Chapter 184 6. Mao Zedong had to eat braised pork at the end of the campaign

After the battle, on August 23, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, and Ren Bishi rode to the headquarters of the Northwest Field Army to congratulate the victory of the Shajiadian Battle. Peng Dehuai, Xi Zhongxun, Zhang Jiaxun, Wang Zhen, Xu Guangda and others went to the village entrance to greet them.Mao Zedong's first words when meeting him were: "Good fight!" Peng Dehuai said: "It is the Party Central Committee and Chairman Mao who lead well!" Commander Peng Dehuai was right. The plan for annihilating the enemy was developed by Mao Zedong who stayed up all night for several consecutive days, sometimes consulting maps, sometimes concentrating on meditation, and sometimes drawing circles with pens.The battle lasted 3 days and 2 nights.Mao Zedong did not leave the house for 3 days and 2 nights, and did not go to the kang. When he was tired, he sat on a canvas recliner to refresh himself, smoked 5 packs of cigarettes, and drank dozens of cups of tea.No stools, countless urinations.Please read below Li Yinqiao, who was Mao Zedong's bodyguard at the time, recalled Mao Zedong's command of the Shajiadian battle, from which we can see how hard it was for Mao Zedong to command this battle.

Mao Zedong talked to Zhou Enlai about his plan to wipe out the enemy: Zhong Song thought that he "had meritorious service in aiding the elm", and his arrogance reached the point of running amok.As soon as his 36th Division arrived at Zhenchuan Fort, he immediately divided into two groups and sent the 123rd Brigade eastward to Wulongpu. He rushed to Shajiadian in an attempt to join Liu Kan's troops and force our army to fight back.The enemy is strong and we are weak, and the situation seems to be very unfavorable to us.In fact, it is not the case, we are not in danger, but they are in a desperate situation.In my opinion, if you set up a net for him in Shajiadian, the 36th Division will definitely have nowhere to escape!

Zhou Enlai fully agreed with Mao Zedong's ideas.After the two people researched, the specific combat plan was quickly determined.Before the phone was set up, Mao Zedong ordered the guards Ma Hanrong and Shao Changhe to send the battle plan directly to Peng Dehuai, commander of the Northwest Field Army. The next morning, the wind blew up, the dark clouds dispersed, and thick fog gushed out of the valley.Mao Zedong said that the Battle of Shajiadian was of decisive significance to the entire Northwest War situation. Liangjiacha was 10 kilometers away from the main battlefield, Shajiadian, and he could command it from the nearest Liangjiacha.

Soon, the phone call between the headquarters and the headquarters of the Northwest Field Army was connected.Mao Zedong immediately ordered: "President Peng, I want to talk to him." Soon, the phone rang.The phone is on the slate pot stand.Mao Zedong took a few steps to the pot and grabbed the phone receiver: "Hello, yes, I am Mao Zedong!" Those of us who were guarding in front of the cave were so excited that we jumped up from the ground as if we heard a sound of spring thunder.In the nearly six months since he withdrew from Yan'an in March 1947, Mao Zedong has been using the pseudonym Li Desheng.Today is the first public resumption of the use of Mao Zedong's name!This shows that the development of the situation has reached a great turning point, and the enemy is about to go downhill!

Commander Peng Dehuai reported on the phone that the enemy's 36th Division was surrounded.After hearing this, Mao Zedong said loudly: "Make it clear to all commanders and fighters that this is a decisive battle for the entire battle situation. The enemy must be resolutely, thoroughly, cleanly and completely eliminated, and no enemy will be allowed to escape!" Peng Dehuai reported a few more words, and Mao Zedong still said loudly: "We must dig a trench! Side the water and side the enemy, don't be careless!" After a while, Mao Zedong probably responded to Peng Dehuai's request for instructions, and said loudly: "You must win the first battle. If you win, you can take the initiative... The army has no food? If there is no food, kill the horse and eat it! Let's talk after the battle!"

