Founding General Wang Zhen, whose ancestral home is Liuyang, Hunan, after joining the revolution in Hunan at the age of 14, was determined to resolutely follow the party's line without wavering, served as a picket captain and an executive member of the railway trade union, actively threw himself into the movement of the workers' revolution, and had profound experience in mass guidance and urban struggle.
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After the defeat of the Great Revolution in 1927, under the white terror deliberately created by the Kuomintang, Wang Zhen successively traveled to Wuhan and Changsha and was ordered to carry out secret military movement work under the warlords of the Nationalist Army, and made great contributions to the work of our army in creating, consolidating, and developing the base areas of the Two Lakes.
In 1934, after the defeat of our army's fifth "anti-encirclement and suppression" operation, in order to avoid the encirclement and interception of the enemy army, the whole army launched the great historical mission of carrying out the 25,000-mile long march northward in a timely manner.
Because Wang Zhen has a straightforward personality and a hot temper, he will grow a beard before each major task, and if he can't complete the task, he will resolutely not shave. Military and political affairs and trivial matters of life, everything must be done perfectly, so people give the nickname "Wang Beard".
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in an all-round way, although the Kuomintang and the Communists reached an agreement to carry out a second in-depth cooperation, and our army also actively accepted the reorganization of the Nanjing government and cooperated in unison to resist Japan, Chiang Kai-shek's Nanjing government restricted our army in everything and had no sincerity.
In 1941, Chiang Kai-shek and the Japanese army simultaneously imposed an economic blockade on the base areas of our Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia headquarters organs, forcing our army to actively carry out large-scale production self-help campaigns in the base areas of the border areas.
Wang Zhen, who had won successive battles on the battlefields of Shanxi and Hebei, was recalled to northern Shaanxi by Chairman Mao's orders and was appointed commander of the northern Shaanxi garrison, commander of the military sub-district, and garrison district, and successively stationed in Suide, Mizhi, nanniwan, and other places to guard the "southern gate" of the headquarters organs of our army.
In order to solve the crisis of lack of grain and money in the headquarters, Wang Zhen personally led his troops to Nanniwan to reclaim wasteland, and in order to complete this arduous task, Wang Zhen had a beard and Mingzhi when he was mobilizing before the war, stayed overnight on the farm, and worked with the soldiers in full swing.
In the end, 300,000 mu of land were successfully expanded, and the grain output in one year alone reached 10 million catties, making Nanniwan, where the land was barren, become the granary of the whole party and the whole army during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
At this time, Wang Zhen's hair whiskers had been piled up all over his cheeks, and the name of "Wang Beard" spread throughout the army, and finally all the headquarters chiefs knew about his habit, and in the future, as long as they saw Wang Zhen's beard pulling ballast, they would know that he was fighting with himself again.
During the Liberation War, after Wang Zhen cooperated with Li Xiannian to successfully break through from Henan, he was transferred by Peng Dehuai to the Northwest Field Army as the commander of the corps, crossed the Yellow River in the west to liberate the Great Northwest, and fought the final battle for our army to liberate the whole country.
He has successively participated in and directly led and commanded the great victories in the battles and battles in liberating northern Shaanxi, Yichuan, central Shaanxi, and Lanzhou, and has shook the great northwest, and in the experience of blood and fire, he has grown into an unparalleled fierce general who has frightened the enemy army and made excellent military and political achievements, and has made outstanding and immortal contributions to the independence and self-determination of our nation and the great cause of the liberation of the people of the whole country.
In 1955, Wang Zhen was awarded the rank of founding general by the state for his merits, although he held a high position and held an important official position, Wang Zhen was very disgusted with engaging in special, and he was also most annoyed by the flattery of the people below.
Wang Zhen had a bad stomach, and when he was stationed in the Great Northwest to grasp the work of peasant reclamation after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he often went to the grass-roots level for inspection because of the need for work, and the officials and cadres below built a simple toilet with wooden planks in a remote place in order to sneak away and pat their horses, and also hung a wooden sign at the door of the toilet, which said that the chief's special toilet was written on it, so that Wang Zhen saw the great fire and immediately ordered people to dismantle it.
Later, when he went deep into the construction corps to conduct inspections, he found that the local leaders had specially set up a color gate and carried out a welcome ceremony, and immediately angrily rebuked: "If you have the heart to engage in these useless things, it is better to do a good job in construction!" ”
The people below saw that the chief was angry and quickly ordered the immediate demolition.
In order to promote the mainland's reform, opening up, and state modernization, Wang Zhen is willing to stoop down, act as a cow and a horse for the people, work hard, serve the people, and is deeply respected and loved by the people of the whole country.
In 1993, Wang Zhen died of illness in Guangzhou, before his death, the general wanted to come to paper and pencil, the family thought he was going to make a will, but did not expect Wang Zhen to leave only three words: salute to the party! Hats off to the people! Salute to the People's Liberation Army! Then he closed his eyes and passed away at the age of 85.