"Fart, I see that you have made Liu Bocheng confused!" The Yellow River is now in the midst of a flood, are they flying over? Gu Zhutong, who was awakened by the phone, did not wait for Liu Ruming to finish reporting, and then he began to scold, he did not believe that Liu Bocheng had crossed the Yellow River.
Gu Zhutong, commander-in-chief of the army, was a standard soldier, with a neat military appearance on weekdays and rarely cursed people.
He had to fall asleep in the middle of the night in the sweltering summer night, but he was awakened by the phone ringing at four o'clock in the morning, and his sleepy eyes were hazy with some irritation.
Grabbing the phone, he heard the unbelievable report of Liu Ruming, commander of the Fourth Appeasement District: "Liu Bocheng's main force crossed the Yellow River last night..."
Although he was scolded, Liu Ruming did not dare not report: "General Seat, the north bank of the river fired a night of artillery last night, and the river defense troops reported that hundreds of ships carrying Liu Bocheng's main force crossed the river, and are now developing in depth..."
"The wind is loud and the cranes are roaring, the grass and trees are all soldiers, even if there are soldiers crossing the river, it is by no means Liu Bocheng's main force, their main force is in northern Henan, and attacking the west from the east is Liu Bocheng's consistent trick, don't be deceived." The impatient Gu Zhutong added while putting down the phone: "There is a rapid report of the enemy situation." ”
Putting down the phone, Gu Zhutong's drowsiness was gone. He lay on the bed and pondered, "Liu Bocheng... He knew very well that Liu Bocheng, who was proficient in the art of war, was good at maneuvering, skillful in using troops, and good at holding fighters. Liu Zhi, a colleague who had suffered a lot from him, once lamented: "Liu Bocheng's troops can hide under the nine lands, and the attack can be above the nine heavens. ”
Liu Zhi, who was in charge of the Whampoa Military Academy with him at that time, was hit by Liu Bocheng's "trickery" and ended up being dismissed.
"I'm not Liu Zhi, and I'll never be as stupid as he is!" Gu Zhutong secretly pondered to himself, of course, he would not compare the fat-headed and big-eared straw bale "Fu General" Liu Zhi with himself.
At 6 o'clock in the morning, Gu Zhutong, who had just fallen asleep, was awakened by the phone ringing.
Or Liu Ruming, "The general seat is Liu Bocheng's main force crossing the river, which is absolutely true." From Dong'a to Pu County, there are at least forty ferry points, with a force of no less than 200,000 troops. ”
Gu Zhutong knew that Liu Bocheng's total strength was only a hundred thousand, so he tried his best to restrain his anger and asked, "Since there are 200,000 heavy troops and more than 40 ferry points, how come you Commander Liu didn't notice any signs before they crossed the river?" ”
Liu Ruming had been stationed on the south bank of the Yellow River for a long time and had some experience in river defense, but he really did not expect that Liu Bocheng would lead a large army to cross the river during the flood season, so he initially did not believe the report of his subordinates.
Gu Zhutong asked this question, and he was somewhat unreasonable: "In this kind of season, the water is so deep, and then the enemy has taken a wide front and forced crossing at multiple points, and has come up to destroy transportation and communications first, and has been very passive when it comes to finding out the situation." Moreover, after the enemy came ashore, instead of consolidating his position and covering the landing of the follow-up troops, he immediately penetrated into the depths, and this kind of use of troops..."
Liu Ruming means the meaning of the words, Liu Bocheng is out of the blue, I did not understand, do you Gu Zhutong not believe it?
The crossing of the Yellow River by Liu Deng's army was unquestionable, and Gu Zhutong's brow tightened tighter and tighter: "It seems that the rumors that 'Yicheng (Chen Cheng) is not as good as Yicheng (Liu Bocheng), and Wu Liu (Liu Zhi, Liu Maoen, Liu Ruming, Liu Guangxin, Liu Ruzhen) is not as good as Yi Liu (Liu Bocheng)" that is popular within Nanjing is not empty. ”
Later, Chen Yiding, commander of the Seventy Division of Jiang Junzi, who was in charge of the defense of the Yellow River, and Luo Zhedong, deputy commander of the division, were captured by Liu Deng's army, and when they passed through the Yellow River on the way to the Liberated Areas, Luo Zhedong was puzzled: "With such a wide river surface, such a large wave, and heavy troops on the opposite side, how did Liu Bocheng cross the river?" incredible! ”
Chen Yiding sighed and said, "Liu Bocheng is really a genius in the world, such a natural danger, there are heavy troops on the other side, he actually dares to face him, since ancient times, there has been no such way of fighting in the military book strategy." ”
It is true that Liu Deng, Jin, and Lu Yu's 120,000 troops quietly pre-empted for nearly a month, and then suddenly flew over the Yellow River overnight, making President Jiang's good wish that "the Yellow River defense line can reach 400,000 troops" instantly become a bubble.
