When Chairman Mao of New China presented the military rank medal, he walked to the rostrum for the second time and held the second seat of the ten marshals. During the 25 years of participating in the War of Resistance among revolutionary Party members, he fought fiercely and loyally for the revolutionary cause all his life, and did not have a son or daughter in his life.
The people praised him for leading the army: "Without Peng, there is no military prestige, and if there is an army, there will be General Peng", and even Chairman Mao wrote a poem in his own handwriting, exclaiming: "Whoever dares to cross the knife immediately, only I General Peng!" ”
He is Peng Dehuai, an important leader and founding marshal of the mainland People's Liberation Army.
The last fireworks on the Long March
The 25,000-mile Long March was so magnificent that on October 19, 86 years ago, the Chinese Red Army ended its last leg here, known in history as the "Battle of Cutting the Tail".
On October 19, 1935, the Central Red Army set out from Ruijin, Jiangxi Province, and finally arrived at Wuqi Town in the Soviet District of northern Shaanxi after two years of trekking through thorns.
Before the Red Army reached Wuqi Town, the cavalry regiment led by Ma Hongbin was still pressing behind the Red Army, and the cavalry led by Ma Hongkui also caught up from the left flank of the Red Army.
On the 19th, Chairman Mao held an emergency meeting at and above the regimental headquarters and issued the supreme directive that "the enemy troops must be intercepted outside the Soviet zone and cut off all tails outside the Red Army."
The terrain of Wuqi Town is located in the hilly and ravines area of the Loess Plateau, with thousands of ravines and mountains, and the terrain is extremely complex. The Red Army first set up an ambush circle of the first and second columns in Toudaochuan, Erdaochuan and Platform Mountain, and then deployed a third column at Yan's Nest Liang on the east side of Wuqi Town, and since then formed a pocket-like strategic deployment.
It was planned that the enemy's cavalry army, led by Bai Fengxiang, commander of the First Division, would launch a general attack on Wuqizhen from Toudaochuan, and the cavalry regiment of the 35th Division would launch an attack from the mountain beam between Erdaochuan and Toudaochuan.
At four o'clock in the morning of October 21, Mao Zedong held a pre-war mobilization meeting on Platform Hill west of Wuqi Town, in which he once again emphasized the significance of this operation to the Red Army's Long March, which was not limited to the end.
When the meeting was over, Mao Zedong wearily said to the guards, "I will go to rest and rest, and you will call me again when the battlefield is fierce." At about 7 a.m. on the morning of the 21st, the enemy entered our ambush circle after pulling back the battle according to the prediction, and Peng Dehuai immediately gave the order to start the battle.
The battle began, the cavalry regiment of the 35th division of the enemy army was first violently counterattacked by the first and second columns, realizing that the enemy troops entering the encirclement began to turn around and flee, and then the battle began to start in full swing, the second and third columns of our army divided and surrounded the enemy, and launched a fierce attack on the three areas of the Toudokawa, the enemy was unable to collapse, and a cavalry regiment was completely destroyed by the Red Army.
Subsequently, in the pursuit of victory, under the rapid interception of the Red Army, three cavalry regiments of the enemy army were eliminated in a row, and since then the cavalry forces of the National Army that followed the Red Army have been completely eliminated.
Chairman Mao, who was awakened by the guards, saw the heroic posture of the troops led by Peng Dehuai in pursuing the cavalry, and he sincerely sighed: "It is an indelible miracle in the history of operations that the infantry chased the cavalry to the ground."
Watching Peng Dehuai charge and command the troops to fight, Chairman Mao, who was full of poetry and poetry, wrote the six-word poem for Peng Dehuai that made posterity popular:
The mountain road is far and deep, and the army is galloping.
Whoever dares to cross the knife immediately, only I am General Peng.
Later, when Peng Dehuai learned of this, he modestly believed that he could not be attributed to him alone, so he wrote to Chairman Mao to petition that "General Peng I" be changed to "Only I Brave Red Army."
General Peng's second rendition
On August 18, 1947, from the Battle of Shajiadian to dusk on the 20th, more than 6,000 men of the 36th Division of the Kuomintang Army were completely annihilated. Chairman Mao happily said at the meeting that this battle had changed the situation in the Northwest Theater, and the enemy's single-handed battle situation had disappeared...
At this time, Peng Dehuai gave a military salute and said humbly to the chairman: "12 years ago, the chairman wrote a poem for me, in which it said that whoever dares to cross the knife immediately, only I, General Peng, when I petitioned the chairman to change it to the only heroic Red Army, today, I suggest that it be changed to the only I Liberation Army!" As soon as he said this, he won a full applause.
The third interpretation was the victory of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in July 1953, Chairman Mao learned that Peng Dehuai returned to China to personally greet him, Chairman Mao saw Peng Dehuai and said: "The victory of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea is not only a war between the two countries, but also laid the foundation for China's peaceful development for at least half a century. ”
Peng Dehuai still said modestly: "I am just a small soldier in the victory of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, relying on the fearless and indomitable spirit of the soldiers and the selfless support of the people of the whole country, the honor they bought with their lives, and the good command of your chairman!" ”
Close to the people, into the people
Peng Dehuai is not only capable of fighting good battles in combat command, but is also very affinity and considerate to the people in dealing with his subordinates.
One summer, Mr. Peng walked alone to the Huangshandong Water Waist Arsenal to inspect, and the comrades of the General Affairs Section knew that Mr. Peng's stomach was not very good, and after discussion, they made noodles for Mr. Peng, and also scrambled eggs, tofu, potatoes, and cabbage to make four dishes.
After seeing this, Mr. Peng asked, "Are the workers exactly the same as our food?" Director Cheng Mingsheng replied, "Not much." Without saying a word, Mr. Peng left with his hands behind his back, and came to the workers' canteen and saw that the workers' meals were all rice and cabbage.
The director of the factory saw that Mr. Peng was a little angry, and quickly replied: "Our comrades, you have a bad stomach, and making noodles for you is after everyone's consultation." ”
Mr. Peng's expression became more and more serious, and he said with a calm face: "You know that I have a stomach problem, don't you have a stomach disease among the workers, so who knows?" Treat me the same, change it to rice! The director knew that he couldn't get Mr. Peng, so he had to give the noodles to the other wounded and sick and replace Mr. Peng with the same rice and side dishes.
Brief summary:
He was brave and good at fighting in combat command, and maintained simple thoughts, feelings, and affinity in dealing with the people. As the founding marshal of the People's Republic of China, Peng Dehuai spared no effort to fight for communism all his life, and the reason why Chinese civilization lasts for thousands of years is that every era of crisis will have such a strong backbone to bear China's future, and such torches have not been extinguished for thousands of years.