On September 28, 1993, the founding major general Duan Suquan died of illness at the age of 78, and at his memorial service, when Chen Jianying, the wife of the old leader Ren Bishi, came to mourn, he said a meaningful statement: "On the Long March Road, we have already held a memorial service for Comrade Duan Suquan, but he did not die, dragging his broken feet, begging all the way and climbing back to the army, he was the political commissar of the Independent Division at that time. Alas, in his life, he has suffered a lot of grievances. ”
Duan Suquan's ability to become a founding general is enough to prove his great contribution to the Chinese revolution, so why would Chen Jiying say that Duan Suquan has suffered a lot of grievances in his life? Today, I will take you to understand the magnificent life of General Duan Suquan.
In 1916, Duan Suquan was born in an ordinary peasant family in Chaling, Hunan, when he was a child, he attended private schools and higher primary schools, at the age of 10, due to the rise of the peasant movement in his hometown, Duan Suquan threw himself into the middle school at a young age, at the age of 14, he officially participated in the revolution, after which he successively served as the secretary of the Chaling County Party Committee of the Communist Youth League and the director of the Organization Department of the Chaling County Party Committee.
In 1932, Duan Suquan joined the Red Army with a group of exemplary Young Pioneers, and he was appointed as the chief of the Youth Section of the Political Department of the Red Eighth Army of the Xianggan Military Region.
In August 1934, Duan Suquan was appointed head of the Propaganda Department of the Political Department of the Red Sixth Army, and in October, the Red Second and Sixth Army met in the southeastern waist of Qiandong, and then the head of the army decided to go to northwest Hunan to open up a base area.
In order to cover the eastward advance of the main force of the army, the commander left behind a Qiandong independent division, and Duan Suquan, who was only 18 years old, was appointed as the political commissar of the division, although it was a division formation, but in fact this team only had more than 800 people and more than 400 guns.
The commander of the division was Wang Guangguang, the former commander of the 53rd Regiment of the Red Sixth Army, with few independent divisions and few guns, but the task was not light: to contain more than 10,000 enemy troops, cover the main force into Hunan, and persist in guerrilla struggle on the side of Sichuan and Qian.
After the main force of the Red 26th Army left, the local Kuomintang troops, local tycoons and inferior gentry, immediately organized troops to surround and suppress the Independent Division, and because of the outstanding work of the Independent Division, the Guizhou warlord Wang Jialie and the Sichuan warlord Liu Xiang both believed that the Independent Division was the main force, so they dispatched troops and wanted to encircle and suppress the Independent Division.
The enemy's strength has reached more than 10 regiments, in the face of such a difficult situation, the life of the independent division is very difficult, the division commander Wang Guangguang scattered them to carry out guerrilla warfare, in order to complete the task, the soldiers are hungry to eat wild fruits in the mountains, thirsty to drink mountain spring water.
When the Red Second and Sixth Legions really left, Wang Guangguang decided to break out and fight in the town of Yimei in Xiushan County, Qiandong Province, Duan Suquan was unfortunately wounded in his right foot, and the communications squad leader carried him safely to heal his wounds, and the independent division continued to advance east.
In November, under the condition of the enemy being outnumbered, the Independent Division was unfortunately completely destroyed, and the division commander Wang Guangguang was tortured and sacrificed.
Duan Suquan, who remained in Yimei Town, escaped the disaster, when he was wounded, a tuanding wanted to kill him, but was stopped by the old farmer Li Mufu, after which Li Mufu was responsible for taking care of Duan Suquan.
Li Mufu placed Duan Suquan in a cave and sent some sweet potato porridge and herbs every day to maintain his life, and after half a month, Li Mufu did not come, because his family had no surplus grain, and Duan Suquan could only drink mountain spring water to continue his life.
In order to survive, he had to climb out of the cave and crawl to Li Mufu's home, Li Mufu and his wife quickly freshened him up, and seeing li Mufu's home, Duan Suquan understood that he could no longer stay here.
Before leaving, Li Mufu gave Duan Suquan two canes and asked him to pretend to be called Hanako, and Duan Suquan just like this, jumping and moving forward, begging for food and returning to his hometown Chaling.
When he arrived home, Duan Suquan's father married him a wife in order to conceal Duan Suquan's identity as a Red Army, and after that, Duan Suquan lived a stable life.
Three years later, when Duan Suquan learned of the Xi'an Incident and the Red Army's eastward crossing of the Yellow River to resist Japan, he immediately packed his bags and looked for a party organization, and when Duan Suquan found the old leader Ren Bi in Taiyuan, Ren Bi was very surprised: "We have already held a memorial service for you at the front army congress, and it turns out that you are still alive." ”
For his benefactor Li Mufu, Duan Suquan has not forgotten, in 1983, as the political commissar of the military academy, he returned to Xiushan County, where he found Li Mufu who saved himself that year, Duan Suquan was very excited, gave him 1,000 yuan, and handed him a plaque engraved with "Relatives of the Red Army".
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Duan Suquan first studied at the Kang Da, and after graduation, he stayed in the school as a political instructor, and in 1940, Duan Suquan was appointed director of the political department of the Pingbei Military Subdistrict of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, and two years later, he was appointed secretary of the Pingbei Prefectural Committee of the CPC and political commissar of the Pingbei Military Subdistrict.
On August 20, 1945, Duan Suquan led his troops to attack Zhangjiakou, and on the 22nd, Zhangjiakou was recaptured by our army, which was the first provincial capital city recovered by our army.
