In the early morning of March 2, 1938, Shanxi was in spring at that time, and the morning fog was very thick. Lin Biao, who led his troops stationed in the Luliang Mountains, took his beloved Qian Lixue out of the village as usual, ready to ride the reins, gallop through the wilderness, and enjoy a rare leisure time.
Map of Shanxi in the Republic of China
Lin Biao's Qianli Xue was a snow-white Japanese horse, and this Japanese horse was captured from the Japanese invaders on the battlefield. Therefore, Lin Biao loved this white horse that was so handsome and white and often rode it everywhere.
It was a very foggy and cold day, so Lin Biao also put on a yellow woolen army coat that was also captured from the Japanese invaders. Due to the low visibility in the fog, Lin Biao was greedy for the joy of galloping. Therefore, not long after he got on the horse, Lin Biao and his horse quickly disappeared into the thick fog, and the guards who had been following him did not catch up.
The guard was very nervous when he saw the leader disappearing, and quickly chased after him. However, at this moment, the guard suddenly heard a dull gunshot. Based on experience, he knew that the gunshot was made by a Mo-type rifle, and such a rifle was only equipped by Yan Xishan 's troops. .
And listening to the sound, the direction of the gunfire was exactly where the 19th Army of Yan Xishan's Jinsui Army was stationed. Since this direction was also the direction Lin Biao was riding alone, the guard was very nervous and immediately rushed over desperately.
After Jinsui Army
rushed to the location of the gunfire, the worst situation happened: Lin Biao and his Qianli Xue fell to the ground, with blood everywhere. Qian Lixue died on the spot. Although Lin Biao was still alive, his chest was full of blood. Still bleeding, he was seriously injured and unconscious.
Lin Biao was the commander of the 115 division , the main division of the Eighth Route Army, and had just led his troops to win the Pingxingguan victory that shocked the country. In one fell swoop, he broke the myth that the Japanese army was invincible. He was a nationally renowned anti-Japanese general and victorious general.
Moreover, during the period when the Kuomintang and the Communist Party were cooperating, , as a famous general of the Communist Party, he was actually injured by the Kuomintang army. This incident quickly caused an uproar. After discovering that Lin Biao was seriously injured, the guards immediately carried Lin Biao back to the division headquarters.
Hearing this, Yan Xishan was shocked and hurriedly sent military doctors to rescue Lin Biao. After the doctor's diagnosis, Lin Biao's injury was very serious: he was shot in the chest, the bullet entered from the chest, penetrated the right lung and then shot out from the back.
Lin Biao remained unconscious because of his serious injuries. After hearing that Lin Biao was seriously injured behind enemy lines, Chairman Mao was extremely anxious. He immediately asked Dr. Fu Lianzhang, a famous military doctor, to rush to Shanxi during the day to treat Lin Biao's injuries.
Chairman Mao
Due to Lin Biao's serious injury, Chairman Mao, who was in Yan'an at the time, even heard the false news that "Lin Biao was seriously injured and might die". This made Chairman Mao devastated and personally instructed all walks of life in Yan'an to open fire for Lin Biao. Memorial service. Fortunately, under Fu Lianzhang's careful treatment, Lin Biao's injuries were under control and he was initially out of danger.
While treating Lin Biao, he also investigated why Lin Biao was seriously injured. It turned out that Lin Biao was riding close to the station of Yan Xishan's Jinsui Army.
It was very foggy at that time. The sentries of Yan Xishan's army vaguely saw someone in the fog wearing Japanese military uniforms and riding Japanese horses rushing towards their defense area, so they were very nervous. The squad leader led by
thought it was a sneak attack by the Japanese army and immediately ordered shooting. In order to hit the target, he also asked a veteran with accurate marksmanship to hit the officer on the horse. This is also the reason why Lin Biao was seriously injured after being shot: the veteran's shot was too accurate.
After Lin Biao regained consciousness, since he was in the honeymoon period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, in order to show his goodwill to the Communist Party, Yan Xishan even ordered the execution of the squad leader and the veteran who fired the gun.
