As one of the most famous military schools in modern China, the Whampoa Military Academy was established by the Kuomintang of China and the government of the Republic of China to train officers for the National Revolution, and was the main military force of the Nationalist Government in the Northern Expedition to unify China.
It can be said that the Whampoa Military Academy has trained many commanders who are famous in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the Kuomintang-Communist Civil War, and even 5 of the 10 people who were awarded the rank of marshal at the 1955 award ceremony were from the Whampoa Military Academy.
Many of the founding generals were also high-caliber students of the Whampoa Military Academy. Shawke was among them. After graduating, he participated in the Northern Expedition, accompanied the National Revolutionary Army in Jiangxi, Zhejiang and other places, but after Chiang Kai-shek's rebellion against the revolution, he threw himself into the torrent of armed resistance against the Kuomintang opposition.
Realizing that only a proletarian revolution could dispel the darkness of old China, he resolutely revolted to Jinggangshan, joined the Communist Party of China, and later established his position as a general by virtue of his victory in two battles.
Accompanied the Northern Expedition of the National Revolutionary Army
In July 1907, Xiao Ke was born in a poor family of scholars in Tiancun, Xiaojie Tian village, Pantou Township, Jiahe County, Hunan Province. The four generations of ancestors have been readers, and many people have made a living by teaching. Under such circumstances, even if the family is poor and life is difficult, Xiao Ke still follows the pace of his family and embarks on the road of study.
From an early age, Xiao Ke was sent to a private school in the village to study, and lived a life of studying while herding cattle and mowing grass. Diligent and studious, he has also maintained excellent results in such a difficult day of half-work and half-study.
The principal, who was very optimistic about him, often looked for opportunities to help Shaw in the school to relieve his pressure on tuition and food.
In this way, Xiao Ke was admitted to the local normal school all the way, and after graduating at the age of 18, he was inspired by the revolution, abandoned his pen and threw himself into the revolutionary tide.
In 1926, Xiao Ke, who came to Guangzhou, was admitted to the Gendarmerie Training Institute of the Military Commission of the National Government, where he received formal military education. Soon after, Xiao Ke's military police instructor was incorporated into the Whampoa Military Academy, and Xiao Ke became one of the forces of the Nationalist government's Northern Expedition.
After graduating from the Whampoa Military Academy, Xiao Ke embarked on the road of following the revolutionary army's southern expedition to the North and made great achievements. In a very dangerous and difficult environment, he never stopped learning, and even wrote a 400,000-word first draft of primary school on the way to the march.
Xiao Ke thought that in the days to come, he would also work with countless companions of the Kuomintang to dedicate his greatest strength to saving the country. But what he didn't expect was that such a belief had changed drastically after he received the letter from his cousin.
In his letter, his cousin thoroughly exposed chiang kai-shek's rebellion against the revolution in front of Xiao Ke, who was in the dark, and made him firm in his idea of not colluding with Chiang Kai-shek.
Joined the Communist Party of China
After learning about Xiao Ke's attitude and having two meetings with him, Director Chen Xinglin left him in ye Tingbu's 71st Regiment and 3rd re-election as a political instructor. Since then, Xiao Ke has become a member of the "Iron Army".
After Chiang Kai-shek joined forces with several counter-revolutionary incidents and wantonly killed revolutionary progressives, Xiao Ke was even more determined to follow our Party. Always adhering to his original beliefs, he embarked on a journey to fight for the cause of communism by participating in the Nanchang Uprising.
The change in political stance made Xiao Ke begin to face the counterattack of his former comrades-in-arms on the battlefield, but he knew that the Kuomintang reactionaries, who had deviated from their original intentions, could not bring new dawn to China in the end.
Therefore, after being frantically pursued by the Nationalist army and losing contact with the troops, he always maintained a spirit of not being discouraged because he remembered the true meaning of the revolution, and he did not lose confidence in the future of the party and the revolution. Instead, he took the initiative to contact the local party organization and led the team to rejoin the counterattack against the enemy.
In 1928, Xiao Ke, who was a guerrilla leader in Yizhang County, heard that the Nanchang Uprising troops led by Zhu Laozong had arrived in Shonan, actively contacted them, and expressed a strong desire to join his troops to continue the revolutionary struggle. In this way, Xiao Ke was accepted by Mr. Zhu and appointed as the deputy battalion commander of the independent battalion.
