Lao Qin previously wrote an article "The youngest division political commissar of the Western Route Army once shed tears in Qilian Mountain, and later used 10,000 shells to fulfill his oath", which tells the story of the founding lieutenant general Zheng Weishan who returned to Yan'an alone and begged for food after failing to participate in the Western Route Army operation. At that time, more than 21,800 Western Route Army troops had lost everything, and less than a fraction of them could return to Yan'an. Zheng Weishan kept the blood debt of Ma Bufang and Ma Hongkui's bandit army in his heart, and he swore not to take revenge and swear not to be a man. In January 1949, the three major battles of Liaoshen, Huaihai and Pingjin ended perfectly, and the Jiang dynasty was weakened, but the horse bandits still tried to rely on the northwest to resist. On April 21, Chairman Mao and Commander-in-Chief Zhu issued an order to march on the whole country. Zheng Weishan went to Lanzhou as the commander of the 63rd Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and his heart was fierce, determined to fulfill his oath of revenge and liberate the northwest.
In the Battle of Lanzhou, the main task of Zheng Weishan's 63rd Army was to capture Doujiashan, a barrier in the southeast of Lanzhou. He ordered to pour more than ten thousand shells on enemy positions. Seeing the horse bandit army that had brutally slaughtered our Red Army soldiers and madly ravaged our Red Army female soldiers being blown up to the point of crying wolves and blood, Zheng Weishan raised his head to the sky and cried loudly, and the evil qi he had held for 12 years was finally released.
After the war, Zheng Weishan received a good meal from Mr. Peng, but he felt that it was worth it!
Lao Qin believed that if it were not for the defeat of the Western Road Army, Zheng Weishan's achievements would have been greater.
Zheng Weishan joined the revolution at the age of 13 and became a deputy instructor of the Red Guards at the age of 15. After he led the Red Guards to join the Red Army, he first started with Xu Qianqian's heralds, and fought in the Red Fourth Front Army. Because of his courage in combat and outstanding performance, he successively served as a detachment leader, instructor, regiment political commissar and other posts. At the age of 18, he served as the political commissar of the 27th Division of the Red 9th Army, the youngest division political commissar of the Red Fourth Front Army, and became a young fierce general in the Mighty Chuanxi Province.
During the bloody battle in the Hexi Corridor, Zheng Weishan was the political commissar of the 88th Division, the main force of the Red 30th Army. After the defeat of the Western Road Army, he entered the Kang University to study with Li Xiannian and others in the political commissar of the 30th Army.
Affected by Zhang Guotao's problem, in the spring of 1938, Zheng Weishan had graduated from Kang Da, but he could not lead troops to fight on the anti-Japanese front, and was assigned to the military and political cadre school of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region as a military instructor.
Zheng Weishan is a general who grew up on the battlefield, and his military courses have both theoretical support and practical combat examples, and the trainees have benefited a lot. And after just a few months, these cadets went to the battlefield, and all of them had good records, and Zheng Weishan's fame became more and more.
Sun Yi, the principal of the military and political cadre school, was impressed by Zheng Weishan and strongly recommended him to be the vice principal.
One day, when Sun Yi and Zheng Weishan led the teachers and students of the military and political cadre school to march in the field, they suddenly encountered a Japanese puppet army. Sun Yi's actual combat experience is far from comparable to Zheng Weishan, and he humbly asked Zheng Weishan for advice. Zheng Weishan was unhurried, so and so, so and so deployed, the teachers and students of the military and political cadres and schools through flexible interspersion, roundabout outflanking, completely annihilated this Japanese puppet army at once, and the teachers and students suffered no casualties.
Sun Yi was pleased and sincere, and quickly reported to Nie Rongzhen, commander of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, saying that Zheng Weishan was a military wizard and should not be idle in the rear, so that Nie Rongzhen quickly used Zheng Weishan.
Nie Rongzhen did not know Zheng Weishan, he just looked at Sun Yi and arranged for Zheng Weishan to serve as the political commissar of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region's teaching regiment.
This is equivalent to changing the place where Zheng Weishan takes classes, and the nature of the work has not changed much.
The commander of the teaching regiment of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region was concurrently served by Tang Yanjie, deputy chief of staff of the military region, and Tang Yanjie was also very discerning; after he and Zheng Weishan got along for a short time, he felt that Zheng Weishan had succumbed to the political commissar of the teaching regiment, and ran to Nie Rongzhen and said to Nie Rongzhen that Zheng Weishan is good steel and should be used on the blade.
Nie Rongzhen still didn't realize.
Later, He Long, who passed through the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, also recommended Zheng Weishan to Nie Rongzhen, and Nie Rongzhen appointed Zheng Weishan as the head of the teaching regiment.
I have to say that Nie Rongzhen is a bit like Liu Bei Pang Tong in the process of using Zheng Weishan, slow heat.
Li Xiannian went to the Central Plains to open up a base area behind enemy lines, and at this time he had already pulled up a team of more than 10,000 people, and when he heard that Zheng Weishan was the head of the teaching regiment in Jin-Cha-Ji, he hurriedly asked Nie Rongzhen for someone.
