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In January 1947, the People's Liberation Army launched the Fenxiao Battle, killing, wounding and capturing more than 11,000 Kuomintang troops in one fell swoop, creating favorable conditions for launching a strategic counterattack in southern Shanxi.
But the joy of victory cannot hide the grief of the soldiers. In this battle, a beloved general of our army, Chu Daming, unfortunately died.
Chen Geng called him "Taiyue general is fierce, and he is the first to recommend Chu Daming" . After his death, more than 6,000 soldiers formed a long funeral team.
After walking more than 300 miles of wind and snowy road, everyone forced his Lingshu from Xiaoyi, the place where he died, to Qinyuan, the brigade headquarters.
Then, Zhou Xihan, who is known for his "proud general", personally volunteered to preside over the memorial service, but he cried in vain at the meeting; tens of thousands of officers and soldiers also cried sadly.
Why is Chu Daming called the number one general of the 386th Brigade? Why is it so loved? This starts with the War of Resistance Against Japan.
Zhou Xihan
The Anti-Japanese War was responsible for the heavy responsibility, because of the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in 1937, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party began their second cooperation, and the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in northern Shaanxi was adapted into the Eighth Route Army.
Among them, Red Fourth Front Army was adapted into the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army. Then, under the order of the Central Military Commission, it crossed the Yellow River to the east, advanced into the Taihang Mountain , and established a revolutionary base at the forefront of the anti-Japanese war.
In order to further consolidate the achievements of the War of Resistance Against Japan, in 938, Liu Bocheng, then commander of the 129th Division, personally selected more than 40 elite soldiers and generals to form the East Advance Column .
led by Chen Zaidao, who was the deputy commander of the 386th Brigade, to open up a new base in the southern Hebei region east of the Pinghan Railway. And among these 40 people, there is Chu Daming.
Liu Bocheng
The first and second nine divisions are full of talents, why did Chen Zaidao just choose Chu Daming? This starts with Chu Daming’s legendary personal experience.
Chu Daming was born in 1916 and is a poor peasant family in Shangcheng County, Henan Province. He has been smart and strong since childhood.
, but he doesn't like learning and only loves martial arts and practices. Therefore, after only two years of studying in a private school, he dropped out of school and went home. After , after being introduced by relatives, Chu Daming became an apprentice under a doctor named Li in the same village.
While following the doctor to practice medicine, Chu Daming accidentally met Chen Xinglang, secretary of the Fifth District of the Communist Party of China Mall, who was the "foreign doctor". Under the guidance of Chen Xinglang, Chu Daming, who was only 12 years old, participated in the revolution.
929, the Shangnan Underground Party launched the Shangnan Uprising . Before the uprising, Chu Daming contacted young farmers in the village, secretly organized peasant associations, covered the underground party and raised a large amount of arms, and made outstanding contributions to the victory of the uprising. After the uprising ended, Chu Daming took the lead in joining the Red Guards . Because of his active work and brave struggle, he became the battalion commander of the Red Guards.
In July 1932, due to the needs of the struggle situation in the Hubei-Henan-Anhui revolutionary base area, the superiors decided to organize the Red Guards in the fifth district of the Shangcheng into the 74th Division of the 25th Red Army.
As the commander of the Red Guards, Chu Daming joined Red Army . Xu Shiyou, who was in the 34th Regiment team at that time, saw that Chu Daming was young and thin, so he kept him by his side and became a guard.
Xu Shiyou
Xu Shiyou is a legendary general. Whenever there is a battle, he will always swing a big sword to charge. Under Xu Shiyou's infection, Chu Daming also urged to go to the front line. Xu Shiyou couldn't do anything about him, so he had to let him become a prison guard.
In 1933, on the way to Sichuan and Shaanxi with the Fourth Red Army, Chu Daming's regiment was accidentally ambushed, and the regiment commanders, political commissar, battalion commander, company commander and other command cadres were killed one after another.
When the team was about to break up, Chu Daming stepped forward and organized the guards to command the troops to continue fighting on the spot.
For the first time, Chu Daming showed amazing military talent and led the troops to win the victory in one fell swoop. Xu Shiyou, who had been promoted to deputy commander at the time, was overjoyed and immediately announced that Chu Daming was acting commander.
But Chu Daming, who was only 18 years old at the time, was too young and energetic. At a meeting, he beat a subordinate who had a disagreement with him. In anger, Xu Shiyou directly downgraded him to the platoon leader.
