On September 21, 1949, the first session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference of new China was held in Beijing, and at this meeting, Zhou Baozhong, then deputy commander of the Northeast Military Region and commander of the Jilin Military Region, was elected as the "First CPPCC Member." Soon after, Zhou Baozhong received a notice that Chairman Mao would receive him.
After coming to Zhongnanhai, Chairman Mao, Peng Zhen, and others were all in the First Conference Hall of the Ziguang Pavilion, and Chairman Mao was very happy when he saw Zhou Baozhong coming, and he clasped Zhou Baozhong's hand tightly and said, "Our national hero has come." ”
What is a national hero? The interpretation is: to safeguard the sovereign integrity of the country's territory, territorial waters and territorial airspace, to safeguard national security, to safeguard the interests of the people and national dignity, and to sacrifice their precious lives and make outstanding contributions in successive anti-aggression wars.
Zhou Baozhong was called a "national hero" and lived up to his name because he persisted in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in the northeast for 14 years.
In 1902, Zhou Baozhong was born in a Bai family in Wanqiao Village, Dali County, Yunnan Province, when he was a teenager, Zhou Baozhong was infected with smallpox, and later fortunately cured, after that, he went to middle school, due to the chaos of soldiers, his hometown was robbed by bandits, he had to drop out of school and go home.
At the age of 15, Zhou Baozhong came to Kunming and joined the Dian Army, after which, he successively served as a second lieutenant platoon leader and a lieutenant acting company commander in the army, and in 1923, Zhou Baozhong was sent by his superiors to the engineering and military section of the Southern Army Lecture School for outstanding performance.
During the Northern Expedition, Zhou Baozhong became acquainted with Lin Boqu, a member of the Chinese Communist Party, and under the influence of Lin Boqu, he came into contact with Marxism, and in July 1927, in the midst of the White Terror, Zhou Baozhong determined his lifelong faith and joined the Communist Party of China.
After that, he successively engaged in military movement and liaison work in Hunan Province, Zhejiang, Henan and other provinces, in November 1928, the party organization sent Zhou Baozhong to the Soviet Union for further study, and after the "September 18 Incident" in 1931, Zhou Baozhong returned to China and led the anti-Japanese resistance in the northeast.
After the "918 Incident", Zhang Xueliang retreated without a fight, and Chiang Kai-shek declared that "the outside must first be safe inside", and soon, the three northeastern provinces fell, and our 30 million compatriots lived a life inferior to that of cattle and horses, and not everyone did not care about the period of the War of Resistance in the northeast.
Our party is very concerned about the War of Resistance in the northeast, and under the dispatch of Zhou Enlai, Zhou Baozhong came to the northeast and served as the secretary of the Military Commission of the Manchurian Provincial Cpc Committee.
Soon, he was invited to serve as the General Counselor of the National Salvation Army, the chief of staff of the Forward Command, and at the same time, Zhou Baozhong and the local anti-Japanese guerrillas directly led by the Communist Party of China formed the Suining Anti-Japanese Allied Army, and he successively commanded the battles of conquering Antu County and Sanda Ning'an.
In October 1932, when Zhou Baozhong commanded the troops to attack Ning'an County, he was hit by stray bullets, and in the face of pain, he was slightly injured and could not get out of the line of fire, and continued to direct the battle, and the soldiers were deeply encouraged, rushed into the county seat of Ning'an County, and blew up the Japanese explosives depot.
After the war, Zhou Baozhong, with his tenacious perseverance, did not use painkillers, let the soldiers use knives and pliers to remove the warhead from his body, and soon after, he once again led his troops to attack Ning'an County, annihilating hundreds of Japanese troops.
Later, in a battle, Zhou Baozhong's intestines were all beaten out, but nevertheless, he did not retreat, but put the intestines back and continued to fight, after the war, all the anti-Japanese northeast troops knew that in the National Salvation Army, there was such a mighty general.
At that time, in the northeast, our party had a coalition army of southern Manchuria headed by Yang Jingyu and a north-Manchurian anti-Japanese coalition army headed by Zhao Shangzhi, while Zhou Baozhong led his troops to fight against the Japanese army in more than 20 counties, including the left bank of the Ussuri River and along the Songhua River and the Songhua River basin.
