The stars will fall, and the heroic wind will last forever.
Comrade Li Guang, the founding major general and former director of the engineering corps of the Nanjing Military Region, died of illness in Nanjing on the morning of December 27 at the age of 106.
After the death of General Li Guang, there are only 6 surviving founding generals, who basically joined the revolution during the Red Army period, and the average age is more than 100 years old.
From 1955 to 1965, China awarded or promoted 10 marshals of the People's Republic of China, 10 generals of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, 57 generals of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, 177 lieutenant generals of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and 1360 major generals of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. These people are generally referred to as the "founding generals".
At present, in the group of "founding generals", marshals, generals, admirals, and lieutenant generals have all passed away, and the 6 surviving veteran generals are all founding major generals.
From 2010 to 2017, the number of founding generals who fell each year was more than double digits, namely 29 deaths in 2010, 25 in 2011, 14 in 2012, 10 in 2013, 14 in 2014, 20 in 2015, 10 in 2016, and 12 in 2017. In 2018, six founding generals passed away. In 2019, five founding generals passed away.
The surging news reporter's inquiry found that among the 6 surviving founding major generals, 2 were awarded the title in 1955, 1 in 1961, and 3 in 1964.
Among them, the two Jian zai generals who were awarded the title in 1955 were Zou Yan, former deputy political commissar of the Shenyang Military Region, and Yang Yongsong, former political commissar of the engineering corps of the Beijing Military Region.
Major General Jian Zai, who was awarded the rank in 1961, was Zhang Lixiong, former political commissar of the Jiangxi Provincial Military Region.
The surviving major generals who were awarded the title in 1964 were Wang Fuzhi, former deputy commander of the Urumqi Military Region; Wen Zhen, former director of the Artillery Department of the General Staff; and Tu Tongjin, former president of the Academy of Military Medical Sciences.
Among the six founding generals mentioned above, the youngest is Wang Fuzhi, the former deputy commander of the Urumqi Military Region, who was born in 1923.
General Li Guang is the fourth founding major general to die this year.
Earlier, Chen Shaokun, the founding major general, former deputy political commissar and director of the political department of the Shenyang Military Region, and former minister of metallurgical industry, died in Beijing on October 10 at the age of 99; Comrade Yang Silu, the founding major general, former commander of the Air Force of the Fuzhou Military Region, and former adviser to the Air Force, died in Beijing on the morning of November 18 at the age of 104; and General Zhan Danan, the founding major general and former deputy commander of the Nanjing Military Region, died in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, at the age of 105.
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At the age of 106, Li Guang, a founding major general and former director of the engineering corps of the Nanjing Military Region, died
Li Guang, formerly known as Li Guangyu, born in 1914, a native of Yilong, Sichuan, joined the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in 1933, joined the Chinese Communist Youth League in 1934, and transferred to the Communist Party of China the following year. He served as division commander, deputy commander, deputy director and director of the engineering corps of the Nanjing Military Region, and adviser to the headquarters of the Nanjing Military Region. Li Guang was awarded the rank of major general in 1955.
According to the official website of the Yilong County Government, General Li Guang's hometown, on August 23, 1933, the Red Ninth Army liberated the county seat of Yilong County. In early September, the 74th, 75th, and 81st Regiments of the Red Ninth Army liberated Li Guang's hometown, the New Deal, and established Soviet power and local armed independent companies. Li Guang actively signed up for the Independent Company. This armed group of young peasants soon grew to more than 400 people, and independent battalions were formed. At the age of 18, Li Guang was elected platoon leader of the second platoon of the second company of the Independent Battalion.
After the establishment of the independent battalion, the first battle of the New Deal Dadongshan. Here were the landlords' armed "Great Knife Society", who frantically opposed the Soviet government of the nascent Red regime and attacked the Red Army. After the independent battalion accepted the task of attacking Dadongshan, the soldiers were in high spirits, and they relied on the big knife and shuttle standard to beat the bandits of the "Big Knife Society" and fled in a hurry, and captured the leader of the "Big Knife Society" alive. Li Guang bravely pursued and killed the enemy with a bamboo leaf knife two fingers wide, and the first time he withstood the test of war, he showed his bravery and tenacity.
The independence battalion won the first battle and was praised by the headquarters of the Red Fourth Front, and its reputation has been great since then. Soon, the independent battalion was transferred to the headquarters of the Red Fourth Front, received guns and ammunition, and was officially incorporated into the Ninety-first Division of the Red Thirty-first Army, and the whole battalion collectively joined the Red Army. Li Guang served as the squad leader of the special agent company of the division headquarters, and soon promoted to platoon leader.
