18 The army liberated Tibet by enduring hunger and cold and trekking hard on the snowy plateau. They split mountains and exploded stones, fought against the sky and the earth, and built the world-famous Sichuan-Tibet Highway. After completing the arduous and comprehensive rebellion, a self-defense counterattack was launched on the Sino-Indian border. The Tibetan 419 unit, composed of the main force of the 18th Army, defeated the Indian army in a foul fight. In the late 1960s, he exchanged numbers and defense with the 149th Division of the 50th Army. In 1979, he participated in the Western Front Operation of the Self-Defense Retaliation Against Vietnam.
This army also produced many father and son soldiers. Their fathers were old Tibet, fighting in march, road construction, rebellion and war against India. By the time of fighting back against Vietnam, the fathers of the division-level leaders had already sent their sons to the front line of bullets.
Deputy Political Commissar Li Tingshan was from Nanyang, Henan Province. He was the instructor of the 8th Company of the 155th Regiment when he suppressed the rebellion and participated in the battle to chase and suppress the Six Shui and Six Gates of the Guards. At that time, the rebels were very cunning because of the traitor Jiang Huating's advice. During the battle in Genlanggou, the military of the Guards released a tight alert and slipped away from the People's Liberation Army's ambush positions as soon as they started. The People's Liberation Army used infantry to pursue the rebel cavalry, which was extremely difficult to fight. A platoon led by Li Tingshan chased after two days and two nights, and forced a group of more than 30 rebels to approach a valley and wiped out it.
Although Jiang Huating gave advice to the military, he successfully attacked and ambushed the People's Liberation Army, when he besieged Zedang, the 3rd battalion where Li Tingshan was located defended for 74 days. Jiang Huting tried his best to take Ze as if it was impossible. In the suppression of bandits in Xinjiang and Tibet after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Yiwu in the north and Zedang in the south, they were all legendary garrison wars.
After the suppression of the rebellion in Shannan, the 155th Regiment pursued the rebels in a wasteland at an altitude of more than 4,000 meters and minus 20 degrees Celsius. 80% of the people in the camp were swollen and frostbite, and some soldiers later had to amputate their limbs. Once I caught up with a bandit, but a battalion commander who had just graduated from military academy was commanded by dogma, and prepared artillery fire first, etc. When I rushed forward, the rebels would have already disappeared. Later, I continued to chase Alibaba, and Alibaba went to Xinjiang.
At that time, the individual soldiers were carrying too much weight, and there was a lot of resentment in the company. The regiment said that there was a situation ahead, so the vanguard battalion ran desperately, but the team ran a little. The political commissar of the regiment, Qiao Xueting, said that if the team is like this, how can we fight when we encounter an enemy? Deputy Battalion Commander Zhang Demiao became angry: You asked us to arrive at the position, but you also thought we were running fast. The political commissar said that if you don’t obey, I will punish you. The deputy battalion commander is a bad temper. He pulled down his luggage and threw it on the ground. You punish him, I won’t leave. It was only after being persuaded by other cadres.
The weather is getting warmer, frostbite has just decreased, and altitude sickness is coming again. The Ali area is higher in altitude, and it cannot be treated if it has pulmonary edema, and non-combat reductions increase. Li Tingshan was already the deputy instructor of the battalion at this time, and he brought a squad to shelter behind him, and he had to personally help the soldiers who were behind carry 20 to 30 kilograms of heavy machine gun pods, carrying ten miles in one breath. At most, he carried three guns and asked the people who were behind to ride a horse. However, the rebels of Agong finally crossed the border.
counterattack against India, Li Tingshan led 3rd company to attack Kalong, and the second company where Yang Ting'anban was located was responsible for the frontal attack. After the start, Li Tingshan led the 3rd Company to rush up the mountain. When he heard the fierce gunfire from the 2nd Company, he ordered the 3rd Company to press down quickly. Kejielang was lush with the forests. During the melee, the third company was in chaos. After rushing down, he fought for only more than ten minutes. Company commander Zhang Guopin was shot and died.
