Chen Xilian joined the Red Army when he was 14 years old, before the gun was high, and at the age of 15, he participated in the battle, and after several battles, he received unanimous praise, fought bravely, often charged forward, and was called "small steel cannon". He was only 22 years old when he attacked Yangmingbao Airport at night and destroyed 24 Japanese aircraft, becoming a prominent figure in the Nationalist and Communist armies. In the creation of the Taihang Mountain base area, he was the most important. At the age of 31, he became the youngest column commander of the People's Liberation Army, shouldering the heavy responsibility of advancing into the Central Plains. In 1955, he was awarded the rank of general and was a member of the First, Second and Third National Defense Commissions.
Chen Xilian, also known as the "two-faced fox", is bold and careful when fighting wars, and cautious in handling human-machine relations. Most of the founding generals led troops to fight with the enemy for many years, most of them had bad tempers, and some were very violent. Chen Xilian had a large belly and a good temper, and had few objections to the tasks assigned above unless they were related to the war situation, so he was very pleasing. Especially General Chen Geng is a joke-loving person.
Follow the eldest brother Chen Geng mixed
General Chen Geng and Chen Xilian had known each other when they were in the Red Fourth Front of Eyu and Anhui. At that time, Chen Geng was the commander of the Red 12th Division, and Chen Xilian was a company commander of the Red 10th Division. Although the level difference is very large, but the two people have a very good appetite, and soon became iron brothers, Chen Geng is famous for his love of jokes, many times he is "too big to be borderless", the iron-blooded generals in the army are inevitably temperamental, and it is not easy to joke. Chen Geng found that this little brother was not angry about how to joke, so he often played with his younger brother Chen Xilian.
When he was in northern Shaanxi, Erchen Du came to yan'an central party school to study, and the two were still in one class and one branch. In addition to studying, General Chen Geng often took his little brother around, did not do less "bad things", and it was often the little brother who carried the pot.
Once, the dates of Mr. Zhu's family were ripe, so Chen Geng often took his younger brother to patronize Mr. Zhu's house. When he came to the door of the cave, Chen Geng said to Chen Xilian, "Little brother, you go knock on the door first", and when Chen Xilian knocked on the door, he was beating the jujube of Mr. Zhu's house. As soon as he entered the house, he was deliberately surprised: "Oh, Old Brother Xilian, you are also here with Mr. Zhu!" ”
Chen Xilian was also taken by him to cooperate badly: "Ah, big brother, you are also here!" ”
When Mr. Zhu finished chatting and talking at Mr. Zhu's house, and Mr. Zhu sent them out, Chen Geng acted very surprised and shouted: "Boss! What about good dates falling from a tree? ”
Mr. Zhu knew Chen Geng's flower intestines: "Since it has fallen, you should pick it up and eat it!" ”
I had long waited for Mr. Zhu's words, so the two of them laughed and closed their mouths, filled their pockets, and did not forget to grab a large handful with one hand in their hands, and smiled and said goodbye to Mr. Zhu.
When he studied in Yan'an, he also participated in the labor of repairing Yan'an Airport. The two of them were in a group and pushed a wheelbarrow to work, at which time Chen Geng thought of a good way to "save physical strength".
He said to Chen Xilian: "Little brother, I will push you when I go, and you will push me when I come, so as to save physical strength", and Chen Xilian agreed to this "fair" deal. When he went, he was physically strong, Chen Geng pushed very easily, when he came, he did a day's work, tired, Chen Geng lay comfortably on the car to rest, on the road to meet people Chen Geng did not forget to smile and greet, Chen Xilian was tired.
Later, Chen Geng and Chen Xilian also became brothers-in-law.
Stunned Li Xiannian
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.
The soldiers of the Red Army were basically peasants and had never seen such a scene. Eat the seized toothpaste as candy; nail the wax paper as a notebook, write and complain that the reactionaries' paper is also reactionary; never see the packaged white noodles, and use the white surface as a paint brush slogan. And Chen Xilian's joke is even bigger.
The day after they finished fighting, Li Xiannian, political commissar of the Red 30 Army, and Zheng Yizhai, director of the Logistics Department, came to Chen Xilian's residence. After a while, Zheng Yizhai found that something was wrong under Chen Xilian's bed, and he was furious and 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 was inexplicable, and said with an innocent face: "There is nothing to hide here, it is all some copper blocks, and there are many that I threw into the latrine." Liu Cunhou's these broken things, use it to cushion the bed, what a fuss! ”
Zheng Yizhai cried and laughed and said, "It's a pity! What a pity! Do you know what this is? This is a golden brick! homosexuals! ”
And Li Xiannian has not spoken, because when he heard this, he was stunned, he had never seen the golden bricks, and now that he saw so much, he was also taken by Chen Xilian to cushion the bed, very amazed. To Chen Xilian sighed: "Xilian, like me, you have only heard of gold bricks, but I don't know that it is this thing, today is really eye-opening!" ”
Before they could finish their sighs, they had long since disappeared from Zheng Yizhai and were gathering people to salvage the gold bricks in chen xilian's latrine. At the same time, look around for the copper nuggets in their mouths.
Zhang Aiping's white eyes
During the Cultural Revolution, General Zhang Aiping was wronged. Chen Xilian, who was sitting with him, touched him with his foot and quietly said, "You admit it!" ”
General Zhang Aiping shouted, "What do you want me to admit?" ”
Chen Xilian did not expect to be associated with those people by General Zhang Aiping, and he was tragically blinded.
Then he whispered, "Admit that you made a mistake in the route, I didn't admit it, and they didn't treat me like that!" ”
General Zhang Aiping shouted, "That's you! ”
Chen Xilian suffered fiercely from the blank eyes of General Zhang Aiping, who was upright and could not bear the injustice of not being white, and he could not accept or approve of Chen Xilian's sleek handling.