In the War of Liberation, the strategic deployment that can be called "inserted into the heart of the enemy" is none other than the troops led by *** and *** advancing thousands of miles into the Dabie Mountains, opening a new stage of the War of Liberation.
Many people may not know that behind this strategic plan, there are many legendary stories, which show the revolutionary spirit and quality of the proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation.
Among them, the story of General Xiao Yongyin being severely criticized by Marshal *** has been circulating in the army.
What's going on here?
In 1930, Xiao Yongyin resolutely joined the ranks of the Red Army and became a revolutionary soldier, and in 1935, Xiao Yongyin joined the Communist Party of China and became a party member.
Before the founding of New China, Xiao Yongyin had always been a subordinate of Marshal ***, who had established it in his revolutionary career of more than 50 years
A deep revolutionary friendship.
When Xiao Yongyin recalled his revolutionary years in his later years, he couldn't help but sigh that it was Liu Shuai who taught him to fight and trained him to become a senior commander.
Xiao Yongyin remembered Liu Shuai's earnest teaching to him all his life, and when Liu Shuai died, Xiao Yongyin did not receive the first notice, which became the biggest regret in his later years, because he did not see off the old chief as soon as possible.
At this time, Xiao Yongyin, who was in grief, gradually remembered the bits and pieces of the revolutionary period with this old chief in his mind.
One of the most unforgettable for him is the "scolding" of the old chief when he advanced to Dabie Mountain.
At that time, the People's Liberation Army advanced thousands of miles into the Dabie Mountains and established its own base within the enemy's defense area, thus striving for favorable conditions for future strategy.
However, as an enemy, Chiang Kai-shek also knew very well what this meant, so he would not sit idly by and try by all means to drive our army out of Dabie Mountain.
At this time, Chiang Kai-shek threw all his troops into the confrontation with our People's Liberation Army, and could no longer spare troops to compete with Liu Deng's army.
Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek and his Kuomintang ** came up with another bad idea, that is, to establish a civilian security force to be responsible for sabotaging the base areas established by our People's Liberation Army and disrupting the already stable social situation.
The person who came up with this idea was Bai Chongxi, who was known as the "Little Zhuge of the Kuomintang".
Bai Chongxi suggested that Chiang Kai-shek recruit some idle people in society to form a team.
These idle people are actually bandits, hooligans and gangsters, and the Kuomintang uses these people to fight against our army.
Soon, under Bai Chongxi's personal deployment, a security team formed by hooligans and bandits was established.
They hyped that the purpose of this security team was to protect the safety of the people and prevent them from being "attacked and harassed".
However, I'm afraid that even Bai Chongxi doesn't believe this propaganda nonsense, let alone these team members.
They just changed their names, and continued to do the lack of morality of the villagers and oppressed the people under the banner of national **, so there is no one who does not hate them.
However, at the same time, these bandits will still raid and harass our army's base areas according to the instructions of the Kuomintang.
Because the Dabie Mountains area is complex and extremely hidden, and these bandits have very much experience in "fighting" in the mountainous areas, they have gone so far as to harass and attack our army, making our army very passive.
Not only that, but this gang of bandits also used chicken feathers as arrows, in order to show their ability, they asked for merit and rewards from above, and it was not uncommon to create an unjust, false and wrongful case.
As long as they don't like it, they will be regarded as suspects harboring the PLA, and they will be retaliated against, and they will be imprisoned at the least, and the whole family will be exterminated at the worst.
And Bai Chongxi knows all this, but let them make trouble, he would rather be blind.
With the support of the Kuomintang, this group of bandits continued to recruit troops, and in less than a month, the team grew to eight squadrons, which can be described as astonishingly fast.
Behind this, it is all because the Kuomintang has provided it with a lot of money and **.
It is not unusual at all that bandits from all walks of life have been gathered, and a bandit contingent of more than 2,000 people has been transformed into Kuomintang thugs, and it is very much in line with the style of the Kuomintang.
