At 10:20 p.m. on September 18, 1931, Lieutenant Kawamoto Sumushi, a member of the Third Squadron of the Second Independent Garrison of the Japanese Kwantung Army, led his men, after a long period of conspiracy and careful planning, blew up a section of the South Manchuria Railway near Wicker Lake in the northern suburbs of Shenyang, and planted the blame on the Chinese defenders. Using this as an excuse, the Japanese Kwantung Army launched a fierce attack on the Chinese army, shelling the Shenyang North Camp and the Arsenal, shocking the outbreak of the "918 Incident" at home and abroad.
As a result, the Chinese launched a 14-year-long and arduous War of Resistance Against Japan.
This year also marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. In the past hundred years, countless benevolent people have emerged in the Communist Party of China, who have been pioneers, bowed down, and sacrificed their lives and forgot their deaths.
Today, we are approaching Peng Xuefeng, who made great contributions to the united front and the war against Japan.
"Twenty years of arduous undertakings are about to be completely completed, and we are willing to look at the glorious merits and glory, our heroic names will always exist, and we will be loyal to the communists; the mountains and rivers of thousands of miles are broken, and they are waiting to be cleaned up from scratch, and the blood is splashing, sacrificing for the country, full of sorrow and indignation, and mourning the heroes for the Chinese nation."
This 70-character elegy was written by Mao Zedong to mourn Peng Xuefeng, commander and political commissar of the 4th Division of the New Fourth Army, and highly summarizes Peng Xuefeng's short but brilliant life. Zhou Enlai also said that he most admired two intellectual generals, one was Chen Geng and the other was Peng Xuefeng.
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On September 9, 1907, Peng Xuefeng was born in Qilizhuang, Zhenping County, Nanyang City, Henan Province, to a farming family. At the age of 5, Peng Xuefeng followed his grandfather Peng Rulan, who taught private school, to read and write, and later as a companion to the children of a rich family, he entered the private school of his uncle Peng Yanqing.
In the autumn of 1921, Peng Xuefeng defected to his uncle, who was teaching in Tianjin. At the recommendation of his uncle, he was admitted to Tianjin Nankai Middle School. In the first year, the school did not charge him tuition. The following year, my uncle took out his savings to help him pay for his tuition. In the third year, Nankai Middle School moved to Tuanhe, a southern suburb of Beijing, and changed its name to "Yude Middle School", at this time, he could no longer afford to pay tuition fees from his poor family.
Fortunately, the principal Yu Xinqing admired this young student with exposed talents, and specially arranged for him to teach Chinese in the primary school of the school, so that Peng Xuefeng could continue his studies by working and studying.
As a peasant child, it is not easy to study in a big city like Beijing and Tianjin. At that time, the country was worried about internal and external troubles, various ideological trends emerged in an endless stream, and many political trends often originated from schools. His uncle repeatedly told Peng Xuefeng to immerse himself in hard study, never to get involved in politics, and to be admitted to university in the future in order to have a bright future.
When he was a child, Peng Xuefeng used his uncle as his role model, hoping to be a university professor like his uncle when he grew up. However, after receiving a new type of education, Peng Xuefeng began to think independently, he believed that the rise and fall of the country, the responsibility of the puppet, in the chaotic world should be to save the country and save the people as their own responsibility, how can they stay outside the tide of the times. Therefore, in his spare time, he often read progressive books and periodicals such as "The New Youth", "The Communist Manifesto", "The Victory of the Bolsheviks", and "Duxiu Wencun", and painstakingly searched for a way to save the country.
After the "May 30 Massacre" in 1926, Peng Xuefeng organized students to break through the school barriers and march on the streets to demonstrate. The Yude Secondary School Student Self-Government Association was established, and he was elected as the first president and became the leader of the student movement ever since. He actively organized schools to join forces, risked being arrested by the military and police, and gave speeches in the streets to mobilize the masses. Countless young students were influenced by it to join the anti-imperialist patriotic movement. At that time, Deng Zhongxia had already founded a secret party branch at Yude Middle School, and in October 1926, Peng Xuefeng gloriously joined the Communist Party of China.
