Chapter 12 Chapter 12

The Huaye Second Column, where the Eighth Company is located, was ordered to snipe the mission of the Qiu Qingquan Corps, the main force of Chiang Kai-shek who was aided by the coastal Zheng Road. On November 13, Chiang Kai-shek telegraphed the "killing devil" Qiu Qingquan: "The party and the country are alive and dead. In this one action, my brother should carry forward the Whampoa spirit, be loyal to the country, be filial to the nation, and sacrifice everything to defeat the enemy in front of us. Siege of the Corps." After receiving the telegram, he led four armies to attack Nianzhuang with Hecun and Pantang to rescue Huang Botao's Corps which was surrounded by our army.On the way to the east, the five main divisions of the Qiu Corps encountered the blocking of the three Huaye columns led by Su Yu and General Tan Zhenlin.Our army launched a fierce battle with the enemy, wiped out the enemy's horses, blood flowed into canals, and prevented the enemy from advancing eastward. On the 15th, Liu Zhi and Du Yuming, who were commanding operations on the front line, discussed with Qiu Qingquan and decided to transfer the 74th Army that had stayed in Jiulishan, Xuzhou, into the battle from the left wing, and attack our army from the side.The army commander Qiu Weida is the confidant general of Qiu Qingquan's corps. In order to work hard for Qiu Qingquan, regardless of life and death, he commanded officers and soldiers at all levels to dispatch and fought fiercely with the 2nd, 12th, and 11th (Nakaye) columns of our Huaye.

In the middle of the night that night, there were rumbles of guns, bursts of gunshots, flames soaring into the sky, and the sound of killing shook the ground.In Wangtang Village, Tongshan County, Jiangsu Province, the 3rd Battalion of the 16th Regiment of the 6th Division of the 2nd Huaye Huaye encountered the reinforced battalion of the 173rd Regiment of the 74th Army of the enemy. At 3 o'clock on the 16th, my heroic Seventh Company blasted Luzhai with explosives, rushed up and occupied the enemy's front trenches.Under the attack of my artillery fire, the enemy dropped a large number of weapons and fled to the village.When the Seventh Company was chasing and fleeing the enemy, it encountered violent artillery fire from the enemy and lost contact with the follow-up troops of the Third Battalion.Battalion Commander Lu Rui saw that the battle situation was critical, and while slamming grenades at the enemy group, he shouted loudly: "Zhang Chunli, go!"

Zhang Chunli, the commander of the Eighth Company, who was in charge of the assist task, felt extremely sad when he saw the glorious sacrifice of Commander Lu.With the anger of revenge for his comrades, he led the Eighth Company across the enemy's trenches, inserted into the village, and launched a fierce battle with the enemy. The enemy's intensive artillery fire came like a hailstorm, machine guns and rifles blocked every alley, and incendiary bombs hit the houses and ignited a raging fire.Under such circumstances, under the command of Zhang Chunli, the cadres and soldiers of the heroic Eighth Company fought hand-to-hand with the enemy. Several enemies huddled in the west courtyard and shot at me.

Zhang Chunli shouted anxiously: "Liu Jiantang, go and blow it up!" "Okay!" Liu Jiantang, the bomber, replied resolutely, "I promise to complete the task!" "Come on, I'll cover you!" Zhang Chunli said and threw two grenades at the enemy's position. Liu Jiantang took the explosives and rushed out in the smoke.He bent down, like a gust of wind, and ran to the wall.The enemy found out and concentrated their firepower on Liu Jiantang.Liu Jiantang had quick eyes and quick hands, and he was already lying under the wall. With a wave of Zhang Chunli's hand, the machine guns of the assault platoon screamed wildly, suppressing the enemy's west courtyard with blazing firepower.Liu Jiantang threw three grenades into the courtyard, causing the enemy to call his father and mother.He got up, quickly put the explosives on the house, blew the fuse, and he quickly hid.Just hearing a loud "boom", a puff of black smoke rushed into the sky, and the enemy's house exploded and collapsed.Liu Jiantang was dizzy from the blast, and his ears were buzzing.He quickly picked up the second pack of explosives and blew up the wall.

