The chairman protected the founding general Xiao Jinguang and warned sternly: "Whoever dares to touch him, I will be the first to disagree!."”
On January 21, 1924, Comrade Lenin, the teacher of the proletarian revolution and the founder of the Soviet Union, died of illness. Subsequently, the Soviet people held a grand wake in his honor, and the Chinese Communist Party, having learned the news, decided to send representatives to Moscow to mourn.
After careful consideration, five comrades, including Xiao Jinguang, who was studying at the Eastern University of the Soviet Union, went to Moscow on behalf of the Communist Party of China to hold a vigil for Comrade Lenin and express their deep remembrance of this great revolutionary mentor.
At that event, Xiao Jinguang was only 21 years old, but he developed a deep belief in Marxism. After returning to China, he actively devoted himself to the revolutionary cause, made immortal contributions to the Chinese revolution, and was awarded one of the top ten founding generals of New China.
However, few people know that Xiao Jinguang was once tried by a military court and even sentenced to "shooting". Fortunately, at the critical moment, ** arrived in time to stop this trial, and said firmly: "Who dares to touch him!."”
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Xiao Jinguang was born in an ordinary family in Changsha, Hunan Province in 1903, his parents were the lowest migrant workers in Changsha City, although the family conditions were not rich, but they were not hard.
When he reached the age of going to school, in order to let him receive a better education, his parents gritted their teeth and sent him to Changsha Changjun Middle School, which had high tuition fees.
At Changjun Middle School, Xiao Jinguang was exposed to unprecedented knowledge and ideas, and his thinking transcended the traditional feudal education shackles and Confucian classics. On May 4, 1919, major colleges and universities in Beijing launched a campaign to demand the release of students from Beiyang, and this movement spread rapidly and became the famous May Fourth Movement in Chinese history.
The patriotic spirit of May Fourth has aroused enthusiastic responses across the country, and as the most advanced new school in Changsha, Changjun Middle School naturally cannot avoid the impact of this wave.
Under the guidance of friends, Xiao Jinguang and *** met in Changsha. In the same year, the Communist Party of China was officially born. At the sincere invitation of the Bolshevik Party of the Soviet Union and the International Communist League, the Communist Party of China selected a group of outstanding young people to study at the Eastern University of the Soviet Union.
Xiao Jinguang and *** are the best of these students who studied in the Soviet Union.
** was surprised and asked him: In 1924, Mr. Sun Yat-sen cooperated with the CCP ** and successfully realized the first cooperation between the KMT and the CCP.
When the KMT-CCP cooperation adopted "intra-party cooperation", Xiao Jinguang's identity was unique, as he was both the director of the Political Department of the National Revolutionary Army and the military representative of the Communist Party. On the battlefield of the National Revolution, he charged into battle, took the lead, and showed a heroic fighting spirit.
In early April 1927, as a representative of the military headquarters of the Second Army, Xiao Jinguang returned to Nanjing to report on his work. As soon as he stepped into Nanjing, he felt an unusual atmosphere.
Xiao Jinguang was vigilant, so he pretended to follow the Kuomintang members, successfully escaped from the tracking, and finally arrived at the Communist Party's emergency contact point. He learned that after many hardships, he successfully escaped from Nanjing and came to Peking to seek refuge.
After five months of lurking in Beiping, he received an order from his superiors and set out again to study in the Soviet Union. After arriving in the USSR, he decided to go to the Leningrad Specialized Military Academy to further his studies in military science.
After graduating from military school in 1930, Xiao Jinguang resolutely returned to China. In the same year, when the 918 Incident broke out, he immediately made a request to **, hoping to go to the northeast to join the anti-Japanese coalition army and carry out a resolute struggle against the Japanese invaders.
However, due to the continuous encirclement and suppression of our Red Army base areas by Chiang Kai-shek's reactionary ** in the south, this wish of his was not realized.
In 1933, Chiang Kai-shek launched a large-scale encirclement and suppression campaign against the Soviet area, and the spearhead was directly aimed at the revolutionary base areas. However, at a time when our party's various undertakings are flourishing, some arrogant sentiments have emerged within us.
Influenced by this, Wang Ming, Bogu and other adventurists led us to adopt the strategy of "direct attack" and counterattacked the encirclement and suppression actions of the Kuomintang army.
However, we ignore an important fact that the Kuomintang army has sophisticated military equipment, and this direct impact led to a large number of ** in our army.
Under the leadership of Xiao Jinguang, the Fujian, Guangdong, and Jiangxi Military Regions bore the brunt of the heavy blows, the most tragic of which was undoubtedly the Battle of Lichuan. Lichuan is located near Wuyi Mountain in Fujian, and is the only place for the Kuomintang army to attack the ** Soviet area in the south, when Lichuan was under the jurisdiction of the Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi Military Regions, and Xiao Jinguang was the commander in charge of Lichuan.
* The Fujian-Guangdong-Jiangxi Military Region of the Red Army stationed three divisions in Lichuan, which had a considerable chance of victory even in the face of the powerful Kuomintang army.