Yan Xishan
However, although he was shot very unjustly, Lin Biao knew that it was not their fault, so after recovering a little, he firmly disagreed with Yan Xishan's execution plan, which also allowed the squad leader and soldiers who fired the shot to survive.
However, after this, Lin Biao's injuries did not improve, and further examination found that the bullet not only penetrated the right lobe of the lung, but also scratched the spine and damaged the central nervous system . To make matters worse, Lin Biao's injury began to deteriorate again.
Severe injuries prevented Lin Biao from commanding operations on the front line. Therefore, Chairman Mao assigned a special person to escort Lin Biao to Yan'an to recuperate. However, the situation is still not optimistic. After all, Yan'an is just a small city in the northwest, with very difficult conditions and very limited medical conditions.
Therefore, while recuperating in Yan'an, Lin Biao's injury did not improve. Lin Biao was in so much pain that he had to rely on doctors to inject morphine. In the end, in desperation, the central government decided to send Lin Biao to the Soviet Union where conditions were more favorable for treatment.
Moreover, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China specially called the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union for this purpose, demanding that "Lin Biao must be recovered at an early date at all costs."
Lin Biao
In 1938, Lin Biao arrived in Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union, by plane and began treatment in the Soviet Union. Under the treatment of Soviet doctors, Lin Biao's injuries were controlled, but he did not recover. From then on, Lin Biao was left with a lot of sequelae: insomnia, sweating, fear of light, water, wind, and physical weakness.
The root cause of all this was precisely because the bullet damaged the central nerve of the spine. However, after three years of treatment in the Soviet Union, Lin Biao's injury was finally under control.
Of course, during his three years in the Soviet Union, Lin Biao was not just recuperating from illness. It was during the Soviet-German War . As a famous Chinese general, Lin Biao was inevitably exposed to the Soviet-German War, and because of his outstanding military talent, It was also praised by Stalin.
In October 1941, Lin Biao finally left the Soviet Union. He originally planned to return to Yan'an via Outer Mongolia, but unexpectedly, due to an accident in Ulaanbaatar, Lin Biao had to land in Xinjiang alone.
Fortunately, this was during the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. Therefore, although there is no direct flight to Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia, Lin Biao's safety can still be guaranteed.
Moreover, since Lin Biao graduated from Huangpu Military Academy and was himself a student of Chiang Kai-shek , he was also a famous anti-Japanese general with great military exploits and fame at home and abroad. In addition, at this time, the Kuomintang had just created the Wannan Incident, and the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was on the verge of collapse. In order to restore Due to the relationship between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, this famous CCP general with great military exploits unexpectedly received courtesy from Chiang Kai-shek.
Chiang Kai-shek
At that time, Chiang Kai-shek also sent a special telegram to Dihua, Lanzhou, and Xi'an: Wherever Lin Biao went, the party, government, and military must not be in trouble and should do their best to influence him.
Therefore, Lin Biao was always treated politely by the Kuomintang on his way back to Yan'an from Xinjiang. Moreover, in Xi'an, he also met with Hu Zongnan, deputy commander-in-chief of the Eighth War Zone of the Kuomintang.
On February 13, 1942, because his cousin Lin Yuying, who served as the first political commissar of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, was dying, Lin Biao hurried back. Just when Lin Biao rushed back to Yan'an, Chairman Mao even made an exception and went down the mountain to greet him in person. Shizhe had a very detailed memory of this:
Early that morning, I came out of the cave dwelling and met Chairman Mao unexpectedly. He was walking down the mountain and said as he walked: "Lin Biao is back, I will pick him up." I was shocked after hearing this, thinking that Commander-in-Chief Zhu came back from the front line, Enlai and Bi Shi came back from the Soviet Union, and the Chairman was not like this.
