Zhao Qimin was a founding lieutenant general, and when the founding congress was awarded the title, Wei Guoqing, who had served as the deputy commander of the second column, was awarded the rank of founding general, and Zhao Qimin, who served as the political commissar of the second column, was awarded the rank of lieutenant general. ”
This shows the modesty of General Zhao Qimin.
Zhao Qimin, born in 1910 in Lantian County, Xi'an City, entered a private school at the age of nine, after graduating from primary school in 1926, he was admitted to the Xi'an Provincial First Normal School, joined the Chinese Communist Youth League in January 1928, once participated in the 17th Army of the Northwest Army, served as a student in the army, and accompanied the teaching group to revolt in the Linyou area.
After the failure of the uprising, he returned to his hometown of Lantian to carry out the peasant movement, and in February 1930 he transferred to the Communist Party. In October of the same year, he was dispatched by the Ccp to enter the cavalry regiment of the Xi'an Appeasement Office, and successively served as a regimental attendant and platoon leader, engaged in secret work of the CCP.
In August 1932, he moved to Weibei and joined the Jingyang guerrilla group of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army as the squadron leader of the third squadron, and later served as the platoon commander of the red 26th army with the battalion, the deputy company commander of the company of the 3nd regiment of the 42nd division of the 26th army, and a political instructor, and participated in the guerrilla war that created the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Soviet Zone centered on Zhaojin and Nanliang.
In September 1935, after Xu Haidong's team of the Red 25th Army arrived in northern Shaanxi, he joined forces with the 26th Army and the 27th Army of the Northern Shaanxi Red Army to jointly form the Red 15th Army, and Zhao Qimin served as the chief of staff of the 78th Division of the Red 15th Army, the chief of the Military Department of the Northern Shaanxi Provincial Soviet, the director of the Military Department of the Yanchang County Soviet, and the commander of the Independent Second Regiment, and participated in the guerrilla warfare on the eastern front during the Battles of Laoshan and Zhiluo town and the Western Expedition of the Red Army.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, after graduating from Yan'an Military and Political University, he was assigned to work in the New Fourth Army, serving as chief of staff of the Eighth Regiment of the Fourth Detachment of the New Fourth Army, political commissar of the 10th Regiment, and political commissar of the Fifth Brigade of the Second Division of the New Fourth Army.
After Zhao Qimin served as the political commissar of the Fifth Brigade, the fiercest battle took place in November 1944, when the Japanese puppet army of nearly 10,000 people attacked the town of Lotang in the central area of the base area in seven ways, and the troops of the recalcitrant Gui Army colluded with the Japanese puppet army to launch an attack on the Jigang area occupied by us.
Zhao Qimin summoned the leaders of the Fifth Brigade and the prefectural party committee and military sub-districts to urgently discuss countermeasures to annihilate the enemy under the conditions of field battles, he first ordered another regiment to block the enemy in the Area of Zhanjigang, ordered the other three regiments to assemble quickly, arrived within a day, and four regiments launched a full-line counterattack to encircle the Gui Army. Moreover, the Fifth Brigade gained valuable experience in concentrating its forces to fight the war of annihilation.
The 5th Brigade of the 2nd Division of the New Fourth Army became famous from this battle, and in the period of the Liberation War, the Seventh Corps of the East China Field Army, which was formed with the Fifth Brigade as the backbone, still undertook more tasks of interception.
One column blocked two integrated divisions, fought bitterly for three days, ran out of ammunition, used bayonets and stones to block the enemy, the column commander Cheng Jun was wounded, and the political commissar of the column, Zhao Qimin, took on the task of commanding the operation.
During the operation of the East China Field Army, Zhao Qimin greatly admired Chen Yi, the acting commander of Huaye, and the instructions given to him were always fulfilled to the letter; Chen Yi greatly appreciated this old subordinate, and he once told the staff: "Chen Yi has superb leadership skills and charm, he is good at persuasion work, and everyone can unite and work together against the enemy. ”
During the Liberation War, Zhao Qimin served as the political commissar of the Second Column of the Shandong Field Army, the deputy political commissar and political commissar of the Fifth Brigade of the Huainan Military Region of the Shandong Military Region, the political commissar of the Seventh Division of the Shandong Field Army, the Seventh Column of the East China Field Army, and the political commissar of the Thirty-fourth Army of the Third Field Army of the People's Liberation Army.
After the founding of New China, he successively served as deputy political commissar and political commissar of the Navy of the East China Military Region, commander and political commissar of the Navy of the Central and Southern Military Region, and commander and political commissar of the South China Sea Fleet of the Navy.
In September 1955, Zhao Qimin was awarded the rank of founding vice admiral, and after serving as the commander of the Navy's South China Sea Fleet, he often went to the grass-roots front-line troops to inspect the work and educate the officers and men to contribute to the construction of the young navy.
Once, when the general went to a certain base to inspect the work, he was resting on the side of the national highway, when he happened to encounter a group of drunken hooligans who came to the national highway to catch a ride, and when they saw two military vehicles parked on the side of the national highway, they asked to take them for a ride.
The two military vehicle drivers were also young men of flesh and blood, how could they be insulted by this and raise their voices to theorize with them.
The general, who was resting on the side of the road, heard the noise and led the guards to rush over.
When he reached him, the general asked, "What kind of people are you?" Ran to the highway to make trouble."
The rogue leader said, "You want to ask what we do?" Seeing that you are also passing by from other places, it doesn't matter if you tell you, we are the land snakes in this area, and the territory here is under our control, just now you two military vehicle drivers have offended us, and we will teach you a lesson. ”
The general sneered, "How come our driver can't turn you to point fingers here?" What else is the ground snake? Hurry up and leave, you are harassing us here. ”
The leader of the rogue said: "Our gang is very aggressive, you two drivers have just been disrespectful to us, you must apologize to us before it is over." ”
The general said, "I see that our driver is still polite to you, don't be here to do nothing wrong, hurry up." ”
These hooligans were still energetic, and with the strength of the wine, they started to make trouble, and they had to ask the two military vehicle drivers to make amends for their crimes.
The general was furious and said, "It seems that if you are not cleaned up, you will not remember this lesson." ”
The hooligans said, "Well, let's have a fight, who are we not afraid of in this area?" ”
The general said to the guards, "Did you hear me?" These guys are too arrogant, and they are fiercely attacking the arrogance of this gang of bastard kings."
The guards stepped forward and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with this gang of hooligans?
The soldiers punched left and kicked the right, and the hooligans who hit him could not resist, and the leader of the hooligans saw the situation and tried to escape, but was seen by Xiao Zhang, the leader of the guard squad, who caught him and beat him up again, and then caught him in front of the general, and the other hooligans were also subdued by the guards.
The general scolded: You social, all day long thinking about right and wrong, looking for stubble and provocation, if you go on like this, you will go farther and farther down the road of crime, sooner or later you are all the material for going to prison, I advise you to restrain your horses from the precipice, turn back to the shore, change from evil to righteousness, and be a useful person to society, do you understand? ”
The hooligans were beaten to the point that their noses were blue and their faces were swollen, and they were afraid of being punished again, so they quickly nodded their heads in agreement.
The general continued, "I have something to do today, and I still have to hurry to hurry, so I will spare you this time for the time being, but you must remember this lesson, and if you encounter any troublemaking, you will be severely punished." ”
After speaking, the general instructed the guards and soldiers to board the car and set off.
On the highway, the gang of hooligans were left there to complain to each other.