I: "Live Wusong" makes a big fuss about "model area"
In September 1942, the population of the Jiluyu base area was drastically reduced under the great sweep, and the area was drastically reduced, and the anti-Japanese troops operating behind enemy lines entered the most difficult period. Wu Zhong was a combat staff officer in a regiment at the time, and writing a monthly battle report was one of his many duties. However, it was difficult for the soldiers to achieve any results under the heavy siege of the enemy, and Wu Zhong squeezed only more than three hundred words like toothpaste.
Considered by the brigade commander Wang Bingzhang to be a fool's errand, he was severely criticized. At the same time, his comrades-in-arms were killing the enemy on the front line, but they could only manipulate the pen, so they had a little emotion. You must know that Wu Zhongke was a fierce general who was called "Living Wusong" at the cost of one person's sacrifice in Jingyang Gang, and how could he bear the monotonous life in the rear.
Major General Wu Zhong
His close friend Li Jue therefore recommended Wu Zhong to Zeng Siyu, the political commissar of the Third Brigade, to lead his troops to fight instead of just wandering around the organs. Zeng Siyu seriously considered this proposal and secretly began to investigate Wu Zhong.
Although Wu Zhong was in a somewhat depressed mood, he still adhered to the good habit of reading, and every day he lovingly held Chairman Mao's book "One and Most Important Policy". Chairman Mao gave a prescription in his article on how to strike at the enemy who has absolute superiority: To make the troops leaner and to attach importance to the fighting of small units. Wu Zhong figured out a lot of things in the process of reading, and his confidence in the arrival of the victory in the war also strengthened.
In addition, he also got a copy of Faust, a poem that had nothing to do with the war and was also the heart of Wu Zhong, who spent time reciting verses every day. The comrades in the regiment all quipped to him that he was afraid that he was going to become a poet in a big city.
Ten days later, Li Jue brought good news: "The organization let you bring troops, and there are not more than a few dishes to celebrate." Wu Zhong hurriedly asked, "Where to go, where to go?" ”
Li Jue smiled a little and only spat out two words: "Kun Zhang." ”
The Kunzhang area, that is, the Kunshan and Zhangqiu areas, was once an important base area of our army, but it has been occupied by the enemy and has been reorganized by the devils into a "model security area." Our Party has sent two units in a row to restore the base areas and strike at the arrogance of the enemy, but both have failed. The enemy built a bunker blockade ditch there, turning it into a dragon pond tiger's den. Now, does Wu Zhong dare to break into this dangerous place? Only to see him come to Zeng Siyu and slowly stretch out two fingers:
"Yes, but I have two proposals."
"First, the leaders can't give me too many restrictions. In particular, the scope of activity, although our ultimate goal is to restore the Kunzhang base area, we must not die in that land of projectiles, we must focus on it, and at the same time knock on the side of the side of other places, which is also conducive to moving the tiger away from the mountain. ”
Zeng Siyu agreed to this proposal, and Wu Zhong continued: "If we want to restore the base area, it is advisable to use the strength of three companies, but we cannot invest them all at once. I want to first bring a company in to spy on the enemy, and then expand the influence of the masses by the way. Lay the groundwork for the arrival of follow-up troops. ”
"I totally agree, your boy has done a lot of work." Zeng Siyu was very satisfied with Wu Zhong's performance, just like that, on an evening in November. The first snow suddenly arrived, the heavens and the earth were vast, and the cold winds on the Lucy Plain were gusting. Wu Zhong and a squadron quickly crossed the Yellow River And crossed the blockade ditch, but a crisis was foreshadowed.
The Japanese Kou set up a blockade ditch in the anti-Japanese base area
After the troops arrived at the predetermined camp point, Zhao Ba Village, a large number of puppet troops surrounded them like dogs. The total enemy's strength was five or six hundred, and although Wu Zhong did not know where the news had been leaked, he still maintained his composure, and after a little thought, he had a brilliant plan to defeat the enemy. Yes, in the face of the encirclement of enemies several times larger than himself, Wu Zhong's first thought was not to retreat but to attack.
I saw him first lead his troops to jump out of the encirclement circle from the enemy's junction, and then bury two platoons of ambush troops on the way to Maying Village. When the enemy saw that we had few soldiers, everyone wanted to grab the lead, and the location where the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army lay ambush was remote and cunning, and the puppet army could not find an abnormality at all when it passed.
Wu Zhong, seeing that the enemy's troops were constantly lengthening during the pursuit, tore off the camouflage of fleeing for his life and raised a machine gun to sweep towards the puppet army.
