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"Commander, what do you think of Mr. Peng?"
On November 5, 1950, Wang Liangtai, commander of the 115th Division of the 39th Army of the Volunteer Army, had just picked up the phone when he heard the complaints of his subordinate, Xu Peng, the commander of the 344th Regiment.
Wang Liangtai was a little strange, and he didn't know why Xu Peng suddenly had an opinion on Mr. Peng. After asking, I found out that Xu Peng was not for himself, but for his subordinate second battalion commander Jia Tingyu to ask for an explanation.
It turned out that just a few days earlier, the 2nd Battalion had fought a good battle, annihilating 346 enemy troops and taking 112 prisoners, while it had only 59 casualties of its own. And the enemy they defeated was not a second-rate army, but the elite of the US army, the 1st Cavalry Division.
However, when discussing merit after the war, the second battalion was credited with merit, but Jia Tingyu, the battalion commander who commanded the victory, was criticized and demoted to the rank of reconnaissance squad leader, what is going on?
After understanding the cause and effect, Wang Liangtai smiled and said: "You should thank Mr. Peng! The demotion is still light, and in his situation, it will be good if he doesn't shoot him!"
So, who is this Jia Tingyu? How did he inflict heavy losses on the elite of the US military? Why was he demoted after winning the war?
Jia Tingyu's experience is quite legendary, he joined the Red 25th Army led by Xu Haidong at the age of 15, and participated in a series of battles in the early days of the Red Army.
During the Anti-Japanese War, Jia Tingyu was under the command of Huang Kecheng, and he also made many military exploits, and he also went deep behind the enemy to investigate alone, so that the Eighth Route Army fought a beautiful ambush battle, which shows his courage. By the time of the Liberation War, he was already the deputy commander of the 2nd Vertical and 5th Division.
So, since he was already a deputy division commander during the Liberation War, how did he become a battalion commander again during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea?
It turned out that after the founding of the People's Republic of China, bandits were rampant in various places, and some bandits even colluded with Kuomintang spies, and Jia Tingyu led his troops to participate in the crackdown on bandits.
When attacking a group of bandits in Guangxi, Jia Tingyu was carried away by anger for a while, and even ordered all the dozens of bandits who had surrendered to be shot to pay tribute to the comrades-in-arms who died in the previous battle with these bandits.
Although this move was a relief, it had a bad impact, and many bandits heard that they would be shot after surrendering, and their will to resist became resolute, which brought a lot of trouble to our army's work of suppressing bandits.
Therefore, Jia Tingyu was demoted several levels at once. During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the superiors took into account his rich combat experience, so they appointed him as the battalion commander.
From the above experience, we can also roughly see what kind of person Jia Tingyu is, he is brave and strategic, dares to fight and dare to rush, but sometimes he is too impulsive and unwilling to be bound by the rules, which is a bit similar to the image of Li Yunlong in "Bright Sword".
After the volunteers crossed the Yalu River, the US-ROK coalition army, which thought it was in good hands, was caught off guard. In late October, the 39th Army surrounded the ROK 1st Division in the Unsan area, and the 115th Division was responsible for blocking the enemy forces coming to the rescue of the ROK 1st Division.
However, due to the large scope of the encirclement and the lack of reconnaissance planes of the Volunteer Army, the specific situation of the enemy army is not very clear.
So one day after dinner, Jia Tingyu called two scouts and wanted to go with them to investigate.
In fact, according to the regulations, the superiors did not arrange an investigation task for Jia Tingyu at this time, and Jia Tingyu, as the battalion commander, should be in charge of commanding the battalion headquarters, and should not risk his life and go to investigate in person.
But Jia Tingyu doesn't care so much, he believes that seeing is believing, and he must personally confirm the situation of the enemy army.
Jia Tingyu originally just wanted to grab a "tongue" and ask, that is, to ask for information from the mouth of a lone enemy soldier. However, after approaching the enemy's position, he found that the enemy's defense was very lax, so he simply took advantage of the night to directly touch the enemy's position. The enemy didn't even recognize them and greeted them.
In this way, Jia Tingyu and the two scouts swaggered into the enemy's temporary command post, and found that there was an American officer inside, who was forcibly making love with a captive North Korean girl, and did not notice them at all.
It was clear that it was the 1st Division of the ROK Army in the encirclement, so why was there a US military officer? Jia Tingyu realized that there must be something strange in it, so he took advantage of the US officer's unpreparedness to subdue him in one fell swoop, and then brought him back to the camp for interrogation.
