In the modern history of our country, there is such a hero who, in four days, fought three battles and three victories, annihilated four battalions of the Japanese army, and destroyed seven battalions of the enemy.
Who is he? How did he achieve such a good record? What was his ending?
This man is
Luo Zhongyi
Born in 1907 in An ordinary peasant family in Erlangmiao Street, Xiangcheng, Xiangyang County, Hubei Province, his parents were farmers, farming for a living, among the children in the same village at that time, Luo Zhongyi was the most burly, and the other children looked very thin in front of him.
When Luo Zhongyi was young, he often helped his father and mother to work, and his whole body was full of strength, and everyone praised him as a good child who understood things. Luo Zhongyi most wanted to study in the academy, although he was young, but he knew that in this old society, the people were still living in the depths of the water, so he wanted to enter the school, wanted to learn knowledge, and wanted to use knowledge to save the people.
Figure | Luo Zhongyi
Although Luo Zhongyi's dream is very full, the reality is very bone, because the family is too poor to bear Luo Zhongyi's tuition, for this poor family, it is already very good to be able to eat.
Luo Zhongyi's parents originally wanted to wait for Luo Zhongyi to grow up a little longer and send him to become an apprentice and learn a craft of eating, so that Luo Zhongyi could survive in this society. That day, Luo Zhongyi's father found him, looked at Luo Zhongyi in front of him, Luo Zhongyi's eyes were full of love, he said to Luo Zhongyi:
"Daddy is going to let you go to town as an apprentice, do you want to go?"
Luo Zhongyi shook his head and said to his father with some hesitation:
"I want to go to school and I want to learn."
Looking at Luo Zhongyi's eager gaze, Father Luo sighed and lowered his head, and after a while, Father Luo raised his head again and said to Luo Zhongyi:
"Daddy go think of a way."
Figure | school
In the next few days, Luo Zhongyi's father borrowed money everywhere, and all his relatives ran all over to borrow money to study, and when he saw his father running around borrowing money for himself, Luo Zhongyi secretly made up his mind that he must study well.
A few days later, Luo Zhongyi finally walked into the academy of his dreams, in the academy, there are still some students studying here, but most of them are some rich children, seeing Luo Zhongyi dressed in rags, these children even call Luo Zhongyi huazi, but Luo Zhongyi is not angry, he came here just to read.
This school is called Xiangyang Model Higher Primary School, because of the principal of the school, this school is learning some imperialist, feudal warlord propaganda materials, at the beginning, Luo Zhongyi did not perceive anything wrong, but with the deepening of learning, Luo Zhongyi found that this is not what he wanted to learn, it is inevitable that there is some disappointment in this school.
During that time, Luo Zhongyi was very confused, he did not recognize the knowledge he had learned in books, and he could even say that he began to feel a little disgusted. After graduating from Xiangyang Model Higher Primary School, Luo Zhongyi was admitted to Xiangyang Hubei Provincial No. 2 Middle School.
In the new school, Luo Zhongyi met a person, she let Luo Zhongyi regain confidence, but also let Luo Zhongyi find his own way in life, who is she?
In 1924, he was a pioneer of the revolution
Xiao Chunu
Came to this school to teach, and in class, he recommended some books to students, for example
Lu Xun
Novels, essays, etc., when Luo Zhongyi read it, he was completely shocked by the contents inside, which was a knowledge he had never understood before.
In addition to recommending some books to the students, Xiao Chunu would also talk about revolutionary ideas in class, and Luo Zhongyi found that this was not what he had always wanted to learn? So whenever Xiao Chunu gave a lecture, Luo Zhongyi always concentrated and listened with his ears pricked up, afraid of missing any of the details.
Figure | Xiao Chunu
Under the influence of revolutionary ideas, Luo Zhongyi gradually also gave birth to a revolutionary heart, in July 1924, Hubei Provincial No. 2 Middle School set off a student movement against the reactionary principal, at that time, Luo Zhongyi resolutely joined it, he and his classmates came to the street, shouted slogans, handed out leaflets, and did their part.
With the occurrence of this student movement many times, imperialism also suppressed it, so this movement also became a movement against imperialism, and Luo Zhongyi strengthened his revolutionary determination through these movements.
In July 1927,
Feng Yuxiang
The troops came to Xiangyang, and the leader of the team at that time was
Gao Shuxun
He wanted to open a Zhongshan military and political school in Xiangyang to train military talents, and the news soon reached Luo Zhongyi's ears, and he heard that this team had been influenced by the revolution, so he planned to join it.
Soon after Luo Zhongyi joined this school, Feng Yuxiang ordered that he was not allowed to run a school in the army, and in this way, this military school became a student battalion, and the responsible personnel saw that Luo Zhongyi was tall and tall, so they selected him to be a soldier in the cavalry company.