In October 1933, the Sichuan warlord Liu Xiang, at the behest of Chiang Kai-shek, carried out a "six-way siege" of the Revolutionary Base Area in Sichuan and Shaanxi, and Li Guang and his troops moved to the Tongjiang and Nanjiang areas, fighting almost every day. In September 1934, the Red Fourth Front successfully smashed the enemy's "six-way siege" and drove the enemy to the west of the Jialing River.
In the battle against Cangxi, Li Guang's platoon was ordered to take cover. Enemy bullets hit him in the calf, blood flowing and the pain unbearable, but he still gritted his teeth and caught up with the troops. Soon the wound was infected with suppuration, and the doctor asked him to amputate his limb, but he resolutely disagreed, saying: "My revolution has only just begun, how can I fight the enemy without legs?" "He was transferred to the General Hospital of the Red Army for treatment, and after doing his best to rescue him, he saved his leg.
At the end of March 1935, after the Red Fourth Front won the victory in the Battle of Jialing River, the Long March began. At this time, Li Guang served as the platoon leader of the 267th Regiment's 2nd Battalion and 4th Company. As a result of Zhang Guotao's division of the Red Army, Li Guang, together with many cadres and fighters of the Red Fourth Front, experienced the hardships of climbing snow-capped mountains and crossing meadows three times. In October 1936, the Red Fourth Front finally met the central Red Army in Huining, Gansu Province. The arduous Long March made thousands of Red Army soldiers sacrifice their precious lives, and also made Li Guang and his comrades-in-arms stronger. In 1934 he joined the Communist Youth League of China. In 1935, he transferred to the Communist Party of China.
In the Battle of Shan Castle after the Red Army's division, Li Guang's Red Thirty-first Army successfully captured the Mountain Castle, and continued to pursue the enemy bravely, annihilating a division of the main force of the Kuomintang army in the south of Hu Zong, and strengthening the prestige of the Red Army.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Red Fourth Front was reorganized into the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and Li Guang served as the platoon commander of the 771st Regiment of the 386th Brigade, a battalion and a company. When the troops went north to resist the Japanese, when they passed through Yangquan to Yangmingbao, they were just in time for the 769th Regiment to burn 24 Japanese devils at Yangmingbao Airport, and the devils retaliated. In this battle against the Japanese Kou, Li Guang was heroically wounded. A bullet passed through his left shoulder, into his left jaw, and through the base of his right ear, blood instantly staining his uniform red. That night, the traitors attacked the regimental headquarters and the village where the wounded and sick lived with ghosts. Since the lightly wounded of the large army had been transferred during the day, only Li Guang and four or five seriously wounded were left. When the attendants with him found that the enemy had entered the village, they hurriedly took a blanket and wrapped him up, helped him to the toilet and lay down. The enemy walked by the toilet and did not find them both. The rest of the wounded and sick were killed by the enemy. After the enemy left, they climbed out of the toilet, climbed over the wall and climbed the back hill, surviving.
Li Guang was transferred to Yan'an General Hospital for treatment, and for two months he could not open his mouth to eat, could not speak, and after the operation was taken out of the broken bones, the wound slowly healed. After he was discharged from the hospital, he entered the headquarters camp school to study. Later, the school was changed to the Kang Da Branch. In October 1938, after graduating from the Kang Da, Li Guang was assigned to the Jizhong Military Region and served as an instructor in the first battalion of the 26th Brigade of the Third Military Sub-district. The first battalion was originally an old-fashioned armed force that had been reorganized, with loose discipline and poor combat effectiveness. In order to change this situation, the superiors appointed Li Guang as a battalion commander and instructor. He strictly administered the army and vigorously grasped training, which greatly improved the quality of the soldiers and became a brave and good fighting unit.
In January 1939, Li Guang was transferred to the 25th Brigade of the Third Sub-district of the Jizhong Military Region. Because he was brave and decisive in battle, determined, and a pioneer, often personally commanded at the front, the troops were good at fighting hard battles, and he was very famous in the area of Ren (Qiu) River (Jian) Ba (County). The Japanese puppet army tried in every possible way to eliminate them. In 1940, the Twenty-fifth Brigade was reorganized into the Thirty Regiments. Organizationally, Li Guang was renamed, and the original Li Guangyu removed the word "Yu" and changed his name to "Li Guang". Soon after, he was transferred to the Party School of the Northern Branch Bureau to study. In the autumn of 1941, after graduation, he became the commander of the 29th Regiment of the Tenth Division of the Jizhong Military Region.
