Looking at the 57 founding generals, only General Deng Hua has the largest number of troops, which is 654.38+04,000! You know, during the war of liberation, the founding generals were all commanders of the Corps, and a Corps had more than 60,000 troops.
The military history records the life of General Deng Hua who has repeatedly made meritorious military service. He was once listed as one of the "Four Masters of the Korean War" by foreign military history, and Taiwan Province Province also called him "One of the Three Generals in the Four Fields", and made a special study on him. He is brave and good at fighting, and has the spirit of expressing his opinions and not avoiding fame, which has made great contributions to the liberation of New China.
From 65438 to 0960, under the influence of General Manager Peng, Deng Hua was transferred to Sichuan as the vice governor in charge of agricultural machinery. Deng Hua couldn't agree with the whole incident, but it couldn't be refuted at that time. Before going to work, he asked his wife to dye her general's uniform, trousers and hat black in protest.
1on April 28th, 949, after the People's Liberation Army successfully crossed the river with millions of heroes, General Deng Hua stood out among thousands of commanders and became the commander of the Corps, commanding the 15th Corps composed of hundreds of thousands of troops. How did General Deng Hua bravely resist the enemy in Northeast China during the War of Liberation?
Siping Fourth World War is a landmark campaign to liberate Northeast China. The Fourth Field Army, under the leadership of General Deng Hua, participated in these four offensive and defensive wars, which just witnessed the changing process of our army and the Kuomintang army in the Northeast. At that time, Siping City was the strategic center of Northeast China, located in the middle of the Northeast Plain, at the junction of Liaoning and Jilin provinces, and at the intersection of Shenyang-Harbin and Pingqi railways.
At this time, General Deng Hua won the first battle in Siping Campaign, winning a total victory. However, except for the first battle, the next few battles were extremely difficult.
1in mid-March, 946, the enemy seized Siping, captured and captured it. Immediately, as the commander of Liaoji Military Region, Deng Hua accurately judged the enemy's situation, and immediately sent a regiment and two battalions to cooperate with the brothers, fighting all night. Siping was captured by soldiers, successfully destroying the enemy's defensive forces and achieving remarkable results. A total of more than 1000 rifles and 40 or 50 machine guns were seized.
Chiang Kai-shek was very unwilling to be banned this time. After the defeat, the troops were urgently transferred, and Siping was besieged in turn from many directions. So Lin Biao, commander-in-chief of the Northeast Democratic Allied Forces, personally commanded the defense of Siping, mobilized 14 divisions and brigades, and adopted the strategy of "some troops guarding the city and assembling the main forces to stand by", and divided the troops into two teams. General Deng Hua sent a brigade to stick to Siping City, while he led his troops to protect the periphery of Siping City to stop the enemy in the north.
General Deng Hua said to Deng and Ma Renxing: "President Mao Zedong is negotiating in Chongqing, and we will crack down on the enemy. After the war, President Mao Zedong was safer in Chongqing, and it was more favorable to negotiate with Chiang Kai-shek ... It was a campaign task and strategic significance to stick to Siping. Kill and kill the enemy in large numbers and stop the enemy from advancing. The longer we persist, the better it will be for the development of the Beiman base area. "
After 1 month, the Kuomintang organized large forces to attack continuously, and several fighter planes bombed Siping day and night, with a total combat power of about ten divisions. The participating troops led by General Deng Hua put up an extremely tenacious resistance. General Deng Hua fought back again and again, but the enemy failed, and Siping was never captured. Then point the finger at Changchun.
However, when General Deng Hua led his men to voluntarily withdraw from the Four Seasons, Chen Mingren took the opportunity to invade the empty city. Then "Siping in World War II", although its own losses were heavy, it also greatly defeated Chiang Kai-shek's prestige army, greatly delayed the progress of Chiang Kai-shek's army's invasion to the north, and won very precious time for creating and consolidating the northeast base area.
1June, 947, the "Three Wars and Four Siping" campaign began. At this time, the Northeast Democratic Allied Forces experienced three battles, defending the Jiangnan Linjiang, and Siping became an isolated stronghold, preparing to seize Siping, making this battle an important battle for the strategic counterattack in Northeast China.
