Chapter 7 Chapter Seven

July 1947 Southwest The first column of Liu Deng's army crossed the Yellow River from Sunkou and Linlou without stopping for a moment, and then rushed to Yuncheng, the center of the "Yellow River Defense Line" of the Kuomintang army a hundred miles away, at a forced march of 20 li per hour. There is fire in July, and there is no shelter on the vast plain.The soil on the road was scorching hot, and the soldiers' feet rubbed against each other, and a string of white smoke appeared at each step. The whole team seemed to be walking on red-hot iron plates.On the boundless field, sorghum taller than a person was scattered on the ground, already withered.Flocks of crows are pecking at unripe millet.Cotton, mung beans, sweet potatoes, and melon vines were all uprooted, lifeless vines entrenched on the brown land like dead snakes.A large group of flies flew up and down, buzzing, sucking the festered raw melon...

The soldiers are all the children of farmers, and they understood what crops mean to farmers when they were young when they followed their parents to glean ears of wheat.The dry and lifeless sorghum, beans, and melon vines in front of them made them feel distressed. An old man sat in the wasteland where the sorghum had been felled, his dull eyes kept looking at the speeding procession.Suddenly, he lay down on the ground, rolled and crawled, and stopped a big chestnut horse——Yang Yong, the commander of the first column.Yang Yong hastily got off his horse. "Revenge me!" the old man cried bitterly.Yang Yong helped the old man up.

The old man called Han Qiyi. He pointed to the wilderness and said, "The sorghum has grown taller, and the tassels are red. Cao Fulin's team came and gave an order to pull out all the sorghum within five miles on both sides of the road and within ten miles around the county town within five days. Violators will be punished according to military law..." Here is the Great Plains, and the roads are as dense as a spider's web, with no more than a mile between them.This is equivalent to saying that all the sorghum should be pulled out.Their reason was frank and simple: the sorghum was invisible, the communist army could not see it when it came, and it was inconvenient for the national army to withdraw.And it's not just sorghum that needs to be pulled out, but also millet, beans, sweet potatoes, and melon vines, because these things "stumble when running."

Three orders were issued.The first said: If you don't pull it out, you will be punished with one bullet for each sorghum.The second order said: One sorghum will be punished with one gun.The third order said: If you don't pull it out for three days, you will be shot.The fifth younger brother of the old man Han Qiyi is a tough guy. He said: "Pull up or die, if you don't pull up, you will die. If you don't pull up!" He took the lead in not pulling up, so 28 households in the village did not pull up.As a result, on the third day, the family pulled out a man, tied them together, and buried him alive in their sorghum field...

The old man Han Qiyi was crying so hard that he pointed to a separate dry sorghum tree in the distance: "That is the mark we made, and my fifth brother and the others are buried there... We burn incense every day, hoping that you will come and liberate soon... ...Looking forward to your revenge..." Yang Yong comforted the old man, jumped on his horse and whipped his whip, and galloped away. After a while, the password came down: "speed up and get to Yuncheng before dark!" Last year, the army also came to Southwest Shandong at this time.The people here are as close as the people in Taihang Mountain.On a hot day, they braved artillery fire to send watermelons all the way to the trenches, and they piled up too much to eat.The women washed bloody clothes and fed the wounded; those who were seriously injured and could not eat, they squeezed out their own milk and fed it spoonful by spoonful.This is how Zhang Yulou of the second regiment of the first column was rescued.When he passed by that village during the march, he asked the company commander for leave and insisted on going to see the sister-in-law.The company commander gave him ten minutes.Ten minutes later he came back crying, saying that his sister-in-law had been raped by Cao Fulin's soldiers and jumped into the well...

The team marched silently across the land of Southwest Lu. Yang Yong's Japanese oceanic horse has four hooves blowing wind, kicking up desert yellow dust. Thirty-five-year-old Yang Yong is from Liuyang, Hunan.For Lunan, he has feelings for his second hometown.At the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he led his troops here to open up a base area, haunted waters and plains, and formed a life-and-death relationship with the mountains, rivers, and villages in Southwest Shandong.In the early days of the War of Liberation, he commanded troops to liberate Yuncheng.This time, when crossing the south of the river, Yuncheng is the first hurdle.Before departure, Liu Bocheng gave instructions: "Whether Yuncheng fights well or not has a great relationship, and directly affects the implementation of the overall strategy. You can't be vague at all!"

In mid-March this year, the first and seventh columns of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army merged, and Yang Yong served as the commander of the merged first column.In the battle in northern Henan in late March, the first column undertook the task of attacking and annihilating the Yellow River Iron Bridge to defend the enemy and blow up the Yellow River Iron Bridge.This is a key part of the Northern Henan Campaign.As a result, the enemy guarding the bridge had fierce firepower, and the first brigade performing the task could not approach the bridgehead, and failed to complete the task of blowing up the bridge.Xinyizong lost the first battle, and the contusions and shocks were huge.Although after the battle review and rectification and rest, whether the entire column has really recovered its vitality and whether it can revive the tiger's prestige depends on the battle of Yuncheng...