faced a large Indian army bunker shooting wildly. At this time, he had only a correspondent and an Tibetan soldier. At that time, there was a Tibetan squad in each battalion of the 419th Army at that time. Li Tingshan asked the Tibetan soldier to cover the cover. The communicator wanted to pass the grenade. The two rushed up left and right, and almost at the same time stuffed the grenade into the perforation hole. When he went in, he saw that two Indian soldiers inside were killed and one was injured. Just as he was about to touch the trench, the Indian army's light machine gun shot a long shot on the stone beside him. The gravel collapsed and he bleeding from his nose. He then gathered the soldiers and cleaned up the main bunker of the Indian army.
2 Company waited for a long time but could not see the 3rd Company. Li Tingshan did not see the 2nd Company until the end of the battle. It turned out that they were fighting a troll, which was only one kilometer away from Caron. The first company also beat the head too much and did not lose the velvet behind it.Originally, three consecutive shots were hitting the dragon and one point, but three consecutive shots were hitting the dragon and all of them were won. Due to terrain reasons, the battle below the camp was completely in chaos as soon as the camp was opened. Some soldiers shouted slogans to move closer to the gunshots, each moving closer to the direction of dense gunshots, effectively making up for the disconnection in command. With the effective agency command system, Ke Jielang fought and wiped out the 7th Brigade of the Indian Army at a speed beyond our expectations.
troops replaced defense and returned to Sichuan. When they fought back against Vietnam in 1979, the 149th Division (formerly Tibetan word 419) attacked Sabah and found that the main force of the Vietnamese army was annihilated. At this time, Li Tingshan was already the deputy political commissar of the 149th Division. He and the deputy division commander went down to the 446th Regiment (formerly the 155th Regiment) and personally participated in the command of the famous No. 4 anti-ambush battle. During the war against Vietnam, Li Tingshan's deputy political commissar Li Tingshan's family participated in the war. His son worked as a correspondent at the 445th Regiment (formerly the 154th Regiment), his nephew worked as a guard at the 445th Regiment, and his nephew and several regiment leaders were attacked by Vietnamese artillery fire during the battle and were all injured.
The company where my son is located is fighting fiercely in front. When he got down, he passed by the 446th Regiment headquarters and met his father, saying that he hadn't eaten for a day and a night and was very hungry. The father took some canned food and dry food, and after watching his son eat it voraciously, he said lightly, "Let's go." But my wife was at home, worried about the father and son on the front line every day. When she returned home after the war, Deputy Political Commissar Li Tingshan saw that her wife's hair became much whiter.
Political Commissar Zhang Guangli is from Yongcheng, Henan Province. He was the squad leader when he entered Tibet in 1950. Due to altitude sickness, after entering Tibet, he reached the age of 28 and his mouth had already fallen out. It was not until twenty years later that I moved to Sichuan that I finally got a pair of suitable dentures. The 18th Army entered Tibet to build roads. There were steep cliffs on both sides of the natural barrier of Nujiang, and neither goat nor monkey could get down. The deputy company commander of the expedition used rubber insoles under his butt, grabbed the rope from the cliff more than 200 meters high, rubbed it down bit by bit, found a good position, and put it on a steel drill. The others then hung them one by one with ropes, punched small steel brazers to both sides, tied them, and climbed the rope to expand the construction on both sides. The dozens of soldiers who fell down could not be saved. Eight regiments of the Kangzang Highway were invested in the construction of Kangzang Highway. The troops who built the road had never taken a car once. The 18th Army "entered the road on their backs" one after another.
Before the opening of traffic in 1954, the supply supply in the rear could not keep up, and the front was hungry. One person had half a pound of rice, so he could only make porridge. It was not enough to rely on digging wild vegetables to supplement it. The bad-tempered Zhang Demiao was the deputy company commander at the time. When he saw the soldier picking up the hot porridge, he drank it in big gulp. He couldn't stop scolding him, so he picked up the stick and beat the soldier. As a result, the soldier cried. He threw the stick and hugged his head. He was afraid that the soldier would burn his throat. At that time, the food was not available. Wu Zhong, the commander of the 52nd Division, sent a power to Commander Zhang Guohua: Do you want this unit? If I don’t want it, I will take them up the mountain to fight guerrillas.
