Author: Forget about the jianghu
On February 24, 1905, a famous general of our army was born in Yizhang, Hunan.
In the Soviet zone, he once bravely carried out Lin Biao in the flames of war; he personally led the Red 4th Regiment to "fly to capture the Luding Bridge" on the Dadu River, the most critical on the Long March Road; during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as the commander of the 115th Division for 5 years, under the command of Xiao Hua, Li Tianyou, Han Xianchu, "Sanyang" and other generals; when he was under house arrest, he also had to study history and prepare to liberate Baodao at any time!
In 1955, the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army produced 3 marshals, 2 generals, 11 generals, more than 30 lieutenant generals, plus major generals, a total of more than 400 founding generals. Lin Biao once said: If he does not die, the general will be a foregone conclusion.
But on June 7, 1954, a year before the grand title, the 49-year-old fire warrior ended his life in an extreme way. His sudden death allowed his 34-year-old wife and two young sons to change their names and surnames, and survived the difficult years.
Chen Guang (1905-1954) was the acting commander of the Red First Army and the acting commander of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army
<h1>First, lin biao was rescued and the Red Army was saved</h1>
Chen Guang, born in a poor peasant family in Yizhang, Hunan, formerly known as Chen Shichun, enrolled in private school for 3 years at the age of 10, and abandoned his family to work as a farmer at the age of 14. In January 1928, Zhu De and Chen Yi launched the "Shonan Rebellion", Chen Guang sacrificed 12 rifles, and Shock recalled many years later: This move helped the uprising a lot and was remarkable.
In February 1930, the enemy launched the first encirclement and suppression of the Soviet zone, and Chen Guang was the deputy commander of the 1st detachment of Lin Biao's 1st Column of Zhu Dehong's 4th Army. During the Battle of Tomita, Lin Biao was surrounded by enemies, and Chen Guang desperately rescued Lin Biao and wounded himself. Lin Biao visited the ambulance station and thanked him repeatedly, and asked for credit for Chen Guang.
In the Soviet zone, Chen Guang was successively promoted to chief of staff of the 10th Division, commander of the 12th Division, and in 1933 he and Xiao Hua formed the International Division of the Young Communist Party. After the start of the Long March, he and Liu Yalou led the avant-garde Red 2nd Division to fight the Xiang River and cross the Wu River, all the way through the pass.
In particular, in the robbery of the Luding Bridge, the Red 4 Regiment flew 240 miles a day and night for less than 20 hours a day and a night, opening up a life channel for 30,000 Red Army troops to go north. Subsequently, Chen Guang led the Red 4th Regiment to seize the mountain pass, Tianquan City, and Baoxing City, and crossed the Snow Mountain in the severe cold to meet the vanguard of the Red Fourth Front.
Lin Biao had three guns under his command, Chen Guang, Zhou Kun and Wang Liang. In 1932, Wang Liang was attacked and killed by bandits in Fujian, and Chen Guangze and Zhou Kun went to northern Shaanxi, and Zhou Kun later fled with the money. In 1944, the organization evaluated Chen Guang: He made great contributions to the Red Army's crossing out of danger in the north.
Chen Guang, Wang Liang, Zhou Kun
<h1>Second, the flat type guan Yang Wei, successive battles and victories</h1>
When the Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi, Chen Guang served as deputy commander of the First Red Army and commander of the 4th Division, and political commissar Peng Xuefeng.
In 1936, Lin Biao went to southern Shaanxi to fight a guerrilla war, and was sent by the chairman to Kang Da as the principal, and Liu Yalou and Chen Guang successively acted as the commanders of the Red First Army. In August 1937, the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, and Lin Biao and Chen Guang were incorporated into the 115th Division.
Lin Biao served as the commander of the division, Chen Guang served as the brigade commander of the 343rd Brigade, and his famous generals Ruyun, Zhou Jianping, Chen Shiyu, Yang Dezhi, Chen Zhengxiang, Deng Hua, Wang Lushui, Wu Faxian, Peng Mingzhi, Li Tianyou, Yang Yong, Fu Zhuting, and Peng Xiong.
Considering that Xu Haidong, commander of the 344th Brigade, and Huang Kecheng, political commissar, were both generals, and that the 343rd Brigade had better records and stronger strength than the 344th Brigade during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, if there were no accidents, General Chen Guang would most likely be rated as a general in 1955. Later, the three battles and three victories in the Shanxi battlefield once again proved that Chen Guang's military talent and combat effectiveness were extraordinary.
