Sixty-five years ago, the fiercest battle in the history of world war was fought. The 15th Army of the Chinese Volunteer Army held shangganling for more than forty days, firmly nailing the US army in front of shangganling, and shocking the world. The commander of this campaign was Qin Jiwei, nicknamed "Qin Dadao" by the general, who had been accustomed to fighting hard battles all his life!
Qin Jiwei was born on November 16, 1914 in Huang'an (now Hong'an County), Hubei Province, the "First General County of China", and when he was eight years old, a plague took away all his relatives and he became an orphan. The lonely life made Qin Jiwei develop a strong and brave character. In 1927, the thirteen-year-old Qin Jiwei participated in the vigorous jute uprising and was praised by the villagers as a "red teenager".
November 1931 - Qin Jiwei was appointed as the commander of the second company of the pistol battalion of the headquarters of the Red Fourth Front, and participated in the previous anti-"encirclement and suppression" struggles in the Eyu-Anhui Soviet Region. In the famous Battle of Huang'an, the position of Zhangshan Mountain in the east of the city was lost, and he led his troops to escort the commander-in-chief Xu forward to the line of fire and commanded the troops to retake the position. In the struggle to create the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet Region, he served as the commander of the Guard Regiment of the Front Army, the commander of the 274th Regiment of the Red Thirty-first Army, and the commander of the Supplementary Division of the General Staff of the Red Fourth Front. Subsequently, he participated in the Long March and the Western Route Army, and served as the fourth director of the headquarters of the Western Route Army.
At the end of 1931, the Red Fourth Front attacked Huang'an City. At the age of seventeen, Qin Jiwei was already serving as the commander of the pistol company of the headquarters guard regiment. Watching the other units fighting in full swing, his own company was guarding the headquarters all day long, useless; Qin Jiwei was so desperate to kill the enemy that he kicked open the camp commander's door: "This post Lao Tzu is no longer standing, Lao Tzu's company wants to fight!" ”
The battalion commander didn't even glance at Qin Jiwei, lowered his head to replenish his military uniform, and said for a long time: "Wow, you Qin Jiwei hero!" Leave me the company, where do you love to go! Qin Jiwei was confused, and the battalion commander said again: "Leave the gun behind, finish this battle, and seal you as Qin Dadao!" ”
The battalion commander hoped that Qin Jiwei would retreat in spite of the difficulties. Who knew that Qin Jiwei was so enthusiastic that he rushed to the front line alone. Regardless of life and death, he bravely killed the enemy, and even hacked several enemies to death with only a large knife. Since then, the prestige of the "Qin Great Knife" has been known to everyone in the Red Army.
In 1937, the Anti-Japanese War broke out in full swing, and the anti-Japanese independent detachment of the 129th Division was established in the Taihang Mountains, with the twenty-three-year-old Qin Jiwei as the commander. At this time, the Japanese army occupied Taiyuan, and constantly swept the surrounding area, burning and looting, and did all kinds of evil. Bad news came one after another, making Qin Jiwei burn with anger and tear his bones.
But Qin Jiwei could not take the initiative to attack. His troops were poorly armed, short of ammunition, and numbered only over a thousand. If you attack, you will expose your strength and attract the attention of the enemy, incuring crazy retaliation. At this critical moment, Qin Jiwei decided: "Fight! But be smart. ”
Qin Jiwei strictly ordered the leaders of the guerrilla groups to grasp the whereabouts of the traitors and the Japanese. After everything was ready, Qin Jiwei was ready to kill the enemy and the hypocrites.
On April 2, 1938, half of the rivers and mountains southeast of Taiyuan spent a thrilling night. Qin Jiwei personally led the soldiers and civilians of ten counties to kill more than a hundred traitors who committed the most heinous crimes overnight. All the traitors' corpses had a slogan on them: "All those who give the Japanese army a message to lead the way will end up with this." "The payment was made by the Qin Lai detachment of the Eighth Route Army.
Within a few days, more than seventy Japanese and puppet strongholds in the vicinity were attacked at the same time, more than 260 traitors were killed, and the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties. There was panic in the enemy-occupied areas, and the japanese and traitors were scattered and discouraged, and they did not even dare to come out of the door.
Proposal of the East China Field Army to hold the Battle of Huaihai. Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping commanded the troops to strengthen operations on the Western Front and cooperate with the East China Field Army. On October 9, 1948, Liu Deng decided to concentrate the first, third, fourth, and ninth columns to capture Nanyang and Zhengzhou in response to Huaye's upcoming Battle of Huaihai on the Xuzhou battlefield. The Battle of Zhengzhou was not isolated, it can be said to be the prelude to the Battle of Huaihai.
At that time, Liu Deng's telegram to the Central Military Commission clearly defined the attempt to attack Zhengzhou: "Attracting all of Sun Yuanliang's reinforcements may even more absorb the westward part of Qiu Qingquan's corps, so as to achieve the main purpose of assisting Huaye in the battle." "Nine columns were not an important role in the initial deployment. Whether Qin Jiwei wanted to attack a strong point or cooperate, the main purpose was to destroy the enemy. But Qin Jiwei judged that the Zhengzhou defenders might flee. Therefore, he ordered the Ninth Column to make all the preparations for blocking the escape and fighting for help.
October 14, 1952 – The famous Battle of Shangganling begins. In the face of more than 62,000 US troops, 118 tanks, 350 artillery pieces, more than 3,000 aircraft, and more than 2 million shells and more than 10,000 bombs dropped by the US Army, the 15th Army held on to Shangganling for more than 40 days, withstood "the fiercest firepower attack in the history of world war," and firmly nailed the US military to Shangganling, and the arrogant aggressors had no choice but to bow their heads at the negotiating table again, thus speeding up the process of victory in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. Chinese
On October 1, 1984, Deng Xiaoping's National Day military parade, General Qin Jiwei was then the commander of the Beijing Military Region, as the commander-in-chief of the parade. On the side parade command car, Qin Jiwei was majestic and his eyes were dazzling, and he was known as "God General!" ”