There are many stories when it comes to Chen Xilian, especially between him and the general Chen Geng, there are many funny and humorous stories, Chen Geng loves to joke, Chen Xilian has a lot of gas, and does not care. In the Red Army, General Chen Geng was the commander of the division at the time, Chen Xilian was the company commander of another division, the level difference was so big, but it did not affect their becoming good brothers, Chen Geng often called Chen Xilian "little brother", this little brother always loved to eat the losses of the big brother, and was often teased by Chen Geng and did not care. And Chen Xilian, who seems to be honest, has also made a lot of jokes.
The majestic "small steel cannon"
At the age of 14, Chen Xilian joined the Red Army, and in the team led by General Xu Haidong, he became a famous general on the mainland.
Less than half a year after joining the Red Army, he faced a test of life and death, and Chen Xilian, who had just turned 15, fought the first battle of his life under the leadership of Xu Xiangqian. When he first arrived on the battlefield, he was not only not afraid, but also often charged forward, and in the first battle he grabbed a clerk of the enemy and captured a red Parker pen.
After several battles, although Chen Xilian was young, he charged forward every time, fought bravely, and was commended by the company commander and the battalion commander. Once, the battalion commander Gao Hanchu commented after the war: "Xiao Fat (Chen Xilian's nickname) is small and ambitious, and he is very brave in fighting, just like a small steel cannon," At that time, Chen Xilian was only 15 years old, his height was not high, and at that time, the small steel cannon was considered to be a very powerful weapon in the Red Army, so the small steel cannon spread among the troops. The name also accompanied him for a long time.
"Never seen the world" made a big joke
In October 1933, Chen Xilian was the political commissar of the 263rd Regiment of the 88th Division of the Red 36th Army. Together with their brother troops, they invaded Daxian County, where the Sichuan warlord Liu Cunhou was entrenched, and captured the arsenal, quilt factory, and mint that Liu Cunhou had been operating for many years.
Many of the soldiers of the Red Army were peasants, and where had they seen such a world, the soldiers nailed the wax paper as a notebook, and because the wax paper was smooth, they could not write, so they complained one after another: the paper made by the reactionaries was also contaminated with reaction.
Some fighters have never seen toothpaste, so they put toothpaste in their pockets and eat it as sugar, and complain about how they chew more and more bubbles, and even the reactionaries' sugar is reactionary. Some fighters have never seen the white side in the bag, since the white face is used as a paint for painting the wall and scribbling revolutionary slogans on the wall.
And the joke made by Chen Xilian is big:
He had seen silver dollars, so when they seized a large number of silver dollars and gold bricks, they handed over the silver dollars, but they kept the gold bricks as bricks to play the role of gold bricks.
At night, when the bed was unstable, he put some gold bricks as bricks under the bed. The next day, Li Xiannian, political commissar of the Red 30th Army, and Zheng Yizhai, director of the General Manager's Department (Logistics Department), came to Chen Xilian's residence, and Zheng Yizhai inadvertently saw that there were many gold bricks hidden under Chen Xilian's bed, and immediately misunderstood.
Losing his temper, he roared with a red neck: "How did you do it, such a valuable thing is not handed over, it is hidden under the bed!" ”
Chen Xilian looked puzzled and said without hurrying, "There is nothing to hide here, it is all some copper blocks, and some of them have been thrown into the dung pit." Liu Cunhou's these broken things, use it to cushion the bed, what a fuss! ”
Suddenly, Zheng Yizhai cried and laughed, turned his anger into joy, and smiled and said, "It's a pity! What a pity! Do you know what this is? It's gold, it's gold bricks! homosexuals! ”
And Li Xiannian did not speak next to him, because he was also a person who had never seen a gold brick, and sighed to Chen Xilian: "Xi lian, like me, you have only heard of the golden brick, but I don't know that it is this thing, today is really eye-opening!" ”
Before Li Xiannian and Chen Xilian could finish their feelings, Zheng Yizhai had long since disappeared, and was gathering people to look around for the "copper blocks" in everyone's mouth, and to salvage out those that Chen Xilian threw into the pit and hand them all over to the general manager's department. After many years, whenever Chen Xilian mentioned this matter, he often couldn't help but laugh.