On September 27, 1937, Lin Biao and Nie Rongzhen commanded Chen Guang's 343rd Brigade and Xu Haidong's 344th Brigade to annihilate more than 1,000 people in the 21st Brigade of the enemy's 5th Division at Pingxingguan. Just over a month later, the 343rd Brigade repeatedly ambushed in Guangyang, again annihilating more than 1,000 enemy troops.
Guangyang Victory, Chen Guangfeng exhausted, for several days and nights did not close his eyes. After the war, division commander Lin Biao spoke highly of Chen Guang's "command of the battle, accurate judgment of the enemy's situation when receiving the enemy, correct determination, and tenacious will after the battle began."
115th Division Chen Guang, Lin Biao, Zhou Kun, Nie Rongzhen
<h1>Third, Lin Biao was mistakenly injured by friendly forces, and Chen Guang reaped love</h1>
Shortly after the successive victories, the 115th Division station welcomed 4 young female college students.
Several girls had a fierce quarrel with the sentry who blocked them, which alarmed the division commander Lin Biao to the door to find out, and it turned out that several female students from taiyuan Chuanzhi Medical College had come to join the army. The eighth route army was most lacking in medical soldiers, and Lin Biao, the commander of the division, happily personally took several girls to report to the hospital of the 115th Division, and one of the girls soon became Chen Guang's wife.
The girl's name was Shi Ruichu, a native of Qinyuan, Shanxi, and the 32-year-old brigade commander Chen Guang was an elderly youth, and Luo Ronghuan, director of the Political Department of the 115th Division, and his wife Lin Yueqin introduced him to Shi Ruichu, a doctor in the Health Department of the 115th Division, who had fallen in love.
In March 1938, Lin Biao's chief of staff, Zhou Kun, received 60,000 yuan in military expenses from the 115th Division, and asked the guards to take 30,000 yuan back to the division headquarters and take 30,000 yuan themselves. A depressed Lin Biao rode alone in the wilderness to relax, and a sentry named Wang Lusheng in Yan Xishan saw a "Japanese officer" wearing a yellow tweed coat and raised a shot, and Lin Biao fell off his horse in response.
The 115th Division was leaderless, Zhu De and Peng Dehuai appointed Chen Guang as the commander of the division, and the chairman was inclined to Luo Ronghuan, but when the chairman's telegram arrived at the headquarters, Chen Guang had already taken office, and the chairman agreed, with Luo Ronghuan as the political commissar.
In September 1938, Chen Guang led Yang Yong's 343rd Brigade to set up an ambush at Xuegongling, Youfangping, and Wangjiachi in The Lüliang Mountains of Fenyang, and in just 5 days, 3 battles and 3 victories, annihilated more than 1,200 Japanese troops and captured 19 people.
In December, Chen Guang, 33, and Shi Ruichu, 18, married in Shangcun, Xiaoyi County.
<h1>Fourth, the eastward march to Shandong encountered a crisis of trust</h1>
Acting as commander of the 115th Division was General Chen Guang's highlight moment, but his back luck also followed.
On March 2, 1939, the headquarters of the 115th Division and the 686th Regiment of the 343rd Brigade, led by Chen Guang and Luo Ronghuan, arrived in Ruxi. On the 4th, more than 800 puppet troops were completely annihilated in the battle at Fanba, and more than 100 reinforcements of the Japanese army were repelled. On May 11, Chen Guang and more than 3,000 people of the 115th Division were surrounded by more than 5,000 Japanese troops in Jinan, Taishan, Yanzhou, Dong'a and other places in the western foothills of Mount Tai.
Under the command of Chen Guang, in the face of more than 30 Japanese tanks and more than 100 cannons, the 686th Regiment of the 115th Division fought fiercely for one day and one night, killing and wounding more than 1,300 Japanese troops and more than 300 casualties, and safely broke through to wuyan village in Dongping County. However, some commanders and fighters believed that if the 115th Division was chosen appropriately for the breakthrough route, it would not be surrounded by the Japanese army, and Chen Guang would encounter a crisis of trust.
The situation in Shandong's base areas was complicated, and for more than 4 years, Xu Xiangqian, Chen Guang, Zhu Rui, Li Yu, and others failed to integrate successfully, and Chairman Mao drastically transferred Xu, Chen, and Zhu back successively, Luo Ronghuan was unified, and Li Yu was made his deputy.
In March 1943, Chen Guang, Luo Ruiqing, Liu Zhijian and Bo returned to Yan'an from the Taihang Mountains to participate in the rectification. In Yan'an, Chen Guang and the old leader Lin Biao met again. In April 1945, Chen Guang was responsible for the qualification examination of deputies, put forward some different opinions, offended many people, and was jointly sued, and the chairman came forward to quell it.