After graduating from Yude Middle School, Peng Xuefeng was sent by the party organization to Shandong to do military and agricultural movement work, and in May 1930, he was ordered to come to Jinggangshan and became the party representative of the 5th Column of the Red 5 army, and began his military career from then on.
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Shortly after Peng Xuefeng joined the Red Army, the Red 5th Army participated in the first attack on Changsha within the formation of the Red 3rd Army. In this battle, Peng Xuefeng led his troops to the city of Changsha for the first time, and killed into the enemy encirclement circle to rescue the besieged political organs of the regiment, showing superb command skills, and was commended by the regimental commander Peng Dehuai.
In late August 1932, Guo Bingsheng, commander of the Red 2nd Division, lost confidence in the revolution and abducted the unsuspecting commanders and fighters of the Red 5th Regiment to escape from the battlefield and prepare to defect to the enemy. Peng Xuefeng, who was the political commissar of the division at the time, heard the news and only took 15 soldiers to catch up. Some people worried about his safety and advised him to bring more people, but he said: "It is better to bring fewer people and be fine." When we really encounter the enemy, we have fewer people and small targets, and we have great flexibility in combat. ”
Peng Xuefeng and 15 fighters chased for 5 days and 5 nights, and finally caught up with Guo Bingsheng. After repeatedly persuading Guo Bingsheng to no avail, Peng Xuefeng was reasonable and emotional to the red 5 regiment generals, and successfully persuaded the commanders and fighters who had been hoodwinked by Guo Bingsheng to return to the revolutionary camp and reduce their losses to a minimum. The Central Military Commission awarded him the "Red Star Medal" for this purpose. For a time, Peng Xuefeng's "full of guts" was spread as a beautiful talk in the Central Soviet Area.
In May 1933, Peng Xuefeng was transferred to the political commissar of the Red 4th Division of the Red 3rd Army. At the beginning of 1935, the Central Red Army was reorganized in Guizhou, and the former Red 5th Division was downsized to the Red 13th Regiment, and Peng Xuefeng was transferred to the regimental commander. This regiment condensed the essence of the Red 7th Army of the Baise Uprising, and its combat effectiveness was very strong. Peng Xuefeng took the lead as a soldier and wore a strong and resolute position, commanded the Red 13 Regiment to be invincible, and completed various urgent, difficult, dangerous and heavy tasks. Especially in the Erdu Chishui, the Red 13th Regiment recaptured Loushan Pass, competed for Laoya Mountain, and reoccupied Zunyi City, which played a decisive role in the first major victory of the Central Red Army in the Long March.
In October 1935, the Central Red Army arrived in Wuqi Town, northern Shaanxi. In order to cut off the "tail" that was in hot pursuit, Peng Xuefeng led the cavalry of the Blood Horse Family Army, and the performance was extremely eye-catching. While writing poems praising Peng Dehuai's good command, Chairman Mao also lamented that "Peng Xuefeng's talent is rare!" ”
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In November 1936, Peng Xuefeng was dispatched by the Party Central Committee under the pseudonym Peng Yufeng to Shanxi to carry out anti-Japanese united front work. Yan Xishan, who had learned the power of the Red Army during the Red Army's Crusade at the beginning of the year, was very dissatisfied with Chiang Kai-shek's intention to invade Shanxi, so he agreed to send his nephew Liang Huazhi to contact Peng Xuefeng on his behalf.
After repeated work, Yan Xishan finally agreed to the Red Army to set up a trade warehouse in Shanxi to deliver civilian biological resources to northern Shaanxi, allowed the Red Army to set up a secret radio station in Taiyuan so that the high-level of the two sides could communicate in a timely manner, and also reached an agreement between the two sides to cooperate in the establishment of a field mobilization committee.
