In 1950, Han Xianchu was pushed into the cabin by his guards to prevent him from coming out! No matter how hard they tried, the soldiers just locked him in the cabin and didn't let him out, and this scene happened during the sea crossing operation to liberate Hainan Island.
In December 1949 and January and February 1950, Mao Zedong sent telegrams to Shiye three times, asking Siye to learn the lessons of the Battle of Kinmen, compare the differences with the Battle of Kinmen, and formulate a correct and effective battle plan.
After carefully studying the front and back of the Battle of Kinmen and after a long period of preparation, Shino formed the 40th Army and the 43rd Army
Together with the 28th Regiment of Cannon Artillery, the 1st and 9th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiments and the 1st Engineer Regiment, a total of more than 100,000 people, the Sea Crossing Combat Corps was formed.
It was under the unified leadership of Ye Jianying, first secretary of the South China Branch Bureau, and was specifically organized and commanded by Deng Hua of the 15th Corps, Lai Chuanzhu, political commissar, Hong Xuezhi, first deputy commander and chief of staff, and Han Xianchu, deputy commander of the 12th Corps.
The 40th Army was originally the 3rd Column of the Northeast Field Army, and its commander was Han Xianchu, the most famous "whirlwind unit". The predecessor of the 43rd Army was the Sixth Column of the Northeast Field Army, which can be traced back to the Ye Ting Independent Regiment.
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Han Xianchu and others of the 40th Army, who received the order, immediately drove their troops to the army
Haikang, Xuwen, Beihai and other places to train.
These days Han Xianchu has not slept well, during the day he needs to observe the terrain, at night he also has to meet to study, but also need to study the information of Hainan Island.
When he was a child, Han Xianchu did not read books because his family was poor, and under his repeated requests, his parents reluctantly sent him to school for more than a year, and only then did he know a few words, but he was talented, diligent and studious, had a strong memory, and never forgot. Slowly in battle, he developed his own set of combat styles.
During this period of time, his mind was full of Hainan Island, thinking about how to invade Hainan Island, and what made him happier was that Hainan Island had an excellent mass base than Kinmen, and there was
The Qiongya Column led by Feng Baiju.
On this day, Han Xianchu took Xie Fang to the seashore again to observe the terrain, and at this time there was no longer a single ship on the seashore, which showed how serious the Kuomintang raided the coast.
Han Xianchu asked Xie Fang, "Old Xie, your home is from Dongfeng, Jilin Province, and it is still hundreds of miles away from the Sea of Japan, right?" Are you familiar with the sea? By the way, you have been to the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School, and you must know something about the sea. ”
"When I was a child, I didn't go to the beach, but when I went to Japan, I went by big boat, and I didn't know the sea very well."
At this time the guards and staff officers came over and urged him to go back to rest early:
"Chief, the weather is cold, and the smell of this sea is too bad, go back quickly, and then you can't stand your stomach pain..."
Han Xianchu had been suffering from a stomach problem recently, but he did not follow the advice of his staff officer to go back, but continued to observe by the sea.
"You see that this tide is different from what we saw two days ago, and what we see in the morning is different from what we see in the evening."
Only then did he understand that Deputy Commander Han Xianchu had been observing the sea for the past few days, looking for the relationship between the tide and time, wind, and wind direction.
Han Xianchu then said, "If you think about what we saw a few times ago, what is different from what we saw today?" ”
Han Xianchu looked at it, and everyone didn't say anything back, and then further explained:
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When the sea is calm, it is like a stream, but as soon as the tide rises, the sea rises. At half-tide, the waves roared desperately, like an enraged bison, but when the tide was full, the sea returned to calm. ”
"If we want to cross the sea and fight, we must understand and master the laws of the sea."
Get ready
On December 30, 1949, Han Xianchu held a meeting to convey Mao Zedong's instructions on cross-sea operations, believing that the early launch of the Hainan Campaign could take advantage of the enemy's unstable foothold, disrupt the enemy's maritime deployment, and exchange the smallest cost for the greatest victory, otherwise there would be endless doubts.
After the meeting, the 40th Army, in accordance with the instructions of the central authorities, grasped the preparations for the sea crossing operation and began to collect ships.
The reason why Han Xianchu was so anxious was because he learned from Mao Zedong's telegram that every year in the Qiongzhou Strait, from the first lunar month to the qingming, there were many east winds, north winds, and northeast winds, and at this time it was most advantageous to cross the sea, and after the Qingming wind direction was changeable, it was very unfavorable for the sea crossing operation.
In view of the lessons of the Battle of Kinmen, Han Xianchu began active preparations to prevent a repeat of the mistakes of the past, and he set up a special ship raising task force, while he himself mainly focused on maritime training.