In accordance with Bai Chongxi's orders, they also engaged in "guerrilla tactics" against our army.
That is, he never confronts each other head-on, does not show the mountains and waters, often shoots cold guns in the back, changes places with one shot, and attacks our army's troops many times, causing hundreds of people.
As the head of the Dabie Mountain Army, ** was also very angry at that time, he discussed with *** and decided to send someone to be responsible for eliminating the hidden danger of this gang of bandits.
And the most suitable person for this task is Xiao Yongyin.
In this way, ** gave Xiao Yongyin an order, ordering Xiao Yongyin to eradicate this gang of bandits, and it must be eradicated, how to complete it, let Xiao Yongyin do it himself.
Xiao Yongyin, who received the task, was overjoyed, because since he advanced into Dabie Mountain, he had not fought a battle happily, and now the time for meritorious service was about to come.
He immediately convened a military meeting to brainstorm ideas and let everyone come up with ideas on how to completely eliminate this gang of bandits.
After discussing and discussing, everyone suddenly realized a problem, that is, they still had a half-understanding of the specific situation of this gang of bandits, and they could not make effective strategic arrangements.
So, Xiao Yongyin slapped the table immediately, first clarified the situation, and then immediately eliminated the reconnaissance troops, asking them to find out the real situation of this gang of bandits in the shortest possible time.
The bandit ** is the opponent of our army, and in less than a day's work, our army has mastered the information of the bandits, and it turns out that the lair of this gang of bandits is in a local town.
In order to facilitate the management and education of this gang of bandits, the Kuomintang held a joint meeting every week to listen to the "achievements" of these bandits.
This gives our army the best opportunity to destroy them.
That night, Xiao Yongyin discussed the battle plan with the political commissar, and led the troops to sneak around the town to bring the decadent people at the meeting to the pot.
The battle ended quickly, and this group of bandits had no combat effectiveness at all, but unfortunately the ** in their hands was captured by our army before it could be used.
The successful end of the battle was not Xiao Yongyin's expectation, but there was one thing that still made Xiao Yongyin feel puzzled.
That is, according to the information reported by our reconnaissance unit, there are more than 2,000 bandits in this gang, how come it is that only more than 300 people have been captured now, and what about the other more than 1,000 people? It's hard to put on wings and escape.
When Xiao Yongyin was thinking, the political commissar next to him said to Xiao Yongyin that these bandits may not have escaped yet, they must be disguised as ordinary people and mingled among the people, wanting to use this to make up for the number and get through the tricks.
But as everyone knows, these little tricks of our army have already been played during the Anti-Japanese War, how can the little trick of bandits be hidden from the PLA with rich combat experience?
But if it's really like the commissar said, then the problem is very tricky.
How to recognize these bandits from the people and not affect the innocent people, this is very important, Xiao Yongyin thought to himself, these people must have flaws in mixing with the people.
We checked them one by one according to these flaws, and then someone gave Xiao Yongyin an idea, saying that ordinary people usually do physical work, and their hands will grind out calluses.
The bandits are usually lazy to eat, and their hands definitely don't have calluses, so they can be checked.
Xiao Yongyin felt that this method was good, so he began to arrange it to gather the people of the whole town and carry out an investigation in the shortest possible time, because a long time will cause panic among the people and is not conducive to carrying out mass work in the future.
Soon, after the screening of our army, nearly 2,000 suspicious elements were finally screened out.
Xiao Yongyin did not immediately detain these suspicious elements, because he still had concerns in his heart at this time, because doing so did not give him 100% certainty that these people were all bandits. If an innocent person is wronged, he will be punished.
I have to say that Xiao Yongyin has considered the work of the masses very comprehensively.
He gathered these suspicious elements and spoke to them, and in the middle of the conversation, the guard next to him handed a telegram to Xiao Yongyin, and Xiao Yongyin's expression immediately became serious when he saw the telegram.
And on the spot, he ordered a team of 100 people to be left behind to take care of these suspicious people, and all the other personnel urgently gathered and rushed to the front line, as if a big war was coming.
