In the Northeast Field Army, there is such an ace division, the fighting style is tenacious, both offensive and defensive, can bear hardships, can withstand hard work, the key is to be able to win the battle, once three times by the Commander of the East Field Lin Zong monotonous combat, because it is good at attacking the stronghold, it has become a well-known tiger division on the northeast battlefield.
During the Liberation War, the Tiger Division was subordinate to the Sixth Column of the Northeast Field Army, and its nickname was the 17th Division. The predecessor of the division was the former Northeast Democratic United Army, the 19th Brigade of the Seventh Division was combined with the 20th Brigade, and the newly formed 17th Division participated in the battles of Sanxia Jiangnan and Sibao Linjiang. And what made the division famous in the first battle and became the ace main division that was good at attacking tough battles on the northeast battlefield was in the Dehui Offensive Battle.
This battle was also the first battle in which the 17th Division had participated since its inception. The first battle to capture the city was launched, and perhaps the 17th Division had little combat experience. However, after the war, the division was good at summing up combat experience and correcting any deficiencies. In grandpa Mao's words, the 17th Division was learning to attack tough battles in the battle of attacking tough battles.
It was precisely in view of the fact that the 17th Division had the experience of dehui offensive operations, in the famous Siping Offensive Battle. Commander Lin Zong assigned the 17th Division of the Sixth Column to a monotonous combat mission, under the command of Li Tianyou, the commander-in-chief of the front line of the Siping Campaign. Before the general offensive battle began, General Li Tianyou specially came to the 17th Division to issue combat orders. Long Shujin, commander of the 17th Division, and Xu Binzhou, political commissar, who received the military order, immediately issued an offensive order to the 17th Division. The 17th Division, which had previous experience in the Dehui Offensive Battle, could fight better than the first time in the Siping Offensive Battle, fully stimulating the potential of the 17th Division to attack the stronghold. After a while, the enemy's defensive position was conquered by the 17th Division, and the front-line commander-in-chief Li Tianyou said happily that the 17th Division did have two shots, and in less than three hours, it broke through the enemy's defensive position and was captured on the battlefield, Chen Mingxin, the younger brother of the Siping defender Chen Mingren.
The Battle of Siping was the first battle in which the 17th Division was assigned a combat mission by Lin Zong. In the Battle of Jinzhou in October 1948, the 17th Division was once again transferred by Lin Zong from the Changchun battlefield to the Jinzhou front to undertake the task of attacking strong points. Division commander Long Shujin and political commissar Xu Binzhou were received by Commander Lin Zong, Political Commissar Luo, Liu Yalou and others. He also informed the importance of the Jinzhou campaign, and must be the division, and must conquer Jinzhou in the shortest possible time. He also clearly informed the Seventeenth Division that its operational purpose was to invade jinzhou city and destroy the enemy's command post.
The 17th Division, under the command of Han Xianchu, commander of the 3rd Dongye Column, threw itself into the northeast battlefield, the largest offensive in history, the Battle of Jinzhou. The 17th Division broke through the enemy city and rapidly advanced towards jinzhou city in the jinzhou offensive battle, and the 49th regiment of the vanguard of the 17th division, under the command of the regimental commander Zhao Haoran, rushed towards the city of Jinzhou like an arrow off the string and a wild horse that had lost its reins, and launched a fierce street battle with the enemy. After 20 minutes of fighting, the 49th Regiment occupied favorable terrain, conquered 20 enemy fortified fortresses, and annihilated more than 500 enemy troops.
The vanguard of the 17th Branch attacked Jinzhou City, and then all the soldiers of the 17th Division rushed to Jinzhou to reinforce the 49th Regiment. The two sides engaged in a more fierce and fierce battle, and long Shujin, commander of the 17th Division, personally came to the front line and led the stormtroopers to Fan Hanjie's command post. The enemy's headquarters was destroyed, Fan Hanjie escaped under the cover of his subordinates, and the large army in Jinzhou City was leaderless, like a scattered sand, and chose to surrender. The Battle of Jinzhou ended in the victory of the Northeast Field Army. In this battle to attack the fortified battle, the 17th Division made outstanding achievements, annihilated more than 10,000 enemy troops, and captured a large number of military materials, and after the war, it was highly praised by the headquarters, saying that the 17th Division was the most tenacious ace division in the northeast battlefield.
Just after the end of the Liaoshen Campaign, in November 1948, the Northeast Field Army was reorganized into the Fourth Field Army, the Sixth Column was reorganized into the 43rd Army, and the 17th Division of the Tiger Division was reorganized into the 128th Division, with Long Shujin as the division commander and Xu Binzhou as the political commissar.
The 128th Division of the Tiger Division, in 1949, was again singled out by Lin Zong and thrown into the battle to liberate Tianjin. In this battle, the Tiger Division once again showed its tiger might and liberated Tianjin together with its brother troops. This time it was the Tiger Division, and the third time it was fought monotonously by Lin Zong. It is enough to see that the offensive combat ability of the Tiger Division is definitely not a waste of time.
As the commander of the Tiger Division, Long Shujin, he was awarded the rank of major general after the founding of the People's Republic of China. However, the political commissar Xu Binzhou, because he participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea after the victory in the War of Liberation, was the political commissar of the 39th Army of the Volunteer Army, probably because of his meritorious service to Korea, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in 1955.
The ranks of the division commander and political commissar of the Tiger Division were not very high, but they all made great contributions to the victory of the Liberation War. He is also a general in the history of the Fourth Field Army's wars, especially the tiger division that has been monotonously fought by Lin Zong three times, which has also become a good story of a generation. Although the 43rd Army was abolished in 1985, the 128th Tiger Division was not abolished, but was transferred to the 20th Army. In 1996, it was changed to the 128th Armed Police Division, in 1998 it participated in the flood relief of the Yangtze River, in 2008 the 128th Division rushed to the border to participate in stability maintenance operations, in 2010 the 128th Division rushed to Shanghai, and Guangzhou participated in the security work of the World Expo and the Guangzhou Asian Games. It can be seen that in the war years, the tiger division can go into battle to kill the enemy. In peacetime, attacking the tiger division can protect the border and the people.