In 1971, at the reception of the "August 1st" Founding Day, Marshal Xu Qianqian was invited to attend the celebration, just as Marshal Xu Qianqian was watching the ceremony.
A figure suddenly appeared in front of Xu Shuai, and that person seemed to have noticed Xu Shuai, so he quickly looked back.
Sure enough, xu Shuai showed a smile on his face after seeing him, so he pointed to the man and the comrades around him and said jokingly,
"I've known him for a long time, and I saved his life."
After Xu Shuai's comrades-in-arms heard about it, they also looked at the figure not far away, so who was this person who had saved his life by Xu Shuai?
And what was he because of that year, he was rescued by Xu Shuai? What is the process of this? Let's take a look at this historical story.
Zhang Yixiang
Ever since chiang kai-shek's reactionaries launched the "April 12" counter-revolutionary coup, they have arrested and massacred Communists and Social Democrats throughout the country.
In order to resist the "white terror" of the Kuomintang, our party decided to launch an armed struggle, so after some careful preparations, the Nanchang Uprising broke out.
After the outbreak of the uprising, the revolutionary situation in China changed dramatically in an instant, and Chiang Kai-shek and his reactionaries were so terrified of the strength of the Red Army that they launched one "encirclement and suppression" campaign against our army one after another.
But the Red Army, under the correct command, smashed these encirclement and suppression operations one after another.
It expanded the base areas in the Soviet Union and also promoted the development of the Chinese revolution.
In the Soviet zone, our party announced the implementation of various preferential policies for rent reduction and interest reduction, and constantly mobilized the common people in the Soviet zone to stand up and join the Red Army in resisting the Kuomintang army.
As a result, many young people actively responded to the call and threw themselves into the Red Army, including a teenager named Zhang Yixiang.
Zhang Yixiang was born in June 1914 in Liuyang, Hunan Province, and when he was three years old, Zhang Yixiang's father died for some reason, and his mother could not make a living alone, so he took Zhang Yixiang around begging for a living.
Therefore, the young Zhang Yixiang had already endured the cold and warmth of the human world, and his heart was very resentful of the corruption and incompetence of the landlord and the old government at that time.
When his mother took Zhang Yixiang to the Soviet district to beg, Zhang Yixiang, who was only fourteen years old, immediately responded to the call of the Soviet district and joined the Chinese Communist Youth League.
War of Resistance
In the following year, Zhang Yixiang officially joined the Red Fifth Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, later the Red Third Army, under the leadership and command of Peng Dehuai.
After joining the Red Army, although Zhang Yixiang was young, he fought extremely bravely and fiercely, and he did not have the slightest fear in the face of the heavy troops sent by Chiang Kai-shek to encircle and suppress him.
Every time there was a battle, Zhang Yixiang would rush to the front line, and the comrades around him looked at the young Zhang Yixiang and dared to risk death to charge, so a wave of pride suddenly poured out of his heart, and they followed Zhang Yixiang to launch a charge.
In this way, Zhang Yixiang and his comrades-in-arms won the battle every time with their lifeless character.
Later, Zhang Yixiang was also promoted to squad leader because of his bravery in battle.
In 1930, Peng Dehuai commanded the Red Third Army to attack Changsha, and in the face of the enemy's strict defense, the Red Army soldiers had a hard time conquering this fortified city.
At this time, Zhang Yixiang also followed the troops to changsha city, and looking at the Kuomintang army at the head of the city, Zhang Yixiang's heart was full of hatred.
Therefore, after launching the attack, Zhang Yixiang launched an even fiercer charge than ever, and he led the soldiers in his squad to attack the gathered enemy troops.
At this time, the enemy's machine guns also frantically strafed at Zhang Yixiang and others, and in the fierce battle, Zhang Yixiang could not dodge,
A bullet went straight through the edge of the heart.
Zhang Yixiang was hit and fell to the ground unconscious, but fortunately at this time our army had already taken this position, so Zhang Yixiang's comrades-in-arms, after discovering Zhang Yixiang, who was still breathing, immediately sent him to the hospital in the rear for rescue.
