Chapter 27 Chapter 27 Millions of Heroes

January to March 1949 Huainan Huaibei Nanjing The officers and soldiers of the People's Liberation Army, covered in gunpowder, went to rest.Although the twelfth lunar month is not yet in season, Anhui is not like the north they are familiar with, and the wilderness is already "not cold with the willow wind blowing on the face".If you are more careful, you will also find that on the brown ridge, the grass is arching the ground with a fresh green "needle hat" sticking out its head.Open your nostrils and inhale, hey, the smell of grass and fresh earth rushing to your nose!These offspring from farming families have special feelings for the land.When they were wearing crotch trousers, they staggered and followed their parents to glean ears of wheat and pods.Now, the vast majority of them have been allocated land.This kind of appropriate joy is on the mustaches that protrude like grass, which makes the young faces a little more mature and responsible. Every bullet fired from their guns has nostalgia and infatuation for the land.

The war temporarily left them, and the Huaihai War that ended on January 10 has been recorded in history.This campaign wiped out 22 military headquarters and 56 divisions of the Kuomintang, with a total of 555,000 people. Stalin wrote in his notebook: 600,000 beats 800,000, miracle, miracle! Acheson stuttered as he read the figures to Truman. The huge victory made the "pectoralis major muscles" of the officers and soldiers swell up, and the brilliance that had never been with them was painted on the bodies of these farmers who ate chaff and vegetables. Every face was smeared with "happiness". Already it was genuinely felt that fate was beginning to show auspicious signs.

At the beginning of February, the Central Military Commission issued an order to carry out unified reorganization of the whole army.This means that the team called "bandits" by Chiang Kai-shek will make great strides towards regularization in 1949, and win the victory in the whole of China with a new look and attitude. The Central Plains Field Army and the East China Field Army were organized into the Second Field Army and the Third Field Army respectively. Second Field Army: Liu Bocheng served as commander, Deng Xiaoping served as political commissar, Zhang Jichun served as deputy political commissar and director of the Political Department, and Li Da served as chief of staff.It has three, four, and five corps under its jurisdiction, with a total strength of more than 280,000 troops.

The Twelfth Army of the Second Army and the Third Corps conducted training in Mengcheng, Anhui.The Twelfth Army was reorganized on the basis of the Six Columns. After the reorganization, Wang Jinshan served as the deputy commander of the Third Corps, as well as the commander and political commissar of the army. The feats of "Crazy Wang" in the Battle of Huaihai are obvious to all and well-known.Moreover, it was more than just the Battle of Huaihai. Since he participated in the revolution, which period was not exciting?Which battle has no story?Regardless of the official military history or the folklore, Wang Jinshan is a legendary figure of Erye.

However, after the reorganization of the second field, three corps, and three coaches, he was assigned as a "deputy". Wang Jinshan is not a person who cares about fame and fortune, otherwise he would not die on the battlefield, and would not have the nickname "Crazy Wang".But this time he felt his pride was hurt and his worth was not fairly recognized.His heart is out of balance. As straightforward as a child, he would not "wool" words in his heart. He found Deng Xiaoping's political commissar and asked with wide eyes, "Why?!" Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping, who have always thought carefully about issues, who will sit in the three coach chairs of Erye have naturally gone through a lot of deliberation.The few generals under them are outstanding, and decades of war have forged them to be quite capable of commanding generals.To be honest, whichever one of them sits on the coach chair is competent.But there are only three coach chairs, and Liu Deng has to be more demanding.

"What do you mean? Chen Xilian was appointed as the commander of the Three Corps, and he became your immediate boss?" For this immediate boss, Wang Jinshan murmured in recognition.Chen Xilian did have some strengths that he was not as good as, besides, he had always cooperated with him tacitly and had a good personal relationship.But for some people, he couldn't swallow this breath: "Yang Yong, what is he doing!" Deng Xiaoping has always loved this fierce general and knows his "tiger" nature.Facing this almost "wild" questioning, Deng Xiaoping looked serious, and he smoked half a cigarette before he opened his mouth and said, "That's a good question. You, Wang Jinshan, fought bravely and made more military achievements than Yang Yong, and you are also well-known in the army." He is taller than Yang Yong, why did he become the head coach, but you are the deputy head coach? I leave this topic to you—you do the article, and the time limit is three days, do you think it is enough?"

