<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > Centennial 18: Hu Qicai</h1>
Author: Forget about the jianghu
On October 2, 1948, a news broke the atmosphere at Higashino Command.
Hou Jingru's 100,000 troops of Jinxi Hou Jingru marched east to reinforce Jinzhou, and Liao Yaoxiang of Shenyang advanced westward with 100,000 troops of the 9th Corps, which has formed a two-sided attack. The Shenyang Corps was still more than 200 kilometers away, but the 50 kilometers of Jinxi were a smooth road without danger, and Lin Zong suddenly became nervous, and originally only arranged he Jinnian's 11 vertical attack to block the attack, so he sent a power generation to Xibaipo to ask to turn back to Changchun.
Premier Lin yu is very simple: prepared a table of meals, came two tables of guests. The chairman is very angry, Jinzhou is already in the bag, what is the big deal about coming to one table or two tables, is it difficult for you Lin Biao to have no appetite? Lin Luoliu's follow-up telegram arrived, and he withdrew the request for instructions to attack Jinzhou with all his might. The 4th Column and the 11th Column and the Jincha Heat Therapy Division 4th and 6th Divisions formed the Second Corps, and Cheng Zihua commanded the defense of Tashan.
In order to ensure that Tashan, which has a bearing on the overall situation, Lin Zong personally named Hu Qicai as the commander-in-chief of the front.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > First, Zhu Rui's pen was mistakenly renamed</h1>
Hu Qicai, formerly known as Hu Qicai, was born in 1914 in Hong'an, Hubei Province, to a poor family, and his mother died of illness at a very young age. He farmed for the landlord, worked for his father in the tofu factory, studied private school for several years, and was influenced by Zhang Chufeng to come into contact with revolutionary ideas.
In 1929, Zhang Chufeng was arrested and killed, and the 16-year-old Hu Qicai, despite his family's opposition to join the Red Army, grew from a guard battalion squad leader to a political commissar of the Red 33 Regiment in Eyuwan. In June 1935, Wang Hongkun, commander of the Red Fourth Army, ordered the 33rd Regiment to be transferred to the general headquarters of Yanmen Pass, but Hu Qicai and regimental commander Zhang Changhou led the team to the south of Yanmen Pass.
Hu Qicai and Zhang Changhou encountered enemy aircraft bombing on the road, but fortunately there were no casualties. As soon as they arrived at Yanmen Pass, they were locked up, but fortunately, the military commander Wang Hongkun and the division commander Chen Zaidao called to explain the situation, and the two survived.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Hu Qicai served as the deputy regimental commander of the 770th Regiment of the 385th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army and the captain of the Sixth Brigade of the Third Phase of the Anti-Japanese War.
In May 1938, Hu Qicai went to Shandong with the cadre brigade. In 1939, Hu Qicai and Wang Zhiyuan, a girl from Ye County, Shandong Province, submitted an application for marriage, and Zhu Rui, secretary of the Shandong branch, instructed that "Hu Qicai" be written as "Hu Qicai", which has since become a new name.
Wang Zhiyuan and Hu Qicai
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > Second, the lessons of the Shaling defeat are profound</h1>
Hu Qicai was highly appreciated by Lin Luoliu, because he was not only good at fighting hard battles, but also fighting clever battles.
In the creation of the Luzhong base area, Hu Qicai made a name for himself, fighting Gezhuang and Linqu and conquering Yishui, dealing a heavy blow to the Japanese army. In particular, before the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, Hu Qicai surrounded the point to help take Yeyuan alive to capture the traitor Feng Xiangcheng, and the local folk song circulated:
Hu Qicai, not simple, commanded the eight roads to fight the source. Kill the devil thirty-three and capture a translator alive.
At the end of 1987, Chi Haotian, political commissar of the Jinan Military Region, who was about to become the commander-in-chief, inspected Yimeng Mountain, where he had fought that year, heard this folk song from the mouth of a septuagenarian old man, and after returning to Beijing, wrote it down in his own handwriting as a gift to General Hu Qicai, who was preparing to build a memorial hall for the Liaoshen Campaign.
Because Lu Zhong was good at fighting a clever battle, after the victory of the War of Resistance, Luo Ronghuan personally ordered Hu Qicai, deputy commander of the 3rd Division, to rush to the northeast.
In November 1945, Hu Qicai was appointed commander of the 3rd Column of the Liaodong Military Region. In February 1946, he was transferred to the deputy commander of the 4th Column, and the commander was Wu Kehua. In the Battle of Shaling Offensive, 7 regiments of the 4th Column attacked 1 and a half regiments of the New 6th Army and lost, annihilating 670 enemy casualties of more than 2100 people.
