Shen Quan

Shen Quan

Shen Quan (1906-1951) was born in Fenghuang, Hunan Province. He was the first phase of the higher education class of the Central Military Academy. Later, he was the major general inspector of the Ministry of national defense of the national government. Shen Congwen's younger brother. He is a hero of Anti Japanese war on the front battlefield of the national army against Japan. He won the rank of lieutenant general.

Life

After the end of the Anti Japanese War, because of opposing the civil war, he abandoned his honor and went back to his hometown to work in agriculture. In the 1950s, he was arrested and executed for the crime of counter revolution, and was rehabilitated 30 years later. Before the execution, he pointed to his forehead and denounced the executioner standing behind him: little Japan and Chiang Kai Shek didn't shoot me cold in the back. Come on, stand in front of me!

Major general Shen Quan, who graduated from Huangpu phase IV, was one of the surviving commanders of the 128th division in the battle of Songhu in 1937. He withdrew from the line of fire because of his injury. After he recovered, he led his troops to take part in the bloody battle of Gutang in Jiujiang against the Japanese aggressors. After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, he became a short general in Nanjing. He lived a miserable life, but he also understood his depression: the victory made us desperate, and it seemed that we were exhausted! finished. Of course I don't fight a civil war. ······It looks like we're going back to the field.

Sure enough, he went back to Fenghuang from Nanjing, rented a small courtyard with a patio, planted some flowers such as Hemerocallis and laurel in the patio, hung Zhang Xiruo's couplets on the wall of the living room, and did some consulting work for the new local people's Government in his spare time, as well as several lobbyists to persuade long Yunfei to join in. If there is no accident, I plan to spend my life in calligraphy.

Suddenly one day, he was pulled to the river as a counter revolutionary. The frustrated soldier spread an old army blanket on the green grass on the beach and sighed softly, "Alas! I didn't expect you to do this. "Then he pointed to his forehead and said," hit here! "

This man was famous for his good shooting skills. It was not difficult for him to point twenty or thirty incense sticks in the corner and kill them one by one with a rifle. He didn't know how many people he had instructed to learn how to shoot. He never thought that the last time he instructed was to use his own head as a target.

When the blood splashes out and the head that has not yet grown white hair falls to the ground, the last imagination of the man who has been in the army for half a lifetime may still be the scene of the battle of Songhu. Holding the key of a large fortification, he opened the rusty iron doors on the national defense line and let the soldiers get in and prepare to defend themselves. In the end, he was shot by the Japanese. That time, he was lucky to wake up from a few days of coma, but this time, he can never wake up again.

Thirty two years later, in 1984, his injustice was redressed. The total compensation was 500 yuan, the nominal recognition of the uprising members, and his wife's title as a member of the county CPPCC.

After his 15-year-old brother Shen Congwen joined the Xiangxi local army as a soldier, in 1922, 16-year-old Shen Quan joined the yangmingchen Department of the third detachment of the Xiangxi patrol army as an orderly. In 1925, he was admitted to the fourth phase of Huangpu Military Academy. In 1926, he worked as a trainee platoon leader of the Third Army Education Regiment (head Zhu De) in Nanchang, and in 1927, he worked as a company commander of the 14th army in Wuhan. After the split between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, he returned to Fenghuang and served as the leader of the military trainee Institute of the 19th independent division and acting as the dean of the Academy. In the same year, he went to Nanjing to get an officer's research class. After graduation, he returned to Fenghuang to be the chief of staff of the new commander of the 34th division. In 1931, he was transferred to Xupu as the deputy head of the fifth regiment of the second brigade of the 34th division. Later, he went to Lushan officer training regiment for a month. In 1934, the 34th division was downsized and transferred to the position of engineer battalion commander.

In his youth, Shen Quan was tall and handsome, with a clear voice. When he became an officer, he was very tall, wearing a military uniform and a sword belt. Sometimes I come back to my hometown, change into casual clothes, raise big cocks and fight with crickets, and do it very seriously. Sometimes they went with the troops.

He is famous for his marksmanship as well as his natural beauty. At night, people were asked to put twenty or thirty incense sticks on the wall of the left behind house near the field in Fenghuang test shed. Then he held the rifle and shot them out one by one, winning people's applause.

Because he was young and competitive, he also made a bet with others, which was extremely dangerous.

There is a young officer named Liu Wenjiao in Fenghuang, who is a close friend of Shen Quan. Once he talked about the shooting technique, he made a bet. Liu Wenjiao asked his son to stand more than ten or twenty meters away, with 20 100 Wen bronze balls on his head, and asked Shen Quan to aim at them. If the child dies, Shen Quan will pay for two baskets of bullets, ten rifles and two machine guns. This is a gamble. A lot of onlookers are worried about their children. Unexpectedly, Shen Quan only shot the copper coin. Although he won the game, his mother scolded him half to death. This young and ignorant child later became a famous painter in Western Hunan, that is Mr. Liu Hongzhou.

