Today, there are only 2 founding generals left, one of them is 110 years old and the other is 100 years old, who are they?
First place: 110-year-old Major General Zhang Lixiong.
Born in 1913 in a poor peasant family in Fujian, Zhang Lixiong joined the Red Army at the age of 19 and had the opportunity to learn Xi military command theory at the Red Army School.
In 1934, Zhang Lixiong followed the troops on the Long March, experienced the encirclement and interception of warlords from all walks of life, and spent a difficult time of lack of food and clothing.
In February 1936, Zhang Lixiong's troops came to Gaotai, where they experienced a fierce struggle with the enemy, and Zhang Lixiong was wounded in the right leg and fell into a coma.
A fellow carried Zhang Lixiong back to his home in the gap when the enemy stopped attacking, and after Zhang Lixiong recovered from his injuries, he hid him in a utility car and sent him out of the city.
Zhang Lixiong begged all the way to Yan'an.
After the start of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhang Lixiong served as the political commissar of the Taiyue Independent Brigade and repelled the Japanese soldiers many times.
In the War of Liberation, he and Pi Dingjun cooperated many times to eliminate the national army, formulated many effective plans to attack the enemy, and personally called to praise him.
After the liberation, Zhang Lixiong had become a regular army-level cadre, but the organization only awarded him the rank of colonel, and his comrade-in-arms Pi Dingjun, who fought side by side, was awarded the rank of lieutenant general.
Some people felt that the military rank awarded to Zhang Lixiong was too low, and Zhang Lixiong said with a smile: "I have been much luckier with my comrades-in-arms who died on the battlefield back then." ”
In 1961, the organization reassessed Zhang Lixiong's abilities and promoted him to major general.
After retirement, Zhang Lixiong donated money and materials to his hometown many times to support education. Now 110-year-old Zhang Lixiong is still alive, and when interviewed by reporters, he can clearly tell his past experience, which makes people have to admire.
Second place: 100-year-old Major General Wang Fuzhi.
Wang Fuzhi was born in 1923 in a poor peasant family in Zizhou, Shaanxi, and was often hungry when he was a child.
Because the family was becoming increasingly poor, his father had to take Wang Fuzhi to leave his hometown to work in a landlord's house in Yan'an, and Wang Fuzhi became a small cattle herding baby in the landlord's family.
When Wang Fuzhi was 12 years old, he saw the Red Army troops in action in Yan'an, and he thought of becoming a soldier.
Because although Wang Fuzhi was 12 years old, he was more than 1.6 meters tall, he told the Red Army that he was 17 years old, so he joined the Red Army.
When Wang Fuzhi was 13 years old, he became a member of our party, and in the ranks of the Red Army, Wang Fuzhi and the little Red Army still wore the clothes of the common people and held shuttle darts.
It wasn't until a battle in 1935 that Wang Fuzhi put a shuttle dart against the neck of an enemy and captured the first gun in his life.
During the War of Liberation, Wang Fuzhi participated in many famous battles such as Liaoshen and made many achievements.
In 1950, Wang Fuzhi entered the Korean War as the first batch of volunteers and participated in one to five battles.
In 1952, Wang Fuzhi served as the commander of the 39th Division of the Volunteer Army, and at 9 o'clock on August 2, he and the chief of the operations section were working in the depths of the tunnel, and the enemy plane blew up the war room, Wang Fuzhi and a reporter, and 6 comrades-in-arms were buried in the soil.
Although the soldiers outside were digging day and night, because the enemy planes kept bombing, the digging time could only be moved back, and everyone thought that Wang Fuzhi and his comrades had died.
In the afternoon of the next day, two small flies flew out of the collapsed gap, and everyone hurriedly accelerated the speed of digging, and after 38 hours, Wang Fuzhi and two subordinates were saved, and the remaining five people died.
In 1955, Wang Fuzhi was awarded the rank of colonel, and in 1964, he was awarded the rank of major general.
The two veteran generals defended their families and the country during the war, shed blood and sweat, and they are still alive today, which has to be said to be a miracle.