"Song Jianghe!" Shouted Pan Yan, chief of staff of the first column who rode his horse to Yang Yong's side. Yang Yong raised his eyes and looked into the distance, and a black curve appeared in his vision. Pan Yan said with emotion: "The weeping willows on both sides of the river are all gone, and the green gauze tents have also been cut down, leaving only the river water that can't be cut down!" Yang Yong was speechless.A dark city wall floats in the glowing circle of sunlight, and the changing floating light and fog make the city wall mysterious and dark, like an ancient castle in the 16th century in mythology.

Yuncheng has arrived. There are almost one or two pomegranate trees planted in farmhouses in Southwest Shandong, with oily green leaves and luxuriant branches.The rooster crowed three times, the sky was getting brighter, and the chirping of birds sounded from the pomegranate tree. It was as joyous as a play. Liu Bocheng is used to getting up at dawn, the first thing he does is to ask the guards about the weather; then wash up; then he sits in the yard and reads a book until breakfast.For many years, no matter how late I went to bed, I still got up early.Last night he was in charge of proofreading the translation of "Contract Tactics", and he didn't turn off the lights until midnight.

Deng Xiaoping also likes to get up early, take a cold shower, and then do exercises and take a walk outside the village. After breakfast, Deng Xiaoping went to the army.Liu Bocheng walked into the headquarters. Li Da is marking the enemy's situation map.The heat has not yet risen, and his nose is already full of "fuhan".As soon as the Yellow River was crossed, the map of the war room was replaced by the map of the south of the Yellow River and the north of the Yangtze River, hanging down from the ground and hanging all over the walls. The first column had surrounded Yuncheng for six days, but Liu Bocheng hadn't given the order to attack the city for a long time.

Li Da reported to Liu Bocheng: "Gu Zhutong transferred Wang Jingjiu, the commander of the Second Corps from the Shandong Theater, and Wang Jingjiu arrived in Yutai at 8:30 yesterday morning." "Oh, Wang Jingjiu, from the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy. This man can still fight in the Northern Expedition and the Anti-Japanese War. Well, Gu Zhutong sent us his confidant general!" Liu Bocheng stood in front of the map, looking at Seeing the enemy's new situation, he couldn't help but sigh, "Huh..." Li Da knew what Liu Bocheng was thinking, and then reported: "The enemy is divided into east and west, and is marching towards Yuncheng." Liu Bocheng picked up the magnifying glass and pointed at the enemy formation on the east road: "Seven brigades are lined up in a row. What kind of formation is this called? This formation made by Wang Jingjiu is so strange!" "Wang Jingjiu is brave and intrepid, nicknamed 'Wang Dapao', he can't make any wonderful formations." "Don't underestimate this character. It is said that he likes to dance very much, and there are many tricks. Did he use the battlefield as a dance hall? Chief of Staff, you inform the intelligence department and ask them to summarize Wang Jingjiu's information and report it to me in detail. "Liu Bocheng turned his gaze to the map again. Li Da put a wooden armchair behind Liu Bocheng.He knew that the commander had begun to "observe the enemy's city and wait for his gaps" again.This stop, I don't know how long it will take. After leaving the door, Li Da told the guard Shen Ronggui not to disturb the commander. Holding a magnifying glass, Liu Bocheng moved inch by inch on the map, muttering to himself: "Battle after formation, the art of war is constant, and the skill of using it is all in one mind... This Wang Jingjiu, why did you set up this kind of formation?" On the map, the blue markers of the enemy are arranged in a line from south to north, which makes Liu Bocheng very troubled.He repeatedly searched for the enemy's strategic weaknesses, sweat dripping down his gray temples.Suddenly, severe pain like an electric shock radiated from the eye sockets to the temples and deep into the brain. He pressed the temples with both hands, and sat down on the chair. Shen Ronggui heard the movement, went into the room to see, ran out in fright, and called the doctor. The doctor checked carefully and said, "Commander Liu, don't let your eyes be so tired anymore, or you may go blind!" The doctor searched the medicine box for a long time, but couldn't find any medicine for the symptom, even ordinary anti-inflammatory drugs. No, so I had to take an injection of painkiller and said, "Let me buy you some white sugar. Make some sugar water to relieve the heat, it will be better." "White sugar? How much is a tael?" "Five yuan (Lunan currency)." "It's so expensive! What a shame! We don't drink sugar water, so we can't buy it!" On such issues, Liu Bocheng said "can't buy" and "can't do", so everyone dared not do it. When the doctor left, he asked Shen Ronggui to cool down some boiled water and let the commander drink more, the more the better.Shen Ronggui got a big bucket of boiled water, and every once in a while he used a white porcelain jar to scoop a bucket into the bucket and sent it into the house. He didn't watch the commander finish drinking, and he just stood still. As a result, Liu Bocheng ran to the toilet again and