The puppet army, which was accustomed to being a mighty man in normal days, was shot by the old eighth road, and suddenly panicked and cried and cried out to his mother. The enemy commander also wanted to close the scattered formations, and the soldiers under the ambush in advance took advantage of the situation to cut off the puppet army.
Moreover, Wu Zhong deliberately chose the graves of the puppet army in a depression, and the puppet army wanted to rush out and was immediately attacked by the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army from top to bottom, and the remaining dozen or so people finally had to obediently surrender.
Wu Zhong knew that many people were also forced to help the devils sell their lives, and generously let them go. When the puppet army was leaving, Wu Zhong laughed and said, "Go back and tell your people that Wu Zhong and the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army have fought back to Kunzhang, and if they do bad things again, Lao Tzu will write you a note." “
"Understood!" The puppet army replied particularly neatly, like a report to the instructor during military training.
At the same time, Wu Zhong also learned the reason for their exposure from the mouth of the puppet army: when the original blockade ditch was crossed, the traces left by the shovel digging the foothold were not cleaned up in time, which exposed the horse's feet. Wu Zhong, who later learned his lesson, always had to take a special ladder with him every time he led his troops through the blockade ditch and the blockade wall.
On the battlefield behind enemy lines, our army fought bravely
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Wu Zhong's regiment began to exchange shotguns for artillery, not only the total strength reached more than 2100 people, but also a heavy machine gun platoon, each platoon with two Maqin heavy machine guns. Wu Zhong himself became the commander of this main regiment, and Wu Zhong, who had commanded large battles during the Red Army period, blossomed under Coke, and his troops would finally not be ridiculed as tubalu who would only make small fights.
Second: Liberation Battlefield Encounters "Ghost Soldiers"
On the battlefield of liberation, Wu Zhong was no longer limited by troops and equipment like in the War of Resistance, but in the Battle of Jinxiang, his troops encountered the old opponent in the War of Resistance, the "Devil Soldiers".
On January 7, 1947, Fang Xianjue, a famous general of the Anti-Japanese War, led his troops to attack the positions of Wu Zhong's troops. The firepower of the Kuomintang troops was fierce, and the sound of gunfire was deafening, and Wu Zhong stepped out of the command post with an arrow step and stood on the high ground to look at the enemy's attacking queue. In the telescope is a strange sight:
The enemy's aiming is very similar, and the marksmanship is also very accurate, and it seems to be some veterans. The troops in the feasible army were like bundles of straw, and once our army organized a counter-charge, they dropped their weapons and ran back, and without looking for cover, they exposed their backs to the muzzle of the PLA, acting like new recruits who had just entered the battlefield.
Soldiers of our army on the march
No, it shouldn't. Wu Zhong muttered in his heart, he looked at it for a while, and then went back to the command post to pick up the telephone and called the regimental commander of another position: "Hey, hey, can you still stand it, I see that the enemy's firepower is very fierce, can't the veteran general's American aid give them?" ”
The regimental commander of the friendly neighboring unit replied: "Old man, they can stand it, but their firepower is very fierce, but it seems that they have no spirit in fighting, dude, this group of enemies is very strange, I see that they are not ordinary Kuomintang soldiers." ”
"Well, if we take a few prisoners and come over and ask, everything will be clear."
"Just do it, and see which way they are."
The scheduled capture of prisoners was originally carried out at night, but the enemy was really not angry, and just after three o'clock in the afternoon, the morale was low and passive defense, and the soldiers of the Fifty-eighth regiment and the fifty-ninth regiment saw the enemy's decaying appearance and rushed down the position like a fierce tiger, and as a result, they only wanted to take a few prisoners, but later they directly took the enemy's position. Wu Zhong was angry and funny, and he already knew that the enemy was so unbeaten, and the battle could still be dragged on until now.
After the battle, Wu Zhong let people carry the equipment left by the enemy to personally inspect, good guys, this group of enemies are holding the same Japanese equipment, what Type 99 rifle, Type 92 heavy machine gun Wu Zhong looked at the drooling. Although Japanese equipment can't catch up with American equipment, it is also stronger than the guys held by the People's Liberation Army. When Wu Zhong lamented that he had made a small fortune, the battalion commander under him brought a message that surprised everyone in the command headquarters: "Commander, all the people who have fought with us until now are small Japanese devils!" ”
Type 92 heavy machine gun
"No way, little Japan has been dead for two years, and this will come out of the ground again?" Wu Zhong was shocked at first, and then quickly calmed down, "Besides, how can the little devil's combat effectiveness be so poor, and can we take the position so easily?" ”
"Colonel, what I said is absolutely true, if you look at this gun, isn't it all made in Japan?" And the captives, who couldn't speak a word of Chinese, and I shouted a word of eight gags and all of them shrank into a circle of fright. Who else could it be? The battalion commander's words were so convincing that he almost swore an oath, and in a half-hearted way, Wu Zhong decided to look at the situation himself before reporting to his superiors.
