There is such a legendary general among the founding generals, who has not had a single scar in the conquest for more than 20 years, and is also one of the founding generals who captured and killed the most generals in the Liberation War. He is the legendary founding lieutenant general, known as the "skinny general" Zhou Xihan.
Lieutenant General Zhou Xihan
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" > brave and tenacious</h1>
In 1934, at the most critical moment of the Red Fourth Front's anti-Sixth Route encirclement and suppression, a Kuomintang unit suddenly broke into the general headquarters of the Red Fourth Front, when there was only one guard platoon in the general headquarters, and at the first moment of the attack, Zhou Xihan led a reinforced company to repulse the enemy's attack, Zhou Xihan rushed to the front of the line with a light machine gun in his hand, and fought with the enemy with bayonets, rolling and fighting with the enemy to engage in hand-to-hand combat. Protect the security of the General Command.
It is reasonable to say that Zhou Xihan should be commended for his miraculous feats in this battle, but Zhou Xihan was punished. The reason is that some people reported that Zhou Xihan had seized enemy weapons and had not truthfully handed them over, and there were false reports; more importantly, some people reported that Zhou Xihan was from the origin of a rich peasant landlord, and in order to prove his innocence, he immediately returned to his hometown to open an identity certificate with the local village committee to prove that he was from a poor peasant background.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="8" > Zhou Xihan left his bride on his wedding night to find the Red Army</h1>
As soon as Zhou Xihan returned to his hometown, his father immediately gave Zhou Xihan a family affair, and the bride was a few years older than Zhou Xihan in a neighboring village, and her appearance was OKAY, but Zhou Xihan had not yet put his mind on marriage at that time, and he wanted to make a revolution and make a career. Therefore, after obtaining the identity certificate of "poor peasant", he ran away from marriage on the wedding night and left the bride to return to the Red Army.
After going back, Zhou Xihan had a more arrogant personality, and it was easy to inadvertently offend his superiors and offend people, so he was punished by the superior department to help the cook in the cooking class, and Zhou Xihan had no second words and worked hard in the cooking class. At noon after an autumn rain and a cold, a tall and thin man came to the cooking class to find food:
Comrade brother, do you still have food?
Zhou Xihan said without looking back while chopping wood: There are two sweet potatoes in the pot that you can get yourself.
The man stepped forward and said, "Sheehan, how are you?!"
Zhou Xihan looked up and saw that it was Xu Xiangqian's commander-in-chief, and told Xu about his encounter.
Marshal Xu Qianqian
Xu Xiangqian said: They are simply playing the piano, you are a waste of talent in the cooking class, and I will be my clerk in the future. For Zhou Xihan, Marshal Xu Qianqian can be said to be a noble man in his life, and during the Cultural Revolution, if Xu Shuai did not save Zhou Xihan at a critical moment, then his life is likely to come to an end, which is of course an afterthought.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="22" > almost killed by his comrades</h1>
When crossing the Jialing River, the enemy suddenly came out from behind the Red Army, and at the critical moment, Zhou Xihan stepped forward to lead the headquarters guard company to repel the enemy's attack, and at the critical moment he and the soldiers lit the dead tree trunks and leaves with torches, and repelled the enemy's attack with "fire attack".
However, due to Zhang Guotao's wrong command, the Red Fourth Front army was defeated again and again. In the process of retreating, he once again complained about Zhang Guotao:
Chairman Zhang blindly commanded that in the face of the enemy's heavy troops, he should lure the enemy to go deeper, first cut off one finger, and then break it each other, so as to be the best policy, but Chairman Zhang wanted to divide the troops and refuse, so that he could not be defeated?
Zhang Guotao
But he did not expect this word to reach Zhang Guotao's ears, and Zhang Guotao was furious. Just at this time, Zhou Xihan arranged for Zhang Guotao's camp during the march to be almost blown up by a bomb dropped by an enemy plane. Zhang Guotao thought that Zhou Xihan was deliberately harming him.
He ordered someone to arrest Zhou Xihan and torture Zhou Xihan, asking Zhou Xihan to "confess" who was behind the scenes. Zhou Xihan laughed and said:
Communists are bright and upright, and one person does things and one person does it!
