The heroic legend of the sixty-six regiment of the fourth agricultural division

Up to now, the TV series "Bright Sword", with its distinctive protagonist Li Yunlong, has left a deep impression on the audience, and the story of the Eighth Route Army in the drama is mainly based on the fighting deeds of the predecessor of the 66th Regiment of the Fourth Agricultural Division, which seems to be unknown. In January this year, it was the 6th anniversary of the 5th Regiment of the 17th Division of the Sixth Army of China People's Liberation Army (the predecessor of the 66th Regiment of the Fourth Agricultural Division) stationed in Yili. I would like to take this article as a commemoration. At the beginning of the first episode of the TV series "Bright Sword", subtitles appeared: "In February 194, the 129 th Division of the Eighth Route Army was encircled by the Japanese army in a certain area of Jinzhong. In order to cover the transfer of the division and the field hospital, the 386 Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, one for each column, launched a fierce battle with more than 3, Japanese troops on the three hills of the main position of Cangyunling. The Eighth Route Army launched 13 consecutive attacks and launched a fierce hand-to-hand battle with the Japanese army ... Under the command of Li Yunlong, the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army led the whole regiment to carry out anti-assault on the Japanese army several times. The battle was extremely fierce, and the main position changed hands repeatedly. Both sides suffered heavy casualties. "

According to Records of the Battle of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, General Chen Geng, From Southern Hebei to Yili (written by Wang Yingjing) and Sixty-six Regiments, the "New Eighth Route Army Regiment" led by Li Yunlong is the predecessor of the Sixty-six Regiments of the Fourth Agricultural Division. Chen Zhijian, son of General Chen Geng, said in an interview with China Senior magazine: It is certain that the prototype of the story of Bright Sword is the new regiment (16th regiment) of the 386th Brigade led by Chen Geng.

A new group was born in the anti-Japanese bonfire

In July p>1937, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out in an all-round way. Patriots in southern Hebei Province rose in succession, organized the people, took up arms, and set up anti-Japanese armed forces such as the "Anti-Japanese Model Guerrilla Detachment in Southern Hebei". In January 1938, Chen Zaidao, deputy brigade commander of the 386 Brigade of the 129 th Division of the Eighth Route Army, led four infantry companies, a machine gun company and a cavalry company of the 769 regiment to form the Eighth Route Army's eastward column, and came to southern Hebei to carry out work. In order to strengthen the anti-Japanese armed forces, several anti-Japanese guerrillas, such as the "model guerrilla detachment in southern Hebei", were reorganized into three regiments. On August 1st, 1938, in Zhaozhai Village, quzhou county, presided over by Wang Xinting, political commissar of the 386th Brigade, the "Dongjin Detachment", "Dongzong 1st Regiment" and "Dongzong 2nd Detachment" were co-edited and named as "New Regiment", which belonged to the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and a heroic army was born! On February 7th, 1939, the new regiment fought with Brigadier Chen Geng for the first time, and created a typical example of luring war in the plain area-Xiangchenggu Battle. Ding Silin's head and Cheng Yuechang's political commissar (deputy commander of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps after liberation) led a new regiment to attack wei county, Quzhou and other counties in succession, deliberately provoking the Japanese aggressors and luring the enemy out of the city. On February 1, the angered Japanese aggressors really got caught, transferred a 4 th United Wing of the 1 th Division, sent 9 cars, carried a reinforced infantry squadron, and looked for the Eighth Route Army to fight. When all nine Japanese cars arrived at the ambush ring at the north street entrance of Gucheng Gucun, all the participating troops ambushed on the east, west and south sides opened fire together. When the Japanese saw the ambush, they immediately turned around and ran back. The north is the entrance to the ambush ring, which is low-lying. It is impossible to build fortifications or ambush before the war. It is a new mission to accept the blocking attack and tighten the pockets. Seeing that the Japanese army was about to rush out of the encirclement, at this critical moment, Xu Shiyou, deputy brigade commander of the 386 Brigade, led a new regiment of the Second Battalion to rush up and shoot at the Japanese army fiercely. In the battle, the soldiers of the new regiment ran out of bullets, so they used grenades, and when they ran out of grenades, they fought bayonets, which simply repelled the Japanese army's four charges and made it impossible for the Japanese army to move forward. The dehumanizing Japanese army dropped poison gas bombs on a new regiment position, and many people were poisoned. Colonel Ding Silin immediately organized the soldiers to throw cluster grenades into the poisonous gas, which dispersed the poisonous gas and firmly held the position. As soon as the charge sounded, the Eighth Route Army soldiers jumped out of their positions, carrying bayonets, and rushed to the Japanese army for hand-to-hand combat. By midnight, the An Tian squadron and the 4 th United Supplementary Brigade were completely annihilated, with 25 body count, 8 captured alive, 9 cars burned, and 1 mountain gun, 2 1992 infantry flat-fire guns, 1 mortar and 128 rifles seized. In this battle, the new regiment fought bravely and fiercely, and dared to fight with the Japanese devils. It was praised as "Model Youth League" by Commander-in-Chief Zhu De, and was officially awarded the honorary title of "Zhu De Model Youth League" by the Eighth Route Army's front headquarters. After the Japanese army was ambushed in Xiangcheng, it was ashamed and angry. It assembled 7 or 8 cars with more than 2, guizi soldiers. Under the cover of the plane, it searched for the 386 Brigade in an attempt to retaliate. The slogan "Specialized in the 386 Brigade" was posted on its armored cars. Brigadier Chen Geng led the troops to get rid of the enemy after half a month of transfer operations, and marched triumphantly into Taihang Mountain.

