During the Liberation War, Yin Xianbing was the first commander of the 16th Army of the Fifth Corps of the Second Field Army. He is the "sharpshooter" in our army, plus the "desperate samurai". He once commanded the Battle of the River Crossing, and he did not sleep for seven days and seven nights. In addition, he also has a unique skill, that is, to measure the combat map with his fingers, one by one, 180 miles in a large way, and 120 miles in a small one, and never use a ruler to measure.
After liberation, the 16th Army led by Yin Xianbing, as China's first "all-Soviet mechanized force", participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. Before entering the Korean War, Chairman Mao received Yin Xianbing and personally taught him combat experience, which showed the importance attached to him. However, when the rank was awarded in 1955, the eight military commanders who belonged to The same as Yin Xianbing were all awarded the rank of lieutenant general, so why was he the only one with the rank of colonel?
1. Yin Xianbing during the War of Resistance
Yin Xianbing was born in 1915 in a poor peasant family in Hanchuan County, Hubei Province, and when he was a child, he herded cattle for people and was always popular. Bullied, Yin Xianbing always changed his tricks to take revenge. He often took a group of mischievous cattle herders to fight with people, fight with people in his own village, and fight with people from other villages. Whoever bullied him, he beat him. Later, when Yin Xianbing joined the army, when he was a platoon leader and a company commander, he did not know anything. I only know that I should not provoke the local tyrants, and I cannot be a traitor.
During the Red Army period, Yin Xianbing, because of his temper, was almost tied up as a "reorganization faction". When General He Long saw this, he said, "What 'reorganization faction,' he is a cattle herder," thus saving his life. In 1937, Yin Xianbing became the head of the Eighth Route Army's General Special Agent Regiment. This regiment is also called the "Jude Guard Regiment". Yin Xianbing took over this regiment and expanded it into a "three-three system" regiment. There are 3 battalions, 9 infantry companies, and 3 battalions of machine gun platoons, a total of more than 2300 people, not to mention how powerful it is.
In the autumn of 1939, Yin Xianbing was appointed brigade commander of the Northwest Hebei Independent Brigade. Wang Lin, a representative of the Jizhong Banking Bureau, went to the local area to investigate, and when he saw him, he ridiculed and said: Yo, be a commander! Still carrying a box gun, what is your marksmanship? Then, Wang Lin saw a crow in the treetops in the distance, so he asked Yin Xianbing to fight one to see. Yin Xianbing didn't say a word, pulled out the box gun, threw his hand at a sound, and shot the crow down.
In addition to being a "sharpshooter", Yin Xianbing's excellent combat command ability has also been revealed long ago. In 1940, Yin Xianbing commanded the Jixi Guerrilla Corps, annihilated 60 Japanese lieutenants and non-commissioned officers at the Heishui River, killed more than 200 puppet soldiers, and captured 1 mountain gun and 3 machine guns. At that time, he was only twenty-five years old.
II. The War of Liberation and the "Yin Yihuan" of the War of Liberation and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea
In 1949, Yin Xianbing's troops participated in the Battle of crossing the river, and he was responsible for organizing our army to cross the river at the Anqing ferry. The stakes are high, the moment cannot be delayed, and there is no room for sloppiness. This time, Yin Xianbing rotated the axis for seven days and seven nights, staying up all night, sleeping and forgetting to eat. Until the first batch of personnel were safely organized to cross the river, and then crossed the river by boat. As soon as he got off the boat, he fainted on the spot.
The soldiers immediately called hygienists and stretchers and carried him away. It didn't take long for him to wake up from the stretcher again. There was a clamor to hear the correspondent read the telegram. The correspondent came up and finished reading the telegram, and he immediately heard the dictation order and continued to direct the work. In addition, Yin Xianbing also has a unique skill of measuring combat maps with his fingers. He never measured the map with a ruler, and every time he fought, he spread out the military map and took a fork of his thumb and index finger, which was called "one thumb", which represented distance.
The distance between the thumb and the index finger is a small one; the distance between the thumb and the middle finger is a big one. Small 120 miles, large 180 miles. As long as he comes to a big shot, it means that the troops will march 180 miles in a hurry. So the warriors saw him snapping his fingers, and they were trembling. Therefore, he also made up a slip of the tongue in the army to sing: The sky is not afraid, the earth is not afraid, I am afraid of Commander Yin's big hand, and the big one is one hundred and eighteen.
From 1949 to 1950, Yin Xianbing led his 16th Army, "picking" Pingxiang in the west, then "picking" Baoqing in Hunan, and then "picking" Guizhou. In the end, he stayed in Guizhou, disguised as the "three bosses", and participated in the local banditry activities. In this way, Yin Xianbing worked as a "stilt-foot boss" in Guizhou for more than a year, and before he could get over it, he "swept" to the Korean battlefield.
III. Why did Yin Xianbing only confer the rank of colonel?
When he was awarded the title in 1955, Yin Xianbing was demoted to colonel because of problems with his style of life. In May 1956, our army issued a decision in which Yin Xianbing was described as a "degenerate element." It is said that the organization was furious when they learned of Yin Xianbing's mistake, so they decided to demote him to colonel. so. How did Yin Xianbing degenerate? What is his style problem? According to the records, the problem of Yin Xianbing's life style should be a problem of private life.
On the issue of personal life, Yin Xianbing's style has not been very good, and even when he was on the Korean battlefield, there were problems because of this, and his scandal was also known to the whole army! In the face of such a situation, the organization was furious and repeatedly reported and criticized it. At the same time, due to the greater impact of the incident, when the title was awarded in 1955, Yin Xianbing was demoted two consecutive levels and was only awarded the rank of colonel!
Since then, Yin Xianbing has always been ashamed of this, so the colonel's uniform he issued when he was awarded the title has always been collected, and he never needs to take it out and wear it until he has to. At the same time, the matter had a great influence on him, and he has been holding some idle positions ever since. In 1983, when Yin Xianbing was appointed deputy commander of the Beijing Military Region, he suddenly heard that the old leader Yang Yong and his friend Xu Liqing had passed away on the same day, because of excessive grief and sudden cerebral hemorrhage, and also passed away!
epilogue
Yin Xianbing was originally an excellent combat commander and sharpshooter in our army, and his outstanding performance in the Liberation War was later praised by the organization. Such an excellent PLA general, but because of the problem of private life, he planted a big fight, and later has not been very good, it is really not worth it. In the Book of Shang, it is said: If you do not act carefully, you will eventually be tired of great virtue. Pity pity! However, no matter what the gains and losses and merits of Commander Yin Xianbing, he is a veteran who has made great contributions to the country, and the founding of New China has a sweat he paid, and future generations should not forget!