After the start of the Long March , Xu Shiyou, who loved talent, chose the opportunity to promote Chu Daming to deputy battalion commander, and asked him to be responsible for the work of the large army's rear cut. The Long March was arduous, while the work of cutting off the rear was particularly arduous.
In the case of "no residual in front and no supply in the rear", Chu Daming could only find the feces left by the humans and animals of the vanguard, wash out undiluted beans and barley in the water, and then fill the hunger for his comrades.
In the end, with their firm revolutionary belief, they overcome the difficulties and successfully arrived in northern Shaanxi.
Although the Long March is difficult, it is also a rare furnace. After the tempering of the Long March, Chu Daming had truly grown into a Communist cadre like steel, so Chen Zaidao immediately chose Chu Daming from thousands of soldiers.
Xu Shiyou
led the way to the front line, dared to draw the sword in the face of a strong enemy
After Chu Daming followed Chen Zaidao to southern Hebei, he was immediately appointed as the battalion commander of the 20th Battalion of the 20th Regiment of the New Seventh Brigade of the Ji South Military Region of the Eighth Route Army.
The 20th Regiment is a team composed of local anti-Japanese United Guarantee armed forces and other local travel troops. The team was distracted and poorly equipped, and they couldn't even win the battle against the bandits, let alone fight against the Japanese devils.
The first thing Chu Daming did when he took office was to temper his military spirit, and the best way to temper his military spirit was to lead by example. In Chu Daming's words:
"At a critical moment, a hundred slogans of cadres are not worth a single action. To give new soldiers a courage, it is necessary to rely on cadres to take the lead in rushing and gain popularity by bayonets."
he did what he said and soon gave the soldiers a demonstration. In August 1939, Chu Daming led the Second Battalion to Ancient Town in Fucheng County, and personally led a communications squad to attack the Japanese invaders' Co., Ltd.
But as soon as I entered the yard, I ran into two Japanese soldiers. Chu Daming reacted quickly, and immediately raised his pistol and killed the Japanese rushing in front.
But the Japanese behind rushed to the front with cover, picked up the 8 large-cap and stabbed Chu Dapeng.
In desperation, Chu Daming threw away his pistol and hugged the Japanese soldier's barrel with both hands. The Japanese soldier who could not pull the barrel simply dropped his rifle and rushed directly at Chu Daming.
Seeing this, Chu Daming quickly threw away the barrel of the gun and hugged the Japanese soldiers who were rushing towards him. The Japanese soldiers struggled to the death and pulled Chu Daming to fall to the ground.
Seeing that Chu Daming still refused to let go, the Japanese soldiers reached out to break Chu Daming's mouth in desperation, but Chu Daming bit his finger off.
The Japanese soldier who was injured in his finger did not give up and actually hit Chu Daming with his head. Chu Daming quickly held the Japanese face with his hands, and when he snatched hard, he dug out the Japanese eyeballs.
The Japanese soldier let go of his hands in pain and rolled and roared on the ground. At this time, the squad leader of the communication squad rushed over and ended the Japanese's life with a bayonet. After the battle of
, Chu Daming found that his two front teeth were missing. After learning about the situation, Chen Zaidao specially found a gold ring from the spoils, which made people inlaid Chu Daming with big gold teeth. After hearing about Chu Daming's heroic deeds, the propaganda team in the 9th Division specially compiled the drama "Chu Camp Battles the Ancient City" and toured the base area.
Chen Zaidao
Chu Daming and his second camp have become well-known heroes. From then on, the mental outlook of the Chu Camp was completely renewed, and everyone wanted to go into battle and kill the enemy like Captain Chu.
But if you only have the courage to kill the enemy in battle, you must also pay attention to strategies and tactics.
In the battle with the Japanese army, Chu Daming discovered that the Japanese troops had high comprehensive martial arts quality and strong individual combat capabilities. It was difficult for a battalion of the Eighth Route Army to ambush an enemy squadron.
When the enemy is strong and we are weak, Chu Daming believes that either adopts the "old lady eats baked persimmons" style and first fight against miscellaneous troops such as the Japanese and puppet troops.
or the tactic of "Harvesting Walnuts with Hammer", concentrate superior forces, fight one by five, and do not fight, and kill it, and kill it with one blow. Only by hitting it can you achieve boiling water topping, and you can't resist it.
The big strategy has been decided, and the next step is tactics. Chu Daming believed that the Japanese troops had advanced weapons and sufficient ammunition. Even if they fought one by five, they would not be able to fight.
In the shortage of ammunition in the Eighth Route Army, it is unrealistic to fight with the Japanese to fight bullets. The people can only find opportunities in melee meat games.
