When it comes to the founding general Xu Shiyou, almost everyone knows. He is a famous general of our army, known for his bravery in battle, and during the Red Army period, he participated in the death squad 7 times and served as the captain of the death squad 4 times. We often say what kind of soldiers will be brought, under the influence of Xu Shiyou, even the service soldiers and signal soldiers around him have become masters of fighting for the sword, and when they fight a war, they will scream and pounce. Such a fierce force, which way do you say the enemy is not afraid?
It is precisely because of this that Xu Shiyou has produced many talents under him, and there are several who are generals, and even some people have chased him in rank, and they are also generals. However, among these people, there was only one person who later became Xu Shiyou's superior, and he was Chen Haisong, the most experienced military cadre in the history of our army. Chen Haisong is a native of Hubei Province, whose mother died at a very young age and grew up under the care of his aunt. In July 1930, Chen Haisong joined the Red Army and served as a service soldier for the regimental commander Xu Shiyou.
At that time, Xu Shiyou was 25 years old and Chen Haisong was 16 years old, although the difference between the two was 9 years, but they were very compatible. In his free time, Xu Shiyou taught Chen Haisong to learn to march and fight, chen Haisong was very smart, and he knew everything. A year later, Xu Shiyou was transferred to the Red 25th Division, while Chen Haisong remained in the Red 12th Division, and the two were separated. Shortly thereafter, Chen Haisong went down to the combat company, and because of his bravery in combat and good use of strategy, he was soon promoted to the instructor of the machine gun company.
Chen Haisong is a natural political worker, very good at organization, a material can grasp the main points at a glance, but also can explain it in the most attractive way, so it is very popular with the soldiers. There are many fierce generals in the Red Quadripartite Army who can fight, but there are not many outstanding political workers like Chen Haisong, so he has made very rapid progress, and he became the political commissar of the regiment at the age of 18. The development and growth of the Red Army caused panic in the Sichuan Army, and at the end of 1932, the Sichuan warlord Tian Songyao mobilized 38 regiments of troops to launch a three-way siege of the Red Fourth Front.
The Red Army rose up to resist, and after nearly three months of bitter fighting, it not only successfully repelled the enemy, but also grew to more than 80,000 troops. Chen Haisong also made many achievements in this counter-siege and was appointed by his superiors as the political commissar of the Red 25th Division. Who was the commander of the Red 25th Division at that time? He was None other than Chen Haisong's old superior, Xu Shiyou. A few months later, the enemy once again launched a siege against the Red Fourth Front, this time the commander-in-chief was replaced by Liu Xiang, who divided more than 200,000 people into six roads to attack our army, of which the battle of Wanyuan was the most fierce.
In order to capture this strategic point, the enemy concentrated more than 6 brigades to launch round after round of attacks on the Red 25th Division. Although the strength of the troops was far inferior to that of the enemy army, the Red 25th Division, under the leadership of Xu Shiyou and Chen Haisong, fought extremely tenaciously, and fought with the enemy for 135 days to ensure that the position was not lost, and made extremely important contributions to the victory of the anti-six-way siege. After the war, Xu Shiyou was promoted to deputy commander of the Red 9 Army, and Chen Haisong was appointed political commissar of the Red 9 Army, when he had just turned 20 years old, thus becoming the most experienced military cadre in the history of the Red Army. On March 12, 1937, Chen Haisong led the Red 9th Army to die in the bloody battle between Liyuankou and Majiajun, at the age of 23.
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