The 115th Division advanced into Shandong
<h1>Fifth, after the liberation of the northeast, Lin Biao and Chen Guang dispersed unhappily</h1>
In October 1945, Lin Biao was appointed commander-in-chief of the Northeast People's Autonomous Army, and Chen Guang was appointed commander of the 6th Column.
Soon, a "radio incident" caused a rift in the relationship between the two sides. Jiang's army launched a large-scale attack on Jinzhou and other places, and the situation was critical. Lin Biao had 350,000 troops under his command, a little more than Chiang Kai-shek's 290,000 troops, but there was no delay in the command of high-power radios, and Chen Guang had a high-power radio captured from the Japanese.
Lin Biao was overjoyed when he learned of this, and sent a telegram to Chen Guang to rush to the headquarters with a radio and confidential personnel, but Chen Guang refused to command the affected. This kind of localism without a big picture view made Lin Biao very annoyed and sent a report again asking for the execution of the order. Just when Chen Guang was helpless to carry out the order, the enemy attacked on a large scale, and Chen Guang had to retreat, completely losing the opportunity to converge.
In December 1946, when the 6 columns were assembled in the north of the Songhua River and waited for orders to go south, Lin Biao called Chen Guang: In order to prevent the enemy from attacking Harbin, the 6 columns withdrew to the original defense area. Chen Guang once again resisted, causing Lin Biao to cross the rank of commander to directly generate electricity to the 6 columns and 3 divisions. Chen Guang was extremely dissatisfied, and soon transferred from the 6th Column to serve as commander of the Songjiang Military Region and commander of the Harbin garrison.
In March 1949, Higashino was reorganized into Shino, with Lin Biao as commander and Chen Guang as deputy chief of staff. At a meeting in Peiping, when Lin Biao talked about his pride in meritorious service, he took Chen Guang's "two refusals to hand over the radio station" as a case of naming and criticizing, and Chen Guang, who has always had a hot temper, could not get off the stage and left on the spot, and the relationship between the two fell to a freezing point.
Chen Guang
<h1>Sixth, Chen Guang went to extremes, and the family caused tragedy</h1>
In 1950, Chen Guang was appointed commander of the Guangzhou Garrison District, Ye Jianying, secretary of the South China Branch and commander of the Guangzhou Military Region, and Lin Biao, chairman of the political commissar of the Central South Military Commission, commander of the Military Region, and first secretary of the Central South China Military Region.
Chen Guang was very familiar with organizing and suppressing bandits, but he was very layman in intelligence work, and some mistakes occurred, and he also took the children of martyrs from his hometown to Guangzhou to run an intelligence training class. Ye Jianying communicated many times, Chen Guang insisted that "unprincipled criticism cannot be accepted," Ye Jianying finally said: Senior cadres, but also old comrades, do things must always talk about some principles.
The matter was reported to the Central and Southern Military Region, and after Lin Biao asked the headquarters for instructions, he gave Chen Guang the punishment of dismissal. Soon, Lu Fang's breakthrough, deputy qualifications, and radio incidents were all turned over, and Chen Guang's conviction was very serious. With the cooperation of Chen Guang's trusted Commander Li, the guards transferred him to the small western-style building on the second floor of the Bai Chongxi Mansion in Wuhan and put him under "house arrest" .
At first, Chen Guang also studied history and prepared to lead troops to liberate Baodao after going out in the future, but as time went on and the mania left by the war, he finally ended his life on June 7, 1954.
The sudden death of her husband was tantamount to a thunderbolt on a sunny day for the 34-year-old Shi Ruichu with two young sons, but she quickly chose to face it strongly. Let the two sons change their surnames to Shi and live in seclusion in a private house in Beijing. In 1963, nine years after Chen Guang's death, under the persuasion of Lin Yueqin, He Changgong and others, the 43-year-old Shi Ruichu married a colonel officer.
The marriage ended hastily in less than a year, and Shi Ruichu was also reported for leaving Chen Guang's relics.
In 1987, Lin Yueqin and more than 10 other veteran comrades jointly wrote a letter to Chen Yun, and the joint investigation team re-examined and determined that the mistakes made by Chen Guang were internal contradictions.
Shi Ruichu, Chen Guang
On June 3, 1994, the 74-year-old Shi Ruichu died of illness, and his last words were: Bury his ashes under the Phoenix Mountain, the hometown of the Lufang Battle where he fought with Chen Guang, to show that he devoted his life to the revolution and lived with Chen Guang. In August 2020, Chen Guang's descendants and a group of 7 people came to Shandong Lufang to meet their father's old comrades-in-arms and pay tribute to their parents' cemetery.
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