<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > Centennial 17: Xiao Feng</h1>
Author: Forget about the jianghu
October 24, 1949, was destined to be an extraordinary day in the history of our army.
As the sun sets, the sky gradually darkens, and in the village of Naojiang, which is only 10 kilometers away from Kinmen Island in a straight line, Xiao Feng, deputy commander of the 28th Army, is looking at Kinmen Island by the sea, and at 9 p.m., a landing operation will be launched. Suddenly, the guard Zhu Lianghong hurried to ask him to return to the command post.
Originally, the 28th Army received a notification from the corps that Hu Lian's 12th Corps had landed 1 regiment on Grand Kinmen Island and 1 regiment on Little Kinmen Island. Xing Yongsheng, commander of the 244th Regiment, called the division commander Zhu Yunlian, and Zhu Yunlian asked Li Mancun, director of the political department of the army, and Xiao Feng was urgently called back.
Xiao Feng
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" >, Fuzhou, Xiamen battles went smoothly</h1>
At noon on the 24th, Hu Lian sent a telegram to Chiang: requesting that the troops be withdrawn to Taiwan Island.
Xiao Feng called to ask for instructions to the corps, but commander Ye Fei did not answer the phone, and political commissar Liu Peishan said that his determination to attack remained unchanged.
Now that Kinmen had added 2 regiments, Xiao Feng had no choice but to ask the old leader again, and Liu Peishan replied that it would be carried out as originally planned.
Because before Kinmen, whether it was the 7 Corps that marched into Zhejiang or the 10 Corps that liberated Fujian, it was smooth sailing, and no one thought that there would be any problem in taking Kinmen.
On August 11, 1949, the Sanye 10th Corps kicked off the Battle of Fuzhou. The 29th Army attacked and occupied Yongtai City, the 31st Army occupied Sanduao, and the remnants of the enemy's 73rd Army and 74th Army fled to Pingtan Island. On the 14th, the 28th Army captured the northern bank of the Minjiang River. On the 16th, the 10th Corps encircled Fuzhou from the east, west and north. On the evening of the 16th, Zhu Shaoliang and Li Yannian took the opportunity to escape, and the 13-day campaign ended in the 23rd calendar, annihilating nearly 40,000 enemy troops.
Subsequently, the 28th Army crossed the sea to conquer Dachen Island and Pingtan Island, capturing more than 7,000 enemy soldiers. Ye Fei announced at the operational meeting that while the 31st Army and the 29th Army were attacking Xiamen, the 28th Army was attacking Kinmen. However, after the corps reported the battle plan, Sanye Tangliang, Yuan Zhongxian, Zhou Mingjun, and others could not make up their minds and forwarded it to Su Yu for a meeting in Beijing. On October 11, Su Yu made a proposal:
For example, if 5 divisions attack Xiamen and two divisions attack Kinmen without absolute certainty, they will clamp down on the enemy in Kinmen and first seek to attack and annihilate the enemy in Xiamen.
However, Su Yu also explained in the end: according to the actual situation, he decided on his own.
Liu Peishan
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After studying, Ye Fei and others adopted Su Yu's suggestion to conquer Xiamen and Kinmen one by one.
From October 14 to 16, the 31st Army and the 29th Army took Xiamen and annihilated 21,000 enemy troops, and sacrificed more than 2,000 commanders and fighters when they landed on the beach. Subsequently, the 10th Corps gave the task of attacking the Golden Gate to the 28th Army. The predecessor of the 28th Army was the Huaye 10th Column, the so-called "platoon artillery does not move, it must be ten columns", good at defense but offensive is not good at. Ye Fei envisioned "a surprise attack and a quick battle", and threw 7 regiments to deal with 20,000 people in Li Liangrong's 22nd Corps.
Ye Fei said to Xiao Feng: It seems that there is no big battle on the mainland, so you 28th Army will sweep its tail.
Su Yu instructed the 10 corps that there were three non-fighting in the Battle of Kinmen: the enemy reinforcements did not fight one regiment, the ships that did not carry 6 regiments at a time did not fight, and the 6,000 skilled shipwrights in Shandong or northern Jiangsu did not fight. However, by October 14, none of the three conditions were still available: Hu Chain had 2 regiments reinforced, in fact, the 13th And 14th Divisions soon landed on the island, and the ships could only carry 3 regiments, and the shipwrights were seriously insufficient.
Kinmen Island was the first fulcrum of the entire defense system, and Chiang attached great importance to it, and the commanders of the defenders, in addition to Li Liangrong of the 22nd Corps, Hu Chain of the 12th Corps of Chi Aid, and Tang Enbo of the Press. On the island, in addition to naval and air support, there is also a fully loaded tank battalion.
The command structure of the 28th Army of the 10th Corps on the attacking side was much weaker: Zhu Shao, commander of the 28th Army, was sick, Chen Meizao, political commissar, was in Fuzhou, chief of staff Wu Su was working at the local level, and only Xiao Feng and Li Mancun, director of the Political Department, were left in the 28th Army, although both were battle-hardened generals.
Su Yu
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Xiao Feng, born in 1916 in Taihe, Jiangxi, lost his father at the age of 6 to herd cattle for landlords, and apprenticed to a tailor shop at the age of 9.
