The Nanchang Uprising fired the first shot of armed resistance to the Kuomintang's reactionary rule, marking the beginning of the Communist Party of China's independent creation of a revolutionary army and leadership of a revolutionary war, which is of great significance. Many people think that Mr. He fired the first shot of the Nanchang Uprising, but in fact, there is someone else, he is the protagonist of today's story, Ou Baichuan.
Ou Baichuan, born in 1894 into a peasant family, but his mother supported him to study, so he entered Guiyang Model Middle School in 1912 and returned to his hometown to teach after graduation. Until 1918, he was sent to the Guizhou Police Training Institute to study, after graduation he served as the leader of the security police, and later joined the Qian army as the regimental commander. In 1926, he was incorporated into the He Longbu and led the Northern Expedition, on the battlefield he was a pioneer, bare-chested charge, after the great victory, the boss He Xie personally draped it for him, excitedly said: "Baichuan, with you, I will not retreat!" ”
Later, Ou Baichuan followed Mr. He to participate in the famous Nanchang Uprising, which was planned to be at 4 a.m. on August 1, but because someone informed him, the uprising had to be advanced two hours. But in fact, at midnight, Ou Baichuan encountered the Nanchang government guards who wanted to escape, and had already exchanged fire with the enemy. As soon as the gunfire rang out, the rebels everywhere thought that the time had come to attack, so the real first shot was fired by him.
Later, when the strategy shifted, he insisted on the final retreat and was captured, and after escaping with tact, he went to many places to find General He and failed, and in order to temporarily escape the crisis, he defected to Luo Qijiang, a fellow of the Kuomintang independent division commander, as chief of staff. When Luo Qijiang was ordered to encircle and suppress the Red Army, he suggested: "The Communist Party is a new political party and the relying force of the Chinese revolution, and I am An old subordinate of He Long, and I must think of contacting him and not infringing on each other."
After Luo Qijiang's death in 1940, Ou Baichuan took over as the commander of the division, and since then he has been leading his army to fight against the Japanese army. However, the internal system of the Kuomintang was chaotic, and Chen Cheng wanted to absorb his army, so he organized reporters to expose his conspiracy, which completely offended Chen Cheng. Chen Cheng used all means to persecute him, and in desperation, he launched a mutiny and went to study at the Army University. After graduation, he served as a senior counselor in the Ministry of National Defense in Nanjing, but he had a premonition that civil war would start, so he lived in seclusion in Xiushan, Sichuan, and became a farmer.
Later, the Kuomintang was defeated and retreated, and the famous Kuomintang generals Li Mi and Song Xilian invited him out of the mountains one after another, but he had already seen the true face of the Kuomintang and politely refused.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Mr. He never forgot this old subordinate and personally invited him out of the mountain. This time to serve the party and the people, Ou Baichuan gladly agreed, and was appointed vice chairman of the Guizhou Provincial Ethnic Affairs Committee, and in 1953 he was appointed vice governor of Guizhou Province.
However, the special period was criticized for his past service in the Kuomintang army, and he died in Guiyang on September 1, 1970. In March 1979, the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China reaffirmed his contribution to the revolution and recognized his previous position.
The final outcome of such a general who had made great achievements in battle was regrettable, but fortunately, the country and the people did not forget him, restored his reputation, and comforted the general's spirit in heaven.