Kong Congzhou was a lieutenant general of the People's Liberation Army. In fact, he came from the Kuomintang army uprising. However, due to the heavy "encirclement and suppression" of the enemy's heavy troops, he had to order the troops to disperse and break through.

Kong Congzhou is a lieutenant general of the People's Liberation Army. In fact, he came from the Kuomintang army uprising.

11946, the 38th Army of the Northwest Army, formerly Yang Hucheng, was reduced to the 38th Division by Chiang Kai-shek, and Kong Congzhou was appointed as the deputy division commander and was sent to Henan to "suppress the Communist Party." Kong Congzhou then led his troops to revolt. However, due to the heavy "encirclement and suppression" of the enemy's heavy troops, he had to order the troops to disperse and break through. When Kong Congzhou arrived at the Liberated Area of ​​Handan, there was only one guard left by his side. Therefore, Mao Zedong and the Party Central Committee decided to rebuild the 38th Army and use Kong Congzhou as the commander.

11947, Mao Zedong decided that Chen Geng would lead his troops to cross the south of the Yellow River , and advanced into western Henan . For this reason, he personally explained to Chen Geng:

"The central government handed over the 38th Army to you, which is the lifeblood of General Yang Hucheng. Commander Kong was afraid of "eating" the miscellaneous cards for Chiang Kai-shek, so you should not "eat" the miscellaneous cards."

Chen Geng said: "Only when Chiang Kai-shek is dedicated to cultivating his direct descendants, he treats non-direct descendants as miscellaneous cards. Within our party, the People's Liberation Army is all the party leaders, and there is no such thing as miscellaneous cards."

Mao Zedong said: "I told you not to 'eat' miscellaneous cards, so I asked you to help them more and enrich the 38th Army with the soldiers captured by the war and the materials seized."

Chen Geng happily agreed.

Kong Congzhou 38th Army joined Chen Geng's corps and prepared to cross the Yellow River south, and marched into western Henan .

The Yellow River in this area is dangerous, with rapid and fierce water flows. Both sides of the river are steep and steep walls. Military corpses have always regarded this as a "natural barrier." Since Liu and Deng's army crossed south from central Henan and entered the Dabie Mountains, Chiang Kai-shek ordered his men to repair river defense fortifications at night in western Henan. On the other side of the ferry chosen by Chen Geng's regiment, the enemy built a defensive fortress and communication trough by the river, and a Dashan Fort was built on the mountain. These fortifications are condescending, with a dangerous and dangerous terrain. The river has surged and surging recently, making it extremely difficult to cross the river. The enemy believes that "the river defense is foolproof."

According to the combat plan formulated by Chen Geng's corps at the Yangcheng meeting, the main force of the corps crossed the Yellow River, quickly assaulted the Longhai Railway , captured Xin'an and Mianchi , and captured Luoyang at the camera; the task of the 38th Army was to form a right column of the Western Front with the 22nd Brigade, crossing the river eastward at the Maojin Crossing , and then rushed eastward to attack Zhangmao Town and Guanyintang Station, cut off the contact between the enemy troops between Lingbao and Shanxian , and resist the enemy rescued by Shaanxi East.

After Kong Congzhou received the task in Yangcheng and returned to the army, he first sent a reconnaissance team to the bank of the Yellow River to prepare for crossing the river, observe the terrain of the enemy's bank and the ferry situation, select the main ferry point and the feint ferry point, and prepare the materials and equipment for crossing the river. On August 12, the 38th Army dispatched from Quwo and Yuanqu stations according to the unified order of the Corps. During the march, it was raining heavily, and the troops were advancing on the muddy mountain road in the storm, and they were all soaked like chickens falling from the ground. Sleeping at night on the way, piles of bonfires of baking clothes were lit everywhere on the top of the mountain, on the village, and on the road. On August 15, the troops arrived at the Pinglu area, the planned location on the north bank of the Yellow River, on time. There were very few boats along the river, and Kong Congzhou was very anxious and went to Maojin Ferry to find a solution in person. He was stationed in this area during the War of Resistance Against Japan and had a good relationship with the people. He found several familiar old ship owners and asked them to help collect the broken ships and repair them. An old ship owner named Liu said to him: "There are so many troops, and it is not enough to repair all the broken ships. You can use oil cloth to pack cotton and weeds to transport the army across the river instead of ships."

The civilians can use oil cloth to pack one or two guests, but Kong Congzhou is still a little suspicious about transporting the troops instead of ships.

He said, "Try it first, you can make an tart cloth bag for testing."

holes follow the plan. At the beginning, the tart cloth bag can carry people to cross the water, but each tart cloth bag can only sit three or four people, and it is difficult to control the direction. Later, everyone thought about woven three tart cloth bags into a group, connecting them together with wooden boards, and tying the tart cloth bags under the wooden boards, becoming what the soldiers called "earth-making motorboats." The test results can be performed in a shift, and can also carry an machine gun, and a small cannon.The soldiers compiled a lilac poem to praise the lilac bag: "The lilac bag has great buoyancy and is not afraid of wind or waves; the target is small, turn around quickly, even if the enemy has a clairvoyance, he can't see it!"

Then, Kong Congzhou mobilized the masses to make a large number of lilac bags for crossing the river to fight. Crossing the river was originally scheduled to cross the river on the evening of August 19, but it was postponed for 3 days due to days of heavy rain.

htmlOn the evening of August 22, the warriors of the 22nd Brigade of the first echelon of the Right Column, under the cover of another part of the troops to tempt and restrain the enemy, braved the storm and smuggled through the storm waves and landed in Maojindu in a batch of tart cloth bags, and flew over the Yellow River chasm in just over ten minutes. The boatmen quickly returned to pick up the second echelon with the oil cloth bag, which was composed of the 17th Division and the 55th Division. The enemy discovered it when the crossing forces attacked the enemy's positions. The right column commanded by Kong Congzhou took advantage of the enemy's panic in the middle of the night and broke into its depths and seized the enemy's position along the river about 10 miles wide. The main force of the vanguard took advantage of the victory to attack the Longhai Railway. On the 23rd, he captured Huixing Town on the east side of Shan County, blew up the station bridge, occupied the lines between Shangcun and Hongku, and cooperated with the eastern line troops to break through the Yellow River defense line of more than 300 miles overnight. On the 25th, the right column all crossed the river. During the smuggling on the Western Front in this battle, 36 people were killed and killed in the right column, annihilated an enemy company and captured more than 30 people. After the smuggling, Kong Congzhou was very happy and improvised a poem:

The horse was pulled in the middle and witnessed the yellow water surging;

The enemy said that it was natural danger, and I was like a feather!

Chen Geng learned that Kong Congzhou had successfully crossed the river in one fell swoop and suffered such a small loss, and was surprised and happy, saying, "Old Kong is really a good general, and he has a way of fighting! Who said that the Northwest Army is not good? I think it is brave and resourceful, much better than Lao Chiang's direct line! The Chairman asked me to support the 38th Army, and now the 38th Army can support me."

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