at the beginning of July, 1939,  [FS:PAGE] dispatched more than 5, men to carry out a "sweeping" of the anti-Japanese base areas in southeastern Shanxi. In order to crush the enemy's attempt, Colonel Ding Silin led a new regiment to carry out guerrilla warfare, and successively carried out night attacks on Japanese troops in Huanggui Town, Taigu County and Yuncu Town, Yushe County. On July 9, outside Xizhou Village, Yushe County, Shanxi Province, the head of Ding Silin was hit by a stray bullet while covering the retreat of troops, and he died unfortunately. That night, the 386 Brigade held a memorial meeting for Ding Silin attended by more than 1, people. In order to express his grief for Comrade Ding Silin, Deng Xiaoping, the political commissar of the 129 th Division, wrote the article Mourning Comrade Ding Silin (this article was included in the Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping Military Affairs).

Sixteen regiments in the Hundred Regiments War

In May p>194, the new regiment conducted training and consolidation in Qinyuan County, Shanxi Province. On June 7th, Chen Geng Brigadier announced the divisional order: "The new regiment was named the 16th regiment of the 386th Brigade", which was listed as the official sequence of the Eighth Route Army.

On August 2th, 194, the 16th Regiment participated in the Hundred Regiments War and conquered Lujiazhuang Station on Zhengtai Railway. On September 2, in order to cover the transfer of the North Bureau, the Eighth Route Army headquarters, the 129 th Division, the 385 th Brigade Artillery and the rear hospital, the 16 th Regiment was ordered to stop the Japanese army in Juanyugou, Xiyang County. With the cooperation of two planes, more than 3, enemy troops rushed at our position. Because the enemy was outnumbered, the position of the 16th regiment was broken. Liu Bocheng, the division commander of the 129 th Division, and Deng Xiaoping, the political commissar, ordered: Hold your ground and don't retreat without an order! Colonel Xie Jiaqing personally led the 3rd Battalion to take the enemy's artillery fire and kill the position. The 1st Battalion and the 2nd Battalion followed, engaged in white-edged combat with the Japanese, launched 13 consecutive onslaughts on the Japanese, and finally regained the positions on three hills. Charge and counter-charge, attack and counter-attack, hand-to-hand combat, not only strength, but also will. The Sixteenth Regiment resisted the Japanese army's repeated charges and held its ground, fighting fiercely for 15 hours and killing more than 3 people. After the Eighth Route Army's head office, the rear hospital and the brothers were safely transferred, the Sixteenth Regiment was ordered to withdraw from the fighting. After the war, the No.129 Division praised the troops participating in the war in Juanyugou as "resolute, brave, mobile and flexible", and Yang Shangkun, secretary of Beifangju, Luo Ruiqing, director of the Eighth Route Army General Political Department, and other leaders visited the 16th regiment to express their condolences. Everyone should be able to see that the scene at the beginning of the first episode of "Bright Sword" reflects the sixteen-group Juanyugou blockade except for the time difference!

After a short break, the 16th Regiment received a new task: attacking Yushe County. On the night of September 23, the 16th Regiment and its brothers advanced to Yushe City as scheduled, preparing for a surprise attack, which was detected by the enemy, so they changed to storm, but they failed to conquer after a fierce battle overnight. On 24th, the troops redeployed and adjusted their firepower, and launched a second attack. The 16th regiment, 3rd battalion, 5th company and 1st platoon leader broke through five barbed wires and finally died heroically! The enemy fought back and released poisonous gas. Brigadier Chen Geng ordered to suspend the attack in order to avoid heavy casualties. On the 25th, in the third tough battle, the deputy battalion commander of the Second Battalion of the 16th Regiment died heroically during the charge, and only 18 people remained in the eighth company to fight! At dusk on the 25th, the three-day tough battle in Yushe finally ended successfully, uprooting all enemy strongholds on the Yulin-Liaoning Highway, liberating Yushe City and adowing the city to defend the enemy. On October 3th, 16th Regiment participated in the Battle of Guanjia 'nao under the personal command of Deputy Commander Peng Dehuai. In collaboration with the brothers, it surrounded more than 5 Japanese Gangqi Brigade in Guanjia 'nao area of Wuxiang County. After two days of bloody battle, it fought hand-to-hand with the Japanese army, repeatedly vying for positions, and finally wiped out more than 4 people.