Wang Jinshan held his breath, his small eyes widened. Deng Xiaoping added: "I can remind you that this is what a foreign military strategist said, 'Without guts, one cannot be an outstanding commander. That is to say, a person who is not born with this kind of emotional power can never be an outstanding commander. Commander. But just having this kind of emotional power is not an outstanding commander. If you feel that this article is still difficult to do, I will give you the right to speak three times. You can ask Commander Liu, you can ask Yang Yong or other corps If the coach asks, you can ask your or Yang Yong's subordinates."

Three days have passed, and Wang Jinshan's "paper" has not yet been handed in. Deng Xiaoping found him and asked, "Is the article ready?" Wang Jinshan froze for a moment, as if he had forgotten what was going on.He rolled his eyes and grinned: "Good morning, it's in my stomach." "Come back and let me listen." "I thought and thought, and after thinking about it, I found out that it's very simple. I'm still the commander of the 12th Army. As long as Lao Liuzong is still mine, what's the commander and the deputy commander!"

"this one?" "this one." "Failed. Continue with this essay." Wang Jinshan didn't expect that he would forget about it, and Political Commissar Deng still refused to let it go, and he cried out in his heart: "What are you doing? This matter is not complicated in the first place!" "What you lack is this 'complexity'. Being a general can't just gallop on the battlefield, but stepping off the battlefield is simple and dull, insensitive to political and ideological construction, without foresight, and little thinking. You Wang Jinshan is now the deputy commander of the Corps. It may be the commander, the commander of the field army. The whole country is liberated, there is no more battles to fight, and you, "Crazy Wang", have not laid grass and burnt it, so is the revolution over?..." Crazy Wang fainted, and a thick black line appeared around his eyes gosh.

Zhang Jichun said to Deng Xiaoping: "Yesterday Wang Jinshan asked the guards to go to the health team to ask for sleeping pills, and Director Li gave me half a bottle. Wang Jinshan lost his temper and insisted on a whole bottle. Director Li was afraid that something might happen, so early this morning Report this to me." Deng Xiaoping smiled: "Okay, what this 'Crazy Wang' lacks is 'insomnia'!" A few days later, family members of the 12th Army came to the army to visit relatives one after another, and the wives of the army chiefs also came to have a small gathering before crossing the river.The generals who were newly in command and worshiped the generals were overjoyed, shaved their beards and heads, reorganized the "mountains and rivers", and welcomed their wives.Wang Jinshan's head was also shaved by the guards. He couldn't say "the mountains and rivers are magnificent", but it wasn't an eyesore either.

After dinner, his wife Han Xiuyan arrived with her son.As soon as he saw his son, Wang Jinshan's face was suddenly clear and sunny, and his facial features were all crowded together with a smile: "Son! You are so savage! Let Dad kiss you!..." As soon as his face was attached to his son's, the son screamed, "It's pierced to death! My face is pierced!..." Wang Jinshan really regretted it, why didn't he shave his face? ! The next day the children played together, Shu Manman was young, but he clamored to be the "commander".Wang Jinshan wiped the snot and tears from his son's face, and asked, "Manman, why do you have to be the commander?" "The commander is the biggest. Dad is the commander." "Father is the deputy commander. In terms of ability, this deputy commander's father is not competent... Dad can only burn grass..." "What is burning grass?" ... On January 9, Chen Yi and Liu Bocheng left Xibaipo. On the way, Liu Bocheng's eye disease worsened and he stayed in Shijiazhuang for treatment. Chen Yi continued to return south, bumpy all the way, and arrived in Xuzhou on the 22nd.After the meeting between Chen Yi and Su Yu, they went to Jiawang to attend the enlarged meeting of the Huaye Front Committee, conveying and implementing the instructions of the Political Bureau meeting of the Central Committee and Mao Zedong.Chen Yi made a summary report for the enlarged meeting of the former committee on the 25th, and rushed to Shangqiu to meet with Deng Xiaoping on the 26th.It is already the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. The liberated villages in Henan and Anhui provinces are full of smoke and firecrackers are exploding. They are steaming steamed buns, trying fireworks, pasting Spring Festival couplets, and hanging money. They can’t wait to welcome the first Spring Festival after liberation. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the meeting of top cadres of the two major field armies chaired by Chen Yi and Deng Xiaoping officially began. The Presidential Palace was very quiet, with the occasional chirping of birds, like waves rising from a pool of stagnant water, and the breath of death was set off even more intensely.Li Zongren looked out of the window. It is said that the Tongyin Hall located in the shade of the parasol tree, whenever there are troubled autumns and stormy nights, he can hear the sound of the tree leaves turning and predict bad luck.If so, it should be heard at this moment.Whether the fate of the Republic of China is good or bad, it should be predicted. What caught Li Zongren's eyes were bare branches with fallen leaves.The branches protruding upwards messily looked like countless arms calling for help at first glance.Li Zongren looked away and sighed, he was in such a mess that he forgot that the time sequence had not yet come out in midwinter. The vice president's office was very well heated. He only wore a leather vest over his shirt, and there was a little sweat on his forehead.After Li Zongren ran for vice president, he rarely stayed in this office.Rather than sitting on a "cold bench" here, it is better to raise birds, grow flowers, and read books in Fu Hougang's home. Across the corridor is the President's Office.The three-room en-suite suite has a huge desk, leather swivel chair, closet and curio rack in the middle room.As the Oval Office of the President, it's not extravagant, but it feels extraordinary.Whenever Chiang Kai-shek stepped into the five-storey presidential building, the chilly air followed the pair of black leather shoes into the entire building layer by layer. At this time, Li Zongren could still feel the unique eerie and oppressive feeling.In fact, the person who created this feeling is already in Siping Mountain in his hometown of Xikou. Chiang Kai-shek left Nanjing on January 21.After his "New Year's Announcement" was published, a foreign wire from Shanghai said: "Shanghai's response to Chiang Kai-shek's New Year's message was indifferent." A telegram from Peiping said: "New Year's Day prices fell slightly in the morning and recovered in the afternoon." "Retirement", like the setting sun in the west, is nothing to be surprised about. Naturally, this was not what President Chiang expected.This indifference somewhat made it clear to him that his image in the eyes of the people was not as glorious as he imagined.This made him, amid hesitation and hesitation, further strengthen his determination to "go to the field" and further speed up the "arrangement of the funeral". On January 8, Chiang Kai-shek sent Zhang Qun to Wuhan and Huang Shaohong to Changsha to discuss his "retirement" with Bai Chongxi and Cheng Qian, with the aim of easing the relationship between Bai, Cheng and him and stabilizing the two lakes. On the 9th, when Chiang Kai-shek heard that Du Yuming's corps had been wiped out and that half of Jiangbei had fallen, he hurriedly instructed Sun Ke to ask Foreign Minister Wu Tiecheng to send a note to the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, and France, asking them to exert influence. On the 10th, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Chiang Ching-kuo to fly to Shanghai, and with Yu Hongjun secretly transshipped 572,000 taels of gold to Taiwan—he wanted to catch the money.This is the second secret transfer.The last time, on November 3, 1948, 15,374,000 U.S. dollars was raised by Shanghai Citibank, shipped to the United States on a U.S. warship, deposited in the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, and entered the Kuomintang account books.Another ten million and four million silver dollars were shipped to Xiamen and Guangzhou. Chiang Kai-shek anxiously waited for the intervention of the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union, and France, but what he waited for was Mao Zedong's statement on the current situation. When referring to Chiang Kai-shek's "New Year's Announcement" on the proposal of "peace talks", Mao Zedong pointed out sternly, "The Chinese Communist Party believes that this proposal is hypocritical. This is because Chiang Kai-shek proposed in his proposal to preserve the pseudo-constitution, pseudo-legal system and reactionary The army and other items are conditions that the people of the whole country cannot agree to, and the basis for peace negotiations. This is a condition for continuing the war, not a condition for peace.” Mao Zedong put forward eight conditions for the peace talks—— 1. To punish war criminals; 2. Abolish the false constitution; 3. Abolish the false legal system; 4. Reorganize all reactionary armies according to democratic principles; 5. Confiscation of bureaucratic capital; 6. Reform the land system; 7. Abolition of traitorous treaties; 8. Convene a Political Consultative Conference without the participation of reactionaries, establish a democratic coalition government, and take over all the powers of the Nanjing Kuomintang reactionary government and its