Putting down the phone, Mao Zedong turned around and asked me, "Yinqiao, do we have any wine?" Mao Zedong was not a good drinker. He would blush even after drinking a glass of wine, so he seldom drank alcohol.But there are two exceptions: one is when the sleeping pills run out, he needs a drink in order to sleep.If you drink one cup, you will faint, and if you drink three cups, you will definitely lie down.Another situation is fighting or writing, without sleep for several days, and you also need to drink some alcohol to stimulate your nerves. During this period of time, sleeping pills were in short supply, so I prepared wine for him.Hearing him ask about wine, I hurriedly replied: "What kind of wine do you want? Is white wine okay?"

"No white wine." Mao Zedong thought for a while, shook his head, and said jokingly, "Zhong Song is not that spicy." "Then take the wine?" Mao Zedong thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "This time there are hundreds of thousands of enemies, and we are side-by-side, and the battle is not that easy...Well, is there any brandy?" "Yes! It's still a foreign product." "I think it's brandy!" Mao Zedong tapped his finger on the map, in the blue circle surrounded by red arrows (indicating the People's Liberation Army) (indicating the enemy), and on Zhong Song's "skull".It seems that he put Zhong Song at the level of brandy: not as spicy as baijiu, and not as soft as wine.

After the battle started, Mao Zedong stood by the telephone, checking the map while contacting the front line.If there is no major event on the front line, just read the telegrams from the various theaters in the liberated areas, or go back to the pot to write telegrams.As soon as the phone rang, I put down my pen and grabbed the receiver again, listened to the reports of the frontline commanders, gave various instructions, and issued various orders.When the mind is tired, sip some brandy to stimulate the stimulation.Cigarettes are smoked one after another, and tea is kept flowing.The soaked tea leaves were sucked into the mouth with fingers, chewed and swallowed.On the first day, a pack of tea leaves is washed three times before eating the tea leaves. On the third day, the tea is brewed once, and the tea leaves are eaten after drinking the water.He never went out of the house or went to the kang. When he was extremely tired, he would close his eyes on the deck chair for a few minutes and resume his work as soon as he lifted his eyelids.

Within two hours, our army wiped out a brigade of the enemy's 36th Division, captured the enemy's brigade commander Liu Ziqi alive, and realized Mao Zedong's plan to win the first battle.Another unit of ours also blocked Liu Kan's troops who were trying to reinforce Zhong Song in the area of ​​Jia County. The liveliest thing in the headquarters is the radio station.Knowing from the enemy station that he heard, Zhong Song was terrified and eager to break through.On the wireless phone, Hu Zongnan scolded Zhong Song by name and ordered him to "stick to it and wait for help."Liu Kan was blocked, afraid of being wiped out by our army, he circled around the Yellow River.Hu Zongnan also cursed Liu Kan by name, and ordered Liu Kan to be dismissed and investigated.As soon as the prelude to the battle of Shajiadian was unveiled, the enemy was in chaos.Chaos returned to chaos, but they followed the chess pieces Mao Zedong laid out for them step by step.

On the evening of August 20, 1947, the Battle of Shajiadian ended victoriously. After the Battle of Shajiadian, Mao Zedong said to me: "Yinqiao, think of a way to help me make a bowl of braised pork, okay? It needs to be fat." I said, "With such a big victory, why not eat a bowl of braised pork? I'll do it right away." Mao Zedong, who had not closed his eyes for 3 days and 2 nights, shook his head wearily: "That's not what I mean. I have used my brain too much during this time, and it will be good for my brain if you give me some fat." I told the chef Gao Jingwen to cook a bowl of braised pork. Mao Zedong sucked the aroma deeply with his nose, squinted his eyes, and exclaimed softly: "Ah, it smells so good!" Just ate a bowl with the bottom upside down.

He put down the bowl, and found me standing beside me dumbfounded, and suddenly became like a child, and smiled embarrassedly: "I'm a bit greedy... I won the battle, my request is not high, right?" My eye circles suddenly turned red.Captured more than 6,000 enemies, he only asked for a bowl of braised pork!I shook my head vigorously: "Not high, not high, the chairman's request is too little, too low." "It's not too low. The soldiers rushed into the battle and didn't eat braised pork. They could only kill horses for food." From that day on, I knew that Mao Zedong loved to eat braised pork, and that he ate it to nourish his brain.From then on, whenever there was a war or he wrote continuously for several days and nights, I would do everything possible to get him a bowl of braised pork.