In 1955, in the west auditorium of the Ziguang Pavilion in Beijing, a group of generals in military uniforms and leather shoes sat aside, where the first conferment ceremony of new China was being held, and these people were greeting their own honors, and each general had his own story and scars left from the line of fire.
Among these generals, Qin Jiwei's experience vividly explains the life of nine deaths, and he was awarded the rank of lieutenant general at the award ceremony.
He was once a member of the Western Route Army, after his defeat, he was captured by the brutal Ma Jiajun, escaped from death several times, falsely claimed to be a brother-in-law before escaping from death, and finally returned to the organization, in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, he held a high position, led the soldiers to kill the enemy bravely, won the Victory in the Battle of Shangganling in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and made outstanding contributions to consolidating the political power of New China.
Defeat of the Western Route Army
After the end of the Long March, the military strength of the Red Army was constantly strengthened, even if it had reached the central and western Shaanxi, Chiang Kai-shek was still eyeing our army, after discussion and planning, Chiang Kai-shek decided to launch the Battle of Tongwei, the generals of our army stubbornly resisted, and obtained the assistance of the Soviet Union.
The central authorities decided to open up the Xinjiang region, open up the road in Xinjiang, and win more international assistance and support from the local people for the revolution.
This task was entrusted to the Western Route Army, and Qin Jiwei was also in the Western Route Army of that year, and held the position of regimental commander.
Due to isolation and helplessness, coupled with the encirclement and blockade of the local bully Ma Jiajun, the Western Route Army soon fell into a downward trend, and the Kuomintang troops and the Majia Army took advantage of the complex local terrain and the weakness of the Red Army officers who were not familiar with the terrain, water and soil, and began to encircle the Western Route Army.
Pretending to be a husband, avoiding it for a while
At that time, Qin Jiwei's men were scattered by Ma Jiajun, only dozens of people remained by his side, and the weather was already getting colder, as a non-commissioned officer, he had more clothes on his body than the generals, but despite this, it was difficult to resist the cold weather in the northwest, and the snow that reached half a meter deep made Qin Jiwei and his subordinates miserable.
One by one, the soldiers were frostbitten and even fell down, and they never woke up again, there was a vast snow in front of them, and then there was a siege and interception by the Ma family army, and Qin Jiwei and the soldiers had to go forward.
However, they were found and captured by Ma Jiajun on their way down the mountain, and Qin Jiwei was about to raise his gun and commit suicide, but was stopped, and the clever move said that he was just a man who was separated from the team and had no official position, so he escaped with his life, but he was still taken back to Ma Jiajun's base camp and was imprisoned.
Most of the Red Army captured by Ma Jiajun could not escape death, and Qin Jiwei was very lucky, because it was Ma Lu who captured him, and he was not executed, but was only imprisoned.
Ma Lu was besieged when he encircled and suppressed the Red Army, but after agreeing to our Party's proposal to unite against Japan, he was released and played an important role in the War of Resistance Against Japan, guarding the gateway with the people of the northwest.
So even though Ma Bufang in the Ma family's army wanted to put the Red Army to death, but Ma Lu saved them, Qin Jiwei was so lucky, plus he said that he was just a gangster, and he would not be taken seriously.
After being escorted to Liangzhou, although Qin Jiwei was tortured by the enemy to extract a confession, he insisted that he was just a gangster, and the enemy also gave up the idea of taking information from his mouth, and Qin Jiwei was safe.
He was ready to start plotting how to escape and join the party and the army, but the appearance of the traitor caught him off guard and bankrupted his escape plan, forcing him to solve the immediate crisis first.
The traitor reports, and is blessed by misfortune
When Qin Jiwei was about to gain a foothold in prison and was preparing to conspire with other comrades to escape from prison, an old Red Army soldier who had experienced the Long March was also imprisoned, but as soon as he saw Qin Jiwei, he identified him as the leader of the Red Army, and the enemy was shocked after hearing it, qin Jiwei was also shocked, and then he was pulled to torture to extract a confession.
After enduring inhuman torture, Qin Jiwei finally carried it down, falsely claiming that he was only a acting company commander with no actual power, and this time the crisis was once again defused by Qin Jiwei's tact.
The good times did not last long, another Red Army was arrested, Qin Jiwei was thinking of trying to win him out with him, but he did not expect that the Red Army was also a traitor, he was more familiar with Qin Jiwei than the previous one, he pointed out in public that Qin Jiwei was Xu Xiangqian's staff officer, xu Xiangqian was the commander-in-chief of the Western Route Army at that time.
No one thought that Qin Jiwei was such a big official, and Qin Jiwei also felt desperate about his future because of this identification of traitors, and the Red Army, whose other official positions were even smaller than his, were all executed, not to mention his staff officer? He would certainly accept the cruelest punishment until the enemy drew the information they wanted out of his mouth, and by this time he was ready to commit suicide.
However, to his surprise, the prison personnel were even better for him than before, and their living conditions and other aspects were treated preferentially, and Ma Jiajun in the prison would say "Qin Staff Officer is good" when he saw Qin Jiwei.
It turned out that Ma Lu had originally confessed that during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, it was necessary to treat the red army's generals, especially the senior generals, and the previous Red Army was executed at the request of the Kuomintang, and Qin Jiwei was also blessed in prison because of his identity, so he was able to make his escape plan with peace of mind.
Soon, the all-out War of Resistance broke out, according to the relevant agreement, Ma Jiajun was to transfer the prisoners to other anti-Japanese troops, and Qin Jiwei was assigned to the kuomintang's southern Hu Zongnan, who was Chiang Kai-shek's concubine, and it was difficult to escape from his hands.
In the process of escorting, Qin Jiwei escaped from the guards on the pretext of going to the toilet, and after experiencing difficulties along the way, he finally ran back to Yan'an and returned to the party organization.
brief summary:
Qin Jiwei was one of the important generals of our army, made outstanding contributions to the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, and even defeated the invincible US army in the Sino-US Battle of Shangganling, and he was also awarded the rank of general in 1988.
It is such a general, but in the early years, there were such bumpy encounters, which confirms that every general has his own story, and also has the obsession to support him through the predicament.
In 1997, General Qin Jiwei died, and although the heroes went, their spirits remained forever, and they remained in our hearts forever.
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