In 1955, when our army conferred the rank, according to the regulations on the evaluation of titles,
Skin is constant
The general was supposed to be awarded the rank of major general. Later, considering the contribution made by General Pi Dingjun when he broke through the Central Plains, the great man waved his arm and wrote with a pen:
Pi has merit, less Jinzhong
"Six big characters, General Pi Dingjun was thus promoted from the rank of major general to the rank of lieutenant general. In fact, when our army was awarded the rank, the great man also used six words to highly praise another meritorious general, and directly promoted his rank from lieutenant general to general.
Han Yougong, Zhongjin Shang
Han here refers to the founding general known as the "whirlwind commander"
Han Xianchu
checkmate.
In February 1913,
He was born in Huang'an (Hong'an) County, Hubei Province, to a poor peasant family. When he was a child, Han Xianchu worked as a cattle herder, learned to be a squirrel, worked as a short-term worker in Wuhan, and tasted all the sufferings of the world. In November 1927, when the Jute Uprising broke out, he joined the peasant association in his hometown and embarked on the path of revolution.
In 1929,
He joined the Communist Youth League of China, transferred to the Communist Party of China the following year, and joined the Xiaogan Red Army guerrillas, successively serving as an independent battalion, regimental squad leader, and platoon leader.
In October 1932, the fourth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign of Eyuwan failed, and the main forces of the Red Fourth Front successively withdrew from the base area and moved west, and the remaining troops were there
Wu Huanxian
The Red 25th Army was rebuilt under the auspices of others. In April of the following year, Han Xianchu's independent regiment was incorporated into the Red 25th Army, and he successively served as the deputy company commander, company commander, and battalion commander of the 224th Regiment of the 75th Division of the Red 25th Army (abolished before the Long March), and remained the battalion commander until the Long March to northern Shaanxi.
On November 16, 1934, the main force of the Red 25th Army was more than 2,900 people
Cheng Zihua, Wu Huanxian, Xu Haidong
Under the leadership of others, He Jiachong, Luoshan County, Henan Province, moved to the west of the Pinghan Railway and began the Long March. On the Long March Road, Han Xianchu led the company battalion to be responsible for charging and attacking many times, seizing the pass to open the road, blocking the pursuing troops, and almost covering the work of the main force, especially the success of the Dushu Town.
On November 26, the Red 25th Army was preparing to pass through the Xunan Highway from Fangcheng Dushu Town, during which it was ambushed by an enemy brigade and a cavalry regiment, and their reinforcements from another division were about to arrive, and the situation was grim. Because of the bad weather, the bolts of the guns were frozen, and the enemy was found much slower than usual, very passive. The enemy wanted to encircle the two wings, and Han Xianchu bravely moved forward with his troops, never retreating, and they repelled the enemy's attack several times. Seeing this, Han Xianchu pulled up the large knife of the correspondent next to him and shouted
“
It was the Party members who came with me
！”
Perhaps it was an innate aura, his actions and words instantly brought the originally demoralized soldiers up into a frenzy, and one by one they bravely stepped forward and engaged in a white-knife battle with the enemy army, Wu Huanxian, who was the military political commissar at the time, said at the time:
"Only Chu has talent, first Chu as an example."
After that, Han Xianchu forcibly crossed the Li River, seized a commanding height near the Li River, suppressed the enemy army with firepower, covered the main force to cross the river, and got rid of the enemy's pursuit. This battle brought out the prestige of the Red Army.
In September 1935, the Red 25th Army arrived in northern Shaanxi and the Shaanxi-Gansu Red Army and was organized into the Red 15th Army. afterwards
He participated in the third anti-"encirclement and suppression" battles of Laoshan and Yulin Bridge in shaanxi and Gansu districts, and he led the team to serve as the main assault. After meeting with the Central Red Army, Han Xianchu led his troops to participate in the Battle of Zhiluo Town. At the end of the battle, he was promoted to the commander of the 3rd Regiment of the 75th Division of the Red 15th Army.
In 1936,
With the Red Army's eastern expedition to Shanxi, two battalions of troops combined with the guerrillas to encircle Shilou and control the Yellow River crossing, and another battalion pinned down the strength of the enemy's five regiments, and chairman Mao and Peng Dehuai's headquarters also passed safely. In May of the same year, the main force of the Red Army began a westward expedition to Gansu and Ningxia, and Han Xianchu, then commander of the 78th Division of the Red 15th Army, led his troops to the cities of Liankdingbian and Yanchi, capturing more than 400 warhorses, more than 10,000 silver dollars, and a large number of guns and ammunition.
In early 1937,
Entered the second phase of Yan'an Anti-Japanese Military and Political University. In August, the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and Han Xianchu served as the deputy commander of the 688th Regiment of the 344th Brigade of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and led his troops to fight against Japan.
