Zhou Xihan

Zhou Xihan

Zhou Xihan (1913-1988) was born in zhoujiaao village, Shunhe Town, Macheng City, Hubei Province. In 1928, he joined the Red Army and the Communist Party of China. During his revolutionary career, he successively served as the chief of combat section of the Red Army, chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army brigade, chief of PLA, chief of staff of the Navy, deputy commander of the Navy, and consultant of the Navy. He participated in the Huangma uprising, the first to fourth anti "encirclement and suppression" struggle in the Hubei Henan Anhui revolutionary base area, the third and Sixth Road encirclement in the Sichuan Shaanxi revolutionary base area, the Long March, the hundred regiments war, the shentouling battle, and the Linnan battle Campaign, Tongpu campaign, Linfu campaign, fenxiao campaign, Luoyang campaign, Eastern Henan campaign, advancing into the Central Plains, Huaihai Campaign, crossing the river campaign, and liberating the southwest.

After the founding of the people's Republic of China, he successively served as commander of the 13th army, deputy commander of the Navy and chief of staff of the fourth corps of the people's Liberation Army. He participated in leading and organizing the construction of nuclear submarines and missile destroyers, and devoted all his efforts to building a strong people's navy. He was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in 1955. He died in Beijing on November 7, 1988 at the age of 75.

Life of the characters

Early experience

Zhou Xihan was born on August 27, 1913 in zhoujiaao village, Shunhe Town, Macheng City, Hubei Province. He took part in jute uprising on November 13, 1927. He joined the Red Army of workers and peasants in 1928 and the Communist Party of China in October of the same year.

Agrarian Revolution

During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, he served as the monitor of the independent battalion communication in Macheng County, the leader of the independent regiment communication platoon and the political instructor of the company, the Secretary of the Communist Youth League Committee of the 38th regiment of the third division of the Red Army, the staff officer of the headquarters of the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army, the chief of the combat section and the commander of the training team of the Ninth Army of the Red Army, and the chief of the combat section and the commander of the training battalion of the 31st army. He participated in the first to fourth anti "encirclement and suppression" struggles in the Hubei Henan Anhui revolutionary base areas. He took part in the anti three way and anti six way sieges in the Sichuan Shaanxi revolutionary base. In March 1935, in order to welcome the Party Central Committee and the Central Red Army, they crossed the Jialing River and took part in the long march of the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army.

Counter-Japanese War

During the Anti Japanese War, he served as the chief of the combat unit of 386 brigade of 129th division of the Eighth Route Army, chief of staff of the supplementary Committee, chief of staff of 386 brigade and chief of staff of Taiyue military region, commander of Nanjin detachment and deputy commander of the second military division of Taiyue military region. He participated in the hundred regiment war, the struggle to establish the Anti Japanese base in northern Hebei, and the organization and command of a series of campaigns and battles such as shentouling and Linnan.

War of Liberation

During the liberation war, he served as the commander of the 10th brigade of the fourth column of the Shanxi Hebei Luyu military region and the commander of the 13th army of the second field army. He took part in a series of battles and campaigns in Tongpu, Linfu, Southeast Asia, fenxiao, Luoyang, Eastern Henan, advancing into the Central Plains, Huaihai, crossing the Yangtze River, and liberating the southwest, and achieved the record of capturing 61 Kuomintang generals alive.

After the founding of the people's Republic of China

After the founding of the people's Republic of China, he served as commander of the 13th army of the fourth corps of the Chinese people's Liberation Army, commander of the southern Yunnan garrison, and second secretary of the southern Yunnan Second Committee. In 1955, Zhou Xihan was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in the Navy. At the end of 1958, Zhou Xihan served as deputy commander and chief of staff of the Navy. In March 1963, Zhang Xuesi took over as chief of staff of the Navy, and Zhou Xihan really gave up his job as chief of staff. During this period, he organized and participated in China's first missile test, participated in and planned the joint exercise of the three armed forces of land, sea and air organized by the general staff against the background of atomic war, and many other major events. On November 7, 1988, Zhou Xihan was hospitalized for fracture. It never occurred to anyone that Zhou Xihan died suddenly at about 2 p.m. at the age of 75. His ashes were placed in Macheng Revolutionary Cemetery.

Main achievements

During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, he took part in the counter "encirclement and suppression" and the 25000 Li Long March in the revolutionary bases of Hubei, Henan, Anhui, Sichuan and Shaanxi. during the Anti Japanese War, he took part in the battle of Qigen village and shentouling and the anti "nine road siege" in Southeast Shanxi, took part in commanding the battle of xiangchenggu, and took part in leading the opening up and development of Yuenan and other anti Japanese base areas. We actively organized and carried out the people's guerrilla war and smashed the mopping up by the Japanese aggressor army many times. During the war of liberation, his troops took part in many major battles, such as the battle of advancing into the west of Henan and the west of Longhai, the battle of breaking through the Han Dynasty, the battle of Luoyang, the battle of Wandong and Wanxi, the battle of Xuzhou periphery, the battle of Huaihai, the battle of crossing the river, the battle of Guangxi, the battle of Southern Yunnan, etc. After the founding of the people's Republic of China, Zhou Xihan was transferred to work in the Navy. He was one of the leaders in the early days of the founding of the Navy. He took part in commanding the battle of sinking the Kuomintang Navy frigate "Taiping", the battle of liberating Yijiangshan island and the anti landing military exercise in Liaodong Peninsula, and devoted all his efforts to building a strong people's navy. He also served as deputy leader of the leading group for shipbuilding industry of the State Council and vice leader of the leading group for electronic industry of the State Council, and participated in leading and organizing the construction of nuclear submarines and missile destroyers. After the operation of gastric cancer in 1973, he was always concerned about the construction of the Navy and actively offered suggestions.