affiliated governments at all levels. Then, the People's Liberation Army liberated Tianjin on the 15th, and more than 130,000 Jiang's troops were wiped out.On the 17th, Tanggu and Dagu were liberated. More than 50,000 Jiang Jun fled by sea, and the rest were all wiped out. Nanjing, which is just across the river from the north of the Yangtze River, has already heard the sound of rumbling guns.On the road from Nanjing to Shanghai, the flow of retreating people became wider and wider. The military was on the verge of crisis, foreign intervention was hopeless, and the economy was in total collapse. Chiang Kai-shek was desperately holding on to the wrecked "Nanjing" and had to let it go.On January 8, Chiang Kai-shek announced his final personnel appointment before leaving the field—— (1) Tang Enbo is the full-time commander-in-chief of the Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou garrison; (2) Quzhou Sui Department was revoked and Fuzhou Sui Department was re-established, with Zhu Shaoliang as the director of Fuzhou Sui Department; (3) Appoint Zhang Qun as director of the Chongqing Appeasement Office; (4) Song Ziwen, director of the Guangzhou Appeasement Office, was appointed as the chairman of Guangdong Province, and Yu Hanmou was appointed as the director of the Guangzhou Appeasement Office; (5) Chen Cheng, chairman of Taiwan Province, concurrently served as the commander-in-chief of Taiwan's garrison, and sent Peng Mengji as the deputy commander-in-chief. The most notable of these was the expansion of the Beijing-Shanghai Garrison General Command into the Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou Garrison General Command, and the appointment of Tang Enbo as the full-time commander-in-chief (revocation of the Quzhou Appeasement Office).This means that Chiang Kai-shek wants Tang Enbo to fully control the military command of the three provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and eastern Jiangxi, and actively arrange the defense of the Yangtze River from Hukou to Shanghai, so that Tang Enbo can hold the Jiangnan military force in his own hands. In this way, Chiang Kai-shek's personnel chessboard was all set up, leaving only a solitary "king" seat for Li Zongren to sit. On January 21, Chiang Kai-shek announced his resignation. Li Zongren is very clear about the reason why he came to power. He made his debut by advocating peace talks. , he can buy time, organize forces, and keep half of the rivers and mountains in the south of the Yangtze River. On the second day of his inauguration, Li Zongren announced peace talks with the Communist Party.To show his sincerity, on the 24th, Li Zongren ordered the Executive Yuan to introduce seven measures. 1. The "suppression generals" in various places were changed to the military and political chief's office; 2. The nationwide martial law was canceled; 6. Abolish special criminal courts and abolish criminal regulations; 7. Order to stop spy activities and arrest people unless they are in accordance with the law. However, these beautiful moves are nothing but flowers in the mirror, moon in the water.On the evening of January 20, the day before Chiang Kai-shek went down, the Executive Yuan quietly left Nanjing and moved to Guangzhou under the planning of President Sun Ke.Sun Ke himself stayed in Shanghai. Sun Ke's move seemed absurd, but it was quite deliberate.He knew that although Chiang Kai-shek had "retired", his strength was still there, and the acting president sitting in the presidential palace was just a puppet.He also understood that no matter Jiang and Li, the so-called "harmony" was nothing but a fake show in the end.Therefore, he decided to move the Executive Yuan to Guangzhou, firstly to please Chiang Kai-shek, and secondly to find his own way out.Like most of the top officials of the Kuomintang, he lost confidence in the future of the Kuomintang; Li Zongren's name is acting president, "Dai" is "Dai", but "unification" is difficult to "unify".There is no money for money, no one for people, and even the existence of the government he represents is really a question.Said it exists in Nanjing, Nanjing has no administrative organs; said it exists in Guangzhou, Guangzhou has no administrative head; said it exists in Shanghai, Shanghai has no administrative organs and has no administrative head; said it exists in Xikou, Xikou has only one that has been declared The "retired" president... Facing the situation of falling apart and falling apart, Li Zongren, with a metallic face, still turned his attention to his "Gui Clan" brothers. He summoned Huang Qihan from Hankou to Nanjing, and wanted him to contact the CCP directly.As soon as Huang Qihan arrived in Nanjing, Li Zongren greeted him at the official residence. "Brother Qi Han has worked hard!" Li Zongren raised his wine glass high. Liu Zhonghua, Li Zongren's counselor, beat the side drum and said: "Qihan has been running around for peace