Figure | Gao Shuxun
In 1930, a war broke out between Feng, Jiang, and Yan Zai, and the final result was that Feng Yuxiang was defeated, so Luo Zhongyi's team was organized
Chiang Kai-shek
Under his command, the name was changed to the Twenty-sixth Route Army. The Twenty-sixth Route Army was not welcomed by Chiang Kai-shek, and he believed that the Twenty-sixth Route Army was only a miscellaneous army, so in the distribution of resources, it could only get a little at a time.
And every time there is any dirty work, it is let the Twenty-sixth Route Army to do it, many soldiers began to complain, but Luo Zhongyi did not complain, he regarded these as his own exercises, so every time he rushed to the front, and Luo Zhongyi also had an advantage, that is, he was eager to learn, there were some veterans in the army, they had rich combat experience, whenever Luo Zhongyi had time, he would go to humbly ask for advice.
Gradually, Luo Zhongyi also learned a skill, but after spending so long in this unit, Luo Zhongyi also learned some of the practices of Chiang Kai-shek and his subordinates, which was contrary to his philosophy, so he began to consider whether he would continue to stay in this unit.
Figure | Chiang Kai-shek
In 1931, Luo Zhongyi followed the team to Jiangxi, when Chiang Kai-shek issued an order to encircle and suppress the local Red Army, and this encirclement and suppression ended in failure, so the Twenty-sixth Route Army stayed in Ningdu, Jiangxi, where Luo Zhongyi often heard some deeds about the Red Army, and he was moved by it, knowing that the Red Army was the team he should follow.
However, it was also at this time that the secret organization of our Party in the Twenty-sixth Route Army was launched in response to the situation at that time
Ningdu revolted
More than 10,000 soldiers of the entire Twenty-sixth Route Army joined the ranks of the Red Army, including Luo Zhongyi.
That day was Luo Zhongyi's happiest day, because he finally dreamed of joining the ranks of the Red Army, in the ranks of the Red Army, Luo Zhongyi saw that men and women were equal, and like the officers and soldiers, he liked such a team from the bottom of his heart.
After Luo Zhongyi became a Red Army, he learned a lot of things, and also won several battles, and gradually, he also received the attention of the organization, and soon became a platoon leader, because his courage to fight was unanimously praised by the soldiers.
When attacking Ganzhou in 1932, Luo Zhongyi rushed to the front and fought heroically with the enemy, countless bullets passed him by, countless shells exploded around him, he did not have the slightest fear, this battle, smashed Chiang Kai-shek's encirclement and suppression plan, but also struck at the arrogance of the enemy.
In 1934, the main force of the Red Army began the 25,000-mile Long March, and in the ranks of the Long March, there was no figure of Luo Zhongyi, originally because of the organization and arrangement of Luo Zhongyi to continue to stay in the Soviet zone and carry out guerrilla warfare in this place.
Guerrilla warfare was very arduous; at that time, the enemy's strength was ten times greater than that of our army's troops, and every victory in battle was not easy to come by; in order to suppress our army's guerrilla contingent in the Soviet zone, the enemy dispatched a large number of troops to encircle and suppress it.
I remember that once, Luo Zhongyi's base area was known to the enemy's agents, and that night, the enemy gathered a large number of troops to ambush around our army's base area.
Figure | Red Army soldiers
At this moment, the enemy thought that his position was exposed, and he simply stopped hiding, and the dense mass was all drilled out of the grass, and the soldiers of our army who were sentry quickly sounded the alarm and reported the intelligence on this side to the other soldiers.
At that time, Luo Zhongyi was reporting on his work, an alarm sounded to wake him up, he knew that the base area had been exposed, so he quickly picked up the equipment and prepared for battle, now there was only one way to successfully break out, because it was night, there was no light around, so Luo Zhongyi thought of a way.
He took advantage of the night to come to the other side of the base area, and then lit a string of firecrackers, the sound of firecrackers successfully attracted the attention of the enemy, in this way, the enemy sent a part of the troops to check, and when the time came, our soldiers suddenly launched a fierce attack on a weak point, and finally with the joint efforts of all the fighters, they successfully escaped from the enemy's encirclement.
After that, Luo Zhongyi actively mobilized the strength of the masses, with the help of the masses, repelled wave after wave of enemies, in the local area, the people are very willing to help these fighters, every time a wounded warrior appears, the villagers will do their best to help, at that time the enemy also publicly stated:
"Whoever dares to hide the Red Army will be shot directly if he is caught."
Figure | Warriors and the masses
In the face of the enemy's deterrence, the common people are not afraid at all, and still help the soldiers of the Red Army, which is the family of the military and the people, and this is the desire of the people.
