In the sequence of the People's Liberation Army, there was a unit that fought stronger and stronger in the three-year Northeast Liberation War, and became one of the five ace units under Lin Biao. In Sibao Linjiang, the summer and autumn offensives, and the earth-shattering Tashan Blockade Battle of the Liaoshen Campaign, this unit played an iron-blooded style. This unit was the former 4th Column of the Northeast Field Army, and later the 41st Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. The person to be talked about in this article is Zhang Xudeng, who was the commander of the 41st Army.
Zhang Xudeng is a Shandong Rong adult, born in 1925. As a teenager, his family was in difficulty and had to come out early to work. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Japanese army invaded Shandong on a large scale, and the people of Qilu were trapped in the waters. At this time, the Eighth Route Army advanced into Shandong, and with the cooperation of the Red Army guerrillas who insisted on local struggle, they resisted the Japanese puppet recalcitrant army and established a base area, which quickly created a new situation. It was in this situation that in 1940, Zhang Xudeng joined the Eighth Route Army.
Zhang Xudeng joined the local army and was later promoted to the main force of the Shandong Military Region. Although Zhang Xudeng was young, he was strong-willed, brave in battle, and performed well, and within a few years he was promoted from a soldier to a deputy instructor. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the main force of the Shandong Military Region was ordered to advance into the northeast, and Zhang Xudeng also crossed the sea with his troops to the north, and from then on joined the Northeast Liberation War.
Zhang Xudeng's unit was organized into the 4th Column of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army, which later became the 4th Column of the Northeast People's Liberation Army, the 41st Army of the Fourth Field Army, and the 41st Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. He successively served as an instructor, deputy instructor, instructor and other positions, and followed the troops to the south and the north, and crossed the south and Manchuria. After the three major offensives of summer, autumn and winter from 1947 to 1948, the 4th Column annihilated tens of thousands of Nationalist troops, played out of style, played a level, and became the main column in the northeast army. Zhang Xudeng himself was also tested by the war and grew into an excellent grassroots commander.
After the liberation of northeast China, Zhang Xudeng followed the Siye army into The Pass, liberated Pingjin, crossed the Yangtze River, decisively defeated Hengbao, advanced into Guangxi, and experienced the whole process of the liberation of central and southern China. Since then, Zhang Xudeng has been growing up in the 41st Army, and was drawn to participate in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and was trained in the modernization war. After returning to China, he led the reconnaissance detachment to participate in the counterattack battle on Dongshan Island, and cooperated with the main force to attack the invasion of the Nationalist Army's Hu Lian troops, and successfully defended the coastal islands.
From 1955 to 1968, Zhang Xudeng stepped to a new level, successively serving as deputy division commander, division chief of staff, division commander, deputy commander, and commander, and at the age of 43, he became the military commander of the 41st Army, the main force of the Guangzhou Military Region. He administered the army strictly, emphasizing adherence to training, excellent work style, and adequate support; under the difficult situation of the special era, he has always maintained the good combat readiness of the 41st Army. Therefore, when the situation on the Sino-Vietnamese border changed, the army became the first force to be ordered to defend the frontier.
In the 1979 self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, Zhang Xudeng commanded the 41st Army to join the northern battlefield of the Gaoping Campaign, combined with infantry, artillery, and armored troops, broke through the border from the three directions of Nianjing, Shuojiang, and Longbang, and violently attacked, annihilated 2 reinforcement regiments of the 346th Division, the main infantry of the Vietnamese Army, annihilated more than 7,000 enemy troops, coordinated with the main force of the military region to conquer the important town of Gaoping, and successfully completed the combat task.
Commander Zhang Xudeng, who fought hundreds of battles in his lifetime, fought the Japanese army, the Nationalist army, and the Vietnamese army successively, and was worthy of being an excellent general of our army.
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