As the ace unit of the Eighth Route Army, the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division has always been the number one fierce enemy of the Japanese Kou, and this legendary unit is a fierce general, such as the brigade commander is Chen Geng, the deputy brigade commander is Chen Zaidao, the chief of staff is Li Jukui, and the director of the Political Department is Wang Xinting.
In this unit, there is one person whose promotion speed can not be matched, that is, Chen Geng's partner Wang Xinting, even Chen Geng praised him as the contemporary Zhuge Liang, as the founding general of New China, what are the legendary deeds of Wang Xinting's military career? Let's take a good look.
In 1908, Wang Xinting was born in Wangjiagang Village, Xiaogan, Hubei Province, when he was a child, Wang Xinting read a few years of private school, and then the family fell in the middle of the road, he was 12 years old in a pawn shop as an apprentice and clerk, a job for several years, because the lighting conditions of the pawn shop is not very good, in the long dim light under the accounting, so that Wang Xinting got a high degree of myopia at a young age.
At the age of 18, Wang Xinting came into contact with the workers' movement, and under the influence of progressive ideas, in 1930, Wang Xinting, who had a scholarly temperament, joined the Red Army and became a cadre clerk, because of his outstanding performance, he went all the way from teaching to rising, and the next year when he entered the Red Fourth Army, he was already the director of the political department of the 30th Regiment of the 10th Army.
As a cultured and warlike cadre, Wang Xinting served as a great duty in the Red Army, and in 1933, he and Chen Geng formed a partnership and accompanied the Red Fourth Army all the way to participate in the anti-three-way siege in the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet Region, at this time he was already the director of the political department of the 9th Army, and it was only three years since he joined the army.
Imagine that General Xu Shiyou took 6 years to become a military-level cadre, Lin Biao also took 4 years, and Wang Xinting only took three years to become the director of the political department of the military department, which is indeed very remarkable, but Wang Xinting is not proud and complacent, on the contrary, he has been doing things in a low-key manner.
Here I will talk about the funny things about Chen Geng and Wang Xinting's pair in the Long March, it is said that during the Long March, Wang Xinting accidentally broke his eyes, high myopia is known to everyone, without glasses, there is no difference with blindness, so Wang Xinming can only take a blind bamboo to explore the way, this scene is often quipped by Chen Geng and laughed at him: Blind, be careful of the road, the front can go downhill.
Chen Geng was also half a pound and eight two, because he had injured his leg in the Long March, he walked up and limped, Wang Xinting saw it and joked, good you are a cripple, the road is not flat, but don't break your feet.
In life, every day is a mouthful, but at work, the two are a pair of good partners with a very tacit understanding, and a sentence that Chen Geng often hangs on his lips is that Wang Xinting is my Zhuge Liang, without him, I can't fight so many victorious battles.
During the period of the all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the 386th Brigade fought many hard battles, such as the famous Changshengkou, Shentouling, Xiangtangpu Ambush Battles, three battles and three victories, which made the Japanese popular with their teeth itching, and they even played the slogan of "specially fighting the 386 Brigade".
Friends who see film and television dramas, presumably have a certain impression of the Shentouling War, this battle can be called a miracle in military history, ambush warfare is known to everyone, it was fought condescendingly, but the Shentouling War did the opposite, at that time, before the battle, many people were strongly opposed to the ambush, only Chen Geng alone insisted.
At the meeting, everyone turned their attention to political commissar Wang Xinting and wanted to hear his opinion, and as a result, Wang Xinting also agreed with Chen Geng's approach, believing that this battle was very necessary to fight, and the more he felt that it was impossible, the more he brewed an excellent fighter, and even his own people thought that it was impossible, and the Japanese would definitely be deceived.
In fact, Chen Geng and Wang Xinting's decision was completely correct, when the Japanese army arrived at Shentou Ridge, they could not imagine that the Eighth Route Army would fight an ambush, they did not even send scouts, directly drove the military vehicles to Shentou Ridge, and the result was that the 386 Brigade gave a pot.
In this ambush battle, our side annihilated more than 1,500 enemy troops and also captured a large number of military materials, which greatly encouraged the fighting spirit of all soldiers in the war of resistance.
In the ensuing battle, Wang Xinting joined hands with Chen Zaidao and Yang Dezhi to create a large revolutionary base area for our party, and in 1942, Wang Xinting led his troops to open up a new base area in Zhongtiao Mountain.
During the Liberation War, Wang Xinting led his troops to capture Shi Zebo, commander of the 19th Army of the Nationalist Army, in March 1947, after ten days of fierce fighting, he captured a number of county towns, and although the siege of Yuncheng failed in October, Wang Xinting did not lose heart, but learned a lesson, after which he adopted multi-way assault tactics and tunnel blasting, captured Yuncheng in one fell swoop, and annihilated more than 13,000 enemy people.
A year later, in the Battle of Linfen, Wang Xinting repeated the same trick and took Linfen, and after that, like the Battle of Taiyuan and the Battle of Jinzhong, Wang Xinting participated, and the troops also achieved great results, in 1949, Wang Xinting became the first deputy commander and political commissar of the 18th Corps.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wang Xinting participated in the work of eliminating bandits and remnants of the Kuomintang in the southwest, and also assisted in the liberation of Tibet until 1955, when he was awarded the rank of general and the Order of Independence and Freedom of the First Class.
epilogue
Wang Xinting's life can be said to have experienced hundreds of battles, he has struggled for the country and the people all his life, and he has never been special in life, in December 1984, the old general died and left us forever at the age of 76.
Today's peace is not easy to come by, this is the blood of the ancestors in exchange, my generation should be self-reliant, always remember history, pay tribute to the older generation of revolutionaries.