Founding General Shock's memoirs of the early general of the Red Fourth Army, Wang Erzhuo, Wu Zhonghao and other generals

Wang Erzhuo, chief of staff of the Fourth Army, is a loyal and brave comrade. At that time, he was only twenty-six or seventeen years old, with a beard and long hair and shawl, giving people a feeling of old age and determination. He was a native of Shimen, Hunan, who studied at the Hunan Jiazhong Industrial School and was a student of the first phase of Huangpu, who participated in the Nanchang Uprising and the Shonan Uprising. He was calm and sensitive in command, and was Jude's right-hand man in the military. But he died a pity. It was after the defeat in Chenzhou from Shonan back to Jinggangshan, one day walked more than 60 miles, learned where Yuan Chongquan was after defecting, he immediately led his troops to chase after the night, only to be hit and killed by traitors. On the day after his sacrifice, the whole army held a memorial service, and Mao Zedong personally wrote a note: One cry Erzhuo, two cry erzhuo, Erzhu is now finished! Who will bear the burden of staying? Born as a class, died as a class, how about after class? Get the winner' side! Mao Zedong's alliance embodies the mourning and leisurely feelings of the comrades of the Red Fourth Army for Wang Erzhuo.

Zhu Yunqing was promoted to regimental commander after going to Jinggangshan as regimental chief of staff. After Wang Erzhuo's death, he was promoted to chief of military staff. He is a student of Whampoa Phase III, strategic and meticulous, and conscientious. Mao Zedong once said that Zhu Yunqing was his most satisfactory chief of staff. He had a military map of one in 500,000, and when he went to each place, he collected local terrain, villages, etc., and based on the map and collected materials, he drew a brief map or march route near the garrison. Every time military operations were discussed, he was able to come up with a plan that had been prepared in advance. He is a native of Meixian County, Guangdong Province, and his family is wealthy. When we opened Meixian in 1929, there was a shop on the street that his family had opened. Zhu Yunqing took a thousand sweaters from the shop (at that time, the sweaters were one and a half to two yuan a piece) and gave them to the troops. According to the policy, the property of industrial and commercial capitalists is not allowed to be confiscated. He said, "These things belong to my family, and I can make the decision." He asked the manager to carry the sweater into the street, and before we could take it away, the enemy called. As a result, sweaters were thrown all over the road. I was extremely impressed by this incident, and we all felt that Chief of Staff Zhu had the spirit of "destroying the family and expressing difficulties."

Zhang Ziqing was the commander of the Eleventh Division of the Fourth Army. He was a native of Yiyang, Hunan, and was a disciple of the general and was related to Xia Xi. Xia Xi once told me about his life. His father was a senior general in the Xiang Army, who had been studying for soldiers since childhood, and when he was a little older, he studied at a military school in Hunan and served as a junior officer. During the Period of the Great Revolution, it accepted the influence of the Party and transferred from the Socialist Youth League to the Communist Party. After the Ma-Ri Incident, he joined the Guard Regiment of the Second Front Army led by the Party, serving as deputy battalion commander and battalion commander, and after going to Jinggangshan, he served as the regimental commander, and was one of Mao Zedong's main assistants in the military field. In the spring of 1928, Mao Zedong led his army into Shonan to cover the transfer of the Shonan uprising troops to the Jinggangshan area, the enemy's Eighth Army Wu Shangbu attempted to intercept our army, and Zhang Ziqing led his troops to the north of Yixian To meet the invading enemy. He insisted on three days and three nights as an outnumbered enemy, forcing the enemy to be unable to advance, and ensuring the victory of the two armies. However, Zhang Ziqing was seriously injured, and although he had undergone long-term treatment, the effect was not great. In the winter of that year, the enemy in the two provinces of Xianggan and Gansu "suppressed" Jinggangshan, he took advantage of the complicated terrain to turn east and west, insisted on the struggle, and soon the enemy retreated, but his illness became more serious, and in April 1929, this strong revolutionary hero unfortunately died.

Wan Xi was the party representative of the Tenth Division after Zhu Mao's meeting. He was a native of Hubei, a party member during the Great Revolution, and went to Jinggangshan after participating in the Autumn Harvest Uprising. When I first saw him, he was a meeting of the two armies to lay down the Yongxin. When Zhu De spoke, he introduced his and He Changgong's positions to everyone, and Wan Xixian made an impromptu speech, which was impassioned and left a deep impression on me. About half a month later, he inspected the Twenty-ninth Regiment and told us about the guerrilla tactics of the "Sixteen Character Recipe.", and he explained it sentence by sentence, vividly and well understood; this was the first time I heard of the "Sixteen Character Recipe", and I still remember it vividly, but unfortunately he did not say who summed it up. Although Wan Xixian had a position in the military, he mainly did local work. Everyone likes him to be cheerful, speak bluntly, and dare to criticize bad phenomena. After the main force of the Red Fourth Army descended the mountain, he stayed behind to persist in the struggle.

