When we saw that the great rivers and mountains of the motherland were wantonly ravaged by the Japanese invaders, and the families of the brothers and sisters were destroyed, all bloody Chinese would rise up and join the anti-Japanese ranks. In Taixing, Jiangsu Province, there was such a young man, he twice organized anti-Japanese armed forces, joined the anti-Japanese wave, and then because of dissatisfaction with the Kuomintang army's friction with fake anti-Japanese resistance, he revolted and joined the New Fourth Army, he was Chen Yusheng, who was known as the "commander of grass shoes".
Chen Yusheng was born in Chenjiazhuang, Zhoulian Township, Guangling District, Taixing County, to a sharecropper family, went to Shanghai to work when he was young, joined the Shanghai Anti-Japanese Salvation Congress, and was later framed by the Japanese, saying that he was related to the japanese spinning mill strike to kill a Japanese, which made him go to jail, and since then his heart has been full of hatred for the Japanese. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in an all-round way, in prison, when he heard the news of the Japanese invasion of our country, he was indignant and mobilized his friends to ask the prison leaders to "go to the front line to fight the devils and never be slaves to the country." They fought on hunger strike and were finally released on bail.
After his release from prison, Chen Yusheng twice organized anti-Japanese troops to resist the Japanese invaders.
The first time was on February 16, 1938, when the "Anti-Japanese Salvation Brigade" organized by Chen Yusheng was formally established in the Dragon King Hall in Changzhou Township, Taixing County, and he appointed himself as the captain of the brigade. In order to organize this anti-Japanese armed force, he used the method of commercial borrowing to borrow more than 100 long and short guns from nearly 10 townships in Taixing, such as Goose Lake, Yanggang, and Bajing, and the team grew to more than 200 people. On February 21, after the formation of the team, they ambushed more than 200 Japanese and puppet troops who "swept up" and killed and wounded 43 people. This action immediately aroused the vigilance of the Kuomintang Nantong Security Command, and the security commander Yuan Guobao deceived them in the name of giving them a number and paying military salaries, and as a result, he was shot in the March 16 training in Nantong.
The second time the anti-Japanese detachment was organized was in late March of the same year. The day after Chen Yusheng's troops were disarmed, the Japanese attacked Nantong, and they broke through some of them with their bare hands. But Chen Yusheng, who was bent on resisting Japan, was not discouraged, and he was determined to rebuild the anti-Japanese contingent; in late March, he organized the confiscation of the guns of the Kuomintang's grass-roots armed forces, united a group of local armed forces willing to resist Japan, and formed a larger contingent of 600 to 700 people than before. On July 12, when the new force was formed, he led his troops to attack the Japanese army in Jijia City at night, and pursued it to the county seat of Jingjiang County, forcing the Japanese army to abandon the city and flee.
In order to gain the legal status of the anti-Japanese resistance, Chen Yusheng led the team into the Tongru District Right Wing Headquarters of Zhang Gongren, and was organized into the second brigade of the third detachment of Zhang Bu, with Chen Yusheng as the captain of the brigade. However, because he was ostracized by the Kuomintang diehard Han Deloitte, Chen Yusheng led his troops to cooperate with the Kuomintang Li Mingyang department. In 1938, our party members went to Chen Yusheng's department to work. In February 1939, through the introduction of Hui Yuyu, secretary of the Cpc Northern Jiangsu Working Committee, and Jin Qiuzhen, a member of the COMMITTEE, Chen Yusheng joined the party and decided that Chen Yusheng was a special party member with a single-line contact. After joining the party, Chen Yusheng actively cooperated in rectifying the troops, so that the ministry was completely placed under the leadership of the party.
On May 17, 1940, more than 500 Japanese puppet troops swept the Wujia Bridge in Jiangdu, and the New Fourth Army advanced into a fierce battle with it, and the Japanese puppet army suffered heavy casualties. The Kuomintang diehard Han Deqin, chairman of Jiangsu Province, instigated Li Changjiang of Taizhou to gather thirteen regiments to attack Guocun. The advancing column and the Northern Jiangsu Special Committee sent an urgent telegram to Chen Yusheng, asking him to immediately lead an uprising. After the uprising, Chen Yusheng's department was incorporated into the Eighth Regiment of the Third Column of the New Fourth Army's Northern Jiangsu Command, and Chen Yusheng served as the deputy commander of the column.
So, why is Chen Yusheng called "Commander of Grass Shoes"?
It turned out that once in the middle of November 1939, when Chen Yusheng led his troops to transport bullets from Jiangnan to northern Jiangsu via Yangzhong, he met Chen Yi, commander of the New Fourth Army, and he asked to join the New Fourth Army. In the conversation, the sky was drifting with snowflakes, chen Yi walked to Chen Yusheng, bent down, pointed to his feet and asked: "Hey, the weather is so cold, why are you still barefoot and wear straw shoes?" ”
Chen Yusheng replied, "This is my habit. From the time I organized the guerrillas, I wore straw shoes barefoot all year round. ”
Chen Yi said: "Arduous struggle cannot bring down the body, on the contrary, we must exercise and love the body in the course of arduous struggle, and the body is the capital of the revolution!" He immediately assigned guards to the street to buy shoes and socks for Chen Yusheng to wear.
Commander Chen Yi's words and concern made Chen Yusheng moved to tears.
Since then, the name "Commander of Straw Shoes" has since spread among the troops and the masses.
After that, Chen Yusheng successively served as the brigade commander of the Independent Brigade of central Jiangsu and the deputy chief of staff of the Northern Jiangsu Corps (later changed to the Tenth Corps). After the founding of New China, Chen Yusheng successively served as the first deputy chief of staff of the Naval Headquarters of the East China Military Region and the vice chairman of the Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. But it is still almost harsh requirements to strictly demand themselves. He ate simply, and until his old age he maintained the habit of eating rice porridge when he was poor in his family; he dressed plainly, wearing cloth shoes and military uniforms all year round, and his clothes, shoes and socks were made up and made up. He did not smoke or drink alcohol in his life, and did not have any bad habits. Chen Yusheng died in 1994 at the age of 95.
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