In 1947, Lieutenant General Luo Yuanfa led his troops to defend against Hu Zongnan s two armies, fig

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In early March 1947, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Hu Zongnan to lead the reorganized army to attack the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border area.

**menacing,** made an important decision in this regard: take the initiative to evacuate Yan'an, which is the background of the transfer to northern Shaanxi.

On the way to the war, the task of covering and evacuating the evacuation of residents was undertaken by Lieutenant General Luo Yuanfa.

The two integrated armies led by Hu Zongnan had a total of 140,000 people in six divisions, while there were less than 30,000 people in Xiye at that time, and the equipment was not good, and the supply was extremely difficult.

Undoubtedly, this is a bloody battle.

Under such difficult conditions, General Luo still led more than 20,000 soldiers to fight with Hu Zong in the south for 7 days and 7 nights, and cooperated with friendly and neighboring troops to kill and wound more than 5,000 people.

After this war, he was also known as the "Iron Brain", and not only that, but he was also known as the "Iron Eagle".

So, in this battle for the defense of Yan'an, how did General Luo deal with the south of Hu Zong and successfully complete the covering task?

Iron Flow Eagle

In March 1947, when Hu Zongnan launched a large-scale attack on the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border area, ** and others had already left an empty city and were rushing to northern Shaanxi.

On the way to northern Shaanxi, ** also issued an order, ** will not cross the Yellow River, but to stay in northern Shaanxi.

The more than 20,000 PLA soldiers in Xiye are all commanded by Peng Lao**.

In this way, the PLA fighters will be able to contain the Hu troops, fight a war of movement, and destroy the enemy forces in batches.

* When leaving, the task of delaying the enemy's cover retreat fell on the shoulders of General Luo Yuanfa.

At that time, he took the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningjin-Sui Joint Defense Army Teaching Brigade, as well as the 3rd Garrison Brigade and 7th Regiment, to defend Linzhen south of Yan'an.

On March 12, 1947, as soon as the morning dawned, the first plane went out to bomb, and the Zahn Tea Garden was the first to notice the situation, and the troops sounded the air defense horn.

General Luo quickly gave the order, and the troops were orderly and hidden, and then counterattacked the enemy planes in the air.

The southern part of Huzong was menacing, and dozens of planes flew in batches like locusts to cross the border, constantly bombarding the ground.

They bombed for a whole day, not bothering about their ammunition reserves. Luckily, they reacted quickly and didn't have too many serious personnel**.

Just when Hu Bu was using air supremacy to show off his might, General Luo was calm and not panicked at all, he knew very well in his heart that this was the beginning, and the real battle had not yet begun.

At 8 o'clock the next morning, the battle officially began, and the enemy's reorganized 27th Division rushed to Linzhen, and at the beginning exchanged fire with the teaching brigade detachment on the front line.

Immediately afterwards, the 2nd Regiment of the Teaching Brigade and the Guard Battalion were thrown into battle, and the war was on the verge of breaking out.

Just when the enemy's 27th Division was on the front line, the enemy's integrated 1st and 90th Divisions began to attack the east side of Nanniwan and Jinpenwan.

Their plan was clear at a glance, and the group attacked first, and then sent other troops to outflank them.

At this point, the teaching brigade and Hu Zongnan's troops all came into contact.

Among the several land acquisitions, Jinpenwan fought the most fiercely. The commander of the reorganized 90th Division was Chen Wu, the acting commander of the division, who was eager to achieve combat merits and was very impatient and radical in command.

Therefore, he divided the troops into two lines, wanting to try to take the 1st Regiment in one fell swoop.

Although Nishino's troops were not as strong as Hubu's, they were all determined and brave in battle.

The enemy attacked the position several times, but in the end it was unsuccessful, and the fighters on the other positions also held it tightly, and the enemy failed to advance a single step.

This made Hu Zongnan severely reprimand his subordinates, and he demanded that Yan'an must be taken within 3 days, which shows his arrogance.

On the second day of the war, the enemy was again the same as before, bombing the positions of the teaching brigade with aircraft. General Luo observed from a distance and noticed that the enemy had changed tactics.

Under the cover of fire, the enemy began to attack the junction of the teaching brigade, where the strength was less than 3 companies.

He immediately sent reinforcements from the special battalion directly under him, and soon, on the front line of the camp, there were many enemy corpses lying horizontally.

The enemy was in a hurry, and they used the strength of 3 more regiments to press towards the position.

Due to the difficulty of supplying the rear, at that time, in fact, everyone's ammunition was used up, and the soldiers began to make contact with the enemy's blades, and in this way the fierce battle continued until the 15th.

Everything went according to plan, and General Luo withdrew the defensive line to the area of Nanniwan and Mafang to build fortifications.

In this way, Hu Zongnan's delusion of attacking Yan'an in 3 days was completely shattered.

At the same time, according to the observation of the past 3 days, ** personally signed a new order to involve ** General in the battle.

The Teaching Brigade and the Second Column served as the left corps, led by two generals, Wang and Luo.

