Hu Qicai was once among the four famous generals because of his outstanding command of the Battle of Xinkailing and the Battle of Tashan.
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Hu Qi was a high-level military commander with the ability to act alone, as early as 1946 as the commander of the 4th Column of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army, why was he demoted to deputy commander in September 1947?
The predecessor of the 4th Column of the Northeast Democratic United Army was formed from the shandong Luzhong Military Region and the Jiaodong Military Region, and the two units arrived in the northeast and established the 3rd column and 4th column of the Northeast People's Autonomous Army.
In January 1946, the two units were merged into the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army 4th Column, with Wu Kehua as the main and Hu Qicai as the deputy. After May, Wu Kehua left the 4th Column, and Hu Qicai acted as commander and subsequently became commander.
At that time, the 4th Column was subordinate to the Liaodong Military Region, which was the key place for the Kuomintang army to encircle and suppress, and the survival of the troops was very difficult. Many commanders and fighters hoped to leave Southern Manchuria and join the northern Manchurian forces. The enemy gathered 100,000 heavy troops into three roads, and Hu Qicai led 4 columns to fight the most threatening middle road trap, luring the enemy deep into the Xinkailing Campaign and annihilating it, becoming the first time that our army in the northeast annihilated a whole division.
The victory in this battle greatly boosted the morale of our army in the northeast, and even Chairman Mao and General Manager Zhu praised Hu Qicai after seeing the telegram.
Persisting in the struggle in Southern Manchuria, Hu Qicai is doing it with practical actions. It was just that his body had been torturing him, and from time to time he had to go to the rear to recuperate, and a lot of the work of the troops was handed over to the political commissar and deputy commander Han Xianchu.
In the more than a year from his appointment as commander until September 1947, he left the army twice to recuperate.
In September 1947, the superior sent the old commander Wu Kehua to replace him, and arranged for him to serve as the deputy commander. His heart was comfortable. The headquarters did this for the sake of the overall situation, because during this time Liu Deng's army had just advanced into the Dabie Mountains and attracted the enemy forces in Shandong and Shaanxi.
The headquarters of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army should also plan to launch an autumn offensive, and each column of the autumn offensive has the task of annihilating an entire division of the enemy. Deputy Commander Han Xianchu had been transferred to the commander of the 3rd Column, while the 4th Column needed a commander who had been sitting for a long time.
As an old Red Army cadre, he also understood the organization's arrangements.
In 1948, when the Liaoshen Campaign began, Lin Biao let him sit on the front line of Tashan defense until the general could fight a hard battle, and he was assured. Hu Qicai led 3 divisions in a fierce battle with 11 enemy divisions on the front line. The enemy took turns to fight, and Hu Qi gritted his teeth and insisted, finally gaining time for the liberation of Jinzhou.
The Battle of Tashan was the most tragic battle Hu Qicai experienced in his life, and he could not forget the comrades who died with him in the second half of his life.
After the Liaoshen Campaign, Hu Qicai originally fought with the 41st Army, but due to the recurrence of illness, he could not move forward, so he had to stay in Shenyang for medical treatment, and then transferred to Beijing. It is a great pity that he did not participate in the Battle of Pingjin and the battle to the south.