In 1955, the Republic conferred the rank of General, and only fifty-five members of the army were awarded the rank of general. And every general who can become a general is a person who has made outstanding contributions to the cause of the Chinese revolution and liberation. The protagonist of our story today is a legendary hero who was wounded more than a dozen times in battle and lost his right arm. He is the founding general He Bingyan, what are his legendary experiences? What is the current situation of his children? This issue of the Big Historical Figures column is an exclusive secret for you.
He Bingyan was born on February 5, 1913 in Songzi, Hubei Province. The impoverished family environment forced him to take on the responsibilities of the family early, and as if to hone the will of the future general, heaven took away her mother when he was nine years old. Having lost his mother at an early age, he was dependent on his father, and he herded cattle for the landlord's family, apprenticed himself to a master smith, and played iron with a master of iron. The difficult conditions not only did not crush him, but honed his will. As the old saying goes, "Therefore the heavens will descend upon the Scythians, and they will first suffer their hearts and minds, and work their bones and bones." Born into poverty, he was willing to fight for his poor compatriots. At the age of sixteen, he joined the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army led by Mr. He with his father, and joined the Communist Party of China in June of the same year, beginning his revolutionary career. By the age of twenty-two in 1935 he was commander of the Fifth Division of the Red Second Army, and he had been wounded six times. This time the battle took away one of the young general's arms, intending to crush his will. But he, without any narcotics, had the soldier saw off his already necrotic arm with a saw of sawing wood. Once again, he fought against fate with his actions.
After the founding of new China, he served as the commander of the Sichuan Military Region, and in 1955, in recognition of He Bingyan's great contribution to the cause of China's revolution and liberation, the Central Military Commission awarded him the rank of general. As a general, he did not regard himself as a hero in a high position, and he lived frugally and distinguished between public and private. Once, when his guards used the bus equipped by the state to pick up his children from school, He Bingyan was furious, severely accused the guards of this behavior, and warned the guards not to act in the future. Saying that he took out some money and asked the guard to hand it to the driver, saying that it was the cost of fuel for picking up the children, his noble personality was evident. The accumulated old wounds gradually appeared after he entered middle age, but his body in his forties was like twilight old age, like a candle in front of the wind, like a lamp in the rain.
Finally, his body was already overwhelmed, and he lay down on the hospital bed, and the doctor in charge of seeing him prescribed medicine to him and told him to eat more fruits and other things containing vitamins. His guards recorded one by one, and planned to buy some fruits for the general to supplement his body, but he did not want to go out of the hospital, so he said to the guards: "What fruit to eat, rough tea and light rice in the years of war can survive well, and now it is rice that needs to be supplemented with what nutrition." Is it that he really doesn't want to eat, in fact, the old general has donated all his salary, and he is reluctant to spend this money for himself. In July 1960, when the summer wind had just blown across the land of New China, General He Bingyan died of illness at the age of forty-seven.
General He Bingyan raised six children, and his two wives bore him three sons and three daughters. The eldest son, He Leisheng, was born in Yan'an with his first wife, and under his influence, he also engaged in revolutionary causes. The second son, He Lingsheng, was a colonel who served as the director of the Armed Police Officer Academy. The old Man Mika Kyosheng engaged in literary and artistic work and chose his hobby profession. The eldest daughter was named He Leizhen and later engaged in ordinary work. Old Wuhe Beisheng and Old Liuhe Yansheng were both rich in artistic cells and engaged in literary and artistic work.
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