Speaking of Zhao Zilong in the Three Kingdoms period, everyone knows that no one knows, Nagasaka Slope has been passed down through the ages, and a thousand years later, there was also a "Zhao Zilong" in the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and this person was Zhou Xihan, who made the Japanese army afraid.
Zhou Xihan, a native of Shunhe Town, Macheng, Hubei Province, took part in the Jute Uprising in 1927 at the age of 14, thus embarking on the revolutionary road, and the following year he became a Red Army soldier and joined the party, when he was a communication squad leader in the ranks.
In 1932, the enemy launched the fourth "encirclement and suppression" against the Eyu-Anhui base area, when Zhang Guotao despised the enemy, did not make preparations for the war, and sent the troops to fight Macheng.
As a result, Macheng did not come down, the enemy's "encirclement and suppression" was also defeated, the base area was threatened, and many soldiers had opinions on losing the battle, Zhou Xihan could not help but grumble and say "blind command", but he did not expect that this word reached Zhang Guotao's ears.
Unexpectedly, Zhou Xihan was locked up the next day, and was described by Zhang Guotao as a "counter-revolutionary" who planned to shoot him, thanks to Xu Xiangqian's help to explain, he saved Zhou Xihan's life, and Zhou Xihan's kindness to Xu Shuai has always been remembered.
Xu Shuai saved Zhou Xihan, and during the anti-Japanese period Zhou Xihan saved Liu Shuai Liu Bocheng, that is, in 1940, the Eighth Route Army came to a hundred regiments war against the Japanese army, the first stage successfully paralyzed the Japanese-controlled Zhengtai Line railway, the Japanese army was annoyed and sent troops to retaliate.
At that time, the headquarters of the 129th Division was under the fierce attack of the Japanese army, and there was only one guard battalion that could be mobilized by the division commander Liu Bocheng, and the situation could be said to have reached a critical juncture, under the indiscriminate bombardment of Japanese aircraft artillery, the Yangerling Heights near the division headquarters were occupied by the Japanese army.
Liu Shuai was suffering from no troops to adjust, and he couldn't figure out that the headquarters was going to be put in a pot by the Japanese army, and suddenly heard that Zhou Xihan had arrived with his troops and was fighting with the Japanese army for the Yangerling Heights, Liu Shuai Fang breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Well, this is Zhao Zilong coming!" ”
Zhou Xihan bravely recaptured the Yangerling Heights from the Japanese army, and blocked the Japanese army on the position until dark, and all the personnel of the organs were safely transferred.
In the autumn of 1940, Zhou Xihan was appointed as the commander of the detachment of the Taiyue Military Region, and he led the troops to actively carry out guerrilla warfare and repelled dozens of "sweeps" of the Japanese army.
Even took the initiative to attack the small units of the Japanese army, the little devils and the puppet army were afraid of acting alone, and regarded Zhou Xihan as a "god of death", whoever was unlucky enough to encounter it would be killed, and there was a song and ballad in the Taiyue base area, "Little devils are big bad, go out and meet Zhou Xihan." ”
In the Liberation War, Zhou Xihan was even more remarkable, he served as the commander of the Second Field Army, and created a brilliant record of capturing 61 Kuomintang generals in a series of battles, and in 1955, Zhou Xihan was awarded the rank of lieutenant general.