Chapter 5 Chapter 3 After being ordered

In December 1978, Xu Shiyou participated in the Beijing Conference, returned to Guangzhou on the 9th, and received a written order from the Central Military Commission.He opened it and read it twice, sitting in front of his large writing desk, comprehending the strategic intentions of the Military Commission, and carefully thinking about the tasks of the Guangzhou Military Region. After sitting for a while, he stood up and walked around the room, thinking as he walked: During the war years in the past, many good battles were fought, all of which were fought according to Mao Zedong's military thinking and the intention of the Central Military Commission.To fight this battle well this time, we must also fight the war according to Mao Zedong's military thought and act according to the intention of the Military Commission.The headquarters of the Military Commission pointed out where to fight, and resolutely completed the glorious mission assigned by the Military Commission.Xu Shiyou has always been conscientious in his work and has always carried out the instructions of his superiors meticulously.

Decades of fighting have made his will as strong as steel. No matter how many difficulties and pressures he has, he will resolutely withstand them.No matter during the war years or the "Cultural Revolution", as long as the Party Central Committee and Chairman Mao gave instructions, no matter how many difficulties and dangers there were, he would be unequivocal and always resolutely implement them. At the beginning of 1967, in order to stabilize the troops and control the situation, the Central Military Commission issued an "Eight Points" order. Xu Shiyou, the commander of the Nanjing Military Region at the time, called Liao Zhengguo, the commander of the Shanghai Garrison Region, and said very simply and clearly: "The troops must be stable and must be Stick to your post, and you cannot let Zhang Chunqiao dispatch a single soldier to suppress the masses." This time, after receiving the order from the Military Commission, as usual, what he thought about the most in his mind was how to completely change the strategic intention of the Military Commission into Reality.

At that time, there was no military map in his room, so he had to go to a map of the border of Guangxi. The scale of this map was very small, and he could only see the general situation of geography and topography.He just stood in front of this map and looked at it again and again. He saw the high mountains and steep mountains and dense forests in the border area of ​​Guangxi. Thinking of the hot weather and continuous rain in the combat area, thinking of this combat mission and the situation of the combat troops, he thought about how to beat Vietnamese invaders, complete the combat mission assigned by the Military Commission.

After he received the order from the Military Commission, these ideas and ideological activities gradually brewed and deepened in his residence - the Laohudong dormitory.He recalled the fight with Tang Enbo's troops in the Dabie Mountains during the Red Army period, the fight against Liu Xiang in the Damian Mountain area of ​​Wanyuan County, Sichuan, the fight against the surrendering faction Zhao Baoyuan in Jiaodong, the fight against Chen Jincheng in Weixian County, and the capture of Wang Yaowu in Jinan situation.He also remembered the passive battles he fought under Zhang Guotao's command. He wanted to find something that could be used for reference from history to better complete the combat tasks of the Central Military Commission.

Xu Shiyou stood in front of the border map of Guangxi, motionless, thinking like a writer creating a literary work.He thought about annihilating those enemies first, and where to attack them; he thought about how the troops participating in the war and how each service and arm would march to the border of Guangxi, where they would be stationed, what tasks they would perform, and how they should act; How to deal with political work and local support.He seemed to see thousands of troops and horses marching heroically towards the enemy's position on that map; he seemed to hear the explosion of our artillery shells bombarding the enemy, the rumble of tanks impacting, and he seemed to see the rear of the front line. Deliver ammunition and rescue the wounded in the field.He thought about the conditions for victory, but also the disadvantages. The troops hadn't fought for decades, and many commanders had never fought, and they were fighting in subtropical forests and lacked experience.However, the commanders of the Vietnamese army have combat experience. These are new issues that must be seriously considered and dealt with seriously.After thinking about it, he formed a plan for this operation. It should be said that this is the prototype of the combat plan of the Guangxi theater.

On the evening of the 10th, he instructed the headquarters: The written order of the Military Commission has arrived, and the leaders of the subordinate units will be notified to hold a meeting in the military region at 8 o'clock tomorrow.The headquarters issued a notice of the meeting according to this instruction. Tiger Cave - This is a ravine at the foot of Baiyun Mountain in the northern suburbs of Guangzhou.There are no natural tigers here, but there lives a tiger general of our army—Commander Xu Shiyou.There is a courtyard in the ravine, which is the residence of Commander Xu.This house was originally built for Lin Biao. The standard is quite high, and the furnishings are also very particular. The furniture is all hardwood, and the heating and air conditioning is complete.The yard used to be full of flowers and ornamental trees. After Commander Xu moved in, he planted many orange trees, mango trees, and lychee trees, and it has almost become a variety of orchards.

On the morning of December 11, 1978, Tiger Cave was shrouded in light mist, and the trees were glittering. Pink field blue flowers and yellow rapeseed flowers looked like a huge carpet.A few unknown red-billed and yellow-haired birds jumped on the acacia tree, rustling the branches they stepped on, and chirping morning songs.It is really a beautiful morning garden scene. Outsiders don't know that this is a place where dragons and tigers lie hidden. At 7:30, two jeeps drove slowly from the courtyard, passed Shahe Town, entered Guangzhou City, and headed for the military headquarters compound.Half an hour later, we came to the war department building.The time is accurate, neither early nor late, exactly 8 o'clock.This time was set by Xu Shiyou.Strict adherence to time is his consistent requirement.In the military, sometimes gaining one hour is more important than adding one or two divisions to the army.Combined arms operations and coordinated operations of large corps often use time as the standard for coordinated actions. If the time is not accurate, it will be difficult to exert the overall power, and even win the battle.Time is very important to soldiers and must be strictly observed.If he wants to fight this battle well, the time requirement is even stricter.

