In August 1947, in order to cooperate with the national strategic counteroffensive, the Central Military Commission decided to establish the Tenth Column of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army, and Liang Xingchu was notified to talk to Lin Biao's office, but when he arrived at Lin Biao's command room, he was told to be deputy commander.
Liang Xingchu replied very crisply: "I would rather be a chicken head than a cow queen."
Lin Biao and Luo Ronghuan's arrangement was very meaningful, not because Liang Xingchu's ability was not good, but because the three division commanders were all old seniors.
So, who are these three division commanders?
He Qingji was born in a poor rural family, and he has felt the hardships of life since he was a child.
As a young man, he did his part, got up early and worked greedily, and dropped out of school after three years of private school because he could not afford to read.
When he was 11 years old, his only laborer father suddenly fell seriously ill and died, his mother was in poor health, and the family had a younger brother.
For the sake of his whole family, He Qingji traveled in the countryside, doing odd jobs for others every day and earning a few copper coins.
With the passage of time, He Qingji had more and more contacts with the outside world, he knew the great changes in the outside world, and he also knew that the Communist Party was organizing the poor to turn themselves over, and he hoped in his heart that the Communist Party would come quickly.
Soon after this, he Qingji's hometown had a secret organization of the Communist Party, and he joined the Communist Youth League at the age of sixteen, because of his active work and outstanding achievements, and he was soon appointed secretary of the party branch.
He Qingji had a very revolutionary enthusiasm, and he vigorously led the peasants to fight the local tyrants, divide the land, and heroically annihilate the enemy in battle.
In 1935, He Qingji was appointed regimental commander and led his troops in a vicious battle with the Kuomintang troops in the Zhongbao area, but there was no progress for two days, so he ordered each company to keep only one chief officer, and he personally led the team, and gathered the cadres into the main attack platoon, killed the enemy, and finally defeated the Kuomintang army.
He Qingji was very heroic in every battle, and was praised by Wang Zhen, the political commissar of the Red Sixth Army, as a fierce general who "took which mountain he wanted".
But such a fierce general was completely blinded in the eyes of a war.
In 1946, when the Kuomintang began to withdraw from all parts of the northeast with the Soviet army, it launched a major attack on the northeast, and He Qingji was the commander of the southeast column at the time.
On March 26, He Qingji received an order to concentrate on Changchun and its south.
On April 15, the three-way force simultaneously launched a fierce attack on the city of Changchun. He Qingji commanded three regiments on the front line and broke through the enemy's outer defense line.
On the afternoon of the 18th, He Qingji's troops attacked the last fortress of the enemy army in Changchun, which was the pseudo-central bank building, which was a strong building, full of granite buildings, heavy iron doors, and extremely difficult to break through.
Just then, a shell exploded in front of him, and He Qingji only felt a heavy blow to his head, and blood flowed from his eye sockets.
His left eye was not saved, and the left eye was left with penetrating wounds, so that a good general lost his left eye from then on, but after a bloody battle by his troops, Changchun finally announced liberation.
The Battle of Changchun this time is of great significance, and the CPC Central Committee specially sent a telegram pointing out: "The occupation of Changchun will have a great impact on the overall situation of the northeast and the whole country. "He Qingji's heroism in this battle is impressive.
In 1926
The tide of revolution rolled up in the xianggan land, Liu Zhuanlian thus stepped into the flood of history, he joined the boy group organized by the peasant association, actively participated in various activities, because of his excellent performance, he first became a platoon leader, and later became a company commander, Liu Zhuanlian through the tempering of artillery, gradually became a fierce general.
In 1935, Chiang Kai-shek launched a large-scale military "encirclement and suppression" of the Xiang'echuanqian base area, and our army decided to withdraw from the base area, and Liu Zhuanlian was then the chief of staff of the 17th Division of the Red 6th Army.
Our army must forcibly cross the Lishui and Yuanjiang rivers, tear a gap in the two defensive lines built by the enemy army along the river, and open the way for the regiment to advance.
At that time, Liu Zhuanlian selected 30 fighters to smuggle at night, but the raft was immediately discovered by the enemy army, and the gunfire was suddenly loud, and the smuggled fighters were completely suppressed.
Liu Zhuanlian was very anxious in his heart, but after hearing that the scouts had discovered a wading point where the water was not very deep, he quietly waded through the water by the moonlight, touched the enemy's opposite shore, suddenly appeared in front of the enemy's bunker, caught the enemy by surprise, and shot down more than a dozen pillboxes in a row.
Liu Zhuanlian not only has a particularly strong combat ability, but also a strong military theoretical ability.
In 1936, the troops led by Liu Zhuanlian arrived near the town of Zazo, which was a must for the Red Army, and when the Kuomintang learned that the Red Army had come here, it dispatched two battalions to garrison in advance while dispatching its troops to rush to the aid.
Liu Zhuanlian was keenly aware of the rare opportunity at this time, and he hesitated, so he immediately made a decision and decided not to wait for the main force of the enemy army to arrive and immediately capture Zazo.
Although the Red Army had few weapons at that time, Liu Zhuanlian ordered his own regiment to use its strengths and avoid its weaknesses, attack from two directions, and get close and fight again.
The companies first quickly cleared the perimeter, and then touched it with the "chain of fire" formed by the machine guns in the enemy tower, touched it first and then burned it, and in less than 1 hour they destroyed 5 pillboxes and annihilated a battalion in three hours.
When the enemy reinforcements arrived, they were immediately attacked head-on by the Red Army, most of them fled, and after the Red Army defeated Zazo, it took advantage of the victory to conquer the county seat of Qianxi.
