During the Battle of the River Crossing in late April 1949, a very dramatic event occurred.
As everyone knows, the Battle of Crossing the River was a fierce battle, the People's Liberation Army's two and three wild million troops fought against the enemy, and finally the People's Liberation Army gained the upper hand, and the enemy army fled everywhere after defeat.
Among them were a combat staff officer named Gao Xiang and a scout named Xu Chenggui.
After the two went to a nearby village, they were captured at night by plainclothes enemies, after which they were taken away and entered an abandoned villager's house.
Around the broken house, there were more plainclothes enemies hiding, so that situation was undoubtedly a wolf for the two of them. But what is surprising is that the two finally managed to escape with a ruse.
After escaping from danger and returning to the People's Liberation Army, this combat staff officer named Gao Xiang was ordered to infiltrate the enemy camp at that time and persuaded more than 400 enemies to surrender. Therefore, it is no exaggeration to define this experience as dramatic.
It is worth mentioning that this has happened more than once in our army. Because there was also a lieutenant general riding a white horse to mistakenly break into the Japanese barracks, and then by shouting "Yosai", the Japanese troops lined up to salute, and finally successfully walked out of the enemy camp.
Joined the Red Army and performed well
This Lieutenant General Wu Fushan, who was born in 1912 in Ji'an, Jiangxi Province, had spread his advanced revolutionary ideas throughout China during his youth, and when he was 14 years old, he was also exposed to advanced ideas, and then he began to make practical actions to save the country like many advanced young people.
In addition to entering the association of local advanced youth organizations, Wu Fushan also participated in the local peasant movement, during which Wu Fushan also studied with other young people, although his education level was not high, but with the help of others, he was also able to read many advanced books and Marxist-Leninist works.
The theories in these books and writings had a huge impact on Wu Fushan's thinking, which made him firm in his determination to join the Chinese Communist Party, and eventually because of his excellent performance, he had become an excellent member of the Chinese Communist Party at the age of 18.
Finally, Wu Fushan also followed the local peasant movement organization and joined the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and he also participated in five anti-encirclement and suppression and long marches. It was in the tempering of many battles that Wu Fushan grew from an ordinary warrior to an excellent commander.
Wu Fushan, who was active and enterprising, was also valued by his superiors, and was successively appointed as the political commissar of the special service company of the 12th Division of the Red Fourth Army, the director of the political office of the directly subordinate organs of the division, and the political commissar of the 19th Regiment of the 7th Division of the Red First Army.
Later, in order to better serve the revolution, Wu Fushan applied for further study, and his application was also approved, and after the end of the Long March of the Red Army, Wu Fushan entered the Red Army University in northern Shaanxi for study. There he came into contact with many good warriors like him.
Win the battle and try riding the enemy horse
Wu Fushan, who gained a lot during his time at the Red Army University in northern Shaanxi, performed even better during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, serving as political commissar and logistics director of detachments, regiments, brigades, and logistics departments. In 1938, he also assisted Chen Geng in the ambush battles at ShentouLing and Xiangtangpu, and Wu Fushan's performance was also recognized by Chen Geng, during which time he was also Chen Geng's right-hand man.
Although Wu Fushan also achieved many victories before 1940, none of these victories were very impressive, and Wu Fushan was really famous because of his successful escape after mistakenly entering the enemy camp in 1940.
In the autumn of 1940, Wu Fushan had been promoted to brigade political commissar by his own efforts, and then he led his troops to fight the Japanese and won the victory. The victory was inspiring because the enemy commanders were beaten to escape, and the enemy lost their armor.
After the end of that war, the Eighth Route Army also harvested a lot of war supplies, and even a few brand-new Coats of Japanese officers and the war horses left by the Japanese commanders. Wu Fushan was very happy, and before handing over the supplies, he tried on a Japanese officer's new army coat and rode the Japanese commander's horse.
Mistakenly entered the enemy camp and returned smoothly
At first, Wu Fushan, dressed in the clothes of a Japanese officer, rode on the Japanese officer's white horse, and the white horse behaved quite docile, but after he rode on the white horse, he had a fierce reaction, and finally he could not even control the white horse.
Perhaps the white horse frightens the unfamiliar, and the white horse gallops toward its familiar path after it has lost control. Wu Fushan, who was riding a horse, was also difficult to get off the horse, so he could only grasp the reins and stabilize himself on the horse.
In the midst of the panic, Wu Fushan found that the direction of the horses was the Japanese garrison, and the panicked horses at that time also attracted the attention of the enemy, so he was not suitable for dismounting. They could only follow the horses into the Japanese garrison.
When the horses arrived at the garrison became docile again, Wu Fushan had already arrived at the gate where the Japanese troops were stationed on the white horse, and when he was thinking about how to escape, the Japanese soldiers guarding the gate politely opened the gate and invited him to enter.
This made Wu Fushan realize that he was wearing the Japanese officer coat and white horse, and the Japanese soldiers mistakenly thought that he was a Japanese commander, so he could only calmly ride in on the white horse.
After entering the gate, Wu Fushan saw a large number of soldiers in the battalion, but they were all busy with their own work. Soon the soldiers, who were busy with their own hands, quickly lined up on both sides of the road and saluted him.
Because Wu Fushan had never seen such a situation, he did not know what to do for a while, but he clearly saw that the soldiers who saluted him were waiting for him to respond.
Although Wu Fushan himself had much contact with the Japanese on the battlefield, he did not speak Japanese, so he was a little flustered, but he tried to remain calm and put on a japanese officer's leadership frame to watch the two columns of Japanese soldiers. Then Wu Fushan suddenly remembered a sentence in his mind that he often listened to the words of Japanese officers- "Yo West".
Therefore, Wu Fushan tried to deliberately amplify his voice and shouted "Yo Xi", and then as he expected, the soldiers received this command and dispersed again.
Wu Fushan, who was temporarily out of danger, decided to leave quickly, after all, the paper bag could not hold the fire, so he controlled the horse, calmly made a gesture to the Japanese soldiers to open the door, and then rode his horse to the door. After he saw that a Japanese soldier had decided to follow his "commander", he also made a gesture of refusal and rode away.
After Wu Fushan thought that he had left the sight of the Japanese army, he quickly returned to the Eighth Route Army garrison. I believe that the Japanese army must have felt abnormal soon, but they could not rush to catch up with him on a whim.
And Wu Fushan's dramatic adventure experience was deeply impressed by those who knew him in the army, and many people praised his calmness and ease in going deep into the enemy camp.
brief summary:
Wu Fushan's ability to stay in danger in the face of danger must have played a lot of role in directing the battle, and this attitude is very important for a general who leads the army to march and fight, because if a general is faced with defeat on the battlefield, then his subordinates will panic even more, and the final defeat may come sooner, or it may be more miserable.
If a general in an army can calmly show self-confidence in any situation, it will also give his subordinates a positive hint that it will be more conducive to winning the battle.
As a lieutenant general, Wu Fushan once mistakenly entered the Japanese barracks on horseback, and finally walked out of the enemy camp by relying on his extremely strong psychological quality and calm attitude, which also proved that he was fully capable of calmly handling things in dangerous situations.
I believe that this ability for Wu Fushan to eventually be awarded the rank of lieutenant general, provided a lot of help, and this ability is also needed for us modern people, although we are in a modern peaceful and stable society, rarely face the danger of losing our lives, but we often encounter easy to stressful situations, but also need this ability such as examinations, interviews, etc.