One day in 1933, Lu Zimei, the commander of the 45th Regiment of the International Division of the Young Communist Party, came to the division headquarters to report. After seeing a young soldier, he hurriedly asked him where Xiao Hua, the political commissar of the division, was.
The young warrior smiled: "I am Xiao Hua." ”
Lu Zimei was stunned: "How old are you?" ”
Xiao Hua said helplessly: "17 years old." ”
35-year-old Lu Zimei was stunned again, such a hairy boy can be the political commissar of the division?
What is so special about Xiao Hua that he became the political commissar of the division at the age of 17?
Juvenile Mature Timber
Lu Zimei's questioning is not unreasonable.
In the years of the Anti-Japanese War, most of the teenagers were just enlisted in the army. Even if someone enlisted in the army two years earlier and has a little more combat experience than others, he can only be promoted to the position of squad leader at this age.
Not to mention the position of the political commissar of the division.
is 35-year-old Lu Zimei, who has been born and died on the battlefield for so many years, and has only been promoted to the regiment commander.
Although most of the members of the International Division of the Young Communist Party were seventeen or eighteen years old at that time, the team had undergone many rigorous military trainings and could be regarded as a mature combat army.
What's more, the entire division has three regiments under its jurisdiction, with a total of more than 10,000 people! To manage more than 10,000 people, how can the organization rest assured that the team will be handed over to Xiao Hua, who is only seventeen years old?
This starts with Xiao Hua's life experience. Xiao Hua was born in Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, to a poor working family. His parents were revolutionaries.
Xiao Hua's family has always had contacts with anti-Japanese war activists Xiao Yiru and Xiao Yizuo. It can be said that Xiao Hua's revolutionary mind has been cultivated since birth.
Xiao Hua has been smart since he was a child, and his academic performance is often among the best, and he is known as a "prodigy". After school, he often told stories about the war to children of the same age in the village.
At an age of ignorance, children are easily attracted by the bloody stories on the battlefield. Gradually, there was a small group of supporters behind Xiao Hua.
Xiao Hua often joked that he was cultivating young seeds for the anti-war team. According to his words, adults have adults to do revolutionary ideological work, and children also need children to do revolutionary ideological work.
Xiao Hua had great ambitions at a very young age, and he also wanted to be like his revolutionary ancestors, throwing his head and spilling blood for the motherland. He thought that what he was doing now would always be useful in the future.
Later, Xiao Hua's parents sacrificed for the revolutionary cause, and his sister was sent away. The family was broken, and Xiao Hua resolutely inherited the mantle of his parents and wanted to carry the revolution to the end.
In 1928, Xiao Hua, who was only 12 years old, had his first close contact with real guns. In order to suppress the Xingguo riots, our army decided to infiltrate Xiaowu Village and secretly arrest the rioters.
At that time, in order not to attract the attention of the enemy, our army found Xiao Hua as a joint officer. The reason is that Xiao Hua is young, but he is familiar with revolutionary work and has a strong psychological quality.
After Xiao Hua received the job, he was excited. Children are very competitive, and Xiao Hua is no exception. He thought that he must complete the task successfully and impress the organization.
So in the dead of night, Xiao Hua quietly led several Red Army soldiers into Xiaowu Village to settle down.
One of the fighters praised Xiao Hua for his quick and rigorous movements. He told Xiao Hua that Xiao Hua's task had been completed and asked him to hurry home to rest.
Xiao Hua was a little dissatisfied, these people obviously felt that he was young and underestimated him. Xiao Hua immediately said that he knew a few enemy soldiers and could take them to arrest them.
Several soldiers looked at each other, but they didn't expect Xiao Hua to be so bold at such a young age.
One of the older ones rebuked Xiao Hua seriously: "Do you think this is playing?" Do you know how dangerous this is? Don't go home yet! ”
Xiao Hua was reprimanded and left dejectedly. Xiao Hua felt that what the soldiers said was not unreasonable, after all, it was the first time for him to participate in such a dangerous job, and if something happened, it would only cause trouble to the organization.
Xiao Hua originally wanted to directly take a few soldiers to directly attack the enemy's home, but now he plans to change his conservative method.
