Li Thirty Thousand
Abstract: Li Yunlong's most powerful subordinate in "Bright Sword", Zhang Dabiao, the commander of the first battalion of the independent regiment, played a very heavy role in the first half of the TV series, and also left a deep impression on the audience, so where did Zhang Dabiao go in the end?
Li Yunlong's most powerful subordinate in "Bright Sword", Zhang Dabiao, the commander of the first battalion of the Independent Regiment, played a very heavy role in the first half of the TV series, and also left a deep impression on the audience, so where did Zhang Dabiao go in the end?
In the first half of "Bright Sword", the character of Zhang Dabiao is very brilliant, the role is very heavy, and it has left a deep impression on the audience.
According to the character settings in the TV series, Zhang Dabiao was originally a platoon leader of the 29th Army Of the Northwest Army, and once participated in the Great Wall Resistance. Later, Zhang Dabiao left the army in order to arrange his mother's desertion, but unexpectedly returned to his hometown and his mother had been killed by the Japanese army, in order to avenge, so he joined the Eighth Route Army and became a subordinate of Li Yunlong, and then in the war, with his military achievements, he gradually rose to the battalion commander and became Li Yunlong's most powerful subordinate.
In the cangyunling breakthrough battle in the first episode of "Bright Sword", Zhang Dabiao was the battalion commander of The First Regiment newly organized by Li Yunlong, and when Li Yunlong led his troops to break through the siege, he found that Zhang Dabiao did not rush out, Li Yunlong led his troops into the siege, and finally rescued Zhang Dabiao, and personally carried the wounded Zhang Dabiao to break through, which shows that Zhang Dabiao's position in Li Yunlong's heart is very heavy, and the same breakthrough also made Zhang Dabiao completely become Li Yunlong's diehard loyalist.
Li Yunlong succeeded Kong Jie as the head of the independent regiment, and the only requirement of the brigade commander was to transfer Zhang Dabiao from the new regiment to the independent regiment, and with Zhang Dabiao by his side, Li Yunlong would be much more comfortable fighting.
At the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhang Dabiao served as the chief of staff of the Independent Regiment and the commander of the first battalion, and when attacking the county seat of Ping'an, the first battalion had grown to 2,000 men under the leadership of Zhang Dabiao, and was the veritable number one main force of the Independent Regiment.
Zhang Dabiao was highly skilled in martial arts, once single-handedly singled out two Japanese young soldiers, and also had a strong command ability, and became the chief of staff of Li Yunlong's Second Division in the late stages of the Liberation War. If he did not die, he was at least a colonel when he was awarded the rank in 1955, as a battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and as the chief of staff of the Liberation War Division. But in the second half of the TV series, Zhang Dabiao did not appear again, so where did he end up?
In the original novel, when Li Yunlong was recuperating from his wounds in the field hospital and by the way turned to his wife Tian Yu, the People's Liberation Army had already crossed the River with a million male divisions and began a pursuit battle south of the Yangtze River to destroy the decay, Li Yunlong went to chase the troops after recovering from his wounds, and happened to lead a group of soldiers escorting the train to suppress a band of bandits in the middle of the road, delaying a little time, and when they reached Fujian, some of his old troops were already under the leadership of Deputy Commander Xing and Zhang Dabiao, and went to attack Kinmen Island.
The Battle of Kinmen in 1949 was the largest organizational loss of our army during the War of Liberation, with three regiments of landing troops and more than 9,000 troops completely destroyed.
If Zhang Dabiao was also in the landing force, then his end would be very clear, and he would have died in kinmen in nine times out of ten!
The main reason for the defeat in the Battle of Kinmen was the light enemy, believing that Xiamen had already been taken, and the small Kinmen Island was a piece of cake. However, the Kuomintang side is the opposite, Xiamen is lost, as long as it can hold the Golden Gate, it can still choke Xiamen's outlet to the sea! Therefore, the focus of the Kuomintang army's defense in the Jinxia area was precisely not Xiamen, but Kinmen.
The People's Liberation Army attacked Kinmen, and the first wave was three regiments, and three regiments from two armies and three divisions! Therefore, some people say that if there are three regiments of the same division, the unity of command may not be defeated. This is obviously too wishful thinking. These three regiments were the main forces of their respective divisions, and their combat effectiveness was stronger than that of the three regiments of the same division, and all three regiments were directly commanded by the front finger of the 28th Army using radio, and there was no problem of inconsistent command at all.
So, one might ask, how could three regiments from three divisions be put in? This operation is really incomprehensible. The answer is very simple, because the 28th Army believes that this battle will undoubtedly be won, so it allows all the units participating in the battle to participate in the battle. This is the concrete manifestation of the light enemy!