Soon, Duan Suquan was appointed commander of the Rehe Military Region, and during the negotiations between the Kuomintang and the Communists, he served as the CCP representative of the Beiping Military Mobilization Department in the 11th Group of Chengde, and at that time, in order to facilitate his work, he was awarded the rank of major general.
After the outbreak of the all-out civil war in 1946, Duan Suquan was appointed commander of the Jirecha Military Region.
In March 1948, Duan Suquan was appointed commander of the Eighth Column of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army.
After the Liaoshen Campaign broke out, Duan Suquan was ordered to encircle and suppress the enemy on the outskirts of Jinzhou, and on September 16, the Dongye Command asked the Eighth Column to quickly occupy the airfield on the outskirts of Jinzhou, and the telegram was pressed at the staff office for 4 hours until Duan Suquan did not see it until 7 o'clock in the morning.
There were two airports outside Jinzhou, and Duan Suquan thought that the orders of his superiors were not very accurate, so he consulted with the leaders of the column to fight which one to fight, just at this moment, Dongye called and asked if there was any control of the airport, and the staff officer asked, which airport to control?
Liu Yalou, who was the chief of staff of Dongye, was immediately angry when he heard the content, and he reprimanded: "One can be used, one cannot be used, which one do you say to fight?" Duan Suquan was anxious when he was next to him, and quickly sent eight columns to fight, but he had already missed the fighter.
In the end, the Higashino Command called again, asking the eight columns not to go, and had already sent nine columns over.
Later, Chairman Mao learned about this matter of controlling the airport, and Chairman Mao was a little angry, so he informed and criticized the entire Dongye army, which made Duan Suquan feel very bitter and regretful in his heart.
During the Jinjin Campaign, Duan Suquan's eight columns entered the city 6 hours later than the other brother troops, and Lin Biao said in a telegram to the Central Military Commission: "After 30 minutes, except for the eight columns, the entire line will be broken. ”
After that, Duan Suquan commanded the Eighth Column to participate in the Battle of Western Liaoning, and when annihilating the Liao Yaoxiang clique, the Eighth Column made the first merit, but this merit was later hidden by people, and on several occasions after that, Lin Biao also criticized the Eighth Column, saying that he was hesitant and not decisive in mastering the battle, and almost executed the wrong time, hindering the completion of the task.
When Dongye waved his division south, Dongye Command issued a paper transfer order, making Duan Suquan the chief of the operations department of the Northeast Military Region.
Later, Duan Suquan heard that when he was in the Eighth Column, he left a reputation of "not commanding and fighting a bad battle", which made him very uncomfortable.
In April 1949, Duan Suquan served as deputy chief of staff of the Northeast Military Region, and during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Duan Suquan served as the commander of the Air Force of the Northeast Military Region and the first deputy commander of the Air Force of the Volunteer Army.
In 1953, the Volunteer Air Command reported the results of the battle, pointing out that the Chinese MiG-15 f-86 against the United States was a one-to-one draw, that is, China lost one and they also lost one.
Duan Suquan was a relatively upright man, and after his investigation, he found the clues to this matter and put forward his opinion, but the Volunteer Air Force Command and the Central Military Commission Air Force suppressed his opinion.
Duan Suquan also told the news to Defense Minister Peng Dehuai, who was embarrassed and angry, and ordered commander Liu Yalou and political commissar Xiao Hua to make a written review of this.
His integrity also cost him.
When Duan Suquan was awarded the title in 1955, it was reported that his previous three years of experience in leaving the team should be reviewed, so that the award of Duan Su District was affected, and he was rated as a major general or a "temporary major general".
Duan Su tore off the medal in a powerful manner, and never wore a military uniform again for the rest of his life.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Duan Suquan lived a very ordinary and simple life, once he went to Kunming on a business trip, because there was no acquaintance, he lived in a guest house, and when he checked in, he wrote that he was an administrative level 6.
The staff did not believe it after reading it, and thought that he had written it wrong, so they wrote him to level 16 and did not give him special treatment.
A few days later, Chen Kang, deputy commander of the Kunming Military Region, came and hurried to pick up Duan Suquan, and this service personnel knew that the person in front of him was really a level 6 treatment.
In 1963, when the Lao People's Party requested the Chinese government to send a working group to Laos to resist the United States and save the country and provide construction assistance, Premier Zhou Enlai thought about it and selected Duan Suquan.
The premier said: "Comrade Bi Shi has introduced to me in the past that Su Quan is a man who has the means, can endure hardships, can withstand setbacks, has tenacity, and is loyal to the cause; he has worked in the base areas and local work in Xianggan; he served as a political commissar of an independent division during the Red Army period; he served as a commander in the Four Fields and Eight Verticals; he participated in a three-member group; he engaged in political struggles with the American Kuomintang; now this person is the deputy education chief of the High Military Academy and the director of the Strategic Teaching and Research Office; this person can go up and down and send him to Laos, and I think he will definitely be promoted." ”
In this way, Duan Suquan was appointed as the leader of the working group.
In Laos, Duan Suquan worked diligently and went deep into the countryside to investigate, making certain contributions to the development of Laos, and later, the cave where Duan Suquan lived in Laos was also known as "Lao Duan Province"
In 1967, Duan Suquan returned to the motherland and successively served as deputy commander of the Fuzhou Military Region and vice president of the Military and Political University.
In 1993, the general died of illness at the age of 78.