Without Liu Zhuanlian's immediate decision, history may have had a different ending.
Liu Zhuanlian has experienced hundreds of battles, seeing death as a homecoming, like a tiger in the forest, he is particularly good at catching fighters, often fighting active battles, it can be seen that he has a fairly high military command art.
Fang Qiang, also born in Hunan Province like Liu Zhuanlian, was born into a poor family of porters, and due to his poor family, Fang Qiang did not go to school after completing primary school.
After that, he went to an engraving printing shop as an apprentice, where the owner was a progressive person, and he often taught Fang Qiang some principles of saving the country and saving the people, which were deeply imprinted in Fang Qiang's young soul.
In 1925, during the First Civil Revolutionary War, Fang Qiang distributed leaflets on the streets to support the revolutionary government of Guangdong and the Northern Expedition.
In July 1926, because the warlords stationed in Jiangnan Township at that time escaped and scattered troops fled to various places, luo Nachuan, the secretary of the branch at the time, decided to organize the masses to seize guns, and Fang Qiang, as a mass, also participated in the gun seizure, which was his first time to participate in an armed meeting.
At noon one day, Fang Qiang was putting up a sentry by the river, and he suddenly noticed that there were more than a dozen scattered soldiers coming from a distance.
According to the agreed signal, he immediately lit three piles of fireworks and ran quickly to report.
Soon after, Fang Qiang led a group of teenagers, pretending to be hilarious, and walked to the front of the scattered soldiers, and he crashed into a veteran, quickly snatching the weapon from the veteran's arms.
Before the scattered soldiers could return to their senses, they were all tied up firmly, a process that took no more than ten minutes, and Fang Qiang and the others captured rifles and a batch of ammunition.
In the years that followed, Fang Qiang actively participated in the revolution, and in 1932, Fang stressed the appointment of political commissar of the guards of the Provisional Central Government of the Soviet Union.
In 1933, in order to maintain the retreat of the main force, Fang Qiang was hit in the chest by a bullet, and the bullet penetrated his body, and Fang Qiang almost died.
At that time, because of the kuomintang's cruel blockade and lack of materials, Fang Qiang was seriously injured and could only eat wild vegetables, it was difficult to satisfy, and the wounds were delayed under such harsh conditions.
At that time, Mao Zedong was also recuperating, and after he knew it, he took a tea jar of beef from the table and asked the doctor to transfer it to Fang Qiang, who saved and ate beef for a week, and the wound gradually began to heal.
Fang Qiang encountered another life-and-death test after this time.
In 1935, when the Red Army was on the Long March, Fang Qiang crossed the meadows with the Red Army, turned over the snowy mountains, and then joined the West Route Army to the west, after the defeat of the West Route Army, fought a guerrilla attack in the Qilian Mountains, and later after being scattered, begged for food by the Yellow River.
However, after being recognized by the Kuomintang, Fang Qiang was arrested and taken to Langshan Prison and Yongdeng Prison, and although he was imprisoned, Fang Qiang was still thinking about the revolution in his heart and looking for an opportunity to escape.
In 1937, Fang Qiang was escorted to Lanzhou Prison, and on the way to Xi'an later, Fang Qiang felt that this was a good time to escape, so he organized 200 captured people to successfully escape back to the army.
After recalling this past afterwards, he said firmly: "Always follow Chairman Mao, and die in his own ranks." ”
It was with this belief that he maintained his faith in the Communist Party for a long time.
We can see from the experience of these three people that they are all excellent soldiers in the world, in 1947, their ranks were all larger than Liang Xingchu, and the army still had to consider seniority, so we can understand why Luo Ronghuan and Lin Biao wanted to arrange Liang Xingchu as deputy commander instead of division commander.
There is also a reason why Liang Xingchu said this, because the six columns and one columns that he was also the commander of the division at this time were the main force of the main force in various historical periods, but Liang Xingchu always dragged a sub-word, and for a long time, it was inevitable that he would be dissatisfied.
Liang Xingchu's straightforward personality, Lin Biaoluo Ronghuan's heart is very clear, after a long time of thinking, they decided to let Liang Xingchu as the commander of the tenth column.
Liang Xingchu's performance did not disappoint, after the Eastern Union began a powerful autumn offensive, Liang Xingchu held the idea of "calling the ten columns a strong brigade" and led the troops to participate in actual combat.
From 1947 to 1948, Liang Xingchu led the Ten Columns to participate in the battles of Princess Tomb, Taojiatun and Shijiayao, the most famous of which was in the autumn of 1947, the Winter Offensive and the Liaoshen Campaign.
Liang Xingchu's excellent victories fully proved his great strength, and it is understandable why he only wanted to be a chicken head and not a cow tail.
Summary: In 1947, he Jiqing, Liu Zhuanlian, and Fang Qiang were all older than Liang Xingchu, so at the beginning, Lin Luo and his men wanted Liang Xingchu to be a deputy.
However, Lin Luo and the two cherished talents, and after thinking about it, they finally decided to make Liang Xingchu the commander, which also reflected that they had no selfish intentions, believing that Liang Xingchu was a good soldier and could play a great role in the battlefield, so they did not pay too much attention to seniority.
We can see that in the context of the times at that time, the Communist Party was very cherished and talented fighters, and Liang Xingchu did not live up to the expectations of the two and showed his skills in the northeast.
In 1942. Liang Xingchu (third from right) and Luo Ronghuan (second from right) in Shandong