In other words, among the many founding generals in our country, many of them have very legendary experiences, each of them has a different origin, and even some people have a very low starting point, but later, with their own efforts, they have become generals, and some have been named generals.
Below, Xiaobian will briefly introduce a legendary general to you, he is Wan Haifeng, who once served as a soldier under General Su Yu, and later because he was a good fighter, he was promoted to battalion commander. Then, through his unremitting efforts, he gradually became the deputy commander of the military region, and was awarded the rank of general in 1988, speaking of which, it is worth mentioning that in the beginning, General Wan Haifeng was an inconspicuous service soldier, and his origin was not good.
In 1920, Wan Haifeng was born in Guangshan County, Henan Province, from a poor family, and his parents were authentic peasants who could not read a few characters. At that time, his parents wanted to find someone to name him, but they had to spend money, and their parents were really reluctant to do so, so they named him "Maotou". After Wan Haifeng grew up, he joined the Red Army and joined the revolution, and before he joined the army, he did not go to any school or professional military academy, etc., it can be said that he only relied on patriotic blood. When he joined the revolutionary ranks, he was thinking that I was already a soldier of the Red Army, and I couldn't always let my comrades-in-arms call me "Hairy Head.".
Therefore, he took the initiative to find his political commissar and said his request, hoping that the political commissar could help him take a nice name, and after listening to his words, the political commissar named him "Wan Haifeng". After the official outbreak of the National War of Resistance, in response to the call of the national War of Resistance, the Red Army and guerrillas in Jiangnan began to reorganize and were changed into the New Fourth Army. At that time, Wan Haifeng's identity was only a service soldier, and he had just finished training in the teaching team of the unit, because of the urgency of the situation, he was transferred to the side of the deputy commander Su Yu as a staff officer.
In January 1941, because Li Changjiang, the deputy commander-in-chief of the reactionary forces in the Sulu Border Region, betrayed the country and surrendered to the little devil, he counterattacked, which posed a huge threat to the New Fourth Army, so Su Yu, who was then the commander of the Soviet Central Military Region, decided to annihilate the traitor Li Changjiang. At that time, because of the shortage of commanders and fighters, the 21-year-old Wan Haifeng was directly promoted by Su Yu from a staff officer to the battalion commander of the 2nd Battalion of the Independent 7th Regiment, you know, before that, Wan Haifeng was only a service soldier, even if he participated in some theoretical studies, but he did not have a real sword and a real gun on the battlefield, he was really equivalent to directly changing from a service soldier to a battalion commander, and he was directly going to the front. Since this order was personally issued by Commander Su Yu, how dare Wan Haifeng disobey it, even if he did not want to die, he would have to win the battle.
After Wan Haifeng took office, he began to plan a strategy against the enemy, and when the troops discovered the rebel Li Changjiang's troops, Wan Haifeng directly led the second battalion to block the enemy's escape route. In the town of Shijiadai in Jiangyan, Wan Haifeng engaged the enemy, fought two battles and won both battles, directly killed more than 600 people under Li Changjiang's troops, and captured a lot of booty, and the soldiers after the war shouted excitedly: We, the "little battalion commander," have won the battle with us! Later, Wan Haifeng received orders from his superiors, and was transferred to the guard regiment of Taixing County as deputy regimental commander, not long after taking office, the little devil led more than 6,000 puppet troops to attack Taixing County, after Wan Haifeng learned of this information, he led the troops to ambush the Japanese army on the outskirts of the town, beat them by surprise, killed several lieutenant officers, more than 20 soldiers, and captured 2 people alive.
Friends who are more familiar with the history of the war should know that if you can catch a live Japanese army, it is much more difficult than killing a Japanese army, and Wan Haifeng actually captured 2 Japanese troops alive in this battle, it can be said that he created a record of capturing the Japanese army alive in the Soviet Union. Since then, Wan Haifeng has worked all the way from battalion commander to deputy commander of the Beijing Military Region after the founding of the People's Republic of China, when he was only 52 years old, which can be said to be a relatively young old Red Army. Until 1988, Wan Haifeng was awarded the rank of general, and to this day, the old general's body is still strong. It can be said that General Wan Haifeng's ability to go from a service soldier to the position of general is inseparable from the bold appointment of General Su Yu in that year!
References for this article: "Records of the Founding Generals", "Biography of Su Yu", "Baidu Encyclopedia Related Terms - Wan Haifeng, Su Yu, Wan Haifeng Memoirs, etc."