After the victory in the Battle of Jinan, Shandong was basically liberated except for Qingdao and other areas. At this time, the Liu Zhi clique in Xuzhou was already under the attack of the East China Field Army and the Central Plains Field Army. Chairman Mao wasted no time in ordering the Huaihai Campaign to launch an attack on Xuzhou.
Xuzhou has always been a place of contention for soldiers and families, and it was once the transportation hub of the two major railway lines of Jinpu and Longhai. On the eve of the Battle of Huaihai, the enemy Liu Zhi clique, with Xuzhou as the center, laid heavy troops around the two railways to form a defensive front of "one point and two lines".
The 10th Column of the East China Field Army received the order and rushed south along the Jinpu Road. The 10th Column was formed in 1947 by the merger of the 7th Division and the 11th Division of the former Bohai Naval Region, and was commanded by Song Shilun. This is the main force of the East China Field Army, which can attack and defend well, and the enemy Qiu Qingquan Corps is circulating
"If the platoon does not move, it must be 10 columns"
statement.
Just the night before the start of the great battle, an accident occurred, and the commander of the column, Song Shilun, was captured by the enemy.
The capture of the commander of the main force is bound to affect the launch of the campaign and thus the overall situation of the entire Huaihai Campaign. It was a huge surprise.
As the commander of the column, Song Shilun did not have to go to the front line to fight, he was also equipped with considerable guard strength, but why was he captured by the enemy?
Song Shilun had a characteristic of fighting, preferring to go to the front line to inspect the terrain and then arrange the battle.
November 5, 1948 was the day before the Battle of Huaihai began.
That night, Song Shilun took 4 guards to the front line in a jeep to inspect the terrain and prepare to return to the headquarters station.
Since it was already dark and the driver was not familiar with the road, they found a guide to lead the way. But during the exchange, the guide may have misheard them and led them to the enemy defense area of Hanzhuang on the north bank of the Grand Canal.
When they were more than a hundred meters away from Han Zhuang, they suddenly heard two gunshots of "Uh-huh", and then a group of enemy soldiers swarmed up, pointed their guns at them, and said: "Shoot and don't kill!" At this time, Song Shilun and others realized that they had broken into the wolf's den.
Ordered to garrison the Canal Bridge was the 3rd Battalion of the enemy's 111th Regiment, and the battalion commander Wang Shijiang also rushed to the scene when he heard the sound of gunfire. He saw a few people in PLA uniforms and asked, "What the hell are you doing here?" ”
The guard of song Shilun rushed back: "We are all scouts." ”
Wang Shijiang listened and said, "Since this is the case, let's go to my battalion headquarters and talk about it." ”
Several people were taken to the camp headquarters, and Wang Shijiang asked them again: "What are you doing here?" ”
Song Shilun thought to himself, this run can't run away, simply adapt to the situation. He said loudly: "I am Song Shilun, commander of the 10th Column of the East China Field Army of the People's Liberation Army, and we have come to persuade you to abandon the dark and cast the light." ”
When Wang Shijiang heard Song Shilun's name, he immediately saluted him and said, "I am Wang Shijiang, commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 111th Regiment of the 59th Army of the Nationalist Army. ”
This sentence made Song Shilun and others look at each other and think which drama is going to be staged? He said sternly: "Our unit has completed the preparations for the attack, and when the cannon fires, you may regret it too late." I advise your ministry to withdraw from the fortifications and stand by the people. ”
Wang Shijiang saw that the crowd could not react for a moment,
He went on to say, "Commander Song, I am an underground party member. ”
When a commander of a nationalist battalion met with the commander of the PLA column, why would he say that he was an underground party member? What is his true identity? What will be the end of Song Shilun and Wang Shijiang?
Wang Shijiang, a native of Leling, Shandong, was born in 1914 and attended only private school and three years of primary school. Shandong was divided up by the great powers as early as the end of the Qing Dynasty, and the people here were oppressed, especially after the September 18 Incident, their hatred for the invaders was extremely strong.