for days, so tired!" Li Zongren asked with concern: "What is Jiansheng's attitude towards the peace talks?" Huang Qihan said: "Jiansheng told me that Lao Jiang has stepped down, and he will devote all his energy to you, Degong, to achieve an early truce and peace talks." "What does he think of the eight conditions of the CCP?" Li Zongren asked again. "He basically agreed on the basis of the eight conditions, but he had a different view on the first one. He said that if he accepted the first clause and punished war criminals, wouldn't that be tantamount to killing us all?!" Li Zongren was silent for a moment, and said: "If you don't accept the first article, wouldn't it be tantamount to admitting that you are a war criminal? This is not good. I will tell Jiansheng that the punishment of war criminals will be borne by me alone." "When I came here, Jiansheng told me that his ultimate hope was that the communist army would not cross the river. In the future, the Yangtze River would be used as the boundary, and the north and south would be divided." "Of course that's good." Li Zongren sighed, "I'm afraid the Communist Party won't agree!...Brother Qi Han," Li Zongren filled the glass for Huang Qihan himself, "I asked you to get in touch with the Communist Party and let them stop Offensive, this is the most urgent thing at the moment. I have already asked the Air Force to prepare the planes. You’d better fly to Beiping tomorrow. They explained our willingness for peace talks, and they said that I, Li, was willing to use the eight conditions proposed by Mao Zedong as the basis for peace talks." Li Zongren tried to seek early talks, with the tendency of "peace is the only thing".Otherwise, he was helpless. After Huang Qihan flew to Peiping, Li Zongren weighed it over and over again, and on January 27th he raised his pen and wrote—— Chiang Kai-shek was very annoyed when he learned that the acting president in Nanjing had sent a long telegram to Mao Zedong in his own name without discussion by the Central Standing Committee of the Kuomintang.He immediately ordered Sun Ke to go to Guangzhou quickly, and summoned all the officials of the Executive Yuan who had not yet left in Nanjing to Guangzhou to fight against Li Zongren.He also instigated legislators to move to Guangzhou. Those who went to Guangzhou would be given boat tickets, US dollars, and a special allowance of 300 Hong Kong dollars. As a result, the huge building complex of the Presidential Palace has many houses vacant at a time, and some buildings are completely empty. Li Zongren sat in the presidential palace that was no longer noisy, looking at the house across the corridor from time to time.Chiang Kai-shek, has he really left this presidential palace? In March, spring is known in Anhui.The willows are spinning, the peaches are in bud, and the impatient thorn grass leads its long neck, and lifts its simple little yellow flowers to the height of half a person.The rare bamboo forest in the north has a clump here and a patch there. It is verdant and verdant, like green mist, attracting flocks of beautiful birds.Those tile-blue birds that are neither swallows nor orioles are called "Yingfeng" by the locals.This is a unique bird in Anhui, named for its joy in flying against the wind.As the saying goes, one side of water and soil supports one side of people, but one does not know that one side of water and soil also supports one side of birds. "Yingfeng" stretched its wings, soaring into the air against the paddy field.That kind of vigor and fighting momentum is like a ray of masculine "Wanhun". In mid-March, the land veins in Anhui were once again trampled by the army. Dust and fog rose from the roads beside the paddy fields, and many columns marched southward.They carried guns and cannons, walked vigorously, and sang loudly—— Rolling along with the soldiers' feet are the endless stream of artillery carts, baggage trucks, trucks, jeeps... After the Battle of Zhengzhou and the Battle of Huaihai, the Second Field has now bid farewell to the "guerrilla era", and there are more "foreign goods", almost all of which are American-style mechanized equipment. The 15th Army of the 2nd Army, 4th Corps, and the 15th Army were the advance army, which leaped forward to the riverside in advance.They dispatched to the Yangtze River ahead of other brother troops on March 5, and they were about to cross the Huai River at this time. Army Commander Qin Jiwei himself drove an off-road jeep, moving fast and slow in the torrent of commanders and fighters.He is tall, with a fair face, imposing manner, quite bookish.In his own words, he is an authentic "big boss".In 1933, when he first became the head of the security guard at the headquarters, he saw a few soldiers holding a rope and hanging it here and there, leading the rope all the way to the house where he lived, and then took a black man Pass it to him.He saw that it was long and