Among the PLA generals who were awarded military ranks in 1955, the former Kuomintang army uprising and surrender of the generals were quite eye-catching.
According to statistics, a total of 3,098 such officers were awarded military ranks at that time, of which 10 were generals. Three generals: Chen Mingren, Tao Zhiyue and Dong Qiwu; three lieutenant generals: Zeng Zesheng, Kong Congzhou and Han Liancheng. 4 major generals: Deng Zhaoxiang, Zhang Shizhen, Lin Zun and Wei Zhen.
In fact, there is also a category of officers who have been awarded military ranks, they are more special than the officers who rebelled and surrendered, they were originally in the Kuomintang army, and later captured in battle, they resolutely joined the revolutionary ranks and grew up to become founding generals.
For such generals, not many people know. Today, we will share with you four such generals whose experiences are like a replica: captured on the battlefield, joined the Red Army, and even engaged in the same work.
Who are these 4 founding major generals? They were Major General Jiang Qixian, Major General Dai Zhenghua, Major General Sun Yizhi and Major General Li Zhi.
Major General Jiang Qixian
Speaking of Major General Jiang Qixian, we think of General He Bingyan, who was awarded the title in 55 years and later, and has been paid special attention to, because they are a pair of sons-in-law. General He Bingyan's wife, Jiang Ping, was the daughter of Major General Jiang Qixian.
Jiang Qixian is a medical student, he is a graduate of the nurse class of Xiangya Medical College, if he works in the hospital, he is a male nurse.
However, in the year of his graduation, he was drafted into the army and became a military doctor in the 1st Battalion of the 12th Regiment of the 3rd Division of the Xiang Army. At that time, there was a shortage of medical personnel in the army, and those who graduated from the nurse class could become military doctors. Unlike now, the nurse class can only be a nurse, not qualified to be a doctor.
Jiang Qixian only worked in the Xiang Army for more than a year, and then resolutely defected to the National Revolutionary Army, and in the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Division, he still did his old job and worked as a military doctor. During this period, he participated in the Northern Expedition with his troops. He progressed rapidly, and by 1931 he was already the lieutenant colonel of the 9th Division.
In this year, Jiang Qixian's fate was reversed. In August 1931, the Kuomintang carried out the third encirclement and suppression of the Red Army, and Jiang Qixian accompanied the troops as the chief of military medical doctors. In the Battle of Laoyingpan, Jiang Qixian was captured by the Red Army.
After being captured, Jiang Qixian personally saw that the Red Army had committed no crime against the common people, and was enthusiastically supported by the common people, which greatly touched him. He immediately joined the Red Army and became a military doctor in the ranks of the Red Army.
In the second year of joining the Red Army, Jiang Qixian had been promoted to the chief of the military medical department of the Red 3 Army, and it was at this time that he met the chairman of his hometown. The chairman went to the Red Third Army to check on the treatment of the wounded, and after learning that he was a native of Loudi, Hunan, he talked to him cordially in a rural voice, dispelling the burden he had been carrying in his heart -- because he was a captured person, he could not always lift his head.
The Chairman told him that the revolution is not in any order, but that the contribution after the revolution is judged. Whether as a soldier or a doctor, Jiang Qixian is absolutely unambiguous. During the Long March, he treated countless wounded and sick Red Army soldiers, and without him, one of General Yang Chengwu's legs would be gone.
Once, the chairman held a meeting of the cadres of the regiment and found that Jiang Qixian was late. Asking the reason, I learned that 5 wounded and sick people in the Ministry of Health of the First Army had been left behind, and he personally led the team to search. It turned out to be a wounded man with diarrhea, and the other four were left behind for guarding him.
After Jiang Qixian found them, he immediately let the other 4 people chase after the troops, and it was too late to carry the diarrhea wounded man on his back.
