In October 1946, the reorganized 74th Division, the head of the five main forces of the Kuomintang and led by Zhang Lingfu, attacked Lianshui, an important town in the liberated area of central Jiangsu. At that time, although Su Yu fought many major victories in the central Soviet region, our army was not dominant on all fronts. The reorganized 74th Division led by Zhang Lingfu attacked the city all the way and appeared to be extremely arrogant.
The Nationalist 74th Division had the most advanced American equipment and sophisticated tactics, and was known as Chiang Kai-shek's Royal Forest Army. In order to contain the offensive of the 74th Division, Su Yu immediately organized troops to support Lianshui. Xie Xiangjun, then commander of the 10th Column of the Central China Field Army, led his troops into this fierce battle.
In the end, although our army won the Battle of Lianshui and dealt a fierce blow to the main force of the Kuomintang opposition, Su Yu could not be pleased. Because Xie Xiangjun died heroically in this battle. Xie Xiangjun is the highest-ranking general of our army who sacrificed his life in the Liberation War.
A thousand armies are easy to obtain, but one will be difficult to find. As a veteran general who has been trained from the Red Army period, Xie Xiangjun's sacrifice is undoubtedly a huge loss for our army. What is puzzling is that after Xie Xiangjun's death, Su Yu actually ordered that this news be kept strictly confidential, and even the memorial service would not be allowed to go.
So why did Su Yu give this seemingly impersonal order? Why did Xie Xiangjun, as the commander of the 10th Column, heroically sacrifice himself on the battlefield in the event of our army's final victory?
The curator of this issue takes everyone to talk about this matter, and interested audiences and friends may wish to pay attention to it, so that it is convenient to review the past period and will not miss the latest content.
Born in the Red Army, he sacrificed his life to kill the enemy
Xie Xiangjun is a veteran revolutionary fighter who has devoted himself to the revolution since the time of the Red Army, and he would have become a brilliant general. But poor Heaven was jealous of the talent, Xie Xiangjun was only 32 years old when he died.
He was born in 1914 in Dawu County, Hubei Province, a turbulent era in which both the country and the people were in dire straits. Against the background of this general environment, Xie Xiangjun sowed the seeds of revolution in his heart from an early age.
Later, in 1930, at the age of 16, Xie Xiangjun joined the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and joined the Communist Party of China the following year. At that time, the conditions of the Red Army were very difficult, but Xie Xiangjun did not complain in the slightest. Joining the Red Army and devoting himself to the revolutionary cause has always been Xie Xiangjun's firm dream.
In the army, he was hard-working and hard-working, and he was not afraid of life and death, often rushing to the front on the battlefield, letting the dangerous rain of guns and bullets roar past him, Xie Xiangjun did not have the slightest fear, and only victory and the front were in his eyes. And Xie Xiangjun not only fought bravely, but also loved to learn after having an educational foundation.
No matter what kind of environment he is in, Xie Xiangjun can always stay calm and devote himself to studying in his leisure time. With his own brave will to fight and excellent psychological quality, Xie Xiangjun quickly received the attention of the organization, all the way from recruit to division commander, and participated in almost all the major battles of the Red Army period.
But the guns on the battlefield had no eyes, because they always rushed to the front, and Xie Xiangjun was wounded many times. The most serious of these was a leg injury. At that time, the medical conditions of the Red Army were very backward, and the supply of anti-inflammatory drugs was seriously insufficient. Xie Xiangjun's leg injury was not treated in time, resulting in infection and ulceration of the wound, which was once life-threatening. After careful consideration, the doctors decided to cut off Xie Xiangjun's injured leg in order to save his life.
But after Xie Xiangjun heard the news, he immediately found the then commander Luo Binghui and pleaded bitterly: "I am a warrior, and I can't go to the battlefield without legs." I'd rather not have my life than not go to the battlefield. ”
Xie Xiangjun's persistence touched everyone, and this boldness of preferring to die and kill the enemy showed the brave and martial soul of my Chinese soldiers. China has such an iron-blooded tough man as Xie Xiangjun, so how can it destroy the country?
In the end, Xie Xiangjun's firm will finally touched the heavens, and with the unremitting efforts of the doctors, Xie Xiangjun's injured leg was saved, and he was able to return to the battlefield. After that, Xie Xiangjun still maintained his initial bravery, and the blow of the leg injury did not affect his pace of killing the enemy in the slightest.
