Nie Fengzhi, a poor boy who grew up in the county of generals, before his fifteen-year-old life, no one would have thought that such a poor boy would one day go to the battlefield and fight several battles to become a general.
In General Nie's life, he led countless battles, including the bloody legend of the Battle of Laiwu capturing more than 12,000 enemies, the battle of wits and courage in the Battle of crossing the River, and the sharp negotiations when liberating Shanghai.
And in these many battles, once General Nie Fengzhi, as commander, did not fire a single shot to scare off a hundred enemy planes, and when his superiors called to praise his battle achievements, General Nie Fengzhi said that he had only made a mistake and had won this victory by mistake.
First, the coincidence of fate - casting a three-to-zero victory
The time came to 1958, and during this year, the Kuomintang, which had long been defeated and fled to Taiwan, made frequent small moves under the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Kai-shek's desire to return to the mainland was still immortal.
Fujian, the mainland province closest to Taiwan, was frequently harassed by the Taiwanese military, and kuomintang air force units often circled over Fujian, eager to move.
At that time, the Kuomintang Air Force was equipped with the world's most advanced F-84 series fighters provided by the United States, and the officers were also selected from the bases specializing in cultivating air force talents, all graduated from excellent universities, and even many people went to the United States for further study.
In stark contrast to the mainland's air force construction, the domestic air force at that time still used the old-fashioned MIG-15, the overall education was not high, and the knowledge of flight was only at the level of three months of rapid training of Soviet advisers at the Jiamusi Aviation School.
Therefore, many pilots in the Kuomintang Air Force at that time always looked down on the pilots on the mainland side, and ridiculed: "They are all peasant children who do not know a few peasants with big characters, and it is already a miracle to get the plane into the sky alive, and it is simply wishful thinking to fight in the air!" ”
Therefore, the Kuomintang pilots dared to hover over Fujian with great swagger.
In the face of such a grim situation, it is extremely important to establish a truly strict and efficient Fujian Air Force system, and it is even more important to be the leader of this system construction.
On the night of July 18, 1958, Lieutenant General Nie Fengzhi, commander of the Nanjing Air Force, had just entered a dream, and soon, a rapid telephone ringing woke him up, and when he picked up the handset, the voice of General Liu Yalou, the commander of the Air Force, was clearly heard in his ears:
"Old Nie, the chairman has just spoken, and the Central Military Commission has decided to set up Fukong, and you will be in charge of the roll call, immediately go to Fujian, and be ready for battle at any time!"
Nie Fengzhi suddenly lost all sleep, obeyed the military orders, rushed to Fujian overnight, began to build a local air force system, and went all out to regain air supremacy in the Fujian Sea.
In this battle for air supremacy in the Fujian Sea, there was also a big oolong.
Once, three consecutive batches of F-86 fighters (more than a hundred in total) from Taiwan came above Quanzhou, and Nie Fengzhi ordered fighters from Shantou, Liancheng, Zhangzhou, Fuzhou, and other airfields to take off to meet the battle.
In Nie Fengzhi's initial expectations, what he wanted to achieve was to divide into multiple batches of continuous operations to ensure that there were fighters in the air at any time to meet, but because the equipment was not in place, there were problems in time control, resulting in aircraft from all over the country coming to Quanzhou at the same time, surrounding the opponent's fighters.
When the kuomintang air force commander saw that we had dispatched so many fighters, he was afraid that he had come prepared and created a pocket for them early, and waited for them to enter the bag.
Once they began to be afraid, it was the beginning of defeat, and the commander of the Kuomintang side never thought that this was all the troops that the mainland side could urgently dispatch at that time, and hurriedly ordered these F-86 fighters to retreat urgently.
Zhao De'an, Gao Changji, and Zhang Yilin, precisely these three "workers and peasants" whom the pilots of the Nationalist army despised, injured three F-86 fighters of the Nationalist army in this battle, and the first fighters were powerless to fight back, and they did not even have the opportunity to fire their guns.
This battle was the debut of Fukong, and this unexpected three-to-zero record gave great encouragement to this newly formed unit and also showed the strength of the Chinese Air Force.
Many countries do not even dare to believe that this is the level that the Chinese Air Force can play, and the media in the United States and Japan have commented and questioned it, believing that this is the high-level foreign aid invited by China, and it is not at all played by itself.
The domestic military naturally knew that China had no foreign aid at all, and Peng Dehuai also called from Beijing on purpose, laughing and asking: "Old Nie! They said that it was not a Chinese command that they fought, so who do you say did it? ”
In the face of the superior's seemingly inquiring and actually affirmative praise, Commander Nie Fengzhi did not have a good time, and he honestly replied: "Where there is any 'pocket tactic', it is our own time that is not calculated well, and it is just a crooked fight." ”
Peng Dehuai laughed aloud after hearing this, and replied: "It's very good, and many of the combat experience of our troops is also gained by chance!" You have summed up the 'pocket tactics' of this time, and you can use them later! ”
It can be said that this fortuitous coincidence created a three-to-zero victory in the first battle of air supremacy in the Fujian Sea, and although General Nie Fengzhi called it a coincidence, we cannot simply summarize it as a coincidence, after all, the time of this battle was less than a month after General Nie Fengzhi took office.