Han Xianchu was known as Han Bold, but his body had not been very good since the Liberation War, and due to lack of sleep and irregular eating, stomach diseases often recurred. But he was still busy at work, which made his stomach disease even worse. He was only thirty-seven or eight years old, already tired and sick, and if there was no war, then he would have rested a long time ago, but he was still full of energy in his work to liberate Hainan.
Someone joked with him: "Old Han, you are really made of special materials, and when the war is over, send you to the medical school for scientific research, it will definitely be of great research value." ”
Han Xianchu listened, but he did not think so much: "So many things have not yet been settled, rest assured, the tasks entrusted by the party must be done well, we must be busy." ”
Han Xianchu has always been so busy, he goes in and out of various training grounds every day.
The warriors were still novel at the beginning of the training, and the training was very positive, but then they could not hold on, and many people developed a fear of the sea.
"Deputy Commander Han, what to do, the soldiers can't even sit on the ship, how can they still fight?" Many commanders and fighters also came to han Xianchu.
"Keep practicing, practice more will adapt." Cadres should take the lead in persisting in training, and in the course of training, they should experience how to adapt to the wind and waves at sea. Every time Han Xianchu would answer like this!
In addition to stepping up training, Han Xianchu often went deep among the fighters, doing ideological work, and giving the fighters enough backbone.
Han Xianchu made targeted solutions to the problems and all the way of the soldiers, which gave the soldiers enough courage and confidence and strengthened everyone's confidence in relying on the existing conditions to achieve victory.
In order to welcome the liberation of Hainan, in early 1950, the masses in Hainan raised more than 50,000 cartons of grain, organized a transport fleet of more than 60,000 people, and made preparations for internal response.
Here in the landing force, the soldiers actively exerted their initiative and made various life-saving equipment, some troops removed the engine from the car and installed it on the sailboat, which became a power ship, and some troops installed the anti-war cannon and other small guns on the sailboat, which became
"Earth Gunboats".
After Han Xianchu learned about the situation, he was very happy, greatly appreciated this practice, and actively promoted it, and soon after, with the support of Han Xianchu, a unit of troops that was modified by the soldiers themselves soon appeared
The "earth gunboats" formed a fleet and became a favorable weapon for attacking Hainan Island.
Prior to this, Mao Zedong had instructed that to attack Hainan Island, it was necessary to rely on modified mechanical ships to prepare from this direction. Many people used this as an excuse to overemphasize the machine and advocated going to Hong Kong to buy landing craft, but the situation at that time could not buy landing craft.
In this regard, Han Xianchu made it clear that we should launch a campaign as soon as possible, and in the case that the modification of ships cannot be solved in a short period of time, we can only rely on wooden sailing ships to liberate Hainan Island...
I don't know who interjected:
"The enemy has planes and warships, and we rely on wooden boats to cross the sea to fight, which is really a miracle in the history of war!"
Han Xianchu smiled and said firmly:
"As long as our whole army unites from top to bottom, makes active efforts, and grasps the fighter plane, we will certainly create a miracle in the history of war!"
After discussion, everyone unified their thinking and finally decided to take it
The campaign guidelines of "active smuggling, small crossing in batches and final landing" launched a sea crossing and landing operation in March.
Cross the sea to fight
After the pre-war preparations were mature, the former enemy headquarters crossed the sea for combat
The campaign policy of "actively smuggling, combining small crossings in batches with the final landing" was submitted to Commander Lin Biao.
After Lin Biao saw that the battle plan was consistent with his own ideas, he immediately put up a pen and wrote the word "agree" and reported it to the Central Military Commission and Mao Zedong.
Mao Zedong also quickly called back, believing that this method was very effective and could prepare in advance for the liberation of Hainan Island.
Han Xianchu, who received the order, was very happy and immediately began to study the deployment of troops for smuggling. The first smuggling operation was conducted by the 1st Battalion of the 352nd Regiment of the 118th Division.
Han Xianchu was very happy when he learned of the 1st Battalion of the 352nd Regiment, which was in line with his idea. This battalion was the main battalion of the division, which was a sharp knife when it broke through Jinzhou in the Liaoshen Campaign, and also achieved outstanding results when training troops at sea, and was able to shoot effectively on the ship.
Han Xianchu has always attached great importance to the first battle,
His work style and principles for handling problems are: in the urgent case, it is arbitrary, and if it is slow, it is collegiate; the small one is self-determination, and the big one is widely listened to. He attached great importance to the morale of the troops, believing that a unit would win in victory and lose in morale.
This time, the sharp knife battalion of the 1st Battalion of the 352nd Regiment was made to shoulder the heavy responsibility, and Han Xianchu was very relieved.
The vanguard battalion started very smoothly, but when it reached two-thirds of the way, the troops lost contact due to the strong wind, so Han Xianchu was very anxious and urged the contact many times, but each time it could not be contacted. Even if you contact the Qiongya detachment, you will not get any news.
