In 1959, Xie Xiangjun's family learned of Xie Xiangjun's sacrifice on the Lianshui battlefield, and 13 years had passed since his death, and the person who decided to keep the news of his death secret was his superior: Su Yu. Xie Xiangjun once served as the commander of the 10th Column in the Central China Field Army, the highest-ranking general of our army who died in the Liberation War, why was the news of his death kept secret by Su Yu for 13 years before it was announced, and what kind of hidden plot was there behind this? If you are interested in this topic, please help "press the 2-second like button" to give a strong thumbs up. And "pay attention" to it, often come later, and don't get lost.
(Xie Xiangjun)
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In October 1946, when the Battle of Lianshui began, the battles and casualties of various columns in Huaye were constantly reported to Su Yu, who was in charge of the army at that time, and when he saw the name of "10 Column Commander Xie Xiangjun" in the list of sacrifices, he could not help but burst into tears and recalled the scene when he was in the army before his death.
Although Xie Xiangjun did not follow Su Yu from beginning to end, his reputation in the army of "willing to give up a life and not willing to lose his legs" was also heard by Su Yu. Xie Xiangjun was born in a peasant family in Dawu County, Hubei Province, and when he was a child, in addition to being with private schools and fields, another hobby was watching his favorite shadow puppet plays. In the shadow puppet play, Xie Xiangjun is very fond of chivalrous and righteous chivalrous guests, thinking that it is his lifelong dream. It was not until after the outbreak of the Hubei Jute Uprising in 1927 that Xie Xiangjun encountered the Red Army and realized the true meaning of "chivalry".
(The first from the right is Xie Xiangjun)
Why was Xie Xiangjun able to have such a good feeling for the Red Army? In Xie Xiangjun's memories before his death, he once lamented that what touched him the most was the way the Red Army looked when he bought something. After Xie Xiangjun grew up, he became a cargo man to support his family. In that era of chaos and chaos, the soldiers who were most afraid of encountering soldiers were soldiers, who lost money and lost their lives at great lengths: however, after Xie Xiangjun met the Red Army, he unexpectedly found that the Red Army was one of the few troops willing to spend money to buy goods at that time. Seeing the strict discipline of the Red Army, Xie Xiangjun officially joined the revolutionary ranks in 1930 when the Red Army formed the Eyu-Anhui Border Region.
After arriving at the revolutionary base area, Xie Xiangjun first started from ordinary Red Guards soldiers, then became the commander of the communications company of the Red Twelfth Division in one go, and later became the commander of the Red Army. During the Long March, after the completion of the Red Fourth Front, Xie Xiangjun became the division commander of the Red Thirty-second Army, and his superior was also the commander of the Red Thirty-second Army: Luo Binghui.
(Lo Ping-fai)
Although his military career was relatively smooth, no matter what position he held, Xie Xiangjun always maintained the habit of rushing to the front and killing the enemy bravely. During the battle of the Red Thirty-second Army's Long March, Xie Xiangjun was injured in the leg, and later because of the lack of medicine in the army, coupled with wind and rain, Xie Xiangjun's leg wound began to show signs of infection and deterioration. And the old boss Luo Binghui was also very anxious, and later the Red Army doctor told Luo Binhui: Xie Xiangjun's leg is afraid that it will not be protected, otherwise there will be a danger to life.
When Luo Binhui told Xie Xiangjun this painful news and made him mentally prepared, Xie Xiangjun shouted loudly: "I don't want to saw my legs!" I'm a warrior, sawed off my legs, how else do I get on the battlefield? I don't do it! Seeing that Xie Xiangjun was stubborn, the army could only pin all his hopes for recovery on the miracle - but unexpectedly, the miracle really happened, and under the best efforts of the Red Army doctors and the tenacious will of Xie Xiangjun, Xie Xiangjun's leg injury gradually improved, but it also left a slightly lame leg. Looking at Xie Xiangjun, who was walking slightly, every soldier of the Red Thirty-second Army at that time had a heartfelt respect for him. As a result, the title of "Xie Xiangjun fought a war, and he wanted his legs not to die" spread among the army.