In the "Xi'an Incident" that followed, Peng Xuefeng not only promoted Yan Xishan's neutrality, but also extensively carried out united front work in all circles in Shanxi, publicized the CPC's proposition of "stopping the civil war and uniting to resist Japan," expanded the party's political influence, and laid a good public opinion foundation for the Red Army to go to the anti-Japanese front. Chairman Mao was very happy after receiving Peng Xuefeng's work report: "This goal of stabilizing the northwest, promoting north China, and uniting to resist Japan has been achieved." Peng Xuefeng does not fail in his mission! ”
Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping and Peng Xuefeng took a group photo in Taiyuan
After the outbreak of the "7.7" Incident in 1937, the Kuomintang and the Communists negotiated and reached an agreement that the main force of the Red Army would be reorganized into the Eighth Route Army and march east into Shanxi to resist Japan. Peng Xuefeng, who was appointed major general of staff of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters Staff Office and director of the Eighth Route Army's office in Jin, made a lot of preparatory work for the Eighth Route Army's expedition to Shanxi and recruited a large number of young intellectuals to join the Eighth Route Army's cadet corps.
At that time, Yan Xishan was afraid that the Eighth Route Army would "infect" Shanxi, so he planned to order the Eighth Route Army to go out of Zhangjiakou to inspect the north through Wubao in Shaanxi Province, and then go around to the northeast of Shanxi to guard the pass necessary for the Japanese army to attack Shanxi. Faced with such a ridiculous arrangement, Peng Xuefeng argued on the basis of reason, coupled with the rapid progress of the Japanese army, and finally forced Yan Xishan to take back his life, and promised to give the Eighth Route Army 1 million rounds of ammunition, 200 submachine guns and machine guns, and 5 cars.
During the Battle of Xinkou, Yan Xishan wanted to repeat the same tactics and wanted to transfer the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army to Xinkou to fight a frontal battle. When Peng Xuefeng heard the news, he immediately reported to Zhou Enlai, who was in Taiyuan at the time. Zhou Enlai pointed out to Yan Xishan that with the current strength of the Eighth Route Army, it could not fight hard with the Japanese army, and could only fight guerrillas behind its flank. Afterwards, Zhou Enlai praised Peng Xuefeng in person: "Xuefeng, your information has been exchanged for the lives of thousands of eighth route army soldiers!" ”
[Note: The Battle of Xinkou was the central battle to defend Taiyuan during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, which lasted 21 days from October 13, 1937 to November 2, 1937, and was fought by the Jin Sui Army of Yan Xishan, the Central Army of the Kuomintang, and the Eighth Route Army led by the Communist Party of China. The campaign set a record of annihilating more than 10,000 enemies and was a successful example of unity and cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communists and the Chinese Communists in military cooperation. 】
In February 1938, Peng Xuefeng arrived in Zhugou, Qingshan, Henan, and became the military minister of the Henan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and the director of the United Front Work Committee. After taking office, he successively met with Liu Ruming, commander of the Kuomintang 68th Army, He Jifeng, commander of the 77th Army, and Zhang Yi, commander of the 13th Army, and reached an agreement with them to unite and resist Japan. Immediately afterward, he visited local government officials, contacted local armed forces, and formed an anti-Japanese coalition.
In just half a year, Peng Xuefeng communicated with more than 20,000 militia armed groups in Xihua, Fugou, Biyang, Zhoukou, Huangchuan, Ruyang, Nanyang and other places. Chu Bo, governor of Xihua County of the Kuomintang, wei Fenglou, governor of Fugou County, and Peng Xuefeng had been in contact with each other for a long time, and they deeply felt that "the CPC is the hope of the Chinese nation" and resolutely joined the CPC.
These arduous united front work created conditions for uniting the patriotic generals of the Kuomintang, isolating the anti-communist stubborn forces, and carrying out and upholding the Central Plains War of Resistance.
