A famous general of a generation, annihilated 500 Japanese troops and defeated the young Zhuge Bai Chongxi. His life deeds are legendary.

This man is a famous general of his generation. He once wiped out 500 Japanese and puppet troops and defeated the young Zhuge Bai Chongxi. During the battle, he was shot through the chest by a bullet and used loofah to scrape the bones to cure the poison. His life deeds are legendary. Who is this person? He is the founding lieutenant general Liang Congxue.

Liang Congxue

Liang Congxue was born in 1903 in a poor peasant family in Pilian Township, Lu'an County, Anhui Province. When he was 11 years old, he herded cattle for the landlord's family and worked in the fields with his father. Growing up in bitter waters, Liang Congxue has honed a tenacity that is not afraid of hardship and does not bow to fate.

In the autumn of 1929, Liang Congxue joined the Peasant Red Guard. Soon after, Liang Congxue was selected to serve as a soldier in the second company of the first battalion of the Lu'an County Independent Regiment. Due to his bravery and resourcefulness in combat, he was soon promoted to platoon leader. During the war, Liang Congxue summed up his experiences and lessons, learned command experience from the regiment commander, and quickly grew into an excellent commander and fighter.

Red Army soldiers

In the Hubei-Henan-Anhui base area, Liang Congxue participated in the second and third anti-"encirclement and suppression" struggles. In March 1934, Liang Congxue was promoted to commander of the first battalion of the 244th Regiment of the 25th Red Army. During the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, Liang Congxue participated in the famous Geteng Mountain counterattack in Nanxi Town, Jinzhai County. During the battle at Hupu Ridge, Liang Congxue led his brothers to attack from the flank of the enemy's 161st Brigade of the 54th Division and defeated the brigade. They captured the brigade commander Liu Shuchun alive and seized many guns and ammunition.

After the victory at Hupu Ridge, Liang Congxue was promoted to commander of the 82nd Division of the 28th Red Army because of his military exploits. A cowherd boy grew up rapidly in just a few years of fighting and became a division commander commanding thousands of troops. This has to be said to be a miracle. Called by his brothers - Old Huang Jian.

Liang Congxue and his family

In August 1936, Liang Congxue led his troops to the Huanggang area. They were blocked by an enemy five times their size. The battle was extremely fierce. During the fierce battle, an enemy bullet suddenly hit Liang Congxue's chest and penetrated through his back. Blood flowed suddenly, and Liang Congxue immediately went into shock and fell into a coma.

After the fierce battle, the Red Army continued to move. The comrades thought that Liang Congxue had been sacrificed, so they covered Liang Congxue's body with pine branches and weeds and hurriedly retreated. After the army withdrew, a local woman in her 60s went up the mountain to look for the wounded and rescue the surviving Red Army soldiers. When the old lady walked to a depression, she found a pile of pine branches and weeds shaking from time to time. The old lady dug open the weeds and saw that someone was still breathing inside.

Elite troops of the Red Army

The old woman couldn’t carry Liang Congxue, so she ran back to the village and called her neighbors to help carry Liang Congxue home. The old woman's family was so poor that she didn't even have salt, so she couldn't wash Liang Congxue's wounds with salt water, so she had to use hot water. Speaking of which, Liang Congxue was destined to be lucky. The bullet passed right between the heart and the pulmonary artery. As long as the bullet had been deflected half a centimeter to the left or right, Liang Congxue would have died long ago.

It was the scorching heat of August, and the weather was like burning fire. The wounds that could not be applied quickly rotted and suppurated, and the white maggots grew more and more. At the critical moment, there was no other way. The old woman had to find freshly dried loofah pulp and stuff it into the wound. The loofah pulp had small holes that could pull the maggots out of the wound and prevent the wound from continuing to become infected.

Loofah pulp

Every time a loofah pulp was stuffed in, it was quickly filled with pus and blood, and maggots also got in. Then pull out the loofah pulp with the pus-blood maggots and put a new one in. This kind of treatment is comparable to Guan Gong's bone scraping therapy. Every time I change the loofah, I feel a bone-piercing and heart-piercing pain.