In the Battle of Shaling, Hu Qicai saw that our army's equipment was backward, its regular combat experience was insufficient, and in particular, the coordination of infantry and artillery was very chaotic. From then on, the studious Hu Qicai attached great importance to the application of artillery, and later the artillery of our army in the Siege and Annihilation Battle of Xinkailing and the Battle of Tashan Blockade all had miraculous effects.
Soon, Wu Kehua was transferred to the chief of staff of the Liaodong Military Region due to pneumonia, Hu Qicai was appointed commander of the 4th Column, and Han Xianchu was appointed deputy commander.
Wu Kehua
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > third, partner Han Xianchu annihilated the "Thousand Mile Colt"</h1>
Eating a trench and growing a wisdom, Hu Qicai matured in battle and was known as a "tactical wizard".
In October 1946, Hu Qicai and Han Xianchu encountered another fierce enemy, Li Zhengyi's 52nd Division. Although the 52nd Division was not the five main forces, it was also a semi-American weaponry and equipment lineage, and Liu Zhidan was killed against the 52nd Division of Guan Linzheng during the Red Army's Eastern Expedition in 1936.
After the battle began, the 4th Column 10th Division lost Yongling and the 12th Division lost to Maotianling, and Hu Qicai decided to concentrate his forces on the 25th Division at the Horse Race. However, the Liaodong Military Region sent a telegram ordering Hu Qicai to lead the 4th Column and 31st Regiment to the mouth of the Caohe River to block the attack and ensure the transfer of the military region's organs. With the order of the foreign monarch not being spared, Hu Qicai led the main 11th Division to kill a "back horse gun" to capture the horse racing set.
On October 26, the 4th Column and the 25th Division encountered Shuanglingzi, 30 miles southwest of Saimaji, and the fierce battle was fruitless for a day and night. The 25th Division was only two battalions short, and the strength of 9,000 men was comparable to that of the 4 columns. Hu Qicai retreated to Xinkailing, and urgently recruited Han Xianchu to lead the 10th Division and 200 miles to rush back and encircle the 52nd Division. The enemy division commander Li Zhengyi counterattacked frantically, the battle fell into a stalemate, and the enemy reinforcements quickly approached.
Before the fat to the mouth had been eaten, Hu Qi called an emergency meeting. It has been suggested that retreats avoid a war of annihilation turning into a war of attrition and falling into a siege. Deputy Commander Han Xianchu resolutely opposed it, and as soon as he withdrew, he would abandon his previous achievements, and as long as he concentrated his forces, he could grasp the initiative. Hu Qicai agreed with political commissar Peng Jiaqing to redeploy troops. On November 2, the 4th Column broke through the cauldron and sank the boat for the final blow, completely annihilating 8,900 people of the "Thousand Mile Colt" Division and suffering 2,000 casualties.
The Xinkailing Northeast Democratic Coalition Army first annihilated an entire division of the enemy army, reversed the situation in southern Manchuria, and was commended by the chairman and Lin Zongtong.
Admiral Han Xianchu
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In December 1946, Hu Qicai's old head injury recurred and he went to Dalian for medical treatment. In April 1947, he had just returned to participate in the summer offensive and went to Harbin for recuperation due to headaches. It was not until May 1948, when the liaoshen battle arrows were ready to be launched, that they were named by Noji and returned to the team.
On October 6, President Jiang personally boarded the light cruiser "Chongqing" on Huludao to reach the headquarters of the 54th Army and held a meeting of officers above the regimental level at Ibaraki Mountain. It was decided that 5 armies and 12 divisions of Shenyang would advance westward, 2 armies in North China, 1 army in Yantai, and 4 armies and 11 divisions in Huludao 54 army would advance eastward and fight Lin Biao to the death at Jinzhou City. At the same time, the Navy's 3rd Fleet shelled Tower Hill, and Lieutenant General Roach oversaw the battle.
Cheng Zihua, Wu Kehua, Hu Qicai, and others personally inspected the defensive positions, and Wu Kehua and Hu Qi discovered that the frontline had focused its defense on the small hill at an altitude of 59 meters and neglected the village of Tashanbao. Hu Qicai suggested relying on the railway bridgehead and the Baitai Mountain line to build a new defensive line.
The first fire of Hu Qicai's new officer when he took office was to order the shelling of his own position.
An artillery 60-gun was aimed at the fortifications of one of our defensive positions, firing several shots in a row. When the division and regiment commanders stood in front of the half-collapsed fortifications, they understood everything. The drums did not need to be beaten again, and everyone did not say a word and went back to reinforce the fortifications.
Details determine success or failure, and the detailed preparation of the "tactical wizard" lays the foundation for the Tower Hill Blockade Battle.