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On September 27, 1938, the guerrilla detachment of the New Fourth Army marched out in Zhugou Town, Qishan County, Henan Province. Peng Xuefeng, commander and political commissar of the detachment, led this contingent of more than 300 people to the east along the Jinpu Railway south of the Longhai Railway and north of the Huai River to open up the Yuwan-Anhui-Soviet Anti-Japanese Base Area.
[Note: The Jinpu Railway, which runs from Tianjin in the north to Nanjing Pukou in the south, was opened in 1908 and opened to traffic in 1912, and is an important north-south trunk line for modern railway transportation in China. In September 1968, the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge Railway Bridge was completed and opened to traffic, and the Jinpu Railway became part of the Beijing-Shanghai Railway. 】
Group photo of the first party congress of the guerrilla detachment
On the way east, the guerrilla detachment encountered the cavalry search team of the Japanese 14th Division at Dou Lou in Huaiyang City, Henan Province. The Japanese cavalry seized the commanding heights outside the village before our army and suppressed our army with heavy machine gun fire. The guerrilla detachment that had first entered the battle was under the command of Peng Xuefeng, and Wu Shouxun, the deputy commander of the Seventh Squadron, known as the "sharpshooter", killed Lieutenant Lin Jin and the heavy machine gun shooter led by the Japanese army. In the end, the whole team fired more than 4,000 rounds of ammunition, and the Japanese suffered more than a dozen casualties and ran away.
Although the Battle of DouLou was only a small encounter that killed and wounded more than 10 Japanese troops, it caused a sensation among the local people. Because not long ago, the well-equipped Kuomintang Central Army was chased and fled by the much smaller Number of Japanese troops in this land, and the local people had never heard of being able to repel the Japanese army.
The guerrilla detachment of the New Fourth Army became famous in the first battle, and the number of local soldiers increased sharply, and in just a few days, the troops expanded to more than 2,000 people.
Yuwan Su is located in the hinterland of central China, and the situation is quite complicated by various forces such as Japanese, pseudo-puppet, stubborn, bandit, and Huidaomen. Peng Xuefeng strictly implemented the party's policy, mobilized and relied on the masses, and soon took root in the local area.
By November 1939, the Yuwan-Anhui Soviet Anti-Japanese Base Area had successively established five county-level people's power, including Yongcheng, Xiayi, Xiaoxian, Suxian and Boxian, and established the Party Committee of the Yuwan-Suzhou Border Region, with Peng Xuefeng as secretary. The guerrilla detachment grew to 5,000 men and was reorganized into the 6th Detachment of the New Fourth Army, with him still serving as commander and political commissar.
When the base area flourished, Peng Xuefeng also became a thorn in the eyes of the Japanese army. In mid-November 1940, the Japanese puppet armies in Xuzhou, Bengbu and Suxian mobilized more than 5,000 troops, equipped with more than 30 tanks and 3 aircraft, and prepared to invade and occupy Woyang, Mengcheng and other places. At this time, the 6th detachment of the New Fourth Army had been merged with the 344th Brigade of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army to form the 4th Column of the Eighth Route Army, and the commander and political commissar Peng Xuefeng led his troops to break the road and set up an ambush near the town of Floor Bridge, which the Japanese puppet army must pass, and mobilized the masses to build a solid wall and clear the field.
After successfully ambushing the Japanese automobile team and inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy, he ordered the troops to retreat to the town of Banqiao, relying on the favorable terrain and pre-dug fortifications to resist the repeated attacks of the Japanese puppet army under the cover of aircraft and tanks. In this battle, the 4th Column of the Eighth Route Army achieved a major victory in eliminating more than 1,200 Japanese and pseudo-Japanese, destroying 2 tanks and 17 vehicles, and shooting down 1 enemy plane at the cost of more than 300 casualties. This battle was not only a favorable cooperation for the frontal battlefield, but also allowed the Kuomintang diehards to slander the people's army as "swimming without attacking."
