The whole army has decided to change jobs collectively, and the lame commander suddenly ordered to go to the DPRK to participate in the war, playing a national prestige.

1on the morning of June 25, 950, the Korean peninsula was silent. However, a clear shot broke the silence that lasted for several years, followed by the sound of machine guns and mortars, followed by the explosion of shells fired by large-caliber artillery. Tanks soon appeared on the 38th parallel, and the Korean forces fought on the 38th parallel, and the Korean War broke out.

Smoke from the Korean Peninsula soon drifted across the 38th parallel, to the northeast and to Beijing, the capital of New China. Because the United Nations led by American troops entered the war, not only that, American planes bombed some villages and towns on the border of China. Although the American bombing of the new China target seems to be small in scale, its intention is very insidious. That is to see the reaction of the new China, so as to test the attitude of the new China, and see that Congress will not send troops to resist US aggression and aid Korea.

Although the CPC Central Committee, which was deeply worried about American ambitions, was prepared, it did not expect to be in North Korea, nor did it expect the war to break out so suddenly. When the news of the outbreak of the Korean War reached Beijing, the CPC Central Committee found a problem, that is, the PLA's troops in the northeast were too weak.

After the founding of New China, in the national defense deployment of China, Northeast China is in the position of strategic rear area. 1950 in may, the formed units under the jurisdiction of the northeast military region consisted of only six garrison divisions and some local troops, with more than 228,000 people, except the 42nd Army of the Fourth Field Army engaged in agricultural production and some artillery and cavalry units engaged in training and consolidation. According to 1950 PLA streamlining and reorganization plan, the 42nd Army will be collectively transferred to agricultural reclamation units, and six garrison divisions will be reduced to two. The total strength of the Northeast Military Region is set at 65,438+10,000. Among the six military regions at that time, the number of troops was the least.

In other words, the 42nd Army is the largest armed force in Northeast China. However, the Central Committee has decided that the entire 42nd Army will be collectively transferred to agricultural reclamation production. Why did the 42 nd Army collectively change jobs? One of the fundamental reasons is that the 42nd Army ranks among the 4th Field Army, so it became the target of being abolished.

After the 42nd Army received the notice to be abolished, the whole army began to learn agricultural knowledge in universities, such as growing good grain, which became the theme of the whole army's study and activities. Then the 42nd Army was deployed to Qiqihar and Bei 'an in Heilongjiang Province to engage in agricultural production, and the steel guns in the hands of the soldiers were replaced with hoes. However, this is no stranger to the officers and men who are farmers themselves, so the agricultural production of the whole 42 nd Army is colorful.

Just as the agricultural production of the 42 nd Army was in full swing, an urgent order came: the whole army lifted the agricultural production task and immediately went to the DPRK to prepare for the war. The order came too suddenly, and Wu Ruilin, as the commander of the army, could not turn around at once ideologically. After all, he was informed to prepare for collective transfer, and now he is ready to join the army.

The 42nd Army is one of the youngest troops in China People's Liberation Army. Its predecessor was the 5th column of Northeast Field Army, which was adapted from three independent divisions in the spring of 1948. When it was first adapted, the whole army had more than 36,000 people and was formed by the Northeast Field Army. Wan Yi was the first commander, Liu Xingyuan was the political commissar and director of the Political Department, Wu Ruilin was the deputy commander, and Tang Kai was the deputy political commissar.

1September, 948 to 10/October, 5 participated in Liaoshen Campaign. First, it prevented the Kuomintang troops from advancing westward to aid Jinzhou in the "Westward Corps" south of Zhangwu, and then participated in the battle of western Liaoning. It surrounded the regiment in eastern Montenegro with its brothers. In this campaign, the 42nd Army annihilated more than 7,000 Kuomintang troops/KLOC-0, and captured Chang Wenshan, a newly-made first army general.

1948165438+10. According to the order of the Central Military Commission on unifying the establishment of the whole army and its corps designation, the 5th column of the Northeast Field Army was renamed the 42nd Army of the China People's Liberation Army, with Liu Xingyuan as the commander, as the political commissar, deputy commander, deputy political commissar and Guo as the director of the political department. The army * * * more than forty-seven thousand people, still belong to the northeast field army.

Because the 42nd Army is a junior, low-level and average-record unit in the Fourth Field Army. Therefore, when the Fourth Field Army marched into Central South, the 42nd Army did not cross the river. It is the only unit of the entire Fourth Field Army that has never crossed the Yangtze River and has been fighting bandits in Henan. After the bandits were suppressed, they moved to the northeast to engage in agricultural reclamation production and prepared for collective transfer. The commander at that time was Wu Ruilin, so everyone joked that Wu Ruilin would be the last commander.

Wu Ruilin was born in 19 15 in a poor peasant family in Wujiahe, Bazhong County, Sichuan Province. 1928 Join the Communist Youth League of China. 1932 10 joined the Chinese red army of workers and peasants and served as a signal soldier of the political department of the gongsijun. In the process of the Red Fourth Army's capture of Tongjiang and Bazhong, Wu Ruilin successfully completed the task of reconnaissance of the enemy and leading the way, so he was received by Xu, commander-in-chief of the Red Fourth Army, and Chen Changhao, political commissar.