Agrarian revolution
Under the treatment of the doctor, it is also thanks to the penetrating injury, so Zhang Yixiang woke up after a few days of coma, and his life was saved.
Zhang Yixiang, who was very difficult not to die, was also very happy in his heart, so he strictly followed the doctor's instructions and took a good rest in the hospital.
And Zhang Yixiang's bravery in combat was also reported to his superiors, and the superior leaders attached great importance to this, not only because of Zhang Yixiang's courageous combat spirit.
It's even more that he's not yet twenty years old!
Therefore, in 1931, after Zhang Yixiang was injured, his superior Zhang Yixiang was made the company commander of the Independent Second Division, and the following year he was promoted to deputy battalion commander of the Red Eighth Army.
In April 1932, Zhang Yixiang, who was only eighteen years old, officially joined the Communist Party of China.
He became an honorable Communist Party member and also entered the Jiangxi Red Army School to study.
After completing his studies, Zhang Yixiang was appointed battalion commander of the Second Division of the Red Third Army, and has been participating in anti-encirclement and suppression battles in the Central Soviet Region ever since.
At that time, although Chiang Kai-shek experienced the failure of the previous encirclement and suppression and the loss of soldiers, Chiang Kai-shek always regarded our party and the Soviet region as a "major problem in his heart" and always wanted to completely eliminate them.
Therefore, in 1933, Chiang Kai-shek once again gathered heavy troops to launch encirclement and suppression in our base areas, which was also the fifth "encirclement and suppression" operation launched by Chiang Kai-shek.
In the previous four encirclement and suppression battles, the Red Army, under the flexible and changeable command, avoided the enemy's sharp edge and hit the main force to crush the enemy army.
This caused the enemy's blockade to appear "open-ended", which allowed the Red Army to defeat the strong with a weak victory and win the anti-encirclement and suppression war.
However, in the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression war, our Party mistakenly believed in the command of Wang Ming, Bogu and others, so that the Red Army fought a position war and a war of attrition with an enemy army several times superior to us on the front line.
This caused a large number of casualties in the Red Army, and after a year of bloody battles, the Soviet zone and the Scope of Activity of the Red Army were large-scale compressed by the Kuomintang army, and the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign finally ended in failure.
After the failure of the anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, the Red Army and our Party, in order to preserve their living forces, decided to carry out a major strategic transfer, and thus the twenty-five thousand mile long march officially began.
Zhang Yixiang was also ordered to lead the troops to start the Long March, and his task was to buy time for the safe withdrawal of the main forces.
So Zhang Yixiang led the soldiers to the end of the troops.
After the Red Army began to move, the Kuomintang army also sensed that the Red Army troops were marching abnormally, and Chiang Kai-shek thought that our army was probably ready to withdraw, so he immediately ordered the Kuomintang army to pursue.
After Zhang Yixiang detected the pursuit of the Kuomintang army, he also immediately ordered the fighters to garrison on the spot, and they took advantage of their familiarity with the terrain of the Soviet area to set up ambushes layer by layer and block the attack step by step.
Zhang Yixiang's blockade inflicted heavy casualties on the pursuing Kuomintang troops, which made the pursuing Kuomintang troops mistakenly think that the main force of our army was still here and did not withdraw, so the Kuomintang troops who came to pursue stopped one after another.
After the blockade battle was effective, Zhang Yixiang also followed the order, immediately led the fighters to withdraw from the battlefield and began to chase after the large troops, while the Kuomintang army at this time was still stuck in the distance, not aware of Zhang Yixiang's actions.
Lake Chosin
It was not until a few days later, when the Kuomintang army launched another tentative attack, that it suddenly realized that our army had already withdrawn, so it immediately launched an urgent pursuit and reported the news to Chiang Kai-shek.
When Chiang Kai-shek learned that the Red Army had withdrawn, he was immediately greatly annoyed.
