After the victorious liberation of Shanghai in 1949, Chen Yi, the former commander of the East China Military Region and the Field Army, was officially appointed as the mayor of Shanghai, and one day, after Chen Yi finished handling complicated administrative affairs, accompanied by a secretary and guard, went to a noodle restaurant near the municipal government building, prepared for lunch, looked around, and found that the crowd was boiling, the crowd was coming and going, and it was very lively.
Chen Yi couldn't help but feel a little excited in his heart, it seemed that the citizens of Shanghai were not affected by the Battle of Shanghai, which was really a great victory. However, when Chen Yi turned his head to look at an old farmer in a ragged shirt in the corner, his face suddenly darkened, and he couldn't help but lose his temper with the waiter: Go and call your boss to me.
What's going on? The content of this issue is to circle a useful history, decrypt Chen Yi, why did he suddenly get angry after seeing the old farmer? What the hell happened? What happened to the restaurant owner?
Chen Yi went to a Noodle Restaurant in Shanghai to eat noodles, and why was he angry after seeing an old farmer?
In June 1946, Li Mo'an and Xue Yue, commanders of the Nationalist Theater of Operations, led 460,000 troops to directly attack Shandong, focusing on the revolutionary base areas of our army in Huaiyin and Yancheng.
However, Chen Yi vigorously defied the public opinion, took Huainan as the main point of attack, and immediately ordered Tao Yong and Wang Bicheng's column on the front line to immediately go to Bengbu to fight. However, Su Yu, deputy commander of the Central China Military Region, held that there was an integrated 74th Division led by Lieutenant General Zhang Lingfu of the Nationalist Army in the region, which was known as the first of the five ace main forces of the Nationalist Army and had the strongest combat strength.
Therefore, the two men always insisted on the issue of moving east and west, and finally even alarmed Chairman Mao to personally mediate, neither opposing Su Yu's decision to consolidate central Jiangsu nor abandoning Chen Yi's strategy of attacking Huainan, so in the end, Su Yu led his troops to continue to stay in Central Jiangsu to annihilate the enemy, while Chen Yi led the main force of Shandong to go south to Jianghuai, but he did not expect that Chen Yi was confused by the tactics of Xue Yue, a famous general of the Nationalist army, and mistakenly thought that the Nationalist army was trying to move east into Shuyang, so he hurriedly moved the main army northward.
You roar, you command me, you do the command
After Xue Yue's treacherous plan succeeded, he immediately led the strength of 2 armies, avoided the main army of Chen Bing Shuyang, and went south to attack Siyang a day in advance, although Chen Yi urgently dispatched political commissars Tan Zhenlin and General Zhang Zhen afterwards to gather the strength of 1 column, 3 brigades and 1 regiment to carry out a counterattack, with the intention of retaking Siyang.
However, limited by the serious disadvantage of the enemy and the lack of superiority in weapons and equipment, Zhang Lingfu seized the fighter plane, Siyang fell for a short time, Huainan was in a hurry, in order to reverse the unfavorable situation, Tan Zhenlin urgently dispatched the strength of a column and a brigade to support Siyang, but in the end it did not play any decisive obvious effect.
Compared with the tragic lesson of Chen Yi's setback at Siyang and the loss of lianghuai and the great loss, Su Yu in the central Suzhou region was a sea wide and a fish leap, the sky was high and the birds flew, galloping in all directions, and successively won seven battles and seven victories in Xuantai, Gaonan, Hai'an, LiBao, Ding Lin, Shao Bo, and Ruhuanglu.
In the end, Chairman Mao made up his mind: It is imperative for the two armies to command the two armies in a unified manner. At the beginning of 1947, the Shandong Military Region and the Shandong Field Army, as well as the Central China Military Region and the Central China Field Army, were formally merged to form the East China Military Region and the Field Army.
General Manager Chen Yi served as commander of the East China Military Region and the Field Army, and Su Yu served as deputy commander of the East China Field Army, but Chairman Mao personally sent a telegram: All combat matters should be handed over to Su under his command.
In May 1947, Gu Zhutong, chief of the general staff of the Nationalist Army, gathered 600,000 troops and adopted the tactics of intensive attack, advancing layer by layer, and fighting steadily and steadily, encircling the Shandong base area, Chen Yi and Su Yu held an emergency meeting to discuss countermeasures, and finally determined the way to show the enemy to be weak and interfere with the enemy's line of sight and judgment by frequently mobilizing troops to fight surprise attacks.
