During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the New Fourth Army made great efforts, and many of the senior generals of New China came out of the New Fourth Army, such as Su Yu, Zhang Yunyi, Huang Kecheng and others, who were awarded the rank of general in 1955, and Chen Yi, as one of the leaders of the New Fourth Army, was awarded the rank of marshal after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
As we all know, the first commander of the New Fourth Army was Ye Ting, who was unfortunately killed in an aircraft accident. In addition, Xiang Ying, deputy commander of the New Fourth Army, and others were killed in the Anhui Incident, and the first two leaders of the New Fourth Army ended up very unfortunately. In addition, the sacrifice of Peng Xuefeng, a senior general of the New Fourth Army, is also a major loss for our army.
Peng Xuefeng, who dared to pat the table with the chairman
Since the Anhui Incident, the New Fourth Army has suffered a devastating blow, Xiang Ying and other important leaders have been sacrificed, and the commander Ye Ting has been imprisoned. Soon, the superior leaders decided to reorganize the New Fourth Army Headquarters, with Chen Yi as the acting commander of the New Fourth Army, reorganizing the troops into seven divisions plus an independent brigade, and the division commander of the Fourth Division of the New Fourth Army was Peng Xuefeng.
Before Peng Xuefeng became the commander of the Fourth Division of the New Fourth Army, he already had many years of revolutionary experience, proved his loyalty and ability to the party, and was therefore reused. In 1907, Peng Xuefeng was born into a peasant family and lived a hard life without enough to eat from an early age.
Fortunately, Peng Xuefeng's grandfather was a private school teacher, giving him the opportunity to study, and later, Peng Xuefeng's uncle ran a private school, and Peng Xuefeng was left in the private school as a companion because of his good grades, accompanying those rich children and studying with them. Peng Xuefeng, who had excellent grades, did not live up to the high expectations of his relatives and was admitted to a key high school.
At school, Peng Xuefeng because of family constraints, with the help of the principal, he found a part-time job to teach elementary school classmates, ten yuan a month, solving his survival problems.
At that time, the school was full of revolutionary ideas, Peng Xuefeng was exposed to communist ideas during middle school, and under the influence of progressive teachers, Peng Xuefeng also began to participate in the patriotic movement and joined the Communist Youth League.
In 1930, Peng Xuefeng officially joined the ranks of the Red Army, and because of his bravery in combat, excellent performance, and culture, he soon became the leader of the team, becoming the political commissar of the Second Red Division, responsible for commanding the battle and the ideological work of the troops.
Peng Xuefeng can write and fight, is an all-rounder, in his body, there is another characteristic, that is, the temper is particularly stubborn. Once, Peng Xuefeng quarreled with the chairman and slapped the table.
In 1936, Peng Xuefeng was ordered to go to Yan'an for a meeting, when he was the political commissar of the Fourth Division of the Red First Army. After the meeting in Yan'an, the chairman sent someone to invite Peng Xuefeng to his side and discuss something with him. As soon as the chairman met, he praised Peng Xuefeng and praised him for doing a good job in the Red First Army.
Subsequently, the two entered the main topic, and the chairman wanted to reorganize the current Red Army, revoke the name of the Red Third Army, and expand the officers and men of the original Three Corps into a division of the Red First Army. The reorganization and expansion of the armed forces was originally a very normal thing, and the chairman also considered it after careful consideration to solicit Peng Xuefeng's opinion.
Upon hearing this, Peng Xuefeng immediately asked the chairman for instructions: "This is too radical, the cadres of the Third Army after the reorganization will have no positions, which is equivalent to being demoted several levels, and it is necessary to take into account the mood of the old comrades-in-arms. ”
When the chairman heard this, he was a little angry and felt that Peng Xuefeng's thinking was not good, so he slapped the table and said to him: "You are advocating hilltop doctrine, this idea is not right, the troops are not gangs and factions." Listening to the chairman's words, Peng Xuefeng was not afraid, and also patted the table and shouted: There are only mountains here, but there is no "ism."
When Peng Xuefeng made such a shot, the chairman was first stunned, and then signaled him to continue. Peng Xuefeng was also not "polite" and directly reasoned with the chairman, comparing the Jinggangshan base area and the large and small base areas throughout the country to comparing them to "mountain heads", and the people on these mountains all have common goals and are a collective.
Then Peng Xuefeng said: The chairman said that "the spark of the stars can burn the plains", comparing the spark of the stars to the top of the mountain, if there is no mountain as the carrier, how can it grow and form the momentum of the fire.
The chairman listened to Peng Xuefeng's explanation and felt that what he said was reasonable, and not only did he not criticize him for bumping into his own table, but also focused on criticizing Peng Xuefeng's spirit at the meeting. Afterwards, the chairman himself carefully considered the possible problems in the reorganization of the Red Army and repeatedly pondered the opinions that Peng Xuefeng put forward to himself.
Heroic sacrifice, the chairman wrote a lament
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Peng Xuefeng served as the commander of the Fourth Division of the New Fourth Army and made many achievements on the battlefield. The main area of activity of the New Fourth Army is the Huaibei Plain, where the terrain is relatively flat and suitable for mobile unit combat. But the New Fourth Army lacked even weapons, let alone find armored vehicles and motorcycles, and it was difficult to get a few horses.
Peng Xuefeng felt that it was necessary to have cavalry to fight the Japanese army in this kind of plain area, otherwise it would be very bad, and soon, with Peng Xuefeng's efforts, the entire fourth division was frugal, purchased war horses, and formed a cavalry unit. Through systematic training, this cavalry unit was very effective and gave the Japanese army a heavy blow.
In 1944, the Japanese army attacked the Central Plains and occupied a large area, and soon, after defeating Tang Enbo and Hu Zongnan's troops, the Japanese army quickly advanced to the Central Plains. Peng Xuefeng was ordered to march west, and in order to regain the lost land, he took the initiative to lead his army to meet the recalcitrant army, and the two armies started at Balizhuang.
In September of that year, Peng Xuefeng led his troops to annihilate the recalcitrant Li Guangming detachment, and captured the general of the recalcitrant detachment, Li Guangming, and won a victory on the battlefield. Subsequently, Peng Xuefeng himself personally went to the front line to command, boost morale, but was unexpectedly hit by enemy grenades, and was only 37 years old when he died.
Chairman Mao was very sad when he learned of peng xuefeng's sacrifice, and he personally wrote a long pair of apologies for Peng Xuefeng. In the bang, there is such a sentence:
"Tens of millions of miles of mountains and rivers are broken, waiting to be cleaned up from scratch, blood splashing, sacrificing for the country, full of sorrow and indignation, mourning heroes for the Chinese nation"
Every word is a true portrayal of Peng Xuefeng, and his sacrifice is a great loss of the New Fourth Army and a great loss of our party, and the chairman appealed to all party members to learn from Peng Xuefeng.
epilogue
After Peng Xuefeng's sacrifice, the chairman was very sad, and once lamented: "The little Balizhuang actually lost one of my generals", which is enough to see the chairman's weight on Peng Xuefeng. Although Peng Xuefeng was unfortunately sacrificed, his spirit will always be passed on and become an example for us to learn.
It is worth mentioning that Peng Xiaofeng's son Peng Xiaofeng is very prominent, and he became a general when he grew up.
Although Peng Xiaofeng did not meet his father, after he grew up and learned of his father's heroic deeds, he took his father as an example, studied hard, and achieved his current achievements, which is really remarkable.