Those people saw that Zhou Xihan was slow to open his mouth and actually poured pepper water on his comrade, Zhou Xihan, which was simply ridiculous and hateful, but Zhou Xihan always maintained a firm and indomitable will. They had no choice but to take Zhou Xihan to a remote place by the river, ready to shoot Zhou Xihan.
Just as they raised their guns to prepare to shoot Zhou Xihan, Zhou Xihan shouted into the sky:
Impress the Kuomintang reactionaries, long live the Red Army.
It happened to be overheard by Commander Xu who was passing by the river, and Xu Shuai came over to see that they were going to shoot Zhou Xihan, which was very incredible, so he once again saved Zhou Xihan under the gun.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="39" > Zhou Xihan cleverly covered the breakthrough of the headquarters organs</h1>
Chen Geng and Zhou Xihan captured Japanese uniforms on the battlefield
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhou Xihan served as the chief of staff of the 386 Brigade, and was with Chen Geng and Wang Xinting, Chen Geng once joked: The 386 Brigade is a three-son unit, I have a serious leg injury, equivalent to a cripple, the director of the Political Department Wang Xinting is highly myopic, we call it blind, chief of staff Zhou Xihan is too thin, skinny and skinny, known as thin, so our 386 brigade is a three-son unit.
Although Zhou Xihan is relatively thin, he is a good hand in fighting, known as "Zhao Zilong". Once, when the Japanese sweeping troops suddenly broke into the hinterland of the base area, and 1500 meters further ahead was the command organ of the Eighth Route Army, when the situation was extremely critical, Liu Bocheng, commander of the 129th Division, suddenly remembered Zhou Xihan, who was stationed near the headquarters, and Liu Bocheng asked Zhou Xihan to do whatever it took to protect the safety of the head of the headquarters. Liu Bocheng said with a sigh of relief: This is good, the head of the headquarters has Zhao Zilong (referring to Zhou Xihan) escorted.
Zhou Xihan heard the order and personally carried a machine gun to cover the breakthrough of the head of the headquarters, in the process of covering the head of the headquarters, he originally spent the night at the mouth of a village, Zhou Xihan had a habit of personally checking the sentry every time he went to a place, on this day he found that there were people smoking in front of him in the process of checking the sentry, and he saw the light emitted from the steel helmets of the Japanese army through the faint fire of the cigarette butt. He immediately ordered one battalion to make a surprise attack on the japanese in ambush to disrupt the Japanese attack, and the other battalion to cover the transfer of the headquarters in time.
Zhou Xihan
At the mouth of the transfer village, he ordered the soldiers to turn on the radio and clearly disturb the enemy's line of sight with the radio, the enemy was indeed deceived, the enemy seemed to repeat a place name in Japanese in the radio, the enemy did send planes to bomb Zhou Xihan and their hidden next door village, just when everyone was still in Zhou Xihan's chief of staff, Zhou Xihan ordered everyone to immediately move to the mountainous area, and sure enough, the Japanese planes flew back to bomb Zhou Xihan's originally hidden village entrance, if it were not for Zhou Xihan in time to ask the troops to transfer, the consequences would be unimaginable. It turned out that he was keenly aware that the Japanese planes would definitely return to bomb the village entrance where they were when they bombed the village mouth next to them without success. Many years later, when the old general Zhou Xihan recalled this scene, he said: It was battlefield experience that made him do this.
In the face of the Japanese army's mad dog-like approach, Zhou Xihan frowned, and he had a plan to simply use the method of encircling Wei to save Zhao and send heavy troops and guerrillas to attack the important strongholds of the Japanese army, so that the Japanese army did withdraw to relieve the siege of the important strongholds, and Zhou Xihan covered the smooth breakthrough of the headquarters organs.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="49" > Zhou Xihan's legendary marriage</h1>
Group photo of General Zhou Xihan and his wife
Although General Zhou Xihan was mighty on the battlefield, his marriage was not emotionally smooth, and if it were not for Chen Geng's introduction, he might have missed his wife Zhou Xuan! What's going on here? In a literary and art performance, Zhou Xihan took a fancy to zhou Xuan, a female soldier in literature and art, and Zhou Xuan also had a good impression of the young general, thinking that General Zhou Xihan was a hero, and it was not false that beautiful women loved heroes since ancient times. But the general was emotionally ashamed to express it.