The Kuomintang troops quickly attacked and pointed directly at Li Chuan. Although a teaching team led by Xiao Jinguang resisted bravely, because the enemy was outnumbered, it could not withstand the fierce attack of the three divisions, so it sent a report to *** requesting to evacuate Lichuan and avoid the enemy's edge.
** and others agreed to Xiao Jinguang's evacuation plan, but Wang Ming still insisted on his judgment of the enemy and resolutely opposed the retreat. Thankfully, the nearby Red Army arrived in time and managed to repel the Kuomintang troops and save the survivors of the teaching team.
Although the Communist Party won a disastrous victory in the fourth anti-encirclement campaign, it also made us profoundly realize that only by correctly judging the enemy's situation can we formulate an effective strategy.
After the war, Xiao Jinguang immediately asked ** to change the strategic plan of adventurism, but was rejected. At the military court of the Soviet District, Wang Ming demanded that Xiao Jinguang be expelled from the party and the military on the spot on the grounds of dereliction of duty and cowardice.
What's more, Xiao Jinguang was blamed for the heavy losses of the Fujian, Guangdong, and Jiangxi Military Regions, and tried to shoot him immediately. However, ** and others arrived in time and severely stopped these adventurists, protecting Xiao Jinguang's life.
Considering the high prestige of *** in the Red Army, Wang Ming and others did not continue to dwell on this matter in the end.
At the beginning of the fifth encirclement and suppression of the Kuomintang, the adventurous mistakes of Wang Ming, Bogu and others led to the failure of the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression, and the Red Army was forced to embark on the road of the Long March. In 1935, the Zunyi Conference was held, and a new generation of leaders such as ** corrected the mistakes of Wang Ming and others, and rehabilitated Xiao Jinguang.
Xiao Jinguang regained his freedom, he continued to devote himself to the revolutionary cause, and followed the Red Army on the road of the Long March. After the end of the Long March, the Anti-Japanese War broke out, and Xiao Jinguang devoted himself to the anti-Japanese struggle.
Establish the party's ** base area in northern Shaanxi, and command and lead the national war of resistance. Xiao Jinguang, as the only "regular military strategist" with a professional background, took on the important task of military teaching during the Anti-Japanese War, and concurrently served as the commander and political commissar of the rear legion of the Eighth Route Army.
Under his leadership, the troops left behind in our rear successfully resisted many Japanese sweeps and invasions, and at the same time resisted Chiang Kai-shek's reactionary behavior, making outstanding contributions to the security and stability of the country.
During the Liberation War, Xiao Jinguang shouldered a heavy responsibility, not only served as the commander of the First Army of the Northeast Field Army, successfully resisted the attack of the Kuomintang reactionary army, but also accepted the order of *** again in August 1949, led the army south to Hunan, and assisted the local people in sweeping and suppressing bandits.
And, on the New Year of 1950, he was appointed commander of the Hunan Military Region. However, not long after he took over the important responsibility of the Hunan Military Region, he suddenly received a call from the secretary of Zhongnanhai, who asked him to leave for Beijing immediately.
After receiving this, Xiao Jinguang's mood was very complicated, and along the way, he was thinking about the upcoming unknown. The core idea of the new copywriting remains unchanged: Xiao Jinguang shouldered a heavy responsibility during the Liberation War, not only served as the commander of the First Army of the Northeast Field Army, successfully resisted the attack of the Kuomintang reactionary army, but also accepted the order of *** again in August 1949, led the army south to Hunan, and assisted the local people in sweeping and suppressing bandits.
And, on the New Year of 1950, he was appointed commander of the Hunan Military Region.
When Xiao Jinguang saw *** again in the chairman's office and heard his decision to make himself the commander of the Navy, he felt extremely shocked. Although Xiao Jinguang was born in Changsha, Hunan, he was actually a "landlubber" and knew nothing about naval affairs.
However, ** patted him on the shoulder and said, "I believe you are capable of this position." This sentence made Xiao Jinguang feel very surprised and surprised, and he realized that *** valued not only his ability, but also his potential and determination.
So, he decided to take on the challenge and put his best foot into his work.
Xiao Jinguang is the pioneer of China's naval career, and he accepted the important task in January 1950 to carry out the construction of naval bases in the South China Sea. Prior to this, our party had not set foot in the maritime military field, and the first navy of New China was transformed from the surrender of the Kuomintang Navy, and our navy's equipment, operational strategy, and training plan were all blank.
In the face of such a difficult task, Xiao Jinguang did not flinch, and he resolutely accepted this challenge.
The naval commander remained at his post for 30 years until he stepped down for health reasons at the age of 77. He watched the navy grow from scratch, from weak to strong, and although he hoped to enjoy his old age after retirement, he died of a serious illness only nine years later at the age of 86.
General Xiao Jinguang has devoted his life to the cause of China's national defense and construction, and his career is like a legend. He studied in the Soviet Union as a teenager, and although he was wronged as a young man, he remained enthusiastic.
In middle age, he was trusted and reused to protect his homeland for the country and its people. In his later years, he was still attached to the navy and devoted himself to the construction of the country. He was the first commander of our navy, leading the Chinese navy from weak to strong, and his contribution was praised as "naval commander for life".
General Xiao Jinguang's contribution and spirit have won the love and respect of the Chinese people.