After more than 2 months of treatment, Liang Congxue’s wound miraculously healed. The benefactor, the old lady, told Liang Congxue that there were guerrilla activities on nearby Daqi Mountain, so Liang Congxue said goodbye to the old lady and walked into Daqi Mountain, where he found the guerrillas and returned to the team.

The Japanese army captured the old city gate of Lu'an

In October 1938, the 28th Red Army was reorganized into four detachments of the New Fourth Army and advanced behind enemy lines in central Anhui to fight against Japan. Liang Congxue served as the captain of the guerrilla column. Although he is a column leader, he actually only has a job title and has few soldiers under his command. Liang Congxue was quick-thinking and grew the team to more than 1,000 people in less than a year.

One morning, when Liang Congxue was ordered to lead the troops to march to Shucheng County, he remembered the old lady who rescued him, so he gave guard Li Shibin a few days off and sent 2 oceans and 2 yuan to the old lady's family. 5 pounds of pork and a newly seized quilt. Under the conditions at that time, the life of the column was very difficult, and sometimes they could not eat a meal for several days. These things were Liang Congxue's most valuable items, but in order to repay his life-saving grace, he gave them all to the old lady's family.

Commanders who commanded the Battle of Jinniushan

In the days that followed, Liang Congxue served as the commander of the 4th Brigade of the 2nd Division of the New Fourth Army, leading his troops to be active in the area west of Jinpu Road in Huainan , launched many battles against the Japanese and puppet troops. In the 1941 Tianchang Yi expedition to Yangzhou, more than 60 Japanese and puppet troops from Xie Jiaji were annihilated.

On April 17, the Japanese troops stationed in Yangzhou and Yizheng gathered more than 700 Japanese troops and launched a frenzied attack on Jinniushan, the headquarters of the 12th Regiment. They laid an ambush and eliminated more than 500 Japanese and puppet troops in one battle and captured more than 30 people. They won the first tough battle of the New Fourth Army in Anhui.

Captured Japanese troops and seized weapons

After that, Liang Congxue also commanded dozens of times such as Dingyuan Bridge Collection, Siyang Chendaokou, Dingyuan Prince City, Quanjiao Zhoujiagang, etc. fighting. During the battle at Daqiaoji, Liang Congxue led his troops to annihilate more than 800 stubborn troops from the 1st Battalion of the 511th Regiment of the elite 171st Division of the Guangxi Clan, which was known as "never defeated", and recaptured Daqiaoji. Because of the victory in this battle, the 11th Regiment of the 4th Brigade won the honorary title of "Iron Hammer Regiment".

From 1949 to 1951, Liang Congxue led the troops of the Northern Anhui Military Region to annihilate more than 32,000 stubborn troops and bandits entrenched near Jinzhai, and captured alive the bandit leader Wang Xian, deputy commanders Yuan Chengying, Fan Xun and others. people, thwarted Bai Chongxi's attempt to open a "second front" relying on Jinzhai, and indirectly defeated this "little Zhuge".

Liang Congxue’s three medals

When he was awarded the title in 1955, according to Liang Congxue’s position, he could be awarded the rank of major general at most. However, his subordinates stated that Liang Congxue was injured in 13 places, including his right clavicle, humerus, and metacarpal bones, which were all injured and disabled. A bullet penetrated his chest and back, and the shrapnel and body tissue remaining in his right eye and ear grew together and could not be removed. Liang Congxue participated in the war in the army. Those who have served the most times and have the greatest merit should be awarded the rank of lieutenant general.

In the end, Liang Congxue was officially awarded the rank of Lieutenant General, and was also awarded the First Class August 1st Medal, the First Class Medal of Independence and the Medal of Liberation, and the First Class Medal of Liberation. These honors are an affirmation of his lifetime achievements.

The current situation of Liang Congxue’s hometown

On April 7, 1973, Liang Congxue died of illness in Nanjing at the age of 70.

Reference: "The Legendary Life of Liang Congxue, the Founding Lieutenant General"