During his military career, the general had 10 chiefs of staff who assisted him in combat, including one whom he deeply deplored. He once sadly stated: "He died too soon. ”
This Mr. Peng's favorite general is **An, because of his surname, people usually call him "the ninth martyr of the republic". On August 7, 1930, a two-page wordless letter was sent to the home of his wife, Li Zhiqiang.
When she opened the wordless letter, tears could not help but fall. That letter was a promise she made to ** An, but she was always unwilling to accept it, and her husband had been sacrificed. Seven years later, Li Zhiqiang wrote a letter to find his husband, only to confirm the heroic sacrifice of **An.
After the liberation, Mr. Peng invited the mother and son to Zhongnanhai and told the legendary story of **An and him in the Red Army.
Jinggang Mountain, a place where people feel the precipitation of history, is also the intersection of the fate and origin of the two people. Here, they met for the first time and witnessed the exciting moment of the meeting of the two armies.
* The team led by An, after receiving the order, firmly marched to the north of Jinggang Mountain to meet the Red Fifth Army led by *** and others. As early as July 22, he had already led everyone to launch the Pingjiang Uprising and became the founder of the Red Fifth Army.
However, the actions of the uprising also made the ** in Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi regions chase after them. Although they faced difficulties, they never gave up, stuck to Jinggangshan, and jointly created the glory of the revolution.
Under the instructions and suggestions of Hunan Province of the Communist Party of China, in order to avoid a frontal clash with the enemy, the Red Fifth Army decided to shift its position, and at the same time organized some people to keep in touch with them.
This decision is the result of Mr. Peng's determination to reorganize the team after two early failures. In the face of the enemy's encirclement, pursuit, and interception, he was never afraid, but used guerrilla tactics to successfully break through the first line of defense and march towards Jinggangshan.
In the end, on December 11, 1928, the two armies successfully met and held a grand meeting ceremony. The chairman, ** and others attended the meeting, and ** An served as the master of ceremonies of the conference.
It is worth mentioning that An's family was once Mr. Peng's superior, which also made the two of them have a special fate. When Mr. Peng joined the Hunan Army, the brigade commander of his brigade happened to be Chen Jiayou, his old superior.
In 1905, Chen Jiayou was a member of the Huaxing Society, which merged with the Xingzhong Society and the Guangfu Society to form the Alliance Association. He was a veteran figure in Chiang's army, but he always stood firmly on the side of the revolution, was upright, and resolutely opposed the reactionaries.
His strong anti-Chiang stance made him one of the most fierce anti-Chiang generals in the region. * After two years in the army, he became a squad leader, while Chen Jiayou left the Hunan army.
Although Chen Jiayou may not have noticed the fledgling ***, Mr. Peng undoubtedly admired his former superiors very much. * An is Chen Jiayou's fourth brother, and this family has two people who can fight, which is enough to prove that their family education and cultivation are excellent.
* An joined the National Revolutionary Army in September 1927 and participated in the Autumn Harvest Uprising. After the reorganization of Sanwan, he served as the deputy battalion commander of the first regiment and one battalion of the first division of the Red Army.
In August 1928, only 4 months before the Jinggangshan Division, **An had become the deputy commander of the corps of the Red Fourth Front Army. **In hot pursuit, they came to the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Base.
* An personally operated the gun carriage and forced back Chiang's army with only three rounds of ammunition, successfully breaking through Chiang Kai-shek's encirclement and suppression. This is the most thrilling scene in the defense of the Yellow Ocean Realm.
Soon after the Jinggangshan division, the Kuomintang troops stationed in Jiangxi came to attack Jinggangshan with 11 regiments. The Red Fourth Army fought for three days and three nights at Huang'ao and successfully inflicted heavy losses on the enemy.
The enemy was defeated and fled, **An led his troops to pursue the victory, but they did not expect that when the pursuit reached the Yanjiang River in Yongxin County, the fleeing enemy troops rushed out from the northwest corner.
The Reds were forced to engage the enemy in a narrow riverbed, and they also set up several machine guns to seal off the entire depression.
In the battle to take the enemy's command post, ** Anqin led a small detachment to quietly touch the enemy's flank. As he passed through an open field, he was seriously wounded by enemy fire.