After the Shonan Rebellion, Xiao Ke and his independent battalion took on the responsibility of finding a safe route for the rebels and finding out the areas where other revolutionary teams were active on the march. When he led the team to patrol near Longxi Cave in Zixing County, he encountered the Red Army of Jinggangshan led by the chairman. The two teams were able to meet.
Xiao Ke, who played a key role in the Jinggangshan Hui division, was also able to serve as a company commander of the newly formed Fourth Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, under the jurisdiction of Zhu Laozong, a military commander.
Both battles are won
Soon, Shaw was greeted with his first major challenge as a company commander.
At that time, the Kuomintang army, fearing that our party's revolutionary base areas were gradually expanding, sent two elite units in a vain attempt to encircle and suppress our army. Xiao Ke, a company commander of the Fourth Army, was ordered to block the enemy near the village of Huang'ao.
When he detected that the enemy was close to the mouth of the village, Xiao Ke immediately reported to his superiors and made a request to take advantage of the fact that the enemy had just arrived. However, because the specific situation in the front was unknown at that time, his superiors did not immediately approve his request for battle.
Xiao Ke, who had accumulated a lot of experience in the Northern Expedition, was very clear that the fighter plane was fleeting, and only by attacking it unexpectedly and unprepared could the enemy be suppressed as quickly as possible and gain time for the support of the follow-up troops. Therefore, he again asked his superiors to fight immediately, and finally the superiors allowed it.
After receiving the order to fight the forward, Xiao Ke immediately led the whole company and two other brother companies to fight against the enemy. Sure enough, under the sudden attack of Xiao Ke and others, the unsuspecting enemy army was confused, and in a short period of time, there were serious casualties.
After that, Shaw led his warriors to launch a charge against the village, and in less than 20 minutes, completely destroyed the enemy's forwards, eliminated more than 100 enemy troops, and captured more than 40 people.
This way of fighting left a deep impression on Mr. Zhu and also allowed Xiao Ke to accumulate a lot of military feats. Later, Shaw was promoted to battalion commander of a battalion.
This promotion did not make Shaw proud, on the contrary, he was more cautious and serious. Because he knew that from this time on, the responsibility on his shoulders would be heavier and the task would be more arduous.
10 days later, Xiao Ke received an order from Mr. Zhu himself to lead the first battalion to begin guarding the red army's primary position in the New Seven Streams Ridge, Taishan Pavilion.
After being stationed at Taishan Pavilion, Xiao Ke began to observe the surrounding terrain and formulate strategies against the enemy. He found that there was only one winding mountain road to the entire position to travel, and if the enemy wanted to attack, he was bound to take this road.
To this end, Xiao Ke began to arrange for the warriors to build fortifications on both sides of the mountain beam, concentrating the main fire on both sides of the mountain road. In this way, once the war broke out, the first battalion was able to slow down the pace of the enemy's attack as quickly as possible.
In addition, in order to increase the firepower of the first battalion, Mr. Zhu also left two rare mortars to the first battalion, which greatly enhanced Xiao Ke's confidence in blocking the enemy.
After Xiao Ke led the army to prepare for defense and attack, the enemy also arrived under the Taishan Pavilion. They also had rich combat experience, and after knowing that there was only one way to travel, they quickly realized that there must be an ambush around them. Therefore, before launching a charge, they first used their cannons to sweep the mountain beams on both sides.
This has inevitably ushered in a number of casualties in our army. But the large army forces were still carrying out the next plan as usual, lurking and waiting for the enemy to come forward.
Sure enough, after the enemy attacked the mountain with heavy artillery fire, it relaxed its vigilance and thought that the victory was already in hand. When they were only eight meters away from our position, the soldiers of our army, who had already aimed at the enemy army, began to fire at the enemy's charging team under the order of Xiao Ke.
Faced with the disparity between the enemy and us, Xiao Ke always led his troops to hold their positions, and in the fierce artillery fire, he fought with the soldiers of the first battalion for more than two hours, which won valuable time for the attack of the brother troops.
It was also from this time that Xiao Ke's excellent military command ability was fully revealed in front of everyone.
brief summary:
The victory of the two battles made Xiao Ke more and more affirmed and recognized by his superiors, and he gained a greater platform for display in the days to come. At the 1955 awarding ceremony, Xiao Ke, who had made great contributions to the establishment of a new China, was awarded the rank of general.