During the Great Wall War of Resistance, the 29th Army led by Song Zheyuan defeated the Japanese army with a large knife at Xifengkou, and became famous in the first battle and gained a high reputation. In 1936
Song Zheyuan returned to his hometown of Leling, Shandong, to recruit soldiers, and Wang Shijiang signed up to join the army.
Become a soldier in the 110th Brigade of the 29th Route Army.
On July 7, 1937, the Japanese army provoked the Lugou Bridge Incident and besieged Wanping City. The next day, the Chinese troops stationed on the Lugou Bridge fought back and fired the first shots of the all-out War of Resistance.
At that time, Wang Shijiang was serving as the commander of the pistol squad, and the brigade commander He Jifeng ordered him and another squad leader to supervise the battle in the 3rd Battalion of the 219th Regiment on the front line, and the two of them rushed along the sorghum field to the front line. On the way, the sound of vehicles was heard, and 4 Japanese military vehicles were found coming head-on.
Wang Shijiang hid on the edge of the sorghum field, and when the Japanese military vehicle was more than 20 meters away, he rushed out and fired several shots at the front car, killing the driver, and then turned his head and ran. The Japanese troops in the rear car set up machine guns and fired a strafing, but Wang Shijiang had long disappeared without a trace.
This was the first time Wang Shijiang had killed a ghost, and he went back and happily reported to the brigade commander He Jifeng. Unexpectedly, the brigade commander listened but was a little angry: "You shot a few shots and ran away, why don't you mention a few devils to come back?" ”
Due to the heroic resistance of the Chinese army, the Japanese army did not take advantage of it, so it resorted to the strategy of delaying the army. Pretend to negotiate in order to wait for reinforcements from large troops. Senior generals of the 29th Army misjudged the situation and later fell into passivity.
After the arrival of a large number of Japanese reinforcements, the 29th Army had to withdraw from the defensive zone. Wang Shijiang retreated with his troops to the vicinity of The Town of Bo in Hebei Province. At that time, the 110th Brigade had been reorganized into the 179th Division, with He Jifeng as the commander of the division.
Due to the betrayal of the traitors, the Japanese army learned the location of the headquarters of the 179th Division and sent hundreds of plainclothes to suddenly surround the division headquarters. The pistol company fully covered He Jifeng's breakthrough, and suffered more than half of the casualties in the fierce battle for more than two hours.
Wang Shijiang was shot in a fierce battle, his left arm was broken, a large piece of muscle was knocked out, and the class he led, 6 of the 10 people were killed and 2 were injured. Two warriors rushed out of the siege with him.
When the troops gathered and prepared to retreat south, Old Jiang ordered the 26th Route Army to block the yellow river crossing, and even wounded soldiers like Wang Shijiang did not let them cross the river. This made the soldiers extremely indignant, and while everyone was shouting and cursing Old Chiang, the agent he sent in an ironclad car to go to the front line to supervise the battle was stopped by the soldiers.
The soldiers forcibly carried the wounded soldiers into the car, and the agents did not dare to speak up for fear of causing a conflict. Wang Shijiang was sent to Jinan,
When the doctor opened the strap on his arm, he found that the wound had stinked, and maggots had grown in the blood of the rotten flesh and pus.
The doctor frowned and said, "Only sawed off." ”
How to fight the devils when the arm is gone? Wang Shijiang could not accept this result, and he learned that there was a hospital for serious injuries of the Nationalist army in Yanzhou. So he went to Yanzhou again, but this was the hospital of the Central Military Concubine, and the treatment after being injured in the battle on the front line was very different.
The wounded and sick of the troops of the Concubines had rice to eat, beds to sleep in, and what medicines and medicines to ask for, and old Jiang also sent 10 yuan when he came to comfort him. The wounded and sick of the local troops can only eat coarse grain, make a shop, and only wash the wounds with salt water every day, and the condolence money is only 5 yuan.
