In the formation of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, there was once a Wuhan Military Region, which existed for 30 years, with six generals serving as commanders, the last of which was General Zhou Shizhong.
The Wuhan Military Region was abolished in 1985 during the downsizing and reorganization, the troops were merged into the Jinan Military Region and the Guangzhou Military Region, the Henan Military Region was merged into the Jinan Military Region, the Hubei Military Region was assigned to the Guangzhou Military Region, the Wuhan Military Region was abolished, and General Zhou Shizhong also fulfilled his mission
General Zhou Shizhong was the last of the six commanders of the Wuhan Military Region, and he was also the only major general.
General Zhou Shizhong was a subordinate of Xu Haidong of the Red 25th Army, born in 1918, a native of Hong'an County, Hubei Province.
When he was 10 years old, he went to Wuhan to do child labor, suffered in the fire pit for two years, and returned to his hometown in Hubei because he did not want to endure the exploitation of capitalists.
After returning to his hometown, he was often with his third uncle, who joined the revolution early and had a great influence on Zhou Shizhong, and in October 1930, he was sent to the Red Army, when he had just turned 12 years old.
After Zhou Shizhong became the Red Army, he participated in the second to fourth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaigns in the Eyu-Anhui Revolutionary Base Area, and served as the commander of the communications squad of the communications team of the Red 25th Army.
In November 1933, he began the Long March with the Red 25th Army, and began the struggle to create a revolutionary base area in Eyu and Shaanxi.
In August 1935, the Long March came to sipo village on the nehe river in Jingchuan County, Gansu Province, and when it crossed the river in the rain, the troops had already crossed most of the river, but unexpectedly, the rear-chasing enemy cavalry regiment rushed over, and the traffic team followed Wu Huanxian, political commissar of the 25th Army, to rush to the river slope heights to block the enemy, and Wu Huanxian, the political commissar of the army, was unfortunately shot and killed in the process of blocking the enemy, and the generals of the whole army were extremely sad, venting the anger of hatred on the enemy, and wiping out all the enemies in the ditch, Zhou Shizhong was furious, and personally grabbed the enemy regiment leader and killed him. Avenged Wu Huanxian's political commissar.
After burying Wu Huanxian's political commissar on the spot, the officers and men of the whole army, under the leadership of military commander Xu Haidong, held their heads high and rushed to northern Shaanxi.
After the Long March arrived in northern Shaanxi, he joined forces with Liu Zhidan's Northern Shaanxi Red Army division to form the Red 15th Army, and Zhou Shizhong served as the instructor of the 218th Regiment Company of the 73rd Division of the Red 15th Army, and participated in a series of campaigns and battles to crush the enemy 'encirclement and suppression' in order to welcome the arrival of the Party Central Committee.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhou Shizhong successively served as political instructor, deputy battalion commander, battalion commander, deputy regimental commander of the 689th Regiment of the 344th Brigade of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, deputy regimental commander of the 32nd Regiment of the 11th Brigade of the Fourth Division of the New Fourth Army, deputy chief of staff of the brigade, chief of staff of the Second Military Subdistrict of the Huaibei Military Region, chief of staff of the Third Military Subdistrict and commander of the Second Regiment, and deputy chief of staff of the brigade.
During the Liberation War, Zhou Shizhong successively served as the commander of the 73rd Regiment of the Ninth Column of the Central China Field Army, the political commissar of the Teaching Regiment of the 2nd Column of the East China Field Army, the deputy commander of the 4th Division, and the political commissar of the 62nd Division of the 21st Army of the 7th Corps of the Third Field Army, and participated in the battles of Laiwu, Huaihai, and Crossing the River.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhou Shizhong served as the chief of staff of the 21st Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, participated in the cross-sea operation, the organization and command of the liberation of the Zhoushan Islands, and after December 1954, he served as the deputy director and director of the Senior Corps Professors' Association of the Military Academy, and the director of the Contract Tactics Professors' Association of the Higher Military Academy.
In 1955, Zhou Shizhong was awarded the rank of founding major general, the Order of August 1 of the Third Class, the Order of Independence and Freedom of the Second Class, and the Liberation Medal of the First Class.
After 1959, he served as chief of staff and deputy commander of the Fuzhou Military Region, and in 1982, he was appointed commander of the Wuhan Military Region, and in 1988, he was awarded the First Class Meritorious Service Medal.
After General Zhou Shizhong became the commander of the Wuhan Military Region, he never dared to slacken off, worked hard to do a good job in the ideological and political work and military training of the troops, and made contributions to the modernization of the troops.
Once, when he went to the army to inspect the work, because of the long distance, he was resting in a hotel hotel halfway, and he was harassed by local hooligans. Listen to me tell you.
At about six o'clock in the evening, the general and his party booked a room in the hotel, and after dinner, the general was working in the hotel room, reviewing the documents accumulated during the day, at this time, the door was gently pushed open, and the guard staff officer walked in, and said to the general: "Just now the waiter at the front desk came to me, saying that there was a group of local hooligans leading people to stay in this hotel, and they wanted to live in the room where we were already staying, and the waiter could not afford them, so he came to me to discuss, saying that he wanted to change the room for us, and asked if we agreed." ”
When the general heard this, he was furious: "Where is there such a domineering behavior?" You go and tell the waiter, just say we don't change, if anyone wants to find trouble, let him go directly to me, inform the guards and fighters to make emergency preparations, you go to arrange it. ”
The guard staff officer went out at the call, everything was arranged, and after a while a group of hooligans broke into the general's office and asked in a menacing manner: "Who just told the waiter that he did not agree to transfer the room, and let us come up to him for consultation?" ”
The general said, "That's me, do you want to transfer the room to see if I can agree?" ”
A hooligan leader stepped forward and said, "This is not something you promised or not to agree to, you have to vacate the room for us, you are a foreigner, open the skylight for you to say bright words, we are the underworld and the snake in this area, in this area, no one dares to provoke us, and no one can stop what we have to do, understand?" When you understand it, hurry up and vacate the room, so as not to cause trouble. ”
The general smiled coldly and said, "You have a big breath, have you ever heard a sentence?" Many unrighteous deeds will kill themselves, and you will not look at what you are? Hurry up and get out. ”
The hooligans were ashamed and angry, and the general was angry, shouting at the guards outside the door: "You are not coming in yet, and you are fiercely cleaning up these bastards." ”
The guards and fighters who had been prepared outside the door rushed into the room and grabbed these arrogant hooligans and beat them up fiercely, where could the hooligans withstand the blows of the guards and fighters? After a while, one by one, they were beaten to the point of swollen nose and face, and when they were defeated, the guard staff officer ordered all the hooligans to be handcuffed, and the guards took out the handcuffs and handcuffed the hooligans together, and squatted on the ground with their hands on their heads.
The general ordered the police station to be notified to come and deal with it, and the guard staff officer quickly dialed the telephone number of the local police station, and after a while, the public security officers arrived and took the gang of troublemakers away from the scene.
After the public security organs later found out, these gang of hooligans were a group of local social assholes, who often acted as gang bosses in this area, ran amok and bullied and oppressed the masses of the people, and the local masses suffered greatly, and the public security organs effectively cracked down on and punished them.
Calm returned to the noisy guest room, and the general said to his entourage: "Comrades, this battle has just been fought very well, and it has effectively dealt a blow to the arrogance of the local bullies, and has also tested the level of your usual training.
The guards shouted in unison, "Yes." ”
The general said to the guards, "It's getting late, so let's hurry back to your room and rest, there are more tasks waiting for you tomorrow." ”
On this night, the general and the guards slept very sweetly.