"When we crossed Chishui during the Long March, he was the one who commanded the bridge. Moreover, his family has been engaged in engineering for generations, and his father Chen Wuting was the pipe band of the engineering battalion during the Xinhai Revolution, and he also fired the first shot of the Wuchang Uprising. ”
In this way, Chen Shiyu became the first commander of the engineering unit.
In 6 years, Chen Shiyu led 100,000 engineers to mysteriously disappear, and it was not until China's first atomic bomb** that he returned to the public eye. At the celebration party, ** held his hand tightly, together with General Zhang Aiping, and said: "You have built a base, they have successfully ** atomic bomb, and the Chinese have counted their words!"
You've done a great job! It turned out that in the past six years, Chen Shiyu led the troops to build a missile base on the Gobi Desert. He is known as the founder of China's missile industry.
Chen Shiyu devoted his life to the revolution, and his revolutionary experience was full of legends, whether it was a rain of bullets or peacetime, he showed the temperament of a general and his loyalty to the party and the people.
After the failure of the Autumn Harvest Uprising, ** led the troops to Yongxin County, Jiangxi. At that time, the troops were unstable, there were deserters and warlord habits, and the party leadership had not yet been fully established.
** It was decided to vigorously develop regimental members and party members among the soldiers, and to implement the system of building branches at the company level in order to realize the party's leadership over the army. In an ancestral hall in Yongxin County, ** presided over a special ceremony for joining the party.
Six fighters were sworn in as Communists, and only one of them, Chen Shiyu, was a fighter. This soldier later became the founding general of the People's Republic of China, and after the Zunyi Conference, he commanded the training battalion and the engineer corps of the Military Commission to erect two pontoon bridges in Maotai Town, providing a strong engineering support for the Red Army.
After the victory of the Long March, Chen Shiyu was appointed chief of staff of the 343rd Brigade of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army. Under his leadership, the Guangyang ambush achieved a major victory, defeating more than 1,000 Japanese troops, capturing countless *** and capturing 700 horses, and most importantly, the first prisoner of a brigade-level unit since our army's resistance against Japan.
Soon after, the Eighth Route Military Commission entrusted Chen Shiyu with an important task: to lead the 343 Brigade Supplementary Regiment and three guerrilla brigades in western Shanxi to establish a new Jinxi detachment of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, with him as commander.
This strong force, affectionately known as the "Chen Detachment", has repeatedly performed miraculous feats on the battlefield of resistance against Japan. At that time, the 115th Division had been scattered in many places, but due to the existence of the "Chen Detachment", the Japanese army mistakenly believed that the main force of the 115th Division had always been here.
The troops led by Chen Shiyu fought independently and achieved fruitful results, so he was appointed chief of staff of the 115th Division in October 1940, which showed the high trust of *** and the Military Commission in him.
During the War of Liberation, Chen Shiyu participated in the Huaihai Campaign and commanded the third phase of the battle to encircle and annihilate Du Yuming, and achieved a major victory in destroying 250,000 enemies.
During the Battle of Crossing the River, he served as the commander of the 8th Corps of the Third Field Army, and his troops were the first to storm the Kuomintang Nanjing** Mansion. His heroic performance made him a great meritorious service during the years of the Revolutionary War.
Therefore, he was later awarded the posts of member of the Military Commission and adviser to the Military Commission. He died in 1995 at the age of 86.