But the Japanese's bayonet ability is not weak, and the 38th cube in the Japanese's hands is much longer than the miscellaneous rifle in the Eighth Route Army.
The so-called "one inch long, one inch strong, one inch short, one inch dangerous", so the Eighth Route Army suffered a great loss when fighting for bayonets. Chu Daming thought about it repeatedly and finally came up with a solution.
He removed the rails on the Japanese who occupied the railway, made , , and set up a raid team. The spear's gun rod is ten feet long, and it is a 38-screw large cover that specializes in treating the Japanese. After the establishment of the
Screw Armor Team, Chu Daming personally led the soldiers to practice day and night, and cheered the soldiers and said, " hand-to-hand combat is a direct dialogue with King of Hell . As long as you fight with Japanese soldiers, you will dare to fight any kind of battle in the future!"
Soon, all the soldiers became masters of screw Armor, and were waiting to test the training results in actual combat. In March 1938, Chu Daming led the Second Battalion to ambush the Japanese army near Shentouling.
The Japanese army who were attacked were angry and relied on their superior firepower to rush towards our position. Facing the surging Japanese army, Chu Daming remained calm and asked the troops to cease fire and standby.
When the enemy rushed to the front of our army for more than 40 meters, Chu Daming suddenly gave an order: "Five to one, kill the little Japanese!"
Then he shook the red tassel gun in his hand, took the lead in jumping out of the trench, jumped forward suddenly, stabbed a Japanese devil to death with a dart, and then shouted happily: "Comrade, look quickly, little Japanese can only stab a blood hole with one shot!"
soldiers were so motivated that they were very excited, and they waved the red tassel gun in their hands and rushed towards the enemy formation. Chu Daming did not forget to shout: "Comrades, the spear in your hand is not a vegetarian. There is a kind of bayonet that is red. !"
's long spear gun indeed had the advantage in close combat. After a fierce battle, it finally defeated the enemy.
In this battle, the Second Battalion stabbed more than 70 Japanese devils to death, seized one mortar , and a nine-two heavy machine gun, which greatly boosted the military power of the Eighth Route Army.
Shentouling battle not only made Chu Daming's spear team powerful in the Eighth Route Army, but also caused great vibrations in the Japanese army.
Japanese senior officials admitted that this battle was the Eighth Route Army "first-class ambush war" ; Japanese "Dongao Daily" reporter also wrote:
"There is no such loss in the 108th Division. The 38th guns are defeated by the Eighth Route long sword'!"
This matter even later spread to the United States, becoming a teaching case for West Point Military Academy .
In the battle of Shentouling, Chu Daming's second battalion produced military spirits, experiences, and styles, and since then he has become an invincible anti-Japanese armed force in southern Hebei.
1940, in the battle of Tangyi, facing the elite Japanese Nagoya Squadron, Chu Daming led the Second Battalion to stage a wonderful drama of darting against bayonets again. In just over ten minutes, more than 50 Japanese soldiers were killed, causing another sensation in the entire base.
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For this reason, the Ji Nan Daily specially opened a column of "The Great Victory of Chuying" to report on Chu Daming and its second battalion, and he himself was promoted to deputy regiment commander.
Although the official position is changing, the style of work will never change. Every time you fight, Chu Daming will lead by example and rush to the front line. He set a record of more than 20 injuries and more than 60 scars as a result.
resourceful battles, and use talents without any restrictions
Chu Daming can not only fight tough battles, but also skillful battles. In February 1943, Hebei South Military Region launched the "unplugging the strongholds and shooting artillery towers".
But the artillery tower is not easy to fight. The puppet army guarding the artillery tower relied on its firepower advantage and opened fire out from a high point, making it difficult for the Eighth Route Army soldiers to get close.
At this time, Chu Daming, who was already the leader of the twenty regiment, had a sudden idea and asked the soldiers to find a square table, and then spread more than ten layers of quilts wet with water on the square table.
Then the soldiers hid behind the quilt and pushed the square table forward. The wet quilt was like a natural bulletproof vest. The soldiers successfully advanced to the bottom of the artillery tower, and after burying the explosives, they easily exploded the enemy's artillery tower.
Chu Daming's "invention" quickly spread throughout Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong and Henan. The soldiers nicknamed it "Tu Tank" . became a magical existence on the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War, so that this great "invention" of Chu Daming can also be seen in today's anti-Japanese film and television dramas.