At that time, when Xu learned that he was still a member of the Communist Youth League, he asked, "Why don't you change the party?" Wu Shuo: "I was not asked to join the party in the organization." The political commissar of Chen Changhao said: "From the day you received the Red Army in Yanxichang, even if you joined the party, it was that day!" Subsequently, the organization went through the party transfer formalities for Wu Ruilin and arranged for him to work in the Youth League Committee of the General Political Department of the Fourth Army.

War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression 1938 Since May, Wu Ruilin has been the political commissar of the second detachment of the Eighth Route Army Lu Column. 1939 to 1 Served as the Minister of Military Department of Taishan State Committee and the Chief of the First Brigade. 1since August, 1939, he has served as commander of the first military division of Luzhong Military Region. 1940 In May, Wu Ruilin led his troops to participate in the Yangjiaheng Campaign in the Third World War and successfully crushed the Japanese puppet troops. However, in the third battle, he was seriously injured and became lame, so he was called Wu lame.

Wu Ruilin's operational command ability is very strong. During his tenure as commander of the 2nd Army Division of Luzhong Military Region, he commanded the 2nd Army Division to stop the Japanese puppet troops in the North-South Generation Valley of Mengyin County. At the cost of 9 casualties, he achieved brilliant results in killing more than 300 Japanese puppet troops and won the commendation of Luo Ronghuan, commander of Shandong Military Region. This campaign has become a classic of blocking warfare, and Wu Ruilin is also famous for being good at blocking defense.

Later, Wu Ruilin served as deputy commander of the fifth column of the Fourth Field Army and commander of the 42nd Army in the Northeast Field Army. Participated in the peace of mind campaign and the anti-bandit operations in western and southern Henan. After the founding of New China, all the battles that can be fought were contracted by veteran troops, and the young 42nd Army was not on the wheel at all. As a result, he was transferred to the northeast to engage in agricultural production and prepare for collective transfer. 1950 When the Korean War broke out, when the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China discussed sending troops, he realized that the Northeast was the strategic area with the least garrison, and the 42nd Army was the only combat mobile force in the whole Northeast.

It can be said that the outbreak of the Korean War made the 42nd Army a place of heroes. The 42nd Army was incorporated into the first batch of volunteers of 13 Corps. The 42nd Army, as the first vanguard of volunteers to enter the DPRK, secretly entered the DPRK on 1950 10 16, three days earlier than other brothers. The reason why the 42 nd Army entered the DPRK so early was because the United Nations Army went north too quickly. In order not to make the east and west enemies reach the same camp, Peng formulated the first campaign plan of "attacking the west and defending the east", focusing the 38th, 39th and 40th * * * armies on the western front to fight against the 8th Army of the United States, and the 42nd army on the eastern front to block the 1st 10 Army of the United States.

In the first battle, the main battlefield was on the western front, and the eastern front was mainly responsible for preventing the United Nations troops from advancing and preventing the enemy on the eastern front from surrounding them. On the one hand, Peng was unfamiliar with the 42 nd Army and on the other hand, he learned that he was good at playing snipers, so he assigned the 42 nd Army to the relatively minor eastern battlefield to play snipers with the Korean People's Army. Wu Ruilin, who accepted the task, immediately looked at the map and found that if he wanted to stop the enemy on the eastern front from crossing the river via Changjin, he had to get stuck in Huangcaoling.

Huangcaoling is located in the south of Lake Changjin, with an altitude of 1000 meters. The terrain is extremely dangerous and it is a military hub in northern Korea. Whether MacArthur's pincer offensive can be realized depends first on whether Huangcaoling can be captured, thus opening the gateway to Jiang Jie and Huishan. However, when the 42nd Army reached the area south of the river boundary, Sun Xiang, the director of reconnaissance, reported that the enemy might occupy Huangcaoling. Ray Wu immediately ordered:

"The first enemy will seize Huangcaoling and fight abroad for the first time."

Because there is no air superiority and few cars, the volunteers can only March on two legs of soldiers, and only at night. If the normal speed was about 40 miles per day, Wu Ruilin estimated that he could not capture Huangcaoling, so he ordered his troops to travel light. Later, in order to catch up with the time, he ordered that the marching speed of 130 miles per night be increased to 180 miles. On the last section of the road, the car of the Korean People's Army arrived.

On the eastern front in the first battle, the 42 nd Army was brave and tenacious, and the main company was almost exhausted. At the cost of 1400 casualties, more than 2 1000 American and Korean prisoners were killed or injured, making the 42nd Army look like completely discredited. It created conditions for the volunteers to annihilate 6,543,800+500,000 enemy troops on the western front. The success of Huangcaoling's blocking war made Peng very happy. He said: "The battle of Huangcaoling shows that American planes and cannons are nothing!"

Huang Caoling, commander of the Volunteers, changed his impression of Wu Ruilin and the 42nd Army in the first battle of the 42nd Army, and personally electrified Wu Ruilin and the 42nd Army.

The whole 42nd Army has decided to change jobs collectively, but Wu Ruilin, the lame commander, suddenly received an order to go to the DPRK to participate in the war, playing a national prestige. Therefore, the so-called hero has no place, the premise is that you must be a hero. If you are not a hero, you will make a fool of yourself even if you have a place to fight, and the 42 nd Army is a well-deserved heroic force. Let us always remember the glorious history of this heroic army.

Natural selection is the author's pseudonym. He used to be engaged in teaching and research in National Defense University, and he was very good at history and philosophy ~