During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, due to the lack of control in the coastal areas of the Yellow Sea, sea bandits were plagued by sea bandits, who often harassed the New Fourth Army, and also fished and fleshed the people, and the local villagers dared not speak out. At this time, Tao Yong, commander of the fourth division of the New Fourth Army, decided to sweep away the bandits. He single-handedly broke into the sea bandit's den, surrendered the leader of the sea bandits, and took him as an apprentice, and later this sea bandit became a famous admiral of the navy. This sea bandit is called Sun Erhu.
Sun Erhu was a fisherman's baby who grew up in bitter water, and his father went out to sea to fish and was killed. For a living. His mother took him out to ask for food to make a living. At the age of seven, he began to go to the sea to earn money to support his family, and after ten years of hard training, he became the "overlord of the sea" at the age of 17.
At the beginning of 1942, When Tao Yong was fighting against bandits, he captured the leader of the sea bandits, Sun Erhu, who thought that he would undoubtedly die, but he did not expect that Tao Yong did not execute him but let him go back, and when he was leaving, he told Sun Erhu: "It is shameful to be a bandit, you say that you are not afraid of death, but as a Chinese, why don't you fight the Japanese devils?" If you are still bloody, take your men with me to fight the devils!" ”
Sun Erhu thought that Tao Yong just wanted to "surrender the soldier without fighting" and did not really let him go back. Just when Tao Yong took Sun Erhu alone to negotiate with the bandits, on the way back, he was ambushed by Sun Erhu's men, but Tao Yong had already made preparations, he let the guard platoon ambush here, and in a few clicks, he subdued Sun Erhu's men. Sun Erhu thus deeply admired Tao Yong and said that his troops could be reassigned.
Tao Yong admired Sun Erhu very much, believing that he had the righteousness of the jianghu and was a piece of material for fighting wars, and decided to take him as an apprentice and teach him how to fight. However, Sun Erhu was scattered and accustomed, and for a while he could not adapt to the constraints of military discipline, and just when Tao Yong returned to the Central China Party School to do business, he actually took the remnants to the sea again as a bandit. Under the encirclement and suppression of the coastal defense regiment, Sun Erhu's troops collapsed into an army, and Sun Erhu was cornered, so he actually defected to the Japanese and became the commander of the puppet army.
After Tao Yong came back to hear about it, he was very uncomfortable, he thought that Sun Erhu surrendered to the Japanese army, which was not his intention, and then Tao Yong persuaded Sun Erhu many times to let him abandon the dark and surrender to the light. Sun Erhu was deeply moved and decided to lead the troops back into the arms of the New Fourth Army.
After that, Tao Yong personally reorganized the Port Fishermen's Self-Defense Force into the Second Haiphong Regiment, and appointed Sun Erhu as the head of the Haiphong Second Regiment. After Sun Erhu took office, he conducted targeted training for hundreds of soldiers, strengthening the warriors' maritime skills, and Sun Erhu also became an outstanding coastal defense general. In 1956, Sun Erhu died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 48.