When he was a handyman in Shaolin Temple, besides working, he practiced martial arts.That means sitting like a bell, standing like a pine tree, and walking like the wind.After getting out of the car, he passed through the hall on the first floor, went up to the second floor and went straight to the war room, full of energy and brisk walking.He was wearing a neat green military uniform, with a pair of round-mouth cloth shoes on his feet, with two cloth strips on his heels tied around his ankles, which looked very neat and simple; he was wearing a belt around his waist and hung a revolver, which looked mighty and strong; Carrying a yellow kraft paper briefcase, he walked into the war room like a gust of wind.At this time, the war room was full of people, and everyone who participated in the meeting had arrived. Among them were the heads of the military region, the participating units of the military region, and the leaders of the headquarters, the political department, and the logistics department.When everyone saw Commander Xu coming in, they all stood up automatically to show their respect.Xu Shiyou walked and said: "Please sit down, please sit down." He looked around at the comrades who came to the meeting, sat where he always sat, took out an order from his briefcase, and immediately announced: "The meeting is now, today is Combat meeting. I have received a written order from the Military Commission. Today’s meeting is to convey the order. I hope that comrades will concentrate on understanding it carefully before discussing how to implement it.”

He turned his head and said to me: "Convey to everyone, don't convey the part I drew with red pencil. For the sake of confidentiality, I will talk about it later." The map board, the four doors of the war room were closed tightly, and the participants were silent, only the wall clock on the wall was ticking.I took the written order from Xu Shiyou, read it to everyone at broadcast speed, and finished it in a few minutes.I asked everyone for their opinions: "Have you heard clearly, do you want to read it again?" Everyone said to read it again.Xu Shiyou said: "This is an order. Everyone must carry it out. Everyone must hear it clearly and understand it. It's good to read it again, and it's okay to read it twice."

According to Xu Shiyou's suggestion, I read it to everyone word by word at a very slow speed. After a 10-minute break, everyone returned to their seats and expressed their opinions enthusiastically.Some talked about the significance of this operation, some talked about the spirit of the order, and many comrades asked the military region to help solve the problem when the troops took action. Xu Shiyou made a concluding speech. He said: "Comrades have expressed their opinions. Director Wang talked about political work, and Chief of Staff Zhou answered the questions raised by everyone. They all spoke very well. This time, Vice Chairman Deng of the Military Commission called for I command, and I would like to say a few more words: The orders of the Central Military Commission must be carefully implemented and implemented, and must not be careless. In this war, if you don’t fight or don’t fight, you must fight well and continue to write a new glorious history of war. "

After he finished speaking, he looked at the leaders of the various units participating in the meeting. His stern eyes seemed to say: "Listen carefully, I mean what I say, and if anyone fails to complete the task, I will Strictly enforce the discipline on the battlefield." The management of the army is strict, which is the universally recognized criterion of military strategists in ancient and modern China and abroad.It is even more strict in war, which is called "compassion does not control soldiers".This is the outstanding characteristic of Xu Shiyou.Whoever is sloppy and sparse, he doesn't care who you are, the king of heaven and I will punish you. He drank a few sips of tea and said: "Comrades, please pay special attention. The troops in our military region have not fought wars for decades. When we are about to fight, the turn is very sharp. It is not easy to turn this turn, it is not easy! Usually Every night, my wife sleeps peacefully on the bed. When a war breaks out, she has to sleep in the open, on a rock, and sometimes she has no time to sleep. Usually, she has three meals a day. During a war, one meal a day is good, and maybe One meal for three days, or there may be no food for three days. Usually go to work and leave work on time, and work step by step for eight hours a day. When wars start, day and night, there are many situations and military emergencies. We must deal with them as soon as possible. Therefore, comrades are required to Our thinking must change from peacetime to wartime, our lives must adapt to the needs of the war environment, and our style of work must be fast, accurate, and arduous. At present, we must be prepared for action, and if we fail to do so, we will investigate responsibility, no matter who you are Another point, please pay attention to comrades, it must be kept secret. In order to keep it secret, it is decided that this operation to Guangxi will be carried out in the form and name of camping, and the car plate must use the number of the Guangxi Military Region.” After the meeting, I reported to Commander Xu that I planned to convene a meeting with the main departments and bureaus in charge of operations of the headquarters and relevant units of