Mention the founding major general Guo Linxiang, may not be very familiar with many friends, he is a Jiangxi Yongfeng people, born in 1914, when he was a child due to the poverty of his family, suffered a lot, only a few years of private school was forced to drop out of school. In 1930, at the age of 16, Guo Linxiang joined the Red Army, after which he followed the troops to the south and the northern war, successively participated in the Agrarian Revolutionary War, the Long March, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, and was awarded the rank of major general in 1955.
General Guo Linxiang and his wife
General Guo Linxiang fought three of the most brilliant battles in his life, namely the Defense of Huangya Cave, the Breakthrough of the Central Plains, and the Suppression of Bandits in BlackWater. Let's start with the Battle of Huangyadong. In early November 1941, the Japanese army carried out a retaliatory "sweep" of the Eighth Route Army's Taihang Mountain anti-Japanese resistance, and Katsume Naoyuki's wing mistakenly hit and bumped into the Huangyadong Arsenal. The arsenal is the largest weapons and ammunition production base established by the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army behind enemy lines in North China, which can produce more than 400 rifles and a large number of bullets every month, and is praised by Zhu Laozong as the "pearl in the palm of the hand" of the Eighth Route Army.
At that time, the person responsible for defending Huangyadong was the Eighth Route Army Headquarters Special Service Regiment, Guo Linxiang was the political commissar of the regiment, although it was called a regiment, but the total strength was less than a thousand people, of which the third battalion was still a new battalion, only two companies, while the enemy had three or four thousand people. The enemy is outnumbered, and the firepower is not as good as the opponent, how should this battle be fought? Guo Linxiang decided to use the favorable terrain to block the attack one after another, kill and injure the enemy's living forces, and buy time for the equipment transfer of the arsenal.
Huangyadong Arsenal is surrounded by dangerous peaks on all sides, the east, west and north sides are cliffs, and the only entrance is a crack in the south cliff, commonly known as "Weng YuanLang", with a width of only about 5 meters. At dawn on 10 November, the Japanese concentrated mountain artillery, field artillery and mortars launched a heavy bombardment of our special task force position. In order to avoid the casualties caused by enemy artillery fire, Guo Linxiang only placed a platoon of troops on the forward position. After the shelling, the enemy infantry began to charge, and the Eighth Route Army shot at the enemy from a commanding height, repelling more than ten enemy charges in succession.
Japanese Wing Commander Naoru Katsume was fortunate to see that the attack could not be achieved, so he sent two squadrons of troops to carry out a sneak attack that night. Guo Linxiang had long been prepared for this, and when the Japanese army entered the narrow urn corridor valley, the eighth route army officers hiding on the cliff threw out more than a hundred grenades, and the Japanese army was crying wolf and howling, and the casualties were heavy. In the next 6 days, the Japanese launched dozens of strong attacks, and used poison gas bombs and incendiary bombs, and finally captured the forward position of our special task force regiment on the morning of the 17th.
At this time, the machinery and equipment in the arsenal had been transferred, and in order to avoid fighting hard with the enemy, Guo Linxiang led the troops to take the initiative to transfer and retreat to rest. The battle to defend Huangyadong lasted for 7 days, and under the command of Guo Linxiang, the Special Task Force Regiment of the Headquarters of the Eighth Route Army withstood more than 3,000 Japanese troops and more than 100 charges, killing and wounding more than 1,000 enemy troops and inflicting more than 160 casualties on their own. The casualties between the enemy and ourselves were seven to one, which was very rare in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and Guo Linxiang was praised by the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Guo Linxiang served as the deputy brigade commander of the 1st Brigade of the 1st Column of the Central Plains Military Region, and participated in the central plains breakthrough together with the brigade commander Pi Dingjun. After that, Guo Linxiang entered Huaye and led his troops to participate in the Battle of Lunan, the Battle of Laiwu and the Battle of Menglianggu. In June 1952, Guo Linxiang, then deputy political commissar and director of the Political Department of the Southwest Public Security Force, was ordered to lead 11 regiments of troops into Heishui, Sichuan, to suppress bandits. After three months of fighting, tens of thousands of bandits led by Fu Bingxun, commander of the 104th Division of the Chiang Kai-shek Army, were eliminated, and the bandits in the area were completely eliminated.
After the founding of New China, Guo Linxiang held important posts many times, and although he was only a major general, he successively served as the political commissar of the Chengdu Military Region, the Xinjiang Military Region, and the Nanjing Military Region. At that time, the commanders of these three major military regions were General He Bingyan, General Yang Yong and General Xu Shiyou. In addition, Guo Linxiang also served as the political commissar of the General Logistics Department of the People's Liberation Army in 1973, when the general post-general was General Zhang Zongxun. Among the founding major generals, there are very few people like Guo Linxiang who have served as political commissars of three major military regions, which shows the strength of his ability, Guo Linxiang was awarded the rank of general in 1988, and the general died of illness in 2010 at the age of 96.