Wang Shijiang stayed for two days before a doctor came to examine him, and he got the same answer: "You must saw off your arm, otherwise your life will be in danger." Wang Shijiang said angrily, "I can't save my life and I won't saw it." ”
The doctor did not help him, but increased his psychological burden.
Fortunately, another young doctor was more sympathetic to him, and when he helped him treat, he said: "You grit your teeth and endure, I will use a knife to scrape off the rotten flesh in your wound, maybe it will heal slowly." ”
Wang Shijiang bit the handkerchief in his mouth, and the doctor scraped the blackened area of the rotten flesh and bones of his wound one by one, and sure enough, his wound began to heal after more than ten days.
Later, due to unfair treatment, the wounded and sick of the local troops smashed the hospital and beat the president.
Wang Shijiang also participated in the operation, and although his injuries had not healed, he could not stay in the hospital.
Although the 29th Army actively resisted The Japanese, it was still an old army, and the superior officers often beat and cursed the soldiers. And this injury made Wang Shijiang see the essence of old Jiang clearly. Coupled with the fact that the Eighth Route Army had won a great victory at Pingxingguan and advanced behind enemy lines to open up base areas, Wang Shijiang planned to return to the troops to contact a few reliable people, get guns and ammunition, and then go to Yan'an to join the Eighth Route Army.
When Qiu Xiaoting, secretary of the underground work committee of the 29th Army, heard about this incident, he hurriedly went to Wang Shijiang to persuade him: "It is a just act for you to go to Yan'an, and if you go there for the purpose of resisting Japan, it is better to organize the old troops now and play a greater role in the war of resistance." ”
Wang Shijiang felt that Qiu Xiaoting was very reasonable and dismissed the idea of going to Yan'an. Under the cultivation of Qiu Xiaoting,
Wang Shijiang secretly joined the party organization in the autumn of 1938.
Later, the commander of the 179th Division, He Jifeng, also secretly joined the party, and Wang Shijiang was sent to serve as his correspondent.
According to the organizational arrangement, He Jifeng created a search team and a student corps in the army, and absorbed progressive youth and slowly transformed the old troops. Wang Shijiang also became the captain of the student corps.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, He Jifeng secretly helped the New Fourth Army many times.
Once, when he learned that the New Fourth Army was in financial difficulty, he decided to squeeze out ten thousand yuan from the salary of the troops and give it to Li Xiannian's department for use. This money was sent to the New Fourth Army by Liu Fang with 6,000 yuan and Xiang Yiguang with 4,000 yuan.
While staying at the hotel on the way, Xiang Diguang said that he had something to go out for, but he still did not return in the evening. Liu Fang had a premonition that things were not good and immediately shifted.
It was later learned that Xiang Yiguang was targeted by agents of the Fifth Theater when he was out, and soon after his arrest, he defected.
He confessed to the head of the underground party organization of the 29th Army, and also said that He Jifeng was a communist.
Li Zongren reported to Lao Jiang, who ordered He Jifeng to go to Chongqing for trial.
Wang Xiping, head of the party organization, will also be evacuated. He said to Wang Shijiang: "At present, there are not many people who suspect you, as long as you are handled carefully, it is estimated that there is no great danger." Organizationally, after much deliberation, decided to leave you behind and continue the latent struggle, what do you think? ”
Wang Shijiang said: "I obey the organizational arrangement. ”
Wang Xiping finally explained: "Pay attention to being an official, master the barrel of the gun, and don't think about getting rich." Make more friends, but don't engage in development work for the time being. When you receive the order of the organization, you can bring the troops out as good comrades. ”
Wang Shijiang was more active in the army in peacetime, and naturally he was suspected, but he had already made preparations. He Jifeng and Wang Xiping did not leave long, and Cao Naiwu, director of the Military Justice Department of the headquarters, came down to investigate. This person was once an instructor of the Cadet Corps, and he had a teacher-student friendship with Wang Shijiang, and the relationship was acceptable.
