During the Liberation War, such a strange thing happened: Yang Dezhi, commander of the Jin-Cha-Ji Field Army and founding general, once made a cameo as a cooker and personally cooked and cooked, but he did not expect to be "disliked" by his subordinates.
It was October 17, 1947, when the jin-Cha-Ji Field Army headquarters was on its way to move with the large troops, and commander Yang Dezhi, political commissar Yang Chengwu, and chief of staff Geng Biao, with several combat staff officers and guards, set off on horseback from the original station of Dongxi Madian and moved westward.
As the crowd passed by a small village, they overheard a rapid horseshoe sound coming from behind them, followed by a loud shout: "Chief stop, chief stop!" There are important things to report! ”
Yang Dezhi, Yang Chengwu and Geng Biao strangled the horse's head, turned over and dismounted, and stood by the side of the road.
A warrior on horseback caught up and handed a telegram to Yang Dezhi.
The telegram was received by Noji's radio station at DongxiMadian, and the telegram was extremely simple, to the effect that: Luo Lirong was leading the Third Army out of Shijiazhuang, and now crossed the Tuotuo River and marched towards Xinle.
Unexpected situations in war are common occurrences, but the situation changes so quickly that no one expected.
Yang Dezhi said: "Luo Lirong is coming for us, and the whole war situation will undergo major changes. ”
Luo Lirong led the Third Army north out of Shijiazhuang, obviously in an attempt to create a situation in which our army was caught between the north and the south. It was an ambitious and bold plan.
Yang Dezhi, Yang Chengwu, Geng Biao, and others spread out the map on the spot to study countermeasures. In the end, they made up their minds to annihilate the Luo Li Rong department in the Area of Qingfengdian.
Geng Biao then squatted in the fields of the autumn breeze and drafted the order: Except for the troops that originally attacked Xushui and returned to the command of the Second Column, the rest of the troops immediately turned around and went south after receiving the order, and the destination was the Qingfengdian area south of Baoding.
At this time, there was no radio around them, and the order had to rely on the staff officers around them. Several staff officers quickly got up, rushed to the nearby troops on horseback, and adopted the method of relay, using telephones for those who had telephones, sending people without telephones, and those who were far away from the notices were farther away, and those who were far away were far away.
Yang Dezhi repeatedly stressed to several combat staff officers: Be fast! Be quick! Be quick!
The personnel who delivered the order set off, and Yang Dezhi, Yang Chengwu, and Geng Biao were only the aftershocks of the combat staff officer and three guards. Everyone set up the map together, turned the horse's head and sped south.
The three commanders were on horseback, and they rushed all the way to midnight, and the staff officers and three guards were left behind, and they could not wait for them.
Before dawn, when the three rushed to the site of the new command post, Aftershock and four others caught up.
Although it was late autumn night, the frost fog was thick and the chill was striking, but the people and horses were sweating. Fortunately, at that time, the three commanders were in their prime (Yang Dezhi was 36 years old, Yang Chengwu was 33 years old, and Geng Biao was 38 years old), and it could be said that they were physically strong and energetic, and they did not feel sleepy after all night, but they were a little hungry.
After the staff officer Aftershock arrived, Geng Biao saw him and shouted, "Quick, get the phone straight!" ”
Yang Dezhi saw that Aftershock was walking with a limp, so he asked, "How did it happen?" ”
Aftershock pulled the clothes behind him and smiled sheepishly: "I didn't have a saddle on my horse's back, I ran too fast this night, and my ass was upside down." It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter! ”
The phone was quickly opened, but the Noji authorities had not yet caught up, and two of the guards went out to serve as guards.
Geng Biao was talking incessantly in front of several telephones. Yang Chengwu and Yang Dezhi discussed drafting a battle order to be sent to the troops.
The only guard next to him suddenly asked, "Do the chiefs want to eat something?" ”
The three of them nodded almost simultaneously. Yes, from noon to now, more than ten hours have passed, and I have not even been able to drink the saliva, and I am indeed a little hungry.
Geng Biao pressed his hand on the telephone, smiled and said to Yang Chengwu and Yang Dezhi: "Here I am, you two," he pointed to the guard, "You three go cook, but hurry, we can't stop here for long." ”
Yang Chengwu said: "This division of labor is good. But I can't cook. Well, the commander and the little devil cook, and I go for a walk of the horse. Our horses ran all night without walking. ”
Three commanders—the commander, the political commissar, and the chief of staff—began their work in a small village on the North China Plain, where dawn was about to break.
The guards were young and clumsy in their work, and Yang Dezhi really couldn't look at it, so he simply started to move his hands.
His cooking skills were not strong, and he was not familiar with the northern stove fire, but he finally cooked the rice.
Yang Chengwu and Geng Biao couldn't help but laugh when they saw Yang Dezhi sweating profusely: "It is also a rare thing for us to make a cameo cooker as the commander of the Jin-Cha-Ji Field Army and personally cook for his subordinates!" ”
The guard was embarrassed and said, "They all blame me... I can't do anything, and I have to trouble the chief himself..."
"Yes! The guards eat the food made by the commander, and you are treated high enough! Yang Chengwu and Geng Biao joked.
Geng Biao, like Yang Dezhi, is also a native of Liling, Hunan, and while eating, he deliberately "dislikes": "You don't have any Hunan taste at all." ”
Yang Chengwu, a Fujian native, quipped: "Don't be disgusted, the commander is cooking Hebei rice, I think it's good, good!" ”
As he ate, he said to the guards, "Take some for the comrades in the aftershock and the telephone class!" ”
The guard also smiled and said, "No, people are definitely doing better than us." It seems that this little devil is not very satisfied with Yang Dezhi's craftsmanship, and like Geng Biao, he is more or less "disgusted".
In fact, it is no wonder that Yang Dezhi is a commander after all, not a cook, and his duties are different. But before the war, the crowd was happy to be able to eat such a meal.