<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > Centennial 99: Chen Xilian</h1>
Author: Forget about the jianghu
As the commanders of the 3rd Column of the respective field armies in the three major battles, who is stronger, Han Xianchu and Chen Xilian?
Of the five major field armies, the commander of the 3rd Column of the North China Military Region is Zheng Weishan, the commander of the 3rd Column of Nishino is Xu Guangda, the commander of the 3rd Column of The Eastern Field is Han Xianchu, the commander of the 3rd Column of Dongye is Han Xianchu, the commander of the 3rd Column of Huaye is Sun Jixian, and the commander of the 3rd Column of Nakano is Chen Xilian.
In the three major battles, only Xu Guangda of the Northwest Field Army did not participate in the five 3 columns, Han Xianchu participated in the Liaoshen Campaign and the Pingjin Campaign in Dongye, Zheng Weishan of the North China Military Region participated in the Pingjin Campaign, and Sun Jixian and Chen Xilian in Nakano participated in the Huaihai Campaign.
Chen Xilian
In the TV series "Armageddon", Han Xianchu was the commander of the column who appeared the most, and the commander of the Nakano 3 Column who captured SuXian in 10 hours in the Battle of Huaihai did not even appear, but the low-key Chen Xilian was the most accomplished of the 5 3 column commanders.
In the Liaoshen Campaign of Pingdi and Thunder, the highest light was the "Whirlwind Commander" Han Xianchu and Dongye 3 Column.
Before Han Xianchu, Cheng Shicai and Zeng Kelin had also been in charge of the 3 columns. Of course, the 3rd Column was truly famous under the command of Han Xianchu, raiding Weiyuan Fort, fighting a bloody battle on Siping Street, Jinzhou attacking the stronghold to split the pool, capturing Liao Yaoxiang alive in the Battle of Western Liaoning, fighting Tianjin Wei, and liberating Hainan Island. In these great battles and fierce battles, one of the other generals was a bright spot, while Han Xianchu had too many bright spots, and he remained undefeated on the 38th parallel.
The 3rd Column of Dongye is also the old eighth road in Shandong and Jireliao, of which the 7th Division originates from the 3rd Division of Shandong, the 8th Division from the 21st Brigade of Jireliao, and the 9th Division from the 3rd Brigade of the Shandong Police and the 23rd Brigade of Jireliao. Later, these three divisions were reorganized into the 118th, 119th and 120th Divisions of the 40th Army.
Perhaps it was the warlord Han Xianchu's reputation among military fans was too loud, and the other three columns were more or less ignored. For example, in the Battle of Huaihai, Huaye Sun Jixian's three columns and Nakano Chen Xilian's three columns, regardless of the origin of the foundation or the battle record, in fact, there are not many concessions.
"Whirlwind Commander" Han Xianchu
Huaye 3rd Column, which participated in the Battle of Huaihai, originated from the old 8th Division in Shandong. This division is the famous "tiger of attacking the stronghold" and the 17th Division of the Sixth Column of The Eastern Field, and is doing everything in the process of punching holes through walls, fighting in the streets of blasting, and attacking fortifications. The first division commander, Wang Lushui, died in a battle in Tengxian County, and Wang Jiwen succeeded him.
In February 1947, huaye 3 columns were established, the first commander He Yixiang was known as "the little tiger in Chen Yi's sleeve", but the 3rd column, which was known for its strong points, served as reinforcements in the battles of Laiwu and Menglianggu. It was not until the battle of the sand and soil that the strong wind was revived.
In January 1948, He Yixiang went to Pingshan, Hebei Province to recuperate. In July, he reported to the chairman the experience of Huaye 3 vertical attack. In March 1949, he returned to sanye eight corps as chief of staff and participated in the battle of crossing the river, but the battle of Jinan and the battle of Huaihai were missed.
