On September 1, 1986, the Central Military Commission decided that the 79th Infantry Division, the 80th Division, the 241st Regiment of the 81st Division, the Artillery Corps, the Anti-Aircraft Artillery Brigade, the Engineer Corps, the Communication Regiment, and the 10th Regiment, the 37th Regiment, the 14th Artillery Regiment, the 37th Regiment, the Automobile Regiment, the two reconnaissance brigades, and the three field medical centers of the 27th Group Army of the Beijing Military Region would go to the Yunnan Front to participate in the Battle of Laoshan.
In this battle, Qin Tian, the second son of General Qin Jiwei, served as the commander of the 235th Regiment of the 79th Infantry Division, which was the famous Jinan First Regiment.
The regiment was formerly known as
Shandong
The 1st Brigade of the 3rd Army of the People's Anti-Japanese Salvation Army was later developed into
Jiaodong Eighth Route Army
The main force, which participated in the Battle of Laiwu, the Battle of Menglianggu, the Battle of Crossing the River, the Battle of Shanghai, and also made outstanding military achievements during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, is a famous ace unit. In 1986, during the Laoshan Round War, Qin Tian was the 11th regimental commander of the regiment, which was also his first participation in actual combat.
Before the battle began, Qin Tian was ready to sacrifice. Before the expedition, he returned to Beijing, found his father Qin Jiwei, who was the commander of the Beijing Military Region at the time, and said to him with tears: "Dad, I may not be able to fulfill my filial piety in the future." What he did not expect was that the old general not only did not comfort him, but instead cut his head and covered his face with a reprimand, saying to him: "What is this little battle of yours!" Can we compare with our past war years? How can you, a regimental commander, have such emotions? ”
Qin Jiwei was very aggrieved at that time, he did not understand why his father said this, but he only understood why Qin Jiwei said this in the later counterattack against Vietnam, which had a lot to do with Qin Jiwei's experience.
Qin Jiwei was born in 1914 in the famous General County, Huang'an County, Hubei Province. At the age of 11, his father, mother, uncle, and brother died of illness, and Qin Jiwei became a homeless orphan. But in 1926, the peasant movement led by the Chinese Communist Party in Huang'an, Hubei Province, attracted Qin Jiwei, who gradually became an active member of the peasant movement.
In 1929, Qin Jiwei, who was less than 15 years old, joined the Red Army and successively served as a company commander, battalion commander, regiment commander, and commander of a supplementary division. At the beginning of 1937, Qin Jiwei also participated in the famous Western Expedition, when he was the fourth director of the Western Route Army of the Western Route Army. On January 21, 1937, due to the lack of ammunition and no rear of the Western Route Army, coupled with the fact that the Majia Army was too strong and suffered serious losses, on January 21, 1937, the Majia Army attacked the headquarters of the Western Route Army in Linze City with five regiments, at this time Linze City was full of logisticians and female comrades, and only one guard company could perform combat tasks.
In the three days of fighting, Qin Jiwei was wounded twice, but he still rushed to the front with a machine gun, and where the enemy was the most dense, he rushed to where he was, and finally left a squad to guard the north of the city and led the headquarters personnel to break through smoothly.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Qin Jiwei was ordered to go alone as a "guerrilla warfare instructor" to organize anti-Japanese armed forces in the Taigu area of Shanxi. As a result, in less than a month, he organized an armed force of 300 people to capture the county seat of Taigu County, and then Qin Jiwei served as the commander of the independent detachment of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and in just half a year, Qin Jiwei pulled up more than 5,000 people and opened up a base area of millions of people in 17 counties. He repeatedly led his troops to repel the attacks of the Japanese puppet army and consolidated and expanded the anti-Japanese base areas behind the enemy lines.