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In the course of the Red Army's Long March, Xie Xiangjun followed the large troops of the Red Fourth Front army to the north, while Su Yu died nine times in the "anti-Japanese advance team going north" at that time.
This brings us to the experience of Xie Xiangjun before and after the War of Resistance Against Japan: After Xie Xiangjun miraculously recovered from his leg injury, Xie Xiangjun, who "wanted his leg not to die," became a model for learning in our army. After Chairman Mao's approval, Xie Xiangjun assumed the post of president at the Fifth Branch of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, but do not underestimate this position: Chen Yi, Huang Kecheng, and Zhong Wei all served as the presidents of the Fifth Branch of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, so it can be said that the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University School was not only a beacon in the War of Resistance Against Japan at that time, but also a place where famous generals emerged. After Xie Xiangjun became the president of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, he was subordinate to the Third Division of the New Fourth Army under General Huang Kecheng.
Shortly after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Huang Kecheng, who was in the army at the time, made a proposal to Chairman Mao: At present, the Nationalist army is carrying out the work of receiving the whole country, and the northeast is a place that the nationalist army has not touched in recent years. Chairman Mao was pleased to approve this proposal, and Huang Kecheng's troops were incorporated into the Northeast Democratic United Army and followed Lin Biao to open up revolutionary base areas. At this time, Xie Xiangjun was still holding the position of president of the Fifth Branch of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, so he did not follow his superior Huang Kecheng to the northeast, but in the later military dispatch, he was incorporated into Su Yu's Huaye troops.
And Su Yu was also very happy in his heart after receiving such a brave general as Xie Xiangjun. Before he saw his people, he heard his voice first, and Xie Xiangjun's name of "wanting legs and not dying" was something that Su Yu had heard about earlier. Therefore, at the time of Huaye's expansion, Su Yu trusted Xie Xiangjun to assume the post of commander of Huaye's Tenth Column, and since then the two of them have begun to fight together in East China and Central China, becoming famous generals of our army who have frightened the enemy.
The Battle of Suzhou and China, which broke out in July 1946, was probably a "brilliant moment" shared by Su Yu and Xie Xiangjun. At that time, the Kuomintang gathered 58 brigades, equivalent to about 460,000 people, to attack the revolutionary base areas in central Jiangsu, and it was inevitable to gain the revolutionary base areas in the soviet union. In the face of the enemy's menacing offensive, Chairman Mao and other leaders of the Central Military Commission put forward the strategic concept of "temporarily avoiding the sharp edge, giving way to the Soviet Union and Central China, and attacking the eastern Henan and Jinpu railways in advance." However, Su Yu put forward a different proposal: he believed that our army had a very deep mass base in the Soviet Union, plus intelligence superiority, so it could first fight a few battles with the enemy army, eliminate the enemy's living forces, and then move elsewhere.
On the enemy side, most of the senior officers of the Nationalist army had a very contemptuous attitude toward our army, and Li Tianxia, commander of the 83rd Division of the Nationalist Army who participated in the Soviet-Chinese campaign at that time, said wildly: "Give Lao Tzu a regiment of troops, you can kill Huaye." However, the outcome of the Soviet-Chinese campaign was quite a slap in the face for the Kuomintang, and after this battle, our army continued to "seven battles and seven victories", and the Kuomintang army lost as much as 53,000 people in this battle. And Xie Xiangjun, who served as the commander of the Ten Columns, what were the results of the battle? - In the final stage of the Soviet-Chinese campaign, the reorganized 25th Division of the Nationalist Army, under the cover of aircraft and artillery, launched a fierce attack on the Shaobo, Qiaoshu, Dinggou and other defensive lines of our army in three ways, but in the end it was easily stopped by the Ten Columns carrying only light weapons. It can be said that this blockade battle of the Ten Columns drew a satisfactory end to the end of the Soviet-Chinese campaign.