When the chairman heard about it, he stood up and saluted him: "Good, great! ”
Jiang Qixian made faster progress in the Red Army, and when the all-out War of Resistance broke out, he was already the director of the General Health Department of the Central Military Commission. After the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, he served as the director of the General Health Department of the Eighth Route Army. He not only had superb medical skills and saved the lives of soldiers and injured soldiers, but more importantly, he founded a military medical school and trained a large number of medical personnel for our army.
After the founding of New China, Jiang Qixian served as the director of the Health Department of the Central Military Commission, and was later transferred to the Central Military Commission's Senior Logistics School as vice president and education chief.
In 1955, he was awarded the rank of major general.
Major General Dai Zhenghua (left)
Major General Dai Zhenghua
Jiang Qixian was captured during the third "anti-encirclement and suppression" campaign, and Dai Zhenghua was captured during the second "anti-encirclement and suppression."
At that time, Dai Zhenghua was a major military doctor in the Nationalist 56th Division. At that time, three regiments of the 56th Division were annihilated by the Red Army, and Dai Zhenghua was captured.
In fact, before that, he was already very distressed, all he saw was mutual confrontation, corruption in the army, he wanted to leave, and he didn't know where to go.
This time he was captured, but he saw his future path clearly. He personally felt the attitude of the Red Army toward the prisoners, saw that the common people could even disregard their lives for the Red Army, and he suddenly understood that this was the army he was looking for, so he took the initiative to ask to join the Red Army.
Dai Zhenghua was particularly strong, he studied at the Nanyang School in Shanghai, not only studying medicine, but also learning several foreign languages. This came in handy in the Red Army.
At that time, Western medicine was imported from abroad, so on the battlefield, the Red Army often captured some imported drugs, the instructions were in foreign languages, others could not understand, and they did not know how to use the drugs and what diseases to treat.
Whenever this time comes, it is sent to Dai Zhenghua, who translates the instructions in foreign languages into Chinese, and other medical staff can use these drugs correctly.
After graduating from nanyang school, Dai Zhenghua worked as a military doctor at the Whampoa Military Academy, and later as the director of the internal medicine department of the Guangdong Kuomintang General Medical Station Hospital, followed by the captain of the 44th Army Health Brigade.
After joining the Red Army, he treated the wounded and sick of the Red Army on the one hand, and on the other hand, he held training courses in the army to train medical personnel, and was soon appointed as the medical director of the Headquarters of the Xianggan Military Region.
Dai Zhenghua went north with the Red Sixth Army, and as the head of the Army's Health Department, the troops gave him a horse, but he never rode it, and every time he gave it to the wounded and sick, and he walked with the army and treated the wounded at any time.
After the end of the Long March, Dai Zhenghua was promoted to medical director of the General Health Department of the Central Red Army.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Dai Zhenghua was the political commissar of the Ministry of Health of the 120th Division, and he personally founded the Hospital of the 120th Division, which cured a large number of wounded anti-Japanese fighters.
After the liberation of the whole country, Dai Zhenghua served as the director of the Logistics Department of the Northeast Military Region. During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, although he was not a volunteer army, he led medical teams into the DPRK many times, solved many difficulties in the health and medical treatment of the volunteer army on the ground, and rescued many volunteer soldiers.
In 1955, Dai Zhenghua was awarded the rank of major general.
Major General Sun Yizhi
In today's terms, Sun Yizhi studied integrated Chinese and Western medicine. His father died early, and after completing secondary school with the financial support of his brother and sister-in-law, he entered a Chinese medicine pharmacy as an apprentice and studied Chinese medicine. Later, he got the opportunity to enter Qingdao Church Hospital to study medicine, and studied Western medicine.
After completing his studies in the church hospital, Sun Yizhi first worked in the hospital where his brother presided, and later for personal development, he became a military doctor in the Kuomintang army.
Sun Yizhi was captured by the Red Army in the fourth "anti-encirclement and suppression" campaign, when he was the captain of the 6th Regiment of the 52nd Division. After being captured, he joined the Red Army and was placed in the Red Army Health School as a teacher, teaching pathology and internal medicine.
