In our country, since ancient times, there has been a saying of thirty standing, which means that when people reach the age of 30, they must be independent in thought, have opinions, and be able to undertake certain important tasks.
However, there was a large group of people in our country who, far before the age of 30, assumed positions that modern people could not hold until they were 40 or 50 years old, and undertook very difficult tasks.
These people were none other than the division commanders and regimental commanders of the Red Army during the Long March. Most of them were in their early 20s, and the youngest was in their 10s.
Although they are very young, they have a lot of valuable experience that is worth learning and exploring.
If you really want to learn from them, the first step is to first understand who they are:
1. Li Tianyou is a 20-year-old general
A native of Guangxi, Li Tianyou participated in the Baise Uprising at the age of 15 and served as a guard company commander. During the battle, he always charged forward, braved the enemy's artillery fire to climb the city wall, and used a large knife to fight the enemy hand-to-hand, and won the title of "Little Tiger Company Commander".
During the Long March of the Red Army, Li Tianyou was just 20 years old, but he was already the commander of the 5th Division of the Red 3rd Army, and along the way he fought bloody battles on the Xiangjiang River and attacked Loushan Pass, fighting a lot of hard battles and vicious battles.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Li Tianyou served as the commander of the 686th Regiment of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army. In the Battle of Pingxingguan, he was responsible for "cutting off the waist", that is, attacking the waist of the Japanese army. After the battle began, he commanded the whole regiment to attack, cut the Japanese army into several sections, and then commanded the troops to seize the Laoye Temple, and used firepower to crush the Japanese army to the bottom of the ditch.
2. Zhong Chibing 20-year-old Lieutenant General
Zhong Chibing was a native of Pingjiang, Hunan, and had always been a fierce general under Peng Dehuai. During the Long March, he partnered with Li Tianyou and served as the political commissar of the 5th Division of the Red 3rd Army, when he was just 20 years old.
Although Zhong Chibing served as political commissar, he fought very fiercely. When he attacked Loushan Pass for the second time, he took the lead and directly rushed up the mountain to fight with the enemy. During the battle, the right calf was shot twice, and the blood was gushing, but still wielding a large knife to fight the enemy. He eventually passed out due to excessive bleeding and was carried off the battlefield.
Zhong Chibing, who was carried down from the battlefield, used a carpenter saw that was cut in half to cut off his calf. Due to poor medical conditions and poor disinfection, the wound became infected and he was amputated twice until his right thigh was cut in half.
After 3 operations, Zhong Chibing once again created a miracle, completed the Long March with one leg, and successfully reached northern Shaanxi.
If it is not a historical record, I really dare not imagine: how can one leg climb over the snowy mountain?
3. Zhang Zongxun 26-year-old general
Zhang Zongxun was a native of Shaanxi, participated in the Autumn Harvest Uprising, served as the deputy company commander of the special agent company during the "Three Bays Reorganization", led a platoon dedicated to protecting Mao Zedong, and was Mao Zedong's first guard chief.
During the Long March, Zhang Zongxun was just 26 years old, serving as the commander of the 4th Division of the Red 3rd Army, and he had a share in all the hard battles and fierce battles of the Red Army along the way.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, He Long served as the commander of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army and made a special request to the central authorities: to send a general who had grown up from Jinggangshan to serve as the commander of the 358th Brigade.
The 358th Brigade was reorganized from He Long's Red 2Nd Army, and the position of brigade commander eventually fell to Zhang Zongxun.
Zhang Zongxun did not disappoint everyone, commanded the 358th Brigade to move to the northwest of Jin, the Jizhong Plain, and fought the famous Yanmen Pass ambush battle, talc ambush battle, black horse Zhuang ambush battle... Eventually, the 358th Brigade was brought into the elite ace of the People's Liberation Army, the 1st Army.
4. Xiao Hua is an 18-year-old general
Xiao Hua was a native of Jiangxi, only 18 years old during the Long March, but served as the political commissar of the International Division of the Young Communists of the Red 1st Army. The Red Army was drawn down many times during the Long March, but Xiao Hua always served as a political commissar at the division level, and he personally visited the front line every time he fought. When the Dadu River was forcibly crossed, it was he who personally blew the charge trumpet.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Xiao Hua served as the political commissar of the 343rd Brigade of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and together with the brigade commander Chen Guang, commanded the famous Guangyang ambush.
At the end of 1938, Xiao Hua led his troops across the Taihang Mountains, crossed the Jinpu Railway, and went deep into the Shandong Plain, quickly opening up a vast field, which terrified the Japanese army and made the "peers" of the Kuomintang lament themselves.
The "peers" not only admired Xiao Hua's anti-Japanese merits, but also marveled at how young he was, and inadvertently said "still a doll", and since then, the "doll commander" has spread throughout Shandong and Hebei.
They are the "baby generals" of the Red Army, and if it is now, young people in their early 20s are still wandering on the university campus. At that time, they raised their swords and prancing horses and crossed the battlefield.
Young people attract the most attention and are the most hopeful. There was a large group of young people in the Red Army who exuded a new spirit, and they brought earth-shaking changes to China------ and Even though China, which had been bullied by others, jumped up and stood proudly in the east of the world.
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