His comrades-in-arms hurriedly carried him off the front line on a stretcher and sent him to Koi Hospital for **. In January 1929, the main force of the Red Fourth Army decided to go to southern Gansu, but **An's injuries did not heal and he could not accompany him.
According to his personal ability, the organization arranged for him to serve as deputy chief of staff in the Red Fifth Army. However, the loss of Jinggangshan is unavoidable, and it is only a matter of time. As the situation became more and more severe, the Red Fifth Army decided to evacuate the wounded first, and those who remained prepared to break through.
So, the organization decided to send **An home to recuperate. Before leaving, Mr. Peng gave him his beloved thing, a stallion, hoping that he could return to the team as soon as possible after recovering from his injury.
* An lived up to Mr. Peng's expectations, and just a year later, he returned to the battlefield again.
**During the battle in Changsha in June 1930, he wrote a letter and sent a liaison officer to **An's home.
* While Recovering physically, An did not stop pursuing the revolutionary cause, postponed her wedding, and did not complete her wedding to his fiancée Li Zhiqiang until October 1929.
On the third day after receiving the letter, he said goodbye to his mother and wife and returned to the army. The war was urgent, and Ann immediately threw himself into the struggle. On July 12, 1930, He Jian of the Hunan Army mobilized the strength of a regiment in an attempt to encircle and suppress the Red Third Army stationed in Pingjiang.
Because of his contempt for the Red Army, he was finally beaten by the Red Army and fled. Taking advantage of the victory, the Red Army pursued and gradually occupied Changsha, capturing a large number of Kuomintang soldiers. ** Ann took advantage of this opportunity to publicize the preferential treatment of the Red Army to the prisoners, and selected some good prisoners to be added to the ranks of the Red Army.
* Ann was a meticulous and experienced revolutionary worker, and his interpersonal talents made him adept at dealing with all kinds of people. While talking to one of the captives, he learned that there was a quartermaster clothing factory in their area.
He immediately organized the workers and rushed to make uniforms for the Red Army. During the break, he also discovered that the lotus pond in the city center hid an arsenal. Since the enemy failed to take the ** away, they dismantled the gun parts and threw them into the well.
However, they did not expect the Red Army to drain the well and salvage all the parts of the well and reassemble it. After Mr. Peng learned of this, he expressed his admiration for An's talent and praised him for being not only good at combat, but also good at logistics.
Later, when they met again, Mr. Peng especially praised **An: "Huangpu Sheng, your talents are really diverse!" "Changsha is the place where **An lived when he was a student, and he knows it well.
During the rest of the troops, ** suddenly proposed: "Commander, we have occupied Changsha for several days, but we haven't even eaten a good meal, let's go to the Treasure Pavilion to eat noodles!" ”
After saying that, he rode out of the city with the guard platoon. A group of war-fighting horsemen rode into the city to eat noodles, attracting many onlookers. Little did they know, however, that the 32-year-old commander of the Red Third Army would also be here.
The generals and fighters of the Red Army at that time wore the same clothes, the only difference was the red cloth armbands on their arms. Seeing so many people gathered around the noodle restaurant, Ann decided to take this opportunity to expose He Jian's eight major crimes to everyone.
During the occupation of Changsha by the Red Army, ** also met ** An's wife Li Zhiqiang. She was pregnant at the time and needed to go into the city to get a fetal injection. This is the opportunity for *** to meet her, and the two of them met twice.
** is a battle-hardened military strategist, his imposing momentum is mighty, but in everyday life he seems amiable. He was very concerned about the marriage of **An and Li Weikang, and he was very happy to learn that they had been married.
**I knew their story long ago in the Jinggangshan period, and at that time, I couldn't let **An go home because of the war. But now, they are married, and ** decided to give them a gift.
He took out a book of etymology from his side and gave it to them, so that they were pleasantly surprised to find that he not only had attainments in military research, but also had unique insights in literature, history and calligraphy.
However, quiet times are always short-lived, and the struggle is not over. On the night of August 6, 1930, the Kuomintang made a comeback, and with the help of the cover of **, their troops were divided into three ways to prepare for a counterattack.
The situation was urgent, and Ann led his troops to fight to the death with the enemy along the defensive line. After a day and a night of fierce fighting, they finally withdrew temporarily from the city due to insufficient troops.