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In January 1941, the Kuomintang diehards launched the "Anhui Southern Incident" that shocked China and foreign countries. The Party Central Committee decided to rebuild the New Fourth Army Headquarters, the 4th Column of the Eighth Route Army was reorganized into the 4th Division of the New Fourth Army, and Peng Xuefeng was appointed division commander and political commissar. Chiang Kai-shek mobilized 300,000 troops to attack central China, and Peng Xuefeng's troops were caught between the Japanese and the recalcitrant army, and the situation was critical.
Peng Xuefeng calmly analyzed the situation, and according to his priorities, he first mobilized the anti-Japanese army and people to oppose the "sweeping," seized the fighter plane and successively annihilated more than 2,000 Japanese puppet troops entrenched in Taihe, Jieshou, Mengcheng, and Woyang, curbed the frenzied attack of the Japanese puppet army, and then freed up his hands to meet the stubborn army that was struggling to fight. Due to the extreme disparity between the enemy and our forces compared with the 31st Army of Tang Enbo, which was attacking in person, our 4th Division suffered heavy losses after a bitter battle and was forced to retreat to the east of Jinpu Road.
On September 23, 1941, Chen Yi made up his mind to use the tactic of "attacking points to block reinforcements" to gather the mobile forces of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Divisions in front of the recalcitrant divisions of the East and West Roads, remove the Chen Daokou stronghold, cut off the Sulu Theater from the Recalcitrant Army in the west of Jinpu Road, and create the necessary conditions for consolidating the Huaihai and northeastern Anhui base areas. This was the first joint operation of the divisions of the New Fourth Army, and Peng Xuefeng was appointed chief of staff for the Chen Daokou Campaign to assist Chen Yi in commanding the operation.
On October 17, on his way to his post, Peng Xuefeng encountered Sun Yubo,a recalcitrant army who was heading for reinforcements at Chen Daokou. At that time, Peng Xuefeng only had 1 guard around him, but he was not afraid of danger and staged a modern version of the "String High Master". Peng Xuefeng took the initiative to hand over his business card, and after seeing Sun Yubo, he sent 1,000 yuan in French currency, claiming that "I heard that your army moved to defense, and I came to offer condolences and show my heart a little." ”
Earlier, Sun Yubo had been captured by the New Fourth Army during the Battle of Huangqiao, and this time Peng Xuefeng, who was famous in the world, dared to go to the meeting alone, and his heart was terrified. Peng Xuefeng seized the opportunity to carry out united front work and took advantage of the internal contradictions of the recalcitrant army to successfully persuade Sun Yubo's department to remain neutral.
[Note: The Battle of Huangqiao took place in September 1940, when the New Fourth Army annihilated more than 11,000 kuomintang diehard Han Deloitte with more than 7,000 men, including more than 3,800 prisoners, laying a solid foundation for the anti-Japanese base area in northern Jiangsu and opening up a new situation in the War of Resistance in Central China. 】
The Battle of Chen Daokou relieved the worries of the future and fought very smoothly. Chen Daokou was captured, the blockade line set up along the canal by the recalcitrant army collapsed, the Han Deloitte department in the east retreated in the face of the bad situation, and the Tang Enbo department in the west of Jinpu Road also stopped advancing eastward. The New Fourth Army took advantage of the victory to restore the entire Huaihai district base area.
In November 1942, the Japanese army gathered more than 6,000 troops, with the cooperation of cavalry, tanks and aircraft, threatened to eliminate Peng Xuefeng's 4th Division in the Huaibei area. At the moment of the great enemy, Peng Xuefeng ordered the militia to persist on the spot and carry out a "sparrow war" to harass the enemy. He personally led the main force to find the weak points of the Japanese puppet army, launched a series of fierce attacks, and constantly dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese puppet army.
On the Jinpu Line, Lianke Xiao bengbu and Xinmaqiao stations completely annihilated the enemy; raided the northeast of Si County, and completely annihilated the Japanese garrison. In 33 days, after more than 30 battles of all sizes, a total of more than 3,300 Japanese puppet troops were annihilated, and the Japanese army's "sweep" was smashed in a hurry.