For a while, the whole town was filled with the sound of troops combined, and after a while, the sound of neat footsteps faded away, and the troops marched to the front line, and now there were only more than a hundred people.
The more than 2,000 suspicious people were not calm at this time, I don't know who shouted in the middle, brothers, we have more than 2,000 people, and they only have more than 100 people, don't be afraid, it's easy for us to run out.
At this time, the scene was very chaotic, many people had already fled, and more than 100 PLA soldiers did not fire warning shots or stop them, but let them escape.
But in order not to panic among the common people, the fighters shouted, fellow villagers, do not be afraid, we are the people's team, everyone do not run, we are our own people.
Hearing this, the real people did not panic, and they stood still and watched these bandits scurry around like rats.
The gang of bandits ran to the streets of the town, and found that there were no soldiers, and as expected, their hearts were overjoyed, and now they could escape.
Unexpectedly, the four gates of the town were closed, and none of them could escape.
Just when they were confused, Xiao Yongyin led the troops to appear in front of them and surrounded them, and now, none of the bandits were left behind, and all of them were exposed.
The soldiers of the People's Liberation Army arrested all the bandits, and the people watching the excitement applauded, and there will be no more bandits.
The next task is how to deal with this gang of evil bandits.
Someone asked Xiao Yongyin, Xiao Yongyin didn't say a word, they didn't surrender, they still wanted to escape, it was simply hopeless, what else did they ask, all of them were executed, and then reported to the chief.
When he received the battle report from Xiao Yongyin's ministry, he was surprised and delighted, and he was surprised that Xiao Yongyin executed more than 2,000 people without asking for instructions.
So he personally called Xiao Yongyin, and did not mention his combat achievements, but "scolded" him, you kid is too bold, executing so many people without asking for instructions, who gave you the right, wait to be punished.
Xiao Yongyin was frightened by this sudden "scolding", and after he came to his senses, Xiao Yongyin immediately replied: "Report to the chief, it was you who gave me an order, let me watch it." ”
**Hearing this, I didn't know what to say, so I hung up directly**.
This incident is enough to show that Xiao Yongyin is a good hand at fighting, and he also has full combat opportunities under ***, although ** and Xiao Yongyin have always had a superior-subordinate relationship, but they have also formed a deep friendship in the process.
This subordinate sometimes feels aggrieved and will talk to the old chief.
After the outbreak of the Korean War, Xiao Yongyin was studying at the Nanjing Military Academy, and the principal was ***
At that time, Xiao Yongyin was the deputy commander and chief of staff of the 12th Army, and among the troops that went to Korea to participate in the war, the commanders and fighters of the 12th Army who studied at the Military Academy all received orders to participate in the war, but Xiao Yongyin was the only one.
Xiao Yongyin, who was aggrieved, found the principal *** and told him his grievances as soon as they met: "Chief, I have been with you for so many years, which battle I didn't fight, which battle I didn't go, why can't I go now." Please rest assured, I will continue to study when I come back from the battle. ”
**Knowing the grievances in the hearts of his subordinates, he took the "war report" handed over by Xiao Yongyin, and immediately agreed and approved Xiao Yongyin's application to participate in the war.
This is the immortal exploit of Xiao Yongyin in the Battle of Shangganling.
Xiao Yongyin remembered that he was Liu Shuai's subordinate all his life, and he remembered Liu Shuai's teaching to him all his life.
At Liu Shuai's memorial service, Xiao Yongyin, who arrived late, fell down in front of the funeral bed and cried bitterly, a general who had fought many tough battles, and finally did not stop his tears.
The deep comradeship, just in such reluctance to come to the end, at this time Xiao Yongyin is also dying, old tears in his tears at Liu Shuai's memorial service is one of the saddest people, at this time, how much he wants to listen to the old chief's teachings to him, and then listen to the old chief's "scolding" to him.
He cried about his chief, cried about his Bole, and cried about his reluctance to Liu Shuai in his heart.