After the Long March of the Red Army, Sun Yizhi was transferred to the cadre recuperation company as a doctor, which was a great trust in him organizationally. As the name suggests, the cadres in the recuperation company are all wounded and sick cadres of the Party and the Red Army.
At that time, Dong Biwu, Deng Yingchao, Xu Teli, Xie Jueya, etc. were all recuperating here, and Sun Yizhi was responsible for their health care.
On that occasion, the enemy plane bombed, and He Zizhen was injured in the abdomen, and it was Sun Yizhi and Li Zhi, who we will talk about below, who risked being strafed by the enemy plane and performed surgery for He Zizhen.
After the Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi, Sun Yizhi was appointed vice principal of the Red Army Health School.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, and Sun Yizhi served as acting minister of health of the Central Military Commission. Unfortunately, this time the "acting minister" could not become a minister, because the Ministry of Health lost 1200 yuan, as a minister, he was greatly remembered. Later, he served as the head of the Forward Command Department of the Eighth Route Army.
After the liberation war began, Sun Yizhi went to the northeast with his troops and served as the deputy director of the health department of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army, and after changing to the Fourth Field Army, he served as the minister of health in Siye.
After the founding of New China, Sun Yizhi was appointed deputy director of the Health Department of the Central Military Commission.
Major General Lee
Anyone who has read the chairman's poems knows Zhang Huizhan, who was the only Kuomintang general who entered the chairman's poems and was captured alive by the Red Army.
Li Zhi, who was serving as a captain in the 6th Regiment of Zhang Huizhan's 18th Division at that time, like Zhang Huizhan, became a prisoner of the Red Army in the first "anti-encirclement and suppression" campaign.
Like General Dai Zhenghua, Li Zhi studied medicine at Nanyang Medical University in Shanghai, and he had no military aspirations and opened a private clinic after graduation.
But in the chaotic world, he was forced to join the army and become a military doctor. He did not expect that in just a few months, he would become a prisoner of the Red Army.
For the doctor's humanitarianism, he immediately threw himself into the work of treating the wounded and sick of the Red Army after being captured, and more than 1,000 wounded, only 2 died of their wounds.
In the process of rescuing the soldiers of the Red Army, he realized the bravery and fearlessness of the Red Army, changed his thinking drastically, changed his idea of just wanting to live a peaceful life as a clinic doctor, and resolutely joined the Red Army.
The Red Army had great trust in Li Zhi, and the following year, he was appointed medical director of the First Hospital, and soon promoted to president. He was highly skilled in medicine, and together with Fu Lianzhang, Dai Jimin, and Chen Yihou, he was revered as the "Four Great Kongs" in the medical field.
During the Long March of the Red Army, like Sun Yizhi, he was responsible for the work of the cadre recuperation company and served as the medical director of the cadre recuperation center. Once, together with Sun Yi, he risked being strafed by enemy planes to operate on He Zizhen.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Li Zhi served as the principal of the Health School of the Ministry of Health of the Central Military Commission, and during the Liberation War, he served in the First Field Army and served as the deputy director of the Ichino Health Department.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li Zhi was appointed deputy minister of health of the Military Academy. He was awarded the rank of major general in 1955.
Comparing the experiences of Jiang Qixian, Dai Zhenghua, Sun Yizhi and Major General Li Zhi, we find that it is really interesting that they all started out as military doctors in the Kuomintang army, were captured in the first, second, third, and fourth "anti-encirclement and suppression" campaigns, and then resolutely joined the Red Army, made important contributions to the health and medical work of our army, and became the founding major general.
The experience of the four people is like a reproduction, they were captured on the battlefield, joined the Red Army, all engaged in military health and medical work, and finally all of them were major generals of the People's Liberation Army.
What do you think of these 4 founding major generals?