The movie "Blood Battle Taierzhuang" has created many anti-Japanese heroes, among which Chi Fengcheng, commander of the 31st Division of the National Revolutionary Army, is impressive. At the most intense moment of the battle, he ordered the pontoon bridge to be blown up, and with the courage of a brave man with a broken wrist, he broke the ship and fought the enemy to the death.
Historically, Chi FengCheng is the same as in the movie, and the person I want to talk about today is Chi Fengcheng's subordinate
乜 [niè] Zibin
。 Many people are not familiar with him, he is also a member of the Northwest Army, following Feng Yuxiang in his early years, Feng regarded him as a brother. Unfortunately, in his later years, Qi Zibin had a unique passion for blood, but eventually fell ill and died in another country.
Poor teenagers joined the army
Qi Zibin,Zi Senchang,a native of Hebei Village, was born on March 14, 1902 in a xiucai family. Qi Zibin's family was poor, and he dropped out of school at the age of 10 to work for the landlords in the village, but he was often beaten and discriminated against.
In 1914, when Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army was recruiting, Zibin joined the army. In just 5 years, he was promoted from a groom and a service soldier to a messenger soldier by Feng Yuxiang's side.
In 1926, after Wuyuan took the oath of division, Qi Zibin followed Sun Lianzhong into Shaanxi, and in 1927 he participated in the Northern Expedition. During the Battle of the Central Plains, Qi Zibin's unit bravely rushed to kill and defeated the central part of Zhang Zhi, the Jiang army. Because of his bravery in battle, he made many military achievements in the Northwest Army, and Feng Yuxiang praised him as "
workaholic
”。
In 1929, Qi Zibin was promoted to battalion commander, and was sent to the Whampoa Higher Education Class 2 for further study, and his classmate had Chi Fengcheng. In October 1936, Qi Zibin was appointed as the commander of the 181st Regiment of the 91st Brigade of the 61st Division of the 26th Route Army, and the commander of the division was Sun Lianzhong, and the commander of the division was Chi Fengcheng.
Blood Battle Taierzhuang
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zibin accompanied Sun Lianzhong north to resist the Japanese, and because of his heroic performance, he was promoted to major general of the 93rd Brigade of the 31st Division of the 30th Army of the 2nd Group Army.
On March 23, 1938, the Japanese army launched a fierce attack on Taierzhuang, and Zibin was ordered to rush to the aid of Taierzhuang. The officers and men of the 31st Division fought to the death with the Japanese army, and on the 24th, with the Japanese reinforcing 2,000 people and 20 heavy artillery, Qi Zibin led his troops to attack the Japanese from the rear, reducing the pressure on the defenders of Taierzhuang.
On the 25th, the 185th Regiment led by Qi Zibin personally launched another attack on the Japanese army, and the war between the two sides was fierce, and the Japanese army saw that the Chinese officers and soldiers all took off their shirts, armed with large knives and bare-chested fighting, frightening them to flee in a hurry.
Both sides suffered heavy casualties, and after three days, the 93rd Brigade suffered more than half of the casualties, but it prevented the Japanese from occupying Taierzhuang.
However, the Japanese army was still resisting, and on April 3, most of Taierzhuang had been occupied, and the division commander Chi Fengcheng ordered the pontoon bridge on the canal to be blown up, cutting off the rear road, and leading all the officers and men of the division to break the kettle and sink the boat, and fight against the water. Qi Zibin was ordered by Commander-in-Chief Sun Lianzhong: "If there are those who cross the bridge without permission, there will be no forgiveness for killing!" ”
Qi Zibin personally went into battle shirtless, and all the fighters regarded death as a homecoming. In the end, the Chinese army counterattacked on all fronts, and this great battle was also known as the "Taierzhuang Victory".
Will be handsome
In the Battle of Taierzhuang, chi Fengcheng, commander of the 31st Division, had the title of "a god and man in the history of Chinese warfare", in fact, Qi Zibin was also a general who was "hidden deeply", not only brave in combat, but also quite a general, two of which were very commendable.
