During the three-year difficult period, the development of New China encountered unprecedented difficulties, and at that time, under the pressure of Soviet oppression and debt repayment, it resolutely completed the research work of two bombs and one satellite, creating a world miracle. As everyone knows, during this period of unprecedented difficulties, many leading cadres have given up their original treatment, and even have not eaten meat for many years, which has made the spirit of the Long March once again emerge on the vast number of cadres, but after the future life has improved, there is a leading cadre who still does not eat meat, he has not even eaten meat in his life, and this leading cadre was also a senior elder in the people's army, so what kind of life experience does this leading cadre have?
1. Pioneers in the people's army
In difficult times, because of the shortage of materials, eggs and meat became valuable items, which made many leading cadres and families very envious, not to mention ordinary people's homes. In the home of an old general who had experienced revolution, there was a shotgun, and his son saw that life was difficult at home, and he had the idea of going hunting, but the old general stopped his son's reckless behavior and quickly gave the shotgun to an old man in the countryside to solve the practical difficulties of life. As a revolutionary pioneer, the first thing that came to mind of this veteran general in a difficult period was the masses of the people, which shows the depth of the influence of his revolutionary ideas, and at the same time he is also a general who claims not to eat meat all his life, and he is General Zhan Caifang.
As a revolutionary pioneer in the people's army, Zhan Caifang was born into poverty, and later because there was too little food in the family, his father picked poisonous wild vegetables to eat, which led to the unfortunate death of two relatives in the family, which made the young Zhan Caifang suddenly become an orphan. Zhan Caifang, who lost the pillar of his father, later grew up to be an adult with the help of his eldest sister. After an older age, Zhan Caifang came to Wuhan to develop after the introduction of her brother-in-law and came to Wuhan Middle School to study. During this study experience, thanks to the fact that the principal was Dong Biwu, he was exposed to a lot of progressive ideas, which put him on the road of revolution.
After the Outbreak of the Northern Expedition, the whole country was immersed in the revolution, and Wuhan, as an important city of the revolution, naturally produced many outstanding revolutionaries and made a lot of efforts for the reunification of the whole country. It was also in this atmosphere of kuomintang-communist cooperation that Zhan Caifang joined the party organization through Dong Biwu's recommendation and became a member of the revolutionary cause.
Later, under the organizational arrangement, Zhan Caifang returned to his hometown to carry out revolutionary propaganda work, which laid the foundation for the future development of rural work. Soon after, with the defection of the reactionary forces, the party organization began to actively prepare for the armed revolution, and Zhan Caifang at this time also carried out revolutionary mobilization in his hometown, and soon pulled out a peasant revolutionary team. Later, with the outbreak of the jute uprising, Zhan Caifang also carried out an armed revolution in his hometown, led the commando team to invade the county seat, and established the base area of the Red Soviet District, thus becoming the pioneer of the future people's army.
Second, the merit is outstanding, and the comrades-in-arms are later in high positions
After the uprising, the peasant Red Army was repeatedly suppressed by the enemy, which allowed Zhan Caifang to lead the troops to join the large troops of the Red Army, which was an important part of the Future Eyu-Anhui Red Army. After the armed revolution was on the right track, Zhan Caifang served as the regimental political commissar of the Red 30 Regiment and became an important cadre in the Fourth Army of the Red Army. Zhan Caifang, as the political commissar of the regiment, jointly commanded the battle with the regimental commander Wang Shusheng during the anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, creating many brilliant achievements, which made the two a rare partner in the army, and later Wang Shusheng was also awarded the rank of general after the founding of the country, which can also see the depth of Zhan Caifang's seniority.
During the revolution, Zhan Caifang had the principle of no specialization, which was also an important quality that he conveyed to many young cadres. Although very severe, but Zhan Caifang is notoriously protective of the children of the soldiers, one of his guards Tan Zhigeng was arrested by the security bureau because of stealing public goods privately, or Zhan Caifang personally interceded to release Tan Zhigeng, and later he worked as a guard next to Zhan Caifang, but later he was an official general, and his other guard, Chen Xilian, was even more outstanding, once an official and a general, which shows that Zhan Caifang has a set of methods for cultivating cadres.
As a senior revolutionary pioneer, his comrades-in-arms were either generals or marshals, but he was given only one lieutenant general. However, this did not affect the veteran general's future contribution to national defense construction, and he also made many efforts for the modernization of the people's army, which was unanimously praised by later generations.
III. Conclusion:
As a pioneer of the people's army, the revolutionary spirit has penetrated deeply into the marrow of Zhan Caifang, not only making indelible contributions to the revolutionary war, but also making many efforts for the modernization of national defense in the future, which has made him a revolutionary pioneer worthy of being remembered by history.