Wang Zhaoxiang

Wang Zhaoxiang

Wang Zhaoxiang (October 16, 1909 - June 3, 2009), the founding major general of the people's Republic of China, was born in Shenmu county, Shaanxi Province. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1928 and the Red Army of workers and peasants in 1932.

He was awarded the rank of major general in 1955. On June 3, 2009, he died in Beijing at the age of 101.

Life of the characters

Early experience

On October 16, 1909, Wang Zhaoxiang was born into a peasant family.

In his early years, he let go of sheep and embarked on the revolutionary road under the influence of his brother Wang Zhaoqing.

In 1926, he took part in revolutionary activities such as sending letters and distributing leaflets.

Period of Agrarian Revolution

In September 1928, he joined the Communist Party of China.

In 1929, he was admitted to Yulin middle school. While studying, he joined the student movement led by the Communist Party. After the student movement was suppressed, he returned to his hometown to do underground work. 　

In October 1932, he joined the Shaanxi Gansu guerrillas of the Chinese workers' and peasants' Red Army under the leadership of Liu Zhidan and Xie Zichang, served as the propaganda member of the Party branch of the cavalry brigade of the Shaanxi Gansu guerrillas, the captain of the police guard of the red 26 army, and the Secretary of the Party branch of the cavalry company of the red 26 army. He took part in the battle of consolidating and expanding the Shaanxi Gansu border base and the battle of the red 26 army going south to Zhongnanshan.

In 1933, appointed by the party organization, he returned to northern Shaanxi from the border of Shaanxi and Gansu. He served as political commissar of Shenmu secret service of Chinese workers' and peasants' Red Army, leader of the third guerrilla detachment of Northern Shaanxi Red Army, head of the third regiment of cunchang division of Northern Shaanxi Red Army, head of the third regiment of 2784 division of Red Army, political commissar of the first division of Shaanxi and Gansu cavalry of Chinese Anti Japanese volunteer army, Vice Minister of the military department of Shenmu special commission, and independent division of Northern Shaanxi Red Army Head of the fourth regiment, commander in chief of the Shenfu Red Army General Headquarters, division commander of the first independent division of the Chinese Anti Japanese people's Red Army, and division commander of the second independent division of the Northern Shaanxi Red Army.

He participated in and led the establishment and development of the Shenfu (MU) Red Army and the Shenfu (MU) Jiayu (county) Yulin revolutionary base. He also directed the Red Army's anti Zhou Kuomintang army to encircle and suppress the Shenfu Jiayu revolutionary base. The Shenfu Red Army expanded from seven people to more than 2000 people. The Shenfu Jiayu area has developed into a 42000 square kilometer area with 140000 people They have made important contributions to the consolidation of their base areas.

When meeting with Wang Zhaoxiang, Chairman Mao Zedong praised and said: "it is not easy for Shenfu base areas to persist.".

the period of Counter-Japanese War

During the Anti Japanese War, Wang Zhaoxiang was the head of the sixth guard regiment of the left behind corps of the Eighth Route Army. He led his troops to the northwest of Shanxi and took part in the battle of opening up the Anti Japanese base area of Shanxi and Suizhou and defending the Yellow River. Later, he was transferred back to Yan'an and studied in Anti Japanese military and Political University and Marxism Leninism college. During his study, he was elected as a representative of the Shaanxi Gansu Ningxia border region Senate, a member of the Shaanxi Gansu Ningxia border region government, and a representative of the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

In 1940, he was sent to Shandong as the deputy commander of the first detachment of Shandong column of the Eighth Route Army, the commander of the second army of the central Shandong military region, the commander of the Fourth Army of the Qinghe military region, and the division commander of the Fourth Army of the Bohai military region. They led the troops to take part in the fight against the Japanese army's "iron wall encirclement sweeping", "dragnet sweeping" and "21 day sweeping".

In 1944, he led the Bohai military region to take part in the summer counter offensive against the Japanese puppet army.

