There is an old saying in China, a gentleman takes revenge, and ten years is not too late. Did the Red Army have enemies? Of course, Chiang Kai-shek, for example, was the greatest enemy of the Red Army. In addition to Chiang Kai-shek, the Red Army also had a blood feud with a nest of warlords, which was the Majia Army in the northwest. As long as the soldiers who had participated in the Western Route Army hated ma jiajun to the bone.
Zheng Weishan is one of them. Zheng Weishan, a native of Xinxian County, Henan Province, joined the Young Pioneers at the age of 13 and the Red Army at the age of 15 because of his family's poverty. After three years in the army, Zheng Weishan became the regimental political commissar of the Red Fourth Front, and then promoted to the divisional political commissar.
After the victory of the Long March, Zheng Weishan was the political commissar of the 88th Division of the Red 30th Army and joined the Western Route Army. Of the three armies of the Western Route Army, the Red Fifth Army and the Red Ninth Army suffered considerable losses, while the Red Thirty Army fought more tenaciously, especially Zheng Weishan's Eighty-eighth Division, which repeatedly inflicted heavy damage on the Ma Family Army and retreated.
Of course, the losses of the Eighty-eighth Division were not small. Coupled with the unfamiliar terrain and the cold weather, it was very unfavorable to the Red Army. The commander of the Eighty-eighth Division, Xiong Houfa, was seriously wounded, and later did not want to drag down the troops, and died heroically. The Eighty-eighth Division had a night tiger regiment that was very capable of fighting, and the regimental political commissar was also sacrificed.
Zheng Weishan led more than 20 people to break through in two ways, and suddenly encountered Ma Jiajun, Zheng Weishan was not in a hurry, raised his gun to shoot, his marksmanship was very accurate, one shot put down one. However, Ma Jiajun's bullets also shot over, and one bullet just hit the protective support of Zheng Weishan's pistol, and the shrapnel splashed through Zheng Weishan's head, fortunately it was not very serious.
It was too dangerous, if this bullet hit any part of Zheng Weishan's body, I am afraid that there would be no later founding lieutenant general. The division commander Xiong Houfa was seriously injured and unable to break through, and finally died tragically at the hands of Ma Jiajun.
Zheng Weishan fought and retreated, and burrowed into the mountains. When the enemy came to search the mountain, they had to lie down day and night and go east. Entering the territory of Minle County, Zheng Weishan was hidden in a cave by a kind fellow and slowly recovered from his injuries. All along the way are the soldiers of the Ma Family Army, how can they get out?
Zheng Weishan disguised himself as a beggar, begged all the way, stopped and went, hid and hid, crossed the Yellow River with difficulty, and finally found the Red Army and found the team. Zheng Weishan did not die, but many of his comrades-in-arms died tragically at the hands of Ma Jiajun. No matter how many years have passed, we must avenge the death of our comrades!
Time flickered, 12 years later, Zheng Weishan has grown into the commander of the Sixty-third Army, the main force in the North China Battlefield. The Sixty-third Army was originally responsible for the liberation of North China, presumably by providence in the darkness, and in May 1949, the Sixty-third Army was assigned to the command of Peng Lao and participated in the campaign to liberate Lanzhou.
Lanzhou, that is a lair of Ma Jiajun. After 12 years, Zheng Weishan came back from killing. The crazy Ma Jiajun shouted, "Let the People's Liberation Army that besieged the city become the second Western Route Army." It's a pipe dream. When Ma Jiajun learned that the commander of the Sixty-third Army responsible for attacking the East Gate was Zheng Weishan, the political commissar of the Red Eighty-eighth Division, they had a little panic and especially strengthened the guard regiment to the East Gate.
Avenge the death of the comrades of the Western Route Army! At the beginning of the general offensive, Zheng Weishan's artillery opened the road, and ten thousand cannons fired in unison, firing a barrage of shells against the death squads organized by the Ma family army, crushing the Ma family army's repeated charge, blasting open the eastern gate, and attacking Lanzhou City.
"Night Tiger Zheng Weishan has come back to kill!"
Ma Jiajun panicked and fled. Of course, Zheng Weishan would not let them escape, and sent troops to block their back roads. Ma Jiajun couldn't fight and fight, couldn't run and ran, and many people jumped into the Yellow River and died.
After liberating Lanzhou, Zheng Weishan took part in the battle to liberate Ningxia, eliminating the main force of the Majia Army, and beating the Majia Army with nowhere to hide. At this point, he could proudly comfort Xiong Houfa, the commander of the Red Eighty-eighth Division, and comfort those Red Army comrades who died at the hands of Ma Jiajun. Zheng Weishan later became a founding lieutenant general.