The first is that Zibin has the responsibility and responsibility.
At that time, the situation was precarious, and most of the soldiers fought in blood, disregarding life and death, but they did not rule out those who passively resisted the war, and The commander of the 185th Regiment, Zhang Battalion, was an example.
After Zhang Yingchang was wounded, he left the battlefield without authorization, and as a battalion commander, he left the garrison without authorization, which not only had no exemplary effect, but may even cause instability in the military. After knowing this, he personally killed him, which had already set the hearts of the army and encouraged the officers and men to fight to the death and make military merits.
Behind the strict military discipline is the result of Qi Zibin's high sense of responsibility and mission.
Second, Qi Zibin has the talent of a general.
Although he was fighting a cooperative war outside, Qi Zibin often entered the city to inspect the city despite the danger, and he also made a speech to the regimental commander and analyzed the situation in a very orderly manner.
Qi Zibin believed that the morale of our army was high, and it was only a matter of time before taierzhuang was held. Through several days of observation, he found that most of the debris on the roof of the people's houses were wood, and he suggested that the regimental commander should pay attention to fire prevention to prevent the Japanese army from using fire to attack.
At the same time, he proposed three operational strategies:
One is
"The method of defeating the enemy is only fire attack", it is recommended to prepare more cotton oil bombs, light them and shoot at the enemy, and he provides the source of cotton oil bombs - the stock of the shops in the city is sufficient;
The second is
He found that the enemy was afraid of "close hand-to-hand combat" between officers and soldiers, and suggested that officers and men should adopt more large knives and shirtless combat methods;
The third is
It is recommended to ambush the gas underground to prevent the enemy from fighting "tunnel warfare", and once the gas explosion sounds, our army is also prepared.
The three brilliant tricks of The Boy Zibin made the regimental commander admire his wit and cleverness after listening to it.
He died of illness
At the most critical juncture of the Great Battle of Taierzhuang, Zibin shouted: "The troops are withered away, and the loyal and courageous are dying!" He personally led his troops to fight the Japanese army for 15 days and nights, and made great achievements for the final victory of the great war, and after the war, he was commended by the general order of the commander's department of the fifth theater.
Qi Zibin also participated in the Battle of Wuhan, the Battle of Suizao, the Battle of Zaoyi, etc., and was wounded 7 times, seriously injured 2 times, and almost died. In February 1939, When Zibin succeeded Chi Fengcheng as commander of the 31st Division, Feng Yuxiang personally met with Zibin and presented him with a photograph of himself, with the inscription "General Senchang Commemoration" on the back, which was written as "General Senchang Memorial".
Foolish brother Feng Yuxiang
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Qi Zibin was depressed and dismissed from his post many times, but fortunately Hou Jingru, the commander of the Ninety-second Army, hired Hou Jingru, the commander of the Ninety-second Army, to appoint him as the deputy commander of the army.
In April 1948, Qi Zibin went to Nanjing to visit Sun Lianzhong.
But he has since lost contact with his family.
It was not until 1955, when Zhang Zhixing, a former general of the Northwest Army, returned to Beijing from Hong Kong that his family knew that Qi Zibin had died of illness in Taiwan.
It turned out that when Qi Zibin visited Sun Lianzhong, he suddenly became unwell and went to the Nanjing Army General Hospital for diagnosis and treatment, and found that he had nose cancer. During his hospitalization, he went to Taiwan with the Army General Hospital.
There, Qi Zibin had a difficult life and suffered from illness, and finally died on February 20, 1951, at the age of 50.
Before his death, he did not even have a coffin book, or Sun Lianzhong donated 1,000 US dollars after getting the news, which only did the aftermath of Zibin.
Although the ending of the story is lamentable, the general has passed away and the spirit has endured, and it is precisely because there are countless anti-Japanese heroes like Zibin that we have won our victory and today's prosperity.