In 1945, he led the Bohai military region to take part in the summer offensive and counterattack against the Japanese puppet army. The divisional units of the Fourth Army liberated three counties in northern Shandong from the hands of the Japanese and puppet forces, cooperated with brother teams, liberated four counties, and annihilated nearly 10000 Japanese and puppet forces.

During the war of Liberation

During the war of liberation, Wang Zhaoxiang served as the commander of the independent brigade of Bohai military region, the 21st brigade of the 7th Division of Shandong, the 2nd independent brigade of Shanxi chaji field army, the 18th division of the 6th column of Northeast Democratic Alliance Army, the commander of the 5th division of Liaobei Military Region, the 13th independent division of Northeast Field Army, the 162 division of the 49th army of the 4th field army, and the commander of Hengyang army of Hunan Military Region Northeast, and from the northeast to Hunan.

Wang Zhaoxiang took part in the battle of defending Chengde, the first battle of liberating Changchun, the battle of Sanxia (Songhua River) in Jiangnan, the battle of Siping, the battle of Liaoshen and the battle of Hengbao.

After the founding of the people's Republic of China

After the founding of new China, Wang Zhaoxiang transferred to the Nanjing military academy after he destroyed the bandits in southern Hunan. In 1952, he participated in the establishment of the rear service College (later renamed Logistics College), and served as the deputy director and director of the Department of organization and command.

In 1959, he was the principal of the senior engineer school.

In 1961, he served as the vice president of the military engineering college.

In 1966, he was the president of the engineering military academy.

In 1978, he served as an engineering consultant of the Military Commission.

In 1988, he left to recuperate.

During his tenure in the logistics college, in order to study how logistics teaching meets the needs of modern war, Wang Zhaoxiang went to the battlefield of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea for half a year to investigate the logistics support work of the volunteer army.

In the leadership position of the engineering military academy, Wang Zhaoxiang grasped the overall construction of the Academy with a high sense of responsibility, and cultivated a large number of backbone for the modernization and normalization of the engineering military. After graduation, many students participated in the construction of important national defense projects such as atomic bombs, missiles and satellite bases, and others participated in the construction of foreign aid projects, such as the construction of roads in Vietnam, Laos, Nepal and Pakistan. Wang Zhaoxiang was also ordered to organize and mobilize the teachers and students of the engineering military academy to actively participate in the flood fighting, emergency rescue and disaster relief tours in various places, which were highly praised by the people in the disaster area.

During the "Cultural Revolution", Wang Zhaoxiang was persecuted and once imprisoned and criticized. Under extremely difficult circumstances, he persisted in his work regardless of his personal safety and tried to reduce the losses caused by the turmoil during the cultural revolution.

After he completed many research tasks of the first-line self-defense engineering, he actively participated in the construction of the first-line self-defense engineering.

He is a deputy to the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China and a member of the fifth and sixth CPPCC National Committee.

On June 3, 2009, he died in Beijing at the age of 101.

Main works

He wrote many memoirs, such as memories of the war years, memories of Mao Zedong, memories of the days when he got along with Liu Zhidan, memories of his old comrade in arms Zhang Xiushan, and so on.

Honors

In 1955, he was awarded the rank of major general and was awarded the first level of 81 medal, the second level of independent freedom medal, the first level of Liberation Medal and the first level of Red Star Medal.

Character evaluation

During his 81 year revolutionary career, Wang Zhaoxiang was loyal to the party, the people and the socialist motherland, and had a firm and unshakable belief in communism under any circumstances.

Wang Zhaoxiang is a famous legendary commander of the Red Army in Northern Shaanxi. He is brave in battle, fearless in the face of danger and well-organized in command. He is praised as a "black tiger" by his father and fellow villagers of Jiayu in Shenfu.

During the war of resistance against Japan and the war of liberation, he directed his troops to fight in North China, East China, Northeast China and South China, fought many tough and vicious battles, and made important contributions to the cause of liberation of the Chinese people.

During the period of socialist revolution and socialist construction, Wang Zhaoxiang adhered to the spirit of seeking truth from facts, had a solid style of work, cared about his subordinates, and was deeply respected and loved by the majority of officers and soldiers.

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