again.Finally, the commander got annoyed by running away: "Ronggui, learn your handwriting, it's none of your business here." Shen Ronggui carried the big wooden bucket into the house and placed it in front of Liu Bocheng. Before going out, he pointed to the bucket to show the significance of the bucket of water.Liu Bocheng smiled: "I know, you go." Liu Bocheng lost one eye in the battle of defending the country against Yuan. He was twenty-four years old at that time, and he was already a famous general in Sichuan and Shu who had won the three armies.During the battle against Yuan in Fengdu, Liu Bocheng, the commander of Yuan's army, commanded the troops to counterattack.He suddenly found that a soldier beside him was too exposed and was threatened by enemy fire, so he immediately rushed over: "Dangerous, get down!" Before he finished speaking, a missile shot through the top of his skull and flew out from the socket of his right eye.The eyeball burst immediately, and blood flowed out of the eye socket.The soldiers had already rushed up, and Liu Bocheng passed out.It was at the entrance of a hookah shop. Seeing that he was bleeding profusely, the apprentices in the shop carried him into the shop, grabbed a handful of shredded tobacco to plug the wound, bandaged him indiscriminately, and then hid him in the warehouse and locked him up. Go to the store door and run out of the city with the fleeing citizens. There was a scuffle in the city, the hookah shop was shot and caught fire, and the warehouse was full of smoke.Liu Bocheng woke up from choking, and tried to crawl towards the door, but the door was locked.He rushed to the window, picked up a bamboo chair and threw it at the window lattice.The small window was smashed open, he picked up a quilt from the bamboo bed, covered his head, and rolled out of the window suddenly.This series of violent actions caused the right eye to bleed profusely, and the left eye seemed to be covered with glass shards, which was unbearably painful.He passed out again. In a daze, I suddenly heard someone shouting on the street: "Qiu Er, quickly carry this person to another place!" Liu Bocheng couldn't open his eyes, so he grabbed the man who was called "Qiu Er", took out the only three silver dollars from his arms, and stuffed them into his hands.Qiu Er pushed his hand away: "What do you want?" "Send me to the river bank outside the city, okay? I only have these three silver dollars." Qiu Er picked up Liu Bocheng on his back and left, ran to the outskirts of Fengdu and said, "I have no background, you are a good man who fought the Beiyang Army, who doesn't know that! I can ask for your silver dollars!" After walking for more than five miles, there was a sudden gunshot.Qiu Er quickly put Liu Bocheng on the ground and squatted down.After a while, a group of people came and said, "Isn't this Captain Liu of the National Defense Army? Where are you sending him?" He also said, "Turn around. If you carry it like this, you will hit the Beiyang Army and die." He's the one to blame!" The group wrapped Liu Bocheng in a large robe, lifted it with a bamboo pole, and started running.A few hours later, they put Liu Bocheng on the ground and left.Liu Bocheng heard that there was no sound around him, and he didn't know what was going on. Someone unwrapped the package and shouted, "Captain Liu! Who sent you here?" Liu Bocheng heard that it was his soldier.It turns out that this is the assembly point of the troops.Who sent him, he never knew. Liu Bocheng hid in a farmer's home to recuperate his injuries. Due to the lack of medical care and medicine in the countryside, his injuries worsened day by day.He sneaked into Chongqing secretly under the escort of the masses and troops, and lived in a hospital run by foreigners, where a German A doctor was in charge of diagnosis and treatment. Doctor A was a German military doctor in World War I. Liu Bocheng's injury made him shake his head and sigh.After careful consideration, he carefully made a surgical plan for general anesthesia.Uncle Liu assumed that cardiac anesthetics would damage the brain's nerve function, so he resolutely refused anesthesia.Doctor A has been practicing knife for decades, and no wounded person has ever made such a request.Looking at this twenty-four-year-old Chinese youth, he was moved from the bottom of his heart. The operation lasted for more than three hours. Dr. A gradually removed the shrapnel and carrion in the eye sockets... Although he was familiar with the operation, it was the first time that he did not use anesthesia.Cutting and scraping is undoubtedly a great cruelty to the flesh. Liu Bocheng on the operating table was gripping the edge of the operating table tightly with both hands, clenching his teeth, sweat poured out from his forehead, bridge of nose and every pore of his body, soaking the blanket on the operating table through his clothes up. The operation was finally over. Doctor A didn't care to take off the rubber gloves, and asked with concern: "Young man, does it hurt a lot?" A smile flashed across Liu Bocheng's pale face, and he said weakly, "Seventy-four cuts were made." Doctor A was surprised: "How do you know?" "Every time you cut a knife, I will secretly count it..." Doctor A has never seen such a resolute person in his life. He said afterwards: "I performed an operation on a Chinese soldier. His name is Liu Bocheng. I firmly believe that