Feng ZigenHe was born on January 5, 1918 in Wangcang County, Sichuan Province. In 1933, he joined the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and successively served as a soldier, squad leader, battalion commander, and instructor of the armed arts team. In 1946, the Taiyue Military Region approved his retirement and was placed in Xinglin Village, Duanshi Town, Qinshui County.
Feng Zigen, formerly known as Zan Changlin, was born in Guangyuan, Sichuan Province in 1918. There are six brothers and sisters in the family, and Feng Zigen is the fifth in the family.
When Feng Zigen was 15 years old, he was catching up with the Red Army's Long March and passing through Guangyuan, Sichuan, where the Red Army vigorously promoted the policy of "fighting local tyrants and dividing land", and many poor peasant families were allocated land and lived a relatively stable life.
Feng Zigen joined the Red Army without hesitation, and in this highly disciplined contingent that loved the people like a son, Feng Zigen actively accepted the influence of revolutionary ideology and tempered a tenacious fighting spirit in the baptism of battle. At the age of 17, he resolutely followed the Red Army and embarked on an arduous 25,000-mile long march.
In October 1937, when the Japanese army threatened to attack Taiyuan, Feng Zigen's 772nd Regiment launched a heroic attack in the east of Guangyang Town. Although the Eighth Route Army was faced with the obvious shortage of Japanese equipment and military quality at that time, and the ammunition was also extremely scarce, Feng Zigen and his troops were not afraid of difficulties and launched fierce hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, and finally inflicted heavy losses on the enemy, annihilated more than 1,000 enemies, and captured a large number of ** and military supplies, successfully delaying the Japanese army's attack on Taiyuan. This victory was hailed by posterity"Guangyang victory"It became an important node in the history of the Chinese revolution. And Feng Zigen was heroically wounded in this battle and was sent to the rear**.
**CEOHe personally visited Feng Zigen in the hospital, and after hearing about his heroic deeds, he decided to make him his own guard. In addition to not wanting this wounded man to go to the battlefield again, ** also took a fancy to Feng Zigen's loyalty and military talent. During the period when Feng Zigen became a guard, he found that he was smart and diligent, so he arranged for him to enter the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University in 1939 and trained him to become an officer.
On the evening of the 22nd, this heavy news was sent by the Rong ** Center in Qinshui County, Shanxi Province.
Feng Zigen, the last Red Army veteran in Shanxi Province to participate in the Long March, died on the afternoon of February 22, 2024 in Xinglin Village, Duanshi Town, Qinshui County, at the age of 106.
Veterans do not die, just withering, old man Feng Zigen will always live in people's hearts, his deeds and spirit will inspire generation after generation of Chinese, bravely forge ahead, the pursuit of excellence!