On October 10, 1948, the Battle of Tashan began. In "Armageddon", there is a plot in which Hu Qicai, deputy commander of the Fourth Column of the Northeast Field Army guarding Tashan, abandons the strategic high ground in front of Tashan and retreats to the village of Tashan behind.
From the perspective of military common sense, holding the strategic high ground can be condescending and better able to shoot the enemy, but Hu Qicai does not play cards according to common sense, and everyone does not understand it very much. After Lin Biao knew, he praised that Comrade Wizards would fight! Why?
History proves that Comrade Hu Qicai can indeed fight wars.
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After receiving the order from the Dongye headquarters to hold the Tashan position, Hu Qicai, commander Wu Kehua, political commissar Mo Wenhua, and other chiefs went to the forward position to survey the terrain, walked around, and carefully looked at it again.
Hu Qicai believed that The Tashan Fort was like a latch to the entire defensive position of our army, and once it was lost, the enemy opened the gate and drove straight in to aid Jinzhou. As long as you hold it, you can stop the enemy outside the gate.
Many people advocated holding the high ground in front of Tashan, which could effectively block the shooting of the enemy, but Hu Qicai had to retreat to Tashan Village. As a warrior, he had heard about the past of Ma Mo's loss of the street kiosk, and Ma Mo only insisted on holding the high ground, guarding the mountain and not the village, and as a result, he trapped himself to death, and the street kiosk was also lost.
(Lieutenant General Hu Qicai)
Hu Qi was right, if they held on to the high ground, the Nationalist troops would bypass the high ground and launch a roundabout operation. Abandoning the high ground and holding on to The village of Tashan, no matter how many troops the Kuomintang had, they could only attack from the front, and they could not carry out a roundabout operation on the flank.
As long as the frontal attack of the Kuomintang was blocked, Tashan could be defended. Therefore, Lin Biao said that Comrade Wizards would fight. On the first day of the Tashan Blockade Battle, because the Kuomintang artillery fire was too fierce, a platoon defending Yushan Island did not understand the law of tides, causing the Kuomintang troops to take advantage of the opportunity of the low tide to capture Yushan Island.
When The island of Dayushan was lost, the flank defense line of Tashan was threatened, and the enemy might land from the sea and rush to the aid of Jinzhou, Hu Qi realized the seriousness of the problem, personally rushed over, commanded the troops, repelled the Kuomintang army, and recaptured the island of Dayushan.
In order to strengthen the command, The Eastern Field Headquarters ordered Hu Qicai to sit in a division on the front line. Hu Qicai carefully inspected the defensive positions and found that there were many problems, so he redeployed the artillery and issued a death order, as long as the infantry requested, whether day or night, the artillery must accurately shoot the enemy, cooperate with and cover the infantry to fight.
Hu Qicai also came to the first line of the Tashan position and ordered 60 artillery shells to bombard the fortifications painstakingly built by the front-line soldiers, but the fortifications were destroyed without being beaten. Hu Qicai said,
Even the 60 cannons could not withstand it, and the artillery fire of the Kuomintang came, and this fortification must have been rotten in one dozen.
It is necessary to rebuild fortifications, and the newly constructed large and small bunkers must alternately cover them, so that they can prevent air defense, artillery, and poison, and they must also be able to live in the bunkers, treat diseases, reserve ammunition, rest and fight again, and make them a strong fighting fortress.
Later, the Tashan position was able to withstand several rounds of fierce bombardment by Kuomintang artillery fire, and the enemy army was besieged by tens of millions of people, and I stood still, which was inseparable from Hu Qicai's efforts. Lin Biao's wisdom recognized the hero, and he named Hu Qicai, who could fight, to sit on the front line, because he fully believed in his command ability.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="50" > General Chi Haotian, who was defense minister, tells a legendary story</h1>
There is also a legendary story about Hu Qicai. In 1986, Chi Haotian, then political commissar of the Jinan Military Region, once went up Yimeng Mountain three times, and once passed by the yishui water's edge and met an old man who was fishing, and the old man was over the age of flower armor, crane hair and childlike face, fluttering like an immortal. At that time, the situation was that the willows were yiyi, and the mountains were green, like entering a fairyland.
Chi Haotian took the initiative to go over to see the old man and said that he had fought in this place, and the old man asked,
Do you know that there was a Commander Hu back then?