he is not a soldier, but a military god." When Liu Bocheng recalled this experience, he said that when he thought of Qiu Er who carried him out of the city, the people who sent him to the meeting point without leaving their names, and the soldiers who tried their best to cover him back to Chongqing, it was like having a team of The fourth team he attacked Fengdu City was a more courageous team. Since then, during the Nanchang Uprising, studying in the Soviet Union, the Agrarian Revolutionary War, the Long March, the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the War of Liberation, Liu Bocheng relied on his left eye to read military books, write telegrams, issue war lists, review battles, and translate military treatises... ... He is meticulous in his work and cannot be negligent. Even a piece of propaganda leaflet has to be reviewed by him, and he has to carefully revise the words and write large characters with trembling hands.Of course, the most eye-catching thing is to look at the map.Suffering wars in China continued, one after another.His only left eye has to inspect the troubled Chinese territory hundreds or thousands of times every day, and search the detailed military map inch by inch with the help of a Japanese magnifying glass... Someone walked into the command room and scooped up boiled water and brought it over, but Liu Bocheng ignored it. "Drink. Eyes are bad, and the weather is hot." Liu Bocheng turned his head, it was Deng Xiaoping.He smiled, took the water and drank it down in one gulp, then scooped up another jar and handed it over. "I'm about to have someone bring you back... Chiang Kai-shek personally supervised the battle, and Gu Zhutong transferred Wang Jingjiu to command the front line. You see, the enemy marched northward in two routes, east and west, with the intention of defending Yuncheng, Heze, and Dingtao on the west route. Lead me to garrison troops under the city; then use the Eastern Group to attack my side and back—a pincer attack from east to west, so as to force me to fight with my back along the south bank of the Yellow River." "We are not Han Xin!" Deng Xiaoping stared at the blue arrow on the map and lit a cigarette. Liu Bocheng: "Obviously, this is a lame pliers. The east is strong and the west is weak. We can follow the plan and eat the West Route Army first according to the original plan, break the overall situation, suck the East Route Army to go north, and then go north in the process of going north. Carry out division and encirclement, and annihilate them one by one!" Deng Xiaoping: "After watching quietly for a few days, the enemy has basically acted according to our expectations. The first column can still attack Yuncheng; the second column and the sixth column can quickly penetrate between the east and west enemy lines, advance a hundred miles, and go straight to Cao County , Dingtao." Liu Bocheng: "Yes. At the same time, order the third column to enter the Ranguji and Wenshangji areas to the east of Dingtao and wait for it. After the first, second, and sixth columns have eaten up the enemy on the west road, they will make great strides forward. The four columns will work together to cut the enemy. Annihilate the enemy troops on the east road." Liu Deng is "building momentum" again and is ready to mobilize Wang Jingjiu. Deng Xiaoping stood up from his chair and threw the empty water tank on the table: "The first step in the battle is to defeat the weak enemy and break its overall deployment!" Liu Bocheng concentrated for a moment, and said: "This method of warfare is called attacking one point (Yuncheng) and attracting reinforcements; gnawing one side (Dingtao) and defeating each one." "Look at this Eastern Route Army," Liu Bocheng said to Deng Xiaoping, "I've just been thinking about it for a long time. What kind of formation is this Wang Jingjiu deploying? It's not a square formation, it's not a circular formation, and there are seven brigades lined up in a row. This kind of formation The head and the tail cannot be rescued, and the tail is too big to fall off. Isn't it just the word "dead snake array"? It's all about putting on a posture to be beaten!" Deng Xiaoping laughed: "Didn't Sun Tzu say, 'Therefore, those who make good use of soldiers are, for example, frivolous'?" Shuran, a snake in ancient legends. "Taiping Guangji?Shuran" wrote: "There are snakes in the Western Mountains, with a big difference between the head and the tail, and they are colorful. When people hit them, the middle head will reach the tail, the middle tail will reach the head, and the middle waist will reach the head and tail together. It is called Shuran." Liu Bocheng: "Since the start of the war, Chiang Kai-shek has always wanted to command his troops like 'Shu Ran' from the beginning to the end. As a result, all the troops have always been working on their own, sharing different dreams, not celebrating each other in victory, and not saving each other in defeat. This time his The students set up a 'sudden' formation for us in Southwest Shandong, and we clamped his forehead, pulled his tail, cut his waist, and put him to death." "Yes. Play it with the word 'sudden' formation! Even if it is the snake of Changshan, it must be cut!" Deng Xiaoping's voice had just finished, and the roar of the plane suddenly came. Li Da hurried in: "Commander, political commissar, hide!" Liu Bocheng shook his head lightly, with