Subsequently, the local warlords were ordered to cooperate with the central army and encircle and suppress the Red Army that had withdrawn.
After receiving Chiang Kai-shek's orders, the local warlords did not want to pay much attention to it, but under the strong pressure of the Nationalist government, they still symbolically sent troops to block the Red Army.
At this time, Zhang Yixiang also caught up with the team, and the superior leaders saw that Zhang Yixiang successfully completed the blockade task and returned safely, and his heart was also very happy, so he let Zhang Yixiang's troops take a break.
But at this time the pursuing troops sent by the local warlords had already set out, and they were familiar with the local terrain, so they sent a cavalry from the trail to intercept our army.
After Zhang Yixiang's troops were rested, Zhang Yixiang once again received orders from his superiors, and our army had detected this cavalry starting from the small road in advance.
So the superiors demanded that this cavalry be intercepted to buy time for the main force to withdraw.
So this blocking task once again fell to Zhang Yixiang's body, because he had rich experience in blocking, and his superiors believed that Zhang Yixiang was capable of completing this task.
After receiving the order, Zhang Yixiang immediately reorganized his armaments without saying a word, and he ordered the wounded and sick to leave their belongings and follow the large troops to withdraw.
On the other hand, a reconnaissance team was sent to retrace the nearby terrain to see where it was suitable for this blockade battle, and the cavalry naturally had an advantage over the infantry, so Zhang Yixiang decided to find a mountainous and hilly terrain to attract the attention of this cavalry.
After some reconnaissance, Zhang Yixiang found a mountain trail, which was the closest road for the enemy to pursue our army, and Zhang Yixiang judged that the enemy army was likely to pass through here.
So he ordered his troops to go to this place to carry out an ambush, in fact, this path was not suitable for Zhang Yixiang to carry out an ambush.
Because at the end of the path is a small field, if the enemy cavalry rushes over desperately, then they must not be able to stop it.
But after all, this path was too critical, so Zhang Yixiang was very uneasy in his heart, so he personally brought his troops here to set up an ambush.
He ordered his soldiers to lay ambush on either side, while concentrating the only machine guns in the battalion and building a network of firepower, hoping to block the cavalry charge.
Sure enough, not long after Zhang Yixiang made the deployment, the enemy's cavalry came, and looking at the cavalry roaring in the mountains and forests, the soldiers couldn't help but feel a pang of fear in their hearts.
This is a natural fear of infantry to cavalry, and in the face of charging cavalry, few infantrymen will not be afraid in their hearts.
Therefore, Zhang Yixiang had to whisper encouragement to the soldiers, so that they could be vigilant and ready for battle.
Slowly, the enemy's cavalry appeared in front of Zhang Yixiang, but at this time, Zhang Yixiang looked at this cavalry and felt a surprise in his heart.
Because I don't know what the reason is, the cavalry that was ordered to pursue in front of them is obviously out of state, and there is an atmosphere of freedom and looseness everywhere, and there is no vigilance at all, even the scouts are only perfunctory.
After seeing this situation, Zhang Yixiang thought that this was the best time to launch an ambush, so after the cavalry entered the encirclement, Zhang Yixiang immediately ordered shooting.
Long
In an instant, the gunshots in the mountains and forests were loud, and the fire network built by the machine guns made it difficult for the enemy cavalry to launch an effective charge.
The enemy was beaten like headless flies and ran around.
At this time, Zhang Yixiang once again ordered the warriors to aim at the enemy's war horses to shoot, and after a burst of fire, a large number of horses were shot and fell to the ground, and even the cavalry on horseback were also crushed to the ground.
This made the commander of the enemy army angry, shouting for the enemy to retreat on horseback, ready to pull away and launch a charge, and Zhang Yixiang ordered our army to increase its firepower and absolutely not let them retreat successfully.
However, the mobility of the cavalry is better than that of the infantry, so a large part of the enemy cavalry successfully escaped the battlefield and came not far away to start charging.
At this time, Zhang Yixiang also led the warriors to immediately launch a pursuit, and they fought with bayonets and cavalry sitting on horseback.