hard, with a protruding bend at the top, and asked: "What is this donkey dick thing?" The soldier said: "You will know when you put it on your ear." Qin Jiwei raised his hand to his ear and was shocked: "Why is there someone talking in this bird thing?!" His face was serious, the Kuomintang was about to be encircled and suppressed, and he was joking, and was about to reprimand those soldiers when the soldier said hurriedly : "This is the phone! Minister Zheng is talking to you!" Qin Jiwei was skeptical, but he didn't dare to be careless, so he put the thing to his ear again.He listened for a while, it's true, Minister Zheng was really talking inside.He stared in surprise, unable to understand.Where is Minister Zheng?Why is his voice in there?What kind of magic is this?His back was chilly, and he had goosebumps all over his body.Confused and nervous, he didn't hear what Minister Zheng said, as if he was ordered to take someone to carry out a mission.He heard Minister Zheng's last words clearly, and asked him, "Do you understand?" "Understood!" He replied quickly, as if the thing would suck him in if he was slow.There is no sound over there, and he is dumbfounded, he understands what, you don't understand anything! Throwing the thing away, he yelled at the guards to prepare the horses.In his experience, the leader has always been face-to-face when explaining tasks. He can speak clearly and clearly, and he can ask questions if he doesn't understand.This is a good time, Minister Zheng got into the dark thing and played tricks with him.It was sizzling inside, like it was raining; coupled with his Henan accent, hey, hey, hey, he didn't have the seriousness to give orders!This battle matter, just rely on that stuff to say it?If it's a secret agent's way of fooling people, don't you want to be fooled?Not kidding, he rode his horse and swung his whip, and traveled thirty miles in one breath to Tongjiang County. When Minister Zheng saw him, he let out a long "Hey": "Why are you here? Didn't I tell you to go to Fuyang Dam?!" He said, "I have to listen to you face to face." "I made it clear on the phone, aren't you delaying things?!" "I didn't hear you clearly... Besides, I don't trust that stuff either!" When Minister Zheng heard it, he laughed loudly: "That's not a thing, it's a phone. In order to make contact quickly and conveniently, the team leader has installed a phone. In the future, you will use the phone to issue tasks. You have to get used to it." Minister Zheng's laughter deeply stimulated Qin Jiwei.He was born in poverty, in a remote village, and had never seen the world.This is nothing to be ashamed of, most of the ranks of the Communist Party are people like him.But now that he is the head of the regiment, he can't just shake his hat, swing a big blade and call for a charge like before. He has to learn, and if he doesn't learn, he will fall behind... From then on, when Qin Jiwei went to the headquarters again, he consciously ran to the staff office to see new equipment, new weapons, and learn topographical maps...everything new was attractive to him.He was originally a person with an active personality. When he was a guerrilla instructor, he played basketball with the soldiers and played very beautifully. He was the basketball captain for more than a year.The common people in the garrison were surprised and saddened to see it, and said: "The Eighth Route Army is really poor, a dozen people grab a ball to play..." During the Anti-Japanese War, they took over the gun towers of the Japanese soldiers and got a lot of bicycles.Qin Jiwei took the lead in playing with cars and held a bicycle race to see who could walk on the ground on the wide field ridge.He personally led the bicycle team of the martial arts team, disguised himself, went to the city to perform stunts, and killed traitors to obtain intelligence. Among the seized items was an old camera. Qin Jiwei asked the captives to teach him to take pictures as if he had found a treasure.He learned to take pictures and develop films by himself.There was no development, so I thought about making my own potion; the local method was mounted on the horse, and the exposure was under the sun; After arriving under Liu Deng's command, he must be diligent and studious.After a battle is fought, even if you win, if you fight "stupidly", you will be criticized; if you kill 10,000 enemies and lose 8,000, you will also be criticized.As a general under Liu Deng's tent, reckless heroes are not welcome.Liu Deng required commanders to pay attention to tactics, use wisdom to make up for the disadvantages of troops and equipment, and use strange strategies to defeat the enemy. These years following Liu Deng to fight, Qin Jiwei is always convinced by their magnificent demeanor of strategists and strategists who are full of strategy and grandeur.Being a general under Liu Deng's command is like drinking strong coffee and always being stimulated