the logistics department to arrange an action plan and organize troops to march towards Guangxi.After listening to it, he said: "No meetings are allowed, and secrets must be kept." According to common sense, the written order of the Military Commission has arrived. The order stipulates the time for the participating troops to arrive in the border areas of Guangxi. To implement these spirits and implement these instructions as soon as possible, arrangements can be made through meetings.However, in order to keep it secret, he refused to agree to the meeting.I had no choice but to assign tasks one by one, and then, the head of the logistics department and I organized a summary in the combat department to form an action plan for marching into Guangxi. After the meeting, Xu Shiyou left all the leading comrades of the military region to carry out a division of labor.He said: "I discussed with Political Commissar Xiang that several comrades will go down to strengthen command: Deputy Commander Ou and Political Commissar Shan will go to the same unit, Deputy Commander Wu will go to the same unit, Deputy Commander Jiang will go to the same unit, and Deputy Commander Yang will go to the same unit. When the political commissar arrived at the logistics department, the political commissar Xiang, Chief of Staff Zhou, and Director Wang pointed out to me, and the rest of the comrades stayed at the Guangzhou Basic Command Post. What do you guys think?” All the deputy commanders and deputy political commissars agreed with this division of labor . After a pause, Xu Shiyou said: "We are going to fight now. Many of our army cadres have never fought. All comrades here have fought many battles. After you go down, you must do a good job in teaching and leading, and you must talk about it." The experience and lessons of past wars should be taught to lower-level cadres, help them work, and strengthen lower-level command. Pay attention! Strengthen them, not replace them, they have their responsibilities, and we must strictly demand them. Their training and training can win the battle if they are strict, and if they are sloppy, they will definitely win the battle. There are many situations in this battle that are different from those in the past. Comrades, please think more about the problem, use your brains more, study hard, and don’t be sloppy.” On December 16, 1978, Xu Shiyou took a military plane and arrived in Nanning, the capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and I also arrived with him.Before departure, Xu Shiyou instructed: "For the sake of confidentiality, no greetings are allowed, and no reports are allowed." In Guangzhou, he greeted the leading departments of the Guangxi Military Region and the autonomous region's party committee.We lived in Mingyuan Guest House in Nanning City without anyone knowing it.Xu Shiyou lives in Room No. 1, which is very big. For the convenience of work, he asked me to live with him in Room No. 1 as well. Ming Garden - a high-end guest house in the urban area of ​​Nanning, looks like a small park.The yard is surrounded by green trees, rows of magnolias with fragrant white flowers, rows of phoenix trees with bright red flowers, and patches of acacia trees with luxuriant leaves and branches.In the courtyard, there are cannas by the roadside, with red flowers, yellow flowers, and pink flowers, which are particularly bright; wintersweet blooms with small yellow flowers, overflowing with fragrance. Room 1 is very spacious.There are bedrooms at both ends with advanced and complete equipment; there is a hall in the middle, where guests can receive guests, watch TV, and hold small meetings; one side has a kitchen and a small dining room; the other side has a large conference room for dozens of people to hold meetings.The lighting in the whole room is very good, and there is heating and cooling air conditioning.Xu Shiyou held a meeting in this house to understand and deal with various issues related to this battle, and further consider how to improve the battle plan. This place is very close to the city center, and it is very convenient to go shopping on the street. If you are traveling, this is a unique place to live; however, we are here to prepare for war, and military operations must be kept secret, so it is obviously not suitable for us.Since the leadership comrades of the autonomous region have arranged us here with good intentions, it is inconvenient to ask for a change of residence immediately, so we have to stay here first and talk about it later. When I first arrived in Nanning, I just started to understand the situation and collect materials. The work was not very intense. After dinner, Commander Xu and I played chess together, watched videos, and talked about history. Xu Shiyou's entertainment content also has his own characteristics: he has leisure during the day, mainly hunting, and occasionally fishing with a net; after dinner, he mainly watches TV, videos, sometimes movies, and occasionally plays chess.Ninety-five percent of the videos he watched were martial arts movies, which probably had something to do with his admiration for martial arts and his eight years of life in Shaolin Temple.One day after dinner, he found two martial arts movies and planned to watch them with the staff. I sat next to him and thought of the legend that he could "fly over the walls", so I asked him: "It is said that you can fly over the walls. How to walk, how to fly, how high can you