an almost relaxed expression. A bomb was unmistakably dropped on the location of the command post.There was a loud bang, and the air wave caused by the bomb knocked down the gable wall of the courtyard, and the gunpowder smoke filled half of the village. Zhang Zhixuan, chief of the Security Section, immediately led the security personnel to search and found the bombing guidance sign placed by the enemy agent - a white T-shaped cloth. Deng Xiaoping said: "The reconnaissance method is very clever, and the T-cloth is placed on top of our heads." Liu Bocheng wiped his glasses: "Chiang Kai-shek has two wheels in dealing with the Communist Party, one is open and the other is secret. Now both wheels are spinning happily!" The chickens in the yard were blown up and flying around, clucking non-stop. The landlady was afraid that the plane would "hear" the rooster crowing and would come again, so she dared not go out, so she stood at the door and scolded the chicken: "Call! Crow! The plane came only when you heard you call, and if you crow again, I will kill you!" Shen Ronggui teased her: "Why are the bombs so accurate?" Da Niang is getting more and more dissatisfied with her chicken. Liu Bocheng, Deng Xiaoping, and Li Da laughed.Liu Bocheng scooped up another jar of water and drank it all in one gulp.He wiped the water from his mouth, and said to Li Da: "Chief of Staff, you need to communicate with all columns, and immediately issue a combat order!" At noon, Yizong Yang Yong received an order to attack the city from the General Command of the Field Army: "The main force of the enemy has entered Juye. At 18:00 a general attack will be launched on the enemy of Yuncheng. If we can enter and stand firm, we must take down Yuncheng in one fell swoop." city!" The days are long and the nights are short in summer. At 5:00 p.m., enemy planes were still circling over Yuncheng; at 5:30 p.m., the last batch of planes dropped a few bombs and flew away. In an instant, the bunkers and trenches around Yuncheng came alive. The trumpeter Xu Guangshui was skinny, and his seventeen-year-old body looked like fifteen.He was sullen, and while fiddling with the bugle, he counted to sixty and counted to one minute.An old soldier asked, "What time is it?" "17:55." Xu Guangshui was very confident. Brigadier Kuang of the 20th Brigade took out his pocket watch and looked at it. It was 17:53.He smiled, this kid is really a "live clock". The 20th Brigade was responsible for launching the attack from the south gate of Yuncheng. Brigadier Kuang has always attached great importance to reconnaissance.A few days ago, he led the battalion and regiment cadres to accurately touch the firepower point of the South Gate.He said: "The south city gate is wide, with many houses, and is easy to approach. But the south city gate is also the enemy's main defense point, with the most concentrated troops and firepower. We can't have any illusions. We can only sink our boats and take the south city gate!" At 18:00 sharp, the general offensive began. Brigadier Kuang ordered six mountain guns, field guns, and mortars to fire a volley, and the engineers followed up with the blasting. There was a din of huge explosions. The development of the war is so fast. During the first battle of the Longhai Battle last year, Yang Yong's main attacking force did not have a single artillery, and relied on machine guns, grenades, and climbing ladders to attack the fortifications; today, the first column has 40 artillery pieces of various types. Nine gates, the siege can be grouped with artillery. The artillery attack lasted for nearly half an hour, and most of the firepower points in the enemy's forward positions were destroyed. The assault team of the 20th Brigade jumped out of the bunker, crossed the moat, and rushed towards the gap in the wall. The enemy's follow-up troops rushed to the south gate, and the firepower that had been muted fired again outside the city.The commando team was caught in the flames and the assault was blocked... At the column command post, Yang Yong frowned. "One Brigade!" Yang Yong grabbed the microphone, "Yang Junsheng, your troops will launch an attack immediately! The 20th Brigade has pinned down the main force of the enemy. You must quickly break through the west gate and go straight to the headquarters of the 55th Division!" The attack position of the first brigade is the west city gate, which is an open area and not easy to hide.The enemy estimated that it would be difficult for the People's Liberation Army to station troops, so its firepower was weak.This is another major breakthrough point chosen by Yang Yong. As soon as Yang Yong arrived in Yuncheng, he ordered the first brigade to use the dark night to carry out approach operations, and quickly built a circular trench and 14 deep communication trenches leading to the starting point of the attack on the open ground, so that the firepower team could approach the city wall and conduct direct aiming and shooting; And the commando can launch an attack at the closest point to the enemy's defensive outer trench. At 19:15, a red signal flare was raised from the position of the First Brigade, and the powerful artillery fire group immediately and accurately shot the intended target in a hierarchical and accurate manner according to the division of firepower. The pseudo enemy artillery in the city immediately returned fire. Yang