In April 1931, during the Red Army's second anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, a company commander of the Red 3rd Army, with only 17 fighters, attacked the west and outsmarted Jianning City, capturing more than 200 enemies.
After the war, Mr. Peng was overjoyed and said to the staff around him: "This boy is too condescending to be a company commander, go to the 15th Regiment to be the regiment leader!" ”
The man who was promoted from company commander to regimental commander in world war I was named Bai Zhiwen and later became the founding major general.
Speaking of which, Bai Zhiwen's origin is not low, the family is the white flag of the Qing Dynasty, and his father is in the official residence of Wupin, but when Bai Zhiwen was 8 years old, the Qing Dynasty came to an end, and the Bai family also followed the bad luck, Bai Zhiwen joined the warlord's army in order to survive, barely able to eat a full meal.
However, the warlord's troops made Bai Zhiwen feel deeply depressed and incompatible with his ideals, so in 1929, Bai Zhiwen led his men to launch an uprising and joined the ranks of the Red Army.
Bai Zhiwen found a sense of belonging in the Red Army, and the progress was very fast, and Mr. Peng also admired his ability very much, so he focused on cultivating him, and the story at the beginning of this article occurred.
As we all know, during the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, many units of the Red Army lost the battle and had to start the Long March. However, among the few victories, there were 15 regiments led by Bai Zhiwen.
At that time, the strength of the enemy's two battalions held the "Bazikou" 40 miles west of Guangchang City, and Bai Zhiwen fought with two battalions for half an hour, and finally took the place and pursued the enemy with the victory. During the battle, Bai Zhiwen's face was pierced by a bullet, but he could not hold on to the line of fire, and finally commanded the troops to annihilate more than 600 enemy troops, capture more than 200 enemy, and capture a large amount of ammunition, thus winning the fifth rare victory against "encirclement and suppression."
In the ensuing Battle of xiangjiang, Bai Zhiwen fought with a regimental strength to fight with one of Bai Chongxi's divisions, he repeatedly rushed into the enemy position, fought with the enemy bayonet, and finally his left lung was pierced, his ribs were broken twice, and he was in a coma for three days and three nights.
After the war, Mr. Peng specially found someone to carry a stretcher, carried him away for a week, and only then rescued him.
After the Xi'an Incident, the chairman personally sent a telegram to Bai Zhiwen: "Quickly occupy Yan'an." ”
At that time, the Northeast Army in Yan'an Had withdrawn, leaving only a security force of less than a thousand people. In the early morning of this day, Bai Zhiwen led the team to the city of Yan'an, and through the night, shouted loudly: "Brothers in the city listen, I am under the order of Deputy Commander Zhang Xueliang to take over the defense of Yan'an, and you will immediately open the city gate!" ”
The security forces in the city were already like birds of fright, and without asking the specific number of the troops, they directly opened the city gates, and when they found out that it was a Red Army team, it was too late to resist. In this way, Bai Zhiwen successfully occupied Yan'an City without spending a single shot.
After taking Yan'an City, because the central government will be stationed here in the future, their first task is to eliminate the bandits and ensure safety. However, Bai Zhiwen led the team for several days, fighting some scattered bandits, and felt that the biggest bandits had not yet been found.
On this day, the chairman specifically found Bai Zhiwen and asked him about the situation of the bandits, and Bai Zhiwen bowed his head and said that many detachments had been dispatched, but they could not find the bandits' nests, and the progress was slow.
The chairman laughed and said to him: "The bandits are very cunning and want to mobilize the masses to find them." Bai Zhiwen immediately opened a theft, and when he returned, he mobilized the masses while dispatching plainclothes to go deep into the surrounding villages to ask questions from his fellow villagers, and also found several members of the Brotherhood of Elders and asked them to contact. Soon, the largest bandit nest in Yan'an was destroyed.
Afterwards, Bai Zhiwen said with emotion: "The chairman still has a way, and I think I can't do anything with my head broken, and the chairman will solve it with one sentence!" ”
When he was awarded the title in 1955, Bai Zhiwen's seniority was enough to award lieutenant general, but in the end he was only given a major general, and many people complained about him, but Bai Zhiwen did not care, saying: "If I coveted glory and wealth, I would not have left the warlord army to join the Red Army. ”
On April 3, 1986, General Bai Zhiwen died of illness at the age of 83.
History Inn Author: Desert Sand