Late one night in February 1949, the snow-capped land of Ikezhaomeng was very quiet. However, at the headquarters of the PLA League Detachment, the lights were still on, and the chiefs were still studying the battle plan for marching to Dongsheng.
Deputy Commander Gao said: "This time the task is arduous, we must not only eliminate the Qiyongquan bandits and liberate Dongsheng City, but also annihilate the 16 th Regiment of the enemy's security forces stationed 20 miles away from Dongsheng and liberate the All-Iraq League. Comrade Haikuan, who had already entered the enemy's 16th Security Regiment, was informed to cooperate in the battle and that the troops would leave tomorrow. ”
Before dawn the next day, the warriors marched hastily on the road to Dongsheng through the snow.
Although Dongsheng is a small county town, it is stationed in the Kuomintang Garrison Headquarters, the Commissioner's Office, the Kuomintang Party Headquarters and other large and small organs, which are the political and military center of the Kuomintang in the Islamic League.
With such a center, the enemy burns, kills, loots, and does all kinds of evil. How many outstanding sons and daughters of the Mongolian Han people have been brutally killed here.
At dawn, the People's Liberation Army had already surrounded Dongsheng City, and Deputy Commander Gao said happily: "Dongsheng will soon return to the hands of the people." ”
At this time, the bandit leader Qi Yongquan was still talking in his sleep on the kang, when suddenly a burst of gunfire made him sit up in shock. A bandit ran into the house in a panic and said breathlessly: "Commander Qi, Commander Qi, it's not good, ** surround the county seat!" ”
What the? The bandit didn't bother to put on his clothes, ran to the ** machine, picked up the ** and looked for a stick, and shouted: "You must resolutely resist, the People's Liberation Army is not allowed to enter the city, and I will kill you if you lose your position." ”
After the bandit ordered, he called Commissioner Wang of the Commissioner's Office, but he couldn't get through, so angry that he threw the **, and then scolded the bandit who had just come in: "What are you doing for me, don't tell Commissioner Wang to go quickly" "Yes!" "The bandits turned around and ran.
After Diao Stick picked up the ** of the strange bandit, he was so frightened that he waved his pistol and shouted at the bandit: "Resist me!" The enemy guarding the entrance of the city set up machine guns and prepared to resist, but before the machine guns could be fired, the PLA rushed in front of them, frightened several enemies and raised their hands high. The Battle of Dongsheng.
Just as the soldiers rushed towards the county seat, Diao Stick seized the favorable terrain with a force of enemies, blocked the attack, and the fierce firepower temporarily overwhelmed the soldiers from raising their heads.
Machine gun cover, follow me in a row! Chen Company Commander of the People's Liberation Army said that, and led more than a dozen soldiers to brave the rain of bullets and prostrate forward.
Suddenly, a bullet hit Company Commander Chen in the stomach, and blood suddenly flowed out, but he gritted his teeth, held the wound with one hand, and continued to crawl forward with the other hand to support his body, gradually approaching the enemy.
The stick howled like a wolf, "Fight, fight, can't let the People's Liberation Army come up!" He commanded with a pistol.
Company Commander Chen lay down behind a big rock, and used his last strength to aim at Diao Stick is a shuttle, Diao Stick "Ah! He fell.
Several soldiers saw that Company Commander Chen had killed Diao Stick, and took the opportunity to jump up and rush forward, and the enemy had no choice but to abandon their guns and flee. The soldiers who rushed to the front first went to rescue Company Commander Chen, but Company Commander Chen was lying on the ground and had stopped breathing, only to see that he was still holding his gun tightly in his hand.
Avenge Company Commander Chen! The warriors shouted, and rushed forward unstoppably.
The strange bandits came out of the house and saw that they couldn't hold it, so they hurriedly ran westward, and the bandits saw that the commander had run away, and they also scrambled to flee for their lives.
At this time, Commissioner Wang of the Commissioner's Office also brought people over, and when he saw that the situation was not good, he also ran in the direction of the strange bandits' escape. In order not to give the enemy a chance to breathe, the fighters of the Iraqi detachment prepared their horses and continued the pursuit.
The bandits fled to the foot of a big mountain and just wanted to sit down and rest, but they didn't expect the cavalry of the People's Liberation Army to rush up again brandishing their sabers. In order to confuse the People's Liberation Army, the bandit commander Qi Yongquan divided the troops into two groups, one group of bandits continued to run forward, and he and Commissioner Wang led a group of bandits to climb to the top of the mountain.
