Speaking of the great general Chen Gengna, a founding hero that no one knows, in the years of the Southern Expedition and the Northern War, not only did he fight many victorious battles, but the troops he led threatened the entire Taihang Mountain area, he was the brigade commander of the 386th Brigade, and the Japanese Kou in the Taihang Mountains even played a banner, writing that they were specially fighting the 386th Brigade, which can be said to be afraid of the Japanese stationed nearby.
The sentence that there is no weak brigade under the command of a strong general is extremely suitable for General Chen Geng, and the 386th Brigade has just come to the front. The 771st Regiment and the 772nd Regiment under their command are very strong in combat effectiveness, and the most interesting thing is that the deputy regimental commanders of these two regiments are more famous than the regimental commanders of their regiments, the regimental commander of the 771st Regiment is Xu Shenji, but the deputy regimental commander Han Dongshan is a well-known general, and the same phenomenon is also the same phenomenon of the 722nd Regiment, and the reputation of the regimental commander Ye Chenghuan is also inferior to that of Wang Jinshan, the deputy regimental commander. Today our protagonist is Han Dongshan, who was first Chen Geng's subordinate, and then after four years of separation, he met again with a higher official rank than Chen Geng.
Han Dongshan's hometown is in Dawu County, Hubei Province, he also joined the revolution very early, was a member of the Red Army, and he performed well, made many meritorious contributions, and was already the commander of the Twenty-fifth Division of the Ninth Army of the Red Army before the Long March.
If we look back at Han Dongshan's entire revolutionary career, what will make him most memorable and memorable is that the representative who was in charge of the Central Red Army was Han Dongshan, who witnessed this historic moment with his own eyes. In 1935, after Chairman Mao led the Central Red Army to successfully cross the Dadu River, the road to the back needed to go all the way north, until the mountains in the northwest of Sichuan, the Central Red Army walked through too long and long tortuous roads, and commanded Xu Xiangqian to decide to go to Han Dongshan to meet him.
Before this, the Red Fourth Front needed to break through the Maogong Passage, and the first task of the Twenty-fifth Division led by Han Dongshan was to open this pass and successfully meet the Central Red Army. Encouraged by this, Han Dongshan, who was already excited and sleepless, gritted his teeth secretly, and this time he would successfully complete the meeting no matter what, and bring the leaders of the CPC Central Committee back to the base area safely.
Han Dongshan, with the Twenty-fifth Army, galloped forward for more than three hundred miles, breaking through the blockade of all the enemy-occupied areas with a single stroke of courage, and successfully taking the Maogong Passage. At this time, the vanguard of the Central Red Army also successfully reached the foot of Jiajin Mountain, and this historic congress division finally began at the foot of Jiajin Mountain, and although Han Dongshan was excited, he immediately ordered the staff officers to command the generals to move out of the town and make rooms for the tired Central Red Army, and each regiment under it had to take out thirty quintals of grain to make military food for the Central Red Army.
Then let all the soldiers go out of the city, to the leaders of the Red Army to see the gifts, wait until the soldiers lined up in the middle of the line to welcome, Han Dongshan stood in front of the line to salute every leader who did not know, this solemn moment can not hide Han Dongshan's excitement, while saluting while grinning, this is suddenly a person patted his shoulder and smiled and said, Han Dongshan, do you remember me? Han Dongshan fixed his eyes on it, only to find that the person in front of him was his original division commander Chen Geng, who had just patronized and smirked, and no one had come out of the old chief.
Originally, when he was in the Eyu-Anhui area, Chen Geng served as the commander of the 12th Division, and Han Dongshan was the battalion commander of a battalion subordinate to the 12th Division, but it was Chen Geng who was injured, and the local medical conditions were afraid of delaying the illness, so he sent Chen Geng to Shanghai for recuperation.
At this time, Chen Geng was the head of the cadre regiment because of the shrinking of the Central Red Army, and his rank was really inferior to that of Han Dongshan now. Han Dongshan and Chen Geng did not lack a greeting, Han Dongshan knew in his heart how much suffering the Red Army had experienced along the way, it was extremely arduous, before the meeting, he sent people to hunt specially, and returned two yaks to give the hard-working soldiers a tooth sacrifice, now that the cooked beef had been prepared, it was immediately served, Chen Geng smiled when he saw the beef, and he had not eaten meat for a long time. Han Dongshan's warm greeting also made Chairman Mao remember it deeply. Later, he specially contacted Han Dongshan and assigned him to study at the Red Army University, which was a great honor.
Later, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, when Han Dongshan re-entered Chen Geng's command to fight, first as the deputy of the 771st Regiment, and then as the deputy brigade commander of the 386th Brigade, the interesting thing is that the brigade commander was Wang Jinshan. At this time, they fought devils and puppet troops in the Taihang Mountains. When the War of Liberation was fought, Han Dongshan participated in many famous battles, such as the Central Plains Breakthrough and the Battle of the Song River, and in this campaign, Han Dongshan, with the strength of a brigade, actually annihilated an integrated brigade of the Kuomintang. Therefore, in five years, Han Dongshan's rank of major general has always been considered to be an underestimated military rank.
Han Dongshan this person has lived a very poor life, whether it is the war years or after the peaceful establishment of the country, a day did not think of the rich and noble him, the discipline of the children is also strict and strict, do not let the children rely on the relationship between the father, but must work hard, in the late sixties, the whole country is popular to become a soldier, Han Dongshan at this time is responsible for the recruitment task of Wuhan City, his second son wants to be a soldier, but did not go through the physical examination, obviously as long as you relax a little can pass, but Han Dongshan said that he would not do this drawback, Almost not.
And the youngest son, although he passed the physical examination, was actually assigned to raise pigs, many people said to him that you are too pitiful, but his younger son said that raising pigs is also a contribution to the army, no one raises pigs, what do the soldiers eat. Sure enough, his youngest son was admitted to college and became a teacher after graduation, never using the slightest relationship with his father from beginning to end.