Zhang Chunli led the assault platoon, jumped up and rushed up.The enemy continued to resist, flying shells, bullets and incendiary bombs hit the assault platoon, like a wall of fire blocking the breakthrough.The soldiers braved the rain of bullets, rushed through the fire, and fought face-to-face with the enemy: some comrades of the assault platoon died with the enemy; The soldiers died heroically, biting one of the enemy's ears in their mouths; many soldiers were red and splashed with blood... When company commander Zhang Chunli was surrounded by four enemies and was fighting face to face, soldier Wang Hongren caught up and stabbed one. When he was almost on his body, Zhang Chunli turned around sharply, and the two enemies missed. Wang Hongren went up and stabbed his bayonet into the enemy's chest, and Zhang Chunli stabbed another enemy's weakness.Zhang Chunli said happily: "Comrade Hong Ren, you are doing well!" As soon as he finished speaking, an enemy bullet hit his upper body.

The soldiers of the People's Liberation Army went to the front line to prepare for a new battle. He didn't care about dressing up, and fought hard with the soldiers and the enemy.At this time, Wang Hongren killed seven or eight enemies in a row. Unfortunately, his intestines were blown out by shrapnel. Xiao Zhang wanted to bandage him, but he refused to say anything, shouting: "Leave me alone, go and destroy the enemy!" He was very tenacious, stuffing his intestines into his stomach with his hands and persisted in fighting until he died in the end. In the critical moment of the battle, Zhang Chunli was wounded all over his body, but he still told everyone to leave him alone and continue to fight bravely.

During the battle, Zhang Chunli found a group of enemies rushing up from the flank, and hurriedly ordered the second platoon leader Dong Jiamin to set up a machine gun and shoot at the enemy.The enemy fired wildly at them. Dong Jiamin's chest was pierced by bullets, and he still held a machine gun to wipe out the enemy, repelling the enemy's many counterattacks.At this moment, Zhang Chunli was seriously injured in two places.Brave!Our hero company was shot six bullets in the long leg, and still commanded the assault platoon to fight the enemy.Zhang Chunli's military uniform was completely soaked in blood. He endured the severe pain with tenacious strength, never groaned, and still stood firm.These heroic images one after another inspired every soldier of the Eighth Company to fight the enemy bravely.Immediately, the slogan of "Revenge for comrades-in-arms! Repay the blood debt from the enemy! Kill the enemy and make meritorious deeds!" The slogan resounded throughout the entire position and echoed in the night sky of Wangtang.

We also describe from another aspect the scene of the heroic company commander Zhang Chunli commanding the battle during his lifetime.When the battle was extremely fierce, there were only six people left in the eighth company assault platoon. Under the leadership of Zhang Chunli, these six combat heroes repelled the enemy's many crazy counterattacks and welcomed the follow-up troops to wipe out the enemy.When you run out of explosives and grenades, you use gun stocks, bayonets, and stones to fight the enemy. When you run out of bullets and the gun stocks are broken, you look for them from the pile of enemy corpses.The enemy mistakenly believed that our Eighth Company Assault Platoon had reached the point where there were no ammunition left, so they shouted loudly: "Brothers of the Communist Army, quickly hand in your guns!" The soldier Wang Chengxin replied: "Stop bragging, I'll let you know what you're doing. If I had known earlier, we would advise you to hand in your guns! There will be no good end to working for Chiang Kai-shek!" The liberated Wang Chengxin was oppressed by the reactionary army. He was added to the Eighth Company three hours before the start of the Wangtang battle.Instructor Zhang Qiying only gave him ten minutes of class education, asking him to kill the enemy and avenge the poor.Wang Chengxin was full of vengeful anger and killed more than ten enemies in a row.Seeing that he was still wearing the Kuomintang cotton military uniform and military cap, Zhang Chunli immediately put on his own military cap, patted him on the shoulder affectionately and said, "Comrade Cheng Xin, you fought very well! I believe you can fight well." Become a qualified fighter!"

