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Today, we are talking for you about a famous bridge story from the old movie "The Battle of Huaihai".
Ding Xiao'er, who was arrested
Audiences who have watched the old movie "Armageddon • Battle of Huaihai" are expected to be deeply impressed by Ding Xiao'er, who was arrested. At a critical moment, this brother was commended by the Kuomintang army for taking the initiative to answer the telephone line, and was awarded the "Order of the Blue Sky and White Sun". However, after hearing the news that his hometown was carrying out land reform and his family had also been allocated land, he immediately defected to the side of the People's Liberation Army.
Ding Xiao'er film and television image (played by Yin Yuanzhang)
This seemingly absurd story really happened in the Battle of Huaihai in 1948, but the protagonist behind this story did not have such good luck as Ding Xiao'er, who was buried alive by the commander because of his spitting. What's going on?
Later, Li Hanping (major general, chief of staff of the Kuomintang Second Corps) who participated in the Huaihai Campaign wrote articles such as "Personal Experience of the Huaihai Campaign", and according to his recollection, when the Thirty-second Division of the Kuomintang 70th Army reinforced Pantang Town, the Ninety-fifth Regiment of this division once encountered a battalion of the People's Liberation Army in a village near Liuji Stone Monument, and captured thirty or forty PLA soldiers at that time. Qiu Qingquan, the commander of the Second Corps at the time (killed in January 1949), quickly appealed to The Commander-in-Chief of Xuzhou for credit, saying that he had captured a well-equipped battalion of the People's Liberation Army.
Qiu Qingquan
That same night, a company of the regiment was besieged by the People's Liberation Army in the area of Cuizhuang, southwest of Liuji. In the midst of the chaos, telephone communication was interrupted. At this time, one of the soldiers of the regiment volunteered to take the risk to connect to the telephone line and resume communications, and the reinforcements that came to hear the news temporarily repelled the PLA.
Qiu Qingquan film and television image (played by Rope Zhong)
The matter passed, but within a few days, the Second Corps suddenly received an order from the Ministry of Defense to award the "Brave" soldier the "Order of the Blue Sky and White Sun". However, everyone looked everywhere for the soldier and did not find it. Later, when I asked, I learned that after the original troops fell into the encirclement of the Chen Guanzhuang People's Liberation Army, the soldier had complained about the food problem. Yuan Zijun, the leader of the 59th Regiment at the time, was greatly enraged and secretly buried him alive on trumped-up charges.
Hearing this news, the top brass of the corps was not easy to tell the truth, and could only find a few soldiers to impersonate him, saying that he was the "warrior" who answered the telephone line, which rounded the lie.
Blue Sky White Sun Medal (back)
He was awarded for his bravery, but he was buried alive because of his spit: the fate of this soldier was also tragic. As a result, this story was processed and rewritten into the movie "Armageddon, Battle of Huaihai", but the difference is that the soldiers who answered the telephone line came from the Kuomintang to capture Zhuang Ding, and after hearing the news of the division of their hometown, they quickly defected to the People's Liberation Army.
Such an ironic scene is a good illustration of the people's hearts at that time. The People's Liberation Army is waging a war to safeguard the interests of the broad masses of the people, and the defeat of the enemy is naturally inevitable!
The masses of the people who supported the front in the Battle of Huaihai
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