For a time man and horse were intertwined.
Zhang Yixiang was blocked by some enemy troops, and the enemy troops who had successfully withdrawn at this time had redeployed the charging line under their command.
With the order issued, this enemy army launched a charge against Zhang Yixiang, and the enemy army used its huge inertia to break through the blockade of our army in an instant.
They then turned around again and launched an attack on our machine gun positions, and although our army put up stubborn resistance, our army was obviously at a disadvantage in the face of the cavalry that had already launched a charge, and the machine gun positions were destroyed by the enemy.
After this, the enemy army rushed into the battlefield again, ready to encircle and suppress Zhang Yixiang, while Zhang Yixiang was surrounded by enemy troops at this time, and it was impossible to break through.
Zhang Yixiang saw that he already had the will to die in his heart, so he ordered again that the warriors should follow him to launch a counterattack against the enemy army.
Zhang Yixiang decided to use his own sacrifice to buy enough time for the withdrawal of the main force.
After Zhang Yixiang launched another charge, the enemy cavalry was not ready to fight with Zhang Yixiang, but instead used the mobility of the cavalry to constantly wander around, seizing every opportunity to sneak up on Zhang Yixiang's troops.
This is also the standard way of cavalry combat, not entangled with ground troops,
It is only to use mobility to continuously charge, and then use this to break the defense line of the ground troops, destroying the confidence of the defenders to defend until they are completely annihilated.
Zhang Yixiang's troops soon fell into a desperate situation, if there is no accident, the outcome of Zhang Yixiang's troops, most likely, is that the entire army was destroyed here, and in the "Western Expedition" launched after the end of our army's Long March, the Red Army was annihilated by the Majia Army in the northwest.
But at this moment, there was a sudden confusion in the rear of the enemy army, and then this confusion showed a situation that intensified.
It seems that someone is attacking this cavalry in the rear!
This situation was quickly detected by Zhang Yixiang, who keenly grasped the opportunity and immediately ordered a breakthrough towards the place where the chaos occurred.
Encouraged by Zhang Yixiang, the warriors once again gathered their spirits to follow Zhang Yixiang and launched a charge towards the target area.
Sure enough, the enemy's resistance was very small, Zhang Yixiang quickly led the soldiers to tear a hole from here, and then Zhang Yixiang ordered to expand the "opening" around the center.
The enemy cavalry also detected Zhang Yixiang's movements, but could not do anything, because at this time there was another Red Army engaging them.
Seeing that the situation was unfavorable, the commander of the cavalry decisively ordered the evacuation, and fled the battlefield with the remaining cavalry.
Zhang Yixiang also saved his life, and after the war, Zhang Yixiang immediately sent someone to ask which unit this Red Army was and how it came to be here.
After talking, Zhang Yixiang learned that
The Red Army that came to support was under the command of Xu Qianqian, and they were on their way when scouts came to report that there was a battle ahead.
So he sent troops to check it out, and when he found that it was a Red Army surrounded by enemy troops, Commander Xu immediately ordered the rescue of the encircled Red Army.
Therefore, Zhang Yixiang was saved by Xu Commander under the wrong yin and yang, but at this time, Marshal Xu Qianqian did not know what kind of development the battalion commander in front of him would have in the future.
With the help of Xu's commander-in-chief, Zhang Yixiang's troops were finally able to get a chance to breathe, and they also obtained some of the supplies from Marshal Xu Qianqian.
Although the troops were rested, after a bitter battle, the troops were severely reduced, and there were more than 600 people in the original battalion
After the battle, there were less than two hundred people left! The casualties were heavy.
After resting, Zhang Yixiang once again caught up with the large troops to continue the Long March, and after that, Zhang Yixiang also served as a blockade task after the palace many times, winning opportunities again and again for the withdrawal of the main Red Army, and making great contributions to the Long March of the Red Army.
