preface
The Red Fourth Front fought very many hard battles in the early stages, and in addition, the army at that time had requirements, and when charging into the front, the leaders had to rush to the front, so there were many fierce generals, such as Xu Shiyou, Wang Jian'an, Chen Haisong, Wang Jinshan, Wang Hongkun, Cheng Shicai, Xiong Houfa, and others. Whether it is one-on-one, one-on-two, or even one-on-three, the warriors are not afraid. Even when these old Red Army soldiers arrived at the anti-Japanese battlefield, they did not fall behind when they faced the Japanese army to fight hand-to-hand.
In "Bright Sword", zhang Dabiao and Li Yunlong can single out little Japan, which should not be fabricated, but has a factual basis, and it is said that the prototype of Li Yunlong was taken from General Wang Jinshan.
About Wang Jinshan
Wang Jinshan, whose original name was Wang Wenshan, was born in 1915 to a poor peasant family in Taohua Township, Huang'an County (now Hong'an County), Hubei Province. He herded cattle at the age of 9 and worked as a long-term laborer for the landlord at the age of 13. He grew up with a fierce nature and hated the local tycoons and inferior gentry. In 1930, Wang Jinshan came to his hometown of the Red Army, and he embarked on the revolutionary road and became a soldier of the Red Army. At that time, he was the commander of the first battalion of the 30th Regiment of the 10th Division of the Red Fourth Front, the commander of the 29th Regiment of the 10th Division, the commander of the 28th Regiment, the deputy commander of the 10th Division, the commander of the 93rd Division, the later brigade commander of the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, the deputy commander of the 3rd Corps of the People's Liberation Army, the commander and political commissar of the 12th Army of the People's Liberation Army in October 1949, the commander and political commissar of the Chongqing Garrison Headquarters after the founding of New China, the deputy commander of the Beijing Military Region, and the deputy director of the Ministry of Public Security, and was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in 1955.
The team that came to his hometown that year was the famous Red Fourth Front, and when the commander-in-chief Xu Qianqian fought, he often went to the front line in person, sometimes rushing to the front with machine guns. Xu Qianqian's demeanor of rushing forward to kill the enemy influenced and inspired the vast number of commanders and fighters, and also affected Wang Jinshan's life. Wang Jinshan took Xu Xiangqian as an example, bravely killed the enemy, bravely surpassed others, and performed very prominently among his peers. When he heard that there was a fight, he was always the first to sign up for the commando. Because of his bravery in killing the enemy, he became a squad leader in the army that year, and was promoted to platoon leader of the first battalion of the 30th regiment of the Red Tenth Division the following year. In 1931, Wang Jinshan's unit underwent great changes due to the appearance of a single person. At the age of 16, he became a company commander.
Because Zhang Guotao was engaged in "repression" in the ranks at that time, Wang Jinshan was also dissatisfied, preferring to fight and die on the battlefield as a martyr rather than be purged. Fighting a war may kill you on the battlefield, which is a great chance. However, Wang Jinshan was worried that dying on the battlefield would not happen to him. How can you fight to the death?
Wang Jinshan thought about it, the only way was to fight every battle, the more opportunities to participate in the battle, the greater the possibility of sacrifice. From then on, he looked forward to fighting a war every day, and if he didn't fight a day, he would panic and suffer. As long as there was no war for a few days, he would go to Wang Hongkun and ask for a war. Wang Hongkun understood his feelings and gave him a nickname and told him to find the company commander. Every time he fought, he always charged forward, won the battle without sacrificing, and he was not happy. After being shot or unconscious, he was rescued, and his first words were to say that he was really unlucky and did not become a revolutionary martyr.
The origin of the nickname "King Madman"
At the end of December 1931, the Red 10th Division was ordered to compete with the 12th Division of the enemy Liu Zhibu for the north hill near the town of Poppi River. It should be known that the Twelfth Division of Liu Zhi's army was Chiang Kai-shek's concubine unit, not only well-armed, but also assisted by artillery.
When Liu Zhi learned that the Red Army's intention was to seize the mountain, he ordered that the artillery be bombarded first, and then the road to the mountain be blocked with machine guns and mortars.
When Wang Hongkun, commander of the 30th Regiment of the Vanguard of the Tenth Red Division, gave the task of fighting, before he could finish speaking, Wang Jinshan raised his hand and reported that they would be connected. Wang Hongkun did not accede to Wang Jinshan's request and decided to let Erlian go first. When the second company rushed to the slope of the mountain against the rain of bullets, it was suppressed by the strong fire of the enemy, and groups of fighters fell.
