In June 1952, Chen Geng, who had just returned from the Korean battlefield, came to Beijing to report his experience in the Korean battlefield to ***, and accepted a new challenge.
Chen Geng was well aware of the difficulty of this challenge, and at the same time, he also knew that once completed, it would have a profound positive impact on our army, so he immediately set out to act. However, what is surprising is that only a few months later, he came to Zhongnanhai again to find *** and his purpose was to save a death row prisoner named Shen Yi.
In a room, ** fell into deep thought about Chen Geng's request, and then asked, "Does he have to do it?" Chen Geng replied firmly: "It has to be this person!" Hearing Chen Geng's answer, he snuffed out the cigarette in his hand and said to Chen Geng: "You go to find ***!" ”
Who is Shen Yi? Why did he let Chen Geng go directly to Zhongnanhai to intercede for him, and alarmed *** and *** This has to start from his personal experience. Shen Yi was born in 1894, during the Sino-Japanese War.
This war made the Chinese deeply realize the importance of a strong country, and also made Shen Yi firm in his determination to serve the motherland. Shen's father attached great importance to Shen Yi's education, he hired a well-known teacher, and also found some progressive literati to help Shen Yi broaden his horizons.
Shen Yi has been very smart since he was a child, and he can even remember the knowledge imparted by his husband, and even asked the knowledgeable gentleman who taught him several times. Shen's father was very satisfied with his son's performance, but he did not plan to let his son take the imperial examination like a scholar at that time, but sent Shen Yi to study abroad at all costs.
Shen Yi's favorite book to read is "Atlas of the Sea Kingdom", the description in the book made him have a strong interest in the enthusiastic France, especially the detailed description of the Western technology in the book, especially the strong ships and guns.
In Shen Yi's mind, it is these advanced technologies that make foreign powers dare to bully China. So he decided to go to France to study physical ballistics. After the Xinhai Revolution, Eastern and Western cultures collided fiercely on Chinese soil.
Shen Yi is still young, and his family is worried about him going to a foreign country to study alone. So, they came up with a stopgap plan to send him to a Western school in Shanghai at a large cost.
There, he met many teachers from overseas and developed relationships with them as teachers and friends. He actively absorbed knowledge about France and learned French with the help of a French teacher.
After years of preparation, in 1923, Shen Yi finally embarked on a journey to France to study. Before leaving, he said to his father, who had come to see him off: "Don't worry, I will study hard and come back to serve the country." ”
After arriving in France, he successfully entered the University of Lyon to study physics with the recommendation of a friend and excellent performance. In China, he learned a certain foundation in physics from Western teachers, and with his own efforts, his academic performance has always been very good.
The regulations of the University of Lyon provided Shen Yi with the possibility of shortening the semester and returning to China as soon as possible. He completed his bachelor's and master's degrees in six years and returned to Shanghai in 1929.
After learning that Chiang Kai-shek ** of the Kuomintang was in power, Shen Yi immediately went to Nanjing to find a job, and with his expertise in physics and ballistics measurement, he was given preferential treatment and the rank of lieutenant colonel.
However, Shen Yi found that his position as an instructor was not satisfactory.
Students' questions: Although Professor Shen Yi's students are soldiers, Shen Yi is troubled by their class style and state. During class, there are always students who leave their seats and go out, and they are absent-minded during class, and they don't care how important Professor Shen Yi's content is.
While a few cadets are serious, only a few. The problem of school: From principals to ordinary instructors, there are some who are good at smuggling and flattery.
As long as you give some benefits to the supervisor, you can enjoy the life of spending time and drinking in private. As a result, the instructors were assessed as excellent. However, since Shen Yi has always been unsociable, his assessment can only be "good".
At the same time, Shen Yi also learned that although the school was run by the Kuomintang, there were many factions within the school. Chiang Kai-shek's ** army and Li Zongren's Gui faction both planted people in the school to fight openly and secretly.
In this artillery school, the longer Shen Yi stays, the more his feelings of serving the country are consumed, although the surface scenery is infinite, but the inner depression and depression are constantly growing.
For countless late nights, Shen Yi reflected: "Is it true that I can't realize my ambitions? After the outbreak of the full-scale Anti-Japanese War, Shen Yi's position was adjusted, and it was also at this time that he met the person who changed his fate.
Growth and Fall Before and After Liberation In July 1937, the gunfire of the Lugou Bridge brought the entire Chinese nation into the period of the All-People War of Resistance. The Kuomintang and the Communist Party began to work together again on the basis of the agreement reached in Xi'an.
However, due to the weak resistance of the Kuomintang army in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, the flames of war soon reached Nanjing. Seeing the loss of his land, Shen Yi regretted and hated. He regretted that he had not been able to teach a few students who could defend himself against foreign enemies, and he was angry at the Kuomintang's efforts to defend themselves.
Before the fall of Nanjing, Shen Yi followed the Kuomintang to Chongqing, the capital of China. At this time, the CCP set up the Southern Bureau and the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army Office in Chongqing in Chongqing, and the premier was responsible for the leadership of the Southern War of Resistance and liaison and consultation with the Kuomintang.
**At a banquet, I noticed Shen Yi drinking alone in the corner. He became curious about Shen Yi and stepped forward to talk to him. Shen Yi said that he was an instructor who had nowhere to return to China, ** was surprised after hearing it, and asked Shen Yi if he was a talent who returned from abroad.
