What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
Xu Shiyou, the founding general of new China, must be familiar to everyone, not only has extraordinary combat command ability and rich experience, but also has a wealth of talents. However, today we want to talk about another person, he was Xu Shiyou's service soldier, but after 4 years, Xu Shiyou became the deputy commander, but he became Xu Shiyou's boss, so who is this person? And what kind of deeds do you have?
The man's name was Chen Haisong, and he was born in 1914 in Li Chenwa Village (present-day Dawu, Hubei) in Xuanhuadian, Luoshan, Henan. At the age of 15, in response to the call of the revolution, the local poor peasants established peasant associations, and a year later, they organized a children's group. Chen Haisong, who was only 16 years old, became the leader of the children's group due to his outstanding performance. The special growth experience made Chen Haisong have a strong yearning for the Red Army, and secretly joined the Red Army despite the opposition of his family. A year later, Chen Haisong joined the Communist Party of China and threw himself into the revolutionary cause of building a new China.
Chen Haisong was clever and clever from an early age, and after entering the army, he became Xu Shiyou's service soldier and has always followed Xu Shiyou's side. On the battlefield, Chen Haisong was also very brave, and as a newly joined recruit, his performance was very outstanding. In early 1933, Chen Haisong was appointed instructor of the machine gun company of the 36th Regiment of the Red Fourth Front. At that time, although the commander of the machine gun company where Chen Haisong belonged was good at marksmanship, he was very eccentric and very arrogant to anyone. The previous instructors couldn't get along with him, but when it came to Chen Haisong, they got along very well with this company commander. Not only that, Chen Haisong also learned to shoot machine guns with the company commander, rushed to kill the enemy on the battlefield, and served the country.
Yet even such a revolutionary who defended national sovereignty was once slandered as a traitor. At that time, Chen Haisong won the appreciation of his superiors by virtue of his own efforts and excellent performance, and was soon appointed as the political commissar of the Red 3 Battalion, and soon after he was promoted to the political commissar of the 36 regiment. It was also at this time that Chen Haisong was slandered and arrested. Yu Tianyun, the leader of the 36th Regiment at the time, believed very much in Chen Haisong's personality and believed that he must have been framed by others. Therefore, he explained the situation to the division commander at that time, believing that Chen Haisong could maintain his original intention in such a difficult environment of the previous troops, how could he defect now? However, the division commander He Wei did not think so, and refused to let Chen Haisong go. In desperation, the regimental commander had to find the commander-in-chief Xu Xiangqian and explain to him that in the end Chen Haisong was able to regain his freedom, but he was still expelled from the party and changed from political commissar to Yu Tianyun's guard.
Even so, Chen Haisong did not abandon his revolutionary ideals and still charged with his troops on the battlefield. After enduring hardships, Chen Haisong's revolutionary fighting spirit became more firm. In the battle to defend and kill Niuping, Chen Haisong led two companies to rely on the special terrain of the local area, took the initiative to attack while circling with the enemy, fought fiercely with the enemy's 5 regiments for 3 days and nights, and finally successfully annihilated more than 2,500 enemy personnel, held the position, and completed the task brilliantly. In the subsequent wars, Chen Haisong became more and more courageous in the Vietnam War, winning many battles. After repeated military achievements, his superiors decided to reinstate Chen Haisong's political commissar and party membership.
With excellent combat command ability, Chen Haisong was continuously promoted to important positions in his later revolutionary career, and later became the political commissar of the Red 25th Division. After this, Chen Haisong led the soldiers of the Red 25th Army to fight the enemy to the end in the mountains, holding out for 4 and a half months, so that the enemy could not enter the position for a single minute, and won the victory in the defense of Wanyuan. Chen Haisong, who was only 20 years old, was also promoted to military political commissar, and Xu Shiyou was only a deputy military commander at that time, and his rank was even lower than that of Chen Haisong. From Xu Shiyou's service soldier to becoming Xu Shiyou's boss, Chen Haisong only took 4 years.
However, it was such an outstanding patriotic general who died early. In 1937, the Red 9th Army led by Chen Haisong fell into the enemy's encirclement in order to cover the transfer of the main force. Soon, the troops were in a situation of running out of ammunition, and in order to investigate a better breakthrough route, Chen Haisong climbed alone to the top of the hill, which was more conducive to observation, but as soon as they were together, they were swept by the enemy's machine guns and killed by 8 bullets in a row. Chen Haisong was only 23 years old when he died, he was the youngest and most promising military cadre in the Fourth Front, but unfortunately he died too early, and if he lived now, he would certainly be able to play a greater role.
After learning the news of Chen Haisong's sacrifice, Xu Shiyou was deeply saddened and could not let go for a long time. Even decades later, in his memoirs, he recalls the heroic deeds of his former comrade-in-arms. In fact, in the revolutionary process of modern China's pursuit of independence and self-reliance. Countless revolutionary martyrs pursued a unified revolutionary belief, that is, the country is independent and prosperous, the people are the masters of their own affairs, and the safety and honor of the individual are left behind.