He was a general with considerable seniority and outstanding military achievements, and he was once the second head of the Red Second Front, second only to Marshal He Long, and among the 6 chief and deputy division commanders of the Eighth Route Army, the other 5 were founding marshals, but he was the founding general. From this, we can see the depth of his seniority and the greatness of his military achievements. You can meet the Marshal Omer.
However, he was also a Confucian general with a high literary attainment, the only founding general in our army to win the Contradictory Literature Award, and a long-lived general who lived to the age of 102. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as vice minister of national defense, president of the Military and Political University, dean of the military academy, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and his only son was also a major general in the armed police. So who is he? What are the legendary experiences in his life?
Xiao Ke, july 14, 1907, was born in Jiahe County, Hunan Province, in a poor scholarly village in Pantou Xiaojie Tian Village, and his ancestors were intellectuals for three generations. In such a family environment, Xiao Ke entered a private school at an early age, familiarized himself with the "Four Books" and "Five Classics", and then was admitted to Tongshan High School and received a good education from an early age, which also laid a very good cultural foundation for his future revolutionary career.
At the age of 16, Xiao Ke was admitted to the Jiahe Jiajian Jianxi Normal School with excellent results, and after graduation, he decided to throw himself into the pen and go south to Guangzhou alone, and was admitted to the Huangpu Military Academy, becoming the fifth batch of Huangpu cadets, and began systematic military knowledge learning. After graduation, he participated in the Northern Expedition and accompanied the army to conquer Jiangxi, Zhejiang and other places, and his military command ability began to show its beginnings.
In 1927, Xiao Ke served as a political instructor and company commander of the Ye Tingbu Company of the National Revolutionary Army. After Chiang Kai-shek launched the "April 12 Counter-Revolutionary Coup", Xiao Ke threw himself into the torrent of armed struggle against the Kuomintang reactionaries. In May of the same year, under the influence of Ye Ting, he resolutely joined the Communist Party of China.
That is to say, Xiao Ke joined the Communist Party at a time when the Chinese revolution was at its lowest tide and the white terror shrouded the land of China, and he did not fear life and death to join the Communist Party, which also fully demonstrated his heroic and fearless revolutionary dedication.
Subsequently, Xiao Ke followed Ye Ting to participate in the famous Nanchang Uprising, firing the first shot of armed resistance against the Kuomintang reactionaries. On the way south for the rebel forces, Shaw served as the commander of the 4th Company of the 71st Regiment. After the Nanchang uprising troops were defeated in a fierce battle in Chaoshan in Guangdong Province, Xiao Ke was ordered to return to his hometown, organize the development of grass-roots party branches, and pull up an armed contingent of peasants.
In 1928, Xiao Ke established the Southern District Branch of the Communist Party in Jiahe County, the Yizhang Guerrilla Group, and served as its leader. Subsequently, he led the Yizhang peasant army to participate in the Shonan Uprising led by Zhu Laozong and Chen Laozong, and followed the rebel troops to Jinggangshan. During the establishment of the revolutionary base areas in Jinggangshan, Gannan and western Fujian, Xiao Ke, with his excellent military skills, emerged from the most ordinary officers.
When the Red 4th Army marched into Gannan and western Fujian, Xiao Ke served as the detachment leader and column chief of staff, and in the siege of Ningdu, he led his troops to climb the city wall first and won a great victory. Later, he was changed to the commander of the 3rd Column of the Red 4th Army, led his troops into Jiangxi and Hunan, and soon built this unit into one of the main forces of the Red 4th Army.
After that, he served as the commander of the independent division of the Red Army, participated in the third anti-encirclement and suppression operation in the Central Soviet Region, made great contributions, was promoted to the commander of the Red 8th Army in the Xianggan Soviet District, and led his troops north to break the Nanxun Railway.
In the face of the enemy's encirclement, pursuit, and interception, Xiao Ke led a team of more than 400 people, which lasted for two months and traveled more than 1250 kilometers, and under extremely difficult and dangerous circumstances, he was resourceful and decisive, flexibly commanded the operation, defeated 6 regiments and many security regiments of the enemy, and destroyed countless enemy pillboxes and strongholds. Later, he returned to the Xianggan Su District, ambushed an enemy brigade at Shashi, destroyed 4 enemy regiments, and captured the enemy brigade commander Hou Pengfei alive.
In 1934, Xiao Ke became the commander of the Red 6th Army, and was ordered to lead his troops to the northwest to open up a passage for the strategic transfer of the Central Red Army and open the prelude to the Long March of the Red Army.
Subsequently, he led his troops from Yongxin, Jiangxi, passing through Hunan, Guangxi, and Guizhou, crossing more than 2,500 kilometers of enemy territory in the dangerous environment of the enemy's nearly 40 regular regiments, meeting with the Red 2nd Army led by He Laozong, creating the Xiangganchuanqian revolutionary base area, and participating in the command of the Kuomintang's successive anti-encirclement and suppression battles.
With the cooperation of the Red 2 Corps, Xiao Ke led his troops to ambush 100,000 pings and annihilated more than 2,000 enemy troops. In the Chenjiahe encounter, he annihilated an enemy brigade and killed the enemy brigade commander Li Yanling. In the Battle of Peach Creek, in only 2 hours, the enemy annihilated a division headquarters and a brigade headquarters, a mountain artillery battalion and an infantry regiment, and captured Zhou Zhixian, the chief of staff of the enemy division, alive.
