What would you do if you were the commander of a unit and suddenly found that your troops were surrounded by the enemy, and all your subordinates were resting, unaware of the enemy's approach?
In fact, such scenes are not uncommon in the history of Chinese and foreign wars, and different people will react differently: some people are helpless and watch their troops being eaten by the enemy; some people are forced to fight, luckily breaking through the siege but being seriously injured...
In the face of such a critical situation, Wang Jinshan, a generation of famous generals, made a jaw-dropping choice, not only saving the entire army, but also inflicting heavy losses on the enemy army.
Some people may think that such a plot is too outrageous, it must be a fiction of film and television works, but it is the real history of a generation of famous generals Wang Jinshan.
In March 1935, it was an important historical juncture when the Red Fourth Front was about to embark on the Long March.
Wang Jinshan, who was only 20 years old at the time, as the commander of the 28th Regiment of the 10th Division of the Red Fourth Army, led his troops to wage a fierce battle in Sichuan against the Kuomintang troops who came to "encircle and suppress" them.
After five days of fierce fighting between the two sides, with the advent of another dark night, the battlefield finally fell silent. For both the enemy and us, after many days of bitter fighting, both were somewhat exhausted, and the two sides seemed to have reached a tacit understanding of a temporary truce.
Prior to this, the officers and men of the Red Army had been in a dangerous situation of being surrounded and blocked by the enemy, with a shortage of food, overstretched weapons and ammunition, and coupled with repeated fierce battles, they were already exhausted and needed to rest more urgently than the well-bred enemy.
Wang Jinshan understood that it would be useless to fight for a long time like this, so he asked the troops to arrange a guard post and camp on the spot, seize the time to recharge their strength, and meet more arduous battles.
The commanders and fighters of the Twenty-eighth Regiment received the order and fell asleep not long after. On this night, there was no light in the stars and the moon, and there was silence all around, and the warriors on the sentry position were initially on high alert, but as the tiredness struck, they also unconsciously lowered their eyelids.
As the supreme commander of the whole regiment, Wang Jinshan has been exhausted for several days, and of course he needs to sleep well.
But after all, he was the leader of a regiment, shouldering greater responsibilities and maintaining a higher vigilance, so after taking a nap, he got up to check the sentry.
The warriors lay on the ground under trees or in the grass, and many made even snoring. Wang Jinshan silently chanted in his heart: "Comrades, seize the time to sleep well!" In a few hours it will be another fierce battle! ”
In order not to alarm the warriors, he moved cautiously while thinking about the next battle plan.
Just as Wang Jinshan walked to the front of the slope, he suddenly heard a faint "rustling" sound in his ears. At first he thought that the wind was blowing the fallen leaves, but when he stopped and listened carefully, he immediately felt that something was wrong, because the sound was becoming clearer and clearer from far and near.
"Not bad! This must have been touched by the enemy! ”
Although the night was pitch black and the enemy's movements were very slight, the weapons on their bodies still accidentally made a collision sound, confirming Wang Jinshan's judgment that a large number of enemies were indeed sneaking up on the mountain from all sides.
Wang Jinshan was taken aback, but he knew that he must remain calm and must not act rashly.
The reason is very simple, at this time the whole regiment of soldiers are asleep, once they open their mouths and shout, issuing wrong instructions, it is possible to make the soldiers panic, chaos, resulting in very serious consequences.
You can't shout indiscriminately, but you have to wake up the soldiers to immediately enter the battle, so how to shout?
At this extremely complex and delicate critical juncture, Wang Jinshan was in a hurry and came up with a clever countermeasure that would make him famous in military history.
He deliberately shouted, "The enemy has been counted!" The enemy has been counted! Comrades, don't let them run, wipe them all out! ”
Good one king near the mountain! Just shouting out a single sentence produced a double effect: it not only woke up the commanders and fighters of the whole regiment from their slumber, but also made the enemy have the illusion that "we came to sneak attack the Red Army, but we did not expect to fall into the trap of the Red Army", which shocked them all.
In short, this suspension completely reversed the unfavorable situation faced by the Red Twenty-Eighth Regiment. When several battalion company cadres heard Wang Jinshan's cheers, they immediately understood and immediately organized their troops to launch a counterattack on the enemy.
In fact, many soldiers were put into battle in a half-dreamed state, and they couldn't figure out what was happening in front of them, only that they were shouting "Rush!" while following behind the cadres. Surrender your guns and don't kill" slogan, while bravely rushing down the mountain to kill.
At first, the enemy was still a little hesitant to hear Wang Jinshan's shouts, but now when he heard the earth-shaking shouts and killing sounds from the mountains, he could no longer hold his breath, and he was frightened and lost his soul, and turned around to desperately escape.
Wang Jinshan was overjoyed, personally brandished a large sword, and led his troops to take advantage of the victory to pursue and annihilate all the enemies who came to sneak attack.
After dawn, after interrogating the captives, it was learned that the enemy was actually a brigade of the Sichuan warlord Liu Xiang's general Fan Shaozeng (also known as the famous "stupid commander").
They were defeated in a contest with another Red Army unit, and inadvertently mixed up with the Red Twenty-eighth Regiment, so they planned to take advantage of the opportunity to sneak attack, but they did not expect to be frightened by Wang Jinshan's broken drink, but they fell into the end of being annihilated.
Under extremely unfavorable circumstances, the 20-year-old Wang Jinshan was in a hurry and created a miracle in the history of warfare -- a regiment with an untidy command personnel counterattacked from sleep on the spot and completely annihilated a brigade of the enemy, and it is no wonder that he became a famous generation of generals in military history.