The soldiers of the Eighth Company fought tenaciously, continued to attack forward, and pushed into the courtyard where the enemy battalion was last guarded.At this time, Liu Jiande, the instructor of the Third Battalion, told Zhang Chunli of the Eighth Company: "You have completed the combat mission gloriously, and now the brother company will take over from you and wipe out the enemy!" Please rest assured, the instructor, we only need a few packs of explosives, and even one person will definitely blow up the compound!" So, the deputy platoon leader of the second row, Fang Tuan, took five packs of explosives from the third company, and sent the remaining six people to The two battle groups continued to fight.

The soldier Duan Wenhu ran over and begged Company Commander Zhang: "Company Commander, I'll blow it up!" Zhang Chunli held Duan Wenhu's hand tightly, and said cordially, "Be careful!" Shi Fangtuan asked the company commander: "Company commander, I will cover his blast!" Zhang Chunli nodded. Shi Fangtuan threw a grenade, and Duan Wenhu rushed up holding the explosives.When the enemy machine guns fired at him, he lay down and did not move.The enemy thought he was shot dead, and hastily shifted the shooting target.At this moment, Duan Wenhu quickly climbed forward, put the explosives under the wall, and blew the fuse.A loud bang blasted the passageway.Six people rushed into the courtyard and rushed at the enemy.At this time, the brother company also rushed up. After fierce fighting, they wiped out a reinforced battalion and an artillery company of the 173rd Regiment of the 74th Army.The battle ended victoriously, disrupting the deployment of Qiu Qingquan's East Aid Corps.

At the same time, my brother's troops wiped out part of the enemy's 173rd regiment. In the afternoon of the same day, Qiu Qingquan received a telegram that the 173rd regiment had been annihilated. He was so angry that he slapped the table and scolded Qiu Weida for his incompetence.Immediately afterwards, our army and Qiu Qingquan's corps finally wiped out the enemy after several bloody battles, and even Qiu Qingquan finally died on the battlefield.When the news reached Nanjing, Chiang Kai-shek was so shocked that he smashed the teacup in his hand and cursed: "Mother Xipi, you are all idiots!" In recognition of the eighth company's military exploits, on December 15, 1948, the North Jiangsu Corps of the East China Field Army awarded the eighth company the honorable title of "Hero Company".The company commander Zhang Chunli was known as the "Iron Man" and won the honorary title of "East China First-Class People's Hero". Qiu Qingquan's superstitious psychology broke out again in the face of the predicament of desperation.The yard where he and Du Yuming lived was surrounded by houses, and there was a tree growing in the middle. Some people said that a tree grew in the middle of the surroundings, which was a word for "sleepy". He thought it made sense and thought it was a secret. A tree, only to be fulfilled by the commander's order.So he mobilized a superstitious official to go to Du Yuming to come down to speak, and he stopped after cutting down the tree.Since then, he organized several breakouts, but they were all knocked down by the iron walls of the People's Liberation Army, causing heavy casualties. Breaking through once and fighting until the night was dark, the organizational system of Qiu Qingquan's corps was in chaos and they were unable to fight anymore.Qiu Qingquan called the 72nd Army to ask for a regiment guarding the headquarters of the regiment, but he failed. He was so angry that he cursed, and he had no choice but to leave the agency staff, and took a temporary shelter with the 5th Army headquarters connected to Chenzhuang. The People's Liberation Army distributes travel expenses to prisoners of the Kuomintang government army who are willing to go home Outside the enemy's advanced command post, various confidential documents were torn into pieces and fluttered in the wind.Du Yuming's life was also difficult, and he couldn't go on, so he had to hand over the command post and tank troops to the deputy chief of staff Wen Qiang, so that he could break through on his own.I also got into the 5th Army Headquarters.When the troops saw that the commander-in-chief had left, they were greatly disappointed, so the trees fell and the monkeys scattered, and they all went to find their own way out. After Qiu Qingquan and Du Yuming came to the headquarters of the 5th Army, the artillery fire of the People's Liberation Army