The American journalist Belden wrote in his book "China Shakes the World": "I have experienced many wars, but I have never seen a more brilliant military operation than liu Bocheng's troops to cross the Yellow River victoriously. Speaking of cleverness, it is not the military operation itself, but mainly in the commander-in-chief's conception of the military operation — his courage, his boldness, and especially his creative imagination. ”
In fact, it is also true that Liu Bo inherited a lot of great rivers and rivers, especially during the long march of the Red Army, which was difficult and dangerous, and he assisted Chairman Mao in crossing countless dangerous mountains and rivers and bringing the Red Army in distress out of its predicament.
The Red Army's breakthrough of the Wu river, the four crossings of the Chishui River, the qiao crossing of the Jinsha River, and the forced crossing of the Dadu River were personally organized and commanded by Chairman Mao and Liu Bocheng.
After the Long March, the Red Army suffered heavy losses while crossing the Xiang River, and its vitality was seriously injured. For this reason, at the subsequent Liping Conference, the Central Committee finally adopted chairman Mao's opinion, which brought light to the Red Army.
At this meeting, the organization ignored the opposition of Li De, an adviser to the Red Army who held great power, and decided to reinstate Liu Bocheng as chief of the general staff of the Central Military Commission.
Earlier, Liu Bocheng, former chief of the general staff of the Red Army, was sent to the Fifth Red Army as chief of staff because of his many objections to the unrealistic command of his adviser Li De.
According to the invincibility of Liu Bocheng's command of the troops across the river later, if the Red Army could participate in the command when crossing the Xiang River, the Red Army would never have suffered such a heavy blow on the Xiang River.
According to Chairman Mao's plan, the Red Army wanted to cross the Wu River north and advance toward Zunyi. Liu Bo was ordered to command the Red Twentieth Division to attack Zunyi.
On the banks of the wide and turbulent Wu River, Liu Bo took the initiative and pooled his wisdom with the officers and men to build a pontoon bridge made of bamboo rafts overnight.
When Chairman Mao stepped on the pontoon bridge, he even praised: "It is really remarkable that our soldiers can use local materials and build such a good bridge with bamboo rows." ”
Tens of thousands of Red Army troops crossed the WuJiang River, which is known as a natural danger, from the bamboo bridge.
On the banks of the Jinsha River, Liu Bocheng found only six boats.
He personally commanded the troops to cross the river, how to save time? How do I arrange the number of people to be transferred? How do troops take the boat? How do mules and horses swim? Liu Bocheng personally did his own work, and he had to make meticulous and thoughtful consideration of all aspects.
When the officers and men of the Thirty-seventh Regiment who had finally crossed the river arrived at the riverside and saw Liu Bocheng sweating profusely and standing by the sweltering ferry port waiting for them, the officers and men of the whole regiment were immediately admired and moved.
Six small boats, seven days and seven nights, more than 20,000 Red Army successfully crossed the Jinsha River, and finally jumped out of the circle of hundreds of thousands of Chiang Kai-shek troops surrounding and blocking.
At the dadu river where Principal Jiang wanted the Red Army to become the second Shi Dakai, Liu Bocheng found Sun Jixian, the battalion commander of the Red Regiment and the First Battalion: "Do you know Shi Dakai?" Right here, his forty thousand men were gone. ”
Sun Jixian, who later became a founding lieutenant general, did not have a little nonsense: "I don't care if he is Ten Dakai or Jiu Dakai, the chief of staff gives orders." ”
Relying on the only boat, at the Anshunchang ferry, eighteen warriors of the Red Army will take the lead in crossing the Dadu River.
Liu Bocheng personally commanded Zhao Zhangcheng, the Red Army's sharpshooter, to destroy the enemy's bunkers on the opposite shore, and ordered all the trumpets of the Red Regiment to blow up the charge horn together to intimidate the enemy in momentum.
Although Liu Bocheng commanded his troops to cross the Dadu River in AnshunChang, it was obviously unrealistic to rely on only one boat to allow the Red Army to cross the river in a short period of time, and the pursuit of the enemy several times that was several times larger than himself was already at hand.
Chairman Mao, Liu Bocheng, and others immediately made a decision and quickly made a new decision: Liu Bocheng led the Red First Division and the cadre regiment to immediately cross the river at Anshunchang, and after crossing the river, quickly marched with the Red Fourth Regiment of the Red First Army to luding bridge 160 miles away at the same time on the north and south banks, seized the Luding bridge, and opened another road for the Red Army to cross the river.
After Yang Chengwu and Huang Kaixiang led the Red Fourth Regiment to reach the Luding Bridge at an unimaginable speed, and twenty-two warriors climbed thirteen chains with their bare hands to seize the Luding Bridge, Liu Bocheng led the leading troops from the north bank of the Dadu River to the Luding Bridge.
