In 1949, the former Nishino Third Column was reorganized into the Nishino Third Army, and the original column commander Xu Guangda naturally became the commander of the army, in order to better complete the work, the superior intended to promote Huang Xinting, the commander of the first division of the Third Army, to deputy commander. Logically, anyone who is promoted will feel happy, but Huang Xinting is unwilling, because he does not want to be a deputy, saying: I want to be a military commander.
You must know that Xu Guangda's seniority and status in the army are much higher than Huang Xinting's. Xu Guangda, one of the few graduates of the Whampoa Military Academy in the People's Liberation Army, joined the Communist Party of China in 1925 and has followed the Chinese Communist Revolution since the Nanchang Uprising. When Huang Xinting joined the Red Army in 1931, Xu Guangda was already the commander of the Eighth Red Division. In addition, after the founding of New China, Xu Guang was appointed as the founding general, and Huang Xinting was a lieutenant general. Although the two are not incomparable, there is also a certain gap. From any point of view, it is very reasonable for Xu Guangda to serve as a military commander and Huang Xinting as a deputy commander.
Why wouldn't Huang Xinting want to? Did he have any dissatisfaction with Xu Guangda?
General He Long, Huang Xinting's old leader, also thought of this and went out of his way to ask him what he thought of Xu Guangda. Huang Xinting said: "I get along very well with him. But I just don't want to be a deputy. If I can't be a regular commander, I'd rather go back and be a division commander. ”
General He explained to him: "Xu Guangda is the commander of the armored corps of the unit, and the army side is only concurrently the commander of the three armed forces, and the specific affairs in the actual army are still fully responsible for you." What else are you worried about? ”
When all was said and done, Huang Xinting still disagreed, saying: "If you don't give me the position of military commander and want me to do the work of a military commander, then I will not do it." ”
General He saw that he could not be persuaded, so he had to report to his superiors and consider appointing Huang Xinting as the commander of the army.
In our opinion, Huang Xinting's dissatisfaction is indeed somewhat unreasonable, but Mr. He still accommodated his ideas and helped him react to the leaders, which also proved that Huang Xinting was a general who had the ability to serve as a military commander, so what kind of a person was he?
Huang Xinting was born in September 1913 to a poor fisherman family in the Honghu area of Hubei Province. Huang Xinting has been fishing in Honghu Lake with his father since he was a child, and his father will always sing loudly while rowing, a "domineering" song, singing: "Lao Tzu's original surname is Tian, his family lives by Honghu Lake, and someone comes to catch me, unless he is a god." Muzzle to muzzle, tip to tip, you without me, you die in heaven! "Although the family lived a hard life, they were content and happy, and no one offended me, so they also developed Huang Xinting's fierce character in the future, and his combat style was also extremely heroic and trustworthy."
Since the xinhai revolution, Hubei province has been the center of the national revolution, where progressive ideas have been widely disseminated, and revolutionary actions such as the student movement and the establishment of magazines and periodicals are in full swing. Huang Xinting was also positively influenced, and in 1928, at the age of 16, after graduating from the Campaign Department of the Plaster Military Academy, he began to participate in revolutionary work, and the following year joined the Chinese Communist Youth League and became the leader of the District Young Pioneers. At this time, there was a person who changed Huang Xinting's fate and came to the Honghu area, he was He Long.
In 1928, under the instructions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, He Long came to Honghu District, Hubei Province, to develop a team. Under the leadership of He Long, the peasant movement in Honghu District rose and fell one after another, and He Long gradually gained a high reputation in the local area. The young Huang Xinting was infected by the revolution and repeatedly took the initiative to help He Long's team monitor, track, and provide intelligence.
Ordinary teenagers will feel afraid when they encounter armed soldiers, but Huang Xinting does not, but there is a blood-boiling emotion rushing in his body, he hopes that he will grow up as soon as possible, and he will also take up arms and make a difference.
At that time, more than a hundred reactionaries suddenly rushed to Huang Xinting's village, killing many innocent people along the way. Hearing this news, the revolutionary cadres in the village fled, leaving only the young Huang Xinting.