Moreover, after personally coming down the mountain to greet Lin Biao, Chairman Mao held Lin Biao's hand and returned to the cave dwelling, instructing the kitchen to prepare food for Lin Biao. Then, he specifically asked Lin Biao to live in Yangjialing so that he could be close to him.
Chairman Mao
Five days after Lin Biao returned to Yan'an, on February 17, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a grand welcome party for Lin Biao. However, not long after Lin Biao rushed back to Yan'an, on March 6, Lin Yuying, the first political commissar of the 129th Division, died of illness.
Lin Yuying has an extremely close relationship with Lin Biao. He is not only his cousin, but also the leader who led him to participate in the revolution. Therefore, the death of Lin Yuying made Lin Biao extremely sad.
Lin Biao is the most talented military general that has emerged since our party independently led the armed struggle.Moreover, unlike Su Yu, another famous general who can be called a late bloomer, Lin Biao is a veritable young success.
As early as the Agrarian Revolution, Lin Biao became one of the main leaders of the Red Army . When Lin Biao served as the commander of the main force of the Red Army, he was only 24 years old. His young age and outstanding military exploits had already made him the most famous general in China at that time.
Lin Biao
Even the Kuomintang, as its opponent and enemy, recognized this. One victory after another made the whole army very convinced of Lin Biao.
Therefore, on December 19, 1935, when Long March Chairman Mao, Zhang Wentian and others arrived in northern Shaanxi, they contacted Peng Dehuai and said: All comrades in the Central Committee believe that Comrade Lin Biao is the best and most outstanding senior cadre in our party. One of them has Chinese and international honors.
Of course, Lin Biao can fully withstand such treatment. After the outbreak of the all-out Anti-Japanese War, Lin Biao, who served as the commander of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, was the first to win the Pingxingguan victory that shocked China and the world, annihilating more than 1,000 Japanese invaders in one fell swoop, and breaking the myth that the Japanese invaders were invincible. Therefore, Lin Biao is still known overseas. A famous anti-Japanese general.
However, after his return from the Soviet Union, Chairman Mao did not send him back to the battlefield for such a famous general of our army with great military exploits and brilliant military talents.
After returning to Yan'an, Mr. Lin Biao served as the principal of the Anti-Japanese University, and then successively served as the vice president of the Central Party School. After that, Lin Biao also started working on the united front, leaving Yan'an many times, working in the Kuomintang's rear area, and even met with Chiang Kai-shek in Chongqing many times to participate in united front negotiations.
Lin Biao
As a famous general of our army who has experienced hundreds of battles, leaving him behind to participate in the united front work seems to many people to be a "waste of talent." Why didn't Chairman Mao send Lin Biao, who had returned from the Soviet Union, to the front line to use his expertise and continue to lead the Eighth Route Army to fight against the Japanese invaders?
Is it because Lin Biao is not needed on the front line? It seems not. In June 1942, during the most difficult stage of the Anti-Japanese War behind enemy lines, especially after the death of Deputy Chief of Staff Zuo Quan, Peng Dehuai sent three telegrams to Chairman Mao in June, suggesting that "it would be best for Lin Biao to serve as Chief of Staff of the Eighth Route Army." .
However, Chairman Mao's reply to Peng Dehuai's suggestion was: Lin's illness is still serious.
In other words, Chairman Mao rejected Peng Dehuai's suggestion on the grounds that Lin Biao was ill and unfit to fight on the front line. Therefore, since he was accidentally injured and left the front line in 1938, Lin Biao never went to the front line to lead troops in combat for eight years.
Chairman Mao's reply to Peng Dehuai was actually the biggest reason why Lin Biao did not go to the front line for eight years. Although Lin Biao's health had improved at this time, he was still not optimistic. His body could not bear the responsibility of commanding frontline operations.
The battlefield behind enemy lines
War is the most cruel competition among human beings. The victory of every battle is related to the life and death of countless people. Therefore, being a commander-in-chief is extremely stressful and exhausting.
This also means that as the commander-in-chief of an army, he must have strong energy and a strong body. In this regard, Lin Biao, who was not in good physical shape, was simply unable to assume the role of a long-term and high-intensity commander after being seriously injured.