Liu Bocheng walked back and forth on the Luding Bridge, to the middle of the bridge, he chopped the bridge slab laid after a few times with his foot, and said to himself in the violent shaking of the chain bridge: "Luding Bridge, Luding Bridge, we have won, we have won!" ”
Years later, Nie Rongzhen commented on the Red Army's breakthrough of the Dadu River: "... If it were not for the Red First Division crossing the river at Anshun Field and threatening the back of the enemy defending the Luding Bridge, it would be difficult to predict whether the Luding Bridge would be successful. If we cannot capture the Luding Bridge, what will be the situation of our army? ......”
During the Long March of the Red Army, Chairman Mao entrusted Liu Bocheng to lead his troops to carry out key battles on many occasions, and he greatly appreciated his organizational and command capabilities.
After the Red Army crossed the Jinsha River, Chairman Mao humorously said to Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, and others: "A few days ago, some of our comrades were still worried that we would not be able to cross the river and would be pushed to the brink of extinction. At that time, I said that it didn't matter, the people of Sichuan all said that Liu Bocheng was a real dragon under the mortal, how could jiang shui stop the dragon? He will take us over. ”
In the middle of the Long March for about half a year, Liu Bocheng basically played the role of a pioneer, opening roads in every mountain, building bridges in the face of water, and crossing ethnic minority areas and having to borrow roads with people", thus making great achievements for the victory of the Red Army's Long March.
In the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Liu Bocheng led the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army to defend the country, fought a fierce blow against the Japanese, and fought many beautiful battles.
After the outbreak of the civil war, Liu Bocheng led the Jinji-Hebei Luyu army to gallop across the battlefield and won many battles.
This time, he suddenly crossed the Yellow River and leapt thousands of miles into the Dabie Mountains, taking the lead in opening the prelude to our army's strategic offensive.
On the side of the bed, let others sleep soundly. President Jiang immediately dispatched troops to pursue and intercept Liu Bocheng's more than 100,000 troops in his own territory.
The thousand-mile leap into Dabie Mountain is a military operation with great risks. Leaving the base area and inserting himself into the enemy's henchmen is self-evident in the degree of danger.
Previously, the Red Tenth Army led by Fang Zhimin, the Western Route Army led by Xu Xiangqian, and the New Fourth Army led by Ye Ting had all suffered such losses.
The biggest difficulty in leaping into the Dabie Mountains was to continuously overcome several natural barriers, namely the Yellow Pan Area, the Vortex River, the Sha River, the Yinghe River, the Honghe River, the Ruhe River, and the Huai River, which also seemed to have become the blocking position of Chiang Kai-shek's army.
Chairman Mao knew that people were making good use of them, and sending Liu Bocheng to lead Liu Deng's army to march into Dabie Mountain was undoubtedly the most correct choice.
Liu Bocheng, a master of river crossing, did not make these rivers an obstacle that Liu Deng's army could not cross. Although it is always like walking on thin ice, it is extremely dangerous. But there is always a thrill, the whole body can go forward, under the heavy pursuit of the enemy, and fight and go.
Especially when crossing the Huai River, it is the same as crossing the Dadu River during the Red Army period.
When the enemy's pursuing troops were able to catch up, Liu Bocheng's troops were able to cross the Huai River in vain, which was something that had never happened before this season.
What's more, when Liu Bocheng's troops had just crossed the river and had not gone far, the flood peak that arrived in an instant isolated jiang jun, who had already chased to the shore, on the opposite bank.
Not a myth, victory is a myth, just such a coincidence! It's incredible.
In the hometown of Liu Bocheng in Sichuan, people have been rumored that Liu Bocheng is a real dragon under the mortal.
Is the real dragon not aware? But Liu Bocheng's ability to cross the river is really imaginative.
In the Battle of the River Crossing in 1949, Liu Bocheng commanded the Second Field Army and coordinated with the Third Field Army commanded by Su Yu to cross the Yangtze River with the momentum of the wind and clouds, directly pounding the old lair of Chiang Kai-shek's army, and making great strides toward the goal of liberating all of China.
Rumors about the true dragon and the mortals, whether it is a folk fabrication or a saying that the people are attached, Marshal Liu Bocheng's encounter with the water is real, and his excellent command ability may have changed the history of China.
On October 7, 1986, Marshal Liu Bocheng died in Beijing at the age of 94.
October 16. Marshal Liu Bocheng's memorial service was solemnly held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, with Deng Xiaoping presiding over the memorial service and Hu Yaobang delivering a eulogy. Hundreds of generations of soldiers who have been tested by the flames of the revolutionary war and have been tempered in the era of peace bowed goodbye to Liu Bocheng, a famous marshal of the generation they loved and admired.
People mourn his departure, remember his exploits, and celebrate his legend.
Marshal Liu Bocheng, the "god of war", is a legendary military figure in Chinese history.