All this was seen by Chen Geng in his eyes and anxious in his heart, calling Zhou Xihan and Zhou Xuan by his side, and said with a smile:
I see that you two men and women can marry a revolutionary couple.
Zhou Xuan blushed and said:
Chief, although I admire chief of staff of the week, but getting married requires a lot of preparation, and I am not ready.
Chen Geng said with a smile: Revolutionary couples are not so particular, eating some delicious meat and meat is even if they get married.
General Zhou Xihan (film stills)
Under the mediation of Chen Geng, Zhou Xihan and Zhou Xuan married, on the night of the new marriage, Zhou Xuan revealed in his words that he did not want to get married, Zhou Xihan said: Well, we are good to get together and disperse, I will not force you, in a few days I will send you back to the army, I Zhou Xihan will not be strong.
On the night of the wedding, the two couples slept like a passerby. In the literary and art team, Zhou Xuan heard more and more stories of Zhou Xihan, felt that her husband was a sentient and righteous person, and even more a hero, and realized that he was married to the right person. Still under the conditioning of Chen Geng and his wife, the two married a loving couple.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="63" > In the Liberation War, Huang Zhengcheng was fighting</h1>
Before the battle began, Zhou Xihan mobilized the troops
In the Liberation War, in order to cooperate with Liu Deng's army, Chen Geng's column went out of the jin dynasty to the northwest of southern Henan and involved Hu Zongnan and Yan Xishan, and At this time Zhou Xihan was the brigade commander of the 10th brigade of Chen Geng's column. After a military conference, Chen Geng deliberately left Zhou Xihan behind and gave Zhou Xihan a pack of good cigarettes:
XiHan, my old classmate (referring to Hu Zongnan) in Jinnan to open his elite troops of tens of thousands of people, enough to look up to me, I plan to choose a way to annihilate it with superior troops, Xihan in your opinion should be on that road first?
Zhou Xihan took a puff of his cigarette and looked at Chen Geng and said with a smile: Why would the commander ask me again if he was so confident? Chen Geng smiled and said, "I want to hear your opinion." Zhou Xihan said without hurry:
Neither the 27th Brigade nor the 167th Brigade had the purpose of mobilizing Hu Zongnan's main forces, and only by attacking the First Brigade of the First Army of Huang Zhengcheng's First Army, and only by inflicting pain on this Tianxia Brigade, would the situation on the battlefield be fundamentally changed.
Chen Geng shook Zhou Xihan's hand with admiring eyes: "Those who know me, Xihan also, I want to have a hard encounter with my old Huangpu classmate Hu Zongnan this time, Xihan, do you dare to touch Huang Zhengcheng?" Zhou Xihan immediately stood up and said: "What's not to dare?"
Zhou Xihan and Chen Geng discussed using "encirclement points to fight for help" against Huang Zhengcheng, and first ordered Li Chengfang to attack Huang Zhengcheng's first regiment, and Huang Zhengcheng did indeed lead the main force to lead the main force of the brigade to relieve the siege of his first regiment. On the way from Huang Zhengcheng, Zhou Xihan led 3 regiments to punch and charge hard, catching Huang Zhengcheng by surprise. Huang Zhengcheng's brigade was worthy of being the first brigade in the world, relying on the firepower that occupied an absolute advantage, it quickly withstood the attack of Zhou Xihan's 3 regiments, and the battle was deadlocked for a while. If we cannot attack for a long time, and when Huang Zhengcheng slows down and comes with enemy reinforcements, then our army will fall into a passive situation.