by a kind of excitement; it is also like an ugly girl sitting in front of a mirror, always unable to be satisfied with herself. In this battle of crossing the river, the 15th Army was selected as the advance force, and everyone was really excited.The family members who came to the team also blushed and said, "We are all so honored!" Before leaving the team, they put the insoles embroidered with "carrying the revolution to the end" in their husband's shoes. The whole army set off a frenzy of volunteers. Party committees and branches at all levels, cadres, party members, heroes, and role models competed to express their opinions: "We must do a full revolution, not a half revolution!" Make another great contribution!" Some soldiers engraved a line of words on the butt of their guns - "Fight across the Yangtze River and liberate the whole of China!" At this time, a new thing happened in the army. All the soldiers of the ninth squadron of the second battalion machine gun company of a certain regiment wrote a "challenge letter" to the commander with their finger blood, and proposed to "get through the mind" and "unwavering and unshakable under any circumstances" Escape" and "guaranteed to complete the task" are the conditions of the challenge. Qin Jiwei was deeply moved and happily "challenged". Qin Jiweijia's conditions accurately expressed the requirements of the Party Central Committee and Mao Zedong.After the battle of crossing the river, the People's Liberation Army will directly enter the big cities, changing the Chinese Communist Party's previous strategy of encircling the cities with the countryside.Whether the PLA can win the trust of the Kuomintang-ruled areas and urban people, and whether it can gain the support of people from all walks of life, requires an image that is completely different from the "bandits" promoted by the Kuomintang to appear in front of the people in Jiangnan. The so-called "advanced" not only has requirements on time and situation, but more importantly, it is to bring a force with sufficient combat effectiveness to open the way for the main force and form military pressure to force the enemy to submit.Therefore, this action will directly cooperate with the central government's political measures and should not be taken lightly.Qin Jiwei and the head of the 15th Army did exactly that. However, the sky is not always bright in spring, and the land of Anhui is not always green, foggy and yellow flowers. Sometimes there is a sudden spring thunder, followed by a heavy rain of hemp stalks; Moss grew over the bones.The reddish-brown mud was as sticky as paste.I tied the shoes to my feet with ropes, and they were still picked up by the mud. Often, I couldn’t find them in time when I dropped them. Chen Geng, commander of the Fourth Corps, dispatched after the Fifteenth Army, encountered the same helplessness.His diary recorded the scene at that time. On March 13th, the actions of all armies were blocked due to rain.I am also trapped here, unable to move an inch.The action was hasty and the preparations were not well planned. Now we can only make urgent preparations for approaching. According to Liu and Deng's intentions, the 15th Army was ordered to rush in with lightly armed divisions, control Wangjiang and Huayang towns, block Neijiang, and prevent ships from escaping south. On March 14th, it rained non-stop, but why! ?In addition to handling the daily telegram, nap for an hour. Although the sky was fine on March 15, the road was still slippery.In the afternoon, two ten-wheel trucks took the lead, followed by jeeps. After five hours, they traveled thirty miles to Xincai City.After finally completing this arduous march, a large truck still broke down halfway. The sky is still cloudy on March 16, which is worrying, but no matter what, we must leave tomorrow... The recruits and liberation soldiers darkened their faces, and the northern soldiers frowned.They are not used to eating rice in the south, and they are not used to walking in the south.In the words of their hometown: "It is better to climb a mountain than a river." The farther they went south, the farther they were from their hometown. Seeing victory, they ran away from "home"... Only then did they understand that "carrying out the revolution To the end" is not as easy as shouting slogans. Deserters appeared.The composition of recruits and liberation soldiers is complex, and political awareness is uneven, which is inevitable.What's more, this time marching to the riverside, starting from Zhoukou, Henan, to Taihu Lake, 1,500 miles - except for the Long March, I have never traveled such a long distance. On March 9th, the 15th Army crossed the Huaihe River, and the verdant Dabie Mountains were already in sight. Dabie Mountain is the birthplace of the Fourth Column, the predecessor of the Fourth Corps. Commander Chen Geng was the commander of the 12th Division of