General Peng Shaohui is a famous one-armed general in the history of the People's Liberation Army of Chinese, and he is also one of the few senior generals who participated in the Long March of the three fronts of the Red Army at the same time.
At the end of 1932, Chiang Kai-shek mobilized more than 500,000 troops, divided into three major armies of the left, center, and right, adopted the strategy of "dividing into attacks and attacking together", and launched the fourth large-scale "encirclement and suppression" against the central revolutionary base areas, in an attempt to annihilate the main forces of the Red Army in the Lichuan and Jianning areas and destroy the central revolutionary base areas. Among them, Chen Cheng was the commander-in-chief of the Zhonglu Army, leading more than 160,000 people in 12 divisions of Chiang Kai-shek's concubines to serve as the main offensive task; Cai Tingkai was the commander of the Left Route Army, commanding the 19th Route Army and the local armed forces stationed in Fujian; And Yu Hanmou was the commander of the Right Route Army, "clearing and suppressing" on the spot in the Guangdong area, and at the same time responding to the Zhonglu Army.
In the face of the menacing hundreds of thousands of Kuomintang troops, except for some troops left in Lichuan, the main force of the Red Army quickly moved to Dongshao and Luokou and other places, hiding and waiting, and annihilating the enemy.
At this time, Peng Shaohui, who was the commander of the Red 1st Division of the Red 3rd Army of the Red Army, received the order and immediately led his troops to the northern front and took the initiative to launch an attack on the invading enemy.
Although the Kuomintang army had nearly 500,000 people, it was full of internal factions and chaotic command, like a scattered sand, and its actual combat effectiveness was not strong. At the beginning of the battle, the Red 1st Division of the Red 3rd Army progressed very smoothly, successively conquering the two county towns of Yihuang and Le'an, and cooperating with the main force of the Red Army to surround the enemy regiments stationed in Nanfeng.
Subsequently, Peng Shaohui led the Red 1st Division to the Eastern Front, and successively participated in the Battle of Huangshidu, the Battle of Shaowu and the Battle of Fengshanpu in Huwan, and successfully completed the task of blocking the enemy.
In mid-March 1933, Peng Shaohui received an order from Peng Dehuai, commander of the Red 3Rd Army, to cooperate with the main force of the Red 3rd Army to attack the enemy at Caotaigang and take on the main offensive task.
Perak Mountain is the commanding height of Caotaigang, divided into the main peak and 3 side peaks, the terrain is dangerous, the Kuomintang army laid heavy troops in this place, and built a large number of pillboxes at the top of the mountain, arranged countless light and dark fire points, easy to defend and difficult to attack.
Peng Shaohui commanded the troops to launch three consecutive charges, but still failed to capture the main peak, and the troops began to suffer casualties.
What Peng Shaohui did not expect was that Regiment Commander Peng Dehuai personally came to the forward command position and explained that Perak Mountain was the commanding height of CaotaiGang, and only by taking it could we successfully conquer Caotaigang, and this was the key to achieving the fourth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign.
Subsequently, Peng Dehuai walked out of the command post and ordered the trumpeters around him to blow up the charge horn.
Peng Dehuai, the head of the regiment, personally came to the forward position, and all the officers and men of the Red 1st Division were greatly encouraged, and their morale rose sharply in an instant. Peng Shaohui took the lead and rushed to the front without hesitation, leading the warriors to rush to the main peak of Perak Mountain with a single blow, completely annihilating the defending enemy.
The main peak of Perak Mountain was successfully conquered, but the Nationalist troops on the three flanks were not willing to show weakness, and under the leadership of the commander, launched a crazy counterattack on the main peak position.
Peng Shaohui ignored the rain of bullets and bullets, stood firmly at the forefront of the position, calmly and calmly commanded the troops to block the invading enemy, and repelled several enemy attacks.
At 10 o'clock that night, taking advantage of the darkness, Peng Shaohui commanded his troops to launch a general attack on the enemy positions on the three flanks of Perak Mountain.
The Kuomintang side was also well aware of the importance of the Perak Mountain position, and on the one hand organized the defending enemy to stubbornly hold out and wait for reinforcements, and on the other hand, it sent several bombers to cooperate with the ground troops and carry out indiscriminate bombardment in the direction of the red 1st Division's position. However, it was nighttime, visibility was extremely low, and the two armies were fighting, the distance was too close, and most of the bombs dropped by the bombers fell on their own positions, blowing up the Kuomintang soldiers' limbs, crying and crying, and scolding, shouting and moaning were intertwined. The Kuomintang soldiers retreated one after another, and all the machine guns and cannons were no longer needed, and the beggars ran away, only hating daddy for having one less leg.