After the end of the Long March, Zhang Yixiang was successively appointed chief of staff of the Fifty-second Regiment of the Red Sixth Army and staff officer of the Corps Department of the Red Sixth Army.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Kuomintang and the Communists cooperated, the Red Army officially accepted the reorganization of the Nationalist government, and Zhang Yixiang was also transferred to the position of commander of the Fourth Detachment of the New Fourth Army.
Until the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhang Yixiang had been promoted to the position of brigade commander of the Third Brigade of the First Column of the Shandong Military Region of the New Fourth Army, and after the surrender of the Japanese army, he personally led the troops to accept the surrender of the Japanese army along the Jinpu Line.
Before the War of Liberation broke out, Chiang Kai-shek, in order to occupy the key transportation points in the east, asked the US army to airlift the Kuomintang troops, and on the other hand, asked the local Japanese troops to continue to exercise their "duties" and wait for the Kuomintang troops to recover the lost land.
Under the pretext of Chiang Kai-shek's orders, these Japanese troops continued to harm one side and posed a great threat to the lives of the local people.
American
Zhang Yixiang, under the orders of our party, immediately gathered troops to go north,
Launched an attack on the Japanese puppet army entrenched in the Tai'an area, forcing the Japanese army to abandon resistance and surrender to our army.
Under Zhang Yixiang's offensive, the Japanese puppet army around Tai'an was quickly defeated, and Tai'an was also retaken by Zhang Yixiang, and the Japanese army was forced to surrender to our army.
After the outbreak of the Liberation War, Zhang Yixiang continued to lead his troops to the front line to command the operation, and after the three major battles, the General Trend of the Kuomintang had gone, and a large number of living forces were either annihilated or reorganized.
For this reason, Li Zongren issued a request for peace talks, in a vain attempt to rule by crossing the river, but Chairman Mao of the Cpc Central Committee and Commander-in-Chief Zhu issued clear instructions.
"March to the whole country!"
When the Battle of Crossing the River broke out, Zhang Yixiang led his troops to brave the artillery fire of the Kuomintang army to launch a fierce attack, and under the offensive of our army, the Yangtze River defense line built by the Kuomintang suddenly collapsed, and Nanjing was successfully conquered by our army.
After Nanjing was conquered by our army, the Chiang Kai-shek clique fled to Taiwan in defeat, and on October 1, 1949, New China was officially established.
When the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea broke out in 1950, Zhang Yixiang was the commander of the Twentieth Army of the Ninth Corps, and under the urgent orders of Commander-in-Chief Peng Dehuai and Chairman Mao, Zhang Yixiang led the 20th Army to brave the harsh winter cold of Korea and sneak into Chosin Lake.
Here the officers and men of the Twentieth Army overcame all kinds of extremely harsh conditions with amazing perseverance, and then on November 27, 1950, the Twentieth Army launched a general offensive.
Zhang Yixiang commanded the 20th Army to launch an offensive against the US First Marine Division, dividing and encircling the two main regiments of the US army.
At the same time, it also occupied Liutanli and Hagaru-ri, and stubbornly held the route of the US army fleeing south.
In order to save the First Marine Division, Commander Smith of the United States gathered heavy troops to launch a counterattack against our army, and also ordered the Air Force to continue to bomb.
Under the pressure of the US artillery, our army was temporarily at a disadvantage, and the First Marine Division was able to escape with difficulty, and then our army pursued all the way, causing heavy casualties to the fleeing US troops.
At the Battle of Chosin Lake, the 20th Army successfully defeated the Ace 1st Marine Division of the US Army and annihilated a regiment of the US Army at a painful price of more than 7,000 casualties and more than 11,000 frostbite wounds!
After the end of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Zhang Yixiang led the 20th Army back to China, and in 1955 Zhang Yixiang was awarded the rank of lieutenant general.
At the "August 1st" celebration in 1971, Marshal Xu Qianqian saw Zhang Yixiang again.
It was only at this time that Zhang Yixiang had already been appointed commander of the Second Artillery.
On April 5, 1990, General Zhang Yixiang died at the age of 76.