In March 1948, Huaye 3rd and 8th columns and Nakano 4th and 9th columns jointly attacked Luoyang, Sun Jixian's 3 columns took the lead in breaking into the city, making Nakano 4 columns very faceless, to know that the 4 columns did not jump into the Dabie Mountains, it can be seen that Huaye 3 columns "attacked the tiger" worthy of the name.
However, in the Battle of Jinan, Huaye 3 Column did not fight well, and began as a reserve. During the attack, not only was it inferior to the "First Regiment of Jinan" in the 9th column of the Eastern Group, but even the 13th column of Zhou Zhijian took down the "Second Regiment of Jian'an". And that's not all, Wang Jiwen, commander of the 8th Division of the 3rd Column, was also killed in battle. After the Battle of Jinan, the former aces of attack could only be ranked after the 1st, 4th, 6th, and 9th columns.
In Huaihai, the 3rd Column of Huaye played hide-and-seek with the enemy's Second Corps alone at Zhongshan, and later laid a hand for Nakano.
Sun Jixian and Ding Qiusheng's Huaye 3 column annihilated more than 30,000 enemy personnel in dozens of battles in Huaihai, and this data is not very bad, except for Tao Yong's 4 columns annihilating 72,800 enemies, 9 columns annihilating 56,500 enemy, 1 column annihilating 38,800 enemy, and not many annihilating more than 30,000 enemy.
Founding Lieutenant General Sun Jixian
In addition to the Higashino 3 column, which was getting stronger in the Vietnam War, and the 3 column of Huaye, which was high and low, Nakano also had a low-key 3 column.
In the TV series "Armageddon", in order to capture Suxian County to cut off the Xu Beng line, Nakano Liu Chen Deng sent Chen Xilian's 3 columns to attack, Qin Jiwei 9 columns cooperated, and Chen Geng 4 columns used the terrain to block Huang Wei's "Steel Monster" 12 Corps in the vortex river area.
Before the Battle of Huaihai, Nakano had more than 30,000 people in 4 columns except Chen Geng, and the rest of the columns were only about 20,000. Seven columns plus three independent brigades were less than 200,000 men. In order to secure the victory, Liu Chen Deng tried his best to ration large-caliber artillery to Chen Xilian, and Nakano only had 73 heavy artillery pieces in all his possessions.
Comparatively speaking, Huaye's weapons and equipment are still much better, with 51 howitzers, 28 field guns, 220 mountain guns, 38 heavy mortars, and 21 tanks. Of course, this is not the same as Dongye, who had 600 large-caliber artillery pieces in jinzhou in the first battle of Dongye, plus thousands of mortars, which was also the main reason for the hard fighting in the first two stages of the Huaihai Campaign.
As the Battle of Nianzhuang began, Liu Bocheng and Xibaipo simultaneously thought of capturing Su County.
Su County is between Xuzhou and Bengbu in the southern section of the Jinpu Railway Line, and once Su County is taken, Liu Zhi's Xuzhou "Suppression General" will be imprisoned in the Central Plains, and like Jinzhou in the Liaoshen Campaign, it will become the second "closed door and fight dogs", which is the true meaning of "the way of life and death, the place of survival".
On November 13, Nakano Chen Xilian 3rd Column, with the cooperation of Qin Jiwei's 9th Column, surrounded Su County.
After a day of intensive pre-war preparations, in the early morning of November 15, Chen Xilian's general attack on Suxian County began under an order, and after 10 hours of fierce fighting, 12,000 enemy defenders were completely annihilated, Qian Zhuoyan, deputy commander of the 148th Division, was killed, and Lieutenant General Zhang Jiwu was captured alive.
Battle of Huaihai
What are the outstanding features of Chen Xilian who were able to capture the strategically important Su County by Liu Chen and Deng Dian?
Han Xianchu and Chen Xilian were both hong'an people from Hubei Province, the "First General County", and Han Xianchu arrived in northern Shaanxi with Xu Haidong's 25th Army in the early March, but he has not been very famous. Chen Xilian, who was two years younger, had been in the main force of the Red Fourth Front, rising step by step.
