The Communist army has always had more fierce generals who are not killed, which makes the Kuomintang army envious and hateful.
There are deep reasons for this, the Kuomintang's military factions are numerous, there are many valves, the promotion system takes the elite route, and most of the people who can take up the position of general are either graduates of the Whampoa Military Academy or local military academies, or the children of rich and noble people who have taken the network of connections. In these crowds, it is difficult to appear that kind of Li Yunlong-style outlaws who draw their swords at every turn. Although it is said that they cannot be killed with a stick, they are all greedy and afraid of death, after all, there are not a few anti-Japanese generals with iron bones, but in comparison, they are still too angry.
Chang Naichao in "Bright Sword" is a senior Kuomintang general who graduated from a German military academy, and his theoretical and command level is not high, but he was still picked up by Li Yunlong, a local general of the People's Liberation Army. After being captured, Chang Naichao was full of arrogance and arrogance, very dissatisfied, Li Yunlong let the captives run a few laps, Chang Naichao said: "Contempt is not good at running!" "It's revealing your identity." This shows that the Generals of the Kuomintang like to carry a regular section shelf, which is very ungrounded, and the people who meet Li Yunlong are Xiu cai and the soldiers, of course, they cannot get a bargain in the war.
Of course, the Communist Army also had many generals from the Whampoa Military Academy and other disciplines, such as Ye Jianying, Nie Rongzhen, Chen Yi, Xu Xiangqian, Lin Biao, Chen Geng and so on. However, in the course of protracted and arduous struggles, they have long cultivated the ability to be grounded in accordance with the locality, the time, and the conditions of the people, and have perfectly integrated them with theory.
Among the communist army generals, the larger group is the grassroots generals from poor backgrounds, who have long practiced the ability not to play cards according to common sense in the bad situation of fighting wits and courage with the enemy, and even more so, they have the courage to die. There were many fierce generals under Chen Geng, and Chu Daming was one of the most individual, and was praised by Chen Geng: "Taiyue warrior is fierce, the first to promote Chu Daming!" ”
There are many stories of Chu Daming fighting a war, from the Red Army to the People's Liberation Army, all the way to blood and fire, and the battle achievements are outstanding. In any battle, the knife head licked the blood, and it was common to take a large knife and a dart gun and fight with the enemy in blood, with as many as 62 light wounds on the body and 28 deaths. Heartbroken, on January 27, 1947, Chu Daming died in the Battle of Fenxiao, without waiting for the founding of New China, "Taiping was originally a hero, and a hero did not enjoy Taiping", which made Chen Geng and his subordinates extremely distressed.
Although Chu Daming did not want to die in battle, he was not a reckless man, and he had a very means of managing the army and commanding the war, which can be described as brave and strategic, and two incidents can be seen in this.
Discipline in the whole army, forced shaving of the head of the subordinates, cleverly planned to seize the seizure
In June 1941, Chu Daming was promoted to deputy commander of the 20th Regiment. The combat effectiveness of this regiment is still very strong, but the people who have the ability are often not small, and these people fight wild wars and their work style is also very wild. There are two main problems that are more difficult: One is that Hu Xiaolian, the commander of the first company, and Chen Shiying, the commander of the Twelfth Company, actually have long hair, and the regimental commander has repeatedly named and criticized them, and the two have listened to the wind by the ears of the battle achievements; the second is that some cadres have not paid attention to the public when they have been captured on the battlefield, and they have made foreign wealth, such as pistols, pens, watches, and costumes, and they have kept themselves, and the regimental meetings and even talk alone. In addition, there are some cadres who have a brush and pick and choose between fat and thin when performing tasks and bargain.
Chu Daming had long been famous and famous for his ability. When the new official took office, everyone was looking at what kind of tricks he had to burn these three fires, and the regimental commander and the political commissar could not figure out what to do.
