Preface
In November 1965, the Kuomintang troops, who had captured fishermen along China's coast, came to China's waters again to carry out raids and disturbances on two "Yong" ships.
When Commander Pi Dingjun learned of this information, he muttered: "This time, we must seize the fighter plane and ask these two things to feed the fish in the sea!"
Li Zhenghua, as Pi Dingjun's secretary, followed the chief for 8 years. He witnessed Commander Pi Dingjun's resolute and resolute style in dealing with all kinds of enemy situations.
Pidingjun was brought in to the tank for field tests
In the summer of 1962, the Chiang Kai-shek clique entrenched in Taiwan took advantage of the temporary economic difficulties on the mainland and frantically clamored to "light a fire on a pile of dry wood on the mainland."
In accordance with the instructions of the central authorities, the military and civilians on the Fujian front rose up to make urgent preparations for war, and put forward the battle slogan of "resolutely not letting the enemy come up."
As the commander in charge of operations on the Fujian front, Pi Dingjun personally led the company commanders of all the front-line garrison companies to sail around the island on a naval frigate, and asked the company commanders to look for "loopholes" in the fortification deployment in front of their respective defensive positions.
On that day, Secretary Li Zhenghua accompanied Commander Pi Dingjun on the beachhead at the front of Xiamen to listen to a report by the instructor of the garrison company.
The instructor said: "The stone bars and triangles on the beach, I wonder if they can hold back the enemy's tanks?"
The beach here is wide, only a few kilometers from the Golden Gate, and it is the main area where the enemy may land.
In order to test the actual performance of anti-tank obstacles, such as stone and triangle, Pi Dingjun decided to transfer several tanks from the tank regiment for field tests.
After the tank was transferred, Pi Dingjun said to the tank company commander: "You must drive the maximum horsepower, attack forward, don't be afraid of turbulence, don't be afraid of scraping, don't be afraid of overturning, come to the real thing!"
After the test, the triangle that is too small will not work.
The triangle with normal specifications turned over and just pressed against the belly of the tank, so that the track was idling, and it was impossible to move forward or retreat.
At the summing up meeting, Pi Dingjun said meaningfully to the regimental commander and political commissar of the garrison:
"When Chairman Mao guarded Jinggangshan, he relied on 'already strong barriers, and more united'. In resisting the landing operation, we must resolutely not allow the enemy to come up; on the one hand, we must strengthen the building of our garrison positions; on the other hand, we must have the confidence to win by holding our positions. ”
Thanks to Pi Dingjun's personal supervision, the coastal defense construction has become stronger.
Pi Dingjun personally interrogated the captain of the enemy sea wolf boat
From 1963 to 1965, after the enemy's conspiracy to land on a large scale failed, he changed his tactics and constantly sent small groups of armed bandits to raid and sabotage China's coastal areas on many occasions.
They took a few broken bowls from the fishing hut by the beach, and cut a few pieces of bark from the large-leaved eucalyptus tree on the shore. These can become material evidence for the Kuomintang army to land on the mainland, so as to invite merit and reward.
The head of Taiwan's intelligence bureau can also boast of his "glorious achievements" in "landing behind enemy lines."
In order to deal with the attacks and sabotage of small groups of enemy armed bandits, Pidein ordered soldiers and militiamen to lurk on the beach in rows all night.
After some time, Pi Dingjun decided to turn from passive to active. He said: "We must not wait for the enemy's small force to come to land, we must strive to defeat it at sea!"
On May Day in 1963, our navy finally eliminated a group of armed bandits from the enemy in the waters of northern Fujian and captured a wave boat and its captain.
Li Zhenghua accompanied Pi Dingjun to personally inspect the Seawolf boat and the American-built Venus boatmanoeuvre, and interrogated the captain of the boat.
From the interrogation, Pidin used clever questioning to extract a lot of extremely valuable things from the captain's mouth.
For example, the construction and operation of the Seawolf boat, how to avoid our army's radar search, how to deal with our navy's cruise, and so on.
Soon after, according to Pi Dingjun's order, the Shanghai Qiuxin Shipyard rushed to produce a light reconnaissance boat modeled on the Seawolf boat, and the Fujian Provincial Party Committee used foreign exchange to purchase the American Venus boat manoeuvre from Hong Kong, which also arrived in time.
The front-line garrison units were immediately equipped with new high-speed and portable reconnaissance boats.
After that, the good news of annihilating a small group of armed bandits at sea continued to come.
On this day, two more bandits were captured. Pi Dingjun interrogated them, and the two bandits said with sad faces: "Report to the chief, the Communist Party has lenient prisoners, and this is the second time we have been taken prisoners!"