Junsheng, the brigade commander of the first brigade, took the combat staff to the command post of the first regiment to command.Yang Junsheng, who is introverted and taciturn, becomes calmer as he fights fiercely, and he looks like a general.He commands operations concisely, is good at expressing intentions concisely and accurately, and his eyes and gestures are very expressive. Yang Junsheng ordered two 105mm howitzers and four mountain cannons to aim at the large brick bunker on the breakthrough point at the same time.With a gesture of his hand, the cannons fired a volley, tearing off the top of the bunker.Under the cover of heavy machine guns, the assault team of the second battalion of the first regiment took advantage of the momentum to launch a charge; the blasting team of the sixth company, led by deputy company commander Tian Jintang, opened up a passage from the enemy's obstacles. The city was broken.The fourth company and the special agent company of the first regiment stretched their bows from left to right to both sides of the breakthrough; the fifth company and the sixth company were inserted from the middle like two sharp knives; south gate.The 20th Brigade reorganized its artillery fire and blasted a big gap in the city wall in ten minutes; the charge horn sounded, and broke into the siege in seven minutes.This is a group of very strange-looking teams. The faces of the soldiers were smoked into a pot-colored background, and the blood and sweat on their bodies were mixed with the loess, and the color of the uniforms could not be seen clearly.When the enemy soldiers defending the city were exhausted, they turned around and ran into the city.Intense street fighting broke out in the city. The new soldier Wang Changgui stopped trembling since he killed his first enemy: "That's what fighting is like!" He rushed to the front, and just after rushing through two alleys, a bullet hit his arm.Unable to hold a gun anymore, he simply hung the gun around his neck, carried a basket with one arm, and delivered grenades to his comrades. The wound was bleeding profusely, the gun was hanging, and he was carrying a basket of grenades. His legs were like noodles, and he would fight every time he ran, gradually falling behind.An enemy soldier who was chased dizzily ran over.Wang Changgui's hat had been blown off, and his clothes were dusty and purple; it was dark again, and the enemy soldiers couldn't see anything clearly, so they asked, "Which company?" "Eighth Company." Wang Changgui recognized the enemy soldiers.All the comrades rushed up, and he was alone, so he couldn't help beating a drum in his heart, and bravely asked, "Where are you from?" "Fan County." "We are a county. Have you been out for many years?" "It's been three years, I was caught. What about you?" "I voluntarily. Who else is in your family?" "Mother, sister..." Wang Changgui calmed down a lot, and simply poked open: "Our Fan County has been liberated, and the family has been divided into land and livestock. What are you still doing here?" "You are..." The gun was pointed at Wang Changgui's eyes. "What are you doing? Still want to work for them? Come to us! If you look like this, go home, and your mother and sister won't let you in." "As long as you hand in your gun, the People's Liberation Army will let you go, really." Wang Changgui said again. "I... I don't want to do it anymore." The enemy soldier put down his gun, "I was caught back after running twice, and I was beaten half to death. You... the gun was handed over to you, did you get hit?" "Middle! Then you will be liberated!" Wang Changgui put the captured gun around his neck again, and rushed forward with the newly liberated enemy soldiers.A volley of bullets was fired. Wang Changgui put the gun in the hand of the man he liberated, grabbed a grenade and threw it over.The man took the gun, froze for a moment, and pulled the trigger in the direction of the shot. "Middle! You are now in the People's Liberation Army!" Wang Changgui shouted happily. Jin Kejun, the acting head of the 87th Regiment of the 55th Division of the enemy, is organizing a melee charge, and a company from the 20th Brigade has tightly surrounded his regiment headquarters.Three soldiers rushed in and escorted him out.He saw more than a dozen PLA soldiers standing neatly outside the door, while the nearby gunshots were still fierce, and he was deeply moved. He said to the PLA platoon leader who released him: "I admire it very much. This is a good team in my ideal. Twenty I've dreamed of having a team like this for years..." At this time, the 19th and 20th Brigades had successively captured the North Gate and the East Gate.The defenders of Yuncheng were running wild, and the streets in the city were full of mountain artillery, anti-war artillery, and light and heavy machine guns abandoned by the 55th Division. In the west corner of the city, the enemy's 86th Regiment, relying on strong fortifications, was still fighting stubbornly. Three companies from the 20th Brigade surrounded this nail. "Live Clock" Xu Guangshui knocked down three enemies with three shots, one of the bullets hit the enemy's head, and the helmet bounced high.He smiled, turned his hand and threw the grenade again, seven grenades killed five enemies.Brigadier Kuang happened to arrive here, and he gave the skinny boy a very emotional look, and said, "Well done!" The main force of