The Japanese army was extremely angry with Zhou Baozhong, and once offered to reward him with a price of 100,000 yuan, and later, even increased to one or two gold to buy one or two meats in Zhou Baozhong, the more angry the enemy became, and the more he saw Zhou Baozhong's achievements in the northeast of the anti-Japanese resistance, the greater it was.
At the beginning of 1938, Zhou Baozhong served as the commander-in-chief of the Second Route Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese League, under the jurisdiction of the Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, and Tenth Armies, and in the spring, the Japanese puppet army gathered more than 35,000 people to encircle and suppress Zhou Baozhong's troops.
They overcame hunger, cold, wounds and other difficulties, and when the Japanese puppet army withdrew, they survived.
It was also during this period that many heroic and tragic deeds were born in the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Forces, such as the "Eight Women Throwing the River", and the 12 soldiers at the head of the Blue Stick Mountain fought with the Japanese army all day until all of them were killed.
In 1940, Zhou Baozhong led his troops to rest in the Soviet Union, the Soviets proposed to put the Anti-Japanese Coalition under their leadership, Zhou Baozhong righteously refused, he said: "The Northeast Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Movement is an inseparable department of the entire Communist Party of China, all its problems must be resolved by the Ccp, the Two Sides reached the aid and guidance given by the Soviet Far East Army to the Anti-Japanese League, it is a temporary special state, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army is led by the Communist Party of China, the implementation of the Communist Party of China's anti-Japanese line, the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Anti-Japanese League, It must not be held by the Soviet side. ”
The Soviets did not comment on what Zhou Baozhong said, and a month later, Zhou Baozhong wrote a letter to Stalin expounding his ideas, which was supported by him, and the soviet leader had to come forward to apologize and agree with Zhou Baozhong's opinion.
In 1942, the Northeast Anti-Japanese League Teaching Brigade was established, Zhou Baozhong served as the brigade commander, he continued to command the anti-Japanese troops in Jidong, Northern Manchuria, that is, at this time, the Northeast Also established the Northeast Committee of the Communist Party of China, thus ending the situation that the Northeast Party organizations in the Northeast had no unified leadership and were independent of each other since the abolition of the Manchuria Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, and Zhou Baozhong was appointed as a member of the Committee.
In 1945, after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhou Baozhong ended his 14-year anti-war career, and in these 14 years, he galloped on the battlefield, regarded death as a homecoming, contributed his greatest strength to the country, and maintained the territorial integrity of the country.
Later, Chairman Mao spoke highly of him: "Comrade Baozhong wrote poems that can be sung and wept in the fourteen-year struggle to resist Japan and save the country in northeast China. ”
During the Liberation War, Zhou Baozhong successively served as deputy commander-in-chief of the Northeast Democratic United Army and commander of the Jiliao Military Region, commander-in-chief and political commissar of the Northeast People's Self-Defense Army, and he commanded the troops to fight more than 800 battles with the Kuomintang troops, annihilating more than 40,000 enemy troops, and at the same time, he also sent 190,000 troops to the main force.
On August 10, 1949, Zhou Baozhong received a telegram asking him to rush to Beijing to attend the meeting of senior cadres of Siye, and when he arrived in Beijing, Chairman Mao, Zhu De, received him, and Chairman Mao clasped his hand tightly: "General, you have worked hard!" ”
In the evening, Liu Shaoqi and Zhou Enlai visited Zhou Baozhong, and Zhou Enlai smiled and said, "This is the third time we have met, the first two times I sent you to the north, this time I will send you to the south," Liu Shaoqi said as soon as he entered the door: "Bai brothers, hard work." ”
In September 1949, Zhou Baozhong attended the meeting of the New Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and was elected as the first member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and on October 1, he wore a new military uniform and climbed the Tiananmen Tower to participate in the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhou Baozhong returned to his hometown of Yunnan, where he successively served as vice chairman of the Yunnan Provincial People's Government, chairman of the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, president of Yunnan University, and dean of the Southwest University of Political Science and Law.
In 1954, due to severe heart failure and extreme weakness, Zhou Baozhong could no longer continue his busy work, so he left his post to recuperate.
In 1955, Zhou Baozhong was not awarded a military rank, but he was awarded three first-class medals.
In 1964, Zhou Baozhong died of illness in Beijing at the age of 62.
Great Anti-Union Immortal!