The founding general Xu Haidong is a proud man, so he has many friends, but if you want to ask who has the best relationship with him, it is the founding major general Zhan Danan. There is a sentence that can prove how good the relationship between the two people is, Xu Haidong once said to his son, their father-son relationship is not as good as his brotherhood with Zhan Danan.
Xu Haidong and Zhan Danan first met when Zhan Danan first joined the Red Army at the age of 16, when Xu Haidong just lacked a guard, he fell in love with Zhan Danan among the new soldiers, so zhan Danan has been following Xu Haidong's side and becoming his personal bodyguard.
Once Xu Haidong returned to his hometown in Hubei to visit his mother, but somehow the news was known to the Kuomintang, so a group of Nationalist troops surrounded him, and they shot directly at Xu Haidong's home and threw a lot of grenades. At that time, a grenade landed at Xu Haidong's feet, but fortunately Zhan Danan reacted in time and threw Down Xu Haidong with one hand, which saved Xu Haidong's life.
However, Xu Haidong was still affected by the grenade explosion, and his leg was injured, and he could not continue to move. Seeing that the Nationalist army was about to be killed, Zhan Danan knew that he would never let the enemy catch Xu Haidong, so he took Xu Haidong on his back and ran out desperately, and finally broke through successfully.
Since then, Xu Haidong has regarded Zhan Danan as his savior. He often told others that if it were not for Zhan Danan, he would have died a long time ago. Because Xu Haidong's order was 15 years older than Zhan Danan's, Xu Haidong regarded Zhan Danan as his own brother and took great care of Zhan Danan.
After the battle of Zhiluo town in 1935, Zhan Danan received a paper transfer order to go to the Red 15 Army Protection Bureau, which actually rose and moved, but Zhan Danan was still a little reluctant to Xu Haidong. The last time the two met before leaving, Xu Haidong expressed his wishes to Zhan Danan, saying that it was normal for the four seas of the revolution to be home, and he was happy that Zhan Danan had a better future.
In the following ten years, the two never had the opportunity to fight side by side, but Zhan Danan never forgot Xu Haidong, and as long as he had leisure time, he would go back to see Xu Haidong.
Xu Haidong suffered many injuries and illnesses during the war years, and he has been recuperating for a long time after the founding of the People's Republic of China. The injury not only brought Xu Haidong physical pain, but also mental torture, so Xu Haidong's mood has not been very good. But as soon as he saw Zhan Danan, he would immediately be happy like a child.
Zhan Danan is now 105 years old and is still in very good health.