Cruiser Chongqing
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" >5, Hu Qicai singled out Hou Jingru</h1>
Hu Qicai's opponents were Hou Jingru's 100,000 eastward marching army, the 21st Division of the 92nd Army, the 62nd Army, the 2nd Division of the 39th Army, the 54th Army, the provisional 62nd Division, the Independent 95th Division, and 11 other divisions. Dongye Cheng Zihua 2 Corps 80,000 people, including Wu Kehua 4 column 40,000 people, He Jinnian 11 column 30,000 people, the 4th Division, 6 Division 10,000 people, the strength is slightly weaker, but the artillery with strong firepower is stronger than the enemy's East Advance Corps.
The village of "Tashan Fort" is 59 meters high and has a frontal defense line of 8 kilometers. The commanding height of Baitai Mountain is 261 meters above sea level, and the defensive front is 12 kilometers. The enemy's strength was too large to swing, and up to 3 divisions at a time attacked at the same time. The 4th column had 26 75 mm mountain guns, 10 field guns, 3 105 mm howitzers and 10 anti-aircraft guns, and the 11 columns also had 24 75 mm mountain guns, so Hu Qicai, who was sitting on the front line, had a bottom in mind.
However, Lin Luoliu was not at ease, and added heavy weapons such as 150 mm heavy howitzers, 105 mm howitzers, 105 mm field cannons, 75 mm mountain guns, 57 mm combat defense guns, and 75 mm anti-aircraft guns, adding a double insurance to the Tashan defense line.
Lin zong also transferred the 1st column to Takahashi as a precaution, but the 4th column, 11th column and 2 independent divisions did not let them fight.
Hu Qicai arranged 56 artillery pieces directly under the first line regiment to strike 50-100 meters in front of the strike line, 28 artillery pieces directly under the second line division to strike at the front 500 meters, and 26 heavy artillery directly under the third line column directly under the third line to be divided into two groups in the east and west, 1,000 meters in front of the strike line, equipped with 9 anti-aircraft guns to protect the heavy artillery group.
In order to protect the artillery positions, rifles, light and heavy weapons built a tight fire net to kill and injure enemy infantry.
Battle of Liaoshen (oil painting)
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" >6, "Tashan Tiger" buried Tashan</h1>
On October 10, 1948, the Provisional 62nd Division of the enemy 54th Army took advantage of the falling tide to launch a surprise attack.
The 34th Regiment of the 12th Division of our 4th Column launched a counterattack on the spot, and the tashan blockade battle, the most tragic part of the Liberation War, was launched. The 8th Division, the Provisional 62nd Division, and the 151st Division of the 62nd Army launched a charge by the enemy 54th Army, all of which were repulsed by the 4th Column, and the enemy artillery positions were also destroyed by a storm of heavy artillery of our army.
On the first day, the enemy troops who lost the cover of artillery still launched 7 charge casualties of more than 1100 people, and our army suffered 319 casualties.
On the 11th, four divisions of the enemy's 54th and 62nd Armies entered the battle, and under the cover of 4 howitzers, more than 10 75 mm mountain guns, and 5 piston aircraft, they continued to attack. At Hu Qicai's order, the artillery shot down 4 howitzers and 7 mountain guns of the enemy, and the infantry became targets again.
On the 12th, the enemy army rested for a day, and Hu Qicai blocked the enemy's two-day onslaught and grasped the repair of the fortifications.
On the 13th, the enemy's 5 divisions used dense sea tactics to charge in turn, focusing on the village of Tashanbao, but Hu Qicai had already ambushed a battalion of troops here, and also deployed 16 heavy machine guns, 49 light machine guns and dozens of mortars. When the enemy army saw the barbed wire, mines, and craters all over the ground in front of the line, it had long lost its sharpness. After the war, Lin Zong invited Hu Qicai to dinner and praised him for pressing the nails of Tashan Village well!
Tashan annihilated more than 7,000 enemy troops, 4 columns suffered more than 3,100 casualties, and 4 heroic regiments were also produced: the "Tashan Hero Regiment" of the 34th Regiment of the 12th Division, the "Baitaishan Hero Regiment" of the 36th Regiment of the 12th Division, the "Tashan Garrison Hero Regiment" of the 28th Regiment of the 10th Division, and the "Weizhen Enemy Gall Regiment" of the 4th Column Artillery Regiment.
Zhang Wannian, a 20-year-old communications platoon commander of the 36th Regiment of the 12th Division, led two correspondents to lay telephone lines and made great contributions after the war.
In 1955, Hu Qicai, the "Tiger of Tashan", awarded the rank of lieutenant general.
Lieutenant General Hu Qicai
In 1997, the 83-year-old Hu Qicai died, and according to the general's last wishes, his ashes were buried in the Tashan Heroes Memorial Cemetery, which was built by his own hands, together with Wu Kehua, Mo Wenhua, Li Fuze, Jiao Yushan, Ouyang Wen, and Jiang Minfeng, who accompanied the comrades who died in Tashan.
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