Our army has a large number of soldiers, all over the country, so there are many people with the same name among these soldiers, and in the 1955 conferment ceremony, because the names are repeated, there was an embarrassing scene.
At that time, Ye Jianying was checking the list of major generals, and accidentally found that there were two names exactly the same, both called Fang Guonan, it was these two names that angered Ye Jianying, in Ye Jianying's view, the awarding ceremony was such a grand occasion, there should be no such low-level error at all, so whose name is Fang Guonan?
In fact, in such a major event as the award ceremony, the letter of appointment has been reviewed many times, and the possibility of mistakes caused by the staff is very small, and the reason for the appearance of two identical names is that our army does have its own people, this name is Fang Guonan, and there are indeed two founding major generals named Fang Guonan in our army.
The two generals were born in 1913 and 1915 respectively, and in order to distinguish the names of the two, our party deliberately changed the name of the elder to Fang Guoan.
Fang Guoan was born in 1913 in Pingjiang County, Hunan Province, and in June 1930, at the age of 17, Fang Guoan joined our army and joined our party in the same year, and Fang Guoan joined our party for a simple reason: if he did not want to be oppressed, he had to struggle.
At the end of 1936, Fang Guoan, who graduated from Yan'an Kang University, came to the 115th Division as an instructor of the second battalion.
On September 23, 1937, the Japanese army led the troops to Pingxingguan, and the 115th Division ambushed and waited for the Japanese army in the village town, that night our army ambush site began to rain heavily, Fang Guoan's second battalion, according to the plan, has been prepared, just wait for the Japanese army to throw themselves into the net.
However, the waiting process was very long, and finally at eight o'clock in the morning of the next day, our army heard the motor sound of the Japanese car, and it was not long before the Japanese army crowded the entire ravine, and the second battalion also took advantage of the Japanese army's unpreparedness to launch an attack, and for a time the Japanese army collapsed, and our army seized the favorable terrain and then launched a charge to seriously damage the Japanese army.
On September 14, 1938, Fang Guoan participated in the ambush of the Fenli Highway, and together with our army, he ambushed in the bushes on both sides of the highway, waiting for the devils to enter the ambush area.
At eight o'clock in the morning of that day, as soon as the soldiers of our army saw the devil's plan, they caught him off guard with a mortar, and while the Japanese army was in a panic, our army launched an attack to annihilate all the Japanese troops.
According to records, our army annihilated more than 1,200 Japanese troops, captured more than 100 warhorses, and destroyed more than 30 Japanese cars in these three battles, which was also a battle that made Fang Guoan quite proud.
There is joy and sorrow, Fang Guoan remembers that the little soldier who ambushed the town with him died the next day, and he also remembers that his regimental commander Xiao Ming died in the Jiluyu anti-sweep in order to cover his teammates, and the war honed his mind, and this is also an experience that a general must face.
Another Fang Guonan, born in 1915 in Pingjiang County, Hunan Province, joined the Chinese Communist Youth League in 1929, joined our army the following year, and two years later transferred from the regiment to our party.
During the agrarian revolution, Fang Guonan served as a political instructor in our army, and then followed our army to participate in the Long March.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he also served as the political commissar of the Second Military Station Hospital of the Ministry of Health of the Eighth Route Army, the director of the inspection team of the Direct Work Department of the General Political Department, and the director of the Political Department of the General Supply Department.
During the Liberation War, Fang Guonan served as deputy political commissar of the Fifth Military Subdistrict of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region and political commissar of the Supplementary Second Division of the Fourth Field Army.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as the political commissar of the Logistics Department of the Hunan Military Region, the deputy political commissar of the North Guangdong Military Region, and the second political commissar of the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Corps.
In 1954, under the arrangement of our party, Fang Guonan became the first political commissar of the sports school of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and three years later, this school was abolished by our party, and Fang Guonan was also promoted to deputy political commissar of the Hunan Military Region.
Although the founding major general did not charge at the front, his contribution to the rear of our army cannot be ignored, he was awarded the Order of August 1 of the Second Class, the Order of Independence and Freedom of the Second Class, the Liberation Medal of the Second Class, and in July 1988, Fang Guonan was awarded the Red Star Meritorious Service Medal of the first class of the Chinese People's Liberation Army by the Central Military Commission.
By comparing the experiences of the two generals, we have found that the two were born not long apart, and they were still compatriots, and the two joined our army in the same year and also held the same position.
After the founding of New China, although the two served in different regions and different departments, there was little difference in the positions and work content of the two, and when fang Guoan was awarded the title, he served as the second political commissar of the Guangxi Military Region, and Fang Guonan served as the political commissar of the Sports Institute.
After the two retired from the post of political commissar, they were at the same time in a recuperation center for military cadres, and the fate of Fang Guoan and Fang Guonan was a good story in our army, and all the patriotic and party-loving spirit in the two of them was shared by the soldiers of our army.