One day in May 1956, the leaders of the ** gathered in the Ziguang Pavilion for a meeting, the time was still early, everyone got together in twos and threes to chat, at this time the door opened, Chen Geng took a tall young man belatedly, and pushed people to the front of the *** who was about to drink tea under the attention of everyone.
Enlai, look, who does this kid look like? ”
**Put down the teapot and looked the child in front of him up and down, this face and the clear image in his mind gradually coincided, he felt a sour nose, and quickly asked, "Whose doll are you?" Is your surname Peng? ”
The young man immediately nodded and bowed to the prime minister: "Uncle Zhou, my name is Peng Weiguang, and I am Peng Ganchen's son. ”
After getting a positive answer, the premier's eyes turned red, and he pulled Peng Weiguang to look at it several times, reminiscing about his father Peng Ganchen's eventful years with the people around him.
Peng Ganchen was born in Yingshan, Anhui Province in 1899, and every time he chatted with his friends about the origin of his name, he would always joke freely: "When my father gave birth to me, he wanted me to be a shrewd and capable minister of the Qing Dynasty. ”
In 1912, Emperor Xuantong issued an edict to abdicate, and the whole country fell into the chaos of warlord chaos.
Looking at this unstable situation, Peng's father no longer expects his son to be rich and wealthy in the glorious lintel, but only begs him to go to the new-style school to learn a skill, so that he can settle down when the wind and clouds are fissioning.
However, it backfired, although Peng Ganchen was admitted to the Anqing First Division with excellent results, he was also infected by the high emotions outside.
In the era of the influx of various ideological trends, students, as the younger generation, often stood at the forefront of change, especially a person like Peng Ganchen, who was already full of enthusiasm and enthusiasm, when he read Marxism and saw the oppression of the working people at the bottom, the consciousness of resistance and struggle began to awaken in his mind.
Inspired by the patriotic movement of progressives in various places at that time, in April 1921, he and more than 40 knowledgeable young people including Cai Xiaozhou, Xu Jishen, and Wang Buwen secretly held a meeting to prepare for the establishment of the Anqing Socialist Youth League.
However, this setback did not stop him from resisting, in June of the same year, the family ancestral hall of the Anhui Overseer Ni Sichong was completed, he feasted guests in the mansion, invited relatives and friends, Peng Ganchen and other progressive students pulled banners, shouted slogans, and went to the scene for Ni Overseer.
The root of this matter is still in the word "greed", since Ni Sichong took office in Anhui, he has expropriated and expropriated, looted people's wealth, and reclaimed the real gold in his own home, and he didn't care about the life or death of the people outside. What is even more infuriating is that in this case, he also wants to cut off a large part of the funding for local schools on the grounds of saving money to subsidize civilian use, but in fact he wants to divert it for private use.
At this moment, the anger of the students in the province was ignited, and they counted the days until the ancestral hall of his family was repaired, and then ran to the door to demonstrate. Ni Sichong originally planned to sit idly by, Peng Ganchen and others also wrote his evil deeds in newspapers, pamphlets everywhere to publicize, the common people are not stupid, in order to support the students, all walks of life went on strike, and there was a lot of clashes with the police, resulting in a shocking "June 2**".
*Under pressure, Ni Sichong relented a lot, not only released the ** students, returned the school funds, but also issued death pensions to the *** students.
This great victory made Peng Ganchen and others see the strength of the people at the bottom to unite, and also saw the necessity of resisting oppression and persisting in the struggle. Therefore, in 1923, when they learned that Zhang Boyan and He Wen, two ** villains supported by Ni Sichong, were running to become members of the National Assembly, they held a demonstration again.
Zhang and He did a lot of evil things as Cao Kun's cronies, and the people of Anhui were very disgusted with them, especially when they learned that they used Ni Sichong's money to loot the people as capital for political games in exchange for greater benefits.
Many people chose to join the student demonstration, and the original demonstration turned into a rebellion because of the crowd excitement, and they went to smash the hometown of Zhang and He.
This matter can be big or small, but it gave Ni Sichong the opportunity to play on the topic, and he ordered the arrest of progressive students, and Peng Ganchen's name was prominently listed.