The reorganized 74th Division led by Zhang Lingfu was indeed deceived, greedy and adventurous, and the lone army penetrated deep into Menglianggu, and after Su Yu discovered the news, he changed the battle plan overnight, formulated the tactic of "black tiger digging out his heart", sent a telegram to Xu Shiyou's ninth column, and ordered them to stop marching eastward and urgently detouring west back to the Menglianggu area.
But unexpectedly, Xu Shiyou was angry, and directly called Noji, and asked Su Yu in a bad tone: If you card by card on the map, the warriors will have to run and break their legs. Xu Shiyou's voice was so loud that it almost resounded throughout the entire headquarters war room, making Chen Yi very angry, and as soon as he grabbed the phone, he angrily rebuked: What are you yelling at? You roared, the tactics were formulated by the deputy commander of Su, but the order was issued by me personally, and you can carry out the order.
This Chen Yi is really too powerful, I am not as good as him
Chen Yi doubted that people did not need to be employed, dared to delegate power at a critical moment, unswervingly stood on the side of Su Yu, and highly unified the political combat thinking of the whole army, and finally with the full support of Chen Yi, Su Yu officially launched the Meng Lianggu Campaign on May 13.
In just 3 days, the 74th Reorganized Division, the ace of the Nationalist Army, which claimed to be the first in the world, was completely annihilated, and the division commander Zhang Lingfu was defeated and killed, completely breaking the key attack and blockade of Chiang Kai-shek's reactionary Nationalist army on our Shandong base area.
After receiving the news of the great victory in the Menglianggu Campaign and the total annihilation of the 74th Division, Chairman Mao could not help but be surprised: You Huaye can be so bold and resolute and so quick to eliminate the reorganized 74th Division, only two people in the whole country did not expect it, one is me, the other is Chiang Kai-shek.
Although the great victory in the Battle of Meng Lianggu was inseparable from Su Yu's extraordinary military command ability, without Chen Yi's trust and full support, the miracle of this great battle could not have happened either.
Later, in 1948, when Su Yu dared to confront Chairman Chen: he would not cross the river for the time being, stay in the Central Plains to fight the war of annihilation, and strive to wipe out the elite of Chiang Kai-shek's nationalist army north of the Yangtze River, Chen Yi once again chose to believe in Su Yu, unswervingly united the front with Su Yu, personally took him north to Chengnanzhuang, and face to face chairman Mao and the heads of the Headquarters of the Central Military Commission, expounding in detail the strategic concept and tactical play.
With Chen Yi's unreserved trust and support, Chairman Mao finally agreed to Su Yu's proposal, and Su Yu thus ushered in the most brilliant moment of his military career, which took 66 days before and after the Battle of Huaihai, annihilating more than 555,000 enemies, and completely opening up the victory channel for a million heroic divisions of our People's Liberation Army to cross the river south and engage in a strategic decisive battle with Chiang Kai-shek's reactionary Nationalist army group.
Chairman Mao even set an example for Su Yu in the whole army, and issued a commendation: the Battle of Huaihai, Su Yu's first merit. But behind all this, it is inseparable from Chen Yi's self-sacrifice and trust and decentralization, and this is also where Chiang Kai-shek admires Chen Yi the most; after the ceremony of awarding the title of the whole army in 1955, when Chiang Kai-shek examined the founding marshals of the Ten Founding Marshals of New China in the newspaper, he also pointed to Chen Yi's name and said to his wife, Song Meiling: This Chen Yi is really too powerful, I am not as good as him.
Chen Yi personally stood guard for Song Qingling
In May 1949, after the 16-day Battle of Shanghai, which ended with the overall victory of our army, a battalion under the Third Field Army system in East China was ordered to open the Middle Huaihai Road, and when requisitioning ordinary people's houses as barracks, it was unexpectedly requisitioned by Mrs. Song Qingling, the mother of the country.
To this end, Song Qingling also had a fierce dispute with the soldiers of the People's Liberation Army: I am Song Qingling, my mansion, your troops can not enter, can not live, can not be requisitioned at will, if you want to use, then let you Commander Chen Yi personally call.
When Chen Yi learned of this, he immediately reprimanded all those involved in this matter sternly, strictly ordering them to review it, and afterwards specially brought Pan Hannian and General Chen Geng and Political Commissar Deng to the door twice to apologize to Mrs. Song Qingling.
Later, in order to better protect Song Qingling, Chen Yi proposed to send additional guards to the Song Mansion, but he did not expect that one day when Song Qingling returned home, because he did not apply for a special pass in time, he was stopped by the PLA soldiers with guns and live ammunition outside the door.
