Xiao Ke is one of the deputy commanders of the Eighth Route Army, the Eighth Route Army was established and reorganized in 1937 by the Anti-Japanese National United Front, Xiao Ke once served as the deputy commander of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and is one of the three main divisions of the Eighth Route Army.
Xiao Ke's original name was Wu Yi, a native of Jiahe, Hunan, he was born in a literary family, and was originally a literati, but the baptism of war made him resolutely put pen to paper and began to embark on the road of joining the army. In 1925, at the age of 18, Xiao Ke went to Guangzhou alone, became a student of the Whampoa Military Academy, and also participated in the Northern Expedition, in the war, he was deeply influenced by the division commander Ye Ting, saw the true face of Chiang Kai-shek's counter-revolution, and chose a difficult road to the revolution in the dark years, but it turned out that the dawn was coming.
On August 1, 1927, the Nanchang Uprising broke out, Xiao Ke with his excellent exploration ability and military command ability, soon annihilated a team of enemy troops stationed, in the process of the troops going south, Xiao Ke led the team was scattered, he himself could only lie dormant in his hometown of Jiahe, Hunan, but in his hometown, he did not give up the revolution, became a part of the underground party, worked secretly, and with his outstanding military talent, he also formed a local guerrilla army, and soon with ** The troops of the army converged together to launch the southern Hunan uprising, and in the process of the revolution, they followed the large forces of the revolutionary army to Jinggangshan to establish a revolutionary base area.
It is gold that always shines, and the work at the grassroots level did not bury his military ability, he started from the grassroots until 1932 and became the commander of the Red Eighth Army, and then in the process of the Red Army's main Long March, he was appointed as the commander of the Red Sixth Army, leading the troops westward and joining the Red Second Army, at the difficult moment when the regiment entered the grassland, his wife gave birth to the eldest son in a soil fort, in order to commemorate him, he named the child "Baosheng", although the child survived the difficult Long March, but was not able to survive after being bombed by the Japanese army, his departure left an indelible wound for the general and his wife.
After the victory of the struggle, he was transferred to the establishment of the North China Military and Political University and left the front line because of his professional background and high level of education, but he has always been cultivating outstanding military talents for the front line. It was not until after the Liberation War that he returned to the army, and after the founding of New China, he served as director of the military training department and vice minister of national defense. However, the deputy army commanders who fought side by side with him became the founding marshal, and he was awarded the rank of first general, although he had the strength and ability to impact the marshal, but, because his years and position in politics and military were not enough, it was also a great pity that he missed the title of marshal.
In this regard, General Xiao Ke did not pay special attention to this, but continued to put his mind into his work, and devoted his own strength to the cultivation of military talents for the country. He believes that many of his comrades-in-arms and relatives died in the war, and it is already a blessing to survive, and it is not a big deal to evaluate the rank, for him, reputation is not particularly important, as long as he can dedicate himself to the country, it is enough, and he has made outstanding contributions to the regularization of the country's army.
General Xiao Ke is a person full of literati style, not only indifferent to fame and fortune, he not only loves calligraphy, but also likes to write some poems and short stories, his creation of "Bloody Luoxiao" is a monument in the history of Chinese literature, won the Mao Dun Literature Award. "Bloody Luo Xiao" tells the story of the growth process of the next guerrilla force in the Luo Xiao Mountains during the fourth anti-encirclement and suppression period, this book was born in the revolutionary years, but it experienced many difficulties in creation and publication, experienced anti-"dogmatism", * and other events, and was finally published in 1988, Xia Yan said that this book is a strange book in the history of Chinese culture. In addition, he also wrote many commendable literary and calligraphy works, and his "Yanhuang Chunqiu" also made great contributions to the development of national and national culture.
General Xiao Ke is a model of being able to govern both the country and the army, he has both cultural literacy and literary level, and can go to the battlefield to win battles, write poetry, and cultivate military talents for the country. In the rain of bullets, he carried a gun and fought bloodily, and in the era of peace, he devoted himself to literary creation, not striving for fame and fortune, but he brought us many literary masterpieces worth recalling, which is admirable. Xiao Ke left us in 2008, but his feelings of fame and fortune are worth learning from, he is not only brave and good at fighting, but also full of literary and artistic atmosphere, whether in the military, literature, poetry has great achievements, his personality charm and the noble feelings of revolutionaries are worthy of our study and admiration.