When he learned that Shen Yi had been to France, ** was even more interested, saying that he had worked in Paris and had never met Shen Yi, but he was very sorry. After learning about Shen Yi's predicament, ** invited Shen Yi to work in Yan'an, saying that Yan'an now needs talents like Shen Yi very much.
The two talked happily, and Shen Yi also expressed his willingness to accept the invitation of *** and contribute to Yan'an.
After hearing the invitation, Shen Yi began to have a deep understanding of the Communist Party and firmly realized that the Communist Party was where he belonged. He bravely expressed his desire to go to Yan'an, and successfully got the help of ***, successfully arrived in Yan'an and started a new life.
Due to his past experience and skills, he was placed as a chief instructor in the Luochuan Artillery Regiment. Although there was a certain gap between the equipment and strength of the Eighth Route Army and the Kuomintang Army, he saw their determination and courage in the eyes of the soldiers and felt their difference.
Under his training, the combat effectiveness of the Luochuan Artillery Regiment was significantly improved, especially in the field of fixed-point raids and artillery engineering, even when compared with the well-equipped Kuomintang army.
During the Liberation War, Shen Yi was appointed as the director of the Artillery Engineering Division of the PLA Logistics Command, responsible for the logistics support of the army's artillery and equipment. Under his guidance, the strength of the PLA's artillery continued to increase, and in the later stage of the Liberation War, our army's artillery was able to achieve a super-wide range of accurate bombing.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Shen Yi obeyed the arrangement of his superiors and was transferred to the Planning Department of the Civil Aviation Administration to take up a leadership position. Let Shen Yi hold a position that has nothing to do with his profession, because the superior leaders are deliberately tempering him, but in this position that deals with money, Shen Yi failed to keep his bottom line.
With his position at that time, almost all the appropriations, support funds, staff salaries and even some odd expenses of the Civil Aviation Administration had to go through his hands. Since he was no longer engaged in artillery-related work, Shen Yi gradually thought that it was time to enjoy the blessings in peacetime, and began to embezzle the Civil Aviation Administration.
In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, cadres like Shen Yi were not alone, they were all sugar-coated and went to the opposite side of the party and the people. ** Swift action was taken to launch the Three-Anti-Five Anti-Campaign in 1951 to severely punish lawbreakers among party members and cadres.
Shen Yi was sentenced to death because of hundreds of millions of old coins, although General Chen Geng pleaded for him, but in the end failed to change the ending. After being imprisoned, Shen Yi deeply regretted that he faced the wall all day long, confessing to the party and the people.
At the same time, the Korean War was in a stalemate, and General Chen Geng was recalled to Zhongnanhai. After meeting Mr. Zhu and ***, Chen Geng realized that there might be a major task waiting for him.
As Chen Geng expected, ** conveyed that China wants to establish a highly professional military academy, the site of which is tentatively located in Harbin, and the name of the school is the Military Engineering College of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Army, referred to as Kazakhstan Military Industry.
Senior General Chen Geng was instructed to prepare for the Kazakh military industry, and the leaders decided to entrust him with this important task. Chen Geng is well aware of its importance and urgency, but he said that he will definitely complete the task.
Although the task of building a first-class military engineering academy in China and even in Asia is arduous, Chen Geng has found a way to solve the problem. The Northeast is a vast and sparsely populated region, and there are plenty of places in a big city like Harbin where schools can be located.
Teaching equipment and equipment can be transferred directly from the army, and can even be purchased from the Soviet Union nearby. The key is the faculty. The work of the Kazakh army is a military academy, which is related to the future national defense and security, so the people who teach here must be experts in related fields.
As a result, Chen Geng searched for talents across the country. When he found out that there was still a ballistics expert missing, he heard about Shen Yi. Chen Geng believed that Shen Yi was exactly the talent he was looking for, even though Shen Yi made a mistake and was sentenced to death.
However, in order to build Kazakhstan's military industry, Chen Geng decided to apply to the Supreme People's Court to see if he could flexibly deal with Shen Yi.
Dong Biwu and Chen Geng found Dong Biwu, president of the Supreme Court, and Dong Biwu did not easily agree to Chen Geng's request. He thought that this involved the majesty of the national law, so he decided to go to discuss with Chen Geng.
Chen Geng rushed to Zhongnanhai again and explained the reason to ***. After listening, he immediately asked him to bring *** to discuss Shen Yi's problem together. ** Arrived quickly, and in the subsequent discussion, he believed that although Shen Yi made a mistake, he was a talent and his contribution to the Kazakh military industry was very important.
Therefore, ** agreed to change the sentence to Shen Yi to a suspended death sentence and let him make meritorious contributions in the Kazakh military industry. After the matter was satisfactorily resolved, Chen Geng immediately went to the Supreme People's Court to obtain the revision document, and personally went to the prison to read the revision judgment to Shen Yi.
He said to Shen Yi earnestly: "This is the second chance given to you by the party and the people, and you must cherish it." At this time, Shen Yi burst into tears and cried bitterly: "I will work hard and use my achievements to prove that I have lived up to the trust of the party and the people." ”
After graduating from the Kazakh military industry, Shen Yi took over the post of director of the artillery department, and made significant contributions to the development of the artillery in New China from the bottom of his heart. His transformation is impressive, but he was able to admit his mistakes and correct them, living up to the trust of the party.
For the construction of the new squadron, Chen Geng did not hesitate to choose Shen Yi, who had committed a crime, and ran for him, adding a good story to the history of the Chinese ** incident.