In the late 1950s, when North Korea's supreme leader, Kim Il Sung, accompanied by Premier Zhou Enlai, was visiting China, and just as he was getting off the plane, a soldier suddenly burst out of the crowd, put his arms around his neck and shouted: "Old Kim, old Kim, you want to kill me!" ”。
Everyone present was stunned by this scene, and then they saw Kim Il Sung holding the man's hand with an excited face and saying, "Commander Three Battalion, you are still alive!" ”。 Afterwards, Zhou Enlai criticized the man, saying that Jinri Chengdu was not the battalion commander he had been, but was now the head of state and could not be disrespectful.
We must know that this is the first time that a foreign head of state has received a visit from a foreign head of state since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the central authorities have actually attached great importance to it. Afterwards, Kim Il Sung not only did not get angry about the incident, but also sent two truckloads of apples to the soldier. This soldier is the founding major general Wang Minggui, who has a solid friendship with Kim Il Sung.
Wang Minggui was originally a miner in the Gejinhe Gold Mine in Heilongjiang, and from a poor family, he had thought that working in the gold mine could improve his life, but he did not want to be further exploited and oppressed.
He could not bear it, so he joined the Northeast People's Revolutionary Army led by Yang Jingyu, and after Yang Jingyu established the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance, Wang Minggui served as the company commander of the Third Division of the Sixth Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance.
At that time, not only Chinese participated in this Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance, but also Koreans who had lost their land, and in order to resist the wanton trampling of Japanese imperialism on their homeland, they fought hand in hand, and fought with the Japanese army between the Xing'an Ridge and the White Mountain and the Black Water of changbai Mountain, and Kim Il-sung was the commander of the Third Division of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance.
The Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition fought very bravely, and they showed no mercy to the invaders, who bore the hatred of the country and the family. Although the Japanese army in the northeast was large, Wang Minggui made the Japanese army at that time fearful, and they gave Wang Minggui a nickname, called "fierce", a word that was originally used to describe the ferocious mammoth.
Why are the Japanese so afraid of Wang Minggui? It turned out that Wang Minggui himself was very fierce in appearance, had a kind of military momentum that was not angry and arrogant, and was also a genius in guerrilla warfare, and he was haunted by the war, making the Japanese army and the puppet army invincible. Although there were many heroes in the domestic anti-Japanese war, Wang Minggui's reputation was not obvious, but he left a lot of records on the enemy side.
The Japanese Nakamura wrote in his own reminiscences:
“...... Wang Minggui's bandits and thieves are rampant. With their presence, the horror of the barren mountains in winter multiplied, making the personnel working on the site extremely nervous. ”
Many people will feel a bit exaggerated when they read how much fear the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance has caused to the Japanese army, but in fact, many of the records are originally recorded by the Japanese themselves, these invaders are like jackals, when they encounter ordinary people who have no ability to resist, they show their teeth viciously, but once they are targeted by a strong person like Wang Minggui, they also have to clip their tails.
The Northeast Anti-Japanese League has been fighting in the heavy encirclement of the Japanese army, and they have no logistical support at all in the occupied areas, and their hardship is no less than that of the Red Army that participated in the Long March, Kim Il Sung persuaded Yang Jingyu to adopt a roundabout strategy, but Yang Jingyu had a deep hatred for the invaders, and he did not retreat from the battle, and those who chose to stay knew that they only had one way to die, but they wanted the Japanese to see the bloodiness of the Chinese.
After Yang Jingyu's sacrifice, Wang Minggui continued to lead the Anti-Japanese Coalition to fight against the Japanese army, and he was not confused, because everyone in the Anti-Japanese Coalition Army was ready to sacrifice. From its establishment, the Northeast Anti-Japanese League had a total of 11 commanders, two of whom lost hope and backbone in the enemy's encirclement and defected to the enemy, and of the remaining nine, seven were killed and only two survived.
Although Wang Minggui was good at guerrilla warfare, he could often sneak behind the Japanese army to eat ashes, but in 1938, the Northeast Anti-Japanese League, which was heavily encircled, completely lost contact with the central government, and the situation became more and more severe, and Wang Minggui had to move with the Sixth Army to the Soviet Union as agreed to seek assistance.
With the help of the Communist allies of the Soviet Union, the Anti-Japanese League was reorganized, and the Soviet Union awarded them the title of "88th Brigade of the Far Eastern Red Banner Army", Wang Minggui was the battalion commander of the third teaching battalion, and Kim Il-sung was the battalion commander of the first battalion, which is why Kim Il Sung called him the third battalion commander at that time, and their revolutionary friendship was established at this time.
In 1945, they finally waited for the opportunity, the 88th Brigade was incorporated into the 2nd Front Of the Soviet Far East Army, followed the Soviet Red Army back to the northeast, on the eve of the decisive battle, Wang Myung-gyu and Kim Il Sung made a final farewell, after all, this walk, it is possible to never see each other again.
When we didn't expect to see each other again, one became the founding major general, and the other was even more powerful, becoming the head of state. Recalling the hard days of resisting the Japanese imperialist aggressors, I cannot help but sigh.
At that time, in the snowy mountains in the northeast, what they most wanted to eat was fresh fruit, an apple was a good thing that could not be expected, Kim Il Sung did not forget these, sent a whole two wagons of apples, Wang Minggui was of course very happy, but so much he certainly could not finish eating, so he distributed these apples to the soldiers.
After the founding of New China, the instructions of the superiors were to let Wang Minggui go to the south to work, but Wang Minggui took the initiative to invite him back to Heilongjiang, and he did not leave until General Wang died in Harbin.
After General Wang died of illness, his family cremated him, and more than ten pieces of shrapnel were found in General Wang's ashes! Remembering that when General Wang was old, he always said that the comrades who sacrificed their lives were the real heroes, but General Wang was not, under the white mountains and black waters, surrounded by heavy burdens, across the hinterland of the enemy army, always adhering to faith and being loyal to the motherland, he is certainly a hero worthy of our eternal memory!
Resources:
1. "Black Soil, Red Snow: Documentary of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Hard War", Zhu Xiuhai
2. "History of the Development of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Road Army", send a good gift