Lin Biao estimated that Siping's defense was weak, so he only increased a small amount of troops. "Three wars and four draws", General Deng Hua led a fierce battle 13 day and night. Comrade Ma Renxing, the commander of the first division, asked General Deng Hua to leave the command post, but General Deng Hua stuck to the front line and gave the order regardless of the danger: "Take the Dahonglou at all costs!" After a night of fierce fighting, the building assault team composed of Comrade Ma Renxing successfully blew up the Dahonglou and captured the brother of the commander of 7 1 Army alive in the basement.
After fierce competition, the democratic Coalition forces won a staged victory. Siping has been basically controlled by our army except Sandaoling and several commanding heights. However, because it took a long time to attack the Siping front, a large number of enemy reinforcements approached Shenyang, and our army's siege force was too weak, which made Chiang Kai-shek's troops grow slowly. In this war, the democratic coalition ended in failure and suffered heavy casualties.
According to Comrade Wu Fushan, then the political commissar of the Seventh Vertical, he recalled: "The enemy of Siping was in a state of panic, and hastily contracted its forces, focusing on Siping, in an attempt to achieve the effect of sticking to it. The peripheral mobile defense of the enemy in Siping was shattered. " At that time, the leaders of several columns thought that their columns had the strategic conditions to attack Siping, so they told General Manager Dong all the advantages and suggested attacking Siping.
Later, every time the veterans of the Northeast Field Army talked about three wars and four draws, they would say with regret: "If Comrade Lin Biao could listen to Comrade Deng Hua's advice, the battle of' three wars and four draws' would not be so cruel!" At the post-war summary meeting, Comrade Lin Biao also made a profound review: "You are not responsible for this place. This is entirely my responsibility. " He took the responsibility of three wars and four draws alone.
1March, 948, General Deng Hua once again led the troops in "four wars and four draws". At that time, in order to save the defeat as much as possible, the Kuomintang had no choice but to adopt "divisional defense." At this time, the Kuomintang troops were hit one after another, with extremely heavy losses and low morale. General Deng Hua seized this good opportunity and instructed his troops: "First attack the enemy commanding heights such as Sandanlingzi, and then cooperate with his brothers to attack Siping Street. After capturing Sandaoling, escort Comrade Chen Mingxin back to Siping Street to carry out a political offensive in order to achieve the purpose of support and disintegration. "
At 8 o'clock on June, 5438+02, our army began a full-scale assault in five directions. Under the excellent command of General Deng Hua, the troops of the Northeast Field Army launched a surprise attack from five directions in just 23 hours, annihilated more than 9,000 defenders/kloc-0, successfully captured Siping and returned to the people.
Comrade Li Huamin, former political commissar of the First Division of Deng Hua Column, recalled: "1948, our column participated in the last Siping Campaign. This campaign concentrated a lot of excellent troops and weapons, with three columns as the main attack and four columns relying on assistance. The whole campaign took only more than 20 hours from the beginning of the general attack to the end of the campaign, and Siping was completely annihilated. "
1In August, 947, General Deng Hua was appointed as the commander of the seventh column of the Northeast Democratic Allied Forces, and Comrade Tao Zhu was appointed as a political commissar. /kloc-in September of 0/4, the Northeast Democratic Allied Forces launched an autumn offensive.
At the end of September, Qi received a new combat mission-Comrade Lin Biao and Comrade Liu Yalou sent a telegram on 25th 17, informing Qi that he was ready to start at once, to expand the area after annihilating the enemy lines in Zhangwu, Fuxin and Yixian, and to mobilize the new Sixth Army to set out south, so as to help him annihilate the 53rd Army, occupy the area between Siping and Shenyang, and cooperate with Jehol to fight as soon as possible. There aren't many enemies in Faku. Don't fight yet, so as not to waste time.
On 26th, General Manager Dong gave the order of autumn offensive. Comrade Lin Biao and Comrade Liu Yalou sent telegrams saying: "The two main divisions of the New Sixth Army rushed to Jinzhou on the 25th, and our army decided to take advantage of the current favorable opportunity to launch an attack immediately."
Our army attacked by light assault, divided its forces and prepared to attack the city and help others. Fearing that the enemies around us would shrink their positions, our army stepped up its action.
