A soldier who did not want to be a general was not a good soldier — Napoleon
Of the 70 armies in the history of the People's Liberation Army, the 38th Army is one of the recognized aces. Because of the outstanding performance of the 38th Army in the Second Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, General Peng added a sentence at the end of the commendation order, "Long live the Thirty-eighth Army", and thus the reputation of "Long Live the Army" spread throughout China. The commander of the 38th Army at the time was Liang Xingchu from Ji'an, Jiangxi.
Liang Xingchu is as tall as one meter and eight meters tall, which is rare among southerners. Because his front teeth protrude forward, he has a not-so-good nickname "Liang Da Teeth". When he was young, Liang Xingchu learned tailoring and haircuts, all because of naughtiness, did not learn, and later learned to play iron, only to learn more at ease, so Liang Xingchu also had a nickname called "striking iron". In 1930, Liang Xingchu, who had just turned 17, joined the Red Army, and Liang Xingchu on the battlefield was brave and fearless, and he was invincible in charge, so this nickname became "iron".
Liang Xingchu was already a famous general before the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
In 1931, in the third anti-"encirclement and suppression" operation, Liang Xingchu, who served as a deputy company commander, commanded flexibly, took the lead in charging and killing, and achieved outstanding results, winning the title of "Model Company Commander" and being awarded a Red Star Medal. During the Long March, he led a reconnaissance company disguised as a Kuomintang army, first occupying the county seat of Malong County without spending a single shot and a bullet; soon after, he took Hadapu lightly, obtained a large amount of grain and grass materials, and also obtained the news that Xu Haidong's Red Fifteenth Army and Liu Zhidan's Red Army would meet, providing important information for the decision-making of his superiors.
In the Battle of Montenegro in the Liaoshen Campaign, Liang Xingchu led 10 columns to fight alone, resisting five times the elite troops of the Nationalist army, causing the enemy's "westward" corps to attack for three days without advancing half a step, making a great contribution to the total annihilation of the Liao Yaoxiang Corps of the People's Liberation Army. The Montenegro Blockade Battle had already established Liang Xingchu's status as a famous general, and when Peng Zong saw him on the Korean battlefield, he praised him and said, "Your Montenegrin blockade battle is doing well." ”
Liang Xingchu, who was famous on the Korean battlefield, did not go well at first.
In the first battle, the 38th Army was tasked with attacking Xichuan, but because it mistakenly believed that there was a "black regiment" of American troops, it missed the fighter, causing the enemy to slip away. At the military conference after the first battle, Liang Xingchu was scolded by General Peng for spewing dog blood, and Peng even said that he "has no other skills, but still has the ability to cut horses." Knowing shame and courage, there is also the bloody battle of the 38th Army in the second battle, the Battle of Songbone Peak in "Who is the Loveliest Person", and the reputation of "Long Live the Army".
Just after that meeting, which was severely criticized by General Peng, Liang Xingchu met a young man, who was twenty-seven or eight years old, a confidential secretary of the office of the commander of the Volunteer Army Headquarters, a Russian translator, and a staff officer of the Operations Department of the Volunteer Army Headquarters.
Before entering the Korean War, Liang Xingchu had never seen this young staff officer.
When the young staff officer saw Liang Xingchu, he said, "Commander Liang, I came to fight, but I am here as an interpreter and a document, so why don't you accept me and I will go to your army?" ”
After Liang Xingchu listened, he smiled and said, "I can't ask for it, but I'm just afraid that Mr. Peng won't let you go." ”
"Go talk to Mr. Peng, I fought in the Soviet Union." The young staff officer was confident.
Liang Xingchu shook his head, thinking that he had just been scolded for spewing dog blood, so he laughed bitterly: "I don't dare, Peng Zong will definitely stare at me and say, how do you put your hand to my headquarters and dig my corner?" I can't afford to eat. ”
"Why are you all afraid of Old Man Peng?" Well, I'll say it, but first of all, Mr. Peng agreed, you have to keep your promise. ”
Liang Xingchu replied: "No problem, what do you want to do?" Assign you to the Combat Section? ”
The young staff officer was anxious: "If I want to go to the organ, I will not stay in the Operations Department of the General Division?" What else are you doing? “
Liang Xingchu asked him what he wanted to do.
"I want to lead the troops!" The young staff officer waved his hand, "Give me a regimental belt, how about it?" “
Liang Xingchu was shocked and thought to himself, he is so young and has such courage, it is really not simple.
However, how dare Liang Xingchu easily open his mouth to make such a promise? Who knows what Mr. Peng has in mind? He had no choice but to kick the ball to Mr. Peng, "You should talk to Mr. Peng first, he has to decide this matter." ”
After this incident passed, Liang Xingchu did not pay too much attention to it, after all, the 38th Army had just been criticized by its superiors, the battlefield situation was ever-changing, as the commander of the first army, Liang Xingchu led his troops to fight with the enemy on the battlefield one after another, and soon after he forgot about this matter.
A month after this incident, when Liang Xingchu went to the General Headquarters for a meeting, he asked Ding Ganru, director of the Operations Division, about the staff officer.
"No more..." Ding Ganru sighed.
"How? Got off the troops? "Liang Xingchu remembered what the staff officer had said to him, and he couldn't help but be stunned." Why didn't he come to our 38th Army? ”
"What troops, he died!" Ding Ganru told Liang Xingchu about the death of the young staff officer.
The name of the young staff officer is now known to people who are slightly older. He is the eldest son of the martyr Yang Kaihui, and as for his father, he is the great savior of hundreds of millions of Chinese.
At the age of 8, he was arrested and imprisoned with his mother, Yang Kaihui. He was later released on bail and went to Shanghai, where he and his two younger brothers suffered as a result of the destruction of the party organization in Shanghai. In 1936, he and his brother were sent to the Soviet Union. He had a Russian name, Seryosha, who joined the Red Army in 1942 and the rank of Lieutenant of the Soviet Tank Corps in 1943, and participated in the Campaign of Belarus to liberate Poland and Czechoslovakia. When he learned that the volunteer army had entered the DPRK to fight with the US army, he was the first to apply to Peng Zong to join the volunteer army, and in 1950 he joined the Chinese Volunteer Army and entered the KOREAN war.
Ding Ganru told Liang that on November 25, 1950, a group of American F80 fighter-bombers attacked the Volunteer Army headquarters, dropping a large number of napalm bombs. At that time, the eldest son of the 28-year-old leader of the Republic was on duty in the war room, and after being shot in the war room, he was sealed in the war room by fire and died heroically.
After Liang Xingchu listened, he was silent for a while, feeling very regretful, thinking to himself, if he had promised to go down to the army, maybe he would not have been hit by that bomb, if he had not sacrificed, he would have led the troops to fight, and would have become a good regimental commander, a good division commander...
It is worth mentioning that in his later years, when the great man talked about his sacrificed son to his old scholar Zhou Shizhao, he said this in a heavy tone: "... The human heart is made of flesh, and no matter who it is, the heart that loves the son is the same. If I don't send my son, and everyone else is like me, if I have a son myself and don't send him to the battlefield, but send someone else's son to the front line first, what kind of leader is this? ”