During the Liberation War, Qin Jiwei successively served as commander of the Ninth Column of Nakano and commander of the 15th Army of Erye, and he led his troops to participate in the Pinghan Campaign, turned to Tangxi, counterattacked Western Henan, crossed the Henan Expedition, advanced into Western Henan, Keluoyang, Zhengzhou, chased Luhuaihai, crossed the river in advance, went south for thousands of miles, liberated Liangguang, and suppressed bandits in the southwest, thus making great military achievements for the founding of New China and the cause of China's national liberation.
What made Qin Jiwei completely famous was the Battle of Shangganling during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea; after the outbreak of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the 15th Army led by Qin Jiwei also suppressed bandits in the southwest region. After the 15th Army accepted the task of entering the Korean War, the troops were divided into two routes, one passing through Chengdu and Chongqing, the Sichuan-Shaanxi Highway to Baoji, Shaanxi, and then by railway to North China, and the other way from Chongqing to Wuhan by ship, and then by train to North China.
After the troops gathered in North China, the Central Military Commission formed the Third Corps of the Volunteer Army on the basis of the 15th Army, the 12th Army and the 60th Army, the commander was Chen Geng, but Chen Geng was in Vietnam at that time to guide the War of Resistance against France, so he never came to his post, and the Third Corps of the Volunteer Army was actually commanded by Wang Jinshan, deputy commander of the Corps, who served as the commander of the Sixth Column of Nakano and the commander of the Erye 12th Army during the Liberation War.
In April 1952, the 15th Army of the Volunteer Army began to take over the defensive task of defending the central line, and the two sides fought on the 38th Line for several months, winning and losing each other. By October 1952, the U.S. military had set their sights on Shangganling, a small village in the southern foothills of Theo Sacred Mountain in Gwanghwa-gun, Gangwon Province, in the central part of the Korean Peninsula. However, the strategic position of this position is very important, the 597.9 heights and the 537.7 highlands in the Shangganling area are like two nails, embedded in the enemy's positions, threatening the enemy's jinhua defense line, and the 135th regiment of the 45th Division of the 15th Army of the Volunteer Army has placed a reinforced company defense in each of these two heights.
The U.S. military first planned to use it
Two battalions of the U.S. 7th Division and the ROK 2nd Division took the high ground at the cost of more than 200 casualties. However, what the US army did not expect was that the 15th Army did not retreat from the battle, and even if Wang Jinshan, the deputy commander of the corps, allowed the 15th Army to retreat, Qin Jiwei still did not lead the troops to withdraw. At the height of the battle, Qin Jiwei sent his own guard company up, and the 96-man guard company was blocked by American artillery fire, leaving only 24 people left after reaching the tunnel.
In the 43 days of fierce fighting, the U.S. army invested 60,000 troops in Shangganling, suffered more than 20,000 casualties, poured 1.9 million tons of ammunition, and launched more than 900 charges, but none of them broke through the defense line of the 15th Army. In the battle, the Fifteenth Army emerged a total of 12,347 combat heroes at all levels represented by the special hero Huang Jiguang, and more than 200 heroes
Forty-three days, grenades, grenades, and explosive canisters were fired with the enemy, and thirty-eight martyrs who sacrificed their lives to bomb bunkers and block the holes of their guns left their names.
General Qin Jiwei's life, after experiencing the baptism of decades of war, is known for daring to fight hard battles and vicious battles, and is known as the Tiger Courage General. His requirements for his son were also very strict, so when he fought against the Vietnamese self-defense, he would feel how insignificant he was in the face of his son's words, because this war was indeed too small for the wars he had experienced.
After Qin Tian arrived at the Vietnamese front, he set up the regimental headquarters in a small hill with an altitude of only 208, which was the most advanced, dangerous, and lowest terrain regimental command post of the 27th Group Army of the Beijing Military Region during the Laoshan Round War, and the Vietnamese special agents once sneaked into this regimental command post, but under the command of regimental commander Qin Tian, they smashed the enemy's plot. The 235th Regiment fought fiercely with the Vietnamese until late April 1988, when the round of combat missions was completed, and the regiment emerged with a number of first-class merits, an honorary collective, and the whole regiment was awarded the collective second-class merit.