Although Chu Daming used "domestic tanks" to cut several artillery towers of the Japanese and puppet troops, he still felt that it was too slow to blast them one by one, so he came up with another plan.
1940, Chu Daming seized a Type 88 field cannon and five shells from the Japanese invaders, but because it was too bulky and inconvenient for the team to fight guerrillas, Chu Daming hid it nearby at that time.
After Chu Daming found the cannon, he directly pushed the puppet army's artillery tower, and then asked the soldiers to shout: "The Chinese do not attack the Chinese! The gun belongs to the Japanese, and their lives belong to their own. If you don't surrender the gun, the Eighth Route Army will use the cannon!"
But the puppet army not only ignored it, but also kept firing at the Eighth Route Army. So, Chu Daming ordered the gunner to fire, but the gunner did not touch the gun for a long time and had already become unfamiliar with his skills. He used four shells to remove the puppet army's stronghold.
Chu Daming led the commando to rush in, captured more than 300 people below the deputy commander of the puppet army alive, and seized machine gun 17 support.
Chu Daming knew that there was only one shell left, but he was not panicked. He asked someone to use a horse to pull the cannon , and rushed to the artillery tower with the deputy commander of the puppet army.
came to the artillery tower, and Chu Daming first asked the deputy commander of the puppet army to shout: "Brothers, I am the deputy commander of the 102nd Regiment. Maguzhuang was blown up. The Eighth Route Army will not fire, so let you come out to visit the cannons."
When he saw heavy artillery and the captured deputy commander, the puppet army pulled the white flag one after another. is like this. The Ming Dynasty soldiers of Chu defeated 16 enemy artillery towers in a row and captured nearly two regiments of the puppet army. The firepower network that the Japanese puppet army had worked hard for half a year was destroyed.
Peking 's pseudo-Xinmin Evening News exclaimed: "High-aircraft artillery activity of the Eighth Route is discovered twenty-five kilometers southeast of Nangong ."
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Although Chu Daming won consecutive victories, he was not arrogant. He knew clearly that the Kuomintang stubborn army and the Japanese army had advantages that the Eighth Route Army did not have, so he would learn from them humbly.
In the anti-stubborn battle in southern Hebei in 1939, Chu Daming was ordered to attack Xueta. During the battle, he found that a machine gunner of the stubborn army was particularly powerful.
Chu Daming ordered his subordinates to lead a combat team to sneak into the enemy's position and capture the machine gunner alive.
After Chu Daming saw the machine gunner, he personally loosened his ties and said to him cordially: "I invite you to join the Eighth Route Army. This kind of consultation is really a compromise! But if I don't do this, I will not let you move!"
The machine gunner was named Jia Yuzhang. When he learned that the person in front of him was Commander Chu who made the Japanese and puppet army scared, he couldn't help but feel respect and soon joined the Eighth Route Army.
not only became an excellent shooting coach, but also taught a large number of sharpshooters, he himself became a combat hero and died heroically in the Battle of Longkang in 1948.
While Chu Daming hated the Japanese army, he also clearly saw the strengths of the Japanese army. When he learned that Tan Lifu, director of the regiment political department, had studied in Japan, he asked him about the training methods of the Japanese army many times.
Later, he had a sudden idea to hire a Japanese soldier as a coach, and his dream would soon come true.
1940 During the Tangyi battle, Chu Daming captured a Japanese soldier. This Japanese soldier is named Akiyama Ryosaki, and he is a Japanese machine gunner.
Akiyama Ryosaki was deeply brainwashed by Japanese militarism. He wanted to "break" the emperor several times, but they were all rescued by Chu Daming.
Under the influence of Chu Daming, Akiyama Ryozhao suddenly woke up and soon joined the Eighth Route Army. and at the invitation of Chu Daming, he became a military instructor who taught assassination and shooting. Chu Daming personally listened to his lecture.
Under the leadership of Chu Daming, the soldiers of the Chu regiment also put aside their hatred and contempt for Akiyama Ryosaka and studied with him seriously. In the end, Akiyama Ryosaka trained a large number of outstanding assassination experts and special shooters for the troops.
Later, Ryosawa Akiyama not only joined the Communist Party, but also organized the establishment of the "Japanese People's Anti-War Alliance in China".
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Ryono Akiyama returned to Japan and became a famous Japanese political activist. In 1981, he made a special trip to China and appointed him to meet Chu Daming, but what he didn't know was that Chu Daming had already died in the War of Liberation.
Because Chu Daming is brave and good at fighting, resourceful, and has made many outstanding achievements, it has become a legend in both sides of the enemy and us.
