In the course of participating in the revolution, the great leader Chairman Mao often went to the front line in person, and on several occasions he was in danger, but fortunately he was saved by others, and on one occasion he was in danger.
One day in the winter of 1932, Chairman Mao was conducting a field investigation in Gannan when he was unfortunately discovered by the local reactionary vigilante group and immediately fell under the siege of the enemy.
Just as the first shot was struck, the captain of a vanguard of the Red Army rushed in alone, only to see him personally block chairman Mao's body to cover his retreat, and finally successfully escaped the enemy's pursuit.
Chairman Mao
After the war was raging and after several turns, the captain was assigned to Hubei to participate in the work after the founding of the People's Republic of China and lived an ordinary life.
In September 1957, Chairman Mao went to Hubei to inspect the local economic construction, and when Chairman Mao just got off the train, he suddenly remembered the captain who had saved him in the past, and immediately asked the leaders of his entourage about his living conditions.
A few days later, the leader found the man that Chairman Mao had said, found that he had not been in a very good situation recently, and quickly told the chairman about the situation.
So, who is this Red Army captain? How did he rescue the chairman from the enemy siege? How should Chairman Mao repay this former benefactor after hearing what happened to him?
Wang Shengrong
The captain of the Red Army was Wang Shengrong, and the thrilling scene of that year should be told from when he joined the revolutionary contingent.
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Wang Shengrong, born in 1907 in a poor working-class family outside Hanyang Gate in Wuchang District, was often hungry when he was young due to his poor family.
Because the family really could not afford to raise this child, when Wang Shengrong was 13 years old, his father asked his relatives to send him to a textile factory in Shanghai to work as a child laborer and let him earn a living for himself.
Just a year later, the Communist Party of China was founded, and within a few years Shanghai became the gathering place of the workers' movement, and Wang Shengrong immediately joined it, and by chance Wang Shengrong met Xiang Ying, a member of our party, and successfully joined the Communist Youth League in 1926 under his introduction.
Xiang Ying
Wang Shengrong, who had lived in a workers' family since childhood, was deeply touched by the exploitation of the capitalists, so he charged forward in every workers' movement, because of his positive performance and high revolutionary enthusiasm, he successfully joined the Communist Party of China after a year of organizational review without problems.
In May 1927, Wang Shengrong went to Wuhan to work as an underground traffic officer under the instructions of the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, and after Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei defected one after another, the Great Revolution was completely defeated, and the right-leaning capitulationist spirit that spread within the Party completely lost its effectiveness.
In order to change the decline and save the Chinese revolution, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held an enlarged meeting of the Politburo (87) in Hankou, Wuhan, on August 7, 1927, to discuss the next military arrangements of our party.
Wang Shengrong was in Hankou at this time, and organizationally considering his outstanding work ability, he was put in charge of the organization and defense of the "Eighty-Seven Conference."
The 87th Session of the Communist Party of China issued a letter to all Party members
It was also during this meeting that Wang Shengrong met Chairman Mao for the first time, and the two also had some exchanges, and Chairman Mao's talking left a deep impression on Wang Shengrong.
After the conference, in order to preserve the living forces of the revolution and cultivate revolutionary talents, Wang Shengrong, who was only 20 years old, was sent to the Soviet Union for further study, and after three years of study, he returned to China and served as deputy secretary of the Shanghai Huxi District Youth League Committee.
Chairman Mao, on the other hand, went to Xianggan to launch the Autumn Harvest Uprising after the Eighty-Seventh Conference, and then led the remaining Red Army fighters to establish the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Base Area, and shortly after meeting with Zhu De, in the face of the pressure of the enemy's heavy encirclement, he took the initiative to withdraw from Jinggangshan and establish a new revolutionary base area in the western Fujian area of Southern Gan.
In 1931, in order to call on the vast number of young people in the base area to join the army and defend the Soviet area, the Central Soviet District established the Young Pioneer Corps, and Wang Shengrong was immediately transferred to Jiangxi as the captain of the general brigade.
After the Fourth Plenary Session of the Sixth CENTRAL Committee of the Communist Party of China, Wang Ming grasped the supreme leadership of our party, during which time he changed chen Duxiu's right-leaning conservative line in the past and turned to vigorously promoting left-leaning adventurism, which caused great difficulties in the work of our party.
Wang Ming
In the winter of 1932, Chairman Mao was ostracized by Wang Ming's line, deprived of his leadership over the Red Army, and went to the Gannan region for a field investigation.
At the end of the year, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was to hold a meeting in Ruijin, and Chairman Mao, who was chairman of the Provisional Government of the Chinese Soviet, also wanted to attend, so Wang Shengrong was ordered to lead a platoon of fighters to Gannan to receive Chairman Mao to the north.
Although Chairman Mao did not stay in Gannan for a long time, he did not idle for a moment; as soon as he arrived, he had extensive contacts with the masses, carried out a production campaign with the peasants, actively listened to the suggestions and ideas of the local fighters, and formulated a rational plan for the next stage of the anti-encirclement and suppression struggle.
However, one afternoon, a regimental member of the local militia came to report that mao zedong had been found in a nearby village, and the regimental general was overjoyed when he heard it.
Vigilante groups
Because in the eyes of the Kuomintang reactionaries, Mao Zedong was a serious problem for their confidants, in order to find his traces, they did not hesitate to offer a heavy reward, and just two years ago they arrested Chairman Mao's wife Yang Kaihui and forced her to tell the whereabouts of Mao Zedong, and heroically sacrificed comrade Yang Kaihui for Gu Dayi.
Of course, the regimental commander would not give up this excellent opportunity to be promoted to a higher rank and make a fortune, and immediately selected more than a dozen regimental soldiers with good marksmanship, and equipped them with sufficient ammunition.
Chairman Mao was writing an inspection report in the house, and there were only a few soldiers in charge of guarding the door standing guard.
After inspecting the weapons and equipment, the militia group set off, and before leaving, the regimental commander asked people to go and inform the local Kuomintang regular troops, in order to enjoy the credit alone.
It did not take long for the reactionary vigilante group to touch the entrance of the village, and Chairman Mao felt that something was not quite right in writing the report, because the village was unusually quiet at this time, not even the sound of dogs barking, and with the experience of many years of struggle, he had a bad premonition.
Fearing that something would change if it was too late, Chairman Mao decided to move immediately, and immediately walked out of the courtyard under the cover of guards and fighters.
But as soon as he reached the street, he made contact with the reactionary vigilante group, and immediately engaged in a fierce exchange of fire, because there were only a few people on Chairman Mao's side, and they were outnumbered, so they fought and retreated, and broke through in the opposite direction.
However, the enemy had already sealed all the exits, only to see a few regimental members appear behind Chairman Mao, who was facing the test of life and death at any time, and the situation was extremely critical.
Just at this moment, Wang Shengrong took the lead in rushing out from behind Tuanding, and when he saw that they were preparing to shoot in the direction of Chairman Mao with their guns, Wang Shengrong immediately shouted loudly, attracting them to turn their heads, and then a barrage of bullets destroyed the enemy in front of them.
It turned out that when Wang Shengrong led a platoon of fighters to a place not far from the village, he suddenly heard the sound of gunfire coming from the village, and Wang Shengrong knew that Chairman Mao was in the village, and immediately ordered the team to advance quickly, while he himself rushed over quickly.
Wang Shengrong recognized Chairman Mao at a glance, quickly walked to his side and said to him: "Chairman Mao, I am late, let's go quickly." ”
Although Chairman Mao was often able to calm down in the face of danger, he was still shocked into a cold sweat in the face of such a desperate situation, and he saw Wang Shengrong, who had rushed to support him, and said to him cordially: "Comrade Xiao Wang, if you had not come this time, I would have confessed here." ”
Subsequently, Wang Shengrong covered Chairman Mao's evacuation in another direction, and in order to ensure Chairman Mao's safety, he always stood in front of Chairman Mao and risked his life to protect Chairman Mao.
Because the vigilante group only came a dozen people, with the arrival of the platoon of fighters, Chairman Mao and Wang Shengrong and their party rushed out of the encirclement not long after.
But the problem came again, because Chairman Mao was a little unwell at that time, and he fell to the ground not long after walking, and he really couldn't walk, and Wang Shengrong, who was beside him, was very anxious, first sending a soldier to quickly go to the nearby troops to seek support, and then without saying a word, he put Chairman Mao on his back and slowly advanced.
When the team reached a place not far from Ruijin, the medical team finally rushed over, and Wang Shengrong and several soldiers carefully lifted Chairman Mao up and put him on the stretcher, and then dragged him back to Ruijin safely.
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Soon after Wang Shengrong took back Chairman Mao, he accepted an extremely difficult task, and before that, many comrades had gone on for this task.
In January 1933, forced by the white terror of the Kuomintang reactionaries in Shanghai, the Provisional Central Committee of the Communist Party of China moved from Shanghai to a relatively safe Soviet area, leaving Chen Yun, Yang Shangkun and other comrades to form the Shanghai Bureau of the Communist Party of China to continue to lurk.
Chen yun
Because the Kuomintang reactionaries were very close to Shanghai, Chen Yun and other comrades could not get economic support from the outside world, faced great pressure in life, and could not carry out their work.
The central authorities successively sent two groups of more than a dozen fighters to Shanghai with money in different routes, but they either ran away with the money or lost their tracks, and after more than a month, none of the money could be smoothly delivered to Chen Yun and others.
However, considering that the comrades of the Shanghai Bureau were indeed very difficult, for the sake of work needs, the Central Committee decided to send money to Shanghai again, but at this time the Central Committee was already stretched, but at this time the Red Army conquered Zhangzhou and captured thirty thousand US dollars.
Therefore, Zhou Enlai and Ren Bishi personally selected the personnel sent to Shanghai, and Wang Shengrong happened to be a Shanghainese, and he was an old Communist Party member, and after some thought, he decided to let him carry out this task.
Zhou Enlai
After receiving the order, Wang Shengrong knew what this money meant to the comrades of the Central Committee and the Shanghai Bureau, and did not dare to slack off at all, and for security reasons, he sealed the suitcase containing the money with nails to express his determination that "the box is in the money."
After half a month of hard work, Wang Shengrong successfully arrived in Shanghai, personally handed over the money to Chen Yun, and was praised by the organization, and soon after, Wang Shengrong returned to the Soviet area.
After that, Wang Shengrong followed the Red Army on the Long March, and soon after the end of the Long March, he received a love in Yan'an.
The Red Army lost a number of elite cadres because of the Long March, and there were some experienced young people in the cultural and labor corps at that time, and in order to supplement the talents of the central authorities, the organization sent Wang Shengrong to preside over the work of collecting and selecting them.
After the Long March, all units of the Red Army held grand celebrations, and even Chairman Mao wrote a poem "Seven Laws: The Long March" to express the joy after the victory.
Manuscript of the Seven Laws and the Long March
Wang Shengrong also met a female warrior Zhao Mingzhen who could sing and dance at a performance activity of the Cultural and Labor Troupe, and the two met and hated each other late, and soon after receiving the approval of the organization, they married each other and accompanied them until they were old.
Wang Shengrong not only has strong work ability, but also maintains an excellent character in the style of life, when he was in Yan'an, the family often did not eat enough, sometimes even once a year could not eat meat, after having children, in order to survive, he often borrowed money from colleagues, and maintained this hard-working quality until the last moment of life.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Wang Shengrong left Yan'an under the arrangement of the central authorities and went to the anti-Japanese front to carry out work, when he came to the troops of the New Fourth Army.
After coming here, Wang Shengrong actively carried out the work of reorganizing and calling on the masses and the soldiers who had withdrawn from the frontal battlefield, and in eight years, the troops of the New Fourth Army expanded the strength of nearly one division with the direct or indirect participation of Wang Shengrong.
Soldiers of the New Fourth Army
On the eve of the Liberation War, Wang Shengrong was again transferred to the northeast to participate in the work, but it was during the northeast period that his revolutionary career of charging into the front came to an end because of an inconspicuous and trivial matter.
It was one day in the winter of 1946, Wang Shengrong was making a report at a conference, when he suddenly heard a "bang", only to see that a bullet was penetrated in his left leg and calf, and the whole person fell to the ground in an instant, and the scene was chaotic.
Because of excessive bleeding, Wang Shengrong's entire left leg was forced to be amputated, and many leaders from the northeast came to visit afterwards, and the central authorities strictly ordered personnel to find out the murderer.
I thought it was a cold gun released by a Kuomintang agent, but no one thought that it was no one else who shot it, but Xiao Li, a guard who had followed Wang Shengrong for many years, who was wiping the newly captured gun downstairs, and when he didn't pay attention, he went off the fire...
When the investigators were about to take Xiao Li to the central government for trial, Wang Shengrong, who was lying on the bed, knew the origin of the matter and immediately said: "He is also unintentional, you let him go." ”
Doctors are having surgery
After that, because of his lifelong disability, Wang Shengrong could no longer go to serve in the army, and could only participate in some relatively easy work in the rear until the end of the war.
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After the founding of New China, Wang Shengrong successively served as vice minister of heavy industry and vice minister of industry in central and southern China for a period of time.
Not long after, Wang Shengrong fell ill, and the central government, considering his health, decided to let him return to his hometown in Hubei to recuperate, and after Wang Shengrong recovered, he was arranged to serve as deputy director of the Zhongnan Construction Engineering Bureau.
Although Wang Shengrong only served as a deputy director at this time, he did not have any dissatisfaction at all, and after taking office, he still carried out his work with full enthusiasm, and took the initiative to conceal his achievements and positions from his superiors and colleagues in that year.
In September 1957, Chairman Mao personally went to Hunan to inspect the local economic construction, and as soon as he got off the train, he remembered Wang Shengrong, who had saved him, and when he heard that Wang Shengrong was recuperating in Hubei a few years ago, he wanted to greet him.
Therefore, Chairman Mao asked Wang Renzhong, secretary of the Hubei Provincial CPC Committee, who was accompanying him: "How has Comrade Wang Shengrong been doing lately?" Is his illness getting better? ”
Wang Renzhong had also just taken office, but he knew all the provincial and ministerial-level cadres in Hubei well, and he knew all the people who were slightly famous, but none of these people was named Wang Shengrong, and he asked the chairman with a puzzled face: "Chairman, the Wang Shengrong you are talking about is ..."
Wang Renzhong
Chairman Mao was also very confused at this time, because he clearly remembered that Wang Shengrong was a deputy ministerial cadre in the central government before he left his post and went home to recuperate, and it is reasonable to say that a provincial governor should not not know him.
Chairman Mao was a little angry, and he said a little loudly: "Wang Shengrong saved my life in the past, and you must find him." ”
Wang Renzhong was shocked into a cold sweat after hearing this, he did not dare to be sloppy, and immediately asked the secretary Wang Liang to arrange for people to find wang Shengrong's whereabouts in the province, and a few days later, Wang Liang finally found Wang Shengrong who was working in a rolling mill.
A factory at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of
It turned out that after Wang Shengrong went to work in the factory, he found that the iron nails and wire used for construction were almost completely dependent on imports from abroad, and Wang Shengrong, who had always been unwilling to accept defeat, felt that this kind of small object should be produced by the state itself.
Therefore, an idea of establishing a rolling mill to produce domestic iron nails and wires arose in Wang Shengrong's mind, and the older generation of revolutionaries, out of love for the country, often had extremely high efficiency and execution, and he immediately wrote to Wang Daohan asking him for equipment and technical assistance.
After receiving the letter, Wang Daohan agreed with his idea, so he contacted a group of technicians to carry the equipment to Wuhan, and when Wang Liang met Wang Shengrong, he was preparing for the construction of the rolling mill.
Wang Daohan
Wang Liang hurriedly told Wang Renzhong the news of finding Wang Shengrong, and after Wang Renzhong heard that he had found it, a hanging heart finally let go, and he quickly ran to Chairman Mao's residence to tell the chairman about it.
When Chairman Mao heard that his former benefactor, the former vice minister, had taken up the post of deputy director of a district in a small rolling mill, he was very unhappy in his heart.
In order to appoint talents and repay his kindness, Chairman Mao immediately instructed Wang Renzhong: "Arrange Wang Shengrong to be the director of the Hubei Provincial Metallurgical Department and enjoy the treatment of a vice-provincial level."
In this way, Wang Shengrong went to the Metallurgical Department to take up a post, and before leaving, he repeatedly instructed those workers who had worked with him to "build the rolling mill well, and we must build our own iron nails and wires."
Later, when Wang Shengrong learned by chance that Chairman Mao had made him the director of the department, he shed tears of excitement at that time, because he knew that the party and the state had not forgotten him, and Chairman Mao had not forgotten him.
In 1979, after Wang Shengrong left his retirement, the central government, in order to commend him for his outstanding contributions to China's revolution and construction, let him enjoy the treatment of provincial cadres.
Wang Shengrong is not idle, although he is more than a year old, he still goes to some local colleges and universities and educational institutions to tell the story of the revolution for the young generation of the motherland, and also tells everyone not to forget the original intention, to always love their country.
On September 1, 2006, Wang Shengrong died in Wuhan at the age of 99 due to ineffective rescue.