Seeing that the enemy had been hit by his own bombs and retreated without a fight, Peng Shaohui was naturally very happy, and when the opportunity came, he was the first to jump out of the trenches and rushed to the defeated Kuomintang troops, shouting while running: Comrades, rush!
All the officers and men of the Red 1st Division, seeing that the division commander took the lead in rushing out of the trenches, raised their guns one after another, and the fish jumped up, like a fierce tiger on the mountain, and rushed to the fleeing enemy as fast as a fierce tiger...
With one impact, it successfully tore open a large hole in the enemy's forward position and captured a large number of Kuomintang soldiers who had been blown up and had not yet had time to escape. After simply cleaning up the battlefield, Peng Shaohui took the lead and rushed around the enemy's position.
The guards saw the situation and hurriedly caught up with the division commander Peng Shaohui and dissuaded: Division commander, you should stay and command, the front is too dangerous.
Peng Shaohui ignored the persuasion of the guards and continued to search around with his troops.
The two armies meet the brave and the victorious, and of course, the most important point is that the exemplary and leading role of the commander is a silent command, which is much better than shouting through the throat and saying some passionate mobilization words. Peng Shaohui is a brave general, but also a confucian general, brave and strategic, and knows this very well.
Under the leadership of division commander Peng Shaohui, the officers and men of the whole division rushed forward one by one, unstoppable, and it took only 20 minutes to successfully take the remaining three enemy flanking peak positions on Perak Mountain.
The remnants of the enemy saw that the general trend was gone, and they all held their heads and fled to the lower barn of the mountain.
The opportunity must not be lost, the loss will not come again, and there is no need to clean up the battlefield, so Peng Shaohui ordered the soldiers to take advantage of the victory to pursue, in order to completely annihilate this remnant of the defeated general. Peng Shaohui picked up a Type 38 rifle that the enemy on the ground had dropped when he fled, pulled the bolt, and seeing that there were still several bullets inside, he rushed down the mountain with the soldiers.
Suddenly, a Kuomintang soldier who had no time to escape and was now hiding behind a large rock fired a shuttle of bullets in the direction of Peng Shaohui.
Peng Shaohui looked at the sixth road, listened to the eight directions, overheard the evil wind behind him, too late to lie down, subconsciously pushed away the guards around him, only to hear "poof" and "poof" two muffled sounds, his left arm was shot twice, a sharp pain came, and the rifle he was holding in his hand also fell to the ground.
The guards returned with a shot and killed the enemy who was hiding, and immediately surrounded them to protect their division commanders.
Seeing that the alarm was lifted, the guards hurriedly ripped off Peng Shaohui's blood-soaked left sleeve and carefully examined the wound. It didn't matter if he didn't look at it, the guards were scared into a cold sweat, and the tears flowed down instantly--division commander Peng Shaohui was hit by two bullets in his left arm, the blood and flesh were blurred, and the arm bone was broken several times by the bullet.
The guards hurriedly called the hygienist and turned to find a stretcher, ready to carry the division commander down the position.
Peng Shaohui endured the severe pain, stopped the guards, and whispered to him: "Shhh, don't be silent, this little injury is afraid of, don't affect my command of the battle." After saying that, the hygienist simply handled his left arm and bandaged it on the spot.
The guard watched the division commander's left arm continue to have blood flowing down, and was distressed, crying: Division commander, your injuries are too serious, you should immediately go down to the hospital for treatment...
Peng Shaohui supported his left arm with his right arm and whispered to the guards: Don't cry, this is the battlefield, I am slightly injured, it is nothing, it cannot affect my command of the battle.
After speaking, Peng Shaohui asked the hygienist to hang his left arm around his neck with a bandage, and his right hand pulled out a pistol from his waist, waved his big hand, and shouted loudly: Comrades, follow me! He then led the warriors to continue to pursue the fleeing enemy.
In the evening of the battle, the Red 1st Division successfully completely annihilated the enemy and won a comprehensive victory in the Battle of Perak Mountain.
At this time, Peng Shaohui was carried on a stretcher and sent to the Red Army Hospital.
Peng Shaohui's injuries were so severe that the doctors operated on him three times, but still failed to keep his left arm. Finally, after consulting Peng Dehuai, the commander of the Red 3 Corps, and obtaining the consent of Peng Shaohui himself, the doctor amputated his left arm.
After recovering from his wounds, Peng Shaohui, who lacked an arm, continued to lead the troops to march south to the north, all the way to the ground, invincible, invincible, repeatedly built a strange victory, shocked the enemy's guts, and was known as the "one-armed general".
In 1955, when the whole army was awarded the title, Peng Shaohui was named a general of the Republic.
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