Kong Xianquan, formerly known as Kong Quan, was born in February 1911 in a poor peasant family in Liuyang, Hunan Province, in the year of 17 years he joined the local peasant armed Red Guards, and later transferred to the Red Army, was a platoon leader of the headquarters of the Three Corps of the Red Army, participated in one to five anti-"encirclement and suppression" battles in the Soviet zone, and was bravely promoted to company commander, battalion commander and regiment commander because of combat bravery.
In the autumn of 1934, the Central Red Army was forced to carry out a strategic shift and began the arduous 25,000-mile Long March, at that time, Kong Xianquan served as a reconnaissance staff officer at the headquarters of the Fourth Division of the Third Red Army, and also served as a regimental staff officer directly under the cadres of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, which belonged to the regimental level.
In February 1935, during the Long March, in order to get rid of the enemy, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, in view of the weakness of Wang Jialie's "double-gun soldiers" in Guizhou, resolutely waved his eastern finger from Tashi, Yunnan, returned to Guizhou, and launched the Battle of Tongzun. Before the war, Kong Xianquan led the reconnaissance to capture several defending enemy tongues, providing enemy deployment for the legion to capture Loushan Pass, which was praised by the leaders.
After the battle of Loushan Pass began, Kong Xianquan led a commando team to attack the command post of the Enemy Brigade of the Black Temple on the south side of Loushan Pass, and when the commando team rushed to a place where there were still a hundred meters away from the Black Temple, the enemy reinforcements from Zunyi Banqiao arrived, and the enemy saw that the Red Army was a small unit, the number was small, and he was very excited, and before he could stand, he immediately launched a fierce counterattack against the commando.
Kong Xianquan used the trenches dug by the enemy on the highway and the large trees cut down as an opportunity to resist, and immediately commanded the troops to attack from the left side of the road.
Kong Xianquan could not contain his anger, commanded the blowing of the charge trumpet, and with the loud trumpet field, one after another brave Red Army soldiers followed him out of the trenches, brandished sabers, and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. Suddenly, he felt his body tilt to the right, suddenly lost his balance, and fell to the ground.
It turned out that he had been hit by 6 machine gun shells from the enemy in the crotch of his left leg, piercing through 12 bullet holes. At this time, the enemy rushed up with a whimper and a cry. Kong Xianquan rolled over into the ditch by the side of the road, endured severe pain, lay down in the ditch, and knocked down several enemies with a ten-shot "lianzhu box gun". At the critical juncture when Kong Xianquan's eighty rounds of ammunition had been fired, only three rounds were left, and the commander of the second battalion arrived with a large army. While ordering his troops to snipe the enemy head-on, he ordered the stretcher team to carry Kong Xianquan down the position to bandage.
After the victory of the battle, Kong Xianquan, who was seriously injured and able to move, could not move with the team, and was decided by his superiors to be placed in the home of a Chinese medicine shop owner surnamed Song in Lantou Street, Qianxi County, Guizhou, fortunately, he was carefully cared for by the local people, and lay on a bed with two door panels for 20 months, at this time it was already December 1936, and he also fell into a lame problem.
After recovering from his injuries, Kong Xianquan, whose left leg was nearly 10 centimeters shorter, wandered into the Zunyi Fengxiang area and became a peasant with a difficult life, sometimes carrying the cargo lang to the village to sell some needle and linen thread, working as a temporary worker and working as a mason.
It was not until after the founding of the People's Republic of China that Kong Xianquan saw in the newspaper that the commander and political commissar of the Guizhou Provincial Military Region were all old superiors who had served as platoon commanders and company commanders under them, so he wrote a letter to the two founding generals, saying that he was physically crippled, but he could still do some work within his ability, asking the organization to consider assigning him to work.
The two chiefs wrote in surprise in their reply: I didn't expect that you Kong Xianquan was still alive in the human world! Subsequently, the two founding generals recommended to the local leaders, after inspection, restored Kong Xianquan to the county regimental level, appointed him as the deputy district chief of the seventh district, on the first day of his appointment, the then prefectural committee used the only American jeep to pick up Kong Xianquan on the fengxiang street, and the villagers who had never seen such a scene were all surprised, and a lame mason suddenly became the district chief, and it turned out that he was a Red Army general who had died nine times.