In May 1935, the Central Red Army came to Mianning, when the first regiment of the first division of the Red First Army served as the advance team of the team, in order to enrich the strength of the first regiment, the superior sent Liu Bo as the commander of the advance team, Nie Rongzhen as the political commissar, not only that, the corps also put the engineer company and the artillery company under the command of a regiment.
The Dadu River is a major tributary of the Yangtze River, the water is turbulent, coupled with the enemy on the other side of the river, the Red Army is not easy to cross the river, in history, Shi Dakai's troops were completely destroyed here, Chiang Kai-shek once said wildly: "There is the Jinsha River in the back, there is the Dadu River in front, hundreds of thousands of troops are caught between left and right, and the communist army cannot escape by inserting its wings." Even the old Chiang Kai-shek said that the Central Red Army would become "Shi Dakai's second"
The task of forcibly crossing the Dadu River was given to the First Regiment of the First Division of the Red First Army.
Through reconnaissance and questioning of fellow villagers, the leaders of the First Regiment knew that there were two enemy companies stationed at Anshun Field in front of the Dadu River, and in order to prevent the Red Army from crossing the river, they cut down all their boats, leaving only one boat.
On the opposite bank of the Anshun field there is an enemy regiment, three regiments upstream, and two regiments downstream, and if you want to cross the river, you must seize the Anshun field.
Li Lin, political commissar of the Red First Regiment, led the 2nd Battalion to the downstream of the ferry to pretend to attack, and the regimental commander Yang Dezhi led the 1st Battalion to attack in three ways in the rain, and after more than 20 minutes, our army occupied Anshun Field, and then crossed the river.
The forced crossing of the Dadu River was a life-and-death battle for the Red Army, and whether or not it could cross the river was the key to the Chinese revolution. In order to cross the Dadu River, before the operation began, Liu Bocheng and Nie Rongzhen, who were the commanders of the advance team, attached great importance to the operation.
In order to forcibly cross the Dadu River, some able people in the Red Army were also transferred one after another, including Zhao Zhangcheng, a sharpshooter, and Li Decai, a machine gunner.
The old Red Army we want to talk about today is Li Decai.
Born in 1904, Li Decai was assigned to a machine gun company because of his large stature, and since then, he has formed an indissoluble relationship with the machine gun.
In the previous anti-encirclement and suppression battles, Li Decai used the machine gun in his hand to eliminate many enemies, and because of his low culture and upright personality, he also made a lot of jokes in the team.
Once, the Red Army captured some of the enemy's new military uniforms, there were "holes" in the front of the pants, at that time Li Decai did not know how to wear, so he put this side with holes in the back, everyone asked him why he said this, he said that it was easy to defecate, everyone laughed.
Later, when Huang Gongluo saw it, he corrected Li Decai's way of wearing it, and later Chairman Mao, who also heard about it, smiled and said, "This local guy will talk nonsense." Thus, among the top brass of the Red Army, Li Decai's nickname became "Tulao"
Among the senior generals of our army, many of them had their own nicknames, such as Liang Xingchu, commander of the Long Live Army, who at that time was also the commander of the reconnaissance company of the Red First Army.
During the reconnaissance of the situation, for the sake of safety, Liang Xingchu had to "disguise" every time, so the regimental commander Lin Biao married him a nickname, called Liang Monkey, that is, he seemed to have "seventy-two changes", and later Chairman Mao heard about this and would jokingly call him Liang Monkey.
Li Decai had his own nickname "Tulao" in the ranks of the Red Army, and his real name gradually became less known.
When the Red Army forcibly crossed the Dadu River, Li Decai was transferred, and the leader asked him to suppress the enemy fire on the other side of the river and cover the troops to cross the river, and at that time, he was responsible for the task of crossing the river, which was the first battalion of the first regiment, and the battalion commander was called Sun Jixian, and Sun Jixian selected 17 people to form an advance team for the forced crossing of the Dadu River.
