This person voluntarily stayed in the Red Army, and later became a founding lieutenant general, and divorced his wife in order to resist the French and aid Vietnam, he was General Deng Yifan.
General Deng Yifan, a native of Xingning County, Guangdong Province. In 1929, the Nationalist army recruited soldiers in Shantou, when Deng Yifan rushed to register, but the recruiter said that he was too small to be a soldier, so he rejected Deng Yifan.
Just when Deng Yifan didn't know what to do, an officer came out of the recruitment office and said boy, where are you from to join the army, why are you leaving! At this time, Deng Yifan said that they said that I was small and did not want me. After that, the officer asked where you were from, Deng Yifan said xingning county, the officer said fellow countrymen, so if you are thinking of becoming a soldier, I will tell the recruiter who registered, and deng Yifan enlisted in the army.
After enlisting in the army, the company commander of Deng Yifan's company and he were fellow countrymen and took good care of Deng Yifan. In 1930, Deng Yifan participated in the Guangdong-Guangdong warlord rivalry, and before the war began, his company commander told him that you should be careful not to be so desperate on the battlefield. And to Deng Yifan, wherever you went, you heard that there was also the Red Army, it was very powerful, you had to be careful, at that time Deng Yifan did not understand the Red Army.
A few days later, Deng Yifan and the troops set out, and when the army arrived in Nanxiong, who knew that as soon as they entered the mountains, they were surrounded by the Red Army, and at that time Deng Yifan's company was frightened, they did not understand the Red Army, only heard that the Red Army fought very hard. After the First World War, the Red Army captured more than two hundred soldiers without bloodshed.
The Red Army gathered all the prisoners, and the commander-in-chief, Mr. Zhu Lao, told them that our Red Army contingent is a contingent of poor people who are in charge, and that if you want to stay and be the Red Army, you can also do it, and those who do not want to give each of them 3 pieces of ocean as a road fare and go home. After listening to Mr. Zhu's words, Deng Yifan stood up on the spot and said that I would like to stay and be a Red Army, and when they saw Deng Yifan's shout, the rest of the people said that we all stayed. Later, these people became senior generals of the People's Liberation Army.
After joining the Red Army, Deng Yifan also learned to read, and later served as a member of the army's clerical and propaganda team, and participated in the Fifth Anti-"Encirclement and Suppression" Operation and the Long March. When the team arrived in northern Shaanxi, Deng Yifan threw himself into the battles of Zhiluo Town and the Eastern Crusade.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Deng Yifan served as the chief of the organization section and the director of the inspection team of the 115th Division. After "", he was transferred to the post of Secretary-General by his superiors.
During the Liberation War, Deng Yifan served as director of the political department of the 2nd Column and director of the political department of the 21st Army, and led his troops to participate in the battles of Subei, Lunan, Laiwu, Menglianggu, Huaihai, and Crossing the River.
Just after the establishment of xinzhong, General Deng Yifan voluntarily proposed the War of Resistance against France and Aid to Vietnam, but at that time his wife did not agree that it was difficult to hope to come to a stable life and to separate. In fact, this is not to blame his wife, think about the eight years of the War of Resistance, several years of the War of Liberation Whenever General Deng Yifan went out on a campaign, his wife was worried at home, and it was hard to look forward to the founding of the country, and she wanted to go on the expedition again, so his wife said, you go again, we will divorce.
In the end, the general thought twice, agreed to divorce, and then went to the road of resisting the law and aiding Vietnam. On September 22, 1953, General Deng Yifan was personally awarded the Order of Military Merit of the Second Class by Ho Chi Minh. To show his merits in the War to Resist France and Aid Vietnam.
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