the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army and fought here.Dabie Mountain has made great contributions to the revolution, and thousands of her children have poured into the revolutionary ranks.Qin Jiwei is the son of Dabie Mountain. Guo Tianmin, deputy commander of the Fourth Corps, Zhou Xihan, commander of the 13th Army, and Li Chengfang, commander of the 14th Army, were all born in Dabie Mountain. With every step forward, the homesickness gets tighter and tighter, and the blood beats faster and faster... When they left the Dabie Mountains, most of them were in their teens or twenties, and the beards on their lips were still soft and yellow. .Decades of military and horse turmoil, bloody storms, north and south battles, narrow escapes.Now the full-faced beards are very vigorous, like ripe crops waiting to be harvested; each person has no less than seven or eight round scars, which look like a military medal.Now they have set foot on the land of their hometown again, and approached the Dabie Mountains that have been lingering in their dreams thousands of times. Due to too many sacrifices, the land where the revolution was born and nurtured has turned reddish brown, the color of dried blood. In the villages along the way, no cows, sheep and chickens were heard, no smoke was seen, and the tyranny of the Kuomintang was painted on the ruined walls: "The only son must be recruited", "Monks and Taoists must be soldiers", "Fifty-five-year-old young men"... Xu Qixiao, the commander of the 38th Division, stood at the entrance of the village where he had been parted for 20 years, looking around blankly.It used to be a bustling town, but only six thatched huts were left in front of us.No one knew him anymore, he told his father's name, and a middle-aged woman told him that the whole family was killed by "monkeys" (the locals call Bai Chongxi's troops), and an old lady was left alive to beg in other places up. Li Chengfang, commander of the 14th Army, left home at the age of 16.This time the troops happened to pass by the house, and the villagers crowded at the entrance of the village to wait for him.He and the villagers looked at each other face to face, and no one knew anyone.After a long time, he finally recognized his uncle Li Qingyi. The uncle burst into tears and said: "After you left, the Bai Party crushed Dabie Mountain to death! ... In the 21st March of the Republic of China, your father was killed, and your mother was killed in July. Sixteen families in the village starved to death Yes, fifty-four people were killed! The next year your sister disappeared again...so hungry that no one could care about anyone...your house was also burned by the white bandits..." Li Chengfang went to visit a comrade's mother again.He left the Dabie Mountains with Li Chengfang back then, but now he died on the Long March.The thatched hut is full of cobwebs and dust, dilapidated and miserable.A blind white-haired old lady crawled out of the haystack. When she heard Cheng Fang's name, she hugged him and wept bitterly. It took a long time before she said a word: "It's called Baidang to kill them all. Cheng Fang, take him away quickly." The troops go! Go beat them! Go take revenge!" As soon as the 15th Army entered the Dabie Mountains, vehicles and luggage encountered difficulties. Some mountain roads were difficult for livestock and horses to pass, so they had to dismantle the cannons and carry them on their shoulders.Soldiers who grew up on the plains don't know how to walk on mountain roads. When it rains, they will be a "big horse" after a few steps, which is miserable.Most of the cooks are from the north, and they don't know how to cook rice. When a pot of rice is cooked, the bottom is mushy, the middle is yellow, and the top is raw, which is hard to swallow.The soldiers looked hungry, and the attrition and escape increased. Qin Jiwei went down to the cooking class, rolled up his sleeves, and gave a demonstration to the cooks.In a two-foot-deep cauldron, the water is properly added, and the heat is moderate. When the lid is lifted, the white and bright rice is soft and fragrant.The soldiers ate and yelled, and even ate up the crispy rice. On the march, all the army chiefs went down to the grassroots, marched with the soldiers, took the lead in singing, and organized cheerleaders to shout slogans.Qin Jiwei gave up the horse to the patient, and walked in the queue with his long legs swinging.When he moved a machine gun from the soldier's shoulder to his own, the soldier choked up, and the queue began to pass orders: "Pass forward, the commander is carrying the machine gun!" "Pass back, the commander is carrying the machine gun!" It's like a silent storm rolling... The entire team knows that the commander is among them; the soldiers all know that the commander is like them, trekking through mountains and rivers, pouring in the rain, rolling in the mud, and carrying a machine gun on his shoulder ...