In 11930 I heard that he had been killed by mistake. Zhu De once talked about Wan Xixian, saying that he was a good man, even if he had flaws, he should not be shot, and I felt the same way as the people who knew him.

Among the first-level cadres of the Red Fourth Army, the one I had the most contact with was Lin Biao. I was the company commander, he was the battalion commander; I was the battalion commander, he was the regimental commander; I am the chief of staff of any column, he is the commander of a column; I was the division commander, he was the commander; We've been working together for a long time. Lin Biao was a student of the huangpu ivy, participated in the second period of the Northern Expedition to fight the warlords of the Henan Fengzhi clan, and later participated in the Nanchang Uprising, after the defeat of the rebel army at Sanheba, he participated in the battle under the command of Zhu De. He was promoted from the probationary platoon commander step by step, paid attention to training in peacetime, strict management, determined and flexible in the front, and inherited the fighting style of the "Iron Army" during the Northern Expedition. I felt that Lin Biao was okay militarily, but not a "perfect" figure like someone later boasted. The Battle of Da Geng, which did not look at the terrain before the war; In the Battle of Jitan, the troops were not mastered, and the troops suffered losses. He liked to read books on soldiers, such as "Quotations of Zeng Hu Zhibing" and "History of the First World War" written by Zhang Naiyan. Lin Biao also reads books on social sciences. He was gloomy and overly self-respecting.

Hu Shaohai was the leader of the 29th Regiment and a native of Yizhang, Hunan. He was born in the family of the bully, with 6 brothers, and he was the fourth oldest. Born as a student, he engaged in military activities under the banner of Sun Yat-sen in Hunan and Guangdong. During the Great Revolution, under the influence of the Communist Party, he became a sympathizer. He had a friendship with Gong Chu, and through Gong's introduction, he contacted Zhu De, who was on the edge of Xiangyue at that time. When Zhu De and the Shonan Special Committee decided to hold the Shonan Uprising, they first took advantage of Hu Shaohai's influence in the Yizhang area, and in the name of the united front that Zhu De and Fan Shisheng had achieved, led their troops into Yizhang in the name of "caring for Sangzi," thus winning a great victory in the Yizhang Nianguan rebellion and kicking off the prelude to the Shonan uprising. Under the guidance of Jude, he organized the army. But his family was very reactionary, and his younger brother Hu Laoliu was one of the leaders of the militia groups in Yizhang districts, with more than a hundred guns. Once, Hu Shaohai led his troops and Yi Zhang's vigilante group to a big battle in his hometown, the brothers were the commanders of the red and white sides, and as a result of the magic battle, the Red Army was victorious. During the chase, Hu Shaohai chased after him and scolded: "Old Sixth, I will kill you today!" After the battle, we learned about this matter, and everyone praised it: "Commander Hu is really righteous and destroys his relatives!" Later, the Twenty-ninth Regiment broke up in Chenzhou, and he became the commander of the first battalion of the Twenty-eighth Regiment. The fourth army went down to Jinggangshan to Dabaidi, and he was ordered to lead his troops to encircle the enemy from our right side, and in coordination with the frontal attacking forces, they won a total victory. Soon after, he was appointed commander of the second column. After arriving in western Fujian, he served as the commander of the fourth column. Tingzhou was reorganized as the commander of the Twenty-first Army of Western Fujian at the time, and after his unfortunate death, everyone sighed. His wife later returned to her hometown and was executed by his brother Hu Laoliu, which shows the extent to which the class enemy was cruel to the revolutionaries.

Wu Zhonghao, the leader of the 31st Regiment, was a third-year student of the Liberal Arts Department of Peking University and a fourth-term student of Huangpu, at the same time as Lin Biao. He spoke calmly and gently. He was a liberal arts student with a good background in old studies, and was known as a "literary scholar of the Fourth Army", and it is said that he also wrote some poems. Wu Zhonghao's military level is also high, and he can lead and train a unit well. After he became the commander of the Thirty-first Regiment, the regiment's combat effectiveness increased, and it was able to attack and defend, especially in terms of defense, which was stronger than the Twenty-eighth Regiment. The Twenty-Eighth Regiment was able to fight well, but sometimes it was unstable. When he was the commander of the Third Column, the Third Column was also a unit with strong combat effectiveness, and later became the main force of the Red Twelfth Army. In June 1930, during the reorganization in Tingzhou, Wu Zhonghao fell ill, and although he was appointed as the commander of the Red Twelfth Army, he did not arrive at his post, and after the departure of the troops, Luo Binghui acted as the commander. After Wu Zhonghao recovered from his illness, he returned to the team with new recruits and went to Anfu, Jiangxi, where he was attacked and killed by the militia. At that time, we all thought that he was a general, but unfortunately, "he died before he could get out of the school."