Red Army has three main forces, namely the First Red Front Army, the Second Red Front Army and the Fourth Red Front Army . Among them, the Fourth Red Front Army was officially established in 1931 and is an armed force of workers and peasants active in the Hubei, Henan and Anhui base areas. During the Long March period of the Red Army, the Fourth Front Army was the strongest among the three main forces of the Red Army. At the same time, the Fourth Front Army also gave birth to many outstanding generals when awarding the title, such as the Zhou Chunquan we are going to talk about today.
Zhou Chunquan was born in 1905, from Huang'an, Hubei Province, and was born in a poor family. In his early years, Zhou Chunquan worked as an apprentice in Wuchang , and later went to the Hankou Huigong Weaving Factory and became a worker. During the process of being a worker, Zhou Chunquan began to accept the guidance of our party, participated in the workers' movement, and officially embarked on the road of revolution.
1927, the vigorous revolutionary movement failed and the agrarian revolution began. It was also this year that Zhou Chunquan participated in the famous Huangma Uprising and embarked on the road of armed resistance to the dictatorship of the Kuomintang. Shortly after the Huangma Uprising, Zhou Chunquan was sent to the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Border Special Committee to engage in revolutionary propaganda work. In 1931, the Red Fourth Front Army was officially established in the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet Area, and Zhou Chunquan also became a member of the Red Fourth Front Army.
is also the year when the Red Fourth Front Army was established. Zhou Chunquan served as the director of the Political Security Bureau of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet Government, mainly responsible for the political security work in the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet Area. However, not long after, affected by the error of Wang Ming's "left-leaning" line of , the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet Area began a large-scale "anti-counterfeiting" movement. As the director of the Political Security Bureau, Zhou Chunquan also became the main executor of the "anti-counterfeiting" movement.
The "anti-counterrevolutionary" movement in the Hubei-Henan-Anhui base area was very cruel. Under Zhang Guotao's order, Zhou Chunquan's political security department mistakenly killed many outstanding revolutionary cadres. At the same time, Zhang Guotao continued to eliminate dissidents, and even Xu Xiangqian, a senior cadre of the Red Fourth Front Army, was affected. In 1932, Zhou Chunquan arrested Xu Xiangqian's wife Cheng Xunxuan at the order of Zhang Guotao, and asked Cheng Xunxuan to provide "black materials" to frame Xu Xiangqian.
At that time, Xu Xiangqian led the army outside to fight, and Cheng Xunxuan firmly rejected Zhang Guotao's request. Soon after, Cheng Xunxuan was executed by Zhou Chunquan. Objectively speaking, although Zhou Chunquan executed Cheng Xunxuan as a command carried out by Zhang Guotao, he also bears certain responsibility for Cheng Xunxuan's death.
1937, after experiencing the failure of West Route Army , Xu Xiangqian met Zhou Chunquan in Yan'an. He asked Zhou Chunquan in person why he shot his wife? Zhou Chun replied in shame: "It was also to fix your materials at that time." Although Xu Xiangqian knew that Zhou Chunquan was executing the order, he never had any intersection with Zhou Chunquan again in the rest of his life.
After that, Zhou Chunquan had wonderful performances, and under the leadership of our party, he also won the victory of the new democratic revolution . After the founding of New China, Zhou Chun participated in the Resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea, and solved many volunteer army's logistics supply problems, making great contributions to defending the country. After returning to China, Zhou Chunquan served as deputy director of the General Logistics Department and first deputy director of the Armed Forces Supervision Department. When he was awarded the title of rank in 1955, he was awarded the rank of general and became the founding general.
Generally speaking, although Zhou Chunquan made mistakes during the "anti-counterrevolutionary period", he did make great contributions to the birth of New China and was a hero in the creation of New China. In order to establish a new China, Zhou Chunquan also left one of his eyes on the battlefield forever, but he had no regrets, because through years of struggle, he witnessed the birth of New China and witnessed the people living a good life. For Zhou Chunquan, all this was without regrets. In his later years, Zhou Chunquan mainly lived in Beijing and died of illness in 1985 at the age of 80.