When Huang Xinting saw the reactionaries coming to the village, he did not feel panicked, and he calmed his breath for a moment, waiting for the enemy to interrogate him. When the enemy saw that Huang Xinting was just a child, he didn't care and began to drink at him. Huang Xinting was neither angry nor afraid, but took the initiative to pour tea and hand cigarettes to the reactionary personnel. These reactionaries were satisfied with his service and completely relaxed.
Huang Xinting took advantage of the opportunity of "service" to pretend to be curious to ask the enemy some information that could be big or small, and to clearly understand the enemy's command post, position, and military deployment. When the reactionaries had eaten and drunk enough to rest, Huang Xinting immediately went out of the village to pass on the important information he had received to the guerrillas. That night, the reactionaries were severely hit by the local guerrillas and suffered heavy losses, and it can be said that Huang Xinting made a great contribution.
Soon another battalion of Kuomintang reactionaries came to the Honghu area. At that time, Huang Xinting's guerrilla group had only 40 people, but neither Huang Xinting nor the guerrillas retreated. Instead, they took advantage of the dim night and lurked in the enemy's garrison. The guerrillas also moved the few cannons to the enemy camp, firing all the guns and explosives, and the Japanese side did not know for a while how many people had come to attack the camp, and they fled in fright. This was the first battle in Huang Xinting's life, and it was also a battle in which less won more, which greatly encouraged Huang Xinting's confidence in fighting.
In 1935, the 22-year-old Huang Xinting transferred to the Chinese Communist Party, and because of his bravery and flexibility in battle, he was praised by He Long and was promoted to regimental commander. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the 716th Regiment led by Huang Xinting was declared to be the "Sixth Group in Asia", referred to as the "Sixth Asian Regiment". It sounds intimidating, just to confuse the enemy when participating in combat. Under the leadership of Huang Xinting, the 716th Regiment defeated the Japanese army again and again in the vast Jinjicha area.
In the winter of 1938, the Japanese army gathered more than 50,000 troops and began to encircle and suppress the Shanxi, Chahar, and Hebei regions on a large scale, while also destroying the railway line in an attempt to find and eliminate the main force of the Eighth Route Army. The Japanese army was well equipped and had high combat quality and ability, so the Eighth Route Army suffered many losses in the course of fighting with them. However, at that time, the first major victory of the 120th Division led by He Long in the battlefield behind enemy lines was the talc ambush battle conducted by the 716th Regiment led by Huang Xinting.
At noon on November 3, Regiment Chief of Staff Liu Zhong provided Huang Xinting with an important message: the 700 Japanese troops occupying Wutai County would return to the Wutai County position from Gaohongkou this evening. Huang Xinting hastened to report this information to Zhang Zongxun, commander of the 358 Brigade. Subsequently, the brigade headquarters held a meeting and decided that the 716th Regiment would be responsible for ambushing the Japanese army, and the 714th Regiment would be responsible for blocking the Japanese reinforcements in Wutai County. Huang Xinting, who received the order, felt a great responsibility, and suddenly he realized a very serious problem.
The success of this night's battle depends on the race against time. The Japanese army was only more than 20 miles away from Gaohongkou to talc, but the 716th Regiment was stationed in talc for more than 50 miles, and Huang Xinting had to lead his troops to do a good ambush before the enemy reached talc. At that time, the dinner of the 716 regiment had just been prepared, but the soldiers had no time to eat, and each brought a little dry food, and Huang Xinting immediately ordered the whole team to prepare to leave.
On their way back to Wutai County, the Japanese army passed by a place called talc. With mountains, deep ditches, dense trees and weeds, it's the perfect place for ambushes. But not only was the march time urgent, but the rugged mountain road was not easy to walk, it was early winter, the road was covered with ice and snow, and it was extremely difficult for the 716th Regiment to march at night. Although Huang Xinting urged the soldiers to move quickly, after arriving at their destination, before the whole regiment could rest, the scouts had already come to report that the enemy army was about to arrive, and Huang Xinting also heard the sound of snow not far away. He immediately realized that a fierce battle was about to begin.
