When Ye Ting's Northern Expeditionary Army arrived at Tianyue Pass, an 18-year-old local youth was particularly excited, and he took the initiative to find the troops and expressed his willingness to act as a guide. Ye Ting looked at the young man in front of him suspiciously, and finally chose to believe him.
With the help of this young man, the Northern Expeditionary Army quickly conquered the military stronghold of Xiang'egan. Later, this young man enthusiastically organized the local peasant movement and actively participated in the revolution, making great contributions to the liberation of New China, and this young man was the future Lieutenant General Ganwei Han.
Gan Weihan was born in 1908 in Huanglong Township, Pingjiang County, Hunan Province. Pingjiang County, located at the junction of Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi provinces, is a famous general county in China, where the autumn harvest uprising and the Pingjiang uprising, which had far-reaching influence in China's modern history, also deeply infected Ganweihan. If he had not participated in the revolution, Gan Weihan might have been a barber for the rest of his life.
Due to his father's perennial illness, Gan Weihan grew up poor, and he only got a half-year study opportunity through cattle herding, and then dropped out of school. And because of his illiteracy, In the subsequent revolutionary struggle, Gan Weihan did not suffer less. In order to survive, his mother sent him to a barbershop as an apprentice.
After five years of apprenticeship, Gan Weihan finally left school and returned to his hometown of Huanglong Mountain. If you have a skill in a chaotic world, you have the ability to survive. In this way, Gan Weihan picked up the haircut every day, walking the streets and alleys to give haircuts to his fellow villagers. Through his own diligent efforts, Gan Weihan earned two rooms and an acre of land.
The death of his father doubled the pressure on Gan Weihan. Coupled with the frequent wars, Gan weihan's income also fell sharply. Some local landlords and gentry who did not do evil would also deduct his wages for no reason, which made Gan Weihan full of hatred for them, so he decided to join the revolution and formed the first peasant association in his hometown.
At that time, the peasant movement in the Pingjiang area was in full swing, and Gan Weihan took the lead in capturing the local large landlord Lu Bokui to parade in the streets and show the public, and also opened the granary of Lu Bokui's family and distributed the grain to the poor people. In this way, the peasant associations of Ganweihan were well received by the local people.
After solving Lu Bokui, Gan Weihan again aimed the spearhead of the struggle at the local rich gentleman Deng Ninbo, who decided to act at the end of the year. Gan Weihan and his comrades secretly took out the 8 rifles buried, and under the cover of night, surrounded the Deng Family Ancestral Hall, and resulted in Deng Ninbo's life.
From the actions of shooting lu Bokui and Deng Ninbo, it can be seen that the courage and courage of 18-year-old Gan Weihan can be seen. In October 1928, Gan Weihan joined the Red Army from the guerrillas, from which Gan Weihan became a formal soldier, and in the following two years, Gan Weihan participated in the attacks on Pingjiang, Yuezhou, and Changsha, which gradually allowed him to grow from an ordinary soldier to a grass-roots commander.
Gan Weihan fought bravely, and when the battle began, he would always take the lead and rush up without any worries, and this personality also made him injured many times on the battlefield, and once even almost amputated.
On November 11, 1933, the Red Army launched the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression", but it lost in the Battle of Huwan, and Gan Weihan was also injured, a bullet penetrated the back of his left foot, and the artery was broken, and Gan Weihan immediately fell into blood.
The conditions in the field were extremely harsh, there was no way to suture the arteries, and the only way to stop the bleeding was to amputate the limbs. In the end, Gan Weihan had to accept this cruel reality, and just when the doctor wanted to perform surgery, he fortunately met Peng Xuefeng, the political commissar of the Red 4th Division, which luckily saved Gan Weihan's legs.
At that time, Peng Xuefeng, who was also recuperating in the health team because of his injury, learned the news that Gan Weihan was about to amputate his leg, and he immediately rejected the doctor's suggestion and immediately invited the best doctor from the Army Health Department, Rao Zhengxi. Although the material conditions at that time were extremely simple, under the all-out efforts of Rao Zhengxi, Gan Weihan finally saved his legs.
When Marshal Liu Bocheng had an eye injury and underwent surgery, he was praised as a military god because he did not use anesthetics. In the process of performing the operation, Gan Weihan also did not use anesthetics, and he survived by relying on his strong perseverance. In addition, even if he was seriously injured, Gan Weihan was extremely revolutionary and optimistic.
