As we all know, Su Yu is the number one general in New China, but few people know about Su Yu's general. Among them, the more famous one is that Wang Bicheng Lieutenant General , nicknamed "Wang Laohu", is a powerful general under Su Yu, and there are generals such as Ye Fei, Tao Yong and Zhong Qiguang.
Among these generals, the founding general Zhong Qiguang has been little known for a long time, mainly because he is a cadre who works in politics, most of whom are in the rear command center, which makes people feel illusion that many battles have nothing to do with him. In fact, he is a capable general under Su Yu and a good helper to assist Su Yu in commanding many battles.
Zhong Qiguang is from Pingjiang, Hunan. Influenced by progressive ideas during his middle school years, he began to join the revolutionary movement. In 1926, 17-year-old Zhong Qiguang returned to his hometown to teach and engage in the peasant movement. He joined the Communist Party in December of the same year. After the Pingjiang Uprising, he became a Red Army soldier.
At that time, Zhong Qiguang, who graduated from high school, was considered a small intellectual and was valued in the Red Army. He served as the Secretary-General of the Red 5th Army. Unfortunately, Zhong Qiguang did not participate in the Long March . After the main Long March, he stayed in the Soviet Area to fight guerrillas and served as the Director of the Political Department of the Red 16th Division.
The environment at that time was full of enemies. On the one hand, he left to fight guerrilla to preserve revolutionary forces, and on the other hand, he also wanted to restrain the enemy. Staying in Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi to fight guerrillas was no less dangerous than the Long March. Under such circumstances, he led his team to persist in guerrilla battles for three years.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the guerrillas in the eight provinces of Jiangnan were reorganized into the New Fourth Army. As a political general who could be civil and military, Zhong Qiguang's talents were able to be brought into greater importance. At first, the New Fourth Army had four detachments under its jurisdiction. Zhong Qiguang was appointed as the director of the Political Department of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Detachment of the New Fourth Army, and the commander of the detachment was Chen Yi .
Later, Zhong Qiguang also served as the 1st Division of the New Fourth Army and the director of the Political Department of the Suzhong Military Region. He participated in three anti-stubborn battles of Huangqiao Battle and Zhejiang West . In these battles, Zhong Qiguang was seen. He assisted Su Yu in commanding the battle and was Su Yu's right-hand assistant.
After several battles, Zhong Qiguang's military talent was demonstrated. Su Yu admired him quite well. However, compared with wars, Zhong Qiguang's work in political work was better. He had a broad mind and took good care of the soldiers at work. He often went deep into the army to carry out ideological work, providing ideological guarantees for combat.
Zhong Qiguang is very good to soldiers and knows how to cherish soldiers. It was in February 1947, when he won the victory of Laiwu Battle . Many prisoners were captured on the battlefield. Zhong Qiguang urgently went to the front line to carry out the ideological work of the prisoners, but he didn't expect that his car was stopped halfway.
It turned out that several minor wounded people in Huaye moved from the front line to the rear. They met Zhong Qiguang who was riding a car halfway through. One of the minor wounded people took the lead and said they wanted to take a ride, but one went to the front line and the other went to the rear was completely different. Zhong Qiguang patiently explained the warriors for a long time, but the soldiers ignored them and insisted on taking a ride.
Later, thanks to the guards stopping, Zhong Qiguang's car left smoothly. Later, the Huaye leaders learned about this and insisted on dealing with several soldiers who were causing trouble. They found out that it was the soldiers under King Bicheng of the 6th Column. Finally, they handed over the soldiers who were leading the trouble to Zhong Qiguang for handling.
Zhong Qiguang did not deal with the soldier after seeing him. Instead, he made someone cook a bowl of noodles for the injured soldier and comforted the soldier to recover from his injuries, saying that he would visit him when he had time. Unfortunately, the soldier died in the subsequent battle, and Zhong Qiguang never forgot about the soldier.
After the founding of New China, Zhong Qiguang served as the political director and political commissar of Military Academy. He was awarded the title of general in 1955. In the subsequent special decade, Zhong Qiguang suffered an impact and missed treatment, resulting in paralysis of his legs. Later, he served as a member of of the Advisory Committee of Central Committee and died on May 22, 1991 at the age of 83.
After Zhong Qiguang passed away, he counted his relics and found that his inheritance was only 3,000 yuan, and nothing else was left for his children. His seven children also became pillars of the country. It is worth mentioning that his granddaughter Zhong Haohao became a big star, and his stage name was Ke Lan. The reason why he changed his name was to avoid the glory of his ancestors.
