1979 Self-defense counterattack. Due to the health of Yang Zhen, the commander of the 42nd Army, the 57-year-old deputy commander Wei Huajie was appointed as the acting commander. Wei Huajie was from Xian County, Hebei Province. He joined the Eighth Route Army in 1938. By the time of the Liberation War, he was already the chief of staff of the regiment.
When Pingjin Battle , a company commander reported to Wei Huajie panting that he encountered a big mansion of a landlord in front of him. The walls were high and thick, and there were no cannons, so he could not attack. Chief of Staff Wei Huajie said hell, a landlord's mansion, grenade and were also thrown into it, so why do you still need to bombard it with cannon? At this time, the flares rose and Wei Huajie took a look. This is not the landlord's house, it is clearly a city wall. It turns out that their troops have reached the city wall near Guang'anmen. In "The Founding of the People's Republic of China", Wang Baoqiang and Ge You and Ge You performed a story. When Resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea, Wei Huajie was the deputy commander of the 372nd Regiment of the Volunteer Army. He was awarded the rank of colonel in 1955. He was the founding colonel and commanded the self-defense counterattack in 1979. Wei Huajie and Yang Zhen, the old commander of the reconnaissance section, had different command styles. Commander Yang Zhen is more delicate, while Wei Huajie is rough.
Before the war, Wei Huajie emphasized that there were 3 items. One is to control the road, the second is to bombard the fire with cannons, and the third is to run away with iron armor. Commander Wei Huajie said that there is only one road from our border to Gaoping Highway, and the rest are all paths. The troops must quickly intersperse into Gaoping . The troops must take the highway, and to take the highway, they must control both sides of the road. So how to control the road. That is, facing the karst terrain on both sides of the road, it is not possible to rely on infantry, it can only be achieved by the violent bombardment of artillery soldiers.
After the enemy troops were solved on both sides of the road through artillery. At this time, we were running iron armored tigers and rushed forward quickly with tank troops. The general idea of this idea is correct. However, in the specific actual combat process, our troops, especially tank troops, have been under great tests and have suffered great losses.
1979 After the war, Wei Huajie retired as the commander. Commander Wei Huajie died in 2013 at the age of 91.