On July 15, the regimental headquarters convened a meeting of cadres above the platoon level, and the regimental commander, political commissar, and deputy regimental commander sat on the rostrum, and the cadres above the platoon below sat in the courtyard. Chu Daming cleared his throat: "Today's meeting, I will preside." First let everyone answer the question, answer the good reward, and punish the bad answer. "Everyone doesn't know what medicine Chu Daming sells in the gourd."
"Guys say, what do we rely on to fight? Hu Xiaolian, you talk first! ”
"Rely on bravery, rely on cadres to take the lead!"
"Good answer! Chen Shiying, you add. ”
"Rely on wit and flexibility, rely on all actions to listen to commands!"
"Both answered very well! There should be a reward, the guard will bring the prize up! ”
The regimental guard lifted up two stools with two white cloth bags on them.
"Before the award is awarded, I want to say a few more words," Chu Daming said sharply, "what I just said is very good!" Fighting wars must be brave, cadres should take the lead, be resourceful and flexible, and obey the command in all actions; this is the embodiment and guarantee of our army's combat effectiveness. These are both issues of combat style and organizational discipline. The two company commanders are not confused at all, but you say one thing, do another, defy organizational discipline, and still look like a company commander? Chu Daming suddenly raised his voice and shouted, "Hu Xiaolian and Chen Shiying, take off your hat!" ”
The two company commanders took off their hats, and one of their long hair was instantly exposed to the public, and the two were very embarrassed. Chu Daming added, "The Eighth Route Army has a rule that all cadres and fighters of the combat units are not allowed to wear beards and grow their hair, and the regimental commander will not listen to your criticisms. That's how you act to listen to the command? Do you still want to be the company commander? Get to the podium now! ”
The two were stunned and walked to the podium. Chu Daming opened the white cloth bag, took out the haircut tool, and then pressed Hu Xiaolian's head into the basin of water to get wet, went up and shaved twice, Hu Xiaolian shouted "Pain, pain!" This caused the crowd to burst into laughter.
Chu Daming called the barber, and the two company elders shaved their heads honestly and obediently. Chu Daming finally announced: "In the future, whoever violates discipline will shave whose head, and if I violate discipline, I will also shave my head!" ”
For the seizure, Chu Daming had his own methods.
On July 25, the Battle of Wanggao Road began immediately, and before the start of the mobilization, the inspection equipment was management. Therefore, Chu Daming suddenly ordered the cadres above the platoon to take their luggage to the square of the seventh-level fort village to assemble. After the assembly, he assigned one cadre at all levels to cross-check each other, and the result was that all kinds of things were turned over in the luggage, such as pens, watches, pistols, cigarettes, clothes, and other Oriental objects. Chu Daming immediately ordered the regimental supply office to register and compile a record, and all the seizures were returned to the public. Finally, he also had everyone sing "Three Major Attentions and Eight Disciplines".
Chu Daming quickly handled thorny problems with a very individual way of handling things and with vigorous means, and also won the confidence of cadres and fighters, and the organizational discipline of the troops was greatly strengthened.
Pulling up strongholds, the earth method worked miraculously, and was written into the history of the Japanese war
Liu Guantun, with more than 500 households, is a large village town, located on the Wanggao Highway, which is the only way from Dezhou to Xingtai, and its geographical location is important. In order to blockade our army, the Japanese army set up a puppet district government in the town and also set up a large stronghold. This stronghold covers an area of one kilometer and is surrounded by a 10-meter-high wall. A partition wall was set up in the middle of the wall, with a Japanese squad stationed in the south and more than 300 puppet troops stationed in the north. More than ten pillboxes were built within the wall, and the Japanese puppet army each had a turret, with three floors, more than thirty meters high, and could overlook several miles. Fortifications were set up on the walls, and trenches were dug outside, covered with deer and barbed wire.
In October 1941, Chu Daming was ordered to lead the second battalion to start a battle to pull out Liu Guantun's stronghold. At night, after more than six hours of rapid marching, the troops rushed to reach their destination for more than seventy miles.
