In 1955, the Party Central Committee held a ceremony to award the titles of PLA generals at the Ziguang Pavilion Auditorium in Zhongnanhai, Beijing, and when it was close to noon, the ceremony officially began, and Chairman Mao, as the recipient of the medal, took over a heavy medal and wore it on the chest of the generals who had experienced hundreds of battles and made outstanding achievements in battle.
When Chairman Mao walked up to a general, he suddenly stopped and said, "I have heard before that you are a flying general who is good at fighting evil wars and fighting hard wars. ”
This person is General Qin Jiwei, so what kind of legendary experience does he have?
Qin Jiwei joined the army as a teenager, and later followed the Western Route Army to participate in the Long March, and in the War of Resistance Against Japan, he had courage and strategy, and repeatedly built up his achievements; after the founding of New China, he followed Marshal Peng Dehuai to participate in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and won the victory in the Battle of Shangganling, the battle of the founding of the country.
It can be said that the life of General Qin Jiwei has made outstanding contributions to the founding of New China and the liberation of the common people of the old era.
But if you want to say that the most legendary experience of General Qin's life is the story of being captured by the Majia Army in the northwest, then what is going on? What stories happened to General Qin Jiwei after he was captured?
The Western Route Army fought against ma jiajun
In the course of the Long March, in fact, the Party Central Committee did not establish the establishment of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia base area at the junction of the three provinces of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia at the beginning, and the initial idea was to get as close as possible to Mongolia and the Soviet Union, so as to facilitate the acceptance of international and Soviet funding.
With such a strategic intention, the Party Central Committee decided to send a unit to open up the route to Xinjiang and open up the Xinjiang base area, because the strategic route was to the west, so the name of this unit was also named the Western Route Army.
At this time, the commander-in-chief of the Western Route Army was Marshal Xu Qianqian, but the actual control of the army was in the hands of Zhang Guotao, and General Qin Jiwei was only a regimental commander of the Western Route Army at this time. The Western Route Army set out from the border between Shaanxi and Qinghai, and soon after its departure, it encountered the majia army, the largest warlord force entrenched in the Qinghai region.
Ma Jiajun is actually composed of three forces, namely Ma Bufang, Ma Hongkui and Ma Hongbin, these three forces compete with each other in ordinary days, the relationship is very delicate, originally this is also one of the weaknesses that our army wants to take advantage of, but what I did not expect is that in the face of the Attack of the Red Army, the three Horses quickly reached a strategic alliance, set up heavy troops on the Qinghai border, and waited for the Red Army.
The main members of the Majia Army are Huimin, because the Red Army has always had a policy of national unity, so many soldiers are afraid of the Majia Army, coupled with the fact that they have just entered the Qinghai and Shaanxi regions, the generals of the West Route Army are not familiar with the local terrain, and after the encounter began, the West Road Army soon fell into a passive situation.
Just at this time, the sky was not beautiful, there were snowflakes floating in the sky, the Western Route Army only had a single coat, and it lacked supplies, and its morale fell into a low state. Ma Jiajun took advantage of this opportunity to complete the strategic encirclement, and the butcher's knife hung over the heads of all the soldiers of the Western Route Army.
Under siege
The situation of the Western Route Army at this time was very dangerous, before there was the encirclement of the Majia Army, and then there were the pursuing troops sent by Chiang Kai-shek, even though the Red Army soldiers fought bravely, but after all, the disparity in strength was too huge, the Majia Army also sent cavalry raids at the critical moment of the battle, and finally under this heavy pressure, the Western Route Army suffered a devastating blow, which was also the biggest blow since the establishment of the Red Army, the Western Route Army had a team of nearly 20,000 people, a total of more than 10,000 casualties, and more than 2,000 captured personnel. Fewer than a thousand people escaped the encirclement and returned safely to the rear.
