On January 21, 1924, Comrade Lenin, the founder of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, died of illness, and the news came out, which undoubtedly alarmed the world, and at that time, our Communist Party of China naturally sent people to participate in Comrade Lenin's vigilance activities.
Presumably everyone should know Xiao Jinguang, Xiao Jinguang is the founding general of our new China, he is also a Hunan native, born in 1903 in a poor handicraft family, in the early years also attended private school, and later in the process of studying in Changsha, he met another important leader of our party, Ren Bi, and became a friend and classmate.
In 1921, Xiao Jinguang, like many aspiring patriotic youth, chose to study in the Soviet Union, along with Liu Shaoqi, Ren Bishi and other important figures in modern times.
It can be said that Xiao Jinguang was the first military scientist from the Chinese Red Army, and he was also a classmate of Chiang Kai-shek's son Chiang Ching-kuo, the difference being that Chiang Ching-kuo had never been on the battlefield, while our General Xiao Jinguang had been galloping on the battlefield to work hard.
In 1924, after Participating in Lenin's Vigil, Xiao Jinguang chose to return to China and successively participated in the battles of Nanchang, Nanjing, and Western Hubei, but with the failure of the Great Revolution, Xiao Jinguang was once again sent to the Leningrad Military and Political Academy in the Soviet Union, mainly for systematic military training.
Three years later, Xiao Jinguang graduated and chose to return to China, after which some of them worked in the Western Fujian Soviet Region, and also served as the chief of staff of the 12th Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and the principal of the Central Military and Political School.
However, in the fourth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, the troops led by Xiao Jinguang were defeated and retreated due to the excessive disparity between the enemy and us, and they were also dismissed and examined for this reason, and in 1934, they were expelled from the party and the military because of the loss of Li Chuan, and sentenced to 5 years in prison.
In the period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, General Xiao Jinguang also made many meritorious achievements successively, and his duty at that time was to protect the security of the central authorities, and at that time, the Japanese army attacked Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia, and it was true that there was a great disparity in the strength of the enemy and our troops, but under Xiao Jinguang's strategic layout, he successfully completed this defense work.
Not long after the surrender of the Japanese army, Chiang Kai-shek brazenly launched a civil war in disregard of the opposition of the people of the whole country, in an attempt to eliminate our Communist Party and fulfill his political ambitions, in 1946, Xiao Jinguang was appointed deputy commander-in-chief and chief of staff of the Northeast People's Autonomous Army, and led the troops to smash the Kuomintang's strategic attempt to "attack the north and defend the north, first the south and then the north" within 3 and a half months, and also completely reversed the situation in southern Manchuria.
In 1949, Xiao Jinguang surrounded and annihilated four elite divisions of the Kuomintang army in the Battle of Hengbao, successfully liberating most of Hunan.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Xiao Jinguang successively served as the commander of the navy and vice minister of national defense, and made great contributions to our Chinese naval construction, on March 29, 1989, the founding general Xiao Jinguang died of illness in Beijing at the age of 86.