(Movie "The Gathering")
Chu Daming, deputy brigade commander of the Tenth Brigade of the Chen Geng Column (Fourth Column), was a soldier born to fight a war, and if he did not fight, he would feel uncomfortable. In mid-December 1945, he personally led 30 regiments to raid the village of Xiaojia, but was unexpectedly surrounded by the enemy in the village.
In the face of such a sudden emergency, Chu Daming not only did not panic in the slightest, but his mind was more calm. After judging the enemy's combined position by the sound of gunfire, he ordered the troops to gather their troops, put on their bayonets, unscrew the grenades, and break through to the west, where the gunfire was weaker.
The battalions rushed hard and finally tore the gap in the encirclement, and the first and third battalions protruded along the mouth, but this breakthrough was quickly sealed by the enemy. Chu Daming could have rushed out with the first and third battalions, but he did not do so, because there were more than a hundred wounded behind him, and he would rather die than leave the wounded behind and seek safety alone.
Chu Daming took the second battalion that had time to rush out in the future, supported the wounded, and returned to Xiao Jia again, continuing to fight with the enemy. At this time, the waiting regiment of the village saw reinforcements, and immediately came to the spirit like a big cigarette, and began to attack the second battalion together with the enemy outside the village. The second battalion was attacked on all sides, and the battle was very fierce, Chu Daming ripped open his clothes, opened his arms, and fought with a hand-held machine gun, and where the gun was the most intense, the battle was the most glued, he went where he went, while running, while roaring and buckling the plate machine. Suddenly, a bullet hit Chu Daming's arm, and the staff officer next to him wanted to give him a copy, Chu Daming was fighting vigorously, where there was time to copy, he immediately broke off: "Dodge!" Pack a fart, hit! ”
Many of the soldiers of the second battalion were replenished soldiers who had just revolted, and they had only been changing into the clothes and hats of the Eighth Route Army for a month. The thinking of these soldiers is usually the most unstable, the battle is smooth and good, if it is not smooth, it is easy to fight all kinds of small nines and nines, but when they see that the deputy brigade commander is so brave and brave, he will not leave the wounded at the risk of death, and they are also boiling with blood, all fighting to the death, and none of them shrink their heads and shrink their heads, and they are afraid of their hands and feet.
More and more enemies rushed in from outside the village, increasing to one division, and the number of men in the second battalion became less and less, and as the courtyard was occupied by the enemy one by one, finally the second battalion was completely crushed in the remaining three compounds.
Liang Tianxi, political commissar of the 30th Regiment, followed the breakthrough of the 1st and 3rd Battalions, found that the deputy brigade commander and the 2nd Battalion had not yet come out, and hurriedly ran to the Headquarters of the 10th Brigade to report. When Zhou Xihan and Liu Zhong learned of this situation, they both broke out in a cold sweat, they were not worried about anything else, they were afraid that Chu Daming was too brave, and after being surrounded, he did not wait for reinforcements to arrive, so he was eager to lead the team to break through, in this case, he would be very dangerous, and the second battalion was also finished -- the reason why the second battalion was not immediately eaten by the enemy after being deeply encircled was that all depended on Chu Daming's presence, and once Chu Daming was sacrificed, it was difficult to imagine that this battalion could continue to hold out.
Some people said that they should send troops quickly, but it would be too late, and some said that if the reinforcements went, the second battalion had been annihilated by the enemy, what to do, and then the reinforcements would also be in danger.
Just when a room full of people was arguing, Chen Geng happened to be returning from a meeting in the military region, and when he heard about this, he immediately talked about his opinion.
(Excerpt from Guanhe Fifty Prefectures "Chen Geng Bingtuan")