the first brigade fought fiercely with the enemy, while covering the commando to attack the church in the northeast corner of the city - the headquarters of the enemy's 55th division. Cao Fulin, commander of the 55th Division of the enemy, who was known as the "Standing General", ordered a special agent company to supervise the battle and shoot to defeat the retreating officers and soldiers.But this does not prevent the decline that is already a foregone conclusion.Twenty minutes later, the outside of the church lost resistance.Cao Fulin, who was hiding in the shelter ten meters deep underground, realized that the situation was over. He hurriedly changed into plain clothes, ran out of the hole through the east gate, and fled to the southeast. Gong Zimei, the squad leader of the eighth squad of the third company of the first brigade, led the whole squad into the headquarters of the 55th division first, and started hand-to-hand combat.The soldier Zhang Yulou went down with a bayonet, stabbed to death the two officials, and avenged the sister-in-law who jumped into the well.A few minutes later, the first brigade occupied the church and captured Li Mingya, the deputy commander of the enemy lieutenant general.Cao Fulin, the commander of the division, led more than a hundred people to flee to Jiaxiang. In the Battle of Yuncheng, 10,862 people under the deputy commander of the 55th Division were annihilated, and ten mountain artillery pieces, six anti-war artillery pieces, twenty-five mortar pieces, nine vehicles, and various guns were seized. Nine thousand one hundred and ninety-nine pieces. Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping issued an order to reward the first column: With resolute and resolute actions, the first column annihilated Chiang Kai-shek's 55th Division and its 29th and 74th Divisions, which were entrenched in Yuncheng, on the night of "July 7th", regained Yuncheng, and created a single column. The precedent of the two whole brigades of attacking fortifications and annihilating the enemy won the first glorious and major victory in the great counter-offensive, and served as our gift to the second "July 7th" commemoration after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.In this service, the first column and the first brigade each made great contributions. Dingtao Shoudi is the 153rd Brigade of the 63rd Division, which was originally an old unit of Chen Jitang in Guangdong.Last year, Chiang Kai-shek had asked them to serve as a garrison when he spent the summer on Lushan Mountain; in May, when the war situation in Shandong was tense, he transferred them to Shandong; On the second day after the 153rd Brigade arrived in Dingtao, they bulldozed all the villages within five miles of the city with cannons; needless to say the crops, even the fruiting pear and walnut trees were sawed down. Dingtao is the place where Liu Deng's army once liberated. The People's Liberation Army has many military subordinates and many Communist Party members.In order to eradicate the "Red Peril", the 153rd Brigade formulated a massacre plan: to wipe out all members of the Communist Army and Communists in the county within one week.In just three days, they killed and buried more than a thousand people alive.During the implementation of the massacre plan, the sixth column of Liu Deng's army approached Dingtao day and night. On the main roads and small roads leading to Dingtao City, the soldiers saw a blinding white on the side of the road from a long distance. It was the people of Dingtao welcoming the People's Liberation Army.They wore white shoes on their feet, and wore filial piety cloths on their heads, and tears flowed down their cheeks.The women, on the other hand, combed their hard and thick buns, which were turned up high, and wore white shoes with pointed shoes like those worn by women with bound feet—they all cut their heads and let their feet go, The enemy said that the women with haircuts and big feet were the Communist Party. When they were found, they stood on fire bricks and hanged. Then they put on wigs and wrapped their feet in cloth... Column Political Commissar Du Yide jumped off his horse. "Folks, you have suffered!" Du Yide's voice choked up. A young daughter-in-law in heavy filial piety wailed and passed out on the ground. Because her father-in-law was not allowed to saw the pear tree at the door, he was tied to the tree and sawed into two pieces along with the tree.Her husband snatched the saw and was stabbed with a bayonet.Three months pregnant, she was gang-raped by enemy soldiers and had a miscarriage... A young man threw the filial cloth on his head to the ground and knelt down in front of Du Yide with a plop: "I want to be a soldier!" Du Yide helped him, turned around and said to the chief of staff, "Send him a gun!" Hula, a row of young people stood up... On the night of the 5th, the sixth column captured the fourth pass of Dingtao with swift action, completing the encirclement of the 153rd Brigade. Du Yide did not close his eyes for two days and two nights.Wang Jinshan, the commander of the Sixth Column, was wounded and admitted to the hospital in the Battle of Northern Henan. Li Desheng, commander of the Seventh Brigade, has three generals.When Du Yide thought of them, he felt that there was nothing in the world that Liu Zong couldn't do. The brigades of the sixth column rushed to repair the