Huang Xinting quickly calmed down, began to command the various units to move, and quickly took place according to the ambush points found by the reconnaissance troops. When the entire soldiers of the 716th Regiment began to ambush, some Japanese troops had even entered the ambush circle. Some soldiers felt a strong threat and could not help but whisper to persuade Huang Xinting to order an attack, but Huang Xinting refused.
Soon, more than a dozen Japanese vanguards crossed the bottom of the ravine, and most of the soldiers of the 716th Regiment lamented that the good ambush was missed. However, Huang Xinting felt that this was the best time to attack, so he immediately ordered an attack.
The soldiers of the 716th Regiment, who could not wait for a long time, launched a fierce attack on the Japanese army below like hungry tigers. The Japanese were stunned by the sudden burst of fire, and they did not expect to be attacked at this time.
After a brief panic, the Japanese stabilized their formations and quickly used the terrain to covertly counterattack. The Japanese then fought and retreated, trying to retreat under the cover of artillery fire, but were also blocked by the 716th Regiment.
Although Huang Xinting's 716th Regiment was not as advanced as the Japanese army, it defeated the Japanese offensive again and again with the right ambush timing and favorable terrain. Finally, the 716th Regiment engaged the enemy in hand-to-hand combat with bayonets. After 4 hours of fierce fighting, the 716th Regiment lost more than ten people, but almost completely annihilated the Japanese army, a unit of more than 700 people, and won a major victory. The fleeing Japanese army encountered the resistance of our 714th Regiment and was finally completely destroyed.
At first, the Nationalist liaison officers in the 120th Division did not believe that the backward Eighth Route Army could defeat the well-trained Japanese army. It wasn't until Huang Xinting asked his subordinates to send him two Japanese coats and a command knife that he slowly accepted this fact.
However, the most tragic battle in Huang Xinting's life was the next battle with the Yoshida Army, the Japanese army's Yoshida army because of the "achievements" of the Nanjing Massacre, and everyone wore medals, such a bloody feud that no one Chinese endure.
Shortly after the Battle of Talc, He Long was ordered to lead the 120th Division into the Jizhong Plain. On April 23, 1939, more than 800 soldiers of Yoshida's troops attacked the village of Qihui. When all the officers and men of the 120th Division learned that Yoshida's troops were the troops involved in the Nanjing Massacre, the whole army gritted their teeth and vowed to avenge their compatriots.
The 3rd Battalion of the 716th Regiment, led by Huang Xinting, was ordered to hold back the Japanese army, and in the face of the enemy's strong firepower, the soldiers of the 3rd Battalion fought back against the Yoshida Brigade without fear. When the enemy saw that he could not launch a fierce attack, he began to fire poison gas bombs in a frenzy. In the end, not only some soldiers of the 3rd Battalion fell with hatred, but even He Long and more than 120 people at the division headquarters were also affected by poison gas.
Seeing this, the remaining soldiers of the third battalion held back tears and fought even more courageously, fighting against Yoshida's troops in the village, house by house. Every time Yoshida's troops advanced, they had to pay a terrible price. In addition, Huang Xinting ordered the second and third battalions to begin to surround the Japanese army, and eventually annihilated more than 700 of Yoshida's troops, only more than 80 people escaped from the chaos.
After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Huang Xinting went to Yan'an Military and Political College to study, and then to the Military Academy and the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to continuously improve himself. During the Liberation War, Huang Xinting served as the brigade commander of the 358th Brigade of the Jinsui Field Army, and later became the commander of the division.
Such a general Huang Xinting, he is tough in his dealings with people, has a straight talk, is in his bones, no matter what kind of battle will not be afraid, it seems that nothing can defeat him, this is also in the bones.
In the special period after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Huang Xinting's old leader He Long was criticized, and he was also implicated and imprisoned, but he was still such a "hard bone" and did not say anything bad about He Long in prison for four years. This is Huang Xinting, who will not change for a lifetime, and in his later years, he recalled the matter of going to prison and said in a full spirit: "Yes is there, no is no, it is to kill me, and I can't tell any lies!" ”