In the hearts of the Japanese and puppet troops, they had already regarded Chu Daming as a plague god, and even made up a rumor with self-deprecating words, said, "The heaven is not afraid, the earth is not afraid, but the Chu Tuan is afraid of poking it."
Even when they were anxious about gambling, they would say: "Whoever cheats will let him go out to meet Chu Daming!"
On the Eighth Route Army's , 29 Commander Liu Bocheng personally awarded Chu Daming the title of "Plain Tiger Regiment" .
In November 1944, Chu Daming himself was awarded the title of "Special Combat Hero" by Taiyue Military Region . This is the first time that the Eighth Route Army has awarded this honor to a regiment-level cadre.
The accidental sacrifice was so tragic that the entire army lost the dragon and tiger
After eight years of war of resistance, the Chinese people finally drove away the Japanese invaders. But just when people were calm, Chiang Kai-shek insisted on his own and provoked a civil war.
Chu Daming, who wanted to take off his armor and return to the field, returned to the battlefield and led his troops to southern Jin.
In January 1947, Chen Geng launched the Xiaofen Battle. The People's Liberation Army was unstoppable and soon compressed the Kuomintang troops from Xiaoyi and Fenyang near Zhongjie Village.
The enemy army, which had no way out, started a battle of trapped beasts, and the three regiments of the 10th Brigade attacked and suffered repeated setbacks.
At that time, Chu Daming was injured in the battle of Linfu and was in the hospital for treatment. After hearing about the battle situation, he snatched out of the hospital regardless of the wounds in his abdomen and came to the frontier position only 80 meters away from the enemy.
As soon as he arrived at the position, he threw off his coat, picked up the submachine gun, and shouted: "Comrades, come with me, I don't believe I can't defeat!"
As a result, before he finished speaking, four bullets from the enemy's position hit his chest, and a generation of famous generals fell. After the bad news of
was spread to the column, Chen Geng was deeply saddened and chatted over and over again in a crying voice: "The loss is too great! The loss is too great!"
Then Chen Geng called Military Commission to inform Chu Daming of the death of Chu Daming, and praised Chu Daming in the telegram:
"Every time, he was the first fight, he fought for his brave sacrifice, and respected the heroes of our army, and he was the hero of our army."
and said that he "played a great role in improving the combat style of the troops". His unfortunate sacrifice was a huge loss to our party.
Finally, Chen Geng instructed the frontline soldiers to take Chu Daming's body back to the brigade department and be buried with grandly.
Chen Geng
Brigade cadres and more than 6,000 soldiers from the 29th Regiment spontaneously tore apart the white sheets into filial cloth, tied them around their waists, forming a long funeral team.
They took turns carrying Chu Daming's Lingshu, braved the wind and snow, and walked more than 300 miles of mountain road before carrying Chu Daming's Lingshu from Xiaoyi, the place where he died, to Qinyuan, the brigade headquarters.
After returning to the base, the first thing the whole brigade does is to hold a memorial service. Chen Geng personally mentioned the controversy that "the general of Taiyue is brave, and the first choice is Chu Daming."
Zhou Xihan, known for his "proud general", volunteered to serve as the host of the memorial service; all officers and soldiers in the brigade were dressed in mourning, and white cloth was tied to the guns and bayonets of the soldiers.
Zhou Xihan
At the beginning of the memorial service, Zhou Xihan, who was used to life and death, burst into tears, and was so sad that he could not even speak. When the soldiers who were forced to grieve, they no longer restrained themselves when they saw this situation, and they hugged their heads and cried bitterly.
For a moment, crying and becoming one of the few tragic scenes in the history of our army.
Chu Daming died young and did not have time to participate in the subsequent Liberation War. But under the words and deeds of Chu Daming, a large number of military backbones emerged in the Chu regiment back then.
This group of people gathered in a ball of fire, scattered in the sky, and they took Chu Daming's teaching of "charging ahead and commanding ahead" and devoted themselves to the tide of the War of Liberation, fighting hard in the Central Plains, fighting fiercely in Huaihai , and flying troops in Yunnan.
has established a great contribution to the Republic, and has also spread the teachings of Chu Daming "charged ahead and commanded ahead" throughout the army and throughout China.
Now Chu Daming has left us for more than 70 years. Even if a hero dies, his spirit will not die.
His spirit of "charging ahead and commanding ahead" was not only one of the magic weapons for our army to defeat the strong with the weak, but also played a huge role in the construction of socialism in our country.
On the road to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, the spirit of "charge and command ahead".
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