fly?" He was picking his teeth with a toothpick in his hand.Hearing my question, he stopped picking his teeth, took a toothpick and said: "What's so great about that, I often practiced this movement in Shaolin Temple. At that time, I was young, my legs were sharp, my body was very light, and I jumped onto a ten-foot-high building. The tiles are not broken. Of course, it is not enough to be young, but also to know the essentials. It is not enough to use brute strength, but to use ingenuity. The essential is to leave the house for a dozen steps, run forward vigorously, and use the momentum of running to push two feet against the wall one after another , just like walking up the wall, the speed must be very fast. At the most appropriate time, support the wall with both hands and fly up to the room. Starting from the basic skills and then coherent practice, it will take three to five years of hard work to reach the standard I mentioned above." He changed the subject and said: "We watched the movements on the video, and he also went to the room. He turned his back to the house and flew up immediately, that was a stunt, it was fake, it was acting!" He said more and more vigorously: "Basic skills are the foundation. When I practiced the jib in Shaolin Temple, I was dizzy. His whole body was swollen, and he couldn't even squat down to defecate. If it wasn't for such hard training, his arms wouldn't have so much strength. As I said earlier, it's impossible to support the wall with both hands and fly to the room." After a pause, he continued: "Martial arts are very beneficial to soldiers. During the Red Army period, when I was a platoon leader, battalion commander, and regiment commander, I often used it no matter in training or fighting. Especially in village battles, I can climb walls that others cannot climb; If I don’t go to the room, I can go up; it helped me a lot in the battle.” He contacted our combat mission this time and pointed out: “It is still useful now, if our company, platoon leader, and soldiers have martial arts, their combat effectiveness can be improved. Greatly improved, this battle will be better. Soldiers should greatly promote martial arts training. It has many benefits. It can not only exercise the body, increase flexibility, but also cultivate bravery and enhance close combat capabilities. There are guns and guns without guns. Use sticks, use fists and feet without guns or sticks. If there are guns and knives, missiles and planes, it will be even more powerful." Speaking of this, he thought of picking his teeth and put the toothpick into his mouth. For the sake of confidentiality and work convenience, the autonomous region later chose a place for us that is more suitable for combat preparations than Mingyuan, which is the Xiyuan Guest House in the suburbs of Nanning.This place is outside the city, next to the main road, it is very convenient to go to the airport, without going through the downtown area.After the troops arrive, it is also convenient to find us.The yard is huge and there are many houses, and other heads of the military region can live there.There is a large auditorium where conferences can be held.The gate of this courtyard is unpretentious, and the interior is quiet and beautiful.As soon as you enter the gate, there are neat palm trees on both sides of the spacious road.We still live in Room 1. In front of this house is a fish pond with weeping willows; in front of the right is a flower pond with five or six kinds of flowers in coordinated colors; lychee trees are planted in the open space in the courtyard; Tall Magnolia. On the second day after arriving here, a guest came to have dinner with us. In order to wait for this comrade, Xu Shiyou and I sat at the table and chatted.When he heard that I was from Wanping County, he said, "We are still fellow villagers." "Why are you from my hometown?" I was full of doubts. "Exactly," he said with certainty. "Aren't you from the Dabie Mountains?" I asked again. "That's true," he said. "What's going on here?" I asked. "My family fled to Henan." He explained to me. "Since when did you go to Henan?" I asked again. "When I can't figure it out, it starts with my grandfather's father." Xu Shiyou said. "Where is my hometown now?" I asked. "It is now Xujia (Shanghe Xiashui) Village in Sishuidian District, Xinxian County." Xu Shiyou talked about his own life by the way. On February 28, 1905, Xu Shiyou was born in a mountain village called Xujia (Shanghe Xiashui) in Sidian District, Macheng County, Hubei Province (now Xin County, Henan Province).It was the era of warlords fighting, tyrants plundering, and mourning.At that time, Xu Shiyou's family had more than ten mouths to eat, only 3 cents of land, and could not make ends meet. He begged with his mother when he was a child, herded cattle and cut firewood with his father and brother, and his life was very difficult. Xu Shiyou's hometown is at the junction of Hubei and Henan. The old society was a place where bandits and bandits were active. Coupled with the collusion of soldiers and bandits, the people were disturbed all day and night, and there was no peace all day long. Young and middle-aged people had to practice martial arts for self-defense.When Xu Shiyou was seven or eight years old, he also followed the example of adults, punching and kicking, dancing with guns and clubs with his friends who herded cattle with him, and often fought with sticks instead of guns.In order to have a bite of food and live a life, I always want to find a way out. In 1914, Xu Shiyou had just turned eight years old. One day, a monk from Shaolin Temple came to his hometown to teach martial arts.He saw that the monk was very good at martial arts, and he also heard that he could take care of food in the temple, so he bid farewell to his parents and came to Shaolin Temple in Songshan County, where he became a handyman serving the monks. Handymen are low-class people in the temple. They gather firewood and cook for the monks all day long, wash clothes, make beds, and pour chamber pots for the master. 