In 1980, the Central Military Commission appointed General Sun Hongdao to serve as the head of the Shaanxi Provincial Military Region, and before leaving, the General Political Department sent someone to talk to him, explaining that he must seriously reorganize the army and raise the combat effectiveness of the troops when he goes to Shaanxi, and at the same time, he must also pay attention to cooperating with the relevant work of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee, maintain good relations with the comrades of the administrative department, and absolutely not engage in "individualism."
Sun Hongdao joined the army as a young man, and once followed the 4th Front Army through the Long March, when climbing the snowy mountain, he was exhausted and couldn't walk, so he planned to sit down and rest for a while. At that time, it was snowing heavily on the mountain, and the temperature was as low as minus 20 degrees, and once he sat down, he would freeze to death! Fortunately, an old comrade extended a helping hand to him in time, pulled him away with a wooden stick, and finally took him out of danger and through the difficulties safely.
After arriving in Yan'an, he entered the Kang University to study, after graduation was assigned to a teaching brigade as a trainee platoon commander, in 1939, he followed the Eighth Route Army from the north of Shanxi to Shandong, and successfully opened up a revolutionary base in Jiaodong, in 1941, he was promoted to the captain of a guerrilla squadron, and repeatedly cooperated with the main force to fight the Japanese puppet army, and achieved fruitful results.
In 1945, he was ordered to cross the Bohai Sea by boat and quietly landed in Liaodong, and a week later, he was assigned to the Eastern Union as deputy battalion commander, and in 1946, he was promoted to the commander of the main regiment for meritorious service. In 1947, the Eastern Union prepared to encircle and annihilate the newly formed First Army, an elite Kuomintang unit near Changchun. However, the unit was extremely vigilant, and immediately retreated after realizing the danger, in a vain attempt to escape from the "pocket array" arranged by the PLA.
At this time, the Eastern Union immediately ordered the first column to find a way to intercept the enemy's rear road, and be sure to eat this piece of "fat meat" to the mouth. After a short discussion, the commander and political commissar of the first column decided to send Sun Hongdao's troops to copy the rear route of the newly formed First Army and cooperate with friendly forces to annihilate it. After receiving the order, Sun Hongdao did not dare to slack off, and immediately led his troops to the predetermined area, occupied favorable terrain before the enemy, and compressed the enemy in a valley bottom. However, the combat effectiveness of the newly formed First Army was still relatively strong, and it finally managed to escape from the encirclement of the People's Liberation Army by relying on its powerful firepower, but after this battle, the strength of the newly formed First Army was greatly reduced, and it could no longer make any waves in the future.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Sun Hongdao was awarded the rank of colonel, successively served in the Kunming Military Region, the Sichuan Military Region, and in 1980, he was transferred to the Shaanxi Provincial Military Region as a commander. One day the following year, he went to the Sanyuan garrison area to inspect, close to noon, he suddenly wanted to taste the local specialties in the local restaurant, after a period of selection, Sun Hongdao took the secretary and the security guard into a restaurant that looked relatively neat, and ordered a few signature dishes.
While waiting for the food to be served, a group of thugs suddenly rushed in, claiming that Sun Hongdao and his party were sitting in their exclusive seats, and asked Sun Hongdao, the secretary and the guards to get out of the way immediately. Sun Hongdao sneered, and bluntly said that everything has to come first and come first, so why take a seat? The gangsters didn't know Taishan, and when they heard that Sun Hongdao had a foreign accent and was also old, they thought he was a small trader from other places, so they were very disrespectful to him, and rushed up with their teeth and claws to make a move.
The guards on the side were quick to kick the leading guy away, and then quickly took the other gangsters. Sun Hongdao looked at the embarrassed appearance of the little gangsters, and couldn't help but scold: You are so bold, do you know who I am? The gangsters shook their heads blankly and said they didn't know, and the secretary on the side told Sun Hongdao's true identity.
Sun Hongdao is a person who can't rub sand in his eyes, and he has always hated criminals, so he categorically will not tolerate these gangsters, and he escorted the gangsters to the public security bureau together with his secretary and guards, and the public security bureau did not dare to slack off, and immediately greeted the procuratorate, intending to seriously deal with these guys who pick quarrels and provoke trouble, so as to relieve the hatred in General Sun Hongdao's heart.
In 1983, General Sun voluntarily resigned from the post of commander of the provincial military district and returned to his hometown in Sichuan to settle down. In 1988, he was invited to Zhongnanhai to participate in the second major award of the whole army and received a medal of honor. He died of illness in 1995 at the age of 76.
It is worth mentioning that in order to solve the problem of public order, Deng Gong instructed the Ministry of Public Security, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, and the Supreme People's Court to jointly hold a "strike hard" campaign in 1983, and in the course of three years, more than 100,000 criminals were arrested one after another, and tens of thousands of gangs involved in organized crime, including the "kitchen knife team," were eliminated, creating a good living and production environment for the broad masses of the people, and at the same time clearing some obstacles to economic reform. Today, with the efforts of ***, China's public security situation has greatly improved, the crime rate is much lower than that of other countries, and the happiness index of Chinese residents is also among the best in the world!