After Lieutenant General Wan Yi joined the revolutionary ranks during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he was highly valued by his superiors. Due to his lack of experience in fighting against the enemy, he believed that the enemy used clever words to let the enemy run away. He was very sorry for this and asked the organization to punish him.
In 1944, Wan Yi led the Northeast Army to join the Eighth Route Army and served as the commander of the Coastal Detachment. During a campaign against the puppet army, he was shot in the rear to recuperate. When he returned to the army in the spring of 1945, Luo Ronghuan found him and asked him to lead four main regiments to jointly launch a crusade against the two puppet armies.
Wan Yi had never commanded so many troops to fight, and he was afraid that he would not be able to do his job, so he told Political Commissar Luo Ronghuan that he had only commanded two regiments, and four regiments did not dare to do it. Political Commissar Luo said: To train senior commanders, it is always necessary to exercise.
Just as Political Commissar Luo Ronghuan said, the commanders of the Eighth Route Army were not born to command large troops to fight, but were also cultivated step by step in war. Letting him command the four main regiments was a great trust in him.
Among these four main regiments, some people fought better than him, like Sun Jixian and Liang Xingchu. Why not let these veteran generals command, let him, a man who has just joined the Eighth Route Army, take command?
In the revolutionary ranks, no matter what kind of origin, everyone is treated equally, and it will not be like the Kuomintang army, which favors one over the other, and there is a distinction between concubines and non-concubines.
Wan Yi served as the commander, Liang Xingchu and Sun Jixian served as deputy commanders, and the four regiments quickly annihilated Zhang Buyun's two brigades, and then attacked Lü Xiaoxian's two regiments, and finally destroyed Lü Xiaoxian's old nest.
After cutting off these two puppet armies, Wan Yi and Liang Xingchu decided to eliminate another puppet army, Zhang Hongfei. There was an underground party in Zhang Hongfei's troops, and he told Wan Yi that Zhang Hongfei wanted to see the leaders of the troops. Zhang Hongfei was very cunning and tricked Wan Yi into saying that he would accept the adaptation, but he needed to do the work for the people below, and it took time.
Wan Yi did not seek the opinions of other leaders and agreed to him. After Zhang Hongfei left, He Dongsheng said: We cannot fully reveal him, we should force the troops to go over, let a part of the ambush on the road, and prevent him from leading the troops to escape. Wan Yi disagreed, afraid of leaving people with excuses, and it would not be good to work in the future.
Wan Yi's experience in fighting against the enemy was too shallow, and the enemy's three words and two words tricked him. Something that made Wan Yi regret it happened, and Zhang Hongfei led the team to escape overnight.
After the incident, Wan Yi requested punishment. Political Commissar Luo said: What problems can you solve by punishing you, eat a long and wise, and find the root cause of the mistake.
Wan Yi reviewed his own opinions too pedantic, did not see the essence of the matter clearly, mainly because of his pride, after some victories, blindly confident, can not listen to different opinions. Commissar Luo also helped him to clearly understand the problems he had, which made his heart suddenly bright and he understood a lot of revolutionary roads.