Nearly a hundred years ago, there was a family surnamed Wang in the town of Chengmagang in Macheng City, Hubei Province.
Their ancestors moved from Jiangxi to the depths of the Dabie Mountains in Hubei four or five hundred years ago.
The courage and boldness in the bones of this family continues from generation to generation.
So when the revolution came, there were nearly 20 people in the family.
There is not a single greedy person who is afraid of death, and everyone, men, women and children, participates in the war
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Among them, the vast majority of them died early before liberation, and only two survived the brutal revolutionary struggle.
These two were cousins of the same great-grandfather,
Wang Shusheng and Wang Hongkun
Both were under the age of 20 when they joined the revolution.
Wang Shusheng in his youth
The first martyr of the Wang family was Wang Shusheng's elder brother
Wang You'an
He was arrested while escorting guns for the jute rebel forces and died heroically at the gunpoint of the Kuomintang reactionaries.
Under the influence of their brothers, Wang Shusheng and Wang Hongkun became more active in the armed struggle.
After the jute uprising, Wang Shusheng, 22, led an armed group of peasants into the ground
Continue to fight guerrillas
His younger brother Wang Hongkun also joined the peasant volunteer team
Entering the deep mountains and old forests to continue the struggle
In the days of the White Terror, the heroic deeds of more than a dozen revolutionary fighters of the Wang family soon attracted the cruel revenge of the landlords' homecoming regiment.
The Wang family mansion was burned to the ground in a fire, and Wang Shusheng's younger brother was also crippled.
The brothers were furious, and one resolutely led
Red army
Opening up the base area, one "stealth" to one
Gui miscellaneous team
Junior high school main thing.
Landlords' homecoming regiment
In July 1928, the first Red Army team of Eyuwan was established.
Wang Shusheng
Served as the first team in this team of more than a hundred people
Party representative.
On this day, a man dressed in a clearly different way from the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army came into the ranks.
The warriors looked at the man's demeanor from a distance, thinking that the comers were not good, and flocked to them.
The man was pushed and shoved by the crowd, and he was not angry, but only kept looking in the crowd, as if he was looking for someone.
"Hongkun!"
The captain and the party representative came,
Wang Shusheng recognized his brother at once
He lovingly took his hand and explained to the crowd:
"This is my brother Wang Hongkun, our family's house was burned by the enemy, and he also ran to become a soldier after the defeat of the revolution."
Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army
In this way, Wang Hongkun joined the ranks of the Red Army.
In the evening of the same day, this young Red Army detachment was attacked by the enemy.
Wang Hongkun dared to be the first
The first rushed into the enemy group, and then the nearby peasant armed forces heard the sound of gunfire and rushed to support.
Wang Hongkun was wounded on his first day in the Red Army.
He was shot in the forehead, but he still insisted on breaking the back
He fought and retreated with his comrades-in-arms on his back, and finally returned to the base area safely with his comrades-in-arms.
After this battle, Wang Hongkun was recognized by everyone in the army, and in the following year he repeatedly made military achievements.
Soon he became a platoon leader.
In 1930, the First Red Army was founded. Wang Hongkun followed the commander
Xu Jishen
Heading east to western Anhui, Wang Shusheng followed the deputy commander
Xu Xiangqian
Head towards Jinghan Road.
There are no weak soldiers under the strong general
Not to mention that Wang Shusheng himself was brave and good at war, and after following Xu Qianqian to fight, his military command ability was even more so
Rapid.
In the Red Fourth Front, he fought countless hard battles and brought out units with extremely strong combat effectiveness, such as the Red First Regiment, the Red Twenty-eighth Regiment, and the Red Thirty-third Regiment.
Have the courage to attack strong points and fight hard battles
, Wang Hongkunze
Good at detours, can fight guerrillas
In the winter of the same year, in the first anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, Wang Hongkun led his troops to block the enemy's retreat, and then ordered the various units of the Red Army to intersperse among the enemy groups.
Divide enemy groups into several pieces
The enemy's command failed, and he could not escape or fight, so he had to surrender his weapons and surrender.
In the end, the Red Army captured more than 5,000 enemy soldiers and captured more than 2,000 guns, and won an unprecedented victory for the Eyu-Anhui military and people in the "anti-" encirclement and suppression.
History is called "Shuangqiao Town Victory".
From left: Wang Hongkun, Zheng Weisan, Xu Haidong, Ni Zhiliang
In 1936,
Wang Shusheng accompanied the army on the western expedition and served as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Western Route Army.
In the bitter battle with Ma Jiajun, Wang Shusheng kept fighting and fighting, and several times fell into the predicament of running out of ammunition and food.
After the fierce battle, most of the soldiers died on the battlefield, and Wang Shusheng led more than a hundred people to highlight the Qilian Mountain.
Along the way, there were fewer and fewer people who followed him, and finally he was the only one who returned to Yan'an alive.
Wang Hongkun, who was the political commissar of the Red Fourth Army at the time, had been following the main force and did not participate in the Western Route Army, and he was emotional after learning the news of his brother's safe return.
The two brothers were reunited again.
In the revolutionary war, the two brothers bravely retreated from the enemy on their respective battlefields and made great contributions to the rise of New China.
Wang Hongkun, Wang Shusheng
In 1955, the two stood proudly on the podium,
Wang Shusheng was awarded the rank of General and Wang Hongkun was awarded the rank of General
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wang Shusheng successively served as commander of the Hubei Provincial Military Region and director of the General Ordnance Department of the Central Military Commission.
The revolutionary experience of the early years became the construction of the great general
New China's ordnance industry
Under his leadership, the new Chinese ordnance industry has achieved a qualitative leap from zero to one.
On the other hand, his younger brother Wang Hongkun was personally appointed by Chairman Mao and became the new China
People's Navy
The first deputy commander contributed his life's energy to the construction of the navy.
The royal family is full of loyal martyrs
The two generals came from the flames of war and witnessed the development of New China with their own eyes, and presumably the spirits of more than a dozen martyrs of the Wang family could rest in peace.
Text/Wood In-Green
Reference: "Party History"