Today we will tell the story of Admiral Wan Haifeng, whose life was a life of struggle for the revolutionary cause and a life of conscientious service for the people.
Wan Haifeng was born into an ordinary peasant family in Henan. At the age of 13, he herded cattle for the landlord's family to ease the burden on the family. Just at this time, the revolutionary wave spread, and Wan Haifeng ran dozens of kilometers in the mountains with his second uncle, catching up with the Red Army and becoming a Red Army soldier.
In a battle with the warlord, Wan Haifeng's second uncle was shot and wounded, and when the large army was about to be transferred, the second uncle had no way to follow, and the chief asked Wan Haifeng to send the second uncle back to his hometown. The second uncle died before he arrived home, and Wan Haifeng hurriedly took care of the aftermath and hurried to catch up with the troops.
But because of his lack of physical strength, Wan Haifeng fell on the road. Fortunately, Gao Jingting, the political commissar of the Red 28 Army, saved his life, and later he became Gao Jingting's attendant. In fact, the name of Wan Haifeng was also taken by Gao Jingting, and before that, Wan Haifeng only had a simple name "Maotou".
At the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Wan Haifeng was Gao Jingting's guard squad leader, but for some reason, Gao Jingting was killed by mistake, and Wan Haifeng was assigned to serve as a service soldier by the side of Su Yu, the commander-in-chief of the New Fourth Army. Soon after, Su Yu discovered that Wan Haifeng was a rare talent.
At this time, Wan Haifeng was only 20 years old, and Su Yu asked him to become a battalion commander in the Independent Brigade and command hundreds of officers and men. Wan Haifeng led the warriors to fight two victories in three days. Commanding Wan Haifeng to become the deputy regimental commander, he led the troops to defeat the Japanese brigade, annihilating more than 300 enemy troops and capturing two Japanese troops. This was actually the first time that the anti-Japanese army captured the Japanese army.
When Wan Haifeng went to Jingjiang to serve as the leader of the independent regiment, he fought many victorious battles, mostly completely annihilating the enemy army and not a single casualty of his own troops. When Su Yu heard about it, he transferred him back to the main force of the New Fourth Army and made him the chief of military staff.
After the outbreak of the civil war, Wan Haifeng led his troops to charge into the battlefield, and he basically participated in major battles in the East China Theater. During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, he served as the director of the Artillery Division of the Volunteer Army. Wan Haifeng, who had never commanded an artillery unit, studied artillery command methods day and night, formulated a combat strategy of "swimming artillery groups," and commanded the artillery units to launch surprise attacks, making up for the defects in the equipment of the artillery units.
After returning to China, Wan Haifeng still served as the commander of the division, and because of his low rank, he was only awarded the rank of colonel at the 1955 award ceremony. But Wan Haifeng did not care, let alone drop his hat and abandon his military uniform like some comrades. He worked diligently and served as a military commander, deputy commander and deputy political commissar until he was appointed political commissar of chengdu military region in 1982.
In 1988, Wan Haifeng was awarded the rank of general, and he was also the only general on the mainland to be promoted directly from colonel to general.
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