On November 2, 1948, the Liaoshen Campaign, one of the three major battles, ended, and our army achieved remarkable results in this campaign. At the cost of 69,000 casualties alone, more than 472,000 Nationalist troops were annihilated, and more seriously, 186 senior officers of the Nationalist army were captured. What we are going to say today is related to the prisoners in this battle.
On the eve of the end of the Liaoshen Campaign, the 16th Regiment of the 6th Division of the 2nd Column of the Northeast Field Army finally entered the city of Shenyang and began to search around for the hiding places of the Kuomintang soldiers. At this time, Huang Daxuan, who was the commander of the 1st Company of the Avant-Garde Company, found a discovery in a bank building, so he led his troops to surround it. What he never expected was that this building actually contained two senior officers of the Kuomintang, Zhou Fucheng, commander of the Eighth Corps of the Kuomintang, and Su Bingwen, director of the Northeast Suppression General High Staff Office. These two men are not small, both are Kuomintang lieutenant generals. Of course, both of them were also famous anti-Japanese generals, and after they were captured, they immediately received preferential treatment from our army. Even after the founding of New China, Su Bingwen also served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Heilongjiang Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
(1st Company Commander Huang Daxuan)
The capture of two lieutenant generals in the Nationalist army surprised Huang Daxuan, who was a company commander at the time, but it was more of a joy to make a great achievement. But what he didn't expect was that the biggest gain this time was actually a nationalist soldier who had been captured by him.
After the liaoshen campaign, the captured soldiers of the Nationalist army joined the army according to the tradition of our army, and those who wanted to leave were provided by our army to pay for the journey home. Just as the captives were being assigned to the end, Huang Daxuan suddenly found a tall, energetic soldier among the captives who wanted to go home. Huang Daxuan, out of love, took the initiative to find this nationalist soldier. But the little soldier said, "I want to go home." Of course, Huang Daxuan was not happy, and he said strongly: "The northeast is liberated, but Guannei has not been liberated yet!" So the soldier was left behind. This soldier is the protagonist we are going to talk about today- Xu Huizi, who later became a general.
After being left behind by Huang Daxuan, Xu Huizi joined our army and became a soldier in the Four Wild Army. During the Liberation War, he participated with the troops in the battles of Pingjin, Hengbao, and Guangxi, and was awarded one major meritorious service and one small meritorious service. After the outbreak of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, he participated in the First to Fifth Campaigns of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. Xu Huizi continued to grow in battles large and small, starting from the grass-roots soldiers and rising step by step. Instructors, deputy battalion commanders, battalion instructors, battalion commanders, regimental commanders, none of them were missed. Step by step, it can be described as down-to-earth.
In 1960, Xu Huizi was sent to the Platon Infantry Senior Command College to study. At the age of 52, Xu Huizi became a division commander. However, this age is too late, because according to the rules of the army, the division commander level will have to retire at the age of 55. However, Xu Huizi is also ready to retire from the army, although he has some regrets about not having the opportunity to become a military commander, but in just 3 years, there is indeed no chance.
Coincidence! Xu Huizi, who was the commander of the division, was in time for Deng Xiaoping and Yang Shangkun to inspect the troops. The ace division originally arranged by the military region was temporarily replaced by Xu Huizi because of the illness of the division commander. Xu Huizi's luck came because his performance this time was very good, which made Deng Xiaoping very satisfied, and he asked his name. Three months after the head of the Central Military Commission left, the military region began to move internally, and Xu Huizi was promoted from division commander to military commander. Less than a year later, Xu Huizi, who had a prominent performance, was promoted to Beijing as deputy chief of the general staff.
During this period, Xu Huizi assisted the chief of the general staff in taking charge of the combat readiness work of the whole army for a long time, put forward many valuable opinions and suggestions on major issues in the construction of our army in new China, and also offered suggestions and suggestions for the readjustment of our army's strategic principles and important matters in the development of the army. In addition, Xu Huizi also organized the compilation of the Ninth Five-Year Plan for Military Scientific Research of the Academy of Military Sciences, and compiled and revised military regulations such as the new generation of operational regulations. It has made important contributions to the modernization of our army.
In 1988, China implemented the military rank system for the second time, and this time the rank was evaluated, and Xu Huizi won the rank of lieutenant general. By 1994 he was promoted to the rank of general. When the opportunity comes, the ability arrives, there will be no such achievement.
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