extended to Chenzhuang as if it had eyes.Xiong Xiaosan, the commander of the 5th Army, complained loudly in front of Du Yuming and Qiu Qingquan: "After 40 days of fighting, the village has never been hit by artillery. When the regiment headquarters came, the artillery shells of the Communist Army also followed!" Listening to the subordinates Du Yuming and Qiu Qingquan were like phoenixes falling into the water, sweeping away their prestige, and could only look at each other with wry smiles. In the evening, Li Mi also ran to Chen Zhuang to discuss opportunities with Du Yuming.However, now that the battle has come to this, what else can Du Yuming do?Just sitting in the shelter, frowning.Xiong Xiaosan, commander of the 5th Army, faced the helpless "bear-like appearance" of the three officers Du Yuming, Qiu Qingquan, and Li Mi, and he was really dumbfounded.Li Mi saw that the commander-in-chief had lost his mind, and he was unwilling to attach himself to Qiu Qingquan, so he left.Turn around and walk out of the shelter.The night outside is spectacular!I saw half of the sky was reddened by artillery fire, and red, yellow, and green signal flares drew beautiful arcs in the sky. The various infantry weapons could still be clearly distinguished, and they had already become "a pot of beans". There is only a reverb of "cracking crackling".I heard that Li Mi yelled sadly at that time: "It's time to fry beans, I knew it would be today!" After speaking, he disappeared into the night. After the 36th Brigade of the 12th Column of the East China Field Army completed the Battle of Xiazhai, it entered the battle of Dingzaoyuan.The enemy couldn't resist our powerful offensive, and Dingzaoyuan was soon occupied by our army.At this time, the remnants of Li Mi's corps attempted to break out of the encirclement northward through this opening while my foothold was not stable.However, the troops of Li Mi's corps that broke through to the north just fell into the pockets laid by the 12th column, and Li Mi's 1,100-strong officer teaching regiment was all captured alive.At that time, the battle situation was developing smoothly. In order to concentrate on annihilating more enemies, the troops could not spare more personnel and time to escort and clean up the prisoners, so they only sent a company of the Column Guard Battalion to escort more than 2,000 prisoners to Linyi East China Field Army Politics ministry shelter.Dozens of captives escaped on the way. After investigation, among those who escaped was Li Mi, the commander of the 13th Corps who concealed his identity and disguised himself as a wounded soldier.After Li Mi escaped from the Huaihai battlefield, he arrived in Qingdao at the end of January.Later, he led some old ministries to the Golden Triangle area of ​​Myanmar to dominate one side, which is a later story. After Li Mi left, Du Yuming forced himself to be calm and said to Qiu Qingquan and others: "Everyone, get ready and break out tomorrow with the support of the Air Force." If you insist on breaking through tonight.He said angrily: "Let's go tonight before the troops are all fired. It is impossible to break through during the day, and the air force support is useless!" Qiu Qingquan has fought against the PLA for half his life, and perhaps his words have some truth . At this time, Xiong Xiaosan was also playing drums: "It is better to break through now than to sit and wait for death. We have done our best in the war, and the president has no reason to blame the commander-in-chief." Seeing Xiong Xiaosan's support, Qiu Qingquan sighed with emotion: "The Europeans are the best at fighting. They fight if they win, and surrender if they don't win. Unlike us, who know they can't win, they have to stand up here." .” Finally, Du Yuming couldn't listen any longer, and he loudly reprimanded Qiu and Xiong: "You break through, I just won't leave, even if I'm the only one left, I have to wait until dawn!" Xiong Xiaosan ran out a little aggrieved.After a while, gunshots broke out inside and outside Chenzhuang.Xiong Xiaosan was either too humorous or mentally ill. In such a raging war, in order to achieve the goal of breaking through the siege earlier, he actually made big jokes half-truthfully.Out of breath, he ran back and said to Du Yuming: "Commander-in-Chief, something serious is wrong! The Communist Army has arrived at the headquarters. Whether to leave or surrender, make up your mind!" He shook it in his hand. Unexpectedly, Du Yuming was a soldier with rich combat experience, he had already heard the sound of guns and guns, and