In November 1938, Wang Zhen, commander of the 359th Brigade of the 120th Division, met with Zhang Zongxun, commander of the 358th Brigade, and sighed: "There are too many amputated commanders and fighters of the 359th Brigade! Zhang Zongxun said: "Wang Beard, I envy you..." What is going on?
Among the founding generals, there were eleven one-armed generals, and the Red Second Front under General He Lao's command had three one-armed generals. They were General He Bingyan, who lost his right arm in the 1935 Battle of Qian, General Yu Qiuli, who lost his left arm in the 1935 battle in the Zhangba area of Yunnan, and General Yan Fusheng, who lost his right arm during the retreat of the cover troops in 1936.
In the period of the War of Resistance, the 359th Brigade of the 120th Division was wounded in battle, and the general who amputated his arm was indeed the largest. Among the regimental-level cadres of the 359th Brigade, Yan Fusheng amputated his right arm during the Long March, and General Zuo Qi amputated his right arm because he was wounded during the battle against Japan in December 1938.
At this time, Brigadier Wang Zhen had a feeling that he had amputated his leg due to war wounds, and it seemed that the 359 brigade would be "infected". Before Zuo Qi was wounded and his right arm was amputated, Peng Qingyun, a battalion-level cadre of the 719th Regiment, also lost his right arm. In October 1938, the Japanese army independently mixed into the second brigade of lieutenant general Hiroharu Tokioka led the troops, in a vain attempt to attack Lingqiu by Guangling.
After Wang Zhen found out about the enemy's situation, he sent the 9th Company and the 719th Regiment of the 717th Regiment to set up an ambush at Shaojiazhuang, south of Guangling, to prepare to completely annihilate the enemy. He Qingji, commander of the 719th Regiment, ordered Peng Qingyun, political commissar of the first battalion, to lead the first battalion of the 719th Regiment to take on the task of assault. In the early morning of October 29, Peng Qingyun led his troops to the predetermined assault position.
At 10:00 a.m. on the 29th, the Japanese artillery began to bombard the outside. It turned out that the Japanese army had been frightened by the Eighth Route Army, and every time before going out of the city, they had to come to a "fire reconnaissance." Sure enough, a large Japanese army left the city from Guangling, and the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army reported the news to the 359th Brigade, and Wang Zhen ordered all the troops to prepare for battle.
The convoy of 10 Japanese vehicles drove toward Shaojiazhuang to a hundred meters from the ambush position, and at the sound of an order, the Eighth Route Army began to fire. Peng Qingyun's marksmanship was exquisite, and a shot hit the tire of the head car, and the Japanese head car lost control. Immediately, the few Japanese military vehicles behind them, which had not yet reacted, crashed directly into the "butt" of the head car.
The Japanese military vehicles did not enter or retreat, and became the "Iron King VIII" of the nest. A chubby Officer of the Japanese Army got out of the military vehicle, brandished a saber, and kept shouting and cursing. Peng Qingyun led the assault troops to rush down the mountain, and this fat Japanese officer who had just been shouting was already frightened and shrunk under the military vehicle.
Peng Qingyun remembered this fat officer, and after rushing down the mountain, he immediately killed the fat Japanese officer who was scared to pee his pants with three or eight large covers. Immediately, the assault troops annihilated all the recalcitrant Japanese troops and quickly took the captured booty with them. At this time, the Japanese troops in Zhangjiawan in the north heard the sound of gunfire and had already come to support.
The assault troops could not retreat, but could only engage the Japanese short troops. After Zhang Youren slashed three Japanese soldiers with a large knife, he was hit by a bullet and died heroically. Peng Qingyun wanted to rescue Zhang Youren and broke out with Zhang Youren on his back, but he was also shot in his right elbow joint. Commander He Qingji ordered the reserves to go to war and repelled the Japanese reinforcements before they rescued the assault troops.
In this battle, the Eighth Route Army annihilated more than 500 Japanese troops and blew up more than a dozen cars, which was a brilliant victory. After the war, Peng Qingyun was sent to the rear field hospital of the 359th Brigade for treatment because of his serious injuries. The field hospital lacked both medical equipment and medicines, and Peng Qingyun's wound was infected and swollen, like a "purple-green eggplant".
As the wound became inflamed, Peng Qingyun felt that something was moving in the wound, and it felt very itchy. He lowered his sleeve, and suddenly a large stream of pus blood flowed down the cuff to the ground, and it kept flowing. The doctor quickly used gauze to stop the bleeding, the blood still could not be stopped, and finally put two copper coins at the wound and wrapped them in gauze, and the bleeding stopped.
In view of Peng Qingyun's serious illness, the soldiers carried Peng Qingyun and sent him to the First Health Center of the 359th Brigade in Hezhe Village, Lingqiu County, where foreign friends Bethune helped the wounded of the Eighth Route Army to heal their wounds. However, after arriving at the First Health Clinic, Dr. Bethune happened to be absent and went to the front line.
Dr. Bethune's students took turns to help Peng Qingyun heal, but his condition still did not improve, and Peng Qingyun fainted many times. Wang Zhen watched General Ai suffer and became angry, asking the troops to go to the front line to find Dr. Bethune. The warriors carried the stretcher, on which was peng Qingyun, whose face was miserable, and the blood seeped down the stretcher to the ground, leaving a long trail of blood on the ground.
Peng Qingyun fainted several times, and later, on the way, he happened to meet Dr. Bethune who was back at the First Health Center. Dr. Bethune immediately performed an emergency amputation on Peng Qingyun, saving the life of this famous anti-war general. Later, Wang Zhen arranged for Peng Qingyun to become a political commissar in the brigade's teaching camp, which was considered to be a promotion to this wounded general.
The one-armed generals appeared in the 359th Brigade, or because these generals fought resolutely against the Japanese puppet army, sacrificed their lives and forgot their deaths, and suffered serious wounds. When Wang Zhen met with Zhang Zongxun, commander of the 358th Brigade, he said with emotion: "Our brigade has one or two more people who lack arms and legs, and they have really become a 'crippled brigade.'" ”
Zhang Zongxun, on the other hand, said, "Wang Beard, I envy you for not being too late?" You have Dr. Bethune by your side and can help you heal the badly wounded. The seriously wounded in our brigade lacked medical treatment and medicine, and many comrades had no chance of amputation at all, so they died heroically. ”
Only then did Wang Zhen understand why his old comrade-in-arms Zhang Zongxun said "envy"? When General Manager He heard about it, another one-armed general from the 359th Brigade found Wang Zhen and said, "Wang Beard, you have one more one-armed cadre in your brigade, and I will remove you from your post." Soon after, Zuo Qi lost his right arm due to serious injuries in the battle against Japan.
These one-armed generals, because of the blood in the battlefield, were wounded and amputated. They have lost their arms, helped us support the future of the Chinese nation, and are the real models and idols of our contemporary young people.