Zhou Xihan immediately mobilized and deployed, and a regiment of men and horses continued to attack in the front, pinning down the enemy's firepower, and using the strength of two regiments to take advantage of the cover of night to detour back to the enemy's depths and make a fierce insertion, especially to destroy Huang Zhengcheng's headquarters, Zhou Xihan personally led the guard company to follow the troops like a sharp knife to the enemy's depth, Huang Zhengcheng was completely blinded by Zhou Xihan's sudden change in the battlefield, and soon his command was also taken down by Zhou Xihan's commando team.
General Zhou Xihan embraced his daughter and smiled like a father
After Huang Zhengcheng was captured, he looked unconvinced, saying that Chen Geng Zhou Xihan did not follow the general military routine and actually relied on some "crooked doors and evil ways" on the battlefield to win victory.
Zhou Xihan laughed and said:
Where in the world there is a war that relies on military discipline, it is a good method of war to win a war and destroy the enemy. Huang Zhengcheng was still full of disbelief after listening.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="81" > used Kangdao tactics to drag down the Huang Wei Corps</h1>
In order to conquer the outer defense line of the Huang Wei Corps, the Zhou Xihan Brigade paid a huge sacrifice, the Huang Wei Corps broke through to the defense line where the Zhou Xihan Brigade was located by virtue of its firepower and powerful mobile armor capabilities, and with the help of aircraft artillery and tank armor, frantically launched a group offensive to carry out a crazy counterattack against the People's Liberation Army, resulting in Zhou Xihan's 9 battalion commanders changing twice in 3 days, and the casualties of officers and men were even greater.
At the most critical moment of the battle, Zhou Xihan personally took up a submachine gun and led the brigade staff and cooks to block the enemy in the trenches. Suddenly, Chen Geng called and asked Zhou Xihan: Xihan How many casualties have been suffered by your troops.
Zhou Xihan (first from left) accompanied Navy Commander Xiao Jinguang on an inspection of the Navy's important ports
Zhou Xihan replied: More than 2,000 people
Chen Geng laughed on the phone:
Don't lie to me, Zhou Xihan, I can hear from your gunshots that your brigade suffered huge casualties, and you still can't stand it, and after the war, how many casualties of your brigade will be replenished to your brigade!
Commander, I Zhou Xihan have no other ability, only one person in our brigade is there, and the enemy does not want to attack.
Good look, Sheehan.
Commander, I have another ten brigades in the ten brigades left behind and in the rear barracks, with thousands of men and horses left. I just want the commander to invite me for a drink after the war.
Good you weekly skinny man, really have yours!
Later, when attacking Huang Wei, Zhou Xihan took a telescope and said: Lao Tzu invented the "Underground Great Wall" to trap Huang Wei, the so-called Underground Great Wall is to dig trenches under the eyes of the Huang Wei Corps, and dig into the core position of the Huang Wei Corps through the continuous trenches, just like a giant dragon entangling the Huang Wei Corps. Let the enemy be unable to move, step by step to the enemy's core position, cut off its grain routes, and disintegrate the enemy's peripheral positions. Even overnight, artillery positions were set up, and various types of artillery were concentrated to launch an early attack on the Huang Wei Corps. Huang Wei saw that the reinforcements were delayed and could only break through in tanks, but unfortunately he was eventually captured by the People's Liberation Army.
According to statistics, during the Liberation War, Zhou Xihan directly commanded the troops to kill and capture a total of 64 officers of the Kuomintang general rank, including 7 officers with the rank of lieutenant general of the enemy, becoming one of the founding lieutenant generals with the largest number of captured Kuomintang generals.
After the founding of New China, Zhou Xihan became the deputy commander-in-chief of the Navy and devoted half his life to building a strong Chinese navy.
General Zhou Xihan said in his later years:
Although Huang Wei was not captured by me, huang Wei's corps was crushed by my troops.
The general loved to smoke all his life, once invented the "squat pit smoking method" on the battlefield, in order not to let the enemy see the fire of the cigarette butt, deliberately squat in the pit to smoke, but also with a quilt or basket to cover the upper body, so that the enemy can not see the fire. In his later years, in order to reduce the frequency of smoking, the general used scissors to cut a cigarette after smoking a cigarette, recycling, and a cigarette could be smoked for a long time.
In 1988, General Zhou Xihan died of illness and completed his legendary life at the age of 75!