He was born poor, did not go to school for a day, and because he was not willing to accept the oppression of the landlords and old money, he threw himself into the revolutionary ranks early. He had no formal military training, but he was successful in commanding operations, and by virtue of his military achievements, he was promoted from soldier to commander in only four years. He also had a cousin who was even more powerful, and after the founding of the Country, he was awarded the rank of general, and he was the ace commander of the Red Fourth Front, the founding general
Wang Hongkun
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Admiral Wang Hongkun (right) and cousin General Wang Shusheng
Born in 1909 in Shigouchong, Chengmagang Town, Macheng County, Hubei Province, he was a founding general
Wang Shusheng
Cousin. When wang Hongkun was a child, his family was poor, and in order to be able to eat a full meal, he had to work for people for short-term work, herd cattle, and taste the sufferings of the world. In 1927, Wang Hongkun was influenced by his cousin Wang Shusheng to participate in the vigorous jute uprising and officially entered the revolutionary ranks. After the failure of the uprising, the team broke up, and Wang Hongkun briefly threw himself into the Gui clan
Bai Chongxi
This experience laid a solid foundation for the improvement of his military command ability in the future.
In 1929, by chance, Wang Hongkun broke away from the Gui army. After months of searching, I finally met my cousin Wang Shusheng again and joined the Red Army team led by him, on the fifth day of the first lunar month in 1929.
After joining the Red Army, Wang Hongkun was quickly promoted from a soldier to a squad leader, platoon leader, company commander, and battalion commander. He was resourceful and brave in combat, and he had been trained in military skills in the Gui army, so he had a very good set of command operations. In September 1931, Wang Hongkun was promoted to the commander of the 30th Regiment of the 10th Division of the Red Fourth Army. After that, he led his troops to participate in four major battles of Huang'an, Shang (Cheng) Huang (Sichuan), Sujiabu, and Huang (Chuan) Guang (Shan), and the Red Fourth Front, with a huge victory of annihilating more than 60,000 enemy troops, completely smashed Chiang Kai-shek's third "encirclement and suppression" of the Eyu-Anhui Soviet region. After the victory of the Red Fourth Front in the Battles of Huang'an and Shang (Cheng) Huang (Chuan), that is, in mid-March 1932, with the approval of the Headquarters of the Front, Wang Hongkun was promoted to the commander of the Red Tenth Division, and this year, he was 23 years old. Subsequently, Wang Hongkun, as a representative of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, participated in the surrender ceremony of the Kuomintang army in Sujiabu, and this moment was forever recorded in the annals of history.
In October 1932, due to Zhang Guotao's wrong command, the Red Fourth Front failed to break the Kuomintang's fourth "encirclement and suppression" and was forced to withdraw from the Eyu-Anhui Soviet Region. In the process of entering Sichuan and Shaanxi in the west, Wang Hongkun led the Red Tenth Division to undertake the most arduous rearguard task of the whole army. In the breakthrough battle of Tuqiaopu, Wang Hongkun was unfortunately injured.
In July 1933, the headquarters of the Red Fourth Front decided to expand the four divisions that had originally entered Sichuan into four corps. The 24-year-old Wang Hongkun was promoted to commander of the Red Fourth Army, a day that was only four years after he joined the Red Army. After that, he led his troops to participate in the battles of Yi (Long) South (Department), Ying (Shan) Qu (County), Xuan (Han) Da (County), and the anti-"Six Road Siege" in the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet Region, making great contributions to the defense of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Revolutionary Base Area.
In May 1935, Wang Hongkun accompanied the main force of the Red Fourth Front On the Long March, and served as deputy chief of staff of the Red Fourth Front, commander of the Military Department of Chuankang Province, and commander of the column directly under the Front. In 1936, he was reinstated as the commander of the Red Fourth Army, and later became the political commissar of the army.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wang Hongkun successively served as brigade commander of the 385th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, deputy commander of the Ji'nan Military Region, first deputy commander of the Jiluyu Military Region, and commander and political commissar of the Ji'nan Command. In the vast area of Jiluyu, he led his troops to gallop across the country, repeatedly thwarted the "sweeping" and "liquidation" of the Japanese puppet army, and finally ushered in the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan.
At the beginning of the Liberation War, Wang Hongkun served as deputy commander of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Military Region and commander of the 6th Column, and successively participated in and commanded the battles of Shangdang, Handan, Linqing, Baijin, and Pinghan. In June 1946, Wang Hongkun led his troops to jump into Dabie Mountain with Liu Deng's army, and later served as the commander of the 10th Column of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Field Army and the commander of the Tongbai Military Region. In January 1948, Wang Hongkun led the 10 columns to participate in the Battle of Deng county, annihilating more than 7,000 Kuomintang defenders, laying the foundation for consolidating and expanding the Tongbai Liberated Area, and effectively cooperating with the anti-"siege" struggle in the Dabie Mountains. In May, he led his troops to participate in the Battles of Wanxi and Xiangfan, and in the Battle of Xiangfan, he annihilated more than 21,000 Kuomintang troops and captured Kang Ze, the commander of the 15th "Appeasement" District. From the spring of 1949, Wang Hongkun successively served as the first deputy commander of the Hubei Military Region, the deputy secretary and acting secretary of the Hubei Provincial CPC Committee.
Wang Hongkun, then deputy commander of the Navy
After the founding of New China, Wang Hongkun became the deputy commander of the Navy of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and participated in leading the work of forming the navy. In 1955, Wang Hongkun was awarded the rank of general, while his cousin Wang Shusheng was awarded the rank of general. On August 20, 1993, Wang Hongkun died of illness in Beijing, completing his glorious life.