In the history of our army, there was a well-known warlord whose military ability was not inferior to Thatu Yu's, and whose status was above Thatu Yu's, comparable to Chen Yi'. It can be said that the battle is remarkable. If he had not been wrongly killed, he would have lived to the end of the country, and when he was awarded the title in 55 years, he would have been at least a general.
In this way, it is not an unfounded nonsense that Gao Jingting was elected chairman of the township Soviet in the second year of joining the Red Army, chairman of the Soviet of the Eyu-Anhui Special Administrative Region in the third year, and political commissar of the 75th Division of the Red 25th Army in the fourth year.
In 1934, the Red 25th Army went north on the Long March, Gao Jingting stayed behind to insist on guerrilla struggle, he rebuilt the Red 28th Army, served as the political commissar, and was the supreme chief, because the 28th Army did not have a commander.
Since then, Gao Jingting led the Red 28th Army, facing an enemy that is sometimes hundreds of times stronger than himself, without fear, and countless times defeated the strong with the weak, becoming a banner in the hearts of the people in the base areas.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, and the 28th Army was reorganized into the Fourth Detachment of the New Fourth Army, with Gao Jingting as commander and political commissar.
At that time, there were four detachments of the New Fourth Army, and if we look at the commanders and deputy commanders of these four detachments, we will know how high Gao Jingting's status is.
The first detachment, commander Chen Yi, the second detachment commander Zhang Dingcheng, the third detachment commander Zhang Yunyi, and the fourth detachment commander Gao Jingting.
The deputy commanders of each detachment were also famous Manchu Generals, and Fu Qiutao, the deputy commander of the first detachment, was awarded the rank of general in 1955. Su Yu, the deputy commander of the second detachment, was really too famous and ranked first among the top ten generals. It is said that he tried to resign from the rank of field marshal. Tan Zhenlin, deputy commander of the third detachment, was included in the list of generals, but was not awarded a title because he did not work in the local area. Du Ping, the deputy commander of the fourth detachment, was awarded the rank of lieutenant general when he was awarded the rank in 1955.
The minimum rank of deputy commander of a detachment is lieutenant general. Among the commanders, Chen Yi was a marshal, and Zhang Dingcheng was also in the list of generals, Zhang Yunyi, with the rank of grand general.
So, in the New Fourth Army, how strong is the fourth detachment? Located at the head of the four detachments, it is a well-deserved strong force in the New Fourth Army.
At that time, the four detachments of the New Fourth Army had 10,300 men, one to three detachments, each with two regiments of more than two thousand people, and the four detachments had four regiments, three infantry regiments, one pistol regiment, more than 4,000 people, and the equipment was also the strongest.
Moreover, Among the four detachment commanders, Gao Jingting was the youngest, and his natural development prospects were the greatest. At that time, Chen Yi was 36 years old, Zhang Dingcheng was 39 years old, Zhang Yunyi was 45 years old, and among the leaders of the New Fourth Army, Commander Ye Ting was 41 years old, and Deputy Commander Xiang Ying was 39 years old. Gao Jingting was only 30 years old.
So, what is Gao Jingting's military achievements? Let's take a look at it in the period of the Red Army and the period of the War of Resistance.
During the Red Army period, Gao Jingting led the Red 28th Army, with a team of 2,000 people, to deal with 100,000 national troops who came to encircle and suppress, without fear, many times with the weak to defeat the strong, it can be said that he is a general who always wins.
The first commander-in-chief of encirclement and suppression was Liu Zhenhua, who led 100,000 troops, of which Liang Guanying's 25th Route Army was the most powerful. Gao Jingting adopted a flexible and mobile strategy and tactics, holding the enemy's nose, exhausting the enemy, and then setting up an ambush in the deep mountains, taking advantage of the favorable terrain to beat the enemy to the ground.
In anger, the elder Jiang removed Liu Zhenhua and appointed Liang Guanying as commander-in-chief, eliminating the 28th Army within a time limit. However, Liang Guanying's fate was no different from Liu Zhenhua's, and the 100,000-strong army was defeated by several thousand people of Gao Jingting.
Old Jiang was even more angry and ordered Liang Guanying to be removed from his position as commander-in-chief. The third time, Wei Lihuang, who had made great achievements in the encirclement and suppression of the Red Army, was transferred. There were 100,000 regular troops, and local security regiments were mobilized. He implemented the policy of joint protection and joint protection, killing all five families in one family, in an attempt to cut off the common people's contact with the Red Army.
At the same time, Wei Lihuang implemented the pillbox policy, and important villages and towns, major transportation routes, and mountain passes were all built bunkers. At that time, how many bunkers did Wei Lihuang build? There are more than 24,700, some of which are only half a mile apart between the bunkers.
Faced with Wei Lihuang's bunker tactics, Gao Jingting responded with scattered operations, with the company platoon as the unit of activity, so that clothes were the mainstay. At the same time, the policy of differentiation was adopted against the enemy, and as long as the vigilante groups provided information and intelligence to the Red Army, they would not fight, but only those stubborn regular troops.
Gao Jingting's response made Wei Lihuang have no way at all. Didn't the enemy rely on bunkers? Then the enemy will shrink in the bunker. So many bunkers, anyway, there are to fight, no one knows which one to fight, where to fight.
Just when Wei Lihuang had no way to do anything, the July 7 Incident broke out, and Wei Lihuang went to Lushan for a meeting, and this encirclement and suppression ended without any problems.
After the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Red 28th Army was reorganized into the fourth detachment of the New Fourth Army, with Gao Jingting as the commander and led the four detachments to fight against the Japanese army. On May 16, 1938, Gao Jingting led his troops to launch the Battle of Jiangjiahekou, killing more than 20 enemy troops and not a single damage to the four detachments, and launching the first battle of the New Fourth Army advancing behind enemy lines.
The battle at the mouth of the Jiang family had a great impact, and old Jiang sent a commendation telegram to Ye Ting, and sent a telegram to commend the four detachments. According to statistics, in the year and four months that Gao Jingting marched east to the mountain, he led his troops to fight more than 90 times, fought with more than 1,000 Japanese troops 4 times, and killed and wounded more than 2,300 enemy troops, of which more than 1,700 were Japanese troops.
In these more than 90 large and small battles, the four teams won each one, which shows that Gao Jingting really has superb command ability.
However, just as Gao Jingting was leading his troops to fight the enemy, he was secretly arrested. At that time, the Japanese army offered a reward of 100,000 oceans to buy the head of Gao Jingting, but as a result, this outstanding military commander died at the hands of his own people.
After Gao Jingting was executed, more than 2,000 people from the four detachments left the troops in anger, causing serious repercussions. The superior urgently transferred Xu Haidong to take over as the commander of the four detachments, which stabilized the situation.
Hearing that Gao Jingting had been executed, the chairman angrily asked: "We let Gao Jingting come to Yan'an, why did we execute him?" Quickly find out the reason and report to the central government! ”
Afterwards, Ye Ting, Deng Zihui, Zhang Yunyi, and others all made an examination. However, a generation of military wizards has been wrongly killed, which is too sad. Later, the chairman kept this matter in mind, and after receiving a letter from Gao Fengying, the daughter of Gao Jingting, in 1975, he specially assigned Wang Dongxing to investigate the matter, but it was not until April 1977 that Gao Jingting was wronged.