Wang Jinshan again asked to join the war, and Wang Hongkun looked at the small company commander who was only 16 years old, a little worried. Wang Jinshan said emphatically, "We can even do it, let's go up!" After saying that, he rushed up the mountain with the whole company. When others charged, they also used the terrain to dodge bullets, but Wang Jinshan did not want to take advantage of it, thinking in his mind to rush up the mountain as soon as possible and kill more enemies, thinking that if he was hit by the enemy's bullets, he would become a revolutionary martyr. Wang Jinshan roared with a machine gun and lunged at the mountain as if he were not alive, and the warriors followed closely behind him and rushed up the mountain with a single blow. The enemy was frightened by Wang Jinshan's undead momentum and fled in a hurry. Wang Jinshan led the team in a fierce pursuit, the bullets were finished, he dropped the machine gun, hugged an enemy fat officer and wrestled, but unexpectedly both of them stepped on the air and rolled off the cliff with their bones.
The Red Tenth Division eventually occupied the mountain, but when cleaning up the battlefield, it did not see Wang Jinshan, it was really no one alive, Wang Hongkun hurriedly ordered to search, must find Wang Jinshan. However, everyone searched the battlefield and did not find it. Early the next morning, Wang Hongkun took his troops up the mountain to look for it, and after looking for it all day, he still couldn't find it. Wang Hongkun thought to himself, Wang Jinshan must be glorious. Xu Xiangqian was both happy and sad to see the results of the Red Tenth Division, happy to have won a big victory, sad that 16-year-old Wang Jinshan had disappeared.
At that time, only Xu Xiangqian in the whole army had a telescope, and he had hope, so he took the guards to the north mountain, held up the telescope and looked at it for most of the day, and indeed found nothing. He went to another hill near the north hill and held up a telescope to look at the north hill. Suddenly found that there was someone lying on the side of a large rock on the cliff at the head of the north mountain, he was overjoyed, and sent people to the side of the cliff to look for it, and sure enough, he found Wang Jinshan. It turned out that when Wang Jinshan and the fat officer rolled off the cliff, his hands still stuck the neck of the enemy officer, jamming him to death, and he himself fainted from a head injury. Wang Jinshan was finally rescued. As soon as he woke up, his first words were: "Mother, how to do it, I have not yet become a revolutionary martyr!" ”
Wang Hongkun said to Xu Xiangqian: "Wang Jinshan wanted to fight and wanted to become a madman, and when he fought, he rushed forward like a madman. ”
From then on, Wang Jinshan received the nickname of a Wang Madman. But who knows wang Jinshan's desire to be a martyr?
Wang Jinshan "disobeyed" the battlefield, but saved the main force of the Red Army
In 1935, the second phase of the Battle of Jialing River of the Red Fourth Front had begun, with troops pointing at Zitong, Jiangyou, Beichuan, Pingwu, and Qingchuan. The Red Fourth Army attacked fiercely, capturing Zitong in one day, and the enemy collapsed. Deng Xihou and Sun Zhen were immediately confused, especially Liu Xiang, who was most worried that the Red Army would go south to the Western Sichuan Plain, and urgently ordered Deng Xihou and Sun Zhen to lead their troops to the siege of Xiejiangyou and Zitong, blocking the Red Army on the Zitong line and not going west.
On April 11, Chiang Kai-shek also sent an urgent telegram to Deng Xihou, ordering him to hold on to the Fu River, and Deng Xihou's troops You Guangju and Tao Kai launched an attack on the Red Army crossing the Fu River.
Xu Xiangqian was at the headquarters of the Jiangyou Front at this time, and when he received the news that Deng Xihou had come to the aid, he immediately staged a good play of encircling the points to help, and he ordered the 27th Division of the Red Ninth Army to continue to besiege Jiangyou, leaving the 25th Division of the Red Ninth Army, the 88th Division of the Red 30th Army, and the 10th and 11th Divisions of the Red Fourth Army to ambush at Tazi Mountain and Pheasant Guanshan Mountain to wait for reinforcements sent by the enemy.
He was determined to fight a big battle outside Jiangyou City and completely annihilate the main force of Deng Xihou's troops. In order to further mobilize the enemy, at the same time, a part of the troops were also dispatched to attack mianyang and other places in the south, creating the illusion that our army really wanted to go south to the western Sichuan Plain.