Nie Rongzhen woke up like a dream, knew the value of Zheng Weishan, decisively refused Li Xiannian's request, and turned around and appointed Zheng Weishan as the deputy commander of the Fourth Military Subdistrict, and then turned to the commander.
As a result, Zheng Weishan was able to make the most of his might, creatively launched night raid battles, made the enemy miserable, and won the prestige of the "night tiger".
Zheng Weishan's most glorious performance appeared in the Battle of the Northern Section of Pinghan in the Liberation War.
It is said that after the Liaoshen Campaign, Chairman Mao began to plan the liberation of Pingjin.
He ordered Yang Chengwu's 3rd Corps of the North China Military Region to surround Zhangjiakou and come to a siege point to help - when the main force of Fu Zuoyi's army came to help, Yang Dezhi's 2nd Corps of the North China Military Region cut off the connection between Huailai and Xuanhua on the Pingsui line; The Northeast Advance Corps sent by the Northeast Field Army to cut off the connection between Beiping and Huailai on the Pingsui line, thus besieging it. Then, Fu Zuoyi is equivalent to being tied hands and feet. Just wait for the main forces of the Northeast Field Army to enter the customs and converge with the North China Military Region, and you can catch turtles in an urn.
After the order was issued, Yang Chengwu executed it well, and after forming a siege posture against Zhangjiakou, he successfully attracted Fu Zuoyi's ace army, the 35th Army, to help.
In this way, Yang Dezhi's 2nd Corps and the Northeast Advance Corps of the North China Military Region carried out operations as planned.
However, the Northeast Advance Corps made a mistake on its way to Huailai.
This Northeast Advance Corps was part of the 2nd Corps of the Northeast Field Army under Cheng Zihua's command, with two columns: the 4th Column and the 11th Column.
When Cheng Zihua led the 4th and 11th Columns to Miyun, he received a wrong intelligence - Miyun had only one security regiment stationed there.
Cheng Zihua was greedy for merit, and let 11 columns attack Miyun, and let 4 columns send to Huai.
In fact, Miyun had the strength of a division of the Kuomintang army.
For this reason, the Battle of Miyun, 11 Column fought extremely hard, although it took Miyun and annihilated more than 6,000 enemies, it took a day, delayed time, and also woke up Fu Zuoyi.
Fu Zuoyi realized that Lin Biao's eastern field had entered the customs, and quickly sent a telegram ordering the 35th Army at Zhangjiakou to return east to Beiping, and withdrew its peripheral forces and assembled in Beiping to strengthen Beiping's defensive forces.
The 35th Army belongs to the mechanized unit, with hundreds of American-made ten-wheeled trucks, and after receiving the order, they floated east, fast as the wind.
Yang Chengwu was unexpected, and failed to implement strong actions to stop it.
And Yang Dezhi's corps was still on the road to rush in, relying only on two legs to walk, it was difficult to reach the designated position in time.
Seeing that the plan of Chairman Mao and the Central Military Commission is about to fall through.
Chairman Mao was so anxious that he walked back and forth on the snow without saying a word.
Unexpectedly, Zheng Weishan, then the commander of the 3rd Column in North China, blocked the return route of the enemy's 35th Army without any instructions.
Zheng Weishan was in charge of besieging Xinbaoan at the time, and when the enemy's 35th Army marched to Xinbaoan, he was keenly aware of the change in the enemy's action related to the overall situation, and when he could not ask his superiors for instructions, he risked the guilt of disobeying orders and disobeying orders, and took it upon himself to abandon the enemy of Xinbaoan and block the enemy.
The 35th Army was Fu Zuoyi's liferoot, and its two main forces, the 101st Division and the newly organized 32nd Division, were evaluated by Fu Zuoyi as "a piece of gold" and "a piece of silver" respectively.
A good Zheng Weishan, without fear, fought on both sides of the first battle and the back, blocking the enemy's 104th Army and the 35th Army on the east and west sides for a day and a night.
Zheng Weishan stepped forward and promptly filled the gap in the combat of our army, bought time for other fraternal troops to get closer, and finally realized Chairman Mao's strategic policy of "encircling without fighting" and "separating but not encircling", completely annihilating 130,000 Kuomintang defenders, and peacefully liberating Beiping.
After the war, Chairman Mao sent a telegram praising Zheng Weishan in the name of the Military Commission.
Zheng Weishan thus became a first-class general outside the epicenter, and in the Battle of Lanzhou, he could fire all the more than 10,000 shells that Yiye had at the enemy without hesitation.
Chairman Mao also firmly remembered Zheng Weishan's name.
On June 15, 1967, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Chairman Mao asked people three times to check whether Zheng Weishan, then commander of the Beijing Military Region, had arrived.
Chairman Mao compared him to Xu Shiyou, commander of the Nanjing Military Region, and said: "There is Xu Shiyou in the south and Zheng Weishan in the north. ”
