Wang Hongkun was a famous founding general, a fierce general under Lin Biao, who was born from the jute uprising and joined the Chinese Red Army in 1929, but was swept to the end in 1976.
Wang Hongkun from the poor peasant children to China's founding general, his life can be described as ups and downs, twists and turns, he is not only the founding general Wang Shusheng's cousin, but also one of the earliest founders of China's navy.
Wang Hongkun
As the saying goes, "Fight the tiger brothers, fight the father and son soldiers", Wang Hongkun and Wang Shusheng, the two brothers, were extremely brave and fierce on the battlefield, and the enemy army was bitter.
Before joining the Red Army, there was also an interesting incident between them, Wang Hongkun when he was still young, he involuntarily entered Bai Chongxi's Gui clan miscellaneous army, but because of the heavy shadow in his childhood, he especially hated warlords, so when he learned of Wang Shusheng's heroic deeds, Wang Hongkun made a bold decision, he first left Bai Chongxi's miscellaneous army, and then disguised himself as a trader to find Wang Shusheng, but because of his strange dress, he was considered by the leaders to be here to investigate, and was arrested as a prisoner.
Wang Hongkun saw that things were not good, desperately shouted up, shouting alarmed Wang Shusheng, he felt that this voice was very familiar, rushed to check to solve the misunderstanding, until later the two people were in a high position, this misunderstanding was still regarded as their fun talk, and Wang Hongkun also joined the Red Army at this time.
Wang Shusheng and Wang Hongkun
After Wang Hongkun joined the Red Army, he participated in the anti-"encirclement and suppression" battles four times, gradually emerged on the battlefield, and even participated in the 25,000-mile Long March of the Red Army, making outstanding battle achievements.
In this campaign, Wang Hongkun served as the commander of the Tenth Division of the main offensive force, fighting with Chiang Kai-shek for 48 days on the battlefield, annihilating more than 30,000 people of Chiang Kai-shek's army, and finally achieving the largest victory in the Soviet zone, which became a classic encirclement point in history.
When the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out in 1937, Wang Hongkun took the lead and commanded the troops to bravely rush to the forefront; he not only participated in the struggle to create the anti-Japanese base area in southern Hebei and accumulated rich experience for China's plain warfare, but also killed more than 1,400 enemy troops and captured a large amount of equipment to enrich himself at the cost of injuring 240 people in the Shentouling ambush battle.
While effectively supporting the brother troops, this battle also dealt a blow to the arrogance of the Japanese Kou, and the 386 Brigade of the brother unit Chen Geng once became a nightmare for the Japanese army, making the Japanese army hate the 386 Brigade to the bone on the anti-Japanese battlefield and helpless.
In the Battle of Linnan, Wang Hongkun followed his brother troops in a bloody battle with the Japanese puppet army for 9 days and nights, annihilating more than 7,000 Japanese puppet troops and liberating an important area with a population of more than 400,000 people south of Linxian county and north of Huixian County.
In 1940, Wang Hongkun led his troops to participate in the largest and longest-lasting Hundred Regiments War, looking at the entire War of Resistance Against Japan, Wang Hongkun was brave and good at fighting on the battlefield, bravely moving forward, and the Japanese army died under him countless souls, making indelible contributions to the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan.
During the Liberation War, Wang Hongkun closely followed in the footsteps of Liu Deng's army, not only leading by example in the campaign to cross the Yellow River and breaking Chiang Kai-shek's replacement plan, but also making great contributions to advancing into the Dabie Mountains and completing the great turning point of history.
Because under the circumstances at that time, if our army could not reach Dabie Mountain, or could not gain a foothold in Dabie Mountain, then Liu Deng's army might disappear into the long river of history, and the future of New China is unknown, so advancing into Dabie Mountain is not only the significance of a strategic turning point, but also a great victory in building New China.
Later, Wang Hongkun participated in countless famous battles of all sizes, and he and the troops he led were a very powerful force in the Liberation War, and they needed to go where they wanted.
In the three major battles, Wang Hongkun, under the command of Lin Biao, was invincible and invincible, and he also won the title of "General of Constant Victory".
In the Huaihai Campaign, in which the People's Liberation Army sacrificed the most and annihilated the largest number of enemies, Wang Hongkun was a strong force in the rear of the entire army, and he stayed in the Central Plains with his cousin Wang Shusheng and actively cooperated with the main force to carry out a strategic attack on the Nationalist army.
The entire Huaihai Campaign lasted more than two months, at the cost of more than 134,000 casualties, annihilated more than 555,000 Nationalist troops, the end of this war was seriously injured by the Nationalist personnel, is about to collapse, our army successfully liberated most of China, laying a good foundation for our army to cross the river.
It is said that later, the United States Military Academy at West Point came to the old site of the Huaihai Battlefield to conduct field investigations, and the only evaluation was "incredible", they were shocked by everything in front of them, and they were impressed by the Chinese army.
After the Battle of Huaihai, Wang Hongkun also participated in the famous Battle of Crossing the River, defeating the two major groups of Tang Enbo and Bai Chongxi, and could only abscond in a daze, completely destroying the Yangtze River defense line of the Nationalist army, and successfully liberating Nanjing, Hangzhou, nanchang, and other places, which was a great progress toward victory in the whole country.
Wang Hongkun made a lot of contributions in the Liberation War, so he was sent to carry out the great construction of the Chinese Navy, he followed General Xiao Jinguang to work hard to cultivate many excellent navies for the country, brave and good at war, it can be said that he made outstanding contributions to the construction and development of the people's navy, so after the founding of New China, he was not only awarded the rank of general, but also made him deputy commander of the navy.
It is a pity that Wang Hongkun blindly worshipped Lin Biao in his later years and made indelible and serious mistakes with him; during that special period, Wang Hongkun, Li Zuopeng, and others were typical representatives, and they did a lot of harm to China's outstanding progressives, and even caused many people to lose their lives.
It is such a person who has made a lot of contributions to the country, but in his old age blinded his eyes, a heroic name fell into the dust, fortunately, he woke up in time to the cliff, took the initiative to review his mistakes, so he was saved a life, cut off all his positions and idle at home, died of illness in 1993 at the age of 85.
General Wang Hongkun has made many meritorious achievements and made many mistakes in his lifetime, and every stroke has been engraved in the history books, and he is just and just, and right and wrong have been discussed and evaluated by posterity.