Chi Haotian replied,
Are you talking about General Hu Qicai?
The old man was overjoyed, stood up and danced, and sang a song:
(Chi Haotian Book presented to Lieutenant General Hu Qicai)
Hu Qicai, really brave, commanded the eight roads to fight Yeyuan, killed the devil thirty-three, and captured an interpreter alive.
Chi Haotian was very touched and couldn't help but pay tribute to this old man. In 1987, when he entered Beijing for a meeting, Chi Haotian specially wrote this anti-Japanese folk song and gave it to General Hu Qicai. Chi Haotian was made a general in 1988 and served as defense minister.
Who is this Hu Qicai?
China's first general County, the founding lieutenant general who came out
Hu Qicai was a native of Hong'an, Hubei Province, a general from China's first general county, and Li Xiannian, Chen Xilian, and Wang Jinshan were fellow villagers of the same town, and they were all from Gaoqiao Town. In 1930, at the age of 15, Hu Qicai signed up for the army, and when he was serving as a battalion instructor in the Red Fourth Front, the battalion commander was Chen Zaidao.
The Red Army crossed the meadow, hu Qicai served as the political commissar of the regiment, and his commander was Xu Shiyou. Hu Qi is Xu Shiyou's old subordinate. In 1935, Hu Qicai was promoted to political commissar of the division, and his partner was still Chen Zaidao, the later founding general. The Eighth Route Army was established, and Hu Qi was the deputy commander of the 770 regiment of the 385th Brigade, and soon became the political commissar of the regiment.
(Zhou Zhijian, Xu Shiyou and Hu Qicai)
In 1938, Hu Qicai advanced into Shandong, opened up a battlefield behind enemy lines, and since then fought in the land of Qilu for a long time, serving as deputy brigade commander of the First Brigade and chief of staff of the Luzhong Military Region, when the commander of the Luzhong Military Region was Wang Jian'an, and later the founding general.
Hu Qicai's real name is Hu Qicai, in 1939, his superiors approved him to marry, but wrote his name as Hu Qicai, and in the future, he will be wrong, and he will be called Hu Qicai. Of course, the revolution cannot be done for the sake of money, and this clerical error by the superiors should be crooked and correct, and hu Qicai changed his name to a good name.
In 1945, Nazi Germany surrendered, the Japanese army was gradually defeated in the Pacific Theater, the Shandong Eighth Route Army launched a major counterattack against the Japanese army, Hu Qicai commanded a regiment to surround the Yeyuan stronghold occupied by the puppet army, quickly launched an attack, and the puppet army asked the master Japanese army for help.
The Japanese immediately sent a squad of more than 30 people to Yeyuan. Hu Qicai immediately made a decision, decided to make a plan, besieged the city to provide reinforcements, set up ambush troops, and ambushed the Japanese army on the way. After the Japanese army entered the encirclement, Hu Qicai gave an order, the eighth route army officers like fierce tigers descended the mountain, after a fight, 33 Japanese troops except 1 person was captured, all the others were killed, Hu Qicai also captured 1 interpreter.
Looking at the scene of japanese corpses strewn across the field, Hu Qicai picked up the camera and left a precious photo. The photographs were later collected in the Military Museum. The battle of Yeyuan was really a great pleasure, and the impact on the local area was very great.
So much so that the locals compiled a song and sang it everywhere, widely praising the anti-Japanese hero story of General Hu Qicai and remembering it from generation to generation. Decades later, the old man who has passed the flower armor is still opening his mouth, as if the story happened yesterday.
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At the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Hu Qicai was promoted to deputy commander of the Third Division. Throughout his life, Hu Qicai held a low position during the Red Army period and the Eighth Route Army period, which was comparable to some founding generals. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Luo Ronghuan ordered Hu Qicai to lead the organs and 50,000 troops into the northeast with him.
Hu Qicai settled his two young sons in his father-in-law's mother-in-law's house and took his wife and eldest son to report to Luo Ronghuan. Luo Ronghuan handed over the confidential personnel to Hu Qicai to take charge of, and specially instructed that if there was danger on the road, he would throw all the confidential documents into the sea, but the password must be swallowed into his stomach.
