Peng Xuefeng: The Legendary Life of a Revolutionary Hero In the history of China's modern revolution, countless outstanding military leaders have emerged, and Peng Xuefeng is one of them.
As a senior general of the New Fourth Army, he unfortunately died in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and his heroic deeds have been praised by future generations.
However, this revolutionary who had made great achievements in war also made mistakes and had a discord with General Chen Guang, and the contradiction between the two attracted widespread attention from the world, and it was not until Zhang Zhen's later years that the truth of this past was revealed.
Peng Xuefeng was born in 1907 in a poor family in Zhenping County, Yangyang, Henan Province. Despite his poor family, his grandfather was a private school teacher who taught Peng Xuefeng to read and write.
In 1921, Peng Xuefeng came to Tianjin with his uncle Peng Yanqing to study, and was successfully admitted to Nankai Middle School. However, due to the lack of tuition fees, Peng Xuefeng was in trouble.
Fortunately, with the help of the principal, he was able to get a job as a Bahasa Malaysia teacher, allowing him to balance his work and studies. Influenced by the wave of ideological revolution, Peng Xuefeng joined the Communist Youth League and embarked on the road of revolution.
He organized anti-imperialist patriotic movements many times, encouraged students to go to the countryside to give propaganda speeches, and called on more people with lofty ideals to join the patriotic movement. This positive enthusiasm quickly made him stand out as the student president.
At the same time, the Northern Expeditionary Army suppressed ***. Although Peng Xuefeng's life is short, it shines with the light of legend.
Peng Xuefeng is now the secretary of the party branch of Huiwen Middle School, responsible for the first place in Beijing's Dongcheng District and organizing students to participate in demonstrations. He called on students to strike classes, which made him a key focus in Beijing.
Despite this, the students were very supportive of him, and even under the protection of the students, Peng Xuefeng successfully left Huiwen Middle School and went to Beijing Jinshi Middle School. Subsequently, Peng Xuefeng received an appointment from the organization to secretly participate in the peasant rebellion.
It was not until 1930 that he received new instructions to work in the Fifth Column of the Red Fifth Army in southeastern Hubei and officially embarked on a military career. At that time, most of the Red Army were illiterate peasants, so educated people like Peng Xuefeng were particularly valuable.
The Red Army lacked a talent like Peng Xuefeng, so the 23-year-old Peng Xuefeng was quickly promoted from captain to deputy political commissar of the first column of the Red Eighth Army. He earned the respect of his fighters with his talents.
However, by the cold winter of 1932, the Red Army was under unprecedented pressure.
Peng Xuefeng served as the political commissar of the Red Second Division, and in the face of the encirclement and suppression, the division commander had the idea of rebellion, but Peng Xuefeng went to the front line in time to turn the tide and stabilize the military morale of the Red Second Division. The crisis of the defection of the division commander was stopped in time, and the occurrence of a large-scale mutiny was avoided.
Secondly, the Red Army attacked the Jinsui army. In 1936, in order to expand and consolidate the Soviet area and show its determination to resist Japan, it was decided to carry out the Eastern Crusade, the primary goal of which was to strike at Yan Xishan's troops bordering the Japanese.
In January 1936, a general mobilization order was issued, requiring all units to be ready for battle at all times. At the end of the month, ** summoned cadres at and above the division level of the Red Army and formulated a strategic plan for the Eastern Crusade.
The Red Army was divided into two parts, one part stayed in Yan'an to defend the *** base area, and the other part was commanded by Peng Xuefeng, and quietly crossed the Yellow River in three ways to attack the enemy forces in the northwest of Shanxi Province and open up new base areas.
When the Red Army moved north into northern Shaanxi, Yan Xishan was already worried that the Red Army would find his territory, so he deployed a large number of troops along the Yellow River in advance to prepare for battle with the Red Army.
The Red Army crossed the Yellow River as planned around February 20, 1936, and took advantage of the darkness to successfully engage the Jin Sui army in close combat, quickly breaking through the defense line of Yan Xishan and eliminating the defenders of each crossing.
Subsequently, the Red Army pursued the victory and captured dozens of strategic points of the enemy, much to Yan Xishan's surprise. Yan Xishan, who urgently reinforced the troops, was ambushed by the Red Army in advance, resulting in the annihilation of the enemy army on the way to support.
The morale of the Red Army was high, and in order to avenge the hatred during the Long March, it continued to assault eastward. ** Specially exhorted not to confront the enemy, but to preserve strength and revolutionary fire.
Peng Xuefeng, who encountered difficulties in attacking Zhao Cheng, turned to Hongdong County, but still could not attack for a long time. Chen Guang led his troops to prepare for the siege, but heard Peng Xuefeng order to stop the attack, which led to a constant quarrel.
After the end of the Long March, the Red 3rd Army was merged into the Red 1st Army, and the relationship between cadres was tense.
However, during the Red Army's crusade, they planned to expand their ranks and decided to merge the 81st Division in northern Shaanxi with the Red Fourth Army, and finally restored the formation of the Red 3rd Army.
Therefore, Peng Xuefeng decided to preserve the core strength of the Red Third Army and not launch an attack, and at the same time hoped to create conditions for the future expansion of the team. A similar situation occurred in the history of the Red First Army.
When the Red Army had just entered northern Shaanxi, the higher authorities planned to mobilize the core forces of the 1st Red Army Corps to serve in the 15th Red Army Corps, but some division-level cadres were reluctant to let the core forces leave their original units.
This sense of individuality makes them reluctant to leave after living in one place for a long time, and even ignores the overall situation, which leads to easy mistakes of self-centeredness.
Therefore, in order to solve the problem of unity between the 1st and 3rd Red Regiments, when summing up the experience of the Eastern Expedition and preparing for mobilization for the Western Expedition, the higher authorities sent Peng Xuefeng, Chen Guang and others to the Red Army University to study and Xi.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, they each entered a new battle, but in a battle, Peng Xuefeng unfortunately died, and a great general fell.
In his later years, Zhang Zhen was full of fondness for Peng Xuefeng's memories, he believed that he had benefited a lot under Peng Xuefeng's leadership, and he was also very heartbroken by Peng Xuefeng's sacrifice.
In short, although Chen Guang and General Peng Xuefeng had differences on some matters, their considerations were both for the sake of the team and the revolutionary war. After studying Xi at the Red Army University, the two were assigned to work in various places and performed well.
However, it is regrettable that Peng Xuefeng finally died on the battlefield of resistance against Japan, which is deeply distressing.