In the summer of 1946, the units of the Central Plains Military Region began to break through by separate routes in order to deal with the Kuomintang troops that were encircling and blocking. On July 17, Commander Li Xiannian and his troops rushed to Nanhuatang, Yunxi County, at the junction of Shaanxi and Henan provinces.
It's a small town. On all sides are mountains, towering like a sharp sword straight into the sky.
As soon as the troops arrived at Nanhuatang, they saw only white fog on all sides, and they could not see anything clearly a few steps away.
The scouts came to report that Hu Zongnan's First Army had reached the west of Nanhuatang and was encircling our army in a fan-shaped formation.
Li Xiannian immediately made a decision, ordered the Thirty-seventh Regiment to first block this enemy force, and then held a meeting with Zheng Weisan, Chen Shaomin, Ren Qianbin and other leaders to study the battle plan.
At the beginning of the meeting, Chen Shaomin, deputy political commissar of the Central Plains Military Region, who is known as a "female master with two guns," spoke first.
Speaking of Chen Shaomin, I don't know how many legendary stories there are about her. She can fight well, wear a large knife, pin two box guns to her waist, and lead a small detachment out of the enemy camp, either for intelligence or food.
Once, she led several scouts to reconnoiter, and on the way, she encountered a company of enemies, and the situation was very critical.
Seeing that she was not afraid of danger, she shouted: "Comrades, come with me and have a killing game to see who kills the most enemies!" ”
As soon as the words fell, she had already opened her bow with both hands and left, killing more than 30 enemies in one breath, frightening the enemies to crawl and flee with a rolling belt.
Sometimes when her bullets ran out, she pulled out a large knife from her waist, and the knife fell from the head, killing the enemy's soul.
The enemy hated her, the agent wanted to assassinate her, heard that she touched her bed several times, saw her hands clutching the big knife, the big knife flashed cold in the moonlight, the agent thought she was awake, frightened and retreated.
The soldiers and civilians on the Eyu side affectionately called Chen Shaomin "the female master of the two guns", "Chen Bold", "Chen Dajie", "Chen Dajie"...
Chen Shaomin's parents did not know what they thought at that time, but they did not wrap her small feet, and her big feet were famous far and wide, so some people affectionately called her "Chen Big Feet".
At this operational meeting, Chen Shaomin said: "We are facing the most difficult moment, and now only by killing a bloody road can we survive." I suggest that I rest here tonight, and that tomorrow morning I take a regiment of troops and take advantage of the thick fog to break out of the encirclement and open the way for the main force to break through. ”
Li Xiannian and Chen Shaomin
Zheng Weisan first said: "I agree with Comrade Chen Shaomin's opinion, so let's do it." ”
As Li Xiannian was about to speak, the scouts came and reported to everyone that Liu Zhi and Hu Zongnan's brigades had all been encircled, and the enemy units that could now be ascertained were the First Army, the Forty-first Army, the Ninetieth Army, the Tenth Army, and the Fifteenth Army, totaling about 10 divisions.
Hearing such a serious report of hostility, everyone's brows frowned even tighter.
Li Xiannian pondered for a moment, looked around at everyone, and said decisively: "The enemy situation has changed, and Shao Min's suggestion just now will not work." We must make a decision on the spot and organize the troops to rush out now! ”
He then gave the order of battle: the Thirty-seventh Regiment attacked from the front, the Thirty-eighth Regiment attacked from the right flank, the Thirty-ninth Regiment acted as cover in the south, and the Forty Regiments were behind the palace.
When the regiments received the order, they immediately took action. However, due to the fierceness of the enemy, 4 regiments fought from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., organized 5 charges, and failed to open a breakthrough.
However, the enemy rushed to their positions like a tide, crushing the organs of the Central Plains Bureau and the Central Plains Military Region into a large ravine, and the organs also lost contact with the troops.
Chen Shaomin, brandishing his double gun and carrying more than a dozen fighters, finally tore open a small opening, broke through the enemy's encirclement, and joined the Thirty-Seventh Regiment.
After exchanging information with Commander Xia Shihou, she took a battalion back and killed them, rescuing the comrades of the Central Plains Bureau and the Central Plains Military Region.
Li Xiannian held up his telescope in his hand, saw that the top of The Jade Emperor Mountain was the main point of the enemy's fire, and immediately ordered the Thirty-seventh Regiment to take the Jade Emperor Mountain within an hour.
The regimental commander Xia Shihou was ordered to rush towards the Jade Emperor Mountain with his troops. The Jade Emperor Mountain immediately became a battlefield where the two armies fought desperately. In order to take the Jade Emperor Mountain, Xia Shihou led the soldiers and braved the rain of bullets and bullets to rush to the Jade Emperor Mountain to kill.
The earth-shattering shouts of killing, the explosion of grenades, and the strafing of machine guns mixed together, and the smoke of the Jade Emperor Mountain soared into the sky, and they rushed up, were pressed down, rushed up again, and pressed down, and fought like a tug-of-war for four rounds, but they never occupied the Jade Emperor Mountain.
Xia Shihou was so anxious that he immediately organized his forces to charge again, but the enemy's firepower was too fierce, and several charges could not open the situation.
At this critical moment, a group of men and horses suddenly came out from the right flank, like a raging wind, and quickly rushed the enemy position, which made the whole army extremely excited!
What is amazing is that in the front is a heroic female general with two guns, she is Chen Shaomin!
Not long after, Li Xiannian also rushed up with a regiment. The three groups of men and horses joined forces to finally clear the hilltop positions on both sides, forming a breakthrough lane in the middle.
This was a road of life, Chen Shaomin led the death squad to open the way in front, Li Xiannian ordered Nie Hongjun to quickly organize the troops to break through, after some fighting, finally crossed the Nanhua Pond, entered southern Shaanxi, and created a new base area.
Chen Shaomin's heroic posture of not letting Su Mei charge bravely, and the experience of the whole army winning this battle of life and death, has also become a good story in the history of our army.