One day in the spring of 1928, a gunshot suddenly rang out from Jinggangshan, and Chairman Mao received a report that Chen Bojun, then deputy captain of the Red Fourth Army's teaching team and secretary of the party branch, shot and killed his superior, Lü Chi.
When chairman Mao heard of this, chairman Mao was so shocked that he hurriedly summoned Zhang Lingbin, who was then the director of the soldiers' committee, and Chairman Mao said: "You Captain Lu were killed by Chen Bojun by mistake. ”
At that time, in a battle, Chen Bojun captured a pistol, but could not open, Lü Chi saw it, and jokingly said that his gun was a broken gun, it was half a pound of iron, Chen Bojun was not convinced, he tinkered with it, and finally really let him fiddle it.
On the day of the incident, Chen Bojun went to show Lü Chi, at that time, he pulled open the bolt of the gun, pounced, and the bullet hit Lü Chi's body, and he immediately fell to the ground and stopped breathing.
Lü Chi was killed by Chen Bojun by mistake, and many Red Army soldiers were very angry, saying that they were going to shoot Chen Bojun, and Chen Bojun himself was also very distressed, and he had no choice but to wait for Chairman Mao's decision.
Zhang Lingbin, director of the Soldiers' Committee, told Chairman Mao that many Red Army soldiers demanded that Chen Bojun be executed, and Chairman Mao also knew everyone's inner thoughts, but there were not many talents in the army at that time, and Chen Bojun was still a graduate of the Whampoa Military Academy, so he had already lost a Whampoa student, and he did not want to lose another one.
Chairman Mao decided to hold a meeting to explain the reasoning to everyone, and Chairman Mao said: "Lü Chi is a good comrade, chen Bojun is not a bad person, he is joking with Captain Lü, and he killed people by mistake." One of them came from the Whampoa Military Academy, and the other came from the Wuhan Branch of Huangpu, and they all performed well, and they also had a set of military skills. We are very short of such people! Can we mourn only one person? ”
Everyone was still very convinced of Committee Member Mao, but some people asked: "Is it impossible for Chen Bojun to kill someone?" ”
Chairman Mao replied solemnly: "Of course, we cannot fail to do so. We will not let him pay for his life, but we will punish him. Comrade Lü Chi's unfinished work must be doubled by Chen Bojun alone. In addition, he was punished with a hundred boards, and everyone agreed or disagreed? ”
Under chairman Mao's conciliation, Chen Bojun was "escaped a disaster", and he was subsequently demoted to deputy company commander.
In the years since then, Chen Bojun has been full of enthusiasm for revolutionary conviction and strength to devote himself to the cause of communism, during the agrarian revolutionary war, Chen Bojun successively served as the chief of staff of the Red 20 Army, the commander of the 7th Division of the Red 3rd Army, and the commander of the Red 15th Army.
He participated in the first to fifth anti-encirclement and suppression battles in the Central Soviet Region, the sword and gun had no eyes, during the Battle of Yongxin Beixiang, Chen Bojun was a pioneer, retreated and was shot, and was seriously wounded, nevertheless, after that, he was still fierce, in the anti-encirclement and suppression battles in the Soviet Area, Chen Bojun was seriously wounded three times, many times slightly injured, he contributed greatly to the revolution, so in 1933, he was awarded the Second Class Red Star Medal by the Soviet government.
During the Long March, Chen Bojun served as the chief of staff of the Red Fifth Army, he assisted the regimental commander Dong Zhentang, commanded the troops to carry out the rear guard task, they repeatedly repelled the pursuit of the Kuomintang troops, so they were known as "iron butts"
In 1935, after the Central Red Army and the Red Fourth Front met in Maogong Division in Sichuan, Chen Bojun came to the Red Fourth Front army as chief of staff, Zhang Guotao later led his troops to the south, and even engaged in splittism, Chen Bojun resolutely resisted, for which he was demoted.
Until the beginning of 1936, Zhang Guotao knew that the road to the south was not feasible, so he had to lead his troops north, and after the troops arrived in northern Shaanxi, Chen Bojun successively served as the commander of the Red Sixth Army.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Chen Bojun was appointed brigade commander of the 359th Brigade of the 120th Division, and soon after, he was transferred back to Yan'an, where he successively served as the director of the Anti-Japanese War Training Department, the principal of the Second Branch School, and the deputy commander of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Security Command.
During the Liberation War, Chen Bojun successively served as commander of the Hejiang Military Region, deputy commander of the First Corps of the Northeast Field Army, and deputy commander of the 12th Corps of the Siye Army.
Little is known that Chairman Mao was actually Chen Bojun's teacher, and at the end of 1926, Chen Bojun was admitted to the Wuhan branch of the Whampoa Military Academy, and at that time, the chief instructor of the military academy was Yun Daiying, a member of the Communist Party, and Chairman Mao was often invited to give lectures at the school, and Chen Bojun became acquainted with Chairman Mao.
At that time, Chen Bojun was impressed by Chairman Mao's profound knowledge, and during the Autumn Harvest Uprising, Chen Bojun was then the director of the Recruit Training Office of the Third Independent Regiment; on September 10, Chairman Mao met with all the cadres participating in the Autumn Harvest Uprising and expounded the current situation and the Party's tasks.
Chairman Mao was very satisfied with Chen Bojun's attitude of modestly studying, and immediately talked about his own ideas; at the end of the conversation, Chairman Mao encouraged Chen Bojun to work well, and since then, Chen Bojun has been following Chairman Mao and going up Jinggang Mountain until the victory of the revolution.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Chen Bojun successively served as the first deputy commander of the Hunan Military Region, the vice president of the Higher Military Academy, the dean of the Higher College, and in 1955, he was awarded the rank of general and won three first-class medals.
During the Cultural Revolution, Chen Bojun was criticized, and on Labor Day in 1967, Chen Bojun attended the ceremony on the upper floor of Tiananmen Square, and chairman Mao saw him and asked him kindly: "Bo Jun, I heard that you are sick?" Chen Bojun was very touched, he said: "Yes, thank you chairman for your concern. ”
At the Twelfth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee in 1968, Chairman Mao asked who one of the deputies was, and this person said it was "Daxian County, Sichuan.", and Chairman Mao said, "Oh, you are Comrade Bo Jun's hometown." ”
The deputy did not hear clearly, so he asked, "Which comrade is it?" ”
Zhou Enlai, who was nearby, keenly aware that Chairman Mao wanted to protect Chen Bojun in this way, said next to him: "Comrade Chen Bojun, whom the chairman spoke of, is an old comrade of the Jinggangshan period and the president of the Higher Military Academy. ”
It was Chairman Mao and Zhou Enlai's public speeches, Chen Bojun's situation, changed a lot, after that, Chairman Mao and Chen Bojun never met again, in 1974, Chen Bojun died of illness at the age of 64.