In 1935, the Red Army experienced many tests on the Long March Road, and after crossing thousands of mountains and rivers, came to the vicinity of Jiajin Mountain. But at this moment, a group of bison came into view of the Red Army soldiers, and the soldiers did not think much about it, and holding the machine gun was a burst of strafing.
But why, 30 years after killing these three bison, things have passed so long, and the founding lieutenant general instead came to the door to send money. What little-known secret is there that a general deserves to do so? To whom did the general give the money? This article will reveal the mysteries for everyone.
Misjudged the situation and shot the cattle
Wei Jie, whose original name was Wei Shiliang, joined the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in 1929 and changed his name to Wei Jie. In October 1934, the Red Army's fifth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign failed, and the Central Red Army was forced to shift its strategy. The reconnaissance company of the Fifth Division, to which Wei Jie belonged, moved closely with the large troops, acting as the vanguard of the large troops and reconnoitring the enemy situation in the front. Under the leadership of Wei Jie, the reconnaissance company successfully escorted the Central Red Army across the Xiang River.
It was not until July 1935 that Wei Jie's Central Red Army unit crossed the Jiajin Mountain and came to a place called Zhuo Keji. Zhuo Keji is located in the Ganzi Aba area of present-day Sichuan, in the alpine grassland area.
Chairman Mao, Zhu De, and other leaders planned to hold a meeting at the Tusi garrison and make a short rest and adjustment here for a week, so that the troops could replenish their supplies and restore the soldiers' physical strength.
As the commander of the reconnaissance company, Wei Jie led a group of soldiers to inspect the terrain and cultural features in the surrounding area. While singing, Wei Jie and his party looked around on the alpine grassland, which had the feeling of a great king patrolling the mountains.
When Wei Jie and his party came to the vicinity of the Brush Golden Temple, they found that there were many yaks grazing in groups around them, and there was no one to take care of them. Wei Jie, who had never seen a yak in Guangxi, took a machine gun and fired at the yak.
In the blink of an eye, three yaks fell to the ground, and the fellow warriors were ecstatic, thinking that today they had good luck and encountered wild yaks and could feast on them. Returning with a full load, Wei Jie and his party returned to the troops and first handed over two of the cattle to the regimental headquarters, while the remaining cattle were left to the reconnaissance company.
The soldiers of the reconnaissance company collected the beef with their hands and feet, and went through a series of procedures such as peeling, slaughtering, and drying. Each soldier in the reconnaissance company received a pound of beef jerky per person. This short-lived solution to the problem of food shortage is a happy thing.
Peng Xuefeng
The saying that there will be no pie in the sky is correct, and soon after Wei Jie was called to talk by the regiment leader Peng Xuefeng. Wei Jie was scolded by the hot-tempered Peng Xuefeng at that time, and said: "You turtle son, where is the bison, obviously it is a cattle consumer."
After hearing this sentence, Wei Jie Khan rained down, knew that he had made a mistake, hurriedly apologized, and sent the 12 yuan that he had accumulated for a long time to be placed in the shrine of the Brush Golden Temple, and attached a copy of the review book. Since then, Wei Jie has always been ashamed of eating the cattle raised by farmers.
Baptism of fire, capture the enemy's head
During the Liberation War, Wei Jie led his troops to fight for more than 20,000 miles, and his footprints spread all over the motherland' great rivers and north, and he successively participated in the battles of Shangdang, Longhai, Advancing into Dabie Mountain, and suppressing bandits in northern Sichuan. During the war, Wei Jie led by example, breaking through the bamboo and repeatedly building miracles. In particular, he performed prominently in the counterattack war against the enemy in northern Henan, and arrested the enemy's leader Sun Dianying, which made people shoot the case and be amazed.
Sun Dianying
In March 1947, in order to take Tangyin City, an important stronghold in northern Henan, Wei Jie fought a deadly battle with the enemy Sun Dianying here. There are more than 10,000 troops stationed in Tangyin City, the entire perimeter of the city is heavily defended, the city wall is more than ten meters high, and there are military measures such as dark ditches and dark forts, it can be said that Tangyin City is an easy to defend and difficult to attack stronghold.
In view of this situation of the enemy, Wei Jie deployed a strategy to take the lead in attacking, adopting the tactic of encircling points to provide reinforcements, and sweeping away the defenses around the city wall one by one. However, in the actual process, it was not satisfactory, because the enemy occupied a high point, coupled with the low strength of Wei Jie against the enemy, the first battle ended in failure.
At this time, there were reinforcements from Anyang, the strength of six brigades. Faced with this situation, Wei Jie, as the commander of the Sixteenth Brigade, changed the previous combat policy. Vijay adopted the new tactics of sapper blasting and irregular fire attacks.
In this way, it is easy to create illusions for the enemy, and it is impossible to figure out the position of Wei Jie's main force, and at the same time, it will attract reinforcements to achieve the goal of annihilating the reinforcements.
Sure enough, the enemy army was quickly overwhelmed under such a posture. Wei Jie's troops seized the fighter plane, took advantage of the victory to pursue, and under the continuous fierce battle, captured Tangyin City and captured Sun Dianying alive.
After the victory in the Battle of Tangyin City, Wei Jie found a large number of military strategic materials, and also confiscated all of Sun Dianying's antique collections, such as Cixi's sword, jade watermelon, and so on. Wei Jie only kept an American revolver to keep as a souvenir, but also gave the gun to the Huaihai Battle Memorial Hall in 1961.
Turn to the southwest and eliminate bandits
In early May 1949, under the guidance of He Long and Peng Dehuai, Wei Jie's Sixty-first Army liberated Taiyuan and Xianyang successively, until November 1949, when the liberation of the northwest and jiangnan areas was basically completed.
