The founding general who served as the first secretary of Chongqing encountered black guns and used more than 10,000 people to fight against criminal syndicates and eliminate evil
China's famous mountain city of Chongqing, played a very big role in the war of resistance, since the National Government moved to Chongqing office in 1938, it has also become a key city of Japanese air raids, in more than six years of Japanese aircraft bombing, the people of Chongqing also paid great sacrifices, but they still stood with the city that raised them, they ushered in the victory of the War of Resistance with firm confidence, four years later this iron city ushered in the establishment of new China, and who led them into a new era?
He was General Chen Xilian, who was only 14 years old when he joined the Red Army in 1929. This teenager, who had never received a day's military education, was a natural general, and became the political commissar of the Red Army Division at the age of 19. In October 1937, the night attack on Yangmingbao destroyed 24 Japanese fighters in only one hour, and annihilated more than 100 Japanese troops in the battle.
By February 1949, Chen Xilian had become the commander of the Erye Third Corps, a senior general in the People's Liberation Army, he led the army to break through the Yangtze River defense line and march to the southwest, on November 30, 1949, the People's Liberation Army entered Chongqing, this beautiful mountain city was liberated, and the first secretary and mayor of Chongqing was General Chen Xilian.
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets to welcome the arrival of the People's Liberation Army, and they also welcomed the arrival of peace, and even more welcomed the arrival of a new era, but after liberation, Although Chongqing was as calm as water on the surface, it was actually an undercurrent, and some hostile elements who could not bear defeat still insisted on opposing the people, but General Chen, who handled various affairs all day, did not have time to deal with this problem, and these criminal and evil forces extended their black hands to him.
One day Chen Xi took a car to Chongqing University to speak, and in a bend in the way, the lurking enemy elements shot at the general's car, when the glass in front of the car was shattered, the driver was scared to stop, after all, General Chen experienced the test of many years of war, at this time he was calm and calm, let the driver quickly accelerate the car, and escaped the enemy's attack.
When the enemy saw that this time was unsuccessful, he waited for an opportunity to launch a sneak attack two days later; at night, General Chen returned home from a day's work, and when he arrived at the door of his home, he only listened to a gunshot, and the sentry standing guard at the door fell to the ground, and the general reacted extremely quickly, pulled out his gun and shot at the enemy who fired the gun, and the enemy special elements were beaten away.
The generals who were attacked twice decided not to go home, but to return to the office, summoned all the cadres to discuss countermeasures, made arrangements overnight, and mobilized a total of more than 10,000 public security cadres and officers and men of the guard force to carry out a large-scale search and arrest of the whole city.
A few months later, under the day and night work of General Chen Xilian, Chongqing's people's livelihood economy gradually entered the right track, and at this time, the general's tenure in Chongqing also came to an end, and in October 1950, Chen Xilian left this beautiful city and rushed to Beijing to serve as an artillery commander and start a new job.