By the early hours of the morning, there was no movement in the village. Xiao Hua quietly ran to the door of several enemy houses according to the memory in his mind, and marked the door with charcoal.
When the busy work is over, the day is about to break. Xiao Hua went directly to the temporary residence of several soldiers and informed them of the incident. When the soldiers saw that Xiao Hua was so clever, they praised him one after another.
With the marks made by Xiao Hua, the soldiers' work was much easier. They saw the right time and successfully arrested the enemy, much earlier than expected.
Xiao Hua was commended for the first time, and a lot of pride rose in his heart, even if he thought about continuing this momentum and making another military achievement.
After learning that the enemy leader Xiao Zhengan had escaped, Xiao Hua immediately embarked on the road of pursuing Xiao Zhengan. Xiao Zhengan and Xiao Hua were both born in Xiaowu Village, which had long been surrounded by our army, and it was impossible for him to escape.
Xiao Hua took the Red Army to the most hidden corner of the village to find it. After searching for most of the day, the entire village was searched, but Xiao Zhengan was still nowhere to be found.
Xiao Hua was so tired that he was out of breath, and even went to the fire temple next to him to rest. Xiao Hua rested for a while, and suddenly felt that something was wrong.
He raised his eyes to look at the statue of the god of fire in the temple, only to see that the majestic "god of fire" on weekdays was embarrassed at this time.
The hat on the "Vulcan" head was crooked, the clothes on his body were loose, and the two strands of beard on his face were melted into two black marks by sweat at this time.
The eyes of the "Fire God" glared, and Xiao Hua suddenly became smart.
Xiao Zhengan knew that he had been discovered, but fortunately he was just a child. He scolded Xiao Hua angrily, wanting to scare people away: "Look at what, don't hurry up!" ”
Xiao Hua was in a cold sweat, and hurriedly ran out of the Fire God Temple. He was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, and now he had to hurry up and report Xiao Zhengan's whereabouts to the organization.
At this time, two Red Army soldiers came head-on. When they saw Xiao Hua, they just wanted to say hello, but they saw Xiao Hua waving to them while making silent movements.
The two Red Army soldiers glanced at each other, knew that there was a situation, picked up the gun in their hands and ran in the direction of Xiao Hua.
At this time, Xiao Zhengan saw that he was found and just wanted to escape. He was immediately dumbfounded when he saw that the little boy had just returned, followed by two Red Army soldiers with guns.
Xiao Zhengan was successfully arrested in this way. Xiao Hua once again relied on his cleverness, wit, prudence and caution to make contributions.
From then on, the team no longer dared to underestimate this little warrior.
The youngest leader
In 1929, Xiao Hua met Chairman Mao for the first time. Chairman Mao had long heard of Xiao Hua's experience, and he praised Xiao Hua for being born for the revolution.
Chairman Mao has high expectations for Xiao Hua, and Xiao Hua's own qualifications are also very good. So Chairman Mao made an exception and let him enter the "Agrarian Revolutionary Cadre Training Course".
Everyone was shocked, learning in this organization, and after coming out, you can directly become a leader! But Xiao Hua is only thirteen years old, does Chairman Mao trust him so much?
Chairman Mao just waved his hand after listening to the questions in the army, what's wrong with his young age? As long as they can do a good job in revolutionary tasks, they are qualified to be leaders.
Compared with everyone, Chairman Mao thought further. The ranks of the Red Army had just been established, and most of the units were incorporated by the peasant armed forces in various localities.
The soldiers in the army have lived a hard life since childhood, and most of them have never gone to school. It's okay to go to the battlefield to fight, but if you let them read and write, it will kill them.
Now is the crucial period for organizing the people and providing ideological education to the people. At this time, intellectuals with revolutionary minds are invaluable.
Xiao Hua has a high ideological consciousness and has lived among the people since he was a child, so Chairman Mao certainly values him. Xiao Hua was appointed as the secretary of the Shaogong Xingguo County Party Committee by virtue of his outstanding performance in the class.
Since then, Xiao Hua has often run to the front line of the people to liberate the people's minds. After all, Xiao Hua is young and often runs into walls when doing people's work.
