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General He Jinnian was a hero of the suppression of bandits, and when he was in the revolutionary base area of northern Shaanxi, he beat the bandits around him to death, lost his soul, and fled in all directions.
Later, when he arrived on the battlefield in the northeast, in the early stage of the war, the bandits in the northeast had 300,000 people, and the activities were still very rampant; in order to crack down on the bandits and consolidate the achievements of the revolutionary base areas, He Jinnian was transferred to the commander of the Hejiang Provincial Military Region.
He Jinnian, born in 1910 in Hejiawan, Anding County, Shaanxi Province, was one of the founders of the Red Army in northern Shaanxi, and was formerly the deputy commander of the armored corps of the Central Military Commission (the post of Zhengda Military Region), and was awarded the rank of major general in 1955.
He Jinnian was also a small intellectual in the Red Army in northern Shaanxi, he studied at Suide Normal In 1927, during which time he read progressive books, pursued truth, participated in the peasant struggle against hunger led by the Communist Party of China, joined the Communist Party of China in February 1928, and from 1929 was successively sent to the warlord troops in Shaanxi and Gansu to do military movement work.
In March 1932, after joining the third detachment of the Shaanxi-Gansu guerrilla brigade of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army as the deputy commander of the cavalry brigade, he went to work in the Lanzhou Public Security Bureau due to the failure of the troops.
In June 1934, he was appointed as the political commissar of the first detachment of the Northern Shaanxi Guerrillas of the Red Army.
In September 1935, the Red Army in northern Shaanxi and the Red 25th Army led by Xu Haidong established the 15th Corps after meeting the division in northern Shaanxi, and he served as the commander of the 81st Division, and in May 1936, he went to the first phase of the Red Army University to study.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as the commander of the First Regiment of the Eighth Route Army's Left Guard Corps, and led his troops to the three-sided area to suppress the bandits, so that the local bandits had no way to escape, and they surrendered their weapons one after another.
In 1939, he also served as the commander of the Trilateral Military Sub-district, and in June 1942, he was appointed as the commander of the Third Brigade of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Jinsui Joint Defense Army, in 1943, he entered the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and attended the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 1945.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he was sent to the northeast; at that time, the bandits in Hejiang Province in the northeast were in serious trouble, and Jia Jinnian was sent to the northeast to lead the work of suppressing bandits; he cooperated closely with Zhang Wentian, secretary of the Hejiang Provincial CPC Committee, adopted the steps of pursuing and fiercely attacking with all means, destroying the bandits' secret camps, leading the troops to carry forward the continuous pursuit, not being afraid of the arduous fighting style, wiping out the bandit armed forces in Hejiang Province cleanly, and effectively ensuring that the Hejiang base areas carried out campaigns to suppress bandits and oppose hegemony and land reform, and supported front-line operations.
After the bandits were suppressed, in May 1947, he served as the commander of the cavalry column of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army, participated in the battle against Siping, and in August of the same year, he was appointed deputy commander of the 7th Column, and in August 1948, he was appointed commander of the 11th Column.
He led the troops to participate in the Northeast Autumn, Winter Offensive and Liaoshen Campaign and Pingjin Campaign in 1947.
In April 1949, he served as the second deputy commander of the 15th Corps of the Fourth Field Army and the commander of the 48th Army, leading his troops south to Jiangxi, and in October he was also the commander of the Gannan Military Region and the secretary of the Gannan District Party Committee.
During the Liberation War, he successively served as the commander of the Hejiang Military Region, the commander of the column of the Northeast Field Army, and the deputy commander of the 15th Corps, and participated in the battles of Liaoshen, Pingjin, and Xianggan.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he suppressed bandits in Jiangxi, at this time, Gao Gang, secretary of the Northeast Bureau and commander of the Northeast Military Region, asked that He Jinnian be transferred to the Northeast Military Region to work.
In June 1950, He Jinnian was transferred from Jiangxi in the Spring of the Southern Kingdom to the Northeast Military Region, where he served as the first deputy commander and chief of staff of the Northeast Military Region, as well as the commander of the garrison of the Northeast Military Region, the commander of the air defense force, and the commander of the armored corps.
Participated in organizing rear support for the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
During his work in the Northeast Military Region, he held many posts and shouldered a heavy burden of work, but he took the initiative to share the heavy burden for the party and the army, and after running before and after running, he sweated for the construction of the northeast.
At that time, although the northeast was liberated, the remnants of the bandit armed forces had not yet been eliminated, the feudal gangster forces still existed, and the work of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea had begun, and thousands of tasks were waiting for him to solve.
Once, when the general went to the Liaohe area to inspect the work, he walked to the middle of the road, and happened to meet a group of gangsters who robbed the masses on the highway and robbed the property, and the general ordered the drivers to quickly drive to catch up and block the way of the gangsters, and ordered them to put down the looted materials and mass belongings, but the gang of gangsters relied on the large number of them and refused to hand over the looted property, and the general said: "You have hit the muzzle of the gun." ”
The gangsters tried to take the road and flee, the general ordered the guards and fighters to separately arrest, the guards and fighters had sophisticated weapons in their hands, and they fought with the gangsters, and after some hand-to-hand combat, the guards and fighters beat the gangsters one by one with blue noses and swollen faces, most of them surrendered their weapons, and a few stubborn resisters were killed on the spot by the guards and fighters, and they ended up in a violent wilderness.
The general ordered that the looted belongings of the gangsters be returned to the masses of the people, and the looted property of the masses was returned to Zhao, deeply thanking the general for his grace of rescue.
The general delivered a speech to the masses and said: "The northeast has just been liberated, and there are still some diehard forces left to oppose the people's government, and the government and the People's Liberation Army will continue to crack down on them. ”
The crowd roared with joy, and the general drove slowly.
After returning to the organs of the Northeast Military Region, the general sent troops to patrol the major cities and streets of Shenyang, cooperated with the public security organs to vigorously crack down on enemy elements, ensured the tranquility of the bases in the rear of the northeast, and effectively supported the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
After the outbreak of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the general concurrently served as the commander of the Sino-DPRK Joint Railway Transport Command, established meritorious merits for the victory of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and was awarded the Order of the National Flag of the Democratic Republic of Korea, Second Class.
Comrade He Jinnian has firm communist ideals and convictions, a strong proletarian party spirit, and unlimited loyalty to the party and the people; he has held important leading posts in the army for a long time, but he has never been proud of his merits and pride, and has never pursued fame and profit; he has written "A Record of Suppressing Bandits in the Mountains" and written memoirs in his later years, leaving valuable spiritual wealth for future generations.
General He Wunian has a decent work style, handles affairs fairly, adheres to principles, treats evil as a vendetta, has the courage to criticize and self-criticize, is approachable, is honest in performing official duties, leads by example, and deeply abhors corruption, thus fully embodying the lofty ideological realm and lofty moral sentiments of a communist.