Perhaps in Xie Xiangjun's heart, going to the battlefield to attack the invading Japanese army is the most important thing for a Chinese boy with hot blood to do. But compared with many other Red Army soldiers, Xie Xiangjun has a good educational foundation, and his brain is also smart and likes to learn. Therefore, compared with going to the battlefield, If Xie Xiangjun is engaged in education, he can make more contributions to the revolution.
In view of the fact that after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the combat quality of the soldiers of the Red Fourth Army of our Party was uneven. The organization arranged for Xie Xiangjun to go to kang da for further study, engage in educational work after completing his studies, and send some more high-quality military and political cadres to the Red Fourth Army.
Although Xie Xiangjun hoped to shed his blood on the battlefield, for the sake of the revolutionary cause of the whole of China, Xie Xiangjun finally chose to obey the organization's arrangements and went to Kang Da and began his study and teaching career.
Cultivate talents and fight the enemy
Xie Xiangjun did not live up to the trust of the organization in him. After returning from his studies at the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, Xie Xiangjun rushed to southern Anhui and served as the chief of the Teaching Corps of the New Fourth Army. Then Xie Xiangjun regarded the school as a "battlefield" and began the revolutionary cause of sending talents to the organization.
In school, Xie Xiangjun can play a greater role than on the battlefield. One after another, the students who had never been on the battlefield were trained by Xie Xiangjun to become excellent military and political cadres, and they shone on the battlefield and made many contributions to the cause of national anti-Japanese resistance.
At the same time, Xie Xiangjun's position also rose again and again, from the initial head of the teaching section to the principal of the 5th branch of Kang University. During this period, Xie Xiangjun not only had to undertake the heavy responsibility of sending talents to the organization, but also had to find ways to deal with the enemy's siege.
At that time, the frenzied Japanese army did nothing wrong on the soil of our country, and they not only aimed their guns at our soldiers, but even our people and students.
However, in the face of the murderous Japanese army and the shameless Japanese puppet army that had defected to the enemy, Xie Xiangjun did not have the slightest fear. Although he was a teacher with a pen at that time, he was also a predatory soldier killed from the battlefield. Xie Xiangjun had full experience and courage to fight against the enemy and protected the students in the school very well.
Once, with the Japanese puppet army, the Japanese army suddenly carried out a major sweep of the area where Xie Xiangjun was located. As soon as Xie Xiangjun learned of this news, the enemy's troops had already surrounded the school. In this critical situation, the whole school was in a state of panic. Because most of the students in the school are students who have not participated in actual combat, and their armed forces are far behind the enemy.
At this time, only Xie Xiangjun remained absolutely calm, he knew how cruel the Japanese were, and if the students were captured by the enemy, they would be greeted either by death or by a dark hell.
After a short period of thought, Xie Xiangjun immediately gathered all the personnel and issued an order: All students are ready to break through! Japanese devils who want to make dumplings also have to see if their pot is big enough! Xie Xiangjun then organized the students to arm as much as possible, and divided into several small groups, and he personally commanded the next breakout operation.
In the course of this breakthrough, Xie Xiangjun showed super command ability and combat quality. After observing the situation, he quickly found the weakest point of the enemy's strength and launched a lightning-fast breakout operation in this direction. Finally, under the cover of night, Xie Xiangjun successfully led the students to complete the breakthrough and avoided this catastrophe.
However, the breakthrough process was not smooth. During this period, a squad of female students was accidentally captured by the Japanese puppet army because they misjudged the direction of the breakthrough, resulting in them not acting strictly according to xie Xiangjun's command.
After Xie Xiangjun learned of this news, he immediately took people to the rescue. Xie Xiangjun still maintained the bravery of the Red Army, and while he rescued the female students one by one, he also dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese puppet army.
It can be said that during the 8 years of the Chinese nation's difficult War of Resistance, although Xie Xiangjun did not personally go to battle and rush to the front-line battlefield, he still made indelible contributions to the cause of the National War of Resistance.
Because Xie Xiangjun has trained many outstanding military and political cadres for the organization. These cadres not only bravely resisted the Japanese army in the War of Resistance Against Japan, but in the subsequent War of Liberation, they continued to shine for the revolutionary cause, and used their sweat, blood, and even lives to promote the founding of the great new China.
And Xie Xiangjun is one of the many martyrs who sacrificed for the country, that dazzling and brilliant one.
Fight against the enemy and the heroes fall
Shortly after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the War of Liberation began.