The battle began as scheduled, and the 88th Division of the 30th Red Army, the 25th Division of the Ninth Red Army, and the enemy's reinforcements met in the area between Jiangyou and Zhongba, Baita Mountain, Shuikou Temple, Dongyue Temple, and Erlang Temple.
In the afternoon, the enemy began a large-scale attack on the Red Army's Tazishan position. The Red Army, which held Tazi Mountain, took advantage of the favorable terrain to kill and wound the enemy from a commanding height, and the battle began in the morning and fought in the evening. Deng Xihou personally commanded the enemy troops of eighteen regiments, and under the cover of air, forcibly advanced towards Jiangyou. As the enemy used aviation to attack our ground forces in turn, the battle was extremely fierce. In the air, one after another enemy planes swooped down with a piercing hiss, one bomb after another exploded and raised columns of smoke tens of meters high, the explosion shock wave unscrupulously threw people and guns on the ground into the air, the Red Army positions were blazing with flames, thick smoke was billowing, under the cover of dense rain of machine guns, the enemy launched a group charge at the size of three regiments, and thousands of Sichuan army cats held guns at the waist, roaring and screaming and swooping forward. Suddenly, an enemy force broke through the junction of the positions of the 30th Regiment of the Red Fourth Army and the 88th Division of the Red 30th Army. If the continuous breakthroughs of the enemy cannot be stopped, the consequences will be unimaginable.
Xu Shiyou, who had just been transferred to the commander of the Red Fourth Army, suddenly blushed sharply, as a military commander, he was no longer allowed to draw his sword to fight in front of the battle, he urgently ordered: "Quick, call Wang Near the Mountain!" ”
Before the battle, Xu Shiyou took the Twenty-eighth Regiment as a reserve, and seeing that the front was fiercely fighting, Wang Jinshan was anxious like a cat, and he kept turning around in front of Xu Shiyou. Now hearing the commander point out his general, he did not wait for the political commissar beside him to speak, and immediately shouted:
"The first battalion obeyed the order: all were covered with bayonets; the second and third battalions were covered with machine guns and mortars. Rush up with me! ”
Wang Jinshan's side was always accompanied by several trumpet soldiers, as soon as his voice fell, several trumpet soldiers immediately sounded the trumpet of the troop transfer, the trumpet of the transfer of troops sounded, dozens of charge trumpets on the position echoed a hundred responses, and the excited trumpet sound blew people's blood boiling, Wang Jinshan held a barge gun in his left hand, and held a large shiny knife in his right hand, jumped out of the trench, more than a dozen flag soldiers followed closely behind without falling, the regimental commander rushed, and the officers and men of the Twenty-Eighth Regiment exploded like lit gunpowder. The shouts of death were earth-shattering, and more than a thousand people rushed into the enemy position like a wild surge, and the enemy short soldiers who broke through the joint department came into contact.
Wang Jinshan's eyes were round, his hair was like a steel needle, and he was rampaged through the enemy group, like a fierce tiger descending the mountain, the enemy was far away, he used the shell gun to "name", close, he rushed up with a knife. In a few moments, he was covered in blood, not knowing whether it was the enemy's or his. Wang Jinshan was killing happily, when suddenly a bullet hit his head, and he fell to the ground, and suddenly blood covered his face. The guards carried him on a stretcher to the rear, and just at this moment, Xu went to the front line, saw that the situation on the battlefield was extremely urgent, and shouted:
"Wang Near The Mountain! Where is Wang Jinshan? ”
The shouts of the commander-in-chief woke Wang Jinshan from his coma, and after learning of the situation on the front line, he immediately ordered:
"Carry me back!"
The bloody Wang Jinshan returned to the front line, sat on a stretcher and commanded the troops to counterattack. Hearing that Wang Jinshan had returned to his command post, Xu Xiangqian was relieved: "As long as Wang Crazy is here, the position will certainly not be lost." ”
Wang Jinshan's presence at the front raised the morale of the officers and men, and the soldiers finally repelled the enemy. Just then, a bullet hit him in the head again, and Wang Jinshan fell down again. Jiangyou fought a battle in which Wang Jinshan was shot twice in the head, but life was so concerned about him that two months later, Wang Jinshan returned to the team after recovering from his injuries.
