During the years of China's revolutionary war, there were many people who were absent from revolutionary work for various reasons, and many of them were the mainstay of revolutionary work. However, there was one man who was absent from the revolutionary work for more than two decades, and he was a key member of the early stage of the revolutionary work, and later selected by the Nationalist authorities to study in the Soviet Union because of his outstanding performance. During his studies in the Soviet Union, he not only learned military knowledge and laid the foundation for joining the revolutionary war in the future, but also made great ideological progress, which made him firm in his determination to return to China and participate in revolutionary work in the future.
Finally, on the eve of the decisive battle of the Liberation War, he returned to the motherland and began to participate in the work of the revolutionary war, so that he made many great achievements in the war of liberation and later won the praise of many leading cadres of the party organization, so that he still obtained the rank of major general after being absent from the revolutionary work for 20 years. Why did you leave the revolutionary work for so long?
1. Become a cadet who went to study in the USSR
In 1961, the year when China was emerging from a difficult period, a ceremony for the awarding of military promotions was also held, which allowed a revolutionary general to be awarded the rank of major general and become a well-deserved founding major general, he was Xu Jiefan. Unlike many revolutionary generals, Xu Jiefan, who had been separated from revolutionary work for more than 20 years, was once again awarded the rank of major general, which shows that he is a revolutionary talent recognized by the party organization.
In his early years, Xu Jiefan was born in a well-off family, which allowed him to receive a good education from an early age, so in the process of studying, he was influenced by the May Fourth Movement and began to join the student organization and became a progressive youth at that time. Thanks to the influence of progressive ideas, Xu Jiefan became a wanted criminal of the warlord government during the organization of the student movement, so he had to flee all the way to the revolutionary base of Guangdong, where he applied for the Whampoa Military Academy and became a new cadet of the Whampoa Military Academy.
Originally, Xu Jiefan studied command knowledge in the Whampoa Military Academy, but after seeing the real battle situation, fighters played a huge role in the battlefield, so this made Xu Jiefan change his original view and began to transfer to the aviation team to study. So after undergoing the training of the aviation force, Xu Jiefan became an aviation cadet with outstanding achievements at that time.
In 1926, Xu Jiefan was selected by the Nationalist government to study in the Soviet Union, beginning his more than twenty years of study in the Soviet Union. By 1948, on the eve of Armageddon in the Liberation War, Xu Jiefan was already an aviation pilot who had participated in the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union, so after he returned to China, he immediately threw himself into the revolutionary war, formed a PLA flying team, and engaged in air contests with the enemy, winning victory after victory.
Second, become a founding major general
After participating in the Liberation War, Xu Jiefan's performance on the battlefield was fully affirmed organizationally, so after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he immediately came to the air force department and formed the Chinese Air Force. With the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea on the verge of breaking out, Xu Jiefan immediately led the newly formed air force to the Korean battlefield and gave the enemy a head-on counterattack. Although the enemy had an absolute superiority in the number and quality of fighters, Xu Jiefan still used his years of combat experience and skillfully used air tactics to repel wave after wave of enemy air attacks and became a remarkable air force general.
Although Xu Jiefan, who served in the air force in the Korean War, performed well for a time, he did not work in the front line of air force construction after returning to China. The main reason was because of the war injuries suffered by the war, coupled with the urgent need for the country to cultivate military talents at that time, so he responded to the call and assumed the position of director of the engineering department of the Kazakh military industry and armored forces, and began to fight for the training of military talents.
Although separated from revolutionary work for two decades, thanks to his performance in the War of Liberation and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Xu Jiefan was finally awarded the rank of colonel during his conferment. Later, thanks to his contributions to the field of military teaching, he was promoted to the rank of major general in 1961, so he also deservedly became a founding general.
Xu Jiefan, who had overcome difficulties in revolutionary work, was also a person who dared to think and do things in life, and when he participated in revolutionary work after returning to China, he also learned that Lin Zong and his ex-wife were forced to separate. However, because Zhang Meisu, Lin Zong's ex-wife, has been working in the revolutionary base areas in northern Shaanxi for a long time, many organizational cadres are unwilling to build bridges for Zhang Meisu again. However, Xu Jiefan did not care, and boldly pursued Zhang Meisu, which made him finally achieve a marriage with Lin Zong's ex-wife, which shows that Xu Jiefan is a person who dares to challenge difficulties both in work and life, which makes his spirit worthy of countless young people to learn and carry forward.
III. Conclusion:
As a revolutionary general who has been separated from revolutionary work for more than 20 years, Xu Jiefan resolutely threw himself into the forefront of the revolutionary war after returning to China, and thus made great combat achievements. In peacetime, he also devoted himself to the training of military talents, which made him worthy of the title of a founding general. In addition, Xu Jiefan's spirit of daring to face difficulties is also an excellent quality worthy of countless young cadres today, and it is also one of the reasons for his success.