On July 7, 1937, after the Lugou Bridge Incident, the guerrilla unit of our army in the south was renamed the New Fourth Army, and Luo Zhongyi threw himself into it
Chen Yi
，
Su Yu
Wait for comrades to lead the construction of the Maoshan anti-Japanese base area.
After the construction of the Maoshan base area was completed, the organization saw Luo Zhongyi's ability and decided to reuse him, and on November 7, 1939, the New Fourth Army established the Jiangnan Headquarters of the New Fourth Army in Liyang Shuixi Village, where Luo Zhongyi served as chief of staff.
Since the Jiangnan Command had just been established, and most of the personnel inside were from all directions, they were not familiar with each other and did not know each other, so Luo Zhongyi came to the team to do a good job in the relationship between the soldiers and mingle with his comrades-in-arms, at that time, the Jiangnan Command was only a few thousand people, and under Luo Zhongyi's efforts, the number reached more than 10,000 people.
Figure | Chen Yi
Although Luo Zhongyi was the chief of staff at the Jiangnan Headquarters of the New Fourth Army, he did not have the shelf of being an official at all, he was still as approachable as before, taking care of his comrades-in-arms, and sometimes, when some soldiers were injured or sick, Luo Zhongyi would take the initiative to give up his horses for the use of those wounded soldiers.
On May 21, 1941, in Liyang, the Japanese army in the Yixing area launched an attack on our army, and in this place of Golden Mountain, the arrogance of the enemy completely angered the soldiers of our army, so our army decided to fight back, and this battle was personally commanded by Luo Zhongyi on the front line.
In the afternoon of the same day, the enemy dispatched two battalions of troops to the foot of the Golden Mountain of our army's position, and they launched a fierce attack on our army's position with artillery, and under this artillery fire, our army's position became precarious (
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Precarious.
Figure | Memorial Hall of the Jiangnan Headquarters of the New Fourth Army
At this moment, Luo Zhongyi led a part of the fighters to rush to the enemy to stubbornly resist, and at the same time sent a part of the fighters to attack from both sides, because at that time the enemy mainly concentrated its firepower on the front and wanted to make a quick decision, so he ignored the defenses on both sides, and in this way, the enemy's flanks were violently attacked by our army.
There was no way, they had to first delay the attack in the front, and then turn to support the two sides, at this time, Luo Zhongyi led the soldiers to take advantage of the victory to pursue, and defeated the enemy in one fell swoop, so that the enemy's plan to attack our army was broken.
This was the enemy's first attack, Luo Zhongyi led the fighters to annihilate a company of the enemy, defeated a battalion of the enemy, and won the first battle, Luo Zhongyi was not careless, he knew that the enemy would definitely not give up, and would definitely launch another attack, so he also left an extra eye.
That night, Luo Zhongyi sent his fighters to ambush around the golden mountain position, waiting for the arrival of the enemy, and early the next morning, he saw the enemy's figure in the distance, probably two regiments of troops, but they did not realize that the soldiers of our army had already been ambushed early.
After experiencing the first defeat, they did not sum up the experience of failure, and naively thought that it was because of the failure caused by insufficient troops, so this time they deliberately brought the strength of two regiments.
After the enemy reached the ambush point prepared in advance, Luo Zhongyi gave an order, and all the fighters emerged from the hidden place, hitting the enemy by surprise, watching the soldiers of our army appear one by one, the enemy was completely dumbfounded, confused, and forgot how to counterattack.
Soon, the enemy's second offensive was also broken by our army, annihilating two companies of the enemy army, and at the same time capturing a large number of weapons and equipment, and all the remaining enemies were fleeing.
After returning to the Golden Mountain position, the first thing Luo Zhongyi did was to quickly let the soldiers build fortifications, because he already had a premonition that the enemy would launch a more fierce attack, and some of the soldiers at that time did not understand why they were doing this, so they asked Luo Zhongyi:
"Chief of Staff, does the enemy really dare to come?" They have suffered heavy losses. ”
Luo Zhongyi nodded:
'They're definitely coming back and the next attack will definitely be more intense than the first two, so we have to be ready.
With that, the warrior went off to build the fortifications with the other warriors.
When the fortifications were built, the enemy was never seen, it was May 23, but the soldiers did not let their guard down, because they believed Luo Zhongyi's judgment.
By May 24, the enemy had pooled the strength of three regiments and launched a fierce attack on the Golden Hill position, and this time the enemy's commander was still the commander of the Kuomintang Twenty-fourth Division.
Because under the leadership of Luo Zhongyi, our army built fortifications on the Golden Mountain, so for a time the enemy's attack was delayed, and the war was also in a state of anxiety.