Zhang Guangli was the leader of the party group at that time. When he was building roads in Queer Mountain, he held a party group meeting when it was about to eat. He recalled that the party group meeting was to bring the party members over and let the masses eat first. After the masses finished eating, the party members would eat, and they would eat as much as they left.
There is a leader named Xia Ge Daoden who supports the People's Liberation Army and released hundreds of yaks to transport grain to the army. The regiment where Squad Leader Zhang is located is close to the yak team, and it is still quite possible to pick up the road construction regiment in front. Before the 1959 rebellion was fully suppressed, fish could not be caught, because those people said that this was a water Bodhisattva and that the grassland rats could not be caught, and that it was a earth Bodhisattva, and that they were not allowed to move. Of course, there are also Tibetans who secretly fished and sold them to the People's Liberation Army, but were found to be beaten by the leader. After 20 years of entering Tibet, the most difficult thing is to build roads.
Later, the squad leader Zhang Guangli went to Chongqing to learn radio and came back to work as a communications consultant. After the rebellion, there was a deputy company commander living by the river with a platoon. One Sunday, except for the deputy company commander, the soldiers went to the river to wash clothes and did not bring weapons. The rebels rushed over and cut off the limbs of soldiers in this platoon with a knife, all of which were in pain. The deputy company commander fought with the rebels with an machine gun, and then jumped into the river to commit suicide after shooting all the bullets. During the rebellion, American aircraft often airdropped weapons, and the troops killed the airdropped spies and seized the radio station. Later, we moved to the Qinghai-Tibet Line to suppress the rebellion. Everyone carried sixty or seventy kilograms of equipment. As the altitude continued to rise, everyone walked as if they were drunk.
The communication soldiers at that time were very hard, and there were motorists who had to send a report. After the two of them had been shaken together for a long time, they could not stand it, so they had to replace them. At this time, no matter who it is, you have to shake it when you meet it. If there are only two people, you will have to shake it until the end of the newspaper. At that time, the Air Force dispatched to cooperate and appointed Zhang Guangli to be responsible for contacting the air on the radio. Because there are many soldiers in the regiment, the pilots can't understand the calls and always scold people.
Zhang Guangli's lover Liu Shuqin was known as the military wife of the plateau. At that time, their eldest son Zhang Jun had just been born. She lived in a dilapidated temple with several military families and children. She was so scared at night. She nailed a nail on the door, hung a small iron tube, and then loaded a US-made rifle left by her husband that was seized from the rebels, ready to shoot him if there was any movement. At that time, the one she had weighed only 70 kilograms. Another time, a soldier got lost and didn't return. The whole company was anxious to go out to find him. She worked in the post office and helped to guard the switchboard, which was not allowed according to the confidentiality system. The headquarters asked why there was a woman and said that this was our instructor’s lover.
During the Sino-Indian border self-defense counterattack, Zhang Guangli was appointed as the instructor of the 157th Regiment's Special Service Company, and the Special Service Company was mainly responsible for the security regiment headquarters. During the pursuit of Dawang, the regiment asked him to lead two squads, including some soldiers from the guard platoon and the engineer platoon, as well as a kitchen squad, who was responsible for sheltering the entire regiment. On the way, he suddenly encountered a group of more than 20 Indian troops. He directed two squads to encircle the squads, and in addition to killing and injuring, he also arrested seven living people. When the political commissar heard that the entire regiment was not behind, the shelter team captured the prisoners and said happily: Hurry up and send them to the headquarters to record them for you.