It turned out that these two outlaws were captured by our army once in the northeast, and later ran to Taiwan after being released. In his 40s, he became a barber after being discharged from the army.
This time, they were deceived by the heavy bounty offered by the secret service room!
The two bandits said to Pi Dingjun with trepidation: "The firepower of the communist army on the sea is really fierce, and our ship capsized in one fell swoop. It is really our fate that we were rescued from the mainland, as long as the chief spares his life, we will definitely tell everything we know!"
After that, our army finally won the initiative in an unfavorable passive situation.
The Kuomintang army arrested our fishermen, and Pi Dingjun was furious
In November 1965, Pi Dingjun received news that two Kuomintang warships with the "Yong" had come to our waters to make trouble again.
It is worth mentioning that last time it was also these two ships that captured fishermen along our coast.
Pidin was immediately furious.
Last time, the Kuomintang army took two "Yong" ships to frantically capture our fishermen, but when our army mobilized ships and long-range artillery to lurk and wait, they flew away!
Pi Dingjun walked into the war room, gestured with his hand on the chart, and said: "Make up your mind to fight! The faster you act, the better!"
Immediately, while discussing the action plan with his comrades-in-arms in the war room, Pi Dingjun ordered the situation to be reported to the General Staff and asked Premier Zhou for instructions.
At nightfall, all the flotillas of China Southern Airlines docked at Pingtan Wharf, and the fighters boarded the warships in an orderly manner as planned.
At the same time, Premier Zhou's instructions approving this naval operation came down.
Pi Dingjun said happily: "Everything is ready, it depends on how well Wei Yuanwu fights at sea!" In other words, the commander of the naval combat formation this time, Wei Yuanwu of the Pingtan Water Police District, was the squad leader of the leather brigade when the Central Plains broke through, and he fought like a fierce tiger.
Pi Dingjun trusted this old subordinate and adopted his proposed naval battle plan of taking advantage of the darkness of the night, stealthily engaging the enemy, and going around behind the enemy ships to surprise the attack.
Pi Ding is confident and waits for the good news of victory.
Not long after the battle began, our army's intelligence department detected the enemy's frenzied shouts from the enemy's radio waves: "The flank is attacked by the communist army!" "The communist army is under heavy fire, and our ship has been hit and caught fire in many places!"
A few hours later, Premier Zhou, who was concerned about the war situation, called from Beijing and asked Pi Dingjun about current affairs and war. Pi Dingjun was extremely excited to report to Premier Zhou on the situation of the naval battle.
Premier Zhou issued an instruction: "Concentrate firepower to attack one ship first, and we must fight it well!"
Pi Dingjun assured Premier Zhou: "Resolutely complete the task!"
In the early hours of the morning, the good news came over the radio at sea: "The torpedo of the Yongchang has sunk! The Yongtai has escaped back to Wukun with its wounds!"
In the early morning of the next day, the Central People's Radio and Television Station broadcast such an exciting news:
"The PLA's naval units responsible for protecting fishing have sunk the US-made Chiang escort ship 'Yongchang' and damaged the US-made Chiang Army's large shallow hunting ship 'Yongtai' in the navy east of Chongwu in Fujian. ”
Pidin was not ashamed to ask
In the autumn of 1963, Pi Dingjun proposed to make full use of the independent stones on the coastal loess stone to build a hidden firepower point.
However, in the construction of the troops, due to the lack of practical experience in breaking stones, the natural camouflage of independent stones is often destroyed, and the location of the firing point is exposed.
To this end, Pi Dingjun led the engineering cadres to visit several old stonemasons in Hui'an County, a famous hometown of masonry in Fujian, and humbly listened to their opinions.
Because Pi Dingjun sincerely asked for advice and asked shamelessly, he finally solved the problem of "how to use natural stone skin to patch up the camouflage on the independent stone that has been blown up".
Before leaving, Pi Dingjun specially bought a few special masonry tools from the old stonemasons.
A few months later, at an exhibition, many comrades were surprised to find that a stone skin was suddenly pushed out and a light machine gun appeared on the free-standing stone a few meters away. After going around the stone, everyone was stunned and did not find the entrance to this hidden fire point.
Pi Dingjun consulted the old stonemason's method and successfully solved a major difficulty in the construction of fortifications.
Secretary Li Zhenghua had been by Pi Dingjun's side for many years, and he had seen the tremendous contributions made by Pi Dingjun in the defense of the coast and in dealing with all enemies who tried to land in vain.
Reference: "Pi Dingjun Memorial Anthology"