Is there a founding general in Henan? Of course, there are, such as Xu Shiyou, Zheng Weishan and Li Desheng in Xinxian County, and Liao Zhengguo, the one-armed major general in Xixian County. They were all Henan people, but in the revolutionary war years, they rarely fought in Henan.
There was a founding general, he was not from Henan, but he fought in Henan for a long time and made many meritorious achievements for the liberation of the people of Henan, he was General Pi Dingjun. Pi Dingjun was born in Jinzhai, Anhui, and from the map, this place is located in the east of Henan, outside the "East of Henan".
In the middle of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Pacific War broke out, and the 129th Division sent Pi Dingjun to advance into northern Henan to open up operations behind enemy lines. Northern Henan is a occupied area, the people's life is very bitter, coupled with natural disasters, the local people actually rely on eating tree bark to survive.
(Statue of General Pi Dingjun, former site of the Rear Hospital of the Eighth Route Army in Xingyang City)
Pi Dingjun was saddened to see that the masses could not even eat a full meal, and he decided to attack the town of Bobi in the west of Hui County, where the Japanese puppet army had hoarded a lot of supplies. After careful investigation, Pi Dingjun mobilized troops, captured the town of Bobi overnight, annihilated the Japanese puppet army, and pulled 40 large carts of captured materials, and Pi Dingjun distributed the materials to the masses, so that the local people could spend a fruitful Spring Festival. Subsequently, Pi Dingjun liberated Lin County and formed the Seventh Military Subdistrict of the Taihang Military Region.
Northern Henan is the place where Pi Dingjun is unforgettable, and his eldest son is called Pi Yubei, who unfortunately died later. By the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, that is, after the Battle of Yuxianggui, the vast area of western Henan had also become a occupied area, and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army ordered Pi Dingjun to lead the anti-Japanese guerrilla detachment in western Henan to advance into western Henan to open up a base area. Therefore, Pi Dingjun came from northern Henan to western Henan.
So far in Zhengzhou's Xingyang, Gongyi, Xinmi, Dengfeng area, have left traces of Pi Dingjun's battle, the local people not only for the statue of General Pi Dingjun, but also built a memorial hall for the place where he once worked, and now it has become a patriotic education base for future generations to admire, study and remember.
(Former site of the Pi Dingjun Headquarters of the Anti-Japanese Advance Detachment in Western Henan, Gongyi City)
Pi Dingjun led his troops into western Henan, and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army asked him to go to Songshan to establish a base area, but when Pi Dingjun came to Songshan, he found that the mountain here was too thin and not suitable for establishing a base area, so he came to Jishan and established a base there.
Pi Dingjun went all the way and fought the devils all the way, leaving behind many anti-Japanese stories that can be sung and wept. For example, the night attack on Baisha Town, the Battle of Foguangyu, etc., are widely spread in the folk of western Henan. In particular, the night raid on Dengfeng Airport rescued more than 20,000 migrant workers captured in western Henan.
You say, can the people of Henan forget General Pi Dingjun? After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Pi Dingjun left western Henan and marched into Tongbai Mountain in southern Henan. Here is the place that makes Pi Dingjun unforgettable, his second child, also the eldest daughter, is called Pi Tongbai, and later unfortunately died prematurely.
(Pi Dingjun Memorial Statue of Central Plains Yuxi Anti-Japanese Memorial Hall in Xinmi City)
Of course, what made him more unforgettable was the subsequent outbreak of the Central Plains Breakthrough. In order to cover the breakthrough of the main force, Pi Dingjun led the Pi Brigade to march westward first, and then took cover in Liu Jiachong, southwest of Baique Garden in Guangshan County. The Kuomintang pursuers passed by here without the slightest notice.
Pi Dingjun suddenly turned to the east, attracting the main force of the Kuomintang, completely confusing the Kuomintang pursuers, and making a Gestapo contribution to the victory of the Central Plains breakthrough. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the title was awarded, and the chairman said that "Pi has meritorious service, less jinzhong", and Pi Dingjun eventually became a founding lieutenant general.
Pi Dingjun lost two children in Henan, he can not forget Henan, the people of Henan will always miss him, the founding general who benefited the people of Henan.