Sun Jixian picked 17 people in the second company, plus him, 18 warriors who crossed the river to the end, xiong Shanglin, the commander of the second company, was also one of the selected members, he and Li Decai were still fellow countrymen, before the river crossing began, Li Decai specially came to visit him and said: "You can rest assured, with old Li this machine gun to cover you, you can cross the river with confidence!" ”
Xiong Shanglin shook hands with Li Decai tightly and said, "Old Li, you can rest assured, as long as I don't die in the river, I can grab a stone on the other side and sew along the stone." Let's cross the river and see you soon! ”
The two fellow villagers made a life-and-death pact in front of the Dadu River.
Under the leadership of Sun Jixian, the 18 warriors who crossed the river were not afraid of life and death, and successfully completed the task, and Li Decai also made a great contribution.
After the war, many people asked who this machine gunner was, and people who knew it told him that it was a "local guy", and some people were even more interesting, telling the story of the local guy wearing the wrong pants, and everyone laughed when they heard it.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Li Decai successively served as a regimental commander, and he participated in the Battle of Pingxingguan and the Battle of Loess Ridge.
In 1945, Lin Biao was transferred to the commander of the Shandong Military Region, and halfway through, the Central Military Commission sent a telegram asking him to go to the northeast, and it turned out that at that time, the central government had already made a strategic policy of "developing to the north and defending to the south.".
At that time, Lin Biao arrived in BaXian County, Hebei Province, and Li Decai was the commander of the 75th Regiment of the Tenth Sub-district of Jizhong at this time.
The 75th Regiment was a reorganized team of the local armed forces, the personnel were somewhat uneven, the weapons and equipment were not good, he learned that the old leader was going to the northeast, he wanted to come to Lin Biao to order equipment.
At that time, Li Decai went to look for Lin Biao, and the guards did not know him, so they stopped him.
Li Decai was not angry, he asked the guards to report: "You tell the chief, just say that the local guy is coming."
As soon as Li Decai reported his nickname, the guards went in to report it, and as soon as Lin Biao heard it, he smiled and said, "TuLao, please invite him in." ”
Seeing Lin Biao, Li Decai said, "Good commander of the regiment."
Lin Biao asked, "After coming out of the Central Party School, have you been assigned to Jin-Cha-Ji?" ”
After Li Decai answered, he said somewhat unhappily: "After coming out of the Central Party School, they asked me to go to the northeast." ”
Knowing that Li Decai was going to the northeast, Lin Biao was a little happy, so he said that he wanted to go together, but Li Decai did not listen: "I don't go, I heard that it is too cold there, and I have to carry a stick in winter."
Hearing this, Lin Biao was not angry, because he knew that Li Decai was a person, but he just smiled and said, "Blindly, do you have anything to do with me?" ”
Li Decai: "I want to find the chief to order guns and artillery, after you arrive in the northeast, some of them are weapons left by the Japanese, so give us the extra troops." At that time, those who dared to ask Lin Biao for weapons and equipment were probably the only ones li de.
Lin Biao replied, "I am not the minister of logistics." ”
At this time, Deng Hua, Li Tianyou and others came, as soon as they saw Li Decai, they smiled and pulled Li Decai out, and lin Biao saw it and just said, "You go to find them, I don't care." ”
Later, with the help of Deng Hua, Li Tianyou, and others, some comrades-in-arms left some weapons and equipment behind when passing through Li Decai's jurisdiction, and Li Decai had a good reason: "Lin Zong said that he wanted me to find you, and you would not give it, so we went to Lin Zong to theoretical theory together." If you don't leave "money to buy the road", you don't want to live with me. ”
The brother troops were also not serious, and some old people knew that he was a local man, so they left him weapons and equipment.
Later, when Nie Rongzhen, commander of the Jinji-Jicha Military Region, heard about this, he smiled and said, "This local guy has made a sum of "foreign wealth."
During the Liberation War, Li Decai successively served as brigade commander and deputy division commander of the 17th Brigade of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, and after the outbreak of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Li Decai went to Korea to participate in the war.
In 1952, Li Decai returned to China as the commander of the Baoding Military Subdistrict in Hebei Province.
In 1955, he was awarded the rank of colonel, and in 1960, Li Decai died of illness, and after his death, he was buried in the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery.
Many years later, no one remembers the name Li Decai, but when it comes to the locals during the Red Army, I am afraid that those who know it will not hesitate to give a thumbs up.