(Our army in the Battle of the Soviet Union)
For the unprecedented victory of the Seven Wars and Seven Victories, the Ten Columns and their commander, Xie Xiangjun, were very happy, but what they did not know was that after the Battle of Suzhong, it was less than 2 months before Xie Xiangjun's subsequent sacrifice.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="16" > the Battle of Lianshui, and died before the division was successful</h1>
After our army won the "seven battles and seven victories" in the Battle of Soviet Union and China, our army was subsequently subjected to frenzied retaliation by the Kuomintang army. In October 1946, the Kuomintang army sent nearly 4 brigades to launch an attack on Lianshui, which was controlled by our army, and these 4 brigades were not simple in their origins, they were subordinate to the 74th Reorganized Division of the Nationalist Army, known as the "Kuomintang Ace Army", and the division commander was Zhang Lingfu.
In the face of the fierce offensive of the enemy, our army, on the one hand, grasped the transfer of the organs of the People's Liberation Army at that time, and on the other hand, it urgently needed to transfer a member of the tiger general to sit in Lianshui and defend Zhang Lingfu's attack. In the Seven Battles and Seven Victories of the Soviet-Chinese Campaign, Xie Xiangjun, who defended the enemy's three-way offensive, became the best candidate in the army at that time who could deal with Zhang Lingfu. And Xie Xiangjun also did not give in, and Su Yu said: Guarding Lianshui is wrapped in the body of my ten verticals.
(Lianshui Defense Battle)
At the beginning of the battle, the nationalist reorganized 74th Division showed amazing combat effectiveness different from ordinary troops, and on October 17, the nationalist troops divided into three routes and attacked Lianshui from the direction of Huai'an and Huaiyin, and in only 3 days, the Nationalist army built a position on the beachhead near Lianshui and directly approached Lianshui City. In the face of such an elite unit known as the "ace of the nationalist army", Xie Xiangjun's ten columns, instead of showing difficulty, broke the initial offensive of the nationalist army at the beginning, causing the nationalist army to lose a hundred people, and the sharpness of the reorganized 74th Division was cut off by our army.
However, the ace troops of the National Army did not die easily. On October 23, the Nationalist forces launched as many as three large-scale offensives, once pushing their forces into Lianshui City, but fortunately the Tenth Column held the defensive line inside the city, and the reinforcements of the Sixth Division of the Central China Field Army also arrived in time to attack the enemy army together with the Ten Columns in the city, so that Zhang Lingfu, who commanded the reorganized 74th Division, once again lost his troops, with a loss of up to 3,000 people. Moreover, the Ten Columns, which were holding out in the city, did not passively wait for the enemy to attack, but took the initiative to attack the enemy and cut off the rear road of the reorganized 74th Division, which greatly annoyed Zhang Lingfu.
However, Zhang Lingfu did not relax his offensive against Lianshui in the slightest, and Xie Xiangjun, the commander of the Tenth Column, also tightened his nerves. On October 25, he stepped out of the command post and took out a telescope to survey the direction of the enemy's attack, but the enemy sniper shot Xie Xiangjun in the abdomen, and Xie Xiangjun also fell in a pool of blood, and died on the front line due to the ineffectiveness of rescue.
The battle between our army and the Nationalist army for Lianshui was very fierce at that time, and there were daily casualty figures reported to Chen Yi and Su Yu, and when the news of the sacrifice of Xie Xiangjun, commander of the Tenth Column, was reported to Chen Yi and Su Yu, both of them were very sad, because they could not have imagined that the commander of our army would actually die on the battlefield on the front line. After repelling the enemy's three-way offensive in the Soviet-Chinese Campaign, Xie Xiangjun was not only a great enemy in the eyes of the enemy, but also a spiritual pillar in the hearts of some soldiers. Therefore, Su Yu had to endure the grief, ordered that the military strictly prohibit the holding of mourning meetings, so as not to leak the news, let the enemy find out, and buried Xie Xiangjun's body near the Banqiao in Lianshui with only a simple treatment.
However, our army will never forget those who have made real contributions to the cause of the Chinese revolution. In 1959, 13 years after Xie Xiangjun's sacrifice, our army officially announced the news of his sacrifice and was given the title of martyr. Later, his body was also transferred to Lupu Township, Funing County, to sleep, and still guards the tranquility and peace of the water and soil on that side.