Cao Naiwu first went to Wang Shijiang's dormitory to look around, then pointed to a box next to the bed and asked, "What is in it?" ”
Wang Shijiang opened the box, and inside were three Japanese cigarettes. He smiled and said, "Old instructor, this was bought from a guerrilla zone, so you can take two of them and smoke them." ”
Cao Naiwu pointed to a brand new Japanese military blanket on the bed and asked, "Is this also bought?" ”
Wang Shijiang said: "This is the booty captured from the Japanese army, young people don't need it, old instructor you take it as a souvenir." ”
Later, Wang Shijiang ordered people to make a table of wine dishes and invited Cao Naiwu to drink. After a few glasses of wine, Cao Naiwu asked openly, "I came this time because I heard that you made friends with the Communist Party." He Jifeng was personally ordered by Chairman Jiang zemin to be transferred to Chongqing, and I am afraid that it will be difficult for him to come back, and if he brings out your situation, you will be passive at that time. ”
Cao Naiwu took a sip of wine and continued, "If you know something, take the initiative to say it, you are still young, and this is related to your future destiny." We teachers and students, these are all heartfelt words. ”
After Wang Shijiang listened, he knew that Cao Naiwu had no evidence in his hands.
He just wanted to grab He Jifeng's handle from himself.
He then said, "Commander He resolutely resisted Japan and was a man of national integrity. Old instructor, you are like him to be my role model.
Is it because he resisted Japan that he said that he was a communist? I think he was framed.
”
The two went around, and Wang Shijiang did not say half a sentence, but instead drunk Cao Naiwu, and finally lost two cigarettes, a military blanket and a hundred yuan to send him away.
Thanks to the guarantee of Feng Yuxiang and other generals of the Northwest Army, He Jifeng was able to return to the army smoothly. However, Lao Chiang also sent some political workers to monitor the troops, who were actually secret agents of the military command.
After they came, they co-opted some people who were originally close to Wang Shijiang.
Although Wang Shijiang has never disclosed his identity, these friends vaguely know. One day, a good friend of Wang Shijiang's, Chu Tonglin, knocked on the side and said to him: "If He Jifeng hadn't had a doorway in Chongqing this time, I'm afraid he wouldn't have been able to come back." He may have already fallen to Old Jiang, and these people below us must follow him to have a way out, otherwise they will suffer a big loss! ”
Wang Shijiang was very disappointed by the change in his friend's position and decided to give him some color to see.
In his later years, Wang Shijiang
He said, "Brother, you know who I am. The devil knocked a piece of flesh off me, and I must repay this vendetta. I am a non-partisan person and am not afraid of others playing tricks on me. But if I want to know who framed me, then I would not recognize it. ”
At this time, Wang Shijiang stood up violently and pulled out the pistol in his waist and said, "Brother, you see two mosquitoes on the ground, whichever one I want to hit." With that, Hey fired two shots.
Chu Tonglin jumped up in fright, fixed his mind before saying, "Big brother, I am just talking to you about my heart, don't misunderstand." In our relationship, don't say that you are not a Communist Party, even if it is true, I will not say it. ”
After the victory of the War of Resistance, Chiang Kai-shek provoked a civil war. In the early days, the Fifth Division of the New Fourth Army was heavily surrounded by Chiang Kai-shek's army in the Central Plains.
When the troops broke through, some female comrades were unable to move with the army because they were pregnant.
The underground organization once arranged for 19 female comrades to go to Wang Shijiang's family office in Xuzhou, where he thought of sending them to the Liberated Areas.
But by the time a comrade named Yang Ju arrived, the passport he had obtained had been used up
。 At that time, the situation was relatively tense, and it was difficult to send to the Liberated Areas without a permit. Wang Shijiang thought about it and went to find Zhang Wenda, Feng Zhi'an's secretary.