This shows that Luo Ronghuan trusts Hu Qicai very much. After entering the northeast, the fourth column was established, with Wu Kehua as commander and Hu Qi as deputy commander. Wu Kehua was transferred to the Liaodong Military Region, and Hu Qicai took over as the commander of the Fourth Column.
At that time, Han Xianchu was also in the Fourth Column, serving as deputy commander. Later, the world-famous Whirlwind Commander was once Hu Qicai's deputy. In the Battle of Sibao Linjiang, Hu Qicai and Han Xianchu commanded the troops together and won the Battle of Xinkailing, completely annihilating the Kuomintang's 25th Division, which claimed to be the Qianliju, and captured the division commander Li Zhengyi alive.
It was from here that an integrated division of the Kuomintang army was completely annihilated in the northeast battlefield. In 1947, Hu Qicai left the front line due to injuries and went to the rear for treatment, Wu Kehua re-served as the commander of the fourth column, and Hu Qicai became the deputy commander.
Chen Yun asked Hu Qicai if he had any opinions on the change of his post, and Hu Qicai said that he had no opinions, but he was still a little unhappy in his heart; everyone from the commander of the column to the deputy commander knew that this was a demotion, and if he did not fight well, he had nothing to say, and the fact was that he fought very well.
After Luo Ronghuan learned of this matter, he personally entertained Hu Qicai at home and talked to him. Luo Ronghuan said straight to the point,
I have already noticed your question, as a Communist Party member, you must be able to move up and down; during the Red Army period, you were the political commissar of the division, but when the Eighth Route Army was established, you only became the deputy regimental commander, and how many ranks were demoted, can't you also correctly deal with it? Why can't it be treated correctly now?
Luo Ronghuan followed Chairman Mao to participate in the Autumn Harvest Uprising, was one of the first 7 company party deputies after the reorganization of Sanwan, followed Chairman Mao for a long time, learned a lot of magic weapons, was very good at doing ideological and political work, and his words were reasonable, and Hu Qicai was convinced.
By 1948, when the Tashan Blockade Battle began, Hu Qicai was still the deputy commander of the column, willing to serve as Wu Kehua's deputy, and they were sincerely united and fought bloodily, winning this world-renowned blockade battle and locking in the victory of the entire Liaoshen Campaign.
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In 1949, Hu Qicai served as the deputy commander of the 41st Army, he did not go south with the Dongye Army, but stayed in the northeast to treat his illness, and later served as the deputy commander of the air force of the Northeast Military Region, and in 1955, Hu Qicai served as the deputy commander of the engineering corps and was awarded the title of lieutenant general.
In 1975, Hu Qicai retired to the second line and served as the head of the engineering corps advisory group. From the deputy commander of the column, to the deputy commander, to the deputy commander of the engineering corps, Hu Qicai, this wizard who lin Biao saw was very good at fighting and winning battles, but he was willing to take up the deputy post for a long time. Why?
Mainly dragged down by the body. Hu Qicai fought bravely, from the beginning of joining the Red Army, he liked to charge on the front line, and he was wounded a total of 6 times in his life. His chest was hit by shrapnel, and he fell to the ground at that time, because the rescue was timely, and he saved his life.
After recovering from his injuries, he joined the battle, and Hu qi was wounded again, and the bullet went through his front chest muscles and pierced the upper part of his right arm. On another occasion, the bullet pierced his left leg and passed through the middle of the knee joint, because of this injury, Hu Qi was almost left in the home of the local people.
In the most serious one, the bullet ploughed over the top of his head, his face was full of blood, because there was no timely and effective treatment, this injury left a serious sequelae, Hu Qicai later often had a headache unbearable, limb spasms, had to leave the battlefield, hospitalized.
Hu Qicai served as the commander of the fourth column, fought very well, but because of the headache, he could not hold on to the battle, had to go to the rear for treatment, and then was appointed to the deputy post. When the Siye army went south, Hu Qicai left the front line again because of his injuries and illness and took up a post in the military region organs.
As a generation of famous generals who will fight in Lin Biao's eyes, Hu Qicai is very sorry, dragged down by physical injuries, and has served as a deputy for a long time. Chen Zaidao, who was his partner during the Red Army period, was the founding general, and Han Xianchu, who had been his deputy, was also a founding general, but Hu Qicai only awarded the founding lieutenant general, which cannot but be regretted.
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