ambush in hanlue village on the way to Yan' an

in p>1943, the Kuomintang reactionaries set off the third anti-* * climax, and Hu Zongnan surrounded the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border region and prepared to strike Yan' an. In order to defend Yan 'an, the Central Military Commission decided to transfer sixteen regiments to Yan 'an. In October 1943, just as the Sixteen Regiments were preparing to leave for Yan 'an, the Japanese army mobilized sixteen battalions and a puppet army to "mop up" the Taiyue anti-Japanese base in the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan border region in an attempt to establish an "experimental area for mountain suppression", and mobilized more than 12 officers from all over North China to form a "battlefield observation group" to visit. On October 22nd, Wang Jinshan, brigade commander of the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army and commander of the 2nd Division of Taiyue Military Region (known as "Madman Wang", one of the prototypes of Li Yunlong, the hero of "Bright Sword"), led sixteen regiments to break through the tight encirclement and arrived near Linfen. Knowing that the Japanese army in Linfen might move eastward, they immediately ambushed in Hanlue Village, east of Linfen. On the 23rd, Wang Jinshan led cadres at or above the company level to inspect the terrain in detail and study the battle plan. On the morning of 24th, 13 cars of the Japanese "Battlefield Watching Regiment" swaggered on the highway. Wang Jinshan disguised himself as a farmer, carrying two baskets, standing on the mountain ridge, overlooking the highway, watching the Japanese army enter the ambush area. As soon as the battle signal rang, the 16 th regiment, which was crouched, suddenly launched a fierce attack. After three hours of fierce fighting, all 24 Japanese troops and the "watching regiment" were annihilated. This battle killed 1 Japanese Major General's brigade leader, 6 Japanese Lieutenant [fs: page] captains, and more than 12 officers above second lieutenant, forcing the Japanese army to hurriedly transfer troops to the Taiyue anti-Japanese base area to reinforce Linfen area, disrupting the enemy's "sweeping" deployment. Okamura Ningji, commander of Japan's North China Dispatching Army, went into a rage when he heard the news. He immediately mobilized 5 Japanese troops and, under the cover of six planes, pursued the 16th regiment to Hanlue Village. The 16th regiment escaped the enemy's pursuit, crossed the Yellow River with the support of the militia and the masses, and arrived in Yan 'an in early December. In the War of Liberation, the Sixteenth Regiment participated in Yan 'an Defence War, Qinghuabian Battle, Yangmahe Battle, Panlong Battle, Shajiadian Battle and Yichuan Battle successively. In January 1949, the whole army was unified and reorganized, and the 16th Regiment was reorganized into the 5th Regiment of the 17th Division of the Sixth Army of the First Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, which participated in the liberation of Xi 'an and Lanzhou and marched into Xinjiang.

From December 26th, 1949 to January 18th, 195, the 5th Regiment was ordered to enter Huiyuan City of Yili by plane, car and other means of transportation from Dihua (now Urumqi). According to the instructions of Xinjiang Branch, Liu Guanghan, head of the delegation, served as the first secretary of the Ili prefectural committee in Central China, and led some party member cadres to local areas to carry out the work of building the party and government, reducing rents and fighting hegemony, and land reform. In November 1951, in order to strengthen the construction of the air force, more than 3 cadres and soldiers from 5 regiments were dispatched to Lanzhou to form the Northwest Military Region (now Lanzhou Military Region) Air Force. In 1953, according to the central government's order on the reorganization of Xinjiang troops, most of the 5 regiments were reorganized into the 5 farm of the sixth agricultural division of the Xinjiang Military Region Production and Construction Corps. In 1956, it was placed under the organizational system of the Fourth Agricultural Division. In 1969, it was renamed the 66th Regiment of the 4th Agricultural Division of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.

sword spirit's new regiment (Sixteenth Regiment) dared to fight and fight hard in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the Liberation War, and was flexible, brave and tenacious, and achieved brilliant achievements in military history. In 1955, Wang Caigui, Cheng Yuechang, Cha Yusheng, Lei Zhen, Liao Guanxian, Chen Jinyu, Zhang Chunsen and Yuan Xuekai, who came out of the new regiment (16th regiment), were all awarded the rank of major general. Over the past 6 years, the vast number of army reclamation soldiers of the 66th Regiment have carried forward sword spirit, cultivated and defended the frontier, worked hard, developed production, built and defended the frontier, and are still an important force for maintaining stability in Yili.