Important deeds

Cover the head

After the launching of the first stage of the hundred regiments war, the Japanese army sent out elite troops to retaliate and made a fierce attack on zhuanyugou. the front finger of the Eighth Route Army and the head office of the North Bureau of the CPC Central Committee are retreating to juanyugou. There is only one guard camp to cover them. The situation is extremely critical. The 16th regiment fought with the Japanese for half an hour in yangerling and lost its main position. Liu Bocheng was worried that he had no soldiers to adjust. Suddenly he heard that Zhou Xihan had led his troops to yangerling to catch fire with the Japanese army. Shuai Liu said with a sigh, "well, here comes Zhao Zilong." Zhou Xihan led his troops to seize yangerling and stop the Japanese army until night. In summing up the Zhengtai campaign, Liu Bocheng praised the battle of yangerling for "playing an important role in covering the transfer of the head office and making the left and right wings move safely."

Destroy the first brigade

On September 22, 1946, the 27th and 167th brigades of the Kuomintang army were surrounded by the Shanxi Hebei Shandong Henan field army in the Fushan Area. Hu zongnan immediately ordered the 1st Brigade of the 1st army, which is known as "the first brigade in the world", to go to the rescue, just in the middle of the PLA's plan of "encircling the spot for aid". Zhou Xihan's 10th brigade is responsible for the main task of aid. As soon as the vanguard 2nd regiment of the 1st Brigade of the Kuomintang army arrived at guanque village, it was surrounded by the 11th brigade of Chen Geng's regiment. Huang Zhengcheng, the commander of the first brigade, became angry and led his first regiment to kill him. In Chenyan area, he was stopped head-on by the 30th regiment of Zhou Xihan's 10th brigade. Huang Zhengcheng launched several attacks and was defeated by Zhou Xihan. When it was dark, Huang Zhengcheng was forced to withdraw his troops to Chenyan. Zhou Xihan immediately seized the plane and commanded his 28th, 29th and 30th regiments to encircle the enemy in the dark. After a night of fighting, Huang Zhengcheng's "the first brigade in the world" was completely eliminated. The Kuomintang army reorganized the first brigade of the first division. It was well-equipped and good at fighting. It was known as the "first brigade in the world". Huang Zhengcheng, brigade commander, once studied abroad and was awarded the rank of general of China. the first brigade in the world was annihilated, which caused a stir in the government and the public. Liu Bocheng said at the cadre meeting of the Shanxi Hebei Shandong Henan Military Region: "Tongpu is playing very well! The central government praised that "this battle was unexpected.". On September 26, 1946, Yan'an's Jiefang Daily published an editorial entitled "salute to Taiyue column". The editorial said that this battle "was a glorious victory with the victorious breakout of the Central Plains army, the seven battles and seven victories in the south of the Central Soviet Union, and the annihilation of Jiang's army in Longhai Road and Shanxi, Hebei and Henan. He made indelible contributions to smashing Chiang Kai Shek's attack and striving for domestic peace and democracy. In addition to the celebration, we would like to extend our high respects to all the commanders and fighters of the Taiyue column! "

Defeat Huang Wei

Yang Weizi is the last stronghold in the southeast of shuangduiji. If you take Yang Weizi, the PLA can directly attack the Huangwei corps of shuangduiji. The garrisons were the headquarters of the 14th army and the remnants of the 10th and 85th divisions. The 14th army is Chiang Kai Shek's own army, well equipped and highly effective. However, under the heavy attack of the PLA, the 14th army has lost its fighting spirit, and several villages it is defending have been captured by the PLA one by one. In the end, only Yang Weizi's military headquarters was left. With the shrinking of the encirclement, Xiong Shouchun, the commander of the 14th army, was very anxious. He saw that the open-air fortifications were full of wounded soldiers, most of the thousands of animals were killed in the moat, and the hungry soldiers of the Chiang Kai Shek army cut the horse meat to satisfy their hunger. He was so sad that he sat in the shelter and sobbed from time to time. His chief of staff, Liang Dai, was captured by the PLA when he was defeated on the South Bank of the Huihe river. Liang Dai pretended to be the Secretary of the military headquarters at that time, and the PLA released him. When he was released, he was given a letter to persuade him to surrender to Xiong Shouchun. Xiong Shouchun didn't accept the surrender, and hoped to fight tenaciously with the open land around Yang Weizi until the arrival of reinforcements. Zhou Xihan adopted "trench tactics". That is to say, many traffic trenches were dug in the East, North and west of the site, and they approached Yang Weizi day by day. On December 11, 1948, Zhou Xihan's troops dug a network of communication ditches around Yang Weizi, and surrounded Xiong Shouchun's 14 troops in the middle. At 4 p.m. on December 11, the attack on Yang Weizi began. The shells of hundreds of howitzers, field guns, mountain guns and mortars of the people's Liberation Army fell into the front and deep positions of the Kuomintang army like rain, and the whole yangweizi became a sea of smoke and fire. With the smoke of gunfire, the PLA commandos launched an attack. Within ten minutes, Yang Weizi's position was completely occupied by the PLA. Zhou Xihan led ten brigades to attack Dangshan in the west, cut Jinpu in the East, obstructed the enemy from going north, delayed the enemy's aid in the East, conquered Li Weizi in the first place, Shen Zhuang in the second place, and Yang Weizi in the third. On December 13, he attacked Yang Wenwen village, the last stronghold in the northeast of Huangwei regiment. Huang Wei gave the death order to his subordinates: "if you fight, you will live; if you retreat, you will die.". Zhou Xihan's troops failed in attack and suffered serious casualties. Chen Geng came to supervise the war and said to Zhou Xihan, "you

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