8-year-old children do the hard labor of adults for 8 years.It can be regarded as a blessing in disguise, just during these 8 years of hard labor, the spirit of hard work of this poor child has been enhanced. After finishing his work, he practiced with his master. It was also very hard to practice in Shaolin Temple.He practiced hard in Shaolin Temple for 8 years. Not only did he master all kinds of swords, guns, swords and sticks, but he also practiced the hard kung fu of flying over eaves and walls. In the eighth year that Xu Shiyou entered the Shaolin Temple, he returned to his faraway hometown and saw that the mountains and rivers remained the same, the predicament remained the same, and corrupt officials and local tyrants and evil gentry were exploiting the common people more and more recklessly.He was thinking, why can't he change his mind?How can the status quo be changed? It was during this time when he was returning home that the son of a bully landlord bullied his elder brother. In a fit of rage, Xu Shiyou kicked that guy to death.He was "expelled" from Shaolin Temple because of his life.From then on, Xu Shiyou started a wandering career.Where is his way out?What is the way out for the people? In 1926, a vigorous peasant movement broke out in the Dabie Mountains. Under the leadership of the Communist Party, the peasants of the four townships rose up to arrest local tyrants, kill evil gentry, resist rent taxes, distribute money and food, and put those lords who wore long robes and jackets and rode on the heads of the people as domineering They were all overturned on the embankment.The farming guy took the seal, and the poor brother became a big committee member.Xu Shiyou looked at the great revolutionary situation and said happily: "The revolution is such a solution to hatred, such a boom, why not make a revolution!" The young Xu Shiyou found a way out, saw the light, ended his life of homelessness, devoted himself to the peasant movement led by the Communist Party, and assumed the first post he was given to him after he participated in the revolution—a farmer in Chengmagang Liuxiang Captain of the Volunteer Team and Captain of the Artillery Team.Since then, he has formed an indissoluble bond with the gun.At that time, most of the weapons were broadswords, spears, and earthen cannons, with only a few steel guns.From then on, Xu Shiyou picked up a big knife.This broadsword has been with him for decades, making him a powerful weapon in battle.He killed many enemies with this broadsword and fought many beautiful battles. Xu Shiyou talks about history, which shows that he cherishes his past.He felt that his life and history were glorious.When a person is in his 70s, he naturally has to think about his future affairs. Everyone has their own ideas. What Xu Shiyou thought was that fighting back in self-defense against Vietnam might be the last battle of his life, and he must fight it well and end it well.Just like writing an article, if you grasp the theme, start well, and end well, it is a good article.I participated in the revolution since I was a child, and fought many victories after joining the army. The battle of self-defense and counterattack against Vietnam must be fought well. This is the end of the article, and it must be "written well".He has said many times that he hopes that this battle will play a positive role in creating a peaceful border and a friendly situation between China and Vietnam. He hopes that this will be the last battle between China and Vietnam. Xu Shiyou's heroism is well known, and I have heard of it for a long time.In addition, I have heard many legends about him, not only true or false.I always want to know the real situation, one is to learn his revolutionary spirit and noble qualities, and the other is to hear his legendary anecdotes. After dinner one day, we took a walk in the yard and talked about the problems the troops had raised during field training.When it comes to interspersing troops for simulated interspersed training, it rained heavily, drenching the soldiers all over.Commander Xu asked: "Why don't you wear a raincoat?" I said that the raincoat weighed 8 catties after being soaked. Raincoats add to the load.He said: Our equipment is too backward. When we were in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the American raincoats we captured were very light.The nylon body armor seized by the U.S. military can protect against bullets from afar and can also protect against shell fragments.Speaking of this, I think of a folk legend that Xu Shiyou is invulnerable.I asked him: People say that you are "invulnerable to swords and guns", what's the matter?He said decisively: "That's nonsense. There is no one who is invulnerable. I participated in the Death Squad seven times, and I still have scars. How can I say that I am invulnerable? I have been in it many times!" We