When they arrived at the camp, Wu Zhong found that these prisoners were indeed not very tall, much like the Japanese dwarf winter melons he had seen during the War of Resistance, and then listened carefully to their conversations, and sure enough, he couldn't understand them. But one thing Wu Zhong was quite sure of was that they definitely didn't speak Japanese. After playing with devils for so many years, although Wu Zhong did not know Japanese, he was quite familiar with Japanese pronunciation. The captive's voice was very similar to the words of the Minnan region.
There were no people in the group, and Wu Zhong dragged his chin and thought for a while, and then picked out from the captives a "cultural person" who seemed to know a few big characters.
Where are you from?
Wu Zhong wrote on a piece of paper.
The captives hurried to reveal their identities: I am not a Japanese ghost, I am a Taiwanese.
Although he had never been to Taiwan, he learned in the army that the Japanese had been there since the Sino-Japanese War occupied Taiwan, and that most of the young people in Taiwan could understand Japanese, but they could not speak Chinese.
Taiwan under Japanese occupation
After confirming the identity of the captives, Wu Zhong pretended to be angry and said to the subordinates who "lied about military information": "You, you, have made a big oolong and treated Chinese as Japanese." It almost made the chief see the joke. “
In the following written conversation, Wu Zhong learned that the prisoners were from the 140th Brigade of the reorganized 70th Division, and that the Japanese goods they were holding were all left in Taiwan after Japan's defeat. On the battlefield of liberation, the Kuomintang troops retreated again and again, and the unfavorable Kuomintang authorities urgently needed to replenish their troops, and Zhuang Ding was captured and sent to Taiwan.
These young people from Taiwan have not undergone any training, and they have just finished getting off the ship and being loaded into the train, and when they see the sun again, they are already in the battlefield full of gunfire. Wu Zhong sighed and asked the managers to treat the prisoners well, and the Taiwanese who talked to Wu Zhong was very touched and volunteered to help Wu Zhong act as an interpreter to explain to the prisoners the leniency policy of the People's Liberation Army. In the subsequent Battle of Yutai, under the leadership of Yin Fatang, they shouted to the enemy and asked them to lay down their weapons and surrender to the People's Liberation Army.
This political offensive worked, and a total of more than 2,000 people from the entire Taiwan brigade, under the leadership of brigade commander Xie Maoquan, flew a white flag and walked out of the fortifications.
Three: For Liu Bocheng's "protector of the Law", Commander-in-Chief Liu almost "cast himself into the net"
In December 1947, a very glorious task fell on Wu Zhong's Twenty Brigade, and Commander Yang Yong entrusted Commander-in-Chief Liu Bocheng and the Central Plains Bureau and the Field Army Rear Commander to Wu Zhong.
Wu Zhong needed to protect the organs and units to advance to the Huaixi region and attack the enemy who surrounded Dabie Mountain from the outside. After listening to the task, Wu Zhong's brain was hot, and he patted his chest and said: "Guarantee to complete the task of escorting Mr. Liu.". ”
Yang Yong was well aware of Wu Zhong's temperament, glanced at him, and asked, "How to guarantee the Fa?" Let's hear which path you are going to take and how to cooperate with your friendly and neighboring troops. ”
Admiral Yang Yong
"This..." Wu Zhong was speechless for a moment, and Yang Yong shook his head: "You, you, how to become a brigade commander is still so easy to get on the head, this task is very important, not you can afford to shoot a chest, you must change your stinky temper." He came with a map and made meticulous arrangements for Wu Zhong: "You are fighting on the vanguard, and you must not fall in love with war when you take this road..."
Yang Yong was not a mother-in-law, but this time he repeatedly told Wu Zhong the details, which showed the importance of this task. At the end, Yang Yong said: "This operation is so special that if you encounter problems, you should directly consult Commander-in-Chief Liu Bocheng, whose sophisticated command style is enough for you to learn for a lifetime." ”
"Yes, if Commander-in-Chief Liu drops a hair, I will bring my head up to see you." Wu Zhong straightened his waist.