During the second phase of the Xishankou Battle, three regiments of the Tibetan 419 unit were responsible for the task of cesarean sectioning, detouring towards the middle of the Indian army's one-character long snake formation, interspersing on the way. The spy rested in the forest on the edge of a cliff, and the soldiers were all sleeping on the hillside with their backpacks on their backs. Zhang Guangli was not asleep. When he heard something happening around him, a group of black shadows appeared from somewhere. He was gently spreading the soldiers' shoulders and tiptoed over. He reached out and grabbed one, and shot the other one off the cliff with one shot. Then the Indian army was not afraid of falling and rolled down from the cliff. This place is very close to the regiment headquarters, and the staff officer came to ask what was going on. The Indian army he caught was carrying a backpack and holding a submachine gun. It seemed that this group of Indian army just wanted to escape. If the warriors take action, they will fall asleep, which is too dangerous. At this time, the general attack had not been launched and could not be pursued, for fear of exposing our army's intentions.
419 When the regiments of the troops appeared in Lumadong, the Indian army's defense line was attacked by multiple routes, and it had collapsed across the board and began to flee in all directions. The Indian army fired cold guns from time to time in the dense forest. The 157th Regiment saw a small soldier from the 154th Regiment coming up behind. He rushed over while shooting, and bullets kept flying over his head. Then, the 154th and 155th Regiments chased south on the road. Zhang Guangli saw Commander Chai Hongquan of the Tibetan Unit 419, took off his cotton pants and put them on a stick to carry them, and ran with the troops. The commander of the Fourth Division of the Indian Army gave up command as soon as it started and had already run away.
Political Commissar Zhang recalled that it was not long after that that we announced a ceasefire. The car behind us drove over and brought rice and salt. Then we pulled the Indian army's telephone poles and wires back. The Indian army's telephone poles were made of aluminum alloy and the wires were copper wires. It was very difficult for us at that time. All salt was given to the Menba people for free, and it was enough to eat for many years, and there was a shortage of salt there. The troops also used aluminum alloy poles to connect spring water from the mountain to the village, and villagers no longer had to go to the river to carry water. If India comes to demolish it, it will offend the local people. Menba fellow villager said that the war between the two countries was so fast, and watching a Tibetan opera was longer than a war.
The serfs in front of the PLA were lifted with great effort. When going up the mountain, the person in front was squatting and the person in the back was raised to keep the stretcher level, and when going down the mountain, the other way around. If they were asked to carry the Indian army to capture them, they would come back soon. It turned out that it was placed on a dam not far away and left it alone. The cadres leading the team told the Tibetan migrant workers that they would take as much as they could carry these things (the Indian army’s supplies). Each Tibetan migrant workers in front of them had a large bag of aluminum alloy tables and chairs, and blankets. They were so happy: When will they fight again? We're still here.
During the self-defense counterattack in 1979, Zhang Guangli was appointed as the political commissar of the 446th Regiment and participated in the command of the No. 4 Bridge counter ambush battle.The eldest son Zhang Jun was in the 5th Company of the 445th Regiment. At the end of the battle, the 5th Company came down from the front. Zhang Jun bravely rescued the wounded on the fire and made a third-class merit. At that time, Deputy Political Commissar Che of the regiment followed the 2nd Battalion. Zhang Jun and Deputy Political Commissar Che were on both sides of a big tree. The Vietnamese army shot a shell, and Deputy Political Commissar Che was seriously injured and died due to excessive bleeding. Zhang Jun on the other side was fine. Zhang Guangli said that it was the big tree that saved his son's life.
The deputy division commander of Cao Cong Company is from Huaibei, Anhui Province. He joined the army in 1947 and became a machine gunner in 1949. When he entered Tibet in 1950, he was a reconnaissance platoon soldier. When Gongbu Jiangda was building roads, he served as the squad leader, and when Lhasa suppressed the rebellion, he was promoted to the platoon commander. Half a year later, he was promoted to the deputy company commander. After half a year of work, the company commander was also promoted to the deputy battalion commander. He was a standard old Tibet of the 18th Army.
When the food was out of stock in Tibet, he beat someone because a soldier stole the tsampa from his squad. He saw the soldier with his own eyes very hungry and cooked the raw cowhide, but his life was taken away due to abdominal distension. Some war horses fell down when they entered Tibet, and the war horses were speechless comrades. Some of them followed the army when they headed south, but some people secretly dug it out and ate it. At that time, in order to keep warm, the troops found some raw wool and asked everyone to put it in cotton coats to keep warm, so everyone learned to wear sweaters. Cao Conglian's squad leader learned wool work, and he could chat with people while wearing sweaters, without looking at his eyes, and he was no worse than a lesbian.