General Manager Dong immediately sent a telegram to order the Seventh Battalion: "The Seventh Battalion should set out in the daytime on the 28th, heading for Xinmin and Montenegro, and undertake the task of burning down the railway between Xinmin and Montenegro to prevent the New Sixth Army from returning to the north. We must strive to arrive on June 65438+ 10 1 day and boldly implement the road to turn immediately. "
At ten o'clock, Comrade Lin Biao and Comrade Liu Yalou said, "Cavalry and local troops should pay attention to the coordination of the seven vertical movements and allocate the seven vertical regulations specifically. Seventh, the first step of the task should be to break the road, supplemented by fighting; The second step is to fight small and medium-sized battles, supplemented by burning (railways). "
The situation was once critical. After receiving the task, Deng Hua actively communicated operational guidelines with Lin Biao and Liu Yalou by telegraph. General Deng Hua, who is active in thought and good at fighting, keeps thinking about new operational policies. According to Comrade Deng's recollection, "Comrade Deng Hua told us that in order to cooperate with the main force to annihilate more enemies in the south of Songhua River, we should try our best to contain the enemy in western Liaoning, and the more we contain, the better. Although we are the secondary direction of this campaign, we should change the secondary direction into the main direction in ideological preparation and combat operations, that is, actively strive for more enemy troops so that the enemy can't be prevented. "
Subsequently, General Deng Hua received a new task to analyze the enemy's situation in the area where the troops were advancing. When General Deng Hua held a meeting to study this plan, there were two opinions: "fight" and "don't fight". General Deng Hua synthesized everyone's opinions and put forward the principle of divided operations. One army carried out the breakthrough task, and the other column mainly annihilated the enemies of Faku and Zhangwu. After careful deployment, in the "stealing" combat mission, the 2 1 division marched around the clock 180 miles, and in June 10, 1, without the enemy noticing, the enemy's defense force was destroyed, and the 177 division was temporarily established.
In this battle, General Deng Hua's flexible command of operations was affirmed by the headquarters of the Northeast Democratic Allied Forces. Based on the outstanding performance of General Deng Hua before, General Dong changed the original instructions to seven commanders, and General Deng Hua led his troops to continue to look for opportunities to destroy the enemy.
Open the diary of Comrade Ye Si in the battle, and you can see:
No.5 (East General) 18: "Seven vertical lines should all be on the route of Xinlitun in Montenegro, looking for a small enemy and breaking the road. If necessary, one division can break the road south of Montenegro to control the enemy, and two divisions can annihilate the enemy in Xinlitun. "
10 (East Command) 10: 30: "Except the section from Montenegro to Xinmin is completely destroyed, I hope to continue to encircle the enemy in Beizhen with the main offensive and prepare to annihilate the enemy in Goubangzi."
(General Manager Dong) 18: 40: "At present, the Seventh Vertical Army wants to wipe out scattered enemies with all its forces or main forces, and the targets can be selected. Cut off a small part of the road, making it impossible for enemy trains to pass. At present, you are mainly fighting, and you are ready to break the road after half a month. "
The war is very fierce. After the Battle of Faku, in view of the fact that the Kuomintang troops had not yet responded, Deng Hua once again commanded the troops to encircle the enemies of Zhangwu and Xinlitun respectively, and the enemy was caught off guard and completely annihilated. Then I went to Beining Road and completed the task of destroying the railway from Xinmin to Dahushan.
In the following more than half a month, General Deng Hua commanded the whole column, which not only completed the tasks assigned by his superiors on time, but also wiped out a large number of enemy troops, making them feel a little scared. His active combat contained a large number of enemy troops, achieved his expected operational goal of changing the secondary direction into the main direction, and played a strong synergistic role in the victory of Dongye main force in the battle south of Songhua River. The headquarters of the Northeast Democratic Allied Forces issued two commendation orders, one was to praise the achievements of the Seventh Column in destroying the enemy, and the other was to affirm the command ability of General Deng Hua.
1September, 948, Liaoshen Campaign kicked off. General Deng Hua received the task of attacking Jinzhou. On the operational policy of attacking Jinzhou, General Deng Hua disagreed with Lin Biao. Lin Biao only asked four backup columns to besiege Jinzhou, and other columns reinforced it.