The original plan was to put in six regiments at a time, but in the end only one ship was found to transport three regiments at a time, so it was decided to first transport three regiments across the sea to make a surprise landing, each ship dropped its troops and immediately returned to the mainland, and then transported the second wave of troops, even if the first wave of ships lost, but at least the second wave could transport two regiments up, and five regiments landed on Kinmen Island, and the battle was basically won.
Although a platoon-level cadre and a soldier were assigned to each ship to escort the ship back, when the actual landscaping landfall, because the troops participating in the battle were not familiar with the characteristics and tides of the landing war, they blindly demanded that the ships dock as much as possible before disembarking, so as to reduce the distance for officers and men to wade on the beach. But at that time, it was a high tide, and the beach on Kinmen Island was flat bottom, and as soon as the tide receded, all the boats ran aground on the shore and did not come back! When the Kuomintang defenders discovered it, they immediately bombarded the ships stranded on the beach with artillery fire, and after dawn, the Kuomintang aircraft and warships also came one after another, and the sea and air fire were fired at the same time, and all these stranded ships were destroyed.
In this way, the plan to return the ships carrying the first wave of troops and then pick up the second wave of troops was completely frustrated!
Since then, although the 28th Army has done its best, it has only collected a few ships, and has transported more than three hundred people to the island in two batches, but this is already the last effort, that is, symbolic significance, and it is completely useless.
On the day of the landing of the People's Liberation Army, 20,000 people of the Hu Lian Corps who had changed their defenses had arrived by boat, but because the wind and waves were too large, they did not dock, and anchored in The Bay of Shiluo in the south of Kinmen Island. As soon as the battle began that night, Hu Lian's army immediately docked and unloaded, and after dawn they began to fight one after another, so that the defenders on the island actually reached 40,000 people. Nine thousand to forty thousand, and the People's Liberation Army has almost no artillery support, the landing force has only a few mortars and infantry guns, and the artillery of the military divisions far away from the mainland, due to the long range - the distance between Kinmen and the mainland is about 10,000 meters, which is almost the maximum range of the 105 mm howitzer, and there is no reliable artillery guidance, at such a long distance, the hit accuracy can be imagined.
Without ships, not only were there no reinforcements, but there was not even food and ammunition supplies. The three regiments on the island fought fiercely for three days and nights without the support of follow-up ammunition and grass, and inevitably fell into a desperate situation of running out of ammunition and food, partially sacrificed and partly captured.
A week after the landing, sporadic gunfire can still be heard on the island. Xu Bo, the commander of the 253rd Regiment, one of the three regiments of the landing force, was not captured by the Kuomintang until three months later, and he had been lurking on the island for three months, with long hair and beard, looking like a savage, and still insisting!
According to the novel, it was at this time that Li Yunlong rushed to the Fujian front, looked at the Golden Gate from the shore, received Zhang Dabiao's final farewell through the front finger radio, and then stood by the seaside for a few days with many comrades-in-arms, listening to the faint sound of gunfire on the island and refusing to leave. Finally, the mainland sent trumpet troops to blow the lights out of Kinmen Island...
With Zhang Dabiao's character, he should not be captured, because he was captured because he was seriously injured, and he was not the kind of person who was willing to live and steal his life. Therefore, Zhang Dabiao is very likely to die in battle.
According to Zhang Dabiao's qualifications, at this time he should be the deputy divisional chief of staff, and in the Battle of Kinmen, the People's Liberation Army did not have deputy division-level cadres on the island, at most, the 246th regimental commander Sun Yunxiu, after the first wave of ships were all destroyed, led four companies to collect reinforcements on the island, and he was temporarily promoted to deputy division commander and unified command of the island troops. Sun Yunxiu finally committed suicide after being injured, perhaps this is also a little prototype of Zhang Dabiao.
The Kinmen Campaign is not large in scale, it is only a battle at the division level, but the impact is still very large; it is a war in which our army suffered the greatest losses in the formation during the War of Liberation, and it also gave our army a wake-up call; cross-sea landing operations are a new topic that has never been encountered before, and the enemy cannot move blindly, and this is the story of the victorious liberation of Hainan Island later. It was precisely because of the defeat in the Battle of Kinmen that the process of liberating Taiwan was directly delayed. Note that the Battle of Kinmen really only delayed the liberation of Taiwan, and the real interruption of the war against Taiwan was the Outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950.
Instead of the Korean War and the later War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Li Yunlong was already making all kinds of operational preparations for the Taiwan Campaign, and when all the combat preparations were in place, they would cross the sea to liberate Taiwan Island and avenge Zhang Dabiao. The Kuomintang in 1949, even if it retreated to Taiwan, had been abandoned by the United States, and even if it wanted to take a safe corner, the prospects were not optimistic.
(The picture of this article is from the network)