walked slowly on the path beside the fish pond, and he said as we walked: I am not easily killed. I have fought many tough and bad battles in my life, but I have not been killed. This is true.He said: In the vicious battles in history, I used a big knife to fight the enemy three times, and I can still recall the general situation now.He briefly described the process of the three fights. The first time I made it was at a tofu shop in the Dabie Mountains.At that time, after learning about the enemy's reinforcements, the Red Fourth Front Army Headquarters conducted a detailed analysis: Although the enemy's forces were large, they had not yet figured out where our main force was and their true intentions; ; If we occupy a favorable terrain and concentrate our forces to take advantage of its movement to make a violent assault, it may wipe out part of it and destroy most of it.So it was decided to use the 12th Division to build fortifications in the Tofudian area and act as a frontal block; the 10th and 11th Divisions were used as the left-wing outflank, and the 73rd Division that besieged the city was used as the right-wing detour.When the mall defends the enemy, it is surrounded and monitored by local troops. The 12th Division was on standby at Shuangchunshu Yiyi, and it was already dark when they arrived at the tofu shop.Master Chen Geng immediately organized the cadres of each regiment to survey the terrain, and decided to concentrate the main force on the front line of defense northwest of the tofu shop. The 34th regiment was on the left side of the road, the 36th regiment was on the right side of the road, and the 35th regiment was the reserve team. Although there are only a dozen households in the tofu shop, the roads around the area are twists and turns, and the valleys are undulating. There is a tributary of the Chunhe River in the east, Bailu River in the west, a forest in the south, and a high hill in the north. It is an ideal battlefield for aid. The 34th regiment immediately deployed its troops to rush to repair the fortifications. Everyone "Ding Ding Dang Dang" worked most of the night and built several field fortifications. The soil and stones that had just been dug out were covered by heavy snow in a short while.The soldiers squatted in the trenches, listening to the howling of the blizzard, looking forward to the dawn, eager to fight. In the early morning of February 1, the enemy's right-hand army squirmed from the traditional shop to the tofu shop.At 9 o'clock in the morning, the 1st Battalion of the 34th Regiment fought with the enemy first near Caigang. Xu Shiyou was the regiment commander at that time. The enemy, this is Tang Enbo's troops. The weapons they use are all Japanese-made "38-type" rifles. Xu Shiyou said to Battalion Commander Liu: "The enemy's guns are good, this time pay him a few more, and bring the enemy closer to fight!" Seeing that our army stopped shooting, the enemy immediately swarmed over.Just before arriving at the position, Battalion Commander Liu ordered the troops to throw out a row of grenades.Under the cover of the smoke screen, the soldiers jumped out of the trench and rushed towards the enemy. After all, Chiang Kai-shek's direct line troops had eaten "regular" meals for a few days. They fought with bayonets, advanced and retreated quite methodically, and after an hour of fierce fighting, the enemy was defeated. It was a bitter fight in the first round, but the joy of victory inspired the troops, and laughter was everywhere on the battlefield.The soldiers held the "38-type" rifles they had just seized, looked left and right as if they were admiring something rare, and pulled the bolt to rattle. Seeing Xu Shiyou, Battalion Commander Liu said: "Commander, this battle is really evil! It's really fun to use big swords as soon as you come up!" At about 10 o'clock, the enemy concentrated artillery fire and bombed indiscriminately, and the fortifications that the troops had just repaired were blown down again, and the positions were densely covered with bomb craters and filled with gunpowder smoke.After the artillery fire was extended, the enemy launched a full-line attack on the position of the 12th Division with the strength of 6 regiments. In front of the 34th regiment's position, about 3 regiments are advancing step by step.Although our army's firepower killed and injured a large number of enemies, it failed to stop the enemy's advance.After a while, the enemy rushed to the front of the position.The soldiers jumped up and rushed towards the enemy without thinking about their own safety. A thrilling hand-to-hand combat unfolded in the ice and snow.The loud sound of bugles, the ear-splitting shouts, the clash of weapons, the howls of the enemy and the cries of the blizzard mixed together, shaking the gloomy sky.On the snow-capped slopes, beside large and small ponds, in the thorny forest, there are battlefields of life and death everywhere.Soldiers are in groups of three or five, fighting, wrestling, and chasing the enemy... At 5:00 p.m., there was a sudden burst of gunfire from the enemy's right rear. The 30th Regiment of the Red 10th Division inserted into Liuzhai with swift movements and surrounded the enemy's command post. The 32nd Regiment seized the traditional shop ferry. The road was cut off, and there was a sudden chaos, and they retreated one after another. The 12th Division took advantage of the situation to launch a frontal counterattack, chasing