Qin Jiwei as the regimental commander of the Western Route Army, the situation is naturally not much better, his regiment is acting as a flank escort task, when the Ma family army sent out cavalry, the first to bear the brunt was Qin Jiwei's regiment on the flank, due to the strong impact of the cavalry, Qin Jiwei lost contact with his subordinates shortly after the battle broke out, which made Qin Jiwei anxious, and the situation on the battlefield changed rapidly, after the troops lost the commander's instructions, the dragons were leaderless, and Qin Jiwei's troops soon collapsed with the large troops.
In desperation, Qin Jiwei could only break through with the guards around him, but the road to the breakthrough was also full of dangers, first of all, it was cold and hungry, this heavy snow had been falling for three days and three nights, the snow on the ground was knee-deep, after cutting off logistics supplies, the soldiers did not even have food, let alone what clothes to add. There were also Ma Jiajun's cavalry in hot pursuit behind, and Qin Jiwei could only lead the soldiers to retreat into the mountains.
Unfortunately captured
After walking for an unknown number of days, I finally arrived at the Qilian Mountains, and along the way, I don't know how many warriors fell because of cold and hunger, and this fall never stood up again. Although Qin Jiwei's situation was better, seeing that there were fewer and fewer soldiers under his command, Qin Jiwei felt as uncomfortable as a knife cut.
Although their party arrived at Qilian Mountain and got rid of the pursuit and killing of the Majia Army's cavalry, the problem of grain was still not solved, and for the sake of the health of the soldiers, Qin Jiwei ordered the use of the last bit of money in the regiment to go down the mountain to exchange some grain with the local compatriots, but he did not expect that because of this grain exchange, Qin Jiwei actually encountered a huge danger.
Because the Western Route Army had just arrived in the great northwest and the local people's relations had not yet been done well, and ma Jiajun had already posted notices offering rewards to the Red Army everywhere, Qin Jiwei led the troops just down the mountain, they were discovered by the local residents, and immediately reported to the Ma family army, the Ma family army stationed in the local troops, heard the news and immediately rushed over, The soldiers led by Qin Jiwei were already trapped and tired at this time, although they still had a bloody battle with the officers and men who came to arrest, they were finally captured.
Fortunately, although Qin Jiwei and his party were caught, the people of Ma Jiajun did not know Qin Jiwei, and Qin Jiwei was no different from ordinary soldiers in clothing, so during the interrogation, Qin Jiwei lied that he was a buddy, so as to avoid the enemy from obtaining any information from him, but he did not expect that there was a traitor in the team.
On this day, a commander in the Ma family's army escorted a former member of the Western Route Army to identify him, and the traitor saw Qin Jiwei at a glance and immediately spoke out. The chief coldly said to Qin Jiwei: You are obviously the regimental commander, and you still lie that you are a brother-in-law?
Soon, Ma Jiajun began to interrogate Qin Jiwei, and the enemy's intimidation did not crush Qin Jiwei, he was calm and self-assured, and did not leak any information.
Originally, Qin Jiwei thought that he was bound to die. Ke Feng turned around, and the interrogator Ma Lu accidentally learned that Qin Jiwei was Xu Xiangqian's subordinate. Since Xu Xiangqian had saved Ma Lu's life, in order to repay the favor, he did not embarrass Qin Jiwei, but secretly protected his safety!
Close call
On December 12, 1936, the Xi'an Incident broke out, and chiang was forced to accept the idea of "uniting against Japan and stopping the civil war". Revolutionaries like Qin Jiwei should have been released.
However, for some reason, the Kuomintang did not intend to release Qin Jiwei, but instead sent him to Xi'an. Qin Jiwei understood that once he arrived in Xi'an, his life would be difficult to guarantee, and the enemy must be brewing an ulterior conspiracy.
On the way to the destination, Qin Jiwei took advantage of his lack of preparation to disarm and escaped by chance.
In the end, after several twists and turns, Qin Jiwei finally returned to Yan'an and reopened his life in the annals of history.
It may also be precisely because of this experience that in the process of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, Qin Jiwei showed an iron will, especially in the Battle of Shangganling, defeating the invincible US cavalry division.
It is really a great difficulty not to die, and there will be a blessing!