At this time, the enemy sentries on the periphery were either sleeping soundly, or they didn't notice Jia Tingyu and the others at all.
However, due to the language barrier, Jia Tingyu couldn't understand what the US military officer was saying, so he had to send him to the regiment headquarters again.
After some interrogation, everyone found that this US military officer was not low in rank, and he was a lieutenant colonel quartermaster of the 24th Regiment.
And the unit to which he belonged was the famous 1st Cavalry Division. It turned out that the 1st Cavalry Division received a request for help from the 1st Division of the ROK Army and quickly rushed to reinforcements, but it did not expect that our army had already prepared to block it.
Our troops obtained a series of information from this American officer, and adjusted their deployment accordingly, preparing to encircle the 1st Cavalry Division as well. After dawn, the US reconnaissance plane discovered the change in the deployment of our army and hurriedly reported it to the headquarters.
The U.S. troops then retreated in a hurry, but our troops moved quickly and had already formed an encirclement of the U.S. troops. The second battalion blocked the key pass, Longyuan Cave, and bravely blocked the American troops under the command of Jia Tingyu. The U.S. troops failed to break through our defense line with tank attacks, and suffered heavy casualties themselves, so they had to abandon the plan to break through from the pass and instead set up a pontoon bridge on the Ningjiang River to break through.
Unfortunately, due to various reasons, the troops of the 38th Army, which were supposed to rush to encircle the US troops, did not arrive in time, resulting in the smooth escape of the remnants of the US troops, and our army failed to completely annihilate the US troops in the encirclement. But even so, the result was brilliant.
At this time, less than a month after the Volunteer Army entered Korea, it had already inflicted heavy losses on the elite First Cavalry Division of the US Army, destroying more than 2,000 enemies.
Among them, the second battalion destroyed 346 enemies and captured 112 people, which can be said to have made a great contribution. Therefore, after the war, many soldiers of the 2nd Battalion were commended, and the entire 2nd Battalion was awarded the collective honorary title of "Heroic Battalion".
The 4th Company, which was responsible for blocking the U.S. troops in Longyuandong, was awarded the title of "Longyuandong Hero Company".
However, in this series of commendations, there was one voice that stood out from the crowd and made the soldiers of the second battalion unbelievable: the battalion commander Jia Tingyu was removed from all positions and finally appointed as the leader of the reconnaissance squad.
You must know that this is an undoubted victory, and the soldiers have been commended, why was Jia Tingyu, the battalion commander who commanded this great victory, demoted so many levels?
The head of the regiment, Xu Peng, also didn't understand it when he heard about it, so he called Wang Liangtai.
Wang Liangtai said that with Jia Tingyu's performance, it would be good if he didn't shoot him. Later, the political commissar of the division explained: This is because Jia Tingyu acted without authorization, went to the enemy camp to investigate without asking for instructions, and did not report his deployment before the war.
Therefore, although Jia Tingyu won the battle, the fact that he did not listen to the command and left his post without permission is also certain. Jia Tingyu, as the battalion commander, went deep into the enemy's nest to investigate, and if anything went wrong, the entire battalion's operations would be affected.
You must know that the first of the "three major disciplines" is "obey the command in all actions," and you must obey orders.
If everyone sees that Jia Tingyu can still be commended for disobeying the command, then many people will think: It's okay to disobey the command, as long as you can win, this will undoubtedly have a disastrous impact on the overall command.
Therefore, Jia Tingyu was demoted after winning the battle. In the eyes of division commander Wang Liangtai, not pursuing Jia Tingyu's behavior of not obeying the command is already regarded as "extrajudicial favor".
However, after learning about Jia Tingyu's treatment, the soldiers in the battalion were still a little dissatisfied. Jia Tingyu himself can think about this, after all, it is not the first time he has been demoted.
He said to the soldiers: "It's good to be a reconnaissance squad leader, I was a reconnaissance at the beginning, and now I can be regarded as returning to my old job." ”
Since then, Jia Tingyuzhen has been the leader of the investigation squad, and his performance is also outstanding.
In the subsequent Battle of Pyongyang, Jia Tingyu made meritorious service again and was promoted to company commander. By the time of the Fourth Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, he was reinstated as a battalion commander after making meritorious contributions.
Although Jia Tingyu has an impulsive side, he did not feel wronged after being demoted, but continued to fight bravely and made important contributions in the battle, which also deserves our respect.
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