Among the more than 1,600 founding generals of our army, there is a lieutenant general named Cheng Jun, who is the first lieutenant general in Hubei Province, and the highest position is deputy commander of the People's Liberation Army Air Force.
In his decades of military career, Cheng Jun has left two legendary experiences: he has twice been targeted by enemy sharpshooters in battle, and he has not died, and the person who saved him twice is the political commissar of his unit.
The first time was in March 1936, when the then 25-year-old Cheng Jun, as the commander of the 18th Regiment of the Sixth Division of the Second Red Army, led the Long March to the Wumeng Mountain area of Guizhou.
When the Red Eighteenth Regiment approached the vicinity of the Hezhang Zhezhuang Dam, Cheng Jun carefully selected a mountainous area and decided to ambush the enemy there.
At noon on the same day, Wan Yaohuang, commander of the Twenty-fifth Army of the Nationalist Army, led his Thirteenth Division to throw himself into the net.
With Cheng Jun's order, the red eighteenth regiment soldiers opened fire at the same time, catching the enemy by surprise.
Ten minutes after the battle began, Cheng Jun saw that the enemy formation had been disrupted, so he ordered the trumpeters to charge the charge and let the troops charge down the hill.
However, just as Cheng Jun leaned out to give the order, he was targeted by Wan Yaohuang, believing that this was a Red Army commander, and immediately ordered one of his sharpshooters to kill him.
Coincidentally, just as the enemy sharpshooter was aiming at Cheng Jun, he was inadvertently discovered by Yu Qiuli, political commissar of the Red Eighteenth Regiment.
When he saw that the situation was not good, while shouting "danger," he rushed over desperately, grabbed Cheng Jun's arm, and dragged it to the side.
Just between this electric light and flint, the enemy's gun sounded, and the bullet did not hit Cheng Jun, but it hit Yu Qiuli's left arm, and even the bones were exposed.
Cheng Jun understood that this was the political commissar who saved his life, and he was very touched, and immediately ordered the soldiers to send Yu Qiuli down for treatment.
But Yu Qiuli endured severe pain, and after a simple bandage, he persisted until the end of the battle to heal his wounds.
Because the conditions in the Long March were too harsh, Yu Qiuli's left arm was still not saved, and he could only amputate his limb to save his life.
This incident also made Cheng Jun feel grateful for his life, and he had lamented many times on different occasions that the shot was taken for him by Yu Qiuli.
By August 1946, Cheng Jun, who had become the commander of the Seventh Column of the East China Field Army, led his troops to participate in the Battle of Nanma, and once again died because the political commissar of the unit rescued him.
At that time, Cheng Jun led the Seventh Column to block the 25th Division of Chiang Kai-shek's army at Niuxingu, south of Nanma.
The battle was quite fierce, and Cheng Jun annihilated the enemy's heart and personally went to the forward position to command the troops to fight.
When he started a war, he always disregarded his personal safety and caused himself great trouble. A sharpshooter in Jiang Jun's army found cheng jun giving orders, concluded that he was not small, and immediately shot and shot.
Fortunately, this "sharpshooter" played abnormally, this shot did not hit Cheng Jun's key point, only hit his left shoulder, but also made Cheng Jun bleed non-stop, and immediately fainted on the ground.
The enemy's shot also created an alternative record in the Liberation War: of all the column-level commanders of the East China Field Army, only Cheng Jun was wounded on the front line.
After treatment, the bullet on Cheng Jun's body was removed, leaving only a teacup-sized scar.
During the Revolutionary War years, wounds were common for soldiers, and almost no one cared about the scars on their bodies. Unexpectedly, this old wound became a major hidden danger lurking in Cheng Jun's body.
In December 1947, after the People's Liberation Army fought the Battle of Laiyang, Cheng Jun's old wound did not know why, but suddenly attacked.
The scar on the back of this shoulder was suddenly red and swollen, and the inside was even more painful, which made Cheng Jun, a general who had experienced hundreds of battles and iron bones, suffer a lot, and the pain was so painful that he could only roll and twitch on the bed.
His wife, Zhou Yuexiang, had never seen Cheng Jun's embarrassment at this point, knew that the situation must be particularly bad, and immediately asked Zhao Qimin, the political commissar of the column, for an emergency.
Zhao Qimin hurriedly arrived with the military doctor, but because of the symptomatic medicine, the military doctor was helpless. In desperation, Zhao Qimin had no choice but to report the situation to the head of the corps.
Tan Zhenlin, political commissar of the Shandong Corps, attached great importance to this matter and immediately assigned the minister of health to bring the most skilled doctors and several penicillins obtained from last week to rush to the first aid overnight.
Fortunately, the good medicine came in time, did not delay the time for treatment, and finally let Cheng Jun, who was already dying, get rid of this extreme pain.
Afterwards, Cheng Jun said with emotion that he did not expect an inconspicuous old injury to almost kill himself, but fortunately, tan Zhenlin and Zhao Qimin, the two political commissars, took timely measures to save their lives.
From the 1936 Zhezhuangba Ambush Battle to the 1946 Niuxingu Blockade Battle, he twice became the target of the enemy sharpshooters, but both survived due to the timely rescue of the political commissar of his unit.
In his later years, Cheng Jun looked back on his military career and sighed at the experience of these two great difficulties and immortality: "I have fought in battles for decades, and I have only suffered nine injuries in total, only these two injuries, and even I feel a little strange. ”