and annihilating an enemy regiment near the tofu shop. The battle of the tofu shop is the most exciting scene in the battle of Shanghuang. The second time was in Feng Ershou and Qiliping in the Dabie Mountains. In early July 1932, the enemy's large-scale "encirclement and suppression" was in full swing. Under the command of Chiang Kai-shek, the three armies from the left, middle and right began to attack us.Among them, in addition to the left army commanded by He Chengjun, which was dedicated to the western Hunan and Hubei regions, the central and right armies, with a total of 24 divisions and 5 brigades with about 300,000 people, besieged the Hubei, Henan and Anhui bases with all their strength. On the northern line Chen Jiji and other corps entered Daxindian, Xuanhuadian, and Huashanji; on the eastern line Xu Tingyao and other columns entered Hekou and Dingjiaji in the south of Huoqiu; on the western line Wei Lihuang and other columns entered Xiadian and Caidian , Changxuanling and other places, all of which are close to the central area of ​​the base area.Seeing that none of his fronts were counterattacked, Chiang Kai-shek changed his tactics of step by step and steady and steady attack. On August 7, he ordered a general offensive, and restricted Chen Chengji's column, which was the main offensive task, to occupy Qiliping before the 14th, and Wei Lihuang's column reached the river mouth at the same time. In the area, rush to Hong'an.At this time, if our army moves to a favorable location, takes advantage of the enemy's weakness of rushing forward and has a long battle line, chooses to annihilate them along the way, and destroys them one by one, it is entirely possible to break the enemy's "encirclement and suppression".However, Zhang Guotao's mistakes in guiding ideology determined his mistakes in military command.Facing the ferocious enemy, he hastily withdrew the siege of Macheng, and ordered my main force to rush to Hong'an to fight the enemy in a hurry. The prelude to the "encirclement and suppression" was kicked off in such a hasty situation. At noon the next day, the 34th and 36th Regiments of the Red Army rushed to the Feng Ershou area in the west of Hong'an City under the scorching sun.Before the soldiers had time to twist their sweat-soaked clothes, the enemy launched an attack on our army viciously. The enemy in front of us was the 10th Division of Li Mo'an's Department. This division is a direct descendant of Chiang Kai-shek. It has not yet confronted the main force of the Red Army.At dusk, with the cooperation of the brothers who participated in the battle one after another, part of the enemy was defeated. On the 12th, the enemy reorganized its offensive and approached our forward positions many times. The 34th and 30th regiments opened the way with grenades, rushed into the enemy group to fight with them, killed many enemies, captured dozens of machine guns, and the battle formed a stalemate. On the morning of the 13th, the front army headquarters ordered the two units to move to the Qiliping area, and the 34th regiment defended a mountain ridge near Jiuzui Mountain. On August 15th, it was just dawn, and there was a dull sound of motors in the air. Xu Shiyou looked up and saw several planes flying from the direction of Wuhan, circling over our army's position.Soon, row after row of bombs fell, and smoke soared into the sky from all the hills.Immediately afterwards, the enemy Chen's inheritance column launched a fierce attack on various positions of our army. Another bitter battle. After all, the Chen inheritance column is a vicious dog that Chiang Kai-shek has raised for many years, and it is much better at fighting than the miscellaneous troops.Under the cover of artillery fire, they flexibly used the terrain and features to approach our position step by step, so that our army's firepower could not kill a large number of people.What's even worse is that some enemy soldiers with good marksmanship only attacked our cadres and machine gun shooters, posing a greater threat.Not long after the battle started, many comrades sacrificed their precious lives. The casualties on the 34th Regiment's position continued to increase, and more machine gun shooters were injured.Seeing that my firepower had weakened, the enemy immediately howled and rushed forward. At this time, the commander of the 1st Battalion suddenly grabbed a machine gun and swept at the enemy group; the machine guns and rifles of the whole regiment also roared angrily at the same time. In an instant, a fire net was woven; a soldier whose leg was injured was lying on the ground and threw grenades at the enemy group.The enemy was stunned by this stormy counterattack, rolling down the mountain in piles... At noon, when Xu Shiyou led the 34th regiment to take advantage of the enemy's attack, he launched a fierce counterattack against the enemy.Amidst the earth-shattering killing sounds, the soldiers drew out their big knives and rushed to the enemy group, slashing at the enemy's head.The enemy used a bayonet to defend from the left and stab to the right, showing no weakness at all, and the fight was inextricable for a while.The intensity of this battle greatly surpassed any battle experienced by the 34th regiment, and the sound of clashing knives and guns and the sound of fighting with changed voices filled the ears.The blood splashed in the air and flowed on the ground, staining the uniforms of the commanders and fighters of the 