The classic moment of Jinzhou Campaign
Zhao Xingyuan, the battalion commander, led the last five soldiers who could still move, threw themselves on the enemy's last stronghold in the north of Jinzhou-the water distribution tank position, shouting, "Give up your gun and don't kill!" At this point, Jinzhou City has a panoramic view. Zhao Xingyuan's Northeast Field Army, 1 battalion, 2 regiments, 3 vertical 7 divisions, left only 22 people at this time. "I was an intensive camp of nearly 8 people, and it was gone in one day." Zhao Xingyuan recalled.
When the cooks carrying steamed stuffed buns and hula soup waded through the bodies that stretched for more than 1 meters and boarded the position of the water distribution pool, they only saw 22 disabled comrades-in-arms. Previously, the cooking squad prepared beef steamed buns and hula soup for Camp 1 according to the standard of 6 people.
The cook sat down on the ground and burst into tears.
The storm was blocked, and Jinzhou City was confronted with a formidable enemy.
"It took only 31 hours to really attack Jinzhou City, but it was difficult to pull out the outlying strongholds." Zhao Xingyuan said. From October 9 to 13, 1948, the battle to pull out the periphery of Jinzhou started. No one expected that the battle for the periphery would be so fierce. Distribution pool, the commanding height of the north of the city, is about 1 km away from Jinzhou city wall. It is originally Jinzhou city water supply pool. The Kuomintang garrison drained the pool and built a permanent defensive position here. Standing on the high ground of the distribution pool, the ancient pagoda in Jinzhou city is faintly visible. Seizing the distribution pool has also become the key to controlling the north of Jinzhou. "The enemy has a reinforced battalion to guard the water distribution pool, and five barbed wires are arranged in front." Zhao Xingyuan said, "The enemy's bunker is more than 1 meter thick and made of steel rails and cement. When the artillery hits it, it is a white point."
The movie Armageddon reproduces this scene, but the prototype Zhao Xingyuan is not satisfied with the movie. "It is my task to match the pool. I am the most difficult to fight any time." Zhao Xingyuan said. However, in the film, he was portrayed as a battalion commander who loves to drink and is unwilling to go to the front. The defensive position laid out by Fan Hanjie, a famous Kuomintang star and a first-stage student from Huangpu, really deserved its reputation. Five barbed wires were made into pepper-leaf-shaped and hemp-shaped shapes according to the needs of defense tasks, and the barbed wire cooperated with trenches, bunkers and minefields, leaving an insurmountable death zone outside Jinzhou. "Fan Hanjie was entrusted with a heavy responsibility by Chiang Kai-shek because of his meritorious service in fighting the People's Liberation Army on the battlefield in Shandong, and was sent to Jinzhou as the deputy commander of the Northeast' suppression general' to stick to Jinzhou." Major General Xu Yan, an expert in military history and a professor at the National Defense University, said.
In the Kuomintang army, Fan Hanjie has read a lot of military books and is really talented in organizing urban defense operations. This man joined the army at the age of 16 and served as a naval captain in the old army. In 1927, Fan Hanjie, an official to a colonel, joined the Whampoa Military Academy with the hope of revolution, becoming one of the first three outstanding students to become a colonel and the first teacher. Recalling the days when he fought against powerful enemies, Zhao Xingyuan, 82, told reporters: "There are thousands of tactical principles, and bravery is always the first." Under the guidance of his brave principle, his battalion became a fist with three vertical rings.
Battalion 1, Company 3 charged up and quickly plunged into the trench dug by the enemy, waiting for the impact. The accident happened at this time. "No one thought that there was a bunker every 1 meters in the trench, with a machine gun inside, and the bomb used in the plane was buried on the slope of the trench." Zhao Xingyuan recalled. An assault company officer was just about to climb up from the trench when the garrison shook the telephone line that detonated the bomb. "This company is the third company of our battalion, and only one instructor came back alive." Zhao Xingyuan is still worried about this. At that time, he suggested to the division three times to avoid the place where the enemy was most heavily defended. Unfortunately, the division did not adopt his advice. "At that time, the heroic spirit of our army was very strong and we wanted to win the battle too much." Zhao Xingyuan said. After a difficult breakthrough, Battalion 1 finally occupied six red houses less than 1 meters away from the water distribution pool.
Two tigers compete, and there are mountains of bones on the water distribution pool
It's just 1 meters, and the blood of the country and the country become rivers and the bones become mountains. Seeing that the position of the water distribution tank was in critical condition, the enemy sent out four armored vehicles from the city to reinforce it, in an attempt to panic in the 1st battalion and seize the red house. Zhao Xingyuan held an emergency camp party committee in the red house. "Our battalion has never lost a battle. Even if one man is left with one shot, we must let the enemy come back." The enemy organized 27 counter-attacks in a day. 1 meters, the bodies of the soldiers of the Kuomintang and the * * * production party are accumulated together, and you and I can't be separated.
Battalion 1 suffered too many casualties. Zhao Xingyuan ordered Company 3 to store all the weapons and ammunition of the wounded and supply them to the frontline troops. "If you knock out one in front, you will be responsible for adding one." Zhao Xingyuan said to Company Commander 3.
Liu Yongxiu, the platoon leader of 3rd company and 3rd platoon, had his legs blown off. When he saw Zhao Xingyuan coming, he hugged Zhao Xingyuan and said, "Battalion commander, I can't make it. You must avenge me." Zhao Xingyuan shook his hand and nodded. "By the time I came back, his blood had run out." Zhao Xingyuan said. Xiao Fan, a guard, was also seriously injured. He lay on the ground and said to Zhao Xingyuan, "Battalion commander, I'm cold ..."
Zhao Xingyuan put his windbreaker on him and encouraged him: "Fan, you can hold on, and I can solve the battle soon." Xiao Fan, a guard, silently shed tears. He pulled Zhao Xingyuan and handed a dry food bag: "Battalion commander, this is the dry food I prepared for you. You should eat enough." Zhao Xingyuan tried to control his emotions. As a commander, even if he was in all kinds of pain, he could not shed tears at this time. "Fan finally said to me," Battalion commander, I am party member, who died fighting in Jinzhou. It is glorious. You must tell my parents that I am from Yishui. " Zhao Xingyuan said. At the same time of the liberation war, the land reform in the old liberated areas such as Shandong is also under way. For revolutionary martyrs like Xiao Fan, the government will give great care and pension in land distribution, cattle farming and farm tools.
seeing the situation of 1st battalion, the colonel informed Zhao Xingyuan to withdraw, but Zhao Xingyuan resolutely refused. "Our battalion also fell down in the trench with dozens of people, some sacrificed and some injured. How can I be willing to lose them?" Zhao Xingyuan asked the colonel, "Please support me with some grenades, and I will definitely be able to shoot them down." The colonel sent a company to deliver grenades to Zhao Xingyuan. After a day of fierce fighting, Zhao Xingyuan and five soldiers rushed to the water distribution tank. There were only six people left in the 1st battalion, and more than 15 enemy defenders were captured.
"When we get into the distribution pool, we can see the whole defensive structure of the enemy." Zhao Xingyuan said.
With the support of the water distribution tank position, the Northeast Field Army can clearly command from above when attacking the city, and the infantry will drive 1 meters away to wait for artillery support, and then launch an attack.
At the same time, the fall of the distribution tank has also greatly damaged the enemy's morale, and many enemies in the position behind the distribution tank have been scared away. Various units of the People's Liberation Army began geotechnical operations again, and approached the Jinzhou city wall step by step in the form of digging traffic trenches.