As everyone knows, on the road to building a socialist country in our country, a large number of heroic fighters who are loyal and courageous and heroic have emerged. They are not afraid of swords and guns, and they are awe-inspiring and unyielding in the face of the enemy's threats, and even sacrifice their lives to protect the achievements of the revolution. The heroic figure mentioned today, his experience is called "legendary", originally a revolutionary fighter, but because he broke away from the team and stayed in the peasant's home, finally he waded back to his hometown by wade through the mountains and waters with his own feet, and after finding the local Eighth Route Army office, the identity exposure even shocked the central authorities for a while! So who is this person? Today I will tell you the story of his heroism.
1. Outstanding young people with red ideas in the bud
At the beginning of the 20th century, China was in a state of fragmentation due to internal and external troubles. At this time, the new culture and the old feudal ideas were in wide conflict, and some aspiring young people introduced Marxist ideas from the Soviet Union. The protagonist of today's story, Duan Suquan, is an excellent young man who sprouted under the red thought. Duan Suquan was born in 1916 to a peasant family in Chaling, Hunan Province, and attended a private school for 6 years when he was young. In 1926, when the peasant movement was launched in Xianggan and other places, Duan Suquan, who was only ten years old, threw himself into the pen and became a revolutionary. In 1930, he was also awarded the title of Outstanding Member of the Communist Youth League.
Due to his high ideological consciousness, Duan Suquan was invited to join the Communist Party of China shortly after joining the regiment. In terms of organizational development, Duan Suquan also worked extremely hard, serving as the secretary of the Communist Youth League of Chaling County in his early twenties, and was promoted by the party many times. In August 1932, Duan Suquan led a group of outstanding young people from Chaling County to join the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and served as the chief of the Youth Section of the Political Department of the Eighth Army of the Xianggan Red Army. After several "encirclement and suppression" wars, Duan Suquan's ability to lead troops has been greatly improved. In 1934, he was promoted to political commissar of an independent division, when he was only 18 years old, he was already a division-level cadre, the youngest divisional political commissar in the history of the CCP, and he was really young and promising.
2. After leaving the team after being injured, he went through all kinds of hardships
In 1933, lao Chiang once again launched a war of encirclement and suppression, and during the breakthrough, Duan Suquan was unfortunately injured by the enemy. At that time, there were reactionaries all over the country, and the organization decided that Duan Suquan must choose a safe route back to his hometown to recuperate. Because the situation was very critical, Duan Suquan and his party could only disguise themselves as beggars and return to their hometown chaling along the road. This road is dangerous and abnormal, Duan Suquan waded through mountains and rivers, through layers of obstacles, and traveled for many months to return to his hometown. When he left his hometown at the age of 14, he returned home with a depressed look, and the local Kuomintang government did not expect him to be a high-ranking official of the CCP, but only regarded him as a "coercive subordinate" to him. In order to hide his eyes and ears, his father Duan Tian made a point for him, and finally arranged a miscellaneous work for him, and even married Tan Qiuying of the same village, and went to a private school to avoid the suspicion of the township chief.
After four years, Duan Suquan's injury in 1937 was finally healed, but unfortunately, how to return to the team at this time became another problem. After many inquiries and planning, with the help of his wife, father, comrades-in-arms and other people, Duan Suquan finally returned to the Taiyuan Eighth Route Army office where he was staying. When the young man dressed as a peasant revealed his identity, the entire office was stunned. The relevant departments immediately reported it to the Party Central Committee, and even the leader at the time, Ren Bishi, was surprised by this. When meeting Duan Suquan, Ren Bishi laughed and said, "I didn't expect you to be alive!" You've worked hard! We all thought you had sacrificed, and even held a memorial service for you! When the two old comrades-in-arms met, they smiled with great sincerity, and finally Duan Suquan returned to his post and began to continue to contribute to the War of Resistance Against Japan.
3. Fighting to kill the enemy was awarded the rank of major general
Because of the injury, Duan Suquan did not really start his life in 1937. In the War of Resistance Against Japan, he struggled to kill the enemy, and his reputation spread throughout China. In the Liberation War, Duan Suquan was still famous. In 1946, Duan Suquan was appointed by the CCP to start a new journey in the Rehe area, and in the following years he was awarded the most important posts, including the commander of the Eighth Column of the Northeast Field Army and the director of the Operations Department of the Northeast Military Region. Due to his excellent command, Duan Suquan fought many beautiful battles and made great contributions to the victory of the final war. In 1949, the Kuomintang was defeated and fled to Taiwan, and the war that lasted for more than ten years finally came to an end, and Duan Suquan was also officially appointed deputy chief of staff of the Northeast Military Region. During the period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, he served as the commander of the air force of the Northeast Military Region, led his officers and men to go to Korea, fought with the US military, and never insulted the reputation of our sons and daughters of China.
It is worth mentioning that such a meritorious veteran was treated extremely unfairly when the founding of the country awarded military ranks. Ben was a distinguished warrior, and at least one lieutenant general was awarded. However, Duan Suquan finally received only the title of "Temporary Major General", which means that the rank of major general is only temporary. Such unfair treatment, how can Duan Suquan, who has been proud all his life and has been fighting horses for decades, endure it. In this regard, Duan Suquan did not appear on the day of the award of the military rank. As for why such a result occurred, the explanation issued by the superiors turned out to be a "historical problem", and seeing this, in fact, everyone understood that Duan Suquan had been recuperating at home for three or four years.
After receiving the rank of major general, Duan Suquan tore off his medal and said that he would not participate in the military rank ceremony. Such a sincere, proud and talented general has never given up on this matter. Decades after the founding of the People's Republic of China, until the death of General Duan Suquan in 1993, he still had some doubts in his heart. According to his request, he did not wear a military uniform into the funeral, but an ordinary Zhongshan suit, and the urn was not stamped with the Chinese flag, which shows that the old general died with hatred, which is very regrettable. No one expected that the three or four years of painful exile, which was originally a huge torture, finally became the biggest obstacle for the old general to get the corresponding military merit, and here I can only send sincere respect to the old general Duan Suquan, hoping that he can rest in peace. I don't know what you think after reading the story of the old general Duan Suquan? You can talk to us below.