On February 17, 1950, the first Spring Festival after the founding of New China, the commanders and fighters of the 114th Regiment of the 38th Division of the People's Liberation Army did not have time to celebrate the festival, and they still pursued and annihilated the fleeing enemy in the southern Yunnan region.
From 2:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. on this day, the whole regiment, under the leadership of political commissar Zhao Peixian, participated in the battle to encircle and annihilate the 277th Regiment of the Kuomintang 193rd Division, and fought a big victory.
After lunch, the commanders and fighters of the whole regiment, who had not rested for nearly 40 hours, fell back to sleep.
No one thought that the danger was quietly coming at this time.
There was a Henan cooker Liu Jinshan in the 114th Regimental Headquarters, who had just been liberated from the Battle of Yuanjiang, and had not even changed a set of PLA uniforms.
After he was arrested and became a Kuomintang soldier, he was full of all kinds of humiliation as an official, and he was very active after coming to our army.
At noon that day, Liu Jinshan arranged for his comrades to eat and pick up a bucket of water and go to a small stream at the foot of Turtle Mountain to fetch water.
He scooped up two buckets of water from the river and was about to pick them up and go to the troop station when he suddenly saw a force approaching.
This contingent could not be lined up, not in a row, some with upside-back guns, some with guns hanging obliquely, their hats were all inlaid with hat badges of the blue sky and white sun, and one of the officers led by them was carrying a large brimmed hat.
No, this is a large group of Kuomintang soldiers, it seems that there are hundreds of people! Although Liu Jinshan had just been liberated not long ago, he quickly established a sense of enemy and enemy. He immediately realized one thing: except for a few sentries, most of the comrades in the whole regiment were sleeping, and if they were attacked by the enemy at this time, the consequences would be unimaginable!
The situation is critical! It's obviously too late to dodge, what to do? Liu Jinshan's mind spun rapidly.
At that time, Liu Jinshan did not wear a military hat or a military uniform of the People's Liberation Army, and one pair of pants was still the military pants he wore when he was a soldier in the Kuomintang ranks. When Liu Jinshan looked down and saw the pair of military pants, he was suddenly in a hurry: Why don't you just plan?
Thinking of this, Liu Jinshan immediately calmed down, simply stood on the river bank to greet the oncoming enemy, and smiled and said loudly: "Wait for you for a long time!" ”
When the enemy officer in the front saw Liu Jinshan, he was still very vigilant, and after hearing Liu Jinshan say the six words "Wait for you for a long time," he suddenly relaxed and shouted loudly: "What about your commander?" Why don't you send someone to contact me? ”
Liu Jinshan judged based on this sentence that this enemy was likely to come to reinforce the 277th Regiment, but he did not expect that the 277th Regiment had just been annihilated by our army that morning.
He replied quietly, "Sir, the food is ready, how many brothers have come?" ”
"More than 500."
"Okay. Sir, please take a break here, and I will go back and report to the chief to greet you. ”
"Hurry up!" The officer roared uncleanly in his mouth.
Liu Jinshan, bent on seizing the time to report, simply put the bucket in place and walked to the camp empty-handed. In order not to arouse the suspicion of the enemy, when he passed the enemy officer, he also handed over half a pack of cigarettes given to him by zhao Peixian, the political commissar of the morning.
The enemy officer sat down to smoke with satisfaction, and the soldiers behind him sat down to rest.
Liu Jinshan continued to walk forward unhurriedly, and just after turning a corner and avoiding the enemy's sight, he pulled out his leg and ran.
Zhao Peixian, the political commissar of the 114th Regiment, did not sleep and was interrogating the captives upstairs.
He heard Liu Jinshan's panicked report, slammed the window to see that sure enough, a group of enemies were slowly walking toward the station.
Zhao Peixian was astonished: Good fellow, comrades are sleeping, if the enemy breaks into the compound, it will be repaid!
"Emergency assembly! Get ready for battle! While shouting loudly, Zhao Peixian picked up a light machine gun in his hand, suppressed the bullet, and rushed out.
The enemy was already approaching our garrison, and Commissar Zhao rushed out of the gate and pounced on the ground and opened fire.
It turned out that this group of enemies was a battalion of the 278th Regiment of the 193rd Division of the Twenty-sixth Army who had strayed here and was ordered to assemble here and prepare to flee to Taiwan by plane.
This group of rabble-rousers was mentally unprepared, and had no idea that what awaited them here was the People's Liberation Army.
The enemy was suddenly attacked so violently that he was overwhelmed and ran away.
The commanders and fighters of the People's Liberation Army heard shouts and gunshots and quickly jumped out of the gate.
Scattered enemies poured into a small hill on the opposite side, gathered together, and tried to organize resistance.
Zhao Peixian saw it clearly, and immediately made a decision, ordering a company to press through from the left, and the rest of the troops seized the favorable terrain to cover the attack.
Taking advantage of the enemy's unstable foothold, the officers and men of our army immediately launched a fierce attack.
This was a remnant of the Southern Yunnan Campaign, but also a group of very stubborn enemies, when our army formed a three-sided encirclement of it, they still refused to surrender their guns, and even launched four crazy counterattacks in a row.
In the face of the desperate and stubborn resistance of this group of enemies, the commanders and fighters of the 114th Regiment, who had just experienced a big victory and were full of morale, naturally became more and more courageous. In the end, the enemy and us engaged in a fierce white-knife fight.
Although the enemy was very stubborn, it was difficult to resist the heroic and fearless attack of our army, and after two hours of fierce fighting, the enemy finally laid down his weapons, and our army won a complete victory.
After the battle, Zhao Peixian highly praised the cook Liu Jinshan's cleverness in defusing a disaster in the face of the sudden appearance of the enemy army. In order to honor Liu Jinshan, the division headquarters gave him a second-class meritorious service.