Fight this battle! The enemy returned from the meal before it was cold

Source: People's Liberation Army Daily WeChat, People's Liberation Army News And Communication Center Rong Media

At the end of June 1946, under the command of Chiang Kai-shek, Hu Zongnan marched north along the Tongpu Line with seven integrated brigades in an attempt to join the main force of Yan Xishan north of Huo County and jointly attack the Liberated Areas. In order to crush the enemy's conspiracy, our army launched the Battle of Tongpu. Our Twenty-fourth Brigade was also ordered to march to the areas of Matou and Zoubao in the Area of Hongdong and Zhaocheng to prepare to participate in the siege of Hongdong. At that time, I was serving as an instructor in the Ninth Company of the Seventy Regiment of the Twenty-fourth Brigade.

In mid-August, we were ordered to reach the remote village at the western foot of Taiyue Mountain. One day after breakfast, cadres above the platoon level listened to reports in the middle of the village. Wang Xinting, commander of the Taiyue Military Region, Sun Dingguo, deputy commander, and Zha Yusheng, deputy brigade commander, all spoke at the meeting and made arrangements for the battle. What impressed me most was the speech of Deputy Commander Sun Dingguo. He said: "The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, Yan Xishan wants to give gifts, sends a large number of guns and ammunition, and sends prisoners to replenish me." This is a generous gift, and we are going to accept it unceremoniously. Everyone laughed. We were listening to the chief with relish, when suddenly there was a gunshot from the northwest, getting denser and denser, and the sound was not far from the village. The cadres looked at each other, and some of them couldn't sit still. It was already twelve o'clock in the afternoon, and Deputy Brigade Commander Zha Yusheng loudly announced: "Now adjourn the meeting, hurry up and eat, and leave immediately after eating." ”

It turned out that yan xishan's sixty-ninth division was stationed in Huo county, and the enemy division commander Zhou Jianzhi discovered that our brigade had been ordered to transfer south, and he took the opportunity to divide the three regiments into three roads and rush to our new seventh regiment, in a vain attempt to eat the new seventh regiment. After receiving this information, our Fourth Column and the chiefs of the Taiyue Military Region, Chen Geng and Wang Xinting, immediately decided to order the Twenty-fourth Brigade to return to the north to set up an ambush, conceal the remote frontier, use the New Seventh Regiment as bait, fight and retreat, and lead the enemy into an ambush circle in an attempt to annihilate it completely. Sure enough, the enemy was hooked.

When we adjourned the meeting, the comrades of the New Seventh Regiment, sweating profusely, went into the village to rest with a smile and talk, while the enemy, under the cover of artillery, pounced on us with great momentum. Comrade Yun Bao, political commissar and regiment commander of the Seventy Regiment, ordered the first battalion to go outside the village to take over the new Seventh Regiment to carry out the blockade, the three battalions were interspersed, and the second battalion counterattacked. I returned to the company, where the troops had finished their lunch and were assembling in the courtyard. Wang Fu, the head of the cooking class, brought a bowl of hot noodles and said, "Eat quickly, let's go right away." But the noodles were so hot that I couldn't eat them, and the battalion headquarters correspondent shouted at the gate: "Instructor, the battalion commander told you to go fast!" I pushed the bowl and said, "Don't eat it." Wang Chaofu said: "Go to war, don't eat something!" I said, "Put it away, come back and eat it again." So, I and deputy company commander Yu Liying led the team to set off. Deputy Commander Sun Dingguo, dressed in a white shirt and a large straw hat, stood by the side of the road on the side of the village, and when he passed a soldier, he tapped his shoulder and said, "Run, run, the enemy has come to give gifts, quickly carry the cannon back..." The soldiers rushed toward the enemy one by one like little tigers.

Our charge route was in the cornfield on the back of the ridge. The enemy is in the light, we are in the dark. They went east, we went west, each going their own way. Under the leadership of Comrade Zhang Jian, the commander of the heroic battalion, we rushed to the enemy division command post in twenty minutes, and the enemy only found us. The comrades of the Seventh Company braved the intensive artillery fire to seize the favorable terrain, and under the cover of machine guns, quickly captured the enemy artillery positions and captured four mountain artillery. My second battalion also came to the battle. In order to protect the command post of his division, the enemy desperately counterattacked. However, under our continuous impact, I did not flee, and some of the enemy division personnel were captured.

The enemy 207th Regiment found that the rear of the buttocks was on fire, and quickly retreated, and the 1st Battalion and the New 7th Regiment took advantage of the victory to pursue, crushing the enemy in a large ditch. The commander of the Ninth Company, Xie Sanniu, rushed down the ditch with three platoons, captured a machine gun company, and captured four machine guns and twelve mules. Before they could reach the edge of the ditch, they were wrapped up in retreating pseudo-enemy infantry. My first and second platoons quickly pursued them, and a burst of grenades sealed the ditch, and the enemy saw no way out, raised his hands and disarmed, and the enemy regimental commander was also captured alive. The Seventy-first regiment and the seventy-second regiment also swerved back behind the enemy and blocked the enemy's retreat. The enemy regiments 205 and 206 were mortally wounded and fled back to the city with their tails between their legs.

The battle was quickly brought to an end. After cleaning up the battlefield, we took prisoners and carried guns and guns, and returned to the remote village with joy. As soon as I entered the station, I felt hungry, I asked Wang Chaofu to bring the food quickly, and Xiao Wang, the head of the cooking class, said: "The noodles are still there, I don't know if it is cold?" "As soon as I tasted it, the noodles were still warm. Xiao Wang then said, "During the Three Kingdoms period, Guan Yun was long and gentle and beheaded Huaxiong, and today we are warm to annihilate the enemy division." The soldiers who were sorting out their weapons in the courtyard and the fellow villagers who watched the liveliness all laughed loudly.

(This article is selected from "Spark of Fire", slightly abridged; "Spark of Fire" is a red classic written by Mao Zedong, written by Zhu De, and written with the blood and life of countless revolutionary predecessors, vividly reproducing the heroic and earth-shattering revolutionary story, carrying the genetic blood of our party and our army, and containing a great revolutionary spirit.) ）

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