At this juncture, the Kuomintang reactionary army did not stop there, and a small number of Remnants of the Kuomintang retreated to The Sichuan and Yunnan areas, intending to continue to survive and make a comeback. Based on this situation, the Central Military Commission decided to turn to the southwest and completely annihilate the remnants of the Kuomintang.
In order to achieve the complete liberation of the southwest region, Wei Jie's Sixty-first Army marched south from southern Shaanxi and reached Sichuan in a total of 22 days, with a total of 2200 kilometers.
After Wei Jie's army arrived in Sichuan, it was like entering no man's land, and the battles with the Kuomintang were repeatedly won, and the momentum was like a bamboo. In this way, Wei Jie took the important towns of southern Sichuan such as Nanjiang, Bazhong, and southern Sichuan in one go, and basically gained control of the northern Sichuan region. Eventually, Zhao Zizheng, commander of the Nationalist 127th Army, surrendered unconditionally. The entire battle annihilated 5 enemy corps and 11 whole divisions.
Although Wei Jie eliminated the remnants of Zhao Yizheng's strength, the matter did not stop there. In February 1950, the Central People's Liberation Army established the Southwest Military Region in the southwest region, with the Second Field Army as the leading body.
Wei Jie's Sixty-first Army was sent to the northeast of Sichuan and moved to Nanchong, an important city in northern Sichuan.
Wei Jie was appointed commander, and during this time in Nanchong, Wei Jie developed the masses of the people to eliminate more than 70,000 remnants of bandits and counter-revolutionary armed forces within a year, basically eliminating the bandits in northern Sichuan and consolidating peace and stability in the southwest region of New China.
Come to the door to make amends and make up for mistakes
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is October 1957. Wei Jie's position has also changed dramatically. At this time, Wei Jie was already the deputy commander of the Chengdu Military Region. Although he was in a high position, Wei Jie still did not forget his original intention and kept firmly in mind the party's mission and responsibility, so during his reign, Wei Jie traveled to various units under the military region and mainly grasped the military training of the troops.
Once, Wei Jie came to the Aba Military Sub-district in western Sichuan, where Wei Jie had to fulfill his long-cherished wish.
In the 1960s, when Wei Jie came to the Aba Military Subdistrict to inspect the local work, he came to the vicinity of the Brush Golden Temple, and also took 200 yuan out of his salary to give to the temple.
Wei Jie's behavior made the people around him stunned and very puzzled. At this time, Wei Jie laughed and explained, "I accidentally killed three cows here during the Long March before, I thought it was a bison, but it turned out to be cattle raised by the peasants under the temple." Hearing this, everyone suddenly realized, and at the same time, they also respected Wei Jie, who is really a model for my generation!
Wei Jie was taught by the regimental commander Peng Xuefeng for killing cattle by mistake here, and at this time Wei Jie could no longer see the regimental commander Peng Xuefeng. When Wei Jie saw the familiar scenes around the Brush Golden Temple, he couldn't help but think of the former regimental commander, and he couldn't help but feel sad.
However, Wei Jie also proved that he was an excellent Communist Party member, and he did not take a needle and a thread from the masses, and even if he did, he did not take it in vain, and did not fail in vain to live up to the education of the regimental commander Peng Xuefeng. These excellent qualities were also retained until later years.
Strict party discipline and lead by example
During his work in the Chengdu Military Region, in addition to paying attention to the military training of the troops, Wei Jie also vigorously rectified the corrupt behavior within the army. In Wei Jie's view, it is shameful to be in a high position and use power for personal gain, and covet glory and wealth, and such a person will become a moth of communism. To show his determination, Vijay led by example.
For example, Wei Jie's daughter worked as a local worker, and most of the same rank came to the army development under the arrangement of her father's elders. Therefore, Wei Jie's daughter also talked to her father Wei Jie, hoping that she could also come to the army to develop, and before she could finish speaking, she was rejected by Wei Jie.
Wei Jie told his daughter: "The work at the local level is promising, and the troops have difficulties.
In addition, during the decades that Wei Jie was deputy commander, his relatives still lived in the countryside of Donglan, Guangxi, eating, wearing, living and living no different from other peasant households, and living on a shoestring. Once Wei Shanggao, a nephew of Wei Jie's hometown, came to Chengdu to ask Wei Jie to help write a letter of introduction, and Wei Shanggao wanted to work as a worker in the Great Northwest Region.
Wei Jie
But Wei Jie told Wei Shanggao: "If you really want to be a worker, go back to your hometown to build your hometown", Wei Shanggao was helpless, and finally went back with a new dress and a return ticket.
Seeing this, some people will say that Wei Jie is not close to people, and he is not willing to help with such a small favor. In fact, this is not the case, which just proves Wei Jie's principle and party spirit.
At the same time, Wei Jie is not a person with an indifferent concept of family affection, whenever there is a famine in his hometown and his relatives cannot eat, Wei Jie will help his family through the difficulties out of his own pocket. It can be seen that Wei Jie is a person who distinguishes between public and private, not a ruthless person. Until Wei Jie's death in 1987, he did not walk through the back door for his loved ones.
epilogue
General Wei Jie was born in the fiery war years, and his father named him Wei Shiliang, who wanted him to take the meritorious examination and embark on a career path, but his family was poor and could not achieve this goal. However, Wei Jie finally fulfilled his father's wish by joining the army revolution, and he was regarded as a guangzong yaozu.
At the same time, Wei Jie worked diligently in both the revolution and later, and always made a clear distinction between public and private. Let future generations admire, it is precisely because of such party members that our country is prosperous! Growing up in the era of peace, we should cherish the hard-won peace! Repay the mother of the motherland with your own efforts!
Disclaimer: Transferred from historical theory