At this time, Luo Zhongyi changed his battle strategy, he let some of the fighters attack the enemy's tail, because in the battle just now, Luo Zhongyi found that the enemy's tail defense was very weak, which was a good breakthrough. So the warriors came to the tail of the enemy and launched a fierce attack on it.
Moreover, the local masses also actively helped the soldiers to fight, they would transfer and rescue the wounded, and finally with the joint efforts of the soldiers and the masses, the enemy's third attack was also broken, knowing that the situation of the war could not be reversed, the enemy fled in all directions, and our army took advantage of the victory to pursue and destroyed the enemy's two battalions.
These three attacks by the enemy at the Golden Hill position took a total of four days, and these three attacks were a complete victory for our army, annihilating four enemy battalions in total, destroying seven enemy battalions, and also capturing a large number of weapons and equipment, with tens of thousands of bullets alone.
The victory of this battle was highly praised by the organization, especially Luo Zhongyi, who fully affirmed that the Battle of Golden Mountain was a very important battle, which recovered Lishui and restored the Maoshan base area in one fell swoop.
However, there are also very dangerous times in war, just like the next battle.
In the autumn of 1941, the Japanese decided to draw some troops from China to the Pacific War, and in order to consolidate the security of their rear, they launched the famous Battle of Tangma.
Figure | Japanese army
Speaking of the place of Tangma, it was a small village, although the village was small, but at that time there were three teams near it, one was the Japanese army, one was the Kuomintang army, and the other was our New Fourth Army.
On November 26, our army detected the movement of the Japanese army and found that they were gathering a large number of troops to prepare to launch a sneak attack or sweep, and Luo Zhongyi judged that the Japanese army's action might be against our army or against the Kuomintang army, but under the circumstances at that time, the possibility of targeting our army was greater.
On the night of 27 November, the Japanese did launch a sneak attack on our army, and they rushed to our army from three places, not only with infantry, but also with cavalry and artillery, and it seems that this attack was already prepared.
In the early morning of the next day, the Japanese army officially launched an attack on our army, and the Battle of Tangma began, because the Japanese army marched particularly quickly and fiercely, so our army first sent some fighters to resist the blockade, and another part of the fighters to cover the withdrawal of the organs.
Figure | Tangma Battle Memorial Square
At that time, Luo Zhongyi personally came to the tangma bridge to direct the battle, and when all the organs had crossed the bridge, he hurriedly ordered the warriors who had been prepared in wangjiazhuang on the east side of tangma to attack the enemy in order to disperse the enemy's firepower.
The Japanese army in Wangjiazhuang was a cavalry, due to the sudden attack of our army, these cavalry suffered heavy losses, many horses fell, at this time, they did ask for help from the Japanese troops at the head of the Tangma Bridge, so the soldiers of our army at the head of the bridge got a chance to breathe, but the current situation is still not optimistic.
When the Japanese troops at the head of the bridge arrived at Wangjiazhuang, Luo Zhongyi found that our army was already within the encirclement of the enemy, and at this critical moment, Luo Zhongyi quickly let go
Liao Haitao
Evacuate with the warriors. He left himself here to cover, but Liao Haitao wanted to buy more time for the organs that had been evacuated before, and insisted on refusing to leave.
After a while of persuasion by Luo Zhongyi, Liao Haitao finally planned to retreat, just at this moment, the enemy's artillery attacked, and there was dust from the explosion everywhere, Luo Zhongyi picked up the gun in his hand and shouted at the soldiers around him:
"Brothers, let's fight."
All the warriors took up arms against the enemy.
Figure | Liao Haitao
A few hours later, the enemy's attack was finally repulsed by our army, but it was not long before the enemy launched another attack, and at this time our army's ammunition had become seriously insufficient, and Luo Zhongyi said to the soldiers:
"Without bullets, we use knives, with fists."
Soon, the enemy rushed to the side of our soldiers, at this time the enemy was only a few tens of meters away from our soldiers, and the machine gunners of our army had always been holding the forward position, and then they saw Luo Zhongyi leading several displays to rush towards the enemy, pick up the knife in his hand, and fiercely plunge into the enemy's body.
The enemy fell one by one, and this time in the battle of Tangma, Luo Zhongyi successfully covered the party and government organs and the masses to a safe place, but unfortunately, Luo Zhongyi died in this battle.
After Luo Zhongyi's sacrifice, the soldiers of our army were in an atmosphere of grief, but they did not forget these hatreds, and in the subsequent battles, they will certainly carry the anger of the sacrifice of their comrades-in-arms, fiercely kill the enemy, and drive out all these demons that invaded our land of China.
There are too many heroes like Luo Zhongyi in our country, we will not forget our happy life now, they exchanged blood for it, although they passed away, but they have always lived in our hearts, we can only be worthy of the efforts of those heroes.