knew that it was Xiong Xiaosan who was causing trouble, so he was so angry that he almost fainted.After a long time, he raised his left wrist to look at his watch.The hour hand had already pointed to zero, so he ordered Qiu Qingquan to inform the troops to split up and break out, and at the same time sent a last telegram to Chiang Kai-shek: "The troops are in chaos and cannot last until dawn, so we have to split up and break out at this time." When Du Yuming's group scattered like birds and beasts one after another, the groups of our East China Field Army quickly inserted into the enemy's central position with fierce beating and dashing movements, forcing the enemy to have no chance to breathe.By about zero o'clock, the enemy's 13th Corps had all collapsed, and Qinglongji, Lu's hometown, Zhulouji and other places were all captured by the People's Liberation Army.The remaining routs poured into the positions of the 2nd Corps.At this time, Qiu Weida, commander of the 74th Army, who was in the position of the 2nd Corps, suddenly received a call from Qiu Qingquan saying: "Li Mi's Corps has collapsed, and the Communist Army has occupied the throwing field. Please pay attention! Du Yuming has arrived at Huangzhuanghu and is about to leave , I can’t unify the command anymore, please decide on your own.” Since then, the phone has never been connected.Qiu Weida immediately summoned Wang Menggeng, Commander of the 51st Division, Wang Kuichang, Commander of the 58th Division, Chief of Staff Changjiang Chonglin, Deputy Chief of Staff Lin Zhunian, Chief of Operations, Chief of the Artillery Corps, etc., to decide on a breakout deployment, but there were gunshots everywhere, and the troops were in chaos. Fleeing, chaotic, had to hastily set to break out at 2 o'clock in the morning, the meeting place is Fuyang. Qiu Weida himself followed the main force of the 51st Division and broke out from Liuji to the southwest. He was immediately stopped by the PLA's intensive artillery fire. Division commander Wang Menggeng was shot and killed on the spot.By dawn, the battle was over and Qiu Weida was captured. All the way under Wen Qiang's command, they received the last call from Du Yuming at zero o'clock, asking them to go to the Fifth Army headquarters to act with him.However, when they rushed to the headquarters of the 5th Army under artillery fire, even Du Yuming and Qiu Qingquan were gone.I saw Du Yuming's confidential secretary Feng Shiru taking out confidential documents from his briefcase and burning them in a panic, his face as pale as a piece of bloodless white paper. The dragons have no leader, and the situation is over.Wen Qiang and others had no choice but to get mixed up in the chaos and run towards the southeast corner.When the eastern sky was exposed, the People's Liberation Army also became a prisoner when it cleaned up the battlefield. Besides, when Qiu Qingquan saw that the telegram had been filmed, he kicked and destroyed the radio station, pulled Du Yuming up, and rushed out with the spy battalion.Du Yuming gradually fell behind because of his waist and leg problems, and most of the more than 10 guards also ran away.Du Yuming ran for half the night with only a few guards, and when he came near Jiazhai, he encountered the People's Liberation Army moving westward, so he immediately hid himself in the trenches, and lay down on the ground for a long time, not daring to come out.In the end, Du Yuming's adjutant Yin Dongsheng climbed up tremblingly, seeing that the troops had passed, he urged Du Yuming to put on makeup quickly, shaved his beard, and randomly put a soldier's cotton coat on Du Yuming.At this time, Du Yuming, who had no way to go to heaven and nowhere to go to earth, was in despair. He took out his pistol and tried to commit suicide, but was hugged by Yin Dongsheng, crying and snatching the pistol. After the People's Liberation Army brigade walked far away, Du Yuming and others continued to move forward with strong energy, preparing to turn west and south after walking for a while.They walked more than 10 kilometers in a row, and saw the People's Liberation Army along the way.On the way, I also met a person who looked like a PLA cadre and a head of health (later he bandaged Du's wound). Du Yuming and others pretended to be the 11th column of the PLA, and they got away with it. At dawn, Du Yuming and his gang were marching exhaustedly between the two villages. Unexpectedly, they were spotted by a fellow villager who got up early to feed the livestock. Seeing the small group of Kuomintang