Soon after the troops set out, it began to rain lightly in the sky, and after midnight the rain stopped. Stepping on the heel of the raindrops is a rare thick fog, and the visibility has dropped sharply, less than 10 meters. Wu Zhong silently prayed in the thick fog: hoping that this fog would hide the whereabouts of his own troops.
Suddenly, a burst of gunfire rang out in the thick fog, and Wu Zhongxin rushed to the scene with several civilian personnel. The battle was long over, and the reconnaissance staff officer came with two prisoners, but unfortunately the two men's official positions were too small, and Wu Zhong did not interrogate any useful information, only that they were reorganized into the Eleventh Division. There was a company commander, but unfortunately he didn't catch it and let him run.
Wu Zhongxin thumped, and his intuition told him that an invisible danger was quietly approaching the rear chief. So he hurriedly ordered a carpet search, digging three feet into the ground to arrest the escaped company commander.
The company commander who paid off the kung fu did not run far, and had been hiding in a fellow countryman's house, and finally he was pulled out from under the bed and pulled in front of Wu Zhong.
The company commander was in a state of limbo, and after half a day of not being able to say anything, Wu Zhong turned his gaze to a briefcase he was carrying. After opening it, a map was found, and after Wu Zhong took a look at it, cold sweat flowed directly from the door of his head--the entire force of the reorganized Eleventh Division overlapped the camping site with Wu Zhong's Twenty Brigade and the pre-selected camp of the rear organs!
Liberation
"Give me the rear command troops." Wu Zhong immediately made arrangements, but he did not expect that the radio station could not be connected at all, and time passed minute by minute, and in this fog, Liu Bocheng's commander-in-chief and all the comrades of the rear organs were likely to be unable to discover the enemy situation and would throw themselves into the net...
Wu Zhong first asked the chief of the operations section to inform Liu Bocheng of the change in plans, and then sent Zhang Helin, the head of the guard squad, out and gave him the shell gun of the whole brigade.
At dawn, neither group of men nor horses returned with news, and Liu Bocheng and the command organs' scheduled camp, Xiaozhai Village, heard a lot of gunfire.
Wu Zhong almost fainted in a hurry, but fortunately, Chen Lei, the chief of the operations section, rushed back first. Wu Zhonggang breathed a sigh of relief, but found that there was no trace of Liu Bocheng behind Chen Lei, and his heart turned to the throat eye again.
Chen Lei said in a panic, "I didn't find Commander Liu, the fog is too big." Wu Zhong scolded urgently, and then stepped on the saddle to prepare to go to Xiaozhai personally, Yang Yong pulled his saddle: "You calm down, your duty is to command the overall situation." “
Just when Wu Zhong could not hold back, a key phone call reached the command post: Commander-in-Chief Liu was very safe, at the regimental headquarters of the Sixty-second Regiment.
It turned out that Liu Bocheng and the rear command post had followed his troops several times because of the thick fog, and after arriving at Xiaozhai, perhaps with the blessing of heaven, a peasant came to him. Commander Liu casually asked, "There are soldiers in your village." “
"I came early, and we cut down the trees all night, and it really disturbed people's peace, and the boss said to us."
Although he did not receive the news, it was absolutely impossible for the soldiers of our army to damage the property of the common people, and they only left at dawn in the camp, and there was no need for the soldiers of our army to repair the fortifications in situ.
"Staff Officer Wang, you should bring some people to see the situation, and the rest of the people should not rest and be ready to transfer at any time." When Staff Sergeant Wang walked near the village, he alarmed the enemy sentries, and suddenly the gunshots rang out, which was also the gunshot that Wu Zhong heard. Then the second group of men and horses sent by Wu Zhong arrived in time to help Liu Bocheng and the rear organs meet the Sixty-second Regiment.
"Marx and Engels have a spirit in heaven." After listening to the report, both Wu Zhong and Yang Yong breathed a sigh of relief.
Marshal Liu Bocheng
During the escort process of more than a month, Wu Zhong learned a lot from Liu Bocheng that was worth studying for a lifetime, and his calm and self-assured general style also left a deep impression on the soldiers of the whole brigade. Later, Wu Zhong recalled: When Commander-in-Chief Liu Bocheng drifted away under the morning sun at the mouth of the village, the brilliant sun covered the vibrant Central Plains, and I think that soon the whole of China will be bathed in warm sunshine.