In 1935, Xiao Ke led his troops from Sangzhi, Hunan Province, and began a long and arduous Long March. During the Long March, together with General Manager He and others, he led his troops to attack the west from the east, crossed the Fengshuiyuan River, plunged straight into Xiangzhong, broke through the enemy's encirclement, advanced into Qiandong, and opened up the Qianbisu District.
In the Battle of General Hill, Xiao Ke commanded Ruoding, held his position for 7 days and 7 nights, and attacked the enemy's attack. Later, he participated in the command of the Battle of Wumeng Mountain, the Xuanwei Off-field Counterattack, the Pudu River Encounter, and the Rokkasaw Blockade Battle, showing extraordinary military command skills.
After the establishment of the Second Red Front, General He Laozong served as the commander-in-chief, and Xiao Ke served as the deputy commander-in-chief, second only to Marshal He Long. After the Red Second Front met with the Red Fourth Front, he concurrently served as the commander of the 31st Army of the Red Fourth Front, and was elected as a member of the Central Revolutionary Military Committee, leading his troops to climb snowy mountains and cross meadows, making great contributions to preserving the strength of the Red Army and realizing the victorious division of the Red 1st, Red2nd, and Red4th Fronts.
After the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Xiao Ke served as the commander of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and together with Mr. He Laozong crossed the Yellow River in the east, sent troops to Shanxi, created the anti-Japanese base area in northwestern Jin, participated in and commanded the Battle of Xinkou, and organized and commanded the campaign to recover 7 counties and towns in Hexi, Baode, and Weixi.
Later, he served as commander, political commissar, and secretary of the Military and Political Committee of the Jirecha Advance, and put forward the principle of "consolidating the anti-Japanese base area in pingxi, persisting in guerrilla warfare in eastern Hebei, and developing a new guerrilla base area in pingbei," and achieved remarkable results.
Subsequently, Xiao Ke led his troops to counterattack the enemy's "ten-way siege", and after 14 days of fierce fighting, annihilated more than 800 Japanese puppet troops and shot down one enemy aircraft. In the great "sweep" to smash the Japanese army, he led his troops to fight hundreds of battles, annihilated more than 5,500 enemy personnel, consolidated the Pingxi base area, opened up the Pingbei base area, developed the Jidong base area, and developed to the south of The Rehe River and the western region of Liaoning, forming a large revolutionary base area in the Liaoning border of Jirecha, thus creating favorable conditions for the later liberation of the northeast.
In 1942, Xiao Ke served as the deputy commander of the Jincha Military Region, and together with Nie Shuai developed and expanded the Jin-Cha-Ji anti-Japanese base area, commanded the local military and people to smash many major sweeps by the Japanese puppet army, summed up and popularized the strategies and tactics of guerrilla warfare such as mine warfare and tunnel warfare in the central Hebei region, and made great contributions to the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Xiao Ke co-founded the North China Military and Political University and served as vice president. Later, he was transferred to the Fourth Field Army and chief of staff of the General Military Region of China, led his troops south, crossed the Yangtze River, marched into the Central Plains, contacted democratic figures, organized and planned the uprising of Zhang Yun in Henan, and the uprising of Cheng Qian and Chen Mingren in Hunan, making important contributions to the smooth liberation of Wuhan and the peaceful liberation of Hunan.
After that, he led the Fourth Field Army to sweep through the central and southern regions and southwest china without stopping, and successively carried out 6 large-scale battles, annihilating the various departments of Bai Chongxi and Yu Hanmou in the central and southern regions, totaling more than 430,000 people, liberating the provinces of Hunan, Hubei, Gansu, Guangdong, and Guizhou and Hainan Island, and eliminating the remaining main force of the Kuomintang army on the mainland.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Xiao Ke served as the director of the Military Training Department of the Central Military Commission, and while establishing the Military Training Department, he focused on the preparation of military academies and universities. He also served as vice minister of national defense, president of the Military and Political University, dean and political commissar of military academies, member of the Central Military Commission, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and member of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee.
In 1955, Shaw was awarded the rank of founding general, and many people said that his rank was low, but he did not care at all, and still worked diligently and diligently. You must know that among the 6 division commanders of the Eighth Route Army, the other 5 are all founding marshals, and he is also the deputy commander-in-chief of the Red Second Front, and he can be awarded the rank of marshal regardless of seniority and combat merit.
Xiao Ke is not only a strong gun, but also a great penman, a great writer, he used his personal revolutionary experience to create a long novel "Blood Luo Xiao", won the 1988 Contradiction Literature Award, he was the only founding general to win the Mao Dun Literature Award.
In addition, General Xiao Ke also organized more than 100 experts and scholars, and after 8 years of hard work, compiled an unprecedented cultural work "General History of Chinese Culture", which made outstanding contributions to China's cultural undertakings.
"Tiger father has no dog", under the words and deeds of General Xiao Ke, Xiao Ke's only son Xiao Xinhua also achieved extraordinary achievements, graduated from Peking University, and obtained the rank of major general of the armed police.
In 2008, General Xiao Ke died of illness in Beijing at the age of 102. General Xiao Ke spent his life on horseback, with magnificent waves, dangers, and outstanding achievements, and was a general who was both literate and martial. He not only had extraordinary military command ability, extremely high literary talent, but also very good at cultivating his mind, and lived to the age of 102, making him a proper and long-lived general.
General Xiao Ke has devoted his life's energy to the cause of the Chinese revolution and the development of the motherland, and his life can be called a true portrayal of "not to be happy with things, not to be sad", and it is admirable!