Many generals of the People's Liberation Army have experienced hundreds of battles, experienced a rain of bullets and bullets, and it is very normal for them to be injured. There was a battalion commander in our army who had a plastic surgery for him because during the battle, the bullet passed through the lip and the teeth were injured, Dr. Bethune had to stop plastic surgery for him, but unfortunately the plastic surgery was only done once, and Dr. Bethune died of surgical infection, and the plastic surgery had to be stopped. This man was General Ma Hui, the founding major general.
Ma Hui, born in 1915, a native of Majia Village, Xiangzhi Township, Yongxin County, Jiangxi Province, grew up in a poor family, and his ancestors were farmers for three generations. In 1930, the Red Army came to Majia Village to recruit soldiers, Ma Hui was rejected due to his young age, and he walked 40 kilometers to the county seat.
Ma Hui found his uncle, who was already a deputy company commander in the Red Army, in the county seat, and only then did he join the Red Army and become a correspondent of the Twenty-third Regiment of the Eighth Division of the Red Third Army. Because of Ma Hui's outstanding performance, in July 1934, he was promoted to the post of communications director of the headquarters, and later transferred to the regimental staff, participating in five anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaigns.
During the Long March, although Ma Hui was only a staff officer, he was very brave in battle, often rushing forward than the regimental commander, and the regimental commander ridiculed him: "Your boy is quite powerful, and those who don't know think you are the regimental commander." Ma Hui scratched his head: "Commander, next time I will definitely follow in your footsteps and never rush ahead of you." ”
However, this fierceness and fierceness also made Ma Hui injured again and again in the battle. Once, Ma Hui rushed in front of him in the face of a hail of bullets, and two stray bullets shot at him, one on his shoulder and one on his mouth. The bullet that hit his mouth knocked out his teeth through his lips.
Because the medical conditions were limited at that time and he did not get timely treatment, Ma Hui left a gap in his lips, and even his speech leaked. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Ma Hui served as the commander of the Special Agent Company of the Independent Regiment of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and in 1938 he was appointed as the commander of the third battalion of the first regiment of the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region.
In a battle, Ma Hui captured a mountain cannon from the devil, when the mountain cannon was very rare, the Japanese army attached great importance to the mountain cannon, in order to retake the mountain cannon, the Japanese army launched a fierce attack on Ma Hui's battalion. Ma Hui was not afraid at all, led the team to calmly meet the battle, and annihilated more than a hundred ghosts. He led his troops to fight ambushes in the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region and eliminate traitors, which made the enemy feel frightened.
Later, when Dr. Bethune arrived in Jinchaji, Ma Hui asked him to do a "plastic surgery" for himself to eliminate the gap in his lips, and Bethune promised to give him two surgeries. The first surgery was successful, suturing the opening on Ma Hui's lips. But before the second surgery was done, Bethune died of an infection in one operation, and Ma Hui's face was only half recovered. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Ma Hui served as the commander of the 10th Brigade of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region. In 1951, Ma Hui served as the commander of the 201st Division of the 67th Army of the 20th Corps and participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. In 1952 he was appointed deputy commander of the 67th Army of the Volunteer Army, and in 1955 he was awarded the rank of major general. He died in Beijing on April 19, 1998, at the age of 83.