After the founding of New China, in order to commend the generals who had made meritorious contributions in the process of the founding of New China, it was decided to carry out the military rank conferment ceremony in 1955, when it was decided to award the rank of major general to 799 people, but only 798 of the later founding lieutenant generals, so why was there one less person? The reason is that Pi Dingjun, who should have been awarded the rank of major general, was promoted to lieutenant general, so the general who originally had 799 major generals was naturally one less.
In 1955, when the title was awarded, Pi Dingjun was originally included in the list of major generals, but the great man personally approved eight big characters after reading the list."
DingJun has merit, by Shao Jinzhong
This is the origin of the well-known "Pi Has Merit, Less Jinzhong", so what is the merit of Pi Dingjun? To be able to get the great man to personally approve the promotion to the rank of lieutenant general, it should be known that of the 799 major generals awarded in 1955, only Pi Dingjun won this honor, and he was promoted from the original major general to lieutenant general, and his credit also began from the breakthrough of the Central Plains.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Chiang Kai-shek attempted to seize the fruits of victory, mobilized dozens of divisions to encroach on the Liberated Areas of the Central Plains, attempted to encircle and annihilate the People's Liberation Army in the Liberated Areas of the Central Plains, and open up the passage to the march to North China, East China, and Northeast China. At this time, however, the areas of activity of the People's Liberation Army in the Liberated Areas of the Central Plains had been continuously compressed, and they could only be trapped in the areas of Luoshan, Guangshan, Jingfu, and Lishan, centered on Xuanhuadian; after unsuccessful negotiations with the Kuomintang, the Central Military Commission had no choice but to order the Central Plains Bureau and the Central Plains Military Region to lead the troops to break through and move to western Henan, western Hubei, southern Shaanxi, and other areas to continue fighting and contain the enemy's effective forces.
On June 23, according to the instructions of the central authorities, the Central Plains Bureau decided to use the 1st Brigade of the 1st Column to pretend to be the main force and move east along the Jinpu Railway, and the main force was divided into two roads on the left and right to begin to break out to the west on the 26th, which meant that the 1st Brigade, which was the main task of pretending to be the main force, would become a decoy, and whether the large troops of the Central Plains Military Region could break through the enemy's encirclement circle depended on whether the bait of the 1st Brigade was not effective in the end, and if it succeeded, then the 1st Brigade's eastward transfer would inevitably take away most of the enemy's troops, so that the large troops could find an opportunity to break through to the west In this case, it is a very test of the acting skills of the 1st Brigade and the command ability of the commanders.
However, in this way, the 1st Brigade will face an enemy tens of times larger than itself to pursue and intercept, and this situation also makes the commanders of the 1st Brigade feel heavy in their hearts, and the brigade commander of the 1st Brigade at that time was Pi Dingjun, who in order to complete this task, decided to follow the large troops for a few days, then hide, and turn his head and head east under the eyes of the enemy.
At dawn on June 26, the various units of the Central Plains Military Region began to break out to the west, Pi Dingjun first resisted the enemy with a small force, and then moved to the southwest, in order to be able to let the Kuomintang troops bite the bait of the 1st Brigade, the Pi Dingjun Brigade continued to "drop things" along the way, which made the pursuing Kuomintang troops believe that the front was a large force of the Central Plains Military Region, so the rest of the Kuomintang troops also quickly pounced on the location where the Pi Brigade was located, and on the 28th, the Pi Brigade turned its head to the east and entered Liu Jiachong in the Baique Garden, and hid. On the evening of the 28th, the head of the Central Plains Military Region called to say that the main force of the Military Region had all crossed the Pinghan Railway and marched westward, at this time, the task of covering the breakthrough of the main force of the Leather Brigade had been completed, so the next thing was how to get rid of the pursuit of the Kuomintang army.
On the 29th, the Pi Brigade unexpectedly interspersed the past from the junction of the two enemy units, rushed all the way along the Dabie Ridge to the east, temporarily threw off the enemy's pursuit, and took the opportunity to enter western Anhui, on July 13, Pi Dingjun led the whole brigade out of the Dabie Mountain, into the Chihe Town area, preparing the camera to cross the Jinpu Road, on the 18th, after the Kuomintang learned the news that the 1st Brigade was preparing to cross the Jinpu Road, it laid out a defensive line along the line to prepare for interception, Pi Dingjun immediately made a decision after learning the news, and turned south through the Jinpu Road from near Zhang Baling. When the enemy's 138th Division rushed to fortify, the ambush troops set up by Pi Dingjun caught the vanguard of the 138th Division by surprise, and the large troops all took the opportunity to enter the Suwan Liberated Area through Jinpu Road.
In the course of this 24-day cover transfer, Pi Dingjun led the whole trip into more than 1,000 miles, experienced more than 20 large and small battles, destroyed more than 1,000 enemy troops, bought time for the large troops of the Central Plains Military Region to break through, and after the breakthrough of the Central Plains Military Region, he led the enemy's nose in the encirclement of hundreds of thousands of enemies, and he did not suffer too many casualties. Moreover, in the subsequent battles, Pi Dingjun's excellent command ability in battle was reflected, so when the title was awarded in 1955, the great people would personally write down the comments such as "Dingjun has meritorious service, from the young to the middle", and Pi Dingjun was also able to change from a founding major general to a founding lieutenant general.
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