It's just that the ** general has not yet arrived, and before that, it is all under the command of General Luo, and he has to defend Nanniwan, Jinpenwan and other places for 7 days.

After failing to take Yan'an for 3 days, Hu Zongnan became anxious, and his subordinates took out all the attacking troops.

Undoubtedly, this put a lot of pressure on the teaching brigade, but General Luo always commanded the troops, held the defensive line, and retreated step by step to Pine Ridge, the last line of defense.

The enemy saw that the brigade was retreating step by step, and the attack became more and more **, and on March 17, 1947, Mopan Mountain south of the defense line fell.

This is the support point of the defensive line, and if it cannot be regained, the enemy is likely to outflank it. Once outflanked, they can climb over the mountains and rush straight to Yan'an, with unimaginable consequences.

The battle situation became even worse, and General Luo immediately hit **, let the reserves of the 1st Regiment and 1st Battalion go up and take the position back.

After a bloody battle, the fighters recaptured their positions and fought until the afternoon of the next day, when the teaching brigade was so large that even non-combatants went to the battlefield.

But everyone withstood the test and completed the task of 7 days and 7 nights of the battle explained by ***, and at 10 o'clock in the evening of the same day, all the teams retreated to Qinghuatou at 10 o'clock in the evening.

Under the command of General Luo, one brigade withstood two armies, and the soldiers successfully covered the safe evacuation of the people of Yan'an.

It is precisely because of this battle that he is called the "iron brain" in the army, and he cannot be defeated or defeated.

And General Luo is good at fighting blocking and defensive warfare, which has been shown since he joined the Red Army.

First into the Red Army

In 1929, the 19-year-old Luo Yuanfa joined the Communist Party of China, and that year he also joined the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.

Subsequently, he followed the Red Army through several anti-"encirclement and suppression" struggles, and in the process, he gained rich combat experience.

Unfortunately, due to internal and external problems, the fifth struggle against "encirclement and suppression" failed, and in order to preserve its strength, the main force of the Red Army had to start the Long March.

General Luo, who was the political commissar of the 5th Division and the 15th Regiment of the Red 3rd Army at the time, also embarked on the Long March, and he experienced the extremely dangerous Xiangjiang Campaign, in which he served as a blocking mission.

In late January 1935, the Military Commission made new arrangements for crossing the river.

* menacing, if a large army crosses the river together, the goal is too big, once in danger, ** will be even bigger.

In order to strive for more opportunities, ** decided to divide 4 columns to cross the river from Xin'an and Quanzhou.

General Luo's 5th Division received an order to occupy the crossing of the river first.

The situation was urgent, and they did not care about the cold weather, and rushed more than 100 miles day and night to reach their destination.

In order to take the ferry, the legion also provided them with artillery battalions, which shows that this task is important and difficult.

At that time, the commander of the 5th Division was General Li Tianyou, who ordered the regiment to carry out the cover ** crossing the river.

What they had to do was to get ahead of the enemy, arrive at Xinwei in advance, build fortifications as quickly as possible, resist the attack of the Gui army, and ensure that they crossed the river safely.

This was the prelude to General Luo and Commander Bai Zhiwen's entire team fighting a blocking battle by the river.

Soon, a telegram from the commander of the corps came, which read: hold out for 3-4 days at all costs.

The Gui army followed the Red 15th Regiment to Xinwei, and the Red 1st Battalion fought enthusiastically in front, while the Gui Army had always been strong, and the 1st Battalion was a little unable to parry.

Just when the Gui army rushed into the position a few dozen meters, the artillery battalion of the Military Commission that assisted in the operation in front took action.

In an instant, there were many more corpses of the enemy on the position, and they paid the price for their aggressive way of fighting.

Under the deterrence of artillery, the enemy fled in a hurry, and on the first day of the blocking battle, General Luo's 15th regiment defeated the enemy's attack several times, but also ** more than 130 people.

After the previous lesson, the enemy became more and more unwilling, and in the evening of the same day, he increased his forces and hatched a new conspiracy.

At dawn the next morning, the enemy launched a new attack, and the battle was extremely fierce on this day.

The equipment of the Gui army was superior to that of the Red Army, and the strength was stronger, and the Red Army could not resist hard, but could only outwit it.

Political Commissar Luo and other leading comrades patiently observed the enemy's situation at the front, and two regiments of the enemy were killed, and a part of the troops were assigned to outflank them

This time, after several blockades by the Red Army, the enemy attacked more violently, with fire cover and infantry rushing.

The Red Battalion that blocked at the front was not small, and it also lost a few small mountain bags.

In fact, the terrain where they are located is not dominant, but in order to cover the smooth crossing of the river, they can only resist hard, they are there, and the position is there.

At noon, Division Commander Li called** and asked them to hold on and complete the task.

At that time, 2 of the 3 battalion commanders in the army had died, and the number of ** in the 15th regiment reached more than 200 people.

Political Commissar Luo and Commander Bai both understood what the division commander said, once Xinwei was captured, the ** Red Army would be in an extremely dangerous situation, and then the Long March would fall short.

