preface:
In our growth road will encounter a lot of bumps, will also face some doubts, some people who are not strong will will be crushed by gossip, and some people will continue to work hard to fight, bravely move forward, to achieve the life they yearn for, in fact, how life is, we have to face, face up to ourselves to appreciate the value of life.
Mention Chen Changhao, people who love history have some understanding of him, the first half of his life is brilliant, the second half of his life stumbled and bumpy, during the Red Army period was the general political commissar of the Red Fourth Front, one of the few big figures in the Red Army, but after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he only served as deputy director, and the turning point of his life was to lead the Western Route Army.
The defeated Western Route Army
In October 1936, the three main forces of the Red Army met in Huining, Gansu, which was a very great thing, but it also brought huge problems to the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Soviet District, which at that time was sparsely populated and the land was barren, while the Red Second and Fourth Fronts had nearly 50,000 people, and their arrival put great pressure on the survival of the Soviet region.
The headquarters quickly made arrangements to form the Western Route Army, whose task was to cross the Yellow River in the west to create the Hexi base area, and independently develop westward to open up communication lines with the Soviet Union from Xinjiang and obtain military material assistance from the Soviet side.
At that time, the Western Route Army embarked on the road of the western expedition under the leadership of the commander-in-chief Xu Xiangqian and the political commissar Chen Changhao, and after the westward march, the troops fought day and night, dealing a heavy blow to the Majia army, and at the end of December, they once captured gaotai county and established a revolutionary regime, but behind the brilliant achievements were the increasing depletion of ammunition, grain, and grass, and the huge losses of soldiers. In the bloody battle of November, the Red Ninth Army suffered heavy losses, and the cadres at or above the light division level suffered heavy casualties, and only more than 15,000 people remained in the Western Route Army after this battle.
After Gaotai was breached by the Western Route Army, the Ma family army quickly gathered heavy troops to counterattack, and after nine days and nights of bloody fighting, except for a few people who broke through, the Red Fifth Army was completely destroyed, and the commander Dong Zhentang also died heroically. At this time, the main force of the Western Route Army was lost, and the Western Route Army, which had less than 10,000 people, including a considerable number of logisticians and as many as 3,000 wounded and sick people, lost the ability to fight the Western Route Army broke through in three ways after the Shiwoshan Conference, and finally only more than 3,000 people returned to northern Shaanxi.
Stayed in the SOVIET UNION for more than a decade
On the way back to Yan'an, due to a sudden stomach disease, Chen Changhao and Xu Xiangqian separated, stayed in Langzhong but recovered from the three families, and after the illness eased, they went to Wuhan to visit relatives, and when they returned to Yan'an, it was October. After returning to Yan'an, because of the fiasco of the Western Route Army, he could not lead the troops back to the battlefield because of the fiasco of the Western Route Army, but remained in Yan'an and worked as a teacher at the Northern Shaanxi Public School.
In 1939, due to a stomach ulcer, Chen Changhao said goodbye to his wife Zhang Qinqiu and went to the Soviet Union for treatment, but he did not expect that this walk would be more than ten years.
After the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, the sanatorium of the Comintern was dissolved, Chen Changhao was evacuated to a small town in Central Asia, due to a lack of labor, he worked in a quarry for more than a year, in 1943 was recalled, worked as a translator in the Soviet People's Foreign Relations Committee, and later transferred with Li Lisan and others to the Soviet Foreign Literature and National Culture Publishing Bureau.
During this period, he fell in love with the Soviet girl Grana and held a wedding. Although he established a new family in the Soviet Union, after the victory of the War of Resistance, he still hoped to return to his homeland, and he applied to the country many times to return to China, but did not receive a reply. Cai Chang and his ex-wife Zhang Qinqiu both traveled to Moscow to participate in international activities and visit him by the way, Chen Changhao once asked them to convey a request for their return to China for themselves, which was finally approved, and in 1952, Chen Changhao returned to the motherland with his wife and children.
Motherland
Out of comrade-in-arms, Xu Xiangqian and other old comrades-in-arms and some old subordinates of the Red Fourth Front Army all came to Beijing Station to pick him up, in addition to Zhang Qinqiu and Su Jingguan and his wife, Chen Changhao got off the train to see the comrades who had been separated for more than ten years and burst into tears with excitement, and after seeing Zhang Qinqiu, he clasped her hand and said apologetically: "Qinqiu, I made you suffer, I am sorry for you."
Soon after returning to China, Chen Changhao had his own job as the deputy director of the Compilation Bureau, although the position was not high, but he worked diligently and contributed the rest of his life to the construction of new China.
Chen Changhao has three sons, the younger son was born to Granna, and later the deterioration of Sino-Soviet relations affected the couple's husband and wife relationship, and Grana moved to Australia with Chen Zumo. The eldest son, Chen Zuze, and the second son, Chen Zutao, were born to his wife Liu Xiuzhen, both of whom also received a good education in the Soviet Union, and the eldest son, Chen Zuze, became a nuclear industry technologist in New China after returning to China, while the second son, Chen Zutao, had higher achievements.
In the Soviet Union, Chen Zutao studied in the Mechanical Department of Baoman Higher Technical College, and after graduation, he returned to China to participate in the Soviet Union's assistance in the construction of Changchun First Automobile Factory, FAW's site selection, design, infrastructure, installation, commissioning to production, Chen Zutao has participated, so he is one of the founders of FAW.
In the 1960s, Chen Zutao also participated in the preparation of the Second Automobile, and served as the first chief engineer, after several years of efforts, so that the second automobile became the largest automobile manufacturing plant in China at that time, in the 80s Chen Zumo served as the chairman of the China Automobile Federation, presided over the development of the national automobile industry, through his series of reform measures, China's automobile industry reversed the traditional concept formed for more than twenty years, laying a solid foundation for the vigorous development of China's automobile industry.
Chen Zutao's life is closely linked to the automobile industry of the motherland, and he is worthy of the title of "the founder of China's automobile industry" and is a hero respected by the Chinese people.