In 1931, in the Red Army guerrilla brigade in Pixiao County, a group of Red Army soldiers were enthusiastically surrounding the discussion.
"Did you hear that?" There was a little carpenter in the team, only sixteen years old, and he had not yet grown up. As soon as I went to the battlefield today, the first shot fired, with a bang, pierced the enemy's head melon! ”
"What a stop! This born calf lamb, the real mother is not afraid of the big tiger! As soon as this little carpenter went to the battlefield, he rushed forward with vigor, and like a dead man, he flew in front of the enemy at once, directly frightening the enemy, and his hands were raised to surrender. The man next to him was also frightened and simply knelt down and surrendered. This little doll went to the battlefield for the first time, killed one, and captured two, which was really gratifying! ”
This group of red army gathered together to discuss the little carpenter, is Born in Xiaogan, Hubei Province, Liu Zhen, in order to beg for food, from the age of twelve, he began to work with the old carpenter in the village, three points and one line of aiming ah, since childhood to understand. At this moment, as soon as he entered the battlefield, as soon as he carried the gun and closed his eyes, he took down a human head. When the enemy ran away, he chased after him, but he could not stop pursuing him, and incidentally captured two new long guns. A recruit egg, what he did made the veteran very convinced!
At this time, everyone only thought that Liu Zhen, a new little carpenter, could expect to come, but no one thought that in the days to come, he set a record of four consecutive promotions within a year, and at the military rank ceremony in 1955, he became the youngest founding general in the history of our country!
First, the little carpenter pointed out three mistakes of the commander and was promoted two levels in a row
Speaking of Liu Zhen, he did not think of becoming a soldier at the beginning, he was born in Xiaowu Township, Xiaogan City, which is very poor, his family is even poorer, his mother left early, and it was his father who single-handedly pulled him up. At the age of twelve, he worshiped under the door of the old carpenter, and worked very diligently every day as a young carpenter. At that time, his dream was very simple, that is, to learn a carpenter well, to support his father in the future, and to marry a wife with some small money.
The turning point in his life came in 1930, when a large number of revolutionary movements emerged in Xiaogan, and they were constantly agitating people's hearts and turning themselves into songs. Xiaogan is a very magical small city, and among the founding fathers of New China, more than fifty of them came out of Xiaogan.
At that time, Liu Zhen was still young, but he also had the lofty ambition of being a big hero, and wanted to fight for the poor like him, so he began to join the guerrillas of the Red Army and joined the Communist Party, which led to his small heroic deeds of hitting the enemy with his first shot on the battlefield.
Although Liu Zhen was initially famous for his examples of small carpenters and marksmanship, everyone left and right began to recognize Liu Zhen's great name, and it began with him summing up Xu Haidong's three shortcomings in person.
At that time, the 25th Army he was in was in a predicament surrounded by the enemy, and the commander Xu Haidong could not sleep at night, standing under the map and began to think bitterly. In order to open up a completely new situation, he did not hesitate to directly lead his troops out on the expedition and end the rear of the enemy army, which made the Red Army's battlefield deadlock tear open a new road.
The deadlock was broken, and more than seven thousand oceans of supplies were captured, which made the entire Red Army cheer and celebrate the feast immediately. But at the celebration banquet, Liu Zhen kept frowning. Even the commander Xu Haidong toasted himself and began to speak out loud about his views on the battle.
Liu Zhen believes that although Xu Haidong has made great contributions, he still has three shortcomings. Xu Haidong was so shocked that he could not speak, he did not expect that this young Liu Zhen, the courage was so big, not to mention that he was still only a small squad leader in the team. So Xu Haidong was interested in asking Liu Zhen:
"What mistakes I have made, you say come and hear me."
Liu Zhen is confident:
"The first time to enter the enemy rear is later than expected, and if we enter earlier, we will certainly harvest more than that." Secondly, in the battle, many machine guns were not given maximum play, and the firepower was obviously insufficient, and many brothers died. Finally, there were also problems with the organization of the retreat, the chaos and turmoil, and the inability to effectively retreat also increased the casualties of our army. If these three shortcomings can be corrected, we will certainly be able to achieve greater victories! ”
Xu Haidong smiled heartily after listening:
"You little soldier is very tactical, you shouldn't just be a squad leader, you are more than enough to be a company instructor!"
Soon after saying this, Liu Zhen became the instructor of the company, and he was promoted two levels in a row, envious of many people. Everyone praised Liu Zhen for speaking, and in just one sentence, it was effective to kill a few more enemies than on the battlefield.
Second, fiercely fight and chase, creating the first general of the four fields
Since Liu Zhen became an instructor, he has begun to give full play to his military guidance strengths. Everyone can't understand how a little carpenter comes from a background and has so many clever ideas in his head. But after getting along with Liu Zhen more, everyone gradually figured out his routine. That is, the more difficult it is to fight, the more dare to fight, hard fighting, hard rush, he believes in a truth, as long as you gnaw the hardest hard bones of the enemy army, you will become the hard bones of the enemy army that are most feared.
