Written by | Shassie
In 1930, Xu Xiangqian saw Zhou Xihan for the first time, saw that he was thin, and sighed: "People are quite spirited, but it is a pity that they are thinner." When Zhou Xihan heard this, some bosses in his heart were not happy, so he said to Xu Xiangqian: "In the plot rather than in the courage, Guan Yun is tall and tall, don't you also lose the battle?" ”
Xu Xiangqian listened, couldn't help but be stunned, seeing that he had some insight, he had the heart to test him, so he pointed to the map on the wall and asked him. Zhou Xihan replied that he couldn't understand it, and then said, "I can't understand it now, can you teach me?" I can definitely learn, as long as I am careful, there is no skill in the world that I can't learn. ”
Xu Xiangqian saw that he was calm and calm, intelligent and studious, and could not help but be overjoyed, so he touched his head and said, "It is a good material." ”
This year, Xu Xiangqian was 29 years old and was already the deputy commander of the Red First Army and the commander of the First Division. Although Zhou Xihan was not yet 17 years old, he was older in the Red Army than Xu Xiangqian, who participated in the jute uprising in 1927 and joined the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army the following year, while Xu Xiangqian did not come to northeastern Hubei until June 1929.
In this way, Xu Xiangqian and Zhou Xihan, who were not teachers and students, but were better than teachers and students, formed an indissoluble relationship. Zhou Xihan once said to people with emotion: "Every time I suffer, comrade Xu Xiangqian saved my life and gave me the opportunity to continue to work for the party and the people. ”
In 1931, Zhang Guotao came to the Eyu-Anhui region and soon gained the command of the Red Fourth Army, not only establishing the Central Bureau of the Communist Party of China in Eyu-Anhui, but also setting up a security bureau, which was specifically responsible for eliminating dissidents.
Once, someone exposed That Zhou Xihan was a rich peasant who had blended into the ranks of the Red Army, and asked him to take off his military uniform and hand over his weapons, and only issued him a road note that read: "Zhou Xihan is a rich peasant, expelled from his hometown to produce, and released along the way." ”
Zhou Xihan cried and laughed, there were words of suffering, his family had helped the landlord to cultivate the land for generations, and he was so poor that he was jingling, where was the rich peasant? Unwilling to leave the Red Army, he returned to his hometown of Macheng County overnight, and after much trouble, he finally issued a certificate from the Soviet government of Macheng County, and returned to the troops to regain his innocence.
However, when Zhou Xihan found the Red Army with this hard-won certificate, he did not let him go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, but only let him go to the gang room to help the cook. Zhou Xihan had no choice but to stay here temporarily, because he had learned a little culture and helped keep up food accounts at night.
Soon, once, it was past dinner time, Zhou Xihan was looking down to clean the kitchen, when a man walked in and asked him, "Is there any pot?" ”
Zhou Xihan heard this voice very familiar, hurriedly looked up, and found that it was Xu Xiangqian, chief of staff of the Red Fourth Army, and quickly greeted it.
Xu Xiangqian saw that the thin Zhou Xihan was dressed in a short dress, did not wear a military uniform, and helped the kitchen in the kitchen, and he was also stunned and hurriedly asked him what was going on. Zhou Xihan then told him what had happened to him, and pulled out a sweaty proof from his pocket.
Xu looked forward at the certificate, did not speak, did not eat, turned around and left.
The next day, someone came to the kitchen and took Zhou Xihan to the military office and asked him to be Xu Xiangqian's clerk. Afterwards, Zhou Xihan learned that Xu Xiangqian went to Zhang Guotao specifically for his own sake and told him: "Zhou Xihan is still a child, he doesn't know anything, he was very active when he worked with me before, how can he be a reshuffle and a rich peasant?" He also showed Zhang Guotao the certificate issued by the Soviet government of Macheng County.
Zhang Guotao saw Xu Xiangqian personally intercede, and there was proof, so it was not easy to say anything more.
In June 1932, Chiang Kai-shek mobilized 300,000 people and personally served as commander-in-chief to carry out the fourth "encirclement and suppression" of the Eyu-Anhui Soviet Region. At that time, under the command of Xu Xiangqian, the Red Fourth Front successively won victories in the battles of Huang'an and Sujiabu, and Zhang Guotao was momentarily confused and ordered the Red Army to constantly attack the strong enemy.
