Before the founding of New China, it had experienced a long period of war, and the Chinese people were also deeply suffering from war.
However, after falling into death, many aspiring people in China joined the revolutionary army in the wake of national awareness, laying an important foundation for China to get rid of war.
And many of these soldiers who participated in the war were peasant class.
As Chairman Mao said: "Only by relying on farmers can China's revolution be successful!"
The Chinese calendar, which comes from a self-sufficient small peasant economy, gave birth to a large number of farmers and made it the main force of the revolution.
Among this group of peasant class, many generals who have made great achievements have emerged.
where Pingjiang County is a place called " General County ". Among the 352 founding generals in
html, there are 12 people in Changshou Town, in Pingjiang County alone.
However, it is very coincidental that in Changshou Town, except for two generals with the same name and surname, and even those with the same experience, both of them are named Fang Guonan.
1. The list of military rank awards made an oath
1955 . Before the rank award ceremony, Ye Jianying, as the person in charge of this rank award ceremony, was mainly responsible for reviewing the list of generals who were awarded.
However, in the review list, an unlucky incident occurred.
Before the military rank awarding ceremony, a verification team was established to check the soldiers who made military achievements in various war stages before the founding of New China.
This kind of verification must not only be accurate to the number of battalions and companies under the leadership of which commander, but also to the hometown and age of the soldiers.
However, in the 22 years from 1927 to 1949, there were thousands of soldiers participating in the war alone.
Therefore, the verification team's work is very complicated.
They also have to divide into various groups to check the information of the soldiers.
1955 , the staff finally compiled a list of rank awarding ceremony, which recorded the list of soldiers at all levels of the awarding of ranks, from marshals to major generals.
Staff took this list and knocked on Ye Jianying's office door.
Ye Jianying is the main person in charge of the examination for this title ceremony. Therefore, after the list is completed, Ye Jianying needs to be reviewed again.
"Report to the chief! The list of awards has been sorted out, please check it out!" said the staff of the expansion.
Ye Jianying greeted the staff in and took the list from the staff.
then picked up the reading glasses on the table and began to check carefully.
"You go and do it first!" Ye Jianying said without raising her head.
So the staff closed the door of the Russian office and asked Ye Jianying to review the list alone.
Unexpectedly, when he saw it halfway, Ye Jianying suddenly stood up and said to the guard outside the door: "Go and call me the person in charge of the list!"
The guard heard the unhappiness in Ye Jianying's tone and hurried to find the person in charge.
"How can you make such a low-level mistake? The major general on the list has Fang Guonan in front of it and Fang Guonan behind it. How can you do so carelessly!" Ye Jianying scolded.
Running and panting staff quickly explained: "Chief, you misunderstood! These two Fang Guonan are not the same person, there are two people named Fang Guonan."
Ye Jianying looked at the list in surprise and said: "Oh? Two Fang Guonans? Then why are their hometowns the same? They are both in Changshou Town?"
"Yes, we saw that they both had the same names at that time, and even their hometowns were the same. Therefore, after many verifications, we found that there were two people named Fang Guonan in Changshou Town, Pingjiang County. The two were two years apart. One was born in 1913 and the other was born in 1915. They were both selected as major generals."
Ye Jianying laughed and remembered these two major generals of the same name.
However, not only Ye Jianying, many people were a little confused about the two soldiers, and they caused many misunderstandings.
1948 , at that time, Da Fang Guo, the political commissar of the 114th Division of the 38th Army of the Fourth Field Army. Nan (born in 1913) was fighting on the front line of Tianjin, but was mistaken for Xiao Fang Guonan (born in 1915) by the county party secretary of a county in Jidong.
This day, the county party secretary heard that a political commissar named Fang Guonan was commanding the front line of combat. The county party secretary was excited to think that it was Xiao Fang Guonan who had fought in Tianjin, so he went to talk to the old leader.
but didn't want to. After meeting, the county party secretary said in surprise: "Why has the leader Fang not changed a lot in a few years? "
makes Dafang Guonan Zhang Er confused.
it took a long time to figure it out that there is also a political commissar named Fang Guonan in the Fifth Military Sub-district of the Jin-Cha-Hebei Military Region.
Dafang Guonan then realized that there is a person with the same name and surname as him in his hometown.
and there are many such misunderstandings, which makes the two people familiar with each other because of various by chance.
So why do these two major generals with the same name and surname make people "stupid and stupid"? Let me Let’s take a look at their life experiences.
2. Similar revolutionary experiences
1913 , in Yanzhouping, Pingshou Town, Pingjiang County, Hunan Province, a family named him Fang Guonan.
However, just two years later, a baby was born in Huayuan Village, not far from Yanzhouping, and his family also named him Fang Guonan.