This point was vividly reflected in the Long March period, when Liu Zhen's 25th Army was blocked by the enemy in Dushu Town, this team has been charging to break through, two or three times at a time, so the charge to the fifth time, the company commander has been heroically sacrificed, the enemy is still tightly defended, without wavering its foundation.
Liu Zhen took over the team from the hands of the sacrificial company commander, and when the victory was already out of reach, he still never considered the possibility of surrender, but instead became more and more courageous and once again carried out a charge and breakthrough. Everyone could see him rushing to the front with a gun, taking off a person's head with one shot, and rushing forward without fear, from seventeen to twenty-seven years old, I did not see him take more than half a step back.
Sure enough, as long as it is harder to gnaw than a hard bone, it will become a hard bone itself. Liu Zhen finally charged successfully, occupied the hill as a base area, and also covered the main force to break through. This kind of bravery directly made him famous on the battlefield of the Long March, and he was promoted all the way from an instructor to the political commissar of the division and regiment, achieving a heroic record of being promoted to the fourth level in a year.
And what made him sit firmly in the position of the founding general was to count his accumulated achievements on the battlefield of liberation. At that time, after the reorganization of the army, the team led by Liu Zhen was the second column of the Fourth Field Army, and the strength of the Fourth Field Army needless to say, it has always been called the army that single-handedly and hanged the old Chiang Kai-shek's million-strong army, and there are countless generals who have come out of the four fields, and the number of founding generals alone has accounted for half of them.
Liu Zhen's second column was the largest number of enemies killed in the Four Wild Army, and has always been known as the "Northeast Tiger Army". The classic battles of The Zhangwu Offensive and the Jinzhou Offensive were all led by Liu Zhen, and his second column was either on the road of fiercely attacking and charging or on the road of fiercely pursuing the enemy, and at once made its own name on the battlefield of liberation, and was called the first-class main force in the field army. And Liu Zhen also became the first fierce general in the four wildernesses!
Third, the first commander of the vanguard army laid the foundation for the cause of China's air force
Liu Zhen fought the land battlefield to the extreme, the more refined the war became, and won peng Dehuai's trust, he was very optimistic about Liu Zhen, who was good at summing up and always had his own ideas, so in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, he recommended him as the commander of the air force of the volunteer army.
After Zhou Enlai saw this recommended person, he was still a little confused at first, but later discussed with Chairman Mao, and finally finally finalized the quota of Liu Zhen, the commander of the volunteer air force. When Liu Yalou came to convey the decision of the Party Central Committee to Liu Zhen, Liu Zhen himself, like Zhou Enlai, was very confused. He told Liu Yalou his doubts:
"I haven't even been on a plane, how to be an air force commander of the volunteer army!" Isn't that a joke man? ”
Liu Yalou also laughed:
"Don't be afraid, the commander of the navy is not also a dry duck, drowning in this river will be water people, you will not, you can also do things!"
Liu Zhen confused Liu Yalou like this, holding his own way of affirming the line, got on a plane, only to find that he was motion sick and vomited all the breakfast in his stomach. At this point, Liu Zhenke was worried, if they knew that the air force commander of the Volunteer Army was sick of the plane, this person would be lost. This is a small disgrace to himself, and a big disgrace to the country, so Liu Zhen is not on the same page as the commander of this air force!
With great ambition, all the roadblocks in the world will be split by it. At that time, the country was very short of pilots, so Liu Zhen tried all kinds of methods to shorten the training time of pilots from one year to four months, so that they could grasp the essence of flying fighters in the shortest possible time, and did not lose to the pilots of the US military at all.
In addition, there is a serious shortage of fighters that can be used, only more than 200, which is so rare and weak in front of thousands of Us military fighters. However, after Liu Zhen took office, he tried his best to increase the number of fighters, and he grasped the Soviet experts, supplemented the knowledge of the air force, and studied the tactics of air supremacy.
As the saying goes, sharpening the gun, not being happy is also light, and it really let Liu Zhen hug the Buddha's feet. When he became the commander of the Volunteer Air Force, he soon had his first great achievement. That is, the sub-aircraft of far inferior quality to the US fighter planes directly injured and destroyed 34 new US aircraft. This directly fooled the chief of staff of the US Air Force at that time, and these losses naturally the United States could afford, but the CHIEF of Staff of the US Army could not figure out how China had become an air force power overnight.
Later, Liu Zhen also led the 39th Army, known as the "Blood Pioneer Army", to fight bloody battles on the Korean battlefield, and never lost anywhere he went, even defeating the Ace Army of the United States at that time, capturing a large number of US fighters, and directly breaking through the 38th Line, becoming a team that made the US Army feel frightened!
It is always easier to get one to one hundred, and it is harder to get zero to one. Liu Zhenzhen fought many victorious battles when new China's air supremacy was still empty, and only then did he give future generations a model that they could refer to! General Liu Zhen, he is really brave and mighty!
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Reference: "General Liu Zhen: A Lifetime of Dare to Gnaw on "Hard Bones"", Wang Xiaoping