-deserved national hero. This battle not only dealt a heavy blow to the enemy, but also gave great confidence to the anti-Japanese forces behind the enemy, exposed the conspiracy of the diehards, and broke their malicious slander against the Eighth Route Army.
After Chiang Kai-shek saw the report, he called **, praised him as a capable soldier, and gave him 300 yuan for medical expenses, hoping that he could ** as soon as possible. A few days later, the army held a congratulatory meeting, and after the masses heard about it, some rode mules and some rode horses, and came from afar to participate, scrambling to see the first side.
At the conference, ** wore a military uniform of the Eighth Route Army, tall and mighty, with a big pipe in his mouth, and had a cordial exchange with the masses. The whole venue was lively, the cheers were thunderous, and the prestige of ** was getting louder and louder.
However, shortly after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, the Liberation War broke out, and the Chinese people ushered in the arrival of a new world. But in the War of Liberation, the figure of ** seems to have disappeared, and he can't even be seen in the three major battles, why is this?
*Won against Yoshida's troops, but suffered heavy losses. In the War of Liberation, he was in charge of support work in the rear, presided over land reform and financial work together with ***, and provided strong support to the front-line troops.
In the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, he did not participate, mainly because of his lack of experience in commanding corps-level operations. However, during his tenure, he made great contributions to the construction of New China and promoted the development of the country.
In particular, in sports, the military has vigorously promoted it, setting off a boom in strengthening physical fitness, and has issued a military order to let Chinese practice volleyball, basketball, and football well, in an effort to break the hat of "the sick man of East Asia."
In the end, he successfully formed the team of New China within two years and hired many excellent coaches to train. In 1959, when China hosted the first National Games, he faced the challenge of the Bulgarian basketball team, and successfully defeated his opponent and won the recognition of the international community by virtue of the wisdom of "Three Heroes vs. Lu Bu" and "Tian Ji Horse Race".
In 1965, China's sports industry gradually developed with his efforts, and he handed over a satisfactory answer sheet, which was praised by the people. However, over time, the body gradually develops problems, especially diabetes.
Although he was troubled by this for a while, he firmly believed that as long as he followed his doctor's instructions, ate properly and took medication, he could overcome the disease.
FigIn his later years, he was in poor physical condition, his diabetes worsened, he fell many times, his movement was restricted, and he could only recall his past combat experiences. He heard the war songs sung by the young warriors, and his emotions were mixed.
The condition worsened, continuous vomiting, shortness of breath, and could only lie in bed. On June 9, the **, known as the living dragon, stopped beating and passed away. **After the death, the wife and children arrived at the hospital to pay a moment of silence.
* A magnificent and arduous life, and finally went down in history.