In the spring of 1943, Chiang Kai-shek secretly ordered Han Deqin and Wang Zhonglian to take advantage of the exhaustion of the 4th Division of the New Fourth Army to attack them from the east and west. When Peng Xuefeng heard the news, he only used a small number of troops to contain Wang Zhonglian's troops advancing eastward, and concentrated his main force to attack Han Deloitte's troops advancing westward. On the night of March 17, Peng Xuefeng's troops captured Han Deloitte's general headquarters in one fell swoop, killing and wounding more than 800 enemy personnel and capturing more than 2,000 officers and men below Han Deloitte alive, frightening Wang Zhonglian's troops who were advancing eastwards and immediately returning.
After the war, Peng Xuefeng seized the opportunity of the temporary relative stability of Huaibei to vigorously grasp the political and economic construction in the base areas, successively built machinery factories, textile factories, and ammunition factories, encouraged the development of individual industry and commerce, carried out market trade activities, and at the same time set up schools and carried out literacy campaigns. Chen Yi went to Yan'an to open the "Seventh National Congress" of the Party and specially reported to Mao Zedong in detail on the construction of the Huaibei base area. Mao Zedong praised Peng Xuefeng: "This man can be of great use. ”
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Talking about Peng Xuefeng, it is impossible not to mention the "Snow Maple Knife" and the only cavalry regiment of the New Fourth Army he created.
In 1941, in the anti-stubborn battle in the west of Jinpu Road in Huainan, the 32nd Regiment of the 11th Brigade of the 4th Division and the 4th Branch of the Kang Da encountered the 8th Division of the Qingma Horse Riding Division of the Recalcitrant Army in the plain area and suffered a big loss. Peng Xuefeng, who was bitterly thinking about it, summed up the lesson and believed that in the plains, it was a great loss to fight with the Japanese and the hypocrites, and there was no cavalry. Therefore, he took out 30,000 yuan of Huaibei coins, which could be used as the vegetable gold for the whole division for half a year, to form a cavalry regiment, and asked Zhou Chunlin, who had returned from the Western Route Army and had received cavalry training from the Soviet Red Army instructor system in Xinjiang, to be the commander of the cavalry regiment.
Cavalry Regiment of the 4th Division of the New Fourth Army, photographed by Ren Bosheng
Peng Xuefeng devoted a lot of effort to the construction of this cavalry regiment. Learning martial arts since childhood, he absorbed the characteristics of the Cossack traditional saber "Chasik" and the Japanese Type 32 cavalry saber, and personally designed a slender body, light back, sharp and convenient saber, so that the craftsmen could forge it with the highest quality steel found in the base area, which was specially used to restrain the enemy cavalry. This new type of saber is affectionately known as the "snow maple knife" by the warriors.
In the summer of 1942, a large number of Japanese infantry and cavalry went out to grab food, and the cavalry regiment of the 4th Division attacked the police. The first time it was put into actual combat, the "Snow Maple Knife" showed its might, and in less than 10 minutes, it cut down more than 300 Japanese cavalry. In addition, more than 80 Japanese puppet troops were frightened and raised their hands to surrender. After this battle, the cavalry regiment of the 4th Division rose to fame and threatened to shake huaibei.
The only surviving photograph of the "Snow Maple Knife"
In 1944, the Cavalry Regiment of the 4th Division and the 8th Green Horse Riding Division of the Recalcitrant Army met in the Battle of BaoanShan. In the process of receiving the enemy on horseback, the regiment first used light machine gun strafing and grenade launcher bombardment to disrupt the opponent's combat formation, and then rushed to charge with a knife on horseback. The "Snow Maple Knife" was long and lighter than the "Hezhou Knife" in the hands of a strong enemy, and the sword technique of the cavalry of the New Fourth Army was also sharper and fiercer than that of the opponent, and soon the once invincible Qingma Riding 8th Division collapsed and fled in a hurry, creating a legend of a cavalry regiment defeating a cavalry division.