Zhou Xihan saw that Xu Xiangqian was suffering from a nest of anger, and his heart was also very uncomfortable, so he sent a few complaints behind his back, saying that Zhang Guotao was a "blind commander" and saying: "We should move our troops by maneuver, lure the enemy to a favorable position, and break through each one." Like him, he pulled the troops up and fought hard, fighting what should not be fought, and what should not be guaranteed, what kind of fame was engaged? ”
Although Zhou Xihan's ideas coincided with Xu Xiangqian's, some people went to the Defense Bureau and Zhang Guotao to inform him, saying that Zhou Xihan was a counter-revolutionary, and that he had lost a batch of bullets during the Battle of Sujiabu.
When Zhang Guotao learned of this, he was furious and asked the Security Bureau to arrest Zhou Xihan again, torture him severely, and ask him viciously: "You are so bold, dare to say this about me behind your back, is someone directing you?" After saying that, he also poured him pepper water and asked him to say who the person behind it was.
Zhou Xihan was tortured and struggled desperately, shouting: "I am not a counter-revolutionary, I am not a reformist." At this time, Xu Xiangqian rushed to the Security Bureau to find Zhang Guotao, and guaranteed zhou Xihan with party spirit that he was just talking nonsense, and said that he was his own clerk and would definitely be strictly disciplined in the future.
Zhang Guotao saw that Xu Xiangqian had personally come to protect the people, and seeing that the great enemy was present, and needed Xu Xiangqian to command the Red Fourth Front army to carry out anti-"encirclement and suppression", so he reluctantly agreed, waved his hand, and ordered zhou Xihan to be released. After this incident, Xu Qianqian repeatedly taught Zhou Xihan to say what he should say and not to say what he should not say.
Not long after, under Zhang Guotao's obstinate "blind command," the enemy not only did not retreat, but the Red Fourth Front suffered huge losses, and even the Seven Mile Ping, the center of the Soviet, was occupied by the enemy, and had to be forced to retreat all the way east.
At this time, Zhou Xihan had become a staff officer at the headquarters of the Red Fourth Front. After the Swallow River Conference, the strategic intention of the Red Army to attack Yingshan County to try to change the situation was not realized, the situation was very critical, and everyone talked about it privately.
When Zhang Guotao saw the situation, he remembered Zhou Xihan, who once said that he was "blindly commanding", and couldn't help but hate him to the bone, in order to block people's mouths, his heart suddenly killed Zhou Xihan.
One day, Zhou Xihan led someone to arrange accommodation for the leaders of the headquarters of the Red Fourth Front, and Zhang Guotao made up nothing, accusing Zhou Xihan of arranging the house for him to be lonely and wanted to deliberately murder him so that enemy planes could bomb him.
Zhou Xihan was furious, he originally thought that Zhang Guotao liked to be clean, and specially arranged a better house for him, who knew that he was kind enough to be a donkey's liver and lungs, so he said angrily: "I didn't want to murder you, you can do whatever you want!" ”
When Zhang Guotao heard this, he was furious, raised his chin at the people in the Security Bureau, and made another gesture. Therefore, someone went forward and cut Zhou Xihan's hands back, tied up the five flowers, and then escorted him to the nearby river beach, ready to shoot him.
Zhou Xihan realized that this time it must be more fierce and less auspicious, and did not think about it so much, but just shouted in his throat, "Long live the Communist Party!" Who knows, as soon as the words fell, a cry came from the upper reaches of the river beach asking, "What are you doing?" ”
Zhou Xihan looked up and found that Xu Xiangqian, commander-in-chief of the Red Fourth Front, and Chen Changhao, political commissar, had come over. When the two saw Zhou Xihan kneeling on the ground and preparing to execute, they couldn't help but be surprised and hurriedly ordered people to stop.
At this time, someone reported to Xu Xiangqian and Chen Changhao that Zhou Xihan was a "reformist" and "counter-revolutionary" and was executing him on the orders of Zhang Guotao.
Xu Xiangqian did not believe it and went forward to ask Zhou Xihan. Zhou Xihan then told Xu Xiangqian about helping Zhang Guotao prepare the house but saying that he was going to murder him.
After Xu Xiangqian listened, he glanced at Chen Changhao, and the two hurried to find Zhang Guotao, and finally under Chen Changhao's intercession, Xu Xiangqian saved Zhou Xihan again.
Later, Zhou Xihan grew up rapidly under the care of Xu Xiangqian. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, he served as chief of staff of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and during the Liberation War, he served as the commander of the 13th Army of the Second Field Army, and in 1955 he was awarded the rank of lieutenant general and became a founding general of the republic.
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