At this time, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression entered the most arduous stage, and Li Guang led the Twenty-ninth Regiment to persist in the War of Resistance in the Baiyangdian area of the Jizhong Plain, adopting guerrilla tactics and skillfully maneuvering with the Japanese. In 1941, the Japanese army launched the "May Day" sweep. One day, the Twenty-ninth Regiment encountered the enemy at Beiluzhuang in Renqiu County. On that day, the Japanese teaching team and the puppet army set out from Baoding and surrounded the Twenty-ninth Regiment, and they were very arrogant. Li Guang commanded the fighters to calmly respond to the battle and repelled the enemy's charge again and again. The battle lasted for nearly a day, and suddenly, the enemy's dense gunfire thinned out, and Li Guang immediately sent the Ninth Company instructor to lead a group to crawl from the tunnel to reconnoiter, and found that the enemy was holding a meeting to study countermeasures. The scouts took the opportunity to throw a few grenades over, blowing up the ghosts and injuring them, and the soldiers immediately jumped out of the tunnels, heroically pursued and killed the enemy, and captured the leader of the Japanese teaching team alive.
The Twenty-ninth Regiment played a mighty role in the Jizhong Plain and was commended by the Military Region. Commander Lu Zhengcao once praised Li Guang for his "strong personality, bravery in combat, and determination." In 1945, Li Guang was transferred to the 20th Regiment of the 13th Sub-district, led his troops to participate in the battle to open up the Chanan base area, fought fierce battles with the enemy and puppet troops many times, and consolidated and developed the Chanan base area.
In August 1945, after Japan announced its unconditional surrender, Chiang Kai-shek attempted to reap the fruits of victory in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and dispatched Fu Zuoyi's troops east out of Zhangjiakou to obstruct our army from recovering lost land and surrendering. To this end, Commander-in-Chief Zhu De sent a telegram ordering our army to launch an active attack on all enemy-occupied towns and communication routes, forcing the Japanese puppet army to surrender. On August 16, the Jicha Military Region decided to capture Zhangjiakou.
The Twenty Regiments were more familiar with the situation in Zhangjiakou and were the main force attacking Zhangjiakou this time. On August 20, Li Guang led 20 regiments to attack Zhangjiakou at night, and took advantage of the enemy's panic to occupy The Mountain of Shi'er, the Headquarters of Genbo, the United Self-Government of Mongolia and Xinjiang, radio stations, banks, airfields, railway stations, power plants, and pseudo-police stations, and set up separate guards and basically controlled the whole city. That night, Li Guang went to The Radio Station of Zhangjiakou City to officially announce the liberation of Zhangjiakou by our army. During this battle, the regiment received about 10,000 police armed personnel, captured 5 million rounds of ammunition, 21 guns, 80,000 shells, more than 3,000 rifles, and a large number of military supplies.
The 20th Regiment also attacked Chaigou Fort and Tianzhen at Zhangjiakou. Li Guang was then transferred to the Duba Brigade as deputy brigade commander, and later he participated in the attacks on Zhengding, Wuchi, Zhengtai and the famous Qingfengdian.
In 1948, Li Guang was appointed brigade commander of the 21st Brigade of the 7th Column of the North China Military Region. In 1949, he commanded troops along the Tang River to block the enemy cavalry from Baoding, repelled many enemy charges, and took advantage of the victory to pursue, and together with friendly neighboring troops, liberated Baoding. He also led his troops to cross the Yellow River and Shahe River day and night, all the way to the south of Beiping City, where they met the Siye forces at Langfang. The brigade accepted the task of blocking the Yongding Gate and, together with the main force, surrounded Fu Zuo's rebel army, and contributed to the peaceful liberation of Peiping.
After the liberation of the whole country, Li Guang transferred the 198th Division of the Sixty-sixth Army as the commander of the division. Soon, he was transferred to the Nanjing Military Academy to study. In July 1952, he participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and served as the commander of the 2nd O 2nd Division of the 68th Army. Participated in the famous Summer Offensive Campaign and the Battle of Jincheng. In 1954, he was appointed deputy commander of the Sixty-eighth Army. In 1956, he was appointed commander of Lianyungang Fortress. In 1958, he was appointed commander of the 15th Division of the Shanghai Wusongkou Garrison Division. In 1962, he was appointed deputy director and director of the engineering corps headquarters of the Nanjing Military Region. In 1978, he was appointed as a regular military adviser to the headquarters of the Nanjing Military Region.
Column Editor-in-Chief: Gu Wanquan Text Editor: Fang Ying Title Map Source: Shangguan Tu Editor Photo Editor: Shao Jing
Source: Author: The Paper
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