In the decades of the Chinese revolution, countless heroes have emerged. But she was the only woman among the important generals of the Red Army. Li Zhen, who was awarded the rank of major general in 1955, served as the deputy director of the Organization Department of the Political Department of the Red Second Front during the Red Army period, while she served as the director of the General Political Department of the Red Fourth Front during the Red Army. She was Zhang Qinqiu, one of the main leaders of the Red Fourth Front, and generals such as Chen Geng and Xu Shiyou would have been her subordinates.
【History is coming" History Quick Review Column No. 1604019】 "History is coming" History text link: Zhang Qinqiu is a native of Tongxiang County, Zhejiang Province, born in 1904. In 1921, Zhang Qinqiu joined the Shanghai Communist Group and three years later joined the Communist Party of China. In 1925, Zhang Qinqiu went to Moscow to study. In 1930, Zhang Qinqiu returned to China and was assigned a job. In 1931, Zhang Qinqiu accompanied her husband Shen Zemin to the Eyu-Anhui Soviet District, where Zhang Qinqiu served as the director of the political department of the Military and Political School, becoming one of the few female commanders in the Red Army. In 1932, the fourth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign in the Eyu-Anhui Soviet District failed, and Zhang Qinqiu, who was then the director of the Political Department of the 73rd Division, moved with the troops.
In 1933, Zhang Qinqiu was transferred to the director of the Political Department of the General Hospital of the Red Fourth Front. During an anti-"siege", a regiment of the Sichuan Army came from a small road to the vicinity of the General Hospital of the Red Fourth Front, and Zhang Qinqiu did not have extra troops around him at that time, only about 500 people in the Armed Women's Red Guard Battalion and dozens of male comrades in the hospital security department. She immediately calmed down and thought about countermeasures. Zhang Qinqiu took advantage of the terrain of the high mountains and narrow valleys to arrange an encirclement array according to local conditions, and when the enemy army entered the valley, it suddenly stuck at both ends. Then Zhang Qinqiu led people to shout, explaining that the Red Army was a poor man's army. The enemy army could not retreat, and the soldiers who were usually oppressed by the warlords heard the propaganda again, and they all showed sympathy and stopped to listen to Zhang Qinqiu's speech. The soldier's inaction angered the regimental commander, who vainly tried to force the soldiers forward by violent means, which provoked the soldiers to turn against each other. At this time, Zhang Qinqiu used the kung fu of the enemy's internal strife to disarm all the enemy troops.
Zhang Qinqiu took a group photo with colleagues from the Ministry of Textile Industry
After the founding of New China, Zhang Qinqiu has been serving as the vice minister of the Textile Industry Department for nearly two decades. In 1955, when the award ceremony was held, Zhang Qinqiu was serving as a vice minister, because he had already changed careers, so Zhang Qinqiu missed the opportunity to award the title. But with Zhang Qinqiu's revolutionary qualifications, she was enough to be rated as a lieutenant general or even a general. Some old revolutionaries would laugh and call Zhang Qinqiu an untitled general. Zhang Qinqiu is also conscientious in his post as minister, and tries to mobilize the enthusiasm of workers. Her work has been recognized by everyone!