During the Liberation War, the commander of the First Brigade of our army led his troops to kill and capture a total of 61 Kuomintang generals, most of them alive, eight of whom were two-star generals, such as Tang Yao, commander of the Kuomintang Eighth Corps and deputy commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang Army, and Yu Yingqi, Huang Zhengcheng, and Qiu Xingxiang, commanders of the "Guangdong-Guizhou Suppression Army."
This brigade commander was the founding lieutenant general General Zhou Xihan, but he was only promoted to military commander in 1949, and waited for this position for ten years.
Later, Duke Deng said to Zhou Xihan: "In the past ten years, I have just pressed your position, do you know why?" Zhou Xihan replied: "I am too proud, I know I have this shortcoming, but I can't change it." ”
Duke Deng replied solemnly: "If you can't change it, you have to change it, you are not only shouldering your own life, but also the lives of tens of thousands of people, as well as your responsibility to the party, you can't make irreversible mistakes because of your pride, even if we forgive you at that time, can you forgive yourself?" ”
Facts proved that Duke Deng's decision was correct, and Zhou Xihan later became one of the founders of the mainland navy, participated in leading and organizing the construction of nuclear submarines and missile destroyers, and devoted all his efforts to building a powerful people's navy.
Today, let's talk about the story of Zhou Xihan.
On August 27, 1913, Zhou Xihan was born in Zhoujiabao Village, Shunhe Town, Macheng City, Hubei Province, his father was an old son, although the family conditions were limited, but he still did everything possible to spoil him, which made Zhou Xihan develop a proud character.
Later, Zhou's father sent Zhou Xihan to private school, and Zhou Xihan found that he learned things quickly, and he basically listened to it and became even more proud. When the Jute Uprising broke out, 14-year-old Zhou Xihan went to participate in his father's back, and Zhou's father was very angry when he found out, but his accustomed son he couldn't help, and at Zhou Xihan's insistence, he finally joined the revolution.
The clever Zhou Xihan was promoted to secretary of the Youth League Committee in just two years, and then met Marshal Xu. At that time, Xu Shuai was the deputy commander of Zhou Xihan's troops, and when the two first met, they found a mistake in the same unit, and he also attracted Xu Shuai's attention.
After Xu Shuai looked at Zhou Xihan for a while, he said that he was smart, but he was thinner, but Zhou Xihan retorted: "Guan Yun is a tall man, and if he doesn't lose the battle like this, the general should pay attention to strategy rather than bravery." ”
Later, Xu Shuai asked Zhou Xihan if he could read the map, and Zhou Xihan replied: "I won't, but you can teach me, I learn things quickly, as soon as you teach me." ”
Zhou Xihan's two answers can be said to be very arrogant, but one is that he is young, and the other is that Xu Shuai is broad-minded, but he keeps Zhou Xihan by his side to teach specifically.
Zhou Xihan, who was already clever, had Xu Shuai's personal guidance, and the speed of progress could be imagined; he made repeated combat merits in the first to fourth anti-"encirclement and suppression" struggles in the Hubei-Yu-Anhui revolutionary base area, and was unanimously praised by everyone.
But pride also almost killed Zhou Xihan, when the Red Fourth Front Army was still under the command of Zhang Guotao, he did not have much heart, after the defeat of the attack on Macheng, Zhou Xihan said that he was "blindly commanding", and the angry Zhang Guotao poured chili water on him, saying that he was "counter-revolutionary", fortunately Xu Shuai came to save him.
Later, the Soviet Center Qiliping was lost, Zhang Guotao felt uncomfortable, and after seeing Zhou Xihan, it was like killing him, Zhou Xihan did not relent at all, and said "you can do whatever you want." In the end, Zhou Xihan was tied up and executed immediately, and Xu Shuai arrived in time to save his life.
These two things also let everyone know that Zhou Xihan was a very proud person in addition to being smart and able to fight, so Duke Deng decided to press Zhou Xihan's position and temper his temperament.
This is also why Zhou Xihan was not promoted to commander even though he was called "Zhao Zilong" by Liu Shuai during the War of Resistance, commanded the battle of Xiangchenggu, participated in leading the opening and development of anti-Japanese base areas in Yuenan and other regions, and eliminated the first brigade of the first division of the Kuomintang army under Huang Zhengcheng, known as the "first brigade under heaven", and defeated Huang Wei's stronghold, but he was still not promoted to commander.
However, in the Battle of Huaihai in 1948, Chen Geng wanted to lead an entire group army, and there was no one to take over the 4th column under him, so he gave the 4 brigades of the 4th column directly to Zhou Xihan, which is enough to prove that Chen Geng and his superiors have already recognized Zhou Xihan's ability.
In February 1949, Zhou Xihan was promoted to commander of the 13th Army of the Second Field Army, and although he did not complain about his lack of promotion over the years, he always looked forward to this position.
After the founding of New China, we always wanted to train our own naval team, but at that time there were few naval talents, and all army generals were transferred to the navy, and Zhou Xihan learned things quickly and was sent as chief of staff to build the navy of New China.
Zhou Xihan also lived up to expectations, participating in the command and sinking of the Kuomintang frigate "Taiping", the battle to liberate Jiangshan Island, and the anti-landing military exercise on the Liaodong Peninsula, and made immortal feats for building a powerful people's navy.
Premier Zhou once introduced General Zhou Xihan to foreign guests as follows: "Zhou Xihan, chief of staff of the Chinese Navy and expert of the navy, Xihan Chinese means rare heroes. ”
In 1973, General Zhou Xihan suffered from surgery for stomach cancer, and he was not so busy, but he still cared about naval construction and actively offered advice.
On November 7, 1988, Zhou Xihan was hospitalized with a fracture and died suddenly at two o'clock at night at the age of 75.
The Si people have gone by the yellow crane, and the red original heart will always shine on people, paying tribute to Zhou Xihan's predecessors!
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