Later, in a battle, Gan Weihan took the lead in rushing to the front of the line, just at this time, a bullet hit his left lung impartially, and later when the organization sent him to the rear for recuperation, some soldiers were silently crying. Gan Weihan sat on a stretcher and comforted: "Comrades, do not shed tears, we should celebrate our victory with laughter."
Later, Gan Weihan found that the local health conditions were very poor, and the people often got sick, but there was no hospital dedicated to serving the people, so they could only go to the military health center to see a doctor. So Gan Weihan responded to the organization, hoping to build a hospital dedicated to serving the people, and was approved by the superiors, and the local people clapped their hands and praised.
In June 1936, at the age of 28, Gan Weihan served as the political commissar of the Red 29 army, and in August of the same year, Gan Weihan suddenly received a secret telegram from Wayao Fort: Washi was trapped and quickly broke the siege. It was Vice Chairman Zhou Enlai who made the payment.
Deeply aware of the urgency of the military situation, Gan Weihan immediately led his army to ride through the Wayao Fort overnight, and in less than four hours of fighting, successfully repelled the enemy, protected the safety of the CPC Central Committee, and was praised by Zhou Enlai.
However, during the Liberation War, Gan Weihan had a grudge against his old chief, Su Yu. General Su Yu has always been good to his subordinates, and his popularity is excellent, so why does Gan Weihan have an opinion on this old chief?
It turned out that Gan Weihan's team was particularly good at blocking and attacking, and Su Yu, who used soldiers like gods, would naturally arrange tasks according to the strengths of each team, so Su Yu basically sent Gan Weihan's troops to fight and block attacks every time.
Because of the frequent fighting and blocking, so Gan Weihan's troops were very depleted, and the capture was relatively small, watching his brothers who were born and died one by one, Gan Weihan was very unhappy, so he was a little dissatisfied with the old chief. Even so, every time a new blockade task was received, Gan Weihan would still resolutely carry it out without hesitation.
In May 1948, some of the troops of the Ji'nan Military Region and the local armed forces were combined into the 14th Column, with Gan Weihan as the political commissar, who led the army to fight in northern Henan, successively capturing several county towns such as Fengqiu and Qixian, and with the cooperation of other troops, successively capturing Xinxiang, Anyang and other cities, liberating the northern Henan region in one fell swoop.
In November 1950, after the outbreak of the Korean War, Gan Weihan served as the head of the cadre department of the Northeast Military Region, and he worked hard to cooperate with the Korean battlefield and support the Korean War with all his strength.
In 1955, Gan Weihan, who had distinguished himself in battle, was awarded the rank of lieutenant general. After becoming a state cadre, General Gan Weihan did not seek his own welfare, but on the contrary, he paid more attention to serving the people, not only strictly restraining himself, but also strictly restricting his family and relatives. For the rise and fall of family and friends, he always consciously avoids, never abuses his power, and sometimes even reaches the point of impersonality.
In January 1980, Gan Weihan was appointed deputy director of the General Political Department and secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission of the Central Military Commission. In 1982, when the army was streamlined and reorganized, Gan Weihan took the initiative to petition for resignation as deputy director of the General Political Department and secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission of the Central Military Commission, but he did not receive organizational approval.
In 1984, when the country disarmed by 1 million, Gan Weihan once again proposed to withdraw from the leadership position and seriously recommended a replacement candidate, and finally the central government approved his request.
Although he no longer served as a state cadre, in his later years, Gan Weihan still exerted his residual heat and single-mindedly thought about the country. In the winter of 1985, the 76-year-old Gan Weihan returned to his hometown, personally visited 18 cities and counties, traveled 1,800 kilometers, and held more than 70 discussions with cadres and the masses. After returning to Beijing, Gan Weihan immediately wrote an investigation report on what he saw and thought this time and reported it to the central authorities, and put forward several suggestions for the development of the old revolutionary areas.
On April 1, 1986, Gan Weihan died of illness at the age of 78, for the sake of the country and the people, Gan Weihan struggled for more than 60 spring and autumn, which can be said to have been struggling for the people's liberation cause all his life. And it is precisely because of the many revolutionary martyrs like Gan Weihan that we have a happy and stable life today.