1985 was a special year for military personnel, and from this year onwards millions of disarmaments began, which meant that many servicemen would take off their sacred uniforms, which in reality would have left many people out of their jobs, and could cause serious problems if not handled well.
It is relatively difficult to carry out disarmament work, it is easy to make efforts to be undesirable, and many people are unwilling to do it; at this time, a veteran general stood up, took the initiative to undertake the aftermath work, and took the initiative to retreat to the second line.
Many people may not know General Xie Zhenhua, a native of Chongyi County, Jiangxi Province, who joined the Red Army guerrillas in 1930 at the age of 14, and by 1934 he had become the youngest regimental political commissar in the main force of the Red Army, when he was not yet 18 years old.
On February 26, 1935, Mr. Peng ordered to capture Loushan Pass before Wang Jialie's troops, otherwise he would be attacked by the enemy on both sides, and Xie Zhenhua led his troops to march in a hurry to occupy Loushan Pass a few minutes before the enemy.
After the occupation of Loushan Pass, the enemy carried out a crazy counterattack, Xie Zhenhua led the troops to prevent the enemy from counterattacking, during the battle he also saved the political commissar of the 12th Regiment Zhong Chibing, who later became the founding lieutenant general, LoushanGuan Xie Zhenhua defeated the Qian army, made a miracle, and was praised by Mr. Peng.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Xie Zhenhua entered Shanxi to work, and Xie Zhenhua, then 21 years old, was engaged in political work in western Jinxi, and he single-handedly recruited more than a thousand new recruits.
At that time, there were few regiments in the Eighth Route Army, and 21-year-old Xie Zhenhua was able to be the regimental political commissar of the Eighth Route Army.
In 1949, the whole army was reorganized, Xie Zhenhua's 12th Column was ordered to be reorganized into the 30th Army, after the reorganization of the whole army, Xie Zhenhua became one of the youngest commanders of the whole army, at the age of 33, and later he also participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, serving as the commander of the 21st Army of the Volunteer Army.
In 1955, Xie Zhenhua was awarded the rank of major general, at the age of 39, one of the youngest founding major generals, and later he successively served as commander of the Shanxi Provincial Military Region, deputy commander of the Beijing Military Region, commander of the Shenyang Military Region, and was serving as the political commissar of the Kunming Military Region at the time of the 1985 Million Congress.
At that time, Xie Zhenhua was 69 years old, not too old, but he took the initiative to take the lead in retiring to the second line for the smooth progress of disarmament in the Kunming Military Region, and if he did not retreat to the second line, after the military rank system was restored, he was likely to be awarded the rank of general, in other words, he voluntarily gave up the opportunity to be promoted to general.
Since then, Xie Zhenhua has taken the initiative to be busy with the aftermath of disarmament, on the one hand comforting those soldiers who have been dismissed, and on the other hand, providing advice and suggestions for the disarmed troops.
Whether in the revolutionary fighting years or in peacetime, General Xie Zhenhua was able to give up his personal honor and disgrace and put the national interest first, and Xie Zhenhua died of illness on August 3, 2011, at the age of 95.