As everyone knows, Chairman Mao was kind and amiable to the staff around him, and many people were proud to be able to protect Chairman Mao; among Chairman Mao's guards, Hu Changbao, a guard on the Long March Road, sacrificed to protect Chairman Mao, and Chairman Mao always kept Hu Changbao in mind.
In fact, during the war years, in addition to Li Yinqiao and Hu Changbao and others, there were many people who were quietly defending Chairman Mao, especially during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there was a left-behind corps in Yan'an to defend Chairman Mao.
Among this left-behind regiment, Wen Niansheng, the commander of the 8th Garrison Regiment, showed particularly prominent performance, he led his troops across the Yellow River many times to block the Japanese army, and was known as Chairman Mao's "guard with a knife", at the same time he was also a model of production, Chairman Mao's handwritten inscription "Production and education are taken into account, and the book is given to Comrade Wen Niansheng." ”
It is said that according to the genealogical records, Wen Niansheng is a descendant of Wen Tianxiang, who was born in a poor peasant family in Yueyang County, Hunan Province, and began to help his father cultivate land, collect firewood, and collect dung from the age of 8, and only went to private school at the age of 10, dropped out of school after only two months, and later went to apprentice to his uncle who was a tailor.
Unexpectedly, his uncle was grumpy, his aunt was mean, and he was born in his uncle's house Chinese not only to work, but also to help take care of his aunt's children, he would be beaten at every turn, often without enough to eat, and when he was 12 years old, Wen Niansheng could not bear the beating and scolding, and left the family alone.
Later, Wen Niansheng went to Yueyang County, and in order to make a living, he also went to Jianli County, Hubei Province, during which he worked as an apprentice in a carpenter's shop, until July 1926, Wen Niansheng, who was in Huarong County, met the Northern Expeditionary Army, and at the age of 19, he joined the Northern Expeditionary Army and traveled from place to place.
Later, he heard that the officers and men of the Red Army were equal, and in June 1930, Wen Niansheng and 8 friends left the old army to Changsha, and soon encountered the Red Third Army under the command of Peng Lao to capture Changsha, and Wen Niansheng immediately joined the Red Army and became a Red Army soldier.
In 1932, the 25-year-old Wen Niansheng became the commander of the 10th Regiment of the 3rd Division of the Red Third Army, and at the beginning of the Long March, he was transferred to the Central Military Commission as the head of the First Regiment, which showed the importance his superiors attached to him.
After meeting with the Four Fronts Army, Wen Niansheng personally took the teaching battalion to protect Chairman Mao, and after arriving in northern Shaanxi, in May 1936, Wen Niansheng was promoted to the commander of the 81st Division of the Red 27th Army, when Wen Niansheng was only 29 years old.
After that, Wen Niansheng entered the Kang Da to study, and after graduation, he was transferred to the 718th Regiment of the 359th Brigade of the 120th Division as the regimental commander and political commissar, in view of the proximity of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region to the Yellow River, in order to protect the safety of the Border Region, the troops drawn from the divisions of the Eighth Route Army formed a left-behind regiment, and the 718th Regiment was reorganized into the 8th Garrison Regiment, and Wen Niansheng still served as the regimental commander.
During the period of defending the border area, Wen Niansheng made many meritorious contributions, it is worth saying that in August 1939, Wen Niansheng became the commander of the first brigade of the guard, but he did not expect that the next month, more than 3,000 people from the regiment of the Japanese 36th Division attempted to smuggle across the Yellow River to attack the border area, and Wen Niansheng personally led 4 companies to cross the river to block the Japanese army.
At that time, the 4 companies led by Wen Niansheng were only more than 700 people, and after he crossed the Yellow River, he fought a guerrilla war with the Japanese army for 2 months, which not only broke the Japanese army's attempt to smuggle across the Yellow River, but also developed to more than 1400 people.
In the later Liberation War, Wen Niansheng successively served as deputy commander of the column, acting commander of the Jincha Military Region, deputy commander of the 12th Corps of The Four Fields, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as the commander of the Hunan Military Region and the deputy chief of staff of the Central and Southern Military Region, and also served as the deputy commander of the Guangzhou Military Region.
In 1955, Wen Niansheng was awarded the rank of lieutenant general, but unfortunately, during his tenure as deputy commander of the Guangzhou Military Region, due to his upright nature, he resisted Huang Yongsheng's evil tendencies, resulting in offending Huang Yongsheng, who was then the commander of the Guangzhou Military Region, and was framed by Huang Yongsheng and died in 1968 at the age of 61.
It was not until August 23, 1978, that the organization officially rehabilitated And restored Wen Niansheng's reputation, and in September of the same year, the Guangzhou Military Region held a memorial service for General Wen Niansheng and publicly restored the general's reputation, at this time it had been 10 years since Wen Niansheng's death.