Shen Quan had been in the 34th division for a long time. Chen Quzhen, the teacher of the 34th division, was born in Fenghuang, Xiangxi. He graduated from Hunan Wubei school and was a member of the alliance. He once served as the garrison envoy of Xiangxi. He ruled Xiangxi for more than ten years and was known as the "king of Xiangxi". He advocated protecting the situation and calming the people, exterminating bandits, making every effort to improve the governance of Western Hunan. However, he supported the army and respected himself, which was not compatible with He Jian, then chairman of Hunan Province. In 1935, He Jian forced the 34th division to accept the reorganization under the pressure of pursuing and suppressing the Red Army. Gu Jiaqi, a subordinate of Chen Quzhen, took up the post of division commander and was transferred from Xiangxi to accept the reorganization. After the "Lugouqiao Incident" broke out in 1937, the army changed its name to 128 division and was subordinate to Liu Jianxu's tenth group army. Shen Quan was promoted from the commander of Engineering Battalion to the head of 764 regiment and went eastward with the army to participate in the Anti Japanese war.

After the reorganization of the 128th division, more than 7000 people are basically children of Xiangxi. The main generals live in Fenghuang. These soldiers display the brave spirit of Xiangxi people who are not afraid of death. They go from life to death on the battlefield and rush to the front. They perform the generous sad songs of sacrificing their lives to the national calamity and treating death as a sudden return.

In November 1937, Shen Quan went to Jiashan, Zhejiang Province with all the officers and men of the 128th division to stop the sixth and eighth Japanese Legion invading China. The whole division was carried by a train from Hangzhou to the front line in the middle of the night. Without a guide, they searched for defense fortifications in the fog. The whole city was empty, and only one county magistrate was left. He handed a series of numbered keys to Shen Quan, the commander of the national defense fortification, and left with the train. No fortification drawings were left. Under the command of Shen Quan, the soldiers opened the iron gate of fortification and then began to block the enemy's crazy attack.

The fighting was extremely fierce. Because of the transportation and other factors, the support couldn't keep up, so the division stayed for seven days and seven nights. Especially in the next few days, he kept fighting almost hungry. During the day, the Japanese bombed wildly with aircraft and artillery, and then rushed into the position. In the evening, the soldiers of the 128th division fought in the dark, fought hand in hand, and drove the devils out. There was a battalion under the command of Shen Quan. Under the leadership of Zhang Jinghua, the battalion commander, he hid himself in the trenches and holes made by bombs and let the enemy planes and artillery bombard him desperately. More than 600 bombs fell in one day, but he still stuck to his position. Later, there were only 16 soldiers left in a battalion. The battalion commander was injured, and the company commander and platoon leader all died. Only these 16 people actually climbed out of the ditch and fought with the enemy until the arrival of reinforcements.

At the end of the Jiashan defense war, the children of the 128th division in Xiangxi, except for the 767 regiment, still had an organic regiment. The rest of the regiments suffered more than half casualties and heavy losses. Four commanders were injured, 12 battalion commanders were killed, 7 were injured, 5 were injured, two-thirds of platoon commanders were killed and one-third were injured. But they played up the morale of the Chinese people and made the crazy Japanese army look at them with new eyes. From then on, they did not dare to despise the Chinese army.

In the battle of Jiashan, only more than 120 of the 1500 people under Shen Quan's command survived. Shen Quan was carried to the battlefield by his subordinates after he was wounded.

Shen Quan returned to Yuanling in Western Hunan for more than two months. The wound was just right, and before the end of recuperation, the superior transferred him to the front line of Anti Japanese war. As an honorary corps, he received new supplementary soldiers in Changde, some of them were old troops in Western Hunan, and then went to the front line. Shen Quan served as the head of the fourth regiment. In the battle of defending Changsha, he led his troops to attack Xiaowumen. The Japanese army saw that the offensive was fierce and it was difficult to resist, so the engineers sent bulldozers to level the ridge of the field for the escape of motor vehicles. When Shen Quan discovered his intention, he ordered the second company to lead a team to pursue him. As a result, in the vast battlefield, there was a miracle. The officers and men of the fourth regiment chased the Japanese cars with their feet. The weather was dim and it was hard to separate the enemy from us. The Japanese army could not stop our pursuit with firepower. Soon, the second company caught up with some Japanese vehicles and inserted them. A burst of grenades destroyed several vehicles and blocked them into the driveway. The vehicles that had no time to cross the Laodao River were all crushed by the soldiers. It was a great victory

After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, Shen Quan was transferred to the Ministry of national defense of Nanjing as a major general inspector.

He had corresponded with his second brother Shen Congwen many times, and they were ready to work together to write a history of the Anti Japanese War, and began to collect relevant information.

The civil war broke out soon. Shen Quan was in Nanjing. Apart from his hard life, his heart was even heavier. "The victory of the Anti Japanese war left us helpless. It seems that we are exhausted! finished. Of course I don't want to fight a civil war It looks like we're going back to the field... "

Later, he resigned his military post and returned to his hometown of Fenghuang. On November 9, 1949, Chen Quzhen, the "king of Western Hunan", took part in the peaceful uprising and went to the local government to do some consulting work. I go to work in Fenghuang jiandaozi every day. He was still so handsome, clean and knowledgeable. In nanmuping rented a very elegant residence, small patio planted with American peas, Hemerocallis and two pots of laurel. In the living room with wooden floor, there are couplets written by Zhang Xiruo.

Although Shen Quan is a military general

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