Danda Snow Mountain is 6,300 meters above sea level. Cao Conglian had already turned over, but he thought about coming back to pick up the machine gunner and helping carry more than 100 kilograms of machine guns. I felt that it was okay, so I yelled twice, but my eyes turned black and my headache was split, and I almost held it over. From then on, tell others not to show off on the plateau. The reconnaissance platoon has performed many important escort missions, and he has seen all the leading figures in Tibet for a long time.
According to Mr. Cao's recollection, when Jiang Huating defected in 1958, the regiment sent people to chase after him, but the Soviet Gas car fell into a ditch dug by the rebels. The rebels dug up the trench on an uphill slope, at a dead corner of sight. Then the reconnaissance platoon rode his horse across the river to chase him, and went up the mountain to chase him to the edge of Yamdrok Lake. However, he encountered a large number of rebels, and his superiors retreated through the radio orders to reconnaissance platoon. In 1959, he participated in the fight against the rebellion in the city of Lhasa, and then pursued and suppressed the gangsters of Baobao Agong, and chased him to Ali.
During the Sino-Indian self-defense counterattack, the 155th Regiment defeated Jielang in the first battle, and Cao Cong was re-elected as company commander. Before the artillery fire was about to stop, he ordered the entire company to launch an attack. In four minutes, four Indian bunkers were captured. When attacking the three Indian bunkers, they encountered the desperate resistance of the Indian army. He personally mastered the machine gun to suppress the enemy's firepower. At this time, a cook fell to his side and said that the wounded had been transported. It's okay now, let's take a look here. Company Commander Cao said yes. As the Indian army called out a string of bullets, the communicator pressed him down, and the cook was shot and died. He was furious and said he would fight me hard. As a result, the Indian army strengthened company with more than 270 people killed more than 200 people and captured 42 people.
Mr. Cao said that in this battle, we sacrificed many platoon leader, squad leader and deputy squad leader, all of whom were the backbone of our company, and tears fell involuntarily. When I was fighting Vietnam, I didn’t cry even when my son died. It was when I got home and saw my wife like that, and I shed tears. During the self-defense counterattack in 1979, Cao Cong Company was already the leader of the 446th Regiment, responsible for fighting Bridge No. 4. The eldest son Cao Hui served as the deputy squad leader of the rocket launcher squad in the 445th Regiment. Before the war, an old acquaintance in the army once asked if he wanted to transfer Cao Hui to the military headquarters. Cao thanked the company commander. What he thought was that as the leader of the regiment, it was time to fight. It would be too bad to adjust your children to the agency. Your children are children, and other people's children are also children, so you can't do this.
In the counter-ambastion battle of the No. 4 Bridge, Cao Cong Company Commander was commanding the 446th Regiment to attack the mountain. His son Cao Hui and three soldiers came on the first tank assigned to the 445th Regiment. He specifically reminded his son to be dangerous on the tank, to be on the top when he was marching, and to quickly roll down to find a place to hide when he stopped. The son replied that the tanks had poor vision in the valley. Their mission was to indicate the targets to the tanks on it, and the commander of the Cao Cong Company said nothing. As a result, Cao Hui was shot flat by a high Vietnamese army and was hit in the head and died.The next day, when the 445th Regiment's health officer handed his son's notebook and pen to the commander of the company, he realized that his son was gone.
is going to continue to direct the battle later. He calmly wrote a letter to his wife, saying that his son was injured in the hospital, and I am fine here, so don’t worry. After withdrawing the troops, Cao Cong Company's commander's wife heard the bad news and fainted on the spot. Then she became confused and it took more than a year to recover. In the hearts of their parents, Cao Hui is the most filial son. In the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, the 149th Division had many father and son soldiers, which were truly a kind of soldier, with two generations of passionate blood.
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