In the winter of 1929, Deng Xiaoping and Zhang Yunyi led the famous Baise Uprising in Guangxi, igniting the smoke of the Southern Revolution. More than 20 years later, the revolution succeeded, and this young man who served as the political commissar of the Lanzhou Military Region for 20 years was the official post of the grand military region.
He was Xian Henghan, a native of Tianyang, Guangxi, who lost his father at an early age and grew up with his mother and grandmother. Sin Henghan is clever and clever, and his academic performance is very good. At the age of 17, he was admitted to the county normal school with the 7th place in the county.
(Lieutenant General Sin HengHan)
Zhang Yunyi propagated the revolution in Guangxi and opened a peasant movement training center, xian Henghan came to listen to the lectures, understood a lot of revolutionary roads, and decided to join the Red Army by throwing himself into the army. In 1929, the 18-year-old Xian Henghan participated in the Baise Uprising and worked as an ordinary propagandist in the propaganda team of the Political Department of the First Column of the Red Seventh Army.
Many Zhuang people in the local area do not understand Chinese. Xian Henghan gave full play to his special skills of knowing both Chinese and Zhuang, walked the streets and alleys to use Zhuang to propagate, which was welcomed by the local people and praised by the leaders, and mobilized many Zhuang youth to join the Red Army.
Guangxi is the home of the Gui warlords, and it is difficult for the Red Army to gain a foothold for a long time. Xian Henghan followed the Red Seventh Army thousands of miles north, joined the Central Soviet Region, and participated in the anti-"encirclement and suppression" battle. Later, he joined the Red Sixth Army and served as the regimental political commissar.
During a battle, Sin Henghan was shot through the chest. The guards hurried over. Xian Henghan signaled the guards not to be silent, and he endured severe pain, lay on the stone, and continued to command the battle until the battle was won. Sin Henghan passed out due to excessive blood loss.
In the process of rescue, there was no anesthesia, no scalpel, and the doctor tied cotton yarn to the wire, dipped it in iodine, pulled it back and forth, and cleaned the wound and bruised blood. Every time it hurt terribly, Xian Henghan sweated profusely, endured severe pain, and cooperated with doctors to treat it.
After recovering from his injuries, Xian Henghan was promoted to the position of political commissar of the division, and together with the division commander Lu Dongsheng, he served as the pioneer of the Long March of the Red Second Army and the Red Sixth Army. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Xian Henghan served as the director of the political office of the 120th Division Teaching Regiment led by He Long, and also served as the political commissar of the 358th Brigade.
During the Liberation War, Xian Henghan served as the director of the political department in the First Column of the Northwest Field Army and later the First Army. In 1949, Sin Henghan served as the political commissar of the Seventh Army, partnering with the commander Peng Shaohui. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as deputy director and director of the Political Department of the Northwest Military Region.
For more than ten years, Xian Henghan has been fighting and working in the Great Northwest for a long time, is a senior political worker general of the First Field Army, and is also the director of the Political Department of the Northwest Military Region, so in 1955, the Lanzhou Military Region was established, and Xian Henghan became the first political commissar of the Military Region.
The commander of the military region at that time was Zhang Dazhi, a veteran of the Red Army in northern Shaanxi. In the same year, Xian Henghan and Zhang Dazhi were both awarded the rank of founding lieutenant general. During this period, together they led the counterinsurgency in the northwest, especially the counterattack against India's self-defense, resolutely implemented the orders of the Central Military Commission, and ensured both military and political victories.
In 1968, Xian Henghan served as the first secretary of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee and concurrently served as the director of the Revolutionary Committee. In 1969, Pi Dingjun came to Lanzhou Military Region as a commander, and Xian Henghan was paired with this famous general who broke through the Central Plains, when Jiuquan Iron and Steel Industry Company had not been put into production.
(Left Three Xian Henghan, Left Fourth Pi Dingjun)
In 1971, Xian Henghan and Pi Ding both swore to the central leadership that if there was no iron before the National Day of this year, they would jump from the blast furnace. The kung fu paid off, they sent competent cadres to personally sit in command, and finally refined the first furnace of molten iron on the National Day, which was praised by Premier Zhou.
In 1973, the commanders of the eight major military regions were transferred, Pi Dingjun went to the Fuzhou Military Region, Han Xianchu came to the Lanzhou Military Region as a commander, and Xian Henghan continued to serve as the political commissar. Han Xianchu was the founding general, and Xian Henghan was only a lieutenant general, and he was honored to be able to work with the Whirlwind Commander for several years.
Although the focus of work shifted to local affairs, Xian Henghan was still the first secretary of the party committee of the military region, and while doing a good job in local work, he successively discussed with Zhang Dazhi, Pi Dingjun, and Han Xianchu three famous generals, the grand plan for the construction of the military region, and strengthened defensive combat readiness.
In 1977, Xian Henghan was dismissed from various positions in the Gansu Provincial Party Committee and the Lanzhou Military Region. The reason is that during the special period, he was responsible for the factional struggle in Gansu Province and the chaotic situation in Gansu Province; after all, he was the number one of the provincial party committees and the director of the provincial revolutionary committee.
In 1985, with the approval of the Central Military Commission, Xian Henghan, who had been a full-time official in the Grand Military Region for nearly 20 years, retired according to the treatment of regular military duties, and in 1988 was awarded the Second Class Red Star Meritorious Service Medal. In 1991, Xian Henghan died of a heart attack in Lanzhou at the age of 80.