After the Wan'an Rebellion, Xiao Feng joined the Ziyao Mountain guerrillas. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he participated in the battles of Pingxingguan, Chenzhuang, and the Hundred Regiments, and was promoted from the political commissar of the 115th Division to the chief of staff of the military sub-district. During the liberation period, he participated in the battles of Huaihai, Crossing the River, and Shanghai.
Xiao Feng loved to write a diary, recording that he had participated in 1365 battles and battles, and also organized and invented the "cat ear hole" and "flying explosive pack", which played a great role in the liberation war and fighting tanks. But the 33-year-old deputy commander made a big mistake in the selection of echelons.
The 3 regiments of the first echelon came from 2 corps and 3 divisions: 244 regiments of the 82nd division, 251st regiment of the 84th division, and 253rd regiment of the 85th division of the 29th army, many from Binzhou, Guangrao, Shouguang and other places in Shandong. The first echelon did not have a single division-level cadre, and zhong Xianwen, commander of the 82nd Division, planned to land with the second echelon, but only one regiment came from the 82nd Division. The few ships were also loaded with desks and chairs, vats of wine, live pigs, and banknotes.
The shipwrights planned to be mobilized from Shandong and northern Jiangsu were delayed in arriving, and the local boatmen hired for 3 or 2 gold per person lacked a mass base; as soon as the guns were fired, they immediately fled away, and some drove their ships ashore and ran aground, and watched as they were blown up by enemy tanks and planes.
The Battle of The Golden Gate is indicated
<h1 class=pgc-h-arrow-right data-track=3 >4, Li Liangrong, Hu Chain's luck</h1>
Compared with our army's haste, Li Liangrong and Hu Chain stepped on taking care of.
A few days before the war, the defenders had been fighting landing exercises on the front line from Guningtou to Langkou. From October 22, Hu Lian's 13th Division, 14th Division, and 18th Division headquarters landed one after another. At 8 p.m. on the 24th, Liu Yunhan, the headquarters of Hu Lian's 12th Corps and the 19th Army, also landed on Kinmen Island.
Gao Kuiyuan, commander of the 18th Army, judged that the attack was about to be launched on the basis of the fact that our ships had stopped moving and there were no lights along the coast.
At the end of the exercise on the afternoon of the 24th, one tank broke down and fell on the beach, and the other two also stopped in place to guard.
In the early morning of the 25th, the 244th Regiment of the 82nd Division of the 28th Army, which had been bumpy at sea for 3 hours, landed at the beach and was in front of 3 tanks. The fault tanks were not only able to fire, the first shell also hit the 244 regiment's ammunition ship, and these 3 tanks caused great trouble for the 244 regiment.
The landing force fought valiantly, but was outnumbered. The commander of the 244th Regiment of the 82nd Division, Xing Yongsheng, a native of Shouguang, Shandong, was captured and killed in a concentration camp. Liu Tianxiang, commander of the 251st Regiment of the 84th Division, shandong Wudiren, was captured after three days of fierce fighting, and was killed on hunger strike for 7 days. Xu Bo, commander of the 253rd Regiment of the 85th Division of the 29th Army, a native of Cixi, Zhejiang, broke through to the mountains and persisted until January 1950, when he was captured and killed.
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There were fewer ships in the second echelon, and Sun Yunxiu, commander of the 246th Regiment of the 82nd Division of the 28th Army, led 400 warriors to the island to support.
Sun Yunxiu, a native of Luoyang, Henan, was elected as the supreme commander after landing on the island, leading the fresh force to turn the tide of the war for a time, but the enemy continued to flow, and Sun Yunxiu was seriously wounded and committed suicide by raising a gun during the scattered breakthrough. Kinmen killed and wounded 9,500 enemy soldiers and lost 9,086 island troops.
Liu Tianxiang, commander of the 251st Regiment of the 84th Division, and Xiao Feng, deputy commander of the 28th Army, said on the last call: "Dear chief, my life is gone, and I will never say goodbye." For the sake of the revolution, I wish the chief well. Long live New China! The last words of the announcer of the 253 regiment were: "Farewell, sir!" "
The sound of gunfire on the island gradually subsided, and then the contact was lost, and Xiao Feng and others at the command post all shed tears. When the news of the collapse of the troops landing on the island came, the 28th Army, which was 10 kilometers away, cried out, and countless guns mourned the heavens. This scene is very similar to a scene in "Bright Sword". On October 29, the chairman's briefing pointed out: The three regiments landed and fought fiercely with the three enemy armies for two days and nights, and the lack of support resulted in all the sacrifices, which was very deplorable. This loss is the largest since the Liberation War. The main reason is light enemies and impatience.
On November 1, Xiao Feng wept bitterly at the battle summary meeting and requested severe punishment. Ye Fei of the 10th Corps took the initiative to take responsibility and frankly said that the enemy could not listen to his opinions. Su Yu believed that he had carried the burden of Shanghai and Nanjing, but the troops' combat operations were extremely heroic, and they needed more encouragement.
In 1955, Xiao Feng was awarded the rank of colonel, promoted to major general in 1961, and worked in the armored forces for a long time.
The Battle of Kinmen sounded a wake-up call for our army and provided a reference for the liberation of Hainan Island. More importantly, more than 30 years later, General Liu Huaqing deeply realized the importance of the Navy, which made the traditional "Continental Army" gradually transform into a three-dimensional transformation of the three services.
After the Battle of Kinmen, Chiang inspected Guningtou
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