In order to avoid enemy planes and platoons, Xiong Houfa commanded his troops to drill into the enemy pile with all their might and mix with the enemy, and then exerted the power of our army's large knives and bayonets.
The Sichuan army was repeatedly hit hard by the Red Army, already fearful, this time tens of thousands of enemy troops came to the rescue, because Deng Xihou was pressed tightly, the road kept rushing day and night for two days, just arrived outside Jiangyou City without even having time to breathe before being rushed to battle, from the afternoon of the 17th to the morning of the 18th, and the Red Army fought for more than ten hours, these Sichuan army soldiers did not eat a mouthful of food, they were hungry and tired, they saw that the brothers around them were knocked down one by one by the Red Army like killing chickens, and the mountains were full of corpses, and morale had already collapsed. Many soldiers simply stopped fighting, and when they saw the Red Army rushing over, they lay down and pretended to be dead.
When the two armies are engaged, the attack is the best; the two armies fight each other, and the morale is the best. Once morale is lost, even if the equipment and numbers are superior, the battle is bound to be lost. Seeing that the enemy was timid and afraid of battle, the troops guarding the main position of Tazi Mountain immediately launched a counterattack against the enemy, and the Red Twenty-fifth Division, which was reinforcing at the foot of the mountain, also took advantage of the situation to quickly encircle the enemy's right wing. Hand-to-hand combat is the red army's best and the enemy's most feared way of fighting, tens of thousands of people mixed together to fight, knives and guns facing each other, flesh and blood flying, screaming bitterly, roaring and cracking, is indeed a spectacle in the history of war. Many enemy soldiers could not stand the double stimulation of knives and guns and spirits, and turned around and ran.
Wang Jinshan was not only brave in battle, but also very calm
At the beginning of the "anti-six-way siege" of Yangliuguan Campaign, Xu Qianqian, commander-in-chief of the Red Fourth Front, sent Xu Shiyou and Wang Hongkun to take a regiment from the west to detour from the west to attack the flank of the Sichuan army from south to north, cutting off the Sichuan army's way back to Kaixian.
Yangliuguan is located in Sanhuikou Township, Kaixian County, Sichuan, is the main traffic route of Kaixian, Kaijiang and Xuanhan Counties, and is the only way to enter the eastern part of Sichuan and Wanxian from southern Shaanxi, and its terrain is quite dangerous. Liao Yuchen's troops escaped here, and under the interception of the guerrilla army in eastern Sichuan, they had become birds of fright, but liao Yuchen's troops had eight regiments of men and horses after all, although they ran away on the way to escape, and when they fled to DaliangShan, they still had the strength of nearly six regiments, and in turn controlled important passes such as Shidi Pass, Jiepai, Hetianchi, and other important passes, and also controlled Yangliu Pass, the throat main road behind these passes.
The enemy has taken advantage of the geographical advantage. It was also extremely difficult for Xu Shiyou and Wang Hongkun's two regiments, plus the guerrilla army in eastern Sichuan, to encircle and eliminate Liao bu here.
He estimated that the Sichuan army would inevitably retreat to the north of the mountains after the retreat route was cut off, and would concentrate its forces to make a major detour to the west, which in turn could attack the rear road of the Red Army, and if this was the case, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Therefore, for the sake of safety, special arrangements were made for political commissar Zhou Chunquan to lead the Twenty-eighth Regiment of the Tenth Division to hold on to the western side of the mountain. Before the battle began, Zhou Chunquan said again and again:
"We must hold our ground and must not attack!" If the enemy counterattacks and takes the position, the whole army will be in danger. Remember! ”
After the battle began, Xu Shiyou and Wang Hongkun led the army to break through the Sichuan army's defensive line, conquered the triad field in one fell swoop, and soon inserted into the enemy position more than twenty miles deep, and constantly expanded the results. The Sichuan army suddenly retreated northward, and waited for the opportunity to make a detour to the west. Zhou Chunquan, who was in the hilltop position to the west, saw the enemy retreating to the north, forgot Xu Xiangqian's instructions, and instead of rushing to attack, he had the task of holding on to his position and ensuring that the rear road was not cut off by the enemy, and ordered the Red Army: "All attack to the north!" ”
After hearing the order, the first and second battalions of the Twenty-eighth Regiment, which were guarding the important position, immediately rushed out with "hula".