His wanted notices were posted all over the city, and Peng Ganchen had no choice but to leave Shanghai.
In Shanghai, he came into contact with the more turbulent workers' movement, and also saw more brutal oppression and exploitation, and then under the influence of Chen Duxiu, Peng Ganchen secretly returned to Anqing, assisted the local comrades to establish the Anqing Party branch, and officially joined the Communist Party.
Peng Ganchen and *** began during the Whampoa Military Academy.
In the second year of Peng Ganchen's membership in the Chinese Communist Party, the first cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party began.
Out of the need to train military personnel to quell the domestic melee, with the help of the Communist Party of China and the Soviet Comintern, Sun Yat-sen established an army officer school in Guangzhou, referred to as the "Whampoa Military Academy".
According to the regulations on cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, communists can join the Kuomintang in their personal capacity or study and teach at the Whampoa Military Academy.
At that time, Peng Ganchen, who was young and enthusiastic, entered the military academy with the approval of the organization and became a cadet of the first phase of Whampoa.
It is not difficult to see from the performance of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation that the first phase of Huangpu is really full of talents, and at this time the Kuomintang and the Communist Party are in a relatively moderate atmosphere, and the students trained are also the best of a hundred schools.
It was here that Peng Ganchen met ***, who is the director of the Political Department, and his classmate Chen Geng.
Peng Ganchen has a lot of hard work, dare to do anything, and soon emerged in the first batch of students and became a man of the year in the eyes of many people.
And in the long time together, ** also admires him, and sometimes walks to the school with Chen Geng and the three of them, which can attract a lot of attention.
At the end of 1924, Sun Yat-sen went north to discuss state affairs with the warlords, and Chen Jiongming, who was entrenched in Guangdong, rebelled again.
In 1925, the Guangzhou Nationalists organized the National Revolutionary Army to go east, and they selected several outstanding students in the first phase of Huangpu.
However, as soon as he arrived at the battlefield, the grim situation poured cold water on Peng Ganchen.
The two armies did not even fight on the same level, the enemy took advantage of the advantage of the easy defense and difficult to attack the city walls, and the revolutionary army could only stay below like fish on a chopping board, staring dryly.
It is not a way to go on like this, you can't besiege the city and wait for the ammunition and food inside, and the advisers from the Soviet Union put forward a bold suggestion, it is better to establish a death squad and rush forward with manpower.
As long as someone rushes up the walls, then the enemy's impregnable defenses will not be breached.
After hearing this suggestion, Peng Ganchen was eager to try it and took the initiative to sign up to become a member of the death squad.
At the beginning of the war, the two armies launched a round of fierce bombardment with artillery, and the revolutionary army quickly fell behind because it was in a lower position and had the unfavorable wind direction at that time.
This is actually very risky, as long as the enemy notices them, a bomb down the city wall will be a hundred shots, and then they will not even have a chance to react to be blown to slag, but this group of young warriors is not afraid of life and death, crawling as little as possible to reduce the sense of existence, and finally climb up with unremitting efforts.
Encouraged by the death squad's charge, the remaining soldiers became more and more courageous, and in an instant they were inspired to fight endlessly, breaking through the enemy's defense in one fell swoop.
It wasn't until the end of the war that everyone found out that in the fierce battle, one of Peng Ganchen's fingers was pierced by the enemy's bullet, and even the military doctor sighed when he bandaged him: "The young man is silent, he is a warrior." ”
Peng Ganchen couldn't help but laugh bitterly and wrote a poem: "The revolution is arduous, it is not a pity to cut off the finger, and if you keep your head, you can serve the party." ”However, his freedom and righteousness are not appreciated by everyone, because the Eastern Crusade death squad completely made Peng Ganchen famous, and completely became the level of being watched and appreciated by people when he walked in the first place, which also aroused Chiang Kai-shek's vigilance.
He knew that if Peng Ganchen was allowed to grow up like this, he would definitely become a powerful arm of the Communist Party in the future, and he would also cultivate a difficult old enemy. So he used the absurd excuse of "retreating" to punish Peng Ganchen and others, which could not only suppress Peng Ganchen's momentum, but also separate the love between them.