However, General Deng Hua viewed the overall situation from a distance, thought about the offensive strategy, and learned the lesson of "four wars and four draws". He believed that the capture of Jinzhou was the focus of the first stage of the decisive battle between Liaoning and Shenyang. Only by concentrating six columns of half the troops of the Northeast Field Army could we form a superior force and quickly lay Jinzhou. Taking Jinzhou this time is a key move. Whether the strategic intention of "beating dogs behind closed doors" in Liaoshen Campaign can be realized depends on whether the campaign is won or not.
After careful consideration, General Deng Hua decided to suggest to Lin Biao that the troops attacking Jinzhou be increased to two columns. Although Comrade Lin Biao did not give a direct reply to Deng Hua, he added two columns for General Deng Hua's attack on Jinzhou, plus an artillery column and a tank battalion, and actively cooperated with General Deng Hua's command. 101October 14, Jinzhou fought a tough battle. General Deng Hua is responsible for the unified command of troops attacking Jinzhou from south to north.
After Hanwang captured Yunnan Mountain, General Deng Hua came to the temporary command post of Nverhe. Comrade Li Huamin eagerly said to him, "Comrade Commander, this place is within the effective range of the enemy's light and heavy machine guns. Colonel Mao was injured here the day before yesterday. If you come here, who will bear the responsibility if something happens? Please come back soon! We will report to you as soon as the research is deployed. Please rest assured. "
General Deng Hua asked them with a smile, are they not afraid of danger? Comrade Li Huamin knows that he can't be persuaded, so he must hurry to report the situation and put forward a battle plan. He suggested that you can take the initiative to destroy the enemy between Nverhe and Linghe, and then choose to attack the city.
General Deng Hua then instructed them-after destroying the enemy, it is best to find out where the river came from, or to open the ground between the two rivers and build all the fortifications. The command post should choose a hidden position, make fortifications, cover the top and be ready at all times.
Immediately, General Deng Hua went deep into the front line and commanded well. Together with the brothers, after 3 1 hour of fierce fighting, more than 65,438+10,000 people below the enemy leader in Jinzhou were wiped out.
101After Jinzhou was captured from October 20 to 28, General Deng Hua led his troops into the war to panic in the ninth Kuomintang Corps, and then conquered Shenyang and Yingkou until the whole Northeast was liberated.
Looking back at the Battle of Jinzhou, a senior officer comrade in Deng Hua said sincerely: "Comrade Deng Hua was just an ordinary commander in the battle. According to the general idea, he will resolutely carry out the orders issued by his superiors and complete the tasks in the direction of combat he is responsible for. However, Comrade Deng Hua has been considering the overall situation. He is not afraid of Lin Biao's aversion to his frequent suggestions. In order to win the battle, he put forward his own thoughtful suggestions, which were really commendable in the war years. "
After Liaoshen Campaign, Deng Hua and Wu Fushan led seven columns to March into Shanhaiguan with Dongye Army. General Deng Hua took on the task again, and carried out the Peiping-Tianjin campaign together with the North China Field Army. The original plan of the Central Military Commission headed by Chairman Mao was to attack Tanggu first, then Tianjin, and strive to annihilate the enemy in Tanggu first and control Haikou.
"As long as Tanggu and the new security guard are fully captured, the overall situation will live", "The combat areas are also in order, the first Tanglu District, the second new security guard, the third Tangshan District, the fourth Tianjin, Zhangjiakou District and finally Beiping District". Deng Hua won the high trust of the head of Dongye, and was ordered to command all divisions to attack the enemies of Tanggu and Dagu River.