However, left and right waited, hour after hour, there was no news, and even the chiefs of the corps and the four fields asked questions again and again.
From top to bottom, they were all concerned about the safety of the vanguard battalion, and their safety was not only related to the safety of the soldiers, but also related to the success of the entire Hainan campaign.
From preparing to cross the sea to now, Han Xianchu has not rested for 3 days and 3 nights, has not eaten, stomach disease is still torturing him, seeing that he is so insistent, comrades are also afraid that he will exhaust his body, they forced him to the bedside and forced him to rest.
Although Han Xianchu was lying on the bed, he couldn't sleep at all, he thought about it a lot, and finally he was full of confidence in the 1st Battalion of the 352nd Regiment that crossed the sea, thinking that they could achieve victory.
Thinking of this, he slept with confidence.
Just when everyone was worried about the pioneer battalion, the battalion had reached a distance of more than 20 nautical miles from Hainan Island and took advantage of the favorable terrain to land on Hainan Island the next afternoon.
After that, he withdrew under the guidance of the Qiongya detachment
White Sand Base.
After the news of the successful crossing of the sea by the pioneer battalion came, the headquarters guarding the Leizhou Peninsula were very excited.
When Han Xianchu heard the news, he said to the staff officer with some complaints: "We are all waiting here to die, how can such important news be known so late?" ”
"After understanding, it was the radio of the cross-sea unit that fell into the water and repaired it."
The news reached the Corps and the Shino Command, and the heads of the various departments were relieved.
Soon after, a reinforced battalion of the 383rd Regiment of the 128th Division of the 43rd Army also landed smoothly after a 20-hour voyage.
The smooth landing of the two units told everyone with facts that the sea can be defeated, and the enemy with sea and air superiority is not terrible. Relying on wooden sailing ships, Hainan Island can also be completely liberated.
The command arranged several more troops to smuggle in, all of which arrived at Hainan Island smoothly, and the troops also learned about the enemy's troop deployment in frontal defense, at this time Han Xianchu believed that the time was ripe to liberate Hainan Island.
He was put in the cabin
On April 16, 1950, hundreds of warships and tens of thousands of troops began to cross the sea and storm Hainan Island.
After the sea crossing operation began, Han Xianchu stood on the deck to direct the battle without fear of hardships and dangers.
Camp Commander Cong
Let him into the cabin, but he said unhappily:
"In the cabin, you can't see the situation, how to command?"
"We'll report to you on what's going on outside." Without waiting for Han Xianchu to speak, Commander Cong stepped forward, took Commander Han in his arms, and pushed him into the cabin.
"Let go of me, you let go of me!" Han Xianchu shouted and walked outside.
No matter how Han Xianchu shouted and how he lost his temper, Commander Cong pushed Han Xianchu into the cabin with all his might, and ordered his opponents to watch the commander and not let him leave.
After the 118th and 119th Divisions landed on the island, Han Xianchu wanted to go out, but was stopped by the soldiers.
When Han Xianchu's command ship arrived at the shore only forty or fifty meters, Han Xianchu insisted on disembarking.
However, he was still blocked by the warriors:
"Chief, for the safety of the chief, you can't get off the ship right now!"
"Safe! safe! Where is it safe? The safest landing! At this time, no one could stop Han Xianchu from getting off the ship.
Political Commissar of the 355th Regiment
Xia Qichang saw that Han Xianchu had already landed, and he was very worried: "Chief, it is too dangerous now, why are you here?" ”
"Why can't we come?" Han Xianchu replied disapprovingly, just moving forward.
"The first long beachhead position has not been completely defeated, it is too dangerous, you should quickly hide."
Xia Qichang will han xianchu
Press down behind a rock.
"If we don't take the beachhead, then let's take it down together." He said he was going to stand up.
Xia Qichang quickly turned around and ordered Yang Liming, deputy commander of the 3rd Battalion: "Yang Liming! Give you a task, you send someone to look at Commander Han and not let him go any further. The beachhead has not yet been completely defeated, and we must protect the safety of the army chief! After saying that, he rushed up.
Han Xianchu was crushed behind the big stone by the warriors, he wanted to move but could not move, he was both touched and angry, but he had no choice.
The warriors around him saw Han Xianchu's very reluctant look and comforted him:
"Chief, don't be in a hurry, when you take the beachhead, we will 'liberate' you."
"Okay! I'll wait for you to be 'liberated' a little faster. ”
Han Xianchu had no choice but to stay behind the big stone, waiting for the victory of the battle...
At 4 p.m. on the 17th, the troops had already advanced a lot to the shore, and Han Xianchu and the conciliators also began to enter
The village of Dozen conducts command battles...
By the afternoon of the 30th, the 40th Army and the 43rd Army were there
The Yulin Port victory will be divided, and the Battle of Hainan Island will be victoriously ended.
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