Chu Daming commanded the troops into four groups: the sabotage group, the ladder group, the firepower group, and the assault group. Taking advantage of the darkness, the destruction group removed the deer on the periphery, cut five barbed wire fences, and opened up passages; the ladder group quickly set up ladders on the wall; the fire group occupied favorable terrain and was ready for fire cover; the assault group climbed the wall, and the enemy did not find it at all.
The assault team covertly stabbed the sentry of the corner tower, went down to the wall, and plunged straight into the puppet army dormitory. The puppet army at dawn was sleeping soundly, and Chu Daming commanded all units of the troops to quickly break into the puppet army dormitories, artillery towers, bunkers, district offices, and security teams, and greeted the puppet army with bayonets, guns, and grenades, and quickly annihilated the puppet army. More than thirty puppet troops were killed and more than two hundred and sixty enemy prisoners were captured, and none of our troops suffered casualties.
At this time, the sky was already bright, leaving the hard bones of the Japanese stronghold, in order to prevent the enemy from counterattacking, Chu Daming organized personnel to occupy the fortification defense while preparing to attack the Japanese stronghold. After the seventh company surveyed the terrain, the company instructors attacked the Japanese stronghold in two ways and tried to break through all the way. However, because the Japanese army had long been aware of it and the terrain was open, after the assault force attacked, the Japanese machine guns and grenadiers on the turret opened fire together, and the seven companies suffered five or six casualties, and the attack was frustrated.
When the Seventh Company retreated, the Japanese army actually organized a reinforcement squad to carry out a counter-attack, and under the cover of artillery fire, it still used poison gas bombs. The two armies entered a confrontation, and a battalion of more than 600 people of our army was temporarily unable to resist a small detachment of more than thirty Japanese troops occupying favorable terrain.
Now, the "earth tank" combat method used by Chu Daming before was not effective because of the limitations of the terrain. The so-called "earth tank" is to find a large thick table, covered with five layers of wet quilts, four strong soldiers to hide behind and break through, under the cover of fire, close to the stronghold, throw out explosive packets.
The war has entered a stalemate, fight hard, the casualties are very large, the gains are not worth the losses, delay, the enemy will reinforce, and it is dangerous to carry out counter-encirclement. At this time, the brigade commander and the regimental commander also came in a hurry, looked at the terrain, and discussed the tactics. Xu Shaoen, the regimental commander, said: "Old Chu, you have a lot of ghost ideas, why do you say you fight?" ”
Chu Daming thought for a moment, "This is the only way, let the little devil take a big plane!" ”
Therefore, quickly organize strong personnel, work in the soil, dig the tunnel to the devils to run downstairs! Everyone took turns to rest, and one of the personnel carried out a feint, shooting guns and throwing grenades, and shouting: "Rush! kill! "Attract the attention of the enemy.
The soil work industry progressed rapidly, many soldiers only wore pants to build, sweating heavily, Chu Daming smiled and groaned, one would bring tea and pour water, one would hand over towels, and soon the tunnel was dug near the turret. Chu Daming had the explosives put in a coffin, pushed them to the end of the tunnel, placed the detonation device, and personally inspected it. At the sound of an order, the Japanese artillery tower roared, black smoke billowed and bricks flew straight up, turning into a ruin.
Chu Daming urged people to use shovels and pickaxes to dig up the equipment buried under the bricks, and then dug out eight ghosts in the cracks in the bricks, who were already frightened and scattered, like wooden chickens, black heads and dirty faces, and looked like no one. The Japanese squad leader and the remaining twenty or so Japanese soldiers were either killed or smashed to death, leaving none. Our army seized 6 light machine guns, more than 180 rifles and submachine guns, and one grenadier.
The history of the war of aggression against China published by the War History Office of the Japanese Defense Agency, "The North China Public Security War," records: "Liu Guantun's former captain of the guard was attacked by the communist army's tunnel warfare, and the losses were heavy, which was a very problematic place. ”