In 1950, Huang Kecheng, the commander of the Hunan Military Region, received a letter from a mason. After Huang Kecheng read the letter, he immediately forwarded the letter to the relevant departments and personally wrote a written certificate for the mason. After investigation in Zunyi District, the mason's party membership was restored and he was appointed deputy district chief of the 7th district.
The mason's name was Kong Xianquan, a native of Liuyang, Hunan, who was introduced to the party by Huang Kecheng. Kong Xianquan participated in the successive anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaigns in the Soviet union, captured Zhang Huizhen, commander of the enemy's 18th Division, and was praised by Huang Kecheng as "Cheng Bites Jin who can't die." In 1934, the main Force of the Red Army began a strategic shift, and Kong Xianquan followed the troops to start the Long March.
After the Zunyi Conference in 1935, the main Red Army prepared to cross the Chishui River twice and return to the area around Qianbei. When the Qian warlords learned the news, they occupied the dangerous pass of Loushan Pass in a vain attempt to prevent the Red Army from attacking. In February of that year, the Red 1st Army and the Red 3rd Army launched the Battle of Loushan Pass, and after three days of fighting, they once again took Zunyi City.
In the bloody battle, many Red Army commanders and fighters were wounded, including Kong Xianquan, a regimental cadre. In the fierce battle, Kong Xianquan rushed to the front, and was shot 6 bullets in the crotch of his left leg, and his bones were broken. After the battle was won, Kong Xianquan was carried to the rear hospital for treatment, and the bullets in his body were removed, saving his life.
The Red 3 Corps continued to move, and the stretcher bearers carried the seriously wounded and followed the troops to battle. At Kong Xianquan's side, there was another more seriously injured person, Zhong Chibing, the political commissar of the Red 12 Regiment, whose right leg had been amputated. When the Red 3rd Army arrived in Qianxi County, the head of the regiment deliberated and decided to leave the seriously wounded to recuperate and avoid sleeping in the wind during the march, resulting in the infection of the wounds of the seriously wounded.
Zhong Chibing resolutely refused, and he found the chief and said: "I am climbing, and I must also follow the Red Army, and resolutely not leave the Red Army." Zhong Chibing left with the troops, while Kong Xianquan chose to accept the orders of his superiors and stayed at the home of his fellow villagers in Qianxi County. A local squire was inclined to revolution and actively donated money and materials to the Red Army, and Kong Xianquan stayed in the squire's home to recuperate.
After Zhong Chibing continued the Long March, his wounds were infected many times, and he had two amputations, and his right leg was all amputated, becoming a famous "one-legged general" of the Red Army. He walked a long march with one leg, followed the main Red Army to northern Shaanxi, and participated in the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation.
In 1936, Kong Xianquan felt that his injured leg was better and decided to go to the Red Army. He expressed his gratitude to the squire and limped out of Qianxi County, disguised in search of the Red Army. Unfortunately, there has been no news of the Red Army, and in order to avoid the search and arrest of white dogs, Kong Xianquan had to wander around. In order to survive, he disguised himself as a seller, sold some needles and threads, and barely made ends meet.
Later, he learned to be a mason and built houses for the people. In this way, he waited until the day of the founding of New China, heard that the old chief Yang Yong had served as the commander of the Guizhou Military Region, so he wrote to Yang Yong. Yang Yong was particularly pleased and personally replied to the letter, asking the local government to take good care of Kong Xianquan.
Only then did the common people know that this kind-faced mason was actually an old Red Armyman. Kong Xianquan was properly taken care of, but he still had a heart knot, that is, the organizational relationship had not yet been restored.
In order to return to the embrace of the party, Kong Xianquan wrote a letter to Huang Kecheng, the former political commissar of the Red 3 Corps Division, asking the old chief to help him. Huang Kecheng was the introducer of Kong Xianquan to the party, knew kong Xianquan's merits, and was even more a witness to Kong Xianquan's stay in Qianxi County to recuperate.
Huang Kecheng, who was the commander of the Hunan Military Region, forwarded the letter to the organization department and personally wrote a written certificate. After investigation, the Zunyi area confirmed Kong Xianquan's identity, restored Kong Xianquan's party membership in the old Red Army, and appointed him as the deputy district chief of the 7th district. Kong Xianquan continued to serve the people single-mindedly, and later served as the director of the Zunyi Conference Memorial Hall, and died in November 1988, walking through his glorious life.