soldiers, the fellow was so anxious that he dropped the fodder and rushed to the nearby village. The health department of the 11th Division of the East China Field Army ran, kicked open the door, and said out of breath: "Hurry up, grab, catch the Kuomintang soldiers, hurry up, hurry up..." This kind of situation is often seen in the health department , didn't think it was a big deal, so he sent two correspondents to check. Due to the difficulty of supply at that time and the large number of PLA soldiers supplementing the troops, it was impossible to change the PLA uniforms in time, so it is common for PLA soldiers to wear the uniforms of Kuomintang soldiers.Two correspondents stepped forward and asked, "Which part are you from?" The adjutant Yin Dongsheng wanted to pretend to be the People's Liberation Army, and replied, "Send prisoners." During the question and answer, the two correspondents felt that they were not like their own, and immediately showed their weapons Lai: "Hand in your guns and don't kill, give preferential treatment to prisoners!" The adjutants and guards put down their weapons obediently.After Du Yuming was captured, he claimed to be a highly civilized military supplier of the 13th Corps. After Du Yuming and others were brought into the village, a PLA soldier said: "You are hungry!" So they brought water and food to give them a full meal.Soon, the People's Liberation Army divided Du Yuming and others into two groups, and only took Du Yuming, Yin Dongsheng and the driver to talk to a chief. The adjutant introduced himself: "My name is Yin Dongsheng, a reporter from "Xuzhou Daily": "He pointed to Du and said: "This is the high military supply of the 13th Corps." The driver said: "My name is Zhang Yinguo, I drive a commercial vehicle in Xuzhou, and I asked them to bring me here." The chief of the conversation seemed a little suspicious, looked at Du Yuming and others carefully, and then asked Du Yuming: "Your name is not bad. How many advantages does the 13th Corps have?" Du Yuming pretended to be calm: "Six major places." "You write down the name of the head of the Sixth Division." The head said with a smile, and pushed the pen and paper towards Du Yuming. Du Yuming was unprepared, and sweat began to break out on his forehead.As the deputy commander-in-chief, how could he remember the names of several directors of a corps!Du Yuming actually started to interrupt: "What's your last name?" The chief said calmly, "My surname is Chen." Du Yuming thought to himself, if it was Chen Yi, he could have an honest talk with him.But seeing the mixed eyes of the left and right people, he said, "Isn't this place very convenient?" The chief surnamed Chen may have misunderstood what Du Yuming meant, thinking that Du Yuming was afraid of being bombed by planes, so he said, "It doesn't matter, we have experience with your air force. As long as you confess frankly, we will be lenient to all, except for the war criminal Du Yuming." Du Yuming thought to himself: "I am, you haven't found out yet." The chief surnamed Chen asked again: "Did Du Yuming escape by plane?" Du Yuming and others went along with the flow and said, "I heard he ran away." The chief surnamed Chen saw that there was no result, so he asked them to rest in another room. Later, another cadre came, questioned Du Yuming and others, and conducted a strict inspection, then counted the things one by one, and returned them to Du Yuming and the others.Du Yuming felt that the People's Liberation Army lived up to its reputation and treated the prisoners well, with a good attitude, clear procedures, and strict discipline.Especially seeing that the People's Liberation Army has received warm welcome and strong support from the people, well fed, warmly dressed, adequate ammunition, and fighting spirit, he nodded thoughtfully. Later, a soldier said to Yin Dongsheng: "You are from Anhui, go to your fellow villager." He separated the adjutant from the driver Zhang Yinguo.Then they took Du and Zhang to a square and passed in front of a large number of prisoners from the 3rd Corps.Du Yuming felt ashamed and annoyed when he saw many familiar subordinates.He felt that sooner or later he would be discovered by the People's Liberation Army. After being captured, the term "war criminal", which means heinous crimes, has been haunting Du Yuming.Seeing that Du Yuming was restless, Zhang Yinuo persuaded Du Yuming to escape at night many times.Du Yuming thought that he had pain in his waist and legs and had difficulty moving. He would die if he could not move, and he