In fact, despite three years of treatment in the Soviet Union, Lin Biao's health was still not optimistic. At that time, Lin Biao had always been afraid of wind, water, light, cold, severe neurasthenia, insomnia and other problems. Moreover, the long-term illness also made him irritable.
Therefore, even after the outbreak of the Liberation War, Lin Biao, who had been recuperating in the rear for eight years, rushed to the front line again to command the Northeast People's Liberation Army. Lin Biao's health was not optimistic.
At that time, Lin Biao had to wear a brain-building machine all the time because of excessive use of his brain. The central government twice asked the Soviet Union to send doctors to treat Lin Biao.
Anti-Japanese Base Area
Therefore, after returning from the Soviet Union, Lin Biao's health was still not very good and he could not bear the high-intensity command operations.For the sake of Lin Biao's health, Chairman Mao chose to leave him behind. On the one hand, he could do some work within his ability, and on the other hand, he could recuperate more peacefully.
This choice is obviously the right one. It is precisely because of 8 years of training that Lin Biao's health has improved a lot, which will also lay the foundation for him to lead the troops out of the country in the future and develop the Northeast Field Army into a million-strong army. A very solid foundation.
Secondly, although the battlefield behind enemy lines was very difficult at that time, precisely because it entered the stalemate stage, neither the Eighth Route Army nor the New Fourth Army had the conditions for Lin Biao to exert his advantage.
What Lin Biao was best at during the Agrarian Revolution was undoubtedly mobile warfare. It was also by relying on mobile warfare that Lin Biao led the Red Army to achieve countless brilliant victories. Including the great victory at Pingxingguan in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, it was actually a mobile war.
Pingxingguan Dajie
However, as the national war of resistance entered a stalemate, the Japanese invaders used most of their troops and almost all their puppet troops to attack the anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines. After that, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army and other anti-Japanese armed forces behind enemy lines had to disperse into Guerrilla warfare .
In this way, the mobile warfare that Lin Biao was good at became useless. Even if Lin Biao returned to the anti-Japanese front line at this time, he would not be able to use his advantages at all, but would increase many unnecessary risks.
Again, there were mature leaders in all major areas of the battlefield behind enemy lines at that time. For example, Taihang Mountain has Nie Rongzhen, Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei has Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping, Jiangsu has Chen Yi and Su Yu, and the 115th Division with Lin Biao as the division commander has already marched into Shandong and developed very well under the leadership of political commissar Luo Ronghuan. smoothly.
Therefore, even if Lin Biao went to the anti-Japanese front line at this time, he would not have a suitable position for a while.
Moreover, after Lin Biao returned from the Soviet Union, many Eighth Route Army and New Fourth Army generals located behind enemy lines began to leave the front line and return to Yan'an. Especially when the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China is about to be convened, Zhu De, Peng Dehuai, Liu Bocheng and others have all returned to Yan'an. Therefore, going to the front line when the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China is about to be convened is unnecessary.
In the end, Lin Biao stayed behind, which had a lot to do with Chairman Mao's long-term vision. Yu Huamin, a researcher at the Academy of Military Sciences, once put forward this view. The reason why Lin Biao did not go to the front line:
"This is Mao Zedong's intention. Mao Zedong reserved a large number of senior cadres in Yan'an, including Lin Biao, so that he could participate in the rectification movement Study and unify your thoughts; on the one hand, rest and recuperate. Once the world changes, you can be assigned to take on important tasks.
Therefore, it was precisely because of Lin Biao's health concerns after his injury that the war of resistance entered a stalemate. Afterwards, the battlefield behind enemy lines, which was dominated by guerrilla warfare, was not the stage where Lin Biao was best at mobile warfare. Coupled with the convening of the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Chairman Mao’s long-term strategic layout and many other factors, Lin Biao never entered the battlefield again after being injured in 1938. Anti-Japanese Frontline.
