If you ask Marshal He Long who is the most powerful subordinate, I think many people will say that it is the one-armed general He Bingyan. Indeed, in terms of fighting alone, He Bingyan can be called the number one fierce general under He Long. But the person that Brother Shuo wants to talk about today is not He Bingyan, but Shi Kequan. This name may not have been heard of by many people, but he is the most powerful and trusted subordinate of President He. Today we will talk about this story.
Shi Kequan was born in 1892 in Tianmen, Hubei Province, because his family was poor, he did not have the opportunity to study, he made a living by herding cattle for the landlord's family, and when he grew up, he began to do long-term work. It was not until 1926 that he joined the local peasant association, joined the party a year later, and began to work underground. Shi Kequan joined the Red Army with more than 30 local young adults, who were 40 years old.
At this age, naturally, he would no longer take a gun to the front line, so what would Shi Kequan do? Manage logistics! And it's a lifetime. In the war years, the importance of logistics work is self-evident, and the ancients often said that soldiers and horses did not move grain and grass first, if the troops could not even eat enough, what would they take to fight? Shi Kequan first served as the director of the supply department of the 11th Regiment of the 4th Division, and soon after he was promoted to the head of the division's supply department, and later He Long simply handed over all the logistics of the Red Second Front to Shi Kequan, who did a very good job, and was praised by He Long many times, calling him a great hero of the Red Second Army.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Shi Kequan served as the director of the supply department of the 358th Brigade of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and still did logistics. The Japanese army frequently "swept up, the logistical work became quite difficult, in order to solve the problem of eating for the officers and men of the whole brigade, Shi Kequan tried his best to get through the difficulties.
Later, Xu Guangda went to the Jinsui Military Region to become a commander, and when he set out, General Manager He asked him what he wanted, and Xu Guangda did not ask for guns and guns, but only said that he wanted a good logistics. He Long didn't even think about it, so he sent Shi Kequan over, the land in the Jinsui area was barren, the people were poor, and it was very difficult to raise military supplies, but Shi Kequan had to solve this problem after taking office. After that, Shi Kequan successively served as the director of the supply department of the seventh column of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia-Jinsui United Defense Army, the director of the logistics department of the Gansu Provincial Military Region, and the deputy director of the logistics department of the Lanzhou Military Region, and was awarded the rank of major general in 1955, when he was 63 years old, the oldest of all the founding major generals.