Chen Geng
Faith is the bird, which feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. - Tagore
Faith is the fire that will never be extinguished in our hearts.
Faith can bring us infinite strength, even in the depths of adversity, it can always help us to raise the sails forward; even if we are frustrated, it can always arouse our courage to face life. So faith is great, and no matter what you do, you must stick to your belief.
People live a lifetime, only faith makes people excited, only faith makes people unswerving!
When the Chinese nation is facing war, what supports us to achieve final victory is our strong belief and the courage of the heroes to "give up their small family for everyone", and if there is no support of faith, it is not easy to win. Today we are going to share a regiment with a strong conviction that alone blocked three enemy divisions!
Chen Geng's troops besieged Zhang Yi, and the 29th Regiment was ordered to block reinforcements
At the beginning of 1948, the Nationalist Government, which was about to fall into the end of its rope, frantically launched an offensive against our Party in order to change the passive situation of the Nationalist Government at that time. At that time, the strength of our Party was already able to compete with the National Government.
Moreover, after the baptism of the War of Resistance, our party has more people's hearts.
On the other hand, in order to consolidate its own political power, the Nationalist Government has gone so far as to recruit a large number of bandits and local forces that have brutalized the people and expanded its army.
At that time, the Nationalist government in the Central Plains was gradually defeated, and Jiang did not want to abandon the Central Plains, an area with extremely important strategic positioning
Ordered Zhang Yun's corps in Henan to fight Chen Geng's corps to the death in eastern Henan,
Zhang's regiment was Chiang's last bet in eastern Henan.
Zhang Yi
On June 1, 1948, in the battle with Zhang Yi's corps, our army won a series of victories and gave the enemy a heavy blow, and Chen Geng's corps surrounded the Maliuying area in Nanyang, in order to ensure better annihilation of the enemy and prevent the arrival of enemy reinforcements.
Chen Geng ordered the 29th Regiment of the 10th Brigade to block enemy reinforcements around Dugaozhuang.
Zhang Yun's corps was surrounded by Chen Geng's corps, and seeing that Chen Geng was about to implement the tactic of "closing the door and fighting dogs" that our party was best at, Zhang Yi was very anxious and hurriedly sent a telegram to Bai Chongxi to ask for help. Bai Chongxi and Zhang Yi had a very good relationship, and seeing that Zhang Yi's corps was in danger of being completely annihilated, Bai Chongxi naturally did not sit idly by and hurriedly dispatched the strength of his three divisions to provide eastern assistance to Zhang Yi's corps.
In the early morning of June 2, Bai Chongxi's reinforcements encountered the 29th Regiment already on standby in the Maliuying area, in order to reinforce Zhang Yi faster and more timely.
Bai Chongxi's troops sent 6 aircraft to bomb the 29th Regiment, and then launched a fierce attack, but still did not break through the first line of defense of the 29th Regiment.
The 5 companies of the first line of defense were inferior in armament and were bombed by the enemy, but they repelled the enemy again and again with their strong faith, and the enemy had to slow down the offensive.
On the morning of 2 June, the enemy never broke through the 29th Regiment's defensive line in the Area of Maliu Camp. Not only are enemy reinforcements facing danger, at this time
Zhang Yi's corps was even more attacked everywhere, and it was only a matter of time before they were all annihilated.
Zhang Yi saw that the reinforcements were blocked by the 29th Regiment, so he had to order a desperate battle with Chen Geng's army, but only hit the stone with an egg.
The 29th Regiment held its position, and the 8th Company was unstoppable
The 29th Regiment of our army has an elite unit 8 companies stationed on the left side of the 5th Company of the first line of defense, which is the core area of our position, and there are 4 grave bags in front of the position that are easy to defend and difficult to attack, which is the focus of contention between the enemy and us.
The 8th Company and 5th Squad stood in front of the four grave packs and resisted four frantic enemy attacks
Eventually, due to lack of ammunition, he lost his position in the fifth enemy attack.
Li Huaixi, commander of the Eighth Company, saw that the position was lost and quickly sent troops to retake the position.
The 3rd squad leader took the order and led his brethren back to the position with a machine gun,
The enemy troops were frightened by the sudden momentum of the 3rd squad and retreated in a hurry. Soon after, the enemy gathered two battalions of troops and launched another attack on the four grave bags, but they were all resisted by the 3rd squad.
Wang Mengde, the sharpshooter of the 8th Company, cooperated with 3 squads in the shadows, and killed three of the enemy's three inspectors with three shots.
The enemy army was panicked and collapsed, and for a moment the ghosts cried wolf and howled, and blood flowed all over the world.
This was the 1st Battalion of the 29th Regiment launching a general attack on the enemy, the morale of the soldiers was high, jumping out of the trenches and fighting the enemy to the death, and the enemy army retreated in a hurry.
After the enemy retreated, he again sent aircraft to bomb our positions, and at the same time the heavy artillery on the ground also continued to sound, and then the enemy attacked again, using heavy weapons such as aircraft cannons to seize half of our army's positions.
The commander of the 29th Regiment ordered the new Chief of Staff to organize the troops into battle, but the Chief of Staff did not move.
The regimental commander did not move the chief of staff, and the commander was angry after the war
Wu Xiaomin, the commander of the 29th Regiment, asked the chief of staff to organize the operation, but the chief of staff sat motionless on the bench with the phone, unwilling to fight, and said, "The guns outside are so loud, I will not send it to death." Wu Xiaomin was angry and frustrated when he heard it: You are highly qualified, I am not qualified, and the command cannot move you! There was no way he had to run out of the command post with his submachine gun.
Wu Xiaomin
On the way, Wu Xiaomin happened to meet Tang Ronghua, deputy director of the Political Department, and Tang Ronghua was very strange, because at that time, the chief was responsible for controlling the overall situation, and under normal circumstances, he could not leave the command post, so he couldn't help but ask: "How did you run out?" Wu Xiaomin replied while running:
"Our 29th Regiment has no breeding, and we have taken back our own positions."
Tang Ronghua was touched by Wu Xiaomin's belief and spirit, so he also reflexively ran to the position, calling on our party members to retake the battlefield together. Under the on-site command of Wu Xiaomin and Tang Ronghua, the morale of the soldiers was even higher, and they repelled the enemy with one blow and recaptured all the positions, and the enemy began to flee in defeat and retreat, Wu Xiaomin ordered to take advantage of the victory to pursue, and the enemy army collapsed and fled.
Wu Xiaomin's 29th Regiment defeated three enemy divisions and achieved the final victory.
This victory also laid a good foundation and operational environment for Chen Geng's troops to completely annihilate Zhang Yi's corps.
After the triumphant return of the 29th Regiment, it was strongly praised and rewarded by Chen Geng, but Wu Xiaomin was angry, chen Geng asked the reason, wu Xiaomin said: "
We in the 29th Regiment don't need the chief of staff who is fighting in the house with the phone in his arms."
Commander Chen Geng was very angry when he learned of the cause of the incident, and angrily rebuked the chief of staff for being timid and afraid of things.
The chief of staff was also transferred elsewhere, and the 29th Regiment was allowed to choose a new chief of staff from several battalion commanders.
Every success must be inseparable from the belief of victory, if you do not believe that you can succeed in the first place, you are doomed to failure.
There is no absolute win or loss in life, there are just different beliefs held by everyone when facing life.
Everyone should have a belief, a belief in success.
Text/Sheng Hong