In a month, it is really not easy to build an air force system from existence to nothing, and to maintain the composure and accurate judgment that the enemy should have when it comes to provoke, but General Nie Fengzhi has done it.
Second, go all out – sleepless preparation
When General Nie Fengzhi arrived in Fujian, it was the early morning of July 19, 1958, when the morning light was faint, but General Nie Fengzhi had no intention of appreciating the early morning scenery, but stood in the simple air force command post in Luobei Mountain, Jinjiang, Fujian Province, and issued his first emergency preparation order to Fujian, officially starting the pace of construction of the Fujian Air Force.
At the mobilization meeting in front of the command post, General Nie Fengzhi said this: "If we want to defeat the enemy, we must win time; if we want to win time, we must defeat ourselves." ”
This sentence not only reflected the urgency and difficulty of the task at that time, but also showed General Nie Fengzhi's determination to go all out in a critical situation.
In order to do what he said, he and more than a hundred soldiers struggled to work in a pit of only sixty-four square meters, starting at three o'clock in the morning and letting himself squint for a little while after the sun had set.
Under his leadership, it took only twenty days for the communication hub departments of 12 command posts to be established, 35 long-distance circuits were completed, 48 navigation stations were completed, and the high-end, high-voltage, and low-altitude anti-air warning guidance networks in the whole region were fully completed...
In addition, Nie Fengzhi also dispersed the strength of the entire seventeen regiments of the aviation corps into seven airfields in Fujian, and truly became the commander of the troops under his command, rather than the original light pole commander.
Of course, it is not enough to have equipment and troops, as a commander, Nie Fengzhi should have enough strategy and vision to plan the overall situation, and Nie Fengzhi proved this with his own combat arrangements.
Although Nie Fengzhi said that his great victory was just a coincidence, we can still see from his initial combat arrangements that Nie Fengzhi has made painstaking efforts and efforts for this competition.
In order to cope with the enemy's attack, Nie Fengzhi began to mobilize troops, but the number of Chinese air forces at that time was small, once the large-scale mobilization of air forces to a certain place to concentrate, it is bound to cause the air gates in other places to open, exposing his weaknesses, Nie Fengzhi is not prepared to take such a big risk, he chose the first step to use the method of darkness Chen Cang to secretly dispatch troops in batches.
In order to realize this plan, Nie Fengzhi did a lot of calculations and rehearsals, formulated alternatives that could go wrong in each ring, and carefully handed them over to every pilot, so that they must not miss the opportunity.
Helplessly, the thunderstorm that night was great, the plan was completely disrupted, Nie Fengzhi did not panic, urgently arranged the second step, TaoGuang raised obscurity, and ordered all the troops to be prepared to attack.
When the enemy began to provoke, the third step of the all-round three-dimensional air force team arranged by Nie Fengzhi had also been completed, just waiting for the enemy.
Although in the process of tactical implementation, there were occasional timing errors, but General Nie Fengzhi still calmly coped, which was the so-called coincidence.
Therefore, behind the seeming coincidence is General Nie Fengzhi's strategic arrangements for steady and steady fighting and the flexibility of improvisation; if General Nie Fengzhi had not accurately identified the enemy's falsehood and ordered an all-out pursuit, naturally there would have been no so-called great victory; if General Nie Fengzhi had been disturbed by the fighter planes that had arrived at the wrong time, perhaps the Kuomintang air force units would have really been able to fulfill their wishes.
However, General Nie Fengzhi was stable, while the kuomintang commander made a mistake in judgment and missed the opportunity, and this contrast was immediately apparent, and it was clear who was the cat and who was the tiger.
In his later years, although General Nie Fengzhi suffered from cancer, he still had the motherland in his heart and still led the battlefield.
One Chinese New Year's Eve night, General Nie Fengzhi's wife, He Ming, took her child to the hospital to visit Nie Fengzhi, who was already terminally ill with cancer, and prepared to celebrate the New Year with him.
But when the general's wife just opened the ward door, she was frightened by the scene in front of her, Old Nie half of his body stretched out of the ward, the nurse stopped him from getting out of bed, but Old Nie kept going down.
He Ming hurriedly stopped Nie Fengzhi and asked him what was wrong, and General Nie Fengzhi replied to her like this: "This child (nurse) is not good, the enemy has called, she still stopped me from going down, I want to wear a military uniform, she will not let me, I want to go to find the team, she said that the team has been hidden." ”
After a while, General Nie Fengzhi began to say uneasily: "Now that the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China has been celebrated, the enemy has planted bombs in several parts of the country to wreak havoc, and I don't know if Comrade Xiaoping knows about it." ”
It turned out that General Nie Fengzhi, who was tormented by illness, had already had hallucinations, and in his hallucinations, the country needed him, so he rushed to the battlefield and never dragged mud and water.
On April 3, 1992, General Nie Fengzhi unfortunately died of illness, and a generation of legends came to an end.