During the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, General Peng made several angry fires, two of which were the most severe. Once, after the first battle, General Peng scolded Liang Xingchu, the commander of the 38th Army, and even said that he was a bear and a coward. This time it was already strict enough.
However, another time is more harsh. President Peng even wants a division commander to engage in military law, that is, beheading. What's going on?
That was at the post-war summary meeting of the fifth battle. This battle was won, but General Peng made a self-examination and said that the battle was too big and the battle was a little more anxious and farther, causing some losses. General Peng took the initiative to take the responsibility.
Then General Peng commented on the combat situation of each corps and army. When it came to the 60th Army, General Peng was very angry, his expression immediately became serious, and shouted on the spot: Is Wei Jie and Yuan Ziqin here? The commander of the 60th Army, Wei Jie, and the political commissar of the Army, Yuan Ziqin, stood up from the back row and replied: We are here.
General Peng said to them, how do you, the commander and political commissar, be your army commander and the political commissar? How could one division be lost? It caused very few heavy losses since our army was founded. Wei Jie and Yuan Ziqin have long been fully prepared to be scolded by President Peng.
The more he spoke, the more angry he became. What he couldn't tolerate was the 180th Division of the 60th Army. Mr. Peng said, How did Zheng Qigui become the division commander? This coward who is afraid of death is not worthy of being a division commander at all. Not only should he be dismissed, I must apply his military law, but I also need to report to the Central Military Commission and Chairman Mao to revoke the number of the 180th Division.
It is a big deal to do a teacher. The greater humiliation is the revocation of the troops number. During the Anti-Japanese War, General Peng was once angry and said on the phone that he could not take the Guanjiawu position, so he revoked the number of the 129th Division.
Liu Bocheng, the commander of the 129th Division, felt extremely humiliated and very annoyed on the other end of the phone. number is the name of a unit. The so-called "do not change the name" and "do not change the surname" if a person has no name, then what kind of face does he have to live in the world?
President Peng was furious in a storm, and the air in the venue instantly solidified. No one dared to say anything, and everyone lowered their heads. Including the mad general Wang Jinshan, the 60th Army belongs to the 3rd Corps led by him. Of course, he is also to blame for such a serious failure.
Everyone is going to ask, why did President Peng get so angry? The commander of the 180th Division is really too much and extremely incompetent. What is tolerant? At the end of the fifth battle, the volunteer army retreated, and the US military took advantage of its highly mechanized advantages to pursue relentlessly.
It was in this case that the 180th Division was suddenly surrounded by the US military. In fact, the US military did not complete the encirclement of the 180th Division at that time, and they did not confirm that it was a reorganized division of the Volunteer Army. The 180th Division can continue to retreat and there is still a great opportunity to break out.
Even if it is surrounded, the 180th Division can still break through at night. The US military is full of young master soldiers and has to sleep at night, so the night in North Korea belongs to the volunteer army. Even if the entire division cannot be withdrawn, at least the main force can be saved to minimize the losses.
However, Zheng Qigui, the commander of the 180th Division, fell into great fear and thought there was no hope. He actually ordered the radio station to be smashed, the password was burned, and ordered the above regiments to break through, and the tens of thousands of soldiers were ignored and let them leave them to fate.
President Peng found that the 180th Division was missing and could not ignore it. He immediately ordered other troops to rescue him quickly. Unfortunately, the 180th Division had no radio station and could not contact him at all, so he had no way to rescue him. Zheng Qigui posed a big problem for President Peng.
The result was that Zheng Qigui broke out in a mess with more than 20 cadres and soldiers, and some people from each regiment broke out in a mess. However, thousands of people in the 180th Division were lost, and most of them were captured, including 9 people, including the division's political department director and regiment-level cadres.
The troops were gone, but the division commander ran out. I really don’t know how to be the division commander? How could anyone be a teacher like this? Because of the failure of the 180th Division, it added great difficulty to the issue of exchanging prisoners of war in the later Korean armistice negotiations.
How can Mr. Peng not be angry? No wonder Zheng Qigui had to be punished and the number of the 180th Division had to be revoked. Even though he was angry, Zheng Qigui was not punished by law, but was suspended for review, and was demoted to the position of the regiment-level director. In 1990, Zheng Qigui passed away at the age of 77. The number of the
180 division has not been revoked.