If Han Xianchu was a blockbuster in the White Mountains and Black Water, then Chen Xilian has always developed smoothly and smoothly. In addition to not participating in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Chen Xilian performed well in various periods, and compared with Han Xianchu, who had an ostentatious personality, Chen Xilian had four major advantages.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" > first, and the teenager became famous as a "small steel cannon". </h1>
Zhang Ailing said that "fame should be early", Chen Xilian belonged to the youth fame, at the age of 14 joined xu Haidong and Zhan Caifang's guerrillas, at the age of 15 joined the Red Army and joined the party, under the deputy commander and commander of the 1st Division Xu Xiangqian, because of the bravery of the battle known as "small steel cannon".
In 1935, the 20-year-old Chen Xilian was already the commander of the Red 10th Division, and unlike Xu Shiyou, Wang Jinshan, Liu Changyi, Zhou Zhijian, Pi Dingjun and other fierce generals, Chen Xilian was not only a fierce fighter but also a good brain, and the most crucial thing was the word "stability".
Chen Xilian (left) and Wang Jinshan (right) during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="13" > second, the small leader of the "four famous regiments". </h1>
At the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chen Xilian, a 22-year-old "small steel cannon," led the commander of the 769th Regiment of the 385th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army to follow the "God of War" Liu Division to the anti-Japanese front in Shanxi. Subsequently, Commander Liu Bocheng went to the headquarters for a meeting, and Chen Xilian attacked Yangming fort at night and blew up 24 Japanese planes. This battle was the opening of the 129th Division, Jiang Rewarded 20,000 Oceans, and the 769th Regiment also became one of the "Four Famous Regiments" in the early stage of the War of Resistance.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chen Xilian was responsible for defending the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and made rapid progress under the personal tutelage of Liu Bocheng. After 8 years of tempering, Chen Xilian, who stood in his thirties, was already the commander of the 3rd Column of Luyu in Jinji. The "Three Chens" campaign against the party gave Yan Xishan a blow in the head.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="15" > third, loyal and low-key consideration of the overall situation. </h1>
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Liu Bocheng had a unique vision, and successively sent Sun Jixian, Chen Zaidao, and Xu Xiangqian to the Great Plains of Southern Hebei to open up a base area, and every time the troops sent out their guns were not the 386 Brigade, which was strong and strong, but the low-key Chen Xilian 385 Brigade.
During the liberation period, Thousands of Miles leapt into Dabie Mountain, the 3rd Column opened up the New Area of Western Anhui as the Left Route Army, and Zhangjiadian completely annihilated the 88th Division and 5300 men of the 62nd Brigade to win the first victory. The Battle of Huaihai, the capture of Su County, and the elimination of Huang Wei 3 columns never frowned. After the war, Erye set up a corps, Chen Xilian was the youngest commander of the 17 corps in the army, and the fierce general Wang Jinshan was only a deputy.
Chen Xilian after liberation
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="17" > fourth, and treat things roundly and well. </h1>
The 129th Division, Nakano, and Erye were all proud generals from the Fourth Front of Eyuwan, and it was difficult for others to command and move except for the division commander Liu Bocheng and the deputy division commander Xu Xiangqian. Therefore, famous generals such as Zhou Xihan and Wang Jinshan do not attach so much importance to political work cadres. But Chen Xilian is different, whether it is superior, peer or subordinate, he is very kind.
It is precisely because of his low profile, loyalty and roundness that Chen Xilian is a rare founding general who has a smooth life, and the chairman also trusted him very much in his later years, and even once took over some important positions of Ye Shuai, and General Song Renqiang called him a "two-faced fox".
Also a fellow hong'an compatriot in Hubei Province, "whirlwind commander" Han Xianchu is recognized by the US military as the "best front-line commander", while "small steel cannon" Chen Xilian has a more calm and sophisticated personality and higher emotional intelligence, so both culture and martial arts are complete, and the final military and political achievements are also higher.
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