On April 4, 1938, the Japanese army gathered more than 30,000 people and besieged the Chinese army in the southeastern Jin Dynasty in nine ways. Facing the "Nine-Way Siege" of the Japanese Army, the commander of the 129th Division
Liu Bocheng
It was decided to annihilate the Japanese army first. duration
He led the 689th Regiment to engage in 5 white-knife battles with the Japanese army to help other besieged troops break through. In the same month, under the leadership of Xu Xiangqian, Han Xianchu successively conquered Wei County, Guangzong, Pingxiang, Julu, Nangong, and other areas, directly opening up the situation of opening up anti-Japanese base areas in southern Hebei.
April 1940,
He served as the commander of the new 3rd Brigade and the commander of the 3rd Military Subdistrict of the Hebei-Luyu Military Region. In the subsequent battles, Han Xianchu was basically a single figure.
March 1941,
He was ordered to return to Yan'an and then entered the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University and the Military Academy until the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan.
In August 1945, after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan,
He was ordered to lead a large group of cadets from the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University to the northeast and participate in the struggle to create a base area in the northeast. After that, After four years of military training in Yan'an, Han Xianchu showed his skills on the battlefield in the northeast, and his military talent was fully revealed.
In February 1946,
He was appointed deputy commander of the 4th Column of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army in South Manchuria. Under his command, in the Battle of Anhai, a regiment of the Nationalist army was forced to declare an uprising, setting a precedent for the first uprising in the northeast battlefield. In October, in the Battle of Xinkailing, the 4th Column encountered the 25th Division, a tough opponent, an elite Nationalist force. Face powerful opponents, including commanders
Hu Qicai
Many of them seemed overwhelmed, and many even proposed the idea of retreating. Han Xianchu led the 10th Division of the column back from 200 miles away day and night, and he was resolute and decisive, striving to fight strongly, and established the determination for the column to continue to fight. Later, he commanded the troops to attack the enemy's weakest headquarters, and let the column provide various artillery support, and finally annihilated all the 25th Division, setting a precedent for annihilating the enemy in one operation in the northeast battlefield and annihilating one whole division in one battle, and was the most powerful victory won by our party and our army in the most difficult period in the northeast region.
In September 1947,
Transferred to the Commander of the 3rd Column of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army. At this time, the war on the northeast battlefield had become more and more intense. At this time, Lao Jiang wanted to open the railway from Jinzhou to Chengde and dispatch troops to support Jinzhou. At this time, in the face of the weak defensive strength of the enemy army, the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army gradually changed the situation and turned the defensive into an attack. At this time, Han Xianchu made an accurate judgment of the war, and he immediately ordered his troops to travel more than 100 kilometers and quietly touched the enemy's rear. When the enemy was defenseless, our army caught the Nationalist army by surprise, and in this battle, a total of 8174 Nationalist troops were killed and wounded, and the 116th Division of the Nationalist Army was completely annihilated.
After the annihilation of the Nationalist 116th Division,
Leading the 3 columns to fight more and more fiercely on the northeast battlefield, the troops he commanded often ran long distances, came and went without a trace, and each time they appeared as fast and fast as a whirlwind, making the opponent invincible, so they often won by surprise. As a result, his troops were known as the "Whirlwind Troops" in the Northeast, and he was also known as the "Whirlwind Commander".
In 1950, he was then the commander of the 40th Army
He was ordered to command the campaign to liberate Hainan Island. At that time, because our army had just suffered the defeat at Kinmen, all levels were generally afraid of the landing operation and wanted to make full preparations for the battle. However, Han Xianchu held that the liberation of Hainan Island must be resolute and decisive, and preparations must be made in a very short period of time, because the international situation has changed again and again, and it has been delayed again and again, which will have a great impact on the combat confidence of the troops. He spent three months making all the preparations. On April 16, Han Xianchu led more than 20,000 people of the 40th Army to set off from the Leizhou Peninsula in wooden sailing ships, crossed the Qiongzhou Strait under the cover of nightfall, commanded wooden boats to successfully run away the Kuomintang warships during the voyage, and successfully landed in the area of Lingaojiao on Hainan Island. Later, he led the "whirlwind troops" to tear through the "Boling Defense Line" painstakingly managed by Xue Yue in one fell swoop, and successfully planted the red flag of our army's victory at the end of the world. It is precisely because of this miracle that when the title was awarded in 1955, the great talent would specially give instructions: "Han Yougong, Zhongjin Shang"!
After the liberation of Hainan Island,
He also hurried to the Korean battlefield, served as deputy commander of the Chinese Volunteer Army, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of the Volunteer Army, and concurrently served as commander of the 19th Corps, participated in and commanded the first, second, third, and fourth battles, and made indelible contributions to the final victory of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
In 1955,
He was awarded the rank of general. In 1986, this "whirlwind general" who galloped through most of China and made immortal merits completed his glorious life at the age of 73.