In the 5th counter-encirclement and suppression campaign, he blocked Chen Cheng's 3 divisions with 1 regiment, and was the founding general who was finally awarded the title
Chen Cheng was a famous General of the Kuomintang, who participated in the encirclement and suppression of the Central Soviet Region many times, and fought with many Red Army generals, including many marshal-level figures, but it was a general who made him remember for a lifetime.
This admiral is Li Jukui, who is not as famous as Xu Shiyou, but his ability is very good. During the fifth counter-encirclement and suppression campaign, Li Jukui commanded 1 regiment, but blocked Chen Cheng's 3 divisions, forcing him to retreat, and it was this battle that made Chen Cheng remember him.
A native of Hunan, Li Jukui joined the Pingjiang Uprising led by Mr. Peng in 1928 at the age of 24 and joined the Communist Party of China at the behest of Mr. Peng. During the agrarian revolution, he served as a platoon leader, regimental commander, division commander and other positions.
He was experienced in hundreds of battles, participated in five anti-encirclement and suppression battles, and at the beginning of the Long March, he was the commander of the Red First Division of the Red First Army, opening the way for the Red Army in the front, and commanding the 18 warriors of the Red Regiment to complete the arduous task of crossing the Dadu River.
Li Jukui was very low-key, and although he made great achievements in this battle, he never showed off. Even if a reporter took the initiative to ask, he also said that the credit should be credited to the heads of all soldiers, and the spirit of the Red Army should be passed on forever.
Elder Peng was always a big man in our army, and Li Jukui saved his life, but almost everyone didn't know it. After the victory of the Pingjiang Uprising, the team was divided, and at a meeting, someone shot and shot Mr. Peng.
If it had been hit at that time, it is estimated that history would have been rewritten, Li Jukui found out that the first time to throw people down, the bullet was crooked, Mr. Peng was fine, it was considered to have saved his life.
Most of the people present at that time later died in the battle, or Mr. Peng said it, and others knew about it, and saving Mr. Peng was more credited than fighting 10 battles.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Li Jukui served as chief of staff in the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and participated in the command of many beautiful battles, such as the Battle of Shentouling, using the tactic of "throwing eggs with stones" to eliminate 1500 enemies in 2 hours.
In 1942, the Japanese army divided its troops into 14 routes, attacked the Taiyue Military Region, and occupied Qinyuan County, the center of the Yuebei Military Sub-district. Li Jukui carried out the "empty room clearance" in advance, and the Japanese army occupied an empty city, and he immediately sent troops to besiege the city. The Japanese army had no food and grass and no reinforcements, so it directly surrendered.
During the Liberation War, Li Jukui was in the northeast battlefield, serving as the chief of staff of the Western Manchuria Military Region, serving as a staff officer to General Huang Kecheng, and even Lin Shuai, commander-in-chief of The Four Fields, knew his name, and was later transferred to the Logistics Department of the Northeast Military Region as chief of staff.
After the start of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the main dry food of the volunteer army was fried noodles, so why did fried noodles become the dry food of the volunteers' field battles? The Korean battlefield is icy and snowy, and it is very difficult to supply materials, and fried noodles were invented by Li Jukui. When participating in the Long March, the Red Army's supplies were also difficult, and he often ate the fried noodles given to him by the common people, which were easy to preserve and easy to carry, so he researched the field dry food.
With Li Jukui's seniority and merits, he fully met the criteria of the founding general, but in 1955 he was serving as the minister of petroleum industry, and could not award titles, only 3 first-class medals.
In 1958, he was transferred back to the army and awarded the rank of founding general, the last general to be awarded.
In July 1981, Li Jukui's health was not good, so he retired to the second line and became an adviser to the Central Military Commission, but also actively participated in the army and national defense construction. In 1988, he was awarded the Medal of Merit of the Red Star first class and died of illness at the age of 91.