How could Chiang Kai-shek not see this little bit of thought, under the general situation of maintaining superficial cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, he fought for Peng Ganchen and others under tremendous pressure, and finally directly sent the investigation report of "Linxia's retreat was a miscalculation" to Chiang Kai-shek's desk.
Seeing that his goal could not be achieved, and he had to be picked out by ***, Chiang Kai-shek embarrassedly withdrew his previous decision and restored the positions of Peng Ganchen and others.
Since they knew that the existence and excellence of these people made Chiang Kai-shek uncomfortable, the Communist Party did not feel at ease by sending them to the Whampoa Military Academy, and then cooperated with the Soviet Union to send these future military backbones to study at the Eastern University in Moscow.
In 1926, the National Revolutionary Army began the Northern Expedition, and the army urgently needed a large number of military command talents.
This was a rare opportunity to temper, he was assigned to Ye Ting's independent regiment as a staff officer, and when they fought all the way to Heshengqiao in Hubei, they encountered the same problems as during the Eastern Crusade.
The situation around Hesheng Bridge is complicated, the enemy took advantage of the terrain to build a three-way defense, and from a distance it seems that there is no hole that can be broken at all, as long as they dare to approach, they will be shot into a sieve by the enemy.
Just when everyone was thinking hard about how to get through the enemy's defenses, Peng Ganchen remembered the previous death squad, and he suggested organizing a team of elite soldiers to take the lead, as long as the highest position was taken, the rest of the world would be self-defeating.
At his suggestion, the Independent Regiment quickly obtained a stronghold under the leadership of the death squad, and then spread around on the basis of this stronghold, and the spark gradually became a prairie fire, and soon He Shengqiao was completely under the control of the Independent Regiment.
The First Army and the Second Army, which arrived later, were stunned.
After this battle, Ye Ting's independent regiment was called the "Iron Army", and Peng Ganchen was also called the "Iron Marshal of the Iron Army".
In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek launched the April 12 counter-revolutionary coup, the relationship between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party broke down, and the Communists reacted in the Nanchang Uprising in order to protect themselves.
At this time, he was appointed by the party organization to command at the front, and Peng Ganchen also became the head of the Nanchang City Public Security Bureau after the war began on August 1. He reorganized the garrison within the limited time and manpower, and made great contributions to the Nanchang Uprising and the subsequent struggle against oppression.
Since then, Peng Ganchen has been circulating in Shanghai and other places to cooperate with *** to preside over the underground work, and the two have a very tacit understanding because of their cooperation for many years. It was also here that Peng Ganchen married Jiang Xianyun, the daughter of his friend Li Cishan, and the two formed a harmonious family.
However, the good times did not last long, with the defection of Gu Shunzhang and others one after another, the Shanghai underground party was seriously damaged, and they evacuated from Shanghai as quickly as possible, and after traveling to many places, they still returned to the Soviet area to carry out construction work.
Thanks to his outstanding military capabilities, Peng Ganchen was appointed chief of staff of the Red Tenth Army.
With the failure of the fifth anti-encirclement campaign, the main force of the Red Army was forced to march on a long march. From October 1934, the Red Tenth Army joined forces with guerrillas in Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi regions to carry out guerrilla warfare under the frenzied siege of the enemy.
In December of the same year, when they marched to the area of Tanjiabang, they encountered the siege of the main force of the Kuomintang, and in the face of an enemy seven times more than themselves and their sophisticated equipment, the Red Army soldiers did not flinch, and they all fought to the last moment.
Because the enemy was outnumbered and there was no chance of victory at all, Peng Ganchen led the Red Tenth Army to fight until the ammunition was exhausted and died honorably.
After the end of the Long March, they began to look for Peng Ganchen's family, but unfortunately the situation was chaotic at that time, and the sound was isolated, and there was no response like looking for a needle in a haystack.
It wasn't until 1956, by chance, that Chen Geng met Peng Weiguang, and was very excited when he saw his face that was exactly the same as his father, and dragged him into Beijing overnight to see ***, which was the long-cherished wish of several old revolutionaries for many years.