Because of the same experience, the fate of the two people was intertwined.
Because of the same experience, the fate of the two people was intertwined.
Because of the two people’s homes The courts were relatively poor. The two Fang Guonan helped share the housework at home since childhood, and went up the mountain to chop wood and herd cattle, which was no problem.
1928 , 15-year-old Dafang Guonan and 13-year-old Xiao Fang Guonan participated in the " Pingjiang Uprising " that broke out in Pingjiang County. As a result, they officially embarked on the road of revolution.
However, in the same team, the two people never knew that they had the same name.
1930 , Peng Dehuai led the Red Third Army to initiate the first time The struggle to attack Changsha.
The two followed Peng Dehuai's team and joined the battle.
In September of this year, the two signed up for Red Army at almost the same time.
Da Fang Guonan was a soldier in the mountain artillery company directly under the legion, and the small Fang Guonan was a soldier in the 9th Regiment of the Third Division of the Fifth Army under the legion.
From then on, they began their heroic career of fighting for the people's revolution.
Later, the two participated in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation in different spaces at the same time, and served as political commissars of different military regions in the two wars.
The places where the Great Fangguo South fight are mostly in Shanxi and Lunxi , while the areas where the Small Fangguo South fight are Jinchaji Military Region .
In fact, it is reasonable for two people to do the same thing at the same time.
Because at that time, the army of the Communist Party of China was combined among the people, and there were opinion leaders everywhere.
People in the same place will naturally be prone to embarking on the same revolutionary path, following the organization and obeying the organization's arrangements.
However, it is surprising that two people can be awarded the rank of Major General at the same time.
Because all soldiers who were awarded military rank made military achievements on the battlefield.
The level of military achievements is different, and the level of military ranks is also different.
Among the many soldiers, the two soldiers stood out and the chances of being awarded the rank of major general are very small.
Therefore, during the verification process, the basic information of the two people was repeatedly confirmed.
even made a mistake with the leader Ye Jianying.
955 , at the official award ceremony, Ye Jianying, who presided over the award ceremony, also said humorously: "Oh, two Fang Guonan, two major generals, you can't make a mistake, right?"
This award ceremony was also the first time that the two Fang Guonan met.
But the two people have long known each other's existence.
Because before this, the superior authorities had sent each other's letters wrong when sending them.
3. Live in a restroom and become a neighbor
After confirming the list of awards, a special group will send letter invitations to soldiers from various regions according to the list.
However, the person in charge of sending the letter was also a little confused about these two Fang Guonan
actually sent the letter that originally belonged to Dafang Guonan to Xiao Fang Guonan, and Xiao Fang Guonan's letter was sent to Dafang Guonan's hands.
Therefore, both major generals received notice of being awarded the title of major general at the same time, but neither of them belonged to them.
When the sending team found this problem and corrected it, the two of them understood the whole story, but did not find any abnormalities.
It is precisely because of this incident that the two comrades Fang Guonan met once.
After Ye Jianying awarded the Major General's title ceremony, the two Fang Guonan finally had a formal chat.
On this day, after the ceremony of the title, many generals gathered together.
Some found comrades whom they had not seen for many years, and some saw their fellow villagers, and everyone was having a lot of chat.
And Da Fang Guonan also walked to Xiao Fang Guonan and said to him: "We are half-brothers!"
Xiao Fang Guonan also said: "Yes, I didn't expect that there was such a coincidence."
After the two met, their friendship has always been very good, after all, such fate is rare. After the award ceremony of
, Dafang Guonan served as the political commissar of the Guangxi Military Region and Guangdong Provincial Military Region.
, and Xiao Fang Guonan served as the political commissar of the Guangzhou Public Security Corps and the deputy political commissar of the Hunan Military Region.
Although the two people are no longer in the same area, there are still exchanges in letters.
1967 , Dafang Guonan requested retirement from his superiors due to physical reasons.
At that time, Dafang Guonan was only 54 years old and could do some ordinary work in the company until he retired.
The leader also advised him to retire in less than two years and that he could be transferred to a free position.
But Dafang Guonan wanted to leave job opportunities to young comrades, so he retired at the age of 54.
Then, Dafang Guonan returned to his hometown in Hunan and moved into the Hunan Military Region Changsha Dujiayuan Care Retirement House.
After retirement, Xiao Fang Guonan also moved into the Changsha Dujiayuan Retirement House, and the two met again at the Retirement House.
When we met again, the two major generals actually felt a sense of mutual appreciation, and then they became neighbors and lived a retirement life together.
Two people who have been busy for half their lives have many similar experiences in different spaces in parallel time, and finally get together in their hometown. It can be said that it is a strange thing among the revolutionary soldiers.