After receiving the task, General Deng Hua analyzed the operational terrain and the enemy situation one by one. After a tentative attack, with more than half of the casualties, General Deng Hua decided to stop the attack. He pondered strategy and tactics, and ordered General Deng Hua, who was experienced in strategic thinking and avant-garde, to come up with countermeasures: "Don't fight Tanggu, seize Tianjin, so as to block the enemy of Peiping and Tianjin, prevent them from fleeing to the sea, and realize the strategic goals set by the Central Military Commission and Chairman Mao. Taking Tianjin will isolate the enemy in Peiping and make the enemy in Tanggu lose their support, killing two birds with one stone. This battle is easy to fight. "
The next day, Deng Hua gathered the heads of three columns and held another long meeting to express his ideas. After a heated discussion, everyone agreed with Deng Hua. General Deng Hua then reported his worries and thoughts to the head, pointing out: "It is good for us to attack Tanggu instead of Tianjin. As long as Tianjin is captured, it is equivalent to blocking the sea escape of the enemy in Tianjin. The east of Tanggu is the Bohai Sea, and the south is the Haihe River. You can't make a detour and achieve the effect of being besieged on all sides. It is also difficult for artillery to block the sea. It is difficult for the enemy to resist with his back to the sea, and it is difficult to cut off the enemy's back road and completely annihilate the enemy. "
"But besides the Bohai Sea and Haihe River, there are many ditches around. Although the width is only about 3 meters, the water depth reaches the chest and the tide comes deeper. Except for a bridge between the railway and a path on the east side of the railway, it is difficult to pass anywhere else. The enemy can sit by the river ditch. At the same time, from southwest to north to the seaside, there are grasslands and salt fields, which are vast and flat. The grassland is wet and muddy, and the ditches are full of water. In winter, the salt pan is not frozen, the people are inconvenient to get involved, and it is difficult for the troops to launch an attack. "
As a superior order, in fact, General Deng Hua only needs to carry out the order, but it is also related to the overall strategic issues. General Deng Hua has a strong sense of responsibility and mission. After his idea was approved by Director Dong, Lin Biao also sent people to Tanggu to survey the terrain and agreed with Deng Hua. Subsequently, the heads of the four fields, the Central Military Commission and Chairman Mao accepted Deng Hua's suggestion, abandoned the plan to attack Tanggu and Dagu, and concentrated their forces to seize Tianjin.
After the Battle of Tianjin, General Deng Hua commanded seven verticals and eight verticals, rationed sixty-seven ground guns, eight anti-aircraft guns, ten tanks and two battalions of engineers of special forces, and attacked from east to west from Minquan Gate and Guomen Gate in the east of Tianjin. This is the largest number of guns since the seventh vertical campaign.
In the peripheral battle, General Deng Hua personally led the commanders to see the terrain, guided the troops and organizations to cooperate well, won a beautiful victory, and reported to Chairman Mao of the CPC Central Committee. According to Comrade Deng Duozhe, "Before clearing the periphery and preparing to attack the city, Comrade Deng Hua came to the command post of our division and led us to a water tower to observe the terrain and choose the attack route and breakthrough."
On June 5438+05, Dongye ordered the 12 th column to advance to Tanggu, looking for opportunities to capture Tanggu, hoping to get through Beining Road. Then attack Tanggu defenders at 16. In the evening, Tanggu defenders began to flee to the sea by boat. Tanggu 17 liberation.
In the War of Liberation, General Deng Hua, as the campaign commander, kept the overall strategic situation, from fighting outside the customs to fighting inside the customs. This is his famous demeanor, which greatly moved people.
In less than two years, the troops led by General Deng Hua expanded rapidly and made outstanding achievements, becoming the main force of Dongye. People used to call the Liaoji Column, the Seventh Longitudinal Army and the Forty-fourth Army "Deng Hua Column". The army led by General Deng Hua is one of the ten main forces in four fields, and it often bears unique responsibilities. A campaign commander who dares to speak decisively and fight actively is born in this kind of training. Marshal Peng once commented on him: "He is knowledgeable, intelligent, unique in vision and thoughtful in considering problems. Deng Hua is brave and cautious, and he has a good idea and is a good helper. "
Looking back on General Deng Hua's life, he had the ambition to join the revolution since he was a teenager. He fought in the south and fought in the north all his life, killing countless enemies, which was invincible. His brilliant record frightened the enemy. No matter in the War of Liberation or the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, General Deng Hua made great contributions to the victory of the war.
In addition to his brilliant record, his character is also worth learning. He was magnanimous all his life, never striving for merit, neither humble nor supercilious, but he was very frugal in life and always lived a clean life. It can be said that the excellent quality of General Deng Hua is a precious wealth polished down in that war era.
Today, the noble character and deeds of General Deng Hua are still shining in time. I hope our generation can appreciate his charm again, pay tribute to the martyrs, and take this as an example to move on.