As a result, Xu's pre-war worries unfortunately became a reality. When the Sichuan army was detouring from north to west, it found that the Red Army had rushed out of the position to attack, so it no longer fled, but launched a fierce counterattack, because the two units that rushed out did not have the mountain position to rely on, the strength was not enough for the other side, and the hard fight was outnumbered, so they had to retreat while fighting. As a result, the previous hilltop positions were lost.
Fortunately, wang Jinshan led three battalions to control another hill, temporarily crushing the counterattacking Sichuan army. It turned out that when Zhou Chunquan ordered a full-scale attack, Wang Jinshan not only did not listen to Zhou Chunquan's orders and rushed out with the main force of the regiment, but on the contrary, he also strictly ordered the three battalions to strictly defend their positions and seize the time to strengthen the fortifications. At this moment, his calmness and strict waiting finally played a role at the critical moment.
However, after the Sichuan army seized the main positions of the first and second battalions of the Twenty-eighth Regiment, the positions of the three battalions did not rely on them, and they fought fiercely with the heavy troops that poured in, and the situation suddenly became severe. After the rear road of the main force of the Red Army was threatened, the situation of our army on the battlefield also changed sharply to passive, and it was forced to retreat backwards.
Xu Xiangqian was furious and ordered the flag bearer to raise the red flag and prepare to rush to the west of the mountain, but Wang Hongkun hurriedly stopped and said:
"Commander Xu, you must not go, the enemy will come in, and our army will have no way to retreat!"
Before Wang Hongkun's words could be heard, the troops led by Xu Xiangqian were rushed away by the enemy, and the Sichuan army was unwilling to give up this rare opportunity to cut off the Red Army's retreat, so it concentrated the strength of four regiments and surrounded the mountain head regiment controlled by Wang Jinshan, and constantly launched a fierce attack. However, under the effective command of Wang Jinshan, the three battalions fought alone, fought repeatedly with the enemy, and repelled one enemy onslaught after another, so that the main force of the Red Army was slowly freed from danger.
After the war, I was also very afraid that if the enemy occupied the hills controlled by the three battalions, the rear road of our army would be completely cut off, and it would be in a strong siege of the Sichuan army, which was several times larger than its own, and the consequences would be unimaginable. Fortunately, because Wang Jinshan led the three battalions to resolutely hold their positions, it did not cause a major disaster.
The miracle that Wang Jinshan created in the Battle of Wanyuan
Wang Jinshan, commander of the Twenty-eighth Regiment of the Tenth Division of the Red Fourth Army, also performed a miracle in the pursuit. The Tenth Division of the Fourth Red Army attacked from the areas of Siluoba and Huangzhongbao east of Zhuyu Pass, breaking through the enemy's defensive line in one fell swoop and penetrating the enemy's depths. Wang Jinshan's Twenty-eighth Regiment passed through the pass and slashed the generals, and even defeated several enemy positions, rushing to the front of the whole army at the fastest speed. In order to completely annihilate the fleeing enemy army, Wang Hongkun ordered Wang Jinshan to directly command four regiments of the Tenth Division to fight. Ignoring the muddy road, Wang Jinshan's troops crossed the mountains and mountains, straight into the north of Daxian County, and copied them to the front of the enemy's rout.
In the evening, Wang Jinshan led the avant-garde Twenty-eighth Regiment to a village, and after setting up the guard, Wang Jinshan, who was tired and hungry, just wanted to rest, and suddenly received a report that a large enemy army had come, and it seemed that there were thousands of people. Upon hearing the enemy's situation, Wang Jinshan suddenly came to his senses, and he immediately ordered that he be ready for battle. Some people are worried that there are thousands of enemies, we only have one regiment here, and we have been marching in a hurry for days, the troops are sleepy and tired, and they have not eaten a hot meal a day today. Wang Jinshan's eyes narrowed:
"What kind of food do you eat when you have an enemy fighting?" Fight these enemies before eating. ”
Wang Jinshan quickly commanded his troops to launch an onslaught on the enemy. The defeated enemy was suddenly struck head-on and suddenly became a chaotic mess. However, in an hour, Wang Jinshan ate this enemy. Only afterwards did we know that this enemy was an integrated brigade of Yang Sen's department, and Wang Jinshan, with the courage to destroy this pilgrimage, created a glorious example of a regiment annihilating an enemy brigade in an encounter.
Therefore, Wang Jinshan's bravery in fighting and his reputation have reached the ears of the chairman!