One of Pi Dingjun's mysterious deputies, in his later years, donated a lot of money and restored his rank as a general
In fact, in the early days of the war, Pi Dingjun led thousands of people to fight thousands of miles to confuse the enemy, in order to ensure the breakthrough of the main force, and finally won the victorious battle of the Central Plains breakthrough, the chairman once said these six words as an affirmation.
In fact, when everyone was concerned about Pi Dingjun being promoted to lieutenant general, everyone ignored one person, and this person was
One of Pi Dingjun's deputy generals, the deputy director of the political department of the Pi Brigade, who had made great achievements with him, was named Guo Linxiang, who was awarded the rank of major general in 1955, but Pi Dingjun called him a "general style".
Guo Linxiang is not famous among the founding generals, but since Guo Linxiang can make Pi Dingjun so praised, he must have real skills, in fact, his heroic deeds are also full of legends.
Guo Linxiang is a native of Yongfeng County, Jiangxi Province, who joined the Chinese Red Army in 1930, but his ancestral home is Huaxian County, Shaanxi, and it is said that his ancestors were Guo Ziyi, a great general of the Tang Dynasty.
During the revolution, Guo Linxiang grew from a soldier to an excellent commander, and he later participated in the Long March and almost died, because at that time, passing through the junction of Yunnan and Guizhou Provinces, Guo Linxiang's company was on a cover mission and encountered an attack.
They snipe at the Qipanshan stronghold, the company commander died heroically, as the instructor at the time Guo Linxiang provoked the task of commander, they occupied the commanding heights, and held on with the soldiers, until the order to retreat was issued, he was ordered to retreat.
When they caught up with the main force, General Chen Geng was excited to see them survive, and tears filled their eyes, it turned out that they thought that Guo Linxiang was dead, and with this spirit of not being afraid of death, Guo Linxiang made many meritorious contributions in the battle and performed well during this period.
One of the greatest credits was the defense of the Huangyadong Arsenal, and the development of the Huangyadong Arsenal made the Japanese invaders feel fear. In November 1941, more than 5,000 well-equipped Japanese troops attacked Huangya Cave in multiple ways. Our army fought bravely with less than one regiment of troops, and after eight days and nights of fierce fighting, annihilated more than 1,000 enemy personnel, and with a brilliant record of 6:1 casualties between the enemy and ourselves, "created an unprecedented record for the comparison of casualties between the enemy and ourselves in the Sino-Japanese war situation."
In this defensive battle, the most fierce battle scene appeared at the mouth of the water kiln of the Yellow Cliff Cave. The enemy attacked for 4 consecutive days, with nearly a thousand casualties, and only broke through a few hundred meters. They changed their tactics, strengthened their strength, their firepower, and even used flamethrowers. The warriors guarding the position at the mouth of the water kiln and the enemy attacking on three sides launched a mine warfare and hand-to-hand combat, repelling 11 enemy attacks. The rocks were covered in blood, the corpses in front of the position were piled up, and the enemy never crossed the water kiln. They used the most vicious means, firing flamethrowers and incendiary bombs at our forward positions. Suddenly, the whole position was on fire and smoke was rising. Wang Zhenxi, commander of the eighth squad of the Eighth Company of our special service regiment, led his soldiers to jump out of the fortifications under the condition that the fortifications were burning and the enemy was rushing in by chance, and with his body full of flames, he shot and dropped bombs at the enemy group, fought with the enemy in hand-to-hand combat, and killed more than 70 enemy people until he was heroically sacrificed. The warrior Wen Desheng, holding up the last smoking grenade, rushed to the enemy group, and died with the enemy... After the war, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army awarded the special service regiment a pennant for "defending the water kiln and establishing a battle merit".
After the war, Guo Linxiang was widely praised, and everyone remembered this Guo Linxiang who fought and died, and he made great contributions in the war.
Comrade Guo Linxiang was awarded the rank of major general in 1955 and was awarded the Order of August 1 of the Second Class, the Order of Independence and Freedom of the Second Class, and the Liberation Medal of the First Class. He made outstanding contributions to the War of Resistance Against Japan.
What is more worthy of admiration is that When Guo Lao was nearly a hundred years old, he did not forget his original intention and had to be consistent. When the Wenchuan earthquake occurred, Guo Linxiang was close to the end of his life, still thinking about the people in the disaster area, entrusting his family to donate money and materials, pay special party fees, and support the reconstruction of the disaster area.
In order to make children in poor areas affordable to go to school, Guo Linxiang once donated 130,000 yuan to build an August 1st Hope Primary School, which is admirable.