The popular TV series "Crossing the Yalu River", the 29 episodes that are currently being broadcast recreate the Defense of Tieyuan, and the commander of the 189th Division, Cai Changyuan, appeared.
He is played by the familiar actor Zhang Xiaojun, who once played Duan Peng in "Bright Sword", which left a deep impression on the audience.
In this play, he enthusiastically encouraged the soldiers to fight bravely, and carefully arranged the blocking positions, and also personally participated in the front-line battle, taking the lead in hand-to-hand combat, and when he received the order to retreat, he gazed at this fertile land with sadness, and did not want to leave for a long time...
He performed the bravery, decisiveness, wisdom and tenderness of a generation of iron-blooded warriors Cai Changchang...
In the Tieyuan Blockade Battle, Peng Dehuai gave the 63rd Army 15 days, while the commander Fu Chongbi gave the 189th Division three days to block the enemy in front, leaving time for the rear troops to build fortifications.
The 189th Division, with nearly 10,000 troops and no heavy weapons at the time, was a completely impossible task to block the 50,000-strong heavy legion for three days.
Cai Changyuan observed the terrain and terrain, made an unimaginable arrangement, divided the troops of about 10,000 people into more than 200 small positions like nails, and arranged powerful firepower, and each position became a fortress.
The blocking positions were distributed on the battlefield of 500 square kilometers at a frontal level of 25 kilometers and a depth of 20 kilometers.
In this way, the 189th Division blocked the American troops of the Heavy Artillery Regiment in Tieyuan, bombed by aircraft in the sky, bombarded by artillery, tanks, and armored wheels on the ground, and they held out on Seed Hill for 7 days and 7 nights, fighting bloodily, running out of ammunition, and making heavy sacrifices, and defeated the Canadian Brigade that was attacking head-on, at that time the brigade had 7,000 people, was killed and wounded about 4,500 people, and was seriously wounded.
The 189th Division also suffered heavy casualties, leaving only one regiment of troops.
In particular, when the 189th Division withdrew from the battlefield, only a pair of pants covered with blood and smoke was left on the leading cadres of the division and down to the ordinary soldiers.
Peng Dehuai also burst into tears and sighed: "You are an iron army that cannot be defeated!" ”
Cai Changyuan, born in 1917 in Xuanhan County, Sichuan Province, studied private school for 5 years. In 1933, the Red Army laid siege to Xuanhancheng, and at the age of 16, he joined the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and participated in the anti-encirclement and suppression and long march in the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet Region.
In October 1936, he crossed the Yellow River with the Red Ninth Army, first served as a youth officer of the regiment, and then moved to the Hexi Corridor, and after the Battle of Gulang, the team of more than 2,000 people in the whole division was less than 400 people.
Later, he served as a cover for the retreat of the Red 30th Army, and the two camps of the Ni family fought a bloody battle, and finally Qi Lian's troops were defeated, and the troops began to disperse and break through.
At that time, he served as a secretary and guard for Wu Xianen, the head of the Supply Department of the Red Ninth Army. After he and Wu Xian'en and the large army broke through the siege, the two hid in the mountains for three months and lived like savages.
Later, the two men walked out of the Qilian Mountains, walked day and night, begging along the way, and were scattered by the enemy in Liangzhou.
Wu Xian'en was alone and begged for thousands of miles back to Yan'an. His wife, Lin Yueqin, mistakenly believed that he had died and married Luo Ronghuan, who later became the Marshal of the Republic.
The husband escaped death and returned, but the wife was married to another woman, and finally through chairman Mao's coordination, the matter was satisfactorily resolved.
In 1955, Wu Xian'en was awarded the rank of lieutenant general.
After several turns, Cai Changyuan wandered around, encountered Deng Baoshan's department of the Kuomintang Northwest Army, and was forced to join the army and temporarily settle down.
In 1937, he heard the news of our army, took a gun to find the 358th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, and was almost shot as a traitor, and was later allowed to return to the army after review.
Later, after returning to Yan'an to study at the Kang Da, he was assigned to the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region as the head of the youth section of the Organization Department. He once singled out the Japanese army Shao zuo and forced him to commit suicide by breaking his leg, and was known as the "Tiger of Jizhong".
During the Liberation War, Cai Changyuan, who had been engaged in political work for many years, served as the commander of the 189th Division of the 63rd Army and became a military cadre.
He led his troops to participate in the campaign of Qingfengdian and the liberation of Taiyuan.
It is worth mentioning that in the Lanzhou Campaign to liberate the Great Northwest in 1949, Cai Changyuan took the initiative to ask Commander Peng Dehuai for help, asking him to serve as a vanguard to attack Lanzhou, the old nest of the Ma family army.
Peng Dehuai understood the bloody vendetta of Cai Changyuan, a survivor of the Western Route Army, and ordered him to seize the position of Doujiashan, the commanding heights outside Lanzhou.
He ran 320 kilometers with two regiments in two days and one night, and occupied the Position of Doujiashan day and night before the enemy.
After occupying Doujiashan, another 7 hours of bloody battle blocked the counterattack of three times the enemy army, laying the foundation for the final victory in the liberation of Lanzhou City.
Before he launched a battle against the enemy, he bit his finger and wrote five bright red characters on the white vest, "Blood Debt to Be Paid Back", in order to show that he wanted to avenge the comrades who died 13 years ago.
The warriors were also boiling with blood, and they imitated one after another, and all of them bit their fingers and wrote the big words "blood debt to be repaid by blood".
After the victory of Dou Jiashan, in the face of the defeated enemy army, Cai Changyuan led his troops to the first to attack lanzhou city, and finally completely annihilated the Ma family army in Lanzhou city.
In Lanzhou City, he fell to the ground, tears flowing, comforting the comrades of the Western Route Army who died in the Hexi Corridor and under the Qilian Mountains, and finally avenged you, you can be blinded.........
After returning from Korea in 1953, he entered the Nanjing Military Academy and was awarded the rank of major general in 1955.
He later served as the political commissar of the 66th Army and the political commissar of the 63rd Army.
On March 8, 1966, a 6.8-magnitude earthquake occurred in Xingtai, Hebei Province, and on March 22, another 7.2-magnitude earthquake occurred in Xingtai, and Cai Changyuan, then the political commissar of the 63rd Army, was stationed in Shijiazhuang, where he served as the commander-in-chief of the General Headquarters of the Frontline For Disaster Relief and actively organized troops to fight earthquakes and provide disaster relief, which was praised by Premier Zhou Enlai.
In 1967, he left his post due to a serious illness to recuperate, and in 1979, he voluntarily served as a political commissar in the Shaanxi Provincial Military Region.
He died in Beijing on October 3, 1995, at the age of 78.
The TV series "Crossing the Yalu River" reproduces the style of this iron-blooded and tragic warrior, let us always remember him! Hail to him!
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