Song Qingling cried and laughed, and could only run to the Sanye Headquarters for help, and finally accompanied by Lieutenant General Guo Huaruo, finally returned home. After Chen Yi learned of the situation, he could not avoid making Song Qingling feel angry, so he took Lieutenant General Nie Fengzhi to the door again to apologize to Song Qingling, and personally went outside the door to stand guard for Song Qingling, which made Song Qingling very moved.
I have lived so long, and I never thought that one day, the commander of the People's Liberation Army would personally stand guard for me to keep vigil. Chen Yi also completely impressed Song Qingling with his sincerity, and finally prompted Song Qingling to make up his mind to go north and discuss the important matter of nation-building with Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou.
Call me your boss
After the liberation of Shanghai, Chen Yi officially moved into the Shanghai Municipal Government Building and served as the first mayor of New China. One day, after Chen Yi finished his heavy municipal work, accompanied by the secretary of the guard, they went to a noodle restaurant near the government building for dinner.
Looking at the crowds and the noisy streets bustling with traffic, a satisfied smile rose on Chen Yi's face, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, the country was reunified, and the nation rose; this was precisely the goal that the communists worked hard to pursue.
But when Chen Yi retracted his gaze and prepared to eat noodles, he found that in the corner of the noodle restaurant sat a peasant-like old man, dressed in rags and rags, looking dirty, and had waited for a long time without seeing the waiter come to entertain.
The old farmer looked inside in a panic, saw that the waiter was still busy greeting others, and anxiously shouted: Hello, put a bowl of noodles here. But unexpectedly, the waiter did not seem to hear it, and still warmly welcomed other customers.
The old farmer thought that his voice was small, and the waiter did not hear it, so he shouted a few times in his voice: Waiter, I want a bowl of noodles here. At this time, the waiter turned his head impatiently, his tone was cold, and even the smile on his face was gone: What are you shouting? The old farmer sat down timidly and said carefully: a bowl of Yangchun noodles. Then I heard the waiter shout to the back kitchen: Eleven, a bowl of Yangchun noodles.
After a while, the waiter slammed a bowl of noodles heavily in front of the old farmer's table, only to see that there was clear soup and fresh water inside, and there were only a few sticks of green vegetables floating on it, Chen Yi's face immediately darkened, and his brows were tightly wrinkled together.
He just clearly remembered, the waiter shouted when entertaining him: ten, two bowls of Yangchun noodles, the portion of the serving is very sufficient, it looks like an appetite, and the old farmer is simply a world of difference, Chen Yi thought about the old half a day did not understand, he beckoned the waiter to call: I am the mayor of Shanghai who has just taken office, you tell me, why do I and the old farmer are the same noodles, but there is so much difference? What do you mean when you say eleven and eleven?
As soon as the waiter heard Chen Yi's identity, the cold sweat immediately came down, and he did not dare to hide it, and directly put out all the unique codes of the noodle shop, 1510. It turns out that the waiter is to watch people set the bowl, ten together is dry, meaning cadres, eleven together is soil, that is, peasants and ordinary people, and then the kitchen is connected through such different codes, grading different weights of noodles.
As soon as Chen Yi heard this, he immediately took the case and lost his temper: Go and call your boss to me. After a while, a middle-aged man with a fat head and big ears ran out, rubbed his hands nervously, and the cold sweat on his forehead could not stop bubbling out: Mayor Chen, I am really sorry, the waiter's approach just now is really wrong, you can rest assured, I must educate him well, this peasant old man does not have to pay, just as I give him the old man's compensation.
Chen Yi sighed and said in a daze: "Good obedience can be said, but how many can really be implemented?" How long has Shanghai been liberated? Your small noodle restaurant has just stabilized, the business has improved, just engage in this set? Don't forget where you were when you were fighting a few years ago, and who took you in?
The boss and the waiter looked at each other, thought a lot, couldn't help but blush, more and more embarrassed, yes, when the Japanese came, they were penniless, it was the local people who enthusiastically took them in, and now they have gone, but they hate the former life-saving benefactors, how enthusiastic the people were to them before, how indifferent they are to the people now, this is not right.
Seeing that the two people all bowed their heads in shame, Chen Yi said in a serious tone: Don't bully honest and simple people, new China, the whole people are equal, communist party cadres and ordinary people are equal, there is no distinction between high and low, noble and inferior, moreover, we cadres are still servants of the people.