Among the founding generals of the Chinese People's Liberation Army who were awarded the rank in 1955 by New China, there were 14 one-armed, one-legged, and one-legged generals, namely, one-armed generals Peng Shaohui and He Bingyan, one-armed lieutenant generals Yu Qiuli and Yan Fusheng, one-armed major generals Zuo Qi, Sulu, Chen Bo, Peng Qingyun, Tong Yansheng, Liao Zhengguo, and Zhu Shengda, one-legged lieutenant general Zhong Chibing, one-legged major general Zhang He, and one-legged major general Xie Liang.
Mao Zedong once commented: "From ancient times to the present, how many one-armed, one-legged, and one-legged generals have there been in China? There was no such thing in the old era, and only our Red Army units could cultivate such unique talents! ”
Among them, General Liao Zhengguo was a one-armed general who was disabled by non-combat, but the reason for his disability was even more touching.
At the beginning of 1940, Liao Zhengguo was appointed as the commander of the fourth regiment of the first column of the New Fourth Army's Northern Jiangsu Command, and led his troops to participate in the battles of Rugao and Fengli, fighting with the Japanese army for seven days and nights, and finally completely annihilating the Japanese army and winning the battle.
In October of the same year, Liao Zhengguo led his troops to participate in the Battle of Huangqiao and captured a large number of weapons. After the war, the troops concentrated in the town of Huangqiao for training. In order to explain to the troops the structure, performance and lethality of an olive-shaped grenade captured in battle, so that the soldiers could master and use it skillfully as soon as possible, Liao Zhengguo took one back to the house and took it apart in the house to study.
Next door to the house where Liao Zhengguo's regimental commander lived, was the residence of the regimental political commissar, and several battalion company cadres were sitting around the house, and everyone was enthusiastically studying and discussing the tactics of bombing Japanese pillboxes with cluster grenades. In the courtyard outside the house, the cadres and soldiers of the Fourth Regiment of the New Fourth Army were listening to the regimental armor repair director explain the knowledge of weapons.
Unexpectedly, when Liao Zhengguo dismantled and decomposed, a white smoke suddenly appeared from the grenade, and Liao Zhengguo immediately realized:
dangerous! The grenade is going to explode!
According to experience, Liao Zhengguo only needs to throw the grenade out of the window and he is safe. However, in the next room were the battalion company cadres in the regiment, and in the patio were soldiers who were listening to the lessons. As long as Liao Zhengguo threw out the grenade, there would be cadres and fighters who would bleed and die.
In the moment of life and death, Liao Zhengguo left the hope of life to his comrades-in-arms and death to himself.
Liao Zhengguo stood up, tiptoed up, and held the grenade about to explode with his right hand high, letting the grenade explode in his hand.
Liao Zhengguo lost his right arm and became the "one-armed regimental leader".
Later, Liao Zhengguo served as the brigade commander of the first brigade of the first column of the East China Field Army, and Liao Zhengguo dragged a one-armed one-arm to lead the whole brigade to train in blasting techniques, so that all the soldiers of the brigade became his blasting disciples.
In October 1950, Liao Zhengguo led his troops to participate in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and his unit's blasting technology was so pure that it made the mechanized units of the US army cry wolf, and the "demolition king" Yang Gensi repeatedly built up his miraculous feats and became a famous "combat hero" of the volunteer army.
In 1955, Liao Zhengguo was awarded the rank of major general.
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