What is even more amazing is that in January 1949, in the final stage of the Huaihai Campaign, this cavalry regiment, which had been reorganized into the special forces column of the East China Field Army, created a unique miracle in the history of world war - galloping more than 100 miles in one day and annihilating 6 enemy tanks that tried to break through.
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In 1944, the Japanese army launched the "Operation No. 1" plan aimed at opening up the mainland communication line, and the Kuomintang army collapsed and a large area of the Central Plains fell. On August 15, Peng Xuefeng was ordered to lead a westward expedition to advance behind the enemy in Henan, restore the territory, and win successive battles wherever he passed.
Unexpectedly, on the evening of September 6, when the Balizhuang stronghold in Xiayi County, which was guarded by the traitor Li Guangming's troops, Peng Xuefeng stood at a high place on the wall to direct the battle in order to better observe the battlefield situation, and unfortunately was hit by a stray bullet in the left chest and died, only 37 years old.
Peng Xuefeng also became one of the top generals who died in the New Fourth Army in the War of Resistance Against Japan.
When the bad news reached Yan'an, Chairman Mao, who was writing an article, was shocked, and the pen in his hand slipped and fell to the ground, and he said with tears: "The little Balizhuang actually damaged one of my generals!" ”
When Peng Xuefeng was sacrificed, in order not to affect the morale of the troops, and in order to protect Peng Xuefeng's lover Lin Ying, who was pregnant with Liujia, the Party Committee of the New Fourth Army decided to suspend the bad news of Peng Xuefeng's death, and transported his coffin back to the 4th Division headquarters and temporarily stored it in a large wooden boat moored on the Sui River, and sent people to guard it day and night. It was not until January 24, 1945, that the news of Peng Xuefeng's death was made public.
On February 2, 1945, more than 7,000 Huaibei soldiers and civilians welcomed Peng Xuefeng's coffin from a large wooden boat parked on the River to Dawangzhuang, and held a public festival from February 4 to 6. On February 7, more than 16,000 people from all walks of life in Huaibei gathered at Dawangzhuang on the shore of Hongze Lake to participate in Peng Xuefeng's memorial meeting and burial ceremony.
On the same day, the CPC Central Committee and the General Headquarters of the Eighteenth Group Army also held a memorial meeting for Comrade Peng Xuefeng in Yan'an. Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Zhou Enlai, Liu Shaoqi, Peng Dehuai, Chen Yi, and other central leading comrades, as well as more than a thousand representatives from all walks of life in Yan'an, mourned peng Xuefeng, a famous general of a generation, with great sorrow.
The elegy of the CPC Central Committee reads: "Twenty years of struggle for the nation and the masses, born into death, the motherland, the fight against Japan and the traitors, millions of compatriots are free and equal." At the memorial service, Mao Zedong spoke highly of Peng Xuefeng's life: "A hero of the Chinese nation and a good example for communists. Chen Yi said: "Our party is in the world, and it is also a jun and a handsome talent." ”
In 1982, the Xiayi County CPC Committee and the county government built the General Peng Xuefeng Memorial Hall at the martyrdom of General Peng Xuefeng. In 1985, the memorial hall was inaugurated and a grand inauguration ceremony was held, and it was successively designated as "Henan Provincial National Defense Education Base", "Henan Provincial Youth Ideological Education Base" and "National Patriotism Education Demonstration Base".
In 1989, the Central Military Commission evaluated 33 military experts, among which Peng Xuefeng was listed. (In 1994, the Central Military Commission added Huang Gongluo, Fang Zhimin, and Liu Zhidan, so it was ultimately 36 military experts.) ）
On September 10, 2009, Peng Xuefeng was named "100 Heroic And Exemplary Figures who Made Outstanding Contributions to the Founding of New China".
The soul is loyal, and the heroic soul will last forever.
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