One Mid-Autumn Festival after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the founding lieutenant general Zhan Caifang sent his secretary Liu Shuguang to visit General Chen Xilian, and after Chen Xilian's wife Wang Xuanmei saw it, she immediately shouted to the secretary in the room: "Go and tell the chief, just say that the chief has sent someone to see him." ”
We all know that in the army, the general rank is very conspicuous, so why did a lieutenant general like Zhan Caifang send someone to see General Chen Xilian, who attached so much importance to it and called Zhan Caifang the chief?
The reason is actually very simple, little known, in fact, Chen Xilian is a soldier brought out by Zhan Caifang.
Zhan Caifang is Hubei Hong'an people, born in 1907, due to family poverty, Zhan Caifang suffered a lot when he was a child, at the age of 17, he did not want to endure such a bland life, decided to go to the outside world to see, under the introduction of his brother-in-law, he came to Wuhan Middle School as a school worker.
Here, Zhan Caifang's fate changed, because the person who founded the Wuhan Middle School was named Dong Biwu, and everyone who knows the history of the party knows that Dong Biwu has a very high status in our party, and he is also one of the first people to carry out the revolution.
Dong Biwu had a huge influence on Zhan Caifang, this year, he joined the Communist Youth League, a year later, according to Dong Biwu's will, he returned to his hometown and began to form a peasant self-defense army, in 1927, Zhan Caifang officially joined the Communist Party, and soon after, he participated in the jute uprising.
After the establishment of the Communist Party of China's Edong Army, Zhan Caifang was appointed as a platoon leader, the jute uprising later failed, the troops had to stay in Mulan Mountain to fight guerrillas, including Zhan Caifang's name, in the past few years, Zhan Caifang repeatedly encountered dangers, but repeatedly turned the danger into destruction, so the local people also called Zhan Caifang "scud that cannot die."
When Zhan Caifang was fighting guerrillas in Mulan Mountain, every time he went down the mountain, he had to go to a secret contact point, the hometown Chen Yonghou's family, the Chen family had a son, and he was very yearning for the revolutionary army, and every time he saw Zhan Caifang, he said that he wanted to join the army.
Every time Zhan Caifang rejected him, the reason was that the child was too young, only 13 years old.
One night, the child walked for four miles alone in the dark, found Zhan Caifang, said that he must participate in the red, Zhan Caifang looked at the child's resolute eyes, and said to him: "People are not high enough, how can they be the Red Army, after another year, next year we will come to pick you up." ”
The child said, "I must join the Red Army." ”
Zhan Caifang asked why, the child took off his shirt, pointing to the scar on his body: "I was 8 years old to herd cattle for the landlord, let go for 6 years, beaten for 6 years, I don't want to live this kind of hard life, I know that the Red Army is the master of the poor, I firmly ask to join your team." ”
Looking at the scars on the child's body, Zhan Caifang was silent, and after a while, he said: "Good boy, you are a man, but you are too young, another year, another year, next year we will definitely come to pick you up." ”
The little ones are back at home.
In 1929, the Thirty-first Division of the Red Seventh Army expanded into eight brigades, and the children of that year came again, this time, Zhan Caifang did not refuse his request, but welcomed him to join the Red Army.
What neither of them could have imagined was that more than 20 years later, this little boy would become the founding general of new China, and yes, he would be Chen Xilian.
Not long after joining the army, Zhang Guotao came to the Eyu-Anhui Su District to carry out a revolt, when Chen Xilian was arrested and said that he was going to shoot him, Zhan Caifang learned of it, and immediately stopped the revolt and said: "I am sure of this little red devil!" He was so poor when he was a child that he didn't even have pants, and I took him out to join the Red Army, and if I want to shoot him, pull me away and shoot him. ”
Under the protection of Zhan Caifang, Chen Xilian escaped a disaster, for which Chen Xilian was grateful.
During the Long March, Zhan Caifang also saved the founding major general, and later the general You Taizhong was killed, in 1935, Zhan Caifang was then the political commissar of the Red 31 Army, when the troops crossed the grass, Zhan Caifang saw several soldiers pulling a seriously ill number, ready to put him on the grass and ignore it, the sick number issued a heart-wrenching groan.
Zhan Caifang couldn't look at it and said to him, you pull my horse's tail, just like that, You Taizhong pulled the horse's tail all the way out of the grass, and after many years, he never forgot Zhan Caifang's kindness to himself, he said: "My life is pulled out by pulling the horse's tail!" "
In the Red Fourth Front, there was a very legendary general, his name was Xu Shiyou, little known, when Xu Shiyou joined the army, Zhan Caifang was still his superior.
Xu Shiyou loves to drink, everyone knows, but the army is not allowed to drink, once, when Zhan Caifang inspected the room, he saw a gourd on Xu Shiyou's bed, asked him what it was, Xu Shiyou said it was water, Zhan Caifang knew in his heart, this is actually wine, but he did not expose it, but laughed.
Later, the two also worked in a military, Zhan Caifang was the political commissar of the Red Ninth Army, Xu Shiyou was the deputy commander, the two formed a deep personal friendship, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Xu Shiyou every time he went to Beijing for a meeting, he had to arrange him next to Zhan Caifang's family, denying that he made a big fuss.
Zhan Caifang had a very deep revolutionary qualification, because later when he was awarded the title, although he was only a lieutenant general, Xu Shiyou, Chen Xilian and other generals respected him.
At the beginning of the article, it is a true story.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhan Caifang successively served as commander of the public security forces of the Central and Southern Military Regions and deputy commander of the Guangzhou Military Region.
In his later years, when Zhan Caifang was seriously ill, Xu Xiangqian, Li Xiannian and others came to visit, and in 1992, Zhan Caifang died of illness at the age of 85.