In the war-torn years, there was not even enough to eat, and adults were impatient to listen to a child. After learning what happened to Xiao Hua, his superiors encouraged him: It is not easy to be a young leader, and the revolutionary task is a long way to go!
Xiao Hua was often teased in the army because of his age. He knew that there was a group of children his age, who had been oppressed since childhood and were in dire need of liberation.
Xiao Hua proposed to his superiors to create an "International Division of the Young Communist Party" to expand the ranks of the Red Army among the youth. Young people are the future of a country, and only by rescuing young people can we save the country.
After Chairman Mao heard this, he clasped his palms with both hands and praised: "Xiao Hua is so young, he is really promising!" When even agreed with Xiao Hua's suggestion.
In 1933, the International Division of the Young Communist Party was established, and Xiao Hua was appointed as the political commissar of the division. At this time, Xiao Hua was only seventeen years old, but he became the youngest division political commissar in history.
So when the 35-year-old head Lu Zimei saw this leader with a young face but a calm speech, it was inevitable that he would mutter in his heart.
In the face of Lu Zimei's questioning, Xiao Hua seemed to be accustomed to it, and just exchanged work with Lu Zimei with a normal look.
At first, Lu Zimei thought that Xiao Hua was a "relation", and she was a little disdainful in her heart.
Who knows that Xiao Hua talked about the current situation of the Anti-Japanese War from the establishment of the International Division of the Young Communist Party. Among them, Xiao Hua can tell every battle experienced by the Red Army and every combat experience summed up.
After the two finished talking, it was already dark, but Lu Zimei hadn't listened to it yet. He only felt that Xiao Hua had taken a military class for himself, and all the doubts in his mind before were suddenly opened.
Lu Zimei held Xiao Hua's hand before leaving, apologizing for her previous unreasonable attitude.
Xiao Hua said with a smile: "Everyone is a revolutionary comrade, I hope that Commander Lu can also treat everyone equally in the future, and not talk about things by age!" ”
"Doll" commander
The soldiers questioned Xiao Hua's age, and said that when Xiao Hua slowly led the troops to make meritorious contributions, they could dispel the concerns of their comrades. But when you get to the enemy, you don't have time to let Xiao Hua slowly display his skills.
This gave Xiao Hua a headache.
In 1938, Xiao Hua served as the commander of the Eighth Route Army's eastward anti-Japanese advance column, and he led the crowd to advance into the Hebei-Shandong border area.
At that time, there were not only Japanese troops in the Jilu border area, but also Kuomintang Shen Honglie and Lu Zhonglin, who had been stationed in Shandong and Hebei for a long time.
As soon as the Eighth Route Army came, it directly endangered the interests of Shen Honglie and Lu Zhonglin. As soon as the two combined, they decided to drive Xiao Hua out of Jilubian.
Now is a difficult time to resist Japan, and Xiao Hua doesn't want to break through. He learned that Shen Honglie and Lu Zhonglin had long been resentful of each other because of the border issue. After studying the combat situation, Xiao Hua decided to implement the "Heshen Fight Deer".
Shen Honglie was very disdainful after receiving the news of Xiao Hua's cooperation. He had long known that Xiao Hua was a "doll" commander who was only twenty-two years old, and he was not worthy of his vigilance.
Shen Honglie thought that Xiao Hua had never seen the world, he thought that as soon as Xiao Hua came, he would directly scare him away by the soldiers, and he didn't have to spend a single soldier.
It was Shen Honglie's attitude of underestimating the enemy that gave Xiao Hua an opportunity.
Xiao Hua ignored the army that intimidated him in front of the city gate, and went directly to the hospital in plainclothes to comfort the wounded, and personally went to the countryside to inspect the people's conditions.
Xiao Hua is kind and kind, not like Shen Honglie and his entourage, who likes to put on an official show. During Xiao Hua's many days of running, the people were instantly touched by this little soldier.
Public opinion in the city turned to Xiao Hua. Seeing that the situation was not right, Shen Honglie put away his thoughts about watching the excitement, and finally agreed to Xiao Hua's request after many negotiations.
When the People's Republic of China was founded, Xiao Hua was awarded the rank of general at the age of thirty-nine. Since then, he has been doing practical things for the people and has become the most beloved young general.