fortifications every day after dark, and surveyed the terrain and features.Relying on a small steel shovel in their hands, the soldiers dug criss-cross passages and trenches on the open ground in the outskirts of the city. Wang Keqin was digging trenches and doing fortifications, teaching new soldiers to throw bombs and shoot.The new soldiers who joined the army in Dingtao saw that the platoon leader was so tired that his mouth was full of blisters. He felt sorry and didn't know what to say, so he asked, "Platoon leader, where are you from?" "Fuyang, Anhui is also a child of a poor family." Wang Keqin said, "When I was fourteen years old, my father was forced to death by the landlord; I don’t know where they fled to now. The Communist Party rescued me from the wolf’s den. I was liberated, but the people of Dingtao still suffer like this. I’m sorry for the folks in Dingtao if we don’t fight this battle well. , I'm sorry for your parents!" On the afternoon of July 10, Du Yide received an order to siege the city from the headquarters of the Field Army. Liu Bocheng said on the phone: "The significance of taking Dingtao is to liberate the people of Dingtao; It must be wiped out!" At nineteen o'clock sharp, the siege began.Three red flares flew into the air, and the shelling began.The dense and sudden firepower caused the crows and sparrows in the sky to land on the first floor after a few minutes. At 20:05, the infantry charged.The 1st Battalion and 2nd Company of the 47th Regiment of the 16th Brigade, led by the special hero Liu Yufang, broke through the east gate after more than ten minutes of fierce fighting. The 18th Brigade attacked the North Gate, the commando was the 1st Company of the 58th Regiment, and the Dengcheng Assault Platoon was Wang Keqin's 1st Company and 1st Platoon.Wang Keqin, who had experience in sieges, knew that as soon as the artillery fire was extended, it was time to make an assault platoon.He snatched the grenade basket from the new fighter Yu Sanhu and said, "I'll carry it for you. Get ready and follow me!" The third squad leader, Zhang Laosi, who had been lying behind Wang Keqin, hurriedly hugged Wang Keqin: "Platoon leader, you are so sick that you can't rush to the front. I will take them up!" Wang Keqin had a high fever for four days, hadn't eaten a grain of rice, his complexion was sallow, and his cheekbones were raised.Before entering the position, the comrades persuaded him to stay. He said: "I can't fight, but I can still command everyone, help you choose the path, and see the signal to attack. This little ailment can be cured as soon as the gun is fired." At this moment, when the cannon fired, no one could pull it back.As soon as the green flare was lifted into the air, Wang Keqin jumped out of the trench.The soldiers followed their platoon leader closely, like a group of angry lions, leaning the five-foot-long ladder towards the city wall like a giant dragon. It was getting dark. "Machine gun, aim at the gun hole in the northwest corner!" While commanding, Wang Keqin threw grenades into the city, and thick smoke billowed from the top of the city. Wang Keqin yelled: "Come on—" Ceng Ceng Ceng climbed up the ladder.When he was climbing to the fourth step of the ladder, a shell flew over and exploded on the left side of the ladder.Wang Keqin was thrown up, and fell heavily again. Zhang Laosi was startled: "Platoon leader!" He threw himself on Wang Keqin and gently stroked the platoon leader's body. When he touched his ribs, he found a rush of hot blood gushing from the platoon leader's body.Zhang Laosi's heart twitched violently, and tears welled up in his eyes: "Hurry up and carry the platoon leader down!" Wang Keqin murmured: "Leave me alone, rush! Go up!" 张老四悲愤欲绝，含泪转过身，大吼：“为排长报仇！冲啊！” 三班像疯了一样，子弹似乎也因他们的狂怒而躲开了。十分钟占领了城头。该给后续部队发登城信号了，张老四这才想起信号枪还在排长手里。 “叭！叭！”两颗信号弹从城脚升起。 张老四吃惊地哑着嗓子喊：“排——长——” 原来，王克勤一直不让人背他回战壕，强支着身子在云梯下坐着指挥战斗。 一个班上来了，他对班长说：“机枪掩护好……扩大突破口！” 又一个班上来了，他艰难地抬起手，指着：“右边有敌人的机枪，把它干掉！”稍后，他向守在他身边的陈群说，“你……你……你不要守着我，快冲……” 血，呼地向外冒着，王克勤昏了过去。 枪声、炮声、喊杀声把王克勤从昏迷中唤醒，他睁开眼，注视着城头，仔细倾听着城头的枪声。当敌人的机枪哑了时，他知道是同志们占领了城头。他咬着牙，忍着钻心的疼痛，一手按着伤口，一手艰难地从腰里抽出信号枪，高高举起，发出了登城信号…… 第十八旅大部分越过壕沟，炸开城门，摧毁了北门的核心工事。守城的敌军退潮般向城里撤，受惊的马嘶鸣着到处乱窜。有一股敌人见没有逃路，把枪放在地上喊：“八路公（军），莫打，我们告穷（缴枪）！” 战士们不懂“告穷”，正要开枪，一个胆儿大的广东籍敌兵高举双手过来，嘴里一遍遍地喊着：“告穷！告穷啦……” 战士们这才明白，于是大家齐喊：“告穷呀！告穷不杀呀！” 七月十一日凌晨一时，第六纵队攻克定陶，全歼守军第一五三旅四千三百多官兵，缴获大炮十五门、轻重机枪一百二十三挺、步枪二千一百余支。 定陶的乡亲们抬着棺木，扬着纸钱，吹着响器，请求纵队首长按他们的风俗给牺牲的战士们安葬。 杜义德、肖永银来到第五十三团一连，全连战士默默地守在王克勤的遗体旁。 陈群抽泣着，向杜政委报告：“排长一醒过来就问：'定陶打下来了吗？'我说：'排长，上担架吧，定陶一定能打下来！'刚把排长放上担架，他又醒过来，让我转告大家，他住院了，叫我们互相团结，互相帮助，好好干革命……排长第三次醒来后，嘴唇全咬破了，但没有血流出来。他断断续续地说，他还有个包袱，让我把里面的东西分给大家，说战斗下来同志们会缺东西的。排长说完这些，就再没睁开眼……” 全连一片呜咽。 杜义德掏出手绢，俯下身一点一点地仔细擦着王克勤的脸。 营教导员武效贤看着王克勤安详的面孔，心绞一般地痛。武效贤第一次听到王克勤这个名字，是在平汉战役刚结束，大批解放战士拥进部队时。一天，营里召开各连干部会，一位指导员说：“有个王克勤，在国民党那边当了多年的大头兵，满脑子乱七八糟，情绪低落，背后净跟新解放的战士瞎叨叨。最难改造的就是这种人。” “他都讲些啥？”武效贤问。 “说国民党有美国人帮助，地盘大，有飞机、大炮；解放军就几条破步枪，别想打败他们。”指导员又说，“不过，这个人成分倒不错，讨过饭，受过苦。他机枪打得好，别人都叫他'机枪圣手'。” 又一天，武效贤到一连，走进一排住的院里，看见战士们围着一个大个士兵，聚精会神地像在看什么把戏，于是悄悄凑过去。大个子兵眼上蒙着白毛巾，两手摆弄着一挺新缴获的机枪。他把机枪零件一件件拆下来，放在布上，擦净，上油，又一件件装上去，没有一个多余的动作，干净利索。他就是王克勤。武效贤后来知道，“机枪圣手”枪法准得能达到凭耳朵射击的程度，闭着眼睛打出声的目标基本上是一打一个准。 就这么一个刚解放过来的闭着眼睛可以打枪、可以熟练拆卸武器，睁开眼睛却看不清前途、分不清敌人和亲人的战士，三个月后立大功九次，创造了“三大互助”运动，成为名冠全军的功臣；半年后创造了“满缸”（即每到或离开一地，挑水把老百姓的水缸灌满）运动，被授予“爱民模范”称号，成为全军学习的对象；一年后，又为人民的解放流尽了热血，成为永垂不朽的英雄！ 武效贤的视线被泪水模糊了…… 当日，定陶人民和第十八旅全体指战员在定陶北门举行了王克勤烈士追悼大会。肖永银旅长宣读了刘伯承司令员的唁电和野战军司令部、政治部的决定——命名英雄生前所在的一连一排为“王克勤排”，一班为“王克勤班”。中共定陶县委决定把定陶北门改为“克勤门”，以永久纪念烈士。