Concerned about the trapped Legion's political department, he decided to venture back to the city to rescue them. In the fierce battle, **Ann and *** fought side by side, despite the enemy's dense firepower, **Ann suggested *** to leave first, they acted separately, and the odds of victory were greater.
Fortunately, the Red Army was deployed from Wumeiling to the leek garden, and the troops were sufficient, and they successfully resisted the enemy's counterattack. In the end, the Red Army successfully withdrew, and captured two enemy commanders alive, and the enemy's arrogance was greatly suppressed.
When the dawn was about to break, Ann led his comrades towards the forward position, but they did not expect to be attacked by the enemy hiding in the shadows, with machine guns from the side.
* Ann fell, and sadly, this time he failed to get back up.
In the early morning of the second day after the successful withdrawal of the Red Army, **did not see** Ann until his figure was carried down on a stretcher. **An was hit by four bullets in the waist, bleeding profusely, and his injuries were serious, coupled with poor conditions and lack of blood transfusion equipment, he finally died at the age of 26 due to ineffective rescue and excessive bleeding.
This news caused deep sorrow among the troops. His body was escorted by guards until they retreated to Liuyang County in Yong'an City, where they buried him together on a barren mountain.
** And numerous Red Army soldiers gave the highest military salute to this young martyr.
Time passed, and at the beginning of 1931, An's wife Li Zhiqiang suddenly received a wordless letter. She knew that this was a letter entrusted by **Ann to a comrade-in-arms before going out on the battlefield, and if he died on the battlefield one day, she would ask this comrade-in-arms to give her this letter.
Li Zhiqiang looked at the wordless book in his hand, and his heart was full of doubts and uneasiness. She didn't believe it was true, and until she gave birth to her son Chen Huangming, **An still didn't appear.
She began to search for her husband, but the cruelty of the war disappointed her. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, seven years have passed, Li Zhiqiang mustered up the courage and wrote a letter to the Eighth Route Army in Yan'an, asking about the situation of An.
The letter ended up in the hands of ***. His mind was filled with mixed thoughts, he knew that it was Ann's wife looking for her husband, and he understood what the letter meant.
So, he personally replied to the letter, telling Li Zhiqiang the news that **An had died, and hoped that she could continue to complete **An's will and devote herself to the War of Resistance against Japan.
Li Zhiqiang, who received the letter, was full of pain and sadness in her heart, she accepted the fact that **An had passed away, but she knew that her husband sacrificed for the country and the people, and she would take his will to devote herself to the War of Resistance against Japan and fight to the end for the country and the people.
In 1940, Li Zhiqiang wanted to take his son Chen Huangming to Yan'an to visit ***, but on the way to the train station, the mother and son were arrested by spies, and the situation was very critical.
It was not until the end of the Anti-Japanese War and the liberation of Changsha that she mustered up the courage to write a third letter. This time, ** wrote back that he was willing to take charge of their mother and son's study and work.
On this question, he had already greeted Comrade Huang Kecheng of Hunan Province. So, under the arrangement of the organization, in May 1951, Li Zhiqiang was transferred from the Changsha Telecommunications Bureau to the Beijing Telecommunications Bureau.
His son, Chen Huangming, also lived up to his parents' expectations, joined the Communist Party, and was successfully admitted to university. On December 7, 1954, at that time, Mr. Peng had already served as the vice chairman of the Military Commission, and he invited Li Zhiqiang's mother and son to Zhongnanhai as guests.
It was also at this meeting that he told the story of his experience in the Red Army with **An.
Chen Huangming, a man who has never met his father, learns in an accident that his father is an incomparably good and great hero. This discovery deeply shocked and admired Chen Huangming.
Since then, he has begun to value his life even more, studying hard, and wanting to be as good as his father. Mr. Peng's love for ** An is selfless, not only subsidizing his school book expenses, but also personally keeping him to teach at Beijing University of Technology, and sponsoring him to study in the former Soviet Union.
This deep emotion made Mr. Peng also very concerned about the life of Chen Huangming's family. Even in Mr. Peng's later years, although he rarely saw guests, Li Zhiqiang's mother and son often became frequent visitors to his house.
In 1974, General ** died, Chen Huangming and Li Zhiqiang took their families and quietly mourned for him near the hospital. Although ** An has died young, his early years of fighting side by side have left unforgettable memories for *** generals.
This kind of friendship and respect makes people deeply feel the personality charm and noble sentiments of General ***.