34th regiment, the rocks and thatch red, and even the water of Liulin River was dyed red. The third fierce battle was from November 1933 to September 1934, when the Red Fourth Front Army fought an unprecedented large-scale battle with the Sichuan warlords headed by Liu Xiang in the base area of ​​the Sichuan-Shanxi Border Region. In this battle, Xu Shiyou led the 25th division to fight the enemy desperately. He was very heroic in defending Wanyuan and counterattacking. The enemy's situation at that time was like this: In mid-May, Liu Xiang held a military meeting in Chengdu with the participation of various commanders-in-chief to plan the "fourth general offensive" against our army.Liu Xiang asked the warlords from all walks of life to draw more troops to participate in the siege, and once again boasted that they would "clean up" the Red Army in the Sichuan-Shanxi border area within one and a half months.However, warlords from all walks of life are wary of each other, only trying to protect themselves, and unwilling to increase the stakes in the siege where there is no winner.Liu Xiang had no choice but to take out all his main forces, transfer the Chen Lanting Division of the Frontier Defense Army to strengthen the Fifth Route, and transfer Pan Wenhua's tutor and the temporary Second Division as the general reserve team.In this way, the enemy's total strength reached more than 140 regiments, of which Liu Xiang's troops had more than 80 regiments. In order to strengthen the unified command on the front line, the enemy also established the "Front Military Committee of the Bandit Suppression Commander-in-Chief", and brought out its "senior advisor" Liu Congyun, a quack warlock, as the chairman of the committee.Liu Xiang had his plan to lift Liu Congyun out at this time.On the one hand, they want to use the master-student relationship and feudal superstition to "improve morale and maintain internal relations";What about Liu Congyun?他深为一贯道首，可权势欲很重，涉足于四川军政各界，一心想借助帮会关系，攫取四川大权。这时他军权在握，踌躇满志，刚到南充就大放厥词，扬言：“只需30天不费吹灰之力，共匪自然消除。”对于刘从云这一派胡言乱语，连国民党自己都不相信。当时四川报纸曾经预言：“刘从云既世所谓刘神仙，一片神话，毫不知兵。识者预测剿匪前途，将遭受意外之挫折。” 敌人第四期总攻的企图是：西线由通江北，沿川陕边界向东横扫；集中主力于东线夺取万源及其附近地区，尔后东西合击，以达最后歼灭红军主力之目的。 红9军和4军、30军各一部于1934年6月上旬进入万源一线阵地。许世友和该师政委陈海松，率领红25师守卫在万源以南大面山、青山一带阵地上。 红25师进入大面山阵地后，按照坚守要点、多留预备队的原则，现场确定了防御部署，尔后组织部队昼夜构筑工事、设置障碍。先在一些要点上，依据山势从下至上构筑数道以至十几道堑壕，尔后就地把大树砍倒，垒成一人多高三四米厚的层层“木城”。在敌人必经的路面上插上竹签，或编成竹篱笆，和鹿砦结合起来组成多道防御设施。在一些险陡的地段上准备了大量的滚木擂石。阵地构成后，第一梯队73、75两个团各留守一个营的兵力在要点上坚守，其余兵力分别隐蔽配置在防御纵深内，作为机动部队。 取代王陵基担任第五路总指挥的唐式遵，对刘湘惟命是从，他不管其它各路是否行动，率先在万源前线发动了进攻。6月15日、16日，他以刚调来的陈兰亭师和第二师的刘光瑜旅，在飞机助战下，向我25师发动攻击，激战两日均未得逞。6月20日，又以6个旅的兵力，分左、右两路向我25师阵地猛攻，往返冲杀，激战甚烈，在我军坚强阻击下，又遭失败。 正当唐式遵策划对万源发动新的攻势时，红四方面军总部于7月初在万源前线召开军事会议，确定了坚守万源，准备反攻的作战方针。会议决定：25师、88师、12师及33军一部利用万源一线有利地形实行坚守防御，在西线兄弟部队配合下，坚决打垮敌人的进攻，为全面反攻创造条件。 7月16日，唐式遵以8个旅的兵力，向大面山、孔家山和南天门等地发起猛攻。敌在飞机大炮掩护下，进行波浪式的冲锋，一上午就有六七次之多。敌人是赶鸭子战术，冲锋时象看大戏一样人山人海。我军依托阵地沉着应战，待敌人进到几十米处，各种火器一齐开火，滚木擂石倾泻而下。陷入我火网中的“双枪兵”象鸭子一样炸了群，四处奔逃，抱头鼠窜。我军看准时机，及时跳出堑壕，挥动大刀，猛追猛杀，杀得敌人尸横满山，血染山坡。敌人的冲锋就这样被我军一次又一次地粉碎了。 唐式遵把他的队伍稍加整顿后，于7月22日、27日又先后两次对大面山及其以东的甑子坪我军阵地发动了更大规模的进攻。战斗进行得异常激烈。前沿阵地不时被敌人突破，营的敢死队、团的预备队都投入了战斗，同敌人进行反复争夺。 正当红25师与敌人浴血奋战的时候，躲在后面的张国焘却被敌人吓破了胆，他打电话问许世友：“大面山能不能守的住啊？……”许世友听着他那哭泣似的声音，就想起敌人进攻万源以前他那悲观失望的样子，斩钉截铁地说：“刘湘就那么两下子，没有什么了不起，我保证人在阵地在就是了。”放下电话，就直奔大面山阵地去了。 敌人的一次冲锋被打退，到处弥漫着呛鼻子的硝烟，阵地被炮火打得象耕过的土地。73团团长刘理运告诉他，有些地段土少石头硬，工事打平了来不及修，战士们就把敌人的尸体拖来头对脚、脚对头地垒起来，上面再盖上浮土，就成了简易工事。许世友说：“这倒是一个发明创造，一切取之于敌。”7月的川北，以是盛夏高温季节，加上阴雨连绵，敌人的尸体很快腐烂发臭，阵地上到处弥漫着令人作呕的臭气。战壕里到处都是又黑又臭的污水，战士们就泡在臭水中作战。这需要多么坚强的勇气和毅力啊！ 许世友回过头来问身边的1营营长：“怎么样，守住阵地有把握吗？”营长回答说：“副军长（许是副军长兼师长），你放心，我们决不给25师丢脸，绝不当孬种，就凭我们手里的大刀，拼也要把敌人拼下去！”许世友听着1营长这样有力地回答，非常高兴。25师是在黄麻起义中诞生和发展壮大起来的，从鄂豫皖到川陕边区是一直打硬仗打恶仗的，战士们有一种为维护本部队荣誉而献身的革命英雄主义精神。在这样的军队面前，有什么困难不能克服，有什么样的敌人不能战胜呢！ 在万源前线激战时刻，总指挥徐向前亲临大面山前线视察。许世友陪他看了部队的阵地，向他汇报了这几天的作战情况。回到指挥所里，徐总指挥向25师干部们介绍了全面情况，并指示说：“大面山是敌人主攻方向之一，是全线的重点阵地，一定要守住。”许世友说：“横竖是由我无敌，有敌无我，有我们25师在，敌人就休想过大面山！” 刘湘见对万源的几次猛攻损兵折将，毫无进展，焦灼万状。在智拙技穷之际，他颁布了一个严惩重罚的奖惩条例，宣布以3万元银元作为夺下万源及其附近阵地的奖赏。并规定：擅自放弃阵地者军法从事；师长、旅长又不亲临前线指挥者处死。 在刘湘的督令下，敌人于8月6日开始对万源发动了最大的一次猛攻。唐式遵坐阵指挥，发誓“要日内将万源攻下”。 战斗越是激烈，指挥所越要靠前，许世友的指挥所转移到离前沿阵地只有200米的老鹰寨，对敌人的一举一动都看得清清楚楚。敌人在进攻中，由营以下军官组成敢死队，旅、团指挥官赤膊督战，对畏惧不前者就地枪决。飞机炸，大炮轰，激战从早到晚，我军阵地屹然不动，敌人付出惨重代价，未能前进一步。 这天晚上，敌人一反常态，硬是赖在我阵地前面不肯退走。这一反常现象引起我军的关注。当晚许世友和师政委陈海松一起到75团的青山阵地巡视，只见敌军阵地内亮光闪烁，忽明忽暗。看到这种情况，陈海松风趣地说：“刘湘、唐式遵可以用督战队制止他们的士兵向后退，但是没有办法不让他的'双枪兵'吸大烟。” “这倒是给我们提供了一次练习夜间射击的机会。”许世友说罢，顺手从战士手中接过一条步枪，“叭、叭、叭”就是三枪，随着枪声，敌人阵地上的火光熄灭了一片，接着传来了一阵嚎叫。 许世友对75团团长韩东山说：“立即通知部队，把神枪手组织起来，哪里有火光就往哪里打，下半夜在派小部队袭击敌人，抓俘虏摸情况，决不能让敌人在阵地前安安稳稳地过夜。” 第二天，许世友从指挥所里向外看，只见山坡上、山沟里、到处都是敌人，象数不清的狼群，向我阵地上扑来。快到阵地前沿了，我们的火器一齐开火，猛烈的火力象一阵狂风暴雨扫向敌人，成群的敌人纷纷倒下。但是后面的敌人还是向上涌，有的竟冲到我们的堑壕。我军战士、干部抱着与阵地共存亡的决心，大刀在阳光下闪着白光，两军兵械相接之处红花花的，也分不清是刀尾的红布，还是鲜血。 当我军在大面山、青山与敌人激战的时候，一股敌人从73团和75团之间的结合部突了进来，先头已进至师指挥所右侧的山脚下，情况十分危急。许世友决定反击这股敌人，在电话中对74团团长潘幼卿说：“按照预定方案出击，坚决把突进来的敌人吃掉。73团和75团用火力支援你们。” 反击的号声响了，许世友向陈海松交待了一下情况，就带着直属分队参加反击去了。我军反击的队伍如潮水一样压向敌人，枪声、炮声、战士们的喊杀声，震天撼地。一个敌军指挥官正挥舞着手枪大喊大叫，许世友飞身过去，劈头就是一刀，也不知道是刀太快，还是砍得猛，那家伙的头向山坡下滚出去好远，他的身子还踉踉跄跄地向前跑了好几步。一场血与火的拼杀结束了，漫山遍野都是敌人的尸体，突进来的敌人被全部歼灭了。 敌人的进攻力量消耗殆尽了。被逼着再冲上来的敌人以精疲力竭，一个个象喝醉酒一样摇摇晃晃、东倒西歪。傍晚，25师发起全线反击，师团干部带着部队一起杀向敌人。敌人溃不成军，狼狈而逃。全师一气追杀七八里，直把敌人赶到白沙河边，才返回阵地。 讲完这3次拼杀过程后，许世友停下脚步，对我说：“万源防御战，是我一生中经历过的一次规模最大、时间最长，也是极为残酷的坚守防御作战。我军经过70余天的艰苦奋战，挫败了刘湘主力十几万人的多次猛攻，大量地消耗了敌人的有生力量，粉碎了敌人妄图消灭我军的企图，为全面反攻创造了有利条件。” 许世友停了一停，满怀深情地说，在过去的作战中牺牲了很多优秀的干部、战士，打出来一个新中国，那是值得的。这次是为中越两国人民友好而战。我们必须发扬过去那种敢打敢拼的战斗作风，英勇杀敌，打出一个和平的边界，打出一个稳定的社会环境。我们不要越南的一寸土地，但我们也不能放弃我国的一寸土地。我们这次作战是有限目的、有限时间、有限空间的作战，达到惩罚黎笋集团的目的就撤军回国，守住我国的南疆。 说到这里，许世友抬起头向南方远眺，目光中充满了坚定、果敢和勇敢、又饱含着对未来美好的遐想。他象是对我，又象是对自己缓缓地说道：“我们不愿意打仗，但我们不惧怕战争。”