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Among the early generals of the Red Army, Gong Chu was a very important, even major, figure.
As early as 1917, when others were still in school, when they were teachers and traveled to Europe, Gong Chu had already followed Dr. Sun Yat-sen and served in the Guangdong Army. In 1924, Gong Chu, who was already a staff officer of the major, joined the Chinese Socialist Youth League and became a party member a year later.
After that, Gong Chu engaged in the work of the agricultural movement and became one of the three main leaders of the agricultural movement work in the early days of our party, the other two being Peng Pan in the Hailufeng area, and one later became the leader of our party.
In 1927, Gong Chu successively led his troops to participate in the Nanchang Uprising, the Autumn Harvest Uprising, and the Guangzhou Uprising, and was one of the rare generals among the early leaders of our army who participated in the three uprisings.
In April 1928, Gong Chu went to Jinggangshan with Zhu De's troops to participate in the Jinggangshan Meeting. After this meeting, the newly established Red 4th Army set up a committee of former enemies, composed of zhumao gong and gong, and Gong Chu became the third person in the Zhumao Red Army.
After that, Gong Chu went to Guangxi as a military commissioner to plot against Li Mingrui and led the Baise Uprising with Deng, Zhang and others. During this period, Gong Chu, who was in full bloom, married his wife, and Deng was his main marriage.
In 1931, Gong Chu served as the commander of the Red 7 army and fought a bloody battle against the recalcitrant army in the Gannan region. At this time, Li Mingrui, who was rebelled against by Gong Chu, was killed by his own people, which made Gong Chu feel cold. Later, he himself was demoted from commander to regimental commander because of the mistake of "right opportunism".
In 1934, Liu Bocheng recuperated from illness and Gong Chu acted as chief of the general staff of the Red Army. After that, the Red Army began the Long March, and Gong Chu was ordered to stay behind, and was the second person who remained in the legion, responsible for military command, and the first was Xiang Ying, the deputy commander of the New Fourth Army.
On May 2, 1935, Gong Chu broke away from his unit and went to the Yu Han Mou Department of the Yue Army to serve as the commander of the bandits. In the years that followed, Gong Chu used his knowledge of the Red Army to repeatedly attack the Remaining Red Army, and once almost wrapped dumplings for Lao Tong Ying and Chen Yi.
After that, Gong Chu participated in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and fought against the Japanese army in the Fifth Theater. He was ordered to lead his troops to garrison the Longhai Line and prevent the Japanese army from invading the three towns of Wuhan; in the Battle of Muhuling, Gong Chu led his troops to attack the Japanese army, defend Ganzhou, and became a famous anti-Japanese general.
From general to rich merchant
In 1949, when the old Chiang Kai-shek was gone, Gong Chu, who was fighting guerrillas in his hometown of Lechang, decided to surrender to our party. Later, on the orders of Ye Jianying, he went to Hainan and surrendered Xue Yue, but on the way he changed his mind and fled to Hong Kong.
After Lao Jiang learned that Gong Chu was living in seclusion in Hong Kong, he summoned him specifically and promised him with the high-ranking official Houlu to ask him to return to the mainland to carry out Lao Jiang's plan of restoration. Gong Chu spent half his life fighting horses, tired of the deceit of political struggle, and rejected Old Chiang on the grounds of illness.
Since then, Gong Chu, who is good at business, has devoted himself to doing business in Hong Kong and cultivating his children. In the past few decades, the Gong family's business has become bigger and bigger, and Gong Chu has transformed from a politician to a wealthy businessman. During this period, Gong Chu also applied for a green card from the United States, but after arriving in the United States, because of his poor English learning, he could not integrate into the local Chinese society and had to return to Hong Kong to settle down.
Return to your hometown to invest as a patriotic overseas Chinese
In the 1980s, China's great cause of reform and opening up was in ruins, commercial exchanges between the mainland and Hong Kong became frequent, and local businessmen in Lechang traveled to and from Hong Kong, met Gong Chu, the legendary old ancestor, and sincerely invited him to return to his hometown as soon as possible.
But Gong Chu maintained a certain degree of caution about this matter, and he was afraid of being liquidated because of his historical problems. Another thing he has always been worried about is that the Lechang people once dug up the ancestral grave of the Gong family in the 60s and 70s of the last century, which was a great shame and humiliation in Gong Chu's view, and he was full of prejudices against the people in his hometown.
That was until 1990. The mainland's policy toward Hong Kong and Taiwan businessmen has been further relaxed, and it has declared in law that it will no longer pursue historical issues and will no longer settle old accounts. At this time, Gong Chu, who was already 90 years old and full of illness, really longed to go back to his hometown to see, and the fallen leaves returned to their roots.
After much deliberation, Gong Chu finally decided to return to his hometown. Left and right are all this old bone, what else can you do with me? ------ with this feeling, Gong Chu sent a letter to deng, Yang, and Wang's former colleagues in Beijing, telling them about their return to their hometown. At the end, he was still not at ease, and the trustee sent a telegram to Deng Ban.
On September 13, 1990, Gong Chu returned to Lechang, Guangdong Province, where he had been away for more than 40 years. In order to welcome this "rich merchant" fellow, Lechang rebuilt the ancestral tomb for Gong Chu and restored Gong Chu's old residence for him to live in.
A few days later, news from The Deng Office in Beijing arrived, inviting Gong Chu to Beijing to attend the Political Consultative Conference. However, Gong Chuwan refused the invitation, saying that he himself was back to retire, not an official.
Gong Chu has since settled in Lechang. Due to Gong Chu's strong appeal in the hometown association, many compatriots who were abroad came back to invest, playing an exemplary and leading role in the local economic construction of Lechang.
In July 1995, Gong Chu died in his hometown at the age of 95.