In fact, among the founding generals of our country, there is a general who can be said to have been fighting on the battlefield for decades, but because he always eats and lives with soldiers, and always wears patched clothes, he looks like an ordinary peasant, walking on the street is very inconspicuous.
Don't say that it is an ordinary person, it is the soldiers of his own unit, and they cannot recognize Wang Zhen's dress, so when they arrived at the local government, these local officials naturally despised General Wang Zhen and only treated him as an ordinary old peasant.
According to the records, when General Wang Zhen was in charge of building the Yingxia Railway, he had to go to the local county magistrate for help, but the other side did not recognize him, but regarded him as a farmer.
Because Wang Zhen repeated over and over again the difficulties he encountered in building the road, the county magistrate became impatient and said that he wanted to notify the public security bureau to deal with him, which caused Wang Zhen to be furious, thinking that if he did not say that he was a general, he was really an ordinary old farmer, and your county magistrate really wanted the public security bureau to take me away?
Speaking of this, everyone should probably be curious about the ins and outs of the matter, don't worry, let's start from the beginning.
After the founding of New China, our country faced difficulties in many aspects, and hidden threats have always existed, especially Xiamen Island, which is isolated overseas and has the possibility of being occupied by the United States and the Kuomintang at any time.
At that time, because China's coastline had been blocked, the enemy's warships did not allow merchant ships to pass at all, and even once fired guns to sink merchant ships and fishing boats, which directly led to the paralysis of shipping, so land rail transportation must be restored.
The repair of the Yingxia Railway is not only of great strategic significance, but also of great military and economic significance, and the repair of the railway is not just lip service, especially the Yingxia Railway, with the external conditions at that time, the natural environment was extremely harsh, and the logistics supply was difficult to guarantee.
In order to repair this major artery, the central government dispatched a large number of railway troops to Fujian, and Wang Zhen personally served as commander and political commissar, responsible for completing this task.
In 1955, as a commander, Wang Zhen took the lead in participating in the road construction project, and because the scale of the project was huge and needed the assistance of the local government, Wang Zhen immediately thought of the local county chief.
But he also considered that after all, the founding of the country is not long ago, and the local government is also very difficult, so he tries not to trouble the grass-roots units and departments.
But just when the road was being built, some weather personnel reported that the southern rainy season was coming, and everyone might not understand this meaning, but Wang Zhen understood very well, and he once mentioned in his memoirs that repairing the Yingxia Railway felt worse than fighting devils, because going to the battlefield was also to sleep, but when building roads, people could not sleep when they encountered bad weather.
At that time, the number of troops building roads reached 12 divisions at the highest time, and they not only had to repel the enemy in the rain of bullets and bullets, but also built a natural road on the land of the motherland.
In this way, hundreds of thousands of road-building troops endured hardships unimaginable to ordinary people, and insisted on gritting their teeth and persevering bitterly.
One day Wang Zhen was repairing the road, but someone reported that malaria broke out in the construction site barracks, countless soldiers fell ill, because the local mountains and forests were dense, the lighting of the barracks was very bad, and the sick soldiers needed to bask in the sun, Wang Zhen had to go to the county magistrate for help, because he had just left the construction site, his clothes were full of dust, plus he did not wear military uniforms, so when Wang Zhen entered the county government in tattered clothes, almost no one paid attention to him.
When he found the county magistrate, the other party found that he was full of dust from the construction site and wearing worn-out clothes, so he regarded him as an old farmer, and Wang Zhen said to the county magistrate: Comrade county magistrate, I am really in a hurry to find you, but the county magistrate glanced at him, and then said expressionlessly: What are you doing? I'm busy, the county party committee has a lot of work waiting for me, don't bother me.
Wang Zhen blushed and his neck was thick on the spot, and asked directly: Do you have anything to do, do you know that our road construction soldiers do not even have a dormitory for basking in the sun? Do you know what we eat and live in? How much work per day?
After Wang Zhen finished the fire, the county magistrate found that the peasants in front of him seemed to be a little unsimple, so he asked him what he was doing, but Wang Zhen replied: I am just a soldier, a soldier who builds roads for the country, I am now looking for you to solve the problem, we rush to repair the railway, we need a dormitory facing the sun, only the county government can help, especially the railway hospital, more need to face the sun ward, the soldiers are infected with malaria, need to recuperate, but also need to bask in the sun.
As soon as the county magistrate heard about the railway soldiers, he hurriedly resigned, and hurriedly said that the county party committee had a lot of work, and asked Wang Zhen to find other departments, and Wang Zhen could bear this anger, and immediately grabbed the county magistrate, and the county magistrate felt that it was detrimental, so he shouted to find the public security bureau to deal with it.
Wang Zhen only smiled contemptuously: You are in big trouble, and you can't figure out that you can't leave.
Just when the two sides were arguing, a railway commissioner just came to the county government to handle official business, he knew Wang Zhen, hurriedly ran over to salute a military salute, and said: "Chief, do you need any help?" Wang Zhen responded: You go and call the comrades of the public security bureau over, but I want to see how this county magistrate will deal with me.
When Wang Zhen was finished, he immediately wrote a letter to Ye Fei, the governor of Fujian Province, and briefly explained the matter.
After verification, Ye Fei found that the situation was true, so he immediately removed the county magistrate from his post and investigated it, and dealt with it severely.
When the road construction unit excavated the Wuyishan Tunnel, Wang Zhen personally came to the front line and told everyone that this was a heart project, and it was necessary to complete The account of Mr. Peng, at that time, the location of the excavation was in Dahe Mountain, and the Iron 5th Division was responsible for this difficult and impossible task, although everyone worked day and night, but the progress was very slow, in order to complete the task, it was necessary to excavate 2.4 meters per day, but in fact, even 1 meter could not be completed.
Looking at the towering mountain, Wang Zhen was anxious, and at that time, a gunner of the sharp knife company came up with an idea, he invented the serial blasting method, and the speed of excavation every day reached an astonishing 5.6 meters, and later reached more than ten meters a day.
The task of digging chitou Mountain is also very arduous, and it took 244 tons of explosives alone, and finally the mountain was flattened.
In the blink of an eye, more than sixty years have passed, today's Fujian is no longer a remote and isolated place, with the construction of the Yingxia Railway, the local economy has also begun to develop rapidly, but once a glorious period of time, but gradually disappeared in the dust of history, not mentioned by posterity.
The last thing I would like to say is that General Wang Zhen is a well-deserved doer and revolutionary, and he is not only a good fighter in war, but he is still no less inferior in construction, just like the large-scale production campaign he launched in Xinjiang, he has opened up millions of acres of fertile land, built 7 military reclamation farms within three years, and built the Northern Wilderness into a rich Northern Warehouse, paying tribute to General Wang Zhen.