When it comes to the Red Army in northern Shaanxi, everyone knows the famous Liu Zhidan and Xie Zichang, in fact, there is another person in northern Shaanxi who was once equally famous with Liu Zhidan, that is, Wang Zhaoxiang, the founding major general.
Wang Zhaoxiang was born in 1909 in Shenmu County, Shaanxi, Shenmu was called Linzhou in the Northern Song Dynasty, the famous Yang family will be ancestral home is Linzhou, Wang Zhaoxiang did not listen to the story of Yang Jiajian when he was a child, determined to defend the country like Yang Jiajian.
Wang Zhaoxiang once served as the political commissar of the special task force of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Gansu Border Special Committee, and at that time there were only 7 people in the whole team, all of whom were good men, and as long as the local tycoons and inferior gentry did bad things, Wang Zhaoxiang led everyone to quietly jump into the landlord's house and administer justice for the poor. Later, the local tycoons and inferior gentry really couldn't stand it, so they all ran to the city and never dared to go home again.
When Wang Zhaoxiang was the commander of the Red Third Regiment of the Independent Division in northern Shaanxi, the Kuomintang sent a large army to "encircle and suppress," and Wang Zhaoxiang led his troops to lead the nose of the Kuomintang army across the loess plateau and ran all over the mountains.
In northern Shaanxi at that time, the Kuomintang said that there were two "bandits" who were the most harmful, one was Liu Zhidan and the other was Wang Zhaoxiang.
In order to catch Wang Zhaoxiang, the Kuomintang gave him a reward of 2,000 oceans, which was very tempting, but it was useless, and no one could catch Wang Zhaoxiang.
Later, the Kuomintang thought of a way to send a secret agent to pretend to surrender and met Wang Zhaoxiang. When Wang Zhaoxiang shook hands with this agent, he saw that his eyes were wandering, knew that there was deception, and fled as soon as he threw up his hands.
The Kuomintang officer scolded the agent: "You have shook hands with Wang Zhaoxiang, why don't you catch him with your bare hands!" As a result, the agent said: "I wanted to arrest him, but I found a big black tiger wrapped in the wind and rushing towards me, I was trembling with fear, I wanted to shoot, but the bullet could not be shot at all." ”
This matter soon spread in northern Shaanxi, and everyone said that Wang Zhaoxiang was the reincarnation of the celestial star "Black Fox Tiger". The officers and men of the Kuomintang were also superstitious, and from then on, no one dared to arrest Wang Zhaoxiang, and he could not be blamed for 2,000 pieces of ocean, but he was eaten by the "black fox tiger".
In northern Shaanxi, as long as the "black fox tiger" is mentioned, everyone really knows that everyone knows that he is the savior sent from heaven to help the poor. Later, after Chairman Mao arrived in Yan'an, he also specially received Wang Zhaoxiang and said with a smile: "In the future, I will have to ask him to cover him." ”
In Yan'an, Wang Zhaoxiang participated in the election of the border region, and his group was very eye-catching, so let's see who the members of the group are: Chairman Mao, Zhang Wentian, Wang Jiaxiang, Chen Yun... So, who is the team leader? Everyone unanimously elected Wang Zhaoxiang.
Chairman Mao was too busy with his work and often asked Wang Zhaoxiang for leave. Wang Zhaoxiang said: "You are the chairman, how can you ask me for leave?" Chairman Mao said, "You are my group leader, who else can I find if I don't ask you for leave?"
When he was awarded the rank in 1955, Wang Zhaoxiang was awarded the rank of major general. Many people complained about him, thinking that with his seniority, he should at least be a lieutenant general, but Wang Zhaoxiang did not care and gladly put on the dress of the major general.
In 1960, Wang Zhaoxiang, who had been away from home for more than 20 years, returned to his hometown to visit his relatives. Hearing that the "Black Fox Tiger" Wang Zhaoxiang had returned, the villagers were very excited, and a wave of people squeezed into the old cave of the Wang family, and some people even came from hundreds of miles away, just for the true appearance of the "Black Fox Tiger".
Although Wang Zhaoxiang was very tired, he was polite to everyone and offered tea and cigarettes. At night, the villagers were worried that someone was secretly harming the "black fox tiger", so they spontaneously stood guard for him, densely packed, and there were hundreds of people.
Wang Zhaoxiang was so moved to tears that he pulled the villagers up and said, "Now that it is a new society, no one will harm me. ”
After more than 20 years, in 1983, Wang Zhaoxiang returned to Shenmu again and prepared to live in the cave of his hometown. But his family and secretary advised him: "Do you see if this cave is broken enough to live in?" What if it collapses? ”
But Wang Zhaoxiang said: "If you look at the cave dwellings of the villagers' homes, there is no difference between them and my family's, they can live, why can't I live?" I just walked out of this cave, and this is always my root, afraid of something! ”
Wang Zhaoxiang was born in 1909 and died of illness in 2009, living for 100 years.
The old family said that this was the "black fox tiger" who completed his mission and returned to heaven.