The history of the development of the Chinese revolution is inseparable from the leadership and guidance of many revolutionary leaders, and it is also the great sacrifice of thousands of revolutionary heroes. Take Yongxin County, on the heshui River in Jiangxi Province, where nearly 50,000 people joined the Red Army and supported the Red Revolution in this small county with a population of only 200,000 to 300,000. It can be said that most of the young and middle-aged people in Yongxin have become soldiers of the Red Army.
In more than ten years of combat career, very few of these people were able to survive after the founding of the country, and most of them dedicated themselves to the revolutionary road. However, many of the surviving revolutionary ancestors became senior generals in the People's Liberation Army, and more than forty founding generals were born here after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
During the revolutionary years, they shed blood and endured humiliation for the revolutionary cause, and after the founding of New China, they did not enjoy the time of the revolutionary achievements, but devoted the rest of their lives to the development and construction of the motherland. Today's protagonist is a founding general from Yongxin, who ruled Xinjiang for twenty years and witnessed the evolution of this thousand-mile wasteland into a wild wilderness in northern Saibei, and he is the founding lieutenant general Wang Enmao.
Wang Enmao was a very senior lieutenant general in the founding of the country, and there should be two reasons why he was able to devote himself to the revolution early. First, although he came from a peasant family, with the support of his family, he went from private school to middle school, and he could be regarded as a high-level intellectual in the current situation of more than 90% of the Republic of China at that time, when more than 90% were illiterate.
Second, his hometown of Yongxin is close to Jinggangshan and the place where the autumn harvest uprising in Xianggan and Gansu was broken, and the "Three Bays Reorganization" carried out by the chairman of that year was also carried out here. The peasant uprising and revolutionary ideas had a great influence on the local people, especially Wang Enmao, a reader, who could better understand the essence.
Driven by revolutionary ideas, Wang Enmao, who had great ambitions, walked alone for three days in May 1928 and ran to Jinggangshan to join the Red Army. The revolutionary contingent certainly warmly welcomed the defection of this reader. Wang Enmao can write and draw, and writing slogans is even more handy, so the organization arranged for him to go to the propaganda team. He often followed the troops deep into the countryside to write slogans, distribute leaflets, engage in propaganda, and organize the masses to carry out peasant movements. These have greatly helped him to improve his theoretical foundation and lead his propaganda ability.
It was Ren Bishi, who greatly helped Wang Enmao in improving his work ability, who organized and arranged for him to serve as Ren Bishi's secretary in 1933, and Ren Bishi studied at the Eastern University in Moscow in 1921, and he also joined our party in the Soviet Union. He stayed in the Soviet Union for many years, and after returning to China, he also held important positions and was a very capable revolutionary leader.
Ren Lao's unique working methods, leadership styles, and cultural theory skills behind him all had a subtle influence and edification on Wang Enmao, which benefited him for life, and soon after he developed the habit of writing diaries.
In July 1934, he followed Ren Bishi, Xiao Ke, Wang Zhen and others to lead the Red Sixth Army to take the lead in embarking on the journey, and later joined the Red Second Army led by He Long to create the Xiang'echuan Qiansu District. In November 1935, he began the Long March, and no matter how difficult the situation was and how harsh the environment was, he insisted on keeping a diary. From his appointment as secretary general of the Political Department of the Sixth Red Army to the founding of New China, he wrote a total of 18 diaries in the past fifteen years, which are very precious historical materials.
So many soldiers were sacrificed in the Long March, and Wang Enmao also rubbed shoulders with death. After entering the Tibetan Dam area, Wang Enmao fell seriously ill and was almost unable to walk, unfortunately, his horse and groom were killed in an enemy air raid, Wang Zhen heard about it and tried to find a mule and a groom for him, which helped him complete the last journey of the Long March.
Without Wang Zhen's help, Wang Enmao would not be able to persist this time, and he would remember this kindness for the rest of his life.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wang Zhen was the deputy brigade commander of the 359th Brigade, and Wang Enmao was initially the chief of the propaganda section, and later promoted to deputy brigade commander, and became a partner with Wang Zhen, who was the brigade commander and political commissar. At the call of the mass production movement, the two led an army into Nanniwan, which was deserted for dozens of miles, and had to be lit at night to prevent the attack of beasts of prey. They ate, lived and reclaimed with the warriors, and finally created the miracle of Nanniwan.
In September 1949, Wang Enmao led the 2nd Army and the 1st Army to meet in Xining, overcoming the difficulties of lack of oxygen in the mountains, successively capturing Minle and Zhangye, and after meeting with the 2nd Corps, Jiuquan declared an uprising. Under the inspiration of our party's policy and the situation of large troops suppressing the border, Tao Zhiyue led the army to electrify the uprising, and Xinjiang declared peaceful liberation.
After Wang Enmao followed Wang Zhen and led his army into Xinjiang, he eliminated the bandit plague, eliminated all unstable factors, and stabilized the political situation. At the same time, they led more than 100,000 People's Liberation Army to embark on a new battlefield and began a new large-scale production movement; in more than two years, they reclaimed more than 8 million mu of wasteland, and the grain harvested was not only self-sufficient, but also solved the problem of grain shortages among all ethnic groups in Xinjiang.
In 1954, Wang Zhen was transferred to the commander of the railway troops, and Wang Enmao was appointed commander and political commissar of the Xinjiang Military Region, the first secretary of the autonomous region, and other positions, and began to govern Xinjiang until 1969. In 1986, Elder Wang was elected vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, ending xinjiang's work and becoming a vice-state leader, and he twice ruled Xinjiang for 20 years.
The general has worked in Xinjiang for decades, which has become his second hometown, but he has also been concerned about his hometown of Yongxin, helping the people of his hometown as much as possible. As early as the 1950s, he sent 100 purebred sheep from Xinjiang to Yongxin to help establish a "Jinggang Goat Farm" in his hometown.
In the 1980s, when Yongxin encountered a drought, he organized a batch of materials to be transported to Yongxin to help the people in his hometown fight drought and provide disaster relief, and he also inspected the Jinggangshan Cotton Spinning Factory, dongli bridge, and Heshui River berm project in Yongxin, and also provided help as much as possible.
He can be generous to the people of his hometown, but he is very strict with his family. The general had a special car, but no matter how bad the weather outside, the children could not sit at school. In particular, his wife also worked in the party committee of the autonomous region, but he insisted that his wife take the shuttle bus to and from work, and could not take his own special car and could not engage in special activities. Moreover, his wife Luo Lan was also an old revolutionary in 1938, and all these years had always been at the deputy department level, as long as Elder Wang said a little, he could raise his rank, but the general never did this.
Under the general's teachings, several sons and daughters inherited the excellent revolutionary traditions of their fathers and made great achievements when they grew up; the eldest son, Wang Beilai, was an expert in ballistic missile technology and made great contributions to the two-bomb and one-satellite project; the second son, Wang Beihui, who spent his whole life in Xinjiang, served as deputy chief of staff of the Xinjiang Military Region and was a major general of the People's Liberation Army.