In the process of the founding of New China, many people paid the price of their lives for this, after the founding of the mainland, the Party Central Committee naturally did not forget those generals who made outstanding contributions to the revolution, so in 1955, the mainland carried out a ceremony of awarding titles, among this batch of founding generals, there are many people we are familiar with, but there is a founding lieutenant general named Pi Dingjun who is little known.
However, his exploits are called miracles in the history of war, the most miraculous of which is that in the Liberation War, he led his troops to a breakthrough of thousands of miles, fought dozens of battles in October, and brought a brigade when he went, but when he broke through, he was still seven thousand people. Why did you come back intact after such a tragic war?
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Speaking of Pi Dingjun, he was a very brave and good commander during the War of Resistance Against Japan, and Pi Dingjun was not only able to lead the troops to win the battle, but also his own courage was also very outstanding.
One of the most interesting was on the eve of the Hundred Regiments War, when Liu Bocheng, who was the commander of the Eighth Route Army division at the time, gave the task of reconnaissance to the 5th Division in order to find out the enemy's firepower.
At that time, the person in charge of the 5th Division was Pi Dingjun, who attached great importance to it after receiving Liu Shuai's order, so the task that should have been the investigator was occupied by the commander of his division.
How dangerous it was for a commander to disguise himself and enter the interior of the enemy, and it was not long before the division staff officers were alarmed.
Originally, the staff officer wanted to stop it, but he found that Pi Dingjun had already disguised himself as a civilian, and he sneaked into the city unconsciously, and in desperation, he hurriedly arranged for soldiers to go outside Wu'an City to meet him.
In this way, the staff officer and the troops he brought waited outside the city, and because Pi Dingjun had captured a telescope from a Japanese officer in the battle, the staff officer brought the telescope with him.
He had been anxiously watching the movement outside the city with his telescope, and suddenly he saw Pi Dingjun come out, but before the chief of staff could breathe a sigh of relief, his heart immediately hung up again.
Because immediately behind Pi Dingjun was a group of Japanese soldiers, seeing this scene, the staff officer hurriedly let the soldiers around him prepare for battle, and under the cover of fire, Pi Dingjun slipped away from under the eyes of the Japanese army, and the Japanese officers were angry.
The situation came forward urgently
Not long after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chiang Kai-shek launched an all-out civil war, and at first Chiang Kai-shek relied on his absolute superiority in troop strength to carry out a crushing encirclement and suppression of the People's Liberation Army.
In June 1946, Chiang Kai-shek planned a major encirclement and suppression campaign for the Central Plains Liberation Army, and they tried to launch a large-scale annihilation war against the Central Plains Liberation Army in early July.
In the face of such an urgent military situation, the Central Plains Military Region immediately exploded, and if the troops of the Central Plains Liberation Army were allowed to hold the base area, it would almost lead to the total annihilation of the entire army; if the second plan was to break through, the old Chiang Kai-shek would have thought of this long ago, and he had carried out the construction of huge military fortifications around the Central Plains, and it would be a painful price to rush through and wait for the PLA.
In this way, the Central Plains Military Region made a difficult decision of the third kind, "losing the pawn to protect the car", which probably meant that Pi Dingjun led a reinforced brigade of about 7,000 people to attract the attention of the enemy and make them mistakenly think that it was the main force of the People's Liberation Army, as long as it could hold the enemy for three days, then the main force would break through the Pinghan Railway.
However, speaking of this, Wang Shusheng, as a senior leader of the Central Plains Liberated Areas, shed tears, and he immediately said: Whether Pi Dingjun will survive after the breakthrough of the large troops is one thing, and even if he is alive, he will be suppressed by the Kuomintang.
The reason why the Central Plains Military Region entrusted this arduous task to Pi Dingjun was because of his unique character and experience. In fact, as early as 1944, Pi Dingjun led an independent detachment to establish a base area in the slits of the enemy-occupied area, and played a piece of the world, so this task was only able to be performed by Pi Dingjun in the Central Plains Military Region.
A miracle in the history of war
In this way, Pi Dingjun, full of confidence, led the troops to begin the mission, and he first arranged all the troops according to the central area, so that he could not only create a sense of great momentum for the enemy, but also stop the enemy from advancing.
On June 24, 1946, Pi Dingjun's troops fought with the Kuomintang army of 100,000 troops on a front of more than 20 kilometers, and thought that Pi Dingjun could only hold out for one day, but because the nationalist army was greedy and afraid of death, it took three days with them.
After the main force successfully withdrew from the enemy's encirclement, Pi Dingjun began to plan how to take the remaining cover troops out of the enemy's encirclement, and it was at this time that he made a bold decision, Pi Dingjun did not choose to march to the Yangtze River and the western belt where the best breakthrough was, but led the troops directly into the enemy's main area and repaired in a mountain village called Liu Jiachong. The Kuomintang troops did not expect That Pi Dingjun would be so bold, so they did not inspect the area they occupied.
Just when they were exhausted and fruitless, Pi Dingjun led the People's Liberation Army to suddenly attack while fighting and running, so he marched alone for 24 days and nights, and after more than 1500 miles, Pi Dingjun led the troops to the Liberated Area of Suwan smoothly.
What is even more surprising is that when his seven-thousand-man unit returned, it was still seven thousand people, and in order to show Pi Dingjun's merits, the Party Central Committee immediately appointed him as the commander of the column, and his thousand-mile raid also became a miracle in the history of war, and it was precisely because of this miracle that Pi Dingjun jumped into the ranks of famous generals.
brief summary:
Pi Dingjun is indeed a brave and resourceful person, he is not only a person who understands the overall situation, but also an extremely calm and calm commander, under the heavy siege of the enemy army, Pi Dingjun made full use of the enemy's psychology to do the opposite, led the troops straight into the interior of the place, not only led the troops to break out smoothly, but also sent the troops back unchanged.
It is precisely because of his bravery that Pi Dingjun also has a certain reputation in the international community, and the American journalists at that time could not help but marvel after learning about the battle, and made a report at home. In 1955, Pi Dingjun, who was supposed to be awarded the rank of major general, was also promoted to lieutenant general by the chairman's special order.
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