On the third day of the battle, Political Commissar Luo decided to devote the 2nd Battalion Reserve and the non-combatants of the regimental headquarters to the battle.

The chief of staff of the 15th regiment died honorably, and the whole regiment was about 700 people, and even if there were only a dozen people left in some companies, the soldiers still held their positions.

The battalion commander falls, the company commander goes up, if the company commander falls, this makes the platoon commander **.

They used their flesh and blood to build an iron wall, and no matter how the Gui army attacked, they would not take a step back.

On the afternoon of December 1, 1947, General Luo led his soldiers to complete the task of blocking the attack and passed the baton of defense to the friendly and neighboring troops.

It is a pity that 6,000 Red Army soldiers in western Fujian are sleeping on the banks of the Xiangjiang River, and the blood stains the river red, and many of them are his fellow villagers.

This should be one of the most tragic resistance battles he has ever experienced in his life.

In addition to being good at fighting resistance warfare, General Luo is also good at guarding the frontier and has made great contributions.

Garrison the frontier

In late September 1949, General Luo Yuanfa, then the 6th Army of the People's Liberation Army, received an order that he was about to march into Xinjiang together with the 2nd Army of friendly and neighboring troops.

At that time, it was not as convenient as later, but fortunately, with 40 transport planes supported by the Soviet Union, the two armies could take a cut of road.

It was also the first time that everyone took a plane, and I felt that it was new and interesting, and I felt that I had opened my eyes.

From October 23 of this year, after the two armies successfully entered Xinjiang, they began a 68-day journey.

More than 500 commanders and fighters, in these more than 2,000 mules and horses, step by step, came to Dihua.

At the end of 1949, the red flag was erected on the banks of the Ili River, and after the liberation of the local area, General Luo served as the secretary of the Dihua District Party Committee and also the commander of the military region.

He was in charge of managing the affairs of the local party and army, and as soon as he took office, he began to mobilize the masses to reduce rents and taxes, organize production, and so on.

As the commander of the border region, one of the most important tasks is to maintain unity and peace on the ground.

Most of the leading generals of the local uprising abided by the agreement of the peaceful uprising, and after the liberation, they cooperated with the production work and maintained social order.

However, there are also a very small number of people who are still unwilling to do so, and create a rebellion, and General Luo pays special attention to one problem in his work.

In March 1950, the Xinjiang Military Region set up a command post for suppressing bandits in northern Xinjiang, which was commanded by General Luo to encircle and suppress local bandits in northern Xinjiang.

On March 24 of this year, more than 400 ** cavalry stationed in Fukang rebelled.

That night, they ransacked East Jiuyun Street and fled in a hurry, but General Luo soon received the news and ordered the deputy commander of the 17th Division to lead the team to encircle and suppress.

In the early morning of the next day, the troops set out, quickly surrounded the enemy in the Ganhezi area, and captured the leaders of the mutiny alive in only three hours.

Not only that, but they also killed the colluding bandit leaders and most of the rebels. The remnants of the remaining troops who fled to Balikun were also annihilated by the combined forces of the 5th and 6th armies.

After more than one month of struggle, the local banditry has been greatly improved, and the local rebellion has basically been put down.

In Xinjiang, there is a difficult person to deal with, named Usman, who was originally a senior ** of the Kuomintang and the leader of a local tribe.

Unwilling to give up power in his hands like this, he continued to cooperate with the remnants of the Kuomintang, and also spread rumors and slander the organization in the local area when the people did not know about China.

From March 1950 onwards, he coerced as many as 4 people in the area50,000 people, and at the end of the year, they also killed more than 1,000 people and 340,000 head of livestock.

Obviously, this is a huge hidden danger and loss, in order to maintain local security, General Luo decided to send a division of troops to directly take the enemy's old nest Hongliuxia.

The environment is harsh, with nighttime temperatures ranging from more than minus 30 degrees Celsius.

The enemy thought that the People's Liberation Army would not dare to attack, but who thought that General Luo and others would brave the heavy snow and cold wind, march in a hurry for 3 days, take Hongliuxia, and annihilate more than 600 bandits.

On May 14, 1950, the PLA soldiers divided into three routes to pursue the remnants of the bandits, and after more than ten days of perseverance in pursuit, the remnants of Usman were basically wiped out, the small leaders were captured alive, and the local bandits were basically eliminated.

And the bandit leader Usman became the commander of the light pole, and when he saw that he was powerless to return to the sky, he disappeared from Taiwan and abroad.

General Luo and other leading comrades led the soldiers to persist in suppressing bandits in the local area, creating a stable environment for northern Xinjiang.

It was not until the first half of 1951 that the bandits in the entire Xinjiang region were basically defeated, and the local construction took a big step forward.

Since the suppression of the bandits in northern Xinjiang, he has been committed to maintaining the stability of the motherland in the subsequent construction process.

In September 1955, General Luo Yuanfa was awarded the rank of lieutenant general, and since then he has been working hard at his post, contributing to the construction of New China, and making outstanding contributions to the stability of the motherland and the cause of the Air Force.

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