Zhang Wenda asked Wang Shijiang, "What do you want your passport for?" ”
Wang Shijiang said: "Now that there is a war here, and the family members are not safe here, I am ready to send them to Jinan." ”
At that time, Wang Shijiang had 28 empty pay places in his hand, and he gave one to Zhang Wenda, who happily helped him get a blank passport. afterward
Wang Shijiang used his wife and children as a cover to send Yang Ju to the headquarters of the New Fourth Army in Linyi.
Wang Shijiang also learned later that this comrade Yang Ju was the wife of wang Shusheng, the future founding general.
In late October 1948, the two armies in xuzhou were frequently mobilized, and a major war was imminent. Wang Shijiang, who had already served as the battalion commander, was ordered to lead a team to garrison the Taozhuang coal mine, and the division headquarters sent a spy staff officer, Shen Qiyuan, to follow him and monitor the movement of the troops.
Yang Ju
This person is present, and if he wants to pull the troops out of the uprising, he may be hindered, and if he wants to kill him directly, he is afraid of hitting the grass and scaring the snake. Thinking about it, Wang Shijiang decided to buy it with money. He found Shen Qiyuan and said, "Counselor Prudent, now that a great war is imminent, you have arranged a back road." ”
Then he took out two hundred yuan of gold coupons from his pocket and gave them to Shen Qiyuan and said, "Your family is still in Xuzhou, and it is very dangerous to start a war, so you should go back and resettle first." Shen Qiyuan saw that he had been guarded against all the time, and his situation was very dangerous, so he took the money and left.
Shortly after Shen Qiyuan left, Wang Shijiang received orders to withdraw to the south bank of the Grand Canal and shrink in the direction of Xuzhou. At this time, He Jifeng secretly told him that he still stayed on the north bank of the canal to contact the People's Liberation Army. Until they accidentally encountered the Song Shilun who was going in the wrong direction.
In fact
When Song Shilun heard Wang Shijiang claim to be an underground party member, he was still a little disbelieving
He asked, "Who are you in contact with in our army, and what are your tasks?" ”
Wang Shijiang replied: "I contacted Yang Side of the Enemy Ministry of Works, who just conveyed to me commander Chen Yi's order yesterday to let me take good control of the troops and act on standby. ”
At this time, Song Shilun smiled and said, "Almost the water washed away the Dragon King Temple." He ordered Wang Shijiang to lead the entire battalion of officers and soldiers to take the lead in the uprising.
After Wang Shijiang sent away the Song Wheel of Time, he ordered the whole battalion to assemble and notify the first and second battalions. In this way, the entire regiment was pulled out to the designated place.
When Song Shi returned to the station, the sky was already bright. The director of the political department waited for him all night, anxious like ants on a hot pot. Relieved to see Song Shilun reincarnated, Song Shilun joked: "If it weren't for Comrade Wang Shijiang, we would have been glorious." ”
He Jifeng and Zhang Kexia
Just two days after the Song Dynasty was reincarnated, He Jifeng and Zhang Kexia also led more than 20,000 people to revolt, providing great help for Huaye's main force to intercept and annihilate Huang Baitao's army. Wang Shijiang was the first unit to defect to our army in this uprising.
After liberation, Wang Shijiang successively went to Jinzhou, Heilongjiang and other places to work, served as the commander of the Mudanjiang Military Subdistrict, and retired in 1974.
Song Shilun mistakenly entered the enemy but encountered his own people, which seemed unexpected, but in fact, it was also reasonable. During the war, our army's intelligence work was very outstanding, and a large number of "idle chess pieces" were deployed in the enemy's camp. Some of the underground party members obtained important information from the enemy, and some plotted against the enemy's senior generals, laying the foundation for victory in the war. On the other hand, the enemy army was already crumbling on the eve of the Battle of Huaihai, and abandoning the dark and casting light was of course their best choice.
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