Xie Xiangjun left the school and went to the battlefield again, serving as the commander of the 10th Column of the Central China Field Army. It can be said that wherever the organization needs Xie Xiangjun, he will contribute his strength wherever he goes. Xie Xiangjun, who had not been on the front line for many years, still maintained the combat standards that a senior general should have.
He led the soldiers of the 10th Column to bravely resist the Kuomintang reactionaries, winning successive battles and annihilating more than 50,000 enemy troops. At the same time, Su Yu also led his troops to fight a number of major victories in the central Soviet region, which dealt a heavy blow to the Kuomintang army.
However, our army is not the dominant force on all fronts, after all, the weapons of the Kuomintang army are more advanced and the number is greater. In particular, the reorganized 74th Division led by Zhang Lingfu, with its advanced American equipment, was unstoppable all the way and was about to hit Lianshui, an important town in central Suzhou.
Lianshui is an important strategic location for our army, and once it is lost, it will face very serious consequences.
After carefully analyzing the battle situation, Su Yu decided to send more troops to defend Lianshui. The 10th Column led by Xie Xiangjun rushed to Lianshui under the organization of Su Yu. At that time, Zhang Lingfu was armed with the advanced equipment of the 74th Division, attacking the city all the way and acting extremely arrogant.
Ignoring the opinion of the Kuomintang government to repair the army first, he insisted on laying down the water, and his arrogance was very arrogant.
However, Zhang Lingfu was indeed arrogant capital, and the Kuomintang 74th Division was equipped with a full set of modern American weapons, aircraft, artillery, and tanks, and naturally would not pay attention to the 10th Column, which only had light weapons.
Judging from the weapons, equipment, and numbers, the hope of victory for the troops led by Xie Xiangjun was extremely slim. But Commander Xie Xiangjun did not have the slightest fear, he had full experience and confidence in defeating the strong with the weak. On October 19, 1946, Zhang Lingfu led the 74th Division to march toward Lianshui in three ways, in an attempt to capture Lianshui in one fell swoop.
At this time, although the equipment of the People's Liberation Army was not as good as that of the 74th Division, our army still effectively blocked the 3-way army sent by Zhang Lingfu with flexible and changeable tactics. Commander Xie Xiangjun took advantage of the favorable terrain on both sides of the Yellow River to organize and launch a battle to defend Lianshui.
Immediately after Xie Xiangjun personally led the strength of 3 regiments along the Shun River, the area around Ziling laid out impregnable defenses and repelled several attacks of the 74th Division. In the fierce battle in the early stages, the arrogant Zhang Lingfu did not take any advantage.
On the 15th day of the battle, Zhang Lingfu, who was embarrassed and angry, under the cover of aircraft and tanks, sent heavy troops to launch a fierce attack on our army. In order to grasp the situation on the battlefield at the first time, Commander Xie Xiangjun personally went to the command post of the forward position to observe the enemy's situation.
But just as Xie Xiangjun was holding his glasses and observing the enemy situation on the other side of the Yellow River, a bullet from an enemy sniper hit the abdomen of the commander of Xie Xiangjun.
Although at the first time, Xie Xiangjun's men rushed him to the hospital in the rear. However, because of his serious injuries, Xie Xiangjun did not reach the hospital after all, and stopped breathing on the way to the hospital. A generation of talents has fallen.
Considering the overall situation, block the news
When the news of Xie Xiangjun's death reached Su Yu's ears, Su Yu was shocked and saddened. You must know that commander Xie Xiangjun is a general who has been trained in the Red Army period, and a thousand armies are easy to obtain, and it is difficult to find a general!
Xie Xiangjun's sacrifice is undoubtedly a huge loss for our army. The grief-stricken Su Yu forcibly maintained his sanity, and in order to take care of the overall situation, he issued a somewhat impersonal order: that is, to block the news of the death of Commander Xie Xiangjun, let alone allow a memorial service. Xie Xiangjun's body was buried on the spot by his men in this way, tragic and great.
At that time, the Battle of Lianshui was not yet over, and if the Kuomintang opposition were to learn of Xie Xiangjun's sacrifice, they would inevitably take advantage of the void and wantonly publicize the confusion in the hearts of our army. In order to take into account the overall situation, Su Yu could only bear the pain and order to conceal the news for the time being.
It was not until 1959 that the news of Xie Xiangjun's death was made public. The organization moved his coffin to the Lupu Martyrs' Cemetery and held a memorial service for him, which was 13 years late.
After that, the heroic deeds of Commander Xie Xiangjun will always be remembered by history.
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