The Independent 7th Brigade of the Jizhong Military Region was established in 1947, and the brigade commanders and political commissars of the 7th Brigade are all people with stories.
Let's start with the brigadier general.
The brigade commander was xiao Xinhuai, a native of Yizhang, Hunan, but his journey to join the Red Army was quite arduous. At that time, he did not know which army was good, and when he joined the army, he also wanted to eat in order to have a full meal, but Xiao Xinhuai, who had just entered the army, could not stand the domineering style within the nationalist army, and arrived at the 2nd Division of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army within a month. However, the 2nd Division was quickly dispersed by the Nationalist army, and only Xiao Xinhuai and 500 other people broke through. In the following months, Xiao Xinhuai followed the team around to fight until one day, they heard that the team of Zhu Laozong, who led the Nanchang uprising, was also included in the battle sequence of Fan Shisheng's 16th Army, so they joined the sequence of the Nationalist army again.
In January 1928, Zhu Laozong and others led the troops to launch the Xiangnan Uprising, and Xiao Xinhuai also participated in the uprising and went to Jinggangshan with his troops, joining the Red Army for the second time. In the course of the revolution, Xiao Xinhuai grew up all the way, from a soldier of the Red Army to an outstanding military commander, successively serving as a squad leader, deputy squad leader, team leader, battalion commander, regiment commander, division commander of the Red Army, commander of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army, chief of staff of the military sub-district, commander of the 7th Brigade of the Jizhong Military Region, deputy commander and chief of staff of the Sixth Column of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, and commander of the 66th Army of the 20th Corps.
After the comprehensive liberation, followed by the outbreak of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Xiao Xinhuai was ordered to lead the 66th Army into the Korean War and returned to China at the end of 1951 to rest. Due to the long-term conquest, Xiao Xinhuai's physical condition was very bad, and many years of injuries and illnesses broke out at once, especially he suffered from serious bile duct disease, and began to have repeated attacks in the first stage of the Korean battlefield, and every attack was painful. The organization took into account Xiao Xinhuai's body, so in 1953, he was allowed to go home and recuperate.
A general who once commanded thousands of troops and horses returned to his hometown very low-key, and the local organization gave him guards, but he refused; in terms of living materials, he gave him a tilt, he refused; some people gave gifts, he refused, and he always maintained the original intention of a revolutionary soldier.
One day in 1955, Xiao Xinhuai, an ordinary man who was already unofficial and unemployed, received a telegram from Beijing asking him to attend the award ceremony, and it turned out that Xiao Xinhuai had been awarded the rank of lieutenant general. After that, Xiao Xinhuai once served as the commander of the Shanxi Provincial Military Region, but he still resigned from his post due to physical reasons and returned to his hometown to recuperate. On August 2, 1980, General Xiao Xinhuai died at the age of 73.
Having said that the brigade commander of the 7th Independent Brigade, let me tell you the story of the political commissar, what is his touching story?
The political commissar's name was Ma Zeying, and he was a native of Xingguo, Jiangxi.
Political Commissar Ma joined the Red Army in 1929 and served as the commander of the artillery company of the 8th Division of the Red 3rd Army, the company instructor of the 4th Regiment of the 2nd Division of the 1st Red Army, the instructor of the regimental health team, and the secretary of the general branch of the division. His touching story begins with the instructor of the ren regimental health team.
This was when the Red Army crossed the Chishui River in four directions, and the Red Army faced the encirclement and blockade of more than 100,000 enemy troops, and the battle was extremely fierce, and the casualties on both sides were very large.
On the evening of this day, two Hmong women carried a wounded Red Army soldier to the regimental headquarters health team. After they put down the wounded, they kept speaking the Hmong language that even Ma Zeying could not understand. One of the Hmong women took a baby under the age of one year from the wounded man's arms, and Ma Zeying sensed that they were talking about the child. But the wounded man with the child was not a female Red Army, but a gay man.
At this time, Mr. Zhu also happened to come to the health team, and he immediately found someone who understood Hmong, and after some translation, he finally understood. It turned out that the child's mother was a Red Army propagandist, but she died in the battle, so the father of the Red Army soldier took the son to fight, but the father of the child was also seriously injured, dying, and in a coma.
After some rescue, my father finally woke up. He barely opened his eyes, looked at Ma Zeying, made a faint voice, and said: Comrade, I am almost dead, but I can't put this child down, can I give the child to... Entrust you... Being a child... father......
After the Red Army martyrs were entrusted with orphans on their deathbed, they touched all the people present, and after paying tribute to the martyrs, They said to Ma Zeying that entrusting his children to you before his death was a trust and expectation for you, and from now on, you are the father of this child, and you must take him well.
But at this time, Ma Zeying is a 22-year-old young man, but also to bring a baby, not to say that in the war years of war, even in the current peace era, to bring a baby, it is also a very difficult thing for a boy. However, Ma Zeying still took the child from The hand of Mr. Zhu without hesitation.
The battlefield was greeted by the lonely Ma Ze and ushered in a long march. During the Long March, Ma Zeying carried the child on his back while rescuing the wounded, and when he had a bite to eat, he always gave it to the child first, of course, the comrades-in-arms would also save some rations for the child, and in this way, Ma Zeying finally carried the martyr's orphan to Yan'an.
Ma Zeying's deeds of adopting martyrs' orphans have long been passed down as a good story in the whole army, and his deeds have touched many people, especially Guo Zhiyong, a female classmate of Hebei who was studying at Yan'an Kang University at that time, who took the initiative to send a message of love to Ma Zeying, and then took on the responsibility of raising martyrs' orphans together with Ma Zeying.
Ma Zeying served as the political commissar of the 20th Brigade of the 7th Column, the political commissar of the 206th Division of the 69th Army, and the political commissar of the 5th Division of the Air Force Aviation Corps, and was awarded the rank of major general in 1955 and died on June 17, 1974.