In order to block the enemy's retreat, the cavalry soldiers surrounded it from both flanks. The enemy who was running forward became more and more panicked, and ran for his life, when suddenly a large river blocked the way, and the river rushed and roared.
Seeing that the cavalry of the People's Liberation Army was getting closer and closer, in order to flee for their lives, the bandits had to jump into the water.
Due to the depth of the water and the high waves, some of the bandits rode horses, some grabbed the tails of horses, and struggled desperately in the river. The fighters came to the river and set up machine gun fire on the enemy floating on the water.
The enemies in the river couldn't run now, and they were shot and killed one by one. Their bodies floated downstream down the river.
After destroying this group of enemies, the cavalry soldiers returned to pursue another group of enemies who had just gone up the mountain, only to see the platoon commander Bagan leading several soldiers to quickly rush up to the top of the mountain.
It turned out that after Qi Yongquan, Commissioner Wang, and a group of bandits climbed to the top of the mountain, they didn't wait for a breather, and ran towards a small forest again.
At this time, the cunning Commissioner Wang knew that the target was too big to run with the strange bandits. He took advantage of the fact that the bandits were not paying attention, and slipped away alone.
The strange bandit ran in the woods for a while before he found that Commissioner Wang had slipped away, and he was so angry that he had no choice, and suddenly a bandit came to report, "Commander, there is a small temple in front, can you go in and hide?" ”
The bandits were very happy when they heard this, thinking that there was a hiding place now, and immediately led the remnants into the small temple.
Qi Yongquan raised a pistol and came to the main hall of the temple, only to see a Taoist priest sitting on his knees in the temple. The bandit put down his pistol and bowed.
Taoist priest, please check a hexagram, we are being pursued by the People's Liberation Army, do you think the People's Liberation Army will catch up? The strange bandit said slowly.
After hearing this, the Taoist priest closed his eyes, clasped his hands in front of his chest, chanted words in his mouth, and then said to the bandits: "The high mountain manifests, there is a dragon lying on the top of the mountain, and the People's Liberation Army will not attack it." ”
After hearing this, Qi Yongquan felt a little good in his heart, and it was a great luck to be able to escape. As soon as he sat down, the People's Liberation Army rushed in, and in the midst of the shouts of surrendering guns and not killing, the strange bandits raised their hands in a trembling voice.
During the interrogation, Deputy Commander Gao knew that there was still an enemy commissioner who had not been caught, so he immediately sent his soldiers to search in the ravine. Armed with machine guns and a prisoner, they circled the woods among the dead bodies of the enemy and did not find them.
When the platoon commander and the two soldiers came to a place not far from a dilapidated house, they suddenly heard shouts coming from the dilapidated house, and the platoon commander hurriedly rushed over.
When I opened the door, there was a mess inside, and a middle-aged man and woman were lying under the covers. "What do you do? The platoon commander asked, and the man replied, "We are Orions, honest Orions." ”
Before the man could finish speaking, the woman jumped up suddenly, pulled out a box gun from under the quilt, and handed it to the platoon leader.
Then she pointed at the man and said to the platoon commander through gritted teeth: "He is the Kuomintang commissioner Wang, and seeing that he can't escape, he forced my man to send him down the mountain, and if my man didn't do it, he beat him to death, and he forced me to be his wife."
As soon as Commissioner Wang saw that the matter was revealed, he immediately ran down and kowtowed again and again to beg for mercy, and in this way, this big spy also became a prisoner of the IL detachment.
Dongsheng City was liberated, and the people rejoiced, opened a warehouse to help the people, and there was a jubilant scene.
The soldiers still held on to the battlements of the city wall, because they knew that the battle was not over yet, and the 16th Regiment of the enemy security guards, stationed twenty miles from the city, would inevitably come and attack.
Sure enough, the commander of the 16th Regiment of the enemy security guard originally received an order to reinforce Dongsheng, but after hearing the news of the fall of Dongsheng City, he was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. He immediately called his adjutant to inform the troops, and sent troops to attack Dongsheng at night.
On the one hand, the adjutant conveyed the order of the regiment commander, and on the other hand, he sent the information to the senior deputy commander of our army through the underground liaison officer of our party. It turned out that he was Comrade Hai Kuan, an underground worker of our party.
