The road to revolution has never been smooth, and our peace today was paved with the blood and the lives of many firm-faith Communists, who worked hard and put life and death aside, a large part of whom were very young when they sacrificed. For example, when Deng Yongyao was sacrificed, he was only 27 years old, Liu Hulan was only 15 years old when he sacrificed his life for the revolution, and Song Zhenzhong, the "little turnip head" we know, was killed by the enemy in prison at the age of only 9. And the Chen Haisong we want to talk about today also sacrificed his young life for the revolution, and his story makes our latecomers admire and sigh.
In 1914, it was also the time of the outbreak of the First World War, in the ancient East, China under the rule of the Beiyang government still did not get out of the haze, and the advanced people who were struggling to find a way out of the country were still exploring the real direction for the disaster-stricken nation. In the village of Li Chenwa, Xuanhuadian in Luoshan, Henan, this year, a boy named Chen Haisong was born into a poor peasant family. The early death of his mother made his childhood more difficult, fortunately his aunt took on the obligation to take care of him, although often hungry, but the aunt's care still gave him a lot of warmth, let him grow into a little naughty but upright teenager. Because he was more naughty, his academic performance was not good, but he often showed excellent command skills when leading children to play war games, and this childhood experience also laid the foundation for his future military life.
At the age of 15, Chen Haisong, who had stopped going to school, began to work in the fields with his family to reduce the burden on the family, and life was still difficult. At this time, the arrival of the Red Army changed the fate of the teenager. After the arrival of the Red Army, it propagated revolutionary ideas to the villagers, led the peasants in the struggle against the landlords and gentry, and let the poor peasants, who had been oppressed and exploited all along, understand the struggle. The red seed was also planted in the heart of this teenager. The party led the villagers to establish peasant associations, the Red Guards, the peasants threw themselves into the revolution, the children in the village also set up their own revolutionary group, the Boy Scouts, and Chen Haisong, who had been very prestigious among the children since childhood, was elected as the captain of the brigade, and under his leadership, the children's revolutionary enthusiasm was also extremely high.
Influenced by revolutionary ideas, Chen Haisong firmly believed in following in the footsteps of the Red Army and going out of the village to continue the revolution in the vast world outside. But this idea was not supported by the family. As the only remaining boy in the family, the traditional aunt hopes that he will stay in the village to marry and have children and continue the incense for the family. To this end, his aunt quickly entrusted someone to book him a family affair, hoping that after marriage, he would settle down and no longer have the idea of joining the revolution. But the family still underestimated Chen Haisong's determination. He still took advantage of his family's relaxation of guard, came to the Red Army to register, rushed to the battlefield, and became Xu Shiyou's service soldier.
In 1931, he received organizational approval to become a member of the Communist Party, and through a long time together, Xu Shiyou also admired the child more and more. Although Chen Haisong is still a little immature, under the cultivation of Xu Shiyou, he has accumulated a lot of experience in leading troops to fight, and Chen Haisong has not lived up to Xu Shiyou's expectations and repaid his cultivation with an amazing growth rate.
Because he had received several years of education and was a relatively cultured person in the army, Xu Shiyou let him become the captain of the camp propaganda team, and he remembered the name of each soldier and their positions and experiences with extraordinary memory, and quickly narrowed the distance with the soldiers, everyone felt that he was very intimate, the propaganda work went very smoothly, and he became the political commissar of the regiment only a few years later.
He was only 19 years old when he became the political commissar of the 25th Division, and his former superior, Xu Shiyou, was now at the same level as him. And what made Xu Shiyou even more unexpected was that only a year later, Chen Haisong became the political commissar of the Red Ninth Army, although Xu Shiyou also became a deputy commander, but Chen Haisong's position was still higher than his.
It's just a pity that such a young talent, life is forever fixed at the age of 23. He left us forever for the sake of the revolution, but the war is merciless and compassionate, and we will never forget this hero who fought on the battlefield and was committed to serving the country.