Regarding the battle of Liu Gaozhuang, I have a passage in my diary during the battle summary: "This battle of Liu Gaozhuang, our troops are firmly upheld. In general, it has achieved complete victory. ... The battle proves that we have a high degree of courage and are one of the powerful main forces of the People's Liberation Army."
"After the unprecedentedly severe combat training of Liu Gaozhuang and the King Camp, many heroes, models and heroes have emerged across the country. They are the backbone of the party and the expert in liberating the people; they are open and forget their own selfishness, fight bravely, and use bloody sacrifices to exchange for the liberation and happiness of the people. We must respect them."
This was recorded in Xindian, Ye County, Henan on June 22, 1948.
I remember that on the morning of June 2, our regiment's second battalion was ordered to enter Liugaozhuang and Dawangying Villages, and immediately devoted to excavation and construction of anti-construction fortifications. Collect door panels, wood, and bricks for use in support of traffic trenches, trenches, bunkers, and condoms.
The 6th Company of the Second Battalion is responsible for relying on Jiang Temple at the east end of the village as a base and building corresponding facilities around it. He worked day and night that night for the whole night, and the fortifications and trenches were basically completed and he had a short rest. The east slowly shines, and white clouds appear. The company commander of
led the correspondent to the second row of positions protruding in front of the temple, observing the movements of the enemy back and forth. Just as the sun was about to show its head, it was vaguely discovered that two or three hundred meters ahead, people were rushing in groups of people and moving towards our company. The company commander asked the correspondent to remind all platoons and squads to pay attention to monitoring the enemy's activities. At this time, several enemies seemed to be digging simple fortifications.
At about nine o'clock, a series of light machine guns came from the enemy, which immediately broke the silence of the clear sky. The cadres and soldiers of our company immediately stared ahead alertly, holding their weapons tightly, and waiting for the battle.
After a while, the enemy's dense gunshots and cannons drowned out other sounds. Several, dozens of enemies rushed up and advanced towards my position... Then, the enemy began its first charge. My company soldiers calmly responded. When the enemy was approaching my frontier position for 20 or 30 meters, the company commander gave the order, with the sound of horns and fierce guns and grenades and explosions, the second platoon soldiers bravely rushed towards the enemy, defeating the enemy's first attack with overwhelming spirit. The enemy abandoned several corpses, retreated in panic, and returned to the original place.
The first attack of the enemy seemed to be a tentative fire reconnaissance operation of small troops.
More than half an hour later, the enemy first bombarded our camp's position with cannons. Then the light and heavy machine guns covered the infantry and divided them into three groups and surrounded my Jiangmiao position.
The first and third platoons of our sixth company started to fight back from two sides. The second platoon leader led the squad leader soldiers of the fifth, sixth and seventh squads to rush out of the trenches. The three combat groups of the sixth squad forward in a trapezoid and rushed towards the enemy regardless of their own wits. Rows of grenades suppressed the enemy with fierce force in the future. Since then, the enemy tried to capture Jiangmiao twice, but both of them were suppressed by our unstoppable counterattack again and again.
at this time. The instructor of our 6th Company seized the battle break and organized the squads to build and strengthen the bombing fortifications. At the same time, stick to your position, take a break, rectify the supply of ammunition and food for another battle.
It was almost noon, and the enemy was ready to move again and immediately launched the third round of offensive. This time the firepower was obviously increased, becoming more intense and concentrated. It seemed that all kinds of weapons and ammunition were used at all costs, and they were continuously launched, pouring them at the forefront of our position, and a sea of fire suddenly formed. Then the enemy's infantry rushed over in a dark way. In order to preserve our strength, avoid the real and reduce casualties, we took a step back temporarily and once gave up Jiang Temple.
When the sun sets, after a brief adjustment from our second battalion, the fifth and sixth companies took a roundabout side attack and launched a clamp-shaped assault on the enemy of Jiangmiao. The fifth company and the third row of the three platoons started from the right side of the enemy, restraining the enemy entrenched in Jiangmiao.At this time, our sixth company launched a fierce attack from the left side of the enemy. For a moment, the enemy lost sight of one thing and panicked. Under my strong attack, after two rounds, the enemy suffered heavy casualties and could no longer fight and fled. So, the warriors of our sixth company regained the Jiangmiao position. As the sky gradually became darker, the enemy dared not take any risks.
Zhang Wuyuan, born in 1928 in the farming and study home in Qinyuan County, Shanxi Province, grew up in the anti-Japanese base area. At the age of 14, he participated in the struggle to siege the Japanese invaders. In 1944 (16 years old), he joined the Eighth Route Army and fought in the north and south. He has suffered injuries, made meritorious service, helped the North Korea, and resisted the United States. He has been in military career for 40 years, from the grassroots level to the General Political Department of the People's Liberation Army, and has been engaged in propaganda, education, culture and political work for a long time.