Based on the information provided by Comrade Haikuan, the head of the detachment immediately ordered the cavalry led by the platoon commander to divide into two teams and prepare to outflank the invading enemy. He also informed Comrade Haikuan to stabilize the enemy and not to evacuate before dawn.
That night, the enemy was ready and dispatched more than 400 men to begin to surround Dongkatsu Castle.
Since the enemy could not understand the details of our army, the enemy regiment commander did not dare to act rashly, only opened fire and did not dare to attack the city, and planned to withdraw before dawn.
Comrade Haikuan saw the thoughts of the enemy regiment commander, and immediately walked forward and said: "Regiment commander, it is difficult to fight if it is dark and it is not clear, whether we will attack after dawn." ”
As soon as the enemy regimental commander heard that the adjutant's words made some sense, he immediately ordered the troops to stop firing their guns, but they were not allowed to sleep until dawn before shooting.
Dawn broke in the east, and the commander of the enemy regiment was about to give the order to attack the city, when he suddenly saw a group of cavalry of the People's Liberation Army appear in front of the right.
After the enemy had been running for a while, they saw a large mountain blocking their way, and the bandits turned south and rushed back along a large river to the mouth of the ditch.
Block the enemy and never let them run away! The platoon commander shouted loudly and met him with five or six soldiers.
The enemy was about to break through from Dachuanli, and the platoon commander and several fighters first seized a hillside to the enemy. Da-da-da-da! "The fighters fired a burst of fire, stunning the enemy.
Unfortunately, the two enemies hiding on the western slope put cold guns, and the bullet hit the platoon commander in the arm, and the soldiers immediately came to help him.
At this time, the enemy took the opportunity to rush out again, and the angry warrior grabbed the machine gun and swept towards the enemy, and the enemy had to retreat into the ditch. Seeing that they could not rush out, the enemy stubbornly crawled like a herd of sheep to the west mountain.
At this time, Comrade Haikuan, who was standing beside the enemy regiment commander, saw that the enemy was scattering and fleeing, first, to disperse the strength of our army, and second, to have an enemy who was prone to be caught in the net, suddenly had a plan, turned his face to the enemy regiment commander and said: "Regiment commander, our forces are too scattered, do you hide in the stockade in the west and hold on?" ”
As soon as the enemy commander heard the reason, he immediately led more than 200 remnants of the enemy and quickly hid in there. Prepare to resist stubbornly in the broken stockade.
At this time, the soldiers of our 2nd Brigade also arrived from another hillside, and the whole unit, under the cover of heavy machine guns, surrounded the stockade.
The enemy in the stockade was terrified in the face of a powerful offensive by the People's Liberation Army. The enemy regiment commander was also so frightened that he didn't know what to do, but the adjutant Hai Kuan, who was standing behind, said calmly: "Regiment commander, I have a way to resolve the current crisis. ”
As soon as the enemy regiment commander heard that Haikuan had a way to resolve the crisis, he immediately turned around and asked, "What way?" It seems that there was only surrender. What the? The enemy regiment commander squatted on the ground.
Haikuan saw that the enemy regiment commander was a little shaken, so he took out his pistol, ran to the wall with a few arrows, and shouted: "The regiment commander has an order, stop releasing guns." ”
A few stubborn guys originally wanted to resist, but as soon as they saw the regiment commander squatting on the ground with their heads in his hands, they all put down their guns like deflated balls.
When Hai Kuan saw this scene, he immediately took out the white flag that had been prepared a long time ago, picked it high with his rifle, and pulled the regiment commander out.
When the soldiers of our army outside the stockade saw someone in the stockade coming out with a white flag in their hands, they stopped firing their guns, and Deputy Commander Gao said to everyone with a smile: "Our Comrade Haikuan has returned. ”
Everyone looked at the people carrying the white flags who were getting closer and closer. "Ahh It's sea wide! One of the warriors screamed with joy, and when they heard this, they immediately gathered around them.
Haikuan threw the white flag at this time, clasped the hand of the senior deputy commander and said, "How I look forward to your coming, this day has finally come." ”
The commander of the enemy security regiment standing next to him raised his eyelids and saw Haikuan standing among the soldiers of the People's Liberation Army, and he really regretted it. The warriors carried a long line of captives back to Dongsheng City in triumph, and Dongsheng City completely returned to the arms of the people.