would die if he was discovered by the PLA.Instead of being executed, it is better to commit suicide first, and you can still be a "loyal minister" of Chiang Kai-shek.Du Yuming saw that a guard soldier had just left the house, so he grabbed a stone and threw it on his head, causing his head to bleed, and he fell unconscious.Fortunately, the guards found him in time and sent him to the Health Department for emergency treatment.After Du Yuming woke up, he felt that there was an extra layer on his head, which was bandaged with medicine by the PLA health workers.He wanted to tear off the gauze, so PLA soldiers had to handcuff him. The next day, the chief surnamed Chen came to ask again: "What's your name?" Du Yuming said impatiently: "You already know, why bother asking." Chief Chen smiled.He instructed several soldiers to carry Du Yuming to the column headquarters on a stretcher.Commander Tao Yong and Chief of Staff Zhang Zhen treated Du Yuming with courtesy and talked very politely.But Du Yuming has always been arrogant and rude, unwilling to talk about any issues. Du Yuming, courtesy name Guangting, was born in Mizhi County, Shaanxi Province in 1904.In the first phase of Huangpu, he was a lieutenant general in the army. He was once the head of the Kuomintang Armored Corps. At the age of 34, he became the commander of the 5th Army. From November to December 1939, he led the 1st Division (Zheng Dongguo as the division commander), the 200th Division (Dai Anlan as the division commander), the 22nd Division (Qiu Qingquan as the division commander), and the Japanese No. 1 Division known as the "Steel Army". The 12th Brigade of the 5th Division fought a desperate battle at Kunlun Pass, creating the "Kunlun Pass Victory" in which more than 4,000 enemies were killed.When the good news came out, the whole country rejoiced.On the majestic Kunlun Pass, there stands a "Monument to the Fallen Soldiers of the Fifth Army's Anti-Japanese War". Du Yuming wrote a 400-character memorial inscription in regular script with tears in his eyes, and Chiang Kai-shek and He Yingqin also wrote commemorative inscriptions. Reporters from all over the country came to interview one after another. Du Yuming said to reporters: "The victory of this battle, you all saw it with your own eyes on the battlefield. Please publicize it truthfully and don't exaggerate it. But there is one thing that needs to be emphasized, that is, to emphasize this The army is the force of the people, and the people are the elders of the army. Therefore, if you want to record this victory, you must bring a note: the victory of the army is actually the victory of the people." The scene when the people of Xuzhou celebrated the liberation of Xuzhou, Du Yuming's words from the heart, once moved many people to tears. In March 1942, Du Yuming served as the deputy commander of the First Route Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Army, and led his troops into Burma to fight against the Japanese army, with outstanding military exploits.It is the same person, the performance in different battlefields, the contrast is so great.This has to make people attribute the reason to the nature of war: just wars must be won, and unjust wars must be defeated. This is an objective law that does not depend on human will. Qiu Qingquan's fate was not as good as Du Yuming's.After Qiu Qingquan rushed out of Chenzhuang, he fled northward with his cronies, the secret service battalion.Because the People's Liberation Army surrounded the road very tightly, they rushed left and right like a bereaved dog in panic, but couldn't break through this big net, and finally became insane. Here, the communist army is here!" He had just run to 400 meters west of Zhangmiaotang in the northwest of Chenzhuang, and was about to catch his breath when suddenly, "da da da", the People's Liberation Army set up a blocking position on the outskirts of Chenzhuang and swept over a burst of machine gun bullets. Qiu Qingquan was hit by six bullets and immediately fell to the ground and died. On January 10, 1949, Du Yuming's entire army was wiped out. The entire Huaihai Campaign ended with the destruction of Du Yuming's entire army. So far, our army wiped out the main enemy forces in the Central Plains and East China battlefields, paved the way for our army to successfully cross the river and liberate Nanjing and Shanghai, and sounded the death knell for the reactionary rule of the Jiang family dynasty.Chiang Kai-shek lost his troops and generals, and from here he walked into the abyss of destruction.