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Yongding Red Revolution History Tour No. 47 :
Yongding founding general genealogy: "poverty alleviation general" Xiong Zhaoren
Xiong Zhaoren (1912-2019), a native of Hulei Town, Yongding District, Longyan City, was awarded the rank of major general in 1955 and served as deputy chief of staff of the Fuzhou Military Region.
Founding Major General Xiong Zhaoren
In May 1929, he joined the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. In 1932, he joined the Communist Youth League of China. In February 1933, he was transferred to the Communist Party of China.
During the agrarian revolutionary war, he served as a soldier, squad leader, platoon leader of the Ninth Independent Regiment of the Fujian Military Region, and deputy captain and captain of the three major brigades of the Yonghejing (Yongding, Pinghe, and Nanjing) guerrilla detachments of the Southwest Fujian Military and Political Committee. After the Long March of the main Red Army in October 1934, the 22-year-old Xiong Zhaoren stayed in southwest Fujian to carry out guerrilla warfare for three years, becoming the first group of people in our army to use guerrilla tactics. During the three years of guerrilla warfare, he often faced the enemy's encirclement and blockade, and could only use his legs to race with the enemy on the mountain path and carry out transfers; General Xiong Zhaoren, who was born in a poor rural area, was agile and walked like a fly, often making the enemy dizzy and dizzy, throwing him far away, and was praised by the soldiers as "Scud Commander" by the fighters.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in an all-round way, he was incorporated into the Second Detachment of the New Fourth Army to go north to resist Japan, and served as the commander of the Fifth Company of the Second Regiment, the Second Regiment, the Second Battalion, the Instructor of the Special Service Battalion of the Military Department, the Political Commissar of the Special Agent Battalion of the Jiangbei Headquarters of the New Fourth Army, and the Chief of Staff of the New Third Regiment of the Second Detachment. After the Anhui Incident, he served as the political commissar of the Forty-seventh Regiment of the 16th Brigade of the 6th Division of the New Fourth Army. In 1943, he entered the East China Party School of the Communist Party of China, and after graduation, he served as deputy commander of the Third Military Subdistrict of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Military Region, deputy commander of the 46th Regiment of the 16th Brigade, deputy commander of the First Military Subdistrict of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Military Region, and participated in the battles of Zhoucheng, Changxing, and Qingdanling.
In 1938, Xiong Zhaoren (2nd from left), Liu Yongsheng (3rd from left) and others took photos in Longyan Baitu
During the Liberation War, after the main force of the New Fourth Army went north to Shandong, he remained in the southern Jiangsu region to persist in armed struggle, serving as commander of the headquarters of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang-Anhui Border Region and director of the Military Department of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang-Anhui Border Military Commission, consolidating the base area behind enemy lines in southern Jiangsu and making contributions to welcoming the main force of the People's Liberation Army to cross the river to the south. In 1949, he was appointed deputy commander of the Anhui Southern Military Region.
On the eve of the 1949 Campaign to Cross the River, Xiong Zhaoren, who was commander of the Anhui Border Region in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui, personally commanded the establishment of the "Advance River Crossing Brigade, which consisted of three reconnaissance squads." After they braved the rain of bullets and bullets to break through the Yangtze River graben, with the cooperation of local guerrillas and ordinary people, they quickly understood the enemy's deployment, troop mobilization, organization and equipment, combat capability, command system, artillery positions, ship activities, and terrain and transportation, thus providing a powerful basis for the main forces to formulate a plan for crossing the river. At the same time, Xiong Zhaoren commanded the fighters to seize positions behind enemy lines, occupy mountains, burn fires, and attack command posts, turning the enemy into blind and deaf, clearing many obstacles, and creating favorable conditions for large troops to cross the river in victory. In the 1950s, the film "Reconnaissance of Crossing the River" adapted from their deeds was based on Xiong Zhaoren, the prototype of the top leader of a certain PEOPLE's Liberation Army was Xiong Zhaoren.
After the founding of New China, he served as deputy commander of the Northern Anhui Military Region. In 1954, he entered the Senior Accelerated Department of the Military Academy of the People's Liberation Army, and after graduation, he successively served as deputy chief of staff of the Headquarters of the Fujian Provincial Military Region, deputy chief of staff of the Fuzhou Military Region, and political commissar of the Fujian Production and Construction Corps, and made contributions to the revolutionization, modernization, and regularization of the troops.
After retiring in 1983, Xiong Zhaoren still cared about the construction of the old area in western Fujian, and served as the executive deputy director and president of the Fujian Association for the Promotion of the Construction of the Old District in western Fujian Province, running for the people in the old area to get rid of poverty and become rich. He said: "Without the support of the people in the old areas, our party and army would not have been able to survive and develop; without the bloody sacrifices of the people in the old areas, it would have been impossible to establish a new China." We, the veterans, have the responsibility to care for the old districts and build them. Under his concern, he promoted the construction of the Cotton Beach Hydropower Station, the Meikan Railway, the Ganlong Railway, the Purple Mountain Gold and Copper Mine and other projects, and made significant contributions to the development of the old areas in western Fujian, and was called "poverty alleviation general" by the people in the old areas.
Xiong Zhaoren is the vice chairman of the second and fourth CPPCC sessions of Fujian Province. In 1955, he was awarded the rank of major general, and was awarded the Order of August 1 of the Third Class, the Order of Independence and Freedom of the Second Class, and the Liberation Medal of the First Class. In 1988, he was awarded the Medal of Merit of the Red Star, First Class. He died in Fuzhou on April 7, 2019 at the age of 107 due to illness.
【Source: Research Office of Party History and Local History of Yongding District Committee of Longyan City, Longyan City, Longyan City】