He's definitely a general!
In 1931, at the age of 16, he joined the Red Army, and in just four years, at the age of 20, he was already the commander of the 78th Division of the Red Army.
By August 1937, the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, and his 78th Division was divided. One with the 73rd Division was reorganized into the 687th Regiment, and the other with the 75th Division was reorganized into the 688th Regiment.
In this way, he "suffered a loss" in the arrangement of his position, and the division commander should have been the commander of the regiment, but he was only appointed as the deputy regimental commander.
But he had no complaints, and he didn't care about the level of his position, as long as he could fight on the anti-Japanese front. However, he was still appointed as the regimental commander, because the regimental commander Zhang Shaodong defected.
Tian Shouyao
The newly appointed regimental commander was Tian Shouyao. Yes, it was Tian Shouyao, who was wounded and lay on a stretcher to direct the battle during the Battle of Pingxingguan.
Because of his bravery in battle and courage and strategy, Tian Shouyao was promoted to deputy brigade commander of the 344th Brigade. After the establishment of the 5th Column of the Eighth Route Army, Tian Shouyao was appointed commander of the Second Column.
In May 1940, in order to support the New Fourth Army in the south, the 5th Column was reorganized into the Third Division of the New Fourth Army, with Tian Shouyao as the brigade commander of the 8th Brigade, and the political commissar was Wu Xinquan, who later played a great role in the Korean battlefield. After the formation of the Third Division, it was ordered to lead its troops to open up the anti-Japanese base area in northern Jiangsu.
At that time, the people of northern Jiangsu did not know much about the New Fourth Army, and the mass foundation had not yet been firmly laid. The Eighth Brigade faced many difficulties, both to resist the Japanese and the friction of the Kuomintang diehard Han Deloitte, as well as the intrusion of local bandits.
Faced with this situation, Tian Shouyao chose to suppress the bandits to win the trust of the common people, and sure enough, after repeatedly cracking down on the bandits and eliminating more than 600 bandits in the largest group in the local area, he finally opened up the situation in the Yanfu area and gained a firm foothold.
Peng Xiong
At this time, Tian Shouyao received a notice from his superiors and went to Yan'an to study. Led by Peng Xiong, chief of staff of the division, they set off by boat from the mouth of the Yanhe River in northern Jiangsu, planning to bypass the Tightly Sealed Lianyungang of the Japanese Army and go to Yan'an via Shandong.
As a result, there was an encounter with a Japanese patrol boat on the east sea of Xiaosha, and an encounter immediately occurred, the enemy's fire was particularly fierce, the division's chief of staff Peng Xiong was killed, and Tian Shouyao was wounded. He directed everyone to retreat to the shore while blocking the enemy.
Unfortunately, Tian Shouyao and his wife Chen Luolian fell into the trench and both died.
However, in view of the extremely poor communication conditions at that time, the Third Division of the New Fourth Army did not know that they had died, the Yan'an side did not know about this matter, and the Japanese side did not know who was killed in the encounter.
This seems to be a bit unknown, but some people know it, that is, the Kuomintang military unification. Because they had deciphered the code of our army's radio station before, they knew that these people were going to Yan'an to study.
As a result, the plot of the TV series was staged in reality, and in June 1943, three months after the Yellow Sea Encounter in northern Jiangsu, Tian Shouyao came to Yan'an.
Mr. and Mrs. Tian Shouyao
Of course, he is not Tian Shouyao, a senior general of our army, commander of the 8th Brigade of the New Fourth Army, but a fake Tian Shouyao. The Kuomintang military command found a secret agent to come to Yan'an pretending to be Tian Shouyao, and their purpose was to assassinate the chairman.
The Yan'an side really did not know that Tian Shouyao had been sacrificed, so the chairman was ready to personally receive the senior generals sent by the New Fourth Army to study. At this time, the fake Tian Shouyao had been staying in the hotel for 5 days, and in these two days, the chairman was going to receive him.
For the chairman's daily arrangements, Chen Bo, then minister of security, had to check every day.
This Chen Bo was no ordinary person, he was called Sherlock Holmes of Yan'an by the chairman, and he was one of the three major reconnaissance specialists in the border area at that time.
On the 22nd, he saw that there was an arrangement on the schedule to receive Tian Shouyao, the brigade commander of the New Fourth Army, and he was very unfamiliar with Tian Shouyao's name.
Therefore, he checked the information and found that the New Fourth Army did have Brigade Commander Tian Shouyao who came to Yan'an to study, set out from central China in March, and finally entered Yan'an from northwestern Jin.
Chen Bo
He immediately called the military station in the northwest of Jin and asked if there was a congbing station called Tian Shouyao recently passed, and the bing station reported that there was no such person.
The sensitivity of the profession made Chen Bo alert, and he immediately went to the hotel to check Tian Shouyao's introduction letter, but Tian Shouyao said that the introduction letter was lost.
Chen Bo felt that Tian Shouyao had been examined, and the result of the examination turned out that this Tian Shouyao was impersonated by a secret agent of the military command, and the purpose was to assassinate the chairman.
The truth came out, and by this time, Yan'an and the New Fourth Army knew that Peng Xiong, Tian Shouyao, and others had already died. Peng Xiong and Tian Shouyao were buried in the